TERMS STARTING WITH
Lord and acting for the Lord. See Raphael’s
Lord and is now a fallen angel. [Rf. Ginzberg, The
Lord and Spouse, the eternal
Lord” and “would conceive in her womb.”
Lord: An Umbrood spirit less powerful than an Incarna but greater than a Preceptor or Minion.
Lord,” as in the Mekilta of Rabbi Ishmael ; in the
Lord. A Syriac version ed. by Samuel Lee. 2 vols.
Lord: A term often used in astrology synonymously with Ruler. A more precise terminology would be to refer to the Ruler of a Sign and the Lord of a House.
Lord (not named) seen walking in the midst of the
Lord of Civilization, The: In occult literature, the Mahachohan (q.v.).
Lord of Hosts —Sabaoth, Akatriel, God. On
Lord of Life, the
Lord of Lightning [Angel of Lightning]
Lord of the Flies. See BEELZEBUB
Lord of the Lotus (Sanskrit Kumuda-pati) Title applied to various productive intelligent powers in nature, and on the macrocosmic scale to the generative lords of the universe, the lotus being the symbol of the manifested universe, the matrix of nature, so that the Lord of the Lotus is the activating productive power in it.
Lord” or “angel of God” is a theophorous term.
Lord.” [Rf. introduction to Mathers, The Greater
Lord.” [Rf. Talmud Hagiga.] The final book in
Lord’s Day and invoked from the east. In The
Lord’s Day, invoked from the east.
Lord’s Day. Pabel must be invoked when the
Lords of Shouting —also called masters of
Lord(s) of Shouting.]
Lords of the Ghostland, chap, on Ormuzd]. In the
Lords of the Sword —the 14 conjuring angels
Lords of Time, the iron
Lords of Time, the unreal
Lords (or lordships)—a celestial order of angels
Lord stands against Balaam “for an adversary”
Lords, the immutable
Lord ::: “There is one Lord and Self and the many are only His representations and becomings.” The Life Divine
Lord ::: The Spirit in the cosmos is the lord, the Ishwara of all Nature, but the individual soul is likewise a representative, a delegate Ishwara, the underlord at least if not the overlord of his nature,—the recipient, agent and overseer, let us say, of his own form and use of the universal energy of Nature.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 13, Page: 380
Lord.’ v They are led by the angel Jeduthun (q.v.).
Lord [who] came up from Gilgal” and whose
Lord Zebaot —in Jewish legendary lore, the
Lord” (Zechariah 4) from the Parsee archangels,
lord and Spouse, the eternal
lord; a prestigious title applied, often applied to an emperor, monarch or king. (also written as padshah, in some texts as badishah )
lorded ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Lord
lord high fixer ::: [Primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's Lord High Executioner] The person in an organisation who knows the most about some aspect of a system. See wizard.[Jargon File]
lord high fixer [Primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Lord High Executioner"] The person in an organisation who knows the most about some aspect of a system. See {wizard}. [{Jargon File}]
lording ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Lord ::: n. --> The son of a lord; a person of noble lineage.
A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule.
lordkin ::: n. --> A little lord.
lordlike ::: a. --> Befitting or like a lord; lordly.
Haughty; proud; insolent; arrogant.
lordliness ::: n. --> The state or quality of being lordly.
lordling ::: n. --> A little or insignificant lord.
lordly ::: superl. --> Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable.
Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent. ::: adv. --> In a lordly manner.
lord, master, owner; honorific title of distinction; venerable elder; teacher, preceptor.
lord, master, ruler. (also written as Khoda)
lord ::: n. --> A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.
One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.
A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for
lord of Friday; Cassiel, lord of Saturday.
lord of hosts; it is the name that God went by
lord of Saturn. Subsequently, however, he dis¬
lord of the 7th Heaven. In the cabala, Saturn is the
lordolatry ::: n. --> Worship of, or reverence for, a lord as such.
lord or master of the house.
lordosis ::: n. --> A curvature of the spine forwards, usually in the lumbar region.
Any abnormal curvature of the bones.
lords and ladies ::: --> The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies.
lordship ::: n. --> The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc.
Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
Dominion; power; authority.
lordships is given in lieu of dominions or domina¬
lord ::: Sri Aurobindo: "There is one Lord and Self and the many are only His representations and becomings.” *The Life Divine
TERMS ANYWHERE
"1. ‘The Golden Embryo" in Hindu cosmology; the name given to the golden-hued Egg which floated on the surface of the primeval waters. In time the egg divided into two parts, the golden top half of the shell becoming the heavens and the silver lower half the earth. 2. ‘God imaginative and therefore creative"; the ‘Spirit in the middle or Dream State"; Lord of Dream-Life who takes from the ocean of subconsciously intelligent spiritual being the conscious psychic forces which He materializes or encases in various forms of gross living matter. (Enc. Br.; A)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works.
“1. ‘The Golden Embryo’ in Hindu cosmology; the name given to the golden-hued Egg which floated on the surface of the primeval waters. In time the egg divided into two parts, the golden top half of the shell becoming the heavens and the silver lower half the earth. 2. ‘God imaginative and therefore creative’; the ‘Spirit in the middle or Dream State’; Lord of Dream-Life who takes from the ocean of subconsciously intelligent spiritual being the conscious psychic forces which He materializes or encases in various forms of gross living matter. (Enc. Br.; A)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works.
(a) By many writers the term covers the view that God has no immediate relation with the world, God indeed is responsible for the world but for reasons unknown or conjectured God has no commerce with it; accordingly, the supplications and hopes of men are illusory and fruitless. This doctrine is sometimes referred to as the "absentee landlord" view. Thomas Hardy's famous poem "God Forgotten" is an illustration. Deism, it is clear, is a form of theism,
Ada Lovelace "person" (1811-1852) The daughter of Lord Byron, who became the world's first programmer while cooperating with {Charles Babbage} on the design of his mechanical computing engines in the mid-1800s. The language {Ada} was named after her. [{"Ada, Enchantress of Numbers Prophit of the Computer Age", Betty Alexandra Toole (http://well.com/user/adatoole)}]. [More details?] (1999-07-17)
admiralty ::: n. --> The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
ADORATION. ::: In Love for the Divine or for one whom one feels to be divine, the Bhakta feels an intense reverence for the Lord, a sense of something of immense greatness, beauty or value and for himself a strong impression of his own comparative unworthiness and a passionate desire to grow into likeness with that which one adores.
adya parasakti (parameswara-âdyâ parâshakti) ::: the supreme Lord one with his original supreme Power; the "biune" duality of isvara-sakti on the highest plane of existence. paramesvara-paramesvari
"A Godhead is seated in the heart of every man and is the Lord of this mysterious action of Nature. And though this Spirit of the universe, this One who is all, seems to be turning us on the wheel of the world as if mounted on a machine by the force of Maya, shaping us in our ignorance as the potter shapes a pot, as the weaver a fabric, by some skilful mechanical principle, yet is this spirit our own greatest self and it is according to the real idea, the truth of ourselves, that which is growing in us and finding always new and more adequate forms in birth after birth, in our animal and human and divine life, in that which we were, that which we are, that which we shall be, — it is in accordance with this inner soul-truth that, as our opened eyes will discover, we are progressively shaped by this spirit within us in its all-wise omnipotence.” *Essays on the Gita
“A Godhead is seated in the heart of every man and is the Lord of this mysterious action of Nature. And though this Spirit of the universe, this One who is all, seems to be turning us on the wheel of the world as if mounted on a machine by the force of Maya, shaping us in our ignorance as the potter shapes a pot, as the weaver a fabric, by some skilful mechanical principle, yet is this spirit our own greatest self and it is according to the real idea, the truth of ourselves, that which is growing in us and finding always new and more adequate forms in birth after birth, in our animal and human and divine life, in that which we were, that which we are, that which we shall be,—it is in accordance with this inner soul-truth that, as our opened eyes will discover, we are progressively shaped by this spirit within us in its all-wise omnipotence.” Essays on the Gita
aishwarya. ::: lordship; divine glory; majesty
aisvarya (Aishwarya) ::: [one of the ashtasiddhis]: the control over events, lordship, wealth and all objects of desire; effectiveness of the Will acting on object or event without the aid of physical means. ::: aisvaryam [nominative]
ajña ::: "the Lord of Wisdom", brahman in the last of the three states symbolised by the letters of AUM, manifest behind virat. and hiran.yagarbha "in the self-gathered superconscient power of the Infinite"; the Self (atman) supporting the deep sleep state (sus.upti) or causal (karan.a) consciousness, "a luminous status of Sleep-self, a massed consciousness which is the origin of cosmic existence". pr praj ajña-hiran ña-hiranya-virat
ale silver ::: --> A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.
allodial ::: a. --> Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system.
Anything held allodially.
Amal: “The phrase refers to the hostile forces, the powerful vital beings whose work is to block the Divine influx and deceive human beings. They are called ‘iron lords’ not only because they are powerful but also because they are unchangeable. As far as I understand Sri Aurobindo, the hostile forces cannot be converted: they have to be destroyed in relation to the earth. They cannot be mended; they are to be ended.”
anamaya anandamaya isvara (vijnanamaya anandamaya ishwara) ::: the all-knowing and all-blissful Lord.
anandamaya isvara (Anandamaya Ishwara) ::: [the Lord whose substance is ananda], the Lord of existence and works and the Spirit of bliss.
anandamaya nati ::: ecstatic submission; the highest form of nati anandamaya which comes when one learns "to take delight in all things even as the Lord takes delight in them", becoming "capable of receiving all contacts with a blissful equality, because we feel in them the touch of the imperishable Love and Delight, the happiness absolute that hides . ever in the heart of things".
**Angel of the Way *Sri Aurobindo: "Love fulfilled does not exclude knowledge, but itself brings knowledge; and the completer the knowledge, the richer the possibility of love. ‘By Bhakti" says the Lord in the Gita ‘shall a man know Me in all my extent and greatness and as I am in the principles of my being, and when he has known Me in the principles of my being, then he enters into Me." Love without knowledge is a passionate and intense, but blind, crude, often dangerous thing, a great power, but also a stumbling-block; love, limited in knowledge, condemns itself in its fervour and often by its very fervour to narrowness; but love leading to perfect knowledge brings the infinite and absolute union. Such love is not inconsistent with, but rather throws itself with joy into divine works; for it loves God and is one with him in all his being, and therefore in all beings, and to work for the world is then to feel and fulfil multitudinously one"s love for God. This is the trinity of our powers, [work, knowledge, love] the union of all three in God to which we arrive when we start on our journey by the path of devotion with Love for the Angel of the Way to find in the ecstasy of the divine delight of the All-Lover"s being the fulfilment of ours, its secure home and blissful abiding-place and the centre of its universal radiation.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
anisa (anisha) ::: not lord; powerless.
anisabhava (anishabhava) ::: the state or sense of not being the lord; powerlessness; subjection of the soul to the lower Nature; the opposite of isvarabhava.
anisa ::: not-lord, subject.
aquarian ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to an aquarium. ::: n. --> One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord&
arrogance ::: n. --> The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.
artotyrite ::: n. --> One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord&
asi ::: literally "sweet slave-girl", the dasi serving her Lord in a relation of madhura bhava; a symbol of the state of madhura dasya, the condition of "the living and loving instrument" (yantra), when it "ends in the whole nature of our being becoming the slave of God, rejoicing in his possession and its own blissful subjection to the divine grasp and mastery". madhura d dasya
asura ::: (in the Veda) "the mighty Lord", an epithet of the supreme deva; a Titan (daitya); a kind of anti-divine being of the mentalised vital plane; the sixth of the ten types of consciousness (dasa-gavas) in the evolutionary scale: mind concentrated on the buddhi; (on page 1280) a being of a world of "might & glory".
asura ::: [Ved.]: the Lord; used in the Veda as in the Avesta for the deva, but also for the gods, his manifestations; it is only in a few hymns that it is used for the dark Titans; [Later] : the strong or mighty one, Titan; a [hostile] being of the mentalised vital.
asuryam ::: the god-power, the mastering force of the Lord, the divine "asura" in us. [Ved.]
Asvins (Ashwins, Aswins) ::: the two Riders on the Horse; lords of the joyous upward action of the mind and the vital powers; twin divine powers whose special function is to perfect the nervous or vital being in man in the sense of active enjoyment, but they are also powers of Truth, of intelligent action, of right enjoyment. [Ved.]
Aswapati ::: Purani: “Aswapathy, the father of Savitri, has been significantly called by the poet ‘the Lord of Life’. (book II, Canto XV). The name suggests an affinity to Vedic symbolism. In the Veda, Aswa, the horse, is the symbol of life-energy or vital power. Aswa + aty, Lord, would mean the ‘Lord of Life’. In the poem King Aswapathy is the symbol of the aspiring soul of man as manifested in life on earth.”Savitri”—An Approach and a Study
Aswapati ::: Sri Aurobindo: “Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her [Savitri’s] human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; …” (Author’s Note at the beginning of Savitri.)
Aswapati ::: Sri Aurobindo: “Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her [Savitri’s] human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; …” (From a letter of Sri Aurobindo to a disciple, listed now as the Author’s Note at the beginning of Savitri.)
aswapati ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her [Savitri"s] human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; . . . .” (From a letter written by Sri Aurobindo) Aswapati"s.
atha ::: Lord of Love. premas premasamarthyam
At times he calls himself the ‘Lord of Nations." It is he who sets all wars in motion and only by thwarting his plans could the last war be won . . . This one does not want to be converted, not at all. He wants neither the physical transformation not the supramental world, for that would spell his end. The Mother"s talk of 26 March 1959.
At times he calls himself the ‘Lord of Nations.’ It is he who sets all wars in motion and only by thwarting his plans could the last war be won . . . This one does not want to be converted, not at all. He wants neither the physical transformation not the supramental world, for that would spell his end. The Mother’s talk of 26 March 1959.
attornment ::: n. --> The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord.
attorn ::: v. t. --> To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate.
To agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has been granted.
avenage ::: n. --> A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.
average ::: n. --> That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.
A tariff or duty on goods, etc.
Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.
The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or
bachelordom ::: n. --> The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.
baconian ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy.
baltimore oriole ::: --> A common American bird (Icterus galbula), named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.
baron ::: n. --> A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.
A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.
barony ::: n. --> The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.
In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.
"Behind this petty instrumental action of the human will there is something vast and powerful and eternal that oversees the trend of the inclination and presses on the turn of the will. There is a total Truth in Nature greater than our individual choice. And in this total Truth, or even beyond and behind it, there is something that determines all results; its presence and secret knowledge keep up steadily in the process of Nature a dynamic, almost automatic perception of the right relations, the varying or persistent necessities, the inevitable steps of the movement. There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“Behind this petty instrumental action of the human will there is something vast and powerful and eternal that oversees the trend of the inclination and presses on the turn of the will. There is a total Truth in Nature greater than our individual choice. And in this total Truth, or even beyond and behind it, there is something that determines all results; its presence and secret knowledge keep up steadily in the process of Nature a dynamic, almost automatic perception of the right relations, the varying or persistent necessities, the inevitable steps of the movement. There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga
belord ::: v. t. --> To act the lord over.
To address by the title of "lord".
bhaga ::: enjoyment, enjoyer; Bhaga: the deva as the Lord of enjoyment, the divine Enjoyer in man.
bhagavad gita. ::: Song of the Bhagavan or Song of the Lord; a 700-verse episode composed about 200 BC and incorporated into the hindu epic Mahabharata in which Sri Krishna, the 8th Avatar of Vishnu, expounds the doctrine of selfless action done as duty, not for profit or recognition, but in a spirit of dedication to the one supreme being
Bhagavad Gita ::: [the Song of the Blessed Lord", a celebrated scripture in the form of a dialogue between Krsna (Bhagavan) and Arjuna spoken on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, which occurs as an episode in the Mahabhdrata].
bhagavan (bhagavan; bhagawan) ::: God, the Divine, "the Lord of bhagavan Love and Delight".
Bhagavan (Bhagawan, Bhagwan) ::: God; the Lord of Love and Delight.
bhagavan. ::: the Lord; a commonly used name for Reality or Self; a title used for one like Sri Ramana who is recognised as having realised his identity with the Self
bhogaisvaryagatim prati ::: directed to enjoyment and lordship as its goal. [Gita 2.43]
bhoktaram yajnatapasam sarvabhutamahesvaram ::: enjoyer of sacrifice and askesis, great Lord of all beings. [cf. Gita 5.29]
Bhr.gu (Bhrigu) ::: the name of a Vedic r.s.i, progenitor of an ancient Bhrgu clan of sages who went by his name, also described as heavenly seers or symbolically as "burning powers of the Sun, the Lord of Knowledge"; along with the Āṅgirasas, they are identified in the Record of Yoga with the Judeo-Christian "seraphim", the highest order of angels. bhrsta bhr tavisi . s.t.a tavis
bhudeva. :::the Lord of the earth
bhuta-bhavana bhutesa deva-deva jagatpate ::: lord of existences, cause of their becoming, God of gods, master of the universe. [Gita 10.15]
bhutanam isvarah ::: the lord of beings. [Gita 4.6]
black rod ::: --> the usher to the Chapter of the Garter, so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king&
Blessings ::: "My blessings are very dangerous. They cannot be for this one or for that one or against this person or against that thing. It is for... or, well, I will put it in a mystic way: It is for the Will of the Lord to be done, with full force and power. So it is not necessary that there should always be a success. There might be a failure also, if such is the Will of the Lord. And the Will is for the progress, I mean the inner progress. So whatever will happen will be for the best."
Ref: CWM Vol. 13, Page: 60-61
bliss ::: “For from the divine Bliss, the original Delight of existence, the Lord of Immortality comes pouring the wine of that Bliss, the mystic Soma, into these jars of mentalised living matter; eternal and beautiful, he enters into these sheaths of substance for the integral transformation of the being and nature.” The Life Divine
bloodsucker ::: n. --> Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.
One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer.
A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner.
Lord and Spouse, the eternal
Lord of Life, the
Lords of Time, the iron
Lords of Time, the unreal
Lords, the immutable
Lord ::: “There is one Lord and Self and the many are only His representations and becomings.” The Life Divine
Lord ::: The Spirit in the cosmos is the lord, the Ishwara of all Nature, but the individual soul is likewise a representative, a delegate Ishwara, the underlord at least if not the overlord of his nature,—the recipient, agent and overseer, let us say, of his own form and use of the universal energy of Nature.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 13, Page: 380
bordland ::: n. --> Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.
bordlode ::: n. --> The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord&
boycott ::: v. t. --> To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott. ::: n. --> The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman,
Brahmanaspati ::: the lord of the divine word (brahman); the Creator (by the word).
brahman ::: (in the Veda) "the soul or soul-consciousness emerging from the secret heart of things" or "the thought, inspired, creative, full of the secret truth, which emerges from that consciousness and becomes thought of the mind"; (in Vedanta) the divine Reality, "the One [eka1] besides whom there is nothing else existent", the Absolute who is "at the same time the omnipresent Reality in which all that is relative exists as its forms or its movements". Its nature is saccidananda, infinite existence (sat), consciousness (cit) and bliss (ananda), whose second element can also be described as consciousness-force (cit-tapas), making four fundamental principles of the integral Reality; brahman seen in all things in terms of these principles is called in the Record of Yoga the fourfold brahman, whose aspects form the brahma catus.t.aya. The complete realisation of brahman included for Sri Aurobindo not only the unification of the experiences of the nirgun.a brahman (brahman without qualities) and sagun.a brahman (brahman with qualities), but the harmonisation of the impersonal brahman which is "the spiritual material and conscious substance of all the ideas and forces and forms of the universe" with the personal isvara in the consciousness of parabrahman, the brahman in its supreme status as "a transcendent Unthinkable too great for any manifestation", which "is at the same time the living supreme Soul of all things" (purus.ottama) and the supreme Lord (paramesvara) and supreme Self (paramatman), "and in all these equal aspects the same single and eternal Godhead". Brahman is represented in sound by the mystic syllable OM.
brennage ::: n. --> A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.
brindavan &
BUAF [alt.fan.warlord] Big Ugly ASCII Font. A special form of {ASCII art}. Various programs exist for rendering text strings into block, {bloob}, and pseudo-script fonts in cells between four and six character cells on a side; this is smaller than the letters generated by older {banner} programs. These are sometimes used to render one's name in a {sig block}, and are critically referred to as "BUAF"s. See {warlording}. [{Jargon File}]
burgage ::: n. --> A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft.
“But if we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to this presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profound, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not the master—a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within.” The Life Divine
But with the extension of our knowledge we discover what this spirit or oversoul is: it is ultimately our own highest deepest vastest Self, it is apparent on its summits or by reflection in ourselves as Sachchidananda creating us and the world by the power of His divine Knowledge-Will, spiritual, supramental, truth-conscious, infinite. That is the real Being, Lord and Creator, who, as the Cosmic Self veiled in Mind and Life and Matter, has descended into that which we call the Inconscient and constitutes and directs its subconscient existence by His supramental will and knowledge, has ascended out of the Inconscient and dwells in the inner being constituting and directing its subliminal existence by the same will and knowledge, has cast up out of the subliminal our surface existence and dwells secretly in it over seeing with the same supreme light and mastery its stumbling and groping movements.
By immortality is meant the consciousness which is beyond birth and death, beyond the chain of cause and effect, beyond all bondage and limitation,free, blissful, self-existent in consciousbeing, the consciousness of the Lord, of the supreme Purusha, of Sachchidananda.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 17, Page: 59
byronic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron.
castellany ::: n. --> The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.
chakrapani. ::: Diety with eight arms and a blissful embodiment of Lord Vishnu
chalice ::: n. --> A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord&
charan-amrita. :::"nectar of the Lord's feet"; bliss of the Self; perfumed "holy water" sanctified by the feet of a deity or of a holy man
chateau ::: n. --> A castle or a fortress in France.
A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman&
Chen ts'a: The true Lord who directs the operation of the universe, to whose existence there is no clue. (Chuang Tzu, between 399 and 295 B.C.) -- W.T.C.
chiefrie ::: n. --> A small rent paid to the lord paramount.
China. The traditional basic concepts of Chinese metaphysics are ideal. Heaven (T'ien), the spiritual and moral power of cosmic and social order, that distributes to each thing and person its alloted sphere of action, is theistically and personalistically conceived in the Shu Ching (Book of History) and the Shih Ching (Book of Poetry). It was probably also interpreted thus by Confucius and Mencius, assuredly so by Motze. Later it became identified with Fate or impersonal, immaterial cosmic power. Shang Ti (Lord on High) has remained through Chinese history a theistic concept. Tao, as cosmic principle, is an impersonal, immaterial World Ground. Mahayana Buddhism introduced into China an idealistic influence. Pure metaphysical idealism was taught by the Buddhist monk Hsuan Ch'uang. Important Buddhist and Taoist influences appear in Sung Confucianism (Ju Chia). a distinctly idealistic movement. Chou Tun I taught that matter, life and mind emerge from Wu Chi (Pure Being). Shao Yung espoused an essential objective idealism: the world is the content of an Universal Consciousness. The Brothers Ch'eng Hsao and Ch'eng I, together with Chu Hsi, distinguished two primordial principles, an active, moral, aesthetic, and rational Law (Li), and a passive ether stuff (Ch'i). Their emphasis upon Li is idealistic. Lu Chiu Yuan (Lu Hsiang Shan), their opponent, is interpreted both as a subjective idealist and as a realist with a stiong idealistic emphasis. Similarly interpreted is Wang Yang Ming of the Ming Dynasty, who stressed the splritual and moral principle (Li) behind nature and man.
Class: (Socio-economic) Central in Marxian social theory (see Historical materialism) the term class signifies a group of persons having, in respect to the means of production, such a common economic relationship as brings them into conflict with other groups having a different economic relationship to these means. For example, slaves and masters, serfs and lords, proletariat and capitalists are considered pairs of classes basic respectively to ancient, medieval and modern economies. At the same time many subordinate classes or sub-classes are distinguished besides or within such primary ones. In "'Revolution and Counter-Revolution" for instance, Marx applies the term class to the following groups, feudal nobility, wealthy bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie, small farmers, proletariat, agricultural laborers, subdividing the class of small farmers into two further "classes", peasant free-holders and feudal tenants. The conflict of interests involved has many manifestations, both economic and non-economic, all of which are considered part of the class struggle (q.v.) -- J.M.S.
coigny ::: n. --> The practice of quartering one&
commemorate ::: v. t. --> To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord&
commune ::: v. i. --> To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord&
communicant ::: n. --> One who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the sacrament of the Lord&
congregation ::: n. --> The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.
A collection or mass of separate things.
An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.
The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord.
consubstantiation ::: n. --> An identity or union of substance.
The actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord&
cope ::: n. --> A covering for the head.
Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.
An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the
copyhold ::: n. --> A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord&
corvee ::: n. --> An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.
coshering ::: n. --> A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant&
cottier ::: n. --> In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord&
county ::: n. --> An earldom; the domain of a count or earl.
A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire. See Shire.
A count; an earl or lord.
court-leet ::: n. --> A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet.
curia ::: n. --> One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.
The place of assembly of one of these divisions.
The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
Any court of justice.
dakshinamurti. :::name for Lord Shiva as the silent teacher; the Vedas declare that in every cycle of creation Reality manifests as Dakshinamurti and becomes the Guru of the first human beings, those who were most spiritually evolved in the previous creation, teaching them the path to liberation
darshana) ::: vision of the lilamaya isvara, by which the manifestation is seen as a "play of the Lord who is in His being all delight". lilamaya lil amaya Kr Krsna
deepam &
demesne ::: n. --> A lord&
despot ::: n. --> A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.
One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.
dispositor ::: n. --> A disposer.
The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is.
district ::: a. --> Rigorous; stringent; harsh. ::: n. --> The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.
A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other
dives ::: n. --> The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord&
Divine Will ::: The Lord sees in his omniscience the thing that has to be done. This seeing is his Will, it is a form of creative Power, and that which he sees the all-conscious Mother, one with him, takes into her dynamic self and embodies, and executive Nature-Force carries it out as the mechanism of their omnipotent omniscience. But this vision of what is to be and th
refore of what is to be done arises out of the very being, pours directly out of the consciousness and delight of existence of the Lord, spontaneously, like light from the Sun. It is not our mortal attempt to see, our difficult arrival at truth of action and motive or just demand of Nature.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 218
domain ::: n. --> Dominion; empire; authority.
The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively.
Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne.
Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign
dominical ::: a. --> Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord&
dominus ::: n. --> Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.
dryfland ::: n. --> An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets.
dynasty ::: n. --> Sovereignty; lordship; dominion.
A race or succession of kings, of the same line or family; the continued lordship of a race of rulers.
Dyumatsena ::: : “Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here fallen blind, losing its celestial kingdom of vision, and through that loss its kingdom of glory.” (Note at the beginning of Savitri from a letter of Sri Aurobindo to a disciple.)
dyumatsena ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here fallen blind, losing its celestial kingdom of vision, and through that loss its kingdom of glory.” Author"s note at beginning of Savitri.
Dyumatsena ::: Sri Aurobindo: “Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here fallen blind, losing its celestial kingdom of vision, and through that loss its kingdom of glory.” (Author’s Note at the beginning of Savitri.)**
elgin marbles ::: --> Greek sculptures in the British Museum. They were obtained at Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin.
epanadiplosis ::: n. --> A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence; as, "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice."
escheat ::: n. --> The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder.
The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same.
escuage ::: n. --> Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage.
etam vibhutim mama yo vetti ::: [he who knows this My pervading lordship]. [Gita 10.7]
Eternal Lord and Spouse
eternal Lord and Spouse, the
eucharistical ::: a. --> Giving thanks; expressing thankfulness; rejoicing.
Pertaining to the Lord&
eucharist ::: n. --> The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving.
The sacrament of the Lord&
E. Zermelo, Neuer Beweis fur die Moglichkeit einer Wohlordnung, Mathematische Annalen, vol. 65 (1908), pp. 107-128.
faldage ::: n. --> A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.
fealty ::: n. --> Fidelity to one&
feud ::: n. --> A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof
fiat ::: n. --> An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor&
fief ::: territory, domain or estate (esp. of a feudal lord).
"Finally, he becomes aware of that highest dynamic Self within him and within Nature which is the source of all his seeing and knowing, the source of the sanction, the source of the acceptance, the source of the rejection. This is the Lord, the Supreme, the One-in-all, Ishwara-Shakti, of whom his soul is a portion, a being of that Being and a power of that Power.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
“Finally, he becomes aware of that highest dynamic Self within him and within Nature which is the source of all his seeing and knowing, the source of the sanction, the source of the acceptance, the source of the rejection. This is the Lord, the Supreme, the One-in-all, Ishwara-Shakti, of whom his soul is a portion, a being of that Being and a power of that Power.” The Synthesis of Yoga
folkland ::: n. --> Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed.
ganapati. ::: the elder son of Lord Shiva, the remover of obstacles; the same as Lord Ganesha
gandharva ::: [Ved.]: Lord of the host of delight. [Later: a celestial musician].
god ::: Sri Aurobindo: ". . . the Absolute, the Spirit, the Self spaceless and timeless, the Self manifest in the cosmos and Lord of Nature, — all this is what we mean by God, . . . .” *The Life Divine
gods "the necessary static elements, ::: Space, the ordered movements of the worlds, the ascending levels, the highest goal"; in later Hinduism, the Preserver of the world, one of the "three Powers and Personalities . of the One Cosmic Godhead", of which the other two are Brahma, the Creator, and Śiva or Rudra2, the Destroyer; also regarded as the Lord himself (isvara) who incarnates in the avataras, and the one deva of whom all the gods are manifestations; in the Record of Yoga, usually a subordinate aspect of Kr.s.n.a, sometimes identified with Pradyumna as the personality of the fourfold isvara whose sakti is Mahalaks.mi.Vis Visnu-Narayana
god ::: “… the Absolute, the Spirit, the Self spaceless and timeless, the Self manifest in the cosmos and Lord of Nature,—all this is what we mean by God, …” The Life Divine
God ::: the Absolute, the Spirit, the Self spaceless and timeless, the Self manifest in the Cosmos and Lord of Nature. God is the All and that which transcends the All.
grandeeship ::: n. --> The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship.
grand ::: superl. --> Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.
Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand conception.
greencloth ::: n. --> A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign&
grhapati ::: house-lord.
groom ::: n. --> A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.
One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain&
hallelujah ::: n. & interj. --> Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration.
hall ::: n. --> A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord&
Hara-Gauri ::: the biune body of the Lord and his Spouse, isvara and sakti, the right half male, the left half female.
hari. ::: "I pray to"; "praise to"; the Lord
Hathayoga with its physical material, first to purify and to tran- quillisc. The normal state of man is a condition of trouble and disorder, a kingdom either at war with itself or badly governed ; for the lord, the Purusha, is subjected to his ministers the facul- ties, subjected even to his subjects, the instruments of sensation, emotion, action, enjoyment. Suarajya. self-rule, must be sub- stituted for this subjection. Fits!, therefore, the powers of ordei must be helped to overcome the powers of disorder. The pre- liminary movement of Rajayoga is a careful self-discipline by which good habits of mind are substituted for the lawless move- ments that indulge the lower nervous being. By the practice of
havismah ::: the deva, lord of the divine offering. [Ved.]
heriot ::: n. --> Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant.
Herrenmoral: (German) A concept popularly used as a blanket term for any ruthless, non-Chnstian type of morality justly and unjustly linked with the ethical theories of Friedrich Nietzsche (q.v.) as laid down by him especially in the works of his last productive period fraught as it was with iconoclast vehemence against all plebeian ideals and a passionate desire to establish a new and more virile aristocratic morality, and debated by many writers, such as Kaftan, Kronenberg, Staudinger, and Hilbert. Such ideas as will to power, the conception of the superman, the apodictic primacy of those who with strong mind and unhindered by conventional interpretations of good and evil, yet with lordly lassitude, are born to leadership, have contributed to this picture of the morality of the masters (Herren) whom Nietzsche envisaged as bringing about the revaluation of all values and realizing the higher European culture upon the ruins of the fear-motivated, passion-shunning, narrowly moral world of his day. -- K.F.L.
herrnhuter ::: n. --> One of the Moravians; -- so called from the settlement of Herrnhut (the Lord&
"He who is free inwardly, even doing actions, does nothing at all, says the Gita; for it is Nature that works in him under the control of the Lord of Nature. Equally, even if he assumes a hundred times the body, he is free from any chain of birth or mechanical wheel of existence since he lives in the unborn and undying spirit and not in the life of the body.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
“He who is free inwardly, even doing actions, does nothing at all, says the Gita; for it is Nature that works in him under the control of the Lord of Nature. Equally, even if he assumes a hundred times the body, he is free from any chain of birth or mechanical wheel of existence since he lives in the unborn and undying spirit and not in the life of the body.” The Synthesis of Yoga
homage ::: n. --> A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign.
Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance.
Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection.
hornbook ::: n. --> The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord&
hosanna ::: n. --> A Hebrew exclamation of praise to the Lord, or an invocation of blessings.
host ::: n. --> The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
An army; a number of men gathered for war.
Any great number or multitude; a throng.
One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.
houselord
Hrsikesa (Hrishikesha) ::: ["Lord of the senses", an epithet of Krsna].
hustings ::: n. pl. --> A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant.
Any one of the temporary courts held for the election of members of the British Parliament.
The platform on which candidates for Parliament
hypothec ::: n. --> A landlord&
“If we need any personal and inner witness to this indivisible All-Consciousness behind the ignorance,—all Nature is its external proof,—we can get it with any completeness only in our deeper inner being or larger and higher spiritual state when we draw back behind the veil of our own surface ignorance and come into contact with the divine Idea and Will behind it. Then we see clearly enough that what we have done by ourselves in our ignorance was yet overseen and guided in its result by the invisible Omniscience; we discover a greater working behind our ignorant working and begin to glimpse its purpose in us: then only can we see and know what now we worship in faith, recognise wholly the pure and universal Presence, meet the Lord of all being and all Nature.” The Life Divine
“If we suppose a supreme consciousness, master of the world, which really conducts behind the veil all the operations the mental gods attribute to themselves, it will be obvious that that consciousness will be the entire Knower and Lord. The Upanishads
I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are the Lord’s remembrancers, keep not silence, and give Him no rest, till He establish, and till He make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”
II. Metaphysics of History: The metaphysical interpretations of the meaning of history are either supra-mundane or intra-mundane (secular). The oldest extra-mundane, or theological, interpretation has been given by St. Augustine (Civitas Dei), Dante (Divma Commedia) and J. Milton (Paradise Lost and Regained). All historic events are seen as having a bearing upon the redemption of mankind through Christ which will find its completion at the end of this world. Owing to the secularistic tendencies of modern times the Enlightenment Period considered the final end of human history as the achievement of public welfare through the power of reason. Even the ideal of "humanity" of the classic humanists, advocated by Schiller, Goethe, Fichte, Rousseau, Lord Byron, is only a variety of the philosophy of the Enlightenment, and in the same line of thought we find A. Comte, H. Spencer ("human moral"), Engels and K. Marx. The German Idealism of Kant and Hegel saw in history the materialization of the "moral reign of freedom" which achieves its perfection in the "objective spirit of the State". As in the earlier systems of historical logic man lost his individuality before the forces of natural laws, so, according to Hegel, he is nothing but an instrument of the "idea" which develops itself through the three dialectic stages of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. (Example. Absolutism, Democracy, Constitutional Monarchy.) Even the great historian L. v. Ranke could not break the captivating power of the Hegelian mechanism. Ranke places every historical epoch into a relation to God and attributes to it a purpose and end for itself. Lotze and Troeltsch followed in his footsteps. Lately, the evolutionistic interpretation of H. Bergson is much discussed and disputed. His "vital impetus" accounts for the progressiveness of life, but fails to interpret the obvious setbacks and decadent civilizations. According to Kierkegaard and Spranger, merely human ideals prove to be too narrow a basis for the tendencies, accomplishments, norms, and defeats of historic life. It all points to a supra-mundane intelligence which unfolds itself in history. That does not make superfluous a natural interpretation, both views can be combined to understand history as an endless struggle between God's will and human will, or non-willing, for that matter. -- S.V.F.
impatronize ::: v. t. --> To make lord or master; as, to impatronize one&
imperious ::: a. --> Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic.
Haughly; arrogant; overbearing; as, an imperious tyrant; an imperious manner.
Imperative; urgent; compelling.
improperia ::: n. pl. --> A series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our Lord with his people; -- sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual.
Indra ::: "the Puissant", a Vedic god, lord of svar, the luminous world; the deva as "the master of mental force". As Agni2 "is one pole of Force instinct with knowledge that sends its current upward from earth to heaven, so Indra is the other pole of Light instinct with force which descends from heaven to earth"; he "comes down into our world as the Hero" and "slays darkness and division with his lightnings, pours down the life-giving heavenly waters [svarvatir apah.], finds in the trace of the hound, Intuition [Sarama], the lost or hidden illuminations, makes the Sun of Truth [sūrya1] mount high in the heaven of our mentality".
infangthef ::: n. --> The privilege granted to lords of certain manors to judge thieves taken within the seigniory of such lords.
". . . in the Veda, Lord of the hosts of delight; in later mythology, the Gandharvas are musicians of heaven, ‘beautiful, brave and melodious beings, the artists, musicians, poets and shining warriors of heaven". . . .” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works ::: *Gandharvas.
“… in the Veda, Lord of the hosts of delight; in later mythology, the Gandharvas are musicians of heaven, ‘beautiful, braveand melodiousbeings, the artists, musicians, poets and shining warriors of heaven’….” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works. Gandharvas
Irony, Socratic: See Socratic method. Is, Isa, Isana, Isvara: (Skr.) "Lord", an example of the vacillating of Indian philosophy between theology and metaphysics. They often use such theistic nomenclature for the Absolute without always wishing to endow it as such with personal attributes except as may be helpful to a lower intelligence or to one who feels the need of worship and bhakti (q.v.). -- K.F.L.
isa (isha) ::: Lord (same as isvara). isa
isa &
isa vasyam ::: for habitation by the Lord. [see the following]
isa vasyam idam sarvam yat kinca ::: all this whatsoever ... is for habitation by the Lord. [see the following]
isa vasyam idam sarvam yat kinca jagatyam jagat ::: all this is for habitation by the Lord, whatsoever is individual universe of movement in the universal motion. [Isa 1]
ishana. ::: the all-enjoyer; the Lord of everything; the Lord of space
ishwara &
is, isa (Ish, Isha) ::: Lord.
isvara (ananda ishwara) ::: anandaṁ brahma seen as an aspect of the Lord.
isvara (anandamaya ishwara) ::: "the all-blissful Lord", the isvara as the anandamaya purus.a, "the Lord of existence and works and Spirit of bliss". anandamaya Kr anandamaya Krsna
isvarabhava (ishwarabhava; iswarabhava) ::: lordship, "the temperaisvarabhava ment of the ruler and leader"; mastery, sovereignty; a term in the second general formula of the sakti catus.t.aya; "a sense of the Divine Power", a quality common to the four aspects of daivi prakr.ti; the personal aspect of brahman seen as the isvara.
isvara-bhava ::: lordship, the temperament of the ruler and leader.
• ISVARA. ::: Lord; Master; God, the Divine Being, Lord of all the Beings, conscious in the conscious, also in the inconscience, master and controller of the many who are in the hands of
isvara brahma (ishwara brahma) ::: brahman as the Lord (isvara); the isvara omnipresent Reality "revealed as possessor, enjoyer of his own self- existence, creator of the universe and one with it . . . and yet superior to it".isvaradarsana (ishwaradarshana; ishwara-darshana; ishwara darisvaradarsana
isvarah sarvabhutanam hrddese ::: the Lord in the heart of all creatures. [Gita 18.61]
isvara (Ishwara) ::: Lord, Master, the Divine, God.
isvara (ishwara; iswara) ::: lord; the supreme Being (purus.ottama) isvara as the Lord, "the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler" who by his conscious Power (sakti) "manifests himself in Time and governs the universe", ruling his self-creation with "an all-consciousness in which he is aware of the truth of all things and aware of his own all-wisdom working them out according to the truth that is in them"; identified with Kr.s.n.a; the individual soul (purus.a or jiva) as the master of its own nature.
isvara (lilamaya ishwara) ::: the Lord of the cosmic lila, "the mighty Lord of Nature, who . . . enjoys with his universal delight this play of her figures of his own being"; the isvara as "our Playmate in the great world-game who has disguised himself throughout as friend and enemy, helper and opponent and, in all relations and in all workings that affect us, has led our steps towards our perfection and our release". lil lilamaya amaya isvaradarsana isvaradarsana (lilamaya ishwaradarshan; lilamaya ishwara
isvara-sakti (Ishwara-Shakti) ::: the dual principle of the Lord [isvara] and his executive Power [sakti].
isvara (sarvavastushu ishwara) ::: the Lord in all things.. u isvara sarves sarvesam am etesam etes a balaṁ pravrttir pravr.ttir mahattvam (sarvesham etesham .. ṁ tejo balam
Iswara ::: The Spirit in the cosmos is the lord, the Ishwara of all Nature, but the individual soul is likewise a representative, a delegate Ishwara, the underlord at least if not the overlord of his nature,—the recipient, agent and overseer, let us say, of his own form and use of the universal energy of Nature.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 13, Page: 380
It is held that society has not accomplished many basic transformations peacefully, that fundamental changes in the economic system or the social superstructure, such as that from medieval serf-lord to modern worker-capitalist economy, have usually involved violence wherein the class struggle passes into the acute stage of revolution because the existing law articulates and the state power protects the obsolete forms and minority-interest classes which must be superseded. The evolution of capitalism is considered to have reached the point where the accelerating abundance of which its technics are capable is frustrated by economic relationships such as those involved in individual ownership of productive means, hiring and firing of workers in the light of private profits and socially unplanned production for a money market. It is held that only technics collectively owned and production socially planned can provide employment and abundance of goods for everyone. The view taken is that peaceful attainment of them is possible, but will probably be violently resisted by priveleged minorities, provoking a contest of force in which the working class majority will eventually triumph the world over.
It is here, when this foundation has been secured, that the practice of Asana and Pranayama come in and can then bear their perfect fruits. By itself the control of the mind and moral being only puts our normal consciousness into the right preliminary condition; it cannot bring about that evolution or manifestation of the higher psychic being which is necessary for the greater aims of Yoga. In order to bring about this manifestation the present nodus of the vital and physical body with the mental being has to be loosened and the way made clear for the ascent through the greater psychic being to the union with the superconscient Purusha. This can be done by Pranayama. Asana is used by the Rajayoga only in its easiest and most natural position, that naturally taken by the body when seated and gathered together, but with the back and head strictly erect and in a straight line, so that there may be no deflection of the spinal cord. The object of the latter rule is obviously connected with the theory of the six chakras and the circulation of the vital energy between the muladhara and the brahmarandhra. The Rajayogic Pranayama purifies and clears the nervous system; it enables us to circulate the vital energy equally through the body and direct it also where we will according to need, and thus maintain a perfect health and soundness of the body and the vital being; it gives us control of all the five habitual operations of the vital energy in the system and at the same time breaks down the habitual divisions by which only the ordinary mechanical processes of the vitality are possible to the normal life. It opens entirely the six centres of the psycho-physical system and brings into the waking consciousness the power of the awakened Shakti and the light of the unveiled Purusha on each of the ascending planes. Coupled with the use of the mantra it brings the divine energy into the body and prepares for and facilitates that concentration in Samadhi which is the crown of the Rajayogic method. Rajayogic concentration is divided into four stages; it commences with the drawing both of the mind and senses from outward things, proceeds to the holding of the one object of concentration to the exclusion of all other ideas and mental activities, then to the prolonged absorption of the mind in this object, finally, to the complete ingoing of the consciousness by which it is lost to all outward mental activity in the oneness of Samadhi. The real object of this mental discipline is to draw away the mind from the outward and the mental world into union with the divine Being. Th
refore in the first three stages use has to be made of some mental means or support by which the mind, accustomed to run about from object to object, shall fix on one alone, and that one must be something which represents the idea of the Divine. It is usually a name or a form or a mantra by which the thought can be fixed in the sole knowledge or adoration of the Lord. By this concentration on the idea the mind enters from the idea into its reality, into which it sinks silent, absorbed, unified. This is the traditional method. There are, however, others which are equally of a Rajayogic character, since they use the mental and psychical being as key. Some of them are directed rather to the quiescence of the mind than to its immediate absorption, as the discipline by which the mind is simply watched and allowed to exhaust its habit of vagrant thought in a purposeless running from which it feels all sanction, purpose and interest withdrawn, and that, more strenuous and rapidly effective, by which all outward-going thought is excluded and the mind forced to sink into itself where in its absolute quietude it can only
reflect the pure Being or pass away into its superconscient existence. The method differs, the object and the result are the same. Here, it might be supposed, the whole action and aim of Rajayoga must end. For its action is the stilling of the waves of consciousness, its manifold activities, cittavrtti, first, through a habitual replacing of the turbid rajasic activities by the quiet and luminous sattwic, then, by the stilling of all activities; and its object is to enter into silent communion of soul and unity with the Divine. As a matter of fact we find that the system of Rajayoga includes other objects,—such as the practice and use of occult powers,—some of which seem to be unconnected with and even inconsistent with its main purpose. These powers or siddhis are indeed frequently condemned as dangers and distractions which draw away the Yogin from his sole legitimate aim of divine union. On the way, th
refore, it would naturally seem as if they ought to be avoided; and once the goal is reached, it would seem that they are then frivolous and superfluous. But Rajayoga is a psychic science and it includes the attainment of all the higher states of consciousness and their powers by which the mental being rises towards the superconscient as well as its ultimate and supreme possibility of union with the Highest. Moreover, the Yogin, while in the body, is not always mentally inactive and sunk in Samadhi, and an account of the powers and states which are possible to him on the higher planes of his being is necessary to the completeness of the science. These powers and experiences belong, first, to the vital and mental planes above this physical in which we live, and are natural to the soul in the subtle body; as the dependence on the physical body decreases, these abnormal activities become possible and even manifest themselves without being sought for. They can be acquired and fixed by processes which the science gives, and their use then becomes subject to the will; or they can be allowed to develop of themselves and used only when they come, or when the Divine within moves us to use them; or else, even though thus naturally developing and acting, they may be rejected in a single-minded devotion to the one supreme goal of the Yoga. Secondly, there are fuller, greater powers belonging to the supramental planes which are the very powers of the Divine in his spiritual and supramentally ideative being. These cannot be acquired at all securely or integrally by personal effort, but can only come from above, or else can become natural to the man if and when he ascends beyond mind and lives in the spiritual being, power, consciousness and ideation. They then become, not abnormal and laboriously acquired siddhis, but simply the very nature and method of his action, if he still continues to be active in the world-existence.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 539-40-41-42
“It is this essential indeterminability of the Absolute that translates itself into our consciousness through the fundamental negating positives of our spiritual experience, the immobile immutable Self, the Nirguna Brahman, the Eternal without qualities, the pure featureless One Existence, the Impersonal, the Silence void of activities, the Non-being, the Ineffable and the Unknowable. On the other side it is the essence and source of all determinations, and this dynamic essentiality manifests to us through the fundamental affirming positives in which the Absolute equally meets us; for it is the Self that becomes all things, the Saguna Brahman, the Eternal with infinite qualities, the One who is the Many, the infinite Person who is the source and foundation of all persons and personalities, the Lord of creation, the Word, the Master of all works and action; it is that which being known all is known: these affirmatives correspond to those negatives. For it is not possible in a supramental cognition to split asunder the two sides of the One Existence,—even to speak of them as sides is excessive, for they are in each other, their co-existence or one-existence is eternal and their powers sustaining each other found the self-manifestation of the Infinite.” The Life Divine
jagannatha (Jagannath) ::: [Lord of the world].
janardana. ::: the Lord of the universe; another name of Vishnu, or God; He who inflicts suffering on evil men; He to whom all devotees pray for worldly success and liberation
japa. ::: incantation; a spiritual discipline involving the meditative repetition of the Lord's name or a mantra as a means to a continual recollection of His presence; uttering the names of the gods or sacred mantras, like OM, either mentally or spoken softly as a method of spiritual practice
jesus ::: n. --> The Savior; the name of the Son of God as announced by the angel to his parents; the personal name of Our Lord, in distinction from Christ, his official appellation.
Jhumur: “Sleeping Vishnu who is at the core of creation, Brahman who is seated on the lotus which comes out of the navel of Vishnu. The Architect has the whole play, the whole perception. He knows what He is building. He is the supreme consciousness in the deepest involution, the sleeping Lord at the core of things.”
Jhumur: “These are the forces that shield, that protect, sun-eyed always representing the supreme, the highest. These forces, these emanations, like the immutable lords, because each of these beings, the Lords, the guardians, the Angels of the Way, all of these are typal beings. They have been put there by the Divine in his plan in order to lead the evolving soul on its way. Here the guardians are protecting, shielding this spirit of the earth. At different stages of the journey you come across different powers.”
Jhumur: “The snake on which the Lord is sleeping. Mother and Sri Aurobindo often use the snake as a symbol of the evolutionary force in matter.
jiva ::: "the living entity"; the soul, the individual purus.a, "a spirit jiva and self, superior to Nature" which "consents to her acts, reflects her moods", but "is itself a living reflection or a soul-form or a self-creation of the Spirit universal and transcendent", an expression of the "principle of multiplicity in the spiritual being of the one divine Existence"; the jiva as a partial manifestation of the isvara, participating in all his powers as "witness, giver of the sanction, upholder, knower, lord", is also "the meeting-place of the play of the dual aspect of the Divine,Prakriti and Purusha, and in the higher spiritual consciousness he becomes simultaneously one with both these aspects, and there he takes up and combines all the divine relations created by their interaction".
jnata isvarah ::: Knower and Lord.
kailash&
kain ::: n. --> Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.
Kames, Henry Home: (1696-1782) He was a well known Scotch lawyer of his day who later became one of the lords of justiciary and sat as a judge in the court of session. He became entangled in a free will controversy after the publication of his "Principles of Morality and Natural Religion." His "Elements of Criticism" is a widely known classic in the field of aesthetics. -- L.E-D.
Karma Yoga ::: Aims at the dedication of every human activity to the supreme Will. It begins by the renunciation of all egoistic aim for our works, all pursuit of action for an interested aim or for the sake of a worldly result. By this renunciation it so purifies the mind and the will that we become easily conscious of the great universal Energy as the true doer of all our actions and the Lord of that Energy as their ruler and director with the individual as only a mask, an excuse, an instrument or, more positively, a conscious centre of action and phenomenal relation. The choice and direction of the act is more and more consciously left to this supreme Will and this universal Energy. To That our works as well as the results of our works are finally abandoned. The object is the release of the soul from its bondage to appearances and to the reaction of phenomenal activities. Karmayoga is used, like the other paths, to lead to liberation from phenomenal existence and a departure into the Supreme. But here too the exclusive result is not inevitable. The end of the path may be, equally, a perception of the Divine in all energies, in all happenings, in all activities, and a free and unegoistic participation of the soul in the cosmic action. So followed it will lead to the elevation of all human will and activity to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards freedom, power and perfection in the human being.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 39-40
KARMA YOGA. ::: It alms at the dedication of every human activity to the supreme Wilt. It begins by the renunciation of all egoistic aim for our works, all pursuit of action for an inter- ested aim or for the sake of a worldly result. By this renuncia- tion it so purifies the mind and the will that we become easily conscious of the great universal Energy as the true doer of all our actions and the Lord of that Energy as their ruler and director with the individual as only a mask, an excuse, an instrument or, more positively, a conscious centre^ of action and phenomenal relation. The choice and direction of the act is more and more consciously left to this supreme Will and this universal Energy. To that our works as well as the results of our works are finally abandoned. The object is the release of the soul from its bondage to appearances and to the reaction of phenomenal activities. Karmayoga is used, like the other paths, to lead to liberation from phenomenal existence and a departure into the Supreme. But here too the exclusive result is not inevitable. The end of the path may be, equally, a perception of the divine in all energies, in all happenings, in all activities, and a free and unegoislic participation of the soul in the cosmic action. So followed it will lead to the elevation of all human will and activity to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the
karma yoga. ::: the yoga of action chosen primarily by those of an outgoing nature; the yoga of selfless devotion of all inner and outer activities as a sacrifice to the Lord; selfless service to God without any intention for gain or reward; one of the four paths of yoga
kind-hearted ::: a. --> Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord.
kirtan&
"Krishna as a godhead is the Lord of Ananda, Love and Bhakti; as an incarnation, he manifests the union of wisdom (Jnana) and works and leads the earth-evolution through this towards union with the Divine by Ananda, Love and Bhakti.” Letters on Yoga
“Krishna as a godhead is the Lord of Ananda, Love and Bhakti; as an incarnation, he manifests the union of wisdom (Jnana) and works and leads the earth-evolution through this towards union with the Divine by Ananda, Love and Bhakti.” Letters on Yoga
Krsna (Krishna, Srikrishna) ::: a godhead, the Lord of ananda, Love and bhakti, [considered to be one of the ten incarnations of Visnu], as an incarnation he manifests the union of wisdom (jnana) and works and leads the earth-evolution through this towards union with the Divine by ananda, Love and bhakti. ::: Krsnah [nominative]
Kr.s.n.a-purus.a (Krishna-purusha) ::: Kr.s.n.a as the conscious being who Krsna-purusa is the lord of Nature.
kyrie eleison ::: --> Greek words, meaning "Lord, have mercy upon us," used in the Mass, the breviary offices, the litany of the saints, etc.
The name given to the response to the Commandments, in the service of the Church of England and of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
lady ::: n. --> A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household.
A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord.
A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart.
A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower
laird ::: n. --> A lord; a landholder, esp. one who holds land directly of the crown.
landlordism ::: n. --> The state of being a landlord; the characteristics of a landlord; specifically, in Great Britain, the relation of landlords to tenants, especially as regards leased agricultural lands.
landlord ::: n. --> The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
The master of an inn or of a lodging house.
landlordry ::: n. --> The state of a landlord.
liege ::: a. --> Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord.
Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject.
Full; perfect; complete; pure. ::: n.
lilamaya ::: playful; enjoying the cosmic game; pertaining to the lila; lilamaya (sagun.a brahman) perceived as pouring out the delight of existence .... (ananda) into the play of the world; ("the Lilamaya") short for lilamaya isvara or lilamaya purus.a, the Lord or Soul of bliss who "can play with the manifestation without being imbued with the Ignorance".
lila ::: play, game; the world as a game of the Lord or isvara, "a play of lila the divine Being with the conditions of cosmic existence in this world of an inferior Nature"; life (especially in the objective world or field of karma, as distinguished from yoga) "experienced as a play of the divine Delight".
liveryman ::: n. --> One who wears a livery, as a servant.
A freeman of the city, in London, who, having paid certain fees, is entitled to wear the distinguishing dress or livery of the company to which he belongs, and also to enjoy certain other privileges, as the right of voting in an election for the lord mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain, etc.
One who keeps a livery stable.
loka-mahesvara ::: the mighty lord of the worlds and peoples. [Gita 5.29]
lord and Spouse, the eternal
lorded ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Lord
lording ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Lord ::: n. --> The son of a lord; a person of noble lineage.
A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule.
lordkin ::: n. --> A little lord.
lordlike ::: a. --> Befitting or like a lord; lordly.
Haughty; proud; insolent; arrogant.
lordliness ::: n. --> The state or quality of being lordly.
lordling ::: n. --> A little or insignificant lord.
lordly ::: superl. --> Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable.
Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent. ::: adv. --> In a lordly manner.
lord ::: n. --> A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.
One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.
A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for
lordolatry ::: n. --> Worship of, or reverence for, a lord as such.
lord or master of the house.
lordosis ::: n. --> A curvature of the spine forwards, usually in the lumbar region.
Any abnormal curvature of the bones.
lords and ladies ::: --> The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies.
lordship ::: n. --> The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc.
Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
Dominion; power; authority.
lord ::: Sri Aurobindo: "There is one Lord and Self and the many are only His representations and becomings.” *The Life Divine
mage ::: Sri Aurobindo: " . . . the supreme Mage, the divine Magician, . . .” [the Lord] The Life Divine
Mage ::: “… the supreme Mage, the divine Magician, …” [the Lord] The Life Divine
mahapurusha. ::: a great person; a great soul; a sage; the supreme Lord
Mahesvara (Maheshwara) ::: the Almighty Lord.
manbote ::: n. --> A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant).
manor ::: n. --> The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family.
A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services.
manrent ::: n. --> Homage or service rendered to a superior, as to a lord; vassalage.
mansion ::: n. --> A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.
The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.
A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8.
The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.
maranatha ::: n. --> "Our Lord cometh;" -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.
marcher ::: n. --> The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory.
margrave ::: n. --> Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany.
The English equivalent of the German title of nobility, markgraf; a marquis.
marquisate ::: n. --> The seigniory, dignity, or lordship of a marquis; the territory governed by a marquis.
master of the worlds ::: Sri Aurobindo: " If we suppose a supreme consciousness, master of the world, which really conducts behind the veil all the operations the mental gods attribute to themselves, it will be obvious that that consciousness will be the entire Knower and Lord. *The Upanishads
mawlana, mevlana ::: spiritual teacher; our lord
mawla ::: protector; guardian; master; lord
maya. ::: "that which is not"; "that which does not exist"; the superimposition without beginning; the illusion; the illusive power of Brahman that makes the false appearance of the unreal world appear to be real; illusory creation; the veiling and the projecting power of the universe; time and space; doubt; the sense-world of manifold phenomena which conceals the unity of absolute being &
merchet ::: n. --> In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant&
mesne ::: a. --> Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord.
metayer ::: a. --> One who cultivates land for a share (usually one half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord.
metecorn ::: n. --> A quantity of corn formerly given by the lord to his customary tenants, as an encouragement to, or reward for, labor and faithful service.
Mitra ::: the Lord of love and harmony [Ved.]; the name also means "friend" and is the ordinary Sanskrit word for friend.
Mitra ::: "the Friend of all beings", a Vedic god, one of the Four who represent the "working of the Truth in the human mind and temperament"; he is the lord of the luminous harmony by which "the manifold workings of the Truth agree together in a perfectly wedded union".
monseigneur ::: n. --> My lord; -- a title in France of a person of high birth or rank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.) html{color:
monsignore ::: n. --> My lord; -- an ecclesiastical dignity bestowed by the pope, entitling the bearer to social and domestic rank at the papal court. (Abbrev. Mgr.)
More, Thomas: (1478-1535) Lord chancellor of England. One of the leading humanists along with his friends Colet and Erasmus. He was beheaded for his refusal to recognize the king as the head of the church. In his classic, Utopia, he has left a vision of an Ideal state in which war and all glories connected with it were abhorrent. The prince and all magistrates were elected. Nothing is private. All work and all enjoyment are shared. There is no oppression, neither industrial nor religious. The work gives no philosophical analysis of the nature of the state, but merely an exposition of what the author conceived to be and what we have since come to call utopian. -- L.E.D.
na hi te bhagavan vyaktim vidur deva na danavah ::: neither the gods nor the titans, O blessed Lord, know Thy manifestation. [Gita 10.14]
narayana. ::: supreme God; Lord Vishnu
Narayana ::: the Divine, usually taken as a name of Visnu, Preserver and Lord of Love.
nasatya ::: "powers of the movement", [two] lords of the movement, leaders of the journey or voyage. [Ved.]
natha ::: lord, possessor. natha
natha. ::: ruler; protector; Lord
nati ::: resignation, submission; the "equal acceptance by the soul" of "all things as the play of the all-Blissful Lord, the Will of the supreme self and Ishwara", the third stage of passive / negative samata, whose highest form is anandamaya nati.
nowel ::: n. --> Christmas; also, a shout of joy at Christmas for the birth of the Savior.
A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the Nativity of our Lord; a Christmas carol.
The core, or the inner part, of a mold for casting a large hollow object.
The bottom part of a mold or of a flask, in distinction from the cope; the drag.
obrok ::: n. --> A rent.
A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord&
organum ::: n. --> An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title ("Novum Organon") of part of his treatise on philosophical method.
outfangthef ::: v. t. --> A thief from without or abroad, taken within a lord&
overlord ::: n. --> One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master.
overlordship ::: n. --> Lordship or supremacy of a person or a people over others.
parabrahma. ::: supreme Reality; supreme Lord that assumes unlimited forms; beyond Brahma; that stage of knowledge from where no one can return
parameshwara shakti. ::: the power of the supreme Lord
parameshwara &
paramesvara (parameshwara; parameswara) ::: the supreme Lord, the paramesvara transcendent isvara, who rules the worlds "from beyond all cosmos as well as within it" and "from his highest original existence . . . originates and governs the universe . . . with an all-knowing omnipotence". paramesvaraparamesvara-adya
paramesvara (Parameshwara) ::: supreme Lord. ::: paramesvaram [accusative]
paramesvara-paramesvari (parameswara-parameswari) ::: the supreme Lord (paramesvara) and supreme Goddess (paramesvari) as the Two-in-One.
Parapurusha ::: ...something approaching our universe-existence, inexpressible indeed, but still here expressed.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 12, Page: 107 ::: Para Purusha or Purushottama is the Self containing and enjoying both the stillness and the movement, but conditioned and limited by neither of them. It is the Lord, Brahman, the All, the Indefinable and Unknowable.
Ref: CWSA Vol. Vol. 17, Page: 32
parliament ::: n. --> A parleying; a discussion; a conference.
A formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws.
The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when
parousia ::: n. --> The nativity of our Lord.
The last day.
Pasupati (Pashupati) ::: the name of Siva as the Lord of wildlife; the lord of the animal (in man).
paternoster ::: n. --> The Lord&
peerdom ::: n. --> Peerage; also, a lordship.
Pity: A more or less condescending feeling for other living beings in their suffering or lowly condition, condoned by those who hold to the inevitability of class differences, but condemned by those who believe in melioration or the establishment of more equitable relations and therefore substitute sympathy (q.v.). Synonymous with "having mercy" or "to spare" in the Old Testament (the Lord is "of many bowels"), Christians also are exhorted to be pitiful (e.g., 1. Pet. 3.8). Spinoza yet equates it with commiseration, but since this involves pain in addition to some good if alleviating action follows, it is to be overcome in a life dictated by reason. Except for moral theories which do not recognize feeling for other creatures as a fundamental urge pushing into action, such as utilitarianism in some of its aspects and Hinduism which adheres to the doctrine of karma (q.v.), however far apart the two are, pity may be regarded a prime ethical impulse but, due to its coldness and the possibility of calculation entering, is no longer countenanced as an essentially ethical principle in modern moral thinking. -- K.F.L.
possessory ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord.
Powers undivine in their nature present themselves as the Sup- reme Lord or as the Divine Mother and claim the being’s service and surrender. 1C these (hiags are accepted, there will be an extremely disastrous consequence. If indeed there is the assent of the sSdhaka to the Divine working alone and the submission or surrender to that guidance, then all can go smoothly. This assent and a rejection of all egoistic force or forces that appeal to the ego are the safeguard throughout the sadhana. But the ways of nature are full of snares, the disguises of the ego are innumerable, the ilfusions of the Powers of Darkness, Rakshasi Maya, are e.ttraordinariIy skilful ; the reason is an insulBdent guide and often turns traitor; vital desire is ahvays with us tempting to follow any alluring call. This is the reason why in this Yoga we insist so much on what we call samarpana — rather inade- quately rendered by the Engikh word surrender. If the heart centre is fully opened and the psychic is always in control, then there is no question ; all fe Safe. But the psychic can at any moment be veiled by a lower upsurge. It is only a few who arc exempt from these dangers and it is precisely those to whom surrender is easily possible. The guidance of one who is himself
prabhu ::: the Lord; [Ved.]: becoming, coming into existence in front of the consciousness, at a particular point as a particular object of experience.
prabhu ::: the presiding Lord.
prabhutva (prabhutwa) ::: lordship.
pradakshina. ::: walking around a sacred place, object or person in a clockwise direction, signifying that the Lord is the Centre and Source of life
Prajapati: (Skr.) "Lord of creatures", originally applied to various Vedic (q.v.) gods, it assumed as early as the Rig Veda the importance of a first philosophical principle of creation, and later of time as suggestive of gestation and productive periodicity. -- K.F.L.
Prajapati ::: "the Lord of creatures", the divine purus.a of whom all beings are the manifestations; the deva presiding over janaloka; one of "the three primal Purushas of the earth life", who appears after Agni Tvas.t.a and Matarisvan in the form of the four Manus (also called "the four Prajapatis"); any of certain mental beings connected with the terrestrial creation, one of whom is Manu Prajapati.
prajna-purusa ::: the Supreme Intelligence who is the Lord and dwells in the sleep-state holding all things in a seed of dense consciousness.
prajna ::: the Self situated in deep sleep [susupti], the lord and creator of things; the Master of Wisdom and Knowledge (prajna).
pramathanatha ::: lord of the demoniac, [Siva].
presence ::: 1. The state or fact of being present; current existence or occurrence. 2. A divine, spiritual, or supernatural spirit or influence felt or conceived as present. 3. The immediate proximity of someone or something.
Sri Aurobindo: "It is intended by the word Presence to indicate the sense and perception of the Divine as a Being, felt as present in one"s existence and consciousness or in relation with it, without the necessity of any further qualification or description. Thus, of the ‘ineffable Presence" it can only be said that it is there and nothing more can or need be said about it, although at the same time one knows that all is there, personality and impersonality, Power and Light and Ananda and everything else, and that all these flow from that indescribable Presence. The word may be used sometimes in a less absolute sense, but that is always the fundamental significance, — the essential perception of the essential Presence supporting everything else.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” Essays Divine and Human
"But if we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to this presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profound, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not the master — a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within.” *The Life Divine
"The true soul secret in us, — subliminal, we have said, but the word is misleading, for this presence is not situated below the threshold of waking mind, but rather burns in the temple of the inmost heart behind the thick screen of an ignorant mind, life and body, not subliminal but behind the veil, — this veiled psychic entity is the flame of the Godhead always alight within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature. It is a flame born out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine.” *The Life Divine
"If we need any personal and inner witness to this indivisible All-Consciousness behind the ignorance, — all Nature is its external proof, — we can get it with any completeness only in our deeper inner being or larger and higher spiritual state when we draw back behind the veil of our own surface ignorance and come into contact with the divine Idea and Will behind it. Then we see clearly enough that what we have done by ourselves in our ignorance was yet overseen and guided in its result by the invisible Omniscience; we discover a greater working behind our ignorant working and begin to glimpse its purpose in us: then only can we see and know what now we worship in faith, recognise wholly the pure and universal Presence, meet the Lord of all being and all Nature.” *The Life Divine
"The presence of the Spirit is there in every living being, on every level, in all things, and because it is there, the experience of Sachchidananda, of the pure spiritual existence and consciousness, of the delight of a divine presence, closeness, contact can be acquired through the mind or the heart or the life-sense or even through the physical consciousness; if the inner doors are flung sufficiently open, the light from the sanctuary can suffuse the nearest and the farthest chambers of the outer being.” *The Life Divine
"There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"For what Yoga searches after is not truth of thought alone or truth of mind alone, but the dynamic truth of a living and revealing spiritual experience. There must awake in us a constant indwelling and enveloping nearness, a vivid perception, a close feeling and communion, a concrete sense and contact of a true and infinite Presence always and everywhere. That Presence must remain with us as the living, pervading Reality in which we and all things exist and move and act, and we must feel it always and everywhere, concrete, visible, inhabiting all things; it must be patent to us as their true Self, tangible as their imperishable Essence, met by us closely as their inmost Spirit. To see, to feel, to sense, to contact in every way and not merely to conceive this Self and Spirit here in all existences and to feel with the same vividness all existences in this Self and Spirit, is the fundamental experience which must englobe all other knowledge.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"One must have faith in the Master of our life and works, even if for a long time He conceals Himself, and then in His own right time He will reveal His Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"They [the psychic being and the Divine Presence in the heart] are quite different things. The psychic being is one"s own individual soul-being. It is not the Divine, though it has come from the Divine and develops towards the Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
"For it is quietness and inwardness that enable one to feel the Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” *Essays Divine and Human
The Mother: "For, in human beings, here is a presence, the most marvellous Presence on earth, and except in a few very rare cases which I need not mention here, this presence lies asleep in the heart — not in the physical heart but the psychic centre — of all beings. And when this Splendour is manifested with enough purity, it will awaken in all beings the echo of his Presence.” Words of the Mother, MCW, Vol. 15.
procession ::: n. --> The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.
That which is moving onward in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a ceremonious train; a retinue; as, a procession of mourners; the Lord Mayor&
proud ::: superl. --> Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense
Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one&
Purani: “Aswapathy, the father of Savitri, has been significantly called by the poet ‘the Lord of Life’. (book II, Canto XV). The name suggests an affinity to Vedic symbolism. In the Veda, Aswa, the horse, is the symbol of life-energy or vital power. Aswa + aty, Lord, would mean the ‘Lord of Life’. In the poem King Aswapathy is the symbol of the aspiring soul of man as manifested in life on earth.”Savitri”—An Approach and a Study
purus.a (purusha) ::: man; person; soul; spirit; the Self (atman) "as purusa originator, witness, support and lord and enjoyer of the forms and works of Nature" (prakr.ti); the conscious being, universal or individual, observing and upholding the activity of Nature on any plane of existence; the infinite divine Person (purus.ottama), "the Existent who .. transcends all definition by personality and yet is always that which is the essence of personality"; any of the ten types of consciousness (dasa-gavas) in the evolutionary scale. purusa purus
purusa (Purusha) ::: Person; Conscious Being; Conscious--Soul; Soul; essential being supporting the play of prakrti; a Consciousness--or a Conscient--behind, that is the lord, witness, knower, enjoyer, upholder and source of sanction for Nature's works.
Purusha ::: The Conscious Being, Purusha, is the Self as originator, witness, support and lord and enjoyer of the forms and works of Nature. As the aspect of Self is in its essential character transcendental even when involved and identified with its universal and individual becomings, so the Purusha aspect is characteristically universal-individual and intimately connected with Nature even when separated from her. For this conscious Spirit while retaining its impersonality and eternity, its universality, puts on at the same time a more personal aspect;7 it is the impersonal-personal being in Nature from whom it is not altogether detached, for it is always coupled with her: Nature acts for the Purusha and by its sanction, for its will and pleasure; the Conscious Being imparts its consciousness to the Energy we call Nature, receives in that consciousness her workings as in a mirror, accepts the forms which she, the executive cosmic Force, creates and imposes on it, gives or withdraws its sanction from her movements. The experience of Purusha-Prakriti, the Spirit or Conscious Being in its relations to Nature, is of immense pragmatic importance; for on these relations the whole play of the consciousness depends in the embodied being. If the Purusha in us is passive and allows Nature to act, accepting all she imposes on him, giving a constant automatic sanction, then the soul in mind, life, body, the mental, vital, physical being in us, becomes subject to our nature, ruled by its formation, driven by its activities; that is the normal state of our ignorance. If the Purusha in us becomes aware of itself as the Witness and stands back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom; for it becomes detached, and it is possible then to know Nature and her processes and in all independence, since we are no longer involved in her works, to accept or not to accept, to make the sanction no longer automatic but free and effective; we can choose what she shall do or not do in us, or we can stand back altogether from her works and withdraw into the Self’s spiritual silence, or we can reject her present formations and rise to a spiritual level of existence and from there re-create our existence. The Purusha can cease to be subject, anısa, and become lord of its nature, Isvara.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22, Page: 362-63
Rabbil ‘alamin ::: Lord of the worlds, realms, generations
Rabbi ::: My Lord
rabbi ::: n. --> Master; lord; teacher; -- a Jewish title of respect or honor for a teacher or doctor of the law.
Rab ::: Lord; Master; Allah
raglan ::: n. --> A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general. html{color:
recorder ::: n. --> One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.
The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor&
recoupe ::: v. t. --> To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct; as, where a landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.
To get an equivalent or compensation for; as, to recoup money lost at the gaming table; to recoup one&
recusant ::: a. --> Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as, a recusant lord. ::: n. --> One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion.
reichsrath ::: n. --> The parliament of Austria (exclusive of Hungary, which has its own diet, or parliament). It consists of an Upper and a Lower House, or a House of Lords and a House of Representatives.
rep-silver ::: n. --> Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.
riptowel ::: n. --> A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord&
rudra. ::: Lord Shiva in one of his five aspects; God as destroyer; He who drives away sin or suffering
sabbath ::: n. --> A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord&
sac ::: n. --> See Sacs.
The privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.
See 2d Sack.
A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack.
sacrament ::: n. --> The oath of allegiance taken by Roman soldiers; hence, a sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath.
The pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery.
One of the solemn religious ordinances enjoined by Christ, the head of the Christian church, to be observed by his followers; hence, specifically, the eucharist; the Lord&
saheb ::: [lord, sir; formerly used of Europeans in India].
saiva &
sakti (Shakti) ::: Energy, Force, Strength, Will, Power; the self-existent, self-cognitive, self-effective Power of the Lord which expresses itself in the workings of prakrti. ::: saktih [nominative]
sakti (shakti) ::: force, power; capacity; the supreme Power, the "Consakti scious Force which forms and moves the worlds", the goddess (devi) who is "the self-existent, self-cognitive Power of the Lord" (isvara, deva, purus.a), expressing herself in the workings of prakr.ti; any of the various aspects of this Power, particularly Mahesvari, Mahakali,Mahalaks.mi or Mahasarasvati, each corresponding to an aspect of the fourfold isvara and manifesting in an element of devibhava or daivi prakr.ti; the soul-power which reveals itself in each element of the fourfold personality (brahmasakti, ks.atrasakti, vaisyasakti and sūdrasakti); "the right condition of the powers of the intelligence, heart, vital mind and body", the second member of the sakti catus.t.aya; the sakti catus.t.aya as a whole; spiritual force acting through the siddhis of power. sakti catustaya sakti
saktyam bhagavati ca (iti sraddha) ::: (faith) in the Lord and his sakti.
sarangati dharma. ::: self-surrender; surrendering all actions to the Divine with the thought, "I perform all actions for the sake of the Lord only"
sarkar (Sirkar) [Hind.] ::: [lord; administrator; government].
sarvabhuta-mahesvara ::: [the great Lord of all beings]. [cf. Gita 5.29]
sarvabhūtes.u (ishwaradarshana sarvabhuteshu) ::: vision of the Lord in all existences.
sarvalokamahesvaram suhrdam sarvabhutanam ::: the Lord of all worlds (who is) the friend of all creatures. [Gita 5.29]
satya sankalpa. ::: true intentions; good intentions; whatever he desires is fulfilled by the Lord's Grace &
seigneurial ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.
Vested with large powers; independent.
seignioralty ::: n. --> The territory or authority of a seignior, or lord.
seigniorize ::: v. t. --> To lord it over.
seignior ::: n. --> A lord; the lord of a manor.
A title of honor or of address in the South of Europe, corresponding to Sir or Mr. in English.
seigniory ::: n. --> The power or authority of a lord; dominion.
The territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
seniorize ::: v. i. --> To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it.
serf ::: a member of the lowest feudal class, attached to the land owned by a lord and required to perform labor in return for certain legal or customary rights; one in bondage or servitude.
sergeant ::: n. --> Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.
In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned
sergeanty ::: n. --> Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only.
shana; ishwaradarshan) ::: the vision of the Lord (isvara) who "knows, lives in, identifies himself with all and yet is not subjugated by the reactions or limited in his knowledge, power and Ananda by the limitations of the mind and life and physical being in the universe", a form of darsana related to brahmadarsana or regarded as part of it. isvaradarsana sarvabhutesu isvaradarsana
"Shiva is the Lord of Tapas.” *Letters on Yoga
“Shiva is the Lord of Tapas.” Letters on Yoga
showbread ::: n. --> Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place.
signiorize ::: v. t. --> To exercise dominion over; to lord it over. ::: v. i. --> To exercise dominion; to seigniorize.
sire ::: n. --> A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir.
A tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign.
A father; the head of a family; the husband.
A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
The male parent of a beast; -- applied especially to horses; as, the horse had a good sire.
sir ::: n. --> A man of social authority and dignity; a lord; a master; a gentleman; -- in this sense usually spelled sire.
A title prefixed to the Christian name of a knight or a baronet.
An English rendering of the LAtin Dominus, the academical title of a bachelor of arts; -- formerly colloquially, and sometimes contemptuously, applied to the clergy.
A respectful title, used in addressing a man, without being
Siva (Shiva) ::: good; "the auspicious", the Blessed One, [the name of ] the Eternal's Personality of Force and Lord of tapas; [he is a member of the Hindu trinity (trimurti) and is associated especially with the work of destruction].
Śiva (Shiva) ::: "the auspicious", a name of the god who is at once "the Siva Master of the force that acts in the worlds and the Yogin who enjoys the supreme liberty and peace"; especially the contemplative aspect of this deity, in contrast to his "terrible" aspect which is called Rudra2 and sometimes regarded as a distinct god; the divine personality representing absolute Existence (sat) with infinite Force (tapas) inherent in it, whose immobility is translated in the lower hemisphere of existence (aparardha) by inertia, figured in the image of Śiva"s body lying under the feet of the dancing Kali; (also called Mahesvara and identified with Mahavira) the aspect of the fourfold isvara whose sakti is Mahesvari; a name of the Lord and supreme Being (isvara, purus.ottama). siva siv a K Kali
siva &
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. s.n.a-Narayan.a (Krishna-Narayana; Krishna Narayana) ::: Kr.s.n.a, the supreme Being (para purus.a), seen revealing himself as Narayan.a,"the God in man who is also the Lord in the universe"; a bhava of brahmadarsana in which Kr.s.n.a is perceived as "the Purushottama, the supreme Divinity who becomes manifest within us as Narayana,Lord of all our being and action seated secret in our hearts for ever", regarded as superior to a vision of the universal Narayan.a not accompanied by a sense of the transcendental personality of Kr.s.n.a.
soc ::: n. --> The lord&
socome ::: n. --> A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord&
Soma2 ::: a Vedic deity, "lord of the delight of immortality", the god of ananda as symbolised by the "wine of delight" (soma1); also the god of the moon (Candra2), who manifests himself as mind
"Soma is the Gandharva, the Lord of the hosts of delight, and guards the true seat of the Deva, the level or plane of the Ananda; gandharva itthâ padam asya rakshati. He is the Supreme, standing out from all other beings and over them, other than they and wonderful, adbhuta, and as the supreme and transcendent, present in the worlds but exceeding them, he protects in those worlds the births of the gods, pâti devânâm janimâni adbhutah. The ‘births of the gods" is a common phrase in the Veda by which is meant the manifestation of the divine principles in the cosmos and especially the formation of the godhead in its manifold forms in the human being.” The Secret of the Veda
“Soma is the Gandharva, the Lord of the hosts of delight, and guards the true seat of the Deva, the level or plane of the Ananda; gandharva itthâ padam asya rakshati. He is the Supreme, standing out from all other beings and over them, other than they and wonderful, adbhuta, and as the supreme and transcendent, present in the worlds but exceeding them, he protects in those worlds the births of the gods, pâti devânâm janimâni adbhutah. The ‘births of the gods’ is a common phrase in the Veda by which is meant the manifestation of the divine principles in the cosmos and especially the formation of the godhead in its manifold forms in the human being.” The Secret of the Veda
“Soma is the Gandharva, the Lord of the hosts of delight, and guards the true seat of the Deva, the level or plane of the Ananda; gandharvaitthâpadamasyarakshati. He is the Supreme, standing out from all other beings and over them, other than they and wonderful, adbhuta, and as the supreme and transcendent, present in the worlds but exceeding them, he protects in those worlds the births of the gods, pâtidevânâmjanimâniadbhutah. The ‘births of the gods’ is a common phrase in the Veda by which is meant the manifestation of the divine principles in the cosmos and especially the formation of the godhead in its manifold forms in the human being.” The Secret of the Veda
soma ::: the plant which yielded the mystic wine for the Vedic sacrifice; the wine itself, which represents the intoxication of the ananda, the divine delight of being; Soma: the Lord of this wine of delight and immortality, the representative deity of the beatitude.
*Sri Aurobindo: "For from the divine Bliss, the original Delight of existence, the Lord of Immortality comes pouring the wine of that Bliss, the mystic Soma, into these jars of mentalised living matter; eternal and beautiful, he enters into these sheaths of substance for the integral transformation of the being and nature.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: “Love fulfilled does not exclude knowledge, but itself brings knowledge; and the completer the knowledge, the richer the possibility of love. ‘By Bhakti’ says the Lord in the Gita ‘shall a man know Me in all my extent and greatness and as I am in the principles of my being, and when he has known Me in the principles of my being, then he enters into Me.’ Love without knowledge is a passionate and intense, but blind, crude, often dangerous thing, a great power, but also a stumbling-block; love, limited in knowledge, condemns itself in its fervour and often by its very fervour to narrowness; but love leading to perfect knowledge brings the infinite and absolute union. Such love is not inconsistent with, but rather throws itself with joy into divine works; for it loves God and is one with him in all his being, and therefore in all beings, and to work for the world is then to feel and fulfil multitudinously one’s love for God. This is the trinity of our powers, [work, knowledge, love] the union of all three in God to which we arrive when we start on our journey by the path of devotion with Love for the Angel of the Way to find in the ecstasy of the divine delight of the All-Lover’s being the fulfilment of ours, its secure home and blissful abiding-place and the centre of its universal radiation.” The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The Truth-being is the Hara-Gauri (the biune body of the Lord and his Spouse, Ishwara and Shakti, the right half male, the left half female) of the Indian iconological symbol; it is the double Power masculine-feminine born from and supported by the supreme Shakti of the Supreme.” The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Vishnu the all-pervading, the cosmic Deity, the Lover and Friend of our souls, the Lord of the transcendent existence and the transcendent delight.” *The Secret of the Veda
Sri Aurobindo: “Vishnu the all-pervading, the cosmic Deity, the Lover and Friend of our souls, the Lord of the transcendent existence and the transcendent delight.” The Secret of the Veda
::: "Sri Krishna . . . Lord of the divine love and Ananda — and his flute calls the physical being to awake out of the attachments of the physical world and turn to that love and Ananda.” *Letters on Yoga
“Sri Krishna . . . Lord of the divine love and Ananda—and his flute calls the physical being to awake out of the attachments of the physical world and turn to that love and Ananda.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Krishna is the Lord of the Divine Love and Ananda. His flute calls the physical being to awake out of the attachments of the physical world and turn to that Love and Ananda.
srimad bhagavat. ::: one of the main 18 Puranas, dealing with the avataras of Vishnu, especially and in great detail with the life of Lord Krishna
stabat mater ::: --> A celebrated Latin hymn, beginning with these words, commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our Lord at the foot of the cross. It is read in the Mass of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is sung by Catholics when making "the way of the cross" (Via Crucis). See Station, 7 (c).
stanhope ::: n. --> A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.
steelbow goods ::: --> Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.
stuti. ::: singing the praises of the Lord with a great feeling of devotion
Subhana Rabbi Al A’la ::: "Glory to my Lord The Most High"
subhaspati ::: [two] lords of weal or of bliss.
Supreme Lord, as the Divine Mother and claim the being’s ser- vice and surrender. If these things are accepted, there will be an extremely disastrous consequence. If indeed there is the assent of the sadhaka to the Divine working alone and the submission or surrender to that guidance, then all can go smoothly. This assent and a rejection of all egoistic forces or forces that appeal to the ego are the safeguard throughout the sadhana. But the ways of nature are full of snares, the disguises of the ego arc innumerable, the illusions of the Powers of Darkness, Rakshasl,
Surya ::: the Sun; the Sun-God, Lord of Truth and the Light, the giver of the rays of knowledge which illumine the mind; the soul and energy and body of the spiritual illumination.
suzerain ::: a feudal lord to whom fealty was due.
svar (swar) ::: "the luminous world", the world of luminous intelligence of which Indra is the lord, comprising the planes at the summit of the mental consciousness; the mental world (manoloka), the highest plane of the triloka; its lower principle of manas, sensational mind, and higher principle of buddhi, intelligence, are manifested in the two realms of svarga and candraloka, respectively.
T'ai i: The Great Unit, the Prime Force before the appearance of Heaven and Earth. Also called ta i. (Ancient Confucianism). Ultimate Oneness, which involves both Being (yu) and Non-Being (wu) (as in Chuang Tzu, between 399 and 295 B.C.), or "which pervades Heaven and Earth, indeterminate but simple, existing but uncreated," (As in Huai-nan Tzu, d. 122 B.C.). The Lord of Heaven (Huai-nan Tzu).
taille ::: n. --> A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.
Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects.
The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.
tanist ::: n. --> In Ireland, a lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a family, under the system of tanistry.
tantra ::: 1. a yogic system which is in its nature synthetical and starts from a great central principle of Nature, a great dynamic force of Nature: in the Vedic methods of yoga [i.e. the trimarga] the lord of the yoga is the purusa, the Conscious Soul, but in tantra it is rather prakrti, the Nature-Soul, the Energy, the Will-in-Power executive in the universe; it was by learning and applying the secrets of this Will-in-Power, its method, its tantra, that the tantrika yogin pursued the aims of his discipline-mastery, perfection, liberation, beatitude; the method of tantrika discipline is to raise Nature in man into manifest power of spirit. ::: 2. [a text of the tantrika system].
teinland ::: n. --> Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord.
tenant ::: n. --> One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.
One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
tenement ::: n. --> That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.
A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an
tenure ::: n. --> The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.
The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.
The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.
Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure.
terrier ::: n. --> An auger or borer.
One of a breed of small dogs, which includes several distinct subbreeds, some of which, such as the Skye terrier and Yorkshire terrier, have long hair and drooping ears, while others, at the English and the black-and-tan terriers, have short, close, smooth hair and upright ears.
Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed
thane ::: n. --> A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king&
The Absolute, the Spirit, the Self spaceless and timeless, the Self manifest in the cosmos and Lord of Nature,—all this is what we mean by God.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22, Page: 725
::: "The Lord of Beings is that which is conscious in the conscious being, but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the Timeless and Time; he is Space and all that is in Space; he is Causality and the cause and the effect: He is the thinker and his thought, the warrior and his courage, the gambler and his dice-throw. All realities and all aspects and all semblances are the Brahman; Brahman is the Absolute, the transcendent and incommunicable, the Supracosmic Existence that sustains the cosmos, the Cosmic Self that upholds all beings, but It is too the self of each individual: the soul or psychic entity is an eternal portion of the Ishwara; it is his supreme Nature or Consciousness-Force that has become the living being in a world of living beings. The Brahman alone is, and because of It all are, for all are the Brahman; this Reality is the reality of everything that we see in Self and Nature. Brahman, the Ishwara, is all this by his Yoga-Maya, by the power of his Consciousness-Force put out in self-manifestation: he is the Conscious Being, Soul, Spirit, Purusha, and it is by his Nature, the force of his conscious self-existence that he is all things; he is the Ishwara, the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler, and it is by his Shakti, his conscious Power, that he manifests himself in Time and governs the universe.” The Life Divine*
“The Lord of Beings is that which is conscious in the conscious being, but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the Timeless and Time; he is Space and all that is in Space; he is Causality and the cause and the effect: He is the thinker and his thought, the warrior and his courage, the gambler and his dice-throw. All realities and all aspects and all semblances are the Brahman; Brahman is the Absolute, the transcendent and incommunicable, the Supracosmic Existence that sustains the cosmos, the Cosmic Self that upholds all beings, but It is too the self of each individual: the soul or psychic entity is an eternal portion of the Ishwara; it is his supreme Nature or Consciousness-Force that has become the living being in a world of living beings. The Brahman alone is, and because of It all are, for all are the Brahman; this Reality is the reality of everything that we see in Self and Nature. Brahman, the Ishwara, is all this by his Yoga-Maya, by the power of his Consciousness-Force put out in self-manifestation: he is the Conscious Being, Soul, Spirit, Purusha, and it is by his Nature, the force of his conscious self-existence that he is all things; he is the Ishwara, the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler, and it is by his Shakti, his conscious Power, that he manifests himself in Time and governs the universe.” The Life Divine
The Lord of Beings is that which is conscious in the conscious being, but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the Timeless and Time, the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler, and it is by his Shakti, his conscious Power, that he manifests himself in Time and governs the universe.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22, Page: 338-339
::: "The Conscious Being, Purusha, is the Self as originator, witness, support and lord and enjoyer of the forms and works of Nature.” *The Life Divine
“The Conscious Being, Purusha, is the Self as originator, witness, support and lord and enjoyer of the forms and works of Nature.” The Life Divine
"The Divine Force concealed in the subconscient is that which has originated and built up the worlds. At the other end in the superconscient it reveals itself as the Divine Being, Lord and Knower who has manifested Himself out of the Brahman.” The Upanishads ::: See also divine Force for additional definitions.
“The Divine Force concealed in the subconscient is that which has originated and built up the worlds. At the other end in the superconscient it reveals itself as the Divine Being, Lord and Knower who has manifested Himself out of the Brahman.” The Upanishads
::: "The essential cause and condition of universal existence is the Lord, Ishwara or Purusha, manifesting and occupying individual and universal forms.” *The Life Divine
“The essential cause and condition of universal existence is the Lord, Ishwara or Purusha, manifesting and occupying individual and universal forms.” The Life Divine
The general direction of social evolution, on this view is from classless, collectivist forms (primitive communism) to class forms (slave-master, serf-lord, worker-capitalist) to classless, socialist, communist forms on the modern level of highly complex technics. Classes are defined as groups having antagonistic economic relationships to the means of production. The resultant conflict of interests is called the class struggle, which, involving the means and way of life, is carried on in all fields, often unconsciously.
"The Gita in later chapters speaks highly of the Veda and the Upanishads. They are divine Scriptures, they are the Word. The Lord himself is the knower of Veda and the author of Vedanta, vedavid vedântakrt; the Lord is the one object of knowledge in all the Vedas, sarvair vedair aham eva vedyah, a language which implies that the word Veda means the book of knowledge and that these Scriptures deserve their appellation.” Essays on the Gita
“The Gita in later chapters speaks highly of the Veda and the Upanishads. They are divine Scriptures, they are the Word. The Lord himself is the knower of Veda and the author of Vedanta, vedavid vedântakrt; the Lord is the one object of knowledge in all the Vedas, sarvair vedair aham eva vedyah, a language which implies that the word Veda means the book of knowledge and that these Scriptures deserve their appellation.” Essays on the Gita
“The Gita in later chapters speaks highly of the Veda and the Upanishads. They are divine Scriptures, they are the Word. The Lord himself is the knower of Veda and the author of Vedanta, vedavidvedântakrt; the Lord is the one object of knowledge in all the Vedas, sarvairvedairahamevavedyah, a language which implies that the word Veda means the book of knowledge and that these Scriptures deserve their appellation.” Essays on the Gita
"The ideation of the gnosis is radiating light-stuff of the consciousness of the eternal Existence; each ray is a truth. The will in the gnosis is a conscious force of eternal knowledge; it throws the consciousness and substance of being into infallible forms of truth-power, forms that embody the idea and make it faultlessly effective, and it works out each truth-power and each truth-form spontaneously and rightly according to its nature. Because it carries this creative force of the divine Idea, the Sun, the lord and symbol of the gnosis, is described in the Veda as the Light which is the father of all things, Surya Savitri, the Wisdom-Luminous who is the bringer-out into manifest existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“The ideation of the gnosis is radiating light-stuff of the consciousness of the eternal Existence; each ray is a truth. The will in the gnosis is a conscious force of eternal knowledge; it throws the consciousness and substance of being into infallible forms of truth-power, forms that embody the idea and make it faultlessly effective, and it works out each truth-power and each truth-form spontaneously and rightly according to its nature. Because it carries this creative force of the divine Idea, the Sun, the lord and symbol of the gnosis, is described in the Veda as the Light which is the father of all things, Surya Savitri, the Wisdom-Luminous who is the bringer-out into manifest existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga
The Ineffable: *Sri Aurobindo: "It is this essential indeterminability of the Absolute that translates itself into our consciousness through the fundamental negating positives of our spiritual experience, the immobile immutable Self, the Nirguna Brahman, the Eternal without qualities, the pure featureless One Existence, the Impersonal, the Silence void of activities, the Non-being, the Ineffable and the Unknowable. On the other side it is the essence and source of all determinations, and this dynamic essentiality manifests to us through the fundamental affirming positives in which the Absolute equally meets us; for it is the Self that becomes all things, the Saguna Brahman, the Eternal with infinite qualities, the One who is the Many, the infinite Person who is the source and foundation of all persons and personalities, the Lord of creation, the Word, the Master of all works and action; it is that which being known all is known: these affirmatives correspond to those negatives. For it is not possible in a supramental cognition to split asunder the two sides of the One Existence, — even to speak of them as sides is excessive, for they are in each other, their co-existence or one-existence is eternal and their powers sustaining each other found the self-manifestation of the Infinite.” The Life Divine
The leader of the journey, the captain of the march, the first and most ancient priest of our sacrifice is the Will. This Will is not the wish of the heart or the demand or preference of the mind to which we often give the name. It is that inmost, dominant and often veiled conscious force of our being and of all being, Tapas, Sbakti, Shraddha, that sovereignly determines our orientation and of which the intellect and the heart are more or less blind and automatic servants and instruments. The Self that is quiescent, at rest, vacant of things and happenings is n support and background to existence, a silent channel or a hypostasis of something Supreme ::: it is not itself the one entirely real existence, not itself the Supreme. The Eternal, the Supreme is the Lord and the all-originating Spirit. Superior to all activi- ties and not bound by any of them, it is the source, sanction, material, efficient power, master of all activities. All activities proceed from this supreme Self and are determined by it ; all are its operations, processes of its own conscious force and not ot something alien to Self, some power other than this Spirit.
The leader of the journey, the captain of the march, the first and most ancient priest of our sacrifice is the Will. This Will is not the wish of the heart or the demand or
reference of the mind to which we often give the name. It is that inmost, dominant and often veiled conscious force of our being and of all being, Tapas, Shakti, Sraddha, that sovereignly determines our orientation and of which the intellect and the heart are more or less blind and automatic servants and instruments. The Self that is quiescent, at rest, vacant of things and happenings is a support and background to existence, a silent channel or a hypostasis of something Supreme: it is not itself the one entirely real existence, not itself the Supreme. The Eternal, the Supreme is the Lord and the all-originating Spirit. Superior to all activities and not bound by any of them, it is the source, sanction, material, efficient power, master of all activities. All activities proceed from this supreme Self and are determined by it; all are its operations, processes of its own conscious force and not of something alien to Self, some power other than the Spirit. In these activities is expressed the conscious Will or Shakti of the Spirit moved to manifest its being in infinite ways, a Will or Power not ignorant but at one with its own self-knowledge and its knowledge of all that it is put out to express. And of this Power a secret spiritual will and soul-faith in us, the dominant hidden force of our nature, is the individual instrument, more nearly in communication with the Supreme, a surer guide and enlightener, could we once get at it and hold it, because profounder and more intimately near to the Identical and Absolute than the surface activities of our thought powers. To know that will in ourselves and in the universe and follow it to its divine finalities, whatever these may be, must surely be the highest way and truest culmination for knowledge as for works, for the seeker in life and for the seeker in Yoga.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 289-90
The Mother : "An Avatar is an emanation of the Supreme Lord who assumes a human body on earth.” Works of the Mother, "On Thoughts and Aphorisms” Vol.10
The Mother : “An Avatar is an emanation of the Supreme Lord who assumes a human body on earth.” Works of the Mother,”On Thoughts and Aphorisms” Vol.10.
The Mother: "OM is the signature of the Lord.” *Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
The Mother: “OM is the signature of the Lord.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
The Mother: ‘There are four Asuras. Two have already been converted, and the other two, the Lord of Death and the Lord of Falsehood, made an attempt at conversion by taking on a physical body – they have been intimately associated with my life. The story of these Asuras would be very interesting to recount. . . the Lord of Death disappeared; he lost his physical body, and I don"t know what has become of him. As for the other, the Lord of Falsehood, the one who now rules over this earth, he tried hard to be converted but he found it disgusting!
The Mother: ‘There are four Asuras. Two have already been converted, and the other two, the Lord of Death and the Lord of Falsehood, made an attempt at conversion by taking on a physical body—they have been intimately associated with my life. The story of these Asuras would be very interesting to recount. . . the Lord of Death disappeared; he lost his physical body, and I don’t know what has become of him. As for the other, the Lord of Falsehood, the one who now rules over this earth, he tried hard to be converted but he found it disgusting!
The real object of this mental discipline is to draw away the mind from ic outward and the mental world into union with the divine Being. Therefore in the first three stages use has to be made of some mental means or support by which the mind accustomed to run about from object to object, shall fix on one alone, and that one must be something which represents the idea of the Divine. It is usually a name or a form or a mantra by which the thought can be feed io the sole knowledge or adora- tion of the Lord. By this concentration on the idea (he mind enters from the idea into its reality, into which h sinks silent, absorbed, unified. This is the traditional method. There are,
"The real source of knowledge is the Lord in the heart; ‘I am seated in the heart of every man and from me is knowledge," says the Gita; the Scripture is only a verbal form of that inner Veda, of that self-luminous Reality, it is sabdabrahma: the mantra, says the Veda, has risen from the heart, from the secret place where is the seat of the truth, sadanâd rtasya, guhâyâm. That origin is its sanction; but still the infinite Truth is greater than its word. Nor shall you say of any Scripture that it alone is all-sufficient and no other truth can be admitted, as the Vedavadins said of the Veda, nânyad astîti vâdinah. This is a saving and liberating word which must be applied to all the Scriptures of the world. Take all the Scriptures that are or have been, Bible and Koran and the books of the Chinese, Veda and Upanishads and Purana and Tantra and Shastra and the Gita itself and the sayings of thinkers and sages, prophets and Avatars, still you shall not say that there is nothing else or that the truth your intellect cannot find there is not true because you cannot find it there. That is the limited thought of the sectarian or the composite thought of the eclectic religionist, not the untrammelled truth-seeking of the free and illumined mind and God-experienced soul. Heard or unheard before, that always is the truth which is seen by the heart of man in its illumined depths or heard within from the Master of all knowledge, the knower of the eternal Veda.” Essays on the Gita*
“The real source of knowledge is the Lord in the heart; ‘I am seated in the heart of every man and from me is knowledge,’ says the Gita; the Scripture is only a verbal form of that inner Veda, of that self-luminous Reality, it is sabdabrahma: the mantra, says the Veda, has risen from the heart, from the secret place where is the seat of the truth, sadanâd rtasya, guhâyâm. That origin is its sanction; but still the infinite Truth is greater than its word. Nor shall you say of any Scripture that it alone is all-sufficient and no other truth can be admitted, as the Vedavadins said of the Veda, nânyad astîti vâdinah. This is a saving and liberating word which must be applied to all the Scriptures of the world. Take all the Scriptures that are or have been, Bible and Koran and the books of the Chinese, Veda and Upanishads and Purana and Tantra and Shastra and the Gita itself and the sayings of thinkers and sages, prophets and Avatars, still you shall not say that there is nothing else or that the truth your intellect cannot find there is not true because you cannot find it there. That is the limited thought of the sectarian or the composite thought of the eclectic religionist, not the untrammelled truth-seeking of the free and illumined mind and God-experienced soul. Heard or unheard before, that always is the truth which is seen by the heart of man in its illumined depths or heard within from the Master of all knowledge, the knower of the eternal Veda.” Essays on the Gita
“The real source of knowledge is the Lord in the heart; ‘I am seated in the heart of every man and from me is knowledge,’ says the Gita; the Scripture is only a verbal form of that inner Veda, of that self-luminous Reality, it is sabdabrahma: the mantra, says the Veda, has risen from the heart, from the secret place where is the seat of the truth, sadanâdrtasya, guhâyâm. That origin is its sanction; but still the infinite Truth is greater than its word. Nor shall you say of any Scripture that it alone is all-sufficient and no other truth can be admitted, as the Vedavadins said of the Veda, nânyadastîtivâdinah. This is a saving and liberating word which must be applied to all the Scriptures of the world. Take all the Scriptures that are or have been, Bible and Koran and the books of the Chinese, Veda and Upanishads and Purana and Tantra and Shastra and the Gita itself and the sayings of thinkers and sages, prophets and Avatars, still you shall not say that there is nothing else or that the truth your intellect cannot find there is not true because you cannot find it there. That is the limited thought of the sectarian or the composite thought of the eclectic religionist, not the untrammelled truth-seeking of the free and illumined mind and God-experienced soul. Heard or unheard before, that always is the truth which is seen by the heartof man in its illumined depths or heard within from the Master of all knowledge, the knower of the eternal Veda.” Essays on the Gita
…there are three, the Kshara, the Akshara, the Uttama. Kshara, the mobile, the mutable is Nature, svabhava, it is the various becoming of the soul; the Purusha here is the multiplicity of the divine Being; it is the Purusha multiple not apart from, but in Prakriti. Akshara, the immobile, the immutable, is the silent and inactive self, it is the unity of the divine Being, Witness of Nature, but not involved in its movement; it is the inactive Purusha free from Prakriti and her works. The Uttama is the Lord, the supreme Brahman, the supreme Self, who possesses both the immutable unity and the mobile multiplicity.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 19, Page: 79
“There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga
There were at one time three clerks of the remembrance, styled King’s Remembrancer, Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer and Remembrancer of First-Fruits. In England, the latter two offices have become extinct, that of remembrancer of first-fruits by the diversion of the fund (Queen Anne’s Bounty Act 1838), and that of Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer on being merged in the office of King’s Remembrancer in 1833. By the Queen’s Remembrancer Act 1859 the office ceased to exist separately, and the queen’s remembrancer was required to be a master of the court of exchequer. The Judicature Act 1873 attached the office to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) Act 1879 transferred it to the central office of the Supreme Court. By section 8 of that Act, the king’s remembrancer is a master of the Supreme Court, and the office is usually filled by the senior master. The king’s remembrancer department of the central office is now amalgamated with the judgments and married women acknowledgments department. The king’s remembrancer still assists at certain ceremonial functions relics of the former importance of the office such as the nomination of sheriffs, the swearing-in of the Lord Mayor of the City of London, the Trial of the Pyx and the acknowledgments of homage for crown lands.
“The Truth-being is the Hara-Gauri (the biune body of the Lord and his Spouse, Ishwara and Shakti, the right half male, the left half female) of the Indian iconological symbol; it is the double Power masculine-feminine born from and supported by the supreme Shakti of the Supreme.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"The universe is certainly or has been up to now in appearance a rough and wasteful game with the dice of chance loaded in favour of the Powers of darkness, the Lords of obscurity, falsehood, death and suffering. But we have to take it as it is and find out — if we reject the way out of the old sages — the way to conquer. Spiritual experience shows that there is behind it all a wide terrain of equality, peace, calm, freedom, and it is only by getting into it that we can have the eye that sees and hope to gain the power that conquers.” Letters on Yoga
“The universe is certainly or has been up to now in appearance a rough and wasteful game with the dice of chance loaded in favour of the Powers of darkness, the Lords of obscurity, falsehood, death and suffering. But we have to take it as it is and find out—if we reject the way out of the old sages—the way to conquer. Spiritual experience shows that there is behind it all a wide terrain of equality, peace, calm, freedom, and it is only by getting into it that we can have the eye that sees and hope to gain the power that conquers.” Letters on Yoga
thirdings ::: n. pl. --> The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant&
"This integral knowledge is the knowledge of the Divine present in the individual; it is the entire experience of the Lord secret in the heart of man, revealed now as the supreme Self of his existence, the Sun of all his illumined consciousness, the Master and Power of all his works, the divine Fountain of all his soul"s love and delight, the Lover and Beloved of his worship and adoration. It is the knowledge too of the Divine extended in the universe, of the Eternal from whom all proceeds and in whom all lives and has its being, of the Self and Spirit of the cosmos, of Vasudeva who has become all this that is, of the Lord of cosmic existence who reigns over the works of Nature. It is the knowledge of the divine Purusha luminous in his transcendent eternity, the form of whose being escapes from the thought of the mind but not from its silence; it is the entire living experience of him as absolute Self, supreme Brahman, supreme Soul, supreme Godhead: for that seemingly incommunicable Absolute is at the same time and even in that highest status the originating Spirit of the cosmic action and Lord of all these existences.” Essays on the Gita*
“This integral knowledge is the knowledge of the Divine present in the individual; it is the entire experience of the Lord secret in the heart of man, revealed now as the supreme Self of his existence, the Sun of all his illumined consciousness, the Master and Power of all his works, the divine Fountain of all his soul’s love and delight, the Lover and Beloved of his worship and adoration. It is the knowledge too of the Divine extended in the universe, of the Eternal from whom all proceeds and in whom all lives and has its being, of the Self and Spirit of the cosmos, of Vasudeva who has become all this that is, of the Lord of cosmic existence who reigns over the works of Nature. It is the knowledge of the divine Purusha luminous in his transcendent eternity, the form of whose being escapes from the thought of the mind but not from its silence; it is the entire living experience of him as absolute Self, supreme Brahman, supreme Soul, supreme Godhead: for that seemingly incommunicable Absolute is at the same time and even in that highest status the originating Spirit of the cosmic action and Lord of all these existences.” Essays on the Gita
This is the transcendental, universal and individual Brahman, Lord, Continent and Indwelling Spirit, which is the object of all knowledge. Its realisation is the condition of perfection and the way of Immortality.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 17, Page: 30
"This Self is fourfold, — the Self of Waking who has the outer intelligence and enjoys external things, is its first part; the Self of Dream who has the inner intelligence and enjoys things subtle, is its second part; the Self of Sleep, unified, a massed intelligence, blissful and enjoying bliss, is the third part… the lord of all, the omniscient, the inner Control. That which is unseen, indefinable, self-evident in its one selfhood, is the fourth part: this is the Self, this is that which has to be known.” Mandukya Upanishad. (5) The Life Divine*
“This Self is fourfold,—the Self of Waking who has the outer intelligence and enjoys external things, is its first part; the Self of Dream who has the inner intelligence and enjoys things subtle, is its second part; the Self of Sleep, unified, a massed intelligence, blissful and enjoying bliss, is the third part… the lord of all, the omniscient, the inner Control. That which is unseen, indefinable, self-evident in its one selfhood, is the fourth part: this is the Self, this is that which has to be known.” Mandukya Upanishad. (5) The Life Divine
Ti chih tse: 'The pattern of the Lord' by which is meant the political and social regulations instituted by the supreme ruler or emperor on high. (Taoism). -- H.H.
Ti: The Confucian anthropomorphic Lord or Supreme Lord (Shang Ti), almost interchangeable with Heaven (T'ien) except that Ti refers to the Lord as the directing and governing power whereas Heaven refers to the Lord in the sense of omnipresence and all-inclusiveness. The world-honored deities (such as those of the four directions and the Five Elements). Mythological sovereigns whose virtues approximate those of Heaven and Earth.
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
tolsester ::: n. --> A toll or tribute of a sextary of ale, paid to the lords of some manors by their tenants, for liberty to brew and sell ale.
town ::: adv. & prep. --> Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated
trailokyanatha. ::: the Lord of of the three worlds
tribunal ::: n. --> The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.
Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.
triple heavens ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Vishnu is the wide-moving one. He is that which has gone abroad — as it is put in the language of the Isha Upanishad, sa paryagât, — triply extending himself as Seer, Thinker and Former, in the superconscient Bliss, in the heaven of mind, in the earth of the physical consciousness, tredhâ vicakramânah. In those three strides he has measured out, he has formed in all their extension the earthly worlds; for in the Vedic idea the material world which we inhabit is only one of several steps leading to and supporting the vital and mental worlds beyond. In those strides he supports upon the earth and mid-world, — the earth the material, the mid-world the vital realms of Vayu, Lord of the dynamic Life-principle, — the triple heaven and its three luminous summits, trîni rocanâ. These heavens the Rishi describes as the higher seat of the fulfilling. Earth, the mid-world and heaven are the triple place of the conscious being"s progressive self-fulfilling, trishadhastha, earth the lower seat, the vital world the middle, heaven the higher. All these are contained in the threefold movement of Vishnu.” The Secret of the Veda
trisacramentarian ::: n. --> One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord&
truth, by renuflcjation of all forms of egozstJc seeXaac, by absten- tion from injury to others, by purity, by constant meditation and inclination to the divine Purusha who is the true lord of the mental kingdom, a pure, glad, clear state of mind and heart is established.
Tvas.t.r. (Twashtri) ::: a Vedic god, "the Fashioner of things"; the uniTvastr versal deva pervading all that he fashions as both "the indwelling Lord and Maker" and "the material of his own works".
unlorded ::: a. --> Deprived of the rank of a lord.
Not raised to the rank of a lord.
unlord ::: v. t. --> To deprive of the rank or position of a lord.
ūrya2 ::: the Vedic sun-god, the "Lord of Light and Truth", of whom the "solar energy is the physical form". ssurya ūrya ananda
uttama ::: highest; the supreme Being (purus.ottama), "the supreme Brahman, the supreme Self, who possesses both the immutable unity and the mobile multiplicity", the Lord (isvara) who "by a large .... mobility and action of His nature, His energy, His will and power . . . manifests Himself in the world and by a greater stillness and immobility of His being . . . is aloof from it". uttama uttamam
uttama purusa ::: the Highest purusa, the Lord. [same as purusottama]
vaishnava. ::: the devotion or worship of Lord Vishnu, or his associated Avatars such as Lord Rama and Lord Krishna; a devotee of Vishnu
vanaspati ::: "lord of the woodland of delight"; the tree, lord of the forest, of the growths of the earth, the material existence, and lord of delight. [Ved.] ::: vanaspatin [accusative plural]
varuna ::: n. --> The god of the waters; the Indian Neptune. He is regarded as regent of the west, and lord of punishment, and is represented as riding on a sea monster, holding in his hand a snaky cord or noose with which to bind offenders, under water.
Varun.a ::: "the Lord of Wideness", a Vedic god who "brings to us Varuna the infinite oceanic space of the divine soul and its ethereal, elemental purity", one of the Four who represent the "working of the Truth in the human mind and temperament"; in post-Vedic mythology, the god of the sea.
varuni dharana. ::: contemplation of Lord Varuna
Vasus ::: the shining Ones, the Lords of the riches; [a group of (usually eight) gods].
verge ::: n. --> A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king&
vibhu ::: 1. [Ved.]: becoming or coming into existence pervasively. ::: 2. all-pervading Master, the Lord. ::: 3. [ =Vibhva].
vijnanesvara (Vijnaneshwara) ::: [the Lord of the vijnana].
villanage ::: n. --> The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord.
Baseness; infamy; villainy.
Virat ::: “(Purusha) The universal or cosmic Soul; ‘God practical’; Lord of Waking-Life, who governs, preserves and maintains the sensible creation which Hiranyagarbha has shaped.” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
virat ::: "(Purusha) The universal or cosmic Soul; ‘God practical"; Lord of Waking-Life, who governs, preserves and maintains the sensible creation which Hiranyagarbha has shaped.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
virat. ::: "the Shining and Mighty One", brahman manifest in the first virat . of the three states symbolised by the letters of AUM; the Self (atman) supporting the waking state (jagrat) or sthūla consciousness; the Lord (isvara) pervading the external universe as the Cosmic Soul. virat vir at. purusa
“Vishnu is the wide-moving one. He is that which has gone abroad—as it is put in the language of the Isha Upanishad, sa paryagât,—triply extending himself as Seer, Thinker and Former, in the superconscient Bliss, in the heaven of mind, in the earth of the physical consciousness, tredhâ vicakramânah. In those three strides he has measured out, he has formed in all their extension the earthly worlds; for in the Vedic idea the material world which we inhabit is only one of several steps leading to and supporting the vital and mental worlds beyond. In those strides he supports upon the earth and mid-world,—the earth the material, the mid-world the vital realms of Vayu, Lord of the dynamic Life-principle,—the triple heaven and its three luminous summits, trîni rocanâ. These heavens the Rishi describes as the higher seat of the fulfilling. Earth, the mid-world and heaven are the triple place of the conscious being’s progressive self-fulfilling, trishadhastha, earth the lower seat, the vital world the middle, heaven the higher. All these are contained in the threefold movement of Vishnu.” The Secret of the Veda
Vishnu ::: “Vishnu the all-pervading, the cosmic Deity, the Lover and Friend of our souls, the Lord of the transcendent existence and the transcendent delight.” The Secret of the Veda
Vis.n.u (Vishnu) ::: a Vedic god, "the all-pervading, the cosmic Deity, the Visnu Lover and Friend of our souls, the Lord of the transcendent existence and the transcendent delight", who supplies for the action of the other
vispati ::: lord or king in the creature; king of the universe and its peoples. [Ved.]
vocative ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling; specifically (Gram.), used in address; appellative; -- said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed; as, Domine, O Lord. ::: n. --> The vocative case.
vrsabhah matinam ::: Lord of the thoughts. [Ved.]
vrsabha (Vrishabha) ::: the Bull; Male, Lord, Puissant, an image for the purusa. [Ved.]
weregild ::: n. --> The price of a man&
Will, Divine ::: The Lord sees in his omniscience the thing that has to be done. This seeing is his Will, it is a form of creative Power, and that which he sees the all-conscious Mother, one with him, takes into her dynamic self and embodies, and executive Nature-Force carries it out as the mechanism of their omnipotent omniscience. But this vision of what is to be and th
refore of what is to be done arises out of the very being, pours directly out of the consciousness and delight of existence of the Lord, spontaneously, like light from the Sun. It is not our mortal attempt to see, our difficult arrival at truth of action and motive or just demand of Nature.
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wine for use in a Eucharistic (referring to the Christian sacrament of the Lord"s Supper, the Communion) service.
woolsack ::: n. --> A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.
Yama ::: 1. Controller, Ordainer, Lord of the Law; in the Rg-veda he seems to have been originally a form of the Sun, then one of the twin children of the wide-shining Lord of the Truth; he is the guardian of the dharma, the law of the Truth, which is a condition of immortality, and therefore himself the guardian of immortality; in the later ideas [post-Vedic] he is the God of Death. ::: 2. yama [in raja-yoga]: a rule of moral self-control.
yama. ::: the Lord of death
yoga vasistha. ::: a classical treatise on yoga, containing the instructions of the rishi Vasistha to Lord Rama on meditation and spiritual life, which is divided into six parts &
Zwingliism: The theological thought of Huldreich Zwingli (1481-1531), early Protestant Reformer of Zurich, Switzerland. His theology was theocentric: God's activity is all-pervading and widely revealed. He was a student of the Greek N.T. and of humanistic subjects, a friend of Erasmus. (See Reformation). He followed Augustine's doctrine of man's original sin and sinfulness with some modifications. He anticipated Calvin's doctrine of election (see Calvinism) as an act of the Divine good and rational will, and he held the feudalistic theory of the atonement of substitution framed by Anselm. The sacraments were not mystical conveyors of divine grace to him, they were rather outward signs of an inward spiritual grace. In the famous Marburg Colloquy, he broke with Luther and his followers on the interpretation of the Lord's Supper. -- V.F.
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1:of his passions. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #KEYS
2:Lord help my poor soul. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #KEYS
3:My Lord! Increase me in knowledge! ~ Koran, 20:114, #KEYS
4:In solitude, where we are least alone.
~ Lord Byron,#KEYS
5:I'm Coming, Lord" ~ Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez, (1531-1617), #KEYS
6:Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile. ~ Lord Byron, #KEYS
7:with inexpressible groanings: 'Return, Lord Jesus!"" ~ Our Lady , #KEYS
8:Endure and you will conquer, The Lord is with you. ~ Mother Mirra, #KEYS
9:how else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?
~ Oscar Wilde,#KEYS
10:Grant me the sight Lord that I may see Thee who hast been with me always. ~ JB, #KEYS
11:Without them no one will see the Lord. ~ Saint Maximus the Confessor, (580-662), #KEYS
12:Glory to Thee O Lord, victor over all obstacles. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
13:One who has seen the Lord is a changed being. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
14:A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 23:1, #KEYS
15:I will be lord over myself. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #KEYS
16:The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Exodus, 14:14, #KEYS
17:Have faith in the Lord's mercy and all can and will change.
~ The Mother,#KEYS
18:It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 118:8, #KEYS
19:But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? (Luke 1:43) ~ Saint Elizabeth, #KEYS
20:For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Romans, 10:13, #KEYS
21:Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love. ~ Ibn Arabi, #KEYS
22:Let the Lord of Truth be always with you. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, #KEYS
23:Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception, so that I may know only reality. ~ Bill Hicks, #KEYS
24:Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 26:4, #KEYS
25:But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Corinthians, 6:17, #KEYS
26:Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 55:6, #KEYS
27:The power of the Lord is in His hands. He scatters His enemies as a cloud." ~ Saint John Bosco prophecies, #KEYS
28:Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
~ Lord Byron,#KEYS
29:Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually! ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Chronicles, 16:11, #KEYS
30:I remember your name in the night, O Lord, and keep your law. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 119:55, #KEYS
31:I saw my Lord with the eye of the heart
I asked, 'Who are You?'
He replied, 'You'. ~ Mansur al-Hallaj,#KEYS
32:The Lord was completely one with the Father and never acted independently of him. ~ Saint Ignatius of Antioch, #KEYS
33:He who holds on to the Lord, even when afflicted by sufferings, will certainly attain to Him. ~ Sri Sarada Devi, #KEYS
34:If you can carry the whole yoke of the Lord, you will be perfect; but if you cannot, do what you can. ~ Didache, #KEYS
35:Love the Lord full-heartedly and all will be well.
In Love eternal. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
36:Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. ~ Amos 3:7 KJV, #KEYS
37:I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come--the Almighty." ~ Revelation 1:8, #KEYS
38:The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Lamentations, 3:25, #KEYS
39:Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 37:3, #KEYS
40:Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done. ~ Saint Martin of Tours, (316-397 AD), #KEYS
41:Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Kings, 8:12, #KEYS
42:And come you now, O Lord my God, teach my heart where and how it may seek you, where and how it may find you. ~ Anselm, #KEYS
43:'I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says the Lord God, who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. ~ Revelation 1:8, #KEYS
44:Jesus Christ, our Lord, gave his blood for us, his flesh for our flesh, and his life for ours. ~ Saint Clement of Rome, #KEYS
45:e ye clean, ye that bear the vessels of the Lord. ~ Isaiah. LII. 11, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
46:Our Lord promises comfort to those that mourn ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.69.4)., #KEYS
47:You have said, "Seek my face." My heart says to you, "Your face, Lord, do I seek." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 27:8, #KEYS
48:The Atman, Self, is the same as Brahman, the Lord. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VIII. 100), #KEYS
49:You, Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Lamentations, 5:19,#KEYS
50:The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 18:10, #KEYS
51:The Lord takes the human body for the sake of those pure souls who love God. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
52:Be not self-seeking; try to be desire-less, and take your refuge in the Lord, who is the doer of all good. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
53:Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 31:24,#KEYS
54:Why analyze and see the evil? Move toward the Lord! Through His grace you will be freed from all passions. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
55:Cry unto the Lord with a longing and yearning heart, and then you shall see Him ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
56:' . . . the supreme Mage, the divine Magician, . . .' [the Lord]
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,#KEYS
57:Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 29:2,#KEYS
58:But his desire is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 1:2, [T2],#KEYS
59:I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
~ Voltaire,#KEYS
60:The sincere devotee finds the Loving Lord ever ready to lend him a helping hand. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
61:He who knows himself, knows his Lord. ~ Mohyddin-ibn-Arabi. "Essay on Unity.", the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
62:If you seek the Cross of Christ, take my heart. There you will find the suffering Lord." ~ Saint Clare of Montefalco, (1268-1308), #KEYS
63:He kept moving forward, because the Lord was waiting. He kept going, because his brothers and sisters were waiting. ~ Pope Francis, #KEYS
64:Let all have intense love of the Lord. This intense love is the one thing needful. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
65:Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son ~ who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever., #KEYS
66:How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee? ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
67:If you have true faith and longing, you will get everything by the Grace of the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
68:Be but trustees and guardians of your children, whose real father is the Lord Himself. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
69:For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ephesians, 5:8, #KEYS
70:Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 55:22,#KEYS
71:They, who have no eyes in their face, are not called blind. They alone are blind, O Nanak, who stray away from their Lord. ~ Guru Angad, #KEYS
72:But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Micah, 7:7, #KEYS
73:Since He appears because of Her,
And She exists because of Her Lord,
The two cannot be distinguished at all. ~ Jnaneshwar, Hinduism,#KEYS
74:Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
~ Lord Byron, [T5],#KEYS
75:Encourage only what leads quickly to the Lord and serves His divine purpose. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, #KEYS
76:At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, "Ask what I shall give you." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Kings, 3:5, #KEYS
77:At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #KEYS
78:I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 45:7,#KEYS
79:Know that you are a God and consequently the Lord of the senses. Why should you allow the senses to lord over you? ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
80:A mutual giving and receiving is the law of Life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, The Lord of the Sacrifice, #KEYS
81:Follow the instruction of holy men who have come to know the Lord after many a hard penance. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
82:By the Lord's grace the spirit must be quickened. Spiritual awakening is followed by Samadhi. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
83:Every being is Narayana, the Lord Himself. The whole universe is Narayana the supreme spirit. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
84:It is faith in the name of the Lord that works wonders, for faith is life and doubt is death. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
85:The sage is never alone...he bears in himself the Lord of all things. ~ Angelius Silesius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
86:To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. ~ proverbs XXL 3, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
87:You must never cease from calling on the Lord, and know this for certain that the Lord's name cuts through all obstacles. ~ SWAMI SUBODHANANDA, #KEYS
88:And love your Lord by serving Him. For lovers are but servants of the Beloved. ~ a poet], @Sufi_Path #KEYS
89:It is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the LORD God" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Ps. 72:28). , #KEYS
90:Our Lord! Accept this from us. You are indeed the All-Hearing, All-Knowing ~ Quran 2:127, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
91:The Lord gives wisdom (sophia), from his face come knowledge (gnosis) and understanding (sunesis)
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 2.6, [T5],#KEYS
92:So high is my Lord's palace, my heart trembles to mount its stairs: yet I must not be shy, if I would enjoy His love. ~ Kabir, #KEYS
93:Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates." ~ Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, #KEYS
94:Firm and disciplined inherence in the Atman constitutes self-surrender to the Supreme Lord. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
95:In the morning, O LORD, You will hear my voice; In the morning I will order my prayer to You and eagerly watch. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 5:3, #KEYS
96:Many are His names and endless are the Lord's manifestations. As the devotee looks upon Him, so does He manifest Himself to Him. ~ Swami Virajananda #KEYS
97:The deep contemplative thought of the Self, constitutes self-surrender to the Supreme Lord. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
98:If you must be crazy, let it not be with the things of the world; be crazy with the love of the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
99:His name is conscious spirit, His abode is conscious spirit and He, the Lord, is all conscious spirit. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
100:Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Micah, 7:8, #KEYS
101:The heart rejoices at the feet of the Lord, who is the Self eternally shining within as 'I-I'. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
102:Every breath of ours should be associated with the Lord, in our mind. God is behind you. always remember Him in everything you do. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
103:Only through detachment from Dunya (this world) does the slave reach his Lord. ~ Shaqeeq Balkhi], @Sufi_Path #KEYS
104:Call with Bhakti upon the hallowed name of the Lord and the mountain of your sins shall go out of sight. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
105:When the soul says: "Not I, O Lord, but Thou," it has reached the end of sorrow. This is freedom itself. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
106:As the drowning man pants hard for breath, so must ones heart yearn for the Lord before one can find Him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
107:I see of Thee neither end nor middle nor beginning, O Lord of all and universal form. ~ Bhagavad Gita, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
108:The Lord is there, not only in that self, but in Nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, The Fullness of Spiritual Action, #KEYS
109:In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, [T5], #KEYS
110:The glorification he meant was his death upon the cross for which the Lord prayed to the Father before undergoing his passion. ~ Saint Anastasius of Antioch, #KEYS
111:If anyone does not salute such representations as standing for the Lord and his saints, let him be anathema. ~ Seventh Ecumenical Council, Second Nicaea, 787, #KEYS
112:When thou saidst, Seek ye my face, my heart said unto Thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. ~ Psalms XXVII.8, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
113:God's own Scriptures have summed it up exactly: Blessed is the people whose God is the Lord. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
114:Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Matthew, 22:37, #KEYS
115:Many dwell upon the glory of God's works. Many are charmed with the garden, but few seek the Lord of the garden. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
116:Our Lord, undeterred by their taking offense, publicly taught the truth which they hated ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.42.2)., #KEYS
117:Those who refuse to be humble cannot be saved. They cannot say with the prophet: 'See, God comes to my aid; the Lord is the helper of my soul.' ~ Venerable Bede, #KEYS
118:When I think of the lotus feet of the Lord, I forget myself so completely that unconsciously my cloth falls off. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
119:The sage is never alone... he bears in himself the Lord of all things. My Blessings.
~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother, 21 September,#KEYS
120:The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 27:1,#KEYS
121:The Lord's Prayer should be said to fight, not only venial sins, but also mortal sins ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.74.8ad6)., #KEYS
122:Those who wait on the Lord will find new strength. ... They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not fain'
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 40:31 NLT.,#KEYS
123:You shall not withdraw your hand from your son, or from your daughter, but from their infancy you shall teach them the fear of the Lord. ~ The Epistle of Barnabas, #KEYS
124:If one traces the source of the mind and reaches the Heart, one becomes the Sovereign Lord of the Universe. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
125:Life is not entirely real until it opens into the sense of the infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, The Lord of the Sacrifice, #KEYS
126:Oh, when will dawn the blessed day
When tears of joy will flow from my eyes
As I repeat Lord Hari's name? ~ Sri Ramakrishna, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
127:The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life. ~ Saint Jose Maria Escriva, #KEYS
128:Do Japa and meditation as you like, provided you keep your mind steadfast in the Lord. You will attain to your goal in this way. Why do you worry? ~ Sri Sarada Devi, #KEYS
129:The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life." ~ Saint Jose Maria Escriva, #KEYS
130:When I am blessed, Lord Rama, with Tattva-Jnana, true knowledge -- I see, I realize that "I am Thou and Thou art I." ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
131:"You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Exodus, 20:7, #KEYS
132:Be like a little child. The more you approach the Lord, the more sincere and openhearted you will be. Our Master was the embodiment of frankness. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
133:Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the universe who is ever victorious and accomplishes everything. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
134:Servitude is that you be His slave every instant, just as He is your Lord every instant. " ~ Dhul-Nun Al-Misri, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
135:To understand the Divine we must have no more preferences.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Ways of Working of the Lord, 25, [T5],#KEYS
136:It matters not that you have been walking along a wrong path. The Lord knows what he wants and in the end fulfills it. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
137:To understand the Divine one must become the Divine. 24 May 1972
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Ways of Working of the Lord [25],#KEYS
138:Addressed to the One Supreme Lord, There is no other sin, no other vice than to be far from Thee.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, 240,#KEYS
139:Some seek consolations through pleasures; the Lord says, "Blessed are those who mourn" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Mt 5)., #KEYS
140:Do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it, but do it with the feeling 'I am the Lord's tool'. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
141:His name is conscious spirit, His abode is conscious spirit and He, the Lord, is all conscious spirit. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
142:It befits the priest especially to adorn the temple of God with fitting splendour, so that the court of the Lord may be made glorious by his endeavours. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
143:As often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (1 Cor. 11:26)., #KEYS
144:By Martha a feast was being prepared for the Lord, in whose feast Mary was even now delighting herself. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
145:Live a worldly life, yet fix your mind on God. Do your work with one hand, and touch the feet of the Lord with the other. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
146:Men value their own goods; hence they think the Lord will view His own works, the sun, moon and stars, in the same light. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
147:O Lord, in the depths of all that is, of all that shall be, is Thy divine and unvarying smile
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, 240, [T5],#KEYS
148:The Lord communicates with us as we break free of our attachment to the senses, sacrifice our own will and build our lives in humility." ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, #KEYS
149:They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might
~ Anonymous, The Bible, 2 Thessalonians, 1:9,#KEYS
150:We are always free to make our proposals to the Lord, but after all it is only His will that is realised.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
151:He who can resign himself to the will of the Almighty with simple faith and guileless love realises the Lord very quickly. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
152:Lord, Thou hast told us: Do not give way, hold tight. It is when everything seems lost that all is saved.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III,#KEYS
153:Your duty for the present is complete resignation to the will of God. If you practice resignation to the will of the Lord, you will get peace of mind. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
154:It is He who engenders Himself perpetually.......the Lord of existences and of non-existences. ~ Egyptian Funeral Rites, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
155:Before the Lord comes, he sends yearning, love, reverence and faith into the heart of the devotee whom he is about to honor. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
156:Is it not a wonderful thing, that he that is the Lord and author of all liberty, would thus be bound with ropes and nailed hand and foot unto the Cross?" ~ Saint John Fisher, #KEYS
157:We see hell restoring its victims to the upper regions, earth sending its buried dead to heaven, and heaven presenting the new arrivals to the Lord. ~ Saint Maximus of Turin, #KEYS
158:If you have faith and confidence, it is not the human form of the guru that you worship, but the Supreme Lord who manifests through him. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
159:Oh lord, I do not want riches, fame, health, happiness or anything else. Grant that I may have pure Bhakti for thy lotus feet! ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
160:Oh my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value. ~ Saint Teresa of Jesus, #KEYS
161:Prakriti does not act for itself or by its own motion, but with the Self as lord. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Release from the Ego, #KEYS
162:The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VII. 500), #KEYS
163:After realization, should one dance with joy or take up his former work? Go on with your work, leaving the issue with the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
164:At each step we say in the language of the Sanskrit verse, "Even as I am appointed by Thee seated in my heart, so, O Lord, I act." ~ Sri Aurobindo, TSOY, The Master of the Work #KEYS
165:Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Romans, 10:9, #KEYS
166:By inordinately using the body through lust, a man wrongs God Who is the Supreme Lord of our body ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.153.3ad2)., #KEYS
167:He who is weighed down by too many cares and anxieties goes down; while he who has fewer rises up towards the feet of the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
168:One is truly wise who has seen the Lord becomes like a little child. His individuality is merely in appearance, not in reality. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
169:The lord makes the Bhakta the heir of His infinite glories and gives the realization of God Personal as well as God Impersonal. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
170:For of all things He is the Lord and Father and Source, and the life and power and light and intelligence and mind. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
171:He who is weighted down by too many cares and anxieties goes down; while he who has fewer rises up towards the feet of the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
172:Lord, I am the yantra, thou art the yantri. I am the room and thou art the tenant. I am the chariot and thou art the charioteer. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
173:O Lord, though alone dost act in all this universe. I am but the smallest of tools in thine hand. Nothing is mine. All is thine! ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
174:So long as man clamours for the I and Mine, his works are as naught: When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done. ~ Kabir, #KEYS
175:When my Lord is not playing His flute, He dances. And all that He does He does so beautifully. But in subduing evil, my Lord is at His most beautiful.
~ सर्वदास,#KEYS
176:Divine incarnations and those that are the Lord's own -- their love is not made up of scriptural formula, it springs from within. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
177:Every work... is sacred - everything is service unto the Lord. You have to learn to do everything with an equal sense of reverence and sanctity in your heart. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
178:I can understand that life is difficult, but the Lord's force is infinite and it is always available for those who pray for it sincerely.
~ The Mother,#KEYS
179:Perform all your worldly duties with your hands, never forgetting to repeat and glorify the name of the Lord with all your heart. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
180:No one is shut out from this joy; all share the same reason for rejoicing. Our Lord, victor over sin and death, finding no man free from sin, came to free us all. ~ Leo the Great, #KEYS
181:A real prayer will never contain any suggestions, instructions or demands. In real prayer you bow down, surrender and declare your helplessness to the Lord. ~ MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI, #KEYS
182:But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Deuteronomy, 4:29, #KEYS
183:Lord, make my innermost being better than my outer look, and make my outer look true and pleasing to You." ~ Hilyatul-Auliya, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
184:Men shed rivers of tears for family, love and riches, but who sheds even a drop because he is not fortunate enough to see the Lord? ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
185:One is truly wise who has seen the Lord and becomes like a little child. His individuality is merely in appearance, not in reality. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
186:So long as the stage of realization is not reached, it is better to regard to Lord as the Master and oneself as his humble servant. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
187:The Lord has to be served with one's body, mind, and possessions. Merely to sit quiet and make japa will not do. Do serve Him a little with your body as well. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
188:To a Bhakta, the Lord manifests in various forms. To one who reaches Jnana (Samadhi), he is the formless Nirguna Brahman once more. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
189:For as without woman Adam produced woman, so did the Virgin without man this day bring forth a man. For it is a man, saith the Lord, and who shall know him. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
190:Grace and truth have come through Jesus Christ, as through the Lord and Author of truth and grace ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on John 1)., #KEYS
191:Imagine thyself always to be the servant of all, and look upon all as if they were Christ our Lord in person; and so shalt thou do him honor and reverence. ~ Saint Teresa of Ávila, #KEYS
192:In samadhi, usually a little ego remains. All outward consciousness disappears, but the Lord keeps a little ego to let me enjoy Him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
193:It is the mean-minded who covet supernatural powers. Those who are pure Bhaktas do not want anything but the louts-feet of the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
194:Our Lord's works produce faith in the things that he says: "He confirmed the word through accompanying signs" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Mk 16:20)., #KEYS
195:I must attain perfection in this life! I must find God with a single utterance!" By such violent love, the Lord is quickly attracted. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
196:In samadhi, usually, a little ego remains. All outward consciousness disappears, but the Lord keeps a little ego to let me enjoy Him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
197:Know thyself and thou shalt know the non-self, the Lord of all. Ponder deeply and thou shalt know that there is no such thing as "I". ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
198:So Abraham called the name of that place, "The Lord will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Genesis, 22:14, #KEYS
199:So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "You are a God of seeing," for she said, "Truly here I have seen him who looks after me." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Genesis, 16:13, #KEYS
200:Call with love the name of the Lord and the mountain of your sins shall go away, just as a mountain of cotton will burn up and vanish. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
201:However polluted one may become by living amidst the attractions of the phenomenal world, the Lord creates the means for purification. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
202:If you surrender to the Lord and call on Him with a heart full of yearning, He is bound to listen and take care of everything for you. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
203:I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 116:1-2, NIV, #KEYS
204:It is the Lord who sustains our floundering hope, just as he sustained Peter when he was floundering in the water, and made the waters firm beneath his feet. ~ Saint Gregory of Nyssa, #KEYS
205:We are full of words but empty of actions, and therefore are cursed by the Lord, since he himself cursed the fig tree when he found no fruit but only leaves. ~ Saint Anthony of Padua, #KEYS
206:Some wish to avoid evil by oppressing those under them; the Lord says, "Blessed are the merciful" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Matthew 5)., #KEYS
207:The Lord has provided different forms of worship to suit different people with different capacities in different stages of development. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
208:He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of youbut to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Micah, 6:8, #KEYS
209:Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 103:1-2, #KEYS
210:Say: "O mankind, the truth has come to you from your Lord." (10:108) ~ qul ya ayyuha 'n-nasu qad ja'a-kumu 'l-haqqu min Rabbi-kum, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
211:The devote Ramprasad called this world a structure of dreams; yet because he loved for the Lord, he was loyal to both God and the world. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
212:The Lord of the universe manifests differently according to the different likings of His worshipers who each have their own view of God. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
213:When a doctor assures that he will save the patient, he does not know that no human power can save one whom the Lord chooses to destroy. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
214:Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #KEYS
215:The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 18:2, #KEYS
216:Those who seek name and fame are under a delusion. They forget that everything is ordained by the great disposer of all things, the Lord. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
217:To know the One and Supreme, the supreme Lord, the immense Space, the superior Rule, that is the summit of knowledge. ~ Tsuang-Tse II, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
218:One who has shaped this world is ever its lord:
Our errors are his steps upon the way. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
219:The Jnana-Yoga will attain Jnana and Bhakti. It will be given to him to realize Brahman and, the Lord willing, the personal God of Bhakti. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
220:When shall I be free? When that "I" has vanished. "I" and "Mine" is ignorance. "Thou" and "Thine" is knowledge. Thou, O Lord are the doer. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
221:When some serve the Lord for a long time, He endows them with all His glory and attributes and raises them to His own seat of sovereignty. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
222:Have faith in the Lord; He is ever present...But no one can find God without continuous love for Him in the heart. To feel that love for God, one must practice it. ~ PARAMAHAMSA YOGANANDA, #KEYS
223:If you can attain devotion to the lotus-feet of the Lord, singing His glory, then you will not have to struggle long to control the senses. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
224:Children, see to it that your dissensions do not deprive you of your life. How do you propose to discipline the Lord's elect, if you have no discipline yourselves? ~ The Shepherd of Hermas, #KEYS
225:When a person considers that the Son of God, the Lord of death, willed to die, he no longer fears death ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Hebrews 2)., #KEYS
226:But God's Word is our Lord Jesus Christ, who in these last times was made a man among men, that he might join the end to the beginning: that is, join man to God. ~ Irenaeus, Against Heresies, #KEYS
227:When I calmed my mind And entered my heart, The Love of the Lord Leapt like a flame within me. All my old ideas and beliefs Just blew away like chaff to the wind. ~ Kabir, #KEYS
228:The cross to me is certain salvation. The cross is that which I ever adore. The cross of the Lord is with me. The cross is my refuge. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #KEYS
229:The guru is not as important as the disciple himself. If one worships with utmost devotion, even a stone would become the Supreme Lord. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
230:The Lord did everything in a mystery. . . He said, 'I came to make the things below like the things above, and the things outside like those inside. I came to unite them.
~ Gospel of Philip,#KEYS
231:You are the Divinity, the Lord of lords you are; feel that. Realize in this moment. Faith full of conviction and devoid of the least doubt is true faith and works wonders. ~ SWAMI RAMA TIRTHA, #KEYS
232:Forget your difficulties. Forget yourself... And the Lord will take care of your progress. With love and blessings. 5 March 1968
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
233:How can you draw close to God when you are far from your own self? Grant, Lord, that I may know myself that I may know thee.
~ Saint Augustine of Hippo,#KEYS
234:If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations." ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, #KEYS
235:Take your refuge in truth. Surrender yourself to the Lord. Make your heart and lips the same, and the Lord, who knows the innermost thoughts of our hearts, will protect you. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
236:Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 3:5-6, #KEYS
237:Know that you will not be at all tormented by mental unrest if you, without being sentimental, dedicate the good or bad results of your actions to the lotus feet of the Lord. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
238:The manifestation of the Lord in life and works is the law of our being and the object of our world-existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, Conclusion and Summary, #KEYS
239:Make sajdah with love. Pray with love. Do everything that the Lord of the Heavens is ordering you to do with love. ~ Shaykh Nazim Al Haqqani, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
240:When one perceives clearly this Self as God and as the Lord of all that is and will be, he knows no longer any fear. ~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
241:Fire will descend from heaven and humanity will be purified and completely renewed, so as to be ready to receive the Lord Jesus who will return to you in glory." ~ Our Lady to Father Stefano Gobbi, #KEYS
242:If the Lord wills for you a hardship, do not protest. Take it as a blessing and indeed it will become so.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Difficulties of Surrender,#KEYS
243:[The Lord] teaches us to make prayer in common for all our brethren. For he did not say my Father who art in heaven, but our Father, offering petitions for the common body. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
244:Today every creature shouts in resounding song: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Blessed is he who comes in every age, for this is not his first coming. ~ Proclus of Constantinople, #KEYS
245:Now our Lord knew both what he asked about, and what answer would be given, and thus he was not asking out of ignorance ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (In Jn 18 lect 6)., #KEYS
246:The word is the Guru, The Guru is the Word, For all nectar is enshrined in the world Blessed is the word which reveal the Lord's name But more is the one who knows by the Guru's grace. ~ Guru Nanak, #KEYS
247:He poured forth his gifts on them all but most abundantly on us who have taken refuge in his compassion through our Lord Jesus Christ, to who be glory and majesty forever and ever. ~ Clement of Rome, #KEYS
248:Pray: 'O Lord, give unto me this yearning, make me mad for You.' Let people say, so-and-so has become mad for God. People may become mad for so many things. Why not you for God? ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
249:The goldness of gold, the silverness of silver, the manhood of man, the womanhood of woman, the reality of everything is the Lord. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VI. 378), #KEYS
250:The Divine may very well lean down towards you, but to understand Him rightly you must come up to Him.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Ways of the Working of the Lord,#KEYS
251:O my Lord, the stars glitter
and the eyes of men are closed.
Kings have locked their doors
and each lover is alone with his beloved.
Here, I am alone with you.
~ Rabia al-Adawiyya,#KEYS
252:'Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints' ~ Ps. 116:15). No degree of cruel inhumanity can destroy the religion founded on the mystery of the cross of Christ. ~ Saint Leo the Great, #KEYS
253:You take up the spiritual path only when you feel you cannot do otherwise. 27 October 1952
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Ways of Working of the Lord, The Path [29],#KEYS
254:The sixth day before the Passover was the first day of the week, i.e., the Palm Sunday on which our Lord entered Jerusalem ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (In John 12, lect. 1)., #KEYS
255:Lord, I beg you in the name of Jesus Christ, your Son and my God, give me a love that cannot stumble so that my lamp can be lit but can never go out: let it burn in me and give light to others. ~ Columbanus, #KEYS
256:Recite the Lord's name with all your heart, throughout the day and night, whether you are in the midst of work or not. While outwardly you are engaged in work, repeat His name inwardly. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
257:The supreme duty of man is to remember the Lord always, whether one is engaged in consciously repeating His name or not. Every breath of ours should be associated with Him, in our mind. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
258:We go on to say, May your name be hallowed. It is not that we think to make God holy by our prayers; rather we are asking God that his name may be made holy in us. ~ Cyprian of Carthage, On the Lord's Prayer, #KEYS
259:... churches and altars sacked; the Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord." ~ Our Lady of Akita (1973), #KEYS
260:If thou canst, thou mayst see Him by the eyes of the intelligence, for the Lord is not a miser of Himself; He reveals Himself in the whole universe. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
261:The different effects of the sacraments are like different medicines for sin and different shares in the efficacy of our Lord's passion ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (DV 27.5ad12)., #KEYS
262:Happiness and misery, pleasure and pain are transient and so the Lord asks us in the Gita to go beyond both, and this can be attained only by constantly thinking of the Lord in the heart. ~ SWAMI VIRESWARANANDA, #KEYS
263:Let us work for the food which does not perish - our salvation. Let us work in the vineyard of the Lord to earn our daily wage in the wisdom which says: Those who work in me will not sin. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #KEYS
264:Our Lord Jesus Christ will come from heaven. He will come at the end of the world, in glory, at the last day. For there will be an end to this world, and the created world will be made new. ~ Cyril of Jerusalem, #KEYS
265:While repeating the name of the Lord, you will see His form - effulgent and smiling. You will also smile and then weep, and say, ' Why did You not appear before? Why have You come so late?' ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
266:Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #KEYS
267:O Lord, eternal Master, enlighten us, guide our steps, show us the way towards the realisation of Thy law, towards the accomplishment of Thy work.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
268:Whatever happened, was good, what's happening, it's going well, whatever will happen, will also be good. You need not have any regrets for the past. Do not worry for the future. Live in Present.
~ Lord Krishna,#KEYS
269:What is Consciousness?
When the Lord becomes conscious of Himself, the world is created. Consciousness is the breath that gives life to all.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III,#KEYS
270:Have strength. Have courage, no matter what may come before you. Overcome all weakness by the strength of purity. Move onward boldly, having real faith in the Lord. He will always protect you. ~ SWAMI PARAMANANDA, #KEYS
271:O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me. ~ Rabia al-Adawiyya, #KEYS
272:John is the voice, but the Lord is the Word who was in the beginning. John is the voice that lasts for a time; from the beginning Christ is the Word who lives for ever. ~ Saint Augstine, Sermo 293.3 (PL 1328-1329), #KEYS
273:If you harbour anger and passions, it will be your ruin; especially lust and anger - they are demonic. If they arise in your heart, weep and pray before the Lord. By His grace they will fly away. ~ Swami Premananda, #KEYS
274:When thou lookest up to heaven and gazest at the beauty of the stars, pray to the Lord of the visible world; pray to God the Arch-artificer of the universe, Who in wisdom hath made them all. ~ Saint Basil the Great, #KEYS
275:I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
~ Brenda Ueland,#KEYS
276:Let us read it thus: even if you do turn your face away from us, Lord, its light is still imprinted upon us. We hold it in our hearts and our innermost feelings are transformed by its light. ~ Saint Ambrose of Milan, #KEYS
277:Believe me, the Lord is always with you. If you practice a little, He will extend His helping hand to you. It is He who is protecting us all from miseries and troubles. How unbounded is His grace! ~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
278:Like mud in a mud pot the Supreme Lord who is existence and space-like consciousness and bliss exists everywhere non-separate (from things). ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Yoga Vasistha, 10.12, #KEYS
279:Why think merely of your disease and ill health? Know always, and under all circumstances, 'I belong to the Lord. The Lord is my eternal treasure; He is the one Reality, the source of my well-being.' ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
280:Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will. ~ Francis of Assissi, #KEYS
281:Our Lady received through the ineffable kindness of Jesus the strength to endure the trials of her love until the end. May you also find the strength to endure with the Lord to Calvary! " ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, #KEYS
282:The mind that becomes elated also is subject to depression. Don't identify yourself with either! Go beyond! Somehow touch the feet of the Lord. Then you are no longer subject to the opposites of life. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
283:With every inhalation, utter the Name of the Lord. With every exhalation, utter the Name of the Lord. Use this splendid and precious chance in your life to the fullest. Live in God, for Him and with Him. ~ SRI SATHYA SAI, #KEYS
284:Do not be discouraged, because, if there is a continuous effort to improve in the soul, in the end the Lord rewards it by making it suddenly blossom in all its virtues as in a flower garden. ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina #KEYS
285:He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands. Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection. ~ Saint Benedict of Nursia, #KEYS
286:The Divine's Grace is wonderful and almighty. And the ways of working of the Lord are full of a delightful sense of humour...
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, the Ways of Working of the Lord,#KEYS
287:You need not worry about awakening the spiritual power called Kundalini. If you chant the name of the Lord with a steadfast mind and meditate on His blissful form, you need not bother about anything else. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
288:In a beautiful phrase Mary calls Israel the servant of the Lord. The Lord came to his aid to save him. Israel is an obedient and humble servant, in the words of Hosea: 'Israel was a servant, and I loved him'. ~ Venerable Bede, #KEYS
289:Let us be on our guard in case, if we relax on the grounds that we have been called, we may go to sleep over our sins and the evil ruler take power over us and drive us out from the king dom ofthe Lord. ~ Letter of Barnabas, #KEYS
290:Lord, without Thee life is a monstrosity. Without Thy Light, Thy Consciousness, Thy Beauty and Thy Force, all existence is a sinister and grotesque comedy.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, 240,#KEYS
291:The glory of the sacraments is the redemption of captives. Truly they are precious vessels, for they redeem men from death. That, indeed, is the true treasure of the Lord which effects what His blood effected. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
292:The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 9:9-10, #KEYS
293:Lord, the year is dying and our gratitude bows down to Thee. Lord, the year is reborn, our prayer rises up to Thee. Let it be for us also the dawn of a new life.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III,#KEYS
294:Through creation itself the Word reveals God the Creator. Through the world he reveals the Lord who made the world. Through all that is fashioned he reveals the craftsman who fashioned it all. ~ Irenaeus, Against Heresies IV.6, #KEYS
295:He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
296:Do not believe that this precept is beyond your power. More than anyone else, the Lord knows the true natures of created things; he knows that moderation, not a fierce defence, beats back a fierce attack. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
297:Someone who looks down from such a peak will become dizzy, and so too I become dizzy when I look down from the high peak of these words of the Lord: Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. ~ Saint Gregory of Nyssa, #KEYS
298:This mental being in the inner heart who has the truth and the light is the lord and sovereign of all; he who knows it, governs all this that is. ~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad V.6, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
299:Although it was primarily to Peter that he said: Feed my sheep, yet the one Lord guides all the pastors in the discharge of their office and leads to rich and fertile pastures all those who come to the rock. ~ Saint Leo the Great, #KEYS
300:And the Lord Jehovah said, "Behold, the man is become as one of us...and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever ~ Genesis, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
301:The Lord can rescue the good from the ordeal, and hold the wicked for their punishment until the day of Judgement, especially those who are governed by their corrupt bodily desires and have no respect for authority. ~ 2 Peter 2:9, #KEYS
302:At his hands he received the crown of martyrdom, being nailed to the cross with his head towards the ground and his feet raised on high, asserting that he was unworthy to be crucified in the same manner as his Lord. ~ Saint Jerome, #KEYS
303:For behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; upon one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. ~ Zechariah 3:9, [ERV] #KEYS
304:It acted not but bore all thoughts and deeds,
The witness Lord of Nature's myriad acts
Consenting to the movements of her Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#KEYS
305:The paralytic at the pool was waiting for someone. Who was this if not the Lord Jesus, born of a virgin? At his coming it is not a question of a shadow healing an individual, but Truth himself healing the universe. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
306:According to the nature of the action, it brings you near to the Divine or takes you away from Him, and that is the supreme consequence.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Ways of Working with the Lord,#KEYS
307:Spiritually speaking the Lord and His name are one. Hence through constant repetition of His name God is realized. One should always try to repeat His name all through the day even in the midst of one's work. ~ SWAMI VIRESWARANANDA, #KEYS
308:The end of the path of knowledge (jnana) or Vedanta is to know the truth that the 'I' is not different from the Lord (Isvara) and to be free from the feeling of being the doer. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
309:The birthday of the Lord is the birthday of peace: for thus says the Apostle, "He is our peace, who made both one"; because whether we are Jew or Gentile, "through Him we have access in one Spirit to the Father." ~ Pope Leo the Great, #KEYS
310:Go and preach the necessity of penance and conversion, of return to the Lord along the way of prayer and repentance, of renunciation of Satan and all his wiles, of evil and the tyranny of the passions." ~ Our Lady to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, #KEYS
311:'He went away sad, for he had many possessions.' This is the sadness that leads to death. The cause of his sadness is also recorded, that he had many possessions. There are the thorns and thistles that choked the Lord's seed. ~ Jerome, #KEYS
312:Whatever name he gives to this Power or whether he gives it a name or not, it is Isha, the Lord, whose presence he must feel around every object and movement in the Universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, #KEYS
313:All the nations will be united in the Catholic faith. Men will seek the kingdom of God in all solicitude. The Lord will give good pastors to the Church. Men will live in peace, each in his own field." ~ Venerable Barthalomew Holzhauser, #KEYS
314:Ask your Lord for a physician who can treat the illnesses of your hearts, a healer who can heal you, a guide who can guide you and take you by the hand. ~ Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
315:Errors, falsehoods, stumblings!" they cry. How bright and beautiful are Thy errors, O Lord! Thy falsehoods save Truth alive; by Thy stumblings the world is perfected. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, #KEYS
316:He, who wishes to meditate on the Lord after all his problems are solved, is like the fool, who wishes to bathe in the sea after the waves have subsided". That moment will never come. The sea will always have waves. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
317:How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me! (~ )Was an early member of the Third Order of St. Francis, by which she is honored as its patroness. ~ Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, (1207-1231), #KEYS
318:It is by persevering that one conquers difficulties, not by running away from them. One who perseveres is sure to triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring. Always do your best and the Lord will take care of the results. ~ MOTHER MIRA, #KEYS
319:The leaven of our former malice is thrown out, and a new creature is filled and inebriated with the Lord himself. For the effect of our sharing in the body and blood of Christ is to change us into what we receive. ~ Saint Leo the Great, #KEYS
320:The passions spur us on like cruel drivers, daily urging us, through our love for earthly things, to act in opposition to the Lord and our own true welfare, and to do what is pleasing to that flatterer, Satan. ~ Saint John of Kronstadt, #KEYS
321:Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
322:The enjoyment of the infinite delight of existence free from ego, founded on oneness of all in the Lord, is what is meant by the enjoyment of Immortality ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, Conclusion and Summary, #KEYS
323:...God will elevate to the throne a model king, a Christian king. The son of Saint Louis will love religion, goodness, justice. The Lord will give him the light, the wisdom, and the power." ~ Ven. Mother Marie Josepha of Bourg (1788-1862), #KEYS
324:The Church will almost seem abandoned and everywhere her ministers will desert her… even the churches will have to close! By his power the Lord will break all the bonds that now bind her to the earth and paralyze her!" ~ Mary Immaculate, #KEYS
325:Hold on to God even in gloom. Never miss meditation or forget to repeat the name of the Lord. Meditation is the anchorage of the soul. Meditation will purify your mind. Continue japa and meditation without losing heart. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
326:Run through all the words of the holy prayers [in Scripture], and I do not think that you will find anything in them that is not contained and included in the Lord's Prayer. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
327:The captain had answered the man of God, "If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" And he had said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 2 Kings, 7:19, #KEYS
328:The Lord said against this error ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Dt 6:4): "Hear O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on John 1, lect. 2)., #KEYS
329:At the time of Japa and meditation, we meditate on the Lord keeping our mind concentrated on Him, in the same way, if we learn to see the same Lord in every man, then we shall not forget God even in the midst of work. ~ SWAMI VIRESWARANANDA, #KEYS
330:Grace and mercy be yours from the only-begotten Son, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; through him and with him be glory, honour and power to the Father and the life-giving Spirit, now and always and for ever. Amen. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
331:Ah, Lord God, my holy Lover, when You come into my heart, all that is within me will rejoice. You are my glory and the exultation of my heart. You are my hope and refuge in the day of my tribulation. ~ Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, #KEYS
332:Ask your Lord for a physician who can treat the illnesses of your hearts, a healer who can heal you, a guide who can guide you and take you by the hand. ~ Shaykh Sayyid Abdul Qadir Jilani, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
333:There is only one physician—of flesh yet spiritual, born yet uncreated God become man, true life in death, sprung from both Mary and from God first subject to suffering and then incapable of it—Jesus Christ our Lord. ~ Ignatius of Antioch, #KEYS
334:Though it be a dog we see hungry, often we are overcome; and though we behold a wild beast, we are subdued; but seeing the Lord, are you not subdued? And wherein are these things worthy of defense? ~ Saint John Chrysostom, Homily 79 on Mt. 25, #KEYS
335:Be very sure that a 'Great Tribulation' will occur in the world, from which the demon Lucifer will be incited against the Church; never since he was bound in hell has such anger been released." ~ The Lord to St. Margaret of Cortona (1247-1297), #KEYS
336:A thinking animal, Nature's struggling lord,
Has made of her his nurse and tool and slave ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
337:Open your lips, says Scripture, and let God's word be heard. It is for you to open, it is for him to be heard. So David said: I shall hear what the Lord says in me. The very Son of God says: Open your lips, and I will fill them. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
338:There Ego was lord upon his peacock seat
And Falsehood sat by him, his mate and queen:
The world turned to them as Heaven to Truth and God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
339:Detachment begets love. Hope in God begets detachment. Endurance and long-suffering beget hope. Total self-mastery begets these. Fear of God begets self-mastery. And faith in the Lord begets fear ~ Maximus the Confessor, Centuries on Charity 1.2, #KEYS
340:Meditate on the Lord alone, on Him, the Fountain of Goodness. Pray to Him; depend on Him. Try to give more time to japa and meditation. Surrender your mind at His Feet. Endeavor to sustain japa and meditation without a break. ~ SRI ANANDAMAYI MA, #KEYS
341:Teach me, Lord, to do Your will. Teach me to live worthily and humbly in Your sight, for You are my wisdom Who know me truly, and Who knew me even before the world was made and before I was born into it. ~ Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, #KEYS
342:The lack of faith is spreading. Sins are committed and justified. The ministers of the sanctuary languish in lukewarmness and indifference and are dissipating the treasures which the Lord has put into their hands." ~ Our Lady to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, #KEYS
343:There is only one physician — of flesh yet spiritual, born yet uncreated God become man, true life in death, sprung from both Mary and from God first subject to suffering and then incapable of it — Jesus Christ our Lord. ~ Ignatius of Antioch, #KEYS
344:Thou art also in the trees and the plants; the earth bears Thee in its flanks and gives birth to Thee as its nursling, Thee, the Lord of beings, Thee, the essence of all that exists. ~ Harivansa, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
345:Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
346:The Church is called the threshing floor; the wheat is the faithful, who will be gathered together by the angels: "Ask the lord of the harvest to send laborers into his harvest" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Lk 10:2)., #KEYS
347:We will have to cover the whole universe by the Lord Himself. If we cannot do that how can we expect to reach perfection, how can we expect to realize the eternal and infinite ocean of wisdom as the foundation of this universe? ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
348:Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you." ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #KEYS
349:If you understand clearly that the Lord is the highest, then nothing will frighten or discourage you, but all your senses will run in the direction of the Supreme, and both your mind and your senses will help you reach Him. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
350:When man has known beyond this world the Being who is hidden according to the form in every creature, the Lord who contains in himself all things, then he becomes immortal. ~ wetaswatara Upanishad, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
351:'As oil poured from one vessel to another falls in an unbroken line, so, when the mind in an unbroken stream thinks of the Lord, we have what is called Para-Bhakti or supreme love.' ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. III. 85), #KEYS
352:The Israelites could not look on the face of Moses in glory, though he was their fellow servant and kinsman. But you have seen the face of Christ in his glory. Paul cried out: We see the glory of the Lord with faces unveiled. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
353:The Lord displays His glory before chosen witnesses, and invests that bodily shape which He shared with others with such splendour, that His face was like the sun's brightness and His garments equalled the whiteness of snow. ~ Pope St. Leo the Great, #KEYS
354:Even scrubbing the floor may be turned into worship if there is the remembrance of the Lord within. Done sacra mentally, every work is an offering to the Lord. He accepts it as He accepts a flower placed at the altar with devotion. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
355:If a person possesses sincere yearning for the Lord and is eager to follow the spiritual path, he is sure to find a real Guru through the grace of the Lord. Therefore a spiritual aspirant need not feel anxious about finding a Guru. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
356:We beg you, Lord, to be our help and our support. Free us from our troubles; take pity on the lowly; raise up those who have fallen; give help to the poor, health to the sick, and bring home those who have wandered away. ~ Clement I to the Corinthians, #KEYS
357:When you have altogether resigned yourselves at the feet of the Lord, you have know the secret of a peaceful, blissful life. Life is a constant fight. You must fight hard with the senses, the result is all in the hands of God. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
358:You are the apostles of this second evangelization. Preach to all peoples that Jesus Christ is the one and only Lord, your Savior and Redeemer, and that He is now about to return to you in the splendor of his glory." ~ Our Lady to Father Stefano Gobbi, #KEYS
359:Let us continue the fight on the day of the Lord. The days of anguish and of tribulation have overtaken us; if God so wills, let us die for the holy laws of our fathers, so that we may deserve to obtain an eternal inheritance with them. ~ Saint Boniface, #KEYS
360:You must never cease from calling on the Lord, and know this for certain that the Lord's name cuts through all obstacles. However it may be - be it perfectly or imperfectly - keep on repeating His name, which has a power of its own. ~ SWAMI SUBODHANANDA, #KEYS
361:If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
362:Lord Naoshige said, The Way of the Samurai is in desperateness. Ten men or more cannot kill such a man. Common sense will not accomplish such things. Simply become insane and desperate.
~ HAGAKURE: THE BOOK OF THE SAMURAI, YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO, 1650 1720,#KEYS
363:We are blessed, beloved, if we fulfil the commands of the Lord in harmonious, loving union, so that through love our sins may be forgiven. For it is written: Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. ~ Pope St Clement I, #KEYS
364:We offer to You O Lord, this awesome and unbloody sacrifice, beseeching You to deal with us not according to our sins, and not to render to us according to our iniquities, but according to Your great mercy and love. ~ Anaphora of the Liturgy of St. James, #KEYS
365:What was born of Mary was human by nature, in accordance with the inspired Scriptures, and the body of the Lord was a true body: It was a true body because it was the same as ours. Mary, you see, is our sister, for we are all born from Adam. ~ Athanasius, #KEYS
366:You must work constantly, day and night devote your whole energy, and let the results remain in the hands of the Lord. Let every action of your daily life be a free offering to the world. Let us all work for others and die for others, ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
367:Let your heart burn away with yearning for God! Feel that life is not worth living without Him! Then He will reveal Himself! As the poor man longs for wealth, as the lustful man longs for a woman, so must the devotee long for the Lord. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
368:You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run." ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
369:Christ is born, glorify Him. Christ from heaven, go out to meet Him. Christ on earth; be exalted. Sing unto the Lord all the whole earth; and that I may join both in one word, Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad. ~ Saint Gregory of Nazianzen, #KEYS
370:Worldly joys lose their flavour when one gets a taste of Bliss Divine. All objects of enjoyment appear to be not only insignificant but positively bitter. Offer yourself, heart and soul, to the Lord and let Him do with you as He pleases. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
371:Peace is the mother of love, the bond of concord and the manifest sigh of a pure soul, one which seeks to please God, which seeks to be fulfilled and has its desire rewarded. Peace must be preserved according to the Lord's precepts. ~ Saint Peter Chrysologus, #KEYS
372:And occupy youself with dhikr, remembrance of God, with whatever sort of dhikr you choose. The highest of them is the Greatest Name; it is your saying "Allah, Allah," and nothing beyond "Allah." ~ Ibn Arabi, Journey to the Lord of Power, #KEYS
373:Crazed by the disease of realizing emptiness as the ground, crazed by the demon of destroying confusion on the path, and crazed by the force of discarding any thought of achieving a result, lord, Madman of the Empty Valley, I bow at your feet. ~ Gyaltsen Sangpo, #KEYS
374:The opinion of the Supreme Lord alone has importance. The Supreme Lord alone deserves all our love and He returns it to us a hundredfold.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Man's relationship with the Divine, The Divine Is with You,#KEYS
375:When the holy Abba Anthony lived in the desert he was beset by acedia. Attacked by many sinful thoughts, he said to God 'Lord, I want to be saved but these thoughts do not leave me alone; what shall I do in my affliction? How can I be saved?' ~ Anthony the Great, #KEYS
376:When we celebrate the feast in our own day, what path are we to take? As we draw near to this feast, who is to be our guide? Beloved, it must be none other than the one whom you will address with me as our Lord Jesus Christ. He says: "I am the way." ~ Athanasius, #KEYS
377:The Wise men fulfil their desire, and come to the child, the Lord Jesus Christ, the same star going before them. They adore the Word in flesh, the Wisdom in infancy, the Power in weakness, the Lord of majesty in the reality of man. ~ Pope Leo the Great, Sermon 31, #KEYS
378:The Word who became all things for us is close to us, our Lord Jesus Christ who promises to remain with us always. He cries out, saying: "See, I am with you all the days of this age." He is himself the shepherd, the high priest, the way and the door. ~ Athanasius, #KEYS
379:We must neither doubt nor hesitate with respect to the words of the Lord; rather, we must be fully persuaded that every word of God is true and possible, even if our nature should rebel against the idea; for in this lies the test of faith. ~ Saint Basil the Great, #KEYS
380:Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy.
~ Saint Francis of Assisi,#KEYS
381:Our Lord does not come down from Heaven every day to lie in a golden ciborium. He comes to find another heaven which is infinitely dearer to him - the heaven of our souls, created in His Image, the living temples of the Adorable Trinity. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #KEYS
382:This sign of the cross will be in the heavens when the Lord comes to judge. Then all the servants of the cross, who during life made themselves one with the Crucified, will draw near with great trust to Christ, the judge. ~ Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, #KEYS
383:You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Deuteronomy, 5:15, #KEYS
384:All things in the regions of Europe have been handed over to barbarians, cities have been destroyed, fortifications overthrown, provinces depopulated, no cultivators occupy the land, idol worshippers rage and lord it over the faithful every day. ~ Gregory the Great, #KEYS
385:If any man be devout and love God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast. If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord. If any have laboured long in fasting, let him now receive his recompense. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
386:The dirt of the mind is washed away if one can think of the Lord and meditate on Him; if one can cry unto Him with repentance, saying, "Lord! forgive me. I will not do wrong in the future." At once the magnet of God draws the needle of the mind. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
387:The snake itself is not affected by the poison in its fangs ; but when it bites, the poison kills the creature bitten. Likewise Maya is in the Lord but does not affect Him, while the same Maya deludes the whole world. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
388:The world creates itself invincibly;
For its body is the body of the Lord
And in its heart stands Virat, King of Kings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
389:Your being, Lord, does not desert my being, for I exist only insomuch as you are with me. And since your seeing is your being, therefore, because you regard me, I am, and if you remove your face from me, I will cease to be. ~ Nicholas of Cusa, De Visione Dei, ch. 4, #KEYS
390:Do not agitate yourself, dreaming up all sorts of projects. The Lord does His work. You be the instrument. If the idea that 'I am the doer' gets hold of a person, it will be the cause of bondage, and no permanent good ever comes out of such deeds. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
391:Spirit is the image of the Lord of the Yoga; mind and body are the means He has provided for reproducing that image in phenomenal existence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Threefold Life, 29,#KEYS
392:We know that there are three comings of the Lord. The third lies between the other two. It is invisible... In the first, Christ was our redemption; in the last, he will appear as our life; in this middle coming, he is our rest and consolation. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #KEYS
393:I must attain God in this very life; yea, in three days I must find Him; nay, with a single utterance of His name I will draw Him to me" - with such violent Love the devotee can attract the Lord and realize Him quickly. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
394:So Daniel, when he was required to worship the idol Bel, which the people and the king then worshipped, in asserting the honor of his God, broke forth with full faith and freedom, saying, "I worship nothing but the Lord my God" ~ Dn 14:5). ~ Saint Cyprian of Carthage, #KEYS
395:The appearance of form, as revelation of the depths, is an indissoluble union of two things. It is the real presence of the depths, of the whole of reality, and it is a real pointing beyond itself to these depths. ~ Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Glory of the Lord I.118, #KEYS
396:In those days Christ was present to the Israelites as he followed them, but he is present to us in a much deeper sense. The Lord was with them because of the favor he showed to Moses; now he is with us, but not simply because of your obedience. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
397:May our blessed Lord Jesus Christ reign! Gaudeamus omnes; let us all rejoice who are in the service of the Most High, because the great visitation and reformation of the world is approaching when there shall be only one fold and one Shepherd." ~ Saint Francis di Paola., #KEYS
398:The Lord says indeed, 'Blessed are they that mourn' [Matthew 5:4], speaking of those who mourn for their sins; and no one mourns that kind of mourning, nor cares for a lost soul; but this other we were not bidden to practice, and we practice it. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
399:In the last times the Lord will especially spread the renown of His Mother: Mary began salvation and by her intercession it will be concluded. Before the Second Coming of Christ, Mary must, more than ever, shine in mercy, ..." ~ Ven. Mary of Jesus of Ágreda (1602-1665), #KEYS
400:O Lord, if I worship You because of Fear of Hell,
then burn me in Hell;
If I worship You because I desire Paradise,
then exclude me from Paradise;
But if I worship You for Yourself alone,
then deny me not your Eternal Beauty ~ Rabia al-Adawiyya,#KEYS
401:Remember what the Lord taught when he said, 'Do not judge, that you may not be judged; forgive and you will be forgiven; be merciful and you will receive mercy. For whatever you measure out to other people will be measured out to you also.' ~ Polycarp to the Philippians, #KEYS
402:The Church of God that sojourns at Rome, to the Church of God sojourning at Corinth, to hem who are called and sanctified by the will of God, through our Lord Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, from almighty God through Jesus Christ, be multiplied. ~ Saint Clement, #KEYS
403:Christ, the light of all lights, follows John, the lamp that goes before him. The Word of God follows the voice in the wilderness; the bridegroom follows the bridegroom's friend, who prepares a worthy people for the Lord by cleansing them by water. ~ Gregory of Nazianzen, #KEYS
404:Our Lord said ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Lk. 24:39) while addressing His disciples after the Resurrection: "A spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see Me to have" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.54.3sc)., #KEYS
405:The true believer [mu'min] is not concerned about his sustenance, because of the strength of his faith [iman] and his trusting reliance [ittikal] on his Lord (Almighty and Glorious is He). ~ Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
406:Enter the inner chamber of your mind; shut out all thoughts. Keep only thought of God, and thoughts that can aid you in seeking him. Close your door and seek him. Speak now, my whole heart! Speak now to God, saying, I seek your face; your face, Lord, will I seek. ~ Anselm, #KEYS
407:On the Lord's Day . . . gather together, break bread and offer the Eucharist, after confessing your transgressions so that your sacrifice may be pure. Let no one who has a quarrel with his neighbor join you until he is reconciled, lest our sacrifice be defiled ~ Didache)., #KEYS
408:The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts … his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them." ~ George Fox, (1624 - 1691) English Dissenter, a founder of the Quakers., #KEYS
409:May divine wisdom open to you, through the Lord's grace! To make all mankind your own by loving all — that is the real Jnana, the real Bhakti of this age. Work and serve with all your heart, and thus you will receive Bhakti, Moksha, Jnana, and Vijnana. ~ Swami Premananda, #KEYS
410:'Son of man, I have appointed you as watchman to the house of Israel.' ~ Note that Ezekiel, whom the Lord sent to preach his word, is described as a watchman. Now a watchman always takes up his position on the heights so that he can see from a distance whatever approaches., #KEYS
411:Scripture tells you: You shall speak of these commandments when you sit in your house, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down, and when you get up. Let us then speak of the Lord Jesus, for he is wisdom, he is the word, the Word indeed of God. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
412:You can meditate and chant the name of the Lord very well sitting on a chair. There is no rule regarding time and place for meditating on the Lord and repeating His holy name, What is needed is to remember our Chosen Ideal always and in all circumstances. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
413:If a person feels intoxicated with God's love, there is no father, no mother, and no wife for him. He may have so much love for the Lord that he may appear to be mad! Such a person has no duties. He is freed from all his debts. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
414:When we pray we pray not for one but for all people, because we are all one people together. The God of peace and master of concord, who taught that we should be united, wanted one to pray in this manner for all, as he himself bore all in one. ~ Cyprian, On the Lord's Prayer, #KEYS
415:"As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee." ~ Siva Mahimnah-stotra verse 7 #KEYS
416:It is, I suppose, the image of Sri Krishna as Lord of the divine Love and Ananda - and his flute calls the physical being to awake out of the attachments of the physical world and turn to that Love and Ananda.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - I,#KEYS
417:Let everyone say 'Lord, I came from you most high, I come to you most high, and through you most high.' This is...the whole of our metaphysics: emanation, exemplarity, and consummation, i.e., to be illumined by spiritual rays and to be led back to the most high. ~ Bonaventure, #KEYS
418:As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end. ~ Kabir, #KEYS
419:Do not seek for human help, but look only to the grace of the Lord. He will protect you. Pray to Him & depend on Him alone. Human help is so uncertain. Human friends are selfish and they betray; but He is the Divine Friend, who loves for the sake of love. ~ SWAMI PARAMANANANDA, #KEYS
420:If any one teaches otherwise and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching, which accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit, he knows nothing; he has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words" ~ 1 Timothy 6:3)., #KEYS
421:After all these tribulations and miseries, in a way beyond all human understanding, the Lord God will purify His holy Church, and and awaken the spirit of His elect. Such a wondrous reform after these things will happen in the holy Church of God, ..." ~ Saint CATHERINE OF SIENA, #KEYS
422:The Lord is making you His own. He will not allow even the slightest ego to remain within you. The sufferings and difficulties you are undergoing are intended to make you realize that you have no independent will of you own. It is all given over to the Lord. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
423:When you lie down, speak so that the sleep of death may not steal upon you. Listen and learn how you are to speak as you lie down; I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids until I find a place for the Lord, a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
424:At the point where all roads meet which lead from the Old Testament to the New we encounter the Marian experience of God, at once so rich and so secret that it almost escapes description.... In Mary, Zion passes over into that church ~ Von Balthasar, The Glory of the Lord I, 338, #KEYS
425:'Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.' The prophecy makes clear that it is to be fulfilled, not in Jerusalem but in the wilderness: it is there that the glory of the Lord is to appear, and God's salvation is to be made known to all mankind. ~ Eusebius, #KEYS
426:Christ is risen. His rising brings life to the dead, forgiveness to sinners, and glory to the saints. So David the prophet summons all creation to join in celebrating the Easter festival: Rejoice and be glad, he cries, on this day which the Lord has made. ~ Saint Maximus of Turin, #KEYS
427:Give up all desires & dedicate yourself solely to the Lord. You cannot have Divine bliss & worldly enjoyments at the same time. You cannot get the one without renouncing the other. You cannot give up the lower unless you come to possess a taste for the higher. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
428:The Guru should not be looked upon as an ordinary human being. His physical body is the temple, in which resides the Lord. If the Guru is served with this idea in mind, one comes to acquire love and devotion for him, which can then be directed toward the Lord. ~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
429:The Lord is within you, He is seated in your heart. Whatever you see, hear, taste & touch is God. Therefore hate not anybody, cheat not anybody, harm not anybody. Love & be one with all. You will soon attain eternal bliss, immortality, & perennial joy. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
430:The ocean is full of precious pearls,but you may not get them at the first dive. My boys, once again I enjoin you, have firm faith in the words of your Guru, & try to get absorbed in deep meditation. Be sure, sooner or later you will have a vision of the Lord. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
431:Therefore, keep yourselves clean from these and watch over the tradition of the Fathers, and, above all, the orthodox faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, as you have learned it from the Scriptures and as you have often been put in mind of by me." ~ Athanasius, Life of Antony, 89(ACW), #KEYS
432:Mary looks back to the beginning of her song where she said: My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord. Only that soul for whom the Lord in his love does great things can proclaim his greatness with fitting praise and encourage those who share her desire and purpose. ~ Ven. Bede, #KEYS
433:The name of the Lord purifies both the body & the mind. "I have taken the name of God; what have I to fear? What is there in the world to bind me? I have become immortal by taking the Lord's name with such a burning faith one should practice spiritual exercises ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
434:But it is not only the martyrs who share in his passion by their glorious courage; the same is true, by faith, of all who are reborn through baptism. That is why we are to celebrate the Lord's paschal sacrifice with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. ~ Saint Leo the Great, #KEYS
435:Even the smallest animals come together in harmony and peace. All these things the great creator and Lord of all commanded to exist in peace and harmony, giving his blessings to all things, but most particularly to us who have sought refuge in his mercy. ~ Saint Clement of Rome, #KEYS
436:The heart of our Divine Master has no more amiable law than that of sweetness, humility, charity. Often place your confidence in Divine Providence and be assured that sooner heaven and earth shall pass away than that the Lord neglect to protect you. ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, #KEYS
437:Happy is she who out of her treasure brings forth the perfect image of the King. Your treasure is wisdom, your treasure is chastity and righteousness, your treasure is a good understanding, such as was that treasure from which the Magi, when they worshipped the Lord. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
438:In his fragile tenement he grows Nature's lord.
In him Matter wakes from its long obscure trance,
In him earth feels the Godhead drawing near. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
439:In obedience to Our Lord's institution, the Church extends her charity to all, not only to friends, but also to foes who persecute her, according to Mt. 5:44: "Love your enemies; do good to them that hate you" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.11.4)., #KEYS
440:The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect of prayers.... In it we ask, not only for all the things we can rightly desire, but also in the sequence that they should be desired. This prayer not only teaches us to ask for things, but also in what order we should desire them. ~ Saint Thomas, #KEYS
441:Whatever relates to our Lord Jesus Christ has two aspects: There is a birth from God before the ages and a birth from a virgin at the fullness of time. There is a hidden coming, like that of rain on fleece, and a coming before all eyes, still in the future. ~ Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, #KEYS
442:When blessed Mary was to be called from the world, the Apostles gathered to her house from their different regions. And when they had heard that she was to be taken from the world, together they kept watch with her; and lo, the Lord Jesus came with His angels ~ Saint Gregory of Tours, #KEYS
443:It is by persevering that one conquers difficulties, not by running away from them. One who perseveres is sure to triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring. Always do your best and the Lord will take care of the results.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
444:Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine." ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
445:But still there lacked the last transcendent power
And Matter still slept empty of its Lord.
The Spirit was saved, the body lost and mute
Lived still with Death and ancient Ignorance ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#KEYS
446:Just cry for one night, saying: 'O Lord, I am a fool, without any intelligence. I do not know anything. I do not understand anything. You show me everything. You please give me understanding. You appear before me.' One such earnest prayer will change things overnight ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
447:Repression of passions is bad. Unless the mind is directed toward a high ideal, they will find expression through other channels. Place your mind in God, then all evil will fall away by itself. That is what is meant by self-control; it arises from devotion to the Lord ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
448:We utter the name of the Lord superficially, too superficially. We say, 'I am Thy servant; Thou art my Master; Thou art my Lord; I have renounced all for Thee; I call Thee, Lord, come unto me.' But we harbor withal all sorts of evil thoughts in the mind. This won't do ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
449:When a man lusts after a woman then even if she remains chaste he is still an adulterer. The Lord's judgement is clear and true: If a man looks at a woman lustfully, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
450:The Lord is with you" are the most praise-laden words that the Angel could have uttered; and, hence, he so profoundly reverenced the Blessed Virgin because she is the Mother of the Lord and Our Lady ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (On the Angelic Salutation a. 1)., #KEYS
451:Almighty God, give me wisdom to perceive You, intelligence to understand You, diligence to seek You, patience to wait for You, eyes to behold You, a heart to meditate upon You and life to proclaim You, through the power of the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. ~ Saint Benedict of Nursia, #KEYS
452:Lord, we are upon earth to accomplish Thy work of transformation. It is our sole will, our sole preoccupation. Grant that it may be also our sole occupation and that all our actions may help us towards this single goal. 1 January 1951 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I, #KEYS
453:Wherever the Lord keeps you, that will be for your good. He knows best. Leave everything to Him & don't forget Him - that is your duty. It is His responsibility where & in what condition to keep you & what He will make you do. For your part, just see that you may not forget Him.~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
454:Do u ever weep for God? How wonderful is the state when the name of the Lord brings tears to the eyes! The Master said, 'if u weep before the Lord, ur tears wipe out the mind's impurities of many births, & his grace immediately descends upon u. It is good to weep before the Lord.~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
455:Those who come under the guidance of a Guru need have no anxiety about their spiritual progress. They have been put on the right way. Their only task is to follow it. If they meet with any trouble or make any mistake, the Lord is sure to protect them & show them the right course ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
456:Nature seeks the Divine in her own symbols: Yoga goes beyond Nature to the Lord of Nature, beyond universe to the Transcendent and can return with the transcendent light and power, with the fiat of the Omnipotent. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Threefold Life, #KEYS
457:If a man repeats the name of God, his body, mind, and everything become pure. Why should one talk only about sin and hell, and such things? Say but once, 'O Lord, I have undoubtedly done wicked things, but I won't repeat them.' And have faith in His name. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
458:Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: "'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,' who was, and is, and is to come." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Revelation, 4:8, https://biblehub.com/revelation/4-8.htm #KEYS
459:There is this difference between Christ and other men: whereas other men are born subject to the restrictions of time, Christ, as Lord and Maker of all time, chose a time in which to be born, just as He chose a mother and a birthplace ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.35.8)., #KEYS
460:God is one the paths to reach him (religions) are many - just as different rivers, originating in different mountains, traverse different paths, flowing straight or crooked, and at last join the ocean. He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
461:Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self. The former glories in itself, the latter in the Lord ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, City of God 14.28).., #KEYS
462:It matters not if you live the life of a house-holder, only you must fix your mind on God. Do your work with one hand, and hold the feet of the Lord with the other. When you have no work in the world to do, hold His feet fast to your heart with both your hands. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
463:It is the one Savior of his body, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who prays for us and in us and is himself the object of our prayers.... Let us then recognize both our voice in his, and his voice in ours. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, Expositions of the Psalms 85:1, #KEYS
464:Bhakti can be more easily practiced by persons in every condition of life. Extreme love for God is Bhakti. The great quality of Bhakti is that it cleanses the mind, and the firmly established Bhakti for the Supreme Lord is alone sufficient to purify the mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
465:For whatever desires still trouble his being, he must, if he accepts the high aim of Yoga, put them away from him into the hands of the Lord within us. The supreme Power will deal with them for the good of the Sadhaka and for the good of all.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
466:Know thyself and thou shalt know the Non-ego and the Lord of all. Meditate deeply, thou shalt find there is nothing thou canst call "I". The innermost result of all analysis is the eternal divine. When egoism vanishes, divinity manifests itself. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
467:Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self. The former glories in itself, the latter in the Lord ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Augustine, City of God 14.28).., #KEYS
468:This is how you should pray: "Lord, if you see this to be for my good, if you judge it to be profitable for me, give me this thing to use for your honor; but if you foresee it will do me harm, impair the health of my soul, take away from me the desire for such a thing." ~ Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, #KEYS
469:But if we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to this presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profound, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not the master — a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine #KEYS
470:The Blessed Virgin is said to have merited to bear the Lord of all, not because she merited God to be incarnate, but because she merited, from the grace given to her, that grade of purity and holiness, which suited her to be the Mother of God ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.2.11ad3)., #KEYS
471:The Lord then did not blame Martha's work, but distinguished between their services. You are occupied about many things; yet one thing is needful. Already has Mary chosen this for herself. The labor of many things pass away, and the love of unity abides. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
472:Anyone who desires to be refreshed by the bread of the divine Word and by the body and blood of the Lord must pass from vices to virtues: "Our Passover, Christ, has been sacrificed, and so let us feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (1 Cor 5:7)., #KEYS
473:The disciples were amazed at the extraordinary gentleness and humility of Christ: for the Lord of the world stooped to speak with a poor woman, and for a long time, giving us an example of humility: 'Be friendly to the poor' ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Sir 4:7)(Commentary on Jn. 4 lect. 3)., #KEYS
474:the centre in her brow
Where the mind's Lord in his control-room sits;
There throned on concentration's native seat
He opens that third mysterious eye in man,
The Unseen's eye that looks at the unseen. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
475:No words can express what is of Christ: "Glorify the Lord as much as you ever can, for he will yet far exceed, and his magnificence is wonderful. Blessing the Lord, exalt him as much as you can, for he is above all praise" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Sir. 43:30)(Commentary on Hebrews 5, lect. 2)., #KEYS
476:You O Lord art good and merciful, and Your right hand had respect unto the profoundness of my death, and removed from the bottom of my heart that abyss of corruption. And this was the result, that I willed not to do what I willed, and willed to do what you willed. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
477:If you study every word of the petitions of Scripture, you will find, I think, nothing that is not contained and included in the Lord's Prayer. When we pray, then, we may use different words to say the same things, but we may not say different things. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, Letter to Proba, #KEYS
478:Anyone who desires to be refreshed by the bread of the divine Word and by the body and blood of the Lord must pass from vices to virtues: "Our Passover, Christ, has been sacrificed, and so let us feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (1 Cor 5:7)(In Jn 6 lect 1)., #KEYS
479:Our Lord wants us to become sharers of his joy by our observing his commandments. He says, that my joy, the joy I take in my divinity and that of my Father, may be in you. This is nothing else than eternal life, which as Augustine says, is joy in the truth ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Jn. 15)., #KEYS
480:fruits of the sacrifice :::
The soul knows that it does not give itself to God in vain; claiming nothing, it yet receives the infinite riches of the divine Power and Presence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [109],#KEYS
481:Because it carries this creative force of the divine Idea, the Sun, the lord and symbol of the gnosis, is described in the Veda as the Light which is the father of all things, Surya Savitri, the Wisdom-Luminous who is the bringer-out into manifest existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, Vijnana or Gnosis, #KEYS
482:I would take it for granted that everyone who becomes a Christian would undertake [our New Testament regimental orders]. It is enjoined upon us by Our Lord; and since they are his commands, I believe in following them. It is always just possible that Jesus Christ meant what he said when He told us to seek the secret place and to close the door. ~ C S Lewis, #KEYS
483:It was a no man's land of evil air,
A crowded neighbourhood without one home,
A borderland between the world and hell.
There unreality was Nature's lord:
It was a space where nothing could be true,
For nothing was what it had claimed to be:
A h ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night#KEYS
484:362. Limit not sacrifice to the giving up of earthly goods or the denial of some desires and yearnings, but let every thought and every work and every enjoyment be an offering to God within thee. Let thy steps walk in thy Lord, let thy sleep and waking be a sacrifice to Krishna.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Karma, [T1],#KEYS
485:A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
486:The Lord sent the Apostles ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Mk. 6:9) shod with sandals. These have soles underneath, which signifies the raising of the mind from earthly concerns. And they are open above, which signifies an eagerness for divine wisdom ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Ephesians 6, lect. 4)., #KEYS
487:True strength of will is calm; in calmness it is persevering so that it does not become discouraged by momentary lack of success or by any wounds received. No one is conquered until he has given up the struggle. And he who works for the Lord puts his confidence in God and not in himself. ~ Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, The Three Ages of the Interior Life: Prelude of Eternal Life, #KEYS
488:... In all is the one Self, the one Divine is all; all are in the Divine, all are the Divine and there is nothing else in the universe, - this thought or this faith is the whole background until it becomes the whole substance of the consciousness of the worker. ...
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Sacrifice and the Lord of the Sacrifice [112] [T1],#KEYS
489:He who knows that He is the supreme Lord, becomes that, and the gods themselves cannot prevent him...He who adores any other divinity, has not the knowledge. He is as cattle for the gods. Even as numerous cattle serve to nourish men, so each man serves to nourish the gods...That is why the gods love not that a man should know That. ~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
490:three first approaches of Karma Yoga :::
Equality, renunciation of all desire for the fruit of our works, action done as a sacrifice to the supreme Lord of our nature and of all nature, - these are the three first Godward approaches in the Gita's way of Karmayoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, Self-Surrender in Works - The Way of the Gita, [105],#KEYS
491:If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, James, 1:5-8, #KEYS
492:My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear atentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. ...
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 2:1-22,#KEYS
493:There is nothing to fear - all is the Lord-there is nothing else than the Lord; the Lord alone exists and all that tries to frighten us is only a silly and meaningless disguise of the Lord. Cheer up - the way is open before you, shake off this obsession of illness and bring down the Divine Calm. Then everything will be all right. With love and blessings.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, [T1],#KEYS
494:The boy with the flute is Sri Krishna, the Lord descended into the world-play from the divine Ananda; his flute is the music of the call which seeks to transform the lower ignorant play of mortal life and bring into it and establish in its place the lila of his divine Ananda. It was the psychic being in you that heard the call and followed after it.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - III,#KEYS
495:O Lord, my sweet Master, Thou whom I adore in silence and to whom I have entirely consecrated myself, Thou who governest my life, kindle in my heart the flame of Thy pure love that it may burn like a glowing brazier, consuming all imperfections and transforming into a comforting warmth and radiating light the dead wood of egoism and the black coals of ignorance.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, 55,#KEYS
496:The story of Christ, as it has been told, is the concrete and dramatic enactment of the divine sacrifice: the Supreme Lord, who is All-Light, All-Knowledge, All-Power, All-Beauty, All-Love, All-Bliss, accepting to assume human ignorance and suffering in matter, in order to help men to emerge from the falsehood in which they live and because of which they die.
~ The Mother, On Thoughts And Aphorisms, 16 June 1960,#KEYS
497:That Self, Lord, Brahman we would know that we may realise our unity with it and with all that it manifests and in that unity we would live. For we demand of knowledge that it shall unite; the knowledge that divides must always be a partial knowing good for certain practical purposes; the knowledge that unites is the knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Synthesis of the Disciplines of Knowledge, #KEYS
498:I would be glad to know your Lordship's opinion whether when my brain has lost its original structure, and when some hundred years after the same materials are fabricated so curiously as to become an intelligent being, whether, I say that being will be me; or, if, two or three such beings should be formed out of my brain; whether they will all be me, and consequently one and the same intelligent being. ~ Thomas Reid letter to Lord Kames, 1775[1], #KEYS
499:My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ... ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 3:1-35, #KEYS
500:Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the universe who is ever victorious and accomplishes everything. Remain all the time steadfast in the heart, in the Transcendental Absolute. God knows the past, present and future. He will determine the future for you and accomplish the work. What is to be done will be done at the proper time. Don't worry. Abide in the heart and surrender your acts to the Divine. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
501:Creatures perish
in the darkened
blind of quest,
knowing intimations.
Guessing and dreaming
they pursue the real,
faces turned toward the sky
whispering secrets to the heavens.
While the lord remains among them
in every turn of time
abiding in their every condition
every instant.
Never without him, they,
not for the blink of an eye --
if only they knew!
nor he for a moment without them." ~ Mansur al-Hallaj,#KEYS
502:15-Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
16-When Jacob woke up, he thought, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it."
17-And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!"... ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Genesis, 28:16, Berean Study Bible,#KEYS
503:Creatures perish
in the darkened
blind of quest,
knowing intimations.
Guessing and dreaming
they pursue the real,
faces turned toward the sky
whispering secrets to the heavens.
While the lord remains among them
in every turn of time
abiding in their every condition
every instant.
Never without him, they,
not for the blink of an eye --
if only they knew!
nor he for a moment without them. ~ Mansur al Hallaj,#KEYS
504:There, where millions of Krishnas stand with hands folded, Where millions of Vishnus bow their heads, Where millions of Brahmâs are reading the Vedas, Where millions of Shivas are lost in contemplation, Where millions of Indras dwell in the sky, Where the demi-gods and the munis are unnumbered, Where millions of Saraswatis, Goddess of Music, play on the vina— There is my Lord self-revealed: and the scent of sandal and flowers dwells in those deeps. ~ Kabir, #KEYS
505:5'If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. 6'But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. 7'Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8'Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, James, 1, #KEYS
506:A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 23:1-6, #KEYS
507:One says, When my son Harish shall have grown up, I will marry him off, give up the burden of the family, renounce the world and begin to practise Yoga. To him the Lord replies: You will never find the opportune moment to practise Yoga; for you will then say, 'Harish and Girish are very fond of me and cannot do without me', you will no doubt desire that Harish should have a son and the son marry. There will never be an end to your desires. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
508:The most preposterous notion that H. Sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all of history.
~ Robert Heinlein, Notebooks Of Lazarus Long, from Time Enough for Love (1973).,#KEYS
509:Help yourself during this troubled period by reading holy books. This reading provides excellent food for the soul and conduces to great progress along the path of perfection. By no means is it inferior to what we obtain through prayer and holy meditation. In prayer and meditation it is ourselves who speak to the Lord, while in holy reading it is God who speaks to us. Before beginning to read, raise your mind to the Lord and implore Him to guide your mind Himself, to speak to your heart and move your will. ~ Saint Padre Pio, #KEYS
510:And Thou, O Lord, who art all this made one and much more, O sovereign Master, extreme limit of our thought, who standest for us at the threshold of the Unknown, make rise from that Unthinkable some new splendour, some possibility of a loftier and more integral realisation, that Thy work may be accomplished and the universe take one step farther towards the sublime Identity, the supreme Manifestation.
And now my pen falls mute and I adore Thee in silence.*
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, 270,#KEYS
511:Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 40:28-31, #KEYS
512:
When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy.
When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song.
When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest.
When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king.
When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder.
~ Rabindranath Tagore,#KEYS
513:Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read.
. . .
We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master's service. Paul cries, "Bring the books" - join in the cry.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,#KEYS
514:... Krishna, the great Lord of Yoga,
revealed to Arjuna his majestic,
transcendent, limitless form.
With innumerable mouths and eyes,
faces too marvelous to stare at,
dazzling ornaments, innumerable
weapons uplifted, flaming-
crowned with fire, wrapped
in pure light, with celestial fragrance,
he stood forth as the infinite
God, composed of all wonders.
If a thousand suns were to rise
and stand in the noon sky, blazing,
such brilliance would be like the fierce
brilliance of that mighty Self. ~ Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa,#KEYS
515:Elon Musks Reading List
J. E. Gordon - Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
Walter Isaacson - Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson - Einstein: His Life and Universe
Nick Bostrom - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Erik M. Conway & Naomi Oreskes - Merchants of Doubt
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Peter Thiel - Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy
~ Elon Musk, CNBC,#KEYS
516:It is the Divine who is the Master - the Self is inactive, it is always a silent wideness supporting all things - that is the static aspect. There is also the dynamic aspect through which the Divine works - behind that is the Mother. You must not lose sight of that, that it is through the Mother that all things are attained.
Again I feel that this Self is not only the Lord of this being, but that I myself am this Self. All these feelings are within myself, not above me; they come down from above. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother [T8],#KEYS
517:(From a meditation written on the day after the Mother first saw Sri Aurobindo)
It matters little that there are thousands of beings plunged in the densest ignorance, He whom we saw yesterday is on earth; his presence is enough to prove that a day will come when darkness shall be transformed into light, and Thy reign shall be indeed established upon earth.
O Lord, Divine Builder of this marvel, my heart overflows with joy and gratitude when I think of it, and my hope has no bounds.
My adoration is beyond all words, my reverence is silent. 30 March 1914
~ The Mother,#KEYS
518:O Lord, O eternal Master, grant that all this may not be in vain, grant that the inexhaustible torrents of Thy divine Force may spread over the earth and penetrate its troubled atmosphere, the struggling energies, the violent chaos of battling elements; grant that the pure light of Thy Knowledge and the inexhaustible love of Thy Benediction may fill men's hearts, penetrate their souls, illumine their consciousness and, out of this obscurity, out of this sombre, terrible and potent darkness, bring forth the splendour of Thy majestic Presence!
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
519:Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.
If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared.
I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.
My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.
O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.
He himself will redeem Israel from all their sins. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 130
,#KEYS
520:The last thing that you remember is standing before the wizard Lakmir as he gestured wildly and chanted in an archaic tongue. Now you find yourself staring at an entryway which lies at the edge of a forest. The Druid's words still ring in your ears: "Within the walls of the Castle Shadowgate lies your quest. If the prophecies hold true, the dreaded Warlock Lord will use his dark magic to raise the Behemoth, the deadliest of the Titans, from the depths of the earth. You are the seed of prophecy, the last of the line of kings, and only you can stop the Warlock Lord from darkening our world FOREVER. Fare thee well. ~ Shadowgate, #KEYS
521:I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.
~ Franz Kafka,#KEYS
522:What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
523:Mahasamadhi
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Lord, this morning Thou hast given me the assurance that Thou wouldst stay with us until Thy work is achieved, not only as a consciousness which guides and illumines but also as a dynamic Presence in action. In unmistakable terms Thou hast promised that all of Thyself would remain here and not leave the earth atmosphere until earth is transformed. Grant that we may be worthy of this marvellous Presence and that henceforth everything in us be concentrated on the one will to be more and more perfectly consecrated to the fulfilment of Thy sublime Work. 7 December 1950
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I,#KEYS
524:the lord of the sacrifice and the measure of our works :::
The Divine, the Eternal is the Lord of our sacrifice of works and union with him in all our being and consciousness and in its expressive instruments is the one object of the sacrifice; the steps of the sacrifice of works must therefore be measured, first, by the growth in our nature of something that brings us nearer to the Divine Nature, but secondly also by an experience of the Divine, his presence, his manifestation to us, an increasing closeness and union with that Presence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Sacrifice, The Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice,#KEYS
525:For the Witness, if he exists, is not the individual embodied mind born in the world, but that cosmic Consciousness embracing the universe and appearing as an immanent Intelligence in all its works to which either world subsists eternally and really as Its own active existence or else from which it is born and into which it disappears by an act of knowledge or by an act of conscious power. Not organised mind, but that which, calm and eternal, broods equally in the living earth and the living human body and to which mind and senses are dis- pensable instruments, is the Witness of cosmic existence and its Lord. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 1.03, #KEYS
526:I am not a philosopher, I am not a scholar, I am not a savant, and I declare it very loudly: neither a philosopher nor a scholar nor a savant. And no pretension. Nor a littérateur, nor an artist - I am nothing at all. I am truly convinced of this. And it's absolutely unimportant - that's perfection for human beings. There is no greater joy than to know that you can do nothing and are absolutely helpless, that you're not the one who does, and that what little is done - little or big, it doesn't matter - is done by the Lord; and the responsibility is fully His. That makes you happy. With that, you are happy. Voilà.
~ The Mother, Agenda Vol 5, Satprem,#KEYS
527:Noah harkened to the voice of the Lord that is he lived according to the Law, perfecting his soul and enriching his consciousness with the many experiences which result from the mystery of living. As a consequence the "Lord" protects the life of Noah, and brings the Ark at the end to a safe testing place upon the Mount of the illumination, Ararat. Part of the thirty-third degree of Freemasonry includes an interpretation of the symbolism of Noah and his Ark. Considered mystically, the story of the Flood is the wise man's mastery of adversity. It is the philosopher surviving the onslaughts of ignorance. It is the illumined mystic floating safely over the chaos.
~ Manly P Hall, How To Understand Your Bible,#KEYS
528:Where spring, the lord of seasons reigneth, there the unstruck music sounds of itself,
There the streams of light flow in all directions, few are the men who can cross to that shore!
There, where millions of Krishnas stand with hands folded,
Where millions of Vishnus bow their heads, where millions of Brahmas are reading the Vedas,
Where millions of Shivas are lost in contemplation, where millions of Indras dwell in the sky,
Where the demi-gods and the munis are unnumbered, where millions of Saraswatis, goddess of music play the vina,
There is my Lord self-revealed, and the scent of sandal and flowers dwells in those deeps. ~ Kabir, II.57, Translated by Rabindranath Tagore[26],#KEYS
529:Krishna:::
At last I find a meaning of soul's birth
Into this universe terrible and sweet,
I who have felt the hungry heart of earth
Aspiring beyond heaven to Krishna's feet.
I have seen the beauty of immortal eyes,
And heard the passion of the Lover's flute,
And known a deathless ecstasy's surprise
And sorrow in my heart for ever mute.
Nearer and nearer now the music draws,
Life shudders with a strange felicity;
All Nature is a wide enamoured pause
Hoping her lord to touch, to clasp, to be.
For this one moment lived the ages past;
The world now throbs fulfilled in me at last. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,#KEYS
530:Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord? Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him and that thou hide not thyself from thine own kind? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning and thy health shall spring forth speedily. ~ Isaiah, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
531:It is not one's self, but the band of the spirit's inner enemies that we have to discourage, expel, slay upon the altar of the growth of the spirit; these can be ruthlessly excised, whose names are desire, wrath, inequality, greed, attachment to outward pleasures and pains, the cohort of usurping demons that are the cause of the soul's errors and sufferings. These should be regarded not as part of oneself but as intruders and perverters of our self's real and diviner nature; these have to be sacrificed in the harsher sense of the word, whatever pain in going they may throw by reflection on the consciousness of the seeker.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [108-109],#KEYS
532:The Pentagram
[Dedicated to George Raffalovich]
In the Years of the Primal Course, in the dawn of terrestrial birth,
Man mastered the mammoth and horse, and Man was the Lord of the Earth.
He made him an hollow skin from the heart of an holy tree,
He compassed the earth therien, and Man was the Lord of the Sea.
He controlled the vigour of steam, he harnessed the lightning for hire;
He drove the celestial team, and man was the Lord of the Fire.
Deep-mouthed from their thrones deep-seated, the choirs of the æeons declare
The last of the demons defeated, for Man is the Lord of the Air.
Arise, O Man, in thy strength! the kingdom is thine to inherit,
Till the high gods witness at lenght that Man is the Lord of his spirit.
~ Aleister Crowley,#KEYS
533:The full recognition of this inner Guide, Master of the Yoga, lord, light, enjoyer and goal of all sacrifice and effort, is of the utmost importance in the path of integral perfection. It is immaterial whether he is first seen as an impersonal Wisdom, Love and Power behind all things, as an Absolute manifesting in the relative and attracting it, as one's highest Self and the highest Self of all, as a Divine Person within us and in the world, in one of his-or her-numerous forms and names or as the ideal which the mind conceives. In the end we perceive that he is all and more than all these things together. The mind's door of entry to the conception of him must necessarily vary according to the past evolution and the present nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids, 62,#KEYS
534:Invitation:::
With wind and the weather beating round me
Up to the hill and the moorland I go.
Who will come with me? Who will climb with me?
Wade through the brook and tramp through the snow?
Not in the petty circle of cities
Cramped by your doors and your walls I dwell;
Over me God is blue in the welkin,
Against me the wind and the storm rebel.
I sport with solitude here in my regions,
Of misadventure have made me a friend.
Who would live largely? Who would live freely?
Here to the wind-swept uplands ascend.
I am the Lord of tempest and mountain,
I am the Spirit of freedom and pride.
Stark must he be and a kinsman to danger
Who shares my kingdom and walks at my side. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,#KEYS
535:But what Nature aims at for the mass in a slow evolution, Yoga effects for the individual by a rapid revolution. It works by a quickening of all her energies, a sublimation of all her faculties. While she develops the spiritual life with difficulty and has constantly to fall back from it for the sake of her lower realisations, the sublimated force, the concentrated method of Yoga can attain directly and carry with it the perfection of the mind and even, if she will, the perfection of the body. Nature seeks the Divine in her own symbols: Yoga goes beyond Nature to the Lord of Nature, beyond universe to the Transcendent and can return with the transcendent light and power, with the fiat of the Omnipotent.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions Of The Synthesis, The Threefold Life, 29,#KEYS
536:God doesn't easily appear in the heart of a man who feels himself to be his own master. But God can be seen the moment His grace descends. He is the Sun of Knowledge. One single ray of His has illumined the world with the light of knowledge. That is how we are able to see one another and acquire varied knowledge. One can see God only if He turns His light toward His own face.
The police sergeant goes his rounds in the dark of night with a lantern in his hand. No one sees his face; but with the help of that light the sergeant sees everybody's face, and others, too, can see one another. If you want to see the sergeant, however, you must pray to him: 'Sir, please turn the light on your own face. Let me see you.' In the same way one must pray to God: 'O Lord, be gracious and turn the light of knowledge on Thyself, that I may see Thy face.' ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
537:Bhagavan: There are only two ways to conquer destiny or to be independent of it. One is to inquire whose this destiny is and discover that only the ego is bound by it and not the Self and that the ego is non-existent. The other way is to kill the ego by completely surrendering to the Lord, realizing one's helplessness and saying all the time: "Not I, but Thou, oh Lord," giving up all sense of "I" and "mine" and leaving it to the Lord to do what He likes with you. Surrender can never be regarded as complete so long as the devotee wants this or that from the Lord. True surrender is the love of God for the sake of love and nothing else, not even for the sake of salvation. In other words, complete effacement of the ego is necessary to conquer destiny, whether you achieve this effacement through Self-inquiry or through bhakti-marga. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Day by Day, 28-6-46, #KEYS
538:January 7, 1914
GIVE them all, O Lord, Thy peace and light, open their blinded eyes and their darkened understanding; calm their futile worries and their vain anxieties. Turn their gaze away from themselves and give them the joy of being consecrated to Thy work without calculation or mental reservation. Let Thy beauty flower in all things, awaken Thy love in all hearts, so that Thy eternally progressive order may be realised upon earth and Thy harmony be spread until the day all becomes Thyself in perfect purity and peace.
Oh! let all tears be wiped away, all suffering relieved, all anguish dispelled, and let calm serenity dwell in every heart and powerful certitude strengthen every mind. Let Thy life flow through all like a regenerating stream that all may turn to Thee and draw from that contemplation the energy for all victories. ~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
539:10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,
11 persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
13 while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,
15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. ~ 2 Timothy 3#KEYS
540:And He will judge and will forgive all, the good and the evil, the wise and the meek . . . And when He has done with all of them, then He will summon us. 'You too come forth,' He will say, 'Come forth ye drunkards, come forth, ye weak ones, come forth, ye children of shame!' And we shall all come forth, without shame and shall stand before him. And He will say unto us, 'Ye are swine, made in the Image of the Beast and with his mark; but come ye also!' And the wise ones and those of understanding will say, 'Oh Lord, why dost Thou receive these men?' And He will say, 'This is why I receive them, oh ye wise, this is why I receive them, oh ye of understanding, that not one of them believed himself to be worthy of this.' And He will hold out His hands to us and we shall fall down before him . . . and we shall weep . . . and we shall understand all things! Then we shall understand everything! . . . and all will understand ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #KEYS
541:Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability- and that it may take a very long time. And so I think it is with you; your ideas mature gradually-let them grow, let them shape themselves, without undue haste. Don't try to force them on, as though you could be today what time (that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will) will make of you tomorrow. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,#KEYS
542:Please explain to me what is meant by the Divine Mother.
The Divine Mother is the Consciousness and Force of the Divine - which is the Mother of all things.
24 June 1933
You have written in The Mother that the Mother is the consciousness and force of the Ishwara, but here my experience is that the Ishwara is the consciousness and force of the Supreme Mother. Could you please make it clear to me?
The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Divine - or, it may be said, she is the Divine in its consciousness-force. The Ishwara as Lord of the Cosmos does come out of the Mother who takes her place beside him as the cosmic Shakti - the cosmic Ishwara is one aspect of the Divine. The experience therefore is correct so far as it goes.
16 November 1934 ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, The Mother, the Divine and the Lower Nature, The Consciousness and Force of the Divine,#KEYS
543:Turn your thoughts now, and lift up your thoughts to a devout and joyous contemplation on sage Vyasa and Vasishtha, on Narda and Valmiki. Contemplate on the glorious Lord Buddha, Jesus the Christ, prophet Mohammed, the noble Zoroaster (Zarathushtra), Lord Mahavira, the holy Guru Nanak. Think of the great saints and sages of all ages, like Yajnavalkya, Dattatreya, Sulabha and Gargi, Anasooya and Sabari, Lord Gauranga, Mirabai, Saint Theresa and Francis of Assisi. Remember St. Augustine, Jallaludin Rumi, Kabir, Tukaram, Ramdas, Ramakrishna Paramhamsa, Vivekananda and Rama Tirtha. Adore in thy heart the sacred memory of Mahatma Gandhi, sage Ramana Maharishi, Aurobindo Ghosh, Gurudev Sivananda and Swami Ramdas. They verily are the inspirers of humanity towards a life of purity, goodness and godliness. Their lives, their lofty examples, their great teachings constitute the real wealth and greatest treasure of mankind today.
~ Sri Chidananda, Advices On Spiritual Living,#KEYS
544:the best we can conceive as the thing to be done :::
The work itself is at first determined by the best light we can command in our ignorance. It is that which we conceive as the thing that should be done. And whether it be shaped by our sense of duty, by our feeling for our fellow-creatures, by our idea of what is for the good of others or the good of the world or by the direction of one whom we accept as a human Master, wiser than ourselves and for us the representative of that Lord of all works in whom we believe but whom we do not yet know, the principle is the same. The essential of the sacrifice of works must be there and the essential is the surrender of all desire for the fruit of our works, the renunciation of all attachment to the result for which yet we labour. For so long as we work with attachment to the result, the sacrifice is offered not to the Divine, but to our ego...
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Equality and the Annihilation of Ego,#KEYS
545:Gaya, the Rishi, prays to Agni, Lord of Tapas, the representative in Nature of the Divine Power that builds the worlds & works in them towards our soul's fulfilment in and beyond heaven - Agni, as játavedas, the self-existent luminosity of knowledge in this Cosmic Force - for Force is only Chitshakti, working power of the Divine Consciousness & therefore Cosmic Force is always self-luminous, all-knowing force. Agni Jatavedas then is the ray of divine knowledge in this embodied state of existence; - he is Adhrigu - the Light in our embodied being. For this reason all action offered by us to Agni as a work of divine tapas becomes in its nature a self-luminous activity guiding itself whether consciously in our minds or super-consciously, guháhitam, to the divine goal. All Tapas is self-effective and God-effective. As Adhrigu, the divine Light in our embodied being, Agni is to bring to us an illumination of knowledge in our mentality which is ojistha, most full of ojas, superabundant ... ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns To The Mystic Fire, #KEYS
546:There is only one thing painful in the beginning to a raw or turbid part of the surface nature; it is the indispensable discipline demanded, the denial necessary for the merging of the incomplete ego. But for that there can be a speedy and enormous compensation in the discovery of a real greater or ultimate completeness in others, in all things, in the cosmic oneness, in the freedom of the transcendent Self and Spirit, in the rapture of the touch of the Divine. Our sacrifice is not a giving without any return or any fruitful acceptance from the other side; it is an interchange between the embodied soul and conscious Nature in us and the eternal Spirit. For even though no return is demanded, yet there is the knowledge deep within us that a marvellous return is inevitable. The soul knows that it does not give itself to God in vain; claiming nothing, it yet receives the infinite riches of the divine Power and Presence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [109],#KEYS
547:Yes, from thenceforward, is there any suffering for one who sees this unity of the universe, this unity of life, this unity of the All? The separation between man and man, man and woman, man and child; nation and nation, that is the real cause of all the misery of the world. Now this separation is not at all real ; it is only apparent, it is only on the surface. In the very heart of things is the unity which is for ever. Go into yourself and you will find this unity between man and man, women and children, race and race, the great and the little, the rich and the poor, gods and men : all of us are one, even the animals, if you go down to a sufficient depth. And to the man who goes so far nothing can cause any illusion. ..where can there exist for him any illusion ? What can deceive him ? He knows the reality of everything, the secret of everything. Where can there exist any misery for him ? What can he desire ? He has discovered the reality of everything in the Lord who is the centre, the unity of all and who is the eternal felicity, the eternal knowledge, the eternal existence. ~ Virekananda, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
548:The Lord sees in his omniscience the thing that has to be done. This seeing is his Will, it is a form of creative Power, and that which he sees the all-conscious Mother, one with him, takes into her dynamic self and embodies, and executive Nature-Force carries it out as the mechanism of their omnipotent omniscience.
But this vision of what is to be and therefore of what is to be done arises out of the very being, pours directly out of the consciousness and delight of existence of the Lord, spontaneously, like light from the Sun. It is not our mortal attempt to see, our difficult arrival at truth of action and motive or just demand of Nature. When the individual soul is entirely at one in its being and knowledge with the Lord and directly in touch with the original Shakti, the transcendent Mother, the supreme Will can then arise in us too in the high divine manner as a thing that must be and is achieved by the spontaneous action of Nature. There is then no desire, no responsibility, no reaction; all takes place in the peace, calm, light, power of the supporting and enveloping and inhabiting Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 218,#KEYS
549:the three results of effective practice: devotion, the central liberating knowledge and purification of ego; :::
...it leads straight and inevitably towards the highest devotion possible;.. There is bound up a growing sense of the Divine in all things, a deepening communion with the Divine in all our through, will and action and at every moment of our lives, a more and more moved conscecration to the Divine of the totality of our being....
...next, the practice of this Yoga demands a constant inward remembrance of the one central liberating knowledge, ... In all is the one Self, the one Divine is all; all are in the Divine, all are the Divine and there is nothing else in the universe, - this thought or this faith is the whole background until it becomes the whole substance of the consciousness of the worker. ...
Lastly, the practice of this Yoga of sacrifice compels us to renounce all the inner supports of egoism, casting them out of our mind and will and actions, and to eliminate its seed, its presence, its influence out of our nature. All must be done for the Divine; all must be directed towards the Divine.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Sacrifice, The Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [T1],#KEYS
550:The third operation in any magical ceremony is the oath or proclamation. The Magician, armed and ready, stands in the centre of the Circle, and strikes once upon the bell as if to call the attention of the Universe. He then declares who he is, reciting his magical history by the proclamation of the grades which he has attained, giving the signs and words of those grades. He then states the purpose of the ceremony, and proves that it is necessary to perform it and to succeed in its performance. He then takes an oath before the Lord of the Universe (not before the particular Lord whom he is invoking) as if to call Him to witness the act. He swears solemnly that he will perform it-that nothing shall prevent him from performing it-that he will not leave the operation until it is successfully performed-and once again he strikes upon the bell. Yet, having demonstrated himself in that position at once infinitely lofty and infinitely unimportant, the instrument of destiny, he balances this by the Confession, in which there is again an infinite exaltation harmonised with an infinite humility. He admits himself to be a weak human being humbly aspiring to something higher; a creature of circumstance utterly dependent-even for the breath of life-upon a series of fortunate accidents.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,#KEYS
551:JOSH
hmm. its so upsetting.. it seems like the book is a perfect symbol for something terribly wrong. I constantly avoid anything Donald Trump related because I find him so repulsive its upsetting. like its too disgusting of a corruption and i just avoid it. but maybe this book is a lukewarm symbol so I can learn to move towards and fight such darknesses.. I dont know.. so upsetting.
and people buy into such double-thought inconscience? I cant even comprehend how this can be like this. I guess its like I turn away from disgust it allows people to turn away from reason through that infantile pre-rational regression or something. I mean we all want safety but..
the book itself goes against itself from the title.. like its bashing the left for wanting to divide america but thats what the book is doing by attacking them. so I guess if people cant catch the deception from the title they wont catch it in the book? ayah
ALAN
Yeah it's the whole white male fragility persecution envy trip. Donny Jnr was so triggered he had to write a whole book (I pity the ghostwriter).
And yes it is upsetting, we live in a world where the Lord of Falsehood is on the ascendant, through instruments like Trump, Koch, and Murdoch. Some people are particularly susceptible, others are immune. This is the battle for the Earth ~ M Alan Kazlev, Facebook,#KEYS
552:Bhakti Yoga, the Path of Devotion; :::
The path of Devotion aims at the enjoyment of the supreme Love and Bliss and utilses normally the conception of the supreme Lord in His personality as the divine Lover and enjoyer of the universe. The world is then realised as a a play of the Lord, with our human life as its final stages, pursued through the different phases of self-concealment and self-revealation. The principle of Bhakti Yoga is to utilise all the normal relations of human life into which emotion enters and apply them no longer to transient worldly relations, but to the joy of the All-Loving, the All-Beautiful and the All-Blissful. Worship and meditation are used only for the preparation and increase the intensity of the divine relationship. And this Yoga is catholic in its use of all emotional relations, so that even enmity and opposition to God, considered as an intense, impatient and perverse form of Love, is conceived as a possible means of realisation and salvation. ... We can see how this larger application of the Yoga of Devotion may be used as to lead to the elevation of the whole range of human emotion, sensation and aesthetic perception to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards love and joy in humanity.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Introduction - The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Systems of Yoga,#KEYS
553:38 - Strange! The Germans have disproved the existence of Christ; yet his crucifixion remains still a greater historic fact than the death of Caesar. - Sri Aurobindo.
To what plane of consciousness did Christ belong?
In the Essays on the Gita Sri Aurobindo mentions the names of three Avatars, and Christ is one of them. An Avatar is an emanation of the Supreme Lord who assumes a human body on earth.
I heard Sri Aurobindo himself say that Christ was an emanation of the Lord's aspect of love.
The death of Caesar marked a decisive change in the history of Rome and the countries dependent on her. It was therefore an important event in the history of Europe.
But the death of Christ was the starting-point of a new stage in the evolution of human civilisation. This is why Sri Aurobindo tells us that the death of Christ was of greater historical significance, that is to say, it has had greater historical consequences than the death of Caesar. The story of Christ, as it has been told, is the concrete and dramatic enactment of the divine sacrifice: the Supreme Lord, who is All-Light, All-Knowledge, All-Power, All-Beauty, All-Love, All-Bliss, accepting to assume human ignorance and suffering in matter, in order to help men to emerge from the falsehood in which they live and because of which they die.
16 June 1960 ~ The Mother, On Thoughts And Aphorisms, volume-10, page no.61-62),#KEYS
554:Last, there is to be considered the recipient of the sacrifice and the manner of the sacrifice. The sacrifice may be offered to others or it may be offered to divine Powers; it may be offered to the cosmic All or it may be offered to the transcendent Supreme. The worship given may take any shape from the dedication of a leaf or flower, a cup of water, a handful of rice, a loaf of bread, to consecration of all that we possess and the submission of all that we are. Whoever the recipient, whatever the gift, it is the Supreme, the Eternal in things, who receives and accepts it, even if it be rejected or ignored by the immediate recipient. For the Supreme who transcends the universe, is yet here too, however veiled, in us and in the world and in its happenings; he is there as the omniscient Witness and Receiver of all our works and their secret Master. All our actions, all our efforts, even our sins and stumblings and sufferings and struggles are obscurely or consciously, known to us and seen or else unknown and in a disguise, governed in their last result by the One. All is turned towards him in his numberless forms and offered through them to the single Omnipresence. In whatever form and with whatever spirit we approach him, in that form and with that spirit he receives the sacrifice.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [109-110],#KEYS
555:the one entirely acceptable sacrifice :::
And the fruit also of the sacrifice of works varies according to the work, according to the intention in the work and according to the spirit that is behind the intention. But all other sacrifices are partial, egoistic, mixed, temporal, incomplete, - even those offered to the highest Powers and Principles keep this character: the result too is partial, limited, temporal, mixed in its reactions, effective only for a minor or intermediate purpose. The one entirely acceptable sacrifice is a last and highest and uttermost self-giving, - it is that surrender made face to face, with devotion and knowledge, freely and without any reserve to One who is at once our immanent Self, the environing constituent All, the Supreme Reality beyond this or any manifestation and, secretly, all these together, concealed everywhere, the immanent Transcendence. For to the soul that wholly gives itself to him, God also gives himself altogether. Only the one who offers his whole nature, finds the Self. Only the one who can give everything, enjoys the Divine All everywhere. Only a supreme self-abandonment attains to the Supreme. Only the sublimation by sacrifice of all that we are, can enable us to embody the Highest and live here in the immanent consciousness of the transcendent Spirit.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [110],#KEYS
556:During the stage of sadhana one should describe God by all His attributes. One day Hazra said to Narendra: 'God is Infinity. Infinite is His splendour. Do you think He will accept your offerings of sweets and bananas or listen to your music? This is a mistaken notion of yours.' Narendra at once sank ten fathoms. So I said to Hazra, 'You villain! Where will these youngsters be if you talk to them like that?' How can a man live if he gives up devotion? No doubt God has infinite splendour; yet He is under the control of His devotees. A rich man's gate-keeper comes to the parlour where his master is seated with his friends. He stands on one side of the room. In his hand he has something covered with a cloth. He is very hesitant. The master asks him, 'Well, gate-keeper, what have you in your hand?' Very hesitantly the servant takes out a custard-apple from under the cover, places it in front of his master, and says, 'Sir, it is my desire that you should eat this.' The Master is impressed by his servant's devotion. With great love he takes the fruit in his hand and says: 'Ah! This is a very nice custard-apple. Where did you pick it? You must have taken a great deal of trouble to get it.'
"God is under the control of His devotees. King Duryodhana was very attentive to Krishna and said to Him, 'Please have your meal here.' But the Lord went to Vidura's hut. He is very fond of His devotees. He ate Vidura's simple rice and greens as if they were celestial food. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
557:When, then, by the withdrawal of the centre of consciousness from identification with the mind, life and body, one has discovered ones true self, discovered the oneness of that self with the pure, silent, immutable Brahman, discovered in the immutable, in the Akshara Brahman, that by which the individual being escapes from his own personality into the impersonal, the first movement of the Path of Knowledge has been completed. It is the sole that is absolutely necessary for the traditional aim of the Yoga of Knowledge, for immergence, for escape from cosmic existence, for release into the absolute and ineffable Parabrahman who is beyond all cosmic being. The seeker of this ultimate release may take other realisations on his way, may realise the Lord of the universe, the Purusha who manifests Himself in all creatures, may arrive at the cosmic consciousness, may know and feel his unity with all beings; but these are only stages or circumstances of his journey, results of the unfolding of his soul as it approaches nearer the ineffable goal. To pass beyond them all is his supreme object. When on the other hand, having attained to the freedom and the silence and the peace, we resume possession by the cosmic consciousness of the active as well as the silent Brahman and can securely live in the divine freedom as well as rest in it, we have completed the second movement of the Path by which the integrality of self-knowledge becomes the station of the liberated soul.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
558:I have written a short sentence which will appear in the Bulletin, the next Bulletin. It goes something like this (I dont remember the words exactly now): If you say to the Divine with conviction, I want only You, the Divine will arrange all the circumstances in such a way as to compel you to be sincere.1 Something in the being I want only You. the aspiration and then one wants a hundred odd things all the time, isnt that so? At times something comes, just usually to disturb everythingit stands in the way and prevents you from realising your aspiration. Well, the Divine will come without showing Himself, without your seeing Him, without your having any inkling of it, and He will arrange all the circumstances in such a way that everything that prevents you from belonging solely to the Divine will be removed from your path, inevitably. Then when all is removed, you begin to howl and complain; but later, if you are sincere and look at yourself straight in the eye you have said to the Lord, you have said, I want only You. He will remain close to you, all the rest will go away. This is indeed a higher Grace. Only, you must say this with conviction. I dont even mean that you must say it integrally, because if one says it integrally, the work is done. What is necessary is that one part of the being, indeed the central will, says it with conviction: I want only You. Even once, and it suffices: all that takes more or less long, sometimes it stretches over years, but one reaches the goal. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954, 1954-06-16, #KEYS
559:There must be accepted and progressively accomplished a surrender of our capacities of working into the hands of a greater Power behind us and our sense of being the doer and worker must disappear. All must be given for a more direct use into the hands of the divine Will which is hidden by these frontal appearances; for by that permitting Will alone is our action possible. A hidden Power is the true Lord and overruling Observer of our acts and only he knows through all the ignorance and perversion and deformation brought in by the ego their entire sense and ultimate purpose. There must be effected a complete transformation of our limited and distorted egoistic life and works into the large and direct outpouring of a greater divine Life, Will and Energy that now secretly supports us. This greater Will and Energy must be made conscious in us and master; no longer must it remain, as now, only a superconscious, upholding and permitting Force. There must be achieved an undistorted transmission through us of the all-wise purpose and process of a now hidden omniscient Power and omnipotent Knowledge which will turn into its pure, unobstructed, happily consenting and participating channel all our transmuted nature. This total consecration and surrender and this resultant entire transformation and free transmission make up the whole fundamental means and the ultimate aim of an integral Karmayoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, Self-Surrender in Works - The Way of the Gita, [92],#KEYS
560:Why God sometimes allows people who are genuinely good to be hindered in the good that they do. God, who is faithful, allows his friends to fall frequently into weakness only in order to remove from them any prop on which they might lean. For a loving person it would be a great joy to be able to achieve many great feats, whether keeping vigils, fasting, performing other ascetical practices or doing major, difficult and unusual works. For them this is a great joy, support and source of hope so that their works become a prop and a support upon which they can lean. But it is precisely this which our Lord wishes to take from them so that he alone will be their help and support. This he does solely on account of his pure goodness and mercy, for God is prompted to act only by his goodness, and in no way do our works serve to make God give us anything or do anything for us. Our Lord wishes his friends to be freed from such an attitude, and thus he removes their support from them so that they must henceforth find their support only in him. For he desires to give them great gifts, solely on account of his goodness, and he shall be their comfort and support while they discover themselves to be and regard themselves as being a pure nothingness in all the great gifts of God. The more essentially and simply the mind rests on God and is sustained by him, the more deeply we are established in God and the more receptive we are to him in all his precious gifts - for human kind should build on God alone. ~ Meister Eckhart, #KEYS
561:The Supreme Mind
'O God! we acknowledge Thee to be the Supreme Mind
Who hast disposed and ordered the Universe;
Who gave it life and motion at the first,
And still continuest to guide and regulate it.
From Thee was its primal impulsion;
Thou didst bestow on thine Emanated Spirit of Light,
Divine wisdom and various power
To stablish and enforce its transcendent orbits.
Thou art the Inconceivable Energy
Which in the beginning didst cause all things;
Of whom shall no created being ever know
A millionth part of thy divine properties.
But the Spirit was the Spirit of the Universe-
Sacred, Holy, Generating Nature;
Which, obedient unto thy will,
Preserves and reproduces all that is in the Kosmos.
Nothing is superior to the Spirit
But Thou, alone, O God! who art the Creator and Lord;
Thou madest the Spirit to be thy servitor,
But this thy Spirit transcends all other creatures;
This is the Spirit which is in the highest heavens;
Whose influence permeates all that lives;
As a beautiful Flower diffuses fragrances
But is not diminished in aught thereby.
For all divine essences are the same,
Differing only in their degree and power and beauty;
But in no wise differing in their principle,
Which is the fiery essence of God himself.
Such is the animating flame of every existence
Being in God, purely perfect;
But in all other living things
Only capable of being made perfect.' ~ Dr E.V. Kenealy, The Book of Fo.
The Supreme Mind. from path of regeneration,#KEYS
562:the ruthless sacrifice ::: The vulgar conception of sacrifice is an act of painful self-immolation, austere self-mortification, difficult self-effacement; this kind of sacrifice may go even as far as self-mutilation and self-torture. These things may be temporarily necessary in man's hard endeavor to exceed his natural self; if the egoism in his nature is violent and obstinate, it has to be met sometimes by an answering strong internal repression and counterbalancing violence. But the Gita discourages any excess of violence done to oneself; for the self within is really the Godhead evolving, it is Krishna, the Divine; it has not to be troubled and tortured as the Titans of the world trouble and torture it, but to be increased, fostered, cherished, luminously opened to a divine light and strength and joy and wideness. It is not one's self, but the band of the spirit's inner enemies that we have to discourage, expel, slay upon the alter of the growth of the spirit; these can be ruthlessly excised, whose names are desire, wrath, inequality, greed, attachment to outward pleasures and pains, the cohort of usurping demons that are the cause of the soul's errors and sufferings. These should be regarded not as part of oneself but as intruders and perverters of our self's real and diviner nature; these have to be sacrificed in the harsher sense of the word, whatever pain in going they may thrown by reflection on the consciousness of the seeker.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Sacrifice, The Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice,#KEYS
563:But what has fixed the modes of Nature? Or who has originated and governs the movements of Force? There is a Consciousness - or a Conscient - behind that is the lord, witness, knower, enjoyer, upholder and source of sanction for her works; this consciousness is Soul or Purusha. Prakriti shapes the action in us; Purusha in her or behind her witnesses, assents, bears and upholds it. Prakriti forms the thought in our minds; Purusha in her or behind her knows the thought and the truth in it. Prakriti determines the result of the action; Purusha in her or behind her enjoys or suffers the consequence. Prakriti forms mind and body, labours over them, develops them; Purusha upholds the formation and evolution and sanctions each step of her works. Prakriti applies the Will-force which works in things and men; Purusha sets that Will-force to work by his vision of that which should be done. This Purusha is not the surface ego, but a silent Self, a source of Power, an originator and receiver of Knowledge behind the ego. Our mental "I" is only a false reflection of this Self, this Power, this Knowledge. This Purusha or supporting Consciousness is therefore the cause, recipient and support of all Nature's works, but he is not himself the doer. Prakriti, NatureForce, in front and Shakti, Conscious-Force, Soul-Force behind her, - for these two are the inner and outer faces of the universal Mother, - account for all that is done in the universe. The universal Mother, Prakriti-Shakti, is the one and only worker. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 214, #KEYS
564:Karma Yoga, the Path of Works; :::
The Path of Works aims at the dedication of every human activity to the supreme Will. It begins by the renunciation of all egoistic aim for our works, all pursuit of action for an interested aim or for the sake of a worldly result. By this renunciation it so purifies the mind and the will that we become easily conscious of the great universal Energy as the true doer of all our actions and the Lord of that Energy as their ruler and director with the individual as only a mask, an excuse, an instrument or, more positively, a conscious centre of action and phenomenal relation. The choice and direction of the act is more and more consciously left to this supreme Will and this universal Energy. To That our works as well as the results of our works are finally abandoned. The object is the release of the soul from its bondage to appearances and to the reaction of phenomenal activities. Karmayoga is used, like the other paths, to lead to liberation from phenomenal existence and a departure into the Supreme. But here too the exclusive result is not inevitable. The end of the path may be, equally, a perception of the divine in all energies, in all happenings, in all activities, and a free and unegoistic participation of the soul in the cosmic action. So followed it will lead to the elevation of all human will and activity to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards freedom, power and perfection in the human being.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Systems of Yoga, 39,#KEYS
565:But in the integral conception the Conscious Soul is the Lord, the Nature-Soul is his executive Energy. Purusha is of the nature of Sat, the being of conscious self-existence pure and infinite; Shakti or Prakriti is of the nature of Chit, - it is power of the Purusha's self-conscious existence, pure and infinite. The relation of the two exists between the poles of rest and action. When the Energy is absorbed in the bliss of conscious self-existence, there is rest; when thePurusha pours itself out in the action of its Energy, there is action, creation and the enjoyment or Ananda of becoming. But if Ananda is the creator and begetter of all becoming, its method is Tapas or force of the Purusha's consciousness dwelling upon its own infinite potentiality in existence and producing from it truths of conception or real Ideas, vijnana, which, proceedingfrom an omniscient and omnipotent Self-existence, have the surety of their own fulfilment and contain in themselves the nature and law of their own becoming in the terms of mind, life and matter. The eventual omnipotence of Tapas and the infallible fulfilment of the Idea are the very foundation of all Yoga. In man we render these terms by Will and Faith, - a will that is eventually self-effective because it is of the substance of Knowledge and a faith that is the reflex in the lower consciousness of a Truth or real Idea yet unrealised in the manifestation. It is this self-certainty of the Idea which is meant by the Gita when it says, yo yac-chraddhah sa eva sah, 'whatever is a man's faith or the sure Idea in him, that he becomes.'
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Synthesis of the Systems, 43,#KEYS
566:The Lord has veiled himself and his absolute wisdom and eternal consciousness in ignorant Nature-Force and suffers her to drive the individual being, with its complicity, as the ego; this lower action of Nature continues to prevail, often even in spite of man's half-lit imperfect efforts at a nobler motive and a purer self-knowledge. Our human effort at perfection fails, or progresses very incompletely, owing to the force of Nature's past actions in us, her past formations, her long-rooted associations; it turns towards a true and high-climbing success only when a greater Knowledge and Power than our own breaks through the lid of our ignorance and guides or takes up our personal will. For our human will is a misled and wandering ray that has parted from the supreme Puissance. The period of slow emergence out of this lower working into a higher light and purer force is the valley of the shadow of death for the striver after perfection; it is a dreadful passage full of trials, sufferings, sorrows, obscurations, stumblings, errors, pitfalls. To abridge and alleviate this ordeal or to penetrate it with the divine delight faith is necessary, an increasing surrender of the mind to the knowledge that imposes itself from within and, above all, a true aspiration and a right and unfaltering and sincere practice. "Practise unfalteringly," says the Gita, "with a heart free from despondency," the Yoga; for even though in the earlier stage of the path we drink deep of the bitter poison of internal discord and suffering, the last taste of this cup is the sweetness of the nectar of immortality and the honey-wine of an eternal Ananda. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 219, #KEYS
567:35 - Men are still in love with grief; when they see one who is too high for grief or joy, they curse him and cry, "O thou insensible!" Therefore Christ still hangs on the cross in Jerusalem.
36 - Men are in love with sin; when they see one who is too high for vice or virtue, they curse him and cry, "O thou breaker of bonds, thou wicked and immoral one!" Therefore Sri Krishna does not live as yet in Brindavan.(5)
- Sri Aurobindo
I would like to have an explanation of these two aphorisms.
When Christ came upon earth, he brought a message of brotherhood, love and peace. But he had to die in pain, on the cross, so that his message might be heard. For men cherish suffering and hatred and want their God to suffer with them. They wanted this when Christ came and, in spite of his teaching and sacrifice, they still want it; and they are so attached to their pain that, symbolically, Christ is still bound to his cross, suffering perpetually for the salvation of men.
As for Krishna, he came upon earth to bring freedom and delight. He came to announce to men, enslaved to Nature, to their passions and errors, that if they took refuge in the Supreme Lord they would be free from all bondage and sin. But men are very attached to their vices and virtues (for without vice there would be no virtue); they are in love with their sins and cannot tolerate anyone being free and above all error.
That is why Krishna, although immortal, is not present at Brindavan in a body at this moment.
3 June 1960
(5 The village where Shri Krishna Spent His Childhood, and where He danced with Radha and other Gopis.) ~ The Mother, On Thoughts And Aphorisms, volume-10, page no.59-60,#KEYS
568:...that personality, like consciousness, life, soul is not a brief-lived stranger in an impersonal Eternity, but contains the very meaning of existence. This fine flower of the cosmic Energy carries in it a forecast of the aim and a hint of the very motive of the universal labour. As an occult vision opens in him, he becomes aware of worlds behind in which consciousness and personality hold an enormous place and assume a premier value; even here in the material world to this occult vision the inconscience of Matter fills with a secret pervading consciousness, its inanimation harbours a vibrant life, its mechanism is the device of an indwelling Intelligence, God and soul are everywhere. Above all stands an infinite conscious Being who is variously self-expressed in all these worlds; impersonality is only a first means of that expression. It is a field of principles and forces, an equal basis of manifestation; but these forces express themselves through beings, have conscious spirits at their head and are the emanation of a One Conscious Being who is their sorce. A multiple innumberable personality expressing that One is the very sense and central aim of the manifestation and if now personality seems to be narrow, fragmentary, restrictive, it is only because it has not opened to its source or flowered into its own divine truth and fullness packing itself with the universal and the infinite. Thus the world-creation is no more an illusion, a fortuitous mechanism, a play that need not have happened, a flux without consequence; it is an intimate dynamism of the conscious and living Eternal.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice and the Lord of the Sacrifice, 127,#KEYS
569:She"
How shall I welcome not this light
Or, wakened by it, greet with doubt
This beam as palpable to sight
As visible to touch? How not,
Old as I am and (some say) wise,
Revive beneath her summer eyes?
How not have all my nights and days,
My spirit ranging far and wide,
By recollections of her grace
Enlightened and preoccupied?
Preoccupied: the Morning Star
How near the Sun and yet how far!
Enlightened: true, but more than true,
Or why must I discover there
The meaning in this taintless dew,
The dancing wave, this blessed air
Enchanting in its morning dress
And calm as everlastingness?
The flame that in the heart resides
Is parcel of that central Fire
Whose energy is winds and tides-
Is rooted deep in the Desire
That smilingly unseals its power
Each summer in each springing flower.
Oh Lady Nature-Proserpine,
Mistress of Gender, star-crowned Queen!
Ah Rose of Sharon-Mistress mine,
My teacher ere I turned fourteen,
When first I hallowed from afar
Your Beautyship in avatar!
I sense the hidden thing you say,
Your subtle whisper how the Word
From Alpha on to Omega
Made all things-you confide my Lord
Himself-all, all this potent Frame,
All save the riddle of your name.
Wisdom! I heard a voice that said:
"What riddle? What is that to you?
How! By my follower betrayed!
Look up-for shame! Now tell me true:
Where meet you light, with love and grace?
Still unacquainted with my face?"
Dear God, the erring heart must live-
Through strength and weakness, calm and glow-
That answer Wisdom scorns to give.
Much have I learned. One problem, though,
I never shall unlock: Who then,
Who made Sophia feminine?
~ Owen Barfield, 1978,#KEYS
570:the second aid, the need for effort and aspiration, utsaha :::
The development of the experience in its rapidity, its amplitude, the intensity and power of its results, depends primarily, in the beginning of the path and long after, on the aspiration and personal effort of the sadhaka. The process of Yoga is a turning of the human soul from the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in the outward appearances and attractions of things to a higher state in which the Transcendent and Universal can pour itself into the individiual mould and transform it. The first determining element in the siddhi is, therefore, the intensity of the turning, the force which directs the soul inward. The power of aspiration of the heart, the force of the will, the concentration of the mind, the perseverance and determination of the applied energy are the measure of that intensity. The ideal sadhaka should be able to say in the Biblical phrase, 'My zeal for the Lord has eaten me up.' It is this zeal for the Lord, -utsaha, the zeal of the whole nature for its divine results, vyakulata, the heart's eagerness for the attainment of the Divine, - that devours the ego and breaks up the petty limitations ...
So long as the contact with the Divine is not in some considerable degree established, so long as there is not some measure of sustained identity, sayujya, the element of personal effort must normally predominate. But in proportion as this contact establishes itself, the sadhaka must become conscious that a force other than his own, a force transcending his egoistic endeavour and capacity, is at work in him and to this Power he learns progressively to submit himself and delivers up to it the charge of his Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids,#KEYS
571:A distinction has to be firmly seized in our consciousness, the capital distinction between mechanical Nature and the free Lord of Nature, between the Ishwara or single luminous divine Will and the many executive modes and forces of the universe. Nature, - not as she is in her divine Truth, the conscious Power of the Eternal, but as she appears to us in the Ignorance, - is executive Force, mechanical in her steps, not consciously intelligent to our experience of her, although all her works are instinct with an absolute intelligence. Not in herself master, she is full of a self-aware Power which has an infinite mastery and, because of this Power driving her, she rules all and exactly fulfils the work intended in her by the Ishwara. Not enjoying but enjoyed, she bears in herself the burden of all enjoyments. Nature as Prakriti is an inertly active Force, - for she works out a movement imposed upon her; but within her is One that knows,
- some Entity sits there that is aware of all her motion and process. Prakriti works containing the knowledge, the mastery, the delight of the Purusha, the Being associated with her or seated within her; but she can participate in them only by subjection and reflection of that which fills her. Purusha knows and is still and inactive; he contains the action of Prakriti within his consciousness and knowledge and enjoys it. He gives the sanction to Prakriti's works and she works out what is sanctioned by him for his pleasure. Purusha himself does not execute; he maintains Prakriti in her action and allows her to express in energy and process and formed result what he perceives in his knowledge. This is the distinction made by the Sankhyas; and although it is not all the true truth, not in any way the highest truth either of Purusha or of Prakriti, still it is a valid and indispensable practical knowledge in the lower hemisphere of existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
572:A distinction has to be firmly seized in our consciousness, the capital distinction between mechanical Nature and the free Lord of Nature, between the Ishwara or single luminous divine Will and the many executive modes and forces of the universe. Nature, - not as she is in her divine Truth, the conscious Power of the Eternal, but as she appears to us in the Ignorance, - is executive Force, mechanical in her steps, not consciously intelligent to our experience of her, although all her works are instinct with an absolute intelligence. Not in herself master, she is full of a self-aware Power which has an infinite mastery and, because of this Power driving her, she rules all and exactly fulfils the work intended in her by the Ishwara. Not enjoying but enjoyed, she bears in herself the burden of all enjoyments. Nature as Prakriti is an inertly active Force, - for she works out a movement imposed upon her; but within her is One that knows, - some Entity sits there that is aware of all her motion and process. Prakriti works containing the knowledge, the mastery, the delight of the Purusha, the Being associated with her or seated within her; but she can participate in them only by subjection and reflection of that which fills her. Purusha knows and is still and inactive; he contains the action of Prakriti within his consciousness and knowledge and enjoys it. He gives the sanction to Prakriti's works and she works out what is sanctioned by him for his pleasure. Purusha himself does not execute; he maintains Prakriti in her action and allows her to express in energy and process and formed result what he perceives in his knowledge. This is the distinction made by the Sankhyas; and although it is not all the true truth, not in any way the highest truth either of Purusha or of Prakriti, still it is a valid and indispensable practical knowledge in the lower hemisphere of existence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Surrender in Works,#KEYS
573:This inner Guide is often veiled at first by the very intensity of our personal effort and by the ego's preoccupation with itself and its aims. As we gain in clarity and the turmoil of egoistic effort gives place to a calmer self-knowledge, we recognise the source of the growing light within us. We recognise it retrospectively as we realise how all our obscure and conflicting movements have been determined towards an end that we only now begin to perceive, how even before our entrance into the path of the Yoga the evolution of our life has been designedly led towards its turning point. For now we begin to understand the sense of our struggles and efforts, successes and failures. At last we are able to seize the meaning of our ordeals and sufferings and can appreciate the help that was given us by all that hurt and resisted and the utility of our very falls and stumblings. We recognise this divine leading afterwards, not retrospectively but immediately, in the moulding of our thoughts by a transcendent Seer, of our will and actions by an all-embracing Power, of our emotional life by an all-attracting and all-assimilating Bliss and Love. We recognise it too in a more personal relation that from the first touched us or at the last seizes us; we feel the eternal presence of a supreme Master, Friend, Lover, Teacher. We recognise it in the essence of our being as that develops into likeness and oneness with a greater and wider existence; for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts; an eternal Perfection is moulding us into its own image. One who is the Lord or Ishwara of the Yogic philosophies, the Guide in the conscious being ( caitya guru or antaryamin ), the Absolute of the thinker, the Unknowable of the Agnostic, the universal Force of the materialist, the supreme Soul and the supreme Shakti, the One who is differently named and imaged by the religions, is the Master of our Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids, 62 [T1],#KEYS
574:the omnipresent Trinity :::
In practice three conceptions are necessary before there can be any possibility of Yoga; there must be, as it were, three consenting parties to the effort,-God, Nature and the human soul or, in more abstract language, the Transcendental, the Universal and the Individual. If the individual and Nature are left to themselves, the one is bound to the other and unable to exceed appreciably her lingering march. Something transcendent is needed, free from her and greater, which will act upon us and her, attracting us upward to Itself and securing from her by good grace or by force her consent to the individual ascension. It is this truth which makes necessary to every philosophy of Yoga the conception of the Ishwara, Lord, supreme Soul or supreme Self, towards whom the effort is directed and who gives the illuminating touch and the strength to attain. Equally true is the complementary idea so often enforced by the Yoga of devotion that as the Transcendent is necessary to the individual and sought after by him, so also the individual is necessary in a sense to the Transcendent and sought after by It. If the Bhakta seeks and yearns after Bhagavan, Bhagavan also seeks and yearns after the Bhakta. There can be no Yoga of knowledge without a human seeker of the knowledge, the supreme subject of knowledge and the divine use by the individual of the universal faculties of knowledge; no Yoga of devotion without the human God-lover, the supreme object of love and delight and the divine use by the individual of the universal faculties of spiritual, emotional and aesthetic enjoyment; no Yoga of works without the human worker, the supreme Will, Master of all works and sacrifices, and the divine use by the individual of the universal faculties of power and action. However Monistic maybe our intellectual conception of the highest truth of things, in practice we are compelled to accept this omnipresent Trinity.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Introduction - The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Systems of Yoga,#KEYS
575:The Absolute is beyond personality and beyond impersonality, and yet it is both the Impersonal and the supreme Person and all persons. The Absolute is beyond the distinction of unity and multiplicity, and yet it is the One and the innumerable Many in all the universes. It is beyond all limitation by quality and yet it is not limited by a qualityless void but is too all infinite qualities. It is the individual soul and all souls and more of them; it is the formless Brahman and the universe. It is the cosmic and the supracosmic spirit, the supreme Lord, the supreme Self, the supreme Purusha and supreme shakti, the Ever Unborn who is endlessly born, the Infinite who is innumerably finite, the multitudinous One, the complex Simple, the many-sided Single, the Word of the Silence Ineffable, the impersonal omnipresent Person, the Mystery, translucent in highest consciousness to its own spirit, but to a lesser consciousness veiled in its own exceeding light and impenetrable for ever. These things are to the dimensional mind irreconcilable opposites, but to the constant vision and experience of the supramental Truth-Consciousness they are so simply and inevitably the intrinsic nature of each other that even to think of them as contraries is an unimaginable violence. The walls constructed by the measuring and separating Intellect have disappeared and the Truth in its simplicity and beauty appears and reduces all to terms of its harmony and unity and light. Dimensions and distinctions remain but as figures for use, not a separative prison for the self-forgetting Spirit.
2:In the ordinary Yoga of knowledge it is only necessary to recognise two planes of our consciousness, the spiritual and the materialised mental; the pure reason standing between these two views them both, cuts through the illusions of the phenomenal world, exceeds the materialised mental plane, sees the reality of the spiritual; and then the will of the individual Purusha unifying itself with this poise of knowledge rejects the lower and draws back to the supreme plane, dwells there, loses mind and body, sheds life from it and merges itself in the supreme Purusha, is delivered from individual existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, 2.01 - The Object of Knowledge,#KEYS
576:the three stages of the ascent :::
There are three stages of the ascent, -at the bottom the bodily life enslaved to the pressure of necessity and desire, in the middle the mental, the higher emotional and psychic rule that feels after greater interests, aspirations, experiences, ideas, and at the summits first a deeper psychic and spiritual state and then a supramental eternal consciousness in which all our aspirations and seekings discover their own intimate significance.In the bodily life first desire and need and then the practical good of the individual and the society are the governing consideration, the dominant force. In the mental life ideas and ideals rule, ideas that are half-lights wearing the garb of Truth, ideals formed by the mind as a result of a growing but still imperfect intuition and experience. Whenever the mental life prevails and the bodily diminishes its brute insistence, man the mental being feels pushed by the urge of mental Nature to mould in the sense of the idea or the ideal the life of the individual, and in the end even the vaguer more complex life of the society is forced to undergo this subtle process.In the spiritual life, or when a higher power than Mind has manifested and taken possession of the nature, these limited motive-forces recede, dwindle, tend to disappear. The spiritual or supramental Self, the Divine Being, the supreme and immanent Reality, must be alone the Lord within us and shape freely our final development according to the highest, widest, most integral expression possible of the law of our nature. In the end that nature acts in the perfect Truth and its spontaneous freedom; for it obeys only the luminous power of the Eternal. The individual has nothing further to gain, no desire to fulfil; he has become a portion of the impersonality or the universal personality of the Eternal. No other object than the manifestation and play of the Divine Spirit in life and the maintenance and conduct of the world in its march towards the divine goal can move him to action. Mental ideas, opinions, constructions are his no more; for his mind has fallen into silence, it is only a channel for the Light and Truth of the divine knowledge. Ideals are too narrow for the vastness of his spirit; it is the ocean of the Infinite that flows through him and moves him for ever.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will,#KEYS
577:It is your birthday tomorrow?
Yes, Mother.
How old will you be?
Twenty-six, Mother.
I shall see you tomorrow and give you something special. You will see, I am not speaking of anything material- that, I shall give you a card and all that- but of something...You will see, tomorrow, now go home and prepare yourself quietly so that you may be ready to receive it.
Yes, Mother.
You know, my child, what "Bonne Fete" signifies, that is, the birthday we wish here?
Like that, I know what it means, Mother, but not the special significance you want to tell me.
Yes, it is truly a special day in one's life. It is one of those days in the year when the Supreme descends into us- or when we are face to face with the Eternal- one of those days when our soul comes in contact with the Eternal and, if we remain a little conscious, we can feel His Presence within us. If we make a little effort on this day, we accomplish the work of many lives as in a lightning flash. That is why I give so much importance to the birthday- because what one gains in one day is truly something incomparable. And it is for this that I also work to open the consciousness a little towards what is above so that one may come before the Eternal. My child, it is a very, very special day, for it is the day of decision, the day one can unite with the Supreme Consciousness. For the Lord lifts us on this day to the highest region possible so that our soul which is a portion of that Eternal Flame, may be united and identified with its Origin.
This day is truly an opportunity in life. One is so open and so receptive that one can assimilate all that is given. I can do many things, that is why it is important.
It is one of those days when the Lord Himself opens the doors wide for us. It is as though He were inviting us to rekindle more powerfully the flame of aspiration. It is one of those days which He gives us. We too, by our personal effort, could attain to this, but it would be long, hard and not so easy. And this- this is a real chance in life- the day of Grace.
It is an occult phenomenon that occurs invariably, without our knowledge, on this particular day of the year. The soul leaves behind the body and journeys up and up till it merges into the Source in order to replenish itself and absorb from the Supreme Its Power, Light and Ananda and comes down charged for a whole year to pass. Then again and again... it continues like this year after year. ~ The Mother, Sweet Mother, Mona Sarkar,#KEYS
578:The preliminary movement of Rajayoga is careful self-discipline by which good habits of mind are substituted for the lawless movements that indulge the lower nervous being. By the practice of truth, by renunciation of all forms of egoistic seeking, by abstention from injury to others, by purity, by constant meditation and inclination to the divine Purusha who is the true lord of the mental kingdom, a pure, clear state of mind and heart is established.
This is the first step only. Afterwards, the ordinary activities of the mind and sense must be entirely quieted in order that the soul may be free to ascend to higher states of consciousness and acquire the foundation for a perfect freedom and self-mastery. But Rajayoga does not forget that the disabilities of the ordinary mind proceed largely from its subjection to the reactions of the nervous system and the body. It adopts therefore from the Hathayogic system its devices of asana and pranayama, but reduces their multiple and elaborate forms in each case to one simplest and most directly effective process sufficient for its own immediate object. Thus it gets rid of the Hathayogic complexity and cumbrousness while it utilises the swift and powerful efficacy of its methods for the control of the body and the vital functions and for the awakening of that internal dynamism, full of a latent supernormal faculty, typified in Yogic terminology by the kundalini, the coiled and sleeping serpent of Energy within. This done, the system proceeds to the perfect quieting of the restless mind and its elevation to a higher plane through concentration of mental force by the successive stages which lead to the utmost inner concentration or ingathered state of the consciousness which is called Samadhi.
By Samadhi, in which the mind acquires the capacity of withdrawing from its limited waking activities into freer and higher states of consciousness, Rajayoga serves a double purpose. It compasses a pure mental action liberated from the confusions of the outer consciousness and passes thence to the higher supra-mental planes on which the individual soul enters into its true spiritual existence. But also it acquires the capacity of that free and concentrated energising of consciousness on its object which our philosophy asserts as the primary cosmic energy and the method of divine action upon the world. By this capacity the Yogin, already possessed of the highest supracosmic knowledge and experience in the state of trance, is able in the waking state to acquire directly whatever knowledge and exercise whatever mastery may be useful or necessary to his activities in the objective world.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Systems of Yoga, 36,#KEYS
579:If we look at this picture of the Self-Existence and its works as a unitary unlimited whole of vision, it stands together and imposes itself by its convincing totality: but to the analysis of the logical intellect it offers an abundance of difficulties, such as all attempts to erect a logical system out of a perception of an illimitable Existence must necessarily create; for any such endeavour must either effect consistency by an arbitrary sectioning of the complex truth of things or else by its comprehensiveness become logically untenable. For we see that the Indeterminable determines itself as infinite and finite, the Immutable admits a constant mutability and endless differences, the One becomes an innumerable multitude, the Impersonal creates or supports personality, is itself a Person; the Self has a nature and is yet other than its nature; Being turns into becoming and yet it is always itself and other than its becomings; the Universal individualises itself and the Individual universalises himself; Brahman is at once void of qualities and capable of infinite qualities, the Lord and Doer of works, yet a non-doer and a silent witness of the workings of Nature. If we look carefully at these workings of Nature, once we put aside the veil of familiarity and our unthinking acquiescence in the process of things as natural because so they always happen, we discover that all she does in whole or in parts is a miracle, an act of some incomprehensible magic. The being of the Self-existence and the world that has appeared in it are, each of them and both together, a suprarational mystery. There seems to us to be a reason in things because the processes of the physical finite are consistent to our view and their law determinable, but this reason in things, when closely examined, seems to stumble at every moment against the irrational or infrarational and the suprarational: the consistency, the determinability of process seems to lessen rather than increase as we pass from matter to life and from life to mentality; if the finite consents to some extent to look as if it were rational, the infinitesimal refuses to be bound by the same laws and the infinite is unseizable. As for the action of the universe and its significance, it escapes us altogether; if Self, God or Spirit there be, his dealings with the world and us are incomprehensible, offer no clue that we can follow. God and Nature and even ourselves move in a mysterious way which is only partially and at points intelligible, but as a whole escapes our comprehension. All the works of Maya look like the production of a suprarational magical Power which arranges things according to its wisdom or its phantasy, but a wisdom which is not ours and a phantasy which baffles our imagination. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.02, #KEYS
580:To Know How To Suffer
IF AT any time a deep sorrow, a searing doubt or an intense pain overwhelms you and drives you to despair, there is an infallible way to regain calm and peace.
In the depths of our being there shines a light whose brilliance is equalled only by its purity; a light, a living and conscious portion of a universal godhead who animates and nourishes and illumines Matter, a powerful and unfailing guide for those who are willing to heed his law, a helper full of solace and loving forbearance towards all who aspire to see and hear and obey him. No sincere and lasting aspiration towards him can be in vain; no strong and respectful trust can be disappointed, no expectation ever deceived.
My heart has suffered and lamented, almost breaking beneath a sorrow too heavy, almost sinking beneath a pain too strong.... But I have called to thee, O divine comforter, I have prayed ardently to thee, and the splendour of thy dazzling light has appeared to me and revived me.
As the rays of thy glory penetrated and illumined all my being, I clearly perceived the path to follow, the use that can be made of suffering; I understood that the sorrow that held me in its grip was but a pale reflection of the sorrow of the earth, of this abysm of suffering and anguish.
Only those who have suffered can understand the suffering of others; understand it, commune with it and relieve it. And I understood, O divine comforter, sublime Holocaust, that in order to sustain us in all our troubles, to soothe all our pangs, thou must have known and felt all the sufferings of earth and man, all without exception.
How is it that among those who claim to be thy worshippers, some regard thee as a cruel torturer, as an inexorable judge witnessing the torments that are tolerated by thee or even created by thy own will?
No, I now perceive that these sufferings come from the very imperfection of Matter which, in its disorder and crudeness, is unfit to manifest thee; and thou art the very first to suffer from it, to bewail it, thou art the first to toil and strive in thy ardent desire to change disorder into order, suffering into happiness, discord into harmony.
Suffering is not something inevitable or even desirable, but when it comes to us, how helpful it can be!
Each time we feel that our heart is breaking, a deeper door opens within us, revealing new horizons, ever richer in hidden treasures, whose golden influx brings once more a new and intenser life to the organism on the brink of destruction.
And when, by these successive descents, we reach the veil that reveals thee as it is lifted, O Lord, who can describe the intensity of Life that penetrates the whole being, the radiance of the Light that floods it, the sublimity of the Love that transforms it for ever! ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, To Know How To Suffer, 1910,#KEYS
581:O Death, thou lookst on an unfinished world
Assailed by thee and of its road unsure,
Peopled by imperfect minds and ignorant lives,
And sayest God is not and all is vain.
How shall the child already be the man?
Because he is infant, shall he never grow?
Because he is ignorant, shall he never learn?
In a small fragile seed a great tree lurks,
In a tiny gene a thinking being is shut;
A little element in a little sperm,
It grows and is a conqueror and a sage.
Then wilt thou spew out, Death, God's mystic truth,
Deny the occult spiritual miracle?
Still wilt thou say there is no spirit, no God?
A mute material Nature wakes and sees;
She has invented speech, unveiled a will.
Something there waits beyond towards which she strives,
Something surrounds her into which she grows:
To uncover the spirit, to change back into God,
To exceed herself is her transcendent task.
In God concealed the world began to be,
Tardily it travels towards manifest God:
Our imperfection towards perfection toils,
The body is the chrysalis of a soul:
The infinite holds the finite in its arms,
Time travels towards revealed eternity.
A miracle structure of the eternal Mage,
Matter its mystery hides from its own eyes,
A scripture written out in cryptic signs,
An occult document of the All-Wonderful's art.
All here bears witness to his secret might,
In all we feel his presence and his power.
A blaze of his sovereign glory is the sun,
A glory is the gold and glimmering moon,
A glory is his dream of purple sky.
A march of his greatness are the wheeling stars.
His laughter of beauty breaks out in green trees,
His moments of beauty triumph in a flower;
The blue sea's chant, the rivulet's wandering voice
Are murmurs falling from the Eternal's harp.
This world is God fulfilled in outwardness.
His ways challenge our reason and our sense;
By blind brute movements of an ignorant Force,
By means we slight as small, obscure or base,
A greatness founded upon little things,
He has built a world in the unknowing Void.
His forms he has massed from infinitesimal dust;
His marvels are built from insignificant things.
If mind is crippled, life untaught and crude,
If brutal masks are there and evil acts,
They are incidents of his vast and varied plot,
His great and dangerous drama's needed steps;
He makes with these and all his passion-play,
A play and yet no play but the deep scheme
Of a transcendent Wisdom finding ways
To meet her Lord in the shadow and the Night:
Above her is the vigil of the stars;
Watched by a solitary Infinitude
She embodies in dumb Matter the Divine,
In symbol minds and lives the Absolute.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
582:There is one fundamental perception indispensable towards any integral knowledge or many-sided experience of this Infinite. It is to realise the Divine in its essential self and truth unaltered by forms and phenomena. Otherwise we are likely to remain caught in the net of appearances or wander confusedly in a chaotic multitude of cosmic or particular aspects, and if we avoid this confusion, it will be at the price of getting chained to some mental formula or shut up in a limited personal experience. The one secure and all-reconciling truth which is the very foundation of the universe is this that life is the manifestation of an uncreated Self and Spirit, and the key to life's hidden secret is the true relation of this Spirit with its own created existences. There is behind all this life the look of an eternal Being upon its multitudinous becomings; there is around and everywhere in it the envelopment and penetration of a manifestation in time by an unmanifested timeless Eternal. But this knowledge is valueless for Yoga if it is only an intellectual and metaphysical notion void of life and barren of consequence; a mental realisation alone cannot be sufficient for the seeker. For what Yoga searches after is not truth of thought alone or truth of mind alone, but the dynamic truth of a living and revealing spiritual experience. There must awake in us a constant indwelling and enveloping nearness, a vivid perception, a close feeling and communion, a concrete sense and contact of a true and infinite Presence always and everywhere. That Presence must remain with us as the living, pervading Reality in which we and all things exist and move and act, and we must feel it always and everywhere, concrete, visible, inhabiting all things; it must be patent to us as their true Self, tangible as their imperishable Essence, met by us closely as their inmost Spirit. To see, to feel, to sense, to contact in every way and not merely to conceive this Self and Spirit here in all existences and to feel with the same vividness all existences in this Self and Spirit, is the fundamental experience which must englobe all other knowledge. This infinite and eternal Self of things is an omnipresent Reality, one existence everywhere; it is a single unifying presence and not different in different creatures; it can be met, seen or felt in its completeness in each soul or each form in the universe. For its infinity is spiritual and essential and not merely a boundlessness in Space or an endlessness in Time; the Infinite can be felt in an infinitesimal atom or in a second of time as convincingly as in the stretch of the aeons or the stupendous enormity of the intersolar spaces. The knowledge or experience of it can begin anywhere and express itself through anything; for the Divine is in all, and all is the Divine.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice,#KEYS
583:An integral Yoga includes as a vital and indispensable element in its total and ultimate aim the conversion of the whole being into a higher spiritual consciousness and a larger divine existence. Our parts of will and action, our parts of knowledge, our thinking being, our emotional being, our being of life, all our self and nature must seek the Divine, enter into the Infinite, unite with the Eternal. But mans present nature is limited, divided, unequal, -- it is easiest for him to concentrate in the strongest part of his being and follow a definite line of progress proper to his nature: only rare individuals have the strength to take a large immediate plunge straight into the sea of the Divine Infinity. Some therefore must choose as a starting-point a concentration in thought or contemplation or the minds one-pointedness to find the eternal reality of the Self in them; others can more easily withdraw into the heart to meet there the Divine, the Eternal: yet others are predominantly dynamic and active; for these it is best to centre themselves in the will and enlarge their being through works. United with the Self and source of all by their surrender of their will into its infinity, guided in their works by the secret Divinity within or surrendered to the Lord of the cosmic action as the master and mover of all their energies of thought, feeling, act, becoming by this enlargement of being selfless and universal, they can reach by works some first fullness of a spiritual status. But the path, whatever its point of starting, must debouch into a vaster dominion; it must proceed in the end through a totality of integrated knowledge, emotion, will of dynamic action, perfection of the being and the entire nature. In the supramental consciousness, on the level of the supramental existence this integration becomes consummate; there knowledge, will, emotion, the perfection of the self and the dynamic nature rise each to its absolute of itself and all to their perfect harmony and fusion with each other, to a divine integrality, a divine perfection. For the supermind is a Truth-Consciousness in which the Divine Reality, fully manifested, no longer works with the instrumentation of the Ignorance; a truth of status of being which is absolute becomes dynamic in a truth of energy and activity of the being which is self-existent and perfect. Every movement there is a movement of the self-aware truth of Divine Being and every part is in entire harmony with the whole. Even the most limited and finite action is in the Truth-Consciousness a movement of the Eternal and Infinite and partakes of the inherent absoluteness and perfection of the Eternal and Infinite. An ascent into the supramental Truth not only raises our spiritual and essential consciousness to that height but brings about a descent of this Light and Truth into all our being and all our parts of nature. All then becomes part of the Divine Truth, an element and means of the supreme union and oneness; this ascent and descent must be therefore an ultimate aim of this Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Supermind and the Yoga of Works [279-280],#KEYS
584:Apotheosis ::: One of the most powerful and beloved of the Bodhisattvas of the Mahayana Buddhism of Tibet, China, and Japan is the Lotus Bearer, Avalokiteshvara, "The Lord Looking Down in Pity," so called because he regards with compassion all sentient creatures suffering the evils of existence. To him goes the millionfold repeated prayer of the prayer wheels and temple gongs of Tibet: Om mani padme hum, "The jewel is in the lotus." To him go perhaps more prayers per minute than to any single divinity known to man; for when, during his final life on earth as a human being, he shattered for himself the bounds of the last threshold (which moment opened to him the timelessness of the void beyond the frustrating mirage-enigmas of the named and bounded cosmos), he paused: he made a vow that before entering the void he would bring all creatures without exception to enlightenment; and since then he has permeated the whole texture of existence with the divine grace of his assisting presence, so that the least prayer addressed to him, throughout the vast spiritual empire of the Buddha, is graciously heard. Under differing forms he traverses the ten thousand worlds, and appears in the hour of need and prayer. He reveals himself in human form with two arms, in superhuman forms with four arms, or with six, or twelve, or a thousand, and he holds in one of his left hands the lotus of the world.
Like the Buddha himself, this godlike being is a pattern of the divine state to which the human hero attains who has gone beyond the last terrors of ignorance. "When the envelopment of consciousness has been annihilated, then he becomes free of all fear, beyond the reach of change." This is the release potential within us all, and which anyone can attain-through herohood; for, as we read: "All things are Buddha-things"; or again (and this is the other way of making the same statement) : "All beings are without self."
The world is filled and illumined by, but does not hold, the Bodhisattva ("he whose being is enlightenment"); rather, it is he who holds the world, the lotus. Pain and pleasure do not enclose him, he encloses them-and with profound repose. And since he is what all of us may be, his presence, his image, the mere naming of him, helps. "He wears a garland of eight thousand rays, in which is seen fully reflected a state of perfect beauty.
The color of his body is purple gold. His palms have the mixed color of five hundred lotuses, while each finger tip has eighty-four thousand signet-marks, and each mark eighty-four thousand colors; each color has eighty-four thousand rays which are soft and mild and shine over all things that exist. With these jewel hands he draws and embraces all beings. The halo surrounding his head is studded with five hundred Buddhas, miraculously transformed, each attended by five hundred Bodhisattvas, who are attended, in turn, by numberless gods. And when he puts his feet down to the ground, the flowers of diamonds and jewels that are scattered cover everything in all directions. The color of his face is gold. While in his towering crown of gems stands a Buddha, two hundred and fifty miles high." - Amitayur-Dhyana Sutra, 19; ibid., pp. 182-183. ~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Apotheosis,#KEYS
585:The supreme Truth aspect which thus manifests itself to us is an eternal and infinite and absolute self-existence, self-awareness, self-delight of being; this bounds all things and secretly supports and pervades all things. This Self-existence reveals itself again in three terms of its essential nature,-self, conscious being or spirit, and God or the Divine Being. The Indian terms are more satisfactory,-Brahman the Reality is Atman, Purusha, Ishwara; for these terms grew from a root of Intuition and, while they have a comprehensive preciseness, are capable of a plastic application which avoids both vagueness in the use and the rigid snare of a too limiting intellectual concept. The Supreme Brahman is that which in Western metaphysics is called the Absolute: but Brahman is at the same time the omnipresent Reality in which all that is relative exists as its forms or its movements; this is an Absolute which takes all relativities in its embrace. [...] Brahman is the Consciousness that knows itself in all that exists; Brahman is the force that sustains the power of God and Titan and Demon, the Force that acts in man and animal and the forms and energies of Nature; Brahman is the Ananda, the secret Bliss of existence which is the ether of our being and without which none could breathe or live. Brahman is the inner Soul in all; it has taken a form in correspondence with each created form which it inhabits. The Lord of Beings is that which is conscious in the conscious being, but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the Timeless and Time; He is Space and all that is in Space; He is Causality and the cause and the effect: He is the thinker and his thought, the warrior and his courage, the gambler and his dice-throw. All realities and all aspects and all semblances are the Brahman; Brahman is the Absolute, the Transcendent and incommunicable, the Supracosmic Existence that sustains the cosmos, the Cosmic Self that upholds all beings, but It is too the self of each individual: the soul or psychic entity is an eternal portion of the Ishwara; it is his supreme Nature or Consciousness-Force that has become the living being in a world of living beings. The Brahman alone is, and because of It all are, for all are the Brahman; this Reality is the reality of everything that we see in Self and Nature. Brahman, the Ishwara, is all this by his Yoga-Maya, by the power of his Consciousness-Force put out in self-manifestation: he is the Conscious Being, Soul, Spirit, Purusha, and it is by his Nature, the force of his conscious self-existence that he is all things; he is the Ishwara, the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler, and it is by his Shakti, his conscious Power, that he manifests himself in Time and governs the universe. These and similar statements taken together are all-comprehensive: it is possible for the mind to cut and select, to build a closed system and explain away all that does not fit within it; but it is on the complete and many-sided statement that we must take our stand if we have to acquire an integral knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Book 02: The Knowledge and the Ignorance - The Spiritual Evolution, Part I, The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti [336-337],#KEYS
586:If this is the truth of works, the first thing the sadhaka has to do is to recoil from the egoistic forms of activity and get rid of the sense of an "I" that acts. He has to see and feel that everything happens in him by the plastic conscious or subconscious or sometimes superconscious automatism of his mental and bodily instruments moved by the forces of spiritual, mental, vital and physical Nature. There is a personality on his surface that chooses and wills, submits and struggles, tries to make good in Nature or prevail over Nature, but this personality is itself a construction of Nature and so dominated, driven, determined by her that it cannot be free. It is a formation or expression of the Self in her, - it is a self of Nature rather than a self of Self, his natural and processive, not his spiritual and permanent being, a temporary constructed personality, not the true immortal Person. It is that Person that he must become. He must succeed in being inwardly quiescent, detach himself as the observer from the outer active personality and learn the play of the cosmic forces in him by standing back from all blinding absorption in its turns and movements. Thus calm, detached, a student of himself and a witness of his nature, he realises that he is the individual soul who observes the works of Nature, accepts tranquilly her results and sanctions or withholds his sanction from the impulse to her acts. At present this soul or Purusha is little more than an acquiescent spectator, influencing perhaps the action and development of the being by the pressure of its veiled consciousness, but for the most part delegating its powers or a fragment of them to the outer personality, - in fact to Nature, for this outer self is not lord but subject to her, anı̄sa; but, once unveiled, it can make its sanction or refusal effective, become the master of the action, dictate sovereignly a change of Nature. Even if for a long time, as the result of fixed association and past storage of energy, the habitual movement takes place independent of the Purusha's assent and even if the sanctioned movement is persistently refused by Nature for want of past habit, still he will discover that in the end his assent or refusal prevails, - slowly with much resistance or quickly with a rapid accommodation of her means and tendencies she modifies herself and her workings in the direction indicated by his inner sight or volition. Thus he learns in place of mental control or egoistic will an inner spiritual control which makes him master of the Nature-forces that work in him and not their unconscious instrument or mechanic slave. Above and around him is the Shakti, the universal Mother and from her he can get all his inmost soul needs and wills if only he has a true knowledge of her ways and a true surrender to the divine Will in her. Finally, he becomes aware of that highest dynamic Self within him and within Nature which is the source of all his seeing and knowing, the source of the sanction, the source of the acceptance, the source of the rejection. This is the Lord, the Supreme, the One-in-all, Ishwara-Shakti, of whom his soul is a portion, a being of that Being and a power of that Power. The rest of our progress depends on our knowledge of the ways in which the Lord of works manifests his Will in the world and in us and executes them through the transcendent and universal Shakti. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 216, #KEYS
587:The true Mantra must come from within OR it must be given by a Guru
Nobody can give you the true mantra. It's not something that is given; it's something that wells up from within. It must spring from within all of a sudden, spontaneously, like a profound, intense need of your being - then it has power, because it's not something that comes from outside, it's your very own cry.
I saw, in my case, that my mantra has the power of immortality; whatever happens, if it is uttered, it's the Supreme that has the upper hand, it's no longer the lower law. And the words are irrelevant, they may not have any meaning - to someone else, my mantra is meaningless, but to me it's full, packed with meaning. And effective, because it's my cry, the intense aspiration of my whole being.
A mantra given by a guru is only the power to realize the experience of the discoverer of the mantra. The power is automatically there, because the sound contains the experience. I saw that once in Paris, at a time when I knew nothing of India, absolutely nothing, only the usual nonsense. I didn't even know what a mantra was. I had gone to a lecture given by some fellow who was supposed to have practiced "yoga" for a year in the Himalayas and recounted his experience (none too interesting, either). All at once, in the course of his lecture, he uttered the sound OM. And I saw the entire room suddenly fill with light, a golden, vibrating light.... I was probably the only one to notice it. I said to myself, "Well!" Then I didn't give it any more thought, I forgot about the story. But as it happened, the experience recurred in two or three different countries, with different people, and every time there was the sound OM, I would suddenly see the place fill with that same light. So I understood. That sound contains the vibration of thousands and thousands of years of spiritual aspiration - there is in it the entire aspiration of men towards the Supreme. And the power is automatically there, because the experience is there.
It's the same with my mantra. When I wanted to translate the end of my mantra, "Glory to You, O Lord," into Sanskrit, I asked for Nolini's help. He brought his Sanskrit translation, and when he read it to me, I immediately saw that the power was there - not because Nolini put his power into it (!), God knows he had no intention of "giving" me a mantra! But the power was there because my experience was there. We made a few adjustments and modifications, and that's the japa I do now - I do it all the time, while sleeping, while walking, while eating, while working, all the time.[[Mother later clarified: "'Glory to You, O Lord' isn't MY mantra, it's something I ADDED to it - my mantra is something else altogether, that's not it. When I say that my mantra has the power of immortality, I mean the other, the one I don't speak of! I have never given the words.... You see, at the end of my walk, a kind of enthusiasm rises, and with that enthusiasm, the 'Glory to You' came to me, but it's part of the prayer I had written in Prayers and Meditations: 'Glory to You, O Lord, all-triumphant Supreme' etc. (it's a long prayer). It came back suddenly, and as it came back spontaneously, I kept it. Moreover, when Sri Aurobindo read this prayer in Prayers and Meditations, he told me it was very strong. So I added this phrase as a kind of tail to my japa. But 'Glory to You, O Lord' isn't my spontaneous mantra - it came spontaneously, but it was something written very long ago. The two things are different."
And that's how a mantra has life: when it wells up all the time, spontaneously, like the cry of your being - there is no need of effort or concentration: it's your natural cry. Then it has full power, it is alive. It must well up from within.... No guru can give you that. ~ The Mother, Agenda, May 11 1963,#KEYS
588:The supreme Form is then made visible. It is that of the infinite Godhead whose faces are everywhere and in whom are all the wonders of existence, who multiplies unendingly all the many marvellous revelations of his being, a world-wide Divinity seeing with innumerable eyes, speaking from innumerable mouths, armed for battle with numberless divine uplifted weapons, glorious with divine ornaments of beauty, robed in heavenly raiment of deity, lovely with garlands of divine flowers, fragrant with divine perfumes. Such is the light of this body of God as if a thousand suns had risen at once in heaven. The whole world multitudinously divided and yet unified is visible in the body of the God of Gods. Arjuna sees him, God magnificent and beautiful and terrible, the Lord of souls who has manifested in the glory and greatness of his spirit this wild and monstrous and orderly and wonderful and sweet and terrible world, and overcome with marvel and joy and fear he bows down and adores with words of awe and with clasped hands the tremendous vision. "I see" he cries "all the gods in thy body, O God, and different companies of beings, Brahma the creating lord seated in the Lotus, and the Rishis and the race of the divine Serpents. I see numberless arms and bellies and eyes and faces, I see thy infinite forms on every side, but I see not thy end nor thy middle nor thy beginning, O Lord of the universe, O Form universal. I see thee crowned and with thy mace and thy discus, hard to discern because thou art a luminous mass of energy on all sides of me, an encompassing blaze, a sun-bright fire-bright Immeasurable. Thou art the supreme Immutable whom we have to know, thou art the high foundation and abode of the universe, thou art the imperishable guardian of the eternal laws, thou art the sempiternal soul of existence."
But in the greatness of this vision there is too the terrific image of the Destroyer. This Immeasurable without end or middle or beginning is he in whom all things begin and exist and end.
This Godhead who embraces the worlds with his numberless arms and destroys with his million hands, whose eyes are suns and moons, has a face of blazing fire and is ever burning up the whole universe with the flame of his energy. The form of him is fierce and marvellous and alone it fills all the regions and occupies the whole space between earth and heaven. The companies of the gods enter it, afraid, adoring; the Rishis and the Siddhas crying "May there be peace and weal" praise it with many praises; the eyes of Gods and Titans and Giants are fixed on it in amazement. It has enormous burning eyes; it has mouths that gape to devour, terrible with many tusks of destruction; it has faces like the fires of Death and Time. The kings and the captains and the heroes on both sides of the world-battle are hastening into its tusked and terrible jaws and some are seen with crushed and bleeding heads caught between its teeth of power; the nations are rushing to destruction with helpless speed into its mouths of flame like many rivers hurrying in their course towards the ocean or like moths that cast themselves on a kindled fire. With those burning mouths the Form of Dread is licking all the regions around; the whole world is full of his burning energies and baked in the fierceness of his lustres. The world and its nations are shaken and in anguish with the terror of destruction and Arjuna shares in the trouble and panic around him; troubled and in pain is the soul within him and he finds no peace or gladness. He cries to the dreadful Godhead, "Declare to me who thou art that wearest this form of fierceness. Salutation to thee, O thou great Godhead, turn thy heart to grace. I would know who thou art who wast from the beginning, for I know not the will of thy workings." ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays On The Gita, 2.10_-_The_Vision_of_the_World-Spirit_-_Time_the_Destroyer,#KEYS
589:Allow the Lord to Do Everything :::
Now, when I start looking like this (Mother closes her eyes), two things are there at the same time: this smile, this joy, this laughter are there, and such peace! Such full, luminous, total peace, in which there are no more conflicts, no more contradictions. There are no more conflicts. It is one single luminous harmony - and yet everything we call error, suffering, misery, everything is there. It eliminates nothing. It is another way of seeing.
(long silence)
There can be no doubt that if you sincerely want to get out of it, it is not so difficult after all: you have nothing to do, you only have to allow the Lord to do everything. And He does everything. He does everything. It is so wonderful, so wonderful!
He takes anything, even what we call a very ordinary intelligence and he simply teaches you to put this intelligence aside, to rest: "There, be quiet, don't stir, don't bother me, I don't need you." Then a door opens - you don't even feel that you have to open it; it is wide open, you are tkane over to the other side. All that is done by Someone else, not you. And then the other way becomes impossible.
All this... oh, this tremendous labour of hte mind striving to understand, toiling and giving itself headaches!... It is absolutely useless, absolutely useless, no use at all, it merely increases the confusion.
You are faced with a so-called problem: what should you say, what should you do, how should you act? There is nothing to do, nothing, you only have to say to the Lord, "There, You see, it is like that" - that's all. And then you stay very quiet. And then quite spontaneously, without thinking about it, without reflection, without calculation, nothing, nothing, without the slightest effect - you do what has to be done. That is to say, the Lord does it, it is no longer you. He does it. He arranges the circumstances, He arranges the people, He puts the words into your mouth or your pen - He does everything, everything, everything, everything; you have nothing more to do but allow yourself to live blissfully.
I am more and more convinced that people do not really want it.
But clearing the ground is difficult, the work of clearing the ground before hand.
But you don't even need to do it! He does it for you.
But they are constantly breaking in: the old consciousness, the old thoughts....
Yes, they try to come in again, by habit. You only have to say, "Lord, You see, You see, You see, it is like that" - that's all. "Lord, You see, You see this, You see that, You see this fool" - and it is all over immediately. And it changes automatically, my child, without the slightest effort. Simply to be sincere, that is to say, to truly want everything to be right. You are perfectly conscious that you can do nothing about it, that you have no capacity.... But there is always something that wants to do it by itself; that's the trouble, otherwise...
No, you may be full of an excellent goodwill and then you want to do it. That's what complicated everything. Or else you don't have faith, you believe that the Lord will not be able to do it and that you must do it yourself, because He does not know! (Mother laughs.) This, this kind of stupidity is very common. "How can He see things? We live in a world of Falsehood, how can He see Falsehood and see..." But He sees the thing as it is! Exactly!
I am not speaking of people of no intelligence, I am speaking of people who are intelligent and try - there is a kind of conviction, like that, somewhere, even in people who know that we live in a world of Ignorance and Falsehood and that there is a Lord who is All-Truth. They say, "Precisely because He is All-Truth, He does not understand. (Mother laughs.) He does not understand our falsehood, I must deal with it myself." That is very strong, very common.
Ah! we make complications for nothing. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
590:This, in short, is the demand made on us, that we should turn our whole life into a conscious sacrifice. Every moment and every movement of our being is to be resolved into a continuous and a devoted self-giving to the Eternal. All our actions, not less the smallest and most ordinary and trifling than the greatest and most uncommon and noble, must be performed as consecrated acts. Our individualised nature must live in the single consciousness of an inner and outer movement dedicated to Something that is beyond us and greater than our ego. No matter what the gift or to whom it is presented by us, there must be a consciousness in the act that we are presenting it to the one divine Being in all beings. Our commonest or most grossly material actions must assume this sublimated character; when we eat, we should be conscious that we are giving our food to that Presence in us; it must be a sacred offering in a temple and the sense of a mere physical need or self-gratification must pass away from us. In any great labour, in any high discipline, in any difficult or noble enterprise, whether undertaken for ourselves, for others or for the race, it will no longer be possible to stop short at the idea of the race, of ourselves or of others. The thing we are doing must be consciously offered as a sacrifice of works, not to these, but either through them or directly to the One Godhead; the Divine Inhabitant who was hidden by these figures must be no longer hidden but ever present to our soul, our mind, our sense. The workings and results of our acts must be put in the hands of that One in the feeling that that Presence is the Infinite and Most High by whom alone our labour and our aspiration are possible. For in his being all takes place; for him all labour and aspiration are taken from us by Nature and offered on his altar. Even in those things in which Nature is herself very plainly the worker and we only the witnesses of her working and its containers and supporters, there should be the same constant memory and insistent consciousness of a work and of its divine Master. Our very inspiration and respiration, our very heart-beats can and must be made conscious in us as the living rhythm of the universal sacrifice.
It is clear that a conception of this kind and its effective practice must carry in them three results that are of a central importance for our spiritual ideal. It is evident, to begin with, that, even if such a discipline is begun without devotion, it leads straight and inevitably towards the highest devotion possible; for it must deepen naturally into the completest adoration imaginable, the most profound God-love. There is bound up with it a growing sense of the Divine in all things, a deepening communion with the Divine in all our thought, will and action and at every moment of our lives, a more and more moved consecration to the Divine of the totality of our being. Now these implications of the Yoga of works are also of the very essence of an integral and absolute Bhakti. The seeker who puts them into living practice makes in himself continually a constant, active and effective representation of the very spirit of self-devotion, and it is inevitable that out of it there should emerge the most engrossing worship of the Highest to whom is given this service. An absorbing love for the Divine Presence to whom he feels an always more intimate closeness, grows upon the consecrated worker. And with it is born or in it is contained a universal love too for all these beings, living forms and creatures that are habitations of the Divine - not the brief restless grasping emotions of division, but the settled selfless love that is the deeper vibration of oneness. In all the seeker begins to meet the one Object of his adoration and service. The way of works turns by this road of sacrifice to meet the path of Devotion; it can be itself a devotion as complete, as absorbing, as integral as any the desire of the heart can ask for or the passion of the mind can imagine.
Next, the practice of this Yoga demands a constant inward remembrance of the one central liberating knowledge, and a constant active externalising of it in works comes in too to intensify the remembrance. In all is the one Self, the one Divine is all; all are in the Divine, all are the Divine and there is nothing else in the universe, - this thought or this faith is the whole background until it becomes the whole substance of the consciousness of the worker. A memory, a self-dynamising meditation of this kind, must and does in its end turn into a profound and uninterrupted vision and a vivid and all-embracing consciousness of that which we so powerfully remember or on which we so constantly meditate. For it compels a constant reference at each moment to the Origin of all being and will and action and there is at once an embracing and exceeding of all particular forms and appearances in That which is their cause and upholder. This way cannot go to its end without a seeing vivid and vital, as concrete in its way as physical sight, of the works of the universal Spirit everywhere. On its summits it rises into a constant living and thinking and willing and acting in the presence of the Supramental, the Transcendent. Whatever we see and hear, whatever we touch and sense, all of which we are conscious, has to be known and felt by us as That which we worship and serve; all has to be turned into an image of the Divinity, perceived as a dwelling-place of his Godhead, enveloped with the eternal Omnipresence. In its close, if not long before it, this way of works turns by communion with the Divine Presence, Will and Force into a way of Knowledge more complete and integral than any the mere creature intelligence can construct or the search of the intellect can discover.
Lastly, the practice of this Yoga of sacrifice compels us to renounce all the inner supports of egoism, casting them out of our mind and will and actions, and to eliminate its seed, its presence, its influence out of our nature. All must be done for the Divine; all must be directed towards the Divine. Nothing must be attempted for ourselves as a separate existence; nothing done for others, whether neighbours, friends, family, country or mankind or other creatures merely because they are connected with our personal life and thought and sentiment or because the ego takes a preferential interest in their welfare. In this way of doing and seeing all works and all life become only a daily dynamic worship and service of the Divine in the unbounded temple of his own vast cosmic existence. Life becomes more and more the sacrifice of the eternal in the individual constantly self-offered to the eternal Transcendence. It is offered in the wide sacrificial ground of the field of the eternal cosmic Spirit; and the Force too that offers it is the eternal Force, the omnipresent Mother. Therefore is this way a way of union and communion by acts and by the spirit and knowledge in the act as complete and integral as any our Godward will can hope for or our soul's strength execute.
It has all the power of a way of works integral and absolute, but because of its law of sacrifice and self-giving to the Divine Self and Master, it is accompanied on its one side by the whole power of the path of Love and on the other by the whole power of the path of Knowledge. At its end all these three divine Powers work together, fused, united, completed, perfected by each other.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [111-114],#KEYS
591:It does not matter if you do not understand it - Savitri, read it always. You will see that every time you read it, something new will be revealed to you. Each time you will get a new glimpse, each time a new experience; things which were not there, things you did not understand arise and suddenly become clear. Always an unexpected vision comes up through the words and lines. Every time you try to read and understand, you will see that something is added, something which was hidden behind is revealed clearly and vividly. I tell you the very verses you have read once before, will appear to you in a different light each time you re-read them. This is what happens invariably. Always your experience is enriched, it is a revelation at each step.
But you must not read it as you read other books or newspapers. You must read with an empty head, a blank and vacant mind, without there being any other thought; you must concentrate much, remain empty, calm and open; then the words, rhythms, vibrations will penetrate directly to this white page, will put their stamp upon the brain, will explain themselves without your making any effort.
Savitri alone is sufficient to make you climb to the highest peaks. If truly one knows how to meditate on Savitri, one will receive all the help one needs. For him who wishes to follow this path, it is a concrete help as though the Lord himself were taking you by the hand and leading you to the destined goal. And then, every question, however personal it may be, has its answer here, every difficulty finds its solution herein; indeed there is everything that is necessary for doing the Yoga.
*He has crammed the whole universe in a single book.* It is a marvellous work, magnificent and of an incomparable perfection.
You know, before writing Savitri Sri Aurobindo said to me, *I am impelled to launch on a new adventure; I was hesitant in the beginning, but now I am decided. Still, I do not know how far I shall succeed. I pray for help.* And you know what it was? It was - before beginning, I warn you in advance - it was His way of speaking, so full of divine humility and modesty. He never... *asserted Himself*. And the day He actually began it, He told me: *I have launched myself in a rudderless boat upon the vastness of the Infinite.* And once having started, He wrote page after page without intermission, as though it were a thing already complete up there and He had only to transcribe it in ink down here on these pages.
In truth, the entire form of Savitri has descended "en masse" from the highest region and Sri Aurobindo with His genius only arranged the lines - in a superb and magnificent style. Sometimes entire lines were revealed and He has left them intact; He worked hard, untiringly, so that the inspiration could come from the highest possible summit. And what a work He has created! Yes, it is a true creation in itself. It is an unequalled work. Everything is there, and it is put in such a simple, such a clear form; verses perfectly harmonious, limpid and eternally true. My child, I have read so many things, but I have never come across anything which could be compared with Savitri. I have studied the best works in Greek, Latin, English and of course French literature, also in German and all the great creations of the West and the East, including the great epics; but I repeat it, I have not found anywhere anything comparable with Savitri. All these literary works seems to me empty, flat, hollow, without any deep reality - apart from a few rare exceptions, and these too represent only a small fraction of what Savitri is. What grandeur, what amplitude, what reality: it is something immortal and eternal He has created. I tell you once again there is nothing like in it the whole world. Even if one puts aside the vision of the reality, that is, the essential substance which is the heart of the inspiration, and considers only the lines in themselves, one will find them unique, of the highest classical kind. What He has created is something man cannot imagine. For, everything is there, everything.
It may then be said that Savitri is a revelation, it is a meditation, it is a quest of the Infinite, the Eternal. If it is read with this aspiration for Immortality, the reading itself will serve as a guide to Immortality. To read Savitri is indeed to practice Yoga, spiritual concentration; one can find there all that is needed to realise the Divine. Each step of Yoga is noted here, including the secret of all other Yogas. Surely, if one sincerely follows what is revealed here in each line one will reach finally the transformation of the Supramental Yoga. It is truly the infallible guide who never abandons you; its support is always there for him who wants to follow the path. Each verse of Savitri is like a revealed Mantra which surpasses all that man possessed by way of knowledge, and I repeat this, the words are expressed and arranged in such a way that the sonority of the rhythm leads you to the origin of sound, which is OM.
My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there. You can find all the answers to all your questions there. Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophesies, all that is going to come is presented with the precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness, to solve the problem of what the universe is. He has also indicated how to open the door of the Inconscience so that the light may penetrate there and transform it. He has shown the path, the way to liberate oneself from the ignorance and climb up to the superconscience; each stage, each plane of consciousness, how they can be scaled, how one can cross even the barrier of death and attain immortality. You will find the whole journey in detail, and as you go forward you can discover things altogether unknown to man. That is Savitri and much more yet. It is a real experience - reading Savitri. All the secrets that man possessed, He has revealed, - as well as all that awaits him in the future; all this is found in the depth of Savitri. But one must have the knowledge to discover it all, the experience of the planes of consciousness, the experience of the Supermind, even the experience of the conquest of Death. He has noted all the stages, marked each step in order to advance integrally in the integral Yoga.
All this is His own experience, and what is most surprising is that it is my own experience also. It is my sadhana which He has worked out. Each object, each event, each realisation, all the descriptions, even the colours are exactly what I saw and the words, phrases are also exactly what I heard. And all this before having read the book. I read Savitri many times afterwards, but earlier, when He was writing He used to read it to me. Every morning I used to hear Him read Savitri. During the night He would write and in the morning read it to me. And I observed something curious, that day after day the experiences He read out to me in the morning were those I had had the previous night, word by word. Yes, all the descriptions, the colours, the pictures I had seen, the words I had heard, all, all, I heard it all, put by Him into poetry, into miraculous poetry. Yes, they were exactly my experiences of the previous night which He read out to me the following morning. And it was not just one day by chance, but for days and days together. And every time I used to compare what He said with my previous experiences and they were always the same. I repeat, it was not that I had told Him my experiences and that He had noted them down afterwards, no, He knew already what I had seen. It is my experiences He has presented at length and they were His experiences also. It is, moreover, the picture of Our joint adventure into the unknown or rather into the Supermind.
These are experiences lived by Him, realities, supracosmic truths. He experienced all these as one experiences joy or sorrow, physically. He walked in the darkness of inconscience, even in the neighborhood of death, endured the sufferings of perdition, and emerged from the mud, the world-misery to breathe the sovereign plenitude and enter the supreme Ananda. He crossed all these realms, went through the consequences, suffered and endured physically what one cannot imagine. Nobody till today has suffered like Him. He accepted suffering to transform suffering into the joy of union with the Supreme. It is something unique and incomparable in the history of the world. It is something that has never happened before, He is the first to have traced the path in the Unknown, so that we may be able to walk with certitude towards the Supermind. He has made the work easy for us. Savitri is His whole Yoga of transformation, and this Yoga appears now for the first time in the earth-consciousness.
And I think that man is not yet ready to receive it. It is too high and too vast for him. He cannot understand it, grasp it, for it is not by the mind that one can understand Savitri. One needs spiritual experiences in order to understand and assimilate it. The farther one advances on the path of Yoga, the more does one assimilate and the better. No, it is something which will be appreciated only in the future, it is the poetry of tomorrow of which He has spoken in The Future Poetry. It is too subtle, too refined, - it is not in the mind or through the mind, it is in meditation that Savitri is revealed.
And men have the audacity to compare it with the work of Virgil or Homer and to find it inferior. They do not understand, they cannot understand. What do they know? Nothing at all. And it is useless to try to make them understand. Men will know what it is, but in a distant future. It is only the new race with a new consciousness which will be able to understand. I assure you there is nothing under the blue sky to compare with Savitri. It is the mystery of mysteries. It is a *super-epic,* it is super-literature, super-poetry, super-vision, it is a super-work even if one considers the number of lines He has written. No, these human words are not adequate to describe Savitri. Yes, one needs superlatives, hyperboles to describe it. It is a hyper-epic. No, words express nothing of what Savitri is, at least I do not find them. It is of immense value - spiritual value and all other values; it is eternal in its subject, and infinite in its appeal, miraculous in its mode and power of execution; it is a unique thing, the more you come into contact with it, the higher will you be uplifted. Ah, truly it is something! It is the most beautiful thing He has left for man, the highest possible. What is it? When will man know it? When is he going to lead a life of truth? When is he going to accept this in his life? This yet remains to be seen.
My child, every day you are going to read Savitri; read properly, with the right attitude, concentrating a little before opening the pages and trying to keep the mind as empty as possible, absolutely without a thought. The direct road is through the heart. I tell you, if you try to really concentrate with this aspiration you can light the flame, the psychic flame, the flame of purification in a very short time, perhaps in a few days. What you cannot do normally, you can do with the help of Savitri. Try and you will see how very different it is, how new, if you read with this attitude, with this something at the back of your consciousness; as though it were an offering to Sri Aurobindo. You know it is charged, fully charged with consciousness; as if Savitri were a being, a real guide. I tell you, whoever, wanting to practice Yoga, tries sincerely and feels the necessity for it, will be able to climb with the help of Savitri to the highest rung of the ladder of Yoga, will be able to find the secret that Savitri represents. And this without the help of a Guru. And he will be able to practice it anywhere. For him Savitri alone will be the guide, for all that he needs he will find Savitri. If he remains very quiet when before a difficulty, or when he does not know where to turn to go forward and how to overcome obstacles, for all these hesitations and incertitudes which overwhelm us at every moment, he will have the necessary indications, and the necessary concrete help. If he remains very calm, open, if he aspires sincerely, always he will be as if lead by the hand. If he has faith, the will to give himself and essential sincerity he will reach the final goal.
Indeed, Savitri is something concrete, living, it is all replete, packed with consciousness, it is the supreme knowledge above all human philosophies and religions. It is the spiritual path, it is Yoga, Tapasya, Sadhana, in its single body. Savitri has an extraordinary power, it gives out vibrations for him who can receive them, the true vibrations of each stage of consciousness. It is incomparable, it is truth in its plenitude, the Truth Sri Aurobindo brought down on the earth. My child, one must try to find the secret that Savitri represents, the prophetic message Sri Aurobindo reveals there for us. This is the work before you, it is hard but it is worth the trouble. - 5 November 1967
~ The Mother, Sweet Mother, The Mother to Mona Sarkar, [T0],#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:The poetry of speech. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 2:Let joy be unconfined. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 3:Critics are already made. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 4:That low vice, curiosity! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 5:Happiness was born a twin. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 6:I learned to love despair. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 7:My native land, good night! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 8:Pride - Lord of human kind ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 9:Fame is the thirst of youth. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 10:Life is too short for chess. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 11:Lord help my poor soul. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 12:Think not I am what I appear. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 13:Hail Lord, ... Loose my chains. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 14:We of the craft are all crazy. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 15:History - the devil's scripture ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 16:Lord, let me live until I die. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 17:To have joy, one must share it. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 18:Eternity forbids thee to forget. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 19:Lord, keep my memory green. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 20:Love is the only gold. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 21:Self praise is no praise at all. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 22:The busy have no time for tears. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 23:The devil was the first democrat ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 24:The dew of compassion is a tear. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 25:Come what may, I have been blest. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 26:Fills The air around with beauty. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 27:I am ashes where once I was fire. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 28:A pretty woman is a welcome guest. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 29:Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 30:Frienship is eros... without wings ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 31:I see before me the gladiator lie. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 32:Land of lost gods and godlike men. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 33:Rough Johnson, the great moralist. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 34:Absence - that common cure of love. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 35:Fill high the cup with Samian wine! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 36:Hatred is the madness of the heart. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 37:May the Lord bless you real good. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 38:Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 39:Poetry should only occupy the idle. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 40:Prolonged endurance tames the bold. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 41:Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 42:But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 43:I am not now That which I have been. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 44:I loved my country, and I hated him. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 45:Adversity is the first path to truth. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 46:Friendship is Love without his wings! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 47:I deny nothing, but doubt everything. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 48:In solitude, when we are least alone. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 49:Lord, protect me from what I want! ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove 50:Pure friendship's well-feigned blush. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 51:Sweet is revenge-especially to women. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 52:Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 53:Tyranny is for the worst of treasons. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 54:Faith lives in honest doubt. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 55:God and Nature met in light. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 56:Good but rarely came from good advice. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 57:I awoke one day to find myself famous. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 58:In solitude, where we are least alone. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 59:Lord of himself; that heritage of woe! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 60:Man's conscience is the oracle of God. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 61:Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 62:One hates an author that's all author. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 63:Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 64:This is the age of oddities let loose. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 65:Who then will explain the explanation? ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 66:A drop of ink may make a million think. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 67:And hold up to the sun my little taper. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 68:A quiet conscience makes one so serene. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 69:Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 70:Jealousy dislikes the world to know it. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 71:The French courage proceeds from vanity ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 72:The Niobe of nations! there she stands. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 73:Alas! how deeply painful is all payment! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 74:But stories somehow lengthen when begun. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 75:Despair and Genius are too oft connected ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 76:Heaven gives its favourites-early death. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 77:Love will conquer at the last. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 78:Nature, red in tooth and claw. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 79:There is pleasure in the pathless woods. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 80:The very best of vineyards is the cellar ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 81:Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 82:Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is! ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 83:I love not man the less, but Nature more. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 84:March on, the Lord is our General. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 85:Old man! & 86:The heart will break, but broken live on. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 87:The year is dying in the night. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 88:They never fail who die in a great cause. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 89:Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 90:A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 91:A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 92:Damn description, it is always disgusting. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 93:Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 94:Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 95:He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 96:Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 97:Life is brief but love is long . ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 98:My altars are the mountains and the ocean. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 99:Smiles form the channels of a future tear. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 100:So much alarmed that she is quite alarming ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 101:Armenian is the language to speak with God. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 102:Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 103:My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 104:Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 105:The best prophet of the future is the past. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 106:Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 107:Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave? ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 108:Ah, why Should life all labour be? ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 109:Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 110:Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord! ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 111:Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 112:I awoke one morning and found myself famous. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 113:If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 114:I had a dream, which was not at all a dream. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 115:Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers! ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 116:Science grows and Beauty dwindles. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 117:The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 118:The mighty hopes that make us men. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 119:The quiet sense of something lost. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 120:There is no instinct like that of the heart. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 121:This is to be along; this, this is solitude! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 122:To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 123:What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 124:What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 125:By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 126:Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord! ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 127:earth, what changes hast thou seen! ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 128:I am a part of all that I have met. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 129:I have not loved the world, nor the world me. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 130:Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord. ~ geoffrey-chaucer, @wisdomtrove 131:Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 132:Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 133:The law of heaven and earth is life for life. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 134:For love reflects the thing beloved. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 135:Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty ! ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 136:Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 137:Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within. ~ kabir, @wisdomtrove 138:Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 139:The noble lord is the Rupert of debate. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 140:There is music in all things, if men had ears. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 141:The wife should yield in all things to her lord ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 142:You should have a softer pillow than my heart. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 143:A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 144:I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 145:In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 146:Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 147:They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 148:Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 149:Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 150:I am lord of myself, accountable to none. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 151:Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 152:Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 153:Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 154:Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 155:It is when we think we lead that we are most led. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 156:Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 157:Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 158:Shall love be blamed for want of faith? ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 159:Tis not too late to seek a newer world. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 160:Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy? ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 161:And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 162:A smile abroad is often a scowl at home. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 163:Faith is believing what we cannot prove. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 164:He makes no friend who never made a foe. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 165:Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 166:For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 167:My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 168:Old age hath yet his honour and his toil. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 169:Sweet is true love, though given in vain. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 170:Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 171:And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 172:If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 173:Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 174:Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 175:The woods decay, the woods decay and fall. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 176:Who is wise in love, love most, say least. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 177:Eat, drink and love... the rest is not worth a nickel ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 178:I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 179:On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 180:So sad, so fresh the days that are no more. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 181:Things seen are mightier than things heard. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 182:For the night Shows stars and women in a better light. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 183:History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 184:Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 185:The old order changes yielding place to new. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 186:Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 187:& 188:And Doubt and Discord step & 189:Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 190:Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 191:The shell must break before the bird can fly. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 192:The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 193:I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 194:To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 195:We needs must love the highest when we see it. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 196:What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 197:Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 198:I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 199:Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 200:Lord, save all the elect, and then elect some more. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 201:Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 202:Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 203:The & 204:War, war is still the cry,-& 205:Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 206:Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 207:Men may come and men may go but I go on forever. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 208:No marriage is "too dead" for the Lord to restore. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 209:Of religion I know nothing - at least, in its favor. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 210:Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 211: Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 212:The Lord's people have always been a waiting people. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 213:We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 214:What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 215:And life & 216:Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 217:Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear! ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 218:The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 219:This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 220:A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 221:I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 222:Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 223:The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 224:I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 225:Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 226:Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at? ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 227:Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 228:Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 229:There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 230:A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 231:Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 232:Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 233:I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 234:There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 235:All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 236:And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 237:Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 238:Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 239:Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 240:And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 241:A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 242:A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 243:Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 244:If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 245:In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 246:Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 247:Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 248:yet cannot overcome — and so I live. Would I had never lived!" ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 249:Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 250:Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 251:Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 252:I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 253:Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 254:Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 255:The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 256:A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 257:A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 258:He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 259:I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 260:That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 261:Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 262:And if I laugh at any mortal thing, & 263:Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 264:In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 265:Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 266:No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 267:Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 268:Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 269:The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 270:There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 271:This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 272:Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 273:Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 274:Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart. ~ adi-shankara, @wisdomtrove 275:Fictional character: Yuri Orlov. "Lord of War", www.imdb.com. 2005. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 276:I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 277:Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 278:Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 279:No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 280:A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 281:Be sure to play "Blessed Lord" tonight - play it real pretty. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 282:Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 283:So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 284:So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 285:Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 286:Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 287:Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 288:If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 289:Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 290:Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 291:More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 292:Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 293:Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 294:Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee! ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 295:Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 296:Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 297:Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 298:Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 299:Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 300:It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 301:Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 302:May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 303:More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 304:So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 305:The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 306:The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 307:Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 308:God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 309:I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 310:I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 311:In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 312:Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 313:Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 314:The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 315:And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 316:He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 317:It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 318:Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 319:Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 320:Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill! ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 321:The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 322:This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 323:Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 324:A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 325:A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 326:Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them? ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 327:Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 328:He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 329:I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 330:May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 331:So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 332:The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 333:To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 334:Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 335:You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock? ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 336:All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 337:Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 338:Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 339:From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 340:If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 341:Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 342:Of all tales 'tis the saddest& 343:Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 344:There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 345:Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 346:I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 347:Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 348:The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 349:We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 350:Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 351:Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 352:How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee? ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 353:I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 354:I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 355:Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 356:This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 357:Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 358:When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls& 359:He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair) ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 360:He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 361:I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 362:Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 363:Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 364:Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 365:Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 366:Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 367:There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 368:Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 369:I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 370:No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 371:Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 372:The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 373:As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 374:A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 375:I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 376:Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 377:Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 378:Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 379:The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 380:The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 381:The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 382:Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 383:When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 384:Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part? ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 385:In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 386:The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 387:Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility? ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 388:& 389:He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly? ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 390:Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 391:Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 392:Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 393:The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 394:The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 395:The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 396:A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 397:Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 398:Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 399:That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 400:The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 401:I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse - borne away with every breath! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 402:I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 403:Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 404:Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 405:My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 406:Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 407:Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 408:The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 409:By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 410:Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 411:Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 412:Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 413:One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 414:Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by who escape death. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 415:Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 416:The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 417:There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 418:The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 419:And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 420:For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 421:The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 422:For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 423:Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 424:Glory, like the phoenix & 425:He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 426:Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 427:Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 428:No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 429:That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 430:The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 431:Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 432:Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 433:Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 434:If the Lord's bearing our sin for us is not the gospel, I have no gospel to preach. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 435:I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 436:I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 437:Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 438:All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 439:For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 440:Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 441:I THINK the moments we are nearest to heaven are those we spend at the Lord's table. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 442:It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 443:Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 444:Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 445:The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 446:Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 447:We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 448:Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 449:Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 450:I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 451:Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 452:We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 453:What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 454:Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair? ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 455:Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 456:He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 457:It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 458:Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 459:Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 460:Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 461:All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 462:But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 463:He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 464:I shall never understand, even in heaven, why the Lord Jesus should ever have loved me. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 465:They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 466:& 467:As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 468:Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 469:Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 470:For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 471:God is Good... Jesus is Lord Be Good to Yourself and each Other J-Jesus..O-Others..Y-Yourself ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 472:I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 473:Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 474:Such hath it been& 475:Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 476:When it is the Lord's work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 477:Angels from the Lord lead and protect us every moment and every moment of every moment. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 478:But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 479:I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 480:The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 481:What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great? ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 482:As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 483:Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 484:Known to the Lord from the beginning were all your sins. Nevertheless, He still loved you. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 485:Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 486:Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 487:There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 488:Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 489:[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 490:Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 491:Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 492:I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 493:I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 494:Lord, help me to remember that there are many ways to rejoice in any kind of day you make for us. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 495:All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 496:In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 497:It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 498:Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace& 499:The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious? ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 500:Walk by faith! Stop the plague of worry. Relax! Learn to say, "Lord, this is Your battle." ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:for the LORD p knows ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
2:Lord love a duck. ~ Carolyn Brown, #NFDB
3:Lord of the Muck. ~ Ottilie Weber, #NFDB
4:My beautiful, my own ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
5:O Lord my God, ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
6:The Lord Will Provide. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
7:The poetry of speech. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
8:vengeance was the Lord’s ~ E N Joy, #NFDB
9:Venice once was dear, ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
10:Hail, Muse! et cetera. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
11:Let joy be unconfined. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
12:Lord Mister Bubbles— ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
13:lord, send me amnesia. ~ John Green, #NFDB
14:The LORD will provide”; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
15:To measure is to know. ~ Lord Kelvin, #NFDB
16:Socialism means slavery. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
17:such is the Lord's Will. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
18:The LORD is in the right, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
19:You must worship the LORD ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
20:Be gracious to me, O LORD! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
21:Critics are already made. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
22:Red of the Dawn ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
23:That low vice, curiosity! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
24:The Lord saved my soul. ~ Steve Harvey, #NFDB
25:Happiness was born a twin. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
26:I learned to love despair. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
27:Lady, for indeed ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
28:LORD’s] laws are wonderful. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
29:Not my but Thy will, O Lord. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
30:Speak, LORD. I'm listening. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
31:Your wig steers the gig. ~ Lord Buckley, #NFDB
32:Absolute power demoralizes. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
33:Be the chief but never the lord. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
34:I am the LORD who heals you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
35:My native land, good night! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
36:Prepare ye the way of the Lord. ~ Isaiah, #NFDB
37:Pride - Lord of human kind ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
38:After-dinner talk ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
39:Fame is the thirst of youth. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
40:For Earth is but a tombstone ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
41:I wish the Lord would take me now ~ Livia, #NFDB
42:Life is too short for chess. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
43:Lord help my poor soul. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
44:Lord, I want to be up in my heart. ~ Moby, #NFDB
45:PSA27.14 Wait on the LORD: be ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
46:As if her veins ran lightning ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
47:El norte recuerda, lord Davos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
48:Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
49:Lord help my poor soul. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
50:Think not I am what I appear. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
51:Up to a point, Lord Copper. ~ Evelyn Waugh, #NFDB
52:whom the god loves dies young ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
53:Give Dayrolles a chair. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
54:I am on fire within. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
55:Lord, I have loved Your sky, ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
56:say, Praise the Lord, call upon ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
57:The mills of God grind slowly. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
58:use the Lord’s name in vain! ~ Jon Scieszka, #NFDB
59:We of the craft are all crazy. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
60:As . . . as you say, my lord. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
61:Every class is unfit to govern. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
62:Forgive as the Lord forgave you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
63:For I am the Lord, I achange not ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
64:History - the devil's scripture ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
65:Lord, but did he grow up nice. ~ Kelly Moran, #NFDB
66:Lord, give me Scotland or I die! ~ John Knox, #NFDB
67:Lord, it was expensive to die ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
68:Lord, I want to be your slave. ~ Bill Bright, #NFDB
69:Lord, let me live until I die. ~ Will Rogers, #NFDB
70:The Lord is Eternal in words of ~ The Mother, #NFDB
71:To have joy, one must share it. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
72:You dueled with the Dark Lord? ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
73:Eternity forbids thee to forget. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
74:Fourier is a mathematical poem. ~ Lord Kelvin, #NFDB
75:I am any man's suitor, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
76:If you've got it, wear it. ~ Lord Mountbatten, #NFDB
77:I want a hero: an uncommon want, ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
78:Jon passes from Darkness to Light. ~ Jon Lord, #NFDB
79:Lord, keep my memory green. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
80:Lord Voldemort had risen again. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
81:Love is the only gold. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
82:power the Dark Lord knows not – ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
83:Self praise is no praise at all. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
84:She has a lovely face; ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
85:The busy have no time for tears. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
86:The devil was the first democrat ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
87:The dew of compassion is a tear. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
88:The Lord won't confirm a lie. ~ Ernest Angley, #NFDB
89:Your will, not mine, O Lord. ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB
90:And the Lord added to their number ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
91:Come what may, I have been blest. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
92:Fills The air around with beauty. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
93:Friendship is love without wings. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
94:Frienship is eros...without wings ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
95:I am ashes where once I was fire. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
96:I knew this girl named Tropicana, ~ Lord Jamar, #NFDB
97:Lord Sutcliffe.” Another long ~ Julie McElwain, #NFDB
98:Lord Voldermort Has Risen Again. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
99:Lord! who hath praise enough? ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
100:Love and meekness, lord, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
101:Memento mori and obey the Lord. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
102:[My advice] will one day be found ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
103:No man to lord, no child to hold. ~ Tanith Lee, #NFDB
104:All things human change. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
105:A pretty woman is a welcome guest. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
106:Attain the unattainable. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
107:Every moment dies a man, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
108:Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
109:Holy mother of Lord Cocoa Puffs ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
110:I see before me the gladiator lie. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
111:Land of lost gods and godlike men. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
112:Life is not as idle ore, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
113:My Lord, the Order of the Phoenix ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
114:Power rests in tranquillity. ~ Lord David Cecil, #NFDB
115:Rough Johnson, the great moralist. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
116:Towns were the nursery of freedom. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
117:With flowing tail and flying mane, ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
118:Woman is the lesser man. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
119:Absence - that common cure of love. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
120:Fill high the cup with Samian wine! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
121:Hatred is the madness of the heart. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
122:I am ashes where once I was fire... ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
123:Let the Lord judge the criminals. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
124:Lord, I fashion dark gods, too, ~ Countee Cullen, #NFDB
125:Lord knows my nipples are hard. ~ Koushun Takami, #NFDB
126:Man's word is God in man. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
127:May the Lord bless you real good. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
128:My Lord, I have heard differently. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
129:Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
130:Official truth is not actual truth. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
131:Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
132:O my Lord! Increase me in knowledge. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
133:Poetry should only occupy the idle. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
134:Prolonged endurance tames the bold. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
135:Silence, beautiful voice. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
136:Thank the good Lord for a job. ~ Wynton Marsalis, #NFDB
137:They tell me, Lord, that when I seem ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
138:Was Juan a recherché welcome guest, ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
139:We love but while we may; ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
140:Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
141:1In you, LORD my God, I put my trust. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
142:Azhrarn, Lord of Terrors, terrified. ~ Tanith Lee, #NFDB
143:But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
144:but quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
145:Covenant, Sword and Arm of the Lord. ~ R J Parker, #NFDB
146:Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
147:Good Lord, I've got butterflies. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
148:Great men are almost always bad men. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
149:I loved my country, and I hated him. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
150:lord and lady, Caroline left to pack a ~ Jade Lee, #NFDB
151:Lord, what men don’t know is a lot. ~ Damon Suede, #NFDB
152:Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
153:That which we are, we are. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
154:The Eagle, he was lord above ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
155:the LORD my God lightens my darkness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
156:Where could I go but to the Lord? ~ Elvis Presley, #NFDB
157:You can't call a ninja lord dweeb. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
158:Adversity is the first path to truth. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
159:Any man that walks the mead ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
160:Contrast is the dramatist's method. ~ Lord Dunsany, #NFDB
161:Curran is the Beast Lord. Tremble. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
162:declare the decree: the Lord hath said ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
163:Earth is dry to the centre, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
164:Every man at time of Death, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
165:For Love will still be lord of all. ~ Walter Scott, #NFDB
166:Friendship is Love without his wings! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
167:I deny nothing, but doubt everything. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
168:If I have any fault, it is digression ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
169:In solitude, when we are least alone. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
170:In Thy fullness, my Lord, ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, #NFDB
171:Lord, bend me, or I shall rot. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
172:Lord of My Underpants,” Liam Quinn. ~ Leisa Rayven, #NFDB
173:Lord, protect me from what I want! ~ Pablo Picasso, #NFDB
174:Lyrical lecture, word architecture, ~ Lord Finesse, #NFDB
175:Pure friendship's well-feigned blush. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
176:Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: thy ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
177:Silent rushes the swift Lord ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
178:Socrates said, our only knowledge was ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
179:So young, my lord, and true. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
180:Sweet is revenge-especially to women. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
181:The Law of the Lord is a love story. ~ Russ Ramsey, #NFDB
182:The Lord makes his servants bold. ~ Henry B Eyring, #NFDB
183:Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
184:Tyranny is for the worst of treasons. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
185:Who scorns his own life is lord of yours. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
186:By the Lord of Hell’s hairy balls! ~ Katharine Kerr, #NFDB
187:Faith lives in honest doubt. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
188:Fear manifested invites danger. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
189:Flower in the crannied wall, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
190:God and Nature met in light. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
191:Good but rarely came from good advice. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
192:I awoke one day to find myself famous. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
193:In solitude, where we are least alone. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
194:I thank the Lord for the night time. ~ Neil Diamond, #NFDB
195:I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
196:Lord, for the erring thought ~ William Dean Howells, #NFDB
197:Lord help me to begin to begin. ~ George Whitefield, #NFDB
198:Lord of himself; that heritage of woe! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
199:Man's conscience is the oracle of God. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
200:My Lord! Increase me in knowledge! ~ Koran, 20:114, #NFDB
201:Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
202:One hates an author that's all author. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
203:Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
204:The Lord of Rags and Tatters. ~ Megan Whalen Turner, #NFDB
205:they have rejected the law of the LORD, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
206:This is the age of oddities let loose. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
207:We of the craft (poets) are all crazy. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
208:Who then will explain the explanation? ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
209:Why me, lord? Don't answer that! ~ Charles M Schulz, #NFDB
210:You can divide my life into two. ~ Lord Mountbatten, #NFDB
211:9. Lord Edgware Dies (1933) Poirot ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
212:A drop of ink may make a million think. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
213:An accident, my lord? His throat is slit, ~ Kel Kade, #NFDB
214:And hold up to the sun my little taper. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
215:And the Lord said you got to rise Up! ~ Stuart Scott, #NFDB
216:A quiet conscience makes one so serene. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
217:Behold, we know not anything; ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
218:By the welling of lord of Ka'ba, I have succeeded. ~, #NFDB
219:Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
220:Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
221:Even thugs cry, but do the Lord care? ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
222:•fear the LORD and turn away from evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
223:for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
224:Gospodi Pomily: Lord have mercy. ~ Edward Rutherfurd, #NFDB
225:Half a league, half a league, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
226:I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
227:In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge! ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
228:Jealousy dislikes the world to know it. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
229:Knowledge is not happiness, and science ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
230:Learn as much by writing as by reading. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
231:Lord, give me patience. And I want it now. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
232:Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
233:Lord save little children! They abide. ~ Davis Grubb, #NFDB
234:Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand ~ Robert Herrick, #NFDB
235:Nothing but the best for the Lord. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
236:Nothing is unobtainable to the sword. ~ Lord Dunsany, #NFDB
237:The French courage proceeds from vanity ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
238:The Niobe of nations! there she stands. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
239:Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. ~ Moses, #NFDB
240:With virtues equall'd by her wit alone, ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
241:Ah, when shall all men's good ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
242:Alas! how deeply painful is all payment! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
243:All night have the roses heard ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
244:But stories somehow lengthen when begun. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
245:Despair and Genius are too oft connected ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
246:Dispatch is the soul of business. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
247:Heaven gives its favourites-early death. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
248:He said he was Lord Vile. - Skulduggery ~ Derek Landy, #NFDB
249:I love not man the less, but nature more ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
250:is most vital that the Lord breaks us. ~ Watchman Nee, #NFDB
251:I will love thee to the death, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
252:Little Princess Little Lord ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, #NFDB
253:Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
254:Lord, make me a blessing to someone today ~ Jan Karon, #NFDB
255:Love will conquer at the last. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
256:My doom is, I love thee still. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
257:Nature, red in tooth and claw. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
258:Nothing is as certain as a closed mind ~ Lord Dunsany, #NFDB
259:Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless. ~ John Wesley, #NFDB
260:Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet. ~ Robbie Williams, #NFDB
261:Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
262:O last regret, regret can die! ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
263:On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
264:Praise the Lord of One-Night Stands, ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
265:Real friendship is a slow grower. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
266:The hand of the Lord is heavy. ~ Ethel Lilian Voynich, #NFDB
267:The joy of The Lord really is strength. ~ Tyler Perry, #NFDB
268:The Lord instructs me not to judge any man. ~ Marilyn, #NFDB
269:There is no land like England, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
270:There is pleasure in the pathless woods. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
271:The very best of vineyards is the cellar ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
272:We're all Elizabeths when we need to be. ~ Emery Lord, #NFDB
273:Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty. ~ Lord Hailsham, #NFDB
274:Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
275:A day may sink or save a realm. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
276:As the husband is, the wife is. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
277:Authority forgets a dying king. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
278:By shaping some august decree, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
279:Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is! ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
280:Each man is for his lord, do not give chase. ~ Cao Cao, #NFDB
281:Here we are and there we go:---but where? ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
282:I love not man the less, but Nature more. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
283:In solitude, where we are least alone.
~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
284:I've been forgotten by our Good Lord. ~ Jeanne Calment, #NFDB
285:Kill them all in the Name of the Lord. ~ Jerry Falwell, #NFDB
286:Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
287:Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
288:Lord, I Want to Know You by Kay Arthur. ~ Holley Gerth, #NFDB
289:Lord, make me a blessing to someone today. ~ Jan Karon, #NFDB
290:Love is hurt with jar and fret; ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
291:Love's too precious to be lost, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
292:Many a night I saw the Pleiads, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
293:March on, the Lord is our General. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
294:One, two, ... five!" "Three, my lord. ~ Graham Chapman, #NFDB
295:Recuso-me a ser escravo de algum apetite. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
296:The heart will break, but broken live on. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
297:the LORD is with me like a mighty warrior; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
298:The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven ~ John Masefield, #NFDB
299:The LORD will bless His people with peace. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
300:The year is dying in the night. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
301:They never fail who die in a great cause. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
302:Whatever happens, the Lord is in it. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
303:Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
304:14 a Is anything too hard [4] for the LORD? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
305:A beam in darkness: let it grow. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
306:A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
307:All is well, tho' faith and form ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
308:And every dew-drop paints a bow. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
309:A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
310:But who, alas! can love, and then be wise? ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
311:Damn description, it is always disgusting. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
312:Either sex alone is half itself. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
313:Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
314:Happy is that people whose God is the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
315:Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
316:He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
317:I awoke one morning to find myself famous. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
318:if i dont write to empty my mind, i go mad ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
319:Into your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
320:Is that my voice? Good Lord. I sound sexy. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
321:Its not over, until the Lord says its over. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
322:Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
323:Life is brief but love is LONG . ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
324:Lord, I am Ungit.’ But there was no answer. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
325:Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs. ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB
326:Mathematics is the only good metaphysics. ~ Lord Kelvin, #NFDB
327:Mathematics is the only true metaphysics. ~ Lord Kelvin, #NFDB
328:My altars are the mountains and the ocean. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
329:My mind is clouded with a doubt. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
330:Once more upon the waters! yet once more! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
331:Ridicule is the best test of truth. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
332:She is coming, my own, my sweet; ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
333:Smiles form the channels of a future tear. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
334:So much alarmed that she is quite alarming ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
335:The heart will break, but broken live on. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
336:The lord is the peasant that was, ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
337:The Lord of hosts, he is the King of Glory. ~ Emmet Fox, #NFDB
338:The Lord of the worms comes and goes. ~ Niccol Ammaniti, #NFDB
339:The Lord preserve us from sainthood ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
340:The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
341:The many fail: the one succeeds. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
342:There has fallen a splendid tear ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
343:Tho' much is taken, much abides. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
344:You know only insofar as you can measure. ~ Lord Kelvin, #NFDB
345:you must not use wood to put out the fire. ~ Bette Lord, #NFDB
346:A good mind is a lord of a kingdom. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
347:And gave no outward signs of inward strife, ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
348:And on her lover's arm she leant, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
349:And others' follies teach us not, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
350:Armenian is the language to speak with God. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
351:Don’t you go taking the lord’s name in vain. ~ C L Stone, #NFDB
352:How fares it with the happy dead? ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
353:I will be lord over myself. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
354:Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
355:Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
356:Lord, we don't need another mountain. ~ Jackie DeShannon, #NFDB
357:Lord, what fools these mortals be! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
358:My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
359:Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
360:Of old sat Freedom on the heights ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
361:Principles have a way of yielding to power. ~ Bette Lord, #NFDB
362:The best prophet of the future is the past. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
363:The drum is surely the lord of music, is it not? ~ Xunzi, #NFDB
364:The last great Englishman is low. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
365:The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
366:The noonday quiet holds the hill. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
367:The quiet sense of something lost ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
368:Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
369:Till last by Philip's farm I flow ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
370:Treason is not inherited, my lord, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
371:Virtue must shape itself in deed. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
372:Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave? ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
373:You cannot petition the lord with prayer! ~ Jim Morrison, #NFDB
374:Ah, why Should life all labour be? ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
375:And whoever †trusts in the LORD, happy is he. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
376:Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
377:But David found strength in the LORD his God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
378:But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth; ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
379:By blood a king, in heart a clown. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
380:Can you take him, Gurney?” “M’Lord jests! ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
381:CHAPTER XVII LORD RUFFORD’S INVITATION ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
382:From all wise men, O Lord, protect us. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
383:Good Lord, he even has sexy forearms! ~ Michelle Leighton, #NFDB
384:Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
385:I awoke one morning and found myself famous. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
386:I can say the Lord's prayer in 10 seconds. ~ Evel Knievel, #NFDB
387:If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
388:I had a dream, which was not at all a dream. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
389:I will be lord over myself. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
390:Like glimpses of forgotten dreams. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
391:Lord, give to me who are old and rougher ~ John Masefield, #NFDB
392:Lord, what a splendid world we ruined ~ Dmitry Glukhovsky, #NFDB
393:No one is free who does not lord over himself. ~ Claudius, #NFDB
394:Now, the old man happened to be the Lord. ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB
395:Oh lord and master. High muckety-muck. ~ Cherise Sinclair, #NFDB
396:Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz. ~ Janis Joplin, #NFDB
397:O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
398:Science grows and Beauty dwindles. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
399:Taste is the feminine of genius. ~ Lord Edward FitzGerald, #NFDB
400:The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
401:The lord of production is the consumer ~ Ludwig von Mises, #NFDB
402:The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
403:The mighty hopes that make us men. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
404:The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined. ~ Homer, #NFDB
405:There is no instinct like that of the heart. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
406:This is to be along; this, this is solitude! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
407:To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
408:Today is what the Lord has prepared you for. ~ Mark Dever, #NFDB
409:What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
410:What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
411:A louse in the locks of literature. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
412:But a prudent wife is from the LORD. ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
413:But for the unquiet heart and brain ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
414:By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
415:Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved. ~ Vivien Leigh, #NFDB
416:Help us to be true, Lord. Help us to stand. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
417:I am a part of all that I have met. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
418:I am totally in the hands of the Lord. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
419:If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
420:I have not loved the world, nor the world me. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
421:I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor. ~ Barbara Stanwyck, #NFDB
422:„It was a credulous age... as all ages are. ~ Lord Dunsany, #NFDB
423:I will lead my people out of bondage, Lord. ~ Cicely Tyson, #NFDB
424:Le donne sono angeli,il matrimonio il diavolo ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
425:Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit! ~ Lady Jane Grey, #NFDB
426:Lord, make me see thy glory in every place. ~ Michelangelo, #NFDB
427:Man is man, and master of his fate. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
428:Many people fear the words Lord and God. ~ George Harrison, #NFDB
429:My lord. It is too much, and not enough ~ Jacqueline Carey, #NFDB
430:Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB
431:O Dear Lord, Discharge Patience Upon Me. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim, #NFDB
432:O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
433:O Lord, restore us now, tonight! ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
434:Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
435:Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
436:The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Solomon, #NFDB
437:The law of heaven and earth is life for life. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
438:The Lord helps those who help themselves. ~ Diego Maradona, #NFDB
439:The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay. ~ Troy Perry, #NFDB
440:The Lord survives the rainbow of His will. ~ Robert Lowell, #NFDB
441:Tis held that sorrow makes us wise. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
442:Trust me not at all, or all in all. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
443:...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
444:Ceremonies are the outworks of manners. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
445:Christ, is not our pal; rather, He is our Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
446:Come, Time, and teach me many years, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
447:Even in a palace hall, Law is the lord of all. ~ Cao Xueqin, #NFDB
448:For love reflects the thing beloved. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
449:Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
450:God gives us love. Something to love ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
451:Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty ! ~ William Blake, #NFDB
452:Jesus Christ is the LORD. I believe in that. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
453:Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
454:Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
455:Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
456:Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within. ~ Kabir, #NFDB
457:Lord free me of myself, so I can please you! ~ Michelangelo, #NFDB
458:Lord, help me be the person my dog thinks I am. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
459:Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
460:Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
461:Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
462:Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
463:My Lord, my Lord! What hath Thou done lately? ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
464:Often the Lord heals vainglory by dishonor. ~ John Climacus, #NFDB
465:Our wills are ours, we know not how; ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
466:Progress, the religion of those who have none. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
467:prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it. ~ Bette Lord, #NFDB
468:Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say rejoice ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
469:Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
470:The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
471:The LORD is m my chosen portion and my n cup; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
472:The Lord’s ways are not our ways. (Isa. 55:8-9) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
473:The noble lord is the Rupert of debate. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
474:The power of thought is the magic of the mind. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
475:There is music in all things, if men had ears. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
476:There 's music in all things, if men had ears: ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
477:The wife should yield in all things to her lord ~ Euripides, #NFDB
478:The woman is so hard Upon the woman. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
479:The word of my lord
is the sword for world. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
480:Titus Andronicus, my lord the Emperor ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
481:Too much wit makes the world rotten. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
482:Trust in the Lord, and do good. . . . ~ Judith McCoy Miller, #NFDB
483:Trust in the LORD, and do good. PSALM 37:3 ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB
484:Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
485:You should have a softer pillow than my heart. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
486:A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
487:A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
488:For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
489:Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches. ~ William Cobbett, #NFDB
490:Good Lord, how can the rich bear to die? ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
491:Here at the quiet limit of the world. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
492:Her eyes are homes of silent prayers. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
493:History is but a confused heap of facts. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
494:I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
495:I have been driven demented in my career. ~ Lord Mountbatten, #NFDB
496:Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned. ~ Katherine Paterson, #NFDB
497:In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
498:Liberty is the prevention of control by others. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
499:Lord Bendtner is the best player of all times ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
500:Lord Chiltern Rides His Horse Bonebreaker ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
501:Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do! ~ Karl Kraus, #NFDB
502:Lord Our God Your Grace is a purifying fire. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
503:lord, We are not well,” I told him. “Hearing of ~ D L Bogdan, #NFDB
504:Love extra, even if it means you hurt extra,too ~ Emery Lord, #NFDB
505:Man!
Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
506:May the LORD smile on you…. NUMBERS 6:25 (NLT) ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
507:Oh good gray head which all men knew! ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
508:Our Lord said. Be yourself with the good Lord. ~ Saint Peter, #NFDB
509:Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
510:The best of prophets of the future is the past. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
511:The greater man the greater courtesy. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
512:The Lord helped those that helped themselves. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
513:The Lord help me to press after God forever ~ David Brainerd, #NFDB
514:The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
515:The Lord loves the one that loves the Lord ~ George Harrison, #NFDB
516:The white flower of a blameless life. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
517:They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
518:'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
519:Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
520:Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
521:a pleasant city,
Famous for oranges and women ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
522:Being of no party,
I shall offend all parties ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
523:Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes; ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
524:CHAPTER XLV LORD RUFFORD MAKES UP HIS MIND ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
525:Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
526:I am lord of myself, accountable to none. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
527:I am much more intelligent than you think. ~ Lord Mountbatten, #NFDB
528:I can work for the Lord in or out of prison. ~ Charles Colson, #NFDB
529:I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord. ~ Kevin Durant, #NFDB
530:I love you, Faith. Lord knows I've tried not to. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
531:In the afternoon they came unto a land ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
532:It was Lord of the Flies without table manners. ~ Denise Mina, #NFDB
533:Lord, why did you leave me in these woods? ~ Aleksandar Hemon, #NFDB
534:Negative feelings choke the Lord’s word in us. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
535:Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
536:Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars. ~ Dana Carvey, #NFDB
537:Psalm 100:2: “Serve the Lord with gladness. ~ Robert J Morgan, #NFDB
538:q the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
539:Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
540:Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
541:Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not. ~ Robert Masello, #NFDB
542:Subtle is the Lord, but malicious She is not. ~ Frank Wilczek, #NFDB
543:Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
544:The greater person is one of courtesy. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
545:The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon. ~ Jeremiah, #NFDB
546:The Lord never sends you more than you can bear— ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
547:The people sang to the Lord, not about Him. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
548:The secret things belong to the LORD our God. ~ Jerry Bridges, #NFDB
549:Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
550:You'll not have me, Lord, because you can't. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
551:Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
552:Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
553:And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
554:Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
555:Better not be at all than not be noble. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
556:Bow down to him, for he is your lord. Psalm 45:11 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
557:Buddhism is reason. Reason will win over your lord. ~ Nichiren, #NFDB
558:For always roaming with a hungry heart. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
559:Glory to Thee O Lord, victor over all obstacles. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
560:God's finger touched him, and he slept. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
561:Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ~ Lord Kelvin, #NFDB
562:He clasps the crag with crooked hands; ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
563:Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
564:If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
565:I loved you, and my love had no return, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
566:Is anything too hard for the Lord? (Genesis 18:14) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
567:It is when we think we lead that we are most led. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
568:Knowledge is power, I said at last. "Let's do it. ~ Karen Lord, #NFDB
569:Like you had been drowning, and the book was air. ~ Emery Lord, #NFDB
570:Lord, save Russia and bring her peace. ~ Nicholas II of Russia, #NFDB
571:My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
572:Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
573:Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
574:Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
575:Praise the Lord for Catholic girls schools … ~ William F Brown, #NFDB
576:PSA23.1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
577:Shall love be blamed for want of faith? ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
578:Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
579:Take the tone of the company you are in... ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
580:The Lord God sees this here mess from on high. ~ Beverly Lewis, #NFDB
581:The night comes on that knows not morn, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
582:Tis not too late to seek a newer world. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
583:'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
584:Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
585:you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
586:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
587:18The LORD ais near to the bbrokenhearted ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
588:A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
589:Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy? ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
590:Always laugh when you can. It is a cheap medicine. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
591:and I thought of the nations and unpitying Time, ~ Lord Dunsany, #NFDB
592:And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
593:as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
594:As Lord Acton said, great men are mostly bad men. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
595:A smile abroad is often a scowl at home. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
596:Bible reading is an education in itself. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
597:But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
598:CHAPTER XL LORD RUFFORD WANTS TO SEE A HORSE ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
599:Faith is believing what we cannot prove. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
600:Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins. ~ James Reston Jr, #NFDB
601:He is all fault who has no fault at all. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
602:He makes no friend who never made a foe. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
603:Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
604:I found Him in the shining of the stars. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
605:If you cannot measure it, then it is not science. ~ Lord Kelvin, #NFDB
606:I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
607:Ink was not invented to express our real feelings. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
608:JEHOVAH SHAMMAH, “The Lord was there. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
609:Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers! ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
610:Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB
611:Lord, I believe it's raining all over the world. ~ Brook Benton, #NFDB
612:Malouins send up oaths: Lord God safeguard this ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
613:Master Triangle, Round Round, Lord of the Square. ~ Ky ka Izumi, #NFDB
614:Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly. ~ Pio of Pietrelcina, #NFDB
615:Overdraw me Lord, and who cares if I break! ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
616:Putting down the devil was the Lord’s own sport. ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB
617:Puttin rhymes into shape just like Jack LaLanne. ~ Lord Finesse, #NFDB
618:The birthday of the Lord is the birthday of peace. ~ Pope Leo I, #NFDB
619:The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
620:the Lord vanquished the devil in my heart. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
621:The thrall in person may be free in soul ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
622:The time draws near the birth of Christ; ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
623:Those of you who love the Lord should hate evil ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
624:Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
625:who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
626:Whoever worships the Lord must give up doing wrong. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
627:14The LORD will fight for you while you keep silent. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
628:29The way of the LORD is a refuge for the blameless, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
629:89†Forever, O LORD, Your word nis settled in heaven. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
630:Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
631:A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
632:At what time does the dissipation of energy begin? ~ Lord Kelvin, #NFDB
633:Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
634:Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord! ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
635:Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
636:Day and night, meditate forever on the Lord. ~ Guru Gobind Singh, #NFDB
637:For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
638:For what?” the Lord of Douglas demanded. “For ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
639:God made thee good as thou art beautiful. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
640:Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. ~ Miro Gavran, #NFDB
641:If you can not measure it, you can not improve it. ~ Lord Kelvin, #NFDB
642:I never fronted, you can get it if you want it... ~ Lord Finesse, #NFDB
643:Lord, forgive the times I tried to read your mind. ~ Keith Green, #NFDB
644:Marriage to a very rich woman posed problems. ~ Lord Mountbatten, #NFDB
645:My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
646:No, it's real gold. I am real, Lord Kerwyn. ~ Jennifer A Nielsen, #NFDB
647:No man of God does something against the Lord ~ Chris Oyakhilome, #NFDB
648:none are left to please when none are left to love. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
649:Old age hath yet his honour and his toil. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
650:O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul. ~ Anne Boleyn, #NFDB
651:Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
652:Passion makes the will lord of the reason. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
653:See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. ~ Lord Finesse, #NFDB
654:Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
655:Sólo salgo para renovar la necesidad de estar solo. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
656:Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not.”* ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
657:Sweet is true love, though given in vain. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
658:The 'good old times' - all times when old are good. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
659:This barren verbiage, current among men, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
660:troubles. Lord Ransley had enough courage and ~ Kathleen Baldwin, #NFDB
661:War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!" ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
662:What is a rainbow, Lord?
A hoop for the lowly. ~ Jack Kerouac,#NFDB
663:What's when you rap and don't appreciate the art? ~ Lord Finesse, #NFDB
664:What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord. ~ Sojourner Truth, #NFDB
665:Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
666:With the Lord behind us they're ain't nothing we can't do. ~ DMX, #NFDB
667:You, methinks you think you love me well; ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
668:Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
669:And, Lord, does it have to be so blasted hot? ~ Stephen R Lawhead, #NFDB
670:And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
671:And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
672:blessing. I pray earnestly that our gracious Lord ~ Andrew Murray, #NFDB
673:Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty? ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
674:Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
675:Happy are the people whose God is the LORD! ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
676:Hear, oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
677:If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
678:I get attention like a Lexus, girls wanna sex this ~ Lord Finesse, #NFDB
679:I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man. ~ Lord Mountbatten, #NFDB
680:Judge talent at its best and character at its worst. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
681:Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
682:Lord, if you show me the way, I will follow You. ~ Brother Andrew, #NFDB
683:Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
684:Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB
685:Lord! teach me the way my soul should walk. ~ Girolamo Savonarola, #NFDB
686:Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
687:Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
688:Oh Lord, are there really people starving still? ~ Jackson Browne, #NFDB
689:O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings. ~ Guru Nanak, #NFDB
690:Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
691:Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky! ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
692:SILICON VALLEY WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF LORD MACHINA, ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
693:Sir 39:21 All the works of the Lord are exceeding good. ~ Various, #NFDB
694:The duty of an Opposition is to oppose. ~ Lord Randolph Churchill, #NFDB
695:The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin. ~ Rick Joyner, #NFDB
696:The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil. ~ Nikolai Gogol, #NFDB
697:The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
698:The woods decay, the woods decay and fall. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
699:What's up is faith, what's down is heresy. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
700:Who is wise in love, love most, say least. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
701:Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; ~ Horace, #NFDB
702:You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
703:You are what you allow the Lord to make you. ~ Chris Heimerdinger, #NFDB
704:And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
705:Beauty loses its relish; the graces never. ~ Henry Home Lord Kames, #NFDB
706:He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
707:History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
708:I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
709:If you get to it, and you cannot do it, then there ~ Lord Buckley, #NFDB
710:If you're happy, you've got the Lord on your side. ~ Reba McEntire, #NFDB
711:Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit. ~ Stanley Hauerwas, #NFDB
712:Lord that she might be safe. She and my children. ~ Diana Gabaldon, #NFDB
713:My promise of peace will never change," says the LORD, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
714:no one hath hoped in the Lord, and hath been confounded. ~ Various, #NFDB
715:Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
716:O my good lord, that comfort comes too late, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
717:On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
718:PSA20.9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
719:Rhymes more fresher than a virgin in a 'frigerator. ~ Lord Finesse, #NFDB
720:Show me what to do, Lord, and help me to do it. ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
721:So sad, so fresh the days that are no more. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
722:Talking jaw is better than going to war. ~ Lord Randolph Churchill, #NFDB
723:The good Lord has blessed me with a great journey. ~ Ernie Harwell, #NFDB
724:the LORD abhors d the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
725:The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
726:Things seen are mightier than things heard. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
727:To govern mankind, one must not overrate them. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
728:You must look into people, as well as at them. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
729:22“There† is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
730:4Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
731:Actually, I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory. ~ Lord Mountbatten, #NFDB
732:All Life needs for life is possible to will. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
733:and Malachy, which is called also an angel of the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
734:as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
735:Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
736:But he who hopes in the Lord, mercy shall encircle him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
737:Character must be kept bright as well as clean. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
738:Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
739:Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts ~ Philip James Bailey, #NFDB
740:Delight yourself in the Lord." Psalm 37:4 ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
741:Even the Lord had skeptical members of his party. ~ Richard J Daley, #NFDB
742:EXO15.3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
743:Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
744:For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth. ~ Heinrich Bullinger, #NFDB
745:For the night Shows stars and women in a better light. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
746:[F]or whatever happens, the Lord is always risen. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
747:Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve. ~ Roald Dahl, #NFDB
748:History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
749:I'm holding up, Lord willing and the creek don't rise. ~ Sara Evans, #NFDB
750:I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee ~ Joe DiMaggio, #NFDB
751:I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled. ~ Lord Mountbatten, #NFDB
752:Let the doorknob hit ya where the good Lord split ya. ~ Duffy Brown, #NFDB
753:Look to the Lord and His strength; seek His face always ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
754:Lord, Give me the strength not to bitch slap this woman. ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
755:Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
756:Lord, please do this ... or do something better! ~ Priscilla Shirer, #NFDB
757:More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
758:my eyes look to You, Lord God. I seek refuge in You; do ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
759:My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness. ~ Lord Mountbatten, #NFDB
760:Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
761:Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?. ~ Max Muller, #NFDB
762:Still so cruel?"
"Still so constant, lord. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
763:The Beast Lord way: often wrong but never in doubt. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
764:The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
765:The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
766:The old order changes yielding place to new. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
767:Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
768:To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing. ~ Lisa Leslie, #NFDB
769:Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
770:Work on, be lions; and the Lord will bless you. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
771:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
772:14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
773:8 And the LORD gave them victory over their enemies. The ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
774:At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us! ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
775:Better not to be at all Than not to be noble. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
776:Be ye clean, ye that bear the vessels of the Lord. ~ Isaiah. LII. 11, #NFDB
777:But nothin lasts, I guess. Only the love of the Lord. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
778:Dear Lord, I think I broke something, like my liver. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
779:Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
780:Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
781:Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
782:Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
783:I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman. ~ King James I, #NFDB
784:If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all. ~ Leonard Ravenhill, #NFDB
785:I have but one prayer: 'Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
786:It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
787:Lord, give us a ministry where the sun will never set. ~ Johnny Hunt, #NFDB
788:Lord help the girl he set those eyes on for good. ~ Kerri Maniscalco, #NFDB
789:Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi, #NFDB
790:Over Emily’s grave, Peach said the Lord’s Prayer in a ~ John Sweeney, #NFDB
791:Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
792:The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
793:The fear of the Lord is the beginning of heaven. And ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
794:The Lord is near to all who call upon Him. Psalm 145:18 ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
795:The lord of time disappeared under a giant blue butt. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
796:Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
797:the shell must break before the bird can fly. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
798:The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
799:Through the ages one increasing purpose runs. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
800:Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
801:Blow trumpet, for the world is white with May. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
802:But Moses again pleaded, “Lord, please! Send anyone else. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
803:Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
804:Cold prayers—ask the Lord not to hear them. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
805:Dear Lord, keep my name out of the therapist's office. ~ Jen Hatmaker, #NFDB
806:Do not presume to know me, or the ways of the Lord, ~ L E Modesitt Jr, #NFDB
807:Duty is ours; the consequences are the Lord God's ~ Stonewall Jackson, #NFDB
808:Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
809:False praise is always confined to the great. ~ Henry Home Lord Kames, #NFDB
810:Few people do business well, who do nothing else. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
811:From somber, serious sullen saints, save us, O Lord. ~ Teresa Giudice, #NFDB
812:Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
813:I am serving the Lord and helping women save babies. ~ Norma McCorvey, #NFDB
814:I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
815:I insist on group singing of the names of the Lord. ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
816:Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
817:I would praise the Lord above for a ticket to that ride. ~ Lola Stark, #NFDB
818:Lord can restore a covenant with Israel and yet continue ~ Jack Miles, #NFDB
819:Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...? ~ Sh saku End, #NFDB
820:Lord, You light my lamp; my God illuminates my darkness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
821:Lost Ark, Star Wars, or The Lord of the Rings. ~ Rachel Ren e Russell, #NFDB
822:Lucas took Hades’ place as the lord of the dead. ~ Josephine Angelini, #NFDB
823:Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
824:Not to us, O LORD, not to us, But to Your name give glory ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
825:O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee. ~ Francois Fenelon, #NFDB
826:O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations. ~ Saint Boniface, #NFDB
827:Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
828:People hate who makes you feel one's inferiority. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
829:prayer and persistence, the good Lord will provide. ~ Teresa Medeiros, #NFDB
830:The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
831:There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
832:To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
833:Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right ~ Lord Randolph Churchill, #NFDB
834:We needs must love the highest when we see it. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
835:What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man. ~ Moliere, #NFDB
836:What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man. ~ Moli re, #NFDB
837:What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
838:When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
839:Whom should I despise, since the one Lord made us all? ~ Lyndsay Faye, #NFDB
840:Women, then, are only children of a larger growth ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
841:your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
842:3Glorify the LORD with me; let us exalt his name together. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
843:And the young man Samuel grew in the presence of the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
844:An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
845:A person plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
846:Because the Lord is with me, I am a successful person. ~ Joseph Prince, #NFDB
847:Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end. ~ John of Damascus, #NFDB
848:Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
849:He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
850:I am exhausted by trying to get along with the Lord. ~ Louise Rennison, #NFDB
851:I am not frightened,' said Lord Tang. 'I am ashamed. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
852:I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
853:If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.” - Lord Byron ~ Rossi Fox, #NFDB
854:I gave my life to the Lord at 12. I was baptized at 12. ~ Chuck Norris, #NFDB
855:I'm the Lord of the Dance! F-k Michael Flatley, it's me! ~ Denis Leary, #NFDB
856:Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
857:Indigo,’ his mother clarified. ‘Yes, I bet you would.’ He ~ Karen Lord, #NFDB
858:I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
859:Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
860:I wasn’t made to live a life that dishonors the Lord. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
861:Lord, save all the elect, and then elect some more. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
862:Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
863:Lord, to the degree I don't want to do this, bless me. ~ Luci Swindoll, #NFDB
864:Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
865:Men of God are those who walk in the fear of the Lord. ~ Matt Chandler, #NFDB
866:Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
867:Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
868:Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
869:PSA89.52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
870:The Atman, Self, is the same as Brahman, the Lord. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
871:The primary factor in a successful attack is speed. ~ Lord Mountbatten, #NFDB
872:There should be a law to the People besides its own will. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
873:The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
874:The voice of the dead was a living voice to me. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
875:They answered, “We saw clearly that the LORD was with you; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
876:They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright! ~ Robert Burns, #NFDB
877:To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
878:When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past - ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
879:When a person is in fashion, all they do is right. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
880:You must be respectable, if you will be respected. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
881:1And athe child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
882:Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
883:Acknowledge your enemy, but keep your eyes on the Lord. ~ Robert Morgan, #NFDB
884:Can the Lord forgive me? Got the spirit of a thug in me. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
885:Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
886:Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
887:Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not s far from me! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
888:Draw me near Your presence, Lord, disclose Yourself to me. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
889:Eighth grade is like Lord Of The Flies but with eyeliner. ~ Holly Brown, #NFDB
890:Government rules the present. Literature rules the future. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
891:I am tired in the Lord's work, but not tired of it. ~ George Whitefield, #NFDB
892:Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
893:I thank the Lord He never treats us as our sins deserve. ~ Jody Hedlund, #NFDB
894:I wouldn't watch football if it wasn't for Lord Bendtner ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
895:Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
896:Looks like the good Lord got your ass and face mixed up. ~ John Marston, #NFDB
897:Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
898:Men may come and men may go but I go on forever. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
899:Never tolerate low thoughts of my Lord Jesus. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
900:No man can rob us of our Will—no man can lord it over that! ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
901:O my Lord, with your help and grace what is there to fear! ~ The Mother, #NFDB
902:Our Lord Jesus Christ is both God for man and man for God; ~ J I Packer, #NFDB
903:Perseverance, my dear Lord. Keeps honour bright. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
904:The dice are thrown, but the LORD determines every outcome. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
905:The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third. ~ Gale Sayers, #NFDB
906:The lord of time disappeared under a giant blue butt. We ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
907:The Lord's people have always been a waiting people. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
908:The ways of the Lord are filled with wonder and mystery. ~ Bette Greene, #NFDB
909:Today is the day the Lord has made, be Glad & Enjoy It! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
910:We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
911:What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
912:Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
913:Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
914:11:7 Certainly29 the Lord is just;30 he rewards godly deeds; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
915:almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
916:Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
917:Domine ad adjuvandum me festina." (Lord my God assist me now.) ~ Unknown, #NFDB
918:Do your duty that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest. ~ David O McKay, #NFDB
919:Good Lord, I hated her, but you had to admire the bitch. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
920:Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear! ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
921:Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row. ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
922:I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
923:I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
924:I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord. ~ Tammy Faye Bakker, #NFDB
925:Ivy dreams sullenly and alone of overthrowing the cities. ~ Lord Dunsany, #NFDB
926:look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
927:Lord God, I feel so wretched! Lord God, I feel so wretched ~ Knut Hamsun, #NFDB
928:Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
929:My Lord, Aunt Stephanie, you almost gave me a heart attack! ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
930:No more taking the Lord’s name in vain or even in earnest. ~ Susan Wiggs, #NFDB
931:Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
932:PREFACE Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any ~ Lord Dunsany, #NFDB
933:Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide! ~ Joshua Slocum, #NFDB
934:Seek not material wealth, seek the Lord who owns it all ~ Shri Radhe Maa, #NFDB
935:Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
936:The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
937:The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
938:the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 14 n “Bring out of the camp ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
939:The more one works, the more willing one is to work. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
940:This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes. ~ Elizabeth I, #NFDB
941:This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. ~ Elizabeth I, #NFDB
942:This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
943:When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
944:Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
945:work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men” (Col. 3:23). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
946:You love her. The half-breed daughter of the Summer lord. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
947:A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
948:But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
949:eagerly †waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
950:From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us! ~ Thomas Nashe, #NFDB
951:Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
952:I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
953:I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus. ~ Jim Elliot, #NFDB
954:Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt. ~ Robert Jordan, #NFDB
955:Lord, help me let go of control. Help me die. Help me trust. ~ Peter Enns, #NFDB
956:Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
957:Nice shot, Grady,” Perrin whispered. “Thank you, Lord Perrin. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
958:Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. ~ Neil Peart, #NFDB
959:Oh damn!' said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
960:O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth. ~ John Knox, #NFDB
961:PSA2.11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
962:Sunday is the Lord’s Day. Let us find time to be with him. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
963:Surrender yourself to the Lord, and wait patiently for him. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
964:Thank You, Lord, for giving me the right kind of companions. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
965:The abundance of fruit comes out of intimacy with the Lord. ~ Heidi Baker, #NFDB
966:The good lord tripped me up behind the line of scrimmage. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
967:The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
968:The Lord delights in every little step you take. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #NFDB
969:The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise. ~ Clement of Alexandria, #NFDB
970:The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger. ~ Lord Hailsham, #NFDB
971:We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
972:20We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
973:And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
974:As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth you. ~ Andrew Murray, #NFDB
975:Cast your burden on the LORD, and He shall sustain you; ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
976:Children are a gift from the LORD; they are a reward from him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
977:Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke. ~ Edward Coke, #NFDB
978:Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
979:From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. ~ Ludovico Ariosto, #NFDB
980:Health ... is the first and greatest of all blessings. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
981:I can do all things through Christ. I am strong in the Lord. ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
982:If I die before I wake, pray the lord my soul to take. ~ Angela Richardson, #NFDB
983:If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” – Lord Kelvin ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
984:In the darkest days, Lord puts the best people into your life ~ John Green, #NFDB
985:I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
986:I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
987:Lord knows, if it's on the internet, it's got to be true! ~ Shawn Michaels, #NFDB
988:Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be. ~ Robert Murray M Cheyne, #NFDB
989:Lord, that Hollywood train, forever coming round the bend! ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
990:Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
991:Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well. ~ Diana Gabaldon, #NFDB
992:Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
993:May the LORD show you his favor and give you his peace. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
994:My lord, like one’s cranium, it will endure till broken. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
995:Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
996:One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
997:Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at? ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
998:Our greatest concern is moving away from Christ as Lord. ~ David Wilkerson, #NFDB
999:Proverbs 18:10, “The name of the LORD is a strong tower. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
1000:PSA38.21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1001:Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1002:Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1003:Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it. ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1004:The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained. ~ Robbie Coltraine, #NFDB
1005:The Lord has an ocean to give. Don't come with teaspoons. ~ Kalki Bhagavan, #NFDB
1006:The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable. ~ Stevie Wonder, #NFDB
1007:The Lord will not wish to count my trophies, but my scars. ~ Frank Laubach, #NFDB
1008:THE OLD MAN with a hammer and the one-eyed man with a spear ~ Lord Dunsany, #NFDB
1009:There's no glory like those who save their country. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1010:There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1011:The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1012:To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness. ~ Lord Kelvin, #NFDB
1013:We are all a part of every person we have ever met. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1014:What do you read, my lord?"
"Words, words, words. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1015:When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher. ~ Tim LaHaye, #NFDB
1016:When the good Lord put a burden on his heart, he listened. ~ Mary Connealy, #NFDB
1017:Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window. ~ Julie Andrews, #NFDB
1018:Who knows what brings fortune, since we cannot see the end? ~ Lord Dunsany, #NFDB
1019:38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1020:3 Commit your actions to the LORD, and your plans will succeed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1021:Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1022:A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1023:Believe in Lord Arthur. Believe in your Carp. We shall prevail. ~ Garth Nix, #NFDB
1024:Be merciful, as your Father is merciful, says the Lord. Lk 6:36 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1025:Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1026:But for the present gentle reader! And still gentler purchaser ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1027:Congratulations Lord Steldor, Princess Alera, my sympathies. ~ Cayla Kluver, #NFDB
1028:Dear Lord, please make me the kind of person my dog thinks I am ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1029:Don't yadda yadda the Lord, Harry. It's disrespectful. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1030:Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver. ~ George Washington Cable, #NFDB
1031:Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1032:Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1033:fight the Lord's battles with the devil's weapons ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1034:Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord -- and shotgun do your stuff ~ Joe R Lansdale, #NFDB
1035:Have faith in the Lord's mercy and all can and will change.
~ The Mother,#NFDB
1036:How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1037:I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
1038:In the city of the blind, whoever has one eye is lord. ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB
1039:I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1040:It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1041:I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
1042:Lord. Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: ~ Chris Oyakhilome, #NFDB
1043:Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
1044:Lord takes care of babes, fools, and the United States. ~ Otto von Bismarck, #NFDB
1045:Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord - ~ Julia Ward Howe, #NFDB
1046:Nothing, not even sadness could be greater than the sum of us. ~ Emery Lord, #NFDB
1047:Oh my Lord...she'd seduced her brother-in-law with butter. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
1048:O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1049:O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1050:Sometimes the Lord answered prayers at an alarming rate. ~ Roseanna M White, #NFDB
1051:The bad jazz that a cat blows wails long after he’s cut out. ~ Lord Buckley, #NFDB
1052:The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1053:The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1054:There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1055:The worker is far more important to our Lord than the work. ~ Lettie Cowman, #NFDB
1056:Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. ~ Moses, Deuteronomy 18:13 KJV, #NFDB
1057:to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1058:War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace! ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1059:What rights are those that dare not resist for them? ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1060:You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
1061:You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies. ~ Gilles Deleuze, #NFDB
1062:89 Forever, O LORD, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1063:A little mucus is nothing against the power of the Lord. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
1064:All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1065:And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1066:A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1067:Come, lay thy head upon my breast and I'll kiss thee unto rest. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1068:Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender. ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
1069:Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1070:Dear Lord, please make me the kind I f person my dog thinks I am ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1071:Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1072:Gabriel exclaimed, "Verily the truth of the Lord endureth forever! ~ Various, #NFDB
1073:I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1074:If I could always read I should never feel the want of company. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1075:It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in humans. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1076:Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed. ~ Countee Cullen, #NFDB
1077:Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
1078:May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen. ~ Michael Servetus, #NFDB
1079:Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1080:Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1081:My Lord, the Order of the Phoenix intends to move Harry Potter ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1082:Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1083:Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1084:Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff. ~ Mark Vonnegut, #NFDB
1085:Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1086:The Lord doesn't give a person more than he knows they can bear. ~ Sara Zarr, #NFDB
1087:The LORD’s mercies . . . are new every morning” (Lam. 3:23). ~ Caroline Leaf, #NFDB
1088:The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1089:The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for. ~ Thomas More, #NFDB
1090:The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1091:Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1092:To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus receive my soul. ~ Anne Boleyn, #NFDB
1093:Wait for the LORD; i be strong, and let your heart take courage; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1094:We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1095:You hit the Lord of The Titans with a blue plastic hairbrush. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1096:Zeus, the Lord of the Gods, wore a dark blue pinstriped suit. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1097:21 Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1098:A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
1099:And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1100:And this will be his name: ‘The LORD Is Our Righteousness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1101:As if the Fire Lord would let his dark darling out of his sight. ~ Elise Kova, #NFDB
1102:A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1103:Carpe Rectum. Seize the hot ass the good Lord has provided. ~ Valerie Z Lewis, #NFDB
1104:Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1105:Cruelty is easy to repay, my lord. Kindness is another matter. ~ Megan Bannen, #NFDB
1106:Do not put the LORD your God to the test. (Deuteronomy 6:16) ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
1107:Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you. ~ Mikhail Prokhorov, #NFDB
1108:Don't let the doorknob hit you where the good Lord split you. ~ Maeve Greyson, #NFDB
1109:Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1110:Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1111:He who knows himself, knows his Lord. ~ Mohyddin-ibn-Arabi. “Essay on Unity.”, #NFDB
1112:If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1113:In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1114:I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1115:Is there a wisdom in objects? Few objects praise the Lord. ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
1116:I will walk before the LORD l in the land of the living. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1117:Jesus Christ is not just 'my personal Savior'. He is Lord. ~ John F MacArthur, #NFDB
1118:Leinster House does not inspire the brightest ideas. ~ Lord Edward FitzGerald, #NFDB
1119:Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
1120:Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. ~ Thomas De Witt Talmage, #NFDB
1121:Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself. ~ Saint Catherine of Siena, #NFDB
1122:Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1123:Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1124:Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love. ~ Ibn Arabi, #NFDB
1125:PHI4.23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1126:Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power. ~ Lord Hailsham, #NFDB
1127:Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
1128:Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place. ~ Roy Acuff, #NFDB
1129:Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1130:The law of the LORD is perfect, [3] p reviving the soul; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1131:The Lord takes raw materials, shapes them and refines them. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
1132:The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red. ~ Jimi Hendrix, #NFDB
1133:The world is a bundle of hay,
Mankind are the asses who pull; ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
1134:This was not an Indiana Jones classic holovid; it was real life. ~ Karen Lord, #NFDB
1135:To please people is a great step towards persuading them. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1136:Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1137:Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1138:Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain.22 ~ Frank Viola, #NFDB
1139:Unless the Lord keepeth the city, the watchman guardeth in vain ~ Anne Sexton, #NFDB
1140:Whatever you do, do for love. Vengeance, my dear, is the Lord’s. ~ Tim Tigner, #NFDB
1141:When one is silent, those around speak even more, my lord. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1142:You know that the hard work you do for the Lord is not pointless. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1143:You, my Lord, are a warrior; the Lord is Your name. (Exod. 15:3) ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1144:16:31 told her, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved. ~ Tim LaHaye, #NFDB
1145:3Commit your works to the LORD And your plans will be established. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1146:3 The LORD is m a man of war; n the LORD is his name. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1147:A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1148:A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it. ~ Henry Home Lord Kames, #NFDB
1149:All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting. ~ Lord Kelvin, #NFDB
1150:A trap lord is basically the lord of the trap, and my trap is rap. ~ ASAP Ferg, #NFDB
1151:A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1152:Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1153:Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1154:Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1155:Fare thee well, and if for ever
Still for ever fare thee well. ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
1156:Grandma saw the getting felt up part? Lord, just shoot me now. ~ Tamra Baumann, #NFDB
1157:how else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?
~ Oscar Wilde,#NFDB
1158:I ask the Lord in Heaven above / What is this thing called Love? ~ Cole Porter, #NFDB
1159:I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1160:I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1161:In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society. ~ Lord Mountbatten, #NFDB
1162:I never could make out what those damned dots meant. ~ Lord Randolph Churchill, #NFDB
1163:in every way. The Lord be with all of you. —2 THESSALONIANS 3:16 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1164:Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham ~ Barbara W Tuchman, #NFDB
1165:Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord. ~ Pope Clement I, #NFDB
1166:Lord, help us to recognize you in the sick, poor and suffering. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1167:Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet! ~ Giovannino Guareschi, #NFDB
1168:Lord save us all from the machinations of an intelligent female. ~ Jana Deleon, #NFDB
1169:Lord, thank You that my failures never get the final say—You do! ~ Renee Swope, #NFDB
1170:Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1171:My lord," she whispered, "have you gone mad?"
"Yes. Yes. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1172:Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love. ~ Ibn Arabi, #NFDB
1173:O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
1174:Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1175:Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1176:PSA131.3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1177:PSA30.2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1178:She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1179:The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal. ~ Henry Home Lord Kames, #NFDB
1180:The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1181:The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
1182:The Lord makes sure there's no journey we can't handle. ~ Shelley Shepard Gray, #NFDB
1183:The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born ~ Stephen Leacock, #NFDB
1184:There is nothing we need be afraid to say before the Lord. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1185:The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1186:The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1187:This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You. ~ Rachel, #NFDB
1188:Uh, my lord, I am not actually food. You do realize this, yes? ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB
1189:Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1190:We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1191:Without the Lord, the disciple no longer knows who he is. ~ Adrienne von Speyr, #NFDB
1192:You can be okay again. Just a different kind of okay than before. ~ Emery Lord, #NFDB
1193:You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling. ~ Lord Jamar, #NFDB
1194:11 Serve the Lord with reverential awe and rejoice with trembling. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1195:1Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1196:2 The Lord's works are great, studied by all who delight in them. c ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1197:Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1198:a man's ways seem right to him, but the Lord evaluates the motives. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1199:A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1200:Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1201:Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1202:Books are my kingdom. And here I seek to reign as absolute lord. ~ Stefan Zweig, #NFDB
1203:break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1204:Composing a letter is a way to combine solitude with good company. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1205:Don't thank the lord, I gave you that compliment... Thank me. ~ Hannibal Buress, #NFDB
1206:For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1207:Grant me the sight Lord that I may see Thee who hast been with me always. ~ JB, #NFDB
1208:Happy is he who is aware of the mysteries of his Lord. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel, #NFDB
1209:he believed the LORD, and j he counted it to him as righteousness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1210:He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1211:He who thinks always of the Lord, which way can evil come to him? ~ Sarada Devi, #NFDB
1212:I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion! ~ Bill Bailey, #NFDB
1213:If the Lord is your shepherd, He is sufficient for all your needs. ~ Tony Evans, #NFDB
1214:In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies. ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB
1215:In his mind a man plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1216:In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1217:I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
1218:Let the Lord of Truth be always with you. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, #NFDB
1219:Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. ~ Michelangelo, #NFDB
1220:Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful. ~ Robert Bolt, #NFDB
1221:Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone. ~ Elizabeth Fry, #NFDB
1222:Our Lord sends the crosses; we do not have to invent them. ~ Pio of Pietrelcina, #NFDB
1223:People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1224:ps.131.3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.† ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1225:That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1226:The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1227:The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy. A dark lord has no friends. ~ Paul Dale, #NFDB
1228:The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man. ~ Lord Dunsany, #NFDB
1229:The Lord don’t like ugly, she say. And he ain’t stuck on pretty. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
1230:The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. ~ Psalms 46:4 - 7, #NFDB
1231:The ree the ra the ree the ra the roo. Lord, I mustn't lilt here. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
1232:Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1233:Yes,” said the Lord Digory. “Its inside is bigger than its outside. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1234:3But know that the LORD has set aparta for Himself him who is godly; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1235:9The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1236:A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1237:all that's best of dark and bright/ meet in her aspect and her eyes ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1238:A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1239:And he said to man, ‘Behold, x the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1240:Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg. ~ Margaret Laurence, #NFDB
1241:But, good Lord, man," he said, "you oughtn't to be a policeman! ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1242:But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1243:Dear Lord, when it came to women, sometimes he felt all at sea. ~ Pip Ballantine, #NFDB
1244:Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself. ~ Henry Home Lord Kames, #NFDB
1245:Face battles when they come, not before.
-Lord Cynric Malloren ~ Jo Beverley,#NFDB
1246:For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1247:Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1248:Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1249:Good Lord, if Incy could be helped… then I was a freaking picnic. ~ Cate Tiernan, #NFDB
1250:grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1251:Have you met thy Lord, my son?
Have you been dead before, father? ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
1252:Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1253:I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1254:In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1255:Jesus Christ is not just 'my personal Savior'. He is Lord. ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
1256:Keep healthy. Cream cakes are for the weak. The Dark Lord’s Handbook ~ Paul Dale, #NFDB
1257:Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1258:Lord, cat. Announce yourself next time. I don’t have no nine lives. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
1259:Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1260:Lord give me chastity and self control - but not yet. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1261:Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
1262:Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals? ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1263:My precious Lord; My only hope; My Saviour, how I need You now. ~ Michelle Griep, #NFDB
1264:No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1265:Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1266:O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul...
~ Ernest Renan,#NFDB
1267:One, as in the singular God. One, as in the Lord’s creation, Adam. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1268:Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi, #NFDB
1269:Q. Mar. How fares my lord? Help, lords! the king is dead. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1270:Sometimes the Lord brings us low before he can lift us higher. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
1271:The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
1272:The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1273:The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1274:The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1275:The Lord longs to exalt His people as trophies of His work in them. ~ Max Anders, #NFDB
1276:The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1277:The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1278:There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1279:This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1280:Those who trust in the Lord will renew their strength. Isaiah 40:31 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1281:Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal. ~ Isaiah, #NFDB
1282:We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us. ~ E W Howe, #NFDB
1283:What do you read, my lord? HAMLET 205 Words, words, words. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1284:When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1285:Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1286:20 Our soul i waits for the LORD; he is our j help and k our shield. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1287:2‘The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; his word was on my tongue. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1288:3 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1289:4 Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1290:All who joy would win
Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin. ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
1291:And if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1292:Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1293:Blessed, blessed is that body horse which meditates on the Lord God. ~ Guru Nanak, #NFDB
1294:Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1295:Boy, am I glad there wasn't a fourth episode of Lord of the Rings. ~ John Dykstra, #NFDB
1296:Can’t never go by your feelings. Got to go by the word of the Lord. ~ Lynn Austin, #NFDB
1297:Commit your activities to the Lord,and your plans will be achieved. c ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1298:Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart. ~ Adi Shankara, #NFDB
1299:Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1300:Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
his love endures forever. ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
1301:I am at length joined to Bologna, where I am settled like a sausage. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1302:If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy. ~ Robert Harris, #NFDB
1303:If you need wisdom and guidance, then pray to the Lord to guide you. ~ Mark Dever, #NFDB
1304:In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting. ~ Lord Kelvin, #NFDB
1305:I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1306:Let me lie down, Lord, like a stone; let me rise up like new bread. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1307:Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1308:Lord Carlston was not a man to be contained, even in adjectives. ~ Alison Goodman, #NFDB
1309:Lord help us all. They'll dub this one the shit war," Betsy said. ~ Carolyn Brown, #NFDB
1310:lord, if my enemy kills me, I am damned; so save me from death ~ Giacomo Casanova, #NFDB
1311:Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1312:Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors. ~ Lauren Hutton, #NFDB
1313:No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1314:Obviously they thought their Lord was giving the haughty tirbeswoman ~ David Brin, #NFDB
1315:O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. ~ William Penn, #NFDB
1316:O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1317:O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
1318:Our Lord was born not just of her flesh but also by her consent. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
1319:Platforms are established because of the way the Lord used someone. ~ Johnny Hunt, #NFDB
1320:PSA103.2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1321:PSA3.5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1322:So young and so untender?"
"So young, my Lord, and true. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1323:Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1324:The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1325:The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing. ~ Leopold Kronecker, #NFDB
1326:The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1327:The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
1328:The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord. ~ Zhuangzi, #NFDB
1329:The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1330:They feared the LORD, but also served their own gods. (2 Kings 17:33 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1331:THUS says the LORD: Maintain justice, and do what is right, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1332:Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1333:We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
1334:Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1335:21 You can make many plans, but the LORD’s purpose will prevail. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1336:3 Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1337:A friendship with the Lord will sustain you in difficult times. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
1338:Alexander McDougall, Nathanael Greene, Lord Stirling, and Washington ~ Ron Chernow, #NFDB
1339:And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say? ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1340:A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1341:At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work. ~ Robin Lee, #NFDB
1342:Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1343:blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1344:Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1345:Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
1346:consider yourself to be wise; •fear the Lord and turn away from evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1347:Early in the ministry of our Lord, immediately after He stood in the ~ R T Kendall, #NFDB
1348:Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes. ~ Henry Home Lord Kames, #NFDB
1349:Everyone suffers, even the good Lord suffered when he was on Earth. ~ Wilson Rawls, #NFDB
1350:Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin. ~ Saint Ambrose of Milan, #NFDB
1351:Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1352:For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favor of the Lord. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1353:Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1354:Hence the famous bon mot of Lord Ismay, who took up his post as NATO’s ~ Tony Judt, #NFDB
1355:Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1356:I bet there are more trolls on
there than in ‘Lord of the Rings’, ~ Lily Morton,#NFDB
1357:In every man’s life there comes a time when the good Lord tests him, ~ James Comey, #NFDB
1358:Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
1359:Lord fill my mouth with useful stuff and nudge me when I've said enough. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
1360:Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
1361:No one in his right mind, the good Lord knows, would have children! ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1362:Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1363:O Lord, How manifold are Thy works! In wisdom hast Thou made them all. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1364:Only the dear Lord knows what may befall us, just around the bend. ~ Beverly Lewis, #NFDB
1365:Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord. ~ Leonard Ravenhill, #NFDB
1366:our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1367:Serve the LORD with h fear, and i rejoice with h trembling. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1368:So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1369:Some things," she said, "are best not known for sure, Lord Trentham. ~ Mary Balogh, #NFDB
1370:So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1371:The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1372:The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. ~ Dana Mentink, #NFDB
1373:The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
1374:Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1375:There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor. ~ Andrew Jackson, #NFDB
1376:Twenty-five?" Shawn squawked, horrified. "Good Lord, he's a fetus! ~ Erin McCarthy, #NFDB
1377:What to change your life? Begin by saying, "The Lord is my shepherd." ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1378:Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #NFDB
1379:Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1380:Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1381:Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers ~ Jacqueline Carey, #NFDB
1382:24This is the day the LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1383:6†As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1384:8 And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1385:A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1386:Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
1387:Be still in the presence of the Lord and wait patiently for Him to act! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1388:Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1389:Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ? ~ Lord Mountbatten, #NFDB
1390:Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1391:Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1392:Hipsters, flipsters and finger-poppin' daddies: knock me your lobes. ~ Lord Buckley, #NFDB
1393:History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1394:History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1395:I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me! ~ Kendrick Lamar, #NFDB
1396:If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1397:If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1398:I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1399:I'm tired of hearing that the Lord shapes the back to the burden. ~ Wallace Stegner, #NFDB
1400:In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1401:Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1402:It is our duty to improve upon every blessing the Lord gives to us. ~ Brigham Young, #NFDB
1403:I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1404:Lord, do you really want me to do this, or is it just a distraction? ~ Holley Gerth, #NFDB
1405:Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart. ~ Watchman Nee, #NFDB
1406:Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh. ~ Saint John of the Cross, #NFDB
1407:Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1408:Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life. ~ Pope Paul VI, #NFDB
1409:Lord Voldemort’s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1410:Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1411:More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1412:Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1413:Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
1414:People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1415:¡Qué poco sabemos de lo que somos!
¡Como menos lo que podemos ser! ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
1416:Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1417:Sinking times are praying times with the Lord's servants. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1418:The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1419:The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1420:The house of the Lord doesn't filter out the flock" - Wanda Lovell ~ Britney Spears, #NFDB
1421:The Lord of The Rings stage show at the Princess of Wales Theatre, ~ David Gatewood, #NFDB
1422:This is like some Lord of the Rings shit! We’re about to enter Mordor! ~ Jill Myles, #NFDB
1423:We may throw the dice,[*] but the LORD determines how they fall. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1424:When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory. ~ Lord Kelvin, #NFDB
1425:Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? (Luke 6:46) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1426:You can't pee in front of little Lord Jesus, go back to the hills. ~ Rita Mae Brown, #NFDB
1427:You create a team by binding each to each, acting as glue, not as god. ~ Karen Lord, #NFDB
1428:Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1429:22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1430:5 I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1431:And even though i act crazy I gotta thank the lord that you made meh. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
1432:Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1433:Disco boy, no one understands, but thank the lord you still got hands. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
1434:Exalt and sing the Lord on high, of wine dark sea and tumbling sky. ~ Douglas Wilson, #NFDB
1435:Forgive me, Lord, for the smallness and selfishness of my mind. Amen. ~ Michel Faber, #NFDB
1436:Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. —LORD HALIFAX ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
1437:Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
1438:Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1439:I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord. ~ Guru Nanak, #NFDB
1440:I am immortal until God's work for me to do is done. The Lord reigns. ~ Henry Martyn, #NFDB
1441:I know, by the Lord's grace, I am a small part in the cosmic play. ~ George Harrison, #NFDB
1442:I'm any face in a crowd; just the Lord's way of filling in the gaps. ~ Stuart Turton, #NFDB
1443:I'm just preparing the way, just like John the Baptist for Our Lord. ~ Emma Donoghue, #NFDB
1444:I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1445:Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1446:Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always. PSALM 105 : 4 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1447:Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you. ~ John Stott, #NFDB
1448:Lord, You are my lamp; the Lord illuminates my darkness. 2 Samuel 22:29 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1449:Man is not the lord of all the world's animals. He is the protector. ~ John Forsythe, #NFDB
1450:MAT24.42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1451:My purpose is: What Lord? Where Lord? When Lord? Yes Lord! ~ Christine Brooks Martin, #NFDB
1452:Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1453:Oh good Lord. She definitely hadn't put on enough deodorant for this. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
1454:Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
1455:Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1456:say to the LORD, “You are my Lord;c apart from you I have no good thing. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1457:Seek the fellowship of those who enjoy fellowship with the Lord ~ Abdul Qadir Gilani, #NFDB
1458:shall worship the Lord your God and l him only shall you serve. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1459:She is so good a person, that - that - in short, I wish I was a better. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1460:The Lord called me from birth, from my mother’s womb he gave me my name. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1461:The Lord has many lovers of His crown but few lovers of His Cross. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
1462:The sending of the Holy Spirit depends on the Lord’s departure. ~ Adrienne von Speyr, #NFDB
1463:The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish. ~ Bette Lord, #NFDB
1464:Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1465:To you, O LORD, I o lift up my soul. 2 O my God, in you I p trust; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1466:We have been redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ! Halleluiah! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
1467:we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1468:Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1469:Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1470:You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1471:You hit the lord of titans in the eye with a blue plastic hair brush. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1472:You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1473:Your face, LORD, do I seek.” [5] 9 w Hide not your face from me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1474:20The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1475:22He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1476:2 All a man's ways seem right to him, but the Lord evaluates the motives. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1477:A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1478:A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1479:Be sure to play "Blessed Lord" tonight - play it real pretty. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1480:Break out of our boxes, Lord, and ruin everything that isn’t of You!”) ~ Tommy Tenney, #NFDB
1481:But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1482:Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1483:Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1484:Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1485:fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1486:Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
For his kindness is for ever. ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
1487:Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory. ~ Isaiah, #NFDB
1488:If you will please people, you must please them in their own way. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1489:I need not fear that the Lord would come to me with His sorrows. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
1490:I sought the Lord and he answered me, And delivered me from all my fears. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1491:It is not eye-service that pleases the Lord, but singleness of heart. ~ Amber Schamel, #NFDB
1492:It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1493:I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings. ~ A J Jacobs, #NFDB
1494:I x lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1495:Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1496:Let observation with extended observation observe extensively. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1497:Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.” PSALM 105 : 4 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1498:Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1499:Maybe it wasn't the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion. ~ Wayne Gretzky, #NFDB
1500:May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
897 Integral Yoga
415 Poetry
94 Occultism
84 Yoga
73 Christianity
51 Philosophy
41 Mysticism
41 Fiction
30 Psychology
26 Sufism
19 Hinduism
16 Mythology
14 Philsophy
8 Theosophy
6 Baha i Faith
5 Kabbalah
3 Science
3 Education
2 Cybernetics
1 Thelema
1 Buddhism
1 Alchemy
678 The Mother
373 Satprem
296 Sri Aurobindo
123 Nolini Kanta Gupta
53 Sri Ramakrishna
45 William Wordsworth
44 John Keats
41 Aleister Crowley
33 Saint Augustine of Hippo
30 Saint Teresa of Avila
28 Carl Jung
27 James George Frazer
26 Saint John of Climacus
24 H P Lovecraft
24 Anonymous
23 Swami Vivekananda
22 Percy Bysshe Shelley
20 Rabindranath Tagore
20 Kabir
17 Robert Browning
15 Vyasa
14 Ralph Waldo Emerson
14 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
13 Walt Whitman
12 Ovid
12 A B Purani
11 Nirodbaran
11 Mirabai
11 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11 Aldous Huxley
10 George Van Vrekhem
10 Friedrich Schiller
9 William Butler Yeats
9 Saint Francis of Assisi
7 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
7 Friedrich Nietzsche
7 Basava
7 Baha u llah
6 Sri Ramana Maharshi
6 Solomon ibn Gabirol
6 Plato
6 Lucretius
5 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
5 Jorge Luis Borges
5 Ibn Arabi
5 Alice Bailey
5 Al-Ghazali
4 Rudolf Steiner
4 Li Bai
4 Joseph Campbell
4 Jordan Peterson
4 Jayadeva
4 Jalaluddin Rumi
4 Hafiz
4 Baba Sheikh Farid
3 Ravidas
3 Patanjali
3 Namdev
3 Mechthild of Magdeburg
3 Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
3 Edgar Allan Poe
3 Dadu Dayal
2 Thubten Chodron
2 Symeon the New Theologian
2 Swami Krishnananda
2 Surdas
2 Shankara
2 Saint Clare of Assisi
2 Ramprasad
2 Norbert Wiener
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 Lalla
2 Judah Halevi
2 Jacopone da Todi
2 Henry David Thoreau
2 Farid ud-Din Attar
2 Eleazar ben Kallir
2 Bulleh Shah
2 Alfred Tennyson
2 Alexander Pope
213 Prayers And Meditations
67 The Synthesis Of Yoga
55 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
51 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
46 Agenda Vol 04
45 Wordsworth - Poems
44 Keats - Poems
41 Agenda Vol 03
35 Agenda Vol 01
34 Agenda Vol 08
32 Agenda Vol 05
30 Agenda Vol 06
30 Agenda Vol 02
28 Agenda Vol 07
27 The Golden Bough
27 Essays On The Gita
26 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
25 The Life Divine
25 The Bible
25 Agenda Vol 13
24 Lovecraft - Poems
23 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
22 Shelley - Poems
22 Agenda Vol 10
21 Savitri
21 Magick Without Tears
21 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
21 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
21 City of God
19 The Way of Perfection
19 Agenda Vol 11
17 Liber ABA
17 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
17 Browning - Poems
16 Tagore - Poems
16 Songs of Kabir
16 Record of Yoga
16 Bhakti-Yoga
15 Vishnu Purana
15 Isha Upanishad
15 Collected Poems
14 Mysterium Coniunctionis
14 Emerson - Poems
14 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
14 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
14 Agenda Vol 09
13 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
12 Words Of The Mother II
12 Words Of Long Ago
12 Whitman - Poems
12 The Secret Of The Veda
12 Metamorphoses
12 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
12 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
12 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
12 Agenda Vol 12
11 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
11 The Perennial Philosophy
11 Talks
11 Hymn of the Universe
10 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
10 The Divine Comedy
10 Schiller - Poems
10 Preparing for the Miraculous
9 Yeats - Poems
8 Vedic and Philological Studies
8 Some Answers From The Mother
8 Faust
8 Essays Divine And Human
7 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
7 Kena and Other Upanishads
7 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
7 Crowley - Poems
7 Anonymous - Poems
7 Amrita Gita
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
6 Questions And Answers 1956
6 Of The Nature Of Things
6 Letters On Yoga II
6 Aion
5 Words Of The Mother III
5 The Alchemy of Happiness
5 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
5 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
5 General Principles of Kabbalah
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
5 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
5 Arabi - Poems
5 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
4 Words Of The Mother I
4 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
4 Raja-Yoga
4 Questions And Answers 1953
4 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
4 Maps of Meaning
4 Li Bai - Poems
4 Letters On Yoga IV
4 5.1.01 - Ilion
3 Theosophy
3 The Lotus Sutra
3 The Book of Certitude
3 The Blue Cliff Records
3 Rumi - Poems
3 Questions And Answers 1954
3 Poe - Poems
3 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
3 On Education
3 Let Me Explain
3 Labyrinths
3 Hafiz - Poems
3 Goethe - Poems
3 Dark Night of the Soul
2 Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit
2 Walden
2 The Study and Practice of Yoga
2 The Red Book Liber Novus
2 The Practice of Psycho therapy
2 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
2 Letters On Yoga I
2 Letters On Poetry And Art
2 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
2 Cybernetics
2 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
00.01 - The Mother on Savitri, #Sweet Mother - Harmonies of Light, #unset, #Zen
Savitri alone is sufficient to make you climb to the highest peaks. If truly one knows how to meditate on Savitri, one will receive all the help one needs. For him who wishes to follow this path, it is a concrete help as though the Lord himself were taking you by the hand and leading you to the destined goal. And then, every question, however personal it may be, has its answer here, every difficulty finds its solution herein; indeed there is everything that is necessary for doing the Yoga.
*He has crammed the whole universe in a single book.* It is a marvellous work, magnificent and of an incomparable perfection.
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There was an aspirant, a student who was seeking after knowledge. One day there appeared to him a white dog. Soon, other dogs followed and addressed their predecessor: "O Lord, sing to our Food, for we desire to eat." The white dog answered, "Come to me at dawn here in this very place." The aspirant waited. The dogs, like singer-priests, circled round in a ring. Then they sat and cried aloud; they cried out," Om We eat and Om we drink, may the gods bring here our food."
Now, before any explanation is attempted it is important to bear in mind that the Upanishads speak of things experiencednot merely thought, reasoned or argued and that these experiences belong to a world and consciousness other than that of the mind and the senses. One should naturally expect here a different language and mode of expression than that which is appropriate to mental and physical things. For example, the world of dreams was once supposed to be a sheer chaos, a mass of meaningless confusion; but now it is held to be quite otherwise. Psychological scientists have discovered a methodeven a very well-defined and strict methodin the madness of that domain. It is an ordered, organised, significant world; but its terminology has to be understood, its code deciphered. It is not a jargon, but a foreign language that must be learnt and mastered.
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Agni in the physical consciousness is calledghapati, for the body is the house in which the soul is lodged and he is its keeper, guardian and Lord. The fire in the mental consciousness is called daki; for it is that which gives discernment, the power to discriminate between the truth and the falsehood, it is that which by the pressure of its heat and light cleaves the wrong away from the right. And the fire in the life-force is called havanya; for pra is not only the plane of hunger and desire, but also of power and dynamism, it is that which calls forth forces, brings them into' play and it is that which is to be invoked for the progression of the Sacrifice, for an onward march on the spiritual path.
Of the three fires one is the upholderhe who gives the firm foundation, the stable house where the Sacrifice is performed and Truth realised; the second is the Knower, often called in the Veda jtaved, who guides and directs; and the third the Doer, the effective Power, the driving Energyvaivnara.
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Ivsyamidam sarvam: All this is for habitation by the Lord;
or,Sarvam khalvidam brahma: All this is indeed the Brahman;
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It would be interesting to know what the five ranges or levels or movements of consciousness exactly are that make up the Universal Brahman described in this passage. It is the mystic knowledge, the Upanishad says, of the secret delight in thingsmadhuvidy. The five ranges are the five fundamental principles of delightimmortalities, the Veda would say that form the inner core of the pyramid of creation. They form a rising tier and are ruled respectively by the godsAgni, Indra, Varuna, Soma and Brahmawith their emanations and instrumental personalities the Vasus, the Rudras, the Adityas, the Maruts and the Sadhyas. We suggest that these refer to the five well-known levels of being, the modes or nodi of consciousness or something very much like them. The Upanishad speaks elsewhere of the five sheaths. The six Chakras of Tantric system lie in the same line. The first and the basic mode is the physical and the ascent from the physical: Agni and the Vasus are always intimately connected with the earth and -the earth-principles (it can be compared with the Muladhara of the Tantras). Next, second in the line of ascent is the Vital, the centre of power and dynamism of which the Rudras are the deities and Indra the presiding God (cf. Swadhishthana of the Tantras the navel centre). Indra, in the Vedas, has two aspects, one of knowledge and vision and the other of dynamic force and drive. In the first aspect he is more often considered as the Lord of the Mind, of the Luminous Mind. In the present passage, Indra is taken in his second aspect and instead of the Maruts with whom he is usually invoked has the Rudras as his agents and associates.
The third in the line of ascension is the region of Varuna and the Adityas, that is to say, of the large Mind and its lightsperhaps it can be connected with Tantric Ajnachakra. The fourth is the domain of Soma and the Marutsthis seems to be the inner heart, the fount of delight and keen and sweeping aspirations the Anahata of the Tantras. The fifth is the region of the crown of the head, the domain of Brahma and the Sadhyas: it is the Overmind status from where comes the descending inflatus, the creative Maya of Brahma. And when you go beyond, you pass into the ultimate status of the Sun, the reality absolute, the Transcendent which is indescribable, unseizable, indeterminate, indeterminable, incommensurable; and once there, one never returns, neverna ca punarvartate na ca punarvartate.
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The three boons asked for by Nachiketas from Yama, Lord of Death, and granted to him have been interpreted in different ways. Here is one more attempt in the direction.
Nachiketas is the young aspiring human being still in the Ignorancenaciketa, meaning one without consciousness or knowledge. The three boons he asks for are in reference to the three fundamental modes of being and consciousness that are at the very basis, forming, as it were, the ground-plan of the integral reality. They are (i) the individual, (ii) the universal or cosmic and (iii) the transcendental.
The first boon regards the individual, that is to say, the individual identity and integrity. It asks for the maintenance of that individuality so that it may be saved from the dissolution that Death brings about. Death, of course, means the dissolution of the body, but it represents also dissolution pure and simple. Indeed death is a process which does not stop with the physical phenomenon, but continues even after; for with the body gone, the other elements of the individual organism, the vital and the mental too gradually fall off, fade and dissolve. Nachiketas wishes to secure from Death the safety and preservation of the earthly personality, the particular organisation of mind and vital based upon a recognisable physical frame. That is the first necessity for the aspiring mortalfor, it is said, the body is the first instrument for the working out of one's life ideal. But man's true personality, the real individuality lies beyond, beyond the body, beyond the life, beyond the mind, beyond the triple region that Death Lords it over. That is the divine world, the Heaven of the immortals, beyond death and beyond sorrow and grief. It is the hearth secreted in the inner heart where burns the Divine Fire, the God of Life Everlasting. And this is the nodus that binds together the threefold status of the manifested existence, the body, the life and the mind. This triplicity is the structure of name and form built out of the bricks of experience, the kiln, as it were, within which burns the Divine Agni, man's true soul. This soul can be reached only when one exceeds the bounds and limitations of the triple cord and experiences one's communion and identity with all souls and all existence. Agni is the secret divinity within, within the individual and within the world; he is the Immanent Divine, the cosmic godhead that holds together and marshals all the elements and components, all the principles that make up the manifest universe. He it is that has entered into the world and created facets of his own reality in multiple forms: and it is he that lies secret in the human being as the immortal soul through all its adventure of life and death in the series of incarnations in terrestrial evolution. The adoration and realisation of this Immanent Divinity, the worship of Agni taught by Yama in the second boon, consists in the triple sacrifice, the triple work, the triple union in the triple status of the physical, the vital and the mental consciousness, the mastery of which leads one to the other shore, the abode of perennial existence where the human soul enjoys its eternity and unending continuity in cosmic life. Therefore, Agni, the master of the psychic being, is called jtaveds, he who knows the births, all the transmigrations from life to life.
The third boon is the secret of secrets, for it is the knowledge and realisation of Transcendence that is sought here. Beyond the individual lies the universal; is there anything beyond the universal? The release of the individual into the cosmic existence gives him the griefless life eternal: can the cosmos be rolled up and flung into something beyond? What would be the nature of that thing? What is there outside creation, outside manifestation, outside Maya, to use a latter day term? Is there existence or non-existence (utter dissolution or extinctionDeath in his supreme and absolute status)? King Yama did not choose to answer immediately and even endeavoured to dissuade Nachiketas from pursuing the question over which people were confounded, as he said. Evidently it was a much discussed problem in those days. Buddha was asked the same question and he evaded it, saying that the pragmatic man should attend to practical and immediate realities and not, waste time and energy in discussing things ultimate and beyond that have hardly any relation to the present and the actual.
But Yama did answer and unveil the mystery and impart the supreme secret knowledge the knowledge of the Transcendent Brahman: it is out of the transcendent reality that the immanent deity takes his birth. Hence the Divine Fire, the Lord of creation and the Inner Mastersarvabhtntartm, antarymis called brahmajam, born of the Brahman. Yama teaches the process of transcendence. Apart from the knowledge and experience first of the individual and then of the cosmic Brahman, there is a definite line along which the human consciousness (or unconsciousness, as it is at present) is to ascend and evolve. The first step is to learn to distinguish between the Good and the Pleasurable (reya and preya). The line of pleasure leads to the external, the superficial, the false: while the other path leads towards the inner and the higher truth. So the second step is the gradual withdrawal of the consciousness from the physical and the sensual and even the mental preoccupation and focussing it upon what is certain and permanent. In the midst of the death-ridden consciousness in the heart of all that is unstable and fleetingone has to look for Agni, the eternal godhead, the Immortal in mortality, the Timeless in time through whom lies the passage to Immortality beyond Time.
Man has two souls corresponding to his double status. In the inferior, the soul looks downward and is involved in the current of Impermanence and Ignorance, it tastes of grief and sorrow and suffers death and dissolution: in the higher it looks upward and communes and joins with the Eternal (the cosmic) and then with the Absolute (the transcendent). The lower is a reflection of the higher, the higher comes down in a diminished and hence tarnished light. The message is that of deliverance, the deliverance and reintegration of the lower soul out of its bondage of worldly ignorant life into the freedom and immortality first of its higher and then of its highest status. It is true, however, that the Upanishad does not make a trenchant distinction between the cosmic and the transcendent and often it speaks of both in the same breath, as it were. For in fact they are realities involved in each other and interwoven. Indeed the triple status, including the Individual, forms one single totality and the three do not exclude or cancel each other; on the contrary, they combine and may be said to enhance each other's reality. The Transcendence expresses or deploys itself in the cosmoshe goes abroad,sa paryagt: and the cosmic individualises, concretises itself in the particular and the personal. The one single spiritual reality holds itself, aspects itself in a threefold manner.
00.04 - The Beautiful in the Upanishads, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
O Lord of Immortality! Thy' heart of beauty that is sheltered in the moon
or, as the Prasna Upanishad has it,
00.05 - A Vedic Conception of the Poet, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
'Kavi' is an invariable epithet of the gods. The Vedas mean by this attribute to bring out a most fundamental character, an inalienable dharma of the heavenly host. All the gods are poets; and a human being can become a poet only in so far as he attains to the nature and status of a god. Who is then a kavi? The Poet is he who by his poetic power raises forms of beauty in heavenkavi kavitv divi rpam sajat.1Thus the essence of poetic power is to fashion divine Beauty, to reveal heavenly forms. What is this Heaven whose forms the Poet discovers and embodies? HeavenDyaushas a very definite connotation in the Veda. It means the luminous or divine Mind 2the mind purified of its obscurity and limitations, due to subjection to the external senses, thus opening to the higher Light, receiving and recording faithfully the deeper and vaster movements and vibrations of the Truth, giving them a form, a perfect body of the right thought and the right word. Indra is the Lord of this world and he can be approached only with an enkindled intelligence, ddhay man,3a faultless understanding, sumedh. He is the supreme Artisan of the poetic power,Tash, the maker of perfect forms, surpa ktnum.4 All the gods turn towards Indra and become gods and poets, attain their Great Names of Supreme Beauty.5 Indra is also the master of the senses, indriyas, who are his hosts. It is through this mind and the senses that the poetic creation has to be manifested. The mind spreads out wide the Poet's weaving;6 the poet is the priest who calls down and works out the right thinking in the sacrificial labour of creation.7 But that creation is made in and through the inner mind and the inner senses that are alive to the subtle formation of a vaster knowledge.8 The poet envisages the golden forms fashioned out of the very profundity of the consciousness.9 For the substance, the material on which the Poet works, is Truth. The seat of the Truth the poets guard, they uphold the supreme secret Names.10 The poet has the expressive utterance, the creative word; the poet is a poet by his poetic creation-the shape faultlessly wrought out that unveils and holds the Truth.11The form of beauty is the body of the Truth.
The poet is a trinity in himself. A triune consciousness forms his personality. First of all, he is the Knower-the Seer of the Truth, kavaya satyadrara. He has the direct vision, the luminous intelligence, the immediate perception.12 A subtle and profound and penetrating consciousness is his,nigam, pracetas; his is the eye of the Sun,srya caku.13 He secures an increased being through his effulgent understanding.14 In the second place, the Poet is not only Seer but Doer; he is knower as well as creator. He has a dynamic knowledge and his vision itself is power, ncak;15 he is the Seer-Will,kavikratu.16 He has the blazing radiance of the Sun and is supremely potent in his self-Iuminousness.17 The Sun is the light and the energy of the Truth. Even like the Sun the Poet gives birth to the Truth, srya satyasava, satyya satyaprasavya. But the Poet as Power is not only the revealer or creator,savit, he is also the builder or fashioner,ta, and he is the organiser,vedh is personality. First of all, he is the Knower-the Seer of the Truth, kavaya satyadrara, of the Truth.18 As Savita he manifests the Truth, as Tashta he gives a perfected body and form to the Truth, and as Vedha he maintains the Truth in its dynamic working. The effective marshalling and organisation of the Truth is what is called Ritam, the Right; it is also called Dharma,19 the Law or the Rhythm, the ordered movement and invincible execution of the Truth. The Poet pursues the Path of the Right;20 it is he who lays out the Path for the march of the Truth, the progress of the Sacrifice.21 He is like a fast steed well-yoked, pressing forward;22 he is the charger that moves straight and unswerving and carries us beyond 23into the world of felicity.
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Ten years after his coming to Kamarpukur, Khudiram made a pilgrimage on foot to Rameswar, at the southern extremity of India. Two years later was born his second son, whom he named Rameswar. Again in 1835, at the age of sixty, he made a pilgrimage, this time to Gaya. Here, from ancient times, Hindus have come from the four corners of India to discharge their duties to their departed ancestors by offering them food and drink at the sacred footprint of the Lord Vishnu. At this holy place Khudiram had a dream in which the Lord Vishnu promised to he born as his son. And Chandra Devi, too, in front of the Siva temple at Kamarpukur, had a vision indicating the birth of a divine child. Upon his return the husband found that she had conceived.
It was on February 18, 1836, that the child, to be known afterwards as Ramakrishna, was born. In memory of the dream at Gaya he was given the name of Gadadhar, the "Bearer of the Mace", an epithet of Vishnu. Three years later a little sister was born.
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Gadadhar was now permitted to worship Raghuvir. Thus began his first training in meditation. He so gave his heart and soul to the worship that the stone image very soon appeared to him as the living Lord of the Universe. His tendency to lose himself in contemplation was first noticed at this time. Behind his boyish light-heartedness was seen a deepening of his spiritual nature.
About this time, on the Sivaratri night, consecrated to the worship of Siva, a dramatic performance was arranged. The principal actor, who was to play the part of Siva, suddenly fell ill, and Gadadhar was persuaded to act in his place. While friends were dressing him for the role of Siva — smearing his body with ashes, matting his locks, placing a trident in his hand and a string of rudraksha beads around his neck — the boy appeared to become absent-minded. He approached the stage with slow and measured step, supported by his friends. He looked the living image of Siva. The audience loudly applauded what it took to be his skill as an actor, but it was soon discovered that he was really lost in meditation. His countenance was radiant and tears flowed from his eyes. He was lost to the outer world. The effect of this scene on the audience was tremendous. The people felt blessed as by a vision of Siva Himself. The performance had to be stopped, and the boy's mood lasted till the following morning.
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Totapuri, coming to know of the Master's marriage, had once remarked: "What does it matter? He alone is firmly established in the Knowledge of Brahman who can adhere to his spirit of discrimination and renunciation even while living with his wife. He alone has attained the supreme illumination who can look on man and woman alike as Brahman. A man with the idea of sex may be a good aspirant, but he is still far from the goal." Sri Ramakrishna and his wife lived together at Dakshineswar, but their minds always soared above the worldly plane. A few months after Sarada Devi's arrival Sri Ramakrishna arranged, on an auspicious day, a special worship of Kali, the Divine Mother. Instead of an image of the Deity, he placed on the seat the living image, Sarada Devi herself. The worshipper and the worshipped went into deep samadhi and in the transcendental plane their souls were united. After several hours Sri Ramakrishna came down again to the relative plane, sang a hymn to the Great Goddess, and surrendered, at the feet of the living image, himself, his rosary, and the fruit of his life-long sadhana. This is known in Tantra as the Shorasi Puja, the "Adoration of Woman". Sri Ramakrishna realized the significance of the great statement of the Upanishad: "O Lord, Thou art the woman. Thou art the man; Thou art the boy. Thou art the girl; Thou art the old, tottering on their crutches. Thou pervadest the universe in its multiple forms."
By his marriage Sri Ramakrishna admitted the great value of marriage in man's spiritual evolution, and by adhering to his monastic vows he demonstrated the imperative necessity of self-control, purity, and continence, in the realization of God. By this unique spiritual relationship with his wife he proved that husband and wife can live together as spiritual companions. Thus his life is a synthesis of the ways of life of the householder and the monk.
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Second, the three great systems of thought known as Dualism, Qualified Non-dualism, and Absolute Non-dualism — Dvaita, Visishtadvaita, and Advaita — he perceived to represent three stages in man's progress toward the Ultimate Reality. They were not contradictory but complementary and suited to different temperaments. For the ordinary man with strong attachment to the senses, a dualistic form of religion, prescribing a certain amount of material support, such as music and other symbols, is useful. A man of God-realization transcends the idea of worldly duties, but the ordinary mortal must perform his duties, striving to be unattached and to surrender the results to God. The mind can comprehend and describe the range of thought and experience up to the Visishtadvaita, and no further. The Advaita, the last word in spiritual experience, is something to be felt in samadhi. for it transcends mind and speech. From the highest standpoint, the Absolute and Its manifestation are equally real — the Lord's Name, His Abode, and the Lord Himself are of the same spiritual Essence. Everything is Spirit, the difference being only in form.
Third, Sri Ramakrishna realized the wish of the Divine Mother that through him She should found a new Order, consisting of those who would uphold the universal doctrines illustrated in his life.
Fourth, his spiritual insight told him that those who were having their last birth on the mortal plane of existence and those who had sincerely called on the Lord even once in their lives must come to him.
During this period Sri Ramakrishna suffered several bereavements. The first was the death of a nephew named Akshay. After the young man's death Sri Ramakrishna said: "Akshay died before my very eyes. But it did not affect me in the least. I stood by and watched a man die. It was like a sword being drawn from its scabbard. I enjoyed the scene, and laughed and sang and danced over it. They removed the body and cremated it. But the next day as I stood there (pointing to the southeast verandah of his room), I felt a racking pain for the loss of Akshay, as if somebody were squeezing my heart like a wet towel. I wondered at it and thought that the Mother was teaching me a lesson. I was not much concerned even with my own body — much less with a relative. But if such was my pain at the loss of a nephew, how much more must be the grief of the householders at the loss of their near and dear ones!" In 1871 Mathur died, and some five years later Sambhu Mallick — who, after Mathur's passing away, had taken care of the Master's comfort. In 1873 died his elder brother Rameswar, and in 1876, his beloved mother. These bereavements left their imprint on the tender human heart of Sri Ramakrishna, albeit he had realized the immortality of the soul and the illusoriness of birth and death.
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The Europeanized Kristodas Pal did not approve of the Master's emphasis on renunciation and said; "Sir, this cant of renunciation has almost ruined the country. It is for this reason that the Indians are a subject nation today. Doing good to others, bringing education to the door of the ignorant, and above all, improving the material conditions of the country — these should be our duty now. The cry of religion and renunciation would, on the contrary, only weaken us. You should advise the young men of Bengal to resort only to such acts as will uplift the country." Sri Ramakrishna gave him a searching look and found no divine light within, "You man of poor understanding!" Sri Ramakrishna said sharply. "You dare to slight in these terms renunciation and piety, which our scriptures describe as the greatest of all virtues! After reading two pages of English you think you have come to know the world! You appear to think you are omniscient. Well, have you seen those tiny crabs that are born in the Ganges just when the rains set in? In this big universe you are even less significant than one of those small creatures. How dare you talk of helping the world? The Lord will look to that. You haven't the power in you to do it." After a pause the Master continued: "Can you explain to me how you can work for others? I know what you mean by helping them. To feed a number of persons, to treat them when they are sick, to construct a road or dig a well — isn't that all? These, are good deeds, no doubt, but how trifling in comparison with the vastness of the universe! How far can a man advance in this line? How many people can you save from famine? Malaria has ruined a whole province; what could you do to stop its onslaught? God alone looks after the world. Let a man first realize Him. Let a man get the authority from God and be endowed with His power; then, and then alone, may he think of doing good to others. A man should first be purged of all egotism. Then alone will the Blissful Mother ask him to work for the world." Sri Ramakrishna mistrusted philanthropy that presumed to pose as charity. He warned people against it. He saw in most acts of philanthropy nothing but egotism, vanity, a desire for glory, a barren excitement to kill the boredom of life, or an attempt to soothe a guilty conscience. True charity, he taught, is the result of love of God — service to man in a spirit of worship.
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Sri Ramakrishna was sinking day by day. His diet was reduced to a minimum and he found it almost impossible to swallow. He whispered to M.: "I am bearing all this cheerfully, for otherwise you would be weeping. If you all say that it is better that the body should go rather than suffer this torture, I am willing." The next morning he said to his depressed disciples seated near the bed: "Do you know what I see? I see that God alone has become everything. Men and animals are only frameworks covered with skin, and it is He who is moving through their heads and limbs. I see that it is God Himself who has become the block, the executioner, and the victim for the sacrifice.' He fainted with emotion. Regaining partial consciousness, he said: "Now I have no pain. I am very well." Looking at Latu he said: "There sits Latu resting his head on the palm of his hand. To me it is the Lord who is seated in that posture."
The words were tender and touching. Like a mother he caressed Narendra and Rakhal, gently stroking their faces. He said in a half whisper to M., "Had this body been allowed to last a little longer, many more souls would have been illumined." He paused a moment and then said: "But Mother has ordained otherwise. She will take me away lest, finding me guileless and foolish, people should take advantage of me and persuade me to bestow on them the rare gifts of spirituality." A few minutes later he touched his chest and said: "Here are two beings. One is She and the other is Her devotee. It is the latter who broke his arm, and it is he again who is now ill. Do you understand me?" After a pause he added: "Alas! To whom shall I tell all this? Who will understand me?" "Pain", he consoled them again, 'is unavoidable as long as there is a body. The Lord takes on the body for the sake of His devotees."
Yet one is not sure whether the Master's soul actually was tortured by this agonizing disease. At least during his moments of spiritual exaltation — which became almost constant during the closing days of his life on earth — he lost all consciousness of the body, of illness and suffering. One of his attendants (Latu, later known as Swami Adbhutananda.) said later on: "While Sri Ramakrishna lay sick he never actually suffered pain. He would often say: 'O mind! Forget the body, forget the sickness, and remain merged in Bliss.' No, he did not really suffer. At times he would be in a state when the thrill of joy was clearly manifested in his body. Even when he could not speak he would let us know in some way that there was no suffering, and this fact was clearly evident to all who watched him. People who did not understand him thought that his suffering was very great. What spiritual joy he transmitted to us at that time! Could such a thing have been possible if he had 'been suffering physically? It was during this period that he taught us again these truths: 'Brahman is always unattached. The three gunas are in It, but It is unaffected by them, just as the wind carries odour yet remains odourless.' 'Brahman is Infinite Being, Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Bliss. In It there exist no delusion, no misery, no disease, no death, no growth, no decay.' 'The Transcendental Being and the being within are one and the same. There is one indivisible Absolute Existence.'"
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss
of Hallucinations.
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Also, since below the Abyss Reason is Lord, let men
seek by experiment, and not by Questionings.
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known lines of the late Lord Tennyson:
"In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove,
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the Angel of the Lord of Despair and Cruelty.
Also "Silence" and "Shut Up".
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
It did not take much time for M. to become very intimate with the Master, or for the Master to recognise in this disciple a divinely commissioned partner in the fulfilment of his spiritual mission. When M. was reading out the Chaitanya Bhagavata, the Master discovered that he had been, in a previous birth, a disciple and companion of the great Vaishnava Teacher, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and the Master even saw him 'with his naked eye' participating in the ecstatic mass-singing of the Lord's name under the leadership of that Divine personality. So the Master told M, "You are my own, of the same substance as the father and the son," indicating thereby that M. was one of the chosen few and a part and parcel of his Divine mission.
There was an urge in M. to abandon the household life and become a Sannysin. When he communicated this idea to the Master, he forbade him saying," Mother has told me that you have to do a little of Her work you will have to teach Bhagavata, the word of God to humanity. The Mother keeps a Bhagavata Pandit with a bondage in the world!"
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An appropriate allusion indeed! Bhagavata, the great scripture that has given the word of Sri Krishna to mankind, was composed by the Sage Vysa under similar circumstances. When caught up in a mood of depression like that of M, Vysa was advised by the sage Nrada that he would gain peace of mind only qn composing a work exclusively devoted to the depiction of the Lord's glorious attributes and His teachings on Knowledge and Devotion, and the result was that the world got from Vysa the invaluable gift of the Bhagavata Purana depicting the life and teachings of Sri Krishna.
From the mental depression of the modem Vysa, the world has obtained the Kathmrita (Bengali Edition) the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna in English.
Sri Ramakrishna was a teacher for both the Orders of mankind, Sannysins and householders. His own life offered an ideal example for both, and he left behind disciples who followed the highest traditions he had set in respect of both these ways of life. M., along with Nag Mahashay, exemplified how a householder can rise to the highest level of sagehood. M. was married to Nikunja Devi, a distant relative of Keshab Chander Sen, even when he was reading at College, and he had four children, two sons and two daughters. The responsibility of the family, no doubt, made him dependent on his professional income, but the great devotee that he was, he never compromised with ideals and principles for this reason. Once when he was working as the headmaster in a school managed by the great Vidysgar, the results of the school at the public examination happened to be rather poor, and Vidysgar attri buted it to M's preoccupation with the Master and his consequent failure to attend adequately to the school work. M. at once resigned his post without any thought of the morrow. Within a fortnight the family was in poverty, and M. was one day pacing up and down the verandah of his house, musing how he would feed his children the next day. Just then a man came with a letter addressed to 'Mahendra Babu', and on opening it, M. found that it was a letter from his friend Sri Surendra Nath Banerjee, asking whether he would like to take up a professorship in the Ripon College. In this way three or four times he gave up the job that gave him the wherewithal to support the family, either for upholding principles or for practising spiritual Sadhanas in holy places, without any consideration of the possible dire worldly consequences; but he was always able to get over these difficulties somehow, and the interests of his family never suffered. In spite of his disregard for worldly goods, he was, towards the latter part of his life, in a fairly flourishing condition as the proprietor of the Morton School which he developed into a noted educational institution in the city. The Lord has said in the Bhagavad Git that in the case of those who think of nothing except Him, He Himself would take up all their material and spiritual responsibilities. M. was an example of the truth of the Lord's promise.
Though his children received proper attention from him, his real family, both during the Master's lifetime and after, consisted of saints, devotees, Sannysins and spiritual aspirants. His life exemplifies the Master's teaching that an ideal householder must be like a good maidservant of a family, loving and caring properly for the children of the house, but knowing always that her real home and children are elsewhere. During the Master's lifetime he spent all his Sundays and other holidays with him and his devotees, and besides listening to the holy talks and devotional music, practised meditation both on the Personal and the Impersonal aspects of God under the direct guidance of the Master. In the pages of the Gospel the reader gets a picture of M.'s spiritual relationship with the Master how from a hazy belief in the Impersonal God of the Brahmos, he was step by step brought to accept both Personality and Impersonality as the two aspects of the same Non-dual Being, how he was convinced of the manifestation of that Being as Gods, Goddesses and as Incarnations, and how he was established in a life that was both of a Jnni and of a Bhakta. This Jnni-Bhakta outlook and way of living became so dominant a feature of his life that Swami Raghavananda, who was very closely associated with him during his last six years, remarks: "Among those who lived with M. in latter days, some felt that he always lived in this constant and conscious union with God even with open eyes (i.e., even in waking consciousness)." (Swami Raghavananda's article on M. in Prabuddha Bharata vol. XXXVII. P. 442.)
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The two pamphlets in English entitled the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna appeared in October and November 1897. They drew the spontaneous acclamation of Swami Vivekananda, who wrote on 24th November of that year from Dehra Dun to M.:"Many many thanks for your second leaflet. It is indeed wonderful. The move is quite original, and never was the life of a Great Teacher brought before the public untarnished by the writer's mind, as you are doing. The language also is beyond all praise, so fresh, so pointed, and withal so plain and easy. I cannot express in adequate terms how I have enjoyed them. I am really in a transport when I read them. Strange, isn't it? Our Teacher and Lord was so original, and each one of us will have to be original or nothing.
I now understand why none of us attempted His life before. It has been reserved for you, this great work. He is with you evidently." ( Vednta Kesari Vol. XIX P. 141. Also given in the first edition of the Gospel published from Ramakrishna Math, Madras in 1911.)
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A year of silence and expectation... let us find, O Lord, our entire
support in Thy Grace alone.
0.03 - The Threefold Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
That highest thing, the spiritual existence, is concerned with what is eternal but not therefore entirely aloof from the transient. For the spiritual man the mind's dream of perfect beauty is realised in an eternal love, beauty and delight that has no dependence and is equal behind all objective appearances; its dream of perfect Truth in the supreme, self-existent, self-apparent and eternal Verity which never varies, but explains and is the secret of all variations and the goal of all progress; its dream of perfect action in the omnipotent and self-guiding Law that is inherent for ever in all things and translates itself here in the rhythm of the worlds. What is fugitive vision or constant effort of creation in the brilliant Self is an eternally existing Reality in the Self that knows2 and is the Lord.
But if it is often difficult for the mental life to accommodate itself to the dully resistant material activity, how much more difficult must it seem for the spiritual existence to live on in a world that appears full not of the Truth but of every lie and illusion, not of Love and Beauty but of an encompassing discord and ugliness, not of the Law of Truth but of victorious selfishness and sin? Therefore the spiritual life tends easily in the saint and Sannyasin to withdraw from the material existence and reject it either wholly and physically or in the spirit. It sees this world as the kingdom of evil or of ignorance and the eternal and divine either in a far-off heaven or beyond where there is no world and no life. It separates itself inwardly, if not also physically, from the world's impurities; it asserts the spiritual reality in a spotless isolation. This withdrawal renders an invaluable service to the material life itself by forcing it to regard and even to bow down to something that is the direct negation of its own petty ideals, sordid cares and egoistic self-content.
But the work in the world of so supreme a power as spiritual force cannot be thus limited. The spiritual life also can return upon the material and use it as a means of its own greater fullness. Refusing to be blinded by the dualities, the appearances, it can seek in all appearances whatsoever the vision of the same Lord, the same eternal Truth, Beauty, Love, Delight. The
Vedantic formula of the Self in all things, all things in the Self and all things as becomings of the Self is the key to this richer and all-embracing Yoga.
2 The Unified, in whom conscious thought is concentrated, who is all delight and enjoyer of delight, the Wise. . . . He is the Lord of all, the Omniscient, the inner Guide.
Mandukya Upanishad 5, 6.
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Spirit is the crown of universal existence; Matter is its basis; Mind is the link between the two. Spirit is that which is eternal; Mind and Matter are its workings. Spirit is that which is concealed and has to be revealed; mind and body are the means by which it seeks to reveal itself. Spirit is the image of the Lord of the Yoga; mind and body are the means He has provided for reproducing that image in phenomenal existence. All Nature is an attempt at a progressive revelation of the concealed Truth, a more and more successful reproduction of the divine image.
But what Nature aims at for the mass in a slow evolution, Yoga effects for the individual by a rapid revolution. It works by a quickening of all her energies, a sublimation of all her faculties. While she develops the spiritual life with difficulty and has constantly to fall back from it for the sake of her lower realisations, the sublimated force, the concentrated method of Yoga can attain directly and carry with it the perfection of the mind and even, if she will, the perfection of the body. Nature seeks the Divine in her own symbols: Yoga goes beyond Nature to the Lord of Nature, beyond universe to the Transcendent and can return with the transcendent light and power, with the fiat of the Omnipotent.
But their aim is one in the end. The generalisation of Yoga in humanity must be the last victory of Nature over her own delays and concealments. Even as now by the progressive mind in Science she seeks to make all mankind fit for the full development of the mental life, so by Yoga must she inevitably seek to make all mankind fit for the higher evolution, the second birth, the spiritual existence. And as the mental life uses and perfects the material, so will the spiritual use and perfect the material and the mental existence as the instruments of a divine self-expression.
0.04 - The Systems of Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is this truth which makes necessary to every philosophy of Yoga the conception of the Ishwara, Lord, supreme Soul or supreme Self, towards whom the effort is directed and who gives the illuminating touch and the strength to attain. Equally true is the complementary idea so often enforced by the Yoga of devotion that as the Transcendent is necessary to the individual and sought after by him, so also the individual is necessary in a sense to the Transcendent and sought after by It. If the
Bhakta seeks and yearns after Bhagavan, Bhagavan also seeks and yearns after the Bhakta.1 There can be no Yoga of knowledge without a human seeker of the knowledge, the supreme subject of knowledge and the divine use by the individual of the universal faculties of knowledge; no Yoga of devotion without the human God-lover, the supreme object of love and delight and the divine use by the individual of the universal faculties of spiritual, emotional and aesthetic enjoyment; no Yoga of works without the human worker, the supreme Will, Master of all works and sacrifices, and the divine use by the individual of the universal faculties of power and action. However Monistic may be our intellectual conception of the highest truth of things, in practice we are compelled to accept this omnipresent Trinity.
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Bhakta, the devotee or lover of God; Bhagavan, God, the Lord of Love and Delight.
The third term of the trinity is Bhagavat, the divine revelation of Love.
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Rajayoga takes a higher flight. It aims at the liberation and perfection not of the bodily, but of the mental being, the control of the emotional and sensational life, the mastery of the whole apparatus of thought and consciousness. It fixes its eyes on the citta, that stuff of mental consciousness in which all these activities arise, and it seeks, even as Hathayoga with its physical material, first to purify and to tranquillise. The normal state of man is a condition of trouble and disorder, a kingdom either at war with itself or badly governed; for the Lord, the Purusha, is subjected to his ministers, the faculties, subjected even to his subjects, the instruments of sensation, emotion, action, enjoyment. Swarajya, self-rule, must be substituted for this subjection.
First, therefore, the powers of order must be helped to overcome
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Purusha who is the true Lord of the mental kingdom, a pure, glad, clear state of mind and heart is established.
This is the first step only. Afterwards, the ordinary activities of the mind and sense must be entirely quieted in order that the soul may be free to ascend to higher states of consciousness and acquire the foundation for a perfect freedom and self-mastery.
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Love and Bliss and utilises normally the conception of the supreme Lord in His personality as the divine Lover and enjoyer of the universe. The world is then realised as a play of the
Lord, with our human life as its final stage, pursued through the different phases of self-concealment and self-revelation. The principle of Bhakti Yoga is to utilise all the normal relations of human life into which emotion enters and apply them no longer to transient worldly relations, but to the joy of the All-Loving, the All-Beautiful and the All-Blissful. Worship and meditation are used only for the preparation and increase of intensity of the divine relationship. And this Yoga is catholic in its use of all emotional relations, so that even enmity and opposition to God, considered as an intense, impatient and perverse form of Love, is conceived as a possible means of realisation and salvation.
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purifies the mind and the will that we become easily conscious of the great universal Energy as the true doer of all our actions and the Lord of that Energy as their ruler and director with the individual as only a mask, an excuse, an instrument or, more positively, a conscious centre of action and phenomenal relation. The choice and direction of the act is more and more consciously left to this supreme Will and this universal Energy.
To That our works as well as the results of our works are finally abandoned. The object is the release of the soul from its bondage to appearances and to the reaction of phenomenal activities.
0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
If, however, we leave aside, here also, the actual methods and practices and seek for the central principle, we find, first, that Tantra expressly differentiates itself from the Vedic methods of Yoga. In a sense, all the schools we have hitherto examined are Vedantic in their principle; their force is in knowledge, their method is knowledge, though it is not always discernment by the intellect, but may be, instead, the knowledge of the heart expressed in love and faith or a knowledge in the will working out through action. In all of them the Lord of the Yoga is the Purusha, the Conscious Soul that knows, observes, attracts, governs. But in Tantra it is rather Prakriti, the Nature-Soul, the Energy, the
Will-in-Power executive in the universe. It was by learning and applying the intimate secrets of this Will-in-Power, its method, its Tantra, that the Tantric Yogin pursued the aims of his discipline, - mastery, perfection, liberation, beatitude. Instead of drawing back from manifested Nature and its difficulties, he confronted them, seized and conquered. But in the end, as is the general tendency of Prakriti, Tantric Yoga largely lost its principle in its machinery and became a thing of formulae and occult mechanism still powerful when rightly used but fallen from the clarity of their original intention.
We have in this central Tantric conception one side of the truth, the worship of the Energy, the Shakti, as the sole effective force for all attainment. We get the other extreme in the Vedantic conception of the Shakti as a power of Illusion and in the search after the silent inactive Purusha as the means of liberation from the deceptions created by the active Energy. But in the integral conception the Conscious Soul is the Lord, the Nature-Soul is his executive Energy. Purusha is of the nature of Sat, the being of conscious self-existence pure and infinite; Shakti or Prakriti is of the nature of Chit, - it is power of the Purusha's self-conscious existence, pure and infinite. The relation of the two exists between the poles of rest and action. When the Energy is absorbed
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0.07 - DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
Begins the exposition of the stanzas which treat of the way and manner which the soul follows upon the road of the union of love with God. Before we enter upon the exposition of these stanzas, it is well to understand here that the soul that utters them is now in the state of perfection, which is the union of love with God, having already passed through severe trials and straits, by means of spiritual exercise in the narrow way of eternal life whereof Our Saviour speaks in the Gospel, along which way the soul ordinarily passes in order to reach this high and happy union with God. Since this road (as the Lord Himself says likewise) is so strait, and since there are so few that enter by it,19 the soul considers it a great happiness and good chance to have passed along it to the said perfection of love, as it sings in this first stanza, calling this strait road with full propriety 'dark night,' as will be explained hereafter in the lines of the said stanza. The soul, then, rejoicing at having passed along this narrow road whence so many blessings have come to it, speaks after this manner.
BOOK THE FIRST
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
"O Lord, awaken my entire being that it may be for Thee
the needed instrument, the perfect servant."
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
with the Supreme Lord and dissolve myself completely in Him.
Then my body, completely passive, is nothing but a channel
through which the Lord passes His forces freely and pours upon
all His Light, His Consciousness and His Joy, according to each
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother? What can one do for the Lord which will be
this "much"?
To do something for the Lord is to give Him something of what
one has or of what one does or of what one is. In other words,
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The Lord is everywhere, in everything, in what we throw away
as in what we keep preciously, in what we trample on as in what
01.01 - The New Humanity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The New Man will be Master and not slave. He will be master, first, of himself and then of the world. Man as he actually is, is but a slave. He has no personal voice or choice; the determining soul, the Ishwara, in him is sleep-bound and hushed. He is a mere plaything in the hands of nature and circumstances. Therefore it is that Science has become his supreme Dharmashastra; for science seeks to teach us the moods of Nature and the methods of propitiating her. Our actual ideal of man is that of the cleverest slave. But the New Man will have found himself and by and according to his inner will, mould and create his world. He will not be in awe of Nature and in an attitude of perpetual apprehension and hesitation, but will ground himself on a secret harmony and union that will declare him as the Lord. We will recognise the New Man by his very gait and manner, by a certain kingly ease and dominion in every shade of his expression.
Not that this sovereign power will have anything to do with aggression or over-bearingness. It will not be a power that feels itself only by creating an eternal opponentErbfeindby coming in constant clash with a rival that seeks to gain victory by subjugating. It will not be Nietzschean "will to power," which is, at best, a supreme Asuric power. It will rather be a Divine Power, for the strength it will exert and the victory it will achieve will not come from the egoit is the ego which requires an object outside and against to feel and affirm itself but it will come from a higher personal self which is one with the cosmic soul and therefore with other personal souls. The Asura, in spite of, or rather, because of his aggressive vehemence betrays a lack of the sovereign power that is calm and at ease and self-sufficient. The Devic power does not assert hut simply accomplishes; the forces of the world act not as its opponent but as its instrument. Thus the New Man shall affirm his individual sovereignty and do so to perfection by expressing through it his unity with the cosmic powers, with the infinite godhead. And by being Swarat, Self-Master, he will become Samrat, world-master.
01.02 - Sri Aurobindo - Ahana and Other Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To humanise the Divine, that is what we all wish to do; for the Divine is too lofty for us and we cannot look full into his face. We cry and supplicate to Rudra, "O dire Lord, show us that other form of thine that is benign and humane". All earthly imageries we lavish upon the Divine so that he may appear to us not as something far and distant and foreign, but, quite near, among us, as one of us. We take recourse to human symbolism often, because we wish to palliate or hide the rigours of a supreme experience, not because we have no adequate terms for it. The same human or earthly terms could be used differently if we had a different consciousness. Thus the Vedic Rishis sought not to humanise the Divine, their purpose was rather to divinise the human. And their allegorical language, although rich in terrestrial figures, does not carry the impress and atmosphere of mere humanity and earthliness. For in reality the symbol is not merely the symbol. It is mere symbol in regard to the truth so long as we take our stand on the lower plane when we have to look at the truth through the symbol; but if we view it from the higher plane, from truth itself, it is no longer mere symbol but the very truth bodied forth. Whatever there is of symbolism on earth and its beauties, in sense and its enjoyments, is then transfigured into the expression of the truth, of the divinity itself. We then no longer speak in human language but in the language of the gods.
We have been speaking of philosophy and the philosophic manner. But what are the exact implications of the words, let us ask again. They mean nothing more and nothing lessthan the force of thought and the mass of thought content. After all, that seems to be almost the whole difference between the past and the present human consciousness in so far at least as it has found expression in poetry. That element, we wish to point out, is precisely what the old-world poets lacked or did not care to possess or express or stress. A poet meant above all, if not all in all, emotion, passion, sensuousness, sensibility, nervous enthusiasm and imagination and fancy: remember the classic definition given by Shakespeare of the poet
01.02 - The Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A chattel and a plaything of Time's Lords,
Or one more pawn who comes destined to be pushed
01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
No other Lord but thee can Radha seek.7
there is nothing in the matter or manner which can indicate, to the uninitiated, any reference to the Spirit or the Divine. Or this again,
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Heaven is, dear Lord! where'er Thou art,
O never then from me depart !11
01.04 - Sri Aurobindos Gita, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Supreme Spirit, Purushottama, who holds in himself the dual reality of Brahman and the world, is the master of action who acts but in actionlessness, the Lord in whom and through whom the universes and their creatures live and move and have their being. Karmayoga is union in mind and soul and body with the Lord of action in the execution of his cosmic purpose. And this union is effected through a transformation of the human nature, through the revelation of the Divine Prakriti and its descent upon and possession of the inferior human vehicle.
Arrived so far, we now find, if we look back, a change in the whole perspective. Karma and even Karmayoga, which hitherto seemed to be the pivot of the Gita's teaching, retire somewhat into the background and present a diminished stature and value. The centre of gravity has shifted to the conception of the Divine Nature, to the Lord's own status, to the consciousness above the three Gunas, to absolute consecration of each limb of man's humanity to the Supreme Purusha for his descent and incarnation and play in and upon this human world.
The higher secret of the Gita lies really in the later chapters, the earlier chapters being a preparation and passage to it orpartial and practical application. This has to be pointed out, since there is a notion current which seeks to limit the Gita's effective teaching to the earlier part, neglecting or even discarding the later portion.
01.04 - The Intuition of the Age, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This then is the mantra of the new ageLife with Intuition as its guide and not Reason and mechanical efficiency, not Man but Superman. The right mantra has been found, the principle itself is irreproachable. But the interpretation, the application, does not seem to have been always happy. For, Nietzsche's conception of the Superman is full of obvious lacunae. If we have so long been adoring the intellectual man, Nietzsche asks us, on the other hand, to deify the vital man. According to him the superman is he who has (1) the supreme sense of the ego, (2) the sovereign will to power and (3) who lives dangerously. All this means an Asura, that is to say, one who has, it may be, dominion over his animal and vital impulsions in order, of course, that he may best gratify them but who has not purified them. Purification does not necessarily mean, annihilation but it does mean sublimation and transformation. So if you have to transcend man, you have to transcend egoism also. For a conscious egoism is the very characteristic of man and by increasing your sense of egoism you do not supersede man but simply aggrandise your humanity, fashion it on a larger, a titanic scale. And then the will to power is not the only will that requires fulfilment, there is also the will to knowledge and the will to love. In man these three fundamental constitutive elements coexist, although they do it, more often than not, at the expense of each other and in a state of continual disharmony. The superman, if he is to be the man "who has surmounted himself", must embody a poise of being in which all the three find a fusion and harmonya perfect synthesis. Again, to live dangerously may be heroic, but it is not divine. To live dangerously means to have eternal opponents, that is to say, to live ever on the same level with the forces you want to dominate. To have the sense that one has to fight and control means that one is not as yet the sovereign Lord, for one has to strive and strain and attain. The supreme Lord is he who is perfectly equanimous with himself and with the world. He has not to batter things into a shape in order to create. He creates means, he manifests. He wills and he achieves"God said 'let there be light' and there was light."
As a matter of fact, the superman is not, as Nietzsche thinks him to be, the highest embodiment of the biological force of Nature, not even as modified and refined by the aesthetic and aristocratic virtues of which the higher reaches of humanity seem capable. For that is after all humanity only accentuated in certain other fundamentally human modes of existence. It does not carry far enough the process of surmounting. In reality it is not a surmounting but a new channelling. Instead of the ethical and intellectual man, we get the vital and aesthetic man. It may be a change but not a transfiguration.
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
One who has shaped this world is ever its Lord:
Our errors are his steps upon the way;
01.05 - Rabindranath Tagore: A Great Poet, a Great Man, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Tagore is no inventor or innovator when he posits Spirit as Beauty, the spiritual consciousness as the ardent rhythm of ecstasy. This experience is the very core of Vaishnavism and for which Tagore is sometimes called a Neo-Vaishnava. The Vaishnava sees the world pulsating in glamorous beauty as the Lila (Play) of the Lord, and the Lord, God himself, is nothing but Love and Beauty. Still Tagore is not all Vaishnava or merely a Vaishnava; he is in addition a modern (the carping voice will say, there comes the dilution and adulteration)in the sense that problems exist for himsocial, political, economic, national, humanitarianwhich have to be faced and solved: these are not merely mundane, but woven into the texture of the fundamental problem of human destiny, of Soul and Spirit and God. A Vaishnava was, in spite of his acceptance of the world, an introvert, to use a modern psychological phrase, not necessarily in the pejorative sense, but in the neutral scientific sense. He looks upon the universe' and human life as the play of the Lord, as an actuality and not mere illusion indeed; but he does not participate or even take interest in the dynamic working out of the world process, he does not care to know, has no need of knowing that there is a terrestrial purpose and a diviner fulfilment of the mortal life upon earth. The Vaishnava dwells more or less absorbed in the Vaikuntha of his inner consciousness; the outer world, although real, is only a symbolic shadowplay to which he can but be a witness-real, is only a nothing more.
A modern idealist of the type of a reformer would not be satisfied with that role. If he is merely a moralist reformer, he will revolt against the "witness business", calling it a laissez-faire mentality of bygone days. A spiritual reformer would ask for morea dynamic union with the Divine Will and Consciousness, not merely a passive enjoyment in the Bliss, so that he may be a luminous power or agent for the expression of divine values in things mundane.
01.06 - Vivekananda, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The consciousness that breathed out these mighty words, these heavenly sounds was in itself mighty and heavenly and it is that that touches you, penetrates you, vibrates in you a kindred chord, "awakening in you someone dead" till thenmrtam kcana bodhayant. More than the matter, the thing that was said, was the personality, the being who embodied the truth expressed, the living consciousness behind the words and the speech that set fire to your soul. Indeed it was the soul that Vivekananda could awaken and stir in you. Any orator, any speaker with some kind of belief, even if it is for the moment, in what he says, by the sheer force of assertion, can convince your mind and draw your acquiescence and adhesion. A leader of men, self-confident and bold and fiery, can carry you off your feet and make you do brave things. But that is a lower degree of character and nature, ephemeral and superficial, that is touched in you thereby. The spiritual leader, the Guide, goes straight to the spirit in youit is the call of the deep unto the deep. That was what Vivekananda meant when he said that Brahman is asleep in you, awaken it, you are the Brahman, awaken it, you are free and almighty. It is the spirit consciousness Sachchidananda that is the real man in you and that is supremely mighty and invincible and free absolutely. The courage and fearlessness that Vivekananda gave you was the natural attribute of the Lordship of your spiritual reality. Vivekananda spoke and roused the Atman in man.
Vivekananda spoke to the Atman in man, he spoke to the Atman of the world, and he spoke specially to the Atman of India. India had a large place in Vivekananda's consciousness: for the future of humanity and the world is wedded to India's future. India has a great mission, it has a spiritual, rather the spiritual work to do. Here is India's work as Vivekananda conceived it in a nutshell:
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"The zeal for the Lord hath eaten me up." Such has indeed been the case with Pascal, almost literally. The fire that burned in him was too ardent and vehement for the vehicle, the material instrument, which was very soon used up and reduced to ashes. At twenty-four he was already a broken man, being struck with paralysis and neuras thenia; he died at the comparatively early age of 39, emulating, as it were, the life career of his Lord the Christ who died at 33. The Fire martyrised the body, but kindled and brought forth experiences and realisations that save and truths that abide. It was the Divine Fire whose vision and experience he had on the famous night of 23 November 1654 which brought about his final and definitive conversion. It was the same fire that had blazed up in his brain, while yet a boy, and made him a precocious genius, a marvel of intellectual power in the exact sciences. At 12 this prodigy discovered by himself the 32nd proposition of Euclid, Book I. At sixteen he wrote a treatise on conic sections. At nineteen he invented a calculating machine which, without the help of any mathematical rule or process, gave absolutely accurate results. At twenty-three he published his experiments with vacuum. At twenty-five he conducted the well-known experiment from the tower of St. Jacques, proving the existence of atmospheric pressure. His studies in infinitesimal calculus were remarkably creative and original. And it might be said he was a pioneer in quite a new branch of mathematics, viz., the mathematical theory of probability. We shall see presently how his preoccupation with the mathematics of chance and probability coloured and reinforced his metaphysics and theology.
But the pressure upon his dynamic and heated brain the fiery zeal in his mindwas already proving too much and he was advised medically to take complete rest. Thereupon followed what was known as Pascal's mundane lifea period of distraction and dissipation; but this did not last long nor was it of a serious nature. The inner fire could brook no delay, it was eager and impatient to englobe other fields and domains. Indeed, it turned to its own field the heart. Pascal became initiated into the mystery of Faith and Grace. Still he had to pass through a terrible period of dejection and despair: the life of the world had given him no rest or relaxation, it served only to fill his cup of misery to the brim. But the hour of final relief was not long postponed: the Grace came to him, even as it came to Moses or St. Paul as a sudden flare of fire which burnt up the Dark Night and opened out the portals of Morning Glory.
01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Here is the Augustinian mantra taken as the motto of The Scale of Perfection: We ascend the ascending grades in our heart and we sing the song of ascension1. The journey's end is heavenly Jerusalem, the House of the Lord. The steps of this inner ascension are easily visible, not surely to the outer eye of the sense-burdened man, but to the "ghostly seeing" of the aspirant which is hazy in the beginning but slowly clears as he advances. The first step is the withdrawal from the outer senses and looking and seeing within. "Turn home again in thyself, and hold thee within and beg no more without." The immediate result is a darkness and a restless darknessit is a painful night. The outer objects of attraction and interest have been discarded, but the inner attachments and passions surge there still. If, however, one continues and persists, refuses to be drawn out, the turmoil settles down and the darkness begins to thin and wear away. One must not lose heart, one must have patience and perseverance. So when the outward world is no more-there and its call also no longer awakes any echo in us, then comes the stage of "restful darkness" or "light-some darkness". But it is still the dark Night of the soul. The outer light is gone and the inner light is not yet visible: the night, the desert, the great Nought, stretches between these two lights. But the true seeker goes through and comes out of the tunnel. And there is happiness at the end. "The seeking is travaillous, but the finding is blissful." When one steps out of the Night, enters into the deepest layer of the being, one stands face to face to one's soul, the very image of God, the perfect God-man, the Christ within. That is the third degree of our inner ascension, the entry into the deepest, purest and happiest statein which one becomes what he truly is; one finds the Christ there and dwells in love and union with him. But there is still a further step to take, and that is real ascension. For till now it has been a going within, from the outward to the inner and the inmost; now one has to go upward, transcend. Within the body, in life, however deep you may go, even if you find your soul and your union with Jesus whose tabernacle is your soul, still there is bound to remain a shadow of the sinful prison-house; the perfect bliss and purity without any earthly taint, the completeness and the crowning of the purgation and transfiguration can come only when you go beyond, leaving altogether the earthly form and worldly vesture and soar into Heaven itself and be in the company of the Trinity. "Into myself, and after... above myself by overpassing only into Him." At the same time it is pointed out, this mediaeval mystic has the common sense to see that the going in and going above of which one speaks must not be understood in a literal way, it is a figure of speech. The movement of the mystic is psychological"ghostly", it is saidnot physical or carnal.
This spiritual march or progress can also be described as a growing into the likeness of the Lord. His true self, his own image is implanted within us; he is there in the profoundest depth of our being as Jesus, our beloved and our soul rests in him in utmost bliss. We are aware neither of Jesus nor of his spouse, our soul, because of the obsession of the flesh, the turmoil raised by the senses, the blindness of pride and egoism. All that constitutes the first or old Adam, the image of Nought, the body of death which means at bottom the "false misruled love in to thyself." This self-love is the mother of sin, is sin itself. What it has to be replaced by is charity that is the true meaning of Christian charity, forgetfulness of self. "What is sin but a wanting and a forbearing of God." And the whole task, the discipline consists in "the shaping of Christ in you, the casting of sin through Christ." Who then is Christ, what is he? This knowledge you get as you advance from your sense-bound perception towards the inner and inmost seeing. As your outer nature gets purified, you approach gradually your soul, the scales fall off from your eyes too and you have the knowledge and "ghostly vision." Here too there are three degrees; first, you start with faith the senses can do nothing better than have faith; next, you rise to imagination which gives a sort of indirect touch or inkling of the truth; finally, you have the "understanding", the direct vision. "If he first trow it, he shall afterwards through grace feel it, and finally understand it."
It is never possible for man, weak and bound as he is, to reject the thraldom of his flesh, he can never purify himself wholly by his own unaided strength. God in his infinite mercy sent his own son, an emanation created out of his substancehis embodied loveas a human being to suffer along with men and take upon himself the burden of their sins. God the Son lived upon earth as man and died as man. Sin therefore has no longer its final or definitive hold upon mankind. Man has been made potentially free, pure and worthy of salvation. This is the mystery of Christ, of God the Son. But there is a further mystery. Christ not only lived for all men for all time, whether they know him, recognise him or not; but he still lives, he still chooses his beloved and his beloved chooses him, there is a conscious acceptance on either side. This is the function of the Holy Ghost, the redeeming power of Love active in him who accepts it and who is accepted by it, the dynamic Christ-Consciousness in the true Christian.
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This will elucidate another point of difference between the Christian's and the Vaishnava's love of God, for both are characterised by an extreme intensity and sweetness and exquisiteness of that divine feeling. This Christian's, however, is the union of the soul in its absolute purity and simplicity and "privacy" with her Lord and master; the soul is shred here of all earthly vesture and goes innocent and naked into the embrace of her Beloved. The Vaishnava feeling is richer and seems to possess more amplitude; it is more concrete and less ethereal. The Vaishnava in his passionate yearning seeks to carry as it were the whole world with him to his Lord: for he sees and feels Him not only in the inmost chamber of his soul, but meets Him also in and I through his senses and in and through the world and its objects around. In psychological terms one can say that the Christian realisation, at its very source, is that of the inmost soul, what we call the "psychic being" pure and simple, referred to in the book we are considering; as: "His sweet privy voice... stirreth thine heart full stilly." Whereas the Vaishnava reaches out to his Lord with his outer heart too aflame with passion; not only his inmost being but his vital being also seeks the Divine. This bears upon the occult story of man's spiritual evolution upon earth. The Divine Grace descends from the highest into the deepest and from the deepest to the outer ranges of human nature, so that the whole of it may be illumined and transformed and one day man can embody in his earthly life the integral manifestation of God, the perfect Epiphany. Each religion, each line of spiritual discipline takes up one limb of manone level or mode of his being and consciousness purifies it and suffuses it with the spiritual and divine consciousness, so that in the end the whole of man, in his integral living, is recast and remoulded: each discipline is in charge of one thread as it were, all together weave the warp and woof in the evolution of the perfect pattern of a spiritualised and divinised humanity.
The conception of original sin is a cardinal factor in Christian discipline. The conception, of sinfulness is the very motive-power that drives the aspirant. "Seek tensely," it is said, "sorrow and sigh deep, mourn still, and stoop low till thine eye water for anguish and for pain." Remorse and grief are necessary attendants; the way of the cross is naturally the calvary strewn with pain and sorrow. It is the very opposite of what is termed the "sunlit path" in spiritual ascension. Christian mystics have made a glorious spectacle of the process of "dying to the world." Evidently, all do not go the whole length. There are less gloomy and happier temperaments, like the present one, for example, who show an unusual balance, a sturdy common sense even in the midst of their darkest nights, who have chalked out as much of the sunlit path as is possible in this line. Thus this old-world mystic says: it is true one must see and admit one's sinfulness, the grosser and apparent and more violent ones as well as all the subtle varieties of it that are in you or rise up in you or come from the Enemy. They pursue you till the very end of your journey. Still you need not feel overwhelmed or completely desperate. Once you recognise the sin in you, even the bare fact of recognition means for you half the victory. The mystic says, "It is no sin as thou feelest them." The day Jesus gave himself away on the Cross, since that very day you are free, potentially free from the bondage of sin. Once you give your adherence to Him, the Enemies are rendered powerless. "They tease the soul, but they harm not the soul". Or again, as the mystic graphically phrases it: "This soul is not borne in this image of sin as a sick man, though he feel it; but he beareth it." The best way of dealing with one's enemies is not to struggle and "strive with them." The aspirant, the lover of Jesus, must remember: "He is through grace reformed to the likeness of God ('in the privy substance of his soul within') though he neither feel it nor see it."
01.09 - The Parting of the Way, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The inflatus of something vast and transcendent, something which escapes all our familiar schemes of cognisance and yet is insistent with a translucent reality of its own, we do feel sometimes within us invading and enveloping our individuality, lifting up our sense of self and transmuting our personality into a reality which can hardly be called merely human. All this life of ego-bound rationality then melts away and opens out the passage for a life of vision and power. Thus it is the poet has felt when he says, "there is this incalculable element in human life influencing us from the mystery which envelops our being, and when reason is satisfied, there is something deeper than Reason which makes us still uncertain of truth. Above the human reason there is a transcendental sphere to which the spirit of men sometimes rises, and the will may be forged there at a Lordly smithy and made the unbreakable pivot."(A.E.)
This passage from the self-conscient to the super-conscient does not imply merely a shifting of the focus of consciousness. The transmutation of consciousness involves a purer illumination, a surer power and a wider compass; it involves also a fundamental change in the very mode of being and living. It gives quite a different life-intuition and a different life-power. The change in the motif brings about a new form altogether, a re-casting and re-shaping and re-energising of the external materials as well. As the lift from mere consciousness to self-consciousness meant all the difference between an animal and a man, so the lift again from self-consciousness to super-consciousness will mean the difference of a whole world between man and the divine creature that is to be.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
but the Supreme Lord alone is its centre because He surpasses
and contains it.
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adoration ought to go only to the Supreme Lord, who is one in
all things and all beings.
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results to the Eternal Lord.
6 March 1962
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the right to judge? Only the Lord sees and knows - He alone is
the Truth.
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to the Lord; then your heart will be at peace."
13 May 1963
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true "good" is the will of the Supreme Lord. Do you know
what the Lord's will is, always, at every moment and in all
circumstances? No, so you are ignorant of what "good" is -
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Ananda belongs to the Supreme Lord.
Ecstasy belongs to the perfected yogi.
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perfected yogi identified with the Supreme Lord? Isn't a
desireless man a sincere sadhak?
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The Supreme Lord can give his Ananda to whomever He
wants and as He wants.
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"The greatest egoist is the Supreme Lord because He never
bothers about anything but Himself!"
01.11 - The Basis of Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Islam comes with a full-fledged spiritual soul and a mental and vital formation commensurable with that inner being and consciousness. It comes with a dynamic spirit, a warrior mood, that aims at conquering the physical world for the Lord, a temperament which Indian spirituality had not, or had lost long before, if she had anything of it. This was, perhaps, what Vivekananda meant when he spoke graphically of a Hindu soul with a Muslim body. The Islamic dispensation, however, brings with it not only something complementary, but also something contradictory, if not for anything else, at least for the strong individuality which does not easily yield to assimilation. Still, in spite of great odds, the process of assimilation was going on slowly and surely. But of late it appears to have come to a dead halt; difficulties have been presented which seem insuperable.
If religious toleration were enough, if that made up man's highest and largest achievement, then Nature need not have attempted to go beyond cultural fusion; a liberal culture is the surest basis for a catholic religious spirit. But such a spirit of toleration and catholicity, although it bespeaks a widened consciousness, does not always enshrine a profundity of being. Nobody is more tolerant and catholic than a dilettante, but an ardent spiritual soul is different.
01.14 - Nicholas Roerich, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The stress of the inner urge to the heights and depths of spiritual values and realities found special and significant expression in his paintings. It is a difficult problem, a problem which artists and poets are tackling today with all their skill and talent. Man's consciousness is no longer satisfied with the customary and the ordinary actions and reactions of life (or thought), with the old-world and time-worn modes and manners. It is no more turned to the apparent and the obvious, to the surface forms and movements of things. It yearns to look behind and beyond, for the secret mechanism, the hidden agency that really drives things. Poets and artists are the vanguards of the age to come, prophets and pioneers preparing the way for the Lord.
Roerich discovered and elaborated his own technique to reveal that which is secret, express that which is not expressed or expressible. First of all, he is symbolical and allegorical: secondly, the choice of his symbols and allegories is hieratic, that is to say, the subject-matter refers to objects and events connected with saints and legends, shrines and enchanted places, hidden treasures, spirits and angels, etc. etc.; thirdly, the manner or style of execution is what we may term pantomimic, in other words, concrete, graphic, dramatic, even melodramatic. He has a special predilection for geometrical patterns the artistic effect of whichbalance, regularity, fixity, soliditywas greatly utilised by the French painter Czanne and poet Mallarm who seem to have influenced Roerich to a considerable degree. But this Northerner had not the reticence, the suavity, the tonic unity of the classicist, nor the normality and clarity of the Latin temperament. The prophet, the priest in him was the stronger element and made use of the artist as the rites andceremoniesmudras and chakrasof his vocation demanded. Indeed, he stands as the hierophant of a new cultural religion and his paintings and utterances are, as it were, gestures that accompany a holy ceremonial.
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Lord is the Supreme Purusha, the Purushottama.
The Atman is the universal Purusha.
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when the Lord will take the earth into His arms and "the
earth will be transformed". Is that day drawing near?
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One moment of the Lord probably means many years for
us!
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The Lord told You: "One day thou wilt be my head but
for the moment turn thy gaze towards the earth."4
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that only the Supreme Lord exists and that He alone lives and
acts.
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Only the Supreme Lord is perfectly sincere.
And when the ego is abolished, only the Supreme Lord
exists.
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phrase: 'My zeal for the Lord has eaten me up.' "11
Does this mean an intense, constant and integral
0.13 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
and the breath of the Lord is abroad upon the waters
of our being; there are others when it retires and men
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Say to the Supreme Lord: "Let Thy Will be done", and remain
as peaceful as possible.
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Supreme Lord, Infinite Wisdom,
At this perilous hour when egoisms are at odds and asserting
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Let us learn to be silent so that the Lord may make use of
us.
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O Lord, awaken in me the ardent desire to know You.
I aspire to consecrate my life to Your service.
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Supreme Lord, teach us to be silent, that in the silence we may
receive Your force and understand Your will.
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"Supreme Lord, Perfect Consciousness, You alone know
truly what we are, what we can do, what progress we must make
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Supreme Lord, Perfection that we must become, Perfection that
we must manifest.
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I answered: "The Will of the Supreme Lord."
It is a subject for contemplative meditation.
0 1951-09-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
O my sweet Lord
supreme Truth,
0 1956-04-23, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The Lord hast willed, and Thou dost execute;
A new Light shall break upon the earth.
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Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute:
A new light breaks upon the earth,
0 1956-08-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
My Lord, through me thou hast challenged the world and all the adverse forces have risen in protest.1
But Thy Grace is winning the victory.
0 1956-10-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As Sri Aurobindo says, people see God as a magnified man: he is the Demiurge, Jehovahwhat I call the Lord of Falsehood.
Arbitrariness. But the Divine is not like that!
0 1957-12-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This experience showed me once more the necessity to be perfectly humble before the Lord. It is not enough merely to rise to the heights, to the ethereal planes of consciousness: these planes have also to descend into matter and illuminate it. Otherwise, nothing is really done. One must have the patience to establish the communication between the high and the low. I am like a tempest, a hurricaneif I listened to myself, I would tear into the future, and everything would go flying! But then, there would no longer be any communication with the rest.
One must have the patience to wait.
Humility, a perfect humility, is the condition for all realization. The mind is so cocksure. It thinks it knows everything, understands everything. And if ever it acts through idealism to serve a cause that appears noble to it, it becomes even more arrogant more intransigent, and it is almost impossible to make it see that there might be something still higher beyond its noble conceptions and its great altruistic or other ideals. Humility is the only remedy. I am not speaking of humility as conceived by certain religions, with this God that belittles his creatures and only likes to see them down on their knees. When I was a child, this kind of humility revolted me, and I refused to believe in a God that wants to belittle his creatures. I dont mean that kind of humility, but rather the recognition that one does not know, that one knows nothing, and that there may be something beyond what presently appears to us as the truest, the most noble or disinterested. True humility consists in constantly referring oneself to the Lord, in placing all before Him. When I receive a blow (and there are quite a few of them in my sadhana), my immediate, spontaneous reaction, like a spring, is to throw myself before Him and to say, Thou, Lord. Without this humility, I would never have been able to realize anything. And I say I only to make myself understood, but in fact I means the Lord through this body, his instrument. When you begin living THIS kind of humility, it means you are drawing nearer to the realization. It is the condition, the starting point.
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0 1958-05-11 - the ship that said OM, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Each time that happens, I have truly the feeling of a miracle! I immediately say, Oh, Lord! Your Grace is infinite!
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0 1958-06-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Throughout all this life, knowingly or unknowingly, I have been what the Lord wanted me to be, I have done what the Lord wanted me to do. That alone matters.
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0 1958-07-05, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Yes, I remember. It was towards the end of the Darshan and I was repeating within me, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord But wordlessly. It came like that (gesture) and went far, far, far, far! It is all here (motion around the head). And that (Mother points to her chin) is determination (but there should have been a little more light on the chin!), the realizing will.
Thats it: the capacity to be an ABSOLUTELY receptive passivitylike thatin TOTAL silence and surrender, and at the same time here, there, an IRREDUCIBLE, OMNIPOTENT will with a total power to effectuate, shattering all resistances. Both simultaneously without one inhibiting the other, in the same joy that is the GREAT secret! The harmonization of opposites, in joy and plenitude, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, for all problems: that is the great secret.
0 1958-07-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And then, it always ends in the same way, by a canticle to the action of the grace: O, Lord! You are truly marvelous! All the experiences I have needed to pass through You have given to me, all the things I needed to do to make this body ready You have made me do, and always with the feeling that it was You who was making me do itand with the universal disapproval of all the right-minded humanity!
About one million dollars.
0 1958-07-23, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But the Supreme Lord answers that the comedy is not entirely played out, and He adds: Wait for the last act; undoubtedly you will change your mind.
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0 1958-07-25a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Lord God of Kindness
and Mercy.
0 1958-07-25b, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
O my Lord, my Lord!
What you want of me, let me be.
0 1958-08-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Last night, I had many dreams (not really dreams, but ); I used to find them very interesting because they gave me certain indications, all kinds of things, but when I saw it all now, I said to myself, Good Lord! What a waste of time! Instead, I could be living in a supramental consciousness and seeing things. So during the night, I made a resolution to change all this too. My nights have to change. I am already changing my days; now my nights have to change. But then all this subconscious in Matter, all this, it all has to change! Theres no choice, it has to be seen to.
Once you set to this work, it is such a formidable task! But what can I do?
0 1958-08-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
In the cells, both things are there. The body is convinced of the divine Presence everywhere, that all is the Divineit lives in that; and at the same time, it shrinks from certain contacts! I saw that this morning, both things at once, and I said, Lord, I know nothing at all!
There (gesture above the head), everything has been resolved, I could write books on how to resolve this or that, how the synthesis is made, etc., but here (the body) I live this synthesis stumblingly. The two coexist, but it is still not THAT (gesture, hands clasped together, pointing upwards).
0 1958-08-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
So the door had to be opened and I felt and said, Lord, may your will be done. I opened the door and behind it was Z1 in the same clothes he wears when he drives, and he was leaning against one of those big tractor tiresor perhaps he was holding it at the same time. I was so dumbfounded that I woke up. It took me a little while to be able to understand what it might mean, and afterwards Even now, I still dont know What was I? Was I India, or was I the world? I dont know. And what did Z represent? It was as imperative and clear, as positive and absolute as could be: the certitude that destruction was behind the door, that it was inevitable. And it had the form of those great Tartar or Mongol invaders, those people who came from the North and invaded India, who pillaged everything Thats what it was like. But what Z was doing there I dont know. What does he represent? The first impulse was to tell Abhay Singh, Forbid him to drive the tractor.
(Pavitra:) What was he holding in his hands, Mother?
0 1958-09-16 - OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I dont know when it begana very long time ago, before I came here, although some of them came while I was here. But in my case, they were always very short. For example, when Sri Aurobindo was here in his body, at any moment, in any difficulty, for anything, it always came like this: My Lord!simply and spontaneouslyMy Lord! And instantly, the contact was established. But since He left, it has stopped. I can no longer say it, for it would be like saying My Lord, My Lord! to myself.
I had a mantra in French before coming to Pondicherry. It was Dieu de bont et de misricorde [God of kindness and mercy], but what it means is usually not understoodit is an entire program, a universal program. I have been repeating this mantra since the beginning of the century; it was the mantra of ascension, of realization. At present, it no longer comes in the same way, it comes rather as a memory. But it was deliberate, you see; I always said Dieu de bont et de misricorde, because even then I understood that everything is the Divine and the Divine is in all things and that it is only we who make a distinction between what is or what is not the Divine.
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Lord, God of kindness and mercy
Lord, God of sovereign oneness
Lord, God of beauty and harmony
Lord, God of power and realization
Lord, God of love and compassion
Lord, God of silence and contemplation
Lord, God of light and knowledge
Lord, God of life and immortality
Lord, God of youth and progress
Lord, God of abundance and plenitude
Lord, God of strength and health.
The words came afterwards, as if they had been superimposed upon the states of consciousness, grafted onto them. Some of the associations seem unexpected, but they were the exact expression of the states of consciousness in their order of unfolding. They came one after another, as if the contact was trying to become more complete. And the last was like a triumph. As soon as I finished writing (in writing, all this becomes rather flat), the impetus within was still alive and it gave me the sense of an all-conquering Truth. And the last mantra sprang forth:
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Lord, God of victorious Truth!
Like a triumph. But I didnt write that one down because I did not want to spoil my impression.
0 1958-10-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Before, I always had the negative experience of the disappearance of the ego, of the oneness of Creation, where everything implying separation disappearedan experience that, personally, I would call negative. Last Wednesday, while I was speaking (and thats why at the end I could no longer find my words), I seemed suddenly to have left this negative phenomenon and entered into the positive experience: the experience of BEING the Supreme Lord, the experience that nothing exists but the Supreme Lordall is the Supreme Lord, there is nothing else. And at that moment, the feeling of this infinite power that has no limit, that nothing can limit, was so overwhelming that all the functions of the body, of this mental machine that summons up words, all this was I could no longer speak French. Perhaps the words could have come to me in Englishprobably, because it was easier for Sri Aurobindo to express himself in English, and thats how it must have happened: it was the part embodied in Sri Aurobindo (the part of the Supreme that was embodied in Sri Aurobindo for its manifestation) that had the experience. This is what joined back with the Origin and caused the experience I was well aware of it. And that is probably why its transcription through English words would have been easier than through French words (for at these moments, such activities are purely mechanical, rather like automatic machines). And naturally the experience left something behind. It left the sense of a power that can no longer be qualified,5 really. And it was there yesterday evening.
The difficultyits not even a difficulty, its just a kind of precaution that is taken (automatically, in fact) in order to For example, the volume of Force that was to be expressed in the voice was too great for the speech organ. So I had to be a little attentive that is, there had to be a kind of filtering in the outermost expression, otherwise the voice would have cracked. But this isnt done through the will and reason, its automatic. Yet I feel that the capacity of Matter to contain and express is increasing with phenomenal speed. But its progressive, it cant be done instantly. There have often been people whose outer form broke because the Force was too strong; well, I clearly see that it is being dosed out. After all, this is exclusively the concern of the Supreme Lord, I dont bother about itits not my concern and I dont bother about itHe makes the necessary adjustments. Thus it comes progressively, little by little, so that no fundamental disequilibrium occurs. It gives the impression that ones head is swelling so tremendously it will burst! But then if there is a moment of stillness, it adapts; gradually, it adapts.
Only, one must be careful to keep the sense of the Unmanifest sufficiently present so that the various things the elements, the cells and all thathave time to adapt. The sense of the Unmanifest, or in other words, to step back into the Unmanifest.6 This is what all those who have had experiences have done; they always believed that there was no possibility of adaptation, so they left their bodies and went off.
0 1958-10-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
If we consider the body as the tabernacle of the Lord, then medical science, for example, becomes the initiatory ritual of the service of the temple, and doctors of all kinds are the officiating priests in the different rituals of worship. Thus, medicine is really a priesthood and should be treated as such.
The same can be said of physical culture and of all the sciences that are concerned with the body and its workings. If the material universe is considered as the outer sheath and the manifestation of the Supreme, then it can generally be said that all the physical sciences are the rituals of worship.
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If we could truly, perfectly know all the details of the ceremony of life, the worship of the Lord in physical life, it would be wonderfulto know, and no longer to err, never again to err. To perform the ceremony as perfectly as an initiation.
To know life utterly Oh, there is a very interesting thing in this regard! And its strange, but this particular knowledge reminds me of one of my Sutras1 (which I read out, but no one understood or understood only vaguely, like that):
It is the Supreme Lord who has ineluctably decreed the place you occupy in the universal concert, but whatever be this place, you have equally the same right as all others to ascend the supreme summits right to the supramental realization.
There is ones position in the universal hierarchy, which is something ineluctableit is the eternal lawand there is the development in the manifestation, which is an education; it is progressive and done from within the being. What is remarkable is that to become a perfect being, this positionwhatever it is, decreed since all eternity, a part of the eternal Truthmust manifest with the greatest possible perfection as a result of evolutionary growth. It is the junction, the union of the two, the eternal position and the evolutionary realization, that will make the total and perfect being, and the manifestation as the Lord has willed it since the beginning of all eternity (which has no beginning at all! ).
And for the cycle to be complete, one cannot stop on the way at any plane, not even the highest spiritual plane nor the plane closest to matter (like the occult plane in the vital, for example). One must descend right into matter, and this perfection in manifestation must be a material perfection, or otherwise the cycle is not completewhich explains why those who want to flee in order to realize the divine Will are in error. What must be done is exactly the opposite! The two must be combined in a perfect way. This is why all the honest sciences, the sciences that are practiced sincerely, honestly, exclusively with a will to know, are difficult pathsyet such sure paths for the total realization.
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The Lord will possess his universe only when the universe will have consciously become the Lord.
See Agenda 1957, p. 119
0 1958-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
There is night and sun, night and sun, and night again, many nights, but one must cling to this will for surrender, cling as through a storm, and put everything into the hands of the Supreme Lord. Until the day when the Sun shall shine forever, the day of total Victory.
The Supramental Ship.
0 1958-11-27 - Intermediaries and Immediacy, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
For example, one thing had always appeared unimportant to me in actionintermediaries between the spiritualized individual being, the conscious soul, and the Supreme. According to my personal experience, it had always seemed to me that if one is exclusively turned towards the Supreme in all ones actions and expresses Him directly, whatever is to be done is done automatically. For example, if you are always open and if at each second you consciously want to express only what the Supreme Lord wants to be expressed, it is done automatically. But with all that I have learned about pujas, about certain scriptures and certain rituals as well, the necessity for a process has become very clear to me. Its the same as in physical life; in physical life, everything needs a process, as we know, and it is the knowledge of processes that constitutes physical science. Similarly, in a more occult working, the knowledge and especially the RESPECT for the process seem to be much more important than I had first thought.
And when I studied this, when I looked at this science of processes, of intermediaries, suddenly I clearly understood the working of karma, which I had not understood before. I had worked and intervened quite often to change someones karma, but sometimes I had to wait, without exactly knowing why the result was not immediate. I simply used to wait without worrying about the reasons for this slowness or delay. Thats how it was. And generally it ended, as I said, with the exact vision of the karmas source, its initial cause; and scarcely would I have this vision when the Power would come, and the thing would be dissolved. But I didnt bother about finding out why it was like that.
0 1958-12-15 - tantric mantra - 125,000, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
When you invoke Durga, it is I you invoke through her, when you invoke Shiva, it is I you invoke through himand in the final analysis, to the Supreme Lord go all prayers.
With all my love.
0 1959-03-26 - Lord of Death, Lord of Falsehood, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
object:0_1959-03-26 - Lord of Death, Lord of Falsehood
author class:The Mother
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The power of this Titan comes from an Asura. There are four Asuras. Two have already been converted, and the other two, the Lord of Death and the Lord of Falsehood, made an attempt at conversion by taking on a physical bodythey have been intimately associated with my life. The story of these Asuras would be very interesting to recount The Lord of Death disappeared; he lost his physical body, and I dont know what has become of him.1 As for the other, the Lord of Falsehood, the one who now rules over this earth, he tried hard to be converted, but he found it disgusting!
At times he calls himself the Lord of Nations. It is he who sets all wars in motion, and only by thwarting his plans could the last war be won This one does not want to be converted, not at all. He wants neither the physical transformation nor the supramental world, for that would spell his end. Besides, he knows We talk to each other; beyond all this, we have our relationship. For after all, you see (laughing), I am his mother! One day he told me, I know you will destroy me, but meanwhile, I will create all the havoc possible.
This Asura of Falsehood is the one who delegated the Titan that is always near me. He chose the most powerful Titan there is on earth and sent him specially to attack this body. So even if one manages to enchain or kill this Titan, it is likely that the Lord of Falsehood will delegate another form, and still another, and still another, in order to achieve his aim.
In the end, only the Supramental will have the power to destroy it. When the hour comes, all this will disappear, without any need to do anything.
0 1959-05-19 - Ascending and Descending paths, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The path is difficult. And yet this body is full of good will; it is filled with the psychic in every one of its cells. Its like a child. The other day, it cried out quite spontaneously, O my Sweet Lord, give me the time to realize You! It did not ask to hasten the process, it did not ask to lighten its work; it only asked for enough TIME to do the work. Give me the time!
I could have begun this work on the body thirty years ago, but I was constantly caught up in this harassing ashram life. It took this illness2 to enable me truly to begin doing the sadhana of the body. It does not mean that thirty years were wasted, for it is likely that had I been able to start this work thirty years ago, it would have been premature. The consciousness of the others also had to develop the two are linked, the individual progress and the collective progress, and one cannot advance if the other does not advance.
0 1959-05-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I can only repeat the prayer that I made to the Supreme Lord this morning:
May Your Will be done in all things and at every moment. And may Your Love manifest.
0 1959-06-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
For what occurred here, I can say only one thing: when the Supreme Lord wants to save someone, He clothes his will in every appearance necessary.
As for the emptiness you feel (which perhaps is already better): to those who complained of this sensation of inner emptiness, Sri Aurobindo always said that it is a very good thing; it is the sign that they are going to be filled with something better and truer.
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For all these world events, I always leave it to the Divine vision and wisdom, and I say to the Supreme: Lord, may Thy Will be done.
I hope to hear from you soon.
0 1959-07-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
A moment ago I barely found the strength not to kill myself. Destiny has repeated itself once again, but this time it was not I who rejected her, as in past existences, it is she who rejected me: Too late. For a moment, I thought I was going to go crazy too, so much pain did I have then finally I said, May Thy Will be done, (that of the Supreme Lord) and I kept repeating, Thy Grace is there, even in the greatest suffering. But I am broken, rather like a living dead man. So be happy, for I will never wear the white robe that Guruji gave me.
You will understand that I do not have the strength to come to see you. My only strength is not to rebel, my only strength is to believe in the Grace in the face of everything. I believe I have too much grief in my heart to rebel against anything at all. I seem to have a kind of great pity for this world.
0 1959-08-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And we shall leave the care of deciding about the details of the future to the Supreme Lord.
With all my love and blessings.
0 1960-01-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Yet its HAPPY. It loves doing the work, it lives only for thatto change, to transform itself is its reason for being. And its such a docile instrument, so full of good will! Once it even started wailing like a baby: O Lord, give me the time, the time to be transformed It has such a simple fervor for the work, but it needs timetime, thats it. It wants to live only to conquer, to win the Lords Victory.3
One crore = 10 million.
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'It wants to live only to conquer.' Then the next day, Mother sent the following note to the disciple: 'Friday, 1.29.60yesterday, when I left you, the experience was there, but in my hurry to leave, the words did not come correctly, or rather they were incomplete (I had said, 'to live only to conquer'). What my body was experiencing was, 'Live to win the Lord's Victory.'
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0 1960-03-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
There is a line by Sri Aurobindo in Savitri which expresses this very well: to annul oneself so that only the Supreme Lord may be.
And there are many, many experiences like this. It is only a small, a very small beginning. This one in particular came to mark the new stage: four years have elapsed, and now four years to come. Because everything has focused on this body to prepare it, everything has concentrated on itNature, the Master of the Yoga, the Supreme, everything So only when its over, not before, will it really be interesting to speak of all this. But maybe it will never be over, after all. Its a small beginning, very small.
0 1960-05-21 - true purity - you have to be the Divine to overcome hostile forces, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Well, I tried hard but I couldnt really find the way. At times, I almost seemed to have it, a mere nothing would have been enough; it was just a matter of getting the knack (and at heart, this is what Power is all aboutto get the knack, to suddenly seize upon the means, the right vibration, what in India is called siddhi). Well, after his departure, all of a sudden it came. It happened while I was doing my japa, while I was walking up and down my room As if I were holding all that in my armsit was so concrete and lifting it up towards the Light, along with this ascending OM, rising from the very depths, OM!and I was carrying all these people, and it was spreading forth, PHYSICALLY spreading, and I was carrying the earth, I was carrying the whole universe, but in such a tangible, concrete wayall towards the Supreme Lord.
And this was not the invisible power: it was concrete, it was tangible, it was MATERIAL.
0 1960-05-24 - supramental flood, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But there was no consciousness of being Mother, neither eternal nor whatever: it was a continuous and all-powerful flood, and so extraordinarily varied, of the Lord manifesting Himself.
It was as vast as the universe, a continuous movement the movement of manifestation of something which was EVERYTHING at once, a single whole. There was no division. And such a variety of colors, vibrations, powersextraordinary! It was one single thing, and everything was within it.
0 1960-10-02a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Im waiting for the Lord to tell me clearly.
But when I say that, I always see Him smilinga smile its all very good to smile, but it encourages you more than it cures you!
0 1960-10-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The effort to see and to understand this gripped me all night. And when I woke up this morning, I thanked the Lord; I said to Him, Obviously, if You were to keep me totally in that consciousness, I could no longer I could no longer do my work! How could I do my work? For I can only say something to people when I feel it or see it, when I see that its what must be said, but if I am simultaneously in a consciousness in which Im aware of everything that has led to that situation, everything that is going to happen, everything Im going to say, everything the others going to feel then how could I do it!
There are still many hundreds of years to go before it becomes entirely what Sri Aurobindo describes theres no hurry!
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I myself use it for a very special reason, because You see, I invoke (the words are a bit strange) the Lord of Tomorrow. Not the unmanifest Lord, but the Lord as he will manifest tomorrow, or in Sri Aurobindos words, the divine manifestation in its supramental form.
So the first sound of my mantra is the call to that, the evocation. With the second sound, the bodys cells make their surrender, they give themselves. And with the third sound comes the identification of this [the body] with That, which produces the divine life. These are my three sounds.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But since Zs visit yesterday, and this morning on the balcony Oh, its so I had already seen this long agothis whole milieu that is not very pretty and I had said, Well, its all right, thats how it is, and I didnt discuss it further: Thats how it is, and absolutely the whole world belongs to the Lord IS the Lord! And the Lord made it so, and the Lord wants it so, and its quite all right. Then I put it aside. But with his visit yesterday, it found its placesuch a smiling place. And theres a whole world of things of life which have found their true place in this waywith a smile!
(silence)
0 1960-11-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Certainly, we CAN be heard. So far I never said anything. It even surprised me, for I had never paid it any attention, I was quite away from all that: its raining?so what, its raining, it happens. Its not raining?so what, its not raining, its the same thing. And then gradually people started mentioning that should it continue, they wouldnt be able to do their exercises, and they wouldnt be ready for December 2.1 Then I started receiving desperate lettersone person even told me he was doing his puja underwater! So I answered by saying, Take it as the Lords blessing but Im not sure he appreciated it! And then I learned that 200 houses [in the Ashram]200!are leaking. Naturally, each one is in a great hurryits terribly urgent! So perhaps I shall file a complaint and ask them what they mean by this!
Actually, if communications are interrupted, it can be troublesome Let us see.
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A while ago You know that I have TREMENDOUS financial difficulties. In fact, I have handed the whole matter over to the Lord, telling Him, Its your affair; if you want us to continue this experience, well, you must provide the means. But this upsets some of them, so they come along with all kinds of suggestions to keep me from having to to resort to something so drastic. They suggest all kinds of things; some time ago they said, What about a good cyclone, or a good earthquake? A lot of damage to the Ashram, a public appeal that would bring in some funds! (Mother laughs) Yes, its of this order! And its all quite clear and definitewe have veritable conversations!
I listen, I answer. Its not satisfactory! I told them. But theyve kept to their idea, they like it. When that first storm came some time back (you remember, with those terrible bolts of lightning and that asuric being P.K. saw and sketched): Dont you want us to destroy something? I got angry. But it was This influence was so close and acute that it gave you goose bumps! The whole time the storm lasted, I had to hold on tight in my bed, like this (Mother closes her fists tight as in a trance or deep concentration), and I didnt movedidnt movelike a a rock during the entire storm, until he consented to go a bit further away. Then I moved. And even now, it comesfrom others (theres not just one, you see, there are many): How about a good flood? A roof collapsed the other day with someone underneath, but he was able to escape. So roofs are collapsing, houses Arouse public sympathy, we must help the Ashram! Its no good, I said. But maybe thats whats responsible for this interminable rain. And they offer so many other things oh, what they parade past me! You could write books on all this!
0 1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, personal surrender and devotion is an excellent solution for the individual, but it doesnt work for the collectivity. For example, as soon as I am alone and lying on my bedpeace! (Ah, I forgot! They had invented yet another thing: making my heartbeats irregular. Every three or four beats it would stop; then it would start up again, pounding as if I had been struck. Three, four beats, a faint little beat, then stop then, bang! Blow after blow. One more of their extraordinary inventions!) But, as soon as I stretch out and make a total surrender of all the cellsno more activity, nothingeverything goes well. But I am well aware that this surrender has an effect on the action only to the extent that the Supreme Lord has decided upon the action, and those movements stretch over long periods of time5: all sorts of things may happen before the final Victory is won. Because, for us, the scale is very small; even if it were of terrestrial proportions, it would be a very small scale; but on a universal scale. These forces have their place and their action, their universe, and as long as their place and their action are maintained, they will be here. So before their action can be exhausted or become useless, many things can happen.
Individually, however, there is almost instantaneous bliss. But this is not a true solution its a solution in the long run, by repercussion. To have true comm and here in this world, all of that must be mastered.
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Savitri is really a condensation, a concentration of the universal Mother the eternal universal Mother, Mother of all universes from all eternityin an earthly personality for the Earths salvation. And Satyavan is the soul of the Earth, the Earths jiva. So when the Lord says, he whom you love and whom you have chosen, it means the earth. All the details are there! When she comes back down, when Death has yielded at last, when all has been settled and the Supreme tells her, Go, go with him, the one you have chosen, how does Sri Aurobindo describe it? He says that she very carefully takes the SOUL of Satyavan into her arms, like a little child, to pass through all the realms and come back down to earth. Everything is there! He hasnt forgotten a single detail to make it easy to understand for someone who knows how to understand. And it is when Savitri reaches the earth that Satyavan regains his full human stature.
These seem to be the forces ruling the subconscious mechanisms or reactions of the body: all the automatism produced by evolution and atavismwhat might be termed evolutionary habits. This is the 'descending path,' which started forty years earlier, as Mother said (or the 'physical plunge' referred to by Sri Aurobindo), leading to the pure cellular consciousness.
0 1961-02-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Lord of the Snow.
Very well, replied Madame Theon, I shall see about that when I get up. Now go away, youre spoiling my room!
0 1961-02-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
O my Lord,
If this swelling of the legs is useful for Thy work,
0 1961-02-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It has been good for it (not externally, but inwardly, for its state of consciousness: the body-consciousness), it has done the body some good, but. Now its like this (Mother opens her hands in a gesture of total surrender). For each blow it receives (its a bludgeoning, my child!), for each blow, it remains like this (same gesture). Yesterday, to make it happy, I wrote down something like this (concerning its latest difficulty): If this present difficulty is useful (its the body addressing the Lord, and the Lord. its a perpetual adoration: all the cells vibrate, vibrate with the joy of Love; yet despite that ), if this or that difficulty is useful for Your Workso be it. But if it is an effect of my stupidity (its the body speaking), if its an effect of my own stupidity, then I beseech You to cure me of this stupidity as quickly as possible.
It doesnt ask to be cured of the illness! It doesnt ask, it is ready; All right, it says. As long as I can keep going, I will keep going. As long as I can last, I will last. But thats not what Im asking for: I am asking to be cured of my stupidity. I believe this is what enables it to yes, what gives it the necessary endurance.
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body doesnt ask (its so docile), it doesnt even ask for its sufferings to stopit adapts to them. Its mainly my contact with people that makes the thing difficult: when I am all alone upstairs, everything goes well, quite well. But when I spend one or one and a half hours in the afternoon seeing people, afterwards I feel exhausted. That, obviously, is whats making the thing difficult. But the body doesnt complain. It doesnt complain, its ready. The other day when it went back upstairs, it felt a bitwell, at the end of its resources, as though it had pushed itself to the limit. It said to the Lord (and it said this so clearly, as though the consciousness of the cells were speaking; I noted it down): If this (I cant call it an illness there is no illness! Its a condition of general disequilibrium), if this condition is necessary for Your Work, then so be it, let it go on. But if its an effect of my stupidity (you see, its the BODY saying, If its because I dont understand or I am not adapting or not doing what I should or not taking the proper attitude), if it is an effect of my stupidity, then truly I pray that. It asks only to changeto know and to change!
It is attached to nothing: none of its habits, none of its ways of being-nothing. It says in all sincerity, I ask only for the Light, only to change. That is its state. it has never, never said, Oh, Im tired, Ive had enough! Bah! Its not like that. It is attached to nothing for a long, long time it has ceased to have desiresit is attached to nothing at all, to nothing. There isnt a single thing for which it says, Oh, I cant do without that! Not one. It doesnt care-if something comes, it takes it; if it doesnt come, the body doesnt think about it. In other words, its truly good-natured. But if this isnt sufficient, then it doesnt know and it says, If there is something I cant do or I dont know or I am not doing It asks for nothing more than to make the necessary effort!
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But truly speaking, the minute one completely emerges from the ordinary mind, NO EXTERIOR SIGN IS A PROOF, absolutely none. There is absolutely no standard to go byneither splendid good health nor good equilibrium, nor an almost general disorganizationnone of these. All depends exclusivelyexclusivelyon what the Lord has decided. Exclusively. Consequently, if one remains very quiet, one is sure to know what He has decided.
When I am perfectly tranquil, I immediately live in a beatific joy where questions dont arisethere are no questions! One asks for nothingone LIVES! One lives happily, and thats all. Theres no, Will it be like this? Will it be like that?how childish! There are no questions, questions dont arise. One is a beatitude manifesting, that is all.
0 1961-03-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Things are going very badly: a pack of enemies assailing me, friends deserting usits going very, very badly. Then yesterday evening, while I was walking for japa and all these good tidings were arriving, I said to the Lord, Listen, Lord, you have Indra to help the good people I beseech you, send him to me; he has some work to do!(Mother laughs) Then my walk became so amusing! I was watching them come in as I walked Indra and all the other godsand they were hard at work. Delightful!
Hibiscus, double flower, light pink.
0 1961-03-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of course, these things can always be explained symbolically. Theon explained mans exile like this: when the Being the hostile Beingassumed the position of the Lord Supreme in relation to the terrestrial realization, he didnt want humanity to progress mentally and gain a knowledge permitting it to stop obeying him! That is Theons occult explanation.
According to Theon, the serpent wasnt the spirit of evil at all: it was the evolutionary Force. And Sri Aurobindo fully agreed; he used to tell me the same thing: the evolutionary power the mental evolutionary poweris what drove man to gain knowledge, a knowledge of division. And its a fact that along with the sense of Good and Evil, man became conscious of himself. Naturally, this ruined everything and he couldnt stay: it was his own consciousness that drove him out of Paradisehe could no longer stay.
0 1961-03-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I believe this body has suffered as much as a body can bear without going to pieces, and it keeps going, it has never asked for mercynot once has it said, No, its too much, not once. It says, As You will, Lord: here I am.
And so it continues.
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is a universal unfolding, the true unfolding, that of the Supreme Lord who watches (this is the best way to put it) his own unfoldment. But for some reason or other, there has been a deformation of consciousness which makes us see this unfolding as something separate, a more or less adequate expression of the Divine Will. But it isnt so! It is the very unfolding of the Divine within Himselfwithin Himself, from Himself, for Himself. And its simply our falsehood that makes a separate thing of it The very fact of objectifying (what WE call objectification) is already a falsehood.5
I have had this particular consciousness in flashes. The difficulty is that in expressing it, we use all our mental faculties, and they themselves are falseso we are cornered. Because when you follow through. Whatever you say,If this, if that, if the otheris all part of our general stupidity. Going right to the end of it, you are suddenly like this: Ah! (Mother remains suspended midway in her sentence) There is nothing more to do, not a move to make.
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And I see a very steady, insistent and regular action to eliminate moral values. How I have been plagued all my life by these moral values! Everything is immediately placed on a scale of moral values (not ordinary moralityfar from it! But a sense of what has to be encouraged or discouraged, what helps me towards progress or what hampers it); instantly everything was seen from the angle of this will to progresseverything, all circumstances, reactions, movements, absolutely everything was translated by that. Now, the subconscient is mounting upwards and, knee-deep in it, you see it as a lesson to tell you: so much for all your notions of progress! They are all based on illusionsa general lie. Things are not at all what they seem, they dont have the effects they appear to have, nor the results that are perceivedall, all, all, oh Lord!
(silence)
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Something is happening there (Mother touches her head); something is taking shape, being worked on. Every day, twice a day, during my long evocation-invocation-aspiration (or prayer, if you like), I say to the Supreme Lord, Take possession of this brain. (I dont mean thought, I mean thisMo ther points to her headthis substance inside.) Take possession of it!
Once during the night, I went exploring inside this head; some cells still had fresh imprints of things registered during the day for whatever reason they hadnt had time to be combined into the whole, so they showed up as tiny, very clear images, minuscule things utterly devoid of any mental or psychological movementsimply like tiny photographic images. There were three or four images like that, and it was so shocking to see them in this Presence that all at once I said to myself, Am I going mad?! It was that shocking. And I had to bring in a peace, a peacenot to make the movement of possession stop, but to accompany it simultaneously with a mighty peace so I wouldnt tell myself, Youre losing your head. Thats how shocking it was.
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But for those who are here, we can say, It is what the Supreme Lord is preparing for the earth. He sent Sri Aurobindo to prepare it; Sri Aurobindo called it the supramental realization, and to facilitate communication we can use the same words. Well, this movement (gesture of a rising flame) towards That must be constantconstant, total. All the rest is none of our business, and the less we meddle with it mentally, the better. But THAT, that Flame, is indispensable. And when it goes out, light it again; when it falters, rekindle itall the time, all the time, ALL THE TIMEwhen sleeping, walking, reading, moving around, speaking all the time.
The rest doesnt matter, one can do anything (it depends on people and their ways of thinking). You can just ask people like X, they will tell you: You can do anything at allit doesnt matter in the least. Only you mustnt feel its you doing it, thats all. You have to feel that Nature does it. But I dont much approve of this system.
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember a good-hearted priest in Pau [Southern France] who was an artist and wanted to have his church decorateda tiny cathedral. He consulted a local anarchist (a great artist) about it. The anarchist was acquainted with Andrs father and me. He told the priest, I recommend these people to do the paintings they are true artists. He was doing the mural decorationsome eight panels in all, I believe. So I set to work on one of the panels. (The church was dedicated to San Juan de Compostello, a hero of Spanish history; he had appeared in a battle between the Christians and the Moors and his apparition vanquished the Moors. And he was magnificent! He appeared in golden light on a white horse, almost like Kalki.6) All the slaughtered and struggling Moors were depicted at the bottom of the painting, and it was I who painted them; it was too hard for me to climb high up on a ladder to paint, so I did the things at the bottom! But anyway, it all went quite well. Then, naturally, the priest received us and invited us to dinner with the anarchist. And he was so nicereally a kind-hearted man! I was already a vegetarian and didnt drink, so he scolded me very gently, saying, But its Our Lord who gives us all this, so why shouldnt you take it? I found him charming. And when he looked at the paintings, he tapped Morisset on the shoulder (Morisset was an unbeliever), and said, with the accent of Southern France, Say what you like, but you know Our Lord; otherwise you could never have painted like that!
Well.
In short, I have known people from everywhere, I have been everywhere, I have seen and heard everything. It was very strange, very strange. And I didnt do it on purpose, but just because the Lord willed it.
What experiences!
0 1961-05-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What is worthwhile is to seek the TRUE SENSE of life: to what does it really correspond? What is there behind it all? Why has the Lord created it? What is He heading towards? What does He want? What does He want to happen? That, we have not found. What does He want!!
He obviously has a secret, and He is keeping it. Well, I want His secret.
0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are successive curves, each second of which would have to be noted down; and in the course of one of these curves, something is suddenly found. For example, at the beginning of The Yoga of Self-Perfection, Sri Aurobindo reviews other yogas, beginning with Hatha Yoga. I had just translated this when I remembered Sri Aurobindo saying that Hatha Yoga was very effective but that it amounted to spending your whole life training your body, which is an enormous time and effort spent on something not essentially very interesting. Then I looked at it and said to myself, But after all, (I was looking at life as it is, as people ordinarily live it) one spends at least 90% of ones life merely to PRESERVE ones body, to keep it going! All this attention and concentration on an instrument which is put to hardly any use. Anyway, I was looking at it with that attitude, when suddenly all the cells of my body responded, in such a spontaneous and WARM way. How to say it? Something so so moving. They told me, But its the Lord who is looking after Himself in us! Each one was saying: But its the Lord who is looking after Himself in us!
It was truly lovely. Then I gave my reason a good poke: How stupid can you be! You always forget the essential.
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This feeling was so warm, so intimate, so I dont know how to express it. At once so soft and so powerful and so. Oh, it was concrete! The whole atmosphere, the whole atmosphere became solidall, all had the taste of the Lord. I dont know how to make it clear. It was quite material, as if you had a mouthful of it, everything was full of itit was like that. In such a PHYSICAL way! Like. You might compare it to the most delicious taste you could ever haveit was the sense of touch and of tastevery, very material. It was like closing your hand on something solidsuch a warm, soft vibration, and SO STRONG, so powerful, so concrete!
It is evidently proof of an evolution in this direction, within this whole cluster of cells, but.
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They say I have become deaf. I believe its the Lords grace, because when I make an effort to hear what is being said to me, nine times out of ten its completely useless and its absolutely stupid. Its better not to hear!
So there, mon petitand I said I wasnt going to talk! Its always the same thing.
0 1961-05-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Personally I have stopped I have stopped trying to know. With the stubbornness of a child, I keep repeating to the Lord, Its time You change all this!
There are moments, you know, when you want to weepwhich is idiotic! So you surrender it all to the Lord: I leave this work to Youdo what You will, as You will, when You will.
And I try to be as tranquil as I can (Mother makes a gesture of mental immobility), but when you do so, you become aware of oh, its like a swarm of flies comingfrom here, from there, from above, from below, oh coming and coming and coming!
0 1961-06-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Fundamentally, I have noticed one thing: if you yourself are in the right state, the right atmosphere is immediately created. And in addition, I am always in a sort of not even a convictionan ABSOLUTE perception that all that happens is the Lords doing. When He makes me late going upstairs its because He wants me to be late, and consequently, if I take it wellif instead of closing myself and getting annoyed I say, Good, thats fineimmediately a very interesting atmosphere is created, because at the same time I see all the advantages of this change. But this movement must not be mentalit has to be spontaneous.
Therefore, I have told her (to put it simply): provided you are sincere in your attitude, all is well.
0 1961-06-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its so subtle! It could almost be. Its almost like being on the border between two worlds. Its the same world and itsis it two aspects of this world? I cant even say that. Yet its the SAME world; all is the Lord, He and nothing but He, only its. And so subtle, so subtle: if you go like this (Mother tilts her hand slightly to the right), its perfectly harmonious; if you go like that (Mother tilts her hand slightly to the left), oof! Its its at once absurd, meaningless, and laborious, painful. But its the SAME thing! Its all the same thing.
What is it?
0 1961-06-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother remains silent for a moment, then says:) Over the years I have had a considerable number of experiences in this realm, and my first action is always the same: send the Peace (I do this in all cases, for everyone) and apply the Force, the Power of the Lord, for the best thing to happen. Some people are very sick, sick to the point where there is no hope, where they cannot be cured, where the end is coming; but they sense that their souls must still need to have certain experiences, so they hang on-they dont want to die. In such cases I apply the Force for them to last as long as possible. In other cases, on the contrary, they are weary of suffering, or indeed the soul has finished its experience and desires to be liberated. In such a case, if I am sure of it, sure that they themselves are expressing the desire to depart, its over in a few hours I say this with certainty because Ive had a considerable number of experiences. There is a certain force which goes out and does what is necessary. I havent done either of these things for your fathernei ther to prolong his life (because when people are suffering its not very kind to prolong their lives indefinitely), nor to finish it, because I didnt knowone cant do either without knowing the persons conscious wish.
As for your mother, she must have been thinking of me, for otherwise she wouldnt have come in that wayshe would have come through you (its different when things come through you). But she came to me directly, so I thought that for some reason she must have remembered me. I dont know. And I looked and said to myself (it came just like that), Now that she will be left all alone, why doesnt she come here? I havent done anything about that, either, one way or the other.
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Do you know the story of the two simultaneous operations of E. and of T.? T. is that vice-admiral who came here and became quite enthusiastiche had a kind of inner revelation here. The two of them were operated on for a similar complaint, a dangerous ulcer in the digestive system. He was in one town and she was in another, and they were operated on a day apartboth serious operations. And in each case, after a few days had gone by, the surgeon who did the operation said, I congratulate you. Practically the same phrase in both cases. And they both protested: Why are you congratulating me? (Each one wrote me about this separately; they were living far from one another and only met afterwards.) Why? You did the operationyou should be congratulated for my quick recovery. And in both cases the doctor replied, No, no; we only operate, the body does the healing; you have healed yourself in a way which can qualify as miraculous, and I genuinely congratulate you. And then the two of them had the same reaction they wrote to me saying, We know where the miracle comes from. And they had both called me. Moreover, E. had written me a remarkable letter a few days before her operation, where she quoted the Gita as if it were quite natural for her, and told me, I know that the operation is ALREADY done, that the Lord has already done it, and so I am calm.
Things like that, everywhere and PRECISE! Something quite precise. Of course, to say that I work consciously is almost silly, its commonplace. But in many cases one may work consciously for long years without getting that precision in the result the action enters a hazy atmosphere and makes a kind of stir, and out of it comes the best that can, but no more than that. But now its exact, preciseits becoming interesting.
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And then one understands all, allall the details. Some things can be understood intellectually or psychologically (which is very good, it has an effect and it helps you), but that always seems so hazy; it works through an imprecision. But now the vibrations mechanism is understoodits MECHANICS; and thus it becomes precise. All these attitudes the yoga recommendsbeginning with action done as offering, then complete detachment from the result (leaving the result to the Lord), then perfect equanimity in all circumstances, all these stages which one understands intellectually, feels sentimentally, and has fully experiencedwell, all this takes on its TRUE MEANING only when it becomes what could be called a mechanical action of vibrationat that point one understands why it must be like it is.
And these last few days, especially yesterday and this morning, oh! Extraordinary discoveries! We are on the right track.
0 1961-06-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Is it possible? I dont know. We would have to ask the Lord! But He generally doesnt answer such questionsHe just smiles!
You know, there comes a time when, really, you can no longer say anything; you feel that whatever you say is, if not absolute rubbish, then the next thing to it, and that in practice its best to keep silent. Thats the difficulty. And in some of these aphorisms you get the feeling that he has suddenly captured something beyondbeyond anything which can be thought. So what to do?
0 1961-07-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Can God truly be said to be weak or to fail? Does this actually happen, or is it simply the Lords play?
Thats not how it is, mon petit! This is precisely how the modern Western attitude has become twisted compared to the ancient attitude, the attitudeit isnt exactly ancientof the Gita. Its extremely difficult for the Western mind to comprehend vividly and concretely that ALL is the Divine. It is so impregnated with the Christian spirit, with the idea of a Creator the creation on one side and God on the other! Upon reflection, one rejects this, but it has entered into our sensations and feelings, and sospontaneously, instinctively, almost subconsciouslyone credits God with all one considers to be the best, the most beautiful, and especially with what one wishes to attain, to realize. (Each individual, of course, changes the content of his God according to his own consciousness, but its always what he considers to be the best.) And just as instinctively, spontaneously and subconsciously, one is shocked by the idea that things one doesnt like or doesnt approve of or which dont seem to be the best, could also be God.
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While walking in my room, a series of invocations or prayers have come to me2 (I didnt choose themthey were dictated to me) in which I implore the Lord to manifest his Perfection (and I am quite aware of how foolish this expression is, but it does correspond to an aspiration).3 When I say manifest, I mean to manifest in our physical, material world Im asking for the transformation of this world. And the moment I utter one of these invocations, the sense of the particular approach it represents is there; thats why I am now able to give such a lecture on PerfectionPerfection is one of these approaches. Manifest this, I tell Him, Manifest that, manifest Your Perfection. (The series is very long and it takes me quite a while to go through it all.) Well, each time I say Manifest Your Perfection, I have an awareness of what constitutes Perfectionit is something global.
Its like the word purityone could lecture endlessly on the difference between divine purity and what people call purity. Divine purity (at the lowest level) is to admit but one influence the divine Influence (but this is at the lowest level, and already terribly distorted). Divine purity means that only the Divine existsnothing else. It is perfectly pureonly the Divine exists, nothing other than He.
0 1961-07-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding the last conversation, where Mother spoke of divine Perfection and of the series of invocations in her japa imploring the Lord to manifest his various aspects:)
But Perfection is only one side, one special way of approaching the Divine. There are innumerable sides, angles, aspectsinnumerable ways to approach the Divine. When I am walking, for example, doing japa, I have the sense of Unity (I have spoken to you of all the things I mention when I am upstairs walking: will, truth, purity, perfection, unity, immortality, eternity, infinity, silence, peace, existence, consciousness the list goes on). And when one follows a particular tack and does succeed in reaching or approaching or contacting the Divine, one realizes through experience that these many approaches differ only in their most external forms the contact itself is identical. Its like looking through a kaleidoscopeyou revolve around a center, a globe, and see it under various aspects; but as soon as the contact is established, its identical.
0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To be in a condition in which all is the Supreme, all is wonderful, all is marvelous, all is marvelous love, all is all is profound Joyan unchanging, immutable, ever-present condition. To live in That, and then to have this bodily substance contradict it through every possible stupiditylosing sight, losing strength, pains here, pains there, disorders, weaknesses, incapacities of every type. And at the SAME TIME, the response within this body, no matter what happens to it, is, O Lord, Your Grace is infinite. The contradiction is VERY disconcerting.
From experience, I know perfectly well that when one is satisfied with being a saint or a sage and constantly maintains the right attitude, all goes well the body doesnt get sick, and even if there are attacks it recovers very easily; all goes very well AS LONG AS THERE IS NOT THIS WILL TO TRANSFORM. All the difficulties arise in protest against the will to transform; while if one says, Very well, its all right, let things be as they are, I dont care, I am perfectly happy, in a blissful state, then the body begins to feel content!
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And then of course its accompanied by all the usual suggestions (but thats nothing, it comes from a domain which is easily controlled). Suggestions of this type: Well, but Sri Aurobindo himself didnt do it! (I know why he didnt. but people in general dont know.) And every adverse vibration naturally takes advantage of this: How do you expect to succeed where he didnt! But my answer is always the same: When the Lord says its all over with, I will know its all over with; that will be the end of it, and so what! This stops them short.
But it doesnt keep them from starting up again! They did so particularly after I read the passage where Sri Aurobindo affirms, THIS time I have come for THATand I shall do it. The day when I read this I turned towards him, not actually putting the question to him but simply turning towards him, and he told me, Read the book through to the end. And I know, I know its truewhen I have read the book through to the end I will understand what he has done and I will even have the power to reply to all these suggestions. But meanwhile, everything that wants to keep me from doing it, all this obscure and subconscious ill will, tries its best to keep me from reading, including giving me this eye hemorrhage.
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We tried, ohmyself in particular! I concentrated all my power to prevent him from going, and it made him suffer greatly, because he WANTED to go, he had decidedhe the Supreme Lord had decided that he would go.
Yes, but why exactly was there this halt? He had come for that.
0 1961-07-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its rather delicate, like a very, very delicate clockwork, like a precision machine, and the least little thing throws everything out of gear. When someone has a bad reaction, for instance, or a bad thought, or an agitated vibration, or an anxietyanything of this nature is enough to dissolve all the harmony. For me, its translated straight-away into a malaise in my body, a very particular type of malaise; then disorder sets in, and the ordinary routine returns. So again I have to gather up, as it were, the Presence of the Lord and begin to infuse it everywhere. Sometimes it goes quickly, sometimes it takes longer; when the disorganization is a little more radical, it takes a little longer.
This eye [hemorrhage], for instance, resulted from such a disorder, a very dark force that someone allowed to enter, not deliberately, not knowingly, but through weakness and ignorance, always mingled, of course, with desire and ego and all the rest. (Without desire and ego, such things would find no access but desire and ego are very widespread.) At any rate, that was plainly the cause and I sensed it immediately. Sometimes when it comes, it creeps up like this (Mother brings her hand to her throat), a black shadow strangling you. Yet inwardly nothing is affected at all, to such an extent that if I didnt pay attention to the purely external reaction, I wouldnt know anything had happened (its the great Play); but externally the indication is immediate: half an hour later I had this eye hemorrhage. I was struggling against a wholly undesirable intrusion, and I knew italthough from an outer point of view, the cause was insignificant. Its not always the events we consider serious or important that produce the most harmful effectsfar from it. Sometimes its an altogether INSIGNIFICANT intrusion of falsehood, for some quite insignificant reasonwhat is commonly labeled a stupidity. This stems from the fact that the adverse forces are always lying in wait, ready to rush in at the least sign of weakness.
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I have made it a habit to always do this (gesture of abandonment to the Light). When a problem comes up, I offer it to the Lord and then leave it. And the moment the solution is required, it comesit comes in facts, in deeds, in movements.
I would be satisfied only if. Can one ever be satisfied? At any rate, I would begin to be satisfied only if this were a constant and total condition, active in all circumstances and at every moment, day and night. But is it possible with this INUNDATION pouring in from outside? Constantly! While walking this morning I was (how to put it?) something of a witness, watching what was coming in from outside. One thing after another, one thing after anotherwhat a mixture! From all sides, from everyone and everything and everywhere. And not only from here, but from far, far away on the earth and sometimes from far back in time, back into the pastthings out of the past coming up, presenting themselves to the new Light to be put in their place. Its always that: each thing wanting to be put in its place. And this work has to be done constantly. Its as if one keeps catching a new illness to be cured.
0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are two lines in the ancient traditions, two ways of explaining this. One says it is by the descent of what already exists in all its perfection that what is involved can be awakened to consciousness and evolution. Its like the old story: when what Sri Aurobindo calls the universal Mother or the Shakti (or Sachchidananda1) realized what had happened in Matter (that is, in what had created Matter) and that this involution had led to a state of Inconscience, total unconsciousness, the ancient lore says that at once the divine Love descended straight from the Lord into Matter and began to awaken what was involved there.
Other traditions speak of the Consciousness, the divine Consciousness, instead of Love. One even finds accounts full of imagery depicting a Being of prismatic light lying in deep sleep in the cave of the Inconscient; and this Descent awakens him to an activity which is still (how to put it?) inner, an immobile activity, an activity by radiation. Countless rays issue from his body and spread throughout the Inconscient, and little by little they awaken in each thing, in each atom, as it were, the aspiration to Consciousness and the beginning of evolution.
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I myself would NEVER try to deal with the why; I would always say this is how it is. When people ask me, Why did it happen like this? Why is the world so unhappy? Why does it have to be dark before growing luminous? Why has there been this accident (if it can be called an accident)? Why did the Lord permit You can say its because of this, because of thatthere are fifty thousand replies and theyre all worthless.
Its like this because thats the way it is!
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As for hoping to make people understand! The only thing that really matters is that they read your book with interest. Let them read it with interest; each one will imagine he has understood (and of course he will have understood!), and through (I was going to say under) their interest, well, something will be awakened in their consciousness, a kind of first aspiration towards the need to realize thats all. If you do that, good Lord, you have done a great thing!
Make them understand! How to understand? As long as one is there [at the mind level], one does not understand. One can imagine all sorts of things, explain all sorts of things, but with a pinch of common sense, you see very well that you dont explain a thing.
0 1961-08-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had a VERY interesting experienceit was last year or the year before, I dont recall, but after I retired to my room upstairs.6 You know that during pujas these goddesses come all the timethey dont enter the body and tie themselves to it, but they do come and manifest. Well, this time I think it must have been for last years pujaDurga came (she always arrives a few days in advance and remains in the atmosphere; she is present, like thisgesture as if Durga were walking up and down with Mother). I was in touch with her during my meditations upstairs, and this new Power in the body was in me then as it is in me now, and (how to put it?) I made her participate in this concept of surrender. What an experience she had, mon petit! An extraordinary experience of the joy of being connected with That. And she declared, From now on, I am a bhakta of the Lord.
It was beautiful.
0 1961-08-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it is strangely indifferent to any scale of values or circumstances. Sometimes when I am meeting and speaking with someone, when I am seeing someone, this great universal Light of a perfect whiteness comes streaming in. Well, I must admit, this also occurs for the merest trifles, when Im tasting some cheese somebody has sent me, for example, or arranging objects in a cupboard, or deciding what things Im going to use or have to organize. It doesnt come in the same massive way as when it comes directly. When it comes directly its a mass, passing through and going out like that (Mother shows the Light descending directly from above like a mass and passing through her head in order to spread out everywhere). In these small things its pulverized, as though it came through an atomizer, but its that same sparkling white light, utterly white. Then, whatever Im doing, theres a sensation in the body thats like lying on a sea of something very soft, very intimate, very deep and eternal, immutable: the Lord. And all the bodys cells are joyously saying, You, You, You, You.
Thats my present condition.
0 1961-10-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I know that at a certain moment I was making the distinction between the two states, between the person the individual, personal beingturning towards the Lord, imploring Him to reveal His Will, and then this experience of becomingby extending oneself, by opening, by enlarging, by merging into the creationof BECOMING the Will of the Lord, the Supremes Will. No longer any need to implore Him, to know His Will and receive it like something foreign to youyou become that Will.
The experience was there at that moment, and it was eloquent enough.
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I must add that the experience came after I had been concentrating for three days (concentrating almost constantly) on finding an explanation for this: why has it become this way? It is impossible to find the why because its the reason asking and this goes beyond reason but what is the MECHANISM? Finding the mechanism would already be somethingto have the experience of the mechanism. And then came this CONCRETE superposition of the vibration of Love and the reception of hate. But this is exactly what happens! I said. The Lord is All-Love, All-Truth, All-Bliss, All-Deligh tHe is CONSTANTLY like thatand the world, especially the human world, constantly receives him in the other way. And the two things are superposed (Mother covers her left hand with her right).
Words dont convey anything; it was the experience. I made contact. It was very interesting. It lasted a long time, some two or three days. Since it was also linked to a state of healtha headache that had to be curedit bore its consequences: a crystal clear explanation of illness came. But I must again add something that preceded this.
0 1961-10-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For a long, long time I have been asking for. When I would say, Lord, take possession of this brain, I expected something of the sort, but I was expecting it with the supramental light (which, partially and momentarily, I have had). But this! It was really. I dont know what he did with my brainnot brain, my mental power. Probably during that period he absorbed it (I suppose thats what happened because there was no sense of difference). My impression was that as a result of this the physical cells were going to develop materially and be transformed (I think it will happen I had a sort of assurance that it will). Because now, as Im talking to you, Im looking at it and I see the effect is still there: no longer with the same overwhelming power, but the effect is there and it gives a sort of (it cant be compared to anything physical) a sort of warmth; its not heat, but warmth. Everything is seized by it, both ears (Mother touches her head), everythinghere, there, all around! Tremendous. And this immobility! As soon as one stops, it is immor (Mother cuts off her word), it is eternity.
It is truly bringing THAT down here [into Matter].
0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have done my best, all these years, to try to keep him at a distance. He has a powera terrible asuric power. Between you and me, I saw him like that from the start thats why I became involved with him. I never intended to marry him (his family affairs made it necessary), but when we met, I recognized him as an incarnation of the Lord of Falsehood that is his origin (what he called the Lord of Nations); and in fact, this being has directed the whole course of world events during the last few centuries. As for Theon, he was.
It was not by choice that I met all the four Asurasit was a decision of the Supreme. The first one, whom religions call Satan, the Asura of Consciousness, was converted and is still at work. The second [the Asura of Suffering] annulled himself in the Supreme. The third was the Lord of Death (that was Theon). And the fourth, the Master of the world, was the Lord of Falsehood; Richard was an emanation, a vibhuti,1 as they say in India, of this Asura.
Theon was the vibhuti of the Lord of Death.
Its a wonderful story, a real novel, which will perhaps be told one day when there are no more Asuras. Then it can be told.
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He isnt dead and hes still terribly dangerous because of whats behind him [the Lord of Falsehood].
You didnt record that, did you?
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Here in Pondicherry, those last days might have become tragic (but of course it was impossible). There was the great argument (for he was perfectly aware of who I was): But after all, he would tell me, since you are the eternal Mother, why have you chosen Aurobindo as Avatar? Choose me! You must choose meme! It was the Asura speaking through him. I would smile and not discuss it. Thats not how its done! I would tell him (laughing). Then one day he said, Ah, so you dont want to. (gesture to the throat) Well, if you dont choose me, then. He was a strong fellow with powerful hands. I kept quite calm and said inwardly, My Lord, my Lord. I called Sri Aurobindo and I saw him come, like that (gesture enveloping Mother and immobilizing everything). Then Richards hands loosened their grip.
There were marks on my neck.
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He wrote The Lord of Nations. And I saw him, oh! I saw this Lord of Nations. During the last war [World War II] I had some dealings with him again, but not through Richarddirectly. The being who used to appear to Hitler was the Lord of Nations. An incredible story! And I knew when they were going to meet (because after all, hes my son!9 That was the funniest part of it); and on one occasion I substituted myself for him, became Hitlers god and advised him to attack Russia. Two days later he attacked Russia. But upon leaving the meeting I encountered the other one [the real Asura] just as he was arriving! He was furious and asked me why I had done that. Its none of your business, I said, its what had to be done. You will see, he replied, I KNOW, I know you will destroy me, but before being destroyed I will wreak just as much havoc as I can, you can be sure of that.
When I returned from my nocturnal promenades I would tell Sri Aurobindo about them.
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Throughout the war Sri Aurobindo and I were in such a CONSTANT tension that it completely interrupted the yoga. And that is why the war started in the first placeto stop the Work. At that time there was an extraordinary descent of the Supermind; it was coming like that (massive gesture), a descent! Exactly in 39. Then the war broke out and stopped everything cold. For had we personally continued [the work of transformation] we were not sure of having enough time to finish it before the other one crushed the earth to a pulp, setting the whole Affair back centuries. The FIRST thing to be done was stop the action of the Lord of Nations.
The Lord of Falsehood.
You dont believe he is going to begin again?
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Even when I had that experience [the first supramental manifestation of February 29, 1956], when the Lord said, The time has come, well, it was not a complete descent; it was the descent of the Consciousness, the Light, and a part, an aspect of the Power. It was immediately absorbed and swallowed up by the world of Inconscience, and from that moment on it began to work in the atmosphere. But it was not THE thing that comes and gets permanently established; when that happens, we wont need to speak of itit will be obvious!
Although the experience of 56 was one more forward step, its not. Its not final.
0 1961-12-16, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
'If the Lord wills that a calamity befall you, why should you protest? Take it as a blessing and in fact it will become one.'
Then Mother thought that this message might not be too comforting and she put it aside (after asking the opinion of two disciples). Finally she chose the text of the experience which is the subject of this conversation. But the coming year, 1962, would be marked by the first great turning-point in Mother's yoga and a rather calamitous ordeal for the body.
0 1961-12-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know, Im putting it poorly, but this experience was concrete to the point of being physical. It happened in a Japanese country-house where we were living, near a lake. There was a whole series of circumstances, events, all kinds of thingsa long, long story, like a novel. But one day I was alone in meditation (I have never had very profound meditations, only concentrations of consciousness Mother makes an abrupt gesture showing a sudden ingathering of the entire being); and I was seeing. You know that I had taken on the conversion of the Lord of Falsehood: I tried to do it through an emanation incarnated in a physical being [Richard]7, and the greatest effort was made during those four years in Japan. The four years were coming to an end with an absolute inner certainty that there was nothing to be done that it was impossible, impossible to do it this way. There was nothing to be done. And I was intensely concentrated, asking the Lord, Well, I made You a vow to do this, I had said, Even if its necessary to descend into hell, I will descend into hell to do it. Now tell me, what must I do?The Power was plainly there: suddenly everything in me became still; the whole external being was completely immobilized and I had a vision of the Supreme more beautiful than that of the Gita. A vision of the Supreme.8 And this vision literally gathered me into its arms; it turned towards the West, towards India, and offered meand there at the other end I saw Sri Aurobindo. It was I felt it physically. I saw, sawmy eyes were closed but I saw (twice I have had this vision of the Supremeonce here, much later but this was the first time) ineffable. It was as if this Immensity had reduced itself to a rather gigantic Being who lifted me up like a wisp of straw and offered me. Not a word, nothing else, only that.
Then everything vanished.
0 1961-12-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But truly, EVERYTHING was changed at that moment: something was achieved. It was the perception of Power the Power that comes from Love (what Love is to the Supreme Consciousness, which has nothing to do with what we usually mean by the word love). And it was it was simple! None of those complications resulting from thought, intellect, understandingall that was gone, all gone. A formidable Power! And it made me understand one thing, that the state I had been put in (by the Lord of Yoga, in fact) was for obtaining the particular power that comes through an identity with all material things, a power possessed by certain personsnot always yogis, certain mediums, for instance. I saw it with Madame Theon: she would will a thing to come to her instead of going to the thing herself; instead of going to get her sandals when she wanted them, she made the sandals come to her. She did this through a capacity to radiate her mattershe exercised a will over her matterher central will acted upon matter anywhere, since she WAS THERE. With her, then, I saw this power in a methodical, organized way, not as something accidental or spasmodic (as it is with mediums), but as an organization of Matter. And so I began to understand: With this comes the power to put each thing in its place! provided one is universal enough.
Well, I have understood. And now I know where I stand.
0 1962-01-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He stopped at the subtle physicalhe refused to go any farther. It was Satan, the Asura1 of Light who, in cutting himself off from the Supreme, fell into Unconsciousness and Darkness (Ive told the story many times). But anyway, when I was with Thon, I summoned that being and asked him if he wanted to enter into contact with the earth. Its worth mentioning that Thon himself was an incarnation of the Lord of Death Ive had good company in my life! And the other one [Richard] was an incarnation of the Lord of Falsehood but it was only partial. With Thon too it was partial. But with Satan it was the central being; of course, he had millions of emanations in the world, but this was the central being in person. The others lets keep that for another time.
He agreed to take on a body. Theon wanted to keep him there: Dont let him go, he told me. I didnt answer. This being told me he didnt want to be more material than that, it was sufficientyou could feel him move the way you feel a draft, it was that concrete.
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was like a memory,1 an eternally present memory of that consciousness of supreme Love emanated by the Lord onto earth INTO earthto draw it back again to Him. And truly it was the descent of the very essence of the divine nature into the most total divine negation, and thus the abandonment of the divine condition to take on terrestrial darkness, so as to bring Earth back to the divine state. And unless That, that supreme Love, becomes all-powerfully conscious here on Earth, the return can never be definitive.
It came after the vision of the great divine Becoming.2 Since this world is progressive, I was wondering, since it is increasingly becoming the Divine, wont there always be this deeply painful sense of the nondivine, of the state that, compared with the one to come, is not divine? Wont there always be what we call adverse forces, in other words, things that dont harmoniously follow the movement? Then came the answer, the vision of That: No, the moment of this very Possibility is drawing near, the moment for the manifestation of the essence of perfect Love, which can transform this unconsciousness, this ignorance and this ill will that goes with it into a luminous and joyous progression, wholly progressive, wholly comprehensive, thirsting for perfection.
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It happened this morning, with great simplicity, but at the same time it had something so vast and almighty in it, as if the Universal Mother were turning towards the Lord and saying, At last! We are ready.
That was my experience this morning.
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When Satprem published extracts from this conversation in the Ashram Bulletin of April 1962, Mother had this passage modified (over his protests). Instead of "Do not try to be virtuous," she put "Do not try to seem virtuous"; and she added: "There's a drawback here. People never understand anything, or rather they understand everything in their own way. They would take this sentence as an encouragement to get into mischief, to misbehave, to entertain wrong feelings, and then proclaim, 'We are the Lord's favorites!' ... There was something like it in one of Sri Aurobindo's letters, you remembera letter to people who wanted to bring all the impurities in themselves out to the surface; he told them that was definitely not the way!" (See Sri Aurobindo's two letters on psychoanalysis in the Addendum)
Letters on Yoga, Cent. Ed., XXIV. 1605 ff.
0 1962-01-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I also remember reading The Tradition, before I met Sri Aurobindo (it was like a novel, a serialized romance of the worlds creation, but it was very evocative; Theon called it The Tradition). That was where I first learned of the universal Mothers first four emanations, when the Lord delegated his creative power to the Mother. And it was identical to the ancient Indian tradition, but told like a nursery story; anyone could understandit was an image, like a movie, and very vivid.
So She made her first four emanations. The first was Consciousness and Light (arising from Sachchidananda); the second was Ananda and Love; the third was Life; and Truth was the fourth. Then, so the story goes, conscious of their infinite power, instead of keeping their connection with the supreme Mother and, through Her, with the Supreme, instead of receiving indications for action from Him and doing things in proper order, they were conscious of their own power and each one took off independently to do as he pleased they had power and they used it. They forgot their Origin. And because of this initial oblivion, Consciousness became unconsciousness, and Light became darkness; Ananda became suffering, Love became hate; Life became Death; and Truth became Falsehood. And they were instantly thrown headlong into what became Matter. According to Theon, the world as we know it is the result of that. And that was the Supreme himself in his first manifestation.
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Buddhism and all similar lines of thought took the shortest path: The desire to exist is what has caused all the trouble. If the Lord had refrained from having this desire, there would have been no world! Its childish, very childish, really a much too human way of looking at the problem.
To see it from the angle of delight of being is qualitatively far superior, but then theres still the problem of why it all became the way it is. The usual reply is: because all things were possible, and this is ONE possibility. But its not a very satisfying feeling: Yes, all right, thats just the way it is, its a fact. People used to ask Theon too, Why did it happen like this? Why? Wait till you get to the other side, then you will know. And meanwhile do whats necessary to get there thats the most urgent thing.
0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Myself, I have learned a lot of rules I didnt know before (thank God!)the divine Grace saved me from that whole hodgepodge of rules about how this happens and how that cant happen and how that must happen and how. Oh, good Lord! I saw things very simply, without a single rule in my brain, and so I did them just as simply, with no rules in my headit worked very, very well, I didnt run into any trouble. Things worked out quite naturally and simply. And if I was told, That cant beWell, sorry, I would say, but its already done.
That cant be. Sometimes it can!
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And so according to your mission in the world, you have to find for yourself the right proportion between this work and external, intellectual or organizational work; and then there are the bodys needs, which can be met in the same way, trying to make it possible for the Lord to take delight in them. I have seen this for trivial things: for example, making your bath a pleasant experience, or caring for your hair, or whatever (of course, its been a long time since there have been any of those stupid, petty ideas of personal pleasure), so that these things arent done indifferently, out of habit and necessity, but with a touch of beauty, a touch of charm and delight for the Lord.
There, thats all.
0 1962-02-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A problem like that reaches a point of such acute tension that you feel you know nothing, understand nothing, you will never understand anything, its hopeless. When I reach that point, I always tilt in the same direction, its always: All right, I adore the Lord, as for the rest, it doesnt matter to me! I enter into a marvelous adoration and let Him do what He wants! Thats how it all ends up for me.
But this would only be suitable for those who have stopped thinking.
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Ultimately, looking at it like any idiot who thinks himself intelligent, one could say: this must be why the Lord created the universe.
For the joy of this You.
0 1962-02-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It takes such an effort to bring Light into this poverty, to bring a Force, a Reality, a Power, something, good Lord, something TRUE! Through constant effort and will, constant tension, suddenly, ah! I get two or three seconds and then it all ebbs away again.
In that former illusion, there were noble actions, generous actions, great, heroic actions, all adding color to life and capable of giving you some interesting hours. Now that too is gone: I see it all as childishness.
0 1962-02-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A line from Savitri constantly haunts or assails meits when the Lord proposes that she come live a blissful life above, and she replies, No, there are still too many battles to wage on earth.2
That went deep into me, and it returns each time difficulties arise, as if to say, Dont complain.
0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So on the 21st morning I could say quite spontaneously and unhesitatingly, Today the Lord has given me the gift of healing me. (I was speaking in English about the things people had given me, and I said, and the Lord has given me the gift of healing me.)
This explanation is clear; and the healing was the result of tapasya. Its self-explanatory. Something was even saying to my body, to the bodys SUBSTANCE, O unbelieving substance, now you wont be able to say there are no miracles. Throughout all the work that was being done on the 20th, something was saying (I dont know who, because it doesnt come like something foreign to me any more, its like a Wisdom, it seems like a Wisdom, something that knows: not someone in particular, but that which knows, whatever its form), something that knows was insisting to the body, by showing it certain things, vibrations, movements, From now on, O unbelieving substance, you cant say there are no miracles. Because the substance itself is used to each thing having its effect, to illnesses following a particular course and certain things even being necessary for it to be cured. This process is very subtle, and it doesnt come from the intellect, which can have a totally different interpretation of it; its rather a kind of consciousness ingrained in physical substance, and thats what was being addressed and being shown certain movements, certain vibrations and so forth: You see, from now on you cant say there are no miracles. In other words, a direct intervention of the Lord, who doesnt follow the beaten path, but does things in His own way.
There was also that attack (it was rather serious and threw the doctor into a fit of anxiety) which took place, I think, the day before sari distribution.6 The next morning, throughout the distribution, someone else seemed to have taken possession of my body and to be doing what had to be done, taking care of all the difficulties; I was comfortable, serene, simply like a carefree spectator. I had nothing to worry about, someone was. (What someone? Someone, something, I dont know, theres no more difference, its not delineated like that any more; but anyway, it was a being, a force, a consciousness perhaps a part of myself, I dont know; none of this is clear-cut; its quite precise, but not divided, very smoothMo ther makes a rounded gestureno breaks.) Something, then, a will or a force or a consciousness plainly a powerhad taken possession of the body and was doing all the work, looking after everything. I was witnessing everything, smiling. But its gone now. It came specifically for that work (I was in pretty bad shape); when the work was over, it dissolvedit didnt leave abruptly but it became inactive. Afterwards, I felt rather confident. Well in any case, I thought, something similar could happen on the 21st, since it just happened now.
The 19th was so-so, and on the 20th I was concentrated all day long: no contacts with anyone, nothing external, only an intense invocation as intense and concentrated as when youre trying to melt into the Lord at death. It was like that. The same movement of identification, but at its core a will for everything to work out in a good way here [on the material plane]. In a good way I mean I said to the Lord, YOUR Good, the true Good, not. The true Good, a victorious Good, a real progress over the way life is usually lived. And I stayed in this unwavering concentration the whole day, all the time, all the time: even when I spoke, it was something very external speaking. And then at night when I went to bed I felt something had changed the body felt completely different. When I got up in the morning, all the pains and disorders and dangers had vanished. Lord, I said, You have given me a gift of health.
And with this change, the bodily substance, the very stuff of the cells, was constantly being told, Dont you forget, now you see that miracles CAN happen. In other words, the way things work out in physical substance may not at all conform to the laws of Nature. Dont forget, now! It kept coming back like a refrain: Dont forget, now! This is how it is. And I saw how necessary this repetition was for the cells: they forget right away and try to find explanations (oh, how stupid can you be!). Its a sort of feeling (not at all an individual way of thinking), its Matters way of thinking. Matter is built like that, its part of its make-up. We call it thinking for lack of a better word, but its not thinking: it is a material way of understanding things, the way Matter is able to understand.
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Yes, I thought I didnt see you! But when I went out on the balcony, something suddenly began making me do pranayama! I started doing it and it was funny I had great fun. It was like the Lord entering into me as air, and when it was held inside like that (I was doing it physically at the same time), all the air began to flow out into everybody and do its work in each onewith such a sensation of ease, of tranquil power, and so sure of itself! So comfortably peaceful.
The balcony darshans are interesting.
0 1962-03-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What I always do is say, Well, all right (I say this to the Lord with a smile), if You have now decided I should leave, Ill go willingly.
If He ever gave me a slap, thats when Id get one! I can feel it even while I am saying this.
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You know, all those little rules were enjoined to follow: Above all, dont do that; and be sure to do this, dont forget that. Like ablutions, for instance, or attitudes, or what to eattheres no dearth of them. A mountain of dos and dontsall completely swept away! And swept away to the point where sometimes a rule, something highly recommended (Be sure to do this, be careful to do thatan attitude or an action) becomes an obstacle. I hardly dare say it, but one example is having a regular schedulealways making ablutions at the same hour, always doing japa in the same manner and so on. And I am perfectly aware that Sri Aurobindo himself puts all sorts of trivial obstacles in my wayobstacles I could hurdle with a single second of reflection; he sets them up as if in play. Do you remember the aphorism where he says he was quarreling with the Lord and the Lord made him fall in the mud?2 Thats just what I feel. He puts a stick in my spokes and laughs. So I say, All right, thats enough, I dont give a hoot! Ill do whatever You want, its not my problem; I can do it or not do it, do it this way or that. It has all gone up in smoke now.
What has become constant, though. I shouldnt say it, because its going to get me into trouble again! But anyway, whats trying to be constant is DISCRIMINATION: taking all circumstances, vibrations, relationships, what comes from the people around me, what responds, and putting each in its proper place. A second-to-second discrimination. I know where things are coming from, why they come, their effect, where theyre going to lead me, and so on. Its growing more and more frequent, constant, automaticlike a state of being.
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Ill tell you what I do: I say to the Lord, All right, if thats how it is, well, I am not doing anything any more; I am resting in Your arms and waiting. I actually, concretely (I was about to say materially) do itand then I dont stir. You will do it all, I am not doing anything.And I really stay like that. Immediately, of course, theres a great joy and I dont stir.
For instance, I am completely snowed under with material work, letters, people, matters to arrange and decide, big things to organize, all of it falling on me from every side and trying to take up all my time and energy. At times it really gets too much. So when its too much, I say, All right, Lord, now I will nestle in Your arms. And there I am, no longer thinking, no longer bothering about anything, and I go into Bliss. Usually after ten minutes everything is fine!
The trouble is, the mental mechanism isnt there any more. Before, with the mind working, I would take up this thing or do that thing, but now I dont let it function, so theres nothing to make me move!
0 1962-03-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have told you about my dealings with the Lord of Nations on several occasionsits that kind of thing. It can hardly be called collaboration!
The great ones know (I am not speaking of the multitude of minor beings, but the others; there are millions of emanationsemanations by the truckload!but only a few great ones), they know enough to be aware of their own position in the universe and that they will come to an end. They know there is such a thing as the Supreme (although they deny it), and that they are cut off from the Supreme, and that they will come to an end. But they have taken a stand against the Work, the Action, the Progress, and are intent on destroying as much as they can.
0 1962-03-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, not that. I said two things. One, if I make it through to the end, I may even let it be shown to the public, for the living proof will be there: You dont need to scoffjust see where it leadsHERE! And if the Lord decides its not for this time, well, then I will give it to those who have loved me, who have lived with me, worked with me, endeavored with me, and who respect what was attempted. It will be my parting gift if I go. And I dont intend to.
I certainly hope not!
0 1962-04-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I woke up at two and noticed that the heart had been affected by the attack of this group that is wanting to take my life away from this body, because they know that as long as I am in a body upon earth their purpose cannot succeed. Their first attack was many years ago in vision and action. It happened during the night and I spoke of it to no one. I noted the date, and if I can come out of this crisis, I will find it and give it out. They would have liked me dead years ago. It is they who are responsible for these attacks on my life. Until now I am alive because the Lord wants me to be alive, otherwise I would have gone long ago.
I am no more in my body. I have left the Lord to take care of it, if it is to have the Supramental or not. I know, and I have also said, that now is the last fight. If the purpose for which this body is alive is to be fulfilled, that is to say, the first steps towards the Supramental transformation, then it will continue today. It is the Lords decision. I am not even asking what He has decided. If the body is incapable of bearing the fight, if it has to be dissolved, then humanity will pass through a critical time. What the Asuric Force that has succeeded in taking the appearance of Sri Aurobindo will create is a new religion or thought, perhaps cruel and merciless, in the name of the Supramental Realisation. But everybody must know that it is not true, it is not Sri Aurobindos teaching, not the truth of his teaching. The truth of Sri Aurobindo is a truth of love and light and mercy. He is good and great and compassionate and divine. Et cest Lui qui aura la victoire finale.1
Now, individually, if you want to help, you have only to pray. What the Lord wants will be done. Whatever He wills, He will do with this body, which is a poor thing.
(Sometime later, when the communication was read to her.)
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It cant go on. They must be defeated or else this body is defeated. All depends on what the Lord decides.
It is the battlefield. How far it can resist I dont know. After all, it depends on Him. He knows if the time has come or not, the time for the beginning of the Victory then the body will survive. If not, in any case, my love and consciousness will be there.
0 1962-04-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And our consciousness is the same, absolutely the same as the Lords. There was no difference, no difference at all.
We are That, we are That, we are That.
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Glory to You, Lord, Triumphant One supreme.
A tape cassette of this message is available.
0 1962-05-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Otherwise, you know, I would not have consented. If That had not agreed, I would have said to my body, Go on, keep going, move and it would have gone on. It stopped because That said yes. And then I understood that that whole so-called illness was necessary for the Work. So I let myself go. And then what I told you about happened: this body was consigned to the care of three people, who looked after it marvelously, by the wayreally, it filled me with constant admirationa selflessness, a care oh, it was wonderful! I was saying to the Lord the whole time, Truly, Lord, You have arranged all the material conditions in an absolutely marvelous, incredible way, bringing together whatever is necessary, and placing around me people beyond all praise. For at least two weeks they had a hard time of itquite hard. The body was a wreck, you know! (Mother laughs) They had to think of everything, decide everything, take care of everything. And they looked after it very, very wellreally very well.
Its a wonderful story, seen as I see it. And I have observed it very carefully: it isnt an ordinary story seen with an exceptional knowledge, but a true Knowledge and a true Consciousness witnessing an exceptional story. Those three people may not be aware of how utterly exceptional it is, but thats simply because their consciousness is not sufficiently awake. But they too have been, and continue to be, exceptional.
0 1962-05-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And suddenly, when I let myself go. You know, I have been advised (by the Lord!) to relax, relax, relax. He doesnt want action to result from the tension of an individual will; so relaxall right, relax. But when you relax and then suddenly get a horrible pain, you say Hey!but at the same time I laugh! What the people around me must think. I am crying and laughing! (Mother laughs.)
Well.
0 1962-05-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The only thing to do is not torment yourself and to say to the Lord (in all sincerity, of course), Its up to You. Rid me of this. And it is very effective. Very effective. At times I have had old things like that dissolved in a flash; certain inveterate little habitsso stupid, but so ingrained you cant get rid of them. Then, while doing japa or walking or meditating or whatever, suddenly the flame flares up and (you have really had enough of it; it disgusts you, you want it to change, you really want the change) and you say to the Lord, I cant do it on my own. (You very sincerely know you cant do it; you have tried and tried and tried and have achieved exactly nothingyou cant do it.) Well then, I offer it to YouYou do it. Just like that. And all at once you see the thing fading away. It is simply wonderful. You know how Sri Aurobindo used to take away someones pain? Its exactly the same. Certain habits bound up with the bodys formation.
One day I will certainly use the same method on those room changes, but for that it will have to become very clear and distinct, well defined in the consciousness. Because that change of room (intellectually you would call it a change of consciousness, but that means nothing at all; were dealing here with something very, very material) I have sometimes gone through it without experiencing ANY CHANGE OF EFFECT, which probably means I was centered not in the material consciousness but in a higher consciousness dwelling and looking on from elsewherea witness consciousness and I was in a state where everything flows flows like a river of tranquil peace. Truly, its marvelousall creation, all life, all movements, all things, and everything like a single mass, with the body in the midst of it all, blending homogeneously with the whole and it all flows on like a river of peace, peaceful and smiling, on to infinity. And then oops! You trip (gesture of inversion2) and once again find yourself SITUATEDyou ARE somewhere, at some specific moment of time; and then theres a pain here, a pain there, a pain. And sometimes I have seen, I have witnessed the change from the one to the other WITHOUT feeling the pains or experiencing the thing concretely, which means that I wasnt at all in the body, I wasnt BOUND to the body I was seeing, only seeing, just like a witness. And its always accompanied by the kind of observation an indulgent (but not blind) friend might make: But why? Why that again? Thats how it comes. Whats the use of that? And I cant catch hold of what makes it happen.
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But with a very simple movement, you can easily eliminate that from the consciousness; this movement can be formulated in an almost childlike way: You alone, Lord, You alone can act. You alone, Lord, You alone can act. And then that easing off (its relaxation, actually): you just let yourself melt, let yourself melt. This (the head) keeps still, it doesnt stir; you are wholly in the sensation, you let yourself melt. And with a sense of boundlessness.
And no more distinctions.
0 1962-06-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its neither you nor me nor Tom, Dick or Harry nor the Lord thats just the way it is. Theres a reason behind it were too obtuse to understand.
Yes, but its getting to be a pretty long reason. I have the feeling its all going to crack one day.
0 1962-06-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It will be as the Lord decides.
(silence)
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As a matter of fact, I dont do anything on purpose. Its like this (Mother opens her hands): Lord, You have willed.
I cant do anything about it.
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And I am more and more aware that people really panicked this time; they imagined I was going to die I could have died, had the Lord willed it. But it has been a sort of death, thats for suresure, sure, surealthough I dont say so, because. After all, one must have some regard for peoples common sense!
But really, if I let myself go one step further I would say that I was dead and have come back to life. But I dont say it.
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This greatly objectifies my situation, which has nothing to do with an illness to be cured! I cant be cured! It is a work of transformation. At any moment, if the Lord decides its hopeless, it will be hopeless, finished; and no matter what happens, if the Lord has decided that Ill go right to the end of the experience, then Ill go right to the end.
That whole way of seeing, feeling and reacting belongs really to another world. Really to another world to such a degree that if I had no regard for peoples peace of mind I would say, I dont know whether I am dead or alive. Because there is a life, a type of life vibration that is completely independent of. No, Ill put it another way: the way people ordinarily feel life, feel that they are alive, is intimately linked with a certain sensation they have of their bodies and of themselves. If you totally eliminate that sensation, the type of relation that allows people to say I am alive well, eliminate that, but then how can you say, I am alive, or I am not alive? The distinction NO LONGER EXISTS. Well, for me, it has been completely eliminated. That night April 12-13, it was definitively swept out of me. It has never come back. Its something that seems impossible now. So what they mean by I am alive is I cant say I am alive the way they doits something else entirely.
0 1962-07-07, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then after all, if its lost, its lost! It will have been the Lords decision, so it doesnt matter.
The Lord we must help Him out a little!
He doesnt know the job! (Mother laughs)
0 1962-07-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The true life in its SIMPLE purity cannot come until until the Lord Himself is doing and deciding everything, acting, realizing, living, having the experience. When everything is in His hands and you have absolutely nothing to do and dont even know WHERE YOU ARE, then then it comes in its purity, not before.
This is the difference, the radical difference, since the experience of [April 13]: there is nothing but the Lord. All the rest what is it? No more than a habit of speaking (not even a habit of thinking, thats all gone), a habit of speaking; so the less one speaks, the happier one is. Otherwise nothing. And what else could there be? It is He who sees, He who wills, He who acts.
Then everything comes spontaneously, easily, with such great simplicity.
0 1962-07-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother listens to Satprem read a passage from the last conversation in which she says: This is the radical difference since the experience of April 13: there is nothing but the Lord. All the rest what is it? No more than a habit of speaking (not even a habit of thinking, thats all gone). Otherwise nothing. And what else could there be? It is He who sees, He who wills, He who acts.)
You know, theres the same vibration here as in to die unto death. Its something yes, I think we could say it is His Presence His creative Power. It is a special vibration. Dont you feel something like like a pure superelectricity?
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When you read those words it suddenly came to me that it must be the Lords Power within material vibrations.
Its interesting, worth investigating.
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And simultaneously there is an automatic perception of timeclock timewhich is rather curious (everything is regulated by the comings and goings of the people around me, you see: such a thing at this time, such a thing at that time), I dont need to hear the clock I am warned just before it strikes. I repeat one part of the japa in a particular way while lying down, because the Power is greater (these arent meditations, they are actions), and another part while walking. So I stay stretched out for a certain time, I walk for a certain time, and at a fixed hour this one goes, another comes, and so on. But none of them are people; I dont tell them so, but theyre not people: they are movements of the Lord. And its extremely interestingone of the Lords movements will have this particular character, another movement will have a different type of vibration, and they all harmonize very nicely into a whole. But I know what time it is just before the clock strikes: six oclock, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, like that. Not with the words six, seven, but: its time, its time, its time. And along with thisthis clockwork precision I have that other notion of time which is quite different, its. Although its a very rigid convention, our time is a living formation with its own living power here in the world of action. The other time is the rhythm of consciousness. So according to the intensity of the Presence (theres a concentration and an expansion, I mean), according to this pulsationwhich can vary, its not regular and mechanicalwalking around the room takes either no time at all, or else an ENORMOUS amount of time. But this doesnt interfere with the other time, theres no contradiction. Our time is on a different plane, something far more external; but it has its usefulness and its own law, and the one doesnt hinder the other.4
And its gradually becoming foreseeable that.5
0 1962-07-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its like an image. You see, the body is stretched out here on the chaise longue. You know how it is when experiments are done on animals? Its something like that the body is there as the subject of an experiment. Then theres my consciousness, the part focused on the earthly experience and the present transformation (its what I mean when I say I). And then the Lord. I say the Lord Ive adopted that because its the best way of putting it and the easiest for me, but I never, NEVER think of a being. For me, its a simultaneous contact with the Eternal, the Infinite, the Vast, the Totality of everything the totality of everything: all that is, all that has been, all that will be, everything. Words spoil it, but its like thatautomaticallywith consciousness, sweetness and SOLICITUDE. With all the qualities a perfect Personality can offer (I dont know if you follow me, but thats the way it is). And That (I use all these words to say it, and three-fourths is left out) is a spontaneous, constant, immediate experience. So the I I spoke of asks that the body may have the experience, or at least an initial taste, even a shadow of the experience of this Love. And each time its asked for, it comes INSTANTLY. Then I see the three together1in my consciousness and perception the three are together and I see that this Love is dosed out and maintained in exact proportion to what the body can bear.
The body is aware of this and is a little sad about it. But immediately comes something soothing, calming, making it vast. The body instantly senses the immensity and regains its calm.
This experience I am describing is exactly what happened yesterday (it happens every day, but yesterday it was especially clear). And its still here I am seeing it as I saw it, its still here. Actually, it is always herealways herethough its more striking when the body is stretched out, motionless in the Yoga. The experience is slightly different when walking because that involves action. When the body walks, it acts on behalf of everything thats related to it, hence the action is vaster and more powerful. But when it is stretched out and asks the Lord to take possession of it, it really asks with all its aspiration. And the very intensity of the aspiration brings in the possibility of a slight emotional vibration. But it is immediately drowned in the immobile immensity of matter, which senses the Divine Descent like a leaven that makes dough rise thats it exactly, the terrestrial immensity of matter and the leavening action of the Divine Descent. The intensity of these vibrations is above and beyond anything we are used to feeling the vital seems dull and flat in comparison. And what a Wisdom! It knows how to make use of time that is, it actually changes itself into timeso as to minimize the possibilities of damage.
Its plain to see that, left to itself in its full power of transformation and progress, this flame of aspiration, this flame of Agni would have scant consideration for the result of the process the result of the process is that fire burns. And there could be mishaps in the functioning of the organs. All the organs must undergo a transformation, but were it too rapid and too sudden, well, everything would go out of whack. The machine would simply explode. But this Wisdom doesnt come from the universal consciousness (which I dont really think is so wise!), its infinitely higher: the Supreme Wisdom. Something so wonderful! It foresees things the universal forces in their universal play would overlooka wonder!
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This body-consciousness has a will; it is constantly, constantly calling upon the Lords will: Lord, take possession of this, take possession of that, take. Theres no question of taking possession of the will, that was done ages ago, but: Take possession of these cells, those cells, this, that. It is the BODYS aspiration. Well, the blow wasnt caused by this will acting in the body; the blow didnt come directly from the body, but from something that had slipped in through an unconscious element; and the body simply erased, or absorbed, digested this unconsciousness and the thing vanished without a trace!
And do you know how this body is? It immediately began wondering (I was quietly watching it all from above), What if (ifs are always idiotic but its an old bodily habit), what if the object had been sharp, would the results have been so easy to annul? (Mother laughs) Then I distinctly heard someone reply (I am putting it into words), You idiot! That wouldnt have happened in the first place! That is, the necessary protection would have been there. The protection intervenes only when necessary, not just for the fun of it. You numbskull, it said (I am translating freely), how silly can you be! It wouldnt have happened.
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You just cant imagineyou CANNOT. When I try to see life as most people see it (its getting increasingly difficult! but anyhow), the way people ordinarily see it, it becomes a big mishmash! I understand nothing, it makes no more sensenothing makes sense. Simply, for the sake of the action, I have been warned that nobody can understandNOBODY can comprehend to what extent the Lord is intermingled, is present and active in all things.
In all things.
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For instance, sometimes He tells me (of course its not external; its an extremely delicate working, and sort of automatic; no time elapses between the order and its execution: theyre not two movements but one single thing) when He says Speak, or when He says Keep silentlike the other day when, as you pointed out, I stopped in the middle of a sentenceits that all of a sudden (Mother makes a gesture as if she were unable to speak, or as if suddenly held by silence). At other times it pours out like its doing now. And I dont hear an order, I dont feel an order: I LIVE the Order; and its so patently the Lords that it seems stupid to even mention it.
Oh, such humorous things happen. The other day I saw T. Her old mother lives in Moscow; shes very old and on her deathbed, and has asked T. to come see her. So T. is going to go there. Its a risky adventure. She wrote to ask if she could see me before leaving (I dont see anyone and I had no intention of receiving her, but it was decided in spite of me and I let her come). She had been told not to speak, but thats impossible for such a chatterbox! So she began by lamenting (probably thinking it was the thing to do) over my serious illness and god knows what else I didnt listen. I simply told her, No, its not that, its the yoga. Then, with the effervescence of an ignorant child: Yoga! But you shouldnt be doing yoga! You shouldnt be. Just then, the Lords face came (the Lords face often takes on Sri Aurobindos appearancean idealized Sri Aurobindo, not exactly as he was physically), and it came here (right up against Mothers face), and it was blue. Then It made my finger touch her cheek, like this (Mother seems to tap T.s cheek), and It told that child, Little children dont know what theyre talking about. And it was so thoroughly Him! He was speaking and I saw only Him, his appearance: Little children dont know what theyre talking about.
I dont know how I looked (I was enjoying myself enormously), but she must have felt something (she didnt say a word), she must at least have felt something strange because a shudder went through her being. And I was told that when she left, she said, I may come back before I leave, but I wont ask to see Mother! (Mother laughs.)
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The body, the "I," and the Lord.
"The regret of the person who bumped me," Mother specified. "This person's state of consciousness entered the body along with the blow. And this kind of regret for having given a blow was an ego movement. All these vibrations accompanied the blow and that's what the body had to annul in order to annul the result."
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats all I had told him (not in great detail, in a few words). Then I sat down near him and he began talking with Richard, about the world, yoga, the futureall kinds of thingswhat was going to happen (he already knew the war would break out; this was 1914, war broke out in August, and he knew it towards the end of March or early April). So the two of them talked and talked and talkedgreat speculations. It didnt interest me in the least, I didnt listen. All these things belonged to the past, I had seen it all (I too had had my visions and revelations). I was simply sitting beside him on the floor (he was sitting in a chair with Richard facing him across a table, and they were talking). I was just sitting there, not listening. I dont know how long they went on, but all at once I felt a great Force come into mea peace, a silence, something massive! It came, did this (Mother sweeps her hand across her forehead), descended and stopped here (gesture at the chest).4 When they finished talking, I got up and left. And then I noticed that not a thought remained I no longer knew anything or understood anything, I was absolutely BLANK. So I gave thanks to the Lord and thanked Sri Aurobindo in my heart.
And I was very careful not to disturb it; I held it like that for I dont know how long, eight or ten days. Nothingnot one idea, not one thought, nothinga complete BLANK. In other words, from the outside, it must have looked like total idiocy.
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But I have never been able to do it for anyonenot like that, with such plenitudenever, never. Its fantastic! It was stupendous! Truly we can say that only the Lord can do such a thing, He alone. Without the slightest effort, without even seeming to he didnt even seem to concentrate, nothing, just like that. You never met him, did you?
Yes, I had a darshan.
0 1962-08-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
These vibrations have various qualities; if they were expressed through a mental observation, it would be done through such things as taste, color, and so forth, everything Ive just mentioned1but thats not how theyre expressed. They come almost exclusively as sensations, but those sensations some, I mean some vibrations, have rounded edges. Some come horizontally (I was in fact studying everything that comes horizontally), others result from the state of consciousness (vertical gesture from top to bottom). While at the same time, others are. Yes, its like looking through a high-powered microscope: some are rounded, others pointed; some are darker, some brighter. Some are very upsetting to the body, and some even feel dangerous. On the other hand, certain ones make the body receptive to the vibration, which we might call the Lords Vibration, the supreme Vibration. You see, all this is the outcome of a discipline, a tapasya, for preparing the body to receive the Lords Vibrations (the first step is receiving, being able to receive them; afterwards you have to hold on to and then manifest them). Those vibrations are unmistakable, they are something else entirely. But other vibrations are helpful, beneficial, while still others are disruptive, contradictory.
And each one is beginning to reveal its own particular nature. There are those stemming from peoples thoughts (I sense them in my body, not in the mind: the material consequence of peoples psychological state, and even their state of health). Some things are general and last a bit longer; others are momentary, lasting only a few seconds. The first step is to study the different vibrational qualitiesyou could practically draw diagrams: if we had a machine sensitive enough to record these things, it would produce all kinds of zigs and zags.2 Certain vibrations immediately stop or change or are dissolved or repelled. Others are adopted, as it were, and transformed. The majority are simply pushed back and worked on from a distancequite a distance! I keep them at a fair distance (Mother laughs). Very few are let in. But some are let in for the sake of the experience, to see how much they upset the body. Theres also the effect of peoples permanent auras: I know a certain person is arriving by his auras effect on the body; because (laughing) each vibration has its particular effect on the bodyperfectly prosaic things, maybe, but by studying them you realize that each thing has its own law.
0 1962-08-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a sort of reply to something I am translating in The Synthesis of Yoga. You know, there are these three aspects that must always be kept united in ones consciousness: jiva (the individual), Shakti, and Ishwara (the Supreme). He gives a wonderful description of how we have all three together in a kind of inner hierarchy. So while reading that (as I translate I have all the experiences, they come spontaneously), I kept saying to myself, No, that jiva hampers me; that jiva hems me in! Its not natural to me. Whats natural to me is its probably Mahashakti. There is always that sense of creative Power, and of the Lord. The infinite, marvelous, innumerable joy of the Lord, you see, which is so intermingled with the Poweryou can sense the presence of the Lord, yet you cannot distinguish or differentiate between the two. Its all a delectable play. So to introduce the individual, the jiva, into this spoils everything, makes everything so small!
I wanted to put all this into my sentence.
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Oh, during those hours the Presence lasted this morning, what I say here became so obvious, so obvious! You see (theres nothing but the Lord, of course), its exactly as if the Lord were seeing all things (and this body is part of what He sees!), seeing all things and laughing, laughingforever laughing at all the tragedy the tragedy of this existence! And I was seeing Him right here, you know, there was nothing but Himimmense, marvelous, yet at the same time scaled to the size of the earth, almost to the size of this room, you could say! He was here, in everythingin all the past, all the future, in all places, in everything. And He was smiling, smiling with the consciousness of that joyits not joy, joy sounds pallid. And there was no excitement, nothing of what human consciousness mixes into these things, only an eternal certitude, a crystal clear vision of the most MINUTE details. And all of this simultaneously, just like that, with a smile. And although I cant say what is He and what is me, I have the joy of perceiving Him (that isnt abolished), and yet I am nowhere in particular! Still I have the joy, I feel the joy of perceiving Him.
Its difficult to describe. It lasted from around midnight until eight oclock.
0 1962-08-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You must learn to be immobile, silent, and let the Lord speak through you; its much better than deciding in advance, much better. Personally, the Lord has never failed me. I have found myself hundreds of times in very difficult situations; I wouldnt do anything, I would say, All right, lets see what happens! And of course, what happened was always for the best. And I had nothing to do with itit wasnt me, it was the Lord.
The less one explains, the less one plans, the betteralways, always.
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Perhaps there once was a jiva. I dont know, I dont remember; all I remember now is ultimately, an evolving universe, with a special concentration on the affairs of the earth, because the Lord has decided that the time has come to to change something. Thats all. To change something.
(silence)
0 1962-08-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Once, when I saw how it was, I complained a bit to the Lord: Lord, why did you make the body this way for doing this kind of work? Just look at it! He answered me (laughing), Its the best that could be done. So I said Thank you! and kept quiet.
And thats probably true! It has some good points: what they call stubborn in Englishyou know (Mother plants down her two fists and holds them motionless). And stubbornness is an essentially British quality, so theres no other word for it. The body is stubborn; and thats what is needed.
0 1962-08-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because the other end is the new creation, so its clear that. How MANY steps will it take, how many incomplete or imperfect things, approximations, attemptshow many MINUSCULE realizations for you to simply acknowledge, Yes, indeed, were on the way? For how many oh, you could practically say centuries will it be like this before the glorious body of a supramental being appears? Something came yesterday evening (it seemed like mere excitation to me); it was a power of creative imagination attempting to visualize supramental forms, beings that live in other worlds, and all sorts of things like that. I saw many things. But it seemed so like champagne bubbles! Thats all very nice, I said, for widening my power of imagination so I can present these forms to the Lord. But its not necessary! (Mother laughs) It really seemed so. There was a time when I considered it a great creative power (and many things that I saw in those moments of super-creativity, super-imagination, were actually realized years later on earth), and this time it came again (perhaps to give me a little fun, a little spectacle along the way), it came and I looked at it; I could see all its power, I could see it was something trying to materialize in the future, and I said, What histrionics! Why go through all these theatrics? Jugglers.
And it was supramental light, it originated in supramental light. How beings from other worlds would relate with the future beings, and all sorts of similar thingsbedtime stories.
But the vibration was there, you see, high above and all around the earth, very powerful (it was all around the earth) and very strong, it seemed to be coming from other parts of the universe and trying to enter the earths atmosphere to help it participate in those new combinations. And it all seemed like childishness to me the whole universe seemed to be living in childishness. There was something so tranquil hereso tranquil, so calm and unhurried, not interested in showing anything off, but capable of living in an eternity of quiet effort and progress. It was here, immobile, watching all these things. Finally (the spectacle lasted all evening) when I lay down in bed for the night, I said to the Lord, I dont need diversions, I dont need to see encouraging things I only want to work calmly, quietly, IN You. You, You are the worker; You are here and You alone exist. You are the realizer. Then all grew silent, still, motionlessand the excitement waned.
So you see, theres excitement in the universe too, if youre not careful! But my impression is that it simply complicates thingsit clouds the issue, you know, it complicates things. Then you have to wait for the bubbles to subside before you can calmly set off again on your way towards the goal.
0 1962-09-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a strange sensation, a bizarre perception of both the true functioning and the functioning distorted by the sense of being an individual body. Theyre not even you cant even say theyre superimposed, theyre almost simultaneous, and thats why it is so hard to explain. A number of things are malfunctioning in the body; I dont know if they can be called illnesses (maybe the doctors would call them illnesses), but in any case, theyre malfunctionings in the bodys organs: the heart, the stomach, the intestines, the lungs and so on. And at the same time theres (it cant be called a functioning) the true state. And thus certain disorders appear only when the consciousness as if the consciousness were pulled or pushed or poised in a certain way, and then, those malfunctionings INSTANTLY appearnot as a consequence: I mean the consciousness becomes aware of their existence. And if the consciousness stays in that position long enough, there are what we conventionally call consequences: the malfunctioning has its consequences (tiny things, such as physical discomforts, for instance). And if through (is it yogic discipline, is it the Lords intervention? Call it what you will) but if the consciousness regains its true position, the consequences cease IMMEDIATELY. Sometimes, though, its like this (Mother makes a gesture of an overlapping or interpenetration by interlacing the fingers of her two hands), in other words, this way, then that, this way, then that (Mother slips the fingers of her right hand back and forth through the fingers of her left to show the consciousness alternating between two states), this position, then that position, this one, then that one. This movement takes only a few seconds, so I can almost perceive the two functionings simultaneously. Thats what gave me the knowledge of the process, otherwise I wouldnt understand; I would simply think I am falling from one state into another. Thats not it, its just. The substance, the vibrations, everything is probably following its normal course, you see, and all that is really changing is the way consciousness perceives things.
So pushing this knowledge to its limit that is, applying it generallylife (what we usually call life, the physical life of the body) and death are THE SAME THING, simultaneous its just that the consciousness moves back and forth, back and forth (same gesture). I dont know if I am making myself clear. But its fantastic.
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Although perhaps it means we are drawing closer to the knowledge of the thingby knowledge I mean the power to change it, of course. If you have power over something, its because you know it; knowing a thing means being able to create it, or change it, to make it last or cease to bein other words it is Power. Thats what knowing means. All the rest is explanations the mind gives to itself. And I can feel that something (something! Well, what Sri Aurobindo calls the Lord of Yoga: the part of the Supreme concerned with terrestrial evolution) is leading me towards the discovery of that Power that Knowledgenaturally by the only possible means: experience. And with great care, for I can feel that.
Its going as fast as it possibly can.
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Nothing. Or do pranam1 to him, thats all, it doesnt matter. Personally, I could do pranam before a puppy dog, mon petit, in all sincerityseeing the Lord in it. You have only to think of the Lord, no?
In fact, thats what I always do.
Think of the Lord, thats all.
And be polite.
0 1962-09-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont have far to go on my translation of The Synthesis of Yoga (its going very quickly), and I have found what Ill do next. It will be something like those notebooks [Prayers and Meditations]. I am going to take the whole section of Savitri (to start with, Ill see later) from The Debate of Love and Death to the point where the Supreme Lord makes his prophecy about the earths future; its longseveral pages long. This is for my own satisfaction.
I am going to translate it line by line (not word by wordline by line), leaving a space between each line; and when Ive finished I will try to recapture it in French (gesture of pulling down from above).
0 1962-10-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is a fairly common experience. When it occurs, and for some time afterwards (not very long), everything seems to organize itself quite naturally around that Light. Then, little by little, it blends with all the rest. The intellectual awareness of it remains, formulated in one way or another that much is left but its like an empty husk. It no longer has the driving force that transforms all movements of the being in the image of that Light. And this is what Sri Aurobindo means: the world moves fast, the Lord moves ever forward, and all that remains is but a trail He leaves in His wake: it no longer has the same instantaneous and almighty force it had at the MOMENT He projected it into the world.
Its like a rain of truth falling, and anyone who can catch even a drop of it receives a revelation. But unless they themselves advance at a fantastic pace, the Lord and His rain of truth will already be far, far away, and theyll have to run very fast to catch up!
This is an image I have always seen.
0 1962-10-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Something is, and simultaneously its opposite exists. Well, for us it cant be both yes and no at the same time; but for the Lord its CONSTANTLY both yes and no at the same time!
Its the same with our notion of space. I am here, we say, therefore you are not here. But I am here and you are here and all is here! (Mother laughs) But you cant understand this unless you go beyond the notion of space and time.
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Actually, if you look at things closely, youre forced to conclude that the Lord is acting out a tremendous comedy for Himself, that the Manifestation is a comedy Hes playing with and for Himself!
He has put Himself in the role of spectator and Hes watching Himself. And to watch Himself, He has to accept the notion of time and spaceo therwise He cant watch Himself! And immediately the whole comedy begins. But its a comedy and nothing more!
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In fact theres no such thing as error. There are only things that seem impossible because we dont know that the Lord is all possibility and can do whatever He wants, any way He wants. We just cant get it through our heads: This can be, but that cant, we keep saying. But its not true! Everything is possible, and only our own stupidity says that something cant be.
Difficult to say anything reasonable for the Bulletin.
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Theres a person I wont name who has read Sri Aurobindos books and thought he understood them. He has been following a yogic discipline (anyway, he thought he was doing yoga) and he pulled down the Force. The Force responded (Mother laughs). He wound up with a headache! He got frightened and wrote to me in these exact words: This Force is the Lords Force (which is true, quite true), and it has turned into fear. So (Mother laughs) fear is the Lords principal perversion. There you have it. He read in books that the Lord is behind everything, that there is nothing that isnt the Lord; so its the Lord who has become perverted in His manifestation, naturally. The Force of the Lord came to help him and was changed into fear, so the Lords principal perversion is fear!
If you read that, youd say he was going off his rocker.
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This is plainly what he meant: Error is one of the innumerable, infinite possibilities (infinite means that absolutely nothing is outside the possibility of being). So where is there room for error in this? Its WE who call it error, its totally arbitrary. Thats an error, we say but in relation to what? To our judgment of what is true, yes, but certainly not in relation to the Lords judgment, since it is part of Him!
Few people can bear this widening of understanding.
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Theres nothing to sayif you sincerely want to get out of it, its really not so difficult: theres nothing to do but leave everything to the Lord. And He does it all. He does it all, He is its so wonderful! So wonderful!
He takes anything, even what we call a quite ordinary intelligence, and then He simply shows you how to put that intelligence aside, lay it to rest: There now, keep still, dont stir, dont bother me; I dont need you. And then a door opensyou dont even feel you have to open it; its wide open, and youre led through to the other side. Its Someone else who does all this, not you. And then the other way becomes impossible.
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You find yourself facing a so-called problem: What am I to say? What am I to do? How should I act? There is nothing to do! Nothing but to say to the Lord, You see, heres the situation. Thats all. And then keep very still. And spontaneously, without thinking about it, without reflecting, without calculating, without doing anything, anything whatsoever, without the slightest effort you do what must be done. But its the Lord who does it, its no longer you. He does it, He arranges the circumstances, He arranges the people, He puts the words in your mouth or under your penHe does it all, all, all, all, and you have nothing more to do, nothing but let yourself live in bliss.
I am beginning to be convinced that people dont really want it.
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Yes, out of habit it all tries to start up again. But all you need to say is, Look, Lord; see, see how it is. Thats all. Look at this, Lord, look at that, look at this idiot here and its over. Immediately. And the change comes automatically, mon petit, without the slightest effort. Simply simply be sincere, in other words, TRULY want the right thing. One is quite conscious of being powerless, utterly incompetent: more and more, I feel that this amalgam of matter, of cells and all the rest, is just pitiful! Pitiful. I dont know, under certain conditions people may feel powerful, wonderful, luminous, competent but as far as I am concerned, thats because they have no idea what theyre really like! When you really see what youre made of its nothing, really nothing. But its capable of anything, provided provided you let the Lord do it. The trouble is that something always wants to do things on its own. If it werent like that.
People come, letters arrive, various circumstances and problems arise (its over now, but at the timeeven a year ago that kind of thing was sometimes a problem for me). Well, right away, I (Mother opens her hands in front of her forehead, palms upwards, as though presenting the problem to the Lord): Here, Lord, look at this. All I am good for is (same gesture): I am presenting it to You, Lord. And then I keep still, I just keep still: I wont move unless You move me, I wont speak unless You make me speak. And then you stop thinking about it. You think about it just for a second, long enough to do this (same gesture). It comes in like this, then up it goes (gesture showing a problem coming to Mother from one side and being sent above). And later, you suddenly realize youre speaking or acting or making a decision or writing a letter or and He has done it all.
But one can be full of excellent goodwill and still want to Do things. And thats what complicates everything. Or else theres a lack of faith, a lack of belief in the Lords abilityyou think you have to do things yourself because He doesnt know how! (Mother laughs) This sort of stupidity is very widespread, you know: How can He see these things? Were living in a world of Falsehood, how can He see Falsehood? But in fact He does see things as they are!
And I am not talking about people with no intelligence, but about intelligent people, people who are trying. Theres still a sort of conviction in them somewhere, even in those who know that were living in a world of Ignorance and Falsehood and that theres a Lord who is all truth. Well, they reason that precisely because He is all truth, He wont understand (Mother laughs). He wont understand our falsehood, I have to deal with it on my own. This is a very predominant, very widespread attitude.
One sometimes even goes to a great deal of trouble to explain things to Him: Its this way, You see, thats how it is. And when youre finished, you realize. Oh, that reminds me of an experience I had one night two years ago. It was the first time the Supermind entered the cells of my body, and it had risen up to the brain. So the brain found itself in the presence of something (laughing) considerably more powerful than it was used to receiving! And, like the idiot it is, it got worried. As for me (gesture above or beyond), I saw it all, I saw that the brain was getting worried, so I tried to tell it what a nitwit it was and to just keep still. It did keep still, but you know, it was really seething away in there, as if it were about to explode. So I said, All right now, lets go see Sri Aurobindo and ask him what to do. Immediately everything became utterly calm and I woke up in Sri Aurobindos house in the subtle physicala very material sensation, with everything quite concrete. So I arrived, or rather not I but the body-consciousness arrived2 and started explaining to Sri Aurobindo what had happenedit was very excited, talking and talking. The response was a sort of inscrutable smile and then nothing. He simply looked. An inscrutable smilenot a word. All the excitement died away. A face out of eternity. The excitement died away. Then it was time for Sri Aurobindos lunch (people eat therein another way). So as not to disturb him, I went into the next room. He came in after some time and stood before me (Imy physical being, that is, my physical consciousness had had time to calm down). I knelt down and took his hand (a MUCH clearer sensation than anything physical, mon petit!); I kissed his hand. He simply said, Oh! This is better. (Mother laughs.)
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I often wonder: when one prays to the Lord, when one wants to tell Him that somethings wrong, I always feel its necessary to concentrate very hard because its really something Far you have to call. But is this true? Or is it really.
It depends on us!
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But this Presence in all things. It is a Vibrationa Vibration containing everything. A Vibration containing a sort of infinite power, infinite joy, infinite peace, and immensity, IMMENSITY, IMMENSITY: its boundless. But it is solely a Vibration, it doesnt. Oh, Lord! It cant be thought, so it cant be described. If you think as soon as you start thinking, its the same old mess again. Thats why you cant say anything.
Indeed, He is far because you think He is far. If you could just, you know, think of Him being right here, like this (gesture close to the face), touching you if you could feel this. Its not like touching another person, its not like that. Its not something foreign, external, coming to you from outsideno! Its everywhere.
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And how many times, how many times the feeling that. There is no formthere is a form and there is none, it just cant be expressed. You feel a look, too, and there are no eyesthere is no look but there is a look; a look and a smile and theres no mouth, no face! And yet there is a smile and a look and (Mother laughs) you cant help saying, Yes, Lord, I am stupid! But He laughsand you laugh, and youre happy.
It cant, it cant be explained! It cant be expressed. You cant say anything. Whatever you say is nothing, nothing.
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Not at all, mon petit! You just call on the Lord and say Now then: heres the program. And thats enoughit comes.
It comes.
0 1962-10-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Perhaps I am moving as fast as the Lord!3
When she next saw Satprem, Mother added the following correction: "After you left, they came. It's not I who remembered they MADE me remember! There was Saraswati saying, 'What about my sitar?' And Krishna, 'What about my flute?' (Mother laughs) There was another one also, I don't remember who. They were really upset! They told me right away, 'What are you talking about! We LOVE music.' All right. 'Fine,' I said (Mother laughs). It's trueKrishna is a great musician, and Saraswati is the perfection of expression.... Now that we have acknowledged their merits (Mother bows), go on with your reading."
0 1962-10-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know if you can look at things from that angle, because its only one angle. Certainly if we asked the Lord, Whats the use of it? He would either say Its all the same to Me, or Its none of your business, or I get some fun out of it that would be enough for Him!
But.
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I believe the most complete expression is: Whatever You want, Lord, whatever You want, Lord, whatever You want, Lordwith joy, no matter what it is. In every cell.
It should go relatively quickly, but I dont know. How long will it take? Its new. New, I mean you cant even tell if youre progressing! You dont know where youre going, you have no idea what path youre on. You just dont know! All kinds of things are happening, but are they part of the path or arent they? I really dont know. Only at the end will we know.
0 1962-11-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My method is essentially very simple: for each thing that comes, I say, Here, Lord, its for You; change it, transform it. A work of offering and dedication (gesture of presenting something to the Light). And this morning there was a sort of replynot exactly to a question, but as though I were wondering How do I do it? (because the Lord tells me I am here for His work), How do I do His work? Whats the new way of doing the Work? We know all the old ways, but whats the new way? And the reply came, very concrete, without words: By bringing the two extremes together. Everything you see, everything that comes to you or that you discover is automatically put in the presence of the Most High, of the Supreme. You join the two extremes. Your whole work is to make the junction.
And now you read me all this! Its as if you were explaining itdont you find that interesting! (Mother laughs) I find it VERY interesting.
0 1962-11-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I know its the will of that Asura Ive mentioned to you several times, the Lord of Falsehood who was born the Lord of Truth, and who knows that his hour is at hand (at hand relative to that world there) and has declared he will cause as much havoc as he can before disappearing. Quite recently, just before the present conflict broke out, I went to a realm in the vital world which is right above the earth, like a platform (not a mountain top, but a spot where you get an overall view, like the bridge of a ship, for instance, where the captain stands; it was a place like that in the vital world, overlooking all terrestrial life). I went there it was rather dark, very dark in factand that tall being was there (hes quite tall, higher than this roomMo ther looks up at the ceilinghe likes to look tall). Hes very tall and all black. (Thats more or less his natural state; he appears to humans blazing with light, but that doesnt fool someone with inner vision: its an icy light. But some people are fooled and take him for the supreme God. Anyway, thats an aside.) So he was there and I went to himnot to him: I went to that place and found him there. He was gloating and told me to take a look around.
From there you had a panoramic view of everything. And no sooner did I arrive than a storm broke outa terrible storm. I kept watching, and then I saw in this direction (I dont know whether it was north, south or west, but it was this direction: Mother points to the north), I saw two nearly simultaneous flashes of lightning. The first one (I was looking north, I was quite conscious of facing north) the first one, a terrific bolt, came and fell from the east; and just a moment after, very soon after, another came from the west. The two didnt come together, but they fell on the same spotthey didnt meet but they fell on the same spot. It was pitch dark, the earth and everything was dark, you couldnt see a thing, and suddenly those two flashes of lightning lit up the area where they fell, making a dreadful din, and (my field of vision was confined to that area; all the rest was in darkness, you see) it burst into flames! Everything was set ablaze. In the lightning flashes you could distinguish the tops of monuments, houses, all sorts of things, and then everything burst into flames: a dreadful conflagration.
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Ive had my eye on this gentleman since the Second World War (and even earlier), and I know thats just what he wants. He has foretold all sorts of catastrophic things. So I suppose thats what X is seeing too, without knowing where it comes from I dont know. I wonder. At any rate, he wrote it so categorically that you might nearly think he wanted it! I cant believe he wants it. I simply replied, Well, yes, its ONE possibility. Which of the two will prevail? That, I dont know. Its a secret the Lord doesnt reveal because He thinks (and this is altogether certain) that it wouldnt be good to know whats going to happenwe wouldnt do what had to be done. Its always that way: we dont know whats going to happen because then we wouldnt do what had to be done.
I do what He tells me to do, but He doesnt say what the consequences will be. And I dont ask Him; I know its none of my business.
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One day (for me now, everything is part of an extremely precise play of forces) and one day I had a sort of sensation of one of those profound upheavals something very widespread and full of GREAT pain. So something in me spontaneously sprang up from the individual soul, the deep psychic being, and said, Oh! Lord, is it Your will that we have this experience again? Then everything stabilized, stopped, and there was a splendor of Light. But I received no response. Except for that splendor of Light something triumphant, you know. But it may just as well mean that no matter what happens, this will always be therewhich is obvious.
(silence)
0 1962-11-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres no longer any hope that a human being can give protection by his own powerit doesnt work any more. If the Lord is protecting you, fine, nothing will happen to you. But as far as knowing what Hes going to decide. For if He decides upon such a destruction, it means the earth truly needs itotherwise He wouldnt decide it.
Anyway, its best not to think about itwell see soon enough. Well see from this world here or from a more subtle one (laughing), thats all.
0 1962-11-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Lord is enjoying himself!
The November 24 Darshan.
0 1962-12-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, my usual answer, the only answer that has some weight with those beings, is Its not up to me. Its up to the Lord, address yourselves to Him. Then they keep quiet. They come back another time, hoping to succeed, and the response is always the same, which they find somewhat discouraging. After a while its over. But really, everything imaginable; and precisely for those who were progressing steadily: a collapse into all the old errors and stupidities. And then a sort of hate coming out of everything and everybody and hurled at me, with this inevitable conclusion: What are you doing here! Go away, youre not wanted. Nobody wants you, cant you see that! Its not up to me, its none of my business. Wanted or not, I am here for as long as the Lord keeps me here; when He no longer wants to keep me here, Hell make me go, thats allits none of my business. That calms them down, its the only thing that calms them down. But it doesnt discourage them!
Now I am just waiting for the hurricane to pass.
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Actively, theres only one thing to do: Its not up to me, its the Lord who decides. Its the Lord who acts, its the Lord who organizes everything and to top it off, its even the Lord who sends you away! That irks them more than anything! (Mother laughs.)
Rightly or wrongly, Satprem did not keep the recording of this conversation, not to obey Mother, for he was never very obedient, but because the words that follow rent his heart. He didn't know at the time how very true they all were.
0 1962-12-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But to me this seems to come from his Jewish background. Because Thon was Jewish, even though he never mentioned the fact (the Tlemcen officials made it known: when he arrived he had to tell them who he was). He never spoke of it and he had changed his name. They said he was of Jewish origin, but they could never say whether he was Polish or Russian. At least the person who told me never knew. But for the Jews its the Unthinkable, whose name must not be uttered (it is uttered only once a year, on the Day of Atonement; I think thats what its called). Its the word Yahveh, and it must not be uttered. But the prayers speak of the Elohim, and the Hebrew word Elohim is plural, meaning the invisible Lords. So there was no one and only God for Thon, only the unthinkable Formless; and all the invisible beings who claimed to be one and only gods were Asuras.
He used to call Christ That young man! (Laughter) It was very funny.
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Oh, I understand! Because its true, you know, that an Asura is behind it allnot Christ! Sri Aurobindo considered Christ an Avatar (a minor form of Avatar). One emanation of the Divines aspect of Love, he always said. But what people have made of him! Besides, the religion was founded two hundred years after his death. And its nothing but a political construction, a tool for domination, built with the Lord of Falsehood in the background, who, in his usual fashion, took something true and twisted it.
Its a real hodgepodge, that religion the number of sects! The only common ground is the divinity of Christ, and it became asuric when he was made out to be unique: there has been but ONE incarnation, Christ. Thats just where it all went wrong.
0 1962-12-19, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was difficult and it attracts a lot of. Its like another type of exercise, as if my body were now being taught other kinds of things, another way of being, you understand, another way. And its trying to find a harmony, the equilibrium of a constant harmony. But its very, very, very difficult. Its not at all the usual condition: in ordinary life, the cells are accustomed to a very restless and unexpected life, with ups and downs, peaks of intense sensation, now sorrow, now pleasure, now acute pain, now something very pleasantall of this jumbled up in a sort of chaos. And I have realized that for the people here, even those near me, its even worse than that! This doesnt make sense to me any more. On its own the body is naturally in a sort of gently undulating movement, a very harmonious, very peaceful, very quiet movement. And when its not forced into outer activity theres such a wonderful sense of the divine Presence everywhere, everywherein it, around it, over it, in everything, everywhere and so concrete! (Mother touches her hands, her arms, her face, as if she were bathing in the Lord.) Its really inexpressible. And well, THATS what it wants to have ALL THE TIME, in all circumstances, even when its forced to have contacts with the outside. So I cant go too quickly; things like the balcony cause a bit too much pressure, and the body starts feeling a little unsure of itself.
Yesterday, for instance, I had to see F. and R., since they had just arrived the day before. I spent three-quarters of an hour with them, and by the time it was over they had literally EMPTIED the atmosphere of all spiritual senseit had become empty and hollow. It took me two or three minutes of concentration (which isnt so long) to bring it all back to normal.
0 1963-01-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If the inner being the true beingis the ruler, the power of the true being makes the body act automatically; but then it doesnt grow conscious of its own change, it doesnt collaborate in its change, so for the change to happen it would take maybe millennia. The true being has to be like this (gesture to the background, standing back) and the body has to do everything BY ITSELF, in other words, contain the Lord, receive the Lord, give itself to the Lord, BE the Lord. It does aspireoh, its intense, aflame thats very good. But the Lord (smiling) doesnt conform to the ordinary habit! So all the habits, the minute He just tries to take possession of one function or another, even partially (not totally), all the interrelationships, all the movements are changed instantlypanic. Panic at the particular spot. And the result: you faint, or you are just about to faint, or you have an excruciating pain, or anyway something APPARENTLY breaks down completely. So whats to be done? Wait patiently until that small number or large number of cells, that little spot of consciousness, has learned its lesson. It takes one day, two days, three days, then the chaotic, upsetting big event calms down, is explained, and those particular cells say to themselves (or begin saying to themselves), God, how dumb we are! It takes a little while, then they understand.
But there are thousands and thousands and thousands of them!
0 1963-01-12, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For instance, two or three nights ago (I dont remember), I was with Sri Aurobindo, we were doing a certain work (it was in a mental zone with certain vital reactions mixed in), well, a general work. I was with Sri Aurobindo and we were doing the work together. He wanted to explain to me how a particular movement is turned into a distorted movement; he was explaining this to me (but theres nothing mental or intellectual about it, nothing to do with theories). And without even (how can I put it?) without even a thought or an explanation to forewarn you, a true movement is changed into a movement that is not false but distorted. I was speaking to Sri Aurobindo and he was answering, then I turn my head away like this (not physicallyall this is an inner life, naturally), I turned my head as if to see the [vibratory] effect. Then I turn back and send Sri Aurobindo the movement necessary to carry on with the experience, and I receive a reply which surprises me because of the quality of its vibration (it was a reply of ignorance and weakness). So I turn my attention back again, and as a matter of fact in Sri Aurobindos place I saw the doctor. Then I understood! Superficially, one may say, So, Sri Aurobindo and the doctor are the same! (To people who would see such a thing it would occur that they are the sameof course its all, all the same! All is one, people just dont understand this complete oneness.) Naturally it didnt surprise me for the thousandth of a second, there wasnt any surprise, but oh, I understood! This way (Mother slightly tilts her hand to the left), its Sri Aurobindo, and that way (slightly to the right), its the doctor. This way its the Lord, and that way its a man!!
Really interesting.5
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You see, Sri Aurobindo was explaining something to me, but the explanation wasn't like a theory: it's immediately translated into movements of matter, that is, movements of forms and forces. So I was listening (I was listening to him, we were talking), and I turned my head away to follow the demonstration of forces, of what he said; naturally it led to another movement which was the consequence, and then I described what I was seeing. When I began describing the consequence, I received a reply (it was a sort of dialogue between us, but without different voices and all the things we know physically), but the quality of the vibration was different, it had become ... instead of being supramental, if you like, it had become sattvic [moral], the reply was sattvic. In other words, a diminution, a limitation. I was surprised so I turned back again, and instead of finding Sri Aurobindo, I saw the doctor, with his hair very neatoh, a super-doctor, you know! But it was he, I mean at his best. So immediately I thought, "Here we are! Here is how things get more and more diminishedyes, diminished, altered, altering also physical appearanceshere is how the Lord changes all His physical appearances." Oh, it was really funny, because it was a practical and precise little illustration. But then there was immediately the feeling that everything, the whole universe is like this! That's how all forms are changed.
So now you see!
0 1963-01-14, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the exact, exact opposite of what I feel now: no matter what happens something wrong in the body, something wrong with people, something wrong in circumstancesinstantly, the first movement: O my sweet Lord, my Beloved! And I laugh! And then all is well. I did this the other day (its spontaneous and instantaneous, it isnt thought out or willed or plannednone of itit just happens), it happened the other day (I dont recall the details but it was over a circumstance that hardly seemed sacred): I saw myself, and I started laughing. I said, But look! I dont need to be serious, I dont need to be solemn!
As soon as it comes (Mother makes a solemn face), I get suspicious, I say to myself, Oh, something is wrong, some influence or other must have entered the atmosphere that shouldnt be there. All that remorse, all that regret, all that ooh! The sense of indignity, of fault and, going a little farther, the sense of sinoh, that! That seems to me to belong to another age, a Dark Age.
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It was actually my experience (for a long, long time, many years) but, these last few days, concrete, in the bodys cells. There arent things in which the Lord is and things in which He isntthere are only fools who think so! He is ALWAYS there. He takes nothing seriously and has fun with everything. And He plays with you, if you know how to play but you dont, people dont know how to play. But how well He knows! How He plays with everything, with the smallest things: you have objects to put on your table? Dont think you have to ponder over how to arrange themno, well play: lets put this here, lets put that there, lets put this like that. Then some other day (because people think, Now she has decided on this arrangement, so thats the way its going to bewell, not so!), some other day (they want to help you! They want to help you put things in order, so it just becomes a mess!), I stay still and quiet, and then we start playing: So! Lets put this here, and that there, and this there ah! (Mother laughs) Since I saw you last time it has been that way constantly, probably to prepare me for this aphorism!
Very entertaining.
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Agreed, then, well try and learn to laugh with the Lord.
I know I know He wants me to learn not to take seriously the responsibility (responsibility isnt the right word), the formidable task of finding 8,000 rupees a day to meet the Ashrams expensesin other words, a colossal fortune every month.
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Its very hard nowadays, because all over the world people take money seriously, and that makes it very hard. Especially those who have money. Those who have money, how seriously they take it, oh, Lord! Thats why its difficult. We should be able to laughlaugh, laugh frankly and sincerely, then it would be over.
Well! All right, well talk about it again.
0 1963-01-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There may be (I cant say, its all imagination because I dont know), there may come a few somewhat weird things. But there is an insistence on the need to keep to each line as though it stood all alone in the universe. No mixing up the line order, no, no, no! For when he wrote it, he SAW it that way I knew nothing about that, I didnt even know how he wrote it (he dictated it, I believe, for the most part), but thats what he tells me now. Everything comes to a stop, everything, and then, oh, how we enjoy ourselves! I enjoy myself! Its more enjoyable than anything. I even told him yesterday, But why write? Whats the use? Then he filled me with a sort of delight. Naturally, someone in the ordinary consciousness may say, Its very selfish, but And then its like a vision of the future (not too near, not extremely nearnot extremely far either) a future when this sort of white thingwhite and stillwould spread out, and then, with the help of this work, a larger number of minds may come to understand. But thats secondary; I do the translation simply for the joy of it, thats all. A satisfaction that may be called selfish, but when he is told, Its selfish, he replies that there is no one more selfish than the Lord, because all He does is for Himself!
There.
0 1963-02-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And, I must say, I was observing this because, originally, the first time I heard of it, this conception shocked me, in the sense that (I dont know, it wasnt an idea, it was a feeling), as though it meant lending reality to something which in my consciousness, for a very long time (at least millennia perhaps, I dont know), had been the Falsehood to be conquered. The Falsehood that must cease to exist. Its the aspect of Truth that must manifest itself, its not all that: doing anything whatsoever just for the fun of it, simply because you have the full power. You have the power to do everything, so you do everything, and knowing that there is a Truth behind, you dont give a damn about consequences. That was something something which, as far back as I can remember, I have fought against. I have known it, but it seems to me it was such a long, long time ago and I rejected it so strongly, saying, No, no! and implored the Lord so intensely that things may be otherwise, beseeched Him that his all-powerful Truth, his all-powerful Purity and his all-powerful Beauty may manifest and put an end to all that mess. And at first I was shocked when Sri Aurobindo told me that; previously, in this life, it hadnt even crossed my mind. In that sense Theons explanation had been much more (what should I say?) useful to me from the standpoint of action: the origin of disorder being the separation of the primal Powers but thats not it! HE is there, blissfully worshipping all this confusion!
And naturally this time around, when I started translating it came back. At first there was a shudder (Mother makes a gesture of stiffening). Then I told myself, Havent you got beyond that! And I let myself flow into the thing. Then I had a series of nights with Sri Aurobindo so marvelous! You understand, I see him constantly and I go into that subtle physical world where he has his abode; the contact is almost permanent (at any rate, thats how I spend all my nights: he shows me the work, everything), but still, after this translation of Savitri he seemed to be smiling at me and telling me, At last you have understood! (Mother laughs) I said, It isnt that I didnt understand, its that I didnt want it! I didnt want, I dont WANT things to be like that any more, for thousands of years I have wanted things to be otherwise!
0 1963-02-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, it gives you the pleasure of knowing whats going onwhich isnt necessary. Now I know, I dont care one way or the other! When I go to bed, at least eight times out of ten, when I am in bed, I ask, O Lord, grant me a silent night, which is very selfish of meHe keeps me working every night! And sometimes, you get tired of working and feel like being blissful. A blissful silence. Then I ask Him, Let me be blissful.
It works fairly well. But its one night out of five or six.
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Yesterday evening (was it yesterday? No, the day before), when I went out on the balcony-terrace,3 the difference in perception between the consciousness I have now and the one I had before felt enormous! Before, as I have always said, I would stay there, call the Lord, be in His presence, and only when He withdrew would I come in again thats how it was. And I had a certain relationship with people, things, the outside world (outside, well, not outsideanyway, the world). The day before yesterday, when I went to the balcony, I wasnt thinking of anything or observing anything, I simply went I didnt want to know what was going on, it didnt interest me, I wasnt observing. The other experience [of the previous balcony, one year ago] seemed to go back centuries! It was so much OTHER! And so spontaneous, so natural, and so immense too! The earth was tiny. Yet it was very much here: I wasnt over there, the BODY itself was feeling that way. And at the same time (I was two floors above people), every time I looked, I recognized scores and scores of people, they seemed to leap to my eyesa crystal clear vision, much sharper (the vision I had before was always a bit hazy because what I saw wasnt entirely physical: I saw the movement of forces), and yesterday, it was as if as if I had risen above the very possibility of haziness! It was far less physicalFAR MORE accurate.4
Formerly too, I used to sense the Force, the Consciousness, the Power concentrated in a particular point and then spreading out. While here, there was an IMMENSITY of Power, of Light, of Consciousness, of perception, concentrated in a tiny point: the people gathered there.
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The wings of the Lord.
Mother was eighty-five on February 21.
0 1963-03-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A real miracle Its only the mind that has the notion of miracle, because following its own logic, the mind decides that given this and that condition, this or that circumstance can or cannot be. But these are merely the minds limitations. Because from the Lords point of view, how could there be a miracle? All is but Himself objectifying Himself.
Here we come to the great problem of the road we travel, the eternal Road Sri Aurobindo refers to in Savitri. It is easy to imagine, of course, that what was first objectified had an inclination to objectification. The first point to accept, a logical point considering the principle of evolution, is that the objectification is progressive, it is not complete for all eternity. (silence) Its very hard to express, because we cannot free ourselves from our habit of seeing it as a finite quantity unfolding indefinitely and of thinking that only with a finite quantity can there be a beginning. We always have an idea (at least in our way of speaking) of a moment (laughing) when the Lord decides to objectify Himself. And put that way, the explanation is easy: He objectifies Himself gradually, progressively, with, as a result, a progressive evolution. But thats just a manner of speaking. Because there is no beginning, no end, yet there is a progression. The sense of sequence, the sense of evolution and progress comes only with the Manifestation. And only when we speak of the earth can we explain things truthfully and rationally, because the earth had a beginningnot in its soul, but in its material reality.
A material universe probably has a beginning, too.
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We might say that the sense of miracle can only belong to a finite world, a finite consciousness, a finite conception. It is the abrupt, unexpected entryor appearance or intervention or penetrationof something that did not exist in this physical world. So it follows that any manifestation of a will or consciousness belonging to a realm more infinite and eternal than the earth is necessarily a miracle on the earth. But if you go beyond the finite world or the understanding proper to the finite world, then miracle does not exist. The Lord can play at miracles if He enjoys it, but theres no such thing as a miracleHe plays all possible games.
You can begin to understand Him only when you FEEL it that way, that He plays all possible gamesand possible not according to human conception but according to His own conception!
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Basically, people with a very strict logic tell you, Why pray? Why aspire, why ask? The Lord does what He wills and will always do what He wills. Its perfectly obvious, it goes without saying, but this fervor, Lord, manifest Yourself! gives His manifestation a more intense vibration.
Otherwise He would never have made the world as it isthere is a special power, a special joy, a special vibration in the worlds intensity of aspiration to become again what it is.
0 1963-03-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had several experiences of the kindquite a number of them. And since that last experience [the death of death], which lasted a second, Ive had the feeling the same kind of feeling. Before that, whenever I intervened for people, either to prevent them from dying or to help them once they were deadhundreds and hundreds of things I used to do all the time I did them with the sense of Death like this (gesture above Mother), as something to be conquered or overcome, or the consequences of which had to be mended. But it was always that way, Death was (laughing) just a little above. And from that moment [the death of death], the head emerged above the head, the consciousness, the will were above. On the side of the Lord.
I had an experience quite a long time ago, when Sri Aurobindo was here: one night I had the experience of being in contact with the Supreme Lord, and it was concrete:
One dies only when You will it.
I dont remember in detail (I wrote it down), but the idea was like this: the Lord makes you die only with your consentyour consent is necessary for you to die. And unless He decides, you can never die. Those two things: for you to die, something (the inmost soul, that is) must consent, the soul must say yes, then you die; and when the soul says yes, its for the Lord to decide. Ever since that experience, there had been the certainty that you can die only when the Lord wills it, that it depends entirely and exclusively on His Will, that there are no accidents, no unforeseeable mishaps, as human beings thinkall that doesnt exist: its His Will. From that experience till this latest one [the death of death], I lived in that knowledge. Yet with the feeling of not quite the unknown but the incomprehensible. The feeling of something in the consciousness which doesnt understand (what I mean by understand is having the power to do and undo, thats what I call to understand: the power to realize or to undo, thats the real understanding, the POWER), well, of something which eluded me. It was still the mystery of the Infinite Supreme. And when that experience [the death of death] came, then, Ah, there it is! I have it, Ive caught it! At last, I have it.
I didnt have it long (laughing), it went away! But my position changed. Its one more thing I see from above; I rose above, my position is above.
0 1963-03-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the same with people who get cured. That I know, to some extent: the Power acts so forcefully that it is almost miraculousat a distance. The Power I am very conscious of the Power. But, I must say, I find it doesnt act here so well as it does far away. On government or national matters, on the terrestrial atmosphere, on great movements, also as inspirations on the level of thought (in certain people, to realize certain things), the Power is very clear. Also to save people or cure themit acts very strongly. But much more at a distance than here! (Although the receptivity has increased since I withdrew because, necessarily, it gave people the urge to find inside something they no longer had outside.) But here, the response is very erratic. And to distinguish between the proportion that comes from faith, sincerity, simplicity, and what comes from the Power Some people I am able to save (naturally, in my view, its because they COULD be saved), this is something that for a very long time I have been able to foresee. But now I dont try to know: it comes like this (gesture like a flash). If, for instance, I am told, So and so has fallen ill, well, immediately I know if he will recover (first if its nothing, some passing trouble), if he will recover, if it will take some time and struggle and difficulties, or if its fatalautomatically. And without trying to know, without even trying: the two things come together.2 This capacity has developed, first because I have more peace, and because, having more peace, things follow a more normal course. But there were two or three little instances where I said to the Lord (gesture of presenting something, palms open upward), I asked Him to do a certain thing, and then (not very often, it doesnt happen to me often; at times it comes as a necessity, a necessity to present the thing with a commentfrom morning to evening and evening to morning I present everything constantly, thats my movement [same gesture of presenting something] but here, there is a comment, as if I were asking, Couldnt this be done?), and then the result: yes, immediately. But I am not the one who presents the thing, you see: its just the way it is, it just happens that way, like everything else.3 So my conclusion is that its part of the Plan, I mean, a certain vibration is necessary, enters [into Mother], intervenes, and No stories to tell, mon petit! Nothing to fill people with enthusiasm or give them trust, nothing.
Three or four days ago, a very nice man, whom I like a lot, who has been very useful, fell ill. (He has in fact been ill for a long time, and he is struggling; for all sorts of reasons of family, milieu, activities and so on, he isnt taken care of the way he should be, he doesnt take care of his body the way he should.) He had a first attack and I saw him afterwards. But I saw him full of life: his body was full of life and of will to live. So I said, No need to worry. Then after some time, maybe not even a month, another attack, caused not by the same thing but by its consequences. I receive a letter in which I am informed that he has been taken to the hospital. I was surprised, I said, But no! He has in himself the will to live, so why? Why has this happened? The moment I was informed and made the contact, he recovered with fantastic speed! Almost in a few hours. He had been rushed to the hospital, they thought it was most serious, and two days later he was back home. The hospital doctor said, Why, he has received a new life! But thats not correct: I had put him back in contact with his bodys will, which, for some reason or other, he had forgotten. Things like that, yes, theyre very clear, they take place very consciously but anyway, nothing worth talking about!
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These last few days, while walking in meditation, I said to the Lord, What do I have? I have no certainty, no foreknowledge, no absolute power, I have nothing. (I dont mean I, I mean the bodythis body.) The body was saying: Do you see my condition? I am still full of (it was complaining bitterly), oh, full of the silliest movements. Petty movements of apprehension, petty movements of uncertainty, petty movements of anxiety, petty movements of all kinds of very, very petty thingsthose who live a normal life dont take any notice, they dont know, but when you observe whats going on deep down with that discernment oh, mon petit! Its so petty, so petty, so petty.
Only one thing (which is not even absolute): a sort of equality that has come into the bodynot an equality of soul (laughing): an equality in the cells! It has come into the body. There is no longer that clash of joy and painalways and for everything, every minute, every reaction, You, Lord, to You, Lord. As though the cells were chanting, To You Lord, to You Lord, to You Lord. And well, thats how it is.
There are enough physical miseries to experience what people call physical painquite enough (!) Yet, materially, everything is organized to give every possible joy! For example (ever since the age of five it has been like that), whenever the body felt, Oh, if I had this. Oh, it would be nice to have that, the thing would come in no time. Fantastic! It has always been that way, only it has become more conscious. Before, it would happen without my noticing it, quite naturally. Now, of course, the body has changed, its no longer a baby, it no longer has a childs fancies. But when that kind of Rhythm comes, when something says, Oh, this is fine! mon petit, it comes in TORRENTS from all sides without my saying a word. Just like that. There was a time when the body enjoyed it, it was delighted by it, made very happy by it (even two years ago, a little more perhaps), very happy, it found that amusingit was lovely, you see. But now: To You Lord. Only this, a sort of quiet, constant joy: To You Lord, to You Lord, to You Lord. And on both accounts: for physical pain as well. In that regard, the body is making progress. Although to tell the truth, its life is made so easy! So easy that it would have to be quite hard to please not be satisfied the Lord is full of infinite grace.
No, in spite of everything, the body doesnt have that sort of eternal stability, the sense of its immortality (immortality isnt the right word), of its permanence. Not that it has a sense of impermanence, far from it, the cells feel eternal that much is there. But a certain something that would be sheltered from all attacks. It still feels the attacks. It feels an instability, it doesnt have a sense of absolute security, it hasnt yet reached a state of absolute security thats it: the sense of security. There are still vibrations of insecurity. Yet that seems so mean, so silly! It still lives in insecurity. Security, the sense of security only comes through union with the Supremenothing in life as it is, nothing in the world as it is, can offer the sense of security, its impossible. But to feel the Supremes presence so constantly, to be able to pass everything on to Him, To You, to You, to You, and yet not to have a sense of security! A shock or a blow comes (not necessarily personally, but in life), and theres still a particular vibration: the vibration of insecurityit still exists. The body finds that disquieting, painful: Why? Not that it complains, but it complains about itself, it finds itself not up to the mark.
0 1963-03-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its erased immediately; as soon as I wake up, my first movement (gesture of offering) is to present it all to the Lord: the cause, the effect, the image, the sensationeverything. When its all seen, I tell Him, Now its Yours. And then I forgetfortunately, thank God!
It goes on every night. It takes the form of all sorts of scenes, of symbols, of memories, from words to images. It comes in groups and categories of tendencies, it represents the various human tendencies in detailits infinitesimal. Its only because they are multiplied millions of times that they can have some importance but theyre nothing! Mere nothings. Yet thats just what blocks the way.
0 1963-04-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So looking at it from an ordinary viewpoint, its so fantastic, it means such a colossal work. Of course, its the Lord who does it, but will this hold out? (Mother touches her body) I cant say.
If He wants, certainly He will find a way for it to hold out. But the thing is rather new.
--- Overview of noun lord
The noun lord has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (10) Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah ::: (terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God)
2. (3) overlord, master, lord ::: (a person who has general authority over others)
3. (1) Lord, noble, nobleman ::: (a titled peer of the realm)
--- Overview of verb lord
The verb lord has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. lord ::: (make a lord of someone)
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lord
3 senses of lord
Sense 1
Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah
INSTANCE OF=> God, Supreme Being
INSTANCE OF=> spiritual being, supernatural being
=> belief
=> content, cognitive content, mental object
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
overlord, master, lord
=> ruler, swayer
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
Lord, noble, nobleman
=> male aristocrat
=> aristocrat, blue blood, patrician
=> leader
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun lord
3 senses of lord
Sense 1
Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah
=> Trinity, Holy Trinity, Blessed Trinity, Sacred Trinity
=> hypostasis, hypostasis of Christ
Sense 2
overlord, master, lord
=> feudal lord, seigneur, seignior
Sense 3
Lord, noble, nobleman
=> armiger
=> baron
=> burgrave
=> count
=> duke
=> grandee
=> margrave
=> marquis, marquess
=> mesne lord
=> milord
=> palatine, palsgrave
=> peer
=> sire
=> thane
=> viscount
HAS INSTANCE=> Don Juan
HAS INSTANCE=> Mortimer, Roger de Mortimer
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lord
3 senses of lord
Sense 1
Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah
INSTANCE OF=> God, Supreme Being
Sense 2
overlord, master, lord
=> ruler, swayer
Sense 3
Lord, noble, nobleman
=> male aristocrat
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun lord
3 senses of lord
Sense 1
Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah
-> God, Supreme Being
HAS INSTANCE=> Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah
HAS INSTANCE=> Yahweh, YHWH, Yahwe, Yahveh, YHVH, Yahve, Wahvey, Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah, JHVH
HAS INSTANCE=> Allah
Sense 2
overlord, master, lord
-> ruler, swayer
=> Inca
=> basileus
=> Bourbon
=> caliph, calif, kaliph, kalif, khalif, khalifah
=> dictator, potentate
=> emir, amir, emeer, ameer
=> ethnarch
=> hakim
=> Hanoverian
=> khan
=> Mogul, Moghul
=> oligarch
=> overlord, master, lord
=> Pharaoh, Pharaoh of Egypt
=> puppet ruler, puppet leader
=> regent
=> dynast
=> sheik, tribal sheik, sheikh, tribal sheikh, Arab chief
=> sovereign, crowned head, monarch
=> Stuart
=> sultan, grand Turk
=> Tudor
=> tyrant
HAS INSTANCE=> Tamerlane, Tamburlaine, Timur, Timur Lenk
Sense 3
Lord, noble, nobleman
-> male aristocrat
=> cavalier, chevalier
=> knight
=> Lord, noble, nobleman
=> Sir
--- Grep of noun lord
alfred lord tennyson
ascension of the lord
drug lord
epiphany of our lord
feudal lord
first lord of the treasury
landlord
liege lord
little lord fauntleroy
lord
lord's day
lord's prayer
lord's resistance army
lord's supper
lord's table
lord britten of aldeburgh
lord chancellor
lord george gordon byron
lord high chancellor
lord macaulay
lord nelson
lord of misrule
lord privy seal
lord rayleigh
lord todd
lordliness
lordolatry
lordosis
lords-and-ladies
lords spiritual
lords temporal
lordship
mesne lord
milord
overlord
press lord
warlord