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subarachnoid space ::: The cerebrospinal fluid—filled space over the surface of the brain that lies between the arachnoid and the pia.
subband encoding ::: An audio compression technique where the sound is split into frequency bands and then parts of the signal which the ear cannot detect are removed, e.g. a quiet sound masked by a loud one. The remaining signal is encoded using variable bit-rates with more bits per sample being used in the mid frequency range.Subband encoding is used in MPEG-1. (1994-11-02)
subband encoding An audio {compression} technique where the sound is split into frequency bands and then parts of the signal which the ear cannot detect are removed, e.g. a quiet sound masked by a loud one. The remaining signal is encoded using variable bit-rates with more bits per sample being used in the mid frequency range. Subband encoding is used in {MPEG-1}. (1994-11-02)
subclass {class hierarchy}
subclass: The class whose elements are also elements of a specified class.
subconscience ::: “Matter, the medium of all this evolution, is seemingly inconscient and inanimate; but it so appears to us only because we are unable to sense consciousness outside a certain limited range, a fixed scale or gamut to which we have access. Below us there are lower ranges to which we are insensible and these we call subconscience or inconscience. Above us are higher ranges which are to our inferior nature an unseizable superconscience.” Essays Divine and Human
subconscience ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Matter, the medium of all this evolution, is seemingly inconscient and inanimate; but it so appears to us only because we are unable to sense consciousness outside a certain limited range, a fixed scale or gamut to which we have access. Below us there are lower ranges to which we are insensible and these we call subconscience or inconscience. Above us are higher ranges which are to our inferior nature an unseizable superconscience.” Essays Divine and Human
subconscient ::: “In our yoga we mean by the subconscient that quite submerged part of our being in which there is no wakingly conscious and coherent thought, will or feeling or organised reaction, but which yet receives obscurely the impressions of all things and stores them up in itself and from it too all sorts of stimuli, of persistent habitual movements, crudely repeated or disguised in strange forms can surge up into dream or into the waking nature. No, subliminal is a general term used for all parts of the being which are not on the waking surface. Subconscient is very often used in the same sense by European psychologists because they do not know the difference. But when I use the word, I mean always what is below the ordinary physical consciousness, not what is behind it. The inner mental, vital, physical, the psychic are not subconscious in this sense, but they can be spoken of as subliminal.” The Synthesis of Yoga.
subconscient ::: Sri Aurobindo: "In our yoga we mean by the subconscient that quite submerged part of our being in which there is no wakingly conscious and coherent thought, will or feeling or organised reaction, but which yet receives obscurely the impressions of all things and stores them up in itself and from it too all sorts of stimuli, of persistent habitual movements, crudely repeated or disguised in strange forms can surge up into dream or into the waking nature. No, subliminal is a general term used for all parts of the being which are not on the waking surface. Subconscient is very often used in the same sense by European psychologists because they do not know the difference. But when I use the word, I mean always what is below the ordinary physical consciousness, not what is behind it. The inner mental, vital, physical, the psychic are not subconscious in this sense, but they can be spoken of as subliminal.” *The Synthesis of Yoga.
"The subconscient is a concealed and unexpressed inarticulate consciousness which works below all our conscious physical activities. Just as what we call the superconscient is really a higher consciousness above from which things descend into the being, so the subconscient is below the body-consciousness and things come up into the physical, the vital and the mind-nature from there.
Just as the higher consciousness is superconscient to us and supports all our spiritual possibilities and nature, so the subconscient is the basis of our material being and supports all that comes up in the physical nature.” Letters on Yoga
"That part of us which we can strictly call subconscient because it is below the level of mind and conscious life, inferior and obscure, covers the purely physical and vital elements of our constitution of bodily being, unmentalised, unobserved by the mind, uncontrolled by it in their action. It can be held to include the dumb occult consciousness, dynamic but not sensed by us, which operates in the cells and nerves and all the corporeal stuff and adjusts their life process and automatic responses. It covers also those lowest functionings of submerged sense-mind which are more operative in the animal and in plant life.” *The Life Divine
"The subconscient is a thing of habits and memories and repeats persistently or whenever it can old suppressed reactions, reflexes, mental, vital or physical responses. It must be trained by a still more persistent insistence of the higher parts of the being to give up its old responses and take on the new and true ones.” Letters on Yoga
"About the subconscient — it is the sub-mental base of the being and is made up of impressions, instincts, habitual movements that are stored there. Whatever movement is impressed in it, it keeps. If one impresses the right movement in it, it will keep and send up that. That is why it has to be cleared of old movements before there can be a permanent and total change in the nature. When the higher consciousness is once established in the waking parts, it goes down into the subconscient and changes that also, makes a bedrock of itself there also.” Letters on Yoga
"The sub-conscious is the evolutionary basis in us, it is not the whole of our hidden nature, nor is it the whole origin of what we are. But things can rise from the subconscient and take shape in the conscious parts and much of our smaller vital and physical instincts, movements, habits, character-forms has this source.” Letters on Yoga
"The subconscient is the support of habitual action — it can support good habits as well as bad.” Letters on Yoga
"For the subconscient is the Inconscient in the process of becoming conscious; it is a support and even a root of our inferior parts of being and their movements.” The Life Divine *subconscient"s.
subconscient (the) ::: the subconscient or subconscious of the individual is that submerged part of his being in which there is no waking conscious and coherent thought, will, feeling or organised reaction, but which yet receives obscurely the impressions of all things and stores them up; from it too all sorts of stimuli, of persistent habitual movements can surge up into dream or into the waking state. In the ordinary man the subconscient includes the larger part of the vital being and the physical mind and the secret body-consciousness. It is not to be confused with the subliminal: the subliminal is an inner consciousness larger than our surface existence.
subconscious: in Freud's theory, portions of the mind which are below the level of conscious awareness.
subconscious ::: not wholly conscious; partially or imperfectly conscious; existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness.
Sri Aurobindo: "The subconscious in us is the extreme border of our secret inner existence where it meets the Inconscient, it is a degree of our being in which the Inconscient struggles into a half consciousness. . . .” The Life Divine
subconscious ::: “The subconscious in us is the extreme border of our secret inner existence where it meets the Inconscient, it is a degree of our being in which the Inconscient struggles into a half consciousness….” The Life Divine
subcortical: relating to the portion of the brain immediately below the cerebral cortex, which is the part of the brain responsible for most higher functions (sensation, voluntary muscle movement, thought, reasoning, memory, etc.)
subdiagonal: The set of elements directly below the leading diagonal of a matrix, i.e. mi,j where j + 1 = i.
subdivided into 3 secondary hierarchies). [See
subdue ::: 1. To overpower; overcome; conquer; prevail over. 2. To bring under mental or emotional control or subjection; render submissive. subdued.
subdued. Nothing fruitful came of the mission
subdued
subfactorial: Also known as the derangement number, it is the number of combinations where no elements appear in its (uniquely) assigned place, represented by !n, it is calculated by
subgraph: A graph which is a subset of another graph (in terms of https://www.itseducation.asia/mathematics/v.htm
subha. ::: auspicious; blessed
subhakarasiMha. (C. Shanwuwei; J. Zenmui; K. Sonmuoe 善無畏) (637-735). Buddhist ĀCĀRYA and Chinese translator, who played a major role in the introduction into China and translation of seminal Buddhist texts belonging to what is now known as the esoteric tradition, or MIJIAO (see MIKKYo; TANTRA); also known as subhakara. subhakarasiMha's place of origin is unclear. Some sources say he hailed from the Indian kingdom of Odra, and others say MAGADHA or the Central Asian kingdom of Udyāna. According to his biography in the SONG GAOSENG ZHUAN, subhakarasiMha was born into a royal family of Odra. A fratricidal feud over the throne led subhakarasiMha to renounce the throne and become a monk. He later visited the famed monastic university of NĀLANDĀ and became the disciple of a certain Dharmagupta. His mastery of morality (sĪLA), concentration (DHYĀNA), and wisdom (PRAJNĀ) under Dharmagupta earned him the title of TREPItAKA, and he later also gained fame as a thaumaturge. With Dharmagupta's permission, subhakarasiMha left for China. Traveling north on the Central Asian trade routes, in 716, subhakarasiMha arrived in the western capital of the Tang dynasty, Chang'an. The emperor invited him to stay at the monastery of Xingfusi. In 717, subhakarasiMha began translating some of the Sanskrit texts that he had brought with him to China. In 724, he accompanied the emperor to the eastern capital of Luoyang, where he continued his translation work. During his stay in Luoyang, subhakarasiMha translated the MAHĀVAIROCANĀBHISAMBODHISuTRA, a central scripture of the East Asian esoteric traditions. He was assisted by his Chinese disciple YIXING, who also composed an important commentary on the sutra. In 726, subhakarasiMha also translated the important *SUSIDDHIKARASuTRA. Five years after his death, subhakarasiMha's body was buried on the grounds of the monastery of Guanghuasi in LONGMEN. According to his biography, subhakarasiMha's body did not decay (see sARĪRA) and thus became an object of fervent worship.
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subhakinnā. See sUBHAKṚTSNA
subhakṛtsna. (P. subhakinnā; T. dge rgyas; C. bianjing tian; J. henjoten; K. pyonjong ch'on 遍淨天). In Sanskrit, "pervasive purity," the highest of the three heavens of the third absorption (DHYĀNA) of the realm of subtle materiality (RuPADHĀTU). The divinities of this heaven are so-called because the radiance emanating from their bodies is of a steady brightness and does not occur in flashes. As with all the heavens of the realm of subtle materiality, one is reborn as a divinity there through achieving during one's practice of meditation in the preceding lifetime the same level of absorption as the divinities of that heaven. When the universe is destroyed by flood, the waters are said to rise to the level of this heaven.
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subham (shubham) ::: good. subham .
subhasita ::: [good or eloquent speech, witty saying]; gnomic verse.
subhaspati ::: [two] lords of weal or of bliss.
subhat ::: lit., association; spiritual affiliation
subheccha. ::: good desire for enlightenment; longing for the Truth; noble wish or desire which arises in the heart of one who aspires to cross samsara; when the individual having come to the consciousness of the evils of the earthly living aspires to transcend it; the first stage in the path of Self-knowledge
subhuman
subitism. See DUNWU; DUNWU JIANXIU.
subitism
subito: suddenly (e.g., subito pp, which instructs the player to suddenly drop to pianissimo as an effect)
subjected ::: brought under domination, control, or influence.
subject index "information science" An information resource that contains references to other resources, categorised by subject, usually in a {hierarchy}. {Yahoo} is the most popular {Internet} subject index. Like most {other subject indices (http://yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Searching_the_Web/Web_Directories/)}, Yahoo is arranged {ontologically}. Subject indices are not to be confused with {search engines}, which are based not on subject, but instead on {relevance}, although (1) this difference is often (possibly rightly) hidden from the unsophisticated user, and (2) future integration of {knowledge representation} into relevance ranking {algorithms} will make this a hazy distinction. (1997-04-09)
subject index ::: (information science) An information resource that contains references to other resources, categorised by subject, usually in a hierarchy.Yahoo is the most popular Internet subject index. Like most , Yahoo is arranged ontologically.Subject indices are not to be confused with search engines, which are based not on subject, but instead on relevance, although (1) this difference is often integration of knowledge representation into relevance ranking algorithms will make this a hazy distinction. (1997-04-09)
subjection"s ::: of dominance or control
subjective ::: 1. Existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective). 2. Relating to or of the nature of an object as it is known in the mind as distinct from a thing in itself.
subjective ::: 1. Pertaining to the interior of an individual, or the Upper-Left quadrant. Examples of subjective phenomena include thoughts, feelings, and visions. 2. Pertaining to the Left-Hand path, in general. 3. Pertaining to 1-p, in general.
subjective: a subjective assessment is one that is based on criteria that exist only or principally in the assessor. Two subjective assessors assessing the same item might differ widely in their assessment.
subjective half (of the fifth catus.t.aya) ::: Kr.s.n.a and Kali, the first two members of the karma catus.t.aya. subjective k kama
subjective idealism ::: A philosophy in which human experiences are based on perceptions.
subjective probability: An interpretation to probability that the given (known) information in corresponds to belief of the observer.
subjectivism ::: A doctrine that associates objects with subjective experience rather than independent existence.
subject-matter expert
subject matter: The issue or topic that is the focus of a discussion or text.
subject ::: n. 1. One who is under the rule of another or others, especially one who owes allegiance to a government or ruler. subject"s, subjects. *adj. 2. Fig.* Being in a position or in circumstances that place one under the power or authority of something or someone.
subject of Abraham “entertaining angels un¬
subject-oriented programming "programming" Program composition that supports building {object-oriented} systems as compositions of {subjects}, extending systems by composing them with new subjects, and integrating systems by composing them with one another (perhaps with {glue} or adapter subjects). The flexibility of subject composition introduces novel opportunities for developing and modularising object-oriented programs. Subject-oriented programming-in-the-large involves dividing a system into subjects and writing rules to compose them correctly. It complements {object-oriented programming}, solving a number of problems that arise when OOP is used to develop large systems or suites of interoperating or integrated applications. {IBM subject-oriented programming (http://research.ibm.com/sop/)}. (1999-08-31)
subject-oriented programming ::: (programming) Program composition that supports building object-oriented systems as compositions of subjects, extending systems by composing them with new subjects, and integrating systems by composing them with one another (perhaps with glue or adapter subjects).The flexibility of subject composition introduces novel opportunities for developing and modularising object-oriented programs. Subject-oriented solving a number of problems that arise when OOP is used to develop large systems or suites of interoperating or integrated applications. . (1999-08-31)
subject "programming" In {subject-oriented programming}, a subject is a collection of {classes} or class fragments whose {class hierarchy} models its domain in its own, subjective way. A subject may be a complete application in itself, or it may be an incomplete fragment that must be composed with other subjects to produce a complete application. Subject composition combines class hierarchies to produce new subjects that incorporate functionality from existing subjects. (1999-08-31)
subject ::: (programming) In subject-oriented programming, a subject is a collection of classes or class fragments whose class hierarchy models its domain in its produce a complete application. Subject composition combines class hierarchies to produce new subjects that incorporate functionality from existing subjects. (1999-08-31)
subject to the overlordship of God. Angromainyus
sublanguage "database, language" One of the languages associated with a {DBMS}, for example a {data-definition language} or {query language}. (1999-10-18)
sublanguage ::: (database, language) One of the languages associated with a DBMS, for example a data-definition language or query language. (1999-10-18)
sublimated ::: raised to high place, exalted, dignified, honoured.
sublimation: in Freud's theory, a defence mechanism whereby energy is redirected towards a socially desirable creative activity.
sublime ::: adj. 1. Elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.; exalted, noble, refined. 2. Of high spiritual, moral, or intellectual worth. 3. Supreme; outstanding; perfect. n. 4. The realm of things that are sublime; the greatest or supreme degree. sublimer.
sublimely ::: in a completely lofty and exalted manner.
subliminal ::: existing or operating below the threshold of sensation or consciousness. subliminal"s.
subliminal ::: inner, not on the waking surface.
subliminal ::: “The real subconscious is a nether diminished consciousness close to the Inconscient; the subliminal is a consciousness larger than our surface existence. But both belong to the inner realm of our being of which our surface is unaware, so both are jumbled together in our common conception and parlance.” The Life Divine
subliminal (the) ::: the inner being, taken in its entirety of inner mind, inner life, inner physical, with the soul or psychic entity supporting them. The subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature; it is not subconscient, but conscient and greater than the waking consciousness. The subconscient is that which is below the ordinary physical consciousness, the subliminal that which is behind and supports it.
sublimities ::: sublime, exalted or noble things, aspects or states.
sublimity ::: something in physical objects that evokes or awakens awe and reverence.
submerged ::: 1. Under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium. 2. Hidden; covered; buried.
submission ::: the act or instance of giving over or yielding to the power or authority of another.
submit ::: to yield or surrender (oneself) to the will or authority of another. submits, submitting.
subnet address ::: The subnet portion of an IP address. In a subnetted network, the host portion of an IP address is split into a subnet portion and a host portion using an address mask (the subnet mask).
subnet address The {subnet} portion of an {IP address}. In a subnetted {network}, the {host} portion of an IP address is split into a subnet portion and a host portion using an {address mask} (the subnet mask).
subnet ::: A portion of a network, which may be a physically independent network segment, which shares a network address with other portions of the network and is distinguished by a subnet number. A subnet is to a network what a network is to an internet.
subnet A portion of a {network}, which may be a physically independent network segment, which shares a {network address} with other portions of the network and is distinguished by a subnet number. A subnet is to a network what a network is to an {internet}.
subnet mask {address mask}
subnet number {subnet address}
subnormal: 1. A line segment which is defined by the normal (of a point to a curve).
subophaeng 隨法行. See DHARMĀNUSĀRIN
sub-plot: a second plot in a play or narrative that adds to or parallels the main plot.
sub-prince of Hell. [Rf Mathers, The Book of the
subroutine "programming" (Or "procedure") A sequence of {instructions} for performing a particular task. Most programming languages, including most {machine languages}, allow the programmer to define subroutines. This allows the subroutine code to be called from multiple places, even from within itself (in which case it is called {recursive}). The programming language implementation takes care of returning control to (just after) the calling location, usually with the support of call and return instructions at {machine language} level. Most languages also allow {arguments} to be passed to the subroutine, and one, or occasionally more, {return values} to be passed back. A {function} is often very similar to a subroutine, the main difference being that it is called chiefly for its return value, rather than for any {side effects}. (1996-10-01)
subroutine ::: (programming) (Or procedure) A sequence of instructions for performing a particular task. Most programming languages, including most machine languages, returning control to (just after) the calling location, usually with the support of call and return instructions at machine language level.Most languages also allow arguments to be passed to the subroutine, and one, or occasionally more, return values to be passed back.A function is often very similar to a subroutine, the main difference being that it is called chiefly for its return value, rather than for any side effects. (1996-10-01)
subscribe "messaging" To request to receive messages posted to a {mailing list} or {newsgroup}. In contrast to the mundane use of the word this is often free of charge. (1997-03-27)
subscribe ::: (messaging) To request to receive messages posted to a mailing list or newsgroup. In contrast to the mundane use of the word this is often free of charge. (1997-03-27)
subscribe ::: to give one"s consent or sanction to.
subscribing {subscribe}
subscript: Numbers and symbols written either smaller but with the bottom aligned or where both the top and bottom of the symbols below those of the baseline, in order to index object, indicate binomial coefficients etc.
sub-sequence: A sequence that is the subset of another specified sequence such that each term in the sub-sequence is identified by a unique term in the specified sequence (unique in the sense that no two terms in the subsequence are identified by the same term in the specified sequence), and an earlier/later term (relatively) within the subsequence is identified by an earlier/later term (relatively) within the specified sequence.
subset: A set which is completely contained within the specified set. i.e. a set such that any members of the subset is also a member of the specified set.
subsiding ::: becoming quiet, less active, or less violent; abating; diminishing; waning; ebbing.
subspace: A vector space which is the subset of another specified vector space.
substance ::: 1. Essential nature; essence. 2. That of which a thing consists; physical matter or material. 3. That which is solid and practical in character, quality, or importance, as contrasted with an appearance or something unsubstantial.
substance abuse: a pattern of behaviour where a person relies excessively on a particular substance (e.g. alcohol or opioids such as heroin) which can ultimately interfere with the individuals daily functioning.
substance dualism ::: A type of ontological dualism defended by Descartes in which it is claimed that there are two fundamental kinds of substance: mental and material. The mental does not extend in space, and the material cannot think. Substance dualism holds that immortal souls occupy an independent realm of existence, while apparently bodies die; this view contradicts physicalism.
substance monotheism ::: Found e.g. in some indigenous African religions, holds that the many gods are different forms of a single underlying substance, and that this underlying substance is God. This view has some similarities to the Christian trinitarian view of three persons sharing one nature.
substance P ::: An 11-amino acid neuropeptide; the first neuropeptide to be characterized.
substances.” In Reider, The Book of Wisdom,
substance ::: “Substance, then, as we know it, material substance, is the form in which Mind acting through sense contacts the Conscious Being of which it is itself a movement of knowledge.” The Life Divine
substance ::: There substance was a resonant harp of self,
substantialism ::: The philosophy that there are sentient entities behind phenomena.
substantia nigra ::: Nucleus at the base of the midbrain that receives input from a number of cortical and subcortical structures. The dopaminergic cells of the substantia nigra send their output to the caudate/putamen, while the GABAergic cells send their output to the thalamus.
substitute ::: n. 1. Something that takes the place of another thing; a replacement *v. 2. To take the place of another. *substitutes.
substrate ::: (hardware) The body or base layer of an integrated circuit, onto which other layers are deposited to form the circuit. The substrate is usually part of the wafer from which the die is cut. It is used as the electrical ground for the circuit. (1996-04-07)
substrate "hardware" The body or base layer of an {integrated circuit}, onto which other layers are deposited to form the circuit. The substrate is usually Silicon, though Sapphire is used for certain applications, particularly military, where radiation resistance is important. The substrate is originally part of the {wafer} from which the {die} is cut. It is used as the electrical {ground} for the circuit. (1996-04-07)
substratum ::: 1. A foundation or groundwork. (of something material or immaterial). 2. That which is spread or laid under something else; a stratum or layer lying under another. (Sri Aurobindo employs the word as an adj.)
substratum :::
subtangent: 1. A line segment which is defined by the tangent (of a point to a curve).
subtend: To geometrically characterise (through indicating the limits etc.) by a geometric object.
subterranean ::: fig. Existing or operating in concealment or secretly.
subthalamic nucleus ::: A nucleus in the ventral diencephalon that receives input from the caudate/putamen and participates in the modulation of motor behavior.
subtle ::: 1. So slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; elusive. 2. Fine or delicate in meaning or intent; difficult to perceive or understand. 3. Delicate or faint and mysterious. 4. Operating in a hidden, usually injurious way; insidious. 5. Characterized by skill or ingenuity; clever. 6. Insidious in operation. 7. Crafty or sly; devious; cunning. subtler, subtle-souled.
subtle body ::: a subtler material existence behind our outer body which provides the substance not only of our physical but of our vital and mental sheaths.
subtle body
subtle body ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The terminology of Yoga recognises besides the status of our physical and vital being, termed the gross body and doubly composed of the food sheath and the vital vehicle, besides the status of our mental being, termed the subtle body and singly composed of the mind sheath or mental vehicle, a third, supreme and divine status of supra-mental being, termed the causal body and composed of a fourth and a fifth vehicle which are described as those of knowledge and bliss.” The Synthesis of Yoga
subtle body ::: The mass-energy support (or “body”) for such states of consciousness as meditation with form, savikalpa samadhi, the chonyid bardo, and the dreaming state. The term “subtle” technically refers only to this mass-energy but is sometimes broadly used to refer to states of consciousness supported by the subtle body. See gross body and causal body.
subtle images
subtle images ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Subtle images can be images of all things in all worlds.” *Letters on Yoga
"These are not mental images. There is an inner vision that opens when one does sadhana and all sorts of images rise before it or pass. Their coming does not depend upon your thought or will; it is real and automatic. Just as your physical eyes see things in the physical world, so the inner eyes see things and images that belong to the other worlds and subtle images of things of this physical world also.” Letters on Yoga
subtle matter
subtle Matter ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Much more than half our thoughts and feelings are not our own in the sense that they take form out of ourselves; of hardly anything can it be said that it is truly original to our nature. A large part comes to us from others or from the environment, whether as raw material or as manufactured imports; but still more largely they come from universal Nature here or from other worlds and planes and their beings and powers and influences; for we are overtopped and environed by other planes of consciousness, mind planes, life planes, subtle matter planes, from which our life and action here are fed, or fed on, pressed, dominated, made use of for the manifestation of their forms and forces.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"Mind therefore is held by the Hindus to be a species of subtle matter in which ideas are waves or ripples, and it is not limited by the physical body which it uses as an instrument.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"All that manifested from the Eternal has already been arranged in worlds or planes of its own nature, planes of subtle Matter, planes of Life, planes of Mind, planes of Supermind, planes of the triune luminous Infinite. But these worlds or planes are not evolutionary but typal. A typal world is one in which some ruling principle manifests itself in its free and full capacity and energy and form are plastic and subservient to its purpose. Its expressions are therefore automatic and satisfying and do not need to evolve; they stand so long as need be and do not need to be born, develop, decline and disintegrate.” Essays Divine and Human*
subtle realms, the
subtle reductionism ::: One of the two major versions of reductionism, along with gross reductionism. Subtle reductionism reduces all quadrants to the Lower-Right quadrant, asserting, in effect, that there exists only interwoven, holistic patterns of “Its.” See gross reductionism and flatland.
subtleties ::: states or qualities of being subtle; delicacies.
subtle vision
subtle vision ("s) ::: Sri Aurobindo: " This power of vision is sometimes inborn and habitual even without any effort of development, sometimes it wakes up of itself and becomes abundant or needs only a little practice to develop; it is not necessarily a sign of spiritual attainment, but usually when by practice of yoga one begins to go inside or live within, the power of subtle vision awakes to a greater or less extent; . . . .”*Letters on Yoga
"It is not necessary to have the mind quiet in order to see the lights — that depends only on the opening of the subtle vision in the centre which is in the forehead between the eyebrows. Many people get that as soon as they start sadhana. It can even be developed by effort and concentration without sadhana by some who have it to a small extent as an inborn faculty.” Letters on Yoga
"When the centres begin to open, inner experiences such as the seeing of light or images through the subtle vision in the forehead centre or psychic experiences and perceptions in the heart, become frequent — gradually one becomes aware of one"s inner being as separate from the outer, and what can be called a yogic consciousness with all its deeper movements develops in the place of the ordinary superficial mental and vital movements.” Letters on Yoga
subtly ::: 1. In a subtle and delicate manner. 2. Difficult to understand; abstruse.
subtraction formulae: The trigonometric formulae relating the values of trigonometric functions with argument that is the difference of 2 angles, to the individual values of trigonometric functions of the 2 angles.
subtraction: The inverse operation of addition. i.e. The process of finding the missing addend, given the sum (minuend) and another addend (subtrahend).
subtrahend: The known addend in the operation of subtraction, considered as inverse addition.
subtype "programming" If S is a subtype of T then an expression of {type} S may be used anywhere that one of type T can and an {implicit type conversion} will be applied to convert it to type T. In {object oriented programming}, this means that {objects} of type S must accept every {message} that one of type T would. (1997-07-28)
subtype ::: (programming) If S is a subtype of T then an expression of type S may be used anywhere that one of type T can and an implicit type conversion will be applied to convert it to type T.In object oriented programming, this means that objects of type S must accept every message that one of type T would. (1997-07-28)
subtyping {subtype}
suburbs ::: a usually residential area or community outlying a city or township.
subversion: when a concept or text aims to undermine an established idea.
Subāhuparipṛcchātantra
Subāhuparipṛcchātantra. (T. Dpung bzangs kyis zhus pa'i rgyud; C. Supohu tongzi qingwen jing; J. Sobakodoji shomongyo; K. Sop'aho tongja ch'ongmun kyong 蘇婆呼童子請問經). In Sanskrit, "Tantra Requested by Subāhu," an important Buddhist TANTRA, translated into Chinese by sUBHAKARASIMHA in 726. In the text, the bodhisattva VAJRAPĀnI explains a range of tantric practices at the request of the youth Subāhu. It is one of the earliest tantras to set forth elements that would come to be considered standard in tantric practice, especially of the wrathful variety, including the performance of rituals to obtain magical powers (SIDDHI), the importance of cemeteries and charnel grounds (sMAsĀNA) as a site for tantric practice, the use of human corpses in the MAndALA, the use of bones, and the practice of sexual rites with semi-divine women (yaksinī/yaksī).
Subakka 戍博迦. See JĪVAKA
Subaltara 須跋陀羅. See SUBHADRA
Subalternation: See Logic, formal, § 4. Subclass: A class a is a subclass of a class b if a ⊂ b. See Logic, formal, § 7.
Sub-astral The lower portions of the astral realms, whether of the solar system or of the constitution of a living being. The astral light is divided into a number of degrees, enumerated as seven, ten, or twelve. More generally the astral is triform — the highest astral, the intermediate astral, and the lowest or sub-astral.
Subba Row in “Brahmanism on the Sevenfold Principles in Man” (Theosophist 3:93) says: “The Vedas were perhaps compiled mainly for the use of the priests assisting at public ceremonies, but the grandest conclusions of our real secret doctrine are therein mentioned. I am informed by persons competent to judge of the matter, that the Vedas have a distinct dual meaning — one expressed by the literal sense of the words, the other indicated by the metre and the swara (intonation), which are, as it were, the life of the Vedas . . . the mysterious connection between swara and light is one of its most profound secrets.”
Subba Row’s fourfold classification follows:
Sub-camp ::: Auxiliary forced labor camp linked administratively to one of the major concentration camps. There were thousands of sub-camps in the concentration camp system, which numbered nearly 3,000 camps.
Subchronic ::: Of intermediate duration, usually used to describe studies or levels of exposure between 5 and 90 days.
SUBCONSCIENT. ::: That quite submerged part of our being in which there is no wakingly conscious or coherent thought, will or feeling or organised reaction, but which yet receives obscurely the impressions of all things and stores them up in itself and from it too all sorts of stimulii, of persistent habitual movements, crudely repeated or disguised in strange forms can surge up into dream or into the waking nature.
Subconscient, The ::: The subconscious in us is the extreme border of our secret inner existence where it meets the Inconscient, it is a degree of our being in which the Inconscient struggles into a half consciousness; the surface physical consciousness also, when it sinks back from the waking level and retrogresses towards the Inconscient, retires into this intermediate subconscience. Or, from another view-point, this nether part of us may be described as the antechamber of the Inconscient through which its formations rise into our waking or our subliminal being.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22, Page: 439
Subconscious In The Secret Doctrine, used for a degree of consciousness less evolved than that with which we are familiar. Generally today, psychic researchers and psychoanalysts define it as a kind of mental action not yet revealed to ordinary consciousness and not easily apparent to introspection. Our own consciousness is known by experience; that of others is inferred from analogy and from its results. In the same way, our conduct is found to be largely influenced by something which we must presume to be a conscious intelligence, yet of which we are not aware by actual experience. We cannot get a clear definition of this until we have analyzed the concept of consciousness more fully, as is done in Hindu systems. But, as a practical question, our mental nature includes a far larger field than that occupied at any one time by the focus of attention. Subconscious may merely mean behind conscious; but if it taken to mean below, the expression is unfortunate as implying lower and more sinister regions of our mentality; and this indeed is actually the region studied and accepted by prominent modern psychoanalysts.
Subconscious mind: According to the theory of psychoanalysis, a compartment of the mind which exists below the threshold of consciousness. The subconscious, though not directly accessible to introspection (q.v.), is capable of being tapped by special techniques such as random association, dream-analysis, automatic writing, etc.
Subconscious Mind: (Lat. sub, under -- cum together + scire to know) A compartment of the mind alleged by certain psychologists and philosophers (see Psycho-analysis) to exist below the threshold of consciousness. The subconscious, though not directly accessible to introspection (see Introspection), is capable of being tapped by special techniques such as random association, dream-analysis, automatic writing, etc. The doctrine of the subconscious was foreshadowed in Leibniz's doctrine of petites perceptions (Monadology, Sections 21, 23) and received philosophical expression by A. Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea, and E. von Hartman, Philosophy of the Unconscious and has become an integral part of Freudian psychology. See Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, esp. pp. 425-35, 483-93. -- L.W.
SUB-CONSCIOUS—That which pertains to the real nature or essence of a person or thing; proceeding from or taking place within the subject, as opposed to the objective. Thus sensation is subconscious, while perception is an objective experience.
SUBCONSCIOUS The monad&
Subconsclent is universal as well as individual like all the other main parts of the nature.
Subcontrary: See Logic, formal, § 4. Subject: (Lat. subjicere to place under)
Sub-element Secondary elements derived from parent elements which to them are primary, as the physical elements in relation to their ultraphysical primaries; or chemical elements which have been proved to be resolvable into simpler elements. In this sense, the sub-elements are more compound and less simple than the elements; and the prefix denotes a lower order rather than an underlying essence.
Subha: Auspicious; blessed.
Subhadda. See SUBHADRA
Subhadra
Subhadra. (T. Rab bzang; P. Subhadda; C. Xubatuoluo; J. Shubatsudara; K. Subaltara 須跋陀羅). The last person converted by the Buddha before he passed into PARINIRVĀnA. According to some accounts, he was a 120-year-old brāhmana, according to others, a young ascetic. Hearing that the Buddha would be passing away that night at KUsINAGARĪ, Subhadra went to see the Buddha and asked ĀNANDA for permission to speak with him. Ānanda refused the request three times, saying that the Buddha was weary. The Buddha overheard their conversation and told Subhadra to come forward, saying, "Do not keep out Subhadra. Subhadra may be allowed to see the Tathāgata. Whatever Subhadra will ask of me, he will ask from a desire for knowledge, and not to annoy me, and whatever I may say in answer to his questions, that he will quickly understand." Subhadra began to ask the Buddha about the doctrines of various other teachers, but the Buddha cut him short, explaining that only one who knows the noble eightfold path (ĀRYĀstĀnGAMĀRGA) is a true sRAMAnA. Subhadra then asked to be ordained. The Buddha replied that adherents of other sects first had to undergo a probationary period of four months before ordination. When Subhadra announced his willingness to do so, the Buddha waived the requirement and instructed Ānanda to shave the hair and beard of Subhadra. He was then escorted back to the Buddha who ordained him, making him the last person that Buddha personally ordained. The Buddha then gave him a subject of meditation. Walking up and down in the grove, he quickly became an ARHAT and came and sat by the Buddha. According to some accounts, Subhadra felt that he was unworthy to witness the passage of the Buddha into parinirvāna and thus asked the Buddha for permission to die first. The Buddha gave his permission. ¶ Subhadra is also the name of a former barber who entered the order late in life. He always carried a certain animus against the Buddha, because, while Subhadra was still a layman, the Buddha refused to accept a meal that he had prepared for him. After the Buddha's death, Subhadra told monks who were weeping at his passing that they should instead rejoice: since the Buddha would no longer be telling them what they could and could not do, monks would now be free to do as they pleased. MAHĀKĀsYAPA overheard this remark and was said to have been so alarmed by it that he convened what came to be known as the first Buddhist council (SAMGĪTI; see COUNCIL, FIRST) to codify the monastic rules and the Buddha's discourses.
Subhan Allah ::: "Exalted is Allah" (Free from all defects)
Subhana Rabbi Al A’la ::: "Glory to my Lord The Most High"
Subhan ::: One who is beyond being limited or conditioned by any of His manifestations.
Subhasuttanta. (C. Yingwu jing; J. omukyo; K. Aengmu kyong 鸚鵡經). In Pāli, "Discourse to Subha"; tenth sutta of the DĪGHANIKĀYA (a related Pāli recension is included as the ninety-ninth sutra of the MAJJHIMANIKĀYA and a separate SARVĀSTIVĀDA recension as the 152nd sutra in the Chinese translation of the MADHYAMĀGAMA); preached by Ānanda at Sāvatthi (S. sRĀVASTĪ) to the brāhmana Subha Todeyyaputta shortly after the Buddha's demise. In content that is very similar to the SĀMANNAPHALASUTTANTA (S. srāmanyaphalasutra), Subha invites Ānanda to tell him what things the Buddha extolled, what he inspired others to follow, and what he established others in. Ānanda responds that there were three bodies, or categories, of things which the Buddha extolled, inspired others to follow, and established them in. These were the noble body of morality (P. ariyasīlakkhandha, S. āryasīlaskandha), the noble body of concentration (P. ariyasamādhikkhandha, S. āryasamādhiskandha), and the noble body of wisdom (P. ariyapaNNākkhandha, S. āryaprajNāskandha). Under the noble body of morality (sĪLA), Ānanda enumerates the following points: the appearance of the Buddha in the world, understanding his teachings and entering the Buddhist order, training in the restraint of action and speech, and observance of minor points of morality, all of which leads to an absence of fear and a confidence of heart. Under the noble body of concentration (SAMĀDHI), he enumerates guarding the senses, mindfulness, contentment with little, freedom from the five hindrances, joy and peace of mind, and the four meditative absorptions (P. JHĀNA, S. DHYĀNA). Under the noble body of wisdom (PRAJNĀ), he enumerates insight into the conditioned nature and impermanence of body and mind, the power to conjure up mind-made bodies (MANOMAYAKĀYA), knowledge of the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS, and destruction of the contaminants (P. āsava, S. ĀSRAVA).
Subhasuttanta
Subhavasana: Pure desire or tendency; good impression of the past.
Subhava (Sanskrit) Subhāva Being; the self-forming substance, equivalent to svabhava (characteristic individuality). It is the spirit within the substance, or the essence of the entity governing its noumenal and phenomenal appearances; “in the Vedanta and Vyaya Philosophies: nimitta, efficient, and upadana, the material, causes are contained in subhava co-eternally. Says a Sanskrit Sloka: ‘Worthiest of ascetics, through its potency, [that of the ‘efficient’ cause’] every emanated or evolved thing comes by its own proper nature’ ” (TG 310).
Subheccha: Good desire; right aspiration to cross Samsara; the first Jnana-bhumika or stage of knowledge.
Subhuti
Subhuti. (T. Rab 'byor; C. Xuputi; J. Shubodai; K. Subori 須菩提). Sanskrit and Pāli proper name of an eminent ARHAT who was foremost among the Buddha's disciples in dwelling at peace in remote places and in worthiness to receive gifts. He was the younger brother of ANĀTHAPIndADA and took ordination on the day the JETAVANA grove was dedicated, when he heard the Buddha preach. He mastered the ubhatovibhanga, the two collections comprising the VINAYAPItAKA, after which he retired to the forest to practice meditation. He attained arhatship on the basis of maitrīdhyāna (P. mettājhāna), meditative absorption cultivated through contemplation of loving-kindness (MAITRĪ). On his alms-rounds, Subhuti would cultivate loving-kindness at the door of every house where he stopped, thus expanding the amount of merit accrued by his donor. Subhuti taught the dharma without distinction or limitation, for which reason the Buddha singled him out for praise. Subhuti was widely revered for his holiness and was sought out as a recipient of gifts. King BIMBISĀRA once promised to build a cave dwelling for him in RĀJAGṚHA but later forgot. Without a dwelling place, Subhuti sat in the open air to practice meditation. Over time, this caused a drought in the region, for the clouds would not rain lest this disturb the saint's meditations. When Bimbisāra became aware of this issue, he built a grass hut for him, and as soon as Subhuti sat inside it, the clouds poured down rain. During the time of Padmottara Buddha, Subhuti had been a famous hermit named Nanda with forty thousand disciples. Once when the Buddha was visiting his hermitage, he directed one of his monks proficient in loving-kindness and foremost in worthiness to receive gifts to preach to his host. Upon hearing the sermon, all forty thousand disciples of Nanda became arhats, while Nanda, enthralled by the charisma of the preaching monk, resolved one day to earn the same distinction. Subhuti also plays a prominent role in a number of MAHĀYĀNA sutras. The most famous of these roles is as the Buddha's chief interlocutor in PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀ sutras like the VAJRACCHEDIKĀPRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀSuTRA. In the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA, Subhuti is one the four sRĀVAKAs who understands the parable of the burning house; later his buddhahood is prophesied by the Buddha. In the VIMALAKĪRTINIRDEsA, Subhuti is one of the arhats who is reluctant to visit Vimalakīrti. Among the Buddha's ten major disciples, he is said to have been foremost in the knowledge of insubstantiality.
Subinda. [alt. Suvinda] (C. Supintuo; J. Sobinda; K. Sobint'a 蘇頻陀). The Sanskrit name of the fourth of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), according to the roster of arhats now recognized in the East Asian tradition; he is said to reside in UTTARAKURU with seven hundred disciples. Subinda is said to have been the last personal disciple of the Buddha and for this reason is shown holding a small STuPA (symbolizing the Buddha), which he carried with him wherever he went; he is thus known in Chinese as the "Pagoda-Holding Arhat." Subinda has various portrayals in Chinese paintings. In the Mogao caves of DUNHUANG, he is shown sitting in full-lotus posture on a rock, with his right arm bent upwards and his left hand holding a water bottle in front of his chest. In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction, Subinda sits in meditation on a rock, with his robe worn across both his shoulders, his right fist holding fast to the front of his chest, and his left hand placed on his knee. He is not included in the Tibetan list of the sixteen.
Subinda
Subiyanyo須毘耶女. See SUPRIYĀ
SUBJECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS That limited consciousness which experiences only itself, thus not the matter and motion aspects in its world. Man&
Subjective idealism denies the existence of objective reality altogether, except perhaps as illusory, as for instance in the views of Berkeley. Objective idealism, such as the system of Schelling, recognizes the existence of objective worlds while regarding the ideal world as the primary production and paramount: the external world has a relative and temporary or mayavi reality. This latter view is the only strictly logical one; for if we annihilate the object, we must thereby annihilate the subject also, these two terms having no meaning except relatively to each other. In any theory of knowledge, there must be knower and thing known; and the latter is objective to the former. Absolute idealism logically is as unthinkable as is absolute materialism. See also MAYA
Subjective Idealism: Sometimes referred to as psychological idealism or subjectivism. The doctrine of knowledge that the world exists only for the mind. The only world we know is the-world-we-know shut up in the realm of ideas. To be is to be perceived: esse est percipi. This famous doctrine (classically expressed by Bishop Berkeley, 1685-1753) became the cornerstone of modern metaphysical idealism. Recent idealists tend to minimize its significance for metaphysics. -- V.F.
Subjective_probability ::: is a type of probability derived from an individual's personal judgment about whether a specific outcome is likely to occur. It contains no formal calculations and only reflects the subject's opinions and past experience. Subjective probabilities differ from person to person, and contains a high degree of personal bias. BREAKING DOWN 'Subjective Probability' An example of subjective probability is asking New York Yankees fans, before the baseball season starts, about the chances of New York winning the World Series. While there is no absolute mathematical proof behind the answer to the example, fans might still reply in actual percentage terms, such as the Yankees having a 25% chance of winning the World Series. Subjective probability is highly flexible, even in terms of one individual’s belief. While an individual may believe the chance of a specified event occurring is 25%, they could have a different belief when given a specific range from which to choose, such as 25% to 30%. This can occur even if no additional hard data is behind the change. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/subjective_probability.asp
Subjective Reality ::: The perception of reality made by an individual that may be different from the perception made by another person.
Subjective rightness: An action is subjectively right if it is done in the belief that it is objectively right. See Objective rightness. -- W.F.K.
SUBJECTIVE. ::: Subjective docs not mean false. It only means that the Truth is experienced within, but it has not yet taken hold of the dynamic relation with the outside existence.
SUBJECTIVE—Such processes as seem to have psychical characteristics, but are not attended by consciousness.
SUBJECTIVE WORLDS, KINDS OF MATTER etc. (B.) A further confusion of ideas has been caused by terming the material reality invisible to the normal individual subjective, as opposed to the visible reality as objective. There is no subjective matter. Just the first apprehension of matter is subjective. Everything that belongs to the consciousness aspect is subjective, everything that belongs to the matter aspect is objective. 2.62.12
Subjectivism: a) In Epistemology: The restriction of knowledge to the knowing subject and its sensory, affective ind volitional states and to such external realities as may be inferred from the mind's subjective states. See Solipsism, Ego-centric Predicament.
SUBJECTIVISM Consistent subjectivism leads to complete disorientation in existence, sovereign arbitrariness, lack of principle, and irresponsibility. K 5.37.1
Attempting to explain external, objective, material reality by sense perceptions is typical of the modern subjectivists, whether they call themselves psychologicists of logicists.
To doubt the existence of the external world, or that we can apprehend it as it is in its given physical reality, is to doubt one's own common sense and all correct apprehension of reality. K 5.43.6,8
Subjectivism, epistemological: Doctrine contending that every object apprehended is created, constructed by the apprehender. (Montague). -- H.H.
Subjectivity Subjective and objective are interdependent, having meaning only in relation to each other. Subjective is said to apply to whatever is referred to the thinking subject, the ego; objective to whatever belongs to the object of thought, the non-ego. Subjective and objective express a relation between the act of perception and the object perceived. To some extent the two words correspond to mind and matter, but parts of mind itself may become objects of some higher perceptive subject. Modern idealists say that the cooperation of subject and object results in the sense object or phenomenon, but this does not hold good on all other planes than that of the physical senses. Subject and object, however, are contrasted on every plane, and this contrast represents the experience of the perceiving ego. But the peak of omniscience, or knowledge of things in themselves, is not reached until the duality or contrast of subject and object vanishes into unity (SD 1:329, 320).
Subject Matching ::: A method of reducing bias in a sample of subjects by matching specific criteria of the sample to the true characteristics of the population. (Example: If the population is 60% female then 60% of the subjects in the sample should also be female)
Sublet – Is used in real estate, refers to the leasing of space within a leased facility by the original lessee.
Sublimation ::: A defense mechanism where undesired or unacceptable impulses are transformed into behaviors which are accepted by society.
Sublimation: In psychoanalytic terminology, the psychological mechanism which consists in the discovery of a substitute object for the expression of a basic instinct or feeling.
Sublimation: (Lat. sublimatio, from sublimare, to elevete, lift up) The psychological mechanism, described by Freudians, which consists in the discovery of a substitute object for the expression of a basic instinct or feeling, e.g., the sublimation of the sex impulses in aesthetic creation -- L.W.
Subliminal: (Lat. sub. under + limen, the threshold) Term popularized by F. Myers to describe allegedly unconscious mental processes especially sensations which lie below the threshold of consciousness. See Unconscious Mind. -- L.W.
Subliminal self: The term used by psychical researchers to designate the subconscious personality.
SUBLIMINAL, The subliminal self stands behind and sup- ports the whole superficial man ; it has in it a larger and more
Subliminal ::: ...there is a “subliminal” self behind our superficial waking mind not inconscient but conscient, greater than the waking mind, endowed with surprising faculties and capable of a much surer action and experience, conscient of the superficial mind though of it the superficial mind is inconscient.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 13, Page: 180 ::: The subliminal self stands behind and supports the whole superficial man; it has in it a larger and more efficient mind behind the surface mind, a larger and more powerful vital behind the surface vital, a subtler and freer physical consciousness behind the surface bodily existence. And above them it opens to higher superconscient as well as below them to lower subconscient ranges.
Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 1606
Subliminal: Unconscious, below the threshold of consciousness.
Sub-Lunar ::: Entities bound closely to the Earth and as such closer to bringing matters toward manifestation than more atherial entities. Generally these entities should be approached cautiously and worked with carefully. The demons of the Goetia are, generally, sub-lunar entities.
SUBMANIFESTAL SELF, 44-SELF Monad having its highest kind of envelope and self-consciousness in the submanifestal world of the solar system (44).
SUBMANIFESTAL WORLD Atomic world 44 in the cosmos and the solar system.
Molecular world 44:2-7 in the solar system.
Subnuclei These result when, in the division of the nucleated cell, the nucleus splits into two subnuclei, “which either develop within the original cell-wall or burst it, and multiply outside as independent entities” (SD 2:166), as often occurred during the earlier root-races, and still exists in certain low forms of life.
Subop kyong 受法經. See CulADHAMMASAMĀDĀNASUTTA
Subop kyong 受法經. See MAHĀDHAMMASAMĀDĀNASUTTA
Subordinated debt - If a company is liquidated (i.e. becomes insolvent ), the secured creditors are paid first. If any money is left, the unsecured creditors are then paid. The amount of money owed to the unsecured creditors is termed the 'subordinated debt' of the company.
Subori 須菩提. See SUBHuTI
Subphysical Kingdoms The three elemental kingdoms, kingdoms of nascent and relatively conscious but not self-conscious entitative forces. In evolutionary development, they precede the mineral kingdom in the series of evolutionary life-waves.
Sub-Plane ::: A manner of classifying reality and stages of consciousness by further dividing up a plane. On this site, sub-planes will either have specific functions within a plane (e.g. the Information Plane as the Lower Mental Plane) or can be assigned based on the qualities of that plane (e.g. the elemental sub-planes of each of the Four Worlds, such as Air of Water which is the Mental aspects of the Astral Plane).
SUB-PLANE (T.B.) Molecular kind.
SUB-RACE See RACES
Subrace Used to distinguish the major or root-races from the minor races which are offshoots from the mother-race (ML 83). In a planetary chain, there are seven rounds in a manvantara (period of activity) and root-races during each round; further that there are seven subraces in every root-race, and septenary offshoots from the subraces.
Subscriber Identity Module "telecommunications, wireless" (SIM or "SIM card") A component, usually in the form of a miniature {smart-card}, that is theoretically tamper-proof and is used to associate a {mobile subscriber} with a {mobile network} subscription. The SIM holds the subscriber's unique {MSISDN} along with secret information such as a private {encryption key} and encryption and digital signature algorithms. Most SIMs also contain {non-volatile storage} for network and device management, contact lists, text messages sent and received, logos and in some cases even small {Java} {programs}. (2007-01-06)
Subset-Equational Language (SEL) A {declarative} language for set processing by Bharat Jayaraman with subset and equational program clauses; {pattern matching} over sets (it supports efficient iteration over sets); annotations to say which functions distribute over union in which arguments (for point-wise/incremental computation over sets); defining {transitive closures} through circular constraints (implemented by mixed top-down/{memoisation} and bottom-up strategy); {meta-programming} and simple {higher-order} programming; modest user-interface including tracing. The SEL {compiler}, written in {Quintus Prolog}, generates {WAM}-like code, extended to deal with set-matching, {memoisation}, and the novel control structure of the language. The {run-time system} is written in {C}. {(ftp://ftp.cs.buffalo.edu/users/bharat/SEL2)}. E-mail: Bharat Jayaraman "bharat@cs.buffalo.edu". ["Towards a Broader Basis for Logic Programming", B. Jayaraman, TR CS Dept, SUNY Buffalo, 1990]. ["Set Abstraction in Functional and Logic Programming", F.S.K. Silbermann "fs@cs.tulane.edu" et al, ACM Proc 1989]. (1994-12-15)
Subset-Equational Language ::: (SEL) A declarative language for set processing by Bharat Jayaraman with subset and equational program clauses; pattern matching over sets (it supports mixed top-down/memoisation and bottom-up strategy); meta-programming and simple higher-order programming; modest user-interface including tracing.The SEL compiler, written in Quintus Prolog, generates WAM-like code, extended to deal with set-matching, memoisation, and the novel control structure of the language. The run-time system is written in C. .E-mail: Bharat Jayaraman .[Towards a Broader Basis for Logic Programming, B. Jayaraman, TR CS Dept, SUNY Buffalo, 1990].[Set Abstraction in Functional and Logic Programming, F.S.K. Silbermann (1994-12-15)
Subsidiary company - A firm in which a controlling interest is owned by another company, called the parent company.
Subsidiary ledgers - Ledgers opened in addition to a business's general ledger. They are used to keep sections of a business separate from each other (e.g.. a Sales ledger for the customers, and a purchase ledger for the suppliers). (See Contra accounts ) .
Subsidy - A payment made by the government to producers of goods and services.
Subsistence farming - The production of farm output mainly for own consumption.
Subsistents: Abstract and eternal entities, values, universals in a non-mental and non-physical world. -- H.H.
Substance is the term used to signify thit which is sought when philosophers investigate the primary being of things. Thus Plato was primarily concerned with investigating the being of things from the standpoint of their intelligibility. Hence the Platonic dialectic was aimed at a knowledge of the essential nature (ousia) of things. But science is knowledge of universals. so the essence of things considered as intelligible is the universal common to many; i.e., the universal Form or Idea, and this was for Plato the substance of things, or what they are primarily.
Substance: (Lat. sub + stare = Gr. hypo + stasis, to stand under. Also from Lat. quod quid est, or quod quid erat esse = Gr. to ti en einai, i.e., that by virtue of which a thing has its determinate nature, which makes it what it is, as distinguished from something else. See ousia, natura, subsistentia, essentia. Thus Augustine writes (De Trin. VII, ch. 4,
Substance over form – Refers to an accounting concept where the entity is accounting for items according to their substance and economic reality and not merely their legal form.
Substance-Principle. See PRINCIPLE
Substance. See MATTER
Substance: That which is present in an entity as the cause of its being. In occult philosophy, a distinction is made between material and spiritual substances. (Theosophy speaks also of a psychic substance.)
Substance Theory of Mind: The conception of the individual mind as a permanent, self-identical substance. (See Soul-Substance Theory). The Substance Theory is distinguished from the substantive theory by C. W. Morris, (Six Theories of Mind, Chs. I and V) but the distinction is difficult to maintain. -- L.W.
Substantial form: Substance distinct from matter ordered in itself in such a way that with prime matter it constitutes a natural body; for -- since matter is indifferent to any composite, it is determined by the form united to itself, so that it may be, e.g., a stone, or a dog. or wood. There are as many substantial forms as there are different bodies.
Substantive – Refers to something which is real rather than apparent, as seen by an unbiased observer and not just the official view of management.
Substantive States: (Lat. substantivus, self-existent) Substantive states of mind in contrast to transitive or relational states are the temporary resting places in the flow of the stream of thought. The term was introduced by W. James (The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, pp. 243-8). -- L.W.
Substantive Theory of Mind: A diluted form of the Substance Theory of mind which asserts that the mind, while not strictly a substance, possesses a substantial character. See Substance Theory of Mind. -- L.W.
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Substitute goods - A pair of goods that are considered by consumers to be alternatives to each other. As the price of one goes up, the demand for the other rises.
Substitutes - Any good that can stand in for another good to satisfy similar needs or desires. The degree of substitutability is measured by the magnitude of the positive cross elasticity between the two.
Substitutes in supply - These are two goods where an increased production of one means diverting resources away from producing the other.
Substitute Word According to Masonic ritual, the Master’s Word was lost through the death of Hiram Abif; the other two Masters, King Solomon and King Hiram agree that the Word shall be used as a substitute for the Master’s word, until such time as the true one is discovered. Among the Pythagoreans the ineffable Word “was considered the Seventh and highest of all, for there are six minor substitutes, each belongs to a degree of initiation” (IU 2:418). Among the Jews, ’Adonai is spoken as a substitute for the Tetragrammaton, incorrectly transliterated in the Bible as Jehovah, and always pronounced as Adonai.
Substitution effect of a price change - The effect of a change in price on quantity demanded arising from the consumer switching to or from alternative (substitute) products.
Substitution effect of a rise in wage rates - Workers will tend to substitute income for leisure as leisure now has a higher opportunity cost. This effect leads to more hours being worked as wage rates rise.
Substitution effect of a tax rise - Tax increases reduce the opportunity cost of leisure and thus encourage people to work less.
Substitution effect - The tendency of people to substitute in favour of cheaper commodities and away from more expensive commodities:
Substitution, rule of: See logic, formal, § 1. Substratum: (Gr. hypokeimenon) That in which an attribute inheres, or of which it is predicated; substance; subject. In Aristotle's philosophy hypokeimenon sometimes means matter as underlying form, sometimes the concrete thing as possessing attributes, sometimes the logicnl subject of predication. -- G.R.M.
SUB {Substitute}
Subsumption: Noun signifying that the subject of a proposition is taken under the predicate. Also the inclusion of the species under the genus, and the individual under the species. The minor premiss which applies a general law stated by the major premiss of a syllogism is called a subsumption. -- J.J.R.
Subtle Bodies In Vedantic philosophy, the five kosas or sheaths, whether of the cosmos, man, or any other being, through which the atman as sutratman (thread-self) passes. In a more restricted and biological sense, the chhayas (shadows) or astral bodies emanated by original humanity to become the vehicles of the future humanities. Those who projected or emanated these chhayas or subtle bodies were the pitris (fathers, progenitors).
Subtle Bodies ::: The sheaths of noticeably less physicality than the physical body.
Subtle body: In the terminology of Yoga, that essential part of the human individuality which survives physical death and continues to be reborn in the wheel of life (q.v.). It is considered to be composed of seventeen elements: five senses of perception, five senses of action, five vital energies, mind (manas) and intellect (buddhi). It is in general identical with the term etheric double (q.v.) of other schools of occultism.
SUBTLE FORCES. ::: There is such a thing as a willed use of any subtle force — it may be spiritual, mental or siral — to secure a particular result at some point in the world. Just as there arc waves of unseen physical forces (cosmic waves etc.) or currents of electricity, so there arc mind-waves, ihought*currcnts. waves of emotion, ~ for example, anger, sorrow, etc. — which go out and affect others without their knowing whence they come or that they come at all, they only feel the result. One who has the occult or inner senses awake can feel them coming and invad> ing him. Influences good or bad can propagate themsefves in that way ::: chat can happen without Intention and naturally, but also a deliberate use can be made of them. There can also be a power- ful generation of force, spiritual or other. There can be too the use of the effective will or idea acting directly without the aid of any outward action, speech or other instrumentation which is not concrete in that sense, but is all the same effective.
Subtle Influence, Subtle Procedure: Inspired Science or hypertech employed so as not to seem too advanced for the Masses. (In game terms, coincidental technomagick.)
Subtler planes: The planes of existence after and above the physical worldly existence (astral plane, mental plane, etc.).
TERMS ANYWHERE
1. A substance that gives nourishment; food. 2. Fig. Intellectual nourishment.
1. A curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something. 2.* Fig.* That by which any one is attracted or ensnared and caught; a snare; a catch.
1. A distinctive and pervasive quality or character; air; atmosphere. 2. A subtle emanation from and enveloping living persons and things, viewed by mystics as consisting of the essence of the individual.
1. An image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed. 2. A mere image or semblance of something visible but without substance, as a phantom. 3. A false conception or notion; fallacy. Idol, idols.
1. Causing misfortune or trouble (to oneself or others). 2. Unfortunate, unlucky, ill-fated, sad; miserable in lot or circumstances. Also, in later use, wretched in mind. 3. Of places: Subject to, suffering from, misfortunes or evils.
1. Having no real basis or foundation in fact; fanciful, insubstantial. 2. Having no bodily or material substance. 3. Lacking material substance; materially paltry.
1. Lacking substance, value, or basis. 2. Meaningless; senseless. 3. Futile; unavailing.
1. Rising above what is characteristic of earth; exalted, sublime; celestial. 2. Seeming not to belong to this earth or world. 3. Not belonging to this earth; supernatural, mysterious, ghostly.
1. Subject to doubt or uncertainty; not fixed, sure, or certain; doubtful. 2. Lacking certainty, assurance, or confidence; not sure, assured, or certainly knowing; uncertain. 3. Marked or characterized by lack of sureness, assurance, or certainty.
1. The act, power or property of appealing, alluring, enticing or inviting. 2. A thing or feature which draws by appealing to desires, tastes, etc. 3. The action of a body or substance in drawing to itself, by some physical force, another to which it is not materially attached; the force thus exercised. attractions.
"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. To give light to; illuminate; shine on. 2. Make lighter or brighter. 3. To bestow spiritual enlightenment. 4. To enlighten, as with knowledge. 5. To make lucid or clear; throw light on (a subject). 6. To make resplendent or illustrious. 7. To decorate (a manuscript, book, etc.) with colours and gold or silver, as was often done in the Middle Ages. illumines, illumined, illumining, half-illumined.
"A basis can be created for a subjective illusion-consciousness which is yet part of Being, if we accept in the sense of an illusory subjective world-awareness the account of sleep and dream creation given to us in the Upanishads. For the affirmation there is that Brahman as Self is fourfold; the Self is Brahman and all that is is the Brahman, but all that is is the Self seen by the Self in four states of its being. In the pure self-status neither consciousness nor unconsciousness as we conceive it can be affirmed about Brahman; it is a state of superconscience absorbed in its self-existence, in a self-silence or a self-ecstasy, or else it is the status of a free Superconscient containing or basing everything but involved in nothing. But there is also a luminous status of sleep-self, a massed consciousness which is the origin of cosmic existence; this state of deep sleep in which yet there is the presence of an omnipotent Intelligence is the seed state or causal condition from which emerges the cosmos; — this and the dream-self which is the continent of all subtle, subjective or supraphysical experience, and the self of waking which is the support of all physical experience, can be taken as the whole field of Maya.” The Life Divine
“A basis can be created for a subjective illusion-consciousness which is yet part of Being, if we accept in the sense of an illusory subjective world-awareness the account of sleep and dream creation given to us in the Upanishads. For the affirmation there is that Brahman as Self is fourfold; the Self is Brahman and all that is is the Brahman, but all that is is the Self seen by the Self in four states of its being. In the pure self-status neither consciousness nor unconsciousness as we conceive it can be affirmed about Brahman; it is a state of superconscience absorbed in its self-existence, in a self-silence or a self-ecstasy, or else it is the status of a free Superconscient containing or basing everything but involved in nothing. But there is also a luminous status of sleep-self, a massed consciousness which is the origin of cosmic existence; this state of deep sleep in which yet there is the presence of an omnipotent Intelligence is the seed state or causal condition from which emerges the cosmos;—this and the dream-self which is the continent of all subtle, subjective or supraphysical experience, and the self of waking which is the support of all physical experience, can be taken as the whole field of Maya.” The Life Divine
absolute ::: adj. 1. Free from all imperfection or deficiency; complete, finished; perfect, consummate. 2. Of degree: Complete, entire; in the fullest sense. 3. Having ultimate power, governing totally; unlimited by a constitution or the concurrent authority of a parliament; arbitrary, despotic. 4. Existing without relation to any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing. 5. Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned. 6. Considered independently of its being subjective or objective. n. 7. Something that is not dependent upon external conditions for existence or for its specific nature, size, etc. (opposed to relative). Absolute, Absolute"s, absolutes, absoluteness.
accomplice ::: an associate in guilt, a partner in crime, often as a subordinate. accomplices.
accountable ::: subject to the obligation to report, explain, or justify something; answerable, responsible.
::: "A cosmic Will and Wisdom observant of the ascending march of the soul"s consciousness and experience as it emerges out of subconscient Matter and climbs to its own luminous divinity fixes the norm and constantly enlarges the lines of the law — or, let us say, since law is a too mechanical conception, — the truth of Karma.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“A cosmic Will and Wisdom observant of the ascending march of the soul’s consciousness and experience as it emerges out of subconscient Matter and climbs to its own luminous divinity fixes the norm and constantly enlarges the lines of the law—or, let us say, since law is a too mechanical conception,—the truth of Karma.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"A cosmos or universe is always a harmony, otherwise it could not exist, it would fly to pieces. But as there are musical harmonies which are built out of discords partly or even predominantly, so this universe (the material) is disharmonious in its separate elements — the individual elements are at discord with each other to a large extent; it is only owing to the sustaining Divine Will behind that the whole is still a harmony to those who look at it with the cosmic vision. But it is a harmony in evolution in progress — that is, all is combined to strive towards a goal which is not yet reached, and the object of our yoga is to hasten the arrival to this goal. When it is reached, there will be a harmony of harmonies substituted for the present harmony built up on discords. This is the explanation of the present appearance of things.” Letters on Yoga
“A cosmos or universe is always a harmony, otherwise it could not exist, it would fly to pieces. But as there are musical harmonies which are built out of discords partly or even predominantly, so this universe (the material) is disharmonious in its separate elements—the individual elements are at discord with each other to a large extent; it is only owing to the sustaining Divine Will behind that the whole is still a harmony to those who look at it with the cosmic vision. But it is a harmony in evolution in progress—that is, all is combined to strive towards a goal which is not yet reached, and the object of our yoga is to hasten the arrival to this goal. When it is reached, there will be a harmony of harmonies substituted for the present harmony built up on discords. This is the explanation of the present appearance of things.” Letters on Yoga
acquiescing ::: assenting tacitly; submitting or complying silently or without protest; agreeing; consenting. acquiescence.
adamant ::: n. 1. Any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance. 2. A legendary stone of impenetrable hardness, formerly sometimes identified with the diamond. adj. **3. Unshakeable, inflexible, utterly unyielding. 4. Incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; immovable, impregnable. adamantine.**
addict ::: one who is attached by one"s own inclination to an activity, habit or substance; devoted, given up to.
"A divine Force is at work and will choose at each moment what has to be done or has not to be done, what has to be momentarily or permanently taken up, momentarily or permanently abandoned. For provided we do not substitute for that our desire or our ego, and to that end the soul must be always awake, always on guard, alive to the divine guidance, resistant to the undivine misleading from within or without us, that Force is sufficient and alone competent and she will lead us to the fulfilment along ways and by means too large, too inward, too complex for the mind to follow, much less to dictate. It is an arduous and difficult and dangerous way, but there is none other.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“A divine Force is at work and will choose at each moment what has to be done or has not to be done, what has to be momentarily or permanently taken up, momentarily or permanently abandoned. For provided we do not substitute for that our desire or our ego, and to that end the soul must be always awake, always on guard, alive to the divine guidance, resistant to the undivine misleading from within or without us, that Force is sufficient and alone competent and she will lead us to the fulfilment along ways and by means too large, too inward, too complex for the mind to follow, much less to dictate. It is an arduous and difficult and dangerous way, but there is none other.” The Synthesis of Yoga
adj. **1. Void or empty space. 2. Having a cavity, gap, or space within. 3. Fig. Without substance or character; devoid of truth or validity; specious. n. 3. A void space. 4. A cavity, opening, space, or burrow. hollows.**
adjunct ::: joined or added (to anything); connected, annexed; subordinate in position, function, character, or essence. adjuncts.
aerial ::: 1. Having a light and graceful beauty; airy; ethereal; unsubstantial, intangible; hence, immaterial, ideal, imaginary. 2. Biol. Growing in the air.
agent ::: n. **1. One who does the actual work of anything, as distinguished from the instigator or employer; hence, one who acts for another, a deputy, steward, factor, substitute, representative, or emissary. adj. 2. That which acts or exerts power. agents.**
air ::: 1. The transparent, invisible, inodorous, and tasteless gaseous substance which envelopes the earth. 2. *Fig. With reference to its unsubstantial or impalpable nature. 3. Outward appearance, apparent character, manner, look, style: esp. in phrases like ‘an air of absurdity"; less commonly of a thing tangible, as ‘the air of a mansion". 4. Mien or gesture (expressive of a personal quality or emotion). *air"s.
alchemy ::: any magical or miraculous power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value. alchemies.
alloy ::: 1. A substance composed of two or more metals, or of a metal or metals with a nonmetal, intimately mixed, as by fusion or electrodeposition; a less costly metal mixed with a more valuable one, such as that which is added to gold and silver coinage. 2. Admixture, as with good with evil.
"All phenomenal existence resolves itself into Force, into a movement of energy that assumes more or less material, more or less gross or subtle forms for self-presentation to its own experience.” The Life Divine
“All phenomenal existence resolves itself into Force, into a movement of energy that assumes more or less material, more or less gross or subtle forms for self-presentation to its own experience.” The Life Divine
All these centres are in the middle of the body; they are supposed to be attached to the spinal cord; but in fact all these things are in the subtle body, suksma deha , though one has the feeling of their activities as if in the physical body when the consciousness is awake.” Letters on Yoga
altruism ::: “Very usually, altruism is only the sublimest form of selfishness.” Essays Divine and Human
::: "A Mind, a Will seems to have imagined and organised the universe, but it has veiled itself behind its creation; its first erection has been this screen of an inconscient Energy and a material form of substance, at once a disguise of its presence and a plastic creative basis on which it could work as an artisan uses for his production of forms and patterns a dumb and obedient material.” The Life Divine
An actual contact with the soul of a human being in its subtle body and transcribed to our mind by the appearance of an image or the hearing of a voice.
"And if there is, as there must be in the nature of things, an ascending series in the scale of substance from Matter to Spirit, it must be marked by a progressive diminution of these capacities most characteristic of the physical principle and a progressive increase of the opposite characteristics which will lead us to the formula of pure spiritual self-extension. This is to say that they must be marked by less and less bondage to the form, more and more subtlety and flexibility of substance and force, more and more interfusion, interpenetration, power of assimilation, power of interchange, power of variation, transmutation, unification. Drawing away from durability of form, we draw towards eternity of essence; drawing away from our poise in the persistent separation and resistance of physical Matter, we draw near to the highest divine poise in the infinity, unity and indivisibility of Spirit.” The Life Divine
::: "An incarnation is something more, something special and individual to the individual being. It is the substitution of the Person of a divine being for the human person and an infiltration of it into all the movements so that there is a dynamic personal change in all of them and in the whole nature; not merely a change of the character of the consciousness or general surrender into its hands, but a subtle intimate personal change. Even when there is an incarnation from the birth, the human elements have to be taken up, but when there is a descent, there is a total conscious substitution.” Letters on Yoga
“An incarnation is something more, something special and individual to the individual being. It is the substitution of the Person of a divine being for the human person and an infiltration of it into all the movements so that there is a dynamic personal change in all of them and in the whole nature; not merely a change of the character of the consciousness or general surrender into its hands, but a subtle intimate personal change. Even when there is an incarnation from the birth, the human elements have to be taken up, but when there is a descent, there is a total conscious substitution.” Letters on Yoga
a person holding an inferior relation to a superior; a subject, subordinate, servant, follower, or retainer.
a person of authority and power who subjects others to undue pressures; a tyrant.
arbitrary ::: 1. Based on or subject to individual will, judgment or preference: judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one"s discretion. 2. Capricious; unreasonable; unsupported. 3. Derived from mere opinion or preference; capricious; uncertain. 4. Having unlimited power; uncontrolled or unrestricted by law; despotic; tyrannical.
arch- ::: a combining form that represents the outcome of archi- in words borrowed through Latin from Greek in the Old English period; it subsequently became a productive form added to nouns of any origin, which thus denote individuals or institutions directing or having authority over others of their class (archbishop; archdiocese; archpriest): principal. More recently, arch-1 has developed the senses "principal” (archenemy; archrival) or "prototypical” and thus exemplary or extreme (archconservative); nouns so formed are almost always pejorative. Arch-intelligence.
art ::: v. archaic** A second person singular present indicative of be, now only poet., not in modern usage. All other references are to art as the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. Also, the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria. art"s, arts, art-parades.
"As long as we live in the ignorant seeming, we are the ego and are subject to the modes of Nature. Enslaved to appearances, bound to the dualities, tossed between good and evil, sin and virtue, grief and joy, pain and pleasure, good fortune and ill fortune, success and failure, we follow helplessly the iron or gilt and iron round of the wheel of Maya.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"As soon as we become aware of the Self, we are conscious of it as eternal, unborn, unembodied, uninvolved in its workings: it can be felt within the form of being, but also as enveloping it, as above it, surveying its embodiment from above, adhyaksa; it is omnipresent, the same in everything, infinite and pure and intangible for ever. This Self can be experienced as the Self of the individual, the Self of the thinker, doer, enjoyer, but even so it always has this greater character; its individuality is at the same time a vast universality or very readily passes into that, and the next step to that is a sheer transcendence or a complete and ineffable passing into the Absolute. The Self is that aspect of the Brahman in which it is intimately felt as at once individual, cosmic, transcendent of the universe. The realisation of the Self is the straight and swift way towards individual liberation, a static universality, a Nature-transcendence. At the same time there is a realisation of Self in which it is felt not only sustaining and pervading and enveloping all things, but constituting everything and identified in a free identity with all its becomings in Nature. Even so, freedom and impersonality are always the character of the Self. There is no appearance of subjection to the workings of its own Power in the universe, such as the apparent subjection of the Purusha to Prakriti. To realise the Self is to realise the eternal freedom of the Spirit.” The Life Divine
"As supramental Truth is not merely a sublimation of our mental ideas, so Divine Love is not merely a sublimation of human emotions; it is a different consciousness, with a different quality, movement and substance.” Letters on Yoga
“As supramental Truth is not merely a sublimation of our mental ideas, so Divine Love is not merely a sublimation of human emotions; it is a different consciousness, with a different quality, movement and substance.” Letters on Yoga
“As there are Powers of Knowledge or Forces of the Light, so there are Powers of Ignorance and tenebrous Forces of the Darkness whose work is to prolong the reign of Ignorance and Inconscience. As there are Forces of Truth, so there are Forces that live by the Falsehood and support it and work for its victory; as there are powers whose life is intimately bound up with the existence, the idea and the impulse of Good, so there are Forces whose life is bound up with the existence and the idea and the impulse of Evil. It is this truth of the cosmic Invisible that was symbolised in the ancient belief of a struggle between the powers of Light and Darkness, Good and Evil for the possession of the world and the government of the life of man;—this was the significance of the contest between the Vedic Gods and their opponents, sons of Darkness and Division, figured in a later tradition as Titan and Giant and Demon, Asura, Rakshasa, Pisacha; the same tradition is found in the Zoroastrian Double Principle and the later Semitic opposition of God and his Angels on the one side and Satan and his hosts on the other,—invisible Personalities and Powers that draw man to the divine Light and Truth and Good or lure him into subjection to the undivine principle of Darkness and Falsehood and Evil.” The Life Divine
". . . as there is a constant dynamic energy in movement in the universe which takes various material forms more or less subtle or gross, so in each physical body or object, plant or animal or metal, there is stored and active the same constant dynamic force; a certain interchange of these two gives us the phenomena which we associate with the idea of life. It is this action that we recognise as the action of Life-Energy and that which so energises itself is the Life-Force. Mind-Energy, Life-Energy, material Energy are different dynamisms of one World-Force.” The Life Divine
“… as there is a constant dynamic energy in movement in the universe which takes various material forms more or less subtle or gross, so in each physical body or object, plant or animal or metal, there is stored and active the same constant dynamic force; a certain interchange of these two gives us the phenomena which we associate with the idea of life. It is this action that we recognise as the action of Life-Energy and that which so energises itself is the Life-Force. Mind-Energy, Life-Energy, material Energy are different dynamisms of one World-Force.” The Life Divine
"At first when one begins to see, it is quite usual for the more ill-defined and imprecise figures to last longer while those which are successful, complete, precise in detail and outline are apt to be quite momentary and disappear in an instant. It is only when the subtle vision is well developed that the precise and full seeing lasts for a long time.” Letters on Yoga*
atom ::: “In the very atom there is a subconscious will and desire which must also be present in all atomic aggregates because they are present in the Force which constitutes the atom.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
::: ". . . a true occultism means no more than a research into supraphysical realities and an unveiling of the hidden laws of being and Nature, of all that is not obvious on the surface. It attempts the discovery of the secret laws of mind and mental energy, the secret laws of life and life-energy, the secret laws of the subtle-physical and its energies, — all that Nature has not put into visible operation on the surface; it pursues also the application of these hidden truths and powers of Nature so as to extend the mastery of the human spirit beyond the ordinary operations of mind, the ordinary operations of life, the ordinary operations of our physical existence. In the spiritual domain which is occult to the surface mind in so far as it passes beyond normal and enters into supernormal experience, there is possible not only the discovery of the self and spirit, but the discovery of the uplifting, informing and guiding light of spiritual consciousness and the power of the spirit, the spiritual way of knowledge, the spiritual way of action. To know these things and to bring their truths and forces into the life of humanity is a necessary part of its evolution. Science itself is in its own way an occultism; for it brings to light the formulas which Nature has hidden and it uses its knowledge to set free operations of her energies which she has not included in her ordinary operations and to organise and place at the service of man her occult powers and processes, a vast system of physical magic, — for there is and can be no other magic than the utilisation of secret truths of being, secret powers and processes of Nature. It may even be found that a supraphysical knowledge is necessary for the completion of physical knowledge, because the processes of physical Nature have behind them a supraphysical factor, a power and action mental, vital or spiritual which is not tangible to any outer means of knowledge.” The Life Divine
"Awake, God"s ray and witness in my breast, ::: In the undying substance of my soul
awe ::: an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like.
basement ::: the substructure or foundation of a building usually below ground level.
bathe ::: 1. To become immersed in or as if in liquid, as a bath or in other substances or elements. 2. To wash or pour over; suffuse or envelope, like sunshine. bathed, bathing.
battalion ::: 1. An army unit typically consisting of a headquarters and two or more companies, batteries, or similar subunits. 2. A large body of organized troops in battle gear. 3. A large indefinite number of persons or things.
being, Master of ::: Sri Aurobindo: " Vamadeva goes on to say, "Let us give expression to this secret name of the clarity, — that is to say, let us bring out this Soma wine, this hidden delight of existence; let us hold it in this world-sacrifice by our surrenderings or submissions to Agni, the divine Will or Conscious-Power which is the Master of being.” The Secret of the Veda
blind ::: adj. 1. Unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless. Also fig. 2. Unwilling or unable to perceive or understand. 3. Lacking all consciousness or awareness. 4. Not having or based on reason or intelligence; absolute and unquestioning. 5. Not characterized or determined by reason or control. 6. Purposeless; fortuitous, random. 7. Undiscriminating; heedless; reckless. 8. Enveloped in darkness; dark, dim, obscure. 9. Dense enough to form a screen. 10. Covered or concealed from sight; hidden from immediate view. 11. Having no openings or passages for light; (a window or door) walled up. blindest, half-blind. v. 12. To deprive of sight permanently or temporarily. 13. To make sightless momentarily; dazzle. blinded.* n. 14. A blind person, esp. as pl., those who are blind. 15. Fig.* Any thing or action intended to conceal one"s real intention; a pretence, a pretext; subterfuge.
blinkered ::: subjective and limited, as in viewpoint or perception.
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
block ::: n. 1. A solid piece of a hard substance, such as wood, stone, etc. having one or more flat sides. Also fig. 2. Something that obstructs; an obstacle. blocks. *v. 3. To impede, retard, prevent or obstruct the progress or achievement of (someone or something). Also fig.*
bodiless ::: having no body, form, or substance; incorporeal. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as a n.) Bodiless.
body ::: 1. The entire material or physical structure of an organism, especially of a human or animal as differentiated from the soul. 2. The entire physical structure of a human being. 3. A mass of matter that is distinct from other masses. 4. Substance. 5. An agent or entity. 6. The mass of a thing. 7. A mass of matter that is distinct from other masses. 8. The largest or main part of anything; the foundation; central part. body"s, bodies.
body, subtle** *See subtle body.**
bondage ::: 1. The state of one who is bound as a slave or serf. 2. A state of subjection to a force, power, or influence.
bondslave ::: a person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master. bondslaves.
bow ::: to bend (the head, knee, or body) to express greeting, consent, courtesy, acknowledgement, submission, or veneration. bows, bowed.
subconscience ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Matter, the medium of all this evolution, is seemingly inconscient and inanimate; but it so appears to us only because we are unable to sense consciousness outside a certain limited range, a fixed scale or gamut to which we have access. Below us there are lower ranges to which we are insensible and these we call subconscience or inconscience. Above us are higher ranges which are to our inferior nature an unseizable superconscience.” Essays Divine and Human
subconscient ::: Sri Aurobindo: "In our yoga we mean by the subconscient that quite submerged part of our being in which there is no wakingly conscious and coherent thought, will or feeling or organised reaction, but which yet receives obscurely the impressions of all things and stores them up in itself and from it too all sorts of stimuli, of persistent habitual movements, crudely repeated or disguised in strange forms can surge up into dream or into the waking nature. No, subliminal is a general term used for all parts of the being which are not on the waking surface. Subconscient is very often used in the same sense by European psychologists because they do not know the difference. But when I use the word, I mean always what is below the ordinary physical consciousness, not what is behind it. The inner mental, vital, physical, the psychic are not subconscious in this sense, but they can be spoken of as subliminal.” *The Synthesis of Yoga.
"The subconscient is a concealed and unexpressed inarticulate consciousness which works below all our conscious physical activities. Just as what we call the superconscient is really a higher consciousness above from which things descend into the being, so the subconscient is below the body-consciousness and things come up into the physical, the vital and the mind-nature from there.
Just as the higher consciousness is superconscient to us and supports all our spiritual possibilities and nature, so the subconscient is the basis of our material being and supports all that comes up in the physical nature.” Letters on Yoga
"That part of us which we can strictly call subconscient because it is below the level of mind and conscious life, inferior and obscure, covers the purely physical and vital elements of our constitution of bodily being, unmentalised, unobserved by the mind, uncontrolled by it in their action. It can be held to include the dumb occult consciousness, dynamic but not sensed by us, which operates in the cells and nerves and all the corporeal stuff and adjusts their life process and automatic responses. It covers also those lowest functionings of submerged sense-mind which are more operative in the animal and in plant life.” *The Life Divine
"The subconscient is a thing of habits and memories and repeats persistently or whenever it can old suppressed reactions, reflexes, mental, vital or physical responses. It must be trained by a still more persistent insistence of the higher parts of the being to give up its old responses and take on the new and true ones.” Letters on Yoga
"About the subconscient — it is the sub-mental base of the being and is made up of impressions, instincts, habitual movements that are stored there. Whatever movement is impressed in it, it keeps. If one impresses the right movement in it, it will keep and send up that. That is why it has to be cleared of old movements before there can be a permanent and total change in the nature. When the higher consciousness is once established in the waking parts, it goes down into the subconscient and changes that also, makes a bedrock of itself there also.” Letters on Yoga
"The sub-conscious is the evolutionary basis in us, it is not the whole of our hidden nature, nor is it the whole origin of what we are. But things can rise from the subconscient and take shape in the conscious parts and much of our smaller vital and physical instincts, movements, habits, character-forms has this source.” Letters on Yoga
"The subconscient is the support of habitual action — it can support good habits as well as bad.” Letters on Yoga
"For the subconscient is the Inconscient in the process of becoming conscious; it is a support and even a root of our inferior parts of being and their movements.” The Life Divine *subconscient"s.
subconscious ::: not wholly conscious; partially or imperfectly conscious; existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness.
Sri Aurobindo: "The subconscious in us is the extreme border of our secret inner existence where it meets the Inconscient, it is a degree of our being in which the Inconscient struggles into a half consciousness. . . .” The Life Divine
subdue ::: 1. To overpower; overcome; conquer; prevail over. 2. To bring under mental or emotional control or subjection; render submissive. subdued.
subdued
subhuman
subjected ::: brought under domination, control, or influence.
subjection"s ::: of dominance or control
subjective ::: 1. Existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective). 2. Relating to or of the nature of an object as it is known in the mind as distinct from a thing in itself.
subject ::: n. 1. One who is under the rule of another or others, especially one who owes allegiance to a government or ruler. subject"s, subjects. *adj. 2. Fig.* Being in a position or in circumstances that place one under the power or authority of something or someone.
sublimated ::: raised to high place, exalted, dignified, honoured.
sublime ::: adj. 1. Elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.; exalted, noble, refined. 2. Of high spiritual, moral, or intellectual worth. 3. Supreme; outstanding; perfect. n. 4. The realm of things that are sublime; the greatest or supreme degree. sublimer.
sublimely ::: in a completely lofty and exalted manner.
subliminal ::: existing or operating below the threshold of sensation or consciousness. subliminal"s.
sublimities ::: sublime, exalted or noble things, aspects or states.
sublimity ::: something in physical objects that evokes or awakens awe and reverence.
submerged ::: 1. Under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium. 2. Hidden; covered; buried.
submission ::: the act or instance of giving over or yielding to the power or authority of another.
submit ::: to yield or surrender (oneself) to the will or authority of another. submits, submitting.
subscribe ::: to give one"s consent or sanction to.
subsiding ::: becoming quiet, less active, or less violent; abating; diminishing; waning; ebbing.
substance ::: 1. Essential nature; essence. 2. That of which a thing consists; physical matter or material. 3. That which is solid and practical in character, quality, or importance, as contrasted with an appearance or something unsubstantial.
substitute ::: n. 1. Something that takes the place of another thing; a replacement *v. 2. To take the place of another. *substitutes.
substratum ::: 1. A foundation or groundwork. (of something material or immaterial). 2. That which is spread or laid under something else; a stratum or layer lying under another. (Sri Aurobindo employs the word as an adj.)
subterranean ::: fig. Existing or operating in concealment or secretly.
subtle ::: 1. So slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; elusive. 2. Fine or delicate in meaning or intent; difficult to perceive or understand. 3. Delicate or faint and mysterious. 4. Operating in a hidden, usually injurious way; insidious. 5. Characterized by skill or ingenuity; clever. 6. Insidious in operation. 7. Crafty or sly; devious; cunning. subtler, subtle-souled.
subtle body ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The terminology of Yoga recognises besides the status of our physical and vital being, termed the gross body and doubly composed of the food sheath and the vital vehicle, besides the status of our mental being, termed the subtle body and singly composed of the mind sheath or mental vehicle, a third, supreme and divine status of supra-mental being, termed the causal body and composed of a fourth and a fifth vehicle which are described as those of knowledge and bliss.” The Synthesis of Yoga
**subtle body"s**
subtle images ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Subtle images can be images of all things in all worlds.” *Letters on Yoga
"These are not mental images. There is an inner vision that opens when one does sadhana and all sorts of images rise before it or pass. Their coming does not depend upon your thought or will; it is real and automatic. Just as your physical eyes see things in the physical world, so the inner eyes see things and images that belong to the other worlds and subtle images of things of this physical world also.” Letters on Yoga
subtle Matter ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Much more than half our thoughts and feelings are not our own in the sense that they take form out of ourselves; of hardly anything can it be said that it is truly original to our nature. A large part comes to us from others or from the environment, whether as raw material or as manufactured imports; but still more largely they come from universal Nature here or from other worlds and planes and their beings and powers and influences; for we are overtopped and environed by other planes of consciousness, mind planes, life planes, subtle matter planes, from which our life and action here are fed, or fed on, pressed, dominated, made use of for the manifestation of their forms and forces.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"Mind therefore is held by the Hindus to be a species of subtle matter in which ideas are waves or ripples, and it is not limited by the physical body which it uses as an instrument.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"All that manifested from the Eternal has already been arranged in worlds or planes of its own nature, planes of subtle Matter, planes of Life, planes of Mind, planes of Supermind, planes of the triune luminous Infinite. But these worlds or planes are not evolutionary but typal. A typal world is one in which some ruling principle manifests itself in its free and full capacity and energy and form are plastic and subservient to its purpose. Its expressions are therefore automatic and satisfying and do not need to evolve; they stand so long as need be and do not need to be born, develop, decline and disintegrate.” Essays Divine and Human*
subtleties ::: states or qualities of being subtle; delicacies.
subtle vision ("s) ::: Sri Aurobindo: " This power of vision is sometimes inborn and habitual even without any effort of development, sometimes it wakes up of itself and becomes abundant or needs only a little practice to develop; it is not necessarily a sign of spiritual attainment, but usually when by practice of yoga one begins to go inside or live within, the power of subtle vision awakes to a greater or less extent; . . . .”*Letters on Yoga
"It is not necessary to have the mind quiet in order to see the lights — that depends only on the opening of the subtle vision in the centre which is in the forehead between the eyebrows. Many people get that as soon as they start sadhana. It can even be developed by effort and concentration without sadhana by some who have it to a small extent as an inborn faculty.” Letters on Yoga
"When the centres begin to open, inner experiences such as the seeing of light or images through the subtle vision in the forehead centre or psychic experiences and perceptions in the heart, become frequent — gradually one becomes aware of one"s inner being as separate from the outer, and what can be called a yogic consciousness with all its deeper movements develops in the place of the ordinary superficial mental and vital movements.” Letters on Yoga
subtly ::: 1. In a subtle and delicate manner. 2. Difficult to understand; abstruse.
suburbs ::: a usually residential area or community outlying a city or township.
bubble ::: anything that lacks firmness, substance, or permanence.
burning ::: adj. 1. Aflame; on fire. Also fig. 2. Very bright; glowing; luminous. 3. Characterized by intense emotion; passionate. 4. Urgent or crucial. 5. Extremely hot; scorching. 6. Very hot. ever-burning.* *n. 7. The state, process, sensation, or effect of being on fire, burned, or subjected to intense heat. altar-burnings.**
"But man also has a life-mind, a vital mentality which is an instrument of desire: this is not satisfied with the actual, it is a dealer in possibilities; it has the passion for novelty and is seeking always to extend the limits of experience for the satisfaction of desire, for enjoyment, for an enlarged self-affirmation and aggrandisement of its terrain of power and profit. It desires, enjoys, possesses actualities, but it hunts also after unrealised possibilities, is ardent to materialise them, to possess and enjoy them also. It is not satisfied with the physical and objective only, but seeks too a subjective, an imaginative, a purely emotive satisfaction and pleasure.” *The Life Divine
“But man also has a life-mind, a vital mentality which is an instrument of desire: this is not satisfied with the actual, it is a dealer in possibilities; it has the passion for novelty and is seeking always to extend the limits of experience for the satisfaction of desire, for enjoyment, for an enlarged self-affirmation and aggrandisement of its terrain of power and profit. It desires, enjoys, possesses actualities, but it hunts also after unrealised possibilities, is ardent to materialise them, to possess and enjoy them also. It is not satisfied with the physical and objective only, but seeks too a subjective, an imaginative, a purely emotive satisfaction and pleasure.” The Life Divine
"But the gnosis is not only light, it is force; it is creative knowledge, it is the self-effective truth of the divine Idea. This idea is not creative imagination, not something that constructs in a void, but light and power of eternal substance, truth-light full of truth-force; and it brings out what is latent in being, it does not create a fiction that never was in being.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"But the role of subliminal forces cannot be said to be small, since from there come all the greater aspirations, ideals, strivings towards a better self and better humanity without which man would be only a thinking animal — as also most of the art, poetry, philosophy, thirst for knowledge which relieve, if they do not yet dispel, the ignorance.” Letters on Yoga*
"But the Titan will have nothing of all this; it is too great and subtle for his comprehension. His instincts call for a visible, tangible mastery and a sensational domination. How shall he feel sure of his empire unless he can feel something writhing helpless under his heel, — if in agony, so much the better? What is exploitation to him, unless it diminishes the exploited? To be able to coerce, exact, slay, overtly, irresistibly, — it is this that fills him with the sense of glory and dominion. For he is the son of division and the strong flowering of the Ego. To feel the comparative limitation of others is necessary to him that he may imagine himself immeasurable; for he has not the real, self-existent sense of infinity which no outward circumstance can abrogate. Contrast, division, negation of the wills and lives of others are essential to his self-development and self-assertion. The Titan would unify by devouring, not by harmonising; he must conquer and trample what is not himself either out of existence or into subservience so that his own image may stand out stamped upon all things and dominating all his environment.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"By the supermind is meant the full Truth-Consciousness of the Divine Nature in which there can be no place for the principle of division and ignorance; it is always a full light and knowledge superior to all mental substance or mental movement.” Letters on Yoga
captive ::: n. 1. One, such as a prisoner of war, who is forcibly confined, subjugated, or enslaved. captives. v. 2. Those taken and held as a prisoners. captived. adj. 3. Kept under restraint or control; confined. 4. Enraptured, as by beauty; captivated.
chapel ::: a place of worship that is smaller than and subordinate to a church.
charts ::: visual displays of information, as maps, graphs, tables, or sheets of information in the form of a diagram delineating a particular subject.
chastened ::: 1. Restrained, subdued. 2. Made pure or refined in style; simplified; rid of excess.
cipher ::: n. 1. Something having no influence or value; a zero; a nonentity. 2. A secret method of writing, as by transposition or substitution of letters, specially formed symbols, or the like. unintelligible to all but those possessing the key; a cryptograph. ciphers. *v. 3. To put in secret writing; encode. *ciphers. Note: Sri Aurobindo also spelled the word as Cypher, the old English spelling.
cloud ::: 1. A visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth"s surface. 2. Any similar mass, esp. of smoke or dust. 3. Something fleeting or unsubstantial. 4. Anything that obscures or darkens something, or causes gloom, trouble, suspicion, disgrace, etc. clouds, clouds", cloud-veils.
colonies ::: people or territories separated from but subject to a ruling power.
colony ::: a group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant territory but remain subject to or closely associated with the parent country. colonies.
compel ::: 1. To cause (someone) by force (to be or do something) 2. To force to submit; subdue. 3. To exert a strong, irresistible force on; sway. compels, compelled, compelling, compellingly.
compendium ::: 1. A brief treatment or account of a subject, esp. an extensive subject; concise treatise. 2. A short, complete summary; an abstract.
concentration ::: “Concentration is a gathering together of the consciousness and either centralising at one point or turning on a single object, e.g., the Divine; there can also be a gathered condition throughout the whole being, not at a point. In meditation it is not indispensable to gather like this, one can simply remain with a quiet mind thinking of one subject or observing what comes in the consciousness and dealing with it.” Letters on Yoga
conquer ::: 1. To defeat or subdue by force, especially by force of arms. 2. To overcome (an enemy, army, etc.); defeat. 3. To overcome or surmount by physical, mental, or moral force. conquers, conquered, conquering.
*consciousforce. ::: Sri Aurobindo: "In actual fact Mind measures Time by event and Space by Matter; but it is possible in pure mentality to disregard the movement of event and the disposition of substance and realise the pure movement of Conscious-Force which constitutes Space and Time; these two are then merely two aspects of the universal force of Consciousness which in their intertwined interaction comprehend the warp and woof of its action upon itself. And to a consciousness higher than Mind which should regard our past, present and future in one view, containing and not contained in them, not situated at a particular moment of Time for its point of prospection, Time might well offer itself as an eternal present. And to the same consciousness not situated at any particular point of Space, but containing all points and regions in itself, Space also might well offer itself as a subjective and indivisible extension, — no less subjective than Time.” The Life Divine
::: "Consciousness is usually identified with mind, but mental consciousness is only the human range which no more exhausts all the possible ranges of consciousness than human sight exhausts all the gradations of colour or human hearing all the gradations of sound — for there is much above or below that is to man invisible and inaudible. So there are ranges of consciousness above and below the human range, with which the normal human has no contact and they seem to it unconscious, — supramental or overmental and submental ranges.” *Letters on Yoga
“Consciousness is usually identified with mind, but mental consciousness is only the human range which no more exhausts all the possible ranges of consciousness than human sight exhausts all the gradations of colour or human hearing all the gradations of sound—for there is much above or below that is to man invisible and inaudible. So there are ranges of consciousness above and below the human range, with which the normal human has no contact and they seem to it unconscious,—supramental or overmental and submental ranges.” Letters on Yoga
continuous ::: uninterrupted in time, sequence, substance, or extent.
corrupt ::: 1. To destroy or subvert the honesty or integrity of. 2. To ruin morally; pervert. 3. To cause to become rotten; spoil. 4. To taint; contaminate. corrupted, corrupting.
crouch ::: 1. To stoop, especially with the knees bent esp. in fear, humility or submission. 2. (of animals) to lie close to the ground, in fear, readiness for action etc. crouches, crouched, crouching.
crude ::: 1. In a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural; unfinished, coarse. 2. Lacking in intellectual subtlety, perceptivity, etc.; rudimentary; undeveloped. 3. Rough or primitive. 4. Lacking culture, refinement, tact. crudely.
crush ::: 1. Fig. To conquer by force. 2. To put down; subdue completely 3. To hug, especially with great force. crushed.
cunning ::: 1. Skill or adeptness in execution or performance; dexterity. 2. Artfully subtle or shrewd. 3. Cunning implies a shrewd, often instinctive skill in concealing or disguising the real purposes of one"s actions. cunningly.
customs-line ::: an area (or line) where a governmental agency checks baggage or merchandise for contraband and goods subject to duty.
"Death has no reality except as a process of life. Disintegration of substance and renewal of substance, maintenance of form and change of form are the constant process of life; death is merely a rapid disintegration subservient to life"s necessity of change and variation of formal experience. Even in the death of the body there is no cessation of Life, only the material of one form of life is broken up to serve as material for other forms of life.” The Life Divine
“Death has no reality except as a process of life. Disintegration of substance and renewal of substance, maintenance of form and change of form are the constant process of life; death is merely a rapid disintegration subservient to life’s necessity of change and variation of formal experience. Even in the death of the body there is no cessation of Life, only the material of one form of life is broken up to serve as material for other forms of life.” The Life Divine
deathless ::: 1. Not subject to termination or death; immortal. 2. Unceasing; perpetual.
defeated or overcome; subdued. half-vanquished. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as a n.)
delicate ::: 1. Distinguishing subtle differences. 2. Of instruments: precise, skilled, or sensitive in action or operation. 3. Marked by sensitivity of discrimination and skillful in expression, technique, etc. 4. Exquisitely or beautifully fine in texture, construction, or finish. 5. Exquisite, fine, or subtle in quality, character, construction, etc. 6. (of colour, tone, taste, etc.) Pleasantly subtle, soft, or faint.
delight ::: “… the divine Ananda, the principle of Bliss [is that] from which, in the Vedic conception, the existence of Man, this mental being, is drawn. A secret Delight is the base of existence, its sustaining atmosphere and almost its substance. This Ananda is spoken of in the Taittiriya Upanishad as the ethereal atmosphere of bliss without which nothing could remain in being. In the Aitareya Upanishad Soma, as the lunar deity, is born from the sense-mind in the universal Purusha and, when man is produced, expresses himself again as sense-mentality in the human being. For delight is the raison d’être of sensation, or, we may say, sensation is an attempt to translate the secret delight of existence into the terms of physical consciousness.” The Secret of the Veda
demiurges ::: 1. A Platonic deity who orders or fashions the material world out of chaos. 2. (in Gnostic and some other philosophies) The creator of the universe, supernatural but subordinate to the Supreme Being. ::: Demiurges.
dependencies ::: subject territories that are not an integral part of the ruling country.
"Desire is the root of all sorrow, disappointment, affliction, for though it has a feverish joy of pursuit and satisfaction, yet because it is always a straining of the being, it carries into its pursuit and its getting a labour, hunger, struggle, a rapid subjection to fatigue, a sense of limitation, dissatisfaction and early disappointment with all its gains, a ceaseless morbid stimulation, trouble, disquiet, asânti. ” The Synthesis of Yoga
“Desire is the root of all sorrow, disappointment, affliction, for though it has a feverish joy of pursuit and satisfaction, yet because it is always a straining of the being, it carries into its pursuit and its getting a labour, hunger, struggle, a rapid subjection to fatigue, a sense of limitation, dissatisfaction and early disappointment with all its gains, a ceaseless morbid stimulation, trouble, disquiet, asânti.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“… desires come from outside, enter the subconscious vital and rise to the surface. It is only when they rise to the surface and the mind becomes aware of them, that we become conscious of the desire. It seems to us to be our own because we feel it thus rising from the vital into the mind and do not know that it came from outside.” Letters on Yoga
destroy ::: 1. To reduce anything to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injuring beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate. 2. To subdue or defeat completely; crush. 3. To slay, to kill. destroys, destroyed, destroying, world-destroying.
::: "Discoveries will be made that thin the walls between soul and matter; attempts there will be to extend exact knowledge into the psychological and psychic realms with a realisation of the truth that these have laws of their own which are other than the physical, but not the less laws because they escape the external senses and are infinitely plastic and subtle.” The Human Cycle, etc.
dragonflies ::: any of various large insects of the order Odonata or suborder Anisoptera, having a long slender body and two pairs of narrow, net-veined wings that are usually held outstretched while the insect is at rest.
drowned ::: covered with or submerged in a liquid. Also fig.
drug ::: n. **1. A habit-forming medicinal or illicit substance, esp. a narcotic. adj. 2. Stupefied as if under the influence of a drug. drugged.**
ebb ::: n. **1. The flowing back of the tide from high to low water or the period in which this takes place. v. 2. To flow back or recede; subside, abate. ebbed, ebbing.**
eidolon ::: an unsubstantial image; apparition; phantom.
element ::: 1. A component or constituent of a whole. 2. One of the substances, usually earth, water, air, and fire, formerly regarded as constituting the material universe. 3. A natural habitat, sphere of activity, environment, etc. elements.
empty ::: 1. Holding or containing nothing. 2. Having no occupants or inhabitants; vacant. 3. Destitute of some quality or qualities; devoid. 4. Without purpose, substance, or value. emptier.
encyclopaedia ::: a book or set of books containing articles on various topics, usually in alphabetical arrangement, covering all branches of knowledge or, less commonly, all aspects of one subject.
enthusiasm ::: great excitement for or interest in a subject or cause.
essence ::: the basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significant individual feature or features; its true substance.
ethereal ::: 1. Of the celestial spheres; heavenly. 2. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air. 3. Characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy 4. Of heaven or the spirit. ethereal-tressed.
"Everything is a ‘substance" — even peace, consciousness, Ananda, — only there are different orders of substance.” *Letters on Yoga
exempt ::: released from, or not subject to, an obligation, liability, etc.
external world ::: the totality of objects existing outside the conscious subject; the objective world.
extract ::: anything drawn or taken out of a substance, as an essence, tincture, or concentrate.
::: **"Fear and anxiety are perverse forms of will. What thou fearest & ponderest over, striking that note repeatedly in thy mind, thou helpest to bring about; for, if thy will above the surface of waking repels it, it is yet what thy mind underneath is all along willing, & the subconscious mind is mightier, wider, better equipped to fulfil than thy waking force & intellect. But the spirit is stronger than both together; from fear and hope take refuge in the grandiose calm and careless mastery of the spirit.” Essays Divine and Human
“Fear and anxiety are perverse forms of will. What thou fearest & ponderest over, striking that note repeatedly in thy mind, thou helpest to bring about; for, if thy will above the surface of waking repels it, it is yet what thy mind underneath is all along willing, & the subconscious mind is mightier, wider, better equipped to fulfil than thy waking force & intellect. But the spirit is stronger than both together; from fear and hope take refuge in the grandiose calm and careless mastery of the spirit.” Essays Divine and Human
ferment ::: 1. A state of agitation or of turbulent change or development. 2. A process of nature involving the addition of yeasts, moulds and certain bacteria (to liquids or solids) causing an effervescence or internal commotion, with evolution of heat, in the substance operated on, and a resulting alteration of its properties.
fibre ::: 1. A filamentous substance; a web of thread-like tissue such as composes living tissue generally. 2. That which fundamentally constitutes the strength of a thing; sinew; stuff; character. fibres, fibred.
fifth-columnist ::: one who acts traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy; a spy.
fight ::: n. 1. Fig. A confrontation between opposing groups in which each attempts to harm or gain power over the other, as with bodily force or weapons. fights. v. 2. To contend with physically or in battle; attempt to defend oneself against or to subdue, defeat, or destroy an adversary. fighting, fought.
fine ::: 1. Of superior quality, skill, or appearance. 2. Superior or consummate in quality. 3. Exhibiting careful and delicate artistry. 4. Characterized by refinement or elegance. 5. Subtle or precise; refined. finer, fine-curved, fine-linked.
finite ::: 1. Having bounds; limited. 2. Subject to limitations or conditions, as of space, time, circumstances, or the laws of nature. finite"s, finiteness.
firm ::: 1. Resistant to externally applied pressure. 2. Not subject to change; fixed and definite.; not likely to change. 3. Securely fixed in place. 4. Steadfast and determined. 5. Indicating firmness and steadfastness. 6. Definitely established; decided; settled. firm-based.
flame ::: “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
flash-images ::: photographic images produced by the bright artificial light thrown briefly upon a subject by a flashbulb. ::: thunder-flash. A thunderbolt.
fold (s) ::: v. 1. To envelope or clasp; enfold. 2. To bring (the wings) close to the body, as a bird on alighting. folding. *n. 3. The doubling of any flexible substance, as cloth; one part turned or bent and laid on another. Also fig. *4. A coil of a serpent, string, etc.
follower ::: 1. Someone who travels behind or pursues another. 2. One who subscribes to the teachings or methods of another; an adherent. followers.
footless ::: having no support or basis; unsubstantial.
"For existence itself is and must always be the stuff of its own becoming; it must be shaped into the substance with which Force has to deal. Force again must be the power which works out that substance and works with it to whatever ends; Force is that which we ordinarily call Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“For existence itself is and must always be the stuff of its own becoming; it must be shaped into the substance with which Force has to deal. Force again must be the power which works out that substance and works with it to whatever ends; Force is that which we ordinarily call Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga
formula ::: 1. A prescribed form; a rule or model; any fixed or conventional method for doing something. 2. An established form of words or symbols for use in a ceremony or procedure. 3. Math. A general relationship, principle, or rule stated, often as an equation, in the form of symbols. 4. A representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements. formulas.
foundation ::: “The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms for ever in the Light above.” Letters on Yoga
fuel ::: 1. A substance that can be consumed to produce energy. 2. Fig. Something that maintains or stimulates a passionate activity or an emotion. fuel"s.
gas ::: 1. A substance in the gaseous state. 2. Physics. A substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
glossary ::: a list of terms in a special subject, field, or area of usage, with accompanying definitions; a partial dictionary.
glow ::: n. 1. A light emitted by or as if by a substance heated to luminosity; incandescence. 2. Brilliance or warmth of colour. 3. Intensity of emotion; ardour. joy-glow, petal-glow. v. 4. To shine intensely, as if from great heat. 5. To show a strong bright colour. glows, glowed, glowing.
glue ::: n. 1. Any substance used as a strong adhesive for fastening or joining substances. v. 2. To stick or fasten with or as if with glue. glued, blood-glued.
golden Child ::: Sri Aurobindo: "I suppose the golden child is the Truth-Soul which follows after the silver light of the spiritual. When it plunges into the black waters of the subconscient, it releases from it the spiritual light and the sevenfold streams of the Divine Energy and, clearing itself of the stains of the subconscient, it prepares its flight towards the supreme Divine (the Mother).” (Reply to a question in the chapter Visions and Symbols.) Letters on Yoga
gossamer ::: of or like gossamer (a fine filmy substance, consisting of cobwebs, spun by small spiders, which is seen floating in the air in calm weather, esp. in autumn); thin and light.
grovel ::: 1. To lie or creep or crawl in a prostrate position with the face down as in subservience, fear or humility. 2. To behave in a servile or demeaning manner; cringe. 3. To take pleasure in mean or base things. grovels, grovelling.
hardly ::: “Your ‘barely enough’, instead of the finer and more suggestive ‘hardly’, falls flat upon my ear; one cannot substitute one word for another in this kind of poetry merely because it means intellectually the same thing; ‘hardly’ is the mot juste in this context and, repetition or not, it must remain unless a word not only juste but inevitable comes to replace it… . On this point I may add that in certain contexts ‘barely’ would be the right word, as for instance, ‘There is barely enough food left for two or three meals’, where ‘hardly’ would be adequate but much less forceful. It is the other way about in this line. Letters on Savitri
haze ::: 1. An aggregation in the atmosphere of very fine, widely dispersed, solid or liquid particles, or both, giving the air an opalescent appearance that subdues colours. 2. Reduced visibility in the air as a result of condensed water vapour, dust, etc., in the atmosphere. 3. Vagueness of obscurity, as of the mind or perception; confused or vague thoughts, feelings, etc.
heart ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The heart in Vedic psychology is not restricted to the seat of the emotions; it includes all that large tract of spontaneous mentality, nearest to the subconscient in us, out of which rise the sensations, emotions, instincts, impulses and all those intuitions and inspirations that travel through these agencies before they arrive at form in the intelligence.” *The Secret of the Veda
heart ::: “The heart in Vedic psychology is not restricted to the seat of the emotions; it includes all that large tract of spontaneous mentality, nearest to the subconscient in us, out of which rise the sensations, emotions, instincts, impulses and all those intuitions and inspirations that travel through these agencies before they arrive at form in the intelligence.” The Secret of the Veda
heavy ::: 1. Having relatively great weight. lit. and fig. 2. Weighed down; burdened. 3. Marked by or exhibiting weariness. 4. Without vivacity or interest; ponderous; dull. 5. Not easily borne; oppressive; burdensome; harsh. 6. Hard to cope with; trying; difficult. 7. Weighed down with sorrow or grief; sorrowful, sad, grieved, despondent. 8. Deep, profound, intense. 9. Of great import or seriousness; grave. 10. Sober, serious, sombre or tragic. 11. With great force, intensity, turbulence, etc. 12. Having considerable thickness or substance. 13. Lacking vitality; deficient in vivacity or grace. 14. Emotionally weighed down; despondent. heavier.
“He is the Cosmic Spirit and all-creating Energy around us; he is the Immanent within us. All that is is he, and he is the More than all that is, and we ourselves, though we know it not, are being of his being, force of his force, conscious with a consciousness derived from his; even our mortal existence is made out of his substance and there is an immortal within us that is a spark of the Light and Bliss that are for ever. No matter whether by knowledge, works, love or any other means, to become aware of this truth of our being, to realise it, to make it effective here or elsewhere is the object of all Yoga.” The Synthesis of Yoga
holocaust ::: “The Mother not only governs all from above but she descends into this lesser triple universe. Impersonally, all things here, even the movements of the Ignorance, are herself in veiled power and her creations in diminished substance, her Nature-body and Nature-force, and they exist because, moved by the mysterious fiat of the Supreme to work out something that was there in the possibilities of the Infinite, she has consented to the great sacrifice and has put on like a mask the soul and forms of the Ignorance. But personally too she has stooped to descend here into the Darkness that she may lead it to the Light, into the Falsehood and Error that she may convert it to the Truth, into this Death that she may turn it to godlike Life, into this world-pain and its obstinate sorrow and suffering that she may end it in the transforming ecstasy of her sublime Ananda. In her deep and great love for her children she has consented to put on herself the cloak of this obscurity, condescended to bear the attacks and torturing influences of the powers of the Darkness and the Falsehood, borne to pass though the portals of the birth that is a death, taken upon herself the pangs and sorrows and sufferings of the creation, since it seemed that thus alone could it be lifted to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother.” The Mother
"Ideals are truths that have not yet effected themselves for man, the realities of a higher plane of existence which have yet to fulfil themselves on this lower plane of life and matter, our present field of operation. To the pragmatical intellect which takes its stand upon the ever-changing present, ideals are not truths, not realities, they are at most potentialities of future truth and only become real when they are visible in the external fact as work of force accomplished. But to the mind which is able to draw back from the flux of force in the material universe, to the consciousness which is not imprisoned in its own workings or carried along in their flood but is able to envelop, hold and comprehend them, to the soul that is not merely the subject and instrument of the world-force but can reflect something of that Master-Consciousness which controls and uses it, the ideal present to its inner vision is a greater reality than the changing fact obvious to its outer senses. The Supramental Manifestation*
“Ideals are truths that have not yet effected themselves for man, the realities of a higher plane of existence which have yet to fulfil themselves on this lower plane of life and matter, our present field of operation. To the pragmatical intellect which takes its stand upon the ever-changing present, ideals are not truths, not realities, they are at most potentialities of future truth and only become real when they are visible in the external fact as work of force accomplished. But to the mind which is able to draw back from the flux of force in the material universe, to the consciousness which is not imprisoned in its own workings or carried along in their flood but is able to envelop, hold and comprehend them, to the soul that is not merely the subject and instrument of the world-force but can reflect something of that Master-Consciousness which controls and uses it, the ideal present to its inner vision is a greater reality than the changing fact obvious to its outer senses. The Supramental Manifestation
I do not mean philanthropy or the service of humanity or all the rest of the things — moral or idealistic — which the mind of man substitutes for the deeper truth of works.
"I find it difficult to take these psycho-analysts at all seriously when they try to scrutinise spiritual experience by the flicker of their torch-lights, — yet perhaps one ought to, for half-knowledge is a powerful thing and can be a great obstacle to the coming in front of the true Truth. This new psychology looks to me very much like children learning some summary and not very adequate alphabet, exulting in putting their a-b-c-d of the subconscient and the mysterious underground super-ego together and imagining that their first book of obscure beginnings (c-a-t cat, t-r-e-e tree) is the very heart of the real knowledge. They look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below, upari budhna esam.” Letters on Yoga
"If there is a self in us capable of largeness and universality, able to enter into a cosmic consciousness, that too must be within our inner being; the outer consciousness is a physical consciousness bound to its individual limits by the triple cord of mind, life and body: any external attempt at universality can only result either in an aggrandisement of the ego or an effacement of the personality by its extinction in the mass or subjugation to the mass.” The Life Divine*
"If we take this fourfold status as a figure of the Self passing from its superconscient state, where there is no subject or object, into a luminous trance in which superconscience becomes a massed consciousness out of which the subjective status of being and the objective come into emergence, then we get according to our view of things either a possible process of illusionary creation or a process of creative Self-knowledge and All-knowledge.” The Life Divine
“If we take this fourfold status as a figure of the Self passing from its superconscient state, where there is no subject or object, into a luminous trance in which superconscience becomes a massed consciousness out of which the subjective status of being and the objective come into emergence, then we get according to our view of things either a possible process of illusionary creation or a process of creative Self-knowledge and All-knowledge.” The Life Divine
"Ignorance, this matrix of sin, has in its substantial effect the appearance of a triple cord of limited mind, inefficient life, obscure physical animality, the three ropes with which the Rishi Shunahshepa in the parable was bound as a victim to the sacrificial post.” The Secret of the Veda
illumined mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil daylight, gives place or subordinates itself to an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the Spirit: a play of lightnings of spiritual truth and power breaks from above into the consciousness and adds to the calm and wide enlightenment and the vast descent of peace which characterise or accompany the action of the larger conceptual-spiritual principle, a fiery ardour of realisation and a rapturous ecstasy of knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"The Illumined Mind does not work primarily by thought, but by vision; . . . .” The Life Divine
"As the Higher Mind brings a greater consciousness into the being through the spiritual idea and its power of truth, so the Illumined Mind brings in a still greater consciousness through a Truth-sight and Truth-light and its seeing and seizing power.” The Life Divine*
images, subtle
"I may say that the opening upwards, the ascent into the Light and the subsequent descent into the ordinary consciousness and normal human life is very common as the first decisive experience in the practice of yoga and may very well happen even without the practice of yoga in those who are destined for the spiritual change, especially if there is a dissatisfaction somewhere with the ordinary life and a seeking for something more, greater or better.” Letters on Yoga*
“I may say that the opening upwards, the ascent into the Light and the subsequent descent into the ordinary consciousness and normal human life is very common as the first decisive experience in the practice of yoga and may very well happen even without the practice of yoga in those who are destined for the spiritual change, especially if there is a dissatisfaction somewhere with the ordinary life and a seeking for something more, greater or better.” Letters on Yoga
immortality ::: “By immortality we mean the absolute life of the soul as opposed to the transient and mutable life in the body which it assumes by birth and death and rebirth and superior also to its life as the mere mental being who dwells in the world subjected helplessly to this law of death and birth or seems at least by his ignorance to be subjected to this and to other laws of the lower Nature.” The Upanishads
immutable ::: not subject or susceptible to change. Immutable, immutable"s, immutably, immutability.
impassive ::: 1. Without emotion; apathetic; unmoved. 2. Calm; serene. 3. Not subject to suffering; unaffected. impassively.
imperishable ::: not subject to decay or deterioration. Imperishable, imperishable"s, Imperishable"s, imperishableness, imperishably.
". . . impersonality is in the original undifferentiated truth of things the pure substance of nature of the Being, the Person; in the dynamic truth of things it differentiates its powers and lends them to constitute by their variations the manifestation of personality.” The Life Divine ::: *personalities, World-personality.
“In actual fact Mind measures Time by event and Space by Matter; but it is possible in pure mentality to disregard the movement of event and the disposition of substance and realise the pure movement of Conscious-Force which constitutes Space and Time; these two are then merely two aspects of the universal force of Consciousness which in their intertwined interaction comprehend the warp and woof of its action upon itself. And to a consciousness higher than Mind which should regard our past, present and future in one view, containing and not contained in them, not situated at a particular moment of Time for its point of prospection, Time might well offer itself as an eternal present. And to the same consciousness not situated at any particular point of Space, but containing all points and regions in itself, Space also might well offer itself as a subjective and indivisible extension,—no less subjective than Time.” The Life Divine
incense ::: 1. An aromatic substance, such as wood or a gum that is burned to produce a pleasant odour. 2. The smoke or odour produced by the burning of such a substance. 3. Fig. Offering; homage.
inconscient ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Inconscient and the Ignorance may be mere empty abstractions and can be dismissed as irrelevant jargon if one has not come in collision with them or plunged into their dark and bottomless reality. But to me they are realities, concrete powers whose resistance is present everywhere and at all times in its tremendous and boundless mass.” *Letters on Savitri
". . . in its actual cosmic manifestation the Supreme, being the Infinite and not bound by any limitation, can manifest in Itself, in its consciousness of innumerable possibilities, something that seems to be the opposite of itself, something in which there can be Darkness, Inconscience, Inertia, Insensibility, Disharmony and Disintegration. It is this that we see at the basis of the material world and speak of nowadays as the Inconscient — the Inconscient Ocean of the Rigveda in which the One was hidden and arose in the form of this universe — or, as it is sometimes called, the non-being, Asat.” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient itself is only an involved state of consciousness which like the Tao or Shunya, though in a different way, contains all things suppressed within it so that under a pressure from above or within all can evolve out of it — ‘an inert Soul with a somnambulist Force".” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient is the last resort of the Ignorance.” Letters on Yoga
"The body, we have said, is a creation of the Inconscient and itself inconscient or at least subconscient in parts of itself and much of its hidden action; but what we call the Inconscient is an appearance, a dwelling place, an instrument of a secret Consciousness or a Superconscient which has created the miracle we call the universe.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga :::
"The Inconscient is a sleep or a prison, the conscient a round of strivings without ultimate issue or the wanderings of a dream: we must wake into the superconscious where all darkness of night and half-lights cease in the self-luminous bliss of the Eternal.” The Life Divine
"Men have not learnt yet to recognise the Inconscient on which the whole material world they see is built, or the Ignorance of which their whole nature including their knowledge is built; they think that these words are only abstract metaphysical jargon flung about by the philosophers in their clouds or laboured out in long and wearisome books like The Life Divine. Letters on Savitri :::
"Is it really a fact that even the ordinary reader would not be able to see any difference between the Inconscient and Ignorance unless the difference is expressly explained to him? This is not a matter of philosophical terminology but of common sense and the understood meaning of English words. One would say ‘even the inconscient stone" but one would not say, as one might of a child, ‘the ignorant stone". One must first be conscious before one can be ignorant. What is true is that the ordinary reader might not be familiar with the philosophical content of the word Inconscient and might not be familiar with the Vedantic idea of the Ignorance as the power behind the manifested world. But I don"t see how I can acquaint him with these things in a single line, even with the most. illuminating image or symbol. He might wonder, if he were Johnsonianly minded, how an Inconscient could be teased or how it could wake Ignorance. I am afraid, in the absence of a miracle of inspired poetical exegesis flashing through my mind, he will have to be left wondering.” Letters on Savitri
**inconscient, Inconscient"s.**
index ::: 1. An alphabetized list of names, places, and subjects treated in a printed work, giving the page or pages on which each item is mentioned. 2. A sequential arrangement. 3. Something that reveals or indicates; a sign.
indomitable ::: incapable of being overcome, subdued, or vanquished; unconquerable. indomitably.
inferior ::: 1. Lower in rank, position, importance or status; subordinate. 2. Low or lower in quality, value, or estimation.
"In our errors is the substance of a truth which labours to reveal its meaning to our groping intelligence. The human intellect cuts out the error and the truth with it and replaces it by another half-truth half-error; but the Divine Wisdom suffers our mistakes to continue until we are able to arrive at the truth hidden and protected under every false cover.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“In our errors is the substance of a truth which labours to reveal its meaning to our groping intelligence. The human intellect cuts out the error and the truth with it and replaces it by another half-truth half-error; but the Divine Wisdom suffers our mistakes to continue until we are able to arrive at the truth hidden and protected under every false cover.” The Synthesis of Yoga
inspiring mingled reverence and admiration; impressing the emotions or imagination as magnificent; majestic, stately, sublime, solemnly grand; venerable, revered; of supreme dignity.
instead ::: as a substitute or replacement; in the place or stead of someone or something.
::: ". . . in such a view, the word consciousness changes its meaning. It is no longer synonymous with mentality but indicates a self-aware force of existence of which mentality is a middle term; below mentality it sinks into vital and material movements which are for us subconscient; above, it rises into the supramental which is for us the superconscient. But in all it is one and the same thing organising itself differently. This is, once more, the Indian conception of Chit which, as energy, creates the worlds.” *The Life Divine
“… in such a view, the word consciousness changes its meaning. It is no longer synonymous with mentality but indicates a self-aware force of existence of which mentality is a middle term; below mentality it sinks into vital and material movements which are for us subconscient; above, it rises into the supramental which is for us the superconscient. But in all it is one and the same thing organising itself differently. This is, once more, the Indian conception of Chit which, as energy, creates the worlds.” The Life Divine
"In Supermind being, consciousness of knowledge and consciousness of will are not divided as they seem to be in our mental operations; they are a trinity, one movement with three effective aspects. Each has its own effect. Being gives the effect of substance, consciousness the effect of knowledge, of the self-guiding and shaping idea, of comprehension and apprehension; will gives the effect of self-fulfilling force. But the idea is only the light of the reality illumining itself; it is not mental thought nor imagination, but effective self-awareness. It is Real-Idea.” The Life Divine
“In Supermind being, consciousness of knowledge and consciousness of will are not divided as they seem to be in our mental operations; they are a trinity, one movement with three effective aspects. Each has its own effect. Being gives the effect of substance, consciousness the effect of knowledge, of the self-guiding and shaping idea, of comprehension and apprehension; will gives the effect of self-fulfilling force. But the idea is only the light of the reality illumining itself; it is not mental thought nor imagination, but effective self-awareness. It is Real-Idea.” The Life Divine
"In the subconscient knowledge or consciousness is involved in action, for action is the essence of Life.” The Life Divine
“In the subconscient knowledge or consciousness is involved in action, for action is the essence of Life.” The Life Divine
::: ". . . in the language of the Upanishad, the life-force is the food of the body and the body the food of the life-force; in other words, the life-energy in us both supplies the material by which the form is built up and constantly maintained and renewed and is at the same time constantly using up the substantial form of itself which it thus creates and keeps in existence.” *The Life Divine
“… in the language of the Upanishad, the life-force is the food of the body and the body the food of the life-force; in other words, the life-energy in us both supplies the material by which the form is built up and constantly maintained and renewed and is at the same time constantly using up the substantial form of itself which it thus creates and keeps in existence.” The Life Divine
In the undying substance of my soul
intimation ::: a subtle and inner hint or suggestion; indication. intimations.
intoxicated ::: 1. Affected by a substance that intoxicates. 2. Mentally or emotionally exhilarated.
intoxicating ::: affecting temporarily with diminished physical and mental control by means of alcoholic liquor, a drug, or another substance.
intuition ::: direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process. intuition"s, intuitions, half-intuition.
Sri Aurobindo: "Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths. This close perception is more than sight, more than conception: it is the result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence. A concealed or slumbering identity, not yet recovering itself, still remembers or conveys by the intuition its own contents and the intimacy of its self-feeling and self-vision of things, its light of truth, its overwhelming and automatic certitude.” *The Life Divine
"Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind-substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of ``stable lightnings"". When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar understanding or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power. To complete or verify an isolated intuition or discriminate its nature, its application, its limitations, the receiving consciousness must rely on another completing intuition or be able to call down a massed intuition capable of putting all in place. For once the process of the change has begun, a complete transmutation of the stuff and activities of the mind into the substance, form and power of Intuition is imperative; until then, so long as the process of consciousness depends upon the lower intelligence serving or helping out or using the intuition, the result can only be a survival of the mixed Knowledge-Ignorance uplifted or relieved by a higher light and force acting in its parts of Knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"I use the word ‘intuition" for want of a better. In truth, it is a makeshift and inadequate to the connotation demanded of it. The same has to be said of the word ‘consciousness" and many others which our poverty compels us to extend illegitimately in their significance.” *The Life Divine - Sri Aurobindo"s footnote.
"For intuition is an edge of light thrust out by the secret Supermind. . . .” The Life Divine
". . . intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data.” The Life Divine
"Intuition is above illumined Mind which is simply higher Mind raised to a great luminosity and more open to modified forms of intuition and inspiration.” Letters on Yoga
"Intuition sees the truth of things by a direct inner contact, not like the ordinary mental intelligence by seeking and reaching out for indirect contacts through the senses etc. But the limitation of the Intuition as compared with the supermind is that it sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole. Also in coming into the mind it gets mixed with the mental movement and forms a kind of intuitive mind activity which is not the pure truth, but something in between the higher Truth and the mental seeking. It can lead the consciousness through a sort of transitional stage and that is practically its function.” Letters on Yoga
intuition ::: “Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the
“Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind-substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of ``stable lightnings’’. When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar understanding or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power. To complete or verify an isolated intuition or discriminate its nature, its application, its limitations, the receiving consciousness must rely on another completing intuition or be able to call down a massed intuition capable of putting all in place. For once the process of the change has begun, a complete transmutation of the stuff and activities of the mind into the substance, form and power of Intuition is imperative; until then, so long as the process of consciousness depends upon the lower intelligence serving or helping out or using the intuition, the result can only be a survival of the mixed Knowledge-Ignorance uplifted or relieved by a higher light and force acting in its parts of Knowledge.” The Life Divine
iron ::: n. 1. A silver-white metal, usually an admixture of some other substance, usually carbon, rendering it extremely hard and useful for tools, implements, machinery, constructions, and in many other applications. adj. 2. Inflexible; unyielding; firm. 3. Stern; harsh; cruel. 4. *Fig.* Resembling iron in firmness, strength, colour, etc.
“I suppose the golden child is the Truth-Soul which follows after the silver light of the spiritual. When it plunges into the black waters of the subconscient, it releases from it the spiritual light and the sevenfold streams of the Divine Energy and, clearing itself of the stains of the subconscient, it prepares its flight towards the supreme Divine (the Mother).” (Reply to a question in the chapter Visions and Symbols.) Letters on Yoga
“It could be affirmed as a consequence that there is one all-pervading Life or dynamic energy—the material aspect being only its outermost movement—that creates all these forms of the physical universe, Life imperishable and eternal which, even if the whole figure of the universe were quite abolished, would itself still go on existing and be capable of producing a new universe in its place, must indeed, unless it be held back in a state of rest by some higher Power or hold itself back, inevitably go on creating. In that case Life is nothing else than the Force that builds and maintains and destroys forms in the world; it is Life that manifests itself in the form of the earth as much as in the plant that grows upon the earth and the animals that support their existence by devouring the life-force of the plant or of each other. All existence here is a universal Life that takes form of Matter. It might for that purpose hide life-process in physical process before it emerges as submental sensitivity and mentalised vitality, but still it would be throughout the same creative Life-principle.” The Life Divine
"It is true that metaphors, symbols, images are constant auxiliaries summoned by the mystic for the expression of his experiences: that is inevitable because he has to express, in a language made or at least developed and manipulated by the mind, the phenomena of a consciousness other than the mental and at once more complex and more subtly concrete.” Letters on Yoga*
"It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, — and even of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners, — is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole.” Letters on Yoga
It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, — and even of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners, — is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole. The subliminal self stands behind and supports the whole superficial man; it has in it a larger and more efficient mind behind the surface mind, a larger and more powerful vital behind the surface vital, a subtler and freer physical consciousness behind the surface bodily existence. And above them it opens to higher superconscient as well as below them to lower subconscient ranges.” *Letters on Yoga
king ::: 1. Applied to God. 2. The formal title of a monarch, usually accompanied by or substituted for the proper name.
leap ::: n. 1. An abrupt transition. leaps. v. 2. To spring or bound suddenly upward from or as if from the ground; jump. Also fig. 3. Trans. To spring over; to pass from one side to the other by leaping. Also in phr. to leap bounds (lit. and fig.). 4*.* Fig. To move or pass quickly or abruptly from one condition or subject to another. 5. To beat rapidly as the heart. leaps, leaped, leapt, leaping, arrow-leaps, foam-leap, heaven-leap, lightning-leaps.**
"Life is universal Force working so as to create, energise, maintain and modify, even to the extent of dissolving and reconstructing, substantial forms with mutual play and interchange of an overtly or secretly conscious energy as its fundamental character.” The Life Divine
“Life is universal Force working so as to create, energise, maintain and modify, even to the extent of dissolving and reconstructing, substantial forms with mutual play and interchange of an overtly or secretly conscious energy as its fundamental character.” The Life Divine
light ::: “… light is primarily a spiritual manifestation of the Divine Reality illuminative and creative; material light is a subsequent representation or conversion of it into Matter for the purposes of the material Energy.” The Life Divine
light ::: Sri Aurobindo: ". . . light is primarily a spiritual manifestation of the Divine Reality illuminative and creative; material light is a subsequent representation or conversion of it into Matter for the purposes of the material Energy.” *The Life Divine
"Our sense by its incapacity has invented darkness. In truth there is nothing but Light, only it is a power of light either above or below our poor human vision"s limited range.
For do not imagine that light is created by the Suns. The Suns are only physical concentrations of Light, but the splendour they concentrate for us is self-born and everywhere.
God is everywhere and wherever God is, there is Light.” *The Hour of God
"Light is a general term. Light is not knowledge but the illumination that comes from above and liberates the being from obscurity and darkness.” The Mother
The Mother: "The light is everywhere, the force is everywhere. And the world is so small.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15. ::: *Light, light"s, lights, light-petalled, light-tasselled, half-light.
lore ::: 1. The body of knowledge, esp. of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject. 2. Knowledge acquired through education or experience.
magnificence ::: 1. The quality or state of being magnificent; splendour, grandeur; sublimity, majesty. 2. Greatness or lavishness of surroundings; splendor; luxuriousness, opulence.
magnificent ::: 1. Making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc. 2. Extraordinarily fine; superb. 3. Noble; sublime. magnificently.
makeshift ::: suitable as a temporary or expedient substitute often inferior.
"Man himself is not a life and mind born of Matter and eternally subject to physical Nature, but a spirit that uses life and body.” The Renaissance in India
“Man himself is not a life and mind born of Matter and eternally subject to physical Nature, but a spirit that uses life and body.” The Renaissance in India
Master ::: “The Master and Mover of our works is the One, the Universal and Supreme, the Eternal and Infinite. He is the transcendent unknown or unknowable Absolute, the unexpressed and unmanifested Ineffable above us; but he is also the Self of all beings, the Master of all worlds, transcending all worlds, the Light and the Guide, the All-Beautiful and All-Blissful, the Beloved and the Lover. He is the Cosmic Spirit and all-creating Energy around us; he is the Immanent within us. All that is is he, and he is the More than all that is, and we ourselves, though we know it not, are being of his being, force of his force, conscious with a consciousness derived from his; even our mortal existence is made out of his substance and there is an immortal within us that is a spark of the Light and Bliss that are for ever. No matter whether by knowledge, works, love or any other means, to become aware of this truth of our being, to realise it, to make it effective here or elsewhere is the object of all Yoga.” The Life Divine
matrix ::: 1. Something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops. 2. A substance, situation, or environment in which something has its origin, takes form, or is enclosed.
"Matter, — substance itself, subtle or dense, mental or material, — is form and body of Spirit and would never have been created if it could not be made a basis for the self-expression of the Spirit.” The Life Divine
::: matter, subtle
". . . matter is a formation of life that has no real existence apart from the informing universal spirit which gives it its energy and substance.” The Synthesis of Yoga
". . . Matter is only substance-form of Force, . . . .” The Life Divine*
“… Matter is only substance-form of Force, …” The Life Divine
"Matter is the form of substance of being which the existence of Sachchidananda [a trinity of Existence (sat), Consciousness (cit), and Delight (ananda),] assumes when it subjects itself to this phenomenal action of its own consciousness and force.” The "Matter is the body or field of a consciousness hidden within it, the material universe a form and movement of the Spirit.” The Renaissance in India
::: ". . . matter means the involution of the conscious delight of existence in self-oblivious force and in a self-dividing, infinitesimally disaggregated form of substance.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
meditation ::: Sri Aurobindo: "There are two words used in English to express the Indian idea of dhyana , ‘meditation" and ‘contemplation". Meditation means properly the concentration of the mind on a single train of ideas which work out a single subject. Contemplation means regarding mentally a single object, image, idea so that the knowledge about the object, image or idea may arise naturally in the mind by force of the concentration. Both these things are forms of dhyana , for the principle of dhyana is mental concentration whether in thought, vision or knowledge. *Letters on Yoga
medium ::: an intervening substance through which something else is transmitted or carried on. Also fig.
metaphysical ::: highly abstract or theoretical; abstruse, relating to that which is immaterial or concerned with abstract thought or subjects, as existence, causality, or truth.
mind, illumined ::: Sri Aurobindo: "This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil daylight, gives place or subordinates itself to an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the Spirit: a play of lightnings of spiritual truth and power breaks from above into the consciousness and adds to the calm and wide enlightenment and the vast descent of peace which characterise or accompany the action of the larger conceptual-spiritual principle, a fiery ardour of realisation and a rapturous ecstasy of knowledge.” *The Life Divine
mind, inner ::: Sri Aurobindo: "This mind of pure intelligence has behind it our inner or subliminal mind which senses directly all the things of the mind-plane, is open to the action of a world of mental forces, and can feel the ideative and other imponderable influences which act upon the material world and the life-plane but which at present we can only infer and cannot directly experience:” *The Life Divine
"Mind, life and body, the soul in the succession of Time, the conscient, subconscient and superconscient, — these in their various relations and the result of their relations are cosmos and are Nature.” The Life Divine
“Mind, life and body, the soul in the succession of Time, the conscient, subconscient and superconscient,—these in their various relations and the result of their relations are cosmos and are Nature.” The Life Divine
mind of light ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Mind of Light is a subordinate action of Supermind, dependent upon it even when not apparently springing direct from it, . . . .” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
mirage ::: 1. An optical phenomenon that creates the illusion of water, often with inverted reflections of distant objects, and results from distortion of light by alternate layers of hot and cool air. 2. Something illusory, without substance or reality.
mortar ::: a vessel in which substances are crushed or ground with a pestle.
motive ::: n. 1. An emotion, desire, physiological need, or similar impulse that acts as an incitement to action. motives. adj. **2. Of or constituting an incitement to action. 3. In art, literature and music: A motif (a recurring subject, theme, idea). motived, motiveless. v. 4. To incite; motivate. motives.**
movement ::: 1. The act or an instance of moving; a change in place or position. A particular manner of moving. 2. Usually, movements, actions or activities, as of a person or a body of persons. ::: movement"s, movements, many-movemented.
Sri Aurobindo: "When we withdraw our gaze from its egoistic preoccupation with limited and fleeting interests and look upon the world with dispassionate and curious eyes that search only for the Truth, our first result is the perception of a boundless energy of infinite existence, infinite movement, infinite activity pouring itself out in limitless Space, in eternal Time, an existence that surpasses infinitely our ego or any ego or any collectivity of egos, in whose balance the grandiose products of aeons are but the dust of a moment and in whose incalculable sum numberless myriads count only as a petty swarm." *The Life Divine
". . . the purest, freest form of insight into existence as it is shows us nothing but movement. Two things alone exist, movement in Space, movement in Time, the former objective, the latter subjective.” The Life Divine
"The world is a cyclic movement (samsâra ) of the Divine Consciousness in Space and Time. Its law and, in a sense, its object is progression; it exists by movement and would be dissolved by cessation of movement. But the basis of this movement is not material; it is the energy of active consciousness which, by its motion and multiplication in different principles (different in appearance, the same in essence), creates oppositions of unity and multiplicity, divisions of Time and Space, relations and groupings of circumstance and Causality. All these things are real in consciousness, but only symbolic of the Being, somewhat as the imaginations of a creative Mind are true representations of itself, yet not quite real in comparison with itself, or real with a different kind of reality.” The Upanishads*
murmur ::: n. 1. A low, continuous sound, as of a brook, the wind or trees, or of low, indistinct voices. 2. An indistinct, whispered, or confidential complaint; a mutter. 3. A mumbled or subdued expression of discontent. murmurs, murmurs", murmurings. *v. 4. To make a low, continuous, indistinct sound or succession of sounds. 5. To say in a low indistinct voice; utter indistinctly. 6. To complain in low mumbling tones; grumble. murmurs, murmured, murmuring, many-murmured. adj. *murmurous.
mutable ::: capable of or subject to change or alteration.
n.**1. Not subject to death. Immortal, immortal"s, Immortal"s, immortals, Immortals, immortals", Immortals". adj. 2. Everlasting; perpetual; constant. 3. Not subject to death or decay; having perpetual life. 4. Of or relating to immortal or divine beings or concepts. 5. Never to be forgotten; everlasting. adv. immortally.**
non-Being ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Non-Being is only a word. When we examine the fact it represents, we can no longer be sure that absolute non-existence has any better chance than the infinite Self of being more than an ideative formation of the mind. We really mean by this Nothing something beyond the last term to which we can reduce our purest conception and our most abstract or subtle experience of actual being as we know or conceive it while in this universe. This Nothing then is merely a something beyond positive conception. And when we say that out of Non-Being Being appeared, we perceive that we are speaking in terms of Time about that which is beyond Time.” The Life Divine ::: Non-Being"s, Non-being"s, non-being, non-being"s,
not subjected to trouble or disquiet.
not meditated on; neglected as a subject of study or thought.
not receiving or subjected to stress, wear, etc.
not vanquished or overcome; unsubdued.
nourished ::: provided with food or other substances necessary for life and growth; fed. nourishing, nourishment.
obedience ::: the act or an instance of obeying; dutiful or submissive behaviour.
odour ::: the property of a substance that gives it a characteristic scent or smell.
"One can speak of the chakras only in reference to yoga. In ordinary people the chakras are not open, it is only when they do sadhana that the chakras open. For the chakras are the centres of the inner consciousness and belong originally to the subtle body. So much as is active in ordinary people is very little — for in them it is the outer consciousness that is active.” Letters on Yoga
“One can speak of the chakras only in reference to yoga. In ordinary people the chakras are not open, it is only when they do sadhana that the chakras open. For the chakras are the centres of the inner consciousness and belong originally to the subtle body. So much as is active in ordinary people is very little—for in them it is the outer consciousness that is active.” Letters on Yoga
oppressed ::: v. 1. Overwhelmed or crushed, esp. in battle. 2. To lie heavy on; burdened (the mind, imagination, etc.). oppresses, oppressed, oppressing.* *n. oppressed. 3. Those who are subjugated by cruelty, force, etc.; trampled down. adj. oppressed. 4.** Afflicted or tormented; burdened psychologically or mentally; caused to suffer.
"Ordinarily we mean by it [consciousness] our first obvious idea of a mental waking consciousness such as is possessed by the human being during the major part of his bodily existence, when he is not asleep, stunned or otherwise deprived of his physical and superficial methods of sensation. In this sense it is plain enough that consciousness is the exception and not the rule in the order of the material universe. We ourselves do not always possess it. But this vulgar and shallow idea of the nature of consciousness, though it still colours our ordinary thought and associations, must now definitely disappear out of philosophical thinking. For we know that there is something in us which is conscious when we sleep, when we are stunned or drugged or in a swoon, in all apparently unconscious states of our physical being. Not only so, but we may now be sure that the old thinkers were right when they declared that even in our waking state what we call then our consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. It is a superficies, it is not even the whole of our mentality. Behind it, much vaster than it, there is a subliminal or subconscient mind which is the greater part of ourselves and contains heights and profundities which no man has yet measured or fathomed.” Letters on Yoga
“Ordinarily we mean by it [consciousness] our first obvious idea of a mental waking consciousness such as is possessed by the human being during the major part of his bodily existence, when he is not asleep, stunned or otherwise deprived of his physical and superficial methods of sensation. In this sense it is plain enough that consciousness is the exception and not the rule in the order of the material universe. We ourselves do not always possess it. But this vulgar and shallow idea of the nature of consciousness, though it still colours our ordinary thought and associations, must now definitely disappear out of philosophical thinking. For we know that there is something in us which is conscious when we sleep, when we are stunned or drugged or in a swoon, in all apparently unconscious states of our physical being. Not only so, but we may now be sure that the old thinkers were right when they declared that even in our waking state what we call then our consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. It is a superficies, it is not even the whole of our mentality. Behind it, much vaster than it, there is a subliminal or subconscient mind which is the greater part of ourselves and contains heights and profundities which no man has yet measured or fathomed.” Letters on Yoga
"Our subliminal self is not, like our surface physical being, an outcome of the energy of the Inconscient; it is a meeting-place of the consciousness that emerges from below by evolution and the consciousness that has descended from above for involution.” The Life Divine
"Our explanation of the evolution in Matter is that the universe is a self-creative process of a supreme Reality whose presence makes spirit the substance of things, — all things are there as the spirit"s powers and means and forms of manifestation.” The Life Divine
outline ::: n. 1. A line marking the outer contours or boundaries of an object or figure. 2. A style of drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading. 3. A general description covering the main points of a subject outlines, world-outline. v. 4. To give the main features or various aspects of; summarize. Also fig. outlined.
overmind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The overmind is a sort of delegation from the supermind (this is a metaphor only) which supports the present evolutionary universe in which we live here in Matter. If supermind were to start here from the beginning as the direct creative Power, a world of the kind we see now would be impossible; it would have been full of the divine Light from the beginning, there would be no involution in the inconscience of Matter, consequently no gradual striving evolution of consciousness in Matter. A line is therefore drawn between the higher half of the universe of consciousness, parardha , and the lower half, aparardha. The higher half is constituted of Sat, Chit, Ananda, Mahas (the supramental) — the lower half of mind, life, Matter. This line is the intermediary overmind which, though luminous itself, keeps from us the full indivisible supramental Light, depends on it indeed, but in receiving it, divides, distributes, breaks it up into separated aspects, powers, multiplicities of all kinds, each of which it is possible by a further diminution of consciousness, such as we reach in Mind, to regard as the sole or the chief Truth and all the rest as subordinate or contradictory to it.” *Letters on Yoga
"The overmind is the highest of the planes below the supramental.” *Letters on Yoga
"In its nature and law the Overmind is a delegate of the Supermind Consciousness, its delegate to the Ignorance. Or we might speak of it as a protective double, a screen of dissimilar similarity through which Supermind can act indirectly on an Ignorance whose darkness could not bear or receive the direct impact of a supreme Light.” The Life Divine
"The Overmind is a principle of cosmic Truth and a vast and endless catholicity is its very spirit; its energy is an all-dynamism as well as a principle of separate dynamisms: it is a sort of inferior Supermind, — although it is concerned predominantly not with absolutes, but with what might be called the dynamic potentials or pragmatic truths of Reality, or with absolutes mainly for their power of generating pragmatic or creative values, although, too, its comprehension of things is more global than integral, since its totality is built up of global wholes or constituted by separate independent realities uniting or coalescing together, and although the essential unity is grasped by it and felt to be basic of things and pervasive in their manifestation, but no longer as in the Supermind their intimate and ever-present secret, their dominating continent, the overt constant builder of the harmonic whole of their activity and nature.” The Life Divine
"The overmind sees calmly, steadily, in great masses and large extensions of space and time and relation, globally; it creates and acts in the same way — it is the world of the great Gods, the divine Creators.” *Letters on Yoga
"The Overmind is essentially a spiritual power. Mind in it surpasses its ordinary self and rises and takes its stand on a spiritual foundation. It embraces beauty and sublimates it; it has an essential aesthesis which is not limited by rules and canons, it sees a universal and an eternal beauty while it takes up and transforms all that is limited and particular. It is besides concerned with things other than beauty or aesthetics. It is concerned especially with truth and knowledge or rather with a wisdom that exceeds what we call knowledge; its truth goes beyond truth of fact and truth of thought, even the higher thought which is the first spiritual range of the thinker. It has the truth of spiritual thought, spiritual feeling, spiritual sense and at its highest the truth that comes by the most intimate spiritual touch or by identity. Ultimately, truth and beauty come together and coincide, but in between there is a difference. Overmind in all its dealings puts truth first; it brings out the essential truth (and truths) in things and also its infinite possibilities; it brings out even the truth that lies behind falsehood and error; it brings out the truth of the Inconscient and the truth of the Superconscient and all that lies in between. When it speaks through poetry, this remains its first essential quality; a limited aesthetical artistic aim is not its purpose.” *Letters on Savitri
"In the overmind the Truth of supermind which is whole and harmonious enters into a separation into parts, many truths fronting each other and moved each to fulfil itself, to make a world of its own or else to prevail or take its share in worlds made of a combination of various separated Truths and Truth-forces.” Letters on Yoga
*Overmind"s.
overpowered ::: 1. Overcome or vanquished by superior force; subdued. 2. Affected so strongly as to make helpless or ineffective; overwhelmed. overpowers.
parishes ::: political subdivisions of a country or state, usually corresponding in boundaries to an original ecclesiastical parish.
perishable ::: subject to decay, spoilage, or destruction.
petty ::: 1. Of small importance; trivial. 2. Secondary in importance or rank; subordinate. pettier.
"Pity is sometimes a good substitute for love; but it is always no more than a substitute.” Essays Divine and Human
plastic ::: n. 1. Any of numerous substances that can be shaped and molded when subjected to heat or pressure. adj. 2. Any of various organic compounds produced by polymerization, capable of being molded, extruded, cast into various shapes and films. 3. Capable of being shaped, moulded or formed. 4. Having the power of moulding or shaping formless or yielding material.
plunge ::: n. 1. A leap or dive as into water. Also fig. 2. An abrupt or precipitous descent as a cliff. v. 3. To thrust or throw forcefully into a substance, place or action. 4. To enter or move headlong through something. 5. To descend steeply; fall precipitously. plunges, plunged, plunging.
poetry ::: Sri Aurobindo: "All poetry is an inspiration, a thing breathed into the thinking organ from above; it is recorded in the mind, but is born in the higher principle of direct knowledge or ideal vision which surpasses mind. It is in reality a revelation. The prophetic or revealing power sees the substance; the inspiration perceives the right expression. Neither is manufactured; nor is poetry really a poiesis or composition, nor even a creation, but rather the revelation of something that eternally exists. The ancients knew this truth and used the same word for poet and prophet, creator and seer, sophos, vates, kavi.” Essays Human and Divine
precarious ::: 1. Dangerously lacking in security or stability. 2. Subject to chance or unknown conditions.
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.
present ::: 1. To make an offering, present, or gift of; to offer, deliver, give. 2. To hand over or submit. presents, presented.
prostrate ::: 1. Lying face down, as in submission or adoration. 2. Fig. Reduced to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome.
purity ::: Sri Aurobindo: "It [purity] is more a condition than a substance. Peace helps to purity — since in peace disturbing influences cease and the essence of purity is to respond only to the Divine Influence and not to have an affinity with other movements.” *Letters on Yoga
rapacity ::: the state or quality of taking by force; plundering. Of animals: Subsisting by the capture of living prey.
rape ::: the crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse.
realised ::: made real or concrete; gave reality, substance or existence to.
recall ::: n. 1. The act of remembering; recollecting. v. 2. To summon back to awareness of or concern with the subject or situation at hand. 3. To revoke or withdraw. recalled, recalling.
refine ::: 1. To make more fine, subtle, or precise. 2. To make or become free from coarse characteristics; make or become elegant or polished. refined, refining.
reject ::: 1. To refuse to recognize, consider. 2. To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of. rejects, rejected, rejecting.
"Religion in fact is not knowledge, but a faith and aspiration; it is justified indeed both by an imprecise intuitive knowledge of large spiritual truths and by the subjective experience of souls that have risen beyond the ordinary life, but in itself it only gives us the hope and faith by which we may be induced to aspire to the intimate possession of the hidden tracts and larger realities of the Spirit. That we turn always the few distinct truths and the symbols or the particular discipline of a religion into hard and fast dogmas, is a sign that as yet we are only infants in the spiritual knowledge and are yet far from the science of the Infinite.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
"Religion is the first attempt of man to get beyond himself and beyond the obvious and material facts of his existence. Its first essential work is to confirm and make real to him his subjective sense of an Infinite on which his material and mental being depends and the aspiration of his soul to come into its presence and live in contact with it. Its function is to assure him too of that possibility of which he has always dreamed, but of which his ordinary life gives him no assurance, the possibility of transcending himself and growing out of bodily life and mortality into the joy of immortal life and spiritual existence. It also confirms in him the sense that there are worlds or planes of existence other than that in which his lot is now cast, worlds in which this mortality and this subjection to evil and suffering are not the natural state, but rather bliss of immortality is the eternal condition. Incidentally, it gives him a rule of mortal life by which he shall prepare himself for immortality. He is a soul and not a body and his earthly life is a means by which he determines the future conditions of his spiritual being.” The Synthesis of Yoga
resignation ::: an accepting, unresisting attitude, state, etc.; submission; acquiescence.
resigns ::: gives up; submits; relinquishes; surrenders.
revert ::: to return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief.
robot ::: one who acts and responds in a mechanical, routine manner, usually subject to another"s will; automaton.
ruse ::: a crafty stratagem; a subterfuge; a trick.
sacrifice ::: n. **1. The surrender to God or a deity, for the purpose of propitiation or homage, of some object of possession. Also applied fig. to the offering of prayer, thanksgiving, penitence, submission, or the like. 2. Forfeiture or surrender of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim. tree-of-sacrifice. v. 3.** To surrender or give up (something).
sadistic ::: pertaining to cruelty that evidences a subconscious craving and is apparently satisfied, sexually or otherwise, by the infliction of pain on another by means of aggressive or destructive behaviour or the assertion of power over that person; also loosely, deliberate or excessive cruelty morbidly enjoyed.
sagged ::: sank, drooped, settled or subsided from pressure or weight.
sap ::: the watery fluid that circulates through a plant, carrying food and other substances to the various tissues.. 2. Energy; vitality, life-force.
satellite ::: 1. One who attends a powerful dignitary; a subordinate. 2. A small body in orbit around a larger body. satellites.
scene ::: 1. The place where an action or event occurs. 2. A view or picture presented to the eye (or to the mind) of a place, concourse, incident, series of actions or events, assemblage of objects, etc. 3. The place in which the action of a play, movie, or other narrative occurs; a setting. 4. A subdivision of an act of a play marked by the entrance or departure of one or more actors. 5. An action, episode, complication of events, or situation, in real life. 6. Fig. A view or prospect of something to come. scenes, scene-shifters, earth-scene, earth-scene"s, life-scene, soul-scene, world-scene.
secretion ::: 1. A functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not waste) released from a gland or cell. 2. The product of this act or process, such as saliva, mucus, tears, bile, or a hormone that is secreted. secretion"s.
sections ::: distinct parts or subdivisions of anything; any of the portions into which a thing is cut or divided.
see **subtle images.**
see **subtle Matter.**
"Self-knowledge is impossible unless we go behind our surface existence, which is a mere result of selective outer experiences, an imperfect sounding-board or a hasty, incompetent and fragmentary translation of a little out of the much that we are, — unless we go behind this and send down our plummet into the subconscient and open ourself to the superconscient so as to know their relation to our surface being.” The Life Divine
self-knowledge ::: knowing of oneself, without help from another.
Sri Aurobindo: The possibility of a cosmic consciousness in humanity is coming slowly to be admitted in modern Psychology, like the possibility of more elastic instruments of knowledge, although still classified, even when its value and power are admitted, as a hallucination. In the psychology of the East it has always been recognised as a reality and the aim of our subjective progress. The essence of the passage over to this goal is the exceeding of the limits imposed on us by the ego-sense and at least a partaking, at most an identification with the self-knowledge which broods secret in all life and in all that seems to us inanimate. *The Life Divine
"Therefore the only final goal possible is the emergence of the infinite consciousness in the individual; it is his recovery of the truth of himself by self-knowledge and by self-realisation, the truth of the Infinite in being, the Infinite in consciousness, the Infinite in delight repossessed as his own Self and Reality of which the finite is only a mask and an instrument for various expression.” The Life Divine
"The Truth-Consciousness is everywhere present in the universe as an ordering self-knowledge by which the One manifests the harmonies of its infinite potential multiplicity.” The Life Divine
semblance ::: 1. An appearance or likeness; a resemblance to something or someone similar. 2. An outward token or appearance, esp. without any inner substance or reality. semblances, half-semblances.
sentence ::: n. 1. A sequence of words capable of standing alone to make an assertion, ask a question or give a command, usually consisting of a subject and a predicate containing a finite verb. 2. An authoritative decision; a judicial judgement or decree, esp. a judicial decision of the punishment to be inflicted on one adjudged guilty. Hence, the punishment to which a criminal is sentenced. sentences. 3. A number of words forming a complete statement. sentenced.
sequel ::: that followed after, subsequent.
servile ::: submissive; slavish; fawning; slave-like.
shade ::: 1. The comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area. 2. A place or an area of comparative darkness, as one sheltered from the sun. 3. A shadow. 4. A spectre; a shadow. 5. Something that provides a shield or protection from a direct source of light. 6. A colour that varies slightly from a standard colour due to a difference in hue, saturation, or luminosity. 7. Fig. Something resembling a ghost or a disembodied spirit; something insubstantial or fleeting. 8. shades. Darkness gathering at the close of day. Shade, shades.
shadowy ::: 1. Abounding in shadow; shady. 2. Full or dark with shadows; enveloped in shadow; obscured by shadows. 3. Unsubstantial, illusory; transitory, fleeting; unreal, imaginary. 4. Resembling a shadow in faintness; slightness; faintly perceptible, indistinct, vague. 5. Spectral, ghostly. Shadowy.
shard ::: a broken piece or fragment of a brittle substance, esp. of pottery. shards.
shell ::: 1. An exterior or enclosing cover or case; an external part. Also fig. 2. Something without substance; hollow. Also fig. 3. The outer covering of crustaceans, molluscs, and other invertebrates, often with reference to the formation of pearls within the shells of molluscs. conch-shells.* See under *conch.
shimmered ::: shone with or reflected a subdued, tremulous or flickering light; gleamed faintly. shimmer. shimmering.
shimmerings ::: subdued tremulous lights or gleams.
sidelight ::: fig. Incidental or contrasting information on a subject.
sink ::: n. 1. A cesspool; a covered cistern into which waste water and sewage flow. Also fig. 2. An area of ground that slopes below the level of the surrounding land. v. 3. To descend to the bottom; submerge. 4. To fall, drop, or descend gradually to a lower level. 5. To decline or cause to decline in moral value, pass into a lower state or condition. etc. 6. To fall or drop to a lower level, especially to go down slowly or in stages; subside, as land. 7. To diminish or appear to move downward, as the sun or moon in setting. 8. To become lower in volume or pitch; gradually become fainter. sunk.
slave ::: 1. One bound in servitude as the property of a person or household, 2. One who is abjectly subservient to a specified person or influence. 3. Fig. One who is under the domination of some habit or influence. slaves, body-slave, slave-girl.
slavery ::: the subjection of a person to another person, esp. in being forced into work; bondage.
sleep ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Sleep like trance opens the gate of the subliminal to us; for in sleep, as in trance, we retire behind the veil of the limited waking personality and it is behind this veil that the subliminal has its existence.” The Life Divine
slight ::: adj. 1. Small in size, degree, or amount.2. Unimportant, trifling, trivial. 3. Lacking strength, substance, or solidity; frail. 4. Frail, flimsy, delicate. slightest. v. 5. To treat as of little importance; to disregard, disdain, ignore.
sobered ::: subdued.
softly ::: 1. Gently, tenderly. 2. With a soft or subdued voice or utterance; in a low or gentle tone.
solid ::: 1. Characterized by solidity or compactness. 2. Having no opening or window; unbroken, blank. 3. Firm or compact in substance. 4. Reliable or sensible; upstanding.
soul ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The word ‘soul", as also the word ‘psychic", is used very vaguely and in many different senses in the English language. More often than not, in ordinary parlance, no clear distinction is made between mind and soul and often there is an even more serious confusion, for the vital being of desire — the false soul or desire-soul — is intended by the words ‘soul" and ‘psychic" and not the true soul, the psychic being.” *Letters on Yoga
"The word soul is very vaguely used in English — as it often refers to the whole non-physical consciousness including even the vital with all its desires and passions. That was why the word psychic being has to be used so as to distinguish this divine portion from the instrumental parts of the nature.” *Letters on Yoga
"The word soul has various meanings according to the context; it may mean the Purusha supporting the formation of Prakriti, which we call a being, though the proper word would be rather a becoming; it may mean, on the other hand, specifically the psychic being in an evolutionary creature like man; it may mean the spark of the Divine which has been put into Matter by the descent of the Divine into the material world and which upholds all evolving formations here.” *Letters on Yoga
"A distinction has to be made between the soul in its essence and the psychic being. Behind each and all there is the soul which is the spark of the Divine — none could exist without that. But it is quite possible to have a vital and physical being supported by such a soul essence but without a clearly evolved psychic being behind it.” *Letters on Yoga
"The soul and the psychic being are practically the same, except that even in things which have not developed a psychic being, there is still a spark of the Divine which can be called the soul. The psychic being is called in Sanskrit the Purusha in the heart or the Chaitya Purusha. (The psychic being is the soul developing in the evolution.)” *Letters on Yoga
"The soul or spark is there before the development of an organised vital and mind. The soul is something of the Divine that descends into the evolution as a divine Principle within it to support the evolution of the individual out of the Ignorance into the Light. It develops in the course of the evolution a psychic individual or soul individuality which grows from life to life, using the evolving mind, vital and body as its instruments. It is the soul that is immortal while the rest disintegrates; it passes from life to life carrying its experience in essence and the continuity of the evolution of the individual.” *Letters on Yoga
". . . for the soul is seated within and impervious to the shocks of external events. . . .” *Essays on the Gita
". . . the soul is at first but a spark and then a little flame of godhead burning in the midst of a great darkness; for the most part it is veiled in its inner sanctum and to reveal itself it has to call on the mind, the life-force and the physical consciousness and persuade them, as best they can, to express it; ordinarily, it succeeds at most in suffusing their outwardness with its inner light and modifying with its purifying fineness their dark obscurities or their coarser mixture. Even when there is a formed psychic being able to express itself with some directness in life, it is still in all but a few a smaller portion of the being — ‘no bigger in the mass of the body than the thumb of a man" was the image used by the ancient seers — and it is not always able to prevail against the obscurity or ignorant smallness of the physical consciousness, the mistaken surenesses of the mind or the arrogance and vehemence of the vital nature.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
". . . the soul is an eternal portion of the Supreme and not a fraction of Nature.” 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
*Soul, soul"s, Soul"s, souls, soulless, soul-bridals, soul-change, soul-force, Soul-Forces, soul-ground, soul-joy, soul-nature, soul-range, soul-ray, soul-scapes, soul-scene, soul-sense, soul-severance, soul-sight, soul-slaying, soul-space,, soul-spaces, soul-strength, soul-stuff, soul-truth, soul-vision, soul-wings, world-soul, World-Soul.
Space. Sri Aurobindo: "It is possible in pure mentality to disregard the movement of event and the disposition of substance and realise the pure movement of Conscious-Force which constitutes Space and Time; these two are then merely two aspects of the universal force of Consciousness which in their intertwined interaction comprehend the warp and woof of its action upon itself. And to a consciousness higher than Mind which should regard our past, present and future in one view, containing and not contained in them, not situated at a particular moment of Time for its point of prospection, Time might well offer itself as an eternal present. And to the same consciousness not situated at any particular point of Space, but containing all points and regions in itself, Space also might well offer itself as a subjective and indivisible extension, — no less subjective than Time.” The Life Divine
specialist ::: one who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
spectral ::: having the character of a visible incorporeal spirit or phantom; ghostly, unsubstantial, unreal.
spilled ::: caused or allowed a substance such as liquids to run or fall out of a container. spills.
spread ::: 1. To extend or cause to extend over a larger expanse of space or time. Also fig. 2. To become stretched out or extended; expand, as in growth. 3. To be distributed or dispersed (a substance or a number of things) over a certain or area; to be scattered. 4. To spread out or open from a closed or folded state, like sails. 5. To distribute and expand widely. spreads, far-spread.
Sri Aurobindo: "As there are Powers of Knowledge or Forces of the Light, so there are Powers of Ignorance and tenebrous Forces of the Darkness whose work is to prolong the reign of Ignorance and Inconscience. As there are Forces of Truth, so there are Forces that live by the Falsehood and support it and work for its victory; as there are powers whose life is intimately bound up with the existence, the idea and the impulse of Good, so there are Forces whose life is bound up with the existence and the idea and the impulse of Evil. It is this truth of the cosmic Invisible that was symbolised in the ancient belief of a struggle between the powers of Light and Darkness, Good and Evil for the possession of the world and the government of the life of man; — this was the significance of the contest between the Vedic Gods and their opponents, sons of Darkness and Division, figured in a later tradition as Titan and Giant and Demon, Asura, Rakshasa, Pisacha; the same tradition is found in the Zoroastrian Double Principle and the later Semitic opposition of God and his Angels on the one side and Satan and his hosts on the other, — invisible Personalities and Powers that draw man to the divine Light and Truth and Good or lure him into subjection to the undivine principle of Darkness and Falsehood and Evil.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "By immortality we mean the absolute life of the soul as opposed to the transient and mutable life in the body which it assumes by birth and death and rebirth and superior also to its life as the mere mental being who dwells in the world subjected helplessly to this law of death and birth or seems at least by his ignorance to be subjected to this and to other laws of the lower Nature.” *The Upanishads
Sri Aurobindo: "Concentration is a gathering together of the consciousness and either centralising at one point or turning on a single object, e.g., the Divine; there can also be a gathered condition throughout the whole being, not at a point. In meditation it is not indispensable to gather like this, one can simply remain with a quiet mind thinking of one subject or observing what comes in the consciousness and dealing with it.” *Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: ". . . desires come from outside, enter the subconscious vital and rise to the surface. It is only when they rise to the surface and the mind becomes aware of them, that we become conscious of the desire. It seems to us to be our own because we feel it thus rising from the vital into the mind and do not know that it came from outside.” Letters on Yoga
*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: "Further, vision is of value because it is often a first key to inner planes of one"s own being and one"s own consciousness as distinguished from worlds or planes of the cosmic consciousness. Yoga-experience often begins with some opening of the third eye in the forehead (the centre of vision in the brows) or with some kind of beginning and extension of subtle seeing which may seem unimportant at first but is the vestibule to deeper experience.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: “Further, vision is of value because it is often a first key to inner planes of one’s own being and one’s own consciousness as distinguished from worlds or planes of the cosmic consciousness. Yoga-experience often begins with some opening of the third eye in the forehead (the centre of vision in the brows) or with some kind of beginning and extension of subtle seeing which may seem unimportant at first but is the vestibule to deeper experience.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "He is the Cosmic Spirit and all-creating Energy around us; he is the Immanent within us. All that is is he, and he is the More than all that is, and we ourselves, though we know it not, are being of his being, force of his force, conscious with a consciousness derived from his; even our mortal existence is made out of his substance and there is an immortal within us that is a spark of the Light and Bliss that are for ever. No matter whether by knowledge, works, love or any other means, to become aware of this truth of our being, to realise it, to make it effective here or elsewhere is the object of all Yoga.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "His [the Titan"s] instincts call for a visible, tangible mastery and a sensational domination. How shall he feel sure of his empire unless he can feel something writhing helpless under his heel, — if in agony, so much the better? What is exploitation to him, unless it diminishes the exploited? To be able to coerce, exact, slay, overtly, irresistibly, — it is this that fills him with the sense of glory and dominion. For he is the son of division and the strong flowering of the Ego. To feel the comparative limitation of others is necessary to him that he may imagine himself immeasurable; for he has not the real, self-existent sense of infinity which no outward circumstance can abrogate. Contrast, division, negation of the wills and lives of others are essential to his self-development and self-assertion. The Titan would unify by devouring, not by harmonising; he must conquer and trample what is not himself either out of existence or into subservience so that his own image may stand out stamped upon all things and dominating all his environment.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "If this higher buddhi {{understanding in the profoundest sense] could act pure of the interference of these lower members, it would give pure forms of the truth; observation would be dominated or replaced by a vision which could see without subservient dependence on the testimony of the sense-mind and senses; imagination would give place to the self-assured inspiration of the truth, reasoning to the spontaneous discernment of relations and conclusion from reasoning to an intuition containing in itself those relations and not building laboriously upon them, judgment to a thought-vision in whose light the truth would stand revealed without the mask which it now wears and which our intellectual judgment has to penetrate; while memory too would take upon itself that larger sense given to it in Greek thought and be no longer a paltry selection from the store gained by the individual in his present life, but rather the all-recording knowledge which secretly holds and constantly gives from itself everything that we now seem painfully to acquire but really in this sense remember, a knowledge which includes the future(1) no less than the past. ::: Footnote: In this sense the power of prophecy has been aptly called a memory of the future.]” *The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "In the very atom there is a subconscious will and desire which must also be present in all atomic aggregates because they are present in the Force which constitutes the atom.” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "I suppose the golden child is the Truth-Soul which follows after the silver light of the spiritual. When it plunges into the black waters of the subconscient, it releases from it the spiritual light and the sevenfold streams of the Divine Energy and, clearing itself of the stains of the subconscient, it prepares its flight towards the supreme Divine (the Mother).” (Reply to a question in the chapter Visions and Symbols.) Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "It could be affirmed as a consequence that there is one all-pervading Life or dynamic energy — the material aspect being only its outermost movement — that creates all these forms of the physical universe, Life imperishable and eternal which, even if the whole figure of the universe were quite abolished, would itself still go on existing and be capable of producing a new universe in its place, must indeed, unless it be held back in a state of rest by some higher Power or hold itself back, inevitably go on creating. In that case Life is nothing else than the Force that builds and maintains and destroys forms in the world; it is Life that manifests itself in the form of the earth as much as in the plant that grows upon the earth and the animals that support their existence by devouring the life-force of the plant or of each other. All existence here is a universal Life that takes form of Matter. It might for that purpose hide life-process in physical process before it emerges as submental sensitivity and mentalised vitality, but still it would be throughout the same creative Life-principle.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . memory is only a process of consciousness, a utility; it cannot be the substance of being or the whole of our personality: it is simply one of the workings of consciousness as radiation is one of the workings of Light.” The Life Divine
*Sri Aurobindo: "Mind has its own realms and life has its own realms just as matter has. In the mental realms life and substance are entirely subordinated to Mind and obey its dictates. Here on earth there is the evolution with matter as the starting-point, life as the medium, mind emerging from it. There are many grades, realms, combinations in the cosmos — there are even many universes. Ours is only one of many.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "On the other hand, Pranayama awakens the coiled-up serpent of the Pranic dynamism in the vital sheath and opens to the Yogin fields of consciousness, ranges of experience, abnormal faculties denied to the ordinary human life while it puissantly intensifies such normal powers and faculties as he already possesses. These advantages can be farther secured and emphasised by other subsidiary processes open to the Hathayogin.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Science started on the assumption that the ultimate truth must be physical and objective — and the objective Ultimate (or even less than that) would explain all subjective phenomena. Yoga proceeds on the opposite view that the ultimate Truth is spiritual and subjective and it is in that ultimate Light that we must view objective phenomena.” *Letters on Yoga
::: Sri Aurobindo: "Spiritual force has its own concreteness; it can take a form (like a stream, for instance) of which one is aware and can send it quite concretely on whatever object one chooses. This is a statement of fact about the power inherent in spiritual consciousness. But there is also such a thing as a willed use of any subtle force — it may be spiritual, mental or vital — to secure a particular result at some point in the world. Just as there are waves of unseen physical forces (cosmic waves etc.) or currents of electricity, so there are mind-waves, thought-currents, waves of emotion, — for example, anger, sorrow, etc., — which go out and affect others without their knowing whence they come or that they come at all, they only feel the result. One who has the occult or inner senses awake can feel them coming and invading him.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Substance, then, as we know it, material substance, is the form in which Mind acting through sense contacts the Conscious Being of which it is itself a movement of knowledge.” *The Life Divine
*Sri Aurobindo: ". . . the divine Ananda, the principle of Bliss [is that] from which, in the Vedic conception, the existence of Man, this mental being, is drawn. A secret Delight is the base of existence, its sustaining atmosphere and almost its substance. This Ananda is spoken of in the Taittiriya Upanishad as the ethereal atmosphere of bliss without which nothing could remain in being. In the Aitareya Upanishad Soma, as the lunar deity, is born from the sense-mind in the universal Purusha and, when man is produced, expresses himself again as sense-mentality in the human being. For delight is the raison d"être of sensation, or, we may say, sensation is an attempt to translate the secret delight of existence into the terms of physical consciousness.” The Secret of the Veda
Sri Aurobindo: "The Life Heavens are the heavens of the vital gods and there is there a perfect harmony but a harmony of the sublimated satisfied senses and vital desires only.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The Master and Mover of our works is the One, the Universal and Supreme, the Eternal and Infinite. He is the transcendent unknown or unknowable Absolute, the unexpressed and unmanifested Ineffable above us; but he is also the Self of all beings, the Master of all worlds, transcending all worlds, the Light and the Guide, the All-Beautiful and All-Blissful, the Beloved and the Lover. He is the Cosmic Spirit and all-creating Energy around us; he is the Immanent within us. All that is is he, and he is the More than all that is, and we ourselves, though we know it not, are being of his being, force of his force, conscious with a consciousness derived from his; even our mortal existence is made out of his substance and there is an immortal within us that is a spark of the Light and Bliss that are for ever. No matter whether by knowledge, works, love or any other means, to become aware of this truth of our being, to realise it, to make it effective here or elsewhere is the object of all Yoga.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "The Mother not only governs all from above but she descends into this lesser triple universe. Impersonally, all things here, even the movements of the Ignorance, are herself in veiled power and her creations in diminished substance, her Nature-body and Nature-force, and they exist because, moved by the mysterious fiat of the Supreme to work out something that was there in the possibilities of the Infinite, she has consented to the great sacrifice and has put on like a mask the soul and forms of the Ignorance. But personally too she has stooped to descend here into the Darkness that she may lead it to the Light, into the Falsehood and Error that she may convert it to the Truth, into this Death that she may turn it to godlike Life, into this world-pain and its obstinate sorrow and suffering that she may end it in the transforming ecstasy of her sublime Ananda. In her deep and great love for her children she has consented to put on herself the cloak of this obscurity, condescended to bear the attacks and torturing influences of the powers of the Darkness and the Falsehood, borne to pass though the portals of the birth that is a death, taken upon herself the pangs and sorrows and sufferings of the creation, since it seemed that thus alone could it be lifted to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother.” The Mother
Sri Aurobindo: "The physical nerves are part of the material body but they are extended into the subtle body and there is a connection between the two.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The prophetic or revealing power sees the substance; the inspiration perceives the right expression. Neither is manufactured; nor is poetry really a poiesis or composition, nor even a creation, but rather the revelation of something that eternally exists. The ancients knew this truth and used the same word for poet and prophet, creator and seer, sophos, vates, kavi.” Essays Divine and Human
Sri Aurobindo: "The quest of man for God, which becomes in the end the most ardent and enthralling of all his quests, begins with his first vague questionings of Nature and a sense of something unseen both in himself and her. Even if, as modern Science insists, religion started from animism, spirit-worship, demon-worship, and the deification of natural forces, these first forms only embody in primitive figures a veiled intuition in the subconscient, an obscure and ignorant feeling of hidden influences and incalculable forces, or a vague sense of being, will, intelligence in what seems to us inconscient, of the invisible behind the visible, of the secretly conscious spirit in things distributing itself in every working of energy. The obscurity and primitive inadequacy of the first perceptions do not detract from the value or the truth of this great quest of the human heart and mind, since all our seekings, — including Science itself, — must start from an obscure and ignorant perception of hidden realities and proceed to the more and more luminous vision of the Truth which at first comes to us masked, draped, veiled by the mists of the Ignorance. Anthropomorphism is an imaged recognition of the truth that man is what he is because God is what He is and that there is one soul and body of things, humanity even in its incompleteness the most complete manifestation yet achieved here and divinity the perfection of what in man is imperfect.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "The real subconscious is a nether diminished consciousness close to the Inconscient; the subliminal is a consciousness larger than our surface existence. But both belong to the inner realm of our being of which our surface is unaware, so both are jumbled together in our common conception and parlance.” *The Life Divine
*Sri Aurobindo: "There are some who often or almost invariably have the contact whenever they worship, the Deity may become living to them in the picture or other image they worship, may move and act through it; others may feel him always present, outwardly, subtle-physically, abiding with them where they live or in the very room, but sometimes this is only for a period. Or they may feel the Presence with them, see it frequently in a body (but not materially except sometimes), feel its touch or embrace, converse with it constantly — that is also a kind of milana. The greatest milana is one in which one is constantly aware of the Deity abiding in oneself, in everything in the world, holding all the world in him, identical with existence and yet supremely beyond the world — but in the world too one sees, hears, feels nothing but him, so that the very senses bear witness to him alone — . . . .” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "There is an inner vision that opens when one does sadhana and all sorts of images rise before it or pass. Their coming does not depend upon your thought or will; it is real and automatic. Just as your physical eyes see things in the physical world, so the inner eyes see things and images that belong to the other worlds and subtle images of things of this physical world also.” *Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms for ever in the Light above.” Letters on Yoga*
Sri Aurobindo: "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
Sri Aurobindo: "The Unseen with whom there can be no pragmatic relations, unseizable, featureless, unthinkable, undesignable by name, whose substance is the certitude of One Self, in whom world-existence is stilled, who is all peace and bliss — that is the Self, that is what must be known.” Mandukya Upanishad. The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "The word ‘ghost" as used in popular parlance covers an enormous number of distinct phenomena which have no necessary connection with each other. To name a few only: ::: An actual contact with the soul of a human being in its subtle body and transcribed to our mind by the appearance of an image or the hearing of a voice.
Sri Aurobindo: "This material universe is itself only existence as we see it when the soul dwells on the plane of material movement and experience in which the spirit involves itself in form, and therefore all the framework of things in which it moves by the life and which it embraces by the consciousness is determined by the principle of infinite division and aggregation proper to Matter, to substance of form.” The Upanishads
Sri Aurobindo: "This mind of pure intelligence has behind it our inner or subliminal mind which senses directly all the things of the mind-plane, is open to the action of a world of mental forces, and can feel the ideative and other imponderable influences which act upon the material world and the life-plane but which at present we can only infer and cannot directly experience: . . . .” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . thought in itself, in its origin on the higher levels of consciousness, is a perception, a cognitive seizing of the object or of some truth of things which is a powerful but still a minor and secondary result of spiritual vision, a comparatively external and superficial regard of the self upon the self, the subject upon itself or something of itself as object.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "Very usually, altruism is only the sublimest form of selfishness.” *Essays Divine and Human
Sri Aurobindo: "What we call unconsciousness is simply other-consciousness; it is the going in of this surface wave of our mental awareness of outer objects into our subliminal self-awareness and into our awareness too of other planes of existence. We are really no more unconscious when we are asleep or stunned or drugged or ``dead"" or in any other state, than when we are plunged in inner thought oblivious of our physical selves and our surroundings. For anyone who has advanced even a little way in Yoga, this is a most elementary proposition and one which offers no difficulty whatever to the thought because it is proved at every point by experience.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Your ‘barely enough", instead of the finer and more suggestive ‘hardly", falls flat upon my ear; one cannot substitute one word for another in this kind of poetry merely because it means intellectually the same thing; ‘hardly" is the mot juste in this context and, repetition or not, it must remain unless a word not only juste but inevitable comes to replace it… . On this point I may add that in certain contexts ‘barely" would be the right word, as for instance, ‘There is barely enough food left for two or three meals", where ‘hardly" would be adequate but much less forceful. It is the other way about in this line. Letters on Savitri
stark ::: 1. Bare; blunt; unyielding. 2. Stiff or rigid in substance, muscles, etc. 3. Complete or utter; extreme. 4. Harsh, grim, or desolate, as a view, place, etc. 5. Bluntly or sternly plain; not softened or glamourized. 6. Extremely simple or severe; austere, bare. 7. Stiff or rigid in substance, muscles, etc. 8. Bluntly or sternly plain; inflexible, esp. in judgement.
stoic ::: adj. 1. Of or pertaining to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity. n. 2. A member or adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy. Stoic"s.
stoop ::: 1. To bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position. 2. To carry the head and shoulders habitually bowed forward. 3. To descend from a height or superior position. 4. To swoop down, like a hawk at prey. Also fig. **5. To submit; yield. 6. To lower or debase oneself. Stoops, stooped, stooping.**
stuff ::: 1. The material out of which something is made or formed; substance. 2. The essential substance or elements of something; its essence. Also fig. earth-stuff, soul-stuff, world-stuff.
"Subliminal is a general term used for all parts of the being which are not on the waking surface. Subconscient is very often used in the same sense by European psychologists because they do not know the difference. But when I use the word, I mean always what is below the ordinary physical consciousness, not what is behind it. The inner mental, vital, physical, the psychic are not subconscious in this sense, but they can be spoken of as subliminal.” Letters on Yoga
suffer ::: 1. To undergo or sustain (something painful, injurious, or unpleasant). distress, grief, etc. 2. To tolerate or allow. 3. To undergo or experience (any action, process, or condition). 4. To submit to endure or to be something. suffers, suffered.
suppressed ::: 1. Kept from being revealed, published, circulated, or voiced. 2. Kept in; repressed; subdued; inhibited.
tamed ::: brought from wildness into a domesticated state; subdued the wildness of.
tangible ::: 1. Discernible by the touch; palpable. 2. Capable of being clearly grasped by the mind; substantial rather than imaginary.
taut ::: subjected to great tension; stretched tight.
technician ::: a person trained or skilled in the technicalities of a particular subject or in the technique of an art.
test ::: n. 1. A procedure for critical evaluation; a means of determining the presence, quality, or truth of something. 2. The act of testing something; trial. v. 3. To subject to a test; try. tests, testing.
"The Absolute neither creates nor is created, — in the current sense of making or being made; we can speak of creation only in the sense of the Being becoming in form and movement what it already is in substance and status.” *The Life Divine
“The Absolute neither creates nor is created,—in the current sense of making or being made; we can speak of creation only in the sense of the Being becoming in form and movement what it already is in substance and status.” The Life Divine
“The body, we have said, is a creation of the Inconscient and itself inconscient or at least subconscient in parts of itself and much of its hidden action; but what we call the Inconscient is an appearance, a dwelling place, an instrument of a secret Consciousness or a Superconscient which has created the miracle we call the universe.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"The subliminal self stands behind and supports the whole superficial man; it has in it a larger and more efficient mind behind the surface mind, a larger and more powerful vital behind the surface vital, a subtler and freer physical consciousness behind the surface bodily existence. And above them it opens to higher superconscient as well as below them to lower subconscient ranges.” Letters on Yoga
"The Chhandogya,… is to be a work in the right and perfect way of devoting oneself to the Brahman; its subject is the Brahman, but the Brahman as symbolised in the OM, the sacred syllable of the Veda, not therefore, the pure state of existence only, but that existence in all its parts… OM is the symbol and the thing symbolised.
"The colours of the lotuses and the numbers of petals are respectively, from bottom to top: — (1) the Muladhara or physical consciousness centre, four petals, red; (2) the abdominal centre, six petals, deep purple red; (3) the navel centre, ten petals, violet; (4) the heart centre, twelve petals, golden pink; (5) the throat centre, sixteen petals, grey; (6) the forehead centre between the eye-brows, two petals, white; (7) the thousand-petalled lotus above the head, blue with gold light around. The functions are, according to our yoga, — (1) commanding the physical consciousness and the subconscient; (2) commanding the small vital movements, the little greeds, lusts, desires, the small sense-movements; (3) commanding the larger life-forces and the passions and larger desire-movements; (4) commanding the higher emotional being with the psychic deep behind it; (5) commanding expression and all externalisation of the mind movements and mental forces; (6) commanding thought, will, vision; (7) commanding the higher thinking mind and the illumined mind and opening upwards to the intuition and overmind. The seventh is sometimes or by some identified with the brain, but that is an error — the brain is only a channel of communication situated between the thousand-petalled and the forehead centre. The former is sometimes called the void centre, sunya , either because it is not in the body, but in the apparent void above or because rising above the head one enters first into the silence of the self or spiritual being.” Letters on Yoga*
“The colours of the lotuses and the numbers of petals are respectively, from bottom to top:—(1) the Muladhara or physical consciousness centre, four petals, red; (2) the abdominal centre, six petals, deep purple red; (3) the navel centre, ten petals, violet; (4) the heart centre, twelve petals, golden pink; (5) the throat centre, sixteen petals, grey; (6) the forehead centre between the eye-brows, two petals, white; (7) the thousand-petalled lotus above the head, blue with gold light around. The functions are, according to our yoga,—(1) commanding the physical consciousness and the subconscient; (2) commanding the small vital movements, the little greeds, lusts, desires, the small sense-movements; (3) commanding the larger life-forces and the passions and larger desire-movements; (4) commanding the higher emotional being with the psychic deep behind it; (5) commanding expression and all externalisation of the mind movements and mental forces; (6) commanding thought, will, vision; (7) commanding the higher thinking mind and the illumined mind and opening upwards to the intuition and overmind. The seventh is sometimes or by some identified with the brain, but that is an error—the brain is only a channel of communication situated between the thousand-petalled and the forehead centre. The former is sometimes called the void centre, sunya , either because it is not in the body, but in the apparent void above or because rising above the head one enters first into the silence of the self or spiritual being.” Letters on Yoga
"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 first condition of inner progress is to recognise whatever is or has been a wrong movement in any part of the nature, — wrong idea, wrong feeling, wrong speech, wrong action, — and by wrong is meant what departs from the truth, from the higher consciousness and higher self, from the way of the Divine. Once recognised it is admitted, not glossed over or defended, — and it is offered to the Divine for the Light and Grace to descend and substitute for it the right movement of the true Consciousness.” *Letters on Yoga
"The form of that which is in Time is or appears to be evanescent, but the self, the substance, the being that takes shape in that form is eternal and is one self, one substance, one being with all that is, all that was, all that shall be. But even the form is in itself eternal and not temporal, but it exists for ever in possibility, in power, in consciousness in the Eternal.” Essays Divine and Human
“The form of that which is in Time is or appears to be evanescent, but the self, the substance, the being that takes shape in that form is eternal and is one self, one substance, one being with all that is, all that was, all that shall be. But even the form is in itself eternal and not temporal, but it exists for ever in possibility, in power, in consciousness in the Eternal.” Essays Divine and Human
"The Gods are the great undying Powers and immortal Personalities who consciously inform, constitute, preside over the subjective and objective forces of the cosmos.” Essays on the Gita
“The Gods are the great undying Powers and immortal Personalities who consciously inform, constitute, preside over the subjective and objective forces of the cosmos.” Essays on the Gita
"The greatest motion of poetry comes when the mind is still and the ideal principle works above and outside the brain, above even the hundred petalled lotus of the ideal mind, in its proper empire; for then it is Veda that is revealed, the perfect substance and expression of eternal truth.” Essays Divine and Human*
::: "The heart spoken of by the Upanishads corresponds with the physical cardiac centre; it is the hrdpadma of the Tantriks. As a subtle centre, cakra , it is supposed to have its apex on the spine and to broaden out in front. Exactly where in this area one or another feels it does not matter much; to feel it there and be guided by it is the main thing.” *Letters on Yoga
“The heart spoken of by the Upanishads corresponds with the physical cardiac centre; it is the hrdpadma of the Tantriks. As a subtle centre, cakra , it is supposed to have its apex on the spine and to broaden out in front. Exactly where in this area one or another feels it does not matter much; to feel it there and be guided by it is the main thing.” Letters on 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 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 individual ego is a pragmatic and effective fiction, a translation of the secret self into the terms of surface consciousness, or a subjective substitute for the true self in our surface experience. . . .”The Life Divine
“The individual ego is a pragmatic and effective fiction, a translation of the secret self into the terms of surface consciousness, or a subjective substitute for the true self in our surface experience….”The Life Divine
theme ::: 1. A topic of discourse or discussion. 2. A unifying or dominant idea, motif, etc. 3. A principal melodic subject in a musical composition. themes.
The Mother: "The universe is a finite whole, but its content is infinite; the changes which occur in this infinity result from the action of Essence on substance, from the penetration, the permeation of quantity by quality, which brings about a constant and progressive organisation and reorganisation of the content of the universe.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.*
"The physical is not the only world; there are others that we become aware of through dream records, through the subtle senses, through influences and contacts, through imagination, intuition and vision. There are worlds of a larger subtler life than ours, vital worlds; worlds in which Mind builds its own forms and figures, mental worlds; psychic worlds which are the soul"s home; others above with which we have little contact. In each of us there is a mental plane of consciousness, a psychic, a vital, a subtle physical as well as the gross physical and material plane. The same planes are repeated in the consciousness of general Nature. It is when we enter or contact these other planes that we come into connection with the worlds above the physical. In sleep we leave the physical body, only a subconscient residue remaining, and enter all planes and all sorts of worlds.” Letters on Yoga
::: "The psycho-analysis of Freud is the last thing that one should associate with yoga. It takes up a certain part, the darkest, the most perilous, the unhealthiest part of the nature, the lower vital subconscious layer, isolates some of its most morbid phenomena and attributes to it and them an action out of all proportion to its true role in the nature. Modern psychology is an infant science, at once rash, fumbling and crude. As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind — to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of Nature in its narrow terms — runs riot here. Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood and it can have a nasty influence and tend to make the mind and vital more and not less fundamentally impure than before.
". . . there are a series of subtler and subtler formulations of substance which escape from and go beyond the formula of the material universe. Without going deeply into matters which are too occult and difficult for our present inquiry, we may say, adhering to the system on which we have based ourselves, that these gradations of substance, in one important aspect of their formulation in series, can be seen to correspond to the ascending series of Matter, Life, Mind, Supermind and that other higher divine triplicity of Sachchidananda. In other words, we find that substance in its ascension bases itself upon each of these principles and makes itself successively a characteristic vehicle for the dominating cosmic self-expression of each in their ascending series.” The Life Divine
“There are some who often or almost invariably have the contact whenever they worship, the Deity may become living to them in the picture or other image they worship, may move and act through it; others may feel him always present, outwardly, subtle-physically, abiding with them where they live or in the very room, but sometimes this is only for a period. Or they may feel the Presence with them, see it frequently in a body (but not materially except sometimes), feel its touch or embrace, converse with it constantly—that is also a kind of milana. The greatest milana is one in which one is constantly aware of the Deity abiding in oneself, in everything in the world, holding all the world in him, identical with existence and yet supremely beyond the world—but in the world too one sees, hears, feels nothing but him, so that the very senses bear witness to him alone—….” Letters on Yoga
“There is an inner vision that opens when one does sadhana and all sorts of images rise before it or pass. Their coming does not depend upon your thought or will; it is real and automatic. Just as your physical eyes see things in the physical world, so the inner eyes see things and images that belong to the other worlds and subtle images of things of this physical world also.” Letters on Yoga
::: "The silent mind is a result of yoga; the ordinary mind is never silent. . . . The thinkers and philosophers do not have the silent mind. It is the active mind they have; only, of course, they concentrate, so the common incoherent mentalising stops and the thoughts that rise or enter and shape themselves are coherently restricted to the subject or activity in hand. But that is quite a different matter from the whole mind falling silent.” Letters on Yoga
"The theory of the Mantra is that it is a word of power born out of the secret depths of our being where it has been brooded upon by a deeper consciousness than the mental, framed in the heart and not constructed by the intellect, held in the mind, again concentrated on by the waking mental consciousness and then thrown out silently or vocally — the silent word is perhaps held to be more potent than the spoken — precisely for the work of creation. The Mantra can not only create new subjective states in ourselves, alter our psychical being, reveal knowledge and faculties we did not before possess, can not only produce similar results in other minds than that of the user, but can produce vibrations in the mental and vital atmosphere which result in effects, in actions and even in the production of material forms on the physical plane.” The Upanishads
“The theory of the Mantra is that it is a word of power born out of the secret depths of our being where it has been brooded upon by a deeper consciousness than the mental, framed in the heart and not constructed by the intellect, held in the mind, again concentrated on by the waking mental consciousness and then thrown out silently or vocally—the silent word is perhaps held to be more potent than the spoken—precisely for the work of creation. The Mantra can not only create new subjective states in ourselves, alter our psychical being, reveal knowledge and faculties we did not before possess, can not only produce similar results in other minds than that of the user, but can produce vibrations in the mental and vital atmosphere which result in effects, in actions and even in the production of material forms on the physical plane.” The Upanishads
"The Vedas are the oldest holy books of India, perhaps the oldest of such works in the world. They are the foundation of the Hindu religion. The hymns they contain, written in an old form of Sanskrit, are said to have been ‘revealed" to the Rishis and subsequently were transmitted orally from generation to generation. They continued to be so handed down even after they had been collected and arranged by Krishna Dwaipayana (Veda Vyasa). It is not known when they were committed to writing. The Vedas are four in number: Rig, Yajur, Sama, and Atharva. In reality the Rig-Veda is the Veda; many of its hymns occur with a different arrangement in the other three Vedas. According to some scholars, each Veda is divided into four parts: Samhita, Brahmana, Aranyaka, and Upanisad. But generally the term ‘Veda" is reserved for the Samhita, the metrical hymns. (Dow)” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
"The view I am presenting goes farther in idealism; it sees the creative Idea as Real-Idea, that is to say, a power of Conscious Force expressive of real being, born out of real being and partaking of its nature and neither a child of the Void nor a weaver of fictions. It is conscious Reality throwing itself into mutable forms of its own imperishable and immutable substance. The world is therefore not a figment of conception in the universal Mind, but a conscious birth of that which is beyond Mind into forms of itself.” The Life Divine
“The view I am presenting goes farther in idealism; it sees the creative Idea as Real-Idea, that is to say, a power of Conscious Force expressive of real being, born out of real being and partaking of its nature and neither a child of the Void nor a weaver of fictions. It is conscious Reality throwing itself into mutable forms of its own imperishable and immutable substance. The world is therefore not a figment of conception in the universal Mind, but a conscious birth of that which is beyond Mind into forms of itself.” The Life Divine
"The whole nature of man is to become more than himself. He was the man-animal, he has become more than the animal man. He is the thinker, the craftsman, the seeker after beauty. He shall be more than the thinker, he shall be the seer of knowledge; he shall be more than the craftsman, he shall be the creator and master of his creation; he shall be more than the seeker of beauty, for he shall enjoy all beauty and all delight. Physical he seeks for this immortal substance; vital he seeks after immortal life and the infinite power of his being; mental and partial in knowledge, he seeks after the whole light and the utter vision.
thin ::: 1. Having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick. 2. Lean or slender in form, build, or stature. 3. Lacking radiance or intensity. 4. Not dense or concentrated; sparse. 5. Lacking substance or significance. 6. Scant; not abundant or plentiful. 7. (of sound) lacking resonance or volume. 8. Rarefied, as air.
"Things inside can be seen as distinctly as outward things whether in an image by the subtle vision or in their essence by a still more subtle and powerful way of seeing; but all these things have to develop in order to get their full power and intensity.” *Letters on Yoga
“This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil daylight, gives place or subordinates itself to an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the Spirit: a play of lightnings of spiritual truth and power breaks from above into the consciousness and adds to the calm and wide enlightenment and the vast descent of peace which characterise or accompany the action of the larger conceptual-spiritual principle, a fiery ardour of realisation and a rapturous ecstasy of knowledge.” The Life Divine
“This mind of pure intelligence has behind it our inner or subliminal mind which senses directly all the things of the mind-plane, is open to the action of a world of mental forces, and can feel the ideative and other imponderable influences which act upon the material world and the life-plane but which at present we can only infer and cannot directly experience: …” The Life Divine
"This secret Self in all beings is not apparent, but it is seen by means of the supreme reason, the subtle, by those who have the subtle vision. — Katha Upanishad. *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*
“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
those who assist, guide, wait upon, accompany, give service or follow another to contribute to the fulfilment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; subordinate companions.
thought-Mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Our first decisive step out of our human intelligence, our normal mentality, is an ascent into a higher Mind, a mind no longer of mingled light and obscurity or half-light, but a large clarity of the Spirit. Its basic substance is a unitarian sense of being with a powerful multiple dynamisation capable of the formation of a multitude of aspects of knowledge, ways of action, forms and significances of becoming, of all of which there is a spontaneous inherent knowledge. It is therefore a power that has proceeded from the Overmind, — but with the Supermind as its ulterior origin, — as all these greater powers have proceeded: but its special character, its activity of consciousness are dominated by Thought; it is a luminous thought-mind, a mind of Spirit-born conceptual knowledge. An all-awareness emerging from the original identity, carrying the truths the identity held in itself, conceiving swiftly, victoriously, multitudinously, formulating and by self-power of the Idea effectually realising its conceptions, is the character of this greater mind of knowledge. " *The Life Divine
thyself ::: 1. An emphatic appositive to thou or thee. 2. A substitute for reflexive thee.
tinsel ::: 1. A glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc. to produce a sparkling effect cheaply. 2. Something sparkling or showy but basically valueless.
to defeat or conquer in battle; subjugate; to conquer or subdue by superior force.
tortured ::: 1. Subjected to torture. 2. Anguished, tormented.
torturer ::: one who subjects (a person or an animal) to torture. torturers
totalitarian ::: of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed.
"To the mystic there is no such thing as an abstraction. Everything which to the intellectual mind is abstract has a concreteness, substantiality which is more real than the sensible form of an object or of a physical event.” Letters on Savitri*
transmutation ::: an act that changes the form or character or substance of something.
transmuted ::: changed from one form, nature, substance, or state into another; transformed.
transmute ::: to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform; convert. transmutes, transmuted, transmuting, transmutingly.
triple world ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Godhead has built this universe in a complex system of worlds which we find both within us and without, subjectively cognised and objectively sensed. It is a rising tier of earths and heavens; it is a stream of diverse waters; it is a Light of seven rays, or of eight or nine or ten; it is a Hill of many plateaus. The seers often image it in a series of trios; there are three earths and three heavens. More, there is a triple world below, — Heaven, Earth and the intervening mid-region; a triple world between, the shining heavens of the Sun; a triple world above, the supreme and rapturous abodes of the Godhead.” *The Secret of the Veda
unbowed ::: not bowed or bent; hence, not yielding or submitting, as to defeat.
unsubstantial :::
uncertain ::: 1. Not determinate or fixed in point of time or occurrence. 2. About which one cannot be certain or assured; subject to doubt. 3. Not fully confident or assured of something. 4. Having no clear knowledge; in a state of doubt. 5. Not clearly identified, located, or determined. 6. Not clearly defined or outlined; vague; indistinct. 7. Not certain to remain in one state or condition; unsteady, variable, fitful. 8. Dependent on chance or unpredictable factors; doubtful; of unforeseeable outcome or effect. 9. Ambiguous.
unchastened ::: not restrained from excess; not subdued or tempered.
understanding ::: Sri Aurobindo: "By the understanding we mean that which at once perceives, judges and discriminates, the true reason of the human being not subservient to the senses, to desire or to the blind force of habit, but working in its own right for mastery, for knowledge.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
undertone ::: 1. A low or subdued tone. 2. An underlying tone (of feeling, etc.); a subordinate or unobtrusive quality or element; an undercurrent. undertones.
“Vamadeva goes on to say,”Let us give expression to this secret name of the clarity,—that is to say, let us bring out this Soma wine, this hidden delight of existence; let us hold it in this world-sacrifice by our surrenderings or submissions to Agni, the divine Will or Conscious-Power which is the Master of being.” The Secret of the Veda
"Vishnu is the Eternal"s Personality of Consciousness; in him all is supported, in his wideness, in his stability, in his substance.” Essays Human and Divine*
Vishnu is the Eternal"s Personality of Consciousness; in him all is supported, in his wideness, in his stability, in his substance.
vision, subtle ::: see subtle vision
vistas ::: 1. Distant views or prospects, especially those seen through openings, as between rows of buildings or trees. 2. Fig. Far-reaching mental views. 3. *Fig.* Awareness of ranges of time, events, or subjects; broad mental views.
vital gods ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Life Heavens are the heavens of the vital gods and there is there a perfect harmony but a harmony of the sublimated satisfied senses and vital desires only.” Letters on Yoga
waste ::: 1. Useless consumption or expenditure; use without adequate return; an act or instance of wasting. 2. An unusable or unwanted substance or material, such as a waste product. 3. An empty, desolate, or dreary tract or area; empty space or untenanted regions. wastes.
wave-particles ::: the properties of photons and subatomic particles to exhibit properties of both waves and particles. Wave-particle duality is an important part of quantum mechanics postulate that all particles exhibit both waves and particles.
wavering ::: 1. Exhibiting irresolution or indecision; vacillating. 2. The quality of being unsteady and subject to changes such as surging, fluttering, trembling.
weight ::: 1. A measure of the heaviness of an object. Also fig. **2. A body of determinate mass, as of metal, for using on a balance or scale in weighing objects, substances, etc. 3. Any heavy load or burden. Also fig. 4. Influence, importance, or authority. 5. Consequence, or effective influence. weights. v. weighted. 6.** Added weight to, gave greater meaning or importance to.
"We might say then that there are three elements in the totality of our being: there is the submental and the subconscient which appears to us as if it were inconscient, comprising the material basis and a good part of our life and body; there is the subliminal, which comprises the inner being, taken in its entirety of inner mind, inner life, inner physical with the soul or psychic entity supporting them; there is this waking consciousness which the subliminal and the subconscient throw up on the surface, a wave of their secret surge. But even this is not an adequate account of what we are; for there is not only something deep within behind our normal self-awareness, but something also high above it: that too is ourselves, other than our surface mental personality, but not outside our true self; that too is a country of our spirit. For the subliminal proper is no more than the inner being on the level of the Knowledge-Ignorance luminous, powerful and extended indeed beyond the poor conception of our waking mind, but still not the supreme or the whole sense of our being, not its ultimate mystery.” The Life Divine
"When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created. It integrates, harmonises, establishes a new rhythm in the nature. It can bring down too a higher and yet higher force and range of the higher nature until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assisted, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer, easier the working of the Force can be. The more love and bhakti and surrender grow in the heart, the more rapid and perfect becomes the evolution of the sadhana. For the descent and transformation imply at the same time an increasing contact and union with the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
“When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created. It integrates, harmonises, establishes a new rhythm in the nature. It can bring down too a higher and yet higher force and range of the higher nature until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assisted, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer, easier the working of the Force can be. The more love and bhakti and surrender grow in the heart, the more rapid and perfect becomes the evolution of the sadhana. For the descent and transformation imply at the same time an increasing contact and union with the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
"When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created.” Letters on Yoga
“When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created.” Letters on Yoga
"When we study this Life as it manifests itself upon earth with Matter as its basis, we observe that essentially it is a form of the one cosmic Energy, a dynamic movement or current of it positive and negative, a constant act or play of the Force which builds up forms, energises them by a continual stream of stimulation and maintains them by an unceasing process of disintegration and renewal of their substance. This would tend to show that the natural opposition we make between death and life is an error of our mentality, one of those false oppositions — false to inner truth though valid in surface practical experience — which, deceived by appearances, it is constantly bringing into the universal unity.” The Life Divine ::: *life"s, life-born, life-curve, life-delight"s, life-drift, life-foam, life-giving, life-impulse, life-impulse"s, life-motives, life-nature"s, life-pain, life-plan, life-power, life-room, life-scene, life-self, life-thought, life-wants, all-life, sense-life.
“When we study this Life as it manifests itself upon earth with Matter as its basis, we observe that essentially it is a form of the one cosmic Energy, a dynamic movement or current of it positive and negative, a constant act or play of the Force which builds up forms, energises them by a continual stream of stimulation and maintains them by an unceasing process of disintegration and renewal of their substance. This would tend to show that the natural opposition we make between death and life is an error of our mentality, one of those false oppositions—false to inner truth though valid in surface practical experience—which, deceived by appearances, it is constantly bringing into the universal unity.” The Life Divine
will, free ::: Sri Aurobindo: Our notion of free will is apt to be tainted with the excessive individualism of the human ego and to assume the figure of an independent will acting on its own isolated account, in a complete liberty without any determination other than its own choice and single unrelated movement. This idea ignores the fact that our natural being is a part of cosmic Nature and our spiritual being exists only by the supreme Transcendence. Our total being can rise out of subjection to fact of present Nature only by an identification with a greater Truth and a greater Nature. The will of the individual, even when completely free, could not act in an isolated independence, because the individual being and nature are included in the universal Being and Nature and dependent on the all-overruling Transcendence. There could indeed be in the ascent a dual line. On one line the being could feel and behave as an independent self-existence uniting itself with its own impersonal Reality; it could, so self-conceived, act with a great force, but either this action would be still within an enlarged frame of its past and present self-formation of power of Nature or else it would be the cosmic or supreme Force that acted in it and there would be no personal initiation of action, no sense therefore of individual free will but only of an impersonal cosmic or supreme Will or Energy at its work. On the other line the being would feel itself a spiritual instrument and so act as a power of the Supreme Being, limited in its workings only by the potencies of the Supernature, which are without bounds or any restriction except its own Truth and self-law, and by the Will in her. But in either case there would be, as the condition of a freedom from the control of a mechanical action of Nature-forces, a submission to a greater conscious Power or an acquiescent unity of the individual being with its intention and movement in his own and in the world"s existence.” *The Life Divine
will, human ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The will of man works in the ignorance by a partial light or more often flickerings of light which mislead as much as they illuminate. His mind is an ignorance striving to erect standards of knowledge, his will an ignorance striving to erect standards of right, and his whole mentality as a result very much a house divided against itself, idea in conflict with idea, the will often in conflict with the ideal of right or the intellectual knowledge. The will itself takes different shapes, the will of the intelligence, the wishes of the emotional mind, the desires and the passion of the vital being, the impulsions and blind or half-blind compulsions of the nervous and the subconscient nature, and all these make by no means a harmony, but at best a precarious concord among discords. The will of the mind and life is a stumbling about in search of right force, right Tapas which can wholly be attained in its true and complete light and direction only by oneness with the spiritual and supramental being.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
world-Mother ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Ishwari Shakti, divine Conscious-Force and World-Mother, becomes a mediatrix between the eternal One and the manifested Many. On one side, by the play of the energies which she brings from the One, she manifests the multiple Divine in the universe, involving and evolving its endless appearances out of her revealing substance; on the other, by the reascending current of the same energies she leads back all towards That from which they have issued so that the soul in its evolutionary manifestation may more and more return towards the Divinity there or here put on its divine character.” The Synthesis of Yoga
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1:The illusionist sub-class sprang from my reading. So many spellworkers in fable and fiction used only the illusory, not "real magic" that had actual substance and effect, that I thought it would be fun to include such an option in the game. ~ Gary Gygax, ENWorld, Q&A with Gary Gygax part 1, 2002, #KEYS
2:We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien #KEYS
3:
"Without conscious occult powers, is it possible to help or protect from a distance somebody in difficulty or danger? If so, what is the practical procedure?"
Then a sub-question:
"What can thought do?"
We are not going to speak of occult processes at all; although, to tell the truth, everything that happens in the invisible world is occult, by definition. But still, practically, there are two processes which do not exclude but complete each other, but which may be used separately according to one's preference.
It is obvious that thought forms a part of one of the methods, quite an important part. I have already told you several times that if one thinks clearly and powerfully, one makes a mental formation, and that every mental formation is an entity independent of its fashioner, having its own life and tending to realise itself in the mental world - I don't mean that you see your formation with your physical eyes, but it exists in the mental world, it has its own particular independent existence. If you have made a formation with a definite aim, its whole life will tend to the realisation of this aim. Therefore, if you want to help someone at a distance, you have only to formulate very clearly, very precisely and strongly the kind of help you want to give and the result you wish to obtain. That will have its effect. I cannot say that it will be all-powerful, for the mental world is full of innumerable formations of this kind and naturally they clash and contradict one another; hence the strongest and the most persistent will have the best of it.
Now, what is it that gives strength and persistence to mental formations? - It is emotion and will. If you know how to add to your mental formation an emotion, affection, tenderness, love, and an intensity of will, a dynamism, it will have a much greater chance of success. That is the first method. It is within the scope of all those who know how to think, and even more of those who know how to love. But as I said, the power is limited and there is great competition in that world.
Therefore, even if one has no knowledge at all but has trust in the divine Grace, if one has the faith that there is something in the world like the divine Grace, and that this something can answer a prayer, an aspiration, an invocation, then, after making one's mental formation, if one offers it to the Grace and puts one's trust in it, asks it to intervene and has the faith that it will intervene, then indeed one has a chance of success.
Try, and you will surely see the result.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1956, 253,#KEYS
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1:Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 2:And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 3:We are what our considered opinion abide through us; so put up with assiduousness about what you storage. Natter are sub-. Line live; they travel far. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 4:Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 5:This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 6:My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 7:You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' & 8:The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through 1,000 billion junctions (synapses). The whole brain can be divided into subsections, or sub-networks, which communicate with each other in a network fashion. All this results in intricate patterns of intertwined webs, networks of nesting within larger networks. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove 9:Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their houses out of dark and light, and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're made. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 10:You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is locked in their mind. So when you move to another plane of consciousness which is no longer controlled by your intellect, which is really the sub-system and you move into the meta-system, what you feel at that moment is... you are the universe, you feel merged with it, you feel thick with the moment, and that richness is so fulfilling. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 11:What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful & 12:I am always behind the shopper at the grocery store who has stitched her coupons in the lining of her coat and wants to talk about a & 13:Once I saw a duck walking down the street so I went into Subway and ordered two pieces of bread, and they informed me that they could not do that, like there was some speical rule at Subway that two pieces of bread weren't allowed to touch. So the woman asked me what I wanted on the sandwich and I said I do not care, it is for a duck, and she was like oh then it's free. I was not aware that ducks eat for free at Subway. It's like give me a chicken fajita sub, but don't worry about ringing it up, it is for a duck. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 14:Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the needy. . . . While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. By contrast, volunteers for secular organizations . . . do not waste . . . time telling people about the virgin birth of Jesus. Nor do they tell people in sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly four million people die from AIDS every year - that condom use is sinful. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 15:We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming & 16:Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 17:Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. (25) ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 18:The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesn’t have to be another country. It can be the past instead—the United States as it was before it was spoiled by immigrants and the enfranchisement of the blacks. This state of mind allows too many of us to lie and cheat and steal from the rest of us, to sell us junk and addictive poisons and corrupting entertainments. What are the rest of us, after all, but sub-human aborigines? ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 19:The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesn’t have to be another country. It can be the past instead‚ the United States as it was before it was spoiled by immigrants and the enfranchisement of the blacks. This state of mind allows too many of us to lie and cheat and steal from the rest of us, to sell us junk and addictive poisons and corrupting entertainments. What are the rest of us, after all, but sub-human aborigines? ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Semper ubi sub ubi ~ Claire Cross, #NFDB
2:I am Psmith. I sub-edit. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
3:Et tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus... ~ Virgil, #NFDB
4:ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram ~ Virgil, #NFDB
5:He smelled like a fresh meatball sub. ~ Amelia Gray, #NFDB
6:He’s a sub dog. How did she find a sub dog? ~ Lexi Blake, #NFDB
7:sub pasi nostri se sfarma cochilii si elitre ~ Gellu Naum, #NFDB
8:6.2 MM State/Sub: (19,8)IDLE/NORMAL SERVICE 6.3 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
9:a small sub-Saharan African nation like Detroit. ~ Paul Beatty, #NFDB
10:The cow is the purest type of sub-human life. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
11:I can run sub-10 any time but I'm just not ready. ~ Asafa Powell, #NFDB
12:Time flies when you’re firing a sub machine gun. ~ Joe McKinney, #NFDB
13:When life becomes sub-human, sub-humans come alive. ~ Jerry Stahl, #NFDB
14:Let me put this as plainly as I can. Me, Dom. You, sub. ~ Lexi Blake, #NFDB
15:Um assassino é um sub-homem, não um super-homem. ~ Verg lio Ferreira, #NFDB
16:To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB
17:below 2 percent in a number of sub-Saharan African nations. ~ Satya Nadella, #NFDB
18:cases quite large fortresses, containing ten or more sub-bunkers ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
19:And then the Necromancers pulled out their sub-atomic machine guns. ~ Derek Landy, #NFDB
20:Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
21:Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
22:Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people. ~ Bono, #NFDB
23:He created a sub-reality in his mind to distract from the pain, smart fucker ~ V F Mason, #NFDB
24:Not even that, it was sub-quixotic. My kingdom for a windmill to tilt at. ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
25:He smiled. A sub shouldn’t be terrified, but a little anxiety was good. ~ Cherise Sinclair, #NFDB
26:For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
27:I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious... ~ Dodie Smith, #NFDB
28:After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor. ~ Lynne Truss, #NFDB
29:The number one directive of any decent Master Plan is unlimited sub–Master Plans. ~ Tim Dorsey, #NFDB
30:90 percent of all deaths from malaria in the world occur in sub-Saharan Africa.45 ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
31:They both had sub-machine guns. Yes, actual sub-machine guns. I couldn't believe it. ~ Jeff Strand, #NFDB
32:Nihil sub sole novum [...] Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
33:No river in sub-Saharan Africa reaches from the open sea to deep into the interior. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
34:The conscious mind has the power of choice; the sub-conscious does what it's told to do. ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
35:I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is. ~ Erica Brown, #NFDB
36:Cu toții nu suntem altceva decât pulbere de stele sub forma unei ființe înzestrate cu gândire. ~ S J Kincaid, #NFDB
37:Women clearly felt things more deeply: they read sub-text where men saw only white space. ~ Elin Hilderbrand, #NFDB
38:A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
39:A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
40:Cocorii albi de pe baticul tinerei Inamura zburară în amurgul care-i mai zăbovea sub pleoape. ~ Yasunari Kawabata, #NFDB
41:And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
42:Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow. ~ Will Thomas, #NFDB
43:If I'm in ya starting five you will never need a sub and I'm never looking down, so I always know what's up. ~ Drake, #NFDB
44:It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub specie aeternitatis. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
45:While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. ~ Charles Stross, #NFDB
46:When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell. ~ Dennis Miller, #NFDB
47:I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific. ~ Tony Curtis, #NFDB
48:She smiled at him. It was her special smile. Her please go away you piece of sub-proletarian turd smile. ~ Helen Zahavi, #NFDB
49:Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts. ~ Horace, #NFDB
50:India is the one area of the sub-continent where we haven't won since I have been involved with England ~ Duncan Fletcher, #NFDB
51:Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a sub-prime fish loan and you're in business, buddy. ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
52:August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
53:It's also important to reject any feelings of compulsion, guilt or negativity about sub-par or missed workouts. ~ Mark Sisson, #NFDB
54:Se duc genii si durere, mor cuvinte si placere, generatii sub tacere, fum in vant, sub soare umbra. ~ Michelangelo Buonarroti, #NFDB
55:You can get more with a simple prayer and a Thompson sub-machinegun than you can with a simple prayer alone. ~ John Dillinger, #NFDB
56:Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer. ~ Thomas Campbell, #NFDB
57:Adu-ţi aminte de un lucru”, răspunde maestrul. “Te îneci nu pentru că ai căzut în apă, ci pentru că rămâi sub apă. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
58:A tiger does not proclaim its tigritude. It pounces. —Wole Soyinka, Sub-Saharan Africa’s first Nobel Laureate ~ Nnedi Okorafor, #NFDB
59:The sub-conscious mind is like a bank - a universal bank; it magnifies whatever you deposit or impress upon it ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
60:To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human. ~ Willie D, #NFDB
61:Keeping sub-purposes and overall system purposes in harmony is an essential function of successful systems. ~ Donella H Meadows, #NFDB
62:Am scris adeseori că spiritul creator nu este altceva decât spiritul de contradicţie sub forma lui cea mai înaltă. ~ Jean Cocteau, #NFDB
63:The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language. ~ Theodor Adorno, #NFDB
64:The only currency that we really have to spend during our lives is time. Everything else is just a sub-category. ~ Stephen R Bown, #NFDB
65:They beat me to it."
And that was when things really got weird.
I mean, my mom had broken into Sub-level Two. ~ Ally Carter,#NFDB
66:If I had to describe the Ineffable Sub, I'd say she was... indescribably delicious! No, wait. That's Lucky Charms. ~ Michael Makai, #NFDB
67:Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB
68:The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years. ~ Joseph J Romm, #NFDB
69:When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences. ~ Michael Hyatt, #NFDB
70:When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form. ~ Joichi Ito, #NFDB
71:Little sub, you’re thinking and worrying again. Time to put you to work.”
Work? Scrub the bathroom or—
“Kneel. ~ Cherise Sinclair,#NFDB
72:So I got a job as a perma-sub for an English teacher on maternity leave and started looking for the source of the magic. ~ John G Hartness, #NFDB
73:One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important. ~ Robert Zoellick, #NFDB
74:I was a huge Sub-Zero guy, but the fact that you can download Freddy Krueger is the coolest thing I've heard of in a very long time. ~ CM Punk, #NFDB
75:Seems fitting, when you consider that both prisons and schools are known for serving sub-par food and having group exercise yards. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
76:...the ravenous monsters men called reporters; sub-human vermin who feed off misery and created it wherever they went. ~ Christopher G Nuttall, #NFDB
77:She's more worried about losing a sub than her own life," Galloway said. "I am going to cover that girl in medals. So help me God. ~ John Ringo, #NFDB
78:Throwing a sub at the Apollyon probably wasn't something that should be done in public. But I couldn't help it; I laughed. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
79:We cannot build Christian churches on a sub-Christian gospel. People who don’t want Christianity don’t want almost-Christianity. ~ Russell D Moore, #NFDB
80:You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation. ~ Matt Chandler, #NFDB
81:Nihil sub sole novum, I thought as I walked back down the hall to my room. Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
82:This is only possible because these many sub-minds have simultaneous access to any information present in the conscious mind. ~ Culadasa John Yates, #NFDB
83:As sub-assistant-treasurer in this archipelago, there are conversations I've been meaning to have. We could have those now, young Loam. ~ N D Wilson, #NFDB
84:Tânjeam după o dragoste mai mare ca dealul Arthur's Seat și acum m-am pomenit cu un lanț de munți care îmi crește direct sub oase. ~ Mathias Malzieu, #NFDB
85:Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction. ~ Abraham Maslow, #NFDB
86:I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details. ~ Pam Gems, #NFDB
87:O să dormim într-un cort sub stele și o să facem dragoste și o să ascultăm cum suflă vântul printre copaci și orele vor fi doar ale noastre. ~ Eowyn Ivey, #NFDB
88:It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
89:Once in a while an entire sub-sub-category that had long been thought safely dormant would take wing with an indescribable papery susurrus. ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
90:We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture ~ Jacque Fresco, #NFDB
91:Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites. ~ J Philippe Rushton, #NFDB
92:The sub has the upper hand in a true Master and sub relationship, Thomas. Always. I can possess you only as long as you want to belong to me. ~ Joey W Hill, #NFDB
93:To judge by the estimated date that it burgeoned into sub-lineages, it was one of the I2 family that travelled with early farmers. So it could ~ Jean Manco, #NFDB
94:Big ring around moon, three or four days from full. Rain coming? Big wave every 10 seconds, sometimes like distant explosion, booming sub-bass. ~ Neil Peart, #NFDB
95:On a sub, you know, there's no place for things to drain to. The survivors claimed that the blood was knee-deep all through the submarine. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
96:The 90’s map the decades to come – full of invisible technologies that will ‘sub-contract’ many of the functions of the central nervous system. ~ J G Ballard, #NFDB
97:Simt nevoia sa ies din mine si sa nu ma mai opresc,sa depasesc toate limitele care-au fost trecute vreodata,sa scap de sub tirania creierului. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
98:Slaves were among the main commodities traded during this era, which preceded the era of European territorial conquests in sub-Saharan Africa. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
99:Sub-Saharan Africa, with a population of 900 million and an annual output of only 1.8 trillion euros (less than the French GDP of 2 trillion), ~ Thomas Piketty, #NFDB
100:Thus the Gurus were all from the ‘high’ Khatri caste of traders and administrators but within that caste from middle-level clans or sub-castes. ~ Rajmohan Gandhi, #NFDB
101:De atunci femeia-ascunde sub pleoape-o taina si-si misca geana parc-ar zice ca ea stie ceva, ce noi nu stim, ce nimenea nu stie , nici Dumnezeu chiar. ~ Lucian Blaga, #NFDB
102:Maybe I'll just stand here for the half hour and pretend to be a statue. “You were given an order, sub,” he said softly.
Or not. ~ Cherise Sinclair,#NFDB
103:El era al doilea om de zăpadă care se topea sub ochii ei, dar acesta era diferit. Era un paradox. Cu cât devenea mai frig, cu atât mai repede se topea. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
104:Pălaria este un moft; pot s-o cumpăr de la Ţimermann; dar ceea ce se ascunde sub pălarie, ceea ce acoperă pălaria, asta n-o pot cumpăra nicăieri! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
105:All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat. ~ Walter de La Mare, #NFDB
106:Ca florile ce-atinse de răcoare
tânjesc, ci-n zori, sub ploaia de lumine,
se n-alță drept pe lujere ușoare,
la fel curajul se trezi în mine. ~ Dante Alighieri,#NFDB
107:I am not ranting. I possess a perspective here that you people, who are locked in the ivory basements of your own sub-cultures, simply do not possess. ~ Bruce Sterling, #NFDB
108:The only criterion for an Ineffable Sub's eclectic mélange of traditions from multiple submissive categories should be this only: Does it work for her? ~ Michael Makai, #NFDB
109:you’re a member of the human race, not a sub-group. Here, you’re a nation of the world with a global awareness, rather than a patriot of any one country. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
110:Jacques La Borwitz had his points, no doubt, but so have the sub-microscopic protozoa, so has a dog prowling for a bitch and a bone." -Cecelia Brady ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
111:At the sub-atomic level, everything is complex. But you do not live at the sub-atomic level. You have the right to simplify. If you don’t, you will go insane. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
112:We are what our considered opinion abide through us; so put up with assiduousness about what you storage. Natter are sub-. Line live; they travel far. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
113:Ego audio Domine. Animus humilis igitur sub potenti manu Dei est. Mundus sum ego, et absque delicto immaculatus. Verbum vester in me caro et ferrum erit. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
114:How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate. ~ Peter F Hamilton, #NFDB
115:How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel?
We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate. ~ Peter F Hamilton,#NFDB
116:Plictiseala- absenţa de muzică a materiei
Melancolia- muzică înconştientă a sufletului
Extazul- delirul spiritului
Lacrimile- muzica sub forma materiei ~ Emil M Cioran,#NFDB
117:I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and maybe even subversive or something. ~ Marie Calloway, #NFDB
118:for many biological traits—including cognitive ones—there is expected to be a higher proportion of sub-Saharan Africans with extreme genetically predicted abilities. ~ David Reich, #NFDB
119:If I had been thinking, I would have stopped. A dom should never, ever have an ounce of anger in his heart when spanking a sub. That wasn’t fun. That wasn’t all right. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
120:In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa. ~ Claudio Hummes, #NFDB
121:A sheepish smile forms on his face. “Sorry. Didn’t see you there.”
Unwrapping my sub, I reply, “No shit, Sherlock. Why so glum? Porn not loading quick enough? ~ Belle Aurora,#NFDB
122:Dar chiar sub fereastră era grădina de trandafiri și, în timp ce trupul meu răspundea la atingerile lui, mintea părea să-mi cutreiere peste florile de sub noi. ~ Vanessa Diffenbaugh, #NFDB
123:In fact, the United States is building up its trident nuclear sub fleet in the Pacific, based at Bangor, Washington to build up its capabilities to wage nuclear war. ~ John Burroughs, #NFDB
124:Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically. ~ Jeff Britting, #NFDB
125:Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
126:Edging,” said Gray. “The ability to keep a sub in a heightened state of sexual arousal. Or in Jack terms: basic fucking self-control.” All humour had gone from his voice. ~ Jack L Pyke, #NFDB
127:Nopţile înstelate erau inegalabil, înspăimântător de frumoase. Ai fi vrut să mori sub cerul acela pieziş pe care stelele se risipeau ca o pulbere de heroină pură... ~ Mircea C rt rescu, #NFDB
128:Cel mai atractiv lucru din lume este fata pe care, instinctiv, o acoperim cu o panza. Cand ajunge si mai atragatoare, fascinanta chiar, o punem la doi metri sub pamant. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
129:Te-admiră veşnic Moartea,o,lume caraghioasă,în zvârcolirea-ţi tâmpă,sub orice soare-ai sta,şi-ades,asemeni ţie,în smirnă se-mbăiază,mijindu-şi ironia în nebunia ta. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
130:The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade or two, instead of falling. ~ Annia Ciezadlo, #NFDB
131:Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds many things can be done. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
132:Aceeași substanță ne compune pe toți - copacul de deasupra capului, piatra de sub noi, pasărea, fiara, steaua, una suntem cu toții și cu toții ne îndreptăm spre aceeași țintă. ~ P L Travers, #NFDB
133:Ahora América es, para el mundo, nada más que los Estados Unidos: nosotros habitamos, a lo sumo, una sub América, una América de segunda clase, de nebulosa identificación. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
134:Ce-i vom raspunde oarbei care se plange in poezia lui Rilke: «nu mai pot trai asa cu cerul pe mine»? Oare am mangaia-o de i-am spune ca nu mai putem trai cu pamantul sub noi? ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
135:Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction. ~ Fritjof Capra, #NFDB
136:The dream is so pleasant: to extend a limited sub-portion of yourself into a simulated world and pretend for a while that you are blissfully less. Less than an omniscient being. ~ David Brin, #NFDB
137:Nanny Ogg gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who'd just been told that someone was banging two bits of sub-critical uranium together to keep warm. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
138:all we want to see is the sculptured singer – alone, carrying all, sub-plot and sub-text, the physical autobiography; simultaneously, subjectively and objectively at the same time. ~ Morrissey, #NFDB
139:Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. ~ Melinda Gates, #NFDB
140:Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds very many things can be done. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
141:The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB
142:It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions. ~ Roelof Botha, #NFDB
143:followed him to a motel named the Bonds of Erotic Polymorphic Experience, a sixty-unit sub-surface structure catering to businessmen and their hookers who don't want to be entertained. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
144:Yale was founded before the advent of the fraternity system, so the white men of generations past had to make up their own structures for sub-erotic bonding and pointless tribalism. ~ John Hodgman, #NFDB
145:Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere. ~ Varg Vikernes, #NFDB
146:O viață petrecută lucrând sub egida Ministerului Apărării îl învățase o sumedenie de tehnici de supraviețuire într-o lume care făcea ca lupta armată să pară civilizată și plină de stil. ~ Iain Pears, #NFDB
147:Conceptiuni false
Consideratiuni eronate
Totul trebuie refacut sub un alt punct de vedere.
Fructul unei melancolii insuficient gindita.
"Colectie de exagerari bolnavicioase ~ Emil M Cioran,#NFDB
148:The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
149:(Oh, Dumnezeule, sora mea care are legătură cu mine este o din aia - o ciudată, o lipsă, una căreia nu poți să i-o tragi, o sub-dezvoltată și care nici măcar nu merită să fie făcută ilegală.) ~ Ali Smith, #NFDB
150:I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
151:People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors. ~ Geoffrey Rush, #NFDB
152:Arabian sunan by virtue of the fact that he merely adopted them (later on, this became the third sub-type of Prophetic Sunna, known as "tacit approval"; the other two were based on the Prophet's ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
153:Using supernatural beings to build the perfect weapon? Intriguing idea." "Not really," I said. "They did it on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A sub-par season. I slept through half the episodes. ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
154:I don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life and their back stories and all that nonsense, because it never means anything. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
155:When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite. ~ David Lynch, #NFDB
156:Both the Glory and the destroyer We are Proud to Honor Clan Sub-Leader Rash-au-Tal Vergent who Inspires us Every Day had gathered vital intelligence about Ruhar defense tactics and capabilities. ~ Craig Alanson, #NFDB
157:The result was that, throughout the continental provinces of the Empire, a hybrid sub-Roman society continued to propagate Roman and Christian ideas of politics under the rule of Germanic kings; ~ David Starkey, #NFDB
158:Why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
159:If the one-year-old, the five-year-old, the twelve-year-old, and the twenty-year-old all find compatible personalities in the beloved, there is a real chance to keep all of these sub-personas happy. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
160:And what of that? Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now, in 86,400 seconds very many things can be done. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
161:High on its flanks is a complex of caves where the kings and heroes of the Mountain Kingdoms have been laid to rest, their bodies preserved by the sub-zero temperatures and thin, high-altitude air. ~ Philip Reeve, #NFDB
162:simply by repeatedly telling yourself who you want to be, what you want to accomplish and how you are going to accomplish it. With enough repetition, your sub-conscious mind will begin to believe what ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
163:Master Nolan - "Being angry at a sub because a scene goes bad or you don’t get the response you want isn’t the mark of a good Dom. And insulting a woman for any reason is the mark of an asshole. ~ Cherise Sinclair, #NFDB
164:Ceea ce caut în fond nu este mântuirea, ci mângâierea, mai mult: o vorbă(una singură!) de mângâiere; şi tocmai asta nu găsesc niciunde.
... Iată starea celui născut sub zodia tristeţii fără leac. ~ Emil M Cioran,#NFDB
165:In Islam, it is the "moderate" who is left to split hairs,
because the basic thrust of the doctrine is undeniable: convert, sub-
jugate, or kill unbelievers; kill apostates; and conquer the world. ~ Sam Harris,#NFDB
166:The human mind is a strange and wonderful thing,” he said reflectively, “but I’m not sure it will ever figure itself out. Everything else, maybe—from sub-atomic particles to the universe—except itself. ~ Jack Finney, #NFDB
167:Using supernatural beings to build the perfect weapon? Intriguing idea."
"Not really," I said. "They did it on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A sub-par season. I slept through half the episodes. ~ Kelley Armstrong,#NFDB
168:Average global per capita income is currently around 760 euros per month; in 1700, it was less than 70 euros per month, roughly equal to income in the poorest countries of Sub-Saharan Africa in 2012. ~ Thomas Piketty, #NFDB
169:Almost as miraculous as life itself was the number of ways it could end, or at least turn into a living hell. And for each of those there was a different, exquisitely evolved medical sub-subspecialty. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
170:Maybe you could even think 100,000 people are inside each human being. And you drop a novel on that person, and a certain number of those sub-people come alive or get reenergized for some finite time. ~ George Saunders, #NFDB
171:This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience. ~ Terence McKenna, #NFDB
172:(...) fratele sãu mai mare, care ședea cu o carte latineascã sub teiul bãtrân din fața curții parohiale și pentru care pãsãrile cântau în zadar, iar soarele își risipea fãrã folos aurul topit. ~ Leopold von Sacher Masoch, #NFDB
173:A race, in evolutionary terminology, is a sub-species evolving into a new species but, in reality, there is no such thing. That is, as far as mankind is concerned, there is only one race — the human race. ~ Henry M Morris, #NFDB
174:Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all. ~ John Maynard Keynes, #NFDB
175:Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
176:Într-o mână am Coranul și-ntr-o mână am stacana,
Când mă ia Alah în brațe, când de gât mă ia Satana!
Suntem toți de sub cupola cerurilor de turcoază
Nici păgâni până la capăt, nici mahomedani de vază. ~ Omar Khayy m,#NFDB
177:The West, both the elites (consciously) and ordinary people (sub-consciously), want Russia to go to hell; to disappear, drown, explode. It is because Russia is once again defending humanism all over the world. ~ Andre Vltchek, #NFDB
178:Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
179:The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis [i.e., under the aspect of eternity]; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
180:There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books and say: I'm determined to find out where this came from. You'd probably be wrong anyway. ~ Van Morrison, #NFDB
181:Master Nolan - “When a Dom takes control, leaving no choices for the sub, he has to see to all her needs, not just sexual, but emotional and physical also. If your Dom doesn't do that, then you find a new Dom. ~ Cherise Sinclair, #NFDB
182:I don't wanna forget the fact that I wanna be one of the best rappers. I feel like some of the best rappers ever - 2Pac, namely, one of them - could take sub-par beats or average beats and turn them into incredible songs. ~ J Cole, #NFDB
183:His lips were smooth and strong, and his tongue stroked mine with a passion and yearning that curled my toes. And we weren’t dom and sub; we weren’t master and servant; we weren’t even man and woman. We were lovers... ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
184:Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. .... The conclusion is drawn that these chemical changes must be sub-atomic in character. ~ Ernest Rutherford, #NFDB
185:You thought you were the only one who wanted that?” Axel asked. That had to be the problem, because there was no way anyone could doubt that Bayden wanted it with a ferocity that Axel had never encountered in another sub. ~ Kim Dare, #NFDB
186:A gândi puţin nu înseamnă totdeauna o deficienţă. Alte forţe ale sufletului, ţinute până atunci sub obroc de trufia gândirii, ies la iveală şi îţi orientează fiinţa spre descoperirea adevărului, chiar dacă nu-l doreşti. ~ Marin Preda, #NFDB
187:Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story. ~ Alice Hoffman, #NFDB
188:The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. "The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a playroom that makes you want to break your own jaw with a golf club. I can't take it. ~ Tina Fey, #NFDB
189:This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
190:A mânca din primăvară până-n toamnă sub nuc era, aş zice eu, ceva de care puţine popoare au parte, o fericire care intră în corola de minuni a lumii, ierte-mă Blaga ori duhul lui Blaga dacă bietul de el o fi murit... ~ Nicolae Steinhardt, #NFDB
191:Everything I’ve done to you goes against your nature. You don’t fight it because you truly hate yourself. I can’t cure that. Not with love or domination. So when you broke, you didn’t really break. Not the way a real sub does. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
192:If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit. ~ Ethan Zuckerman, #NFDB
193:If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair. ~ Thomas Nagel, #NFDB
194:In esenta, majoritatea antagonismelor sunt similaritati ireconciliabile. S-au purtat razboaie de o suta de ani pentru a se stabili daca Isus era om in forma divina sau divinitate sub forma umana. Credintele sunt ucigase. ~ Rabih Alameddine, #NFDB
195:The credit crunch was based on a climate (the post-Cold War victory party of free-market capitalism), a problem (the sub-prime mortgages), a mistake (the mathematical models of risk) and a failure, that of the regulators. ~ John Lanchester, #NFDB
196:Those who take knowledge to be a whole zoo of sub-disciplines will react to my giving metaphysics a privileged position in that zoo or to my thinking of knowledge as a tree, with more and less fundamental parts. ~ Gonzalo Rodriguez Pereyra, #NFDB
197:If Disneyland was indeed the Happiest Place on Earth, you'd either keep it a secret or the price of admission would be free and not equivalent to the yearly per capita income of a small sub-Saharan African nation like Detroit. ~ Paul Beatty, #NFDB
198:(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth ~ Jacques Ellul, #NFDB
199:As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold. ~ Hari Kunzru, #NFDB
200:In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men. ~ Melinda Gates, #NFDB
201:Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements. ~ Rudolf Carnap, #NFDB
202:t is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most diffcult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
203:They say that when we sleep our sub-conscious selves are revealed, our hidden thoughts and desires are written plain upon our features and our bodies like the tracings of rivers on a map; and no one reads them but the darkness. ~ Daphne du Maurier, #NFDB
204:It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future— sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
205:The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub-meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
206:It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future - sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
207:Loads of weirdos send me things, like strange bits of leather. And then there was the guy who thought I was having his baby. Apparently, he's been writing to Princess Anne too, so I clearly belong to a good, erm, sub-section of society. ~ Konnie Huq, #NFDB
208:This was a strong underlying sub-text to the entire meeting, how to destabilise the Northern state rather than how to work with it, an approach which Devlin and his spokesmen would certainly have been expected to explore more fully. ~ Tim Pat Coogan, #NFDB
209:i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror -- everything else is just shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia, shit-for-brains, sub-reptilian ennui of totalitarian regimes, banal censorship & useless pain ... ~ Hakim Bey, #NFDB
210:If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates. ~ John Burroughs, #NFDB
211:Vino, moarte, de mă ia
Să mă culci sub cetini grele;
Zboară, suflete, şi tu,
După dragostele mele.
Pe ochi giulgiu de mohor,
Mi-or întinde cei prieteni.
M-a scăpat moartea de dor,
Adormit sub grele cetini. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
212:The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
213:Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one. ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
214:Most games follow a real railroad plot, no matter what you want, you're following their storyline to its unavoidable conclusion. I'd like to write a game where your character can follow any number of possible story arcs and sub-plots. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
215:It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the
future— sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his
existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task. ~ Viktor E Frankl,#NFDB
216:Jungians have found that in every man there is a feminine sub-personality called the Anima, made up of the feminine archetypes. And in every woman there is a masculine sub-personality called the Animus, made up of the masculine archetypes. ~ Robert L Moore, #NFDB
217:cadrul dictaturilor mai eficace, de mâine, probabil că va exista mult mai puţină violenţă decât sub Hitler şi Stalin. Supuşii viitorilor dictatori vor fi înregimentaţi fără suferinţă de un corp de specialişti bine pregătiţi în ingineria socială. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
218:By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. ~ Iain M Banks, #NFDB
219:In short, the explosion in sub-prime lending was a thoroughly top–down, political project, mandated by Congress, implemented by government-sponsored enterprises, enforced by the law, encouraged by the president and monitored by pressure groups. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
220:I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
221:. Nate examined the desk. It was a large, solid piece of wood, the type of thing found in New England universities. He glanced over his shoulder at the staircase and wondered if they’d had to disassemble it to get it down into the sub-basement ~ Peter Clines, #NFDB
222:The conspiracy theorists claimed that a Nazi sub left Germany just before the fall of the Third Reich, carrying away the highest ranking Nazis and the entire treasury, including priceless artifacts that had been looted and top-secret technology. ~ A G Riddle, #NFDB
223:The only place they registered at all was on a small black device called a Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic which winked away quietly to itself. It nestled in the darkness inside a leather satchel which Ford Prefect habitually wore slung around his neck. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
224:You've got the Wall Street situation, the sub-prime situation. You've got a black president. We've got wars. We've got unemployment. But the music doesn't reflect that. And I challenge anybody to show me a music that's on the radio that reflects that. ~ Ice T, #NFDB
225:No political politicians on the board and stop sub-contracting anyway, which means getting out of Iraq. If anything needs to be policed, it needs to be done through a proper international body... not through us sub-contracting teams of mercenaries. ~ Ken Loach, #NFDB
226:The best way to address the big ultimate questions is likely to be through dialogue with Nature. We must pose pointed sub-questions that give Nature a chance to respond with meaningful answers, in particular with answers that might surprise us. ~ Frank Wilczek, #NFDB
227:When Judy Moody got to school on Monday, she had a new teacher. Her new teacher was called a sub (not the sandwich). Her new teacher was called Mrs. Grossman. Exactly three things were wrong with that. (1) Mrs. Grossman was NOT gross. (2) Mrs. ~ Megan McDonald, #NFDB
228:I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing. ~ K D Lang, #NFDB
229:Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable sub-human who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. ~ Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love (1973), and again in The Notebooks of Lazarus Long (1978)., #NFDB
230:Toţi încearcă să mimeze, să repete şi să recreeze realitatea ce le este proprie. Sfîrşim totdeauna prin a avea chipul adevărurilor noastre. Pentru un om care a întors spatele eternităţii intreaga existenţă nu-i decît un mim uriaş sub masca absurdului. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
231:What had once been grand houses were divided meanly into many small apartments, let at prices out of all proportion to what wages it was possible to earn. Rooms were sub-let, and sub-let again, so that what constituted a family had long been forgotten. ~ Sarah Perry, #NFDB
232:Nimic nu-mi poate fi mai plăcut, dragă prietene, decât să mă reîntorc în singurătatea mea, sub copacii mei stufoși, pe țărmul Loarei. Dacă Dumnezeu e cel mai mare tămăduitor al rănilor sufletești, natura îți dăruiește leacurile cele mai neîntrecute. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
233:Tata coboară măsuța, scoate fotografia mamei din buzunar, o așează pe masă, cu fața la fereastră.
Își lasă scaunul pe spate și privesc amândoi marea nesfârșită de norișori albi care dispar sub noi, fără să mai scoată un cuvânt tot restul zborului. ~ Cecelia Ahern,#NFDB
234:I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. ~ Donald Evans, #NFDB
235:I had made a couple of records in Europe. One as a leader, and one as a sideman before that. It was what it was. I started to work with Maria Schneider around that period and some other people, I started to get called to sub at the Vanguard in my mid-20s. ~ Jon Gordon, #NFDB
236:Pleasure, pleasure, pleasure! Always your goal is pleasure. Pain, yes of course! Yet pain must only be used as a means to add to your sub's sensation of pleasure. To do otherwise is un péché noir - a black sin. Such will tarnish the soul.
André Chevalier ~ Nikki Sex,#NFDB
237:There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
238:iar contactele acestea incomplete au împins trupurile noastre sănătoase, tinere și lipsite de experiență într-o asemenea exasperare, încât nu se mai putea liniști nici măcar apa albastră și răcoroasă sub care noi doi ne țineam încă agățați unul de altul. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
239:Sub specie aeterni [Do ponto de vista da eternidade]
A: "Você se afasta cada vez mais dos que vivem: logo eles o apagarão de suas listas!" - B: "É a única maneira de partilhar o privilégio dos mortos." - A: "Qual privilégio?" - B: "Não mais morrer. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#NFDB
240:The multiple must be made, not by always adding a higher dimension, but rather in the simplest of ways, by dint of sobriety, with the number of dimensions one already has available always n - 1 (the only way the one belongs to the multiple: always sub tracted ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
241:I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound. ~ Kurt Cobain, #NFDB
242:We faced blizzards, sub-zero temperatures, and of course dangerous snow conditions and vertiginous drops. That's what you get when you're working with fickle mother nature - you start out with a solid plan and it always changes, so you have to evolve and adapt. ~ Travis Rice, #NFDB
243:The Internet with its sub-kingdoms of Google, Twitter, etc, can be a good servant for those who will use it as such. But for a vast percentage the Internet is the master, and the owner is a slave. The preacher/pastor needs to deal with this matter with his people. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
244:Răscolea toate tufișurile și toate pietrele, ca să caute gâze. Așteptând să viseze, se juca. Îi plăcea grădina cu gângăniile care furnicau în iarbă, sub picioarele ei, așteptând s-o iubească pentru stelele pe care avea să le vadă printre ramuri, deasupra capului. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
245:Once you start listing the elements of a system, there is almost no end to the process. You can divide elements into sub-elements and then sub-sub-elements. Pretty soon you lose sight of the system. As the saying goes, you can’t see the forest for the trees. ~ Donella H Meadows, #NFDB
246:Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice. ~ Graham Joyce, #NFDB
247:The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then we have something lower than hell. We have endless sub-realms that make hell look like Club Med and we have endless nirvana. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
248:For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature. ~ Junot Diaz, #NFDB
249:Because when a man comes right out and says he’s interested in a woman, the sub-communication is actually, “I’m totally OK with the idea of you rejecting me, otherwise I would not be approaching you in this manner. Therefore, I'm comfortable with myself and my prospects. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
250:I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women. ~ Annie Lennox, #NFDB
251:Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every cancer in its own right is a rare disease. Sharing data globally in this context is really important from a life-threatening perspective. ~ Patrick Soon Shiong, #NFDB
252:My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
253:Parantham finally realized that selecting a star on the map enabled a sub-menu with the unassuming option "Go to star". Choosing this did not change the map's viewpoint or magnification; rather, it caused the map to inquire politely, "Are you sure you wish to travel to this star? ~ Greg Egan, #NFDB
254:Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian. ~ Robert E Howard, #NFDB
255:Indonesia is now undeniably a ruined country. It has sunk to the level of sub-Saharan African nations. It has malls and luxury hotels in several cities, but in between them it is an absolute nightmare, with all the basic services either missing, or on a totally inadequate level. ~ Andre Vltchek, #NFDB
256:La urma urmei s-ar putea ca Dumnezeu nici să n-aibă nevoie a ne pedepsi. Îşi întoarce faţa de la noi: ceea ce înseamnă că ne retrage harul său ocrotitor şi ne lasă-n voia întâmplărilor şi interconexiunilor lumii materiale. Intrăm sub zodia hazardului şi mecanicei: vai nouă! ~ Nicolae Steinhardt, #NFDB
257:Love? The Doctor Sneered. What do you know about love?
I read it in the mind of this creature. He has such love for you. They all do. And you for them.
Yeah, well, that's what happens when people play Twister in sub-zero temperatures. They stick together. Sometimes literally. ~ Mark Morris,#NFDB
258:Might you show me how to project a schematic of the entire inner solar system? I appear to be unable to zoom out from the immediate neighbourhood of Paladin.” “Access that sub-menu, then select the logarithmic scale factor,” Nissa said. “Thank you—I should have seen that.” The ~ Alastair Reynolds, #NFDB
259:The illusionist sub-class sprang from my reading. So many spellworkers in fable and fiction used only the illusory, not "real magic" that had actual substance and effect, that I thought it would be fun to include such an option in the game. ~ Gary Gygax, ENWorld, Q&A with Gary Gygax part 1, 2002, #NFDB
260:Thank you sweetie, I didn't know how much I needed you.. Perhaps now you might provide me with something else."
"Oh? What if I'm not in the mood to provide anything else but food?"
"Since I'm the master and you're the sub, seems like you get to provide it anyway. ~ Cherise Sinclair,#NFDB
261:[...] the Chinese character for 'crisis' is comprised of two sub-characters: one that spells 'danger' and another that spells 'opportunity.' I guess that even the ancient Chinese knew that there is a bright side to the darkest circumstance — if you have the courage to look for it. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
262:Vinnie’s Sub Shop, que está en la misma manzana de nuestra oficina en Chicago. Ponen en sus bocadillos un aceite de albahaca casero que es delicioso. Pero tienes que ir pronto. Si les preguntas a qué hora cierran, la mujer del mostrador te dirá: «Cerramos cuando se nos acaba el pan». ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
263:Revolutia rusa se afla atunci inca sub stralucirea romantica a acelui Octombrie ... Cum inca nu incepuse epoca stalinismului, cu crimele sale, am simtit, cu un romantic fanatism, ca revolutia proletariatului va izbuti sa aduca oamenilor lumea pura intrezarita de stiintele matematice. ~ Ernesto Sabato, #NFDB
264:Man’s awesome scientific advances into the infinitude of space as well as the infinitude of sub-atomic particles seems most likely to lead to the total destruction of our world unless we can make great advances in understanding and dealing with interpersonal and inter-group tensions. I ~ Carl R Rogers, #NFDB
265:A thought weaves into another thought, seeking the other.
The thought world has its-own Inner Life.
A rose acts upon us through its symbolism, through its beauty, through our conscious & sub-conscious mind.
Meditating we tap into the thought form of ‘rose adoration’. ~ Nata a Nuit Pantovi,#NFDB
266:If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries. ~ Helen Clark, #NFDB
267:I'm extraordinarily passionate about the idea of asteroid mining in the future. Asteroids out there, we know them from those that have fallen on the Earth, there is a class of asteroids, sub-class of nickel/iron asteroids, which are 50,000 times more enriched than Platinum mines on earth. ~ Peter Diamandis, #NFDB
268:Corpul îi trosnea ca un bec supratensionat. Ai fi zis că e o fantomă roșie-argintie incandescentă care murea pentru a doua oară. Mi-era teamă s-o ating, să nu se spargă, să nu mă ard. Mi-era teamă. Vedeam incendii stroboscopice crescând sub pleoapele ei, răspândindu-se în flăcări albastre. ~ Mathias Malzieu, #NFDB
269:People who suffer deprivation in terms of material living standards—such as much of the population of sub-Saharan Africa—are generally also the people who suffer deprivation in terms of health; they get to live for fewer years, and they live with the misery of seeing many of their children die. ~ Angus Deaton, #NFDB
270:Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' conducted on the teli. Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth. ~ Ilana Mercer, #NFDB
271:With any actor, rather than tips, I think when you enjoy working with somebody and you enjoy what they do, I think your reaction is partly to be doing what they're doing, so you're learning all the time, whether it be sub-consciously or whether it be just through the person you enjoy working with. ~ Luke Goss, #NFDB
272:Cum să vorbești despre sentimentul pe care-l ai cînd te desparți de oameni și vezi cum siluetele lor rămîn în urmă și apoi dispar cu desăvîrșire? E lumea asta cea mult prea mare în care ne pierdem, este despărțirea. Dar acum gîndul ni se îndreaptă spre următoarea aventură nebună, sub alte ceruri. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
273:He was fifteen years old. This meant he belonged to a special sub-category of human called a ‘teenager’, the chief characteristics of which were a weakened resistance to gravity, a vocabulary of grunts, a lack of spatial awareness, copious amounts of masturbation, and an unending appetite for cereal. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
274:The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string. ~ Brian Greene, #NFDB
275:By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules. ~ Iain M Banks, #NFDB
276:Mergeam incet, pe cerul compact si sticlos alergau niste nori destul de urati. Orasul zacea in covorul lui de praf. Ma simteam in afara oricarei legaturi favorabile cu norii aceia adunati sub ochii mei intr-o harababura menita parca sa-mi demonstreze cat de iluzorii ne pot fi uneori disponibilitatile.. ~ Gellu Naum, #NFDB
277:To be able to achieve the laudable goals (of preventing and treating HIV/AIDS), especially for us in sub-Saharan Africa, there is the need for us to invest in improving our weak health systems. The inadequate number of healthcare facilities in many of our countries are major issues of concern. ~ John Dramani Mahama, #NFDB
278:de un singur lucru îmi pare rău: de prietenia noastră; căci port în piept o inimă; și, lucru ciudat, această inimă nu s-a uscat sub asprimea vântului, mizeriei care mi-a trecut prin găurile mantalei sau prin rănile adânc săpate în piele de ascuțișurile atâtor săbii, aduse din cine știe câte fabrici. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
279:Constrângerea psihologică este de aşa natură încât cei care acţionează sub imperiul ei rămân cu impresia că acţionează din proprie iniţiativă. O victimă a manipulării mintale nu ştie că este victimă. Pentru ea, zidurile închisorii sunt invizibile şi ea se crede liberă. Numai ceilalţi văd că nu este liberă. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
280:Remember, the execution is fixed for the day after tomorrow, and that you have but one day to work in."
"And what of that? Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds very many things can be done. ~ Alexandre Dumas,#NFDB
281:Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour. (1936) ~ Francis William Aston, #NFDB
282:you know the story of Eve and the apple. Here’s an interesting fact about that story: Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve. My story tells you something about how our societies find a structural necessity for sub-groups.” Moneo ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
283:A study of figure skaters found that sub-elite skaters spent lots of time working on the jumps they could already do, while skaters at the highest levels spent more time on the jumps they couldn’t do, the kind that ultimately win Olympic medals and that involve lots of falling down before they’re mastered. ~ Geoff Colvin, #NFDB
284:A voi să trăieşti ca o plantă, să creşti înrădăcinat, înflorind şi
uscîndu-te sub soare, în cea mai deplină inconştienţă, a dori să fii o parte intimă din fecunditatea pămîntului, o expresie anonimă a cursului vieţii este a fi disperat de rosturile şi sensul omenirii. Şi de ce să nu schimb cu o floare? ~ Emil M Cioran,#NFDB
285:It was eventually named “the sub-commission on the historical dimension to implement a dialogue with the aim to restore mutual confidence between the two nations, including an impartial scientific examination of the historical records and archives to define existing problems and formulate recommendations. ~ Thomas de Waal, #NFDB
286:If you're not embodying and living in who you are, you're going to have - it's going to be like fragments. You're going to have all these different aspects and sub-personalities that don't get managed and handled. That don't get managed and handled. And I think that's probably a lot of the agony that comes in death. ~ Sark, #NFDB
287:Sympathy, the woman explained, meant you knew exactly what the other person was feeling because you’d felt it before. “I always remember it like this,” the sub had said. “Sympathy means same. Now empathy, on the other hand, means you have never experienced it, but you can imagine how it would feel. ~ Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, #NFDB
288:Ce farmec mai are lumea văzută din viteza automobilului, mai ales când se merge bară la bară, pe autostrăzi igienizate, cu trei sau patru benzi paralele? E adevărat că ajungi mult mai repede la destinaţie. Dar la ce bun, dacă nu simţi pământul sub picioare şi natura defilează pe lângă tine ca un decor de teatru? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
289:Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability-except the order of a dead universr filled with a uniformly distributed gas. ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
290:Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding. ~ Aleister Crowley, #NFDB
291:Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas. ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
292:Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion. ~ Vera Nazarian, #NFDB
293:People say 'Scott's [Derrickson] movies are kind of scary, is this a horror movie?' Of course, [Doctor Strange] it's not a horror movie. But what Scott has done so well in the best of his films is have one foot completely in the real world and one foot in this whatever supernatural sub-genre he was playing with. ~ Kevin Feige, #NFDB
294:- Nu vreau să fac ceva ce o să regreți.
Spatele lui Grace se arcui sub degetele mele de parcă atingerea mea o adusese la viață.
- Atunci, nu te opri.
Îmi imaginasem că o să îmi spună asta într-atâtea moduri diferite, dar niciuna dintre fanteziile mele nu ajunsese atât de aproape de realitate. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,#NFDB
295:Life is movement. Movement is change. Every time a sub molecular particle swings through time and space, something is changing. Change, therefore, is inevitable. It is the nature of life itself. The trick in life is not to try to avoid change, but to create change. Then it is the kind of change you choose. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
296:Citeam toată noaptea, toată ziua, în loc să-mi fac temele; la școală citeam pe sub bancă[...]. Mă simțeam confortabil și sigur doar in spațiul imaginar al literarurii: fără un tată absent, fără o mama deprimată, fără bătăușii care mă puneau să ling paginile cărții până când limba mi se înnegrea de la cerneală. ~ Aleksandar Hemon, #NFDB
297:When those who are educated using their education to exploit those who aren't. That's what the sub-prime scandal represents - people of education using it at the expense of others. At Jazz at Lincoln Center, we have 22 educational programs. Not just the word but the substance of education is guided by the arts. ~ Wynton Marsalis, #NFDB
298:Sway’s an idiot who didn’t order them when we used up the last bunch. (Vik) Isn’t that your job? (Devyn) No. I’m the sub-idiot. Sway’s head idiot because the company refuses to deal with mechas. Since I’m not organic, they think I can’t pay. (Vik) Thanks, Vik. (Devyn) Ever my pleasure to irritate you, sir. (Vik) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
299:Moartea (ori pomenirea ei) îi face pe oameni preţioşi şi patetici. Şi condiţia lor de fantome te impresionează; orice faptă pe care o săvârşesc ar putea să fie ultima. Nu există chip care să nu se risipească precum chipurile din vis. Pentru muritori, totul se află sub pecetea irecuperabilului şi întâmplătorului. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
300:Quis hic locus, quae regio, quae mundi plaga? ubi sum? sub ortu solis, an sub cardine glacialis ursae?"
"What place is this, what region, what quarter of the world? Where am I? Under the rising of the sun or beneath the wheeling course of the frozen bear?”
Hercules Furens (The Mad Hercules), Act 5, line 1138 ~ Seneca,#NFDB
301:And this? Aldhelm of Malmesbury. Listen to this page: 'Primitus pantorum procerum poematorum pio potissimum paternoque presertim privilegio panegiricum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgatas.' ... The words all begin with the same letter!"
"The men of my islands are all a bit mad," William said proudly. ~ Umberto Eco,#NFDB
302:Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
303:His body jerked as it trembled, and she recognized the nerves overtaking passion. The uncontrollable shaking came when a sub felt his true vulnerability to a Mistress's will for the first time, an anxiety that came with relinquishing control to someone by some compulsion that defied issues of logic, strength or bindings. ~ Joey W Hill, #NFDB
304:Our teachers need a snow day. They look unusually pale. The men aren't shaving carefully and the women never remove their boots. They suffer some sort of teacherflu. Their noses drip, their eyes are rimmed with red. They come to school long enough to infect the staff room then go home sick when the sub shows up. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson, #NFDB
305:Venim de departe, fiecare dintre noi, pe drumuri atât de diverse încât le credem unice. Venim de departe, pentru a ajunge la prezent, pentru a îndrăzni să ne ocupăm locul, să ocupăm un spațiu de viață care nu se dezvăluie sub pașii noștri, pentru a putea lăsa poate, poate, o urmă infimă a trecerii noastre pe acest Pământ. ~ Jacques Salom, #NFDB
306:Donald E. Westlake It’s an accepted fact that Donald E. Westlake has excelled at every single sub-genre the mystery field has to offer—humorous books (Scared Monster); terrifying books (The Ax, about a man who wants vengeance on the company that downsized him out of a job, and probably Westlake’s most accomplished novel); ~ Jeffery Deaver, #NFDB
307:If I could, I'd deliver you from old age and death, from aches and pains, from the blandishments of ghosts, from the torment of your familiar, Goblin. I'd deliver you from heat and cold and from the arid dullness of the noonday sub. I'd deliver you into the placid light of the moon and into the domain of the Milky Way forever. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
308:What is the hidden influence behind the press, behind all the sub-versive movements going on around us? Are there several Powers at work? Or is there one Power, one invisible group directing all the rest—the circle of the real Initiates? —Nesta Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, London, Boswell, 1924, p. 348 ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
309:Ancient Greek culture was permeated by philosophies such as Gnosticism and neo-Platonism that regarded the material realm as the realm of death, decay, and destruction. Gnosticism taught that the world was so evil that it could not be the creation of the highest, supreme deity but must be the handiwork of an evil sub-deity. ~ Nancy R Pearcey, #NFDB
310:Tata se dezdurerase
și eu mă mai gândeam la el,
mai presus de cuvinte,
și dedesubt sub aripa lui Gabriel.
Am luat un pahar de vin
l-am dus la gură și l-am băut.
Am luat alt pahar de vin
și l-am vărsat pe jos.
Am mai băut un pahar,
am mai vărsat un pahar,
secunda se înflorise în mine neclar ~ Nichita St nescu,#NFDB
311:In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't find where to submit my inequality papers because there was no such topic. There was welfare, there was health issues, there was trade obviously. Finance had hundreds of sub groups. ~ Branko Milanovic, #NFDB
312:Sway’s an idiot who didn’t order them when we used up the last bunch. (Vik)
Isn’t that your job? (Devyn)
No. I’m the sub-idiot. Sway’s head idiot because the company refuses to deal with mechas. Since I’m not organic, they think I can’t pay. (Vik)
Thanks, Vik. (Devyn)
Ever my pleasure to irritate you, sir. (Vik) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
313:Imi place sa-i ajut pe altii si consider ca cea mai mare placere a vietii este sa vezi un om eliberat de umbrele care-i intuneca zilele.
Aceste umbre par atat de dese si il apasa atat de mult, incat atunci cand descopera ca acestea sunt doar umbre si ca poate vedea prin ele si poate sta sub soare, el este nespus de incantat. ~ L Ron Hubbard,#NFDB
314:All too much of what is put forward as strategy is not. The basic problem is confusion between strategy and strategic goals.” With regard to the recent editions of the national security strategy, it said “when you look closely at either the 2002 or 2006 documents, all you find are lists of goals and sub-goals, not strategies. ~ Richard P Rumelt, #NFDB
315:I really like Howler and an American band on Sub Pop called Jaill. There will always be new bands that I like, it's always been that way. I still go out to shows. One thing I don't like now is this idea that all singing needs to be expressed at maximum volume with so much bullshit sentimentality - it's pervading regular pop music. ~ Johnny Marr, #NFDB
316:Nella misura in cui la sociologia e psicologia operative hanno contribuito ad alleviare condizioni sub-umane, esse fanno parte del progresso intellettuale e materiale. Ma esse testimoniano pure della razionalità ambivalente del progresso, che soddisfa nel mentre esercita il suo potere repressivo, e reprime nel mentre soddisfa. ~ Herbert Marcuse, #NFDB
317:Great as the differences are between the breeds of pigeons, I am fully convinced that the common opinion of naturalists is correct, namely, that all have descended from the rock-pigeon (Columba livia), including under this term several geographical races or sub-species, which differ from each other in the most trifling respects. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
318:It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? ~ Paddy Chayefsky, #NFDB
319:Alex, I remember when Eve was the touchiest, feeliest sub I’d ever met.” “He raped her. He abused her. She can’t go back,” Alex said. “We can’t go back.” “Then Evans wins. He did his job, and you should just hang it the fuck up. Why bother hunting the man down? You’re already dead. You just forgot to tell us to bury the fucking body, man. ~ Lexi Blake, #NFDB
320:On past records I usually did start with a story or an idea for a song and then write around it, but on Achilles' Heel I would just start writing and try to let the song and my sub-conscience determine the direction. which is a goofy way of saying I tried not to decide before hand what the song and or the characters would do and be like. ~ David Bazan, #NFDB
321:6.4321 The facts all contribute only to setting the problem, not to its solution.
6.44 It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists.
6.45 To view the world sub specie aeterni is to view it as a whole - a limited whole. Feeling the world as a limited whole - it is this that is mystical. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein,#NFDB
322:Now, pull the knife toward you—never push it. You want to hold your blade the way an artist holds and controls a paintbrush. You have to anticipate a sudden flinch, jerk or quiver so that any cut is intentional, never accidental. Your sub is your precious canvas, and you want to be creative while always maintaining full control.” Mark ~ Claire Thompson, #NFDB
323:The word submission is made up of two parts:
Sub (it’s a prefix) means below or under. Sub means under like in the words submarine, submerge, or subtract.
Mission means an important goal or purpose.
When a woman allows her husband to lead – it means she puts his missions – his goals – his life purposes above hers. ~ Courtney Joseph,#NFDB
324:Yep, twisting Miles’s perfectly coiffed head off his body with his bare hands and then playing around in his blood would very likely get him in some trouble with the owners.
Jumping him later in the parking lot was a better idea. He wouldn’t kill him. Just break his kneecaps so he would remember to keep his fucking hands off Ryan’s sub. ~ Lexi Blake,#NFDB
325:It [cats going outside the litter box] might have something to do with - you know, I am just thinking that if I am the cat, when I'm pooping, you know, I've got to strain a little bit more and maybe that affects how the kitty litter feels on my paws. I'd try a different sub straight, or something like that - make sure it's not slippery. ~ Temple Grandin, #NFDB
326:As he read the long narrative poem, Lewis was struck by two qualities in particular. He admired the realism of Tolkien’s sub-created world, the depth and detail of Middle-earth. He also praised the mythical value of the story, the way the events were good in themselves and yet also suggested deeper layers of meaning to the reader. But ~ Diana Pavlac Glyer, #NFDB
327:Currently, the disciplines of biology, physics, cosmology, and all their sub-branches are generally practiced by those with little knowledge of the others. It may take a multidisciplinary approach to achieve tangible results that incorporate biocentrism. The authors are optimistic that this will happen in time. And what, after all, is time? ~ Robert Lanza, #NFDB
328:Inevitably it's always a set-up; you go somewhere, bring your own expectations, you think you have an idea of what you want to do but then the minute you get there everything changes, so trying to work with people who are able to ride in a lot of different conditions, sub-par conditions, people who are able to make the most of any situation. ~ Travis Rice, #NFDB
329:In short, the explosion in sub-prime lending was a thoroughly top–down, political project, mandated by Congress, implemented by government-sponsored enterprises, enforced by the law, encouraged by the president and monitored by pressure groups. Remember this when you hear people blame the free market for the excesses of the sub-prime bubble. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
330:There was nothing more powerful. Not one thing better to boost a Dom’s ego than being a sub’s everything. He’d asked her for everything, but this wasn’t the same thing at all. In this case he was the need in a literal sense and damn, it was empowering. Scintillating. Dangerous because now that he’d got his first taste of it, he wanted more. ~ Riley Murphy, #NFDB
331:You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'Yeah,' said Zaphod, 'but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' 'THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'No, just A Zaphod Beeblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?' 'But sir,' it squealed, 'I just heard on the sub-ether radio report. It said you were dead...' 'Yeah, that's right, I just haven't stopped moving yet. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
332:Did he open the wrong... “Probably shouldna opened all those drawers,” Blake carries on, rubbing his chin. “Ya can’t unsee some of those toys. But everybody has to have his own kinda fun. Speaking of fun, I also brought you an Italian sub from the deli on our corner. Do you think I can get the bitchy nurse lady to bring this bag in there for you? ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
333:But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
334:The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction. ~ Susan Sontag, #NFDB
335:Stock and flow” is an economic concept that writer Robin Sloan has adapted into a metaphor for media: “Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that remind people you exist. Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years) as it is today. ~ Austin Kleon, #NFDB
336:A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
337:You ever hear guys with small cocks talk about sex? Can't talk about it enough. They even got poems. They'll say, 'It's not the motion of the ocean, it's the boat of the lotion.' I've even heard variants..., it's not the tree or the size, it's the axe that you wax.' It's a whole sub-genre of poetry now that's taught in many of our finer institutions. ~ Norm MacDonald, #NFDB
338:I Don'T Like Flowers
I don't like flowers - they do remind me often
Of funerals, of weddings and of balls;
Their presence on tables for a dinner calls.
But sub-eternal roses' ever simple charm
Which was my solace when I was a child,
Has stayed - my heritage - a set of years behind,
Like Mozart's ever-living music's hum.
~ Anna Akhmatova,#NFDB
339:Along the way we have even lost the right to call ourselves Americans, although the Haitians and the Cubans appeared in history as new people a century befire the Mayflower pilgrims settled on the Plymouth coast. For the world today, America is just the United States; the region we inhabit is a sub-America, a second-class America of nebulous identity. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
340:Nor, says Nora, do we want commonplace tales of hausfrau Angst, of the woman heroically making over her life with a handsome new lover, a beautiful child, a happy ending. Instead, we shall have murder and mayhem, plots and sub-plots, a mad woman in the attic, purloined diamonds, lost birthrights, heroic dogs, a soupçon of sex, a suspicion of philosophy. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
341:Şi totuşi, cei doi tineri nu-şi mărturisiseră niciodată că se iubesc. Crescuseră unul lângă altul ca doi arbori care-şi amestecă rădăcinile sub pământ, crengile în aer şi mireasma în văzduh; doar dorința lor de a se vedea era aceeaşi; dorința aceasta devenise o nevoie, şi mai curând ar fi înțeles să moară decât să se despartă măcar pentru o singură zi. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
342:As a senator, I raised the alarm about sub prime mortgages. I fought to hold reckless manufacturers accountable for toxic toys and household products that threaten our kids. I introduced legislation to protect Americans' personal data and combat identity theft. So as president, I will make consumer protection a top priority across the entire government. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
343:[...] ne aflam in cu totul alte raporturi fata de muzica clasica decat oamenii din epocile care au creat-o; veneratia spiritualizata si nu intotdeauna suficient eliberata de sub stapanirea unei melancolii resemnate, nutrita de noi fata de adevarata muzica, este cu totul altceva decat senina placere naiva iscata de muzica in vremurile in care a aparut [...] ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
344:Finally I caught on that what you buy today is ready—picked or dug this morning at its peak. This also explained another puzzle; I never understood why Italian refrigerators are so minute until I realized that they don't store food the way we do. The Sub-Zero giant I have at home begins to seem almost institutional compared to the toy fridge I now have here. ~ Frances Mayes, #NFDB
345:It did not cross the minds of most Hindus that barring exceptions, they were responsible for Catholicism in India. The outcastes of Hinduism, the untouchables, who fell beyond the pale of the caste system had ample reason to convert to Catholicism. The caste-Hindus, as a matter of fact, left them no choice. As sub-humans they were little better than slaves. ~ Kiran Nagarkar, #NFDB
346:The sleeping man becomes a yogi; each night he unconsciously performs the yogic rite of releasing himself from bodily identification, and of merging the life force with healing currents in the main brain region and the six sub-dynamos of his spinal centres. The sleeper thus dips unknowingly into the reservoir of cosmic energy which sustains all life. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
347:You were the one they used against us, Bruce. The one who played it rough. When the noise started from the parents' groups and the sub-committee called us for questioning... you were the one who laughed... that scary laugh of yours. "Sure, we're criminals", you said. "We've always been criminals". "We have to be criminals".--Kal-El aka Clark Kent aka Superman ~ Frank Miller, #NFDB
348:Well, not the stuff they use in robotics, which I wouldn’t follow, but sociological relationships I can handle. For instance, I’m familiar with the Teramin Relationship.” “The what, sir?” “Maybe you have a different name for it. The differential of inconveniences suffered with privileges granted: dee eye sub jay taken to the nth——” “What are you talking about? ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
349:He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day." I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly." "Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
350:You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?'
'Yeah,' said Zaphod, 'but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.'
'THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?'
'No, just A Zaphod Beeblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?'
'But sir,' it squealed, 'I just heard on the sub-ether radio report. It said you were dead...'
'Yeah, that's right, I just haven't stopped moving yet. ~ Douglas Adams,#NFDB
351:But a sneer can be a greater crime than a murder subjectively, for a sneer means “You are beneath contempt, you are sub-human, you are worthless scum, you are not even worth taking the trouble and time to kill”, while a murder may mean “You are important and formidable and you are my enemy, and thus I must kill you.” That can be a compliment, compared to a sneer. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
352:In numele si sub teroarea ei (plictiselii, n.m.) parasesc oamenii caminul si moartea agreabila legata de el si se avanta in lume, spre a muri undeva fara acoperis si fara lacrimi; adolescentii se gandesc la sinucideri in zile infinite de primavara, iar servitoarele fara amanti se lamenteaza duminicile, de parca inima lor e un cimitir in care mortii nu pot dormi. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
353:the prime determinant of why agricultural productivity—agricultural output per acre—is so low in many poor countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, has little to do with soil quality. Rather, it is a consequence of the ownership structure of the land and the incentives that are created for farmers by the governments and institutions under which they live. ~ Daron Acemo lu, #NFDB
354:The research on IQ profiles indicates that children with Asperger’s syndrome have good factual and lexical (or word) knowledge. Their highest scores are often on the sub-tests that measure vocabulary, general knowledge and verbal problem solving. Such children have an impressive vocabulary and their recall of facts can make them popular in a Trivial Pursuit team. ~ Tony Attwood, #NFDB
355:Câţi oameni sunt într-un singur om? Tot atâţia câte stele sunt cuprinse într-o picătură de rouă sub cerul cel limpede al nopţii. Şi, dac-ai mări acea picătură, să te poţi uita în adâncul ei, ai revedea toate miile de stele ale cerului, fiecare — o lume, fiecare cu ţări şi popoare, fiecare cu istoria evilor ei scrisă pe ea — un univers într-o picătură trecătoare. ~ Mihai Eminescu, #NFDB
356:Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency. ~ Eric Ambler, #NFDB
357:Iubirea ta răsună ca o orgă în mine,
Secretele mele se află în palma ta deschisă,
Întreaga mea ființă suspină ca o harfă obosită
Sub atingerea ta.
Nu suntem oare, noi, tu și eu, un singur suflet?
Ne înfățișăm, ne ascundem tu în mine și eu în tine.
Aceasta este esența iubirii mele pentru tine:
Nici pentru mine, nici pentru tine nu există Tu, ci Eu. ~ Keniz Mourad,#NFDB
358:Deja își închipuia mansarda lor din Brooklyn și nopțile pierdute prin barurile din Lower East Side. Covrigii. Central Park. Ei doi patinând sub luminițele de Crăciun. Mănușile călduroase și îmbrățișările lui Dakota. El avea să compună muzică, iar avea să-și lanseze cariera. Îi aștepta o viață perfectă. Numai ei doi împotriva lumii, așa cum plănuiseră.
- Când plecăm? ~ Abby McDonald,#NFDB
359:Din toate epocile istorice, n-aș putea munci cu sufletul împăcat decât ca sclav, pe vremea când faraonii înălțau piramidele. Să ridici la lespezi sub lovituri de bici, dar să le vezi încununate de veșnicie și să simți vidul ce se naște în jurul piramidelor, din dezertarea timpului! Ultimul sclav egiptean era mai aproape de veșnicie decât oricare filosof al Occidentului. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
360:The sphere ... which is located beyond our physical world is called the earth zone. It is also known as the zone girdling the earth. This zone has varying degrees of density, the so-called sub-planes, into which human beings enter after they leave their physical bodies. This is the astral world that individuals enter into with their astral bodies after their physical death. ~ Franz Bardon, #NFDB
361:During training, a lot of focus is placed on getting at a submissive’s emotional core. Submission is about truth, about revealing yourself. If you simply demand obedience without understanding a sub’s true motivations and needs, even if the sub obeys every command to the letter and every aspect of every scene, they’re just going through the motions, and so are you.” “Yes! ~ Claire Thompson, #NFDB
362:this is basically a computerized electric boat.” “Electric? You mean like a sub?” “Similar. We’re as quiet in the water as one of the Los Angeles class attack subs ... which is pretty damn quiet for a surface ship.” “So what’s your power source ... nuclear?” “Rolls-Royce ... two gas turbines. They’re based on the same jet engines you see hanging from the wings of a Boeing 777. ~ John Lyman, #NFDB
363:And now South Africa has finally woken up and it is doing great things. And if South Africa becomes the template to what AIDS is in the sub-Saharan continent, then all the other countries are going to follow suit. And Michel Sidibe, who spoke at the breakfast meeting this morning, was saying that there is so much hope for Africa now that South Africa has got its house in order. ~ Elton John, #NFDB
364:He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."
I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly."
"Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them. ~ Richelle Mead,#NFDB
365:Natanael, am să-ți vorbesc despre așteptări.
Am văzut câmpia după arșița verii, așteptând; așteptând un pic de ploaie. Praful de pe drumuri devenise prea ușor și fiecare adiere îl stârnea. Nu mai era nici măcar o dorință; era o temere. Pământul crăpa de secetă pentru a primi mai bine ploaia. Miresmele florilor de câmpie deveneau aproape de nesuportat. Totul leșina sub soare. ~ Andr Gide,#NFDB
366:The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.
The usual way of looking at things sees objects as it were from the midst of them, the view sub specie aeternitatis from outside.
In such a way that they have the whole world as background. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein,#NFDB
367:What if I stopped fighting for the trance of long-form days, where I would be uninterrupted and ambitiously absorbed in a big project? What if I gave myself over to time's dispersion? Could I value the fractured moments as something more than 'sub-time' or lost time or broken time? Could I find a graceful way to work and be in the world that might still pull me up and forward? ~ Kyo Maclear, #NFDB
368:British prime ministers, upon taking office, hand-wrote letters to the commanders of their nuclear missile submarines. Known as “Letters of Last Resort,” each individual missive was then locked away in a special safe inside a larger safe in the sub control room. The letters contain personal instructions about what to do if the United Kingdom is destroyed in a nuclear attack. ~ Garrett M Graff, #NFDB
369:Japanese addresses typically involve three numbers separated by dashes (e.g., 3-35-31). The first of these is the sub-area where the house or building is located, the second is the block it is on, and the third is the building number. And when these numbers are added together, the sum equals the percentage chance that you are never going to find the building you're looking for. ~ Tim Anderson, #NFDB
370:But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors ~ Paulo Freire, #NFDB
371:Quemadmodum" - inquit - "magnus luctator est, non qui omnes numeros nexusque perdidicit, quorum usus sub adversario rarus est, sed qui in uno se aut altero bene ac diligenter exercuit et eorum occasiones intentus expectat (neque enim refert, quam multa sciat, si scit, quantum victoriae satis est), sic in hoc studio multa delectant, pauca vincunt”
Seneca, De Beneficiis, VII, 1, 4 ~ Seneca,#NFDB
372:Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of glands, genes, atoms, or waves of probability. ...they could determine his fate, but could provide him with no moral guidance, no values and meaning. A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, a puppet suspended on his chromosomes is merely grotesque. ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
373:The word is now a virus. The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
374:In the end the privatisation of war is not acceptable. We shouldn't be issuing these sub-contracts to these contracting companies because the people who run them are making millions. There should be no relationship between ex-politicians and them, like John Reid and Malcolm Rifkind, who are now associated with contracting companies having been ministers of defence. That's unacceptable. ~ Ken Loach, #NFDB
375:Primul semn al unei stări înapoiate, sub punctul de vedere al culturii, este intoleranţa. Când cineva crede că numai el are dreptate, când cineva crede că în afară de concepţia creierilor săi nu mai este nimic lat în viaţa socială, acela este un om inclut, care n-a avut încă putinţa de a-şi da seama cât de variate, cât de multiple sunt manifestările gândirii omeneşti. (P. P. Carp) ~ Nicolae Steinhardt, #NFDB
376:There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past experience. Gestalt theory tries to differentiate between and-summative aggregates, on the one hand, and gestalten, structures, on the other, both in sub-wholes and in the total field, and to develop appropriate scientific tools for investigating the latter. ~ Max Wertheimer, #NFDB
377:Si, ca intotdeauna, paradisul mi s-a parut o ratacire la fel de teribila ca si infernul. Niciodata nu le opusesem unul altuia, dimpotriva, stiusem mereu ca infernul si paradisul erau aliate si luptau impreuna pentru distrugerea fiintei, tara torturii si tara placerii fiind invecinate in regiunile de jos ale mintii, asemenea zonei intunecate, ano-genitale, de sub labirintul intestinal. ~ Mircea C rt rescu, #NFDB
378:Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister - corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used. ~ Richard Rorty, #NFDB
379:To sum up, global inequality ranges from regions in which the per capita income is on the order of 150–250 euros per month (sub-Saharan Africa, India) to regions where it is as high as 2,500–3,000 euros per month (Western Europe, North America, Japan), that is, ten to twenty times higher. The global average, which is roughly equal to the Chinese average, is around 600–800 euros per month. ~ Thomas Piketty, #NFDB
380:Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used. ~ Richard M Rorty, #NFDB
381:arrays are covariant. This scary-sounding word means simply that if Sub is a subtype of Super, then the array type Sub[] is a subtype of the array type Super[]. Generics, by contrast, are invariant: for any two distinct types Type1 and Type2, List is neither a subtype nor a supertype of List. You might think this means that generics are deficient, but arguably it is arrays that are deficient. ~ Joshua Bloch, #NFDB
382:I am trying to stress a point which they do not sufficiently emphasize, or tend to overlook altogether-namely, that the organism is not a mosaic aggregate of elementary physico-chemical processes, but a hierarchy in which each member, from the sub-cellular level upward, is a closely integrated structure, equipped with self-regulatory devices, and enjoys an advanced form of self-government. ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
383:The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous. ~ George Leonard, #NFDB
384:Fascism wants to establish the advent of the Nietzschean superman.
It immediately discovers that God, if He exists, may well be this or that, but He is primarily the master of
death. If man wants to become God, he arrogates to himself the power of life or death over others.
Manufacturer of corpses and of sub-men, he is a sub-man himself and not God, but the ignoble servant of
death ~ Albert Camus,#NFDB
385:man so soon as his first virile activity declined. Over most of the great wildernesses of earth you would have sought him in vain; only in a few temperate and sub-tropical river valleys would you have found the squatting lairs of his little herds, a male, a few females, a child or so. He knew no future then, no kind of life except the life he led. He fled the cave-bear over the rocks full of iron ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
386:You have to make those mistakes. You have to do the work. You have to fail. I also realized that I should practice what I preach, which is that if you only do get one kick at the can . . . When you go to places like Africa or Asia or the Indian sub-continent, you realize that a lot of the people there don't ever get a kick at the can. There are no "kicks" at the can - you just don't have that shot. ~ Shane Smith, #NFDB
387:La tine strig, zeiță mult zbătută,
Furie crudă stând sub greu blestem :
Ajută-mi mie, tristă alăută
Ce-îngîn, cum știu, pe îndrăgostiți cînd gem.
— Troilus și Cresida, traducere din 1978 de Dan Duțescu
To thee clepe I, thou goddesse of torment,
Thou cruel Furie, sorwing ever in peyne;
Help me, that am the sorwful instrument
That helpeth lovers, as I can, to pleyne! ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
388:On the contrary, when one works in terms of the implicate order, one begins with the undivided wholeness of the universe, and the task of science is to derive the parts through abstraction from the whole, explaining them as approximately separable, stable and recurrent, but externally related elements making up relatively autonomous sub-totalities, which are to be described in terms of an explicate order. ~ David Bohm, #NFDB
389:But if it turns out that she really can adjust them from without? Reshuffle the deck of his past, leave a few cards out, sub in several from a sunnier suit, where was the harm in that? Harm had to be the opposite, didn’t it? Letting the earliest truth metastasize into something that might kill you? The gangrenous spread of one day throughout the life span of a body— wasn’t that something worth stopping? ~ Karen Russell, #NFDB
390:Our Mind is constantly active. Seeking stillness within the Mind that is in motion is impossible if you do not use the motion itself. When the surface of a lake is still, we will be able to see, experience, intuitively sense the ocean of our sub-conscious and to tap into the magic of super-conscious. This is impossible when the surface is agitated by waves of our thoughts, emotions, habits, fears. ~ Nata a Nuit Pantovi, #NFDB
391:He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death. ~ Daphne du Maurier, #NFDB
392:I think London is made up of tiny little pockets and villages, and lots of little sub-cultures. So, especially for an actor, it's a brilliant place to live because you've got inspiration all the time, wherever you are. You can turn a corner and you'll be in mansion houses with beautiful gardens and Ferraris, and you'll turn back on yourself and it'll be ghetto land. But I think that's brilliant. ~ Scarlett Alice Johnson, #NFDB
393:A community is an informally constituted group, larger than the family, within which there is a distinctive pattern of interaction, whose members share a feeling of common identity which may be no more than a simple recognition of friendship, and which possesses its own sub-culture, defining how the members of the community should conduct themselves and behave towards one another during their free time. ~ Kenneth Roberts, #NFDB
394:Iubirea vârstele supune, Dar pentru-o inimă fecioară, E-asemenea unei furtune Cu ploi în câmp de primăvară; Sub ploaia patimii, ca holda, îşi creşte pentru pârg recoltă şi viaţa, odrăslind din lut, Dă flori la timp şi rod plăcut. Când vârsta stă-n târziul prag, Cu anii veştezi, făr’de roadă, E tristă dragostea neroadă, Cu-al patimii mort vălmăşag, Ca-n toamnă-un furtunos puhoi Ce schimbă câmpul în noroi. ~ Alexander Pushkin, #NFDB
395:Matthew 28:19–20: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” The imperative in those verses is “go.” But as we go, there are several sub-commands. We are to make disciples. We are to baptize. We are to teach. ~ Thom S Rainer, #NFDB
396:Vorbind acum din punct de vedere teologic - şi spusele mele ar trebui ascultate, căci eu vorbesc rareori ca teolog -, Dumnezeu însuşi a fost cel care s-a aşternut la pământ sub chipul şarpelui la capătul zilei sale de creaţie sub pomul cunoaşterii; astfel s-a recreat, şi-a împrospătat el forţele pentru a fi Dumnezeu... Făcuse totul prea frumos... Diavolul este doar lenevia lui Dumnezeu în acea zi a şaptea... ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
397:It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damned; that salvation only precedes perdition. The inference is that some day our accursed tatterdemalions will be sleek angels. Then the sub-inference is that some later day, back they'll go whence they came. ~ Charles Fort, #NFDB
398:LESS BREAD! MORE TAXES!—and then all the people cheered again, and one man, who was more excited than the rest, flung his hat high into the air, and shouted (as well as I could make out) “Who roar for the Sub-Warden?” Everybody roared, but whether it was for the Sub-Warden, or not, did not clearly appear: some were shouting “Bread!” and some “Taxes!”, but no one seemed to know what it was they really wanted. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
399:You don’t make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That’s a warehouse. What makes a museum great is the stuff that’s not on the walls. Someone says no. A curator is involved, making conscious decisions about what should stay and what should go. There’s an editing process. There’s a lot more stuff off the walls than on the walls. The best is a sub-sub-subset of all the possibilities. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
400:a blast of putrid air. I nearly gagged. “Yeccch, it stinks!” I blurted out. “Really?” Mary Anne said. “I think it’s magical.” “No, not Hawaii! Our fridge!” Sam slammed the door shut. “What died in there?” “Someone died?” Mary Anne asked. I held my nose. “Doe! Just sub boldy food.” (Take some advice from me, Kristy Thomas. If you’re going on vacation, don’t ever leave an open bowl of tuna salad in your fridge.) Charlie ~ Ann M Martin, #NFDB
401:The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through 1,000 billion junctions (synapses). The whole brain can be divided into subsections, or sub-networks, which communicate with each other in a network fashion. All this results in intricate patterns of intertwined webs, networks of nesting within larger networks. ~ Fritjof Capra, #NFDB
402:Cea mai mare ciudăţenie a lui Victor era că ţinea ascuns sub pernă un dicţionar vechi din care tăia zilnic un cuvânt. Cuvintele tăiate nu le mai folosea. Când vorbea, frazele lui erau eliptice. Nu supăra pe nimeni, stătea lipit de tăcerea lui ca lichenii de stânci şi de abia azi înţeleg că, neavând curaj să se sinucidă, Victor alesese o formă mai suportabilă de a se obişnui cu moartea, treptat, învăţând să devină mut. ~ Octavian Paler, #NFDB
403:Por el camino hasta perdimos el derecho de llamarnos americanos, aunque los haitianos y los cubanos ya habían asomado a la historia, como pueblos nuevos, un siglo antes de que los peregrinos del Mayflower se establecieran en las costas de Plymouth. Ahora América es, para el mundo, nada más que los Estados Unidos: nosotros habitamos, a lo sumo, una sub América, una América de segunda clase, de nebulosa identificación. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
404:The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria. ~ Richard Owen, #NFDB
405:It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense space opens up in silence and an endlessly fecund sub-universe the writer descends, and asks the reader to descend after him, not merely to gain instructions but also to experience delight, the delight of mind freed from matter and exultant in the strength it has stolen from matter. ~ John Updike, #NFDB
406:When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting things in a philosophical context. All the great jazz musicians did, too. There was always a sub-context to what they were saying about music even though they would be very down home and earthy. So I started to develop, in addition to my power and ability to simply hear, a way to place myself in a time. ~ Wynton Marsalis, #NFDB
407:And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the sub-agents, the sub-sub-agents, the accountants, the libel lawyers, the departments of literature, the professors, the theses, the books of criticism, the reviewers, the book pages- all this vast and proliferating edifice is because of this small, patronized, put-down and underpaid person.' ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
408:Chiar după atâția ani, ceva înăuntrul ei încă mai palpita la atingerea lui, iar vocea lui, răgușită și șoptită în urechea ei, îi înfiora șira spinării. Dezbrăcați, s-au dus în dormitor. Sub pături, au bâjbâit fiecare după trupul, brațele și picioarele, șira spinării și șoldurile celuilalt, până când au regăsit liniile familiare și delicate, asemenea pliurilor dintr-o veche hartă ce a fost îndoită iar și iar de-a lungul anilor. ~ Eowyn Ivey, #NFDB
409:In a new Russian colonialism that began in 2013, Russian leaders and propagandists imagined neighboring Ukrainians out of existence or presented them as sub-Russians. In characterizations that recall what Hitler said about Ukrainians (and Russians), Russian leaders described Ukraine as an artificial entity with no history, culture, and language, backed by some global agglomeration of Jews, gays, Europeans, and Americans. In ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
410:The day was ill-omened from the beginning; one of those unlucky days when every little detail seems to go wrong and one finds oneself engaged in a perpetual and infuriating strife with inanimate objects. How truly fiendish the sub-human world can be on these occasions! How every atom, every cell, every molecule, seems to be leagued in a maddening conspiracy against the unfortunate being who has incurred its obscure displeasure! ~ Anna Kavan, #NFDB
411:Cât de puțin ne cunoaștem unii pe alții! Ca soiurile de gheață, ființele noastre plutesc în mare parte sub nivelul apei, iar sinele nostru social, vizibil, proiectează exclusiv albul și răceala. Or, iată aici o vedere rară sub unde, o imagine a agitației intime a unei ființe omenești a cărei demnitate a fost dată peste cap de irezistibila nevoie de fantezie pură, de gând pur, dată peste cap de elementul uman ireductibil - mintea. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
412:Căutările terapeutice ale ființei autentice ar face bine să urmărească cu atenție implicațiile din maxima, exprimată la diateza pasivă sub care se desfășoară acest capitol din carte: ”a fi perceput”. Suntem fenomene manifestate. ”A fi” înseamnă în primul rând a fi vizibil. A permite să fii văzut în mod pasiv deschide posibilitatea binecuvântării. Căutăm iubiți, mentori și prieteni pentru că vrem să fim văzuți și binecuvântați. ~ James Hillman, #NFDB
413:It is not wholly surprising, however, that, when India began to reassert herself, two nations should have replaced the single British Raj; but all impartial students must regret that the unity of the Indian sub-continent has been once more lost, and trust that the two great nations of India and Pakistan may soon forget the bitterness born of centuries of strife, in cooperation for the common welfare of their peoples. ~ Arthur Llewellyn Basham, #NFDB
414:Nimic nu-i mai rău ca un orgoliu disimulat sub o fizionomie bovină. Nu te porţi cu francheţe — o francheţe vecină cu impertinenţa — decît cu oameni pe care-i consideri cu mult mai prejos decît tine. De altfel, francheţea — în relaţiile literare — nu poate fi deosebită de mojicie sau de provocare. Nu ai dreptul să-i spui unui autor ceea ce gîndeşti cu adevărat despre opera lui, decât dacă-l admiri. Dar cîţi autori poţi admira ? ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
415:Uneori sunt atat de flămand,atat de rapace,încat i-aș putea manca pe oameni.Nu am răbdare să-i aștept să-mi povestească...cum se simt...ce doresc..și așa mai departe.Vreau să-i mestec de vii.. să descopăr singur...repede,totul deodată.
(...)Uneori simt că sunt gata să fac explozie.Relamente,nu mă sinchisesc nici cat negru sub unghie de mizeria omenirii.O iau de bună.Ce vreau eu e să mă deschid.Vreau să știu ce e înăuntrul meu. ~ Henry Miller,#NFDB
416:Por el camino hasta perdimos el derecho de llamarnos americanos, aunque los haitianos y los cubanos ya habían asomado a la historia, como pueblos nuevos, un siglo antes de que los peregrinos del Mayflower se establecieran en las costas de Plymouth. Ahora América es, para el resto del mundo, nada mas que los Estados Unidos: nosotros habitamos, a lo sumo, una sub América, una América de segunda clases, de nebulosa identificación. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
417:Elfii si zanele sunt copiii demonilor cu ingerii, avand frumusetea ingerilor si rautatea demonilor. Un vampir te poate ataca, daca intri pe domeniul lor, dar o zana te-ar putea face sa dansezi pana mori, tocindu-ti picioarele pana raman niste cioturi, te pot ademeni sa inoti la miezul noptii, tarandu-te sub apa si lasandu-te sa tipi pana-ti crapa plamanii, iti sufla in ochi cu praf de zane pana ajungi sa ti-i scoti din orbite... ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
418:There are those about us who say that such research should be stopped by law, alleging that man's destructive powers are already large enough. [...] There is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour (Aston in 1936) ~ Richard Rhodes, #NFDB
419:Mireasma fanului uscat si curgerea domoala a apei trezira in el dorinta de a se culca intr-o claie de fan proaspat, intr-un sopron singuratic, departe de autostrazile zgomotoase, in spatele vreunei ferme linistite, sub vreo moara veche de vant, care sa vuiasca lin, cu vuietul anilor ce trec. Ar sta treaz toata noaptea in sopronul acela, ascultand zvoana departata a jivinelor, ganganiilor si copacilor, freamatul si forfota lor marunta. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
420:A fost o greseala. Pentru ca adineauri am inteles ca intre mine si o insecta, intre o insecta si un rau, intre un rau si un strigat, care se arcuieste peste acesta, nu este nici o deosebire. Totul functioneaza gol si fara noima sub presiunea dependentei si a unui stravechi balans salbatic, astfel ca numai imaginatia, nicidecum esecul etern al simturilor, ne ispiteste neincetat cu credinta, ca sa putem iesi din viziunile mizeriei. ~ L szl Krasznahorkai, #NFDB
421:O, vreau să joc, cum niciodată n-am jucat!
Să nu se simtă Dumnezeu
în mine
un rob în temniţă - încătuşat.
Pământule, dă-mi aripi:
săgeată vreau să fiu, să spintec
nemărginirea,
să nu mai văd în preajmă decât cer,
deasupra cer,
şi cer sub mine -
şi-aprins în valuri de lumină
să joc
străfulgerat de-avânturi nemaipomenite
ca să răsufle liber Dumnezeu în mine,
să nu cârtească:
"Sunt rob în temniţă! ~ Lucian Blaga,#NFDB
422:Uneori se oprea sub soarele arzător al sudului, stând în picioare, neclintită, mută ca o statuie, cu privirile îndreptate spre Marsilia. Alteori se aşeza pe țărm, ascultând gemetele mării, veşnice ca durerea ei, şi întrebându-se mereu dacă n-ar fi mai bine să se plece spre adâncime, să se lase târâtă de greutatea trupului, să spintece prăpastia şi să se cufunde în ea, decât să sufere cumplitele chinuri ale unei aşteptări fără speranțe. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
423:Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and Ernst Lubitsch. In art school, I studied painters like Edward Hopper, who used urban motifs, Franz Kafka is my favorite novelist. My approach to film stems from my art background, as I go beyond the story to the sub-conscious mood created by sound and images. ~ David Lynch, #NFDB
424:Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their houses out of dark and light, and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're made. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
425:I was extremely frustrated, almost at the point of giving up on coming up with a name for the project (because I'm awful at it), when I decided to play the 'put a pen somewhere on a map with your eyes closed' game with South Africa. About the 5th try was St. Lucia in South Africa, which coincidentally also happens to be an idyllic sub-tropical seaside resort town. The name seemed to fit with the mood of the music, and so after a while it just stuck. ~ St Lucia, #NFDB
426:Am stat cuibariti cateva momente, apoi ne-am intins amandoi pe spate si iarba era ca un pat. Pentru ca era asa de intuneric, puteam vedea multe dintre stele. Era ca si cand ne-am fi aflat sub o umbrela mare sau sub o rochie. Am vorbit multe minute despre multe lucruri, dar de fapt eu nu-l ascultam si nici el nu ma asculta, si eu nu ma ascultam pe mine, iar el nu se asculta pe sine. Ne aflam pe iarba, sub stele si asta este ceea ce faceam. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
427:Rumor holds that Sabine trapped him to use as a sex slave, tormenting him until he agreed to wed her. Then he made a slave of her.”
She blinked at him. “Like those are bad things?” At his look of astonishment, she said, “They enjoyed tons of bondage, some master/sub stuff, a real-live dungeon with shackles, role and cosplay. Spankings and repeated orgasm denial. You know, typical BDSM. But don’t worry, they were doing it before it became cool. ~ Kresley Cole,#NFDB
428:Dar să fi auzit despre ce vorbeau. În primul rînd că erau amîndoi cam ciupiţi. O pipăia pe sub masă şi, în acelaşi timp, îi povestea despre un coleg de-al lui care înghiţise un tub întreg de aspirină şi aproape că se sinucisese. Şi fata repeta întruna: «Vai, ce groaznic... Nu, iubitule. Nu, te rog. Nu aici.» Ce părere aveţi despre un tip care pipăie o fată şi în acelaşi timp îi povesteşte de unul care a vrut să se sinucidă? Pe mine m-au distrat grozav. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
429:The rejuvenating effects of sleep are due to man’s temporary unawareness of body and breathing. The sleeping man becomes a yogi; each night he unconsciously performs the yogic rite of releasing himself from bodily identification, and of merging the life force with healing currents in the main brain region and the six sub-dynamos of his spinal centres. The sleeper thus dips unknowingly into the reservoir of cosmic energy which sustains all life. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
430:You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is locked in their mind. So when you move to another plane of consciousness which is no longer controlled by your intellect, which is really the sub-system and you move into the meta-system, what you feel at that moment is... you are the universe, you feel merged with it, you feel thick with the moment, and that richness is so fulfilling. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
431:That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
432:Dorința carnașă, acea stare necunoscută îndeosebi sub numele de ”îndrăgostire”, este un soi de demență. Este un soi de distorsionare a realități, dar atît de considerabilă încît ar trebui, pe drept cuvînt, sa se permită celor mulți dintre noi să întelegem celelalte forme de benunie și să manifestăm mai multa simpatie față de cei afectați de ele. Și cu toate acestea, știm cu toții , ea este o demență care, indiferent cît de aprinsă, rareori durează mult. ~ Julian Fellowes, #NFDB
433:There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and how it bounces across the skin. The way that blues and purples come into play. In India and Sri Lanka, it was no different. It became a moment in which I had an opportunity to learn as a painter how to create the body in full form, and that's a very material and aesthetic thing. This is not conceptual. It's all an abstraction. ~ Kehinde Wiley, #NFDB
434:I always sleep well, dearest, except for when your hot body smothers me completely!"
Darcy grinned. "Forgive me. Even sub- consciously I must be near you. I have no control over the matter. Tea and a scone?"
"Yes, please." She sat, tucking her feet under her. "No need to apologize, William. I simply elbow you hard and you roll away, temporarily at least. Come winter you can re- pay the treatment when I slip my frozen feet between your thighs. ~ Sharon Lathan,#NFDB
435:Illness and death are not the only consequences of the lack of access to water; it also hinders education and economic development. Widespread illness makes countries less productive, more dependent on outside aid, and less able to lift themselves out of poverty. According to the United Nations, one of the main reasons girls do not go to school in sub-Saharan Africa is that they have to spend so much time fetching water from distant wells and carrying it home. ~ Tom Standage, #NFDB
436:The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that like all ethnic groups they have their own racial elements distributed in their own proportions; like all or most ethnic groups they have their 'look,' a part of their cultural heritage that both preserves and expresses their cultural solidarity...they have developed a special racial sub-type and a special pattern of facial and bodily expression. ~ Carleton S Coon, #NFDB
437:Pepper it was that brought Vasco da Gama's tall ships across the ocean, from Lisbon's Tower of Belem to the Malabar Coast: first to Calicut and later, for its lagoony harbour, to Cochin. English and French sailed in the wake of that first-arrived Portugee, so that in the period called Discovery-of-India — but how could we be discovered when we were not
covered before? — we were 'not so much sub-continent as sub-condiment', as my distinguished mother had it. ~ Salman Rushdie,#NFDB
438:What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
439:Aspectul cel mai ciudat al celor care suferă este în credinţa absolutei lor suferinţe, care îi face să creadă într-un fel de monopol al suferinţei. Am impresia că numai eu sufăr, că toată suferinţa acestei lumi s-a concentrat în mine, că numai eu mai am drept la suferinţă, deşi îmi dau seama că există şi suferinţe mai groaznice, că poţi să mori căzând bucăţi de carne din tine, fărâmiţându-te sub propria ta privire, devenind iluzie în cea mai perfectă conştiinţă. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
440:In a paradoxical sense, once I accepted my position as different from the larger society as well as from any single-sub-society--black or gay--I felt I didn't have to try so hard. To be accepted. To look femme. To be straight. To look straight. To be proper. To look "nice". To be liked. To be loved. To be approved. What I didn't realize was how much harder I had to try merely to stay alive, or rather, to stay human. How much stronger a person I became in that trying. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
441:We have been speaking of ether as an avenue of forces , a word which conveys no meaning to the average mind, because force is invisible. But to an occult investigator the forces are not merely names such as steam, electricity, etc. He finds them to be intelligent beings of varying grades, both sub and superhuman. What we call “laws of nature,” are great intelligences which guide more elemental beings in accordance with certain rules designed to further their evolution. ~ Max Heindel, #NFDB
442:I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a disciplinary and sub-disciplinary specialty, so I am a psychologist and I am a social psychologist within that. But I think the exciting thing is to think about the social sciences in general and the nature of society. It's one of the hardest things to think about, because our brains aren't designed to think about these emergent entities. We're not good at it. ~ Jonathan Haidt, #NFDB
443:Tony Cottee once played in all four divisions in one season. Cottee started 2000-01 at Leicester City, where he made a couple of Premiership appearances as a sub before being released to Norwich, in what was then Division One. In November the chance to be player-manager of Barnet came up and soon Cottee was playing in Division Three, but alas it did not work out. By March he was again looking for work and found it, with two sub appearances, at Millwall in Division Two. ~ Phil Cornwell, #NFDB
444:Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief has died: it will be interesting to see how long their confidence in uniformity survives it. Two significant developments have already appeared—the hypothesis of a lawless sub-nature, and the surrender of the claim that science is true. We may be living nearer than we suppose to the end of the Scientific Age. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
445:Equipped as he is by his very nature for worship, man cannot not worship ; and if his outlook is cut off from the spiritual plane, he will find a “god” to worship at some lower level, thus endowing something relative with what belongs only to the Absolute. Hence the existence today of so many “words to conjure with” like “freedom”, “equality”, “literacy”, “science”, “civilization”, words at the utterance of which a multitude of souls fall prostrate in sub-mental adoration. ~ Martin Lings, #NFDB
446:I am always behind the shopper at the grocery store who has stitched her coupons in the lining of her coat and wants to talk about a 'strong' chicken she bought two weeks ago. The register tape also runs out just before her sub-total. In the public restroom, I always stand behind the teen-ager who is changing into her band uniform for a parade and doesn't emerge until she has combed the tassels on her boots, shaved her legs, and recovered her contact lens from the commode. ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
447:was made from a lightweight polymer material, not metal, making it very light and easy to carry. It was well balanced for a sub gun, and small enough to fit in the back pocket of most dress pants. Only a passionate gun lover would think it was pretty, but I could see the purpose and function. It was a gun made to kill people. Like the folding machine guns carried by Big H’s security goons, it was perfect for concealed carry and could be disguised in a small bag or package. ~ Faith Hunter, #NFDB
448:We possess no criterion which enables us to distinguish exactly between a psychical process and a physiological one, between an act occurring in the cerebral cortex and one occurring in the sub-cortical substance; for 'consciousness', whatever that may be, is not attached to every activity of the cerebral cortex, nor is it always attached in an equal degree to any particular one of its activities; it is not a thing which is bound up with any locality in the nervous system. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB
449:Efortul neincetat de a izgoni suferinta nu are alt rezultat decit o schimbare de suprafata. La origine ea apare sub forma necesitatii si a grijilor materiale. In cazul in care prin munca si eforturi deosebite reusim s-o izgonim sub aceasta forma si infatisare, suferinta se transforma, fiind in continuare prezenta, raportata la virsta si tinind seama de factorul intimplare, sub forma instinctului sexual, geloziei, pasiunii, invidiei, urii, fricii, bolii, zgirceniei etc. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
450:For Bigger’s tragedy is not that he is cold or black or hungry, not even that he is American, black; but that he has accepted a theology that denies him life, that he admits the possibility of his being sub-human and feels constrained, therefore, to battle for his humanity according to those brutal criteria bequeathed him at his birth. But our humanity is our burden, our life; we need not battle for it; we need only to do what is infinitely more difficult—that is, accept it. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
451:Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimately, to maintain your sense of specialness and difference? And how do you express that? Does it just become a kind of kitsch? You can say this of gay people, but it's true for Jewish people, Italian Americans, everyone who deals with it. It's a question of assimilation. How can you be assimilated and special at the same time? ~ Daniel Mendelsohn, #NFDB
452:Awareness by itself is not enough: it must be joined by mastery. We need gradually to develop a steering ability to keep ourselves from slipping mechanically into this or that sub-personality. Thus we become able to identify with each part of our being as we wish. We can have more choice. It is the difference between being impotently transported by a roller coaster and, instead, driving a car and being able to choose which way to go and for what purpose to make the journey. ~ Piero Ferrucci, #NFDB
453:Ille mi par esse deo videtur
ille, si fas est, superare divos,
qui sedens adversus identitem te
spectat et audit
dulce ridentem, misero quod omnis
eripit sensus mihi: nam simul te,
Lesbia, aspexi, nihil est super mi
lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus
flamma demanat, sonitu suopte
tintinant aures gemina, teguntur
lumina nocte.
otium, Catulle, tibi molestum est;
otio exsultas nimiumque gestis;
otium et reges prius et beatas
perdidit urbes. ~ Catullus,#NFDB
454:Chipul şi brațele îi vădeau pielea palidă, aproape translucidă. Avea trăsături ascuțite, desenate în contururi ferme, sub un păr negru ce strălucea ca o piatră umedă. Am socotit că avea vreo douăzeci de ani cel mult, însă ceva din atitudinea ei şi din felul în care sufletul părea să-i cadă la picioare, ca ramurile unei sălcii, m-a făcut să mă gândesc că nu avea vârstă. Părea țintuită în starea aceea de perpetuă tinerețe rezervată manechinelor din vitrinele magazinelor de lux. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
455:There's so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status find it very, very hard to disclose their status, to live with that virus, and to even seek out the kind of information they need. This experience of going to South Africa a decade ago really woke me up to the scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, how it was affecting women and their children. I haven't been able to walk away from it. ~ Annie Lennox, #NFDB
456:October Country . . . that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and mid-nights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain. . . . ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
457:Nu, nu cred în nimic, de cîte ori să-ți mai spun? Nu cred în nimic și în nimeni; numai în Zorba. Nu pentru că Zorba ar fi mai bun ca alții, nici vorbă de-așa ceva! O brută și el. Dar cred în Zorba pentru că e singurul pe care-l am sub stăpânirea mea, singurul pe care-l cunosc; toți ceilalți sunt niște năluci. Cu ochii lui văd, cu urechile lui aud, cu mațele lui mistui. Toți ceilalți, îți spun, niște năluci. Cînd o să mor eu, totul o să moară. Întreaga lume zorbească se va nărui! ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
458:Television. Maybe it was all a study in the art of mummification. The effect of the medium is so evanescent that those who work in its time apparatus feel the need to preserve themselves, delivering their bodies to be lacquered and trussed, sprayed with the rarest of pressurized jellies, all to one end, a release from the perilous context of time. This is their only vanity, to expect to dwell forever in hermetic sub-corridors, free of every ravage, secure as old kings asleep in sodium. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
459:Și ca și-acel ce nu mai vrea ce-a vrut,
schimbând prin noul gând pe cele-avute,
așa că lasă totul ce-a-nceput,
așa și eu sub poala coastei mute
gândind îmi mistuii întreaga vrere
ce-ntâi, spre-a-ncepe, atât mi-a fost de iute.
-De-ți prind din vorbe bine-a ta durere-
răspunse umbra cea mărinimoasă-
ți-e sufletul curpins de-acea scădere,
ce-abate-ades de ținta sa frumoasă
pe om, astfel (oprind) ca năzărirea
nălucii lui pe-o bestie fricoasă. ~ Dante Alighieri,#NFDB
460:The problem is not just the cost of the ships, but that the swapping was supposed to be quick, but right now it can take days or weeks, which is more like traditional refitting. But the model of modularity and being able to take on different roles is a good one. This is where adding in unmanned systems in the future will be an aid. If they can carry them onboard, whether it be drones to mine or sub-hunting underwater systems, all ships should be able to do such multiple roles simultaneously. ~ P W Singer, #NFDB
461:The real difficulty for that legion of spider scientists, working over generations and each inheriting the undiluted learning of the last, was to engineer the human infection to know its parents: to recognize the presence of itself in its arachnid creators, and call out to that similarity. Kinship at the sub-microbial level, so that one of the Gilgamesh’s great giants, the awesome, careless creator-gods of prehistory, might look upon Portia and her kin and know them as their children. ~ Adrian Tchaikovsky, #NFDB
462:......the integration of matrices is not a simple operation of adding together. It is a process of mutual interference and cross-fertilization, in the course of which both matrices are transformed in various ways and degrees. Hidden axioms, implied in the old codes, suddenly stand revealed and are subsequently dropped; the rules of the game are revised before they enter as sub-rules into the composite game. When Einstein bisociated energy and matter, both acquired a new look in the process. ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
463:Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around claiming that our "God made the heaven and the earth," it is not unreasonable to expect us to know something about what that heaven and earth actually are. ~ Sara Maitland, #NFDB
464:We have to know cognitively what another mind is thinking and also empathically what they're feeling. And of course, in general, that's always the case, but it's often very generic. Like with Leo Cullum's doctor, it's just the fact that people in general are cruel and insensitive. But in the Barbara Smaller cartoon, we understand it's this particular person or this specific sub-class of person and her particular needs and desires, and that's different than a pun cartoon in which it's just semantic. ~ Robert Mankoff, #NFDB
465:In the earliest days of proto-humanity, survival of the fittest ensured that the hardy and clever humans passed on their genetic material to the ensuing generations. The slow and the dull-witted died out, weeding their genes from the collective pool of possibilities. Your modern society has reversed the process. The hardy and clever have few children as they use their time and energy to amass wealth and position. The slothful and ignorant have mass broods, filling your planets with sub-standard stock. ~ Vaughn Heppner, #NFDB
466:What a man finds circa se or sub se is overwhelming in amount, what he finds in se is embarassing in its obscurity, but when from his own being he would obtain light as to what is supra se, then indeed he finds himself face to face with a dark and somewhat terrifying mystery. The trouble is that he is himself involved in the mystery. If, in any true sense, man is an image of God, how should he know himself without knowing God? But if it is really of God that he is an image, how should he know himself? ~ tienne Gilson, #NFDB
467:Just as you can’t usually convey a concept’s whole intension in words because it’s a big complicated neural membership test, you can’t control the concept’s entire intension because it’s applied sub-deliberately. This is why arguing that XYZ is true “by definition” is so popular. If definition changes behaved like the empirical null-ops they’re supposed to be, no one would bother arguing them. But abuse definitions just a little, and they turn into magic wands—in arguments, of course; not in reality. ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky, #NFDB
468:I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and the person who bought it was Alan Heinberg, one of the executive producers of the show and was a huge fan of my work and asked if I'd be interested in maybe being the ghost artist for Seth. It clicked and I could relate to Seth's plight on the show. It became really easy to fill in his shoes, and people really grabbed onto it; they really dug that sort of very minor sub-plot in the show. ~ Eric Wight, #NFDB
469:Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world. ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley, #NFDB
470:As we ascend to the hierarchies of living matter, we find, even on the lowest level observable through the electron microscope, sub-cellular structures-organelles-of staggering complexity. And the most striking fact is that these minuscule parts of the cell function as self-governing wholes in their own right, each following its own statute-book of rules. One type of organelles look as quasi-independent agencies after the cell's growth; others after its energy supply, reproduction, communications, and so on. ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
471:In Effigiem Oliveri Cromwell
Haec est quae toties Inimicos Umbra fugavit,
At sub qua Cives Otia lenta terunt.
In eandem Reginae Sueciae transmissam
Bellipotens Virgo, septem Regina Trionum.
Christina, Arctoi lucida stella Poli;
Cernis quas merui dura sub Casside Rugas;
Sicque Senex Armis impiger Ora fero;
Invia Fatorum dum per Vestigia nitor,
Exequor & Populi fortia Jussa Manu.
At tibi submittit frontem reverentior Umbra,
Nec sunt hi Vultus Regibus usque truces.
~ Andrew Marvell,#NFDB
472:It's certainly something we haven't seen before in terms of a fully commercial global brand - really a family of brands - not just Trump but also Ivanka, who has a sub-brand. We've never seen this before. We've had presidents in financial conflicts of interest before, but this phenomenon where a sitting president image avatar is out there selling golf courses and condominiums, even as he is in office and having the value of his personal brand inflated dramatically by fact of his being president, is new territory. ~ Naomi Klein, #NFDB
473:Insotit de Matilde si Jorge, care avea patru ani, m-am dus sa traiesc in muntii din Cordoba, la o ferma fara apa curenta si curent electric, in localitatea Pantanillo. Sub maiestuosul cer instelat, m-am simtit impacat. Ceva asemanator cu ceea ce spune Henry David Thoreau: "M-am dus in padure pentru ca voiam sa traiesc in meditatie, sa infrunt doar faptele esentiale ale vietii, sa vad daca puteam trai si sa invat ceea ce era de invatat; ca nu cumva sa descopar, apropiindu-ma de moarte, ca nu traisem cu adevarat". ~ Ernesto Sabato, #NFDB
474:Once I saw a duck walking down the street so I went into Subway and ordered two pieces of bread, and they informed me that they could not do that, like there was some speical rule at Subway that two pieces of bread weren't allowed to touch. So the woman asked me what I wanted on the sandwich and I said I do not care, it is for a duck, and she was like oh then it's free. I was not aware that ducks eat for free at Subway. It's like give me a chicken fajita sub, but don't worry about ringing it up, it is for a duck. ~ Mitch Hedberg, #NFDB
475:Ut pictura, poesis: erit, quae, si propius stes,
Te capiat magis, et quaedam, si longius abstes:
Haec amat obscurum: volet haec sub luce videri,
Iudicis argutum quae non formidat acumen:
Haec placuit semel, haec decies repetita placebit.
Poezia i perngjet piktures: njera te terheq me teper
nga afer, kurse tjetra prej se largu;
kjo e do erresiren, ajo do te shikohet ne drite,
sepse aspak nuk frikesohet nga shikimi i kritikut,
njera do te pelqehet nje here, kurse tjetra ne vijim dhjete here. ~ Horace,#NFDB
476:— O, șoptea Marius, ce frumoasă ești! Nici nu îndrăznesc să mă uit la tine! Te contemplu. Ești o grație. Nu știu ce vrajă mă cuprinde... Tivul rochiei tale de sub care se zărește vârful pantofului, mă tulbură. Și apoi, ce lumină uimitoare e în gândurile tale! Vorbești atât de cuminte. Câteodată mi se pare că ești un vis. Vorbești, te ascult și mă încânți! O, Cosette! Ce ciudat și minunat e; sunt nebun de-a binelea! Ești fermecătoare, domnișoară! Îți privesc piciorușele la microscop și sufletul cu ocheanul stelelor... ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
477:Sometimes people will bring up these odd things that I did a one-off from. Like, I did a 'Knight Rider,' and I'll get an E-mail from a 'Knight Rider' fan who says, 'Look what I did to my car!' And I don't know if you know about this, but there is a sub-cult of 'Knight Rider' fan who trick out their cars to look like KITT. I'm, like, 'Really? Isn't there anything else you can do? Do you make that much money? Because I have projects I'd like to get off the ground, so how about you don't make KITT and you give it to me?' ~ Robbie Rist, #NFDB
478:Acuma îşi dă seama că iubirea adevărată, adâncă, mântuitoare n-a cunoscut-o, ci numai ura, sub diverse forme... I s-a părut că-i sunt dragi toţi cei de un neam cu dânsul şi, îndată ce n-a găsit în inimile lor ura lui, dragostea s-a împrăştiat ca pulberea în adierea vântului... Iubirea adevărată nu moare niciodată în sufletul omului, ba îl însoţeşte şi dincolo, până în sânul nemărginirii... Dar iubirea nu poate prinde rădăcină în inima mânjită de ură, şi în el ura trăia mereu, ca un cui ruginit, uitat în carne vie... ~ Liviu Rebreanu, #NFDB
479:We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
480:When I was thinking about How Poetry Saved My Life entering the “big literary world” I more so viewed it as sub genre or an underdog book because there are still comparatively so few books about sex work, especially from authors who once worked street, like I have. Disclosing to working street-level sex work still feels risky to me. Apart from Runaway by Evelyn Lau (published in 1989) I have yet to read a first person memoir about street work. More of these stories must be out there—perhaps I just haven’t found them yet. ~ Amber Dawn, #NFDB
481:This temporary world is of death. Here, everything dies and everything changes. Do you recognise that subtle field of energy, that subatomic level of energy which does not change? Objects disintegrate, but atoms remain the same. Atoms and molecules disintegrate, but the sub-atomic particles are the same. All these human bodies are different, but there is one field of energy, the mind, that flows through everybody. Do you realize that there is one thing that is in everybody? Do you recognize the one consciousness? ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
482:Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice. ~ Dan John, #NFDB
483:MEGAN PIERCE WAS LIVING THE ultimate soccer-mom fantasy and hating it. She closed the Sub-Zero fridge and looked at her two children through the bay windows off the breakfast nook. The windows offered up “essential morning light.” That was how the architect had put it. The newly renovated kitchen also had a Viking stove, Miele appliances, a marble island in the middle, and excellent flow to the family-cum-theater room with the big-screen TV, recliners with cup holders, and enough sound speakers to stage a Who concert. Out ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
484:Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the needy. . . . While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. By contrast, volunteers for secular organizations . . . do not waste . . . time telling people about the virgin birth of Jesus. Nor do they tell people in sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly four million people die from AIDS every year - that condom use is sinful. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
485:Cultele memoriei de orice natură, indiferent dacă se prezintă ȋn veșminte religioase, civilizatoare sau politice, trebuie privite... cu neȋncredere și asta fără excepție: sub pretextul unei comemorări purificatoare, eliberatoare sau fie și numai fondatoare de identitate, ele dau inevitabil apă la moară unei tendințe ascunse de repetare și repunere ȋn scenă. ... măsurile de stingere sau de domolire a flăcării mocnite cu care ard amintirile suferințelor trebuie să facă parte din regulile de ȋnțelepciune ale oricărei civilizații, ~ Peter Sloterdijk, #NFDB
486:She began to understand why lovers talk baby talk to one another. There was no other socially acceptable circumstance in which the children inside her were permitted to come out. If the one-year-old, the five-year-old, the twelve-year-old, and the twenty-year-old all find compatible personalities in the beloved, there is a real chance to keep all of these sub-personas happy. Love ends their long loneliness. Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
487:Titles in business have been greatly overdone and business has suffered. One of the bad features is the division of responsibility according to titles, which goes so far as to amount to a removal altogether of responsibility. Where responsibility is broken up into many small bits and divided among many departments, each department under its own titular head, who in turn is surrounded by a group bearing their nice sub-titles, it is difficult to find any one who really feels responsible. Everyone knows what "passing the buck" means. The ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB
488:She began to understand why lovers talk baby talk to one another. There was no other socially acceptable circumstance in which the children inside her were permitted to come out. If the one-year-old, the five-year- old, the twelve-year-old, and the twenty-year-old all find compatible personalities in the beloved, there is a real chance to keep all of these sub-personas happy. Love ends their long loneliness. Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
489:We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $13-plus trillion we are estimated to ultimately spend on the bailouts, we could not only have bought and paid off every single sub-prime mortgage in the country (that would only have cost $1.4 trillion), we could have paid off every remaining mortgage of any kind in this country - and still have had enough money left over to buy a new house for every American who does not already have one. ~ Matt Taibbi, #NFDB
490:Any attempt at fighting the camp’s psychopathological influence on the prisoner by psychotherapeutic or psychohygienic methods had to aim at giving him inner strength by pointing out to him a future goal to which he could look forward. Instinctively some of the prisoners attempted to find one on their own. It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
491:Any attempt at fighting the camp's psychopathological influence on the prisoner by psychotherapeutic or psycho-hygienic methods had to aim at giving him inner strength by pointing out to him a future goal to which he could look forward. Instinctively some of the prisoners attempted to find one on their own. It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future-sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
492:But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
493:Speaking of which, a Dominion brushed past me carrying the final digits to a half-dozen transcendental numbers. It passed them along to a whirling Throne who appeared to be acting as an impromptu sub-foreman, who passed them up the chain to where they could do some good. A cloud of Powers surveyed the damage and orchestrated the repair effort with a thousand-dimensional bird’s-eye view. Somebody had built scaffolding out of a mathematics both consistent and complete (chew on that, Gödel) and now the spackle went on one axiom at a time. ~ Ian Tregillis, #NFDB
494:Dar o pastra in amintire, in zilele urmatoare, era mai mult decat o amintire, era un soi de sentiment al prezentei ireale si persistente a acelei femei. I se parea ca luase cu el o parte din ea, imaginea corpului ei pastrata in ochii lui si savoarea fiintei ei morale pastrata in inima lui. Ramasese cu obsesia chipului ei, asa cum se intampla, uneori, cand petreci ceasuri intregi pline de incantare alaturi de cineva. S-ar zice ca te afli sub vraja unui famec ciudat, intim, nelamurit, tulburator si subtil pentru ca este plin de mister. ~ Guy de Maupassant, #NFDB
495:Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be shocked when Halliburton overcharges for everything from towels to gas, when Parsons' sub, sub, sub-contractor builds a police academy where the pipes drip raw sewage on the heads of army cadets and where Blackwater investigates itself and finds it acted honorably. That's just corporations doing what they do and Iraq is a privatized war zone so that's what you get. Build a frontier, you get cowboys and robber barons. ~ Naomi Klein, #NFDB
496:Subcon tientul acceptă ceea ce îi este impus sau, cu alte cuvinte, ș ceea ce gîndi i în mod permanent. Subcon tientul nu judecă faptele, ț ș a a cum o face mentalul con tient ci, după cum am spus, este ș ș asemenea pămîntului care prime te orice fel de semin e, fie bune, fie ș ț rele. Gîndurile noastre sunt active i ele constituie semin ele din ș ț templu. Ideile negative, distructive, continuă să lucreze în subcon tient ș ș ț ț i se vor manifesta în via a voastră sub forma unor experien e mai mult sau mai pu in plăcute. ț A adar, subcon tientul ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
497:suffering. I paid attention to my deepest desires and passions. I sought to cast off my fictitious self, and be an authentic and fully-expressed me. I explored the connection between spirituality and sexuality. I expanded my relational world beyond religious sub-culture. I resisted creating a new religion out of my latest discovery. I operated with the assumption that every human being knew something I needed to know. I resisted latching onto the latest guru, and began seeing all people as my teachers. I explored new fields and areas of interest ~ Jim Palmer, #NFDB
498:cum ar fi fost viaţa noastră? Nu mă gândesc deloc la trupul ei; e destul de uşor să cunoşti şi să uiţi un trup. Dar mă gândesc mai ales la prezenţa ei, la magia ei ascunsă. O zi, o sută de zile, zece ani cu fiinţa aceasta frumoasă sau mai puţin frumoasă, blondă, înaltă, cum o fi, sub acelaşi acoperământ, alături de tine, zi după zi, zi şi noapte! Cum ar fi lucrat magia ei asupră-mi? Cum m-ar fi turmentat prezenţa ei?... Orice femeie pe care o iubesc mă apasă, mă sugrumă şi, fără voia ei, mă destramă şi mă topeşte, până la descompunerea finală. ~ Mircea Eliade, #NFDB
499:É precisamente essa a dificuldade de uma antropologia histórica-e-social que abandona a velha crença nos procedimentos e vocações de ambas as disciplinas, por inadequadas que possam ser sub specie aeternitatis, principalmente para o tipo de modelos intelectuais que assolaram os departamentos de literatura. Fica muito difícil conferir estrutura intelectual e expositória ou literária aos nossos escritos, afora o risco de que nosso tema seja desconstruído em fragmentos unidos apenas pela experiência comum de uma crise de identidade incomunicável. ~ Eric Hobsbawm, #NFDB
500:So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose commentator I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel poor-devilish, too; and grow convivial upon tears; and say to them bluntly, with full eyes and empty glasses, and in not altogether unpleasant sadness—Give it up, Sub-Subs! For by how much the more pains ye take to please the world, by so much the more shall ye for ever go thankless! ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
501:Each succeeding Sphere holds new, vaster love and truth within it. Each succeeding Sphere is larger and larger, both in spaciousness and in love than the previous one, and each Sphere has different sub-levels within it, different planes of Love and Truth, that we move through. As we move through each Sphere, we receive more Divine Love, more blessings, more direct knowing of Truths, more gifts to share and serve others with, to directly and experientially help them increase in love and truth, and more of the virtues of human and Divine Love. ~ Padma Aon Prakasha, #NFDB
502:În lumina lucrurilor pe care le-am învăţat noi de curând despre comportamentul animalelor în general şi despre cel al omului în special, a devenit evident că ţinerea sub control, prin pedepse, a comportamentului indezirabil este mai puţin eficace, pe termen lung, decât ţinerea sub control, prin stimulare, a comportamentului dorit cu ajutorul recompenselor, şi că guvernarea prin teroare funcţionează în linii mari mai puţin bine decât guvernarea prin manipularea neviolentă a mediului, a gândurilor şi simţămintelor indivizilor – bărbaţi, femei şi copii. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
503:It is undoubtedly the case (and considerations advanced in the first sub-section have prepared us for this conclusion) that the election does in some sense denote the basis of all the relationships between God and man, between God in His very earliest movement towards man and man in his very earliest determination by this divine movement. it is in the decision in favour of this movement, in God’s self-determination and the resultant determination of man, in the basic relationship which is enclosed and fulfilled within Himself, that God is who He is. ~ Karl Barth, #NFDB
504:The United States, Russia, and China are the only three countries in the world that can launch astronauts into space. Mostly in the U.S. you see some companies trying to launch private commercial people into space, but nobody's done it yet. The only private vehicle that's made it into space so far is Spaceship 1 in 2004, and that was an effort that was funded by one of the Microsoft founders, and he spent about $20 million to develop this spacecraft to do a sub-orbital flight. And it's not the same as going into orbit, but it was a huge first step. ~ Leroy Chiao, #NFDB
505:A căuta sensul vieţii e,poate,primul pas pentru a înţelege ceva periculos;anume că viaţa are sens doar câtă vreme nu incerci să-l afli.Dacă te scoli dimineaţa şi te grăbeşti să te îmbraci şi să pleci după treburi,nu e nici un pericol."Odiosul eu" nu îţi pune probleme.Stă aţipit sub grijile şi supărările zilnice.Dar când priveşti cerul,cu gândul că într-o zi n-o să-l mai vezi,şi începi să cauţi un rost alergăturilor tale,vanităţilor şi ambiţiilor din urma ta,eşti deja în primejdie.Se apropie momentul când vei devini şi agasat,şi obsedat de tine însuţi. ~ Octavian Paler, #NFDB
506:Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
507:Scrisoarea teribil de scurtă ce mi-aţi trimis-o m-a făcut să bănuiesc multe lucruri. Poate ar fi mai bine să nu-mi ascundeţi nimic decît să mă lăsaţi să-mi închipui cine ştie ce calamităţi în plus. Nu trebuie să vă lăsaţi copleşiţi. Din moment ce aveţi credinţa în Dumnezeu, adică singura mîngîiere valabilă ce există sub soare, mi se pare că sunteţi destul de înarmaţi pentru a suporta orice nefericire. Drama cea mare în viaţă e lipsa de orice credinţă... Pînă la un anumit punct e drama vieţii mele, deşi poate nu sunt în fond atît de necredincios pe cît par. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
508:Alien monsters were pleasant and funny. One early and almost forgotten piece of history tells that Adam, in addition to naming all the sub-lunar creatures, also named the nine hundred and ninety-nine species of creatures who had their homes and nests above the moon, on other moons or trabants or asteroids or planets. And after they were named, the super-lunary creatures went back to their own places, with friendly memories of Earth, the ‘naming place’. So we do have nine hundred and ninety-nine alien species, monstrous but friendly, waiting to meet us again. ~ R A Lafferty, #NFDB
509:Dumnezeu a făcut tot ce vedem, Raoul; tot el ne-a zidit și pe noi, bieți atomi rătăciți în acest univers; strălucim ca toate aceste puncte de lumină, ca toate stelele ce spuzesc depărtările, lăsăm să ne scape suspine asemenea valurilor înconjurătoare, suferim ca toate aceste corăbii uriașe ce îmbătrânesc spintecând valurile, plecându-se sub furia vântului ce le călăuzește către o țintă, după cum sufletul lui Dumnezeu ne alungă și pe noi spre cine știe care țărm. Totul se leagă cu dragoste de viață, Raoul, și toate sunt frumoase în mijlocul lucrurilor vii. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
510:Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. (25) ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
511:Richard Branson is probably the most visible of the private commercial space guys, and what is venture, Virgin Galactic is about is sub orbital flight. That is, you'll see a spacecraft that looks more or less like an airplane and it will fly into space, but only spend about 15 minutes. It'll go up in a parabolic arc and then fall back down, and so the customers on that flight will only get about five minutes of weightlessness. They'll get to glimpse the horizon of the Earth, take a look at it before just before they start coming back down into the atmosphere. ~ Leroy Chiao, #NFDB
512:De ce-s cu toții așa de grosolani?Și sînt grosolani,subliniat grosolani ,chiar în clipele cînd nu au voie să fie grosolani,când omul,după beție,are toți nervii revărsați,când e descurajat și blând!De ce așa?O,dacă întreaga lume,dacă fiecare din lumea asta ar fi nesigur de sine și s-ar îndoi de temeinicia locului său sub soare- ce bine ar fi!N-ar mai exista nici entuziaști,nici fapte eroice,nici obsesii!Toți ar fi descurajați.Aș accepta să trăiesc pe pământ și o veșnicie,dacă mai înainte mi s-ar arăta un ungher unde nu întodeauna este loc pentru fapte eroice. ~ Venedikt Erofeev, #NFDB
513:our theology of Christ’s love will be determinative of how a Christian wife is loved. How a man understands ultimate covenantal loving will settle how he sets about covenantal loving. How he understands the thing to be imitated will determine how and what he imitates. If his theology is biblical (and thereby federal or covenantal), then his wife will be loved as Christ really did love the Church. If the theology is either sub-federal or anti-covenantal, then a woman, when she is loved at all, will be loved sentimentally, not for very long, or in fits and starts. ~ Douglas Wilson, #NFDB
514:Purtăm fără lacrimi
o boală în strune
şi mergem de-a pururi
spre soare-apune.
Ni-e sufletul spadă
de foc stinsă-n teacă.
Ah iarăşi şi iarăşi
cuvintele seacă.
Vânt veşnic răsună
prin ceţini de zadă.
Purces-am în lume
pe punţi de baladă.
Străbatem amurguri
cu crini albi în gură.
Închidem în noi un
sfârşit sub armură.
Purtăm fără lacrimi
o boală în strune
şi mergem de-a pururi
spre soare-apune.
Răni ducem - izvoare -
deschise subt haină.
Sporim nesfârşirea
c-un cântec, c-o taină. ~ Lucian Blaga,#NFDB
515:The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesn’t have to be another country. It can be the past instead—the United States as it was before it was spoiled by immigrants and the enfranchisement of the blacks.
This state of mind allows too many of us to lie and cheat and steal from the rest of us, to sell us junk and addictive poisons and corrupting entertainments. What are the rest of us, after all, but sub-human aborigines? ~ Kurt Vonnegut,#NFDB
516:Out there in the millrace, the rush of water was broad and powerful, and as the current pushed past, it did so with an eerie silence. But if you cocked your body at just the right angle, you could detect a faint thrum, a kind of basal tremor. The frequency of that vibration was impossible for the ear to pick up, but it registered unmistakably on the hairs of the forearms, the wall of the chest, and deep in the belly. This was the muffled resonance of a runaway river, the sub-audible bell-tone of water surging with ungovernable force into the throat of the canyon. Just ~ Kevin Fedarko, #NFDB
517:The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too is similar to other monsters (werewolves and vampires) and also similar to the sub-genre of infection/plague films. In the case of zombies, however, this may carry a greater sense of dread and revulsion: vampires and werewolves can be seen as desirable, potent, intelligent, virile creatures whom one might like -- in some way at least -- to become; a mindless ghoul condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth seems much less attractive. ~ Kim Paffenroth, #NFDB
518:I could see their menfolk patrolling nervously up and down toting sub-machine guns and draped in cartridge belts. They were wearing their trademark sunglasses, those gold rimmed feminine accessories which should look comic on a man but instead manage to look as sinister as the wedding dresses and blonde wigs worn by Liberia's drugged fighters. They are the modern equivalent of the wooden masks donned around night fires by warriors preparing to do battle, which turn their wearers into something utterly alien -- faceless instruments of violence capable of unspeakable acts. ~ Michela Wrong, #NFDB
519:We started an organization that's the only sub-organization of the MacArthur Foundation and we are called the Macarturos. Usually when I win something, I'm the only one of my ethnicity to get it, but this time I met all these Latinos, and I was so excited. I'd meet someone and I'd go, [...] "Can you come to San Antonio?" And they'd go, "Oh yeah." [...] And suddenly I had twelve people that said they would come. And I didn't know how it was going to be. And that's how the Macarturos became a reality, where these very generous geniuses come to San Antonio and work together. ~ Sandra Cisneros, #NFDB
520:In a world of finite gods (often supported by one pantheistic deity), cyclical views of history, sub-biblical understandings of sin, multiplied idolatry, dualism that declares all that is material to be bad and all that is spiritual to be good, tribal deities, and not a little superstition, Paul paints a worldview of the true God, a linear view of history, the nature of sin and idolatry, impending judgment, the unity of the human race and the oneness of God-all as the necessary framework without which his proclamation of Jesus makes no sense. What does that mean for evangelism today? ~ D A Carson, #NFDB
521:Look, I like you. I haven’t made any secret of that. This was fun tonight, but I don’t want to be here if I’m not wanted.”
“I believe there was ample evidence of the fact that you’re wanted earlier.”
She shrugs. “That was awesome, but since then, you’ve been kinda…bitchy.”
… “Bitchy?” I ask in my most sinister tone, the one that has no effect whatsoever on her.
She looks me dead in the eye, fearless and gorgeous. “Yep.”
“Telling a Dom he’s bitchy can get a little sub in a lot of trouble.”
“What kind of trouble?” she asks, her eyes glittering with excitement. ~ Marie Force,#NFDB
522:The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control. ~ Nahum Goldmann, #NFDB
523:Philosophers often think all scientists must be scientific realists. If you ask a simple question like "Are electrons real?" the answer will be "Yes". But if your questions are less superficial, for example whether some well-known scientist was a good scientist. Then, they had insisted that only empirical criteria matter and that they actually did not believe in the reality of sub-atomic entities. Ask "If that turned out to be true, would you still say they were good scientists?" The answer would reveal something about how they themselves understood what it is to be a scientist. ~ Bas van Fraassen, #NFDB
524:When the numbers acquire the significance of language,” he later wrote, “they acquire the power to do all of the things which language can do: to become fiction and drama and poetry….And it is not just baseball that these numbers, through a fractured mirror, describe. It is character. It is psychology, it is history, it is power, it is grace, glory, consistency, sacrifice, courage, it is success and failure, it is frustration and bad luck, it is ambition, it is overreaching, it is discipline. And it is victory and defeat, which is all that the idiot sub-conscious really understands. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
525:Pizzerias in big cities benefit from Italian natives or descendants thereof, people who understand that real pizza comes from Naples where the crusts are thin and the toppings simple. Samantha’s favorite was Lazio’s, a hole-in-the-wall in Tribeca where the cooks yelled in Italian as they baked the crusts in brick ovens. Like most things in her life these days, Lazio’s was far away. So was the pizza. The only place in Brady to get one to go was a sub shop in a cheap strip mall. Pizza Hut, along with most other national chains, had not penetrated deep into the small towns of Appalachia. ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
526:The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers to an industry and sub-normal profits seem to drive away those who are in an industry, some writers are inclined to define normal profits as the earnings of the fixed resources in an industry which neither grows nor declines in size or number of firms. It should be clear that such a definition is useless: it muddles together attractiveness and actual afflux, desirbility of entry and ease of entry, zero profits and monopoly rents. ~ Fritz Machlup, #NFDB
527:All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elegant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games. By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules. ~ Iain M Banks, #NFDB
528:In the earliest days of proto-humanity, survival of the fittest ensured that the hardy and clever humans passed on their genetic material to the ensuing generations. The slow and the dull-witted died out, weeding their genes from the collective pool of possibilities. Your modern society has reversed the process. The hardy and clever have few children as they use their time and energy to amass wealth and position. The slothful and ignorant have mass broods, filling your planets with sub-standard stock. It is killing the human race. This will all change under the Throne World’s guidance. ~ Vaughn Heppner, #NFDB
529:Aripi. Strălucitoare şi cu irizări, bătând uşor, fără efort, scânteind în ploaie. Le mai văzuse înainte, poate, sau văzuse ceva asemănător, nu ţinea minte unde. — Daniel, zise ea, rămasă aproape fără suflare. Aripile îi mistuiau văzul şi mintea. Păreau să se învolbure-ze într-un milion de culori, ce îi străpungeau privirea. Încercă să se uite în altă parte, în orice altă parte, dar oriunde s-ar fi uitat, tot ce putea vedea în afară de Daniel erau nesfârşitele nuanţe de roz şi de albastru ale cerului la asfinţit. Până se uită în jos şi observă un ultim lucru. Pământul. La mii de metri sub ei. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
530:Each Sphere makes us more humble than the previous one, ‘for he that humbles himself is exalted in love, and he that exalts himself is humbled.’ Greatness is humility. Within each Sphere are ups and downs, we receive some Divine Love and blessing, and then pain or a deep lesson arises for us to feel and process. We are ascending and descending continually within the sub-levels of each Sphere. It is like a ladder that we move up and down on. God rests at the summit of this ladder, desiring us to reach into His substance and Great Soul. And then the ladder continues on, in a new way … ~ Padma Aon Prakasha, #NFDB
531:I…God, I don’t even know where to start. I’m here. I’m here for you, okay? No matter what. You can scream and you can yell and be as mean and self-destructive as you want. Because I know you’re going to be here for me when it’s my turn to fall apart. Let them all come, Clint. Let every last one of those tracksuit-wearing sub-verbal bullying murderous scumbags come at us. Because you and me? Together? Together, Clint, I think you and me are the person we both wish we could be. And I know that person…I know that person is worth something. I know that person can…can pretty much do anything. ~ Matt Fraction, #NFDB
532:Nil sub sole novum, says Solomon; amor omnibus idem, says Virgil; and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. Do you know what Aspasia was, ladies? Although she lived at an epoch when women had, as yet, no soul, she was a soul; a soul of a rosy and purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut. Aspasia was created in case a mistress should be needed for Prometheus. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
533:It looked insanely complicated, and this was one of the reasons why the snug plastic cover it fitted into had the words DON’T PANIC printed on it in large friendly letters. The other reason was that this device was in fact that most remarkable of all books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor—The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
534:Lewis had said that there is no creativity de novo in us—that we are all sub-creators pirating and rearranging portions of reality. I agreed. But it was only an idea. And then it took on flesh. I began to see the world more like a cook than a writer. There were boundless ingredients out there, combinations waiting to be discovered and simmered and served. There were truths and stories and characters and quirks that could clash badly, and some that could marry and birth sequels. I began to feel a lot more comfortable. It wasn't all on me to create. It was on me to find. To catch. To arrange. ~ N D Wilson, #NFDB
535:Walking away from our own lordship—or from the tyranny of our desires—has always been a narrow way. The rich young ruler who once encountered Jesus wanted a religion that would promise him his best life now, extended out into all eternity. But Jesus knew that such an existence isn’t life at all, just the zombie corpse of the way of the flesh—always hungry but unable to die. Jesus came to do something else; he came to wreck our lives, so that he could join us to his. We cannot build Christian churches on a sub-Christian gospel. People who don’t want Christianity don’t want almost-Christianity. ~ Russell D Moore, #NFDB
536:E’ per questo che, in fondo al cuore, mi considero un fallito. Non che questo importi molto. Sub specie aeternitatis tutti noi, senza eccezioni, siamo dei falliti. Non ricordo più dove ho letto che “la morte intacca la nostra fiducia nella vita mostrandoci che in fin dei conti tutto è ugualmente futile se visto in rapporto alle tenebre che ci attendono.” Sì, “futile” è la parola esatta. Eppure non posso lamentarmi: ho più amici che nemici e ci sono momenti in cui sono quasi felice di essere al mondo – quando guardo il sole che tramonta e la luna che spunta, o vedo la neve sulla cima della montagna. ~ Fred Uhlman, #NFDB
537:In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large that they are hard to encompass with one synthetic glance. But in this crude form they are not scientific facts at all; they are absolutely elusive, and can be fixed only by interpretation, by seeing them sub specie aeternitatis, by grasping what is essential in them and fixing this. Only laws and generalizations are scientific facts, and field work consists only and exclusively in the interpretation of the chaotic social reality, in subordinating it to general rules. ~ Bronislaw Malinowski, #NFDB
538:She didn't think in terms of "dom" being capitalized and "sub" being lowercase. To Erin, D/s wasn't about one person being worthy of a capital letter and the other not. It wasn't about unequal worth; it was about two equals sharing power, sharing sex and emotion. She didn't submit to him because she wanted to be debased or harmed, because she needed to be lesser than anyone. She was aware some people got off on that, and hey, whatever floats your boat. But when he dominated her, she felt cherished and adored, cosseted in those cherished moments between them-in a way she never achieved with anyone else. ~ Lauren Dane, #NFDB
539:The most rewarding call came at about ten a.m. “Sir the DIG is coming on the line. Please take the call.” A panicked sub-inspector rushed to me, where I was busy meeting a delegation from the nearby villages. I rushed back to the phone and by instinct addressed the caller as sir. I was greeted by a faint laughter and plenty of good wishes. My fiancé was on the line. It was the greatest reward that I hadn’t expected. I assured her that I wasn’t a dragon killer and I wasn’t going to expose myself to unwarranted danger. She knew it was a hollow promise. Danger and I were the most intimate bed mates. ~ Maloy Krishna Dhar, #NFDB
540:Have you ever looked at a map of our country, Necdet?’ Green Headscarf says. ‘It’s a map of the human mind. We’re split by water over two continents, Europe and Anatolia. We are seven per cent Europe, ninety-three per cent Asia. Conscious Thrace, unconscious, pre-conscious, sub-concious Anatolia. And Istanbul — have you ever seen a neuron, Necdet? A brain cell? The marvel is that the synapses don’t touch. There is always a gap — there must a gap, otherwise consciousness would not exist. The Bosphorus is that synaptic cleft. Potential can flow across the cleft. It’s the cleft that makes consciousness possible. ~ Ian McDonald, #NFDB
541:The biologist Peter Medawar described science as ‘the art of the soluble’, but the same applies to all forms of knowledge. All kinds of creative thought involve judgements about what approaches might or might not work. Gaining or losing interest in particular problems or sub-problems is part of the creative process and itself constitutes problem-solving. So whether ‘problems are soluble’ does not depend on whether any given question can be answered, or answered by a particular thinker on a particular day. But if progress ever depended on violating a law of physics, then ‘problems are soluble’ would be false. ~ David Deutsch, #NFDB
542:all of my bases covered. You assume responsibility for violations of local, regional, global, intrasystem, interstellar, intergalactic and interdimensional law, civil, religious, or military. I’m also not responsible for loss of life and limb, property damage, domestic disputes, engineered biological human dieback, nuclear fallout, violations of causality, cascading sub-quantum misalignment, hastening of cosmic heat death, rampant AI, accelerated climate change, geomagnetic reversal, vacuum metastability events, total existence failure, gray goo scenario, red goo scenario--that’s a nasty one--tectonic inversion-- ~ Joseph R Lallo, #NFDB
543:Poveste sentimentală
Pe urmă ne vedeam din ce în ce mai des.
Eu stăteam la o margine-a orei,
tu – la cealaltă,
ca două toarte de amforă.
Numai cuvintele zburau între noi,
înainte şi înapoi.
Vârtejul lor putea fi aproape zărit,
şi deodată,
îmi lăsam un genunchi,
iar cotul mi-nfigeam în pământ,
numai ca să privesc iarba-nclinată
de căderea vreunui cuvânt,
ca pe sub laba unui leu alergând.
Cuvintele se roteau, se roteau între noi,
înainte şi înapoi,
şi cu cât te iubeam mai mult, cu atât
repetau, într-un vârtej aproape văzut,
structura materiei, de la-nceput. ~ Nichita St nescu,#NFDB
544:In a revolution, when the ceaseless slow accumulation of centuries bursts into volcanic eruption, the meteoric flares and flights above are a meaningless chaos and lend themselves to infinite caprice and romanticism unless the observer sees them always as projections of the sub-soil from which they came. The writer has sought not only to analyse, but to demonstrate in their movement, the economic forces of the age; their moulding of society and politics, of men in the mass and individual men; the powerful reaction of these on their environment at one of those rare moments when society is at boiling point and therefore fluid. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
545:People who’ve never read fairy tales, the professor said, have a harder time coping in life than the people who have. They don’t have access to all the lessons that can be learned from the journeys through the dark woods and the kindness of strangers treated decently, the knowledge that can be gained from the company and example of Donkeyskins and cats wearing boots and steadfast tin soldiers. I’m not talking about in-your-face lessons, but more subtle ones. The kind that seep up from your sub¬conscious and give you moral and humane structures for your life. That teach you how to prevail, and trust. And maybe even love. ~ Charles de Lint, #NFDB
546:Mă culcasem lângă glasul tău.
Era tare bine acolo şi sânii tăi calzi îmi păstrau
tâmplele.
Nici nu-mi mai amintesc ce cântai.
Poate ceva despre crengile şi apele care ţi-au cutreierat
nopţile.
Sau poate copilăria ta care a murit
undeva, sub cuvinte.
Nici nu-mi mai amintesc ce cântai.
Mă jucam cu palmile în zulufii tăi.
Erau tare îndărătnici
şi tu nu mă mai băgai de seamă.
Nici nu-mi mai amintesc de ce plângeai.
Poate doar aşa, de tristeţea amurgurilor.
Ori poate de drag
şi de blândeţe.
Nu-mi mai amintesc de ce plângeai.
Mă culcasem lângă glasul tău şi te iubeam. ~ Nichita St nescu,#NFDB
547:could be summoned at a moment’s notice. It looked insanely complicated, and this was one of the reasons why the snug plastic cover it fitted into had the words DON’T PANIC printed on it in large friendly letters. The other reason was that this device was in fact that most remarkable of all books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor—The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
548:Se vorbește mult în momentul acesta despre demnitatea muncii, despre necesitatea ei. Dar asta-i o înșelătorie. Nu există demnitatea muncii decât când munca e liber acceptată. Doar trândăvia este o valoare morală pentru că poate servi la judecarea oamenilor. Nu le e fatală decât celor mediocri. Iată lecția și grandoarea ei. Munca, dimpotrivă, strivește în mod egal oamenii. Nu întemeiază o judecată. Pune în acțiune o metafizică a umilirii. Cei mai buni nu-i supraviețuiesc sub forma de sclavie pe care i-o dă actualmente societatea celor ce gândesc corect...
Propun sa răsturnăm formula clasică și să facem din muncă un rod al trândăviei. ~ Albert Camus,#NFDB
549:How can seemingly unprocessed foods like fruit be sub-optimal for our health? While our Paleolithic ancestors may have eaten copious fruit, it would have been a sporadic part of their diet, and almost assuredly not the juicy, sweet fruit that we find today in supermarkets. In nature, fruit is seasonal and relatively hard to come by. Not something to be consumed daily in great quantities. As I say in the book, humans have only been cultivating fruit trees for the past few thousand years, and the kinds of fruit we eat today have been bred to be far juicier and sweeter than the wild varieties and so, in effect, to be far more fattening. 11. ~ Gary Taubes, #NFDB
550:Are you a Dominant, Sir?”
“Yes.” A smile played at his lips. Hearing her call him that would never get old.
“And I’m a submissive?”
“Absolutely,” Law whispered in her ear. “You’re the sweetest little sub I’ve ever seen.”
A grin curled her mouth up. “So I call you my Doms?”
“Yes, pet.”
Her smile widened until she looked as if she was trying to keep a straight face. “You’re Dominic, the Dom.”
He sighed. “Yes, pet. I think I was aptly named.”
“You’re Dom Dominic.”
“While true, that’s not exactly how you should phrase it.” He frowned.
“You’re Dom Dom.” The smile zipped across her face. “I get to call you Dom Dom. ~ Shayla Black,#NFDB
551:If you view our development over the past few centuries, we’re entering into some aggregation phase triggered by pheromones spread through technology, and we are beginning to create some kind of a superorganism. And the fear of some people is that, once inside this superorganism, we will be forced into a permanent status as a sub-level of the hierarchy. In other words, you will have to give up your individuality and you will just become a kind of liver cell or brain cell or something in this organism. But I don’t think this is the case. I think we have the unique ability to combine these two modes of existence. ~ Terence McKenna, Appreciating Imagination, #NFDB
552:Dar îl aștepta și o răsplată: întorcându-se, el văzu în dreptul ușii un chip alb și frumos, ai cărui ochi albaștri, mari și nelăsând să li se ghicească expresia, erau ațintiți asupra lui, în timp ce fata își urca încetișor mănunchiul de iasomie spre buze.
Morrel înțelese atât de bine salutul acesta, încât, cu aceeași expresie în privire, își duse la rândul său batista la gură; și cele două statui vii, ale căror inimi băteau atât de repede sub marmura aparentă a chipurilor, despărțite una de alta prin toată lărgimea încăperii, uitară de ele o clipă sau, mai bine zis, uitară o clipă de întreaga lume, în privirea aceasta adâncită și mută. ~ Alexandre Dumas,#NFDB
553:Nu pot sa sufar, suflet miscator,
femeie care-mi izvoraste din coasta si-n pietre de
melancolie, arzator, cu timpla dai,
ca-n inima mea proasta
Pasul tau zvelt din glezna mea
sa-l rupi nu pot sa sufar, nu, fara durere
Mi-e sufletul culcat pe colti de lupi.
Devine loc
dunga subtire de tacere si de sub palma lata-a mea,
umarul tau cu suierat de tren se
smulge-asurzitor spre-un tunel, spre vid, spre hau,
spre-un chip neinventat, traind in viitor
Nu pot sa sufar, nu, sa treaca intre noi reci dorurile
ce le misti doar tu nici intimplarile ca
niste bivoli stinsi, greoi, si nici distantele sa treaca.
Nu. ~ Nichita St nescu,#NFDB
554:A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wave bands for news of himself. The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive—you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
555:Iubirea e ca un drog. La început ai senzaţia de euforie, de abandon total. Apoi, a doua zi, vrei mai mult. Încă nu e un viciu, dar îţi place senzaţia şi îţi închipui că o poţi ţine sub control. Te gândeşti la fiinţa iubită vreme de două minute şi uiţi de ea timp de trei ore.
În scurt timp, însă, te obişnuieşti cu acea persoană şi începi să fii complet dependent de ea. Acum te gândeşti la ea trei ore şi o uiţi două minute. Dacă ea nu e lângă tine, încerci aceleaşi senzaţii ca şi drogaţii când nu-şi obţin drogul. În acest moment, aşa cum drogaţii fură şi se înjosesc ca să facă rost de ceea ce le trebuie, şi tu eşti dispus să faci orice pentru dragoste. ~ Paulo Coelho,#NFDB
556:It was in the later sub-races of the Lemurian race that the human being we know as man was differentiated from the animal prototype. Thus in Lemuria the true man came into being. Man having been formed as the vehicle for the "thinker," we have the explanation for the opening verses of chapter 6 [Genesis]. The 1st verse describes that men began to multiply on the earth; and in the 2nd verse it explains that the sons of God (the intellectual egos or conscious entities) gazed upon the bodies that had been formed (the daughters of men) and took wives from among them, i.e. joined with them to become the true humanity that we know. ~ Manly P Hall, How to Understand Your Bible, #NFDB
557:Simplicity itself. Skin, debone, demarrow, scarify, melt, render down and destroy. Every adjective that counted, every verb that moved, every metaphor that weighed more than a mosquito--out! Every simile that would have made sub-moron's mouth twitch--gone! Any aside that explained the two-bit philosophy of a first-rate writer--lost!
Every story slenderized, starved, bluepenciled, leeched and bled white, resembled every other story. Twain read like Poe read Shakespeare read like Dostoevsky read like--in the finale--Edgar Guest. Every word of more than three syllables had been razored. Every image that demanded so much as one instant's attention--shot dead. ~ Ray Bradbury,#NFDB
558:This was possibly the first time anyone had used the phrase "too cerebral" when describing Pinky's advertising. Because someone somewhere in the Pinky's marketing scheme had made the brilliant connection that sub sandwiches are vaguely phallic. And from that, all the penis-related Pinky sub campaigns were born.
Like the commercial where you see the guy standing from the back, and then a woman in front of him, and she says, "Nine inches????" in this insane lusty voice, and then they pan to the side and show he's holding a Pinky sub right at groin height? It's the worst. It is literally the worst. I'm a cog in the world's dumbest corporate sandwich machine. ~ Emma Mills,#NFDB
559:Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time. Our intention here is not to deprecate the world of space. To disparage space and the blessing of things of space, is to disparage the works of creation, the works which God beheld and saw “it was good.” The world cannot be seen exclusively sub specie temporis. Time and space are interrelated. To overlook either of them is to be partially blind. What we plead against is man’s unconditional surrender to space, his enslavement to things. We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel, #NFDB
560:Let me explain a simple concept,” Per Lomax said. “Perhaps you can understand then. In the earliest days of proto-humanity, survival of the fittest ensured that the hardy and clever humans passed on their genetic material to the ensuing generations. The slow and the dull-witted died out, weeding their genes from the collective pool of possibilities. Your modern society has reversed the process. The hardy and clever have few children as they use their time and energy to amass wealth and position. The slothful and ignorant have mass broods, filling your planets with sub-standard stock. It is killing the human race. This will all change under the Throne World’s guidance. ~ Vaughn Heppner, #NFDB
561:The fact is our bodies aren’t meant to ingest meat and dairy and eggs and fish. That’s right, our bodies aren’t meant to eat animals; they’re made for whole grains, vegetarian proteins like beans and legumes, fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds. We may be omnivores in that our bodies are capable of living on just about anything—flesh included—in times of scarcity. But unless you are living in sub-Saharan Africa or some isolated part of the North Pole, scarcity is, fortunately, not a problem. In fact we are blessed with abundance. Our modern problem is obesity and all the degenerative diseases that are linked to obesity, like cancer, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes. ~ Kathy Freston, #NFDB
562:Noon found me strolling about the ashram grounds, on to the grazing land of a few imperturbable cows. The protection of cows is a passion with Gandhi. “The cow to me means the entire sub-human world, extending man’s sympathies beyond his own species,” the Mahatma has explained. “Man through the cow is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives. Why the ancient rishis selected the cow for apotheosis is obvious to me. The cow in India was the best comparison; she was the giver of plenty. Not only did she give milk, but she also made agriculture possible. The cow is a poem of pity; one reads pity in the gentle animal. She is the second mother to millions of mankind. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
563:To Bob these artifacts were only moderately strange, and he learned to overlook them after a few moments’ nervous glancing around the room. What really paralyzed him was the omnipresent noise—not because it was loud, but because it wasn’t. The room contained at least two dozen clocks, or sub-assemblies of clocks, driven by weights or springs whose altitude or tension stored enough energy, summed, to raise a barn. That power was restrained and disciplined by toothy mechanisms of various designs: brass insects creeping implacably around the rims of barbed wheels, constellations of metal stars hung on dark stolid axle-trees, all marching or dancing to the beat of swinging plumb-bobs. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
564:Espera tanto tempo. Os últimos anos tinham sido uma vigília.
Esperara através de mil e uma preocupações quotidianas.
Naturalmente durante esse tempo andara atrás de mulheres, viajara e ganhara a vida. Mas através de tudo isso a sua única preocupação fora manter-se disponível. Para uma acção. Um acto.
Um acto livre e reflectido que acarretaria o destino da sua vida e seria o início de uma nova existência. Nunca pudera prender-se definitivamente a um amor, a um prazer, nunca fora realmennte infeliz; sempre lhe parecera estar algures, não ter ainda nascido completamente.
Esperava. E durante esse tempo, devagar, sub-repticiamente os anos tinham chegado, e tinham-no envolvido. ~ Jean Paul Sartre,#NFDB
565:Nevertheless, we can make a distinction between the three persons of the Trinity, because each member of the Godhead has unique attributes. We say the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, but we don’t say that the Father is the Son, the Son is the Holy Spirit, or the Holy Spirit is the Father. There are distinctions between them, but the distinctions are not essential, not of the essence. They are real, but they do not disturb the essence of deity. The distinctions within the Godhead are, if you will, sub-distinctions within the essence of God. He is one essence, three subsistences. That is about as close as we can get to articulating the historic doctrine of the Trinity. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
566:In all major socializing forces you will find an underlying movement to gain and maintain power through the use of words. From witch doctor to priest to bureaucrat it is all the same. A governed populace must be conditioned to accept power-words as actual things, to confuse the symbolized system with the tangible universe. In the maintenance of such a power structure, certain symbols are kept out of the reach of common understanding – symbols such as those dealing with economic manipulation of those which define the local interpretation of sanity. Symbol-secrecy of this form leads to the development of fragmented sub-languages, each being a signal that its users are accumulating some form of power. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
567:The fetishisation of the sexuality of black people comes from centuries of dirty dark shade. It starts with sleazy old jokes that black men have huge cocks, or that black women are hyper-sexual, and it festers to become something toxic and sinister. This continues now, mostly unquestioned, with the sexual objectification of women, rounded fat bottoms and full lips all across the media industry. But once the canned laughter dies down or the fashion shoot is done and dusted, and you stop and take a cold hard look at the root history of these jokes and stereotypes, it all comes from a shade so bleak and so ignorant, that it has a sub-human subtext to it –brown people for sale in a human pet shop window. ~ Nikesh Shukla, #NFDB
568:Cum aş vrea ca, într-o zi, toţi oamenii cu ocupaţii sau cu misiuni, căsătoriţi sau nu, tineri şi bătrîni, femei şi bărbaţi, serioşi sau superficiali, trişti sau veseli, să părăsească locuinţa şi birourile lor şi, renunţînd la orice fel de datorii şi obligaţii, să iasă în stradă şi să nu mai voiască să facă nimic. Toată această lume îndobitocită, care munceşte fără nici un sens sau se iluzionează cu aportul personal la binele umanităţii, care lucrează pentru
generaţii viitoare sub impulsul celei mai sinistre amăgeli, ar trăi în astfel de momente
capitale o răzbunare pentru toată mediocritatea unei vieţi nule şi sterile, pentru toată irosirea
care n-a avut nimic din excelenţa marilor transfigurări. ~ Emil M Cioran,#NFDB
569:It was as if she had spoken slightingly of a woman he loved. For he dreamed of peace by day and night. Once in sleep it had appeared to him as the great glowing shoulder of the moon heaving across his window like an iceberg, arctic and destructive in the moment before the world was struck: by day he tried to win a few moments of its company, crouched under the rusting handcuffs in the locked office, reading the reports from the sub-stations. Peace seemed to him the most beautiful word in the language: My peace I give to you, my peace I leave with you: O Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, grant us thy peace. In the Mass he pressed his fingers against his eyes to keep the tears of longing in. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
570:The inside of the Trace Italian, of course, does not exist. A player can get close enough to see it: it shines in the new deserts of Kansas, gleaming in the sun or starkly rising from the winter cold. The rock walls that protect it meet in points around it, one giving way to another, for days on end. But the dungeons into which you'll fall as you work through the pathways to its gates number in the low hundreds, and if you actually get into the entry hall, there are a few hundred more sub-dungeons before you'll actually reach somewhere that's truly safe. Technically, it's possible to get to the last room in the final chamber of the Trace Italian, but no one will ever do it. No one will ever live that long. ~ John Darnielle, #NFDB
571:Uneori simbolurile îşi produc efectele, fiind disproporţionat de impresionante, obsedante şi fascinante prin ele însele. Aşa sunt riturile şi ceremonialurile religiei. Aceste „frumuseţi ale sfinţeniei” întăresc credinţa acolo unde ea există deja, iar unde nu există credinţă, contribuie la convertirea oamenilor. Satisfăcând doar simţul estetic, simbolurile nu garantează nici adevărul, nici valoarea etică a doctrinelor cu care au fost asociate în mod absolut arbitrar. Ca o chestiune de adevăr istoric simplu, frumuseţile sfinţeniei au fost adeseori concurate şi chiar şi depăşite de frumuseţile nesfinţeniei. Sub Hitler, de exemplu, mitingurile anuale de la Nürnberg erau adevărate capodopere ale artei rituale şi teatrale. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
572:But the facts are now clear: the preparation for this misuse of power preceded the explosion of the first atom bomb. Well before the first atom bomb was tested, the American Air Force had adopted the hitherto 'unthinkable' practice of the wholesale, indiscriminate bombing of concentrated civilian populations: this paralleled, except for distance from the victims, the practices employed by Hitler's sub-men in extermination camps like Buchenwald and Auschwitz. By using napalm bombs the American Air Force had roasted alive 180,000 civilians in Tokyo in a single night. Thus the descent to total demoralization and extermination was neatly plotted well before the supposedly 'ultimate' weapon, the atom bomb, was invented. ~ Lewis Mumford, #NFDB
573:Bessie was News, Leaders, and Gossip; Enid was Features, Make-up and general Sub. Whenever they were at a loss for copy they would mercilessly pillage ancient copies of Punch or Home Chat. An occasional hole in the copy was filled with a ghoulish smudge - local block-making had clearly indicated that somewhere a poker-work fanatic had gone quietly out of his mind. In this way the Central Balkan Herald was made up every morning and then delivered to the composition room where the chain-gang quickly reduced it to gibberish. MINISTER FINED FOR KISSING IN PUBIC. WEDDING BULLS RING OUT FOR PRINCESS. QUEEN OF HOLLAND GIVES PANTY FOR EX-SERVICE MEN. MORE DOGS HAVE BABIES THIS SUMMER IN BELGRADE. BRITAINS NEW FLYING-GOAT. ~ Lawrence Durrell, #NFDB
574:All the dogs except eight had been named. I do not know who had been responsible for some of the names, which seemed to represent a variety of tastes. They were as follows Rugby, Upton Bristol, Millhill, Songster, Sandy, Mack, Mercury, Wolf, Amundsen, Hercules, Hackenschmidt, Samson, Sammy, Skipper, Caruso, Sub, Ulysses, Spotty, Bosun, Slobbers, Sadie, Sue, Sally, Jasper, Tim, Sweep, Martin, Splitlip, Luke, Saint, Satan, Chips, Stumps, Snapper, Painful, Bob, Snowball, Jerry, Judge, Sooty, Rufus, Sidelights, Simeon, Swanker, Chirgwin, Steamer, Peter, Fluffy, Steward, Slippery, Elliott, Roy, Noel, Shakespeare, Jamie, Bummer, Smuts, Lupoid, Spider, and Sailor. Some of the names, it will be noticed, had a descriptive flavour. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
575:Exista un risc al vorbelor frumoase. Sa ne obisnuim cu ele si sa le repetam din rutina. In loc sa iubim, ne declaram iubirea. Iar acest risc este si mai grav cand totul decade in retorica de circumstanta. Nu cred in cei care isi vocifereaza dragostea pe toate raspantiile. Poate ma insel, dar am fost totdeauna convins ca adevarata dragoste te strange de gat, nu te impinge la triade. Ea prefera soapta si uneori chiar tacerea, iar daca e nevoita sa iasa in scena, sub reflectoare, se simte stingherita. Nu pentru ca nu i-ar placea sarbatoarea, ci pentru ca se teme sa nu para teatrala.
Fireste, stiu ca o dragoste trebuie totusi marturisita din cand in cand. Nu neaparat pentru altii, ci pentru bucuria de a o marturisi. ~ Octavian Paler,#NFDB
576:All the dogs except eight had been named. I do not know who had been responsible for some of the names, which seemed to represent a variety of tastes. They were as follows Rugby, Upton Bristol, Millhill, Songster, Sandy, Mack, Mercury, Wolf, Amundsen, Hercules, Hackenschmidt, Samson, Sammy, Skipper, Caruso, Sub, Ulysses, Spotty, Bosun, Slobbers, Sadie, Sue, Sally, Jasper, Tim, Sweep, Martin, Splitlip, Luke, Saint, Satan, Chips, Stumps, Snapper, Painful, Bob, Snowball, Jerry, Judge, Sooty, Rufus, Sidelights, Simeon, Swanker, Chirgwin, Steamer, Peter, Fluffy, Steward, Slippery, Elliott, Roy, Noel, Shakespeare, Jamie, Bummer, Smuts, Lupoid, Spider, and Sailor. Some of the names, it will be noticed, had a descriptive flavour. ~ Ernest Shackleton, #NFDB
577:We see but the ever changing forms, and catch glimpses of the steadily evolving life within those forms, but as yet have no clue to the principle which works through the shifting kaleidoscope of solar systems, rays, hierarchies, planets, planes, schemes, rounds, races, and sub-races. They interweave, interlock, and interpenetrate each other, and utter bewilderment is ours as the wonderful pattern they form unfolds before us. We know that somewhere in that scheme we, the human hierarchy, have our place. All, therefore, that we can do is to seize upon any data that seems to affect our own welfare, and concerns our own evolution, and from the study of the human being in the three worlds seek to understand somewhat the macrocosm. ~ Alice A Bailey, #NFDB
578:Dostoievski a fost un pribeag rus, un pelerin în lumile spirituale.
Nu a avut casa şi pămîntul său, nu a deţinut "cuibul"
confortabil al unor conace moşiereşti. Nu e legat de statica
existenţei, e în dinamica ei, în zbucium . Il stn1.bat şuvoaie care
vin din viitor, se află în revoluţia spiritului. El e omul Apocalipsului.
Slavofilii nu erau cuprinşi de maladia apocaliptică .
Dostoievski infăţişează cu precădere destinul pelerinului şi al rencgatu:lui
rus. El consideră pelerinajul o pribeagă trăsătură rusească.
Slavofilii erau tereştri, crescuţi pe pămîntul cu oameni,
oamenii tari ai pămîntului. Pămîntul de sub ci e tare, dur.
Dostoievski a fost un om subteran. Elementul lui este focul,
nu pămîntul. ~ Nikolai A Berdyaev,#NFDB
579:Migration statistics offer a hint of the shift. More than 170,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Italy by sea last year; Syrians and Eritreans were the two largest groups among them, accounting for more than 76,000 people, according to Italy’s Interior Ministry. Gambians ranked a distant fifth. Yet during the first quarter of 2015, a relatively slow period with just 10,165 arrivals — Gambia was the leading country of origin, accounting for 1,413 of the migrants. The authorities have not published figures for April yet, but humanitarian and migration groups confirm that a majority of the arriving migrants came originally from sub-Saharan African countries — some directly, with Italy as a destination, but many end up here less deliberately. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
580:Ni se pare că la noi în casă e curat, fiindcă aruncăm în fiecare zi sacul de gunoi la ghenă, ni se pare că trupul nostru e curat fiindcă facem în fiecare zi duș, dar gunoaiele cu adevărat primejdioase se adună sub piele și pe acelea n-avem cum le îndepărta, pentru că și atunci când le azvârlim afară, așa cum face el acum, ele nu dispar, ci se dublează, fiindcă acum o să fie și înăuntrul ei, pentru că fiecare om e un mic univers în care se adună gunoi, și chiar și atunci când facem duș și ne dăm cu deodorant, și când ne îmbrăcăm frumos și ieșim la restaurant sau la teatru sau la operă, și chiar și când conversăm cu politețe, și chiar și atunci când facem dragoste, e vorba de două grămezi de gunoi, și cu prima ocazie asta iese la iveală (...). ~ Zeruya Shalev, #NFDB
581:From 2000, Fannie and Freddie’s appetite for sub-prime loans increased markedly every year, encouraging a rich harvest of increasingly crazy loans by mortgage originators to supply this appetite. House-builders, lenders, mortgage brokers, Wall Street underwriters, legal firms, housing charities and pressure groups like ACORN all benefited. Taxpayers did not. By the early 2000s, Fannie and Freddie were well intertwined with politicians, donating rich campaign contributions especially to Congressional Democrats, and giving rewarding jobs to politicians – Clinton’s former Budget Director Franklin Raines would pocket $100 million from his brief spell in charge of Fannie. Between 1998 and 2008, Fannie and Freddie spent $175 million lobbying Congress. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
582:had about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million “pages” could be summoned at a moment’s notice. It looked insanely complicated, and this was one of the reasons why the snug plastic cover it fitted into had the words DON’T PANIC printed on it in large friendly letters. The other reason was that this device was in fact that most remarkable of all books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor—The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
583:Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing up their children in nice middle-class Christian ways, and who leave the sub-middle-class sections of the community, Christian and non-Christian, to get on by themselves.
The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor - spending and being spent - to enrich their fellowmen, giving time, trouble, care and concern to do good to others - and not just their own friends - in whatever way there seems need. ~ J I Packer,#NFDB
584:…Adesea mi-am simţit sufletul alături de trup. Adesea l-am simţit departe, adesea fără rost şi fără căpătâi. Şi cum l-aş fi urmat, în înălţări subite, smuls din aşternutul inimii? Nu-i rostul lui să rătăcească în albiile simţurilor? Ce-l împinge atunci spre întinderi, în care nu pot să-l urmez? Oamenii îl au, dispun de el, el e al lor. Numai eu rămân sub mine… Lasă-ţi sufletul fără pază; cum o ia razna spre cer! Direcţia lui firească e o vitregie. Prin ce mreji îl voi lega de pământ? De-ar prinde furtunile lui patima lucrurilor ce trec şi, înfrânându-l, să-i pun cătuşele trupului! Ajunge o clipă de neseamă şi-n focuri se sloboade spre alte lumi. De unde să vină văpaia subită ce-l surghiuneşte-n meleaguri cereşti, în timp ce rămâi victimă lâng-un corp în părăsiri? ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
585:Vederea fratelui mort trezi în sufletul lui Levin grozăvia ce simţise în faţa ciudăţeniei şi a apropierii morţii de neînlăturat, în toamna când fratele venise la el în vizită. Sentimentul era şi mai viu ca înainte; mai mult decât atunci se simţise incapabil să priceapă sensul morţii, şi mai oribilă îi apărea fatalitatea ei. Totuşi prezenţa nevestei îl împiedică să cadă în deznădejde căci, în ciuda groazei, simţea nevoia de-a trăi şi de-a iubi. Simţea că dragostea îl salvează din ghearele deznădejdii, iar dragostea devenea, sub influenţa deznădejdii, mai mare, mai curată. Abia văzu îndeplinindu-se misterul morţii, insondabilă pentru el, şi un alt mister, al iubirii şi-al vieţii, îi apăru. Doctorul confirima presupunerile în legătură cu starea Kittyei: era însărcinată. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
586:Humana ante oculos foede cum vita iaceret in terris oppressa gravi sub religione quae caput a caeli regionibus ostendebat horribili super aspectu mortalibus instants, primum Graius homo mortalis tollere contra est oculos ausus primusque obsistere contra, quem neque fama deum nec fulmina nec minitanti murmure compressit caelum, sed eo magis acrem irritat animi virtutem, effringere ut arta naturae primus portarum claustra cupiret. Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit, et extra processit longe flammantia moenia mundi atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque, unde refert nobis victor quid possit oriri, quid nequeat, finita potestas denique cuique quanam sit ratione atque alte terminus haerens.
Quare religio pedibus subiecta vicissim obteritur, nos exaequat victoria caelo. ~ Lucretius,#NFDB
587:Oh we’re not together. I mean, we’re sitting together and we came here together but obviously we’re not together-together. How could we be together? I’m probably never going to see him again after today. We’re not even friends. I don’t even know him. I mean, you know, really-” I inclined my head toward her and a small laugh burst from my lips, “can you even imagine? It’d be like Planet of the Apes- and he’s Charlton Heston with all the muscles and such and I’m that girl ape. They can’t be together because it’d be like a Neanderthal with a human, cross species breeding…and that’s just not right. Although Neanderthals are closely related to humans and are in fact part of the same species- if you want to be precise- they are a sub-species or alternate species of human... ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
588:Kierkegaard poate să strige, prevenindu-ne: «Dacă omul n-ar avea o conştiinţă eternă, dacă, în adîncul a toate, n-ar exista decît o putere sălbatică şi clocotitoare dînd naştere, în vîrtejul unor întunecate patimi, tuturor lucrurilor, celor măreţe şi celor neînsemnate, dacă sub lucruri s-ar ascunde hăul fără fund pe care nimic nu-1 poate umple, ce-ar fi viaţa altceva decît disperare?» Acest strigăt nu-1 va putea opri din drum pe omul absurd. A căuta ceea ce e adevărat nu înseamnă a căuta ceea ce ai dori să găseşti. Dacă, pentru a scăpa de întrebarea înspăimîntată : «Ce-i oare viaţa?», trebuie, ca şi măgarul, să te hrăneşti cu trandafirii iluziei, spiritul absurd, decît să se resemneze la minciună, preferă să adopte fără să ezite răspunsul lui Kierkegaard: «disperare». ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
589:But even if we remain in our own country, Christians and non-Christians are often widely separated from one another by social sub-cultures and lifestyles as well as by different values, beliefs and moral standards. Only an incarnation can span these divides, for an incarnation means entering other people’s worlds, their thought-world, and the worlds of their alienation, loneliness and pain. Moreover, the incarnation led to the cross. Jesus first took our flesh, then bore our sin. This was a depth of penetration into our world in order to reach us, in comparison with which our little attempts to reach people seem amateur and shallow. The cross calls us to a much more radical and costly kind of evangelism than most churches have begun to consider, let alone experience. ~ John R W Stott, #NFDB
590:Ce coc în minte și ce nimicuri mă oripilează! se miră el cu un zâmbet straniu. Curios: totul e la îndemâna omului, dar, de poltron ce e, șansele îi trec pe sub nas... Iată o axiomă. Interesant, de ce anume le e frică oamenilor cel mai mult? De următorul pas, de cuvântul ce le stă pe limbă — orice îi scoate din bulionul lor îi bagă în sperieți... De altminteri, și eu prea bat câmpii. De aceea nici nu fac nimic, pentru că bat câmpii. De fapt, e valabil și de-a-ndoaselea: bat câmpii pentru că nu fac nimic. În ultima lună, m-am deprins să dondănesc, zăcând cât e ziulica de lungă într-un ungher și visând cai verzi pe pereți. De ce m-am pornit într-acolo? Sunt eu capabil de lucrul ăsta? E asta ceva serios? Nicidecum. Fantezii, autoamăgire, joc! Da, pesemne, totul nu e decât un joc! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
591:I mean...it’s no big deal. You’d have done exactly the same if it had been Ed working undercover with you, right?” Trent’s smile had little sign of real happiness in it.
“Like hell I would!” Kieran told him. Trent met his eyes. “Have you met his boyfriend? Derby’s bloody well psychotic. I can just imagine trying to
explain to him that I wasn’t screwing his sub—I was just screwing the guy his sub was pretending to be.” Kieran had heard Derby’s views on the matter several times over the past few months. That wasn’t a conversation that would ever go well for him or Ed.
“You’d tell Derby?” Trent asked.
Kieran made a disbelieving sound in the back of his throat. “I wouldn’t get the chance. Ed would blurt it out five seconds after he set eyes on him. Derby’s the only guy he can’t lie to. ~ Kim Dare,#NFDB
592:Am întors spatele filozofiei cînd mi-am dat seama că e cu neputinţă să descopăr la Kant vreo slăbiciune omenească, vreo urmă adevărată de tristeţe; la Kant şi la toţi filozofii. In raport cu muzica, cu mistica şi poezia, activitatea filozofică e hrănită de o sevă sub¬ţiată şi de o profunzime suspectă, care nu-i ademe¬neşte decît pe oamenii timizi sau căldicei. De altfel, filozofia — nelinişte impersonală, refugiu în preajma unor idei anemice — e soluţia tuturor celor care fug de exuberanţa corupătoare a vieţii. Aproape toţi filo¬zofii au sfîrşit bine: iată supremul argument îm¬potriva filozofiei. Sfîrşitul lui Socrate însuşi nu are în el nimic tragic: e o neînţelegere, sfîrşitul unui pedagog — iar Nietzsche s-a prăbuşit doar ca poet şi vizionar: el şi-a ispăşit extazele, nu raţionamentele. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
593:In Legationem Domini Oliveri St. John Ad Provincias
Foederatas
Ingeniosa Viris contingunt Nomina magnis,
Ut dubites Casu vel Ratione data.
Nam Sors, caeca licet, tamen est praesaga futuri;
Et sub fatidico Nomine vera premit.
Et Tu, cui soli voluit Respublica credi,
Foedera seu Belgis seu nova Bella feras;
Haud frustra cecidit tibi Compellatio fallax,
Ast scriptum ancipiti Nomine Munus erat;
Scilicet hoc Martis, sed Pacis Nuntius illo:
Clavibus his Jani ferrea Claustra regis.
Non opus Arcanos Chartis committere Sensus,
Et varia licitos condere Fraude Dolos.
Tu quoque si taceas tamen est Legatio Nomen.
Et velut in Scytale publica verba refert.
Vultis Oliverum, Batavi, Sanctumve Johannem?
Antiochus gyro non breviore stetit.
~ Andrew Marvell,#NFDB
594:Liking and Loves for the Sub-Human
“Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love longs to serve, or even to suffer for, God; Appreciative love says: “We give thanks to thee for thy great glory.” Need-love says of a woman “I cannot live without her”; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection – if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.” p.17
Friendship
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” p.71 ~ C S Lewis,#NFDB
595:Submersible
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Psalm 42
Down from twilight into dark at noon,
through darker, down until the black
could not be more devoid of star
or sunlight, o my soul, near freezing
in sub-photic stillness past
the fragile strands of glowing jelly
radiant with tentacles to sting,
and bioluminescent lures of anglers,
down where water beading on the cold hatch
overhead has sheathed in dewdrops
the titanium, past dragonfish
with nightlights set into their heads
and flanks, past unlit cruisers,
blackcod, owl fish, eelpout, skate,
where spider crabs, arms long as mine,
on creamy prongs drift floodlit
over the pillow lava, here,
our craft has taken us where no one
could have come till now but corpses.
~ Brooks Haxton,#NFDB
596:Dumnezeu iubeşte neprihănirea. Şi frumuseţea. E un Dumnezeu al iubirii. Dar asta reprezintă cea mai gravă problemă pentru noi. Noi nu suntem nici unul dintre aceste lucruri. Iar Biblia ne spune că suntem sub blestem din cauza păcatului nostru. Asta înseamnă că deşi când te uiţi în oglindă te poţi gândi că eşti atât de ordonat, atât de aranjat, atât de curat în proprii-ţi ochi, dar, dacă nu eşti Hristos, Biblia spune următoarele despre tine şi mine: că în ziua când vei face primul pas în iad, ultimul lucru pe care îl vei auzi, va fi toată creaţia, nu numai pe Dumnezeu, ci fiecare fiinţă sfântă creată stând în picioare şi aplaudându-L pe Dumnezeu pentru că a scăpat pământul de tine... Ştiu că atunci când priveşti în oglindă nu vezi pe cineva într-atât de mizer, dar pentru un Dumnezeu sfânt, asta eşti. ~ Paul David Washer, #NFDB
597:rhetorical garden paths are endemic to country music, often taking the form of deconstructed idiomatic expressions. In George Strait’s “You Look So Good in Love,” by Glen Ballard, Roury Michael Bourke, and Kerry Chater, the word “in” is a hinge, turning from a physical descriptor to a state of being. Liz Anderson’s “(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers,” as sung by Merle Haggard, includes a line in which both the figurative and literal connotations of an idiom are simultaneously at play: “The only thing I can count on now is my fingers.” These phrases work by refusing to take a metaphor at face value. If a metaphor is a substitution of one thing for another, leaving the word itself absent in its own description, the double entendres of country songs are the return of the repressed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
598:Looking at him she felt she knew what the people of antiquity had been like. Thirty centuries or more were effaced, and there he was, the alert and predatory sub-human, further from what she believed man should be like than the naked savage, because the savage was tractable, while this creature, wearing the armor of his own rigid barbaric culture, consciously defied progress. And that was what Stenham saw, too; to him the boy was a perfect symbol of human backwardness, and excited his praise precisely because he was “pure”: there was no room in his personality for anything that mankind had not already fully developed long ago. To him he was a consolation, a living proof that today’s triumph was not yet total; he personified Stenham’s infantile hope that time might still be halted and man sent back to his origins. ~ Paul Bowles, #NFDB
599:In all major socializing forces you will find an underlying movement to gain and maintain power through the use of words. From witch doctor to priest to bureaucrat it is all the same. A governed populace must be conditioned to accept power-words as actual things to confuse the symbolized system with the tangible universe. In the maintenance of such a power structure, certain symbols are kept out of the reach of common understanding—symbols such as those dealing with economic manipulation or those which define the local interpretation of sanity. Symbol-secrecy of this form leads to the development of fragmented sub-languages, each being a signal that its users are accumulating some form of power. With this insight into a power process, our Imperial Security Force must be ever alert to the formation of sub-languages. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
600:Antinomy, that is, the existence of two laws or tendencies which are opposed to each other, is possible, not only with two different things, but with one and the same thing. Considered in their thesis, that is, in the law or tendency which created them, all the economical categories are rational, — competition, monopoly, the balance of trade, and property, as well as the division of labor, machinery, taxation, and credit. But, like communism and population, all these categories are antinomical; all are opposed, not only to each other, but to themselves. All is opposition, and disorder is born of this system of opposition. Hence, the sub-title of the work, — “Philosophy of Misery.” No category can be suppressed; the opposition, antinomy, or contre-tendance, which exists in each of them, cannot be suppressed. ~ Pierre Joseph Proudhon, #NFDB
601:The Line makes itself felt,-- thro' some Energy unknown, ever are we haunted by that Edge so precise, so near. In the Dark, one never knows. Of course I am seeking the Warrior Path, imagining myself as heroick Scout. We all feel it Looming, even when we're awake, out there ahead someplace, the way you come to feel a River or Creek ahead, before anything else,-- sound, sky, vegetation,-- may have announced it. Perhaps 'tis the very deep sub-audible Hum of its Traffic that we feel with an equally undiscover'd part of the Sensorium,-- does it lie but over the next Ridge? the one after that? We have mileage Estimates from Rangers and Runners, yet for as long as its Distance from the Post Mark'd West remains unmeasur'd, nor is yet recorded as Fact, may it remain, a-shimmer, among the few final Pages of its Life as Fiction. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
602:What I meant was that in the old days, it was the Holy Ghost, le saint esprit in French, in whom the Christians believed, claiming that it provided guidance and protection for the Church and Christian life. Now, they have taken out le saint esprit and they have put in its place instead l’esprit du temps, the spirit of the times, which in a sense is now our master. We are in a deep sense slaves to this ‘‘spirit.’’ We have absolutized time, although this is philosophically absurd, and now we search how we should accommodate ourselves and even our religion to this way of thinking. I am totally opposed to this point of view, and I have stood like a firm tree against a storm during over fifty years of writing on this sub- ject. I have stood for the principle that it is we who must make the times in accordance with our sacred traditions. ~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr, #NFDB
603:Genetic atomism is dead. Hereditary stability and hereditary change are both based, not on a mosaic of genes, but on the action of the gene-complex 'as a whole'. But this face-saving expression-which is now coming into increased use-is empty, like so many other holistic formulations, unless we interpolate between the gene-complex as a whole, and the individual gene, a hierarchy of genetic sub-assemblies-self-regulating holons of heredity, which control the development of organs, and also control their possible evolutionary modifications, by canalising the effects of random mutations. A hierarchy with its built-in, self-regulatory safeguards is a stable affair. It cannot be pulled in here, pulled out there, like Patou belabouring his model. It is capable of variation and change, but only in co-ordinated ways and only in limited directions. ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
604:Since we're into witches, let's swing by and check out this Isis at Spirit Quest." She slid her eyes right. Well, maybe she'd rag just a little. "You can probably buy a talisman or some herbs," she said solemnly. "You know, to ward off evil."
Peabody shifted in her seat. Feeling foolish wasn't nearly as bad as worrying about being cursed. "Don't think I won't."
"After we deal with Isis, we can grab a pizza sub -- with plenty of garlic."
"Garlic's for vampires."
"Oh. We can have Roarke get us a couple of his antique guns. With silver bullets."
"Werewolves, Dallas." Amused at both of them now, Peabody rolled her eyes. "A lot of good you're going to do if we have to defend ourselves against witchcraft."
"What does it to witches, then?"
"I don't know," Peabody admitted. "But I'm damn sure going to find out. ~ J D Robb,#NFDB
605:[...]he also had a device which looked rather like a largish electronic calculator. This had about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million "pages" could be summoned at a moment's notice. It looked
insanely complicated, and this was one of the reasons why the snug plastic cover it fitted into had the words
Don't Panic printed on it in large friendly letters. The other reason was that this device was in fact that most
remarkable of all books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitch hiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in. ~ Douglas Adams,#NFDB
606:Indiferent cat de mult crezi că ştii despre gandurile tainice ale unei
persoane, despre impulsurile sale inconştiente şi aşa mai departe, totuşi, cand conversia are loc sub ochii tăi, incepi să te intrebi dacă ai cunoscut vreodată persoana alături de care ţi-ai petrecut intreaga viaţă. E simplu să-ţi spui in sinea ta, in legătură cu un prieten drag: „Are toate instinctele unui asasin" - dar cand il vezi năpustindu-se cu un cuţit asupra ta, atunci e cu totul altceva. Intr-un fel, niciodată nu eşti pregătit pentru una ca asta, oricat de deştept ai fi. in cel mai bun caz, poţi admite că o s-o facă altei persoane - dar niciodată ţie...o, nu! Acum, insă, simt că ar trebui să mă aştept la orice din partea celor pe care ii bănuiesc cel mai puţin. Nu vreau să spun că ar trebui să fim ingrijoraţi, nu, nu de asta-i vorba... Doar că nu trebuie să fim surprinşi. ~ Henry Miller,#NFDB
607:Muir’s complaint in the third review, the annoying one, was that the whole work was sub-adult in its painlessness: ‘The good boys, having fought a deadly battle, emerge at the end of it well, triumphant and happy, as boys would naturally expect to do.’ There is a simple reply to this, which is to say that Frodo at least does not end up well, or happy, and that he avoids any suggestion of triumph, seeming in the end incurably scarred, a ‘burnt-out case’. He is admittedly taken away to be healed of his wounds, like King Arthur, though that is not the way Muir put it. But there are other people, and creatures, and things, which cannot be taken away or healed. In fact it is much easier to make a case out for Tolkien as a pessimist than as a foolish or childish optimist; it is another of the qualities which mark him out from most of those who have imitated him. ~ Tom Shippey, #NFDB
608:Ei se aplecau din înaltul cerurilor ca să conducă oștirile; îi întîlneai pe marginea drumurilor, îi puteai avea în casă; - și această familiaritate diviniza viața.
Și viața n-avea alt țel decît de a fi liberă și frumoasă. Veșmintele largi ușurau noblețea atitudinilor. Vocea oratorului, exersată în vuietul mării, bătea cu valuri sonore în porticurile de marmură. Efebul, frecat cu ulei, lupta cu desăvîrșire gol sub văpaia soarelui. Acțiunea cea mai profund religioasă era aceea de a expune forme pure.
Și acești oameni își respectau soțiile, bătrînii, nevolnicii. În dosul templului lui Hercule era un altar consacrat Milosteniei.
Victimele erau jertifte avînd flori în jurul degetelor. Chiar și amintirea era izbăvită de putreziciunea morții. Căci din morți nu mai rămînea decît o mînă de cenușă. Sufletul, amestecat cu eterul fără margini, pleca spre zei. ~ Gustave Flaubert,#NFDB
609:Yet it’s not hyperbole to say that millions of women and girls are actually enslaved today. (The biggest difference from nineteenth-century slavery is that many die of AIDS by their late twenties.) The term that is usually used for this phenomenon, “sex trafficking,” is a misnomer. The problem isn’t sex, nor is it prostitution as such. In many countries—China, Brazil, and most of sub-Saharan Africa—prostitution is widespread but mostly voluntary (in the sense that it is driven by economic pressure rather than physical compulsion). In those places, brothels do not lock up women, and many women work on their own without pimps or brothels. Nor is the problem exactly “trafficking,” since forced prostitution doesn’t always depend on a girl’s being transported over a great distance by a middleman. The horror of sex trafficking can more properly be labeled slavery. ~ Nicholas D Kristof, #NFDB
610:Returning to the boat we passed bridges, railroad tracks, warehouses, factories, wharves and what not. It was like following in the wake of a demented giant who had sown the earth with crazy dreams. If I could only have seen a horse or a cow, or just a cantankerous goat chewing tin cans, it would have been a tremendous relief. But there was nothing of the animal, vegetable or human kingdom in sight. It was a vast jumbled waste created by pre-human or sub-human monsters in a delirium of greed. It was something negative, some not-ness of some kind or other. It was a bad dream and towards the end I broke into a trot, what with disgust and nausea, what with the howling icy gale which was whipping everything in sight into a frozen pie crust. When I got back to the boat I was praying that by some miracle the captain would decide to alter his course and return to Piraeus. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
611:You make someone into a object of – not so much of pity as of weakness, sickness, stupidity, inefectiveness, do you see what I mean? You hit them for their stupidity and their inability to respond, and when you’ve hurt them, marked them, they’re even more sick and ugly, aren’t they? And they’re afraid and cringing too. Oh, I know this isn’t very pleasant, but you did ask.”
“Go on” he said.
“So you’ve got a frightened, stupid, even disabled person, silenced, made ugly, and what can you do with someone like that, someone who’s unworthy of being treated well? You treat them badly because that’s what they deserve. One thinks of poor little kids that no one love because they’re dirty, sovered in snot and shit, and always screaming. So you beat them because they’re hateful, they’re low, they’re sub-human. That’s all they’re good for, being hit, being reduced even further. ~ Ruth Rendell,#NFDB
612:Strangler Fig
The light years of their birth & death. The immeasurable
Expansion & collapse of eras, like a husband’s stretched
Snort of breath at his wife’s nippy questions. A snail’s oozy
Diminutive progress in slow motion or a gradual weave on
Time’s parasitic loom, threads inflating like a clown’s trick
Balloon, the poodle twisting into place. Their millennial
Embrace, as finally green fingers encircle & clasp, caught
In mid-strangulation, a psychotic Daphne transformed into
An aerial-killer or Bluebeard wrapping his cloak around
His bride’s bare shoulders. A Tin Soldier of sub-tropical
Rainforest, the two hearts meld into one, then inexorably
Decay sets in. The long marriage never lasts, as drizzle
& borers carve out memory’s core. Until, an open-air,
Walk-in cathedral is all that remains of cellular union.
~ B. R. Dionysius,#NFDB
613:When the Babylonians began to chart the stars, they first of all grouped them together into constellations of lions, virgins, archers, and scorpions-shaped them into sub-assemblies, celestial holons. The first calendar-makers wove the linear thread of time into the hierarchic pattern of solar days, lunar months, stellar years, Olympic cycles. Similarly, the Greek astronomers broke up homogenous space into the hierarchy of the eight heavenly spheres, each equipped with its clockwork of epicycles.
We cannot help interpreting Nature as an organisation of parts-within-parts, because all living matter and all stable inorganic systems have a part-within-part architecture, which lends them articulation, coherence, and stability; and where the structure is not inherent or discernible, the mind provides it by projecting butterflies into the ink-blot and camels into the clouds. ~ Arthur Koestler,#NFDB
614:The US was forced to withdraw troops from Iraq after an extremely costly decade-long military occupation, leaving in place a regime more closely allied to Iran, the US’ regional adversary. The Iraq war depleted the economy, deprived American corporations of oil wealth, greatly enlarged Washington’s budget and trade deficits, and reduced the living standards of US citizens. The Afghanistan war had a similar outcome, with high external costs, military retreat, fragile clients, domestic disaffection, and no short or medium term transfers of wealth (imperial pillage) to the US Treasury or private corporations. The Libyan war led to the total destruction of a modern, oil-rich economy in North Africa, the total dissolution of state and civil society, and the emergence of armed tribal, fundamentalist militias opposed to US and EU client regimes in North and sub-Sahara Africa and beyond. Instead ~ James F Petras, #NFDB
615:Nu simţim în melancolie cum sufletul ni se deschide sub chemări vagi? Şi nu sunt aceste chemări presimţiri de plăcute nelinişti, şi nu este dulce aroma plecată din destrămarea noastră? Căci sufletul ni se deschide într-o voluptuoasă destrămare, într-un indefinit mângâietor, într-o aspiraţie spre vag, fără ca să ne doară, cât de puţin, această destrămare. Nu simţim, dimpotrivă, delicii virginale, suavităţi intime, extaz într-o lume de culori ireale, ca-ntr-o grădină cu flori care îşi întind petalele în nesfârşit? Şi nu ne încântă, în farmecul de destrămare plăcută a melancoliei, singurătăţi sonore ce cresc din nesfârşit, evoluează în tot, se izbesc de lucruri şi revin apoi, în mănunchiuri sonore, într-un reflux insensibil spre nesfârşirea din care au plecat, spre tăcerea din care a purces fiinţa? Singurătăţile au atâtea glasuri pentru cei care au prea multe de spus pentru a mai putea vorbi! ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
616:The 'Other Half' is the word. The 'Other Half' is an organism. Word is an organism. The presence of the 'Other Half' is a separate organism attached to your nervous system on an air line of words can now be demonstrated experimentally. One of the most common 'hallucinations' of subject during sense withdrawal is the feeling of another body sprawled through the subject's body at an angle...yes quite an angle it is the 'Other Half' worked quite some years on a symbiotic basis. From symbiosis to parasitism is a short step. The word is now a virus. The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
617:Să aibă parte de o femeie matură trebuie să fie visul oricărui puşti. Dar cu mine e altceva. Ea mă interesează mai puţin ca iniţiatoare în erotism, cât pur şi simplu ca suflet şi gândire şi memorie de femeie coaptă, de femeie adevărată. Elevele sau studentele nu sunt, de cele mai multe ori, decât nişte mâţe închipuite, învăluite, e drept, în lumina de ambră a ochilor şi într-un fel de nonconformism năuc. Fără trecut, sau fără să şi-l conştientizeze încă, anexe de discotecă al căror erotism, când există, e unul pur social şi estetic, ele strepezesc imaginaţia ca nişte fructe încă necoapte. Cele mai multe nu se coc niciodată : le dispare şarmul şi se adaugă mulţimii de neveste cumsecade, cu o sinceră vocaţie a normalităţii. Ingineraşi, vaporeni, contabili - ei se aleg cu mândreţele de tigrese care unduiesc sub flacăra stroboscoapelor, sub peticele ameţitoare de lumină emise de globul cu oglinjoare. ~ Mircea C rt rescu, #NFDB
618:All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elegant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games. By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules. Generally, all the best mechanistic games—those which can be played in any sense ‘perfectly,’ such as grid, Prallian scope, ’nkraytle, chess, Farnic dimensions—can be traced to civilizations lacking a relativistic view of the universe (let alone the reality). They are also, I might add, invariably pre-machine-sentience societies. ~ Iain M Banks, #NFDB
619:In the book’s index, she found an entry for Borderline Personality Disorder, with several sub-categories, including: Borderline Personality, Borderline Narcissism, Common Symptoms, Dissociative Symptoms, Self-Mutilation. Barbara turned to page seventy-two. The text listed an array of borderline personality disorder symptoms. It didn’t take Barbara long to begin to really sympathize with Maxwell Comstock. Life with Victoria must have been impossible at times: Mood swings, sudden irrational anger, depressive episodes, and impulsivity. Other borderline hallmarks were sexual confusion and promiscuity, manipulation and obsession of others, and a skewed, paranoid view of reality. On page seventy-five, Barbara learned that borderlines were indifferent to others’ needs, couldn’t handle rejection, continually sought approval, and had an exaggerated sense of self-importance. The ominous part of the diagnosis: No known cure. ~ Joseph Badal, #NFDB
620:Nimeni nu ne-ar opri și nimeni nu s-ar uita strâmb la noi dacă ne-am ține departe de șoselele principale. În locurile acelea există o multitudine de drumuri uitate de lume. E suficient să cotești puțin într-o parte și timpul deja își încetinește curgerea, de parcă ar scăpa de sub privirea cuiva vigilent. Se uzează cu lentoare, la fel ca veșmintele celor care călătoresc în căruță. Ceea ce pare bun de aruncat la coș dăinuie, mocnește și se înnegrește până la sfârșit, până în clipa când existența se preschimbă, pe nesimțite, în neant.
Îi văd cum străbat stepa Câmpiei Panonice, Transilvania și Banatul, ca și cum acolo s-ar fi născut și s-ar fi întors, parcă, acasă de la târg, dintr-o vizită, de la munca la câmp sau din pădure. Timpul se dă în lături în fața lor ca aerul și se închide apoi la loc, imediat ce au trecut. Animalele fac timpul să-și recapete vechea formă. Ele sunt vii, dar nu-i distrug materia delicată. ~ Andrzej Stasiuk,#NFDB
621:The brain is the most effective algorithmic compressor of information that we have so far encountered in Nature. It reduces complex sequences of sense data to simple abbreviated forms which permit the existence of thought and memory. The natural limits that nature imposes upon the sensitivity of our eyes and ears prevents us from being overloaded with information about the world. They ensure that the brain receives a manageable amoubt of information when we look at a picture. If we could see everything down to sub-atomic scales then the information-processing capacity of our brains would need to be prohibitively large. The processing speed would need to be far larger than it now is in order for bodily responses to occur quickly enough to evade dangerous natural processes. This we shall have more to say about in the final chapter of our story, when we come to discuss the mathematical aspects of our mental processing. ~ John D Barrow, #NFDB
622:Câtă tristețe… cât de zadarnică îți pare tinerețea când îți dai seama pentru prima oară… câți oameni ai uitat pe drum… prieteni pe care n-ai să-i mai revezi… pierduți fără urmă, ca-n vis… dispăruți… așa cum ai să dispari și tu într-o zi… Într-o zi care e încă departe… dar care va veni oricum… adusă de vârtejul acesta blestemat al lucrurilor… al oamenilor… al zilelor… forme care trec… fără să se oprească vreodată. Toți imbecilii, pârliții, curioșii, toate paiațele care bat drumul pe sub arcade, cu lornioane, umbrele și căței legați de sfoară… n-ai să-i mai revezi pe nici unul… Se îndepărtează… ca-n vis… alături de ceilalți… la grămadă… se duc… ce tristețe!... câtă infamie!... Neștiutori, trec ștergându-se de vitrine… o poftă nebună mă apucă… un impuls de care mă înfior, să le sar de gât… să mă înfig în fața lor… să nu se mai miște… să înțepenească așa!... o dată pentru totdeauna!... Să nu-i mai văd cum se duc. ~ Louis Ferdinand C line, #NFDB
623:Having worked as a clinician for almost 40 years, I have seen some young adults, who had the classic, clear and conspicuous signs of Asperger’s syndrome in early childhood, achieve over decades a range of social abilities and improvements in behaviour such that the diagnostic characteristics became sub-clinical; that is, the person no longer has a clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important area of functioning. There may still be very subtle signs of Asperger’s syndrome, but when the diagnostic tests are re-administered, the person achieves a score below the threshold to maintain the diagnosis. There is now longitudinal research that is starting to confirm clinical experience that about 10 per cent of those who originally had an accurate diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome in childhood no longer have sufficient impairments to justify the diagnosis (Cederlund et al. 2008; Farley et al. 2009). ~ Tony Attwood, #NFDB
624:In sum, the fruition of 50 years of research, and several hundred million dollars in government funds, has given us the following picture of sub-atomic matter. All matter consists of quarks and leptons, which interact by exchanging different types of quanta, described by the Maxwell and Yang-Mills fields. In one sentence, we have captured the essence of the past century of frustrating investigation into the subatomic realm, From this simple picture one can derive, from pure mathematics alone, all the myriad and baffling properties of matter. (Although it all seems so easy now, Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg, one of the creators of the Standard Model, once reflected on how tortuous the 50-year journey to discover the model had been. He wrote, "There's a long tradition of theoretical physics, which by no means affected everyone but certainly affected me, that said the strong interactions [were] too complicated for the human mind.") ~ Michio Kaku, #NFDB
625:No doubt you are aware that the winds have colour... A record of this belief will be found in the literature of all ancient peoples. There are four winds and eight sub-winds each with its own colour. The wind from the east is a deep purple, from the south a fine shining silver. The north wind is a hard black and the west is amber. People in the old days had the power of perceiving these colours and could spend a day sitting quietly on a hillside watching the beauty of the winds, their fall and rise and changing hues, the magic of neighbouring winds when they are inter-weaved like ribbons at a wedding. It was a better occupation than gazing at newspapers. The sub-winds had colours of indescribable delicacy, a reddish-yellow half-way between silver and purple, a greyish-green which was related equally to black and brown. What could be more exquisite than a countryside swept lightly by cool rain reddened by the south-west breeze'. ~ Flann O Brien, #NFDB
626:Take the following potent and less-is-more-style argument by the rogue economist Ha-Joon Chang. In 1960 Taiwan had a much lower literacy rate than the Philippines and half the income per person; today Taiwan has ten times the income. At the same time, Korea had a much lower literacy rate than Argentina (which had one of the highest in the world) and about one-fifth the income per person; today it has three times as much. Further, over the same period, sub-Saharan Africa saw markedly increasing literacy rates, accompanied with a decrease in their standard of living. We can multiply the examples (Pritchet’s study is quite thorough), but I wonder why people don’t realize the simple truism, that is, the fooled by randomness effect: mistaking the merely associative for the causal, that is, if rich countries are educated, immediately inferring that education makes a country rich, without even checking. Epiphenomenon here again. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
627:...it occurred to me, not for the first time, what a remarkably small world Britain is. That is its glory, you see--that it manages at once to be intimate and small scale, and at the same time packed to bursting with incident and interest. I am constantly filled with admiration at this--at the way you can wander through a town like Oxford and in the space of a few hundred yards pass the home of Christopher Wren, the buildings where Halley found his comet and Boyle his first law, the track where Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile, the meadow where Lewis Carroll strolled; or how you can stand on Snow's Hill at Windsor and see, in a single sweep, Windsor Castle, the playing fields of Eton, the churchyard where Gray wrote his "Elegy," the site where The Merry Wives of Windsor was performed. Can there anywhere on earth be, in such a modest span, a landscape more packed with centuries of busy, productive attainment? ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
628:In our view, when women fight for the wage for domestic work, they are also fighting against this work, as domestic work can continue as such so long as and when it is not paid. It is like slavery. The demand for a domestic wage denaturalized female slavery. Thus, the wage is not the ultimate goal, but an instrument, a strategy, to achieve a change in the power relations between women and capital. The aim of our struggle was to convert exploitative slave labor that was naturalized because of its unpaid character into socially recognized work; it was to subvert a sexual division of labor based on the power of the masculine wage to command the reproductive labor of women, which in Caliban and the Witch I call “the patriarchy of the wage.” At the same time, we proposed to move beyond all of the blame generated by the fact that it was always considered as a female obligation, as a female vocation. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
629:Soon we were alone in the pitch dark except for the despatcher and the parachutes, four of them for us, the others for huge cylindrical containers. In these, and about our persons, were the gear for our operation: maps, pistols, bombs, commando daggers, coshes, knuckledusters, telescopic sights, silencers, a sheaf of Marlin sub-machine guns, ammunition, wire-cutters, sewn-in files for prison bars, magnetic escape devices, signal flares, disguises, gags, chloroform, rope-ladders, gold sovereigns, stealthy footwear, Bangalore torpedoes, every type of explosive from gelignite and gun-cotton to deceptive mule droppings which, they said, could blow a tank to smithereens; all the things indeed on which espionage writers dwell at such fond length; also Benzedrine, field dressings, morphine, knockout drops and suicide pills to bite under duress, if captured in the wrong clothes. I hoped we would use none of them, especially the last. ~ Patrick Leigh Fermor, #NFDB
630:So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose commentator I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel poor-devilish, too; and grow convivial upon tears; and say to them bluntly, with full eyes and empty glasses, and in not altogether unpleasant sadness— Give it up, Sub-Subs! For by how much more pains ye take to please the world, by so much the more shall ye for ever go thankless! Would that I could clear out Hampton Court and the Tuileries for ye! But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven-storied heavens, and making refugees of long pampered Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, against your coming. Here ye strike but splintered hearts together—there, ye shall strike unsplinterable glasses! ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
631:- Nu pot să mă joc cu tine, zise vulpea. Nu sunt îmblânzită.
- A! Iartă-mă, rosti micul prinț. (...) Ce înseamnă a îmblânzi?
- E un lucru de mult dat uitării, zise vulpea. Înseamnă a-ți crea legături. (...) Viața mea e veșnic aceeași. Eu vânez găinile, pe mine mă vânează oamenii. Toate găinile se aseamănă între ele și toți oamenii se aseamănă între ei. Așa că mă cam plictisesc. Dar dacă tu mă îmblânzești, viața mi se va însenina. Voi cunoaște sunetul unor pași deosebiți de-ai tuturora. Pașii altora mă fac să intru sub pământ. Ai tăi mă vor chema din vizuină, ca o melodie. Și-apoi, privește! Vezi tu, colo, lanurile acelea de grâu? Eu nu mănânc pâine. Mie grâul nu mi-e de folos. Lanurile de grâu mie nu-mi trezesc nicio amintire. Și asta-i trist! Tu însă ai părul de culoarea aurului. Va fi, de aceea, minunat când mă vei fi îmblânzit! Grâul, auriu și el, îmi va aminti de tine. Și-mi va fi nespus de dragă murmurarea vântului prin grâu... ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,#NFDB
632:Standish O’Grady in his “Early Bardic History of Ireland” says: “I must confess that the blaze of Bardic light which illuminates those centuries at first dazzles the eye and disturbs the judgment . . . (but) that the Irish kings and heroes should succeed one another, surrounded by a blaze of Bardic light, in which both themselves and all those who were contemporaneous with them are seen clearly and distinctly, was natural in a country where in each little realm or sub-kingdom the ard-ollam was equal in dignity to the King, as is proved by the equivalence of their eric. The dawn of English history is in the seventh century — a late dawn, dark and sombre, without a ray of cheerful sunshine; that of Ireland dates reliably from a point before the commencing of the Christian Era — illumined with that light which never was on sea or land — thronging with heroic forms of men and women — terrible with the presence of the supernatural and its over-reaching power. ~ Seumas MacManus, #NFDB
633:Și tocmai când limbajul se înfățișează gol, dar scapă totodată oricărui înțeles, ca și cum ar fi un mare sistem tiranic și gol, când Pofta domnește sălbatec, ca și când strășnicia legii ei ar fi nivelat orice împotrivire, când Moartea stăpânește orice funcție psihologică și stă deasupra-i ca o normă unică și pustiitoare - atunci dăm de nebunie sub forma ei actuală, nebunia așa cum o știe experiența modernă, ca adevărul și alteritatea ei. Și-n chipul acesta empiric, străin oricărei experiențe pe care am putea s-o facem (și străin și-nlăuntrul ei), conștiința noastră nu mai află ca-n veacul al XVI-lea urma unei alte lumi; nu mai dă decât de rațiunea rătăcită; vede cum îi vine în cale ceea ce ne este primejdios de aproape - ca și cum, dintr-odată, ar ieși în relief golul însuși al existenței noastre; finitul, de la care începem să ființăm și să cugetăm și să știm, ni se pune brusc în față, existență totodată adevărată și imposibilă, gând pe care nu-l putem gândi... ~ Nicolae Steinhardt, #NFDB
634:Nu citesc ziare,nu ascult şi nici nu mă uit la pogramele de ştiri.Încet şi pe neobservate dispare cel mai credincios tovarăş din viaţa mea:anxietatea,moştenită atât de la mama cât şi de la tata,aşezată chiar în centrul identităţii mele,demonul şi în aceelaşi timp prietenul şi stimulatorul meu.Mi se antenuează nu numai suferinţa,angoasa şi sentimentul de umilire ireparabilă,dar mi se eclipsează şi estompează şi forţa propulsivă a creativităţii.
Aş fi putut rămâne un caz medical pentru tot restul vieţii mele.Existenţa îmi era aşa de plăcută în aceea stare de melancolie.Ea era ocrotită cu atâta delicateţe.Nimic nu mai este real,nimic nu mai are vreo importanţă,nimic nu mai este neliniştitor sau chinuitor.Mă mişc cu precauţie,reacţiile îmi sunt întârziate sau inexistente,sexualitatea încetează,viaţa este o elegie,un madrigal cântat de un cor,undeva departe,sub o boltă cu ecou,în timp ce ferestrele rotunde cu vitralii strălucesc şi spun poveşti care nu mă mai intereseză. ~ Ingmar Bergman,#NFDB
635:The statistics were not merely inadequate; they lied. And the lies they told led the people who ran major league baseball teams to misjudge their players, and mismanage their games. James later reduced his complaint to a sentence: fielding statistics made sense only as numbers, not as language. Language, not numbers, is what interested him. Words, and the meaning they were designed to convey. “When the numbers acquire the significance of language,” he later wrote, “they acquire the power to do all of the things which language can do: to become fiction and drama and poetry….And it is not just baseball that these numbers, through a fractured mirror, describe. It is character. It is psychology, it is history, it is power, it is grace, glory, consistency, sacrifice, courage, it is success and failure, it is frustration and bad luck, it is ambition, it is overreaching, it is discipline. And it is victory and defeat, which is all that the idiot sub-conscious really understands. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
636:Indeed, the kinds of minimal or no-government societies envisioned by dreamers of the Left and Right are not fantasies; they actually exist in the contemporary developing world. Many parts of sub-Saharan Africa are a libertarian’s paradise. The region as a whole is a low-tax utopia, with governments often unable to collect more than about 10 percent of GDP in taxes, compared to more than 30 percent in the United States and 50 percent in parts of Europe. Rather than unleashing entrepreneurship, this low rate of taxation means that basic public services like health, education, and pothole filling are starved of funding. The physical infrastructure on which a modern economy rests, like roads, court systems, and police, are missing. In Somalia, where a strong central government has not existed since the late 1980s, ordinary individuals may own not just assault rifles but also rocket-propelled grenades, antiaircraft missiles, and tanks. People are free to protect their own families, ~ Francis Fukuyama, #NFDB
637:În trecut liber-cugetătorii şi revoluţionarii erau adeseori produsele celei mai evlavioase educaţii ortodoxe. Lucrul acesta nu trebuie să ne surprindă. Metodele folosite de educatorii ortodocşi erau şi sunt încă prea puţin eficace. Sub un dictator ştiinţific, educaţia va avea efecte adevărate – cu rezultatul că majoritatea bărbaţilor şi femeilor vor ajunge cu timpul să-şi iubească sclavia şi nici nu vor mai visa vreodată la revoluţie. Nu pare să existe niciun motiv serios pentru a răsturna vreodată o dictatură pe deplin ştiinţifică. Între timp a mai rămas totuşi un pic de libertate pe lumea asta. E adevărat, mulţi tineri nu par să preţuiască libertatea. Dar unii dintre noi continuă să creadă că fără libertate fiinţele omeneşti nu pot deveni pe deplin umane şi că deci libertatea este de nepreţuit. Poate că forţele care ameninţă acum libertatea sunt prea puternice pentru a li se putea rezista multă vreme. Şi totuşi este de datoria noastră să facem tot ce putem pentru a ne împotrivi lor. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
638:What I have said makes it appear that this process of improvement by internal replacement applies to the technology as a whole. But by our recursion principle, it applies to all constituent parts of the technology as well: a technology improves as better subparts and sub-subparts are swapped into its assemblies and subassemblies. This means we need to think of a technology as an object-more an organism, really-that develops through its constituent parts and subparts improving simultaneously at all levels in its hierarchy.
And there is something else. A technology developls not just by the direct efforts applied to it. Many of a technology's parts are shared by other technologies, so a great deal of development happens automatically as components improve in other uses "outside" that technology. For decades, aircraft instruments and control mechanism benefited from outside progress in electronic components. A technology piggybacks on the external development of its components. ~ W Brian Arthur,#NFDB
639:Religionists from pulpits and evangelical TV stations announced that this [AIDS] was all God’s punishment for the perverted vice of homosexuality, quite failing to explain why this vengeful deity had no interest in visiting plagues and agonized death upon child rapists, torturers, murderers, those who beat up old women for their pension money (or indeed those cheating, thieving, adulterous and hypocritical clerics and preachers who pop up on the news from time to time weeping their repentance), reserving this uniquely foul pestilence only for men who choose to go to bed with each other and addicts careless in the use of their syringes. What a strange divinity. Later he was to take his pleasure, as he still does, on horrifying numbers of women and very young girls raped in sub-Saharan Africa while transmitting his avenging wrath on the unborn children in their wombs. I should be interested to hear from the religious zealots why he is doing this and what kind of a kick he gets out of it. ~ Stephen Fry, #NFDB
640:M-am intrebat de multe ori ce este credința fără îndoială, cea care mută munții din loc, cea care știe și poate totul. Cum se poate ca, atunci când te rogi pentru un lucru, să ai siguranta deplină că l-ai și primit. De fapt, rugăciunea și certitudinea sunt același lucru, și-nseamnă puterea de-a privi cu adevărat în viitor, în cel adevărat, și nu în cel doar bănuit pe baza eternei reîntoarceri a trecutului: nimeni nu se roagă ca soarele să răsară și mâine. Prin credință vedem viitorul și deja-l locuim. Și avem puterea credinței pentru că suntem din viitor, în așa fel încât nu putem fi salvați decât dac-am fost deja salvați, dacă deja locuim pe pământul cel nou de sub un cer nou. Vedem paradisul doar dacă suntem deja locuitorii lui, altfel nu ni s-ar da puterea de a-l vedea, care e credința fără îndoială. Nimeni nu va fi mântuit dacă deja nu e mântuit de la începutul timpurilor, nu în efemera noastră prezență în această lume, ci-n adevărata noastră ființă desfășurată în a patra dimensiune. ~ Mircea C rt rescu, #NFDB
641:Nu te ataşa de o persoană: fie ea cea mai dragă dintre toate, - fiecare persoană este o temniţă şi, totodată, un ungher. Nu te lăsa ataşat de un sentiment de compătimire: nici măcar pentru oamenii superiori al căror martiriu deosebit şi a căror neajutorare o descoperi întâmplător. Nu te ataşa de o ştiinţă: chiar dacă vreuna te-ar ademeni cu inestimabile descoperiri ce par să-ti fie hărăzite de-a dreptul ţie. Nu te ataşa de propria-ţi detaşare, de nicio depărtare voluptuoasă, ţinut îmbătător al păsării ce zboară din ce în ce mai sus, pentru a zări sub ea o întindere mereu crescândă: - primejdia celui ce zboară. Nu te ataşa de propriile-ti virtuţi, nu te jertfi în întregime pentru un oarecare şi unic detaliu, de exemplu pentru „ospitalitatea“ ta: aceasta e primejdia primejdiilor pentru sufletele alese şi bogate care, risipitoare şi aproape nepăsătoare faţă de ele însele, împing virtutea generozităţii până la viciu. Trebuie să ştii să te păstrezi: iată cea mai bună dovadă a independenţei. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
642:Atunci când eram foarte tânăr și mă năpădea dorul de ducă, vârstnicii din jurul meu mă asigurau că, odată ajuns la maturitate, mă voi vindeca de această poftă nebună. Când am mai crescut, remediul prescris era vârsta mijlocie. La vârsta mijlocie primeam asigurări că o vârstă și mai înaintată îmi va calma febra de a călători și, acum, când am împlinit cincizeci și opt de ani, mă gândesc că poate doar senilitatea îmi va aduce vindecarea. Nimic n-a funcționat. Patru semnale răgușite de sirenă trase de un vapor sunt suficiente să simt cum mi se zbârlesc firele de păr pe ceafă și încep să zdupăi din picioare. Huruitul unui avion, al unui motor care se ambalează, chiar și numai tropotul copitelor unui cal pe pavaj îmi trezesc acel vechi fior, simt cum mi se usucă gura, încep să privesc în gol, palmele mi se înfierbântă și stomacul mi se frământă sus, sub coaste. Într-un cuvânt, lucrurile nu se schimbă deloc în bine; în și mai multe cuvinte, odată hoinar, pe veci hoinar. Mă tem că boala-i fără leac. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
643:Taalim-o-tadrees ki barhi bad naseebi yeh hai ky aam ustaad amuman oast darjay ka shakhs hota hai aur woh zehni, jismani aur jazbaati tor per lakiir key fakiir qisam ki batin sochta hai. Isy zabt-o-nazam sy middle calss logo sy aur parhaku talbah ko parhany sy muhabbat hoti hai. Lykin sara din woh barhi qadar awar shakhsieto aur in ky karnaamo ki misalen dyta hai. Aysy log jinhuny kabhi mawshray ky saath mutabqat na ki. aam tareen hoty hoy woh aysy logo ki taalim-e-aam kerta hai jin ki satah per woh soch bhi nahi sakta , jin ki satah per woh soch bhi nahi sakta. Is ka apna kirdaar in bechu ko aam banany per masar rehta hai aur iski taalim bechu ko khaas banany per uksati hai. School sy bhaag jany waly bechu ki jagah school mai nahi hoti lykin inhi baaghi bechu ko bench per kharha ker ky in azeem shakhsieto ki rosahn misalen di jati hain jo khud school sy bhagy hoty hyn. Woh bechu ko geniouses ki kitaaben padha ker aam bnany ki koshish kerta hai aur yehi taalim ka sub sy barha almiyah hy." Bano Qudsia ~ Bano Qudsia, #NFDB
644:N-a fost o treabă foarte grea. Am crezut c-o să găsesc măcar unul mai încăpăţânat ca mine. Dar nu: numai dinţii roţii mele se îmbucă în roţile lor şi le mişcă. Sau dacă vreţi, ei sunt asemenea sacilor cu praf de puşcă, iar eu sunt chibritul. Oh, durere! Ca să dea foc altora, chibritul trebuie să ardă şi el! ceeea ce am cutezat, am dorit: şi ceea ce am dorit, am făcut! Ei mă cred nebun.[...] dar eu sunt alt soi de apucat, sunt mai nebun decât nebunia: sălbăticia mea e dintre cele care nu se liniştesc decât ca să se studieze mai bine şi să se înţeleagă.Fie ca profetul şi făptuitorul să fie una şi aceeaşi persoană![...] Vino, Ahab îţi trimite complimente; vino sa vezi dacă mă poţi doborî. Sa mă dobori? N-ai să mă poţi doborî fără să te distrugi tu singur! [...] Drumul hotătârii mele e pardosit cu şine de fier, pe care umblă sufletul meu. Peste prăpăstii fără fund, prin munţi pustii, pe sub albii de torente, zoresc mereu fară greşeală.Pe drumul meu de fier nici un obstacol nu mă poate opri, nici o piedică. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
645:The old man might have been drunk, but he was right. Outsiders have robbed and exploited the people of the Congo ever since the days of the first European and Arab slavers. The territory that Stanley staked in the name of Leopold witnessed what many regard as the first genocide of the modern era, when millions of Congolese were effectively worked to death trying to meet the colonialists’ almost insatiable demand for resources, most notably rubber. And since independence, foreign powers have toyed with the Congo, stripping its mineral assets and exploiting its strategic position, never mindful of the suffering inflicted on its people. And that really was the point. At every stage of its bloody history, outsiders have tended to treat Congolese as somehow sub-human, not worthy of the consideration they would expect for themselves. For progress to be made, outsiders must treat Congolese as equals and they could do worse than follow the example of an amazing white woman I discovered after we got back to Kalemie. ~ Tim Butcher, #NFDB
646:Wow,' said Zaphod Beeblebrox to the Heart of Gold. There wasn't much else he could say.
He said it again because he knew it would annoy the press. 'Wow.'
The crowd turned their faces back toward him expectantly. He winked at Trillian, who raised her eyebrows and widened her eyes at him. She knew what he was about to say and thought him a terrible show-off.
'That is really amazing.' he said. 'That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it.'
A marvelous presidential quote, absolutely true to form. The crowd laughed appreciativley, the newsman gleefully punched buttons on their Sub-Etha News-Matics and the President grinned.
As he grinned his heart screamed unbearably and he fingered the small Paralyso-Matic bomb that nestled quietly in his pocket.
Finally he could bear it no more. He lifted his heads up to the sky, let out a wild whoop in major thirds, threw the bomb to the ground and ran forward through the sea of suddenly frozen beaming smiles. ~ Douglas Adams,#NFDB
647:Adevărul e că m-au atras ca un destin cimitirele. De cîte ori am avut timp şi exista un cimitir prin apropiere, încă înainte de a deveni cioplitor de cruci, am umblat ceasuri întregi printre morminte. E plăcut să întîlneşti atîtea nume de oameni faţă de care tu ai o superioritate indiscutabilă: trăieşti. Orice ar fi făcut ei, oricît de mari ar fi fost calităţile lor, mediocritatea ta valorează mai mult: e vie, respiră. În plus, nimeni nu-ţi strigă că nu eşti bun de nimic, deşi într-un cimitir sînt mai numeroşi oameni decît pe stradă. Cu morţii nu rişti niciodată nimic. Ei sînt foarte politicoşi şi discreţi; singurul pericol e să te plictiseşti de atîta discreţie. Cutreierînd printre scaieţi, uitîndu-mă la Stîncile care străluceau în lumină, eram hotărît să-mi dau toată silinţa la cimitirul cel nou, să acopăr prin rîvnă lipsa mea de talent. Mă obişnuisem şi cu ideea că profesia de cioplitor de cruci nu era atît de jenantă cum mi se păruse altădată; la urma urmei, totul se termină sub o piatră funerară, mi-am zis. ~ Octavian Paler, #NFDB
648:THERE ARE HUGE DIFFERENCES in living standards around the world. Even the poorest citizens of the United States have incomes and access to health care, education, public services, and economic and social opportunities that are far superior to those available to the vast mass of people living in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Central America. The contrast of South and North Korea, the two Nogaleses, and the United States and Mexico reminds us that these are relatively recent phenomena. Five hundred years ago, Mexico, home to the Aztec state, was certainly richer than the polities to the north, and the United States did not pull ahead of Mexico until the nineteenth century. The gap between the two Nogaleses is even more recent. South and North Korea were economically, as well as socially and culturally, indistinguishable before the country was divided at the 38th parallel after the Second World War. Similarly, most of the huge economic differences we observe around us today emerged over the last two hundred years. Did ~ Daron Acemo lu, #NFDB
649:The treasure house is within you. Look within for the answer to your heart’s desire. The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their sub conscious mind. You can do the same. Your subconscious has the answer to all problems. If you suggest to your subconscious prior to sleep, “I want to get up at 6 A.M.,” it will awaken you at that exact time. Your subconscious mind is the builder of your body and can heal you. Lull yourself to sleep every night with the idea of perfect health, and your subconscious, being your faithful servant, will obey you. Every thought is a cause, and every condition is an effect. If you want to write a book, write a wonderful play, give a better talk to your audience, convey the idea lovingly and feelingly to your subconscious mind, and it will respond accordingly. You are like a captain navigating a ship. He must give the right orders, and likewise, you must give the right orders (thoughts and images) to your subconscious mind which ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
650:Underground System
Set the foot down with distrust upon the crust of the
world—it is thin.
Moles are at work beneath us; they have tunneled the
sub-soil
With separate chambers; which at an appointed knock
Could be as one, could intersect and interlock. We walk
on the skin
Of life. No toil
Of rake or hoe, no lime, no phosphate, no rotation of
crops, no irrigation of the land,
Will coax the limp and flattened grain to stand
On that bad day, or feed to strength the nibbled root's of
our nation.
Ease has demoralized us, nearly so, we know
Nothing of the rigours of winter: The house has a roof
against—the car a top against—the snow.
All will be well, we say, it is a bit, like the rising of the
sun,
For our country to prosper; who can prevail against us?
No one.
The house has a roof; but the boards of its floor are
rotting, and hall upon hall
The moles have built their palace beneath us, we have
not far to fall.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay,#NFDB
651:4 THE NORTHERN NEWT Not many years after the first newt colonies had been settled in the North Sea and the Baltic a German scientist, Dr. Hans Thüring, found that the Baltic newt had certain distinctive physical features - clearly as a result of its environment; that it was somewhat lighter in colour, it walked on two legs, and its cranial index indicated a skull that was longer and narrower than other newts. This variety was given the name Northern Newt or Noble Newt (Andrias Scheuchzeri var. nobilis erecta Thüring). The German press took this Baltic newt as its own, and enthusiastically stressed that it was because of its German environment that this newt had developed into a different and superior sub-species, indisputably above the level of any other salamander. Journalists wrote with contempt of the degenerate newts of the Mediterranean, stunted both physically and mentally, of the savage newts of the tropics and of the inferior, barbaric and bestial newts of other nations. The slogan of the day was From the Great Newt to the German Übernewt. ~ Karel apek, #NFDB
652:In the history of the intelligence, with the exception of Marx, Nietzsche's adventure has no equivalent; we shall never finish making reparation for the injustice done to him. Of course history records other philosophies that have been misconstrued and betrayed. But up to the time of Nietzsche and National
Socialism, it was quite without parallel that a process of thought—brilliantly illuminated by the nobility and by the sufferings of an exceptional mind—should have been demonstrated to the eyes of the world by a parade of lies and by the hideous accumulation of corpses in concentration camps. The doctrine of the superman led to the methodical creation of sub-men—a fact that doubtless should be denounced, but
which also demands interpretation. If the final result of the great movement of rebellion in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries was to be this ruthless bondage, then surely rebellion should be rejected and
Nietzsche's desperate cry to his contemporaries taken up: "My conscience and yours are no longer the
same conscience. ~ Albert Camus,#NFDB
653:At two hundred fifty feet in length with a surfaced displacement of 2,200 tons, the Samisho was not a small boat. Built to the 0+2+ (1) Yuushio-class standards at Kawasaki’s shipyards in Kobe, she’d begun service in 1992, and last year she’d been brought back to the yards for a retrofit.
Now she was state of the art, an engineering and electronics marvel even by U.S. naval standards. She was a diesel boat, but she was fast, capable of a top speed submerged of more than twenty-five knots and a published diving depth in excess of one thousand feet.
Her electronic detection systems and countermeasures by Hitachi were better than anything currently in use by any navy in the world, and her new Fuji electric motors and tunnel drive were as quiet as any nuclear submarine’s propulsion system, and much simpler to operate. The Samisho could be safely operated, even on war footing, with fifty men and ten officers—less than half the crew needed to run the Los Angeles-class boats, and one-fourth the crew needed for a sub-hunting surface vessel ~ David Hagberg,#NFDB
654:The effect of the weather on the inhabitants of Provence is immediate and obvious. They expect every day to be sunny, and their disposition suffers when it isn't. Rain they take as a personal affront, shaking their heads and commiserating with each other in the cafes, looking with profound suspicion at the sky as though a plague of locusts is about to descend, and picking their way with distaste through the puddles on the pavement. If anything worse than a rainy day should come along, such as this sub-zero snap, the result is startling: most the population disappears... But what did everyone else do? The earth was frozen, the vines were clipped and dormant, it was too cold to hunt. Had they all gone on holiday?...It was a puzzle, until we realized how many of the local people had their birthdays in September or October, and then a possible but unverifiable answer suggested itself: they were busy indoors making babies. There is a season for everything in Provence, and the first two months of the year must be devoted to procreation. We have never dared to ask. ~ Peter Mayle, #NFDB
655:Le admiram prezența nespus de vie în peisajul monoton și somnolent al orașelor și satelor slovace. Căci era ca și cum toți ar fi așteptat obosiți să le treacă ziua, de parcă ar fi fost cufundați într-un soi de siestă ambiguă a climei temperate, ascunși în spatele perdelelor lor, în spatele tufișurilor de trandafiri cățărători din grădini, în spatele geamurilor mașinilor care treceau pe ascuns, în interioarele sufocante ale caselor cenușii, și numai ei, tuciurii și damnați, se lăsău în voia unei astfel de vieți, profitând din plin de lumea aceasta și de existența lor trecătoare în ea. Așadar caut mereu cu privirea acoperișurile ruginite, roșcate și dârele albăstrui lăsate în aer de fumul de pin. Și peticele de argilă goală, bătătorită, unde niciodată nu crește nimic, deoarece sursa lor de energie sunt mișcarea permanentă, umblatul, vizitele veșnice, petrecerile nesfârșite sub cerul liber, poveștile transmise din gură în gură și privirile care scrutează totul în jur, căci pământul și lumea sunt ale nimănui și nimeni nu are dreptul să le țină numai pentru sine. ~ Andrzej Stasiuk, #NFDB
656:Din Constanța se merge prin Valu lui Traian, cu căsuțe mărunte, scăldate în caniculă, cu măgari costelivi, sub privirea antediluviană a femeilor bătrâne în negru, care fixează vidul prăfos. Dacă ar fi să cobori într-un asemenea loc, n-ai mai găsi puterea să pleci. Prezentul durează aici de o veșnicie. Așa se explică toate acele nume de eroi, răsculați, conducători, voievozi și politicieni: Nicolae Bălcescu, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Cuza Vodă, Vlad Țepeș, Mircea Vodă, Ștefan cel Mare, Dragoș Vodă, Ștefan Vodă, Alexandru Odobescu și încă Independența și Unirea, și Valea Dacilor. Nu e nimic acolo. Numai sate împrăștiate prin toată stepa de-a lungul șoselei 3A sau puțin mai departe. În peisajul plat, abia de răsar puțin deasupra liniei orizontului. Capre, lanuri de porumb, cai înhămați la căruțe, siluete aplecate ale oamenilor pe câmp, aceleași mișcări efectuate de o sută, de două, de trei sute de ani, ba dintotdeauna, la fel de neschimbate ca și mișcările animalelor. Și doar acele nume care trebuie să pună în mișcare timpul încremenit, să-i confere sens și direcție. ~ Andrzej Stasiuk, #NFDB
657:A passagem do tempo exaspera e condensa qualquer tempestade, embora de início não houvesse sequer uma minúscula nuvem no horizonte. Ignoramos o que o tempo fará de nós com as suas finas camadas que se sobrepõem indistinguíveis, ignoramos em que é que nos pode transformar. O tempo avança sigilosamente, dia a dia e hora a hora e passo a passo envenenado, não se faz notar no seu sub-reptício labor, tão respeitoso e cauto que nunca nos dá um empurrão nem um sobressalto. Aparece todas as manhãs com o seu semblante apaziguador e invariável, e garante-nos o contrário do que está a acontecer: que está tudo bem e nada muda, que tudo está como ontem - o equilíbrio de forças -, que nada se ganha e nada se perde, que a nossa cara é a mesma e também o nosso cabelo e a nossa figura, que quem nos odiava continuar a odiar-nos e quem gostava de nós continua a gostar. E a verdade é que é precisamente o contrário, simplesmente ele não nos permite dar por isso com os seus traiçoeiros minutos e os seus astutos segundos, até que chega um dia estranho, impensável, em que nada é como sempre foi. ~ Javier Mar as, #NFDB
658:when the Americans liberated Ohrdruf, one of Buchenwald’s sub-camps. Ohrdruf is particularly important because General Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, visited it on 12 April, just a week after it had been discovered. He brought with him Generals Omar Bradley and George Patton, and insisted on seeing ‘every nook and cranny’ of the camp, ‘because I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify at first hand about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda’.23 Here they observed torture devices, a butcher’s block used to smash the gold fillings from the mouths of the dead, a room piled to the ceiling with corpses, and the remains of hundreds of bodies that had been burned in a huge pit, as if on ‘some gigantic cannibalistic barbecue’.24 Patton, a man well used to the horrors of the battlefield, took one look at the ‘arms and legs and portions of bodies sticking out of the green water’ in the pit, and was obliged to retire behind a shed to throw up.25 ~ Keith Lowe, #NFDB
659:Figure 1 schematically shows how in-vehicle networking will be conceived. In this conception, CAN and the other communication protocols developed concurrently made it possible for multiple LANs to exchange data efficiently via a gateway. Motor Motor Motor Air Sub network Switch Switch Sensor Safety system Passenger detection conditioner Radar Door CAN Up to 125 kbps zLIN 2.4 to 19.2 kbps AFS Instrument panel meter Keyless Body White line detection Head lamp Levelizer Combination lamp Sub network system Squib zSafe-(150 kbpsby-Wire ) Airbag Gateway control Tire Information Engine and powertrain pressure system ACC ITS system system CAN CAN 500 kbps 125 kbps MD/CD Audio VICS Engine Steering Brake changer Video navi TVSS Sub network compo zFlexRay *2(5 Mbps) zMOST Chassis z1394 AT system CAN 500 kbps Failure diagnostic system zCAN (statutory control) Diagnostic tool Figure 1. Conception of In-vehicle Networking * 1 : ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization.* 2 : FlexRay TM is a registered trademark of DaimlerChrysler AG. REJ05B0804-0100/Rev. 1.00 April 2006 Page 2 of 44 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
660:There was no movement around the discoloured walls, and Lucy turned the Land Rover about in a slow crawl, the tires crunching on the desiccated earth. She scanned the windows, black squares punched through the sides of the silent blockhouses, looking for threats.
As the grumble of the engine died, Marc heard the moan of the steady breeze, and the desolate cluster of buildings seemed like the loneliest place on Earth.
‘Stay alert,’ said Lucy, reaching down into the wheel well to grab her backpack. ‘We don’t know what we’re gonna find here.’ She reached inside and her hand came back with the compact shape of an MP7 sub machinegun. She cocked it with a snap of the receiver, and handed Marc a walkie-talkie. ‘Just in case,’ she added.
Marc followed her out of the Land Rover, slipping out of the door with his bag over one shoulder. He had the Glock ready, close to his chest and his finger resting on the trigger guard. He felt acutely aware of every tiny detail around them, the crumbling rocks beneath his boots, the heavy heat of the late afternoon sun, the weight of the loaded gun ~ James Swallow,#NFDB
661:I grew up in Pittsburgh."
"In Pittsburgh?" Arthur says, a small snort escaping him. "An unlikely place for a classically trained chef."
"People have been known to eat in Pittsburgh, you know," I tell him, with a backwards glance as he pulls out my chair. The man is a snob.
"Well, of course they do. I just meant that, well, even today, it's not exactly the bastion of haute cuisine. Twenty, thirty years ago, forget it. In fact, can you remember the last time a Pittsburgh restaurant was featured in Bon Appétit?"
Touché. In fact, the only time that I can remember a Pittsburgh restaurant being mentioned in a national magazine was several years ago when Gourmet mentioned Primanti Brothers in an interview with Mario Batali (who'd eaten there on a recent trip and enjoyed it). For the uninitiated, the Primanti sandwich is a cheesesteak sub, served on thick slabs of crusty Italian bread and topped with very well-done grease-still-glistening French fries, coleslaw, and, if you're really a traditionalist, a fried egg. Apparently, it has become the signature food of Pittsburgh. ~ Meredith Mileti,#NFDB
662:We have decided to stop voting, so pull down the posters. Let’s get all those ugly faces off our streets and out of our elective offices. We are not going to vote any more, no matter how often they come around with their sound trucks and statesmanlike gestures. Pull down the sound trucks. Pull down the outstretched arms. To hell with the whole business. Voting has turned out to be a damned impertinence. They never do what we want them to do anyhow. And when they do what we don’t want them to do, they don’t do it well. To hell with them. We are going to save up all our votes for the next twenty years and spend them all at one time. Maybe by that day there will be some Rabelaisian figure worth spending them on. And so, raw youth, with your tentative air, go out and work our will on the physical world. We are going to go whole hog on this program, to a certain extent, and you are our chosen instrument. We are not particularly proud of you, but you exist, in some rough way, and that is enough, for our purposes. You are sub-attractive, Bobble, and so are your peers there, but here is the money, and there is the task. Get going. ~ Donald Barthelme, #NFDB
663:YA stories feature a young adult protagonist or protagonists and usually focus on that character’s journey toward maturity (the tradition of the Bildungsroman.). Learning about love / relationships is an important part of that stage in our lives, so it’s not surprising so many writers are building strong romantic elements into their YA stories. I don’t remember quite such an emphasis on romance in the books my children read as young adults, so I do think the approach has changed. Within my genre of fantasy, there’s been an upsurge of paranormal romance, partly generated by the Twilight books, but also reflecting the popularity of this sub-genre with adult readers. There are far more female fantasy writers (and female fantasy readers) than there were, say, twenty years ago, and perhaps female writers are more confident about including a good love story in a fantasy novel.
(2012 Interview by Helen Lowe: The Supernatural Underground: An Interview with Juliet Marillier Discussing "Shadowfell".) ~ Juliet Marillier,#NFDB
664:Epigramma In Duos Montes Amosclivum Et Bilboreum
Farfacio.
Cernis ut ingenti distinguant limite campum
Montis Amos clivi Bilboreique juga!
Ille stat indomitus turritis undisque saxis:
Cingit huic laetum Fraximus alta Caput.
Illi petra minax rigidis cervicibus horret:
Huic quatiunt viridis lenia colla jubas.
Fulcit Atlanteo Rupes ea vertice coelos:
Collis at hic humeros subjicit Herculeos.
Hic ceu carceribus visum sylvaque coercet:
Ille Oculos alter dum quasi meta trahit.
Ille Giganteum surgit ceu Pelion Ossa:
Hic agit ut Pindi culmine Nympha choros.
Erectus, praeceps, salebrosus, & arduus ille:
Aeclivis, placidus, mollis, amoenus hic est.
Dissimilis Domino coiit Natura sub uno;
Farfaciaque tremunt sub ditione pares.
Dumque triumphanti terras perlabitur Axe,
Praeteriens aequa stringit utrumque Rota.
Asper in adversos, facilis cedentibus idem;
Ut credas Montes extimulasse suos.
Hi sunt Alcidae Borealis nempe Columnae,
Quos medio scindit vallis opaca freto.
An potius longe sic prona cacumina nutant,
Parnassus cupiant esse Maria tuus.
~ Andrew Marvell,#NFDB
665:With effort, Nella shoved the vision aside. “Never.” She drew herself up. “I am a princess of Ariel. I would never—”
“Yes, you would. You will. But I’m glad to hear you get mad at me. That means whoever is chasing you, whoever is trying to make you his slave didn’t break you. You’re whole and strong.”
“Then why do you want to break me?”
“I don’t.” Rio stepped closer to her. “I want you to submit to me.”
“What is the difference?”
“There’s a big difference. Submission is complete trust. It’s giving yourself and your pleasure to the hands of your lover. You’ll free yourself, and give yourself entirely to me.”
“If it is so freeing, why do you not submit yourself?”
Rio laughed, a sound so filled with mirth it made her want to smile along. “Tell you what, beautiful. You submit wholly and completely to me— let me train you to be my sub— then I’ll submit to you.”
Nella gave him a suspicious look. “Would you?”
“I never go back on my word, sweetheart. We’ll get Rees to help out if you don’t believe me. He’d be happy to chain me up, although not for the same reasons. He thinks I’m a pain in the ass. ~ Allyson James,#NFDB
666:Lipseşte devenirii României un sens ascendent. Schema formală a soartei noastre este orizontala. Ne am tîrît în vreme. Popoarele fericite ale Pămîntului sînt irupţii şi de aceea soarta lor trezeşte implicit reprezentarea verticalei. Goticul este stilul ascendenţei, al elanului vertiginos, dar orientat, al devenirii transcendente. O individualitate se determină după elementele gotice din suflet. Predominarea lor caracterizează pregnanţa ei. Elanul unei culturi exprimă prezenţa internă a patosului gotic. Căci goticul este verticala spiritului. Din el derivă tragicul, sublimul şi renunţarea, ca pasiune pentru altă lume. Absenţa lui te asimilează liniştit şi călduţ devenirii, aruncîndu te pradă timpului. Destinul, ca o lunecare orizontală, este negaţia goticului şi a complexelor de viaţă născute din el. Neamul românesc n a trăit sub semnul spiritului gotic. De aici: pasivitatea, scepticismul, autodispreţul, contemplaţia domoală, religiozitatea minoră, anistoria, înţelepciunea, care constituie aspectul negativ al specificului nostru naţional, aspect din păcate central. Aşa ne am trăit noi o mie de ani şi aşa va trebui să nu ne mai trăim miile ce vor urma. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
667:The encyclopedia wand’s a theoretical puzzle, like Zeno’s paradox. The idea is t’engrave the entire encyclopedia onto a single toothpick. Know how you do it?” “You tell me.” “You take your information, your encyclopedia text, and you transpose it into numerics. You assign everything a two-digit number, periods and commas included. 00 is a blank, A is 01, B is 02, and so on. Then after you’ve lined them all up, you put a decimal point before the whole lot. So now you’ve got a very long sub-decimal fraction. 0.173000631 … Next, you engrave a mark at exactly that point along the toothpick. If 0.50000’s your exact middle on the toothpick, then 0.3333’s got t’be a third of the way from the tip. You follow?” “Sure.” “That’s how you can fit data of any length in a single point on a toothpick. Only theoretically, of course. No existin’ technology can actually engrave so fine a point. But this should give you a perspective on what tautologies are like. Say time’s the length of your toothpick. The amount of information you can pack into it doesn’t have anything t’do with the length. Make the fraction as long as you want. It’ll be finite, but pretty near eternal. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
668:Lucrul ce s-a observat cel mai puţin, şi care va face totdeauna o scriere unică, este simpltiatea subiectului şi desfăşurarea povestirii, care, concentrată între trei persoane, se susţine de-a lungul a şase volume, fără întâmplări, fără aventuri ca în romane, fără răutăţi de nici un fel, nici în personaje, nici în fapte. Diderot i-a adus mari laude lui Samuel Richardson pentru mulţimea personajelor sale. Richardson are, în adevăr, meritul de a le fi descris pe toate bine; cât despre numărul lor, el este asemenea celor mai searbezi romancieri, care înlocuiesc sărăcia ideilor prin bogăţia personajelor şi a întâmplărilor. E uşor să trezeşti atenţia, prezentând la nesfârşit şi fapte nemaipomenite şi chipuri noi, care se perindă ca imaginile din lanterna magică; dar a ţine mereu trează atenţia asupra aceloraşi lucruri, şi fără aventuri uluitoare, asta este, desigur, mai greu; şi dacă, lăsând la o parte altele, simplitatea subiectului contribuie la frumuseţea operei, romanele lui Richardson, superioare în atâtea alte privinţe, nu vor putea fi, sub acest raport, puse în paralelă cu al meu. El e mort, totuşi, o ştiu, şi ştiu şi din ce cauză; dar va învia. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
669:Our lives are encumbered with the dead wood of this past; all that is dead and has served its purpose has to go. But that does not mean a break with, or a forgetting of, the vital and life-giving in that past. We can never forget the ideals that have moved our race, the dreams of the Indian people through the ages, the wisdom of the ancients, the buoyant energy and love of life and nature of our forefathers, their spirit of curiosity and mental adventure, the daring of their thought, their splendid achievements in literature, art and culture, their love of truth and beauty and freedom, the basic values that they set up, their understanding of life's mysterious ways, their toleration of other ways than theirs, their capacity to absorb other peoples and their cultural accomplishments, to synthesize them and develop a varied and mixed culture; nor can we forget the myriad experiences which have built up our ancient race and lie embedded in our sub-conscious minds. We will never forget them or cease to take pride in that noble heritage of ours. If India forgets them she will no longer remain India and much that has made her our joy and pride will cease to be. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, #NFDB
670:A Master is not someone who merely revels in the benefits that he reaps from the power and control that he wields over his sub. A Master is not just an automaton who emotionally doles out orders and watches with amusement as his minions perform his bidding. A Master is not a person who only relishes the benefits that his superior status entitles him.
Certainly all of these characteristics could and often do exist within a Master. He may be demanding and at times selfish. He may genuinely enjoy and even be aroused by the power that he has over a sub. He may be able to expertly control his emotions, issuing his commands and enforcing his discipline with stone-faced determination.
But a true Master, a Master such as Matt, was so invested in his sub that he was actually in a way a slave himself. He was a slave to his love for me. He was a slave to his responsibility. He was a slave to the passion and the commitment. He was a slave to his overwhelming desire to protect his property at all costs. He was a slave to his slave. I knew without questions that he loved me so much he'd literally lay down his life for me. He owned me, and his ownership owned him ~ Jeff Erno,#NFDB
671:The unification of mind in śamatha is temporary and conditioned. However, the unification around Insight is far more profound, and it’s permanent. When temporary unification around a shared intention fades, each sub-mind operates as a separate entity, constrained by and at the mercy of the mind-system as a whole. Therefore, individual sub-minds strive to preserve their autonomy and, as much as possible, direct the resources of the mind-system toward their individual goals. Yet after Insight, the various sub-minds become unified around a shared Insight into impermanence, emptiness, suffering, no-Self, and interconnectedness. From this flow a corresponding set of shared values: harmlessness, compassion, and loving-kindness. Now each sub-mind operates as an independent part of a much greater whole, working for the good of that whole. This allows each sub-mind to do its job effectively, without running into fundamental conflicts with other sub-minds.
When enough of the mind-system has undergone this transformation, we’re able to function as an individual person while simultaneously perceiving ourselves as part of an indivisible and inconceivably greater whole. ~ Culadasa John Yates,#NFDB
672:peaking at 100,000 and dropping to 8,400 with heady expectations, later abandoned, that the combat mission against the insurgent Taliban could end. But internally the experts knew it was futile. White House coordinator Lieutenant General Douglas Lute labeled the war “a house of cards” in a 2010 meeting soon after Obama added another 30,000 troops. Dr. Peter Lavoy, Obama’s deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs, later in charge of South Asia for the Obama NSC staff, was a soft-spoken authority on South Asia—Pakistan and Afghanistan. Lavoy was largely unknown to the public but critical to the functioning of the defense and intelligence world. He was both academic and practitioner. He believed the obsession with U.S. troop numbers had been the Achilles’ heel of the Obama administration policy in Afghanistan. “There are literally thousands of sub-tribes in Afghanistan,” Lavoy said. “Each has a grievance. If the Taliban ceased to exist you would still have an insurgency in Afghanistan.” Victory was far-fetched. Winning had not been defined. H. R. McMaster saw he would have a major confrontation with President Trump on the Afghanistan War. ~ Bob Woodward, #NFDB
673:Dinu se afla după una din crizele lui de astm, era deprimat, îmi mărturisise că nu realizase niciunul din visurile lui de tinereţe şi m-am aprins:
― Ascultă, Dinule, ce înseamnă a te realiza? A-ţi închide destinul. Ca pe un cerc. Eşti realizat, cu alte cuvinte poţi să mori. Ai ajuns pe culme, ai câştigat o bătălie. Şi ce faci după asta? Te culci cumva pe laurii cuceriţi până ce ei putrezesc sub tine? Sau te sinucizi şi laşi cu limbă de moarte să ţi se pună pe mormânt aceşti lauri? Pe când eşecul, domnule, eşecul e cu totul altceva. El te obligă să speri, să mergi mai departe, s-o iei de la capăt, să încerci din nou, strângând pumnii. Eşecul e un sfârşit numai pentru cei care n-au vlagă în ei. Pe mine, află, mă ambiţionează să fac ceea ce n-am reuşit să fac... Am izbucnit în râs: Eu nu mă tem, dacă vrei să ştii, decât de momentul când mă voi realiza. Şi pe care, din fericire, n-am cum să-l ating. Cimitirul de marmură nu va fi niciodată o operă desăvârşită. Vrând, nevrând, o voi lăsa neterminată, fiindcă într-o zi voi muri şi altcineva va trebui să facă piatra mea funerară şi mormintele celor care vor muri după mine. Cum s-ar zice, sculptorul a murit, opera lui continuă ~ Octavian Paler,#NFDB
674:The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away, and at a time when Earth was teeming with simple, single-celled organisms. While the ripple moved through space in all directions, Earth would, after another 800 million years, evolve complex life, including flowers and dinosaurs and flying creatures, as well as a branch of vertebrates called mammals. Among the mammals, a sub-branch would evolve frontal lobes and complex thought to accompany them. We call them primates. A single branch of these primates would develop a genetic mutation that allowed speech, and that branch—Homo Sapiens—would invent agriculture and civilization and philosophy and art and science. All in the last ten thousand years. Ultimately, one of its twentieth-century scientists would invent relativity out of his head, and predict the existence of gravitational waves. A century later, technology capable of seeing these waves would finally catch up with the prediction, just days before that gravity wave, which had been traveling for 1.3 billion years, washed over Earth and was detected.
Yes, Einstein was a badass. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,#NFDB
675:All of this highlights several important ideas. First, growth under authoritarian, extractive political institutions in China, though likely to continue for a while yet, will not translate into sustained growth, supported by truly inclusive economic institutions and creative destruction. Second, contrary to the claims of modernization theory, we should not count on authoritarian growth leading to democracy or inclusive political institutions. China, Russia, and several other authoritarian regimes currently experiencing some growth are likely to reach the limits of extractive growth before they transform their political institutions in a more inclusive direction—and in fact, probably before there is any desire among the elite for such changes or any strong opposition forcing them to do so. Third, authoritarian growth is neither desirable nor viable in the long run, and thus should not receive the endorsement of the international community as a template for nations in Latin America, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, even if it is a path that many nations will choose precisely because it is sometimes consistent with the interests of the economic and political elites dominating them. Y ~ Daron Acemo lu, #NFDB
676:On Editors:
"... The chief qualification of ninety-nine per cent of all editors is failure. They have failed as writers. Don't think they prefer the drudgery of the desk and the slavery to their circulation and to the business manager to the joy of writing. They have tried to write, and they have failed. And right there is the cursed paradox of it. Every portal to success in literature is guarded by those watch-dogs, the failures of literature. The editors, the sub-editors, associate editors, most of them, and the manuscript readers for the magazines and book-publishers, most of them, nearly all of them, are men who wanted to write and failed. And yet they, of all creatures under the sun the most unfit, are the very creatures who decide what shall and what shall not find its way into print–they, who have proved themselves not original, who have demonstrated that they lack the divine fire, sit in judgment upon originality and genius. And after them comes the reviewers, just so many more failures. Don't tell me that they have not dreamed the dream and attempted to write poetry and fiction; for they have, and they have failed. Why, the average review is more nauseating than cod-liver oil.... ~ Jack London,#NFDB
677:În speranța unui viitor mai bun, m-am înscris la un curs de germană. A patra oară. Sunt la nivelul A2.2, care înseamnă elementar. Săptămâna asta, doamna profesoară a început să ne predea declinarea grupului nominal, ne-a umplut de foi cu tabele și pe mine de angoase existențiale. Văd cuvinte în fața ochilor de sute de ori și tot nu știu ce înseamnă, iar terminațiile pe cazuri, genuri și numere îmi vâjâie în cap ca biletele la loto când pornește instalația să le amestece.
Mă simt tot mai puțin inteligentă, mi se cojește inteligența de pe creier ca vopseaua de pe un lemn vechi. Limba germană la treizeci de ani mă face să mă simt consumată.
Otilia mă asigură că mai e speranță, mai am încă timp să emigrez, s-o iau de la capăt. Oare asta e soluția? Mă gândesc după ce trec de B2.
Grupa e plină de studente la Medicină. Vreo două dintre ele zbârnăie. Când avem de alcătuit propoziții, ele fac fraze complexe, când avem de compus mesaje, ele fac scrisori.
Am și astăzi curs, de la șase, și n-am apucat să-mi fac tema. Avem de completat cuvinte în mici dialoguri, sub imagini cu omuleți la restaurant. Omuleții comandă diverse mâncăruri, au păreri, cer nota, își iau rămas-bun. Omuleți în creion. ~ Lavinia Brani te,#NFDB
678:And that’s exactly what was observed. The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away, and at a time when Earth was teeming with simple, single-celled organisms. While the ripple moved through space in all directions, Earth would, after another 800 million years, evolve complex life, including flowers and dinosaurs and flying creatures, as well as a branch of vertebrates called mammals. Among the mammals, a sub-branch would evolve frontal lobes and complex thought to accompany them. We call them primates. A single branch of these primates would develop a genetic mutation that allowed speech, and that branch—Homo sapiens—would invent agriculture and civilization and philosophy and art and science. All in the last ten thousand years. Ultimately, one of its twentieth-century scientists would invent relativity out of his head, and predict the existence of gravitational waves. A century later, technology capable of seeing these waves would finally catch up with the prediction, just days before that gravity wave, which had been traveling for 1.3 billion years, washed over Earth and was detected. Yes, Einstein was a badass. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
679:Total available Calories divided by Population equals Artistic-Technological Style. When the ratio Calories-to-Population is large—say, five thousand or more, five thousand daily calories for every living person—then the Artistic-Technological Style is big. People carve Mount Rushmore; they build great foundries; they manufacture enormous automobiles to carry one housewife half a mile for the purchase of one lipstick. Life is coarse and rich where C:P is large. At the other extreme, where C:P is too small, life does not exist at all. It has starved out. Experimentally, add little increments to C:P and it will be some time before the right-hand side of the equation becomes significant. But at last, in the 1,000 to 1,500 calorie range, Artistic-Technological Style firmly appears in self-perpetuating form. C:P in that range produces the small arts, the appreciations, the peaceful arrangements of necessities into subtle relationships of traditionally agreed-upon virtue. Think of Japan, locked into its Shogunate prison, with a hungry population scrabbling food out of mountainsides and beauty out of arrangements of lichens. The small, inexpensive sub-sub-arts are characteristic of the 1,000 to 1,500 calorie range. ~ Frederik Pohl, #NFDB
680:You don’t want him to be miserable. It’s just . . . you were planning not to go away to college because he might need you, right? And then he’s the one who goes off to school, and he doesn’t even seem to miss you. But I bet he does miss you. It’s just that he’s like Ivy—neither of them is very good at saying what other people need to hear.”
“But it’s more than just what he says. I honestly think I miss him more than he misses me.”
“That’s because you took care of him. And he’s still basically being taken care of, but you don’t have anyone to take care of. So you lost more than he did.” I nudge his hand with mine. “I’m willing to be taken care of, by the way, if you need someone to fill that void. I could use a little more nurturing in my life.”
“I’ll try,” he says. “But I’m not all that great at being warm and fuzzy.”
“I hadn’t noticed.”
“I think maybe you’re being sarcastic,” he says, exactly the way Ethan would say it, and I laugh.
“You need to be proud he’s doing so well,” I say. “It’s all because of you.”
“So basically you’re saying I should let my baby bird leave the nest?”
“Exactly. Now eat your sub so you can regurgitate it for him when we get back. ~ Claire LaZebnik,#NFDB
681:MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—Following the company’s announcement that it would discontinue public sales of the wearable technology, Google officials confirmed Monday that all unsold units of Google Glass would be donated to underprivileged assholes in Africa. “We are committed to positively impacting the lives of poverty-stricken smug pricks by distributing the surplus inventory of Google Glass to self-important fucks throughout sub-Saharan Africa,” a statement released by the company read in part, adding that the program will provide the optical head-mounted technology, as well as professional training sessions, to destitute communities of conceited dicks from Sierra Leone, to Somalia, to Botswana. “This gesture will help tens of thousands of poor and needy men, women, and children across the continent who have never had the opportunity to walk around looking like a pompous jackass all day long. From the moment they turn on their new Google Glass in clear view of others, they’ll immediately start experiencing the undeserved sense of superiority currently lacking in their lives.” At press time, Google confirmed that the first devices had been presented to an indigent family of complete fucking jerkoffs from the Republic of Guinea. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
682:The novelty of the new, as noted earlier, stems from the unfolding of the known into larger, brighter, more richly contoured surfaces. Consequently, it can never be innovative in an absolute sense; in part, it is always the continuation of the cognitively existent by other means. Here, novelty and greater explicitness amount to the same thing. We can therefore say that the higher the degree of explicitness, the deeper the possible, indeed inevitable disconcertment caused by the newly acquired knowledge. I have previously accepted as a conventional fact that this table is made of cherrywood; I acknowledge with the tolerance of the educated that the cherrywood consists of atoms, even though these oft-cited atoms, these epistemological contemporaries of the twentieth century, possess no greater reality for me than unicorn powder or Saturnian influences. That these cherrywood atoms dissolve into a mist of sub-atomic almost-nothings upon further explication - this is something that I, as an end consumer of physical Enlightenment, must accept, even if it goes decisively against my assumptions about the substantiality of substance. The final explanation illustrates most emphatically how the later knowledge tends to be the more disconcerting. ~ Peter Sloterdijk, #NFDB
683:Everything leads me to believe it,” he replied. “They got their hands on this communist who wasn’t one, while still being one. He had a sub par intellect and was an exalted fanatic—just the man they needed, the perfect one to be accused. . . . The guy ran away, because he probably became suspicious. They wanted to kill him on the spot before he could be grabbed by the judicial system. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen exactly the way they had probably planned it would. . . . But a trial, you realize, is just terrible. People would have talked. They would have dug up so much! They would have unearthed everything. Then the security forces went looking for [a clean-up man] they totally controlled, and who couldn’t refuse their offer, and that guy sacrificed himself to kill the fake assassin—supposedly in defense of Kennedy’s memory! “Baloney! Security forces all over the world are the same when they do this kind of dirty work. As soon as they succeed in wiping out the false assassin, they declare that the justice system no longer need be concerned, that no further public action was needed now that the guilty perpetrator was dead. Better to assassinate an innocent man than to let a civil war break out. Better an injustice than disorder. “America ~ David Talbot, #NFDB
684:To make matters worse, some of the books had actually become migratory. In the nineteenth century Brakebills had appointed a librarian with a highly Romantic imagination who had envisioned a mobile library in which books fluttered from shelf to shelf like birds, reorganizing themselves spontaneously under their own pwer in response to searches. For the first few months the effect was sadi to have been quite dramatic. A painteding the scned survived as a mural behind the circulation desk, with enormaous atlases soaring around the place like condors.
But the system turned out to be totally impractical. The wear and tear o the spines alone was too costly, and the books were horribly disobedient. The librarian had imagined he could summon a given book to perch on his hand just by shouting out its call number, but in actuality they were just too willful, and some were actively predatory. The librarian was swiftly dposed, and his successor set about domesticating the books again, but even now there were stragglers, notably in Swiss History and Architecture 300-1399, that stubbornly flapped around near the ceiling. Once in a while an entire sub—sub-category that had long been thought safely dormant would take wing with an indescribably papery susurrus. ~ Lev Grossman,#NFDB
685:Though the early growth in Botswana relied on meat exports, things changed dramatically when diamonds were discovered. The management of natural resources in Botswana also differed markedly from that in other African nations. During the colonial period, the Tswana chiefs had attempted to block prospecting for minerals in Bechuanaland because they knew that if Europeans discovered precious metals or stones, their autonomy would be over. The first big diamond discovery was under Ngwato land, Seretse Khama’s traditional homeland. Before the discovery was announced, Khama instigated a change in the law so that all subsoil mineral rights were vested in the nation, not the tribe. This ensured that diamond wealth would not create great inequities in Botswana. It also gave further impetus to the process of state centralization as diamond revenues could now be used for building a state bureaucracy and infrastructure and for investing in education. In Sierra Leone and many other sub-Saharan African nations, diamonds fueled conflict between different groups and helped to sustain civil wars, earning the label Blood Diamonds for the carnage brought about by the wars fought over their control. In Botswana, diamond revenues were managed for the good of the nation. ~ Daron Acemo lu, #NFDB
686:delight in putting colonies everywhere. The Tadpoles noted the terraforming project on the fourth world with bemusement. There was no shortage of habitable worlds beyond the tramlines either. Why the humans considered an attempt to reshape an old and dry world into something suitable for them was beyond the factions. It looked like an expensive and pointless project to them. Let them waste their resources, if they must, one sub-faction stated. It only weakens them. We will set course for the fifth planet, the Combat Faction said. There was nothing to be gained by trying to understand humans. They were alien beings. Their society and history spoke of nothing, but war. They were too dangerous to be allowed to infest space. And they will follow us. Doubt floated through parts of the Song, but not enough to force a change. The fifth planet was a massive gas giant, one of the largest recorded. And the installations orbiting the giant planet were easy to identify. Cloudscoops and refineries ... if they were destroyed, they’d hamper human reconstruction. It wasn't a direct way to win, but it would work. And it would force the humans to give chase. They’d have no choice. And then we will win, the Combat Faction stated. It will only be ~ Christopher G Nuttall, #NFDB
687:Ajung, în sfîrşit, la moarte şi la sentimentul nostru în legătură cu ea. E un subiect despre care totul a fost spus şi e decent să ne ferim de patetic. Totuşi, nu ne vom putea niciodată mira îndeajuns de faptul că toată lumea trăieşte ca şi cum nimeni «n-ar şti». Aceasta pentru că în realitate nu există o experienţă a morţii. În sensul propriu, experimentat e doar ceea ce a fost trăit şi a devenit conştient. In cazul de faţă, abia dacă se poate vorbi de experienţa morţii celorlalţi. E un succedaneu, o închipuire a spiritului, de care nu sîntem niciodată pe de-a-ntregul convinşi. Această convenţie melancolică nu poate fi convingătoare. Spaima vine în realitate din aspectul matematic al evenimentului. Timpul ne înspăimîntă tocmai pentru că el face demonstraţia; soluţia nu vine decît după aceea. Toate frazele frumoase despre suflet vor primi aici, cel puţin pentru o vreme, dovada matematică a contrariului lor. Din trupul inert pe care o palmă nu mai lasă nicio urmă, sufletul a dispărut. Acest aspect definitiv şi elementar al aventurii formează conţinutul sentimentului absurdului, în lumina mortală a acestui destin apare inutilitatea. Nicio morală şi niciun efort nu pot fi justificate apriori în faţa matematicilor sîngeroase sub al căror semn stă condiţia noastră. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
688:All white nations now have sub-replacement fertility and almost all are receiving large numbers of non-white immigrants. Many say this should not be a cause for concern. Charles A. Price, Australia’s senior demographer, described in 2000 the change his country was going through: “Some people think that a steady replacement of Anglo-Celts by other ethnic groups is highly desirable. . . . Personally, [replacement] does not worry me . . . .”
Jozef Ritzen, Dutch Minister of Education, Culture, and Science, explained that “this is the trend worldwide. The white race will in the long term become extinct. . . . Apparently we are happy with this development.”
Tim Wise is a white person who has lectured on the evils of racism on more than 600 college campuses, and the Utne Reader named him one of “25 visionaries who are changing your world.” In an open letter to white American conservatives, he looked forward to the day when whites will be outnumbered by other races:
'We just have to be patient. And wait for your hearts to stop beating. And stop they will. And for some of you, real damned soon truth be told. Do you hear it? The sound of your empire dying? Your nation, as you knew it, ending, permanently? Because I do, and the sound of your demise is beautiful. ~ Jared Taylor,#NFDB
689:Plictiseala de ceea ce este în permanent nou,plictiseala de a descoperi,sub falsa diferenţă dintre lucruri şi idei,perena identitate a totului,similitudinea absolută existentă între moschee,templu şi biserică,egalitatea dintre o cocioabă şi un palat,acelaşi corp structurat să fie un rege îmbrăcat sau un sălbatic gol puşcă,eterna concordanţă a vieţii însăşi,stagnarea dintre toate cele pe care le trăiesc numai prin faptul că se agită,mi-au trecut.
Peisajele sunt nişte repetiţii.Repetiţii inutile şi angoasante.În timpul unei simple călătorii cu trenul mă împart inutil şi gust între neatenţia acordată peisajului şi neatenţia faţă de cartea care ar putea să mă distreze,dacă eu aş fi fost altul.Viaţa îmi produce un vag dezgust,iar mişcarea mi-l sporeşte.
Plictiseala lipseşte doar din peisajele care nu există şi din cărţile pe care nicicând nu le voi citi.Pentru mine,viaţa este o somnolenţă care nu reuşeşte să urce la creier.O păstrez în libertate să pot să fiu trist în ea.
Să călătorească,deci,cei care nu există!Pentru cei care nu sunt nimic,viaţa trebuie să fie o curgere,aşa cum viaţa este curgerea pentru un râu.Însă pe cei care gândesc sau simt,pe cei care sunt treji,oribila isterie a trenurilor,a automobilelor,a navelor nu-i lăsa nici să doarmă,nici să vegheze. ~ Fernando Pessoa,#NFDB
690:In fact, objects are known only through the subject, while the subject can know himself or her- self only by acting on objects materially and men- tally. Indeed, if objects are innumerable and sci- ence indefinitely diverse, all knowledge of the sub- ject brings us back to psychology, the science of the subject and the subject's actions.
The fourth remark: People may say that I thus engage in philosophy or epistemology and no longer in scientific psychology. But, in the research that we pursue, it is impossible to dissociate psychology from epistemology. Indeed, if we study only one level of development (for example, that of the adult or adolescent), it is easy to distinguish the prob- lems: psychological experience, emotions, intelli- gence and its functions, etc., on the one hand, and the broad problems of knowledge (epistemology), etc., on the other. But if we want to study cogni- tive functions and pursue a developmental point of view in order to study the formation and trans- formations of human intelligence (and this is why I specialized in child psychology), then the prob-
lems must be formulated very differently: How is knowledge acquired, how does it increase, and how does it become organized or reorganized? These are the very questions that must be answered. ~ Jean Piaget,#NFDB
691:More than a century ago Thomas Carlyle described man as a "tool-using animal," as if this were the one trait that elevated him above the rest of brute creation. This overweighting of tools, weapons, physical apparatus, and machines has obscured the actual path of human development. The definition of man as a tool-using animal, even when corrected to read 'tool-making,' would have seemed strange to Plato, who attributed man's emergence from a primitive state as much to Marsyas and Orpheus, the makers of music, as to fire-stealing Prometheus, or to Hephaestus, the blacksmith-god, the sole manual worker in the Olympian pantheon.
Yet the description of man as essentially a tool-making animal has become so firmly embedded that the mere finding of fragments of little primate skulls in the neighborhood of chipped pebbles, as wit the Australopithecines of Africa, was deemed sufficient by their finder, Dr. L.S.B. Leakey, to identify the creature as in the direct line of human ascent, despite marked physical divergences from both apes and later men. Since Leakey's sub-hominids had a brain capacity about a third of Homo sapiens-less indeed than some apes-the ability to chip and use crude stone tools plainly neither called for nor by itself generated man's rich cerebral equipment. ~ Lewis Mumford,#NFDB
692:But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot of time telling you about the suffering you have to go through to achieve it. As soon as you get a problem in any one of them, the solution it gives is always to go deeper into the same system. They're all in rather uneasy truce with one another in what's actually a mortal battle. Like all self-reinforcing systems. At best, each is trying to encompass the other two and define them as sub-groups. You know: religion and art are both forms of madness and madness is the realm of psychiatry. Or, art is the study and praise of man and man's ideals, so therefore a religious experience just becomes a brutalized aesthetic response and psychiatry is just another tool for the artist to observe man and render his portraits more accurately. And the religious attitude I guess is that the other two are only useful as long as they promote the good life. At worst, they all try to destroy one another. Which is what my psychiatrist, whether he knew it or not, was trying, quite effectively, to do to my painting. I gave up psychiatry too, pretty soon. I just didn't want to get all wound up in any systems at all. ~ Samuel R Delany, #NFDB
693:Waking at two in the morning, I noticed Judd was gone from bed along with Pearl.
As I pushed the covers back to find him, he appeared at the doorway with a few cans of soda and a plate of food. “Hey, babe, I figured you were hungry since we skipped dinner.”
Even smiling, I could barely keep my eyes open.
“I didn’t have much to choose from since I’ve been out of town,” he said, setting the food on the nightstand and opening a Coke. “A little leftover this and that. Half a meatball sub. Nothing great, but…” Judd paused when he looked at me. “You’re not even awake, are you?”
“No,” I whispered.
A grinning Judd fed me bites of potato salad and the stale sub sandwich. I chewed what he gave me and drank a little of the soda then collapsed back on the bed and watched him finish the food.
“I missed you so much,” I whispered.
“You can’t know how much I missed you.” After setting aside the plate, Judd slid into bed. He kissed me softly, tasting of marinara sauce. “You’re warm,” he murmured against my neck as his lips teased me.
“I don’t know if I’m awake enough to help.”
“I don’t need help,” he said, grinning at me as he explored my body. “I just need a yes.”
“Yes,” I moaned as he sucked on my nipple. “A million times yes.”
Judd laughed his rich deep laugh. ~ Bijou Hunter,#NFDB
694:When we compare the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes us is, that they generally differ more from each other than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature. And if we reflect on the vast diversity of the plants and animals which have been cultivated, and which have varied during all ages under the most different climates and treatment, we are driven to conclude that this great variability is due to our domestic productions having been raised under conditions of life not so uniform as, and somewhat different from, those to which the parent species had been exposed under nature. There is, also, some probability in the view propounded by Andrew Knight, that this variability may be partly connected with excess of food. It seems clear that organic beings must be exposed during several generations to new conditions to cause any great amount of variation; and that, when the organisation has once begun to vary, it generally continues varying for many generations. No case is on record of a variable organism ceasing to vary under cultivation. Our oldest cultivated plants, such as wheat, still yield new varieties: our oldest domesticated animals are still capable of rapid improvement or modification. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
695:Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae
Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine
There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed
Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine;
And I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
All night upon mine heart I felt her warm heart beat,
Night-long within mine arms in love and sleep she lay;
Surely the kisses of her bought red mouth were sweet;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
When I awoke and found the dawn was gray:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,
Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng,
Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, all the time, because the dance was long:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine;
And I am desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, hungry for the lips of my desire:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
~ Ernest Christopher Dowson,#NFDB
696:Is there any more cruel inadvertence or ordeal in nature Picture the tragedy of that longing, the inaccessible so nearly attained, the transparent fatality, the impossible with not a visible obstacle! . . . It would be insoluble, like our own tragedy upon this earth, were it not that an unexpected element is mingled with it. Did the males foresee the disillusion to which they would be subjected? One thing is certain, that they have locked up in their hearts a bubble of air, even as we lock up in our souls a thought of desperate deliverance. It is as though they hesitated for a moment; then, with a magnificent effort, the finest, the most supernatural that I know of in the annals of the insects and the flowers, in order to rise to happiness they deliberately break the bond that attaches them to life. They tear themselves from their peduncle and, with an incomparable flight, amid pearly beads of gladness, their petals dart up and break the surface of the water. Wounded to death, but radiant and free, they float for a moment beside their heedless brides and the union is accomplished, whereupon the victims drift away to perish, while the wife, already a mother, closes her corolla, in which lives their last breath, rolls up her spiral and descends to the depths, there to ripen the fruit of the heroic kiss. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck, #NFDB
697:Nu știu cum s-a făcut, dar cu acel prilej m-a izbit mai puternic ca oricînd ciudata atmosferă de sociabilitate, de înrudire și viață de familie care alcătuiește în mare parte caracteristica Veneției. Fără străzi și vehicule, fără huruitul roților și tropotul brutal al cailor, în schimb cu micile ei căi șerpuite unde lumea se înghesuie laolaltă, unde glasurile răsună ca pe coridoarele unei case, unde pasul omenesc circulă ca și cum ar ocoli colturi de mobilă, iar încălțămintea nu se uzează, orașul are aspectul unui imens apartament colectiv, în care Piața San Marco închipuie colțul cel mai împodobit, iar în rest palatele și bisericile joacă rolul unor enorme divane pentru odihnă, mese de primit oaspeți, suprafețe destinate ornamentației.
Și într-un anumit fel splendidul domiciliu comun, familiar, domestic și răsunător, seamănă în același timp cu un teatru, cu actori clămpănind într-una peste punți sau, în procesiuni împrăștiate, mergînd cu pași mărunți de-a lungul fundațiilor. Cum șezi în gondolă, ai impresia că trotuarele, care în unele părți mărginesc canalurile, capătă importanta unei scene, întîlnindu-ți privirea sub același unghi vizual, iar cetățenii venețieni, mișcîndu-se încoace și încolo în fața decorului învechit al măruntelor lor case de comedie, îți apar ca făcînd parte dintr-o nesfîrșită trupă dramatică. ~ Henry James,#NFDB
698:He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There's even something -sub-human -something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something - ape-like about him, like one of those pictures I've seen in - anthropological studies! Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is - Stanley Kowalski - survivor of the Stone Age! Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle! And you - you here - waiting for him! Maybe he'll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you! That is, if kisses have been discovered yet! Night falls and the other apes gather! There in the front of the cave, all grunting like him, and swilling and gnawing and hulking! His poker night! - you call it - this party of apes! Somebody growls - some creature snatches at something - the fight is on! God! Maybe we are a long way from beng made in God's image, but Stella - my sister - there has been some progress since then! Such things as art - as poetry and music - such kinds of new light have come into the world since then! In some kinds of people some tendered feelings have had some little beginning! That we have got to make grow! And cling to, and hold as our flag! In this dark march towards what-ever it is we're approaching . . . Don't - don't hang back with the brutes! ~ Tennessee Williams, #NFDB
699:We stood in the wings together, side by side. Reed's mouth was still agape.
"It makes sense when you think about it," I mused. "You get two people together who have you-know-what, and sparks are going to fly."
Reed's cue was about to start. He pointed at me and said, "Tonight. There's a party. And we're going to talk."
"Yes"
"Because this is crazy."
"Totally."
"Okay. Well." He tugged a strand of my hair. "Good luck out there."
"You're not supposed to say that."
"Fine. How about..." He squinted at me. "Here's looking at you kid."
The smile melted off my face. "What did you say?"
"It's a line. From a movie." He shrugged and burst onto the stage with a hee-haw.
It was a line. From Casablanca. The same line KARL had said to me when I was Elsa. The same like Karl didn't recognize when I said it to him as Floressa. Which meant... nothing. Right? Lots of people know that line. Just because Reed said it, and Reed was a sub, it didn't mean he was... he was...
"You're on," the stage manager whispered.
I stumbled onto the stage. The lights were too bright. The theater was packed. Reed gave me a quick, crooked smile, and I knew.
My crush on Karl was less complicated than I thought, because it wasn't Karl I'd been with that day in the garden.
Now my crush on Reed... ?
THAT was a scandal all on its own. ~ Lindsey Leavitt,#NFDB
700:cigarette. They floated in the middle of the tropical green ocean with the islands in view. The water was doing something to Tatiana. It was dismantling her. With every flutter of the water she saw the Neva, the River Neva under the northern sun on the sub-Arctic white night city they once called home, the water rippled and in it was Leningrad, and in Leningrad was everything she wanted to remember and everything she wanted to forget. He was gazing at her. His eyes occasionally softened under the sticky Coconut Grove sun. “You’ve got new freckles, above your eyebrows.” He kissed her eyelids. “Golden, soft hair, ocean eyes.” He stroked her face, her cheeks. “Your scar is almost gone. Just a thin white line now. Can barely see it.” The scar she got escaping from the Soviet Union. “Hmm.” “Unlike mine?” “You have more to heal, husband.” Reaching out, she placed her hand on Alexander’s face and then closed her eyes quickly so he couldn’t pry inside her. “Tatiasha,” he called in a whisper, and then bent to her and kissed her long and true. It had been a year since she had found him shackled in Sachsenhausen’s isolation chamber. A year since she dredged him up from the bottomdwellers of Soviet-occupied Germany, from the grasping hands of Stalin’s henchmen. How could it have been a year? How long did it seem? An eternity in purgatory, a hemidemisemiquaver in heaven. ~ Paullina Simons, #NFDB
701:Iată scriitorul care-a avut puţine femei: gata mereu să mitizeze... De fapt, cu Ester am avut o legătură de câteva luni, în care n-am vorbit despre dragoste şi n-am făcut dragoste, deşi am ajuns uneori foarte aproape de asta. Dar ne-am plimbat zilnic ore-n şir, am fost la cenacluri unde prezenţa ei era hipnotică, unde părul ei foarte lung se-nfoia aspru atrăgând toate privirile („băi, norocosule, cine-i gagica?"), am fost şi la ştranduri sordide, unde nu se putea intra în apele băloase. Când o conduceam spre casă, noaptea târziu (fireşte, pe sub stele cu şase colţuri), ne opream pe drum, luminaţi spectral de vreun bec sau de vitrinele vreunui troleibuz care trecea greoi, şi ne sărutam în disperare. Niciodată nu ţinusem în braţe un corp atât de frumos, o fată atât de simplă şi atât de, totuşi, misterioasă. Nu s-a-ntâmplat nimic deosebit în tot acest timp. Zilele-ncepuseră să se răcească, şi în seara în care Ester mi-a spus că va emigra cu familia ei în Israel mi se făcuse frig dinainte să-i aud cuvintele. Apoi am îngheţat. Ne propuseserăm tacit să nu ne-ndrăgostim unul de altul dar probabil că, fără să-mi fi dat seama, eu sau ceva din mine transgresase limitele impuse. Eram într-un parc mizer şi pustiu, sprijiniţi de o masă de şah din ciment. Am condus-o acasă, ca-ntotdeauna, ne-am sărutat ca-ntotdeauna, nu ne-am spus adio, nici măcar la revedere, apoi nu ne-am mai văzut niciodată. ~ Mircea C rt rescu, #NFDB
702:Atonement theology is not the pathway to life. The ability to give ourselves away to others in love is. It is not the winners who achieve life’s meaning; it is the givers. That is the basis upon which a new Christianity can be built for a new world. Atonement theology was born in Gentile ignorance of Jewish worship traditions. It was fed over the centuries by literalizing biblical narratives in ways that Jewish worshippers, who knew about storytelling, would never have understood. I say it again: Biblical literalism is nothing less than a Gentile heresy. Its results are now revealed in the fact that Christianity has been transformed into a religion of victimization. For centuries we have practiced our faith by building up ourselves as winners, survivors, the holders of ultimate truth, while we have denigrated the humanity of others. That is the source of evil. That is why Christianity has given birth to anti-Semitism. That is why the crusades were initiated to kill “infidels.” That is why we gave our blessing to such things as the divine right of kings, slavery, segregation, and apartheid. That is why we defined women as sub-human, childlike, and dependent. That is why we became homophobic. That is why we became child abusers and ideological killers. What human life needs is not a theology of human denigration. That is what atonement theology gives us. What we need is a theology of human fulfillment. ~ John Shelby Spong, #NFDB
703:These waves, predicted by Einstein, are ripples moving at the speed of light across the fabric of space-time, and are generated by severe gravitational disturbances, such as the collision of two black holes. And that’s exactly what was observed. The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away, and at a time when Earth was teeming with simple, single-celled organisms. While the ripple moved through space in all directions, Earth would, after another 800 million years, evolve complex life, including flowers and dinosaurs and flying creatures, as well as a branch of vertebrates called mammals. Among the mammals, a sub-branch would evolve frontal lobes and complex thought to accompany them. We call them primates. A single branch of these primates would develop a genetic mutation that allowed speech, and that branch—Homo sapiens—would invent agriculture and civilization and philosophy and art and science. All in the last ten thousand years. Ultimately, one of its twentieth-century scientists would invent relativity out of his head, and predict the existence of gravitational waves. A century later, technology capable of seeing these waves would finally catch up with the prediction, just days before that gravity wave, which had been traveling for 1.3 billion years, washed over Earth and was detected. Yes, Einstein was a badass. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
704:Another aspect of concentration which intrigues me was a batsman’s ability to actually find a gap by remembering the field settings and then playing the ball through the fielders. A ball that was thrown at him at 150 kmph! The commentators always mention how the batsmen found beautiful gaps and that irritated the hell out of me because as a mediocre cricketer I never reached a stage in my batting where I could actually place the ball in a certain direction. So I once gathered the courage to ask Ricky Ponting if batsmen really found the gaps or was it merely a matter of luck. I knew it was a brave question but what I did not expect was a life philosophy that was one of the most impactful one I have heard in a long time. He said, “Ya mate, batting is an an instinct you hone over years of practice and that enables you to reach a level of expertise where you see the field placements in your mind. A good batsman imprints the fielders in the sub-conscious, but an excellent batsman imprints the gaps. There was a time I used to do the former and hit to the fielders but the moment I started to do the latter I found the gaps.” I was stunned by this analogy. When I mentioned this philosophy to my friend Rajiv Bajaj, the MD of Bajaj Auto he immediately added his business perspective to the same and said, “Exactly! In business, if you focus on the competitors you’ll start behaving like them. But if you focus on the gaps in the market you’ll become a champion company. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
705:57. Every Time You Surprise Yourself…You Inspire Yourself
SAS selection is designed to test you.
Any mental flaw, any physical failing will be exposed by the relentless series of challenges aimed at finding your breaking point. Lung-bursting cross-mountain marches through the snow, uphill sprints, carrying another recruit in a fireman’s lift up and down steep hills, often in driving rain, sometimes in sub-zero temperatures.
As selection goes on, these ‘beasting’ sessions get harder and harder.
And yet I also found that the more of them I came through in one piece (albeit exhausted and battered), the more easily I could cope with them. It was the SAS way of testing our mental resolve through physical battering.
Selection is all about realizing that the pain never lasts for ever. And every time I was tested and I hung on in there, the better I understood that it was just a question of doing it again - one more time - until someone eventually said it was the end, and I had passed.
I now know that unless you really, truly test yourself, you’ll never have any idea just how capable you can be. And with each small achievement, your confidence will grow.
Most people never reach their limit because they are never sufficiently tested.
This means I’ve got two good pieces of news for you.
The first is that whenever you do something beyond your ‘comfort zone’ and realize you are still standing, the more you will ,#NFDB
706:Dopo che ho respinto Ander, lui ha incontrato l’amore della sua vita. Era stato un mio compagno di classe. Scotty era un casino, ma Ander si innamorò di lui follemente. In effetti si innamorarono l’uno dell’altro, il che era una cosa fantastica. Il motivo per cui Scotty era un casino era che suo padre era il peggiore degli stronzi. Usava la cintura per la disciplina e roba del genere.” Terry si fermò di nuovo. “Quello che disse Ander fu che doveva mettere i suoi segni sopra quelli che aveva lasciato il padre di Scott. Scott aveva bisogno di possedere quelle cicatrici, amarle, renderle sue, trasformare simbolicamente il dolore in piacere"
Prese il polso di Red, sollevandogli il braccio dal letto. “È per questo che l’hai leccata?”
“Sì. Ha lo stesso sapore di tutto il resto di te.” Si interruppe. “Non ti farei mai del male, e quello che Ander infligge è un dolore estremamente controllato, di cui il suo sub ha bisogno. Tu non ne hai bisogno, e anche se così fosse io non potrei dartelo. Ma quello di cui hai bisogno è sapere che queste cicatrici sono parte di te, proprio come quei tuoi incredibili occhi che diventano così scuri e profondi quando stai per venire, e quelle fossette sulle guance quando ti dimentichi di te stesso e fai un sorriso davvero ampio.” Si spostò lentamente più in basso lungo il corpo di Red, il suo torace liscio che sfregava sulla peluria sulla pancia dell’uomo. Accidenti, adorava quella sensazione. Per tutta la vita non ne avrebbe mai avuto abbastanza. ~ Andrew Grey,#NFDB
707:1. You can create the aura of exclusivity with an invite-only feature (as Mailbox did). 2. You can create hundreds of fake profiles to make your service look more popular and active than it actually is—nothing draws a crowd like a crowd (as reddit did in its early days). 3. You can target a single service or platform and cater to it exclusively—essentially piggybacking off or even stealing someone else’s growth (as PayPal did with eBay). 4. You can launch for just a small group of people, own that market, and then move from host to host until your product spreads like a virus (which is what Facebook did by starting in colleges—first at Harvard—before taking on the rest of the population). 5. You can host cool events and drive your first users through the system manually (as Myspace, Yelp, and Udemy all did). 6. You can absolutely dominate the App Store because your product provides totally new features that everyone is dying for (which is what Instagram did—twenty-five thousand downloads on its first day—and later Snapchat). 7. You can bring on influential advisors and investors for their valuable audience and fame rather than their money (as About.me and Trippy did—a move that many start-ups have emulated). 8. You can set up a special sub-domain on your e-commerce site where a percentage of every purchase users make goes to a charity of their choice (which is what Amazon did with Smile.Amazon.com this year to great success, proving that even a successful company can find little growth hacks). ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
708:A scrie un roman, am spus cândva, e ca și cum ai încerca să faci munții Edom din Lego. Sau ca și cum ai construi întregul Paris, cu clădiri, piețe și bulevarde, până la ultima bancă de pe stradă, din bețe de chibrit. Dacă scrii un roman de optzeci de mii de cuvinte trebuie să iei cam un sfert de milion de hotărâri, nu doar în privința liniilor mari ale intrigii, cine trăiește sau cine moare, cine se îndrăgostește sau este necredincios, cine se îmbogățește sau se face de râsul lumii, numele și chipurile personajelor, obiceiurile și ocupațiile lor, împărțirea pe capitole, titlul cărții (acestea sunt cele mai simple, cele mai generale hotărâri); nu doar ce să povestești și ce să ascunzi sub aparențe înșelătoare, ce vine întâi și ce vine la urmă, ce să spui deschis și la ce să faci aluzie, indirect (și acestea sunt hotărâri destul de generale); dar trebuie să iei și mii de hotărâri mai delicate, cum ar fi dacă scrii, în cea de-a treia propoziție de la sfârșitul paragrafului, "albastru" sau "albăstrui"? Sau ar trebui să fie "albastru-pal"? Sau "azuriu"? Sau "albăstrui-regal"? Sau ar trebui cu adevărat să fie "cenușiu-albăstrui"? Şi acest "albastru-cenușiu" trebuie să stea la începutul propoziției sau trebuie să strălucească doar către sfârșit? Ori la mijloc? Sau ar trebui pur și simplu să fie prins în curgerea unei fraze complicate, plină de propoziții subordonate? Sau cel mai bine ar fi să scriu cele două cuvinte, "lumina serii", fără să încerc să o colorez în "albastru-cenușiu" sau " albastru prăfuit" sau cum o mai fi? ~ Amos Oz, #NFDB
709:The Purveyor of Delusion confers upon his wife a certain expression or twist of Phiz I daresay as old as Holy Scripture,— a lengthy range of Sentiment, all comprest into a single melancholick swing of the eyes. From some personal stowage he produces another Flask, containing, not the Spruce Beer ubiquitous in these parts, but that favor’d stupefacient of the jump’d-up tradesman, French claret,— and without offering it to anyone else, including his Wife, begins to drink. “It goes back,” he might have begun, “to the second Day of Creation, when ‘G-d made the Firmament, and divided the Waters which were under the Firmament, from the Waters which were above the Firmament,’— thus the first Boundary Line. All else after that, in all History, is but Sub-Division.” “What Machine is it,” young Cherrycoke later bade himself goodnight, “that bears us along so relentlessly? We go rattling thro’ another Day,— another Year,— as thro’ an empty Town without a Name, in the Midnight . . . we have but Memories of some Pause at the Pleasure-Spas of our younger Day, the Maidens, the Cards, the Claret,— we seek to extend our stay, but now a silent Functionary in dark Livery indicates it is time to re-board the Coach, and resume the Journey. Long before the Destination, moreover, shall this Machine come abruptly to a Stop . . . gather’d dense with Fear, shall we open the Door to confer with the Driver, to discover that there is no Driver, . . . no Horses, . . . only the Machine, fading as we stand, and a Prairie of desperate Immensity. . . . ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
710:Currently a billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and 2.6 billion lack access to basic sanitation. As a result, half of the world’s hospitalizations are due to people drinking water contaminated with infectious agents, toxic chemicals and radiological hazards. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), just one of those infectious agents—the bacteria that cause diarrhea—accounts for 4.1 percent of the global disease burden, killing 1.8 million children a year. Right now more folks have access to a cell phone than a toilet. In fact, the ancient Romans had better water quality than half the people alive today. So what happens if we solve this one problem? According to calculations done by Peter Gleick at the Pacific Institute, an estimated 135 million people will die before 2020 because they lack safe drinking water and proper sanitation. First and foremost, access to clean water means saving these lives. But it also means sub-Saharan Africa no longer loses the 5 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) that’s currently wasted on the health spending, productivity losses and labor diversions all associated with dirty water. Furthermore, because dehydration also lowers one’s ability to absorb nutrients, providing clean water helps those suffering from hunger and malnutrition. As a bonus, an entire litany of diseases and disease vectors gets wiped off the planet, as do a number of environmental concerns (fewer trees will be chopped down to boil water; fewer fossil fuels will be burned to purify water). ~ Peter H Diamandis, #NFDB
711:Ten things you should never do when you form a group 1.Work with your friends (they won’t be for long if you do) 2.Let the singer do his own backing vocals (this is a great opportunity for the band to pull together – ignore it at your peril; see also ‘narcissism’) 3.Have a couple in the band (they will always conspire against you) 4.Listen to an A&R man (apart from Pete Tong, everyone I have ever met has been an idiot) 5.Let your manager open a club/bar (see The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club) 6.Let the publishing/performance split go unspoken (sort it out as soon as the recording is finished and put it in writing; this is the worst thing you will ever have to do, but the most important, and usually splits most bands before they even start) 7.Get off the bus (Fatty Molloy did this once and has regretted it ever since) 8.Think one member is bigger than the group (courtesy Gene Simmons again) 9.Sign anything that says ‘in perpetuity’ (that means forever, even you won’t live that long) 10.Let your record company owe you money (see Factory Records) 11.Ship your gear – always hire (a very famous sub-dance sub-indie outfit once phoned their manager after they’d split and said, ‘Hey, where did all the money go?’ See above!) 12.Interfere with another group member’s sleep (they will turn very nasty and may call the police) 13.Interfere with another group member’s girlfriend/wife (this will always end in violence) 14.Never have a party in your own hotel room (always go to someone else’s) . . . Oh shit, way too many. I’ll stop now. ~ Peter Hook, #NFDB
712:— ’tis flatten and fold, isn’t it, and flatten again, among the thicknesses of Hide, till presently you’ve these very thin Sheets of Gold-Leaf.” “Lamination,” Mason observes. “Lo, Lamination abounding,” contributes Squire Haligast, momentarily visible, “its purposes how dark, yet have we ever sought to produce these thin Sheets innumerable, to spread a given Volume as close to pure Surface as possible, whilst on route discovering various new forms, the Leyden Pile, decks of Playing-Cards, Contrivances which, like the Lever or Pulley, quite multiply the apparent forces, often unto disproportionate results. . . .” “The printed Book,” suggests the Revd, “— thin layers of pattern’d Ink, alternating with other thin layers of compress’d Paper, stack’d often by the Hundreds.” “Or an unbound Heap of Broadsides,” adds Mr. Dimdown, “dispers’d one by one, and multiplying their effect as they go.” The Macaroni is of course not what he seems, as which of us is?— the truth comes out weeks later, when he is discover’d running a clandestine printing Press, in a Cellar in Elkton. He looks up from the fragrant Sheets, so new that one might yet smell the Apprentices’ Urine in which the Ink-Swabs were left to soften, bearing, to sensitiz’d Nasalia, sub-Messages of youth and Longing,— all about him the word repeated in large Type, LIBERTY. One Civilian leads in a small band of Soldiers. “Last time you’ll be seeing that word.” “Don’t bet your Wife’s Reputation on it,” the Quarrelsome Fop might have replied. Philip Dimdown, return’d to himself, keeps his Silence. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
713:Ce limbă este aceea pe care o vorbește pictorul Strauch? Ce să fac cu crâmpeiele lui de idei? Ce mi se părea mai înainte destrămat, incoerent, are ”într-adevăr legături extraordinare”; totul e o teribilă transfuzie de cuvinte în lume, în oameni, ”o procedură brutală împotriva debilității mintale”, ca să vorbesc ca el, ”un fundal ritmic neîntrerupt, demn de regenerare”. Cum să notezi asta? Ce fel de însemnări să iei? Până unde poate fi schematicul schematic? Aceste accese năvălesc asupra mea ca niște stânci care se prăvălesc. Brusc, ceea ce spune se surpă din nou dinainte strigătului exploziv de ridicol pe care el ”îl aplică lumii și sieși”. Limba lui Strauch e o limbă pentru mușchii inimii, ”contrazicând pulsațiile creierului”, nelegiuită. Este o autoumilire ritmică sub propria lemnărie a ”auzului ce troznește”. Ideile lui, tertipuri în acord esențial cu lătratul câinilor, asupra căruia mi-a atras atenția de la început, cu care m-a pulverizat în aer. Oare și asta e limbă? Da, e dublul sens al limbajului, iadul și raiul limbii, răzvrătirea fluviilor, ”adulmecarea cuvintelor fumegânde ale tuturor creierelor care disperă fără limite și fără rușine”. Uneori recită un poem, îl sfâșie numaidecât în bucăți, îl asamblează într-o ”operă de forță”, ”încartiruire a universului ideilor pentru cultivarea semințiilor lipsite de cuvânt”., zice el. ”Lumea e o lume de recruți, trebuie să îi strângi la un loc, să îi înveți să tragă, dar și să se oprească din împușcat.” Cuvintele țâșneau din el ca dintr-o mlaștină. Iar în țâșnirea aceasta, se sfâșia pe sine până la sânge. ~ Thomas Bernhard, #NFDB
714:Mercur stapineste al zecelea an. Cu planeta aceasta omul se misca repede si usor intr-o orbita restrinsa; orice fleac este cauza perturbatoare, dar invata mult si usor sub mina Domnului, sireteniei si elocintei.
Cu al douazecilea an incepe stapinirea planetei Venus; dragostea si femeile il stapinesc.
In al treizecilea an stapineste Marte; la virsta aceasta omul este violent, indraznet, orgolios si razboinic.
La patruzeci de ani barbatul e stapinit de patru planete mici: cimpul vietii sale creste. Este frugi, adica practic, prin influenta lui Ceres; are un camin datorita Vestei; a devenit intelept si invatat datorita lui Palas si, asemenea Junonei, sotia sa domneste stapina in casa.
In al cinzecilea an stapineste Jupiter: omul a supravietuit celei mai mari parti a contemporanilor sai, se simte superior generatiei actuale. Are multa forta, experienta si cunostinte. Este, in functie de personalitatea sa, autoritar cu cei ce-l inconjoara. Nu suporta sa i se porunceasca si vrea sa comande. Acum este mai apt sa devina conducator.
In al saizecilea an vine Saturn si cu el greutatea, incetineala, tenacitatea plumbului. Multi batrini par ca si morti: sint palizi, greoi si inerti ca plumbul.
Cu Uranus, ciclul se incheie. Este momentul, se zice, de a merge in cer.
Nu pot sa-l prind in calcul pe Neptun, pentru ca nu-l pot numi cu adevaratul sau nume – Eros. Prin Eros inceputul se leaga de sfirsit. Eros este in conexiune misterioasa cu Moartea. Poate de aceea Horus sau Amentes al Egiptenilor este in acelasi timp “cel care ia” si “cel care da”. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer,#NFDB
715:A modern example of this stunning knowledge of nature that Einstein has gifted us, comes from 2016, when gravitational waves were discovered by a specially designed observatory tuned for just this purpose.† These waves, predicted by Einstein, are ripples moving at the speed of light across the fabric of space-time, and are generated by severe gravitational disturbances, such as the collision of two black holes. And that’s exactly what was observed. The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away, and at a time when Earth was teeming with simple, single-celled organisms. While the ripple moved through space in all directions, Earth would, after another 800 million years, evolve complex life, including flowers and dinosaurs and flying creatures, as well as a branch of vertebrates called mammals. Among the mammals, a sub-branch would evolve frontal lobes and complex thought to accompany them. We call them primates. A single branch of these primates would develop a genetic mutation that allowed speech, and that branch—Homo sapiens—would invent agriculture and civilization and philosophy and art and science. All in the last ten thousand years. Ultimately, one of its twentieth-century scientists would invent relativity out of his head, and predict the existence of gravitational waves. A century later, technology capable of seeing these waves would finally catch up with the prediction, just days before that gravity wave, which had been traveling for 1.3 billion years, washed over Earth and was detected. Yes, Einstein was a badass. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
716:A Leopoldo Lugones
Los rumores de la plaza quedan atrás y entro en la Biblioteca. De una manera casi física siento la gravitación de los libros, el ámbito sereno de un orden, el tiempo disecado y conservado mágicamente. A izquierda y a derecha, absortos en su lúcido sueño, se perfilan los rostros momentáneos de los lectores, a la luz de las lámparas estudiosas, como en la hipálage de Milton. Recuerdo haber recordado ya esa figura, en este lugar, y después aquel otro epíteto que también define por el contorno, el árido camello del Lunario, y después aquel hexámetro de la Eneida, que maneja y supera el mismo artificio:
Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram.
Estas reflexiones me dejan en la puerta de su despacho. Entro; cambiamos unas cuantas convencionales y cordiales palabras y le doy este libro. Si no me engaño, usted no me malquería, Lugones, y le hubiera gustado que le gustara algún trabajo mío. Ello no ocurrió nunca, pero esta vez usted vuelve las páginas y lee con aprobación algún verso, acaso porque en él ha reconocido su propia voz, acaso porque la práctica deficiente le importa menos que la sana teoría.
En este punto se deshace mi sueño, como el agua en el agua. La vasta biblioteca que me rodea está en la calle México, no en la calle Rodríguez Peña, y usted, Lugones, se mató a principios del treinta y ocho. Mi vanidad y mi nostalgia han armado una escena imposible. Así será (me digo) pero mañana yo también habré muerto y se confundirán nuestros tiempos y la cronología se perderá en un orbe de símbolos y de algún modo será justo afirmar que yo le he traído este libro y que usted lo ha aceptado. ~ Jorge Luis Borges,#NFDB
717:... acolo unde nu există aparat de stat și supramuncă, nu există nici model-Muncă. Există doar o variație continuă a acțiunii libere, trecând de la cuvânt la acțiune, de la o acțiune la alta, de la acțiune la cântec, de la cântec la cuvânt, de la cuvânt la întreprindere, într-un ciudat cromatism, cu momente de vârf sau de efort pe care observatorul extern nu poate decât să le ‘traducă’ în termeni de muncă, izbucnind intens și rar. E adevărat că întotdeauna s-a spus despre negri: ‘Nu muncesc, nu știu ce înseamnă munca.’ ... La fel de adevărat este că și indienii nici măcar nu înțelegeau despre ce este vorba, fiind total incapabili de vreun fel de organizare a muncii, chiar și sclavagistă: americanii nu vor fi importat atâția negri decât pentru că nu se puteau folosi de indieni, care preferau mai degrabă să moară. Anumiți etnologi remarcabili au pus o întrebare esențială. Au știut să întoarcă problema: societățile primitive nu sunt niște societăți de penurie sau de subzistență, dat fiindcă nu cunosc munca, ci, dimpotrivă, niște societăți ale acțiunii libere și ale spațiului neted, care nu au nicio nevoie de un factor-muncă , tot așa cum nici nu constituie stocuri. Aceste societăți nu sunt niște societăți ale lenei, chiar dacă diferența lor față de muncă poate să se exprime sub forma unui ‘drept la lene’. Și nu sunt niște societăți fără legi, chiar dacă diferența lor față de lege poate să se exprime sub aparența unei ‘anarhii’. Ele au mai curând legea nomos-ului, care reglează o variație continuă a activității, cu propria ei rigoare și propria ei cruzime (a te debarasa de ceea ce nu poți să transporți – batrâni sau copii...). (Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari) ~ Gilles Deleuze, #NFDB
718:Aveam un gust de piersica in gura. Recunosc ca pana in acea noapte habar nu aveam despre unguentele vaginale cu gust de fructe. Aveam sa descopar, in noptile urmatoare, gusturi de capsune, ananas, portocala, care imi aminteau de inghetatele pe care, copil fiind, imi placea sa le ling intr-o cofetarie minunata din orasul numit La Salamanca, unde fructele mexicane, atat de deosebite, erau transformate in inghetate subtile, vaporoase, aduse la perfectiune in momentul contactului cu limba si cerul gurii noastre, revarsandu-si desavarsirea in clipa in care se evaporau. Mi-o inchipuiam pe Diana cu gusturile copilariei mele in vagin - mamey, guayaba, zapote, guanabana, mango... Ea stia sa se foloseasca admirabil, iar pentru mine, din acel moment, imaginabil de un produs comercial excentric, crema vaginala cu gust de fructe... In schimb, imaginatia mea ramanea neputincioasa cand era vorba despre lenjeria intima pe care o avea in dulapurile de la hotel. Nici nu incerc sa o descriu. Era de nedescris. Era o incitare, un prinos, o nebunie. Calitatea dantelelor si a matasurilor, felul in care se combinau, se deschideau si se inchideau, aratau si ascundeau, imitau si transformau, apareau si dispareau, contrastau de minune cu acea simplitata razboinica, androgina, pe care o stiam: Diana, sfanta luptatoare. Doar o privire aruncata asupra acelor sertare (fiindca ceva ma oprea sa le ating continutul, sa ma delectez cu textura lor) te lasa sa intrevezi, si sa atingi, si sa te bucuri pe dinauntru cu ceea ce se putea ascunde dincolo de astfel de frenezii. Ce miracol: o fata imbracata cu bluza si pantaloni albastri; iar sub aceasta infatisare populara, intimtiatile unei zeite. Care? ~ Carlos Fuentes, #NFDB
719:Fiecare viață poate fi asemănată cu o călătorie.Nu știm niciodată cât de lungă este călătoria noastră prin lume și nici când și unde se va termina.Nu știm dacă va fi frumoasă, monotonă sau plină de neprevăzut.Nu știm ce oameni vom întâlni în călătoria noastră și nici cine ne va fi alături până la sfârșit.Nu știm ce experiențe vom trăi, ce bucurii, ce dureri, ce iluzii, ce speranțe.Știm doar că drumul nostru nu va fi întotdeauna lin,că uneori vom întâmpina obstacole și chiar și oameni care vor încerca să ne abată de la calea noastră.Uneori ne vom opri acolo unde vom avea impresia că ne-am găsit locul sub Soare, apoi vom realiza că nu ne regăsim în locul acela și nici alături de oamenii lângă care am zăbovit...Ruptura de ei va apărea imposibil de suportat și vom amâna o vreme plecarea, irosind timp și iluzionându-ne că poate, într-un târziu, vom primi ceea ce dorim.Iar când nu va mai suporta pustiul din el și lipsa iubirii, sufletul nostru va găsi forța de a-și urma călătoria de unul singur, până ce va întâlni pe altcineva lângă care să i se pară că a găsit locul sub Soare...Nu știm niciodată ce oameni ni se vor alătura în călătoria noastră și nici cât timp ne vor însoți.Unii vor rămâne în urma noastră, pe neașteptate, fiindcă acolo se încheie drumul lor, alții vor călători mai repede și ne vor depăși din mers, îndreptându-se spre zări de ei știute și nouă necunoscute.Vor fi persoane care ni se vor alătura pe drum pentru perioade scurte, căutând să își aline singurătatea alături de noi, ne vom lăsa amăgiți de promisiunile lor, vom trăi deziluzii ce ne vor face să ne pierdem încrederea în oameni și să fim precauți cu aceia care vor încerca să se alăture călătoriei noastre. ~ Irina Binder, #NFDB
720:All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elefant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games. By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains makkeable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules. Generally, all the best mechanistic games - those which can be played in any sense "perfectly", such as a grid, Prallian scope, 'nkraytle, chess, Farnic dimensions - can be traced to civilisations lacking a realistic view of the universe (let alone the reality). They are also, I might add, invariably pre-machine-sentience societies.
The very first-rank games acknowledge the element of chance, even if they rightly restrict raw luck. To attempt to construct a game on any other lines, no matter how complicated and subtle the rules are, and regardless of the scale and differentiation of the playing volume and the variety of the powers and attibutes of the pieces, is inevitably to schackle oneself to a conspectus which is not merely socially but techno-philosophically lagging several ages behind our own. As a historical exercise it might have some value, As a work of the intellect, it's just a waste of time. If you want to make something old-fashioned, why not build a wooden sailing boat, or a steam engine? They're just as complicated and demanding as a mechanistic game, and you'll keep fit at the same time. ~ Iain Banks,#NFDB
721:Ne simțim acasă în multe țări ale spiritului, cel puțin ca musafiri; scăpăm de fiecare dată din fundăturile terne, confortabile în care par să ne fi mânat preferința și prejudecata, tinerețea, originea, accidentele oamenilor și ale cărților, ba chiar și oboseala călătoriilor, suntem plini de maliție față de ispitele dependenței ce se ascund în onoruri, bani, îndatoriri ori plăceri ale simțurilor; ne arătăm recunoscători chiar și pentru greutăți și pentru sănătatea șchioapă, deoarece ne-au eliberat întotdeauna de o anumită "regulă" și de prejudecata ei, suntem recunoscători zeului, diavolului, oii și omizii din noi, curioși până la greșeală, cercetători până la cruzime, avem degete ce se întind netemătoare spre incomprehensibil, dinți și stomacuri pentru ceea ce e de nedigerat, suntem pregătiți pentru orice risc mulțumită unui exces de "voință liberă", avem sufletele din față și din spate vizând un țel suprem care nu-i e limpede nimănui, un fundal și o avanscenă pe care nici un pictor nu le poate străbate, ascunse sub mantia lumii, suntem cuceritori, chiar dacă semănăm cu niște fii risipitori, adunători și culegători de dimineața până seara, suntem avari cu bogățiile noastre, cu sipetele umplute până la refuz, cu ceea ce învățăm și uităm, suntem inventivi la stabilirea principiilor, uneori mândri de tabelele categoriilor, uneori pedanți, uneori bufnițe muncitoare, chiar și la lumina zilei; da, putem fi niște sperietori dacă e nevoie, căci ne iubim din naștere, cu gelozie și încrâncenare singurătatea, cea mai profundă singurătate de la miezul nopții și din miezul zilei. Oameni de felul acesta suntem noi, spiritele libere! Și poate că și voi sunteți așa, voi, care vă apropiați? Voi, noii filozofi? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
722:Când Platon se îndoia dacă locul femeii se află printre vietuitoarele înzestrate cu judecată sau printre cele lipsite de minte, voia doar să arate prostia nemăsurată a sexului frumos. Femeia e tot femeie, orice ar face, adică tot proastă, oricât s-ar strădui să se prefacă. Încă nu-mi vine a crede să fie femeile aşa de proaste încât să le supere cele ce am spus aici. Sunt doar de acelaşi sex cu ele, sunt Prostia. Dovedindu-le proaste nu le fac oare supremul elogiu? Şi, la o dreaptă cumpănire, ar trebui să vadă că mie, Prostiei, îmi datorează ele fericirea lor cu mult mai mare decât a bărbatilor. Nu eu le-am dat farmecele şi aţâţările, pe care cu drept cuvânt le socotesc ele mai de preţ decât orice şi care le ajută să-i înlănţuiască până şi pe cei mai crunţi tirani? De unde vine oare sluţenia bărbaţilor, cu pielea lor plină de păr, cu barba aceea ca o pădure, de par bătrâni şi în floarea vârstei? De la cel mai mare dintre vicii, înţelepciunea. Dimpotrivă, femeile au obraji catifelati, vorbă cristalină, piele netedă, tot atâtea semne ale unei tinereţi veşnice. Au ele vreo altă dorinţă în viaţă decât să placă bărbaţilor? Gătelile, sulemenelile, băile, dichisirea părului, parfumurile, mirodeniile şi toate celelalte care slujesc la înfrumuseţarea chipului, ochilor ori ascund beteşugurile, nu sunt inchinate acestui scop? Şi nu prostia le ajută pe femei să şi-l atingă? Dacă bărbaţii îndură fără crâcnire toanele femeilor, o fac ei oare din alt motiv decât pentru că aşteaptă ca ele să-i răsplătească dăruindu-le plăcere? Iar plăcerea e totuna cu prostia. Cine ia aminte la toate neroziile pe care le spune şi la toate prostiile pe care le săvârşeşte bărbatul care vrea să intre pe sub pielea unei femei nici că are nevoie de mai bună dovadă. ~ Erasmus, #NFDB
723:Sakhiya Wah Ghar Sabse Nyara,
Jaha Puran Purush Humara
Jaha Nahi Sukh Dukh
Sanch Jhuth Nahi
Pap Na Pun Pasara
Nahin Din Reyn Chand Nahi Suraj,
Bina Jyoti Ujyara
Nahin Tahan Gyan Dhyan
Nahin Jap Tap
Ved Kiteb Na Bani
Karni Dharni Rehni Gehni,
Yeh Sub Jahan Hirani
Ghar Nahin Aghar Na Bahar Bhitar,
Pind Brahmand Kachu Nahin
Panch Tatva Gun Tin Nahin Tahan,
Sakhi Shabd Na Tahin
Mul Na Phul Beli Nahin Bija,
Bina Braksh Phal Sohe,
Oham Soham Ardh Urdh Nahin,
Swasa Lekhan Kou Hai
Jahan Purush Tahwan Kachu Nahin,
Kahe Kabir Hum Jana
Humri Sain Lakhe Jo Koi,
Pawe Pad Nirvana
English Translation
Oh Companion That Abode Is Unmatched,
Where My Complete Beloved Is.
In that Place There Is No Happiness or Unhappiness,
No Truth or Untruth
Neither Sin Nor Virtue.
There Is No Day or Night, No Moon or Sun,
There Is Radiance Without Light.
There Is No Knowledge or Meditation
No Repetition of Mantra or Austerities,
Neither Speech Coming From Vedas or Books.
Doing, Not-Doing, Holding, Leaving
All These Are All Lost Too In This Place.
No Home, No Homeless, Neither Outside or Inside,
Micro and Macrocosm Are Non-Existent.
Five Elemental Constituents and the Trinity Are Both Not There
Witnessing Un-struck Shabad Sound is Also Not There.
No Root or Flower, Neither Branch or Seed,
Without a Tree Fruits are Adorning,
Primordial Om Sound, Breath-Synchronized Soham,
This and That - All Are Absent, The Breath Too Unknown
Where the Beloved Is There is Utterly Nothing
Says Kabir I Have Come To Realize.
Whoever Sees My Indicative Sign
Will Accomplish the Goal of Liberation.
~ Kabir, Abode Of The Beloved
,#NFDB
724:Cei ce aleargă după nemurire scriind cărţi nu se deosebesc prea tare de oratori. Cu toţii îmi sunt îndatorati până peste cap, dar de inspirat îi inspir mai cu seamă pe scriitorii de flecuşteţe şi istorioare. Căci autorii care prin opere miezoase aspiră la preţuirea puţinilor oameni înzestraţi cu judecată îmi par mai degrabă vrednici de milă decât de invidie. Îşi storc veşnic creierii, adaugă, schimbă, taie, pun la loc, se întorc, îndreaptă, citesc în stânga şi-n dreapta. Veşnic nemulţumiţi de roadele muncii lor, lucrează nouă sau zece ani la o carte. Şi cu ce se aleg după atâtea cazne şi trude; după atâtea nopti în care n-au gustat dulceaţa somnului? Cu cea mai deşartă şi mai uşuratică răsplată de pe lume, preţuirea câtorva cititori. Şi asta nu-i tot, căci mârjirea lor are şi urmări neplăcute. Sănătate, bunăstare, tihnă, se duc pe apa sâmbetei. Deoarece se lipsesc de toate plăcerile vieţii, ajung urduroşi, traşi la faţă, sfrijiţi, ba adesea şi orbesc. Sărăcia îi împovărează, invidia îi macină, bătrâneţea le este timpurie şi, copleşiţi de toate relele de soiul ăsta, mor înainte să le vină sorocul. Şi toate acestea le înfruntă scriitorii înţelepţi doar de dragul laudelor a încă trei ori patru prăpădiţi asemenea lor. Dimpotrivă, fericit autorul ce intră sub aripa mea ocrotitoare! El nu cunoaşte munca pe brânci şi chinul, scrie tot ce-i trece prin cap, pune pe hârtie tot ce visează noaptea cu mintea-i înfierbântată. Nu şterge şi nu îndreaptă nimic, încredinţat că va avea mai mulţi admiratori de va scrie gogomănii mai mari, pe gustul gloatei neghioabe şi neştiutoare. Ce-i pasă dacă rarii învăţaţi şi oamenii cu judecată îl citesc şi îl dispreţuiesc? Fluierăturile a două sau trei persoane cu capul pe umeri nu vor fi oare înăbuşite de aplauzele tunătoare ce răsună din toate părţile? ~ Erasmus, #NFDB
725:However, there have been close calls where we were extremely lucky that there was a human in the loop. On October 27, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, eleven U.S. Navy destroyers and the aircraft carrier USS Randolph had cornered the Soviet submarine B-59 near Cuba, in international waters outside the U.S. “quarantine” area. What they didn’t know was that the temperature onboard had risen past 45°C (113°F) because the submarine’s batteries were running out and the air-conditioning had stopped. On the verge of carbon dioxide poisoning, many crew members had fainted. The crew had had no contact with Moscow for days and didn’t know whether World War III had already begun. Then the Americans started dropping small depth charges, which they had, unbeknownst to the crew, told Moscow were merely meant to force the sub to surface and leave. “We thought—that’s it—the end,” crew member V. P. Orlov recalled. “It felt like you were sitting in a metal barrel, which somebody is constantly blasting with a sledgehammer.” What the Americans also didn’t know was that the B-59 crew had a nuclear torpedo that they were authorized to launch without clearing it with Moscow. Indeed, Captain Savitski decided to launch the nuclear torpedo. Valentin Grigorievich, the torpedo officer, exclaimed: “We will die, but we will sink them all—we will not disgrace our navy!” Fortunately, the decision to launch had to be authorized by three officers on board, and one of them, Vasili Arkhipov, said no. It’s sobering that very few have heard of Arkhipov, although his decision may have averted World War III and been the single most valuable contribution to humanity in modern history.38 It’s also sobering to contemplate what might have happened had B-59 been an autonomous AI-controlled submarine with no humans in the loop. ~ Max Tegmark, #NFDB
726:Văzând în fapta lui jignire, Boierii şi-au ieşit din fire: „Vecinu-i fire prost crescută, Un farmazon, un om năuc: Bea roşul vin ca un haiduc, La doamne mâna nu sărută, Doar da şi nu, nicicând poftim” - îl osândiră unanim.
În satul său, pe-aceeaşi vreme Un alt boier sosi-n vecini, Stârnind aidoma dileme La moşierii cei meschini. Vladimir Lenski se numeşte, Direct din Gottirsgen soseşte: Frumos şi tânăr şi poet, Lui Kant discipol, interpret, El din Germania ceţoasă Aduse roadele ştiinţei — S-aline greul suferinţei; Fiinţă-aprinsă, curioasă, Cu negrul păr adus pe spate Vorbea cu foc de libertate. Adică francmason, aici în sens de liber-cugetător. Ferit de tina infamiei, Cu sufletul cuprins de-ardoare, Credea-n căldura prieteniei Şi-n duioşie de fecioare. În inima-i ce ignoranţă! — Nutrea statornic o speranţă. Şi-a lumii larmă, strălucire îi răscoleau tânăra-i fire, împodobind ideea-n haină De reverii şi dulce vis; Scruta cu sufletul deschis în viaţă-un scop, în lume-o taină Ce-i frământa adânca minte, …Visând minuni, ţintind nainte! Credea el că un suflet mare Se va uni cu el, odată, Că chipul gingaşei fecioare L-aşteaptă undeva curată; Sau că amicii-s plini de zel Să poarte lanţuri pentru el, Să sfarme-n ţăndări braţul lor Ulciorul clevetirilor; Că-n viaţă sunt aleşi ai sorţii, Prieteni sfinţi ai omenirii, Ce hărăziţi sunt nemuririi, Cu veşnica văpaie-a torţii Şi cu raza ei de înnoire S-aducă-n lume fericire. Revolta şi compătimirea, iubirea binelui avea Şi-a slavei dulce pătimire De june-n sânge-i clocotea. El lira şi-o plimba cu sete Sub cerul lui Schiller şi Goethe Şi sufletu-i vibra patetic, Aprins de jarul lor poetic. Şi-a muzelor înaltă artă N-a ruşinat-o el nicicând. Şi nimeni de semeţu-i gând N-a fost în stare să-l despartă, De dorul sfânt al tinereţii Şi gingăşia simplităţii. ~ Alexander Pushkin,#NFDB
727:West End Fair
Dame Charity one day was tired
With nursing of her children three,—
So might you be
If you had nursed and nursed so long
A little squalling throng;—
So she, like any earthly lady,
Resolved for once she'd have a play-day.
“I cannot always go about
To hospitals and prisons trudging,
Or fag from morn to night
Teaching to spell and write
A barefoot rout,
Swept from the streets by poor Lancaster,
My sub-master.
“That Howard ran me out of breath,
And Thornton and a hundred more
Will be my death:
The air is sweet, the month is gay,
And I,” said she, “must have a holiday.”
So said, she doffed her robes of brown
In which she commonly is seen,—
Like French Beguine,—
And sent for ornaments to town:
And Taste in Flavia's form stood by,
Penciled her eyebrows, curled her hair,
Disposed each ornament with care,
And hung her round with trinkets rare,—
She scarcely, looking in the glass,
Knew her own face.
So forth she sallied blithe and gay,
And met dame Fashion by the way;
And many a kind and friendly greeting
Passed on their meeting:
Nor let the fact your wonder move,
Abroad, and on a gala-day,
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Fashion and she are hand and glove.
So on they walked together,
Bright was the weather;
Dame Charity was frank and warm;
But being rather apt to tire,
She leant on Fashion's arm.
And now away for West End fair,
Where whiskey, chariot, coach, and chair,
Are all in requisition.
In neat attire the Graces
Behind the counters take their places,
And humbly do petition
To dress the booths with flowers and sweets,
As fine as any May-day,
Where Charity with Fashion meets,
And keeps her play-day.
~ Anna Laetitia Barbauld,#NFDB
728:Totuşi, nu-mi pot scoate din cap diferenţa enormă ce există între idei şi viaţă. E o dislocare permanentă, cu toate că ne străduim să aruncăm peste amândouă un magnific acoperământ. Şi nu se potriveşte. Ideile trebuie însoţite de acţiune.’’
‘’Până acum, gândul meu, colaborând cu mine însumi, a fost acela de a mă îndepărta de etalonul de aur al literaturii. Pe scurt, gândul meu era să prezint o resurecţie a emoţiilor, să descriu comportamentul unei fiinţe omeneşti în stratosfera ideilor, adică în ghearele delirului. Să zugrăvesc o fiintă presocratică, o făptură jumătate ţap, jumătate titan.’’
‘’Când vâd siluetele bărbaţilor şi femeilor mişcându-se apatic în dosul zidurilor închisorii lor, la adăpost sigur, bine închişi pentru câteva ore fugare, mă înspăimântă potenţialul de dramă umană cuprins în aceste trupuri plăpânde, în dosul acestor ziduri cenuşii e plin de scântei umane şi totuşi nici un incendiu nu izbucneşte. Oare aceştia sunt bărbaţi şi femei, mă întreb eu, sau doar nişte umbre, umbrele unor marionete manevrate de nişte sfori invizibile? Aparent se mişcă fără nici un fel de constrângere, dar n-au unde să se ducă. Doar pe un singur tărâm sunt liberi şi pot hălădui în libertate, dar încă n-au învăţat să-şi ia avânt. Până acum nu se cunoaşte vreun vis care să-şi fi luat avântul. Nici un om n-a venit pe lume destul de uşor, destul de voios pentru a se putea desprinde de pământ!
Vulturii care au bătut o vreme din aripile lor puternice s-au zdrobit de pământ. Ne-au ameţit cu zgomotul pe care-1 fac când bat aerul cu apripile. Rămâneţi pe pământ, o, voi, vulturi ai viitorului! Cerurile au fost explorate şi s-au dovedit a fi pustii. Iar ceea ce zace sub pământ este tot un pustiu, umplut doar de oseminte şi de umbre. Rămâneţi deci pe pământ şi mai plutiţi
câteva sute de mii de ani! ~ Henry Miller,#NFDB
729:For a while, every smart and shy eccentric from Bobby Fischer to Bill Gate was hastily fitted with this label, and many were more or less believably retrofitted, including Isaac Newton, Edgar Allen Pie, Michelangelo, and Virginia Woolf. Newton had great trouble forming friendships and probably remained celibate. In Poe's poem Alone, he wrote that "All I lov'd - I lov'd alone." Michelangelo is said to have written "I have no friends of any sort and I don't want any." Woolf killed herself.
Asperger's disorder, once considered a sub-type of autism, was named after the Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger, a pioneer, in the 1940s, in identifying and describing autism. Unlike other early researchers, according to the neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, Asperger felt that autistic people could have beneficial talents, especially what he called a "particular originality of thought" that was often beautiful and pure, unfiltered by culture of discretion, unafraid to grasp at extremely unconventional ideas. Nearly every autistic person that Sacks observed appeard happiest when alone. The word "autism" is derived from autos, the Greek word for "self."
"The cure for Asperger's syndrome is very simple," wrote Tony Attwood, a psychologist and Asperger's expert who lives in Australia. The solution is to leave the person alone. "You cannot have a social deficit when you are alone. You cannot have a communication problem when you are alone. All the diagnostic criteria dissolve in solitude."
Officially, Asperger's disorder no longer exists as a diagnostic category. The diagnosis, having been inconsistently applied, was replaced, with clarified criteria, in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Asperger's is now grouped under the umbrella term Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD. ~ Michael Finkel,#NFDB
730:So far this does not tell us anything very general about structure except that it is hierarchical. But we can say more. Each assembly or subassembly or part has a task to perform. If it did not it would not be there. Each therefore is a means to a purpose. Each therefore, by my earlier definition, is a technology. This means that the assemblies, subassemblies, and individual parts are all executables-are all technologies. It follows that a technology consists of building blocks that are technologies, which consist of further building blocks that are technologies, which consist of yet further building blocks that are technologies, with the pattern repeating all the way down to the fundamental level of elemental components. Technologies, in other words, have a recursive structure. They consist of technologies within technologies all the way down to the elemental parts.
Recursiveness will be the second principle we will be working with. It is not a very familiar concept outside mathematics, physics, and computer science, where it means that structures consist of components that are in some way similar to themselves. In our context of course it does not mean that a jet engine consists of systems and parts that are little jet engines. That would be absurd. It means simply that a jet engine (or more generally, any technology) consists of component building blocks that are also technologies, and these consist of sub-parts that are also technologies, in a repeating (or recurring) pattern.
Technologies, then, are built from a hierarchy of technologies, and this has implications for how we should think of them, as wee will see shortly. It also means that whatever we can say in general about technologies-singular must hold also for assemblies or subsystems at lower levels as well. In particular, because a technology consists of main assembly and supporting assemblies, each assembly or subsystem must be organized this way too. ~ W Brian Arthur,#NFDB
731:Patrick Vlaskovits, who was part of the initial conversation that the term “growth hacker” came out of, put it well: “The more innovative your product is, the more likely you will have to find new and novel ways to get at your customers.”12 For example: 1. You can create the aura of exclusivity with an invite-only feature (as Mailbox did). 2. You can create hundreds of fake profiles to make your service look more popular and active than it actually is—nothing draws a crowd like a crowd (as reddit did in its early days). 3. You can target a single service or platform and cater to it exclusively—essentially piggybacking off or even stealing someone else’s growth (as PayPal did with eBay). 4. You can launch for just a small group of people, own that market, and then move from host to host until your product spreads like a virus (which is what Facebook did by starting in colleges—first at Harvard—before taking on the rest of the population). 5. You can host cool events and drive your first users through the system manually (as Myspace, Yelp, and Udemy all did). 6. You can absolutely dominate the App Store because your product provides totally new features that everyone is dying for (which is what Instagram did—twenty-five thousand downloads on its first day—and later Snapchat). 7. You can bring on influential advisors and investors for their valuable audience and fame rather than their money (as About.me and Trippy did—a move that many start-ups have emulated). 8. You can set up a special sub-domain on your e-commerce site where a percentage of every purchase users make goes to a charity of their choice (which is what Amazon did with Smile.Amazon.com this year to great success, proving that even a successful company can find little growth hacks). 9. You can try to name a Planned Parenthood clinic after your client or pay D-list celebrities to say offensive things about themselves to get all sorts of publicity that promotes your book (OK, those stunts were mine). ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
732:Professor A. H. Maslow, for example, has conducted a series of researches into extremely healthy people that have led him to conclude that health and optimism are far more positive principles in human psychology than Freud would ever have admitted.
Man is a slave to the delusion that he is a passive creature, a creature of circumstance; this is because he makes the mistake of identifying himself with his limited everyday consciousness, and is unaware of the immense forces that lie just beyond the threshold of consciousness. But these forces, although he is unaware of them on a conscious level, are still a far more active influence in his life than any external circumstances. Freudian psychology, for all its achievements, has made a twofold error: it has tried to anatomize the human mind as a pathologist would dissect a corpse, and it has limited its researches to sick human beings. Sick men talk about their illness far more than healthy people talk about their health; in fact, healthy people are usually too absorbed in living to bother with self-revelation. Psychology has consequently been inclined to divide the world into sick people and “normal” people, regarding occasional super-normality as the exception; Maslow has shown that super-normality is a great deal commoner than would be supposed; in fact as common as sub-normality. Ordinarily healthy people often experience a sense of intense life-affirmation (which Maslow calls “peak experiences”); and examination of peak experiences has led Maslow to conclude that the evolutionary drive (which is so clear in art and philosophy) is as basic a part of human psychology as the Freudian libido or the Adlerian will to self-assertion.
— Colin Wilson, “‘Six Thousand Feet Above Men and Time‘: Remarks on Nietzsche and Kierkegaard” (1965)
(Wilson C. “Six Thousand Feet Above Men and Time”: Remarks on Nietzsche and Kierkegaard // Stanley C. (Ed.). Colin Wilson: Collected Essays on Philosophers. — Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. Pp. 110–111.) ~ Colin Wilson,#NFDB
733:Dar de ce este atât de dificil să ne imaginăm că suntem ocrotiți, că există o forță care urmărește cu interes ceea ce facem, că suntem, poate, sub protecția cuiva ori chiar că ceea ce ne ține în viață nu este doar propria voință și propriile acțiuni? De ce avem nevoie de asigurări atunci când vine vorba de garanții invizibili ai existenței noastre? Să mori nu e complicat, asta știm sigur. O fracțiune de secundă de neatenție și planurile meticuloasa ale celui mai fortificat eu se duc pe apa sâmbetei. Ceva mă salvează zilnic de la a mă duce de-a dura pe scări, a mă răsturna la curbe sau a orbi. Cum e posibil să gonim pe autostrăzi cu bolizii noștri în timp ce cântăm melodia ce se aude la radio și suntem cu gândurile departe și totuși să supraviețuim? Celeste acest "sistem imunitar" ce veghează asupra zilelor noastre și asupra meselor noastre stropite din belșug cu viruși, bacterii și toxine? Până și sprâncenele noastre sunt pline de organisme minuscule ce stau pe oi asemenea păsărilor pe spinarea rinocerilor din savană. Numim această forță care ne ține în viață instinct, autoconservare, al șaselea simț, atenție subliminală (lucruri, de asemenea, invizibile, dar prezente). Pe timpuri, protectorul nostru se numea înger păzitor, iar noi știam prea bine cum să ne purtăm cu el.
Ei bine, în ciuda faptului că suntem ocrotiți de către această forță invizibilă, noi preferăm să ne imaginăm că suntem aruncați despuiați în lume, complet vulnerabili și singuri. Preferăm povestea în care suntem eroii propriei realizări umane și nu povestea în care poate că suntem iubiți de această Providență, care ne ghidează, în care suntem necesari pentru ceea ce aducem și în care suntem uneori ajutați... Fortuit de ea în momente de cumpănă. Am voie să fac astfel de afirmații fără să citez vreun guru, fără să mă declar martorul lui Hristos și fără să trâmbițez mai știu eu ce convertire miraculoasă? De ce să nu păstrăm în limitele discursului psihologic ceea ce mai demult oamenii numeau Providență — și anume credința casuntem vegheați de către o forță invizibilă? ~ James Hillman,#NFDB
734:Pleasure in itself is good, but hope and fear are bad, and so are humility and repentance: 'he who repents of an action is doubly wretched or infirm'. Spinoza regards time as unreal, and therefore all emotions which have to do essentially with an event as future or as past are contrary to reason. 'In so far as the mind conceives a thing under the dictate of reason, it is affected equally, whether the idea be of a thing present, past, or future.' This is hard saying, but it is of the essence of Spinoza's system, and we shall do well to dwell upon it for a moment. In popular estimation, 'all's well that ends well'; if the universe is gradually improving, we think better of it than if it is gradually deteriorating, even if the sum of good and evil be the same in the two cases. We are more concerned about a disaster in our own time than in the time of Jenghiz Khan. According to Spinoza this is irrational. Whatever happens is part of the eternal timeless world as God sees it; to Him, the date is irrelevant. The wise man, so far as human finitude allows, endeavours to see the world as God sees it, sub specie æternitatis, under the aspect of eternity. But, you may retort, we are surely right in being more concerned about future misfortunes, which may possibly be averted, than about past calamities about which we can do nothing. To this argument Spinoza's determinism supplies the answer. Only ignorance makes us think that we can alter the future; what will be will be, and the future is as unalterably fixed as the past. That is why hope and fear are condemned: both depend upon viewing the future as uncertain, and therefore spring from lack of wisdom. When we acquire, in so far as we can, a vision of the world which is analogous to God's, we see everything as part of the whole, and as necessary to the goodness of the whole. Therefore 'the knowledge of evil is an inadequate knowledge'. God has no knowledge of evil, because there is no evil to be known; the appearance of evil only arises through regarding parts of the universe as if they were self-subsistent. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
735:As for my division of people into ordinary and extraordinary, I acknowledge that it’s somewhat arbitrary, but I don’t insist upon exact numbers. I only believe in my leading idea that men are in general divided by a law of nature into two categories, inferior (ordinary), that is, so to say, material that serves only to reproduce its kind, and men who have the gift or the talent to utter a new word. There are, of course, innumerable sub- divisions, but the distinguishing features of both categories are fairly well marked. The first category, generally speaking, are men conservative in temperament and law-abiding; they live under control and love to be controlled. To my thinking it is their duty to be controlled, because that’s their vocation, and there is nothing humiliating in it for them. The second category all transgress the law; they are destroyers or disposed to destruction according to their capacities. The crimes of these men are of course relative and varied; for the most part they seek in very varied ways the destruction of the present for the sake of the better. But if such a one is forced for the sake of his idea to step over a corpse or wade through blood, he can, I maintain, find within himself, in his conscience, a sanction for wading through blood—that depends on the idea and its dimensions, note that. It’s only in that sense I speak of their right to crime in my article (you remember it began with the legal question). There’s no need for such anxiety, however; the masses will scarcely ever admit this right, they punish them or hang them (more or less), and in doing so fulfil quite justly their conservative vocation. But the same masses set these criminals on a pedestal in the next generation and worship them (more or less). The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal. Each class has an equal right to exist. In fact, all have equal rights with me—and vive la guerre éternelle—till the New Jerusalem, of course! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
736:Preparatory Meditations - First Series: 38
(I John 2:1. An Advocate with the Father)
Oh! What a thing is man? Lord, who am I?
That Thou shouldest give him law (Oh! golden line)
To regulate his thoughts, words, life thereby;
And judge him wilt thereby too in Thy time.
A court of justice Thou in heaven holdst
To try his case while he's here housed on mold.
How do Thy angels lay before Thine eye
My deeds both white and black I daily do?
How doth Thy court Thou pannel'st there them try?
But flesh complains: 'What right for this? Let's know.
For, right or wrong, I can't appear unto't.
And shall a sentence pass on such a suit?'
Soft; blemish not this golden bench, or place.
Here is no bribe, nor colorings to hide,
Nor pettifogger to befog the case,
But justice hath her glory here well tried.
Her spotless law all spotted cases tends;
Without respect or disrespect them ends.
God's judge himself; and Christ attorney is;
The Holy Ghost registerer is found.
Angels the serjeants are; all creatures kiss
The book, and do as evidences abound.
All cases pass according to pure law,
And in the sentence is no fret nor flaw.
What say'st, my soul? Here all thy deeds are tried.
Is Christ thy advocate to plead thy cause?
Art thou His client? Such shall never slide.
He never lost His case: He pleads such laws
As carry do the same, nor doth refuse
The vilest sinner's case that doth Him choose.
This is His honor, not dishonor: nay,
No habeas corpus gainst His clients came;
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For all their fines His purse doth make down pay.
He non-suits Satan's suit or casts the same.
He'll plead thy case, and not accept a fee.
He'll plead
sub forma pauperis
for thee.
My case is bad. Lord, be my advocate.
My sin is red: I'm under God's arrest.
Thou hast the hint of pleading; plead my state.
Although it's bad, Thy plea will make it best.
If Thou wilt plead my case before the king,
I'll wagon-loads of love and glory bring.
~ Edward Taylor,#NFDB
737:Everything leads me to believe it,” he replied. “They got their hands on this communist who wasn’t one, while still being one. He had a sub par intellect and was an exalted fanatic—just the man they needed, the perfect one to be accused. . . . The guy ran away, because he probably became suspicious. They wanted to kill him on the spot before he could be grabbed by the judicial system. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen exactly the way they had probably planned it would. . . . But a trial, you realize, is just terrible. People would have talked. They would have dug up so much! They would have unearthed everything. Then the security forces went looking for [a clean-up man] they totally controlled, and who couldn’t refuse their offer, and that guy sacrificed himself to kill the fake assassin—supposedly in defense of Kennedy’s memory! “Baloney! Security forces all over the world are the same when they do this kind of dirty work. As soon as they succeed in wiping out the false assassin, they declare that the justice system no longer need be concerned, that no further public action was needed now that the guilty perpetrator was dead. Better to assassinate an innocent man than to let a civil war break out. Better an injustice than disorder. “America is in danger of upheavals. But you’ll see. All of them together will observe the law of silence. They will close ranks. They’ll do everything to stifle any scandal. They will throw Noah’s cloak over these shameful deeds. In order to not lose face in front of the whole world. In order to not risk unleashing riots in the United States. In order to preserve the union and to avoid a new civil war. In order to not ask themselves questions. They don’t want to know. They don’t want to find out. They won’t allow themselves to find out.” These astonishing observations about Dallas were captured in Peyrefitte’s memoir, C’était de Gaulle (It Was de Gaulle), which was published in France in 2002, three years after the author’s death. Snippets of the conversation appeared in the U.S. press, but the book was not translated and published in America, and de Gaulle’s remarks about the Kennedy assassination were never fully reported outside of France. A ~ David Talbot, #NFDB
738:I.
Let them fight it out, friend! things have gone too far.
God must judge the couple: leave them as they are
-Whichever one's the guiltless, to his glory,
And whichever one the guilt's with, to my story!
II.
Why, you would not bid men, sunk in such a slough,
Strike no arm out further, stick and stink as now,
Leaving right and wrong to settle the embroilment,
Heaven with snaky hell, in torture and entoilment?
III.
Who's the culprit of them? How must he conceive
God-the queen he caps to, laughing in his sleeve,
`` 'Tis but decent to profess oneself beneath her:
``Still, one must not be too much in earnest, either!''
IV.
Better sin the whole sin, sure that God observes;
Then go live his life out! Life will try his nerves,
When the sky, which noticed all, makes no disclosure,
And the earth keeps up her terrible composure.
V.
Let him pace at pleasure, past the walls of rose,
Pluck their fruits when grape-trees graze him as he goes!
For he 'gins to guess the purpose of the garden,
With the sly mute thing, beside there, for a warden.
VI.
What's the leopard-dog-thing, constant at his side,
A leer and lie in every eye of its obsequious hide?
When will come an end to all the mock obeisance,
And the price appear that pays for the misfeasance?
VII.
So much for the culprit. Who's the martyred man?
Let him bear one stroke more, for be sure he can!
He that strove thus evil's lump with good to leaven,
Let him give his blood at last and get his heaven!
VIII.
All or nothing, stake it! Trust she God or no?
Thus far and no farther? farther? be it so!
Now, enough of your chicane of prudent pauses,
Sage provisos, sub-intents and saving-clauses!
IX.
Ah, ``forgive'' you bid him? While God's champion lives,
Wrong shall be resisted: dead, why, he forgives.
But you must not end my friend ere you begin him;
Evil stands not crowned on earth, while breath is in him.
X.
Once more-Will the wronger, at this last of all,
Dare to say, ``I did wrong,'' rising in his fall?
No?-Let go then! Both the fighters to their places!
While I count three, step you back as many paces!
~ Robert Browning, Before
,#NFDB
739:subiect, ceea ce de fapt conduce la suprimarea principiului noncon tradicţiei. " La modul general - spune Aristotel --'- cei care contestă pr inc ipiul noncontradicţiei suprimă Fiinţa. Căci este necesar ca ei să pretindă că toate cele sunt contexte, sau relaţii contextuale, şi că nu există ceva ce omul s au anima lul sunt intrinsec." Trebuie s ă spunem totuşi că legătura dintre relativismul epistemologie ş i negarea principiului noncontradicţiei nu este chi a r atât d e necesară log i c pe cât i s e părea l u i Aristotel : ma i înt â i afirmaţia lui Protagoras poa t e fi înţeleasă nu numai i n d i vidua l - subi ectiv ( o r i c e o m e măsura tuturor lucrurilor), ci ş i specific-kantian ( omu l în general dă măsura lucrurilor). Ap o i p r i n c i p i u l noncontradicţiei nu p e rmi t e să se facă afirmaţii contradictorii despre acelaşi subiect şi sub acelaşi rapo rt ; or, a afirma, de pi ldă , că toate propoziţiile sunt adevărate poate însemna, eventual, că "toate propoziţiile sunt adevărate doar sub un anume aspect, diferit însă de la caz la caz, ceea nu contra zice neapărat pr inc ipiul noncontradicţiei. Totuşi este de netăgăduit că, filozofic vorbind, există o legă tură între relativismul ontologic ş i cel epistemologie, pe de -o parte, şi sofistică, pe de a l t ă parte, şi că Aristotel nu greşea foarte mult asociindu-le. Aşadar, să admitem că, dacă se suprimă Fiinţa, în final, s e suprimă principiul noncontradicţiei. Rămâne atunci de arătat doar că principiul noncontradicţiei nu poate fi suprimat, p e ntru a arăta că suprimarea Fiinţei este inacceptabi l ă . O bună pa r t e a Că r ţ i i Gamma e s t e dedi c a t ă tocma i acestei chestiuni : să se arate că principiul noncontradicţiei nu poate fi suprimat. Fi reşte, în sine, principiul noncontradicţiei, fiind o axiomă, nu poate f i demonstrat, iar cei care încearcă s-o facă se înşală - explică Aristotel. Dar se poate foarte b i n e arăta, în s ch i m b , că negarea lui este impos i b i l ă pentru o persoană care vrea s ă gândească coerent şi să comunice limpede gândul s ău. Es t e ceea ce s-a numit metoda " r e sping e r i i " (refutatio ) . Într-adevăr, spune Aristotel, dacă am putea face afirmaţii contradictorii despre acelaşi subiect ş i în acelaşi moment, n-am mai pu tea nici gândi, nici comunica nimic determinat; astfel încât nimic, nici măcar această teză - anume că principiul ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
740:du bois in ghana
at 93, you determined to pick up and go—
and stay gone. the job nkrumah called you to,
to create, at last, your encyclopedia africana
(encompassing a continent chipped
like wood beneath an axe, a large enough
diaspora to girdle the globe, and a mere four
thousand years) was either well-deserved
sinecure or well-earned trust
that your health was as indestructible as
your will. my mind wrestles with possible pictures:
the victorian sensibility, the charcoal wool
formality of your coats and vests, the trim
of your beard as sharp as the crease of your
collar—how would these du boisian essentials
hold up to sub-saharan heat? would
your critical faculties wilt in accra's
urban tropics as i've read that westerners'
are wont to do? dr. du bois, i presume
you took the climate in stride, took to it,
looked out your library's louvered windows
onto a land you needed
neither to condemn nor conquer,
and let the sun tell you what you already knew:
this was not a port to pass on.
your 95th birthday photo found you bathed
in white cloth, cane still in hand, sharing a smile
with a head of state who knew your worth—joy
that this nation's birth occurred in time
for you to step out of a cold, cold storm
into outstretched arms. would your panafrican dream have survived a dictatorial
nkrumah, an nkrumah in exile? you took
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the prerogative of age and died without telling,
without knowing. a half-century later, here
in the country where you were born, i look
into a screen and watch as, near and far, a pandemic of violence and abuse staggers the planet.
we seed the world with blood, grow
bleeding, harvest death and the promise
of more. when i turn bitter, seeing no potential
for escape, i think of the outrages you saw—wars,
lynchings, genocide, mccarthy, communism's
failure to rise above corrupting power
any better than capitalism had, the civil rights
movement's endless struggle—and how
you kept writing and walking, looking
for what you knew was out there. your memory,
your tireless radiant energy, calls me
to my work, to my feet, insisting
that somewhere on the earth, freedom is
learning to walk, trying not to fall,
and, somewhere, laboring to be born.
~ Evie Shockley,#NFDB
741:When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking about Tolkien, and Tolkien's innumerable heirs. Call it 'epic', or 'high', or 'genre' fantasy, this is what fantasy has come to mean. Which is misleading as well as unfortunate.
Tolkien is the wen on the arse of fantasy literature. His oeuvre is massive and contagious—you can't ignore it, so don't even try. The best you can do is consciously try to lance the boil. And there's a lot to dislike—his cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his boys-own-adventure glorying in war, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos, his belief in absolute morality that blurs moral and political complexity. Tolkien's clichés—elves 'n' dwarfs 'n' magic rings—have spread like viruses. He wrote that the function of fantasy was 'consolation', thereby making it an article of policy that a fantasy writer should mollycoddle the reader.
That is a revolting idea, and one, thankfully, that plenty of fantasists have ignored. From the Surrealists through the pulps—via Mervyn Peake and Mikhael Bulgakov and Stefan Grabiński and Bruno Schulz and Michael Moorcock and M. John Harrison and I could go on—the best writers have used the fantastic aesthetic precisely to challenge, to alienate, to subvert and undermine expectations.
Of course I'm not saying that any fan of Tolkien is no friend of mine—that would cut my social circle considerably. Nor would I claim that it's impossible to write a good fantasy book with elves and dwarfs in it—Michael Swanwick's superb ,#NFDB
742:When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking about Tolkien, and Tolkien's innumerable heirs. Call it 'epic', or 'high', or 'genre' fantasy, this is what fantasy has come to mean. Which is misleading as well as unfortunate.
Tolkien is the wen on the arse of fantasy literature. His oeuvre is massive and contagious—you can't ignore it, so don't even try. The best you can do is consciously try to lance the boil. And there's a lot to dislike—his cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his boys-own-adventure glorying in war, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos, his belief in absolute morality that blurs moral and political complexity. Tolkien's clichés—elves 'n' dwarfs 'n' magic rings—have spread like viruses. He wrote that the function of fantasy was 'consolation', thereby making it an article of policy that a fantasy writer should mollycoddle the reader.
That is a revolting idea, and one, thankfully, that plenty of fantasists have ignored. From the Surrealists through the pulps—via Mervyn Peake and Mikhael Bulgakov and Stefan Grabiński and Bruno Schulz and Michael Moorcock and M. John Harrison and I could go on—the best writers have used the fantastic aesthetic precisely to challenge, to alienate, to subvert and undermine expectations.
Of course I'm not saying that any fan of Tolkien is no friend of mine—that would cut my social circle considerably. Nor would I claim that it's impossible to write a good fantasy book with elves and dwarfs in it—Michael Swanwick's superb ,#NFDB
743:Mrs. Crisparkle had need of her own share of philanthropy when she beheld this very large and very loud excrescence on the little party. Always something in the nature of a Boil upon the face of society, Mr. Honeythunder expanded into an inflammatory Wen in Minor Canon Corner. Though it was not literally true, as was facetiously charged against him by public unbelievers, that he called aloud to his fellow-creatures: ‘Curse your souls and bodies, come here and be blessed!’ still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine. You were to abolish military force, but you were first to bring all commanding officers who had done their duty, to trial by court-martial for that offence, and shoot them. You were to abolish war, but were to make converts by making war upon them, and charging them with loving war as the apple of their eye. You were to have no capital punishment, but were first to sweep off the face of the earth all legislators, jurists, and judges, who were of the contrary opinion. You were to have universal concord, and were to get it by eliminating all the people who wouldn’t, or conscientiously couldn’t, be concordant. You were to love your brother as yourself, but after an indefinite interval of maligning him (very much as if you hated him), and calling him all manner of names. Above all things, you were to do nothing in private, or on your own account. You were to go to the offices of the Haven of Philanthropy, and put your name down as a Member and a Professing Philanthropist. Then, you were to pay up your subscription, get your card of membership and your riband and medal, and were evermore to live upon a platform, and evermore to say what Mr. Honeythunder said, and what the Treasurer said, and what the sub-Treasurer said, and what the Committee said, and what the sub-Committee said, and what the Secretary said, and what the Vice-Secretary said. And this was usually said in the unanimously-carried resolution under hand and seal, to the effect: ‘That this assembled Body of Professing Philanthropists views, with indignant scorn and contempt, not unmixed with utter detestation and loathing abhorrence’—in short, the baseness of all those who do not belong to it, and pledges itself to make as many obnoxious statements as possible about them, without being at all particular as to facts. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
744:The thing that weighed on him most, however, was the irrationality of the world in which he now found himself. To some extent he was a prisoner of his own training. As a historian, he had come to view the world as the product of historical forces and the decisions of more or less rational people, and he expected the men around him to behave in a civil and coherent manner. But Hitler’s government was neither civil nor coherent, and the nation lurched from one inexplicable moment to another. Even the language used by Hitler and party officials was weirdly inverted. The term “fanatical” became a positive trait. Suddenly it connoted what philologist Victor Klemperer, a Jewish resident of Dresden, described as a “happy mix of courage and fervent devotion.” Nazi-controlled newspapers reported an endless succession of “fanatical vows” and “fanatical declarations” and “fanatical beliefs,” all good things. Göring was described as a “fanatical animal lover.” Fanatischer Tierfreund. Certain very old words were coming into darkly robust modern use, Klemperer found. Übermensch: superman. Untermensch: sub-human, meaning “Jew.” Wholly new words were emerging as well, among them Strafexpedition—“punitive expedition”—the term Storm Troopers applied to their forays into Jewish and communist neighborhoods. Klemperer detected a certain “hysteria of language” in the new flood of decrees, alarms, and intimidation—“This perpetual threatening with the death penalty!”—and in strange, inexplicable episodes of paranoid excess, like the recent nationwide search. In all this Klemperer saw a deliberate effort to generate a kind of daily suspense, “copied from American cinema and thrillers,” that helped keep people in line. He also gauged it to be a manifestation of insecurity among those in power. In late July 1933 Klemperer saw a newsreel in which Hitler, with fists clenched and face contorted, shrieked, “On 30 January they”—and here Klemperer presumed he meant the Jews—“laughed at me—that smile will be wiped off their faces!” Klemperer was struck by the fact that although Hitler was trying to convey omnipotence, he appeared to be in a wild, uncontrolled rage, which paradoxically had the effect of undermining his boasts that the new Reich would last a thousand years and that all his enemies would be annihilated. Klemperer wondered, Do you talk with such blind rage “if you are so sure of this endurance and this annihilation”? ~ Erik Larson, #NFDB
745:Engine room fire alarm’?” Rusty said. There was a moment of confusion before it kicked in. “ENGINE ROOM FIRE ALARM?”
* * *
“What the hell is that sound?” Harvey Tharpe said, rubbing his eyes as he opened the cabin door.
Being on this yacht was better than being on the lifeboat but not much. They were packed in like sardines. There was food but being woken up in the middle of the night by a blaring “Squeee! Squeee! ” was not his idea of fun.
The former businessman had been “robust” before being cast adrift on a lifeboat in a zombie apocalypse. He still had his height and some solidity. So he was more than a bit surprised when the short, blonde skipper of the boat, wearing not much more than a camisole and panties smashed him out of the way like an NFL linebacker on her way aft.
“MOVE PEOPLE!” the boat captain shouted, continuing to hammer her way through the crowd of refugees.
* * *
“Fuck a freaking duck,” Sophia said, opening the door to the engine compartment. The smoke wasn’t so bad she needed a respirator but it was bad. And they were dead in the water. All the power except the shrieking alarm was out.
She threw the main battery disconnect, then picked up one of the industrial fire extinguishers and played it over the exterior of the main breakers which were the source of the fire.
“Skipper?” Paula said, picking another one up.
“We need to get it open before we use them all up,” Sophia said, putting her hand on the extinguisher. “Get Rusty to get all the passengers up, out and on the sundeck.”
She slid one hand into a rubber glove and popped open the main breaker panel. The whole thing was smoldering so she played the rest of the fire extinguisher over it until it was cold. A tick checker showed that the whole thing was electrically cold as well. Now if only the batteries hadn’t discharged their whole load into the panel and killed themselves as well.
“What can I do, Skipper?” Patrick said groggily. The “engineer” was wearing not much more than the skipper.
“Get a hand-held,” Sophia said. “See if there’s a sub in range. Tell them we had a major electrical fire. Fire is under control. No power at this time. May be repairable but we may need assistance. Don’t at this time but may. Got it? Do not call mayday or PON-PON. Do not.”
“Got it, Skipper,” Patrick said.
“And get these people the HELL OUT OF MY ENGINE COMPARTENT! ~ John Ringo,#NFDB
746:Întreaga psihologie de până acum a rămas împotmolită în prejudecăţi şi temeri de ordin moral: ea nu s-a încumetat să pătrundă în adâncuri. A o concepe, precum o fac eu, în chip de morfologie şi genetică a voinţei de putere, -iată o idee care nu i-a trecut nimănui prin cap, în măsura în care ne este îngăduit să ghicim din toate cele câte s-au scris până acum şi a ceea ce a fost trecut sub tăcere. Puterea prejudecăţilor morale a impregnat profund sfera spiritualităţii pure, în aparenţă sfera cea mai rece şi mai lipsită de idei preconcepute - exercitând bineînţeles o acţiune vătămătoare, paralizantă, orbitoare, deformantă. O fizio-psihologie autentică întâmpină rezistenţe inconştiente în ini-ma cercetătorului, ea are de luptat cu „inima“: chiar şi o teorie despre interdependenta instinctelor „bune“ şi „rele“ pare un rafinament de imoralitate care provoacă suferinţa şi dezgustul unei conştiinţe încă viguroase şi îndrăzneţe -, şi, cu atât mai mult, o teorie despre derivarea tuturor instinctelor bune din cele rele. Însă, presupunând că s-ar găsi cineva care să ia afectele de ură, invidie, cupiditate, patima puterii drept afecte esenţiale ale vieţii, drept lucruri care trebuie să facă parte, în esenţă şi în principiu, din economia generală a vieţii, dacă vrem ca viaţa să fie intensificată -, acest om ar suferi din pricina unei asemenea orientări a judecăţilor sale ca de un rău de mare. şi aceasta nu este încă nici pe departe cea mai penibilă şi mai ciudată ipoteză din acest imens şi aproape nedesţelenit domeniu de cunoştinţe primejdioase: iar cel care vrea va găsi o sută de temeiuri pentru a se tine la distantă de ea - de va fi în stare! Iar dacă totuşi nava vi s-a abătut prin aceste meleaguri, ei bine, curaj! strângeţi zdravăn din dinţi! deschideţi-vă ochii! apucaţi timona cu nădejde! - vom depăşi de-a dreptul morala, cu riscul de a strivi, de a zdrobi poate restul propriei noastre moralităţi, cutezând să pornim pe acest drum - dar ce contăm noi! Niciodată navigatorilor şi aventurierilor temerari nu li s-a mai înfăţişat vreo lume de cunoştinţe, mai profundă: iar psihologului care consimte la o asemenea „jertfă“ - acesta nu este sacrifizio dell'inteletto, dimpotrivă! - i se va îngădui cel puţin să pretindă în schimb ca psihologia să fie recunoscută iarăşi ca regină a ştiinţelor, pe care celelalte ştiinţe au menirea s-o slujească şi s-o pregătească. Căci de acum îna¬inte psihologia este din nou calea ce duce spre problemele fundamentale. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
747:In all conflicts between groups, there are three elements. One: the certitude that our group is morally superior, possibly even chosen by God. All others should follow our example or be at our service. In order to bring peace to the world, we have to impose our set of beliefs upon others, through manipulation, force, and fear, if necessary. Two: a refusal or incapacity to see or admit to any possible errors or faults in our group. The undeniable nature of our own goodness makes us think we are infallible; there can be no wrong in us. Three: a refusal to believe that any other group possesses truth or can contribute anything of value. At best, others may be regarded as ignorant, unenlightened, and possessing only half—truths; at worst, they are seen as destructive, dangerous, and possessed by evil spirits: they need to be overpowered for the good of humanity. Society and cultures are, then, divided into the “good” and the “bad”; the good attributing to themselves the mission to save, to heal, to bring peace to a wicked world, according to their own terms and under their controlling power. Such is the story of all civilizations through the ages as they spread over the earth by invading and colonizing. Differences must be suppressed; “savages” must be civilized. We must prove by all possible means that our culture, our power, our knowledge, and our technology are the best, that our gods are the only gods! This is not just the story of civilizations but also of all wars of religion, inquisitions, censorships, dictatorships; all things, in short, that are ideologies. An ideology is a set of ideas translated into a set of values. Because they are held to be absolutely true, these ideas and values need to be imposed on others if they are not readily accepted. A political system, a school of psychology, and a philosophy of economics can all be ideologies. Even a place of work can be an ideology. Religious sub—groups, sects, are based upon ideological principles. Religions themselves can become ideologies. And ideologues, by their nature, are not open to new ideas or even to debate; they refuse to accept or listen to anyone else’s reality. They refuse to admit any possibility of error or even criticism of their system; they are closed up in their set of ideas, theories, and values. We human beings have a great facility for living illusions, for protecting our self—image with power, for justifying it all by thinking we are the favoured ones of God. ~ Jean Vanier, #NFDB
748:The Dark Depths of the Seas And Internal Waves
Or [the unbelievers' state] are like the darkness of a fathomless sea
which is covered by waves above which are waves above which are
clouds, layers of darkness, one upon the other. If he puts out his hand,
he can scarcely see it. Those Allah gives no light to, they have no light.
(Qur'an, 24:40)
In deep seas and oceans, the darkness is found at a depth of 200
meters (660 feet) and deeper. At this depth, there is almost no light, and
below a depth of 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) there is no light at all.65
Today, we know about the general formation of the sea, the characteristics
of the living things in it, its salinity, as well as the amount of
water it contains, and its surface area and depth. Submarines and special
equipment, developed with modern technology, have enabled scientists
to obtain such information.
Human beings are not able to dive to a depth of more than 70
meters (230 feet) without the aid of special equipment. They cannot
survive unaided in the dark depths of the oceans, such as at a depth of
200 meters (660 feet). For these reasons, scientists have only recently
been able to discover detailed information about the seas. However,
that the depth of the sea is dark was revealed in the Qur'an 1,400 years
ago. It is certainly one of the miracles of the Qur'an that such information
was given at a time where no equipment to enable man to dive into
the depths of the oceans was available.
In addition, the statement in Surat an-Nur 40 "…like the darkness
of a fathomless sea which is covered by waves above which are
waves above which are clouds…" draws our attention to another miracle
of the Qur'an.
Scientists have only recently discovered that there are sub-surface
waves, which "occur on density interfaces between layers of different
densities." These internal waves cover the deep waters of seas and
oceans because deep water has a higher density than the water above
it. Internal waves act like surface waves. They can break, just like surface
waves. Internal waves cannot be discerned by the human eye, but
they can be detected by studying temperature or salinity changes at a
given location.66
The statements in the Qur'an run parallel precisely the above
explanation. Certainly, this fact, which scientists has discovered very
recently, shows once again that the Qur'an is the word of Allah. ~ Harun Yahya,#NFDB
749:Sub-Christian? Some read the Old Testament as so much primitive groping and guesswork, which the New Testament sweeps away. But “God . . . spoke through the prophets” (Hebrews 1:1), of whom Moses was the greatest (see Deuteronomy 34:10-12); and his Commandments, given through Moses, set a moral and spiritual standard for living which is not superseded, but carries God’s authority forever. Note that Jesus’ twofold law of love, summarizing the Commandments, comes from Moses’ own God-taught elaboration of them (for that is what the Pentateuchal law-codes are). “Love your God” is from Deuteronomy 6:5, “love your neighbor” from Leviticus 19:18. It cannot be too much stressed that Old Testament moral teaching (as distinct from the Old Testament revelation of grace) is not inferior to that of the New Testament, let alone the conventional standards of our time. The barbarities of lawless sex, violence, and exploitation, cutthroat business methods, class warfare, disregard for one’s family, and the like are sanctioned only by our modern secular society. The supposedly primitive Old Testament, and the 3000-year-old Commandments in particular, are bulwarks against all these things. But (you say) doesn’t this sort of talk set the Old Testament above Christ? Can that be right? Surely teaching that antedates him by a millennium and a quarter must be inferior to his? Surely the Commandments are too negative, always and only saying “don’t . . .”? Surely we must look elsewhere for full Christian standards? Fair queries; but there is a twofold answer. First, Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:17) that he came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it; that is, to be, and help others to be, all that God in the Commandments had required. What Jesus destroyed was inadequate expositions of the law, not the law itself (Matthew 5:21-48; 15:1-9; etc.). By giving truer expositions, he actually republished the law. The Sermon on the Mount itself consists of themes from the Decalogue developed in a Christian context. Second, the negative form of the Commandments has positive implications. “Where a sin is forbidden, the contrary duty is commanded” (Westminster Larger Catechism, question 99). The negative form was needed at Sinai (as in the West today) to curb current lawlessness which threatened both godliness and national life. But the positive content pointed up by Christ—loving God with all one’s powers, and one’s neighbor as oneself—is very clearly there, as we shall see. ~ J I Packer, #NFDB
750:I remember once in the Arctic, when we were attempting to cross the frozen North Atlantic in a small, open rigid inflatable boat (RIB), that I heard that voice very clearly.
We had been caught out in a monster, sub-zero, gale-force 8 storm, 400 miles off the coast of Greenland - and we were struggling. We were reduced to a crawl as we battled up and down huge, freezing waves and crashing white water.
It felt like only a matter of time before we would be capsized to our deaths in the black and icy sea during this longest of nights.
Each time one of us handed over the control of the little boat to another crew member to do their shift at the wheel, we had an especially frightening few minutes as the new helmsman fought to become accustomed to the pitch and character of those freak waves.
If ever we were going to be capsized, it was during these change-over times.
We got lucky once. We were all thrown off our seats after the RIB had been tossed up and landed on the side of her tubes, only to topple back, by luck, the right way up. We then got lucky a second time in a similar incident. Instinct told me we wouldn’t get so lucky a third time.
‘No more mistakes. Helm this yourself,’ I felt the voice saying to me.
As I prepared to hand over to Mick, my old buddy, something deep inside me kept repeating, ‘Just keep helming for a bit longer - see this team through the storm yourself.’
But we had a rota and I also knew we should stick to it. That was the rule. Yet the voice persisted. Eventually I shouted over the wind and spray to Mick that I was going to keep helming. ‘Trust me,’ I told him.
Mick then helped me all through that night, pouring Red Bull down my throat as we got thrown left and right, fighting to cling on to the wheel and our seats.
By dawn, the seas were easing and by the next evening we could see the distant coast of Iceland ahead. Finally.
Afterwards, two of the crew said to me quietly that they had been so terrified to helm that they were praying someone else would do it. I had been exhausted, and logic had said to hand over, but instinct had told me I should keep steering.
Deep down I knew that I had been beginning to master how to control the small boat in the chaos of the waves and ice - and that voice told me we might not get a third lucky escape.
It was the right call - not an easy one, but a right one. Instinct doesn’t always tell us to choose the easier path, but it will guide you towards the right one. ~ Bear Grylls,#NFDB
751:Nu m-am gândit niciodată serios să am de-a face cu o prostituată. Nu vreau să par ipocrit. Sunt un bărbat ca oricare altul. Nivelul de hormoni androgeni din sângele meu este de zece ori mai ridicat decât în sângele unei femei. Creierul meu este scăldat în hormoni sexuali. Simt de multe ori din plin neliniştea erotică pură, mă excită de multe ori o necunoscută dintr-un autobuz, mă rătăcesc adesea în labirintul fanteziilor violente şi-ntunecate, populate tocmai de asemenea obiecte sexuale, total aservite voinţei mele. Pornografia nu mă dezgustă întotdeauna — îmi asum ca bărbat zecile de mii de site-uri de pe internet şi sutele de reviste pe care nici o femeie nu le-ar cumpăra — şi sunt momente când am o nevoie imperioasă de imagini orgiastice. Cu toate acestea, am regretat de câte ori am făcut dragoste cu o femeie străină şi indiferentă, şi pentru nimic în lume n-aş face dragoste cu o prostituată. Nu pentru că riscurile sunt mari şi nici pentru că fidelitatea nu mi-o permite. Cred, pur şi simplu, că sexul însoţit de intimitate este mai bun decât cel fără intimitate. Intenţionat nu vorbesc despre dragoste, deşi până la urmă despre asta e vorba. Dragostea ca sentiment este uneori un inhibitor al sexualităţii, iar fidelitatea devine greu de suportat în pat. Sexul implică o profundă îngustare a conştiinţei, o coborâre adânc sub convenţiile sociale şi etice, o eliberare de tabu-uri, de dezgust, o căutare a plăcerii în interzis şi perversiune. Dragostea, cu puternica ei componentă culturală, tinde şi ea să fie înlăturată în cele mai intense momente ale actului sexual, ca parte a carapacei cerebrale ce ne acoperă nuditatea; în multe cupluri fantezia depersonalizării partenerilor, a uitării legăturii dintre ei, intensifică plăcerea erotică. Cu toate acestea, ceva din această legătură psihică dintr-un cuplu adevărat, numită dragoste, ceva esenţial şi despre care se vorbeşte prea puţin, supravieţuieşte şi celei mai devastatoare dezgoliri simbolice. Este, ca să zic aşa, iubirea intensă dintre două corpuri. Chiar şi când minţile şi personalităţile sunt dizolvate în plăcerea irepresibilă a sexualităţii, intimitatea rămâne şi dă actului acestuia violent şi animalic ceva copilăros, înduioşător, ceva pe care ţi-l aminteşti, după ce ai uitat plăcerea, ca pe adevărata bucurie a acelor ore. Cum nu dau doi bani pe fanteziile puse-n practică (pentru că, concretizate, ele îşi pierd tocmai idealitatea: pot fantaza despre un sex party, de pildă, dar unul real trebuie că e dezamăgitor printr-o mulţime de amănunte concrete), la fel un act sexual în care corpurile nu se cunosc mi se pare ratat de la bun început. ~ Mircea C rt rescu, #NFDB
752:Nu m-am gândit niciodată serios să am de-a face cu o prostituată. Nu vreau să par ipocrit. Sunt un bărbat ca oricare altul. Nivelul de hormoni androgeni din sângele meu este de zece ori mai ridicat decât în sângele unei femei. Creierul meu este scăldat în hormoni sexuali. Simt de multe ori din plin neliniştea erotică pură, mă excită de multe ori o necunoscută dintr-un autobuz, mă rătăcesc adesea în labirintul fanteziilor violente şi-ntunecate, populate tocmai de asemenea obiecte sexuale, total aservite voinţei mele. Pornografia nu mă dezgustă întotdeauna — îmi asum ca bărbat zecile de mii de site-uri de pe internet şi sutele de reviste pe care nici o femeie nu le-ar cumpăra — şi sunt momente când am o nevoie imperioasă de imagini orgiastice. Cu toate acestea, am regretat de câte ori am făcut dragoste cu o femeie străină şi indiferentă, şi pentru nimic în lume n-aş face dragoste cu o prostituată. Nu pentru că riscurile sunt mari şi nici pentru că fidelitatea nu mi-o permite. Cred, pur şi simplu, că sexul însoţit de intimitate este mai bun decât cel fără intimitate. Intenţionat nu vorbesc despre dragoste, deşi până la urmă despre asta e vorba. Dragostea ca sentiment este uneori un inhibitor al sexualităţii, iar fidelitatea devine greu de suportat în pat. Sexul implică o profundă îngustare a conştiinţei, o coborâre adânc sub convenţiile sociale şi etice, o eliberare de tabu-uri, de dezgust, o căutare a plăcerii în interzis şi perversiune. Dragostea, cu puternica ei componentă culturală, tinde şi ea să fie înlăturată în cele mai intense momente ale actului sexual, ca parte a carapacei cerebrale ce ne acoperă nuditatea; în multe cupluri fantezia depersonalizării partenerilor, a uitării legăturii dintre ei, intensifică plăcerea erotică. Cu toate acestea, ceva din această legătură psihică dintr-un cuplu adevărat, numită dragoste, ceva esenţial şi despre care se vorbeşte prea puţin, supravieţuieşte şi celei mai devastatoare dezgoliri simbolice. Este, ca să zic aşa, iubirea intensă dintre două corpuri. Chiar şi când minţile ��i personalităţile sunt dizolvate în plăcerea irepresibilă a sexualităţii, intimitatea rămâne şi dă actului acestuia violent şi animalic ceva copilăros, înduioşător, ceva pe care ţi-l aminteşti, după ce ai uitat plăcerea, ca pe adevărata bucurie a acelor ore. Cum nu dau doi bani pe fanteziile puse-n practică (pentru că, concretizate, ele îşi pierd tocmai idealitatea: pot fantaza despre un sex party, de pildă, dar unul real trebuie că e dezamăgitor printr-o mulţime de amănunte concrete), la fel un act sexual în care corpurile nu se cunosc mi se pare ratat de la bun început. ~ Mircea C rt rescu, #NFDB
753: Chalti Chakki Dekh Kar, Diya Kabira Roye
Dui Paatan Ke Beech Mein,Sabit Bacha Na Koye
[Looking at the grinding stones, Kabir laments
In the duel of wheels, nothing stays intact.]
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Bura Jo Dekhan Main Chala, Bura Naa Milya Koye
Jo Munn Khoja Apnaa, To Mujhse Bura Naa Koye
[I searched for the crooked man, met not a single one
Then searched myself, "I" found the crooked one]
**
Kaal Kare So Aaj Kar, Aaj Kare So Ub
Pal Mein Pralaya Hoyegi, Bahuri Karoge Kub
[Tomorrow's work do today, today's work now
if the moment is lost, the work be done how]
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Aisee Vani Boliye, Mun Ka Aapa Khoye
Apna Tan Sheetal Kare, Auran Ko Sukh Hoye
[Speak such words, sans ego's ploy
Body remains composed, giving the listener joy]
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Dheere Dheere Re Mana, Dheere Sub Kutch Hoye
Mali Seenche So Ghara, Ritu Aaye Phal Hoye
[Slowly slowly O mind, everything in own pace happens
The gardiner may water with a hundred buckets, fruit arrives only in its season]
**
Sayeen Itna Deejiye, Ja Mein Kutumb Samaye
Main Bhi Bhookha Na Rahun, Sadhu Na Bhookha Jaye
[Give so much, O God, suffice to envelop my clan
I should not suffer cravings, nor the visitor go unfed]
**
Bada Hua To Kya Hua, Jaise Ped Khajoor
Panthi Ko Chaya Nahin, Phal Laage Atidoor
[In vain is the eminence, just like a date tree
No shade for travelers, fruit is hard to reach]
**
Jaise Til Mein Tel Hai, Jyon Chakmak Mein Aag
Tera Sayeen Tujh Mein Hai, Tu Jaag Sake To Jaag
[Just as seed contains the oil, fire's in flint stone
Your temple seats the Divine, realize if you can]
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Kabira Khara Bazaar Mein, Mange Sabki Khair
Na Kahu Se Dosti, Na Kahu Se Bair
[Kabira in the market place, wishes welfare of all
Neither friendship nor enmity with anyone at all]
**
Pothi Padh Padh Kar Jag Mua, Pandit Bhayo Na Koye
Dhai Aakhar Prem Ke, Jo Padhe so Pandit Hoye
[Reading books where everyone died, none became anymore wise
One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise]
**
Dukh Mein Simran Sab Kare, Sukh Mein Kare Na Koye
Jo Sukh Mein Simran Kare, Tau Dukh Kahe Ko Hoye
[In anguish everyone prays to Him, in joy does none
To One who prays in happiness, how sorrow can come]
These Dohas or couplets are each complete in themselves and are the most famous of Kabir's poetry, there are many more and many of them are often quoted in India even now. There is profound wisdom hidden in each couplet and they reflect Kabir's way of expressing the most profound thoughts in the simplest words.
~ Kabir, Dohas (Couplets) I (with translation)
,#NFDB
754:
"Without conscious occult powers, is it possible to help or protect from a distance somebody in difficulty or danger? If so, what is the practical procedure?"
Then a sub-question:
"What can thought do?"
We are not going to speak of occult processes at all; although, to tell the truth, everything that happens in the invisible world is occult, by definition. But still, practically, there are two processes which do not exclude but complete each other, but which may be used separately according to one's preference.
It is obvious that thought forms a part of one of the methods, quite an important part. I have already told you several times that if one thinks clearly and powerfully, one makes a mental formation, and that every mental formation is an entity independent of its fashioner, having its own life and tending to realise itself in the mental world - I don't mean that you see your formation with your physical eyes, but it exists in the mental world, it has its own particular independent existence. If you have made a formation with a definite aim, its whole life will tend to the realisation of this aim. Therefore, if you want to help someone at a distance, you have only to formulate very clearly, very precisely and strongly the kind of help you want to give and the result you wish to obtain. That will have its effect. I cannot say that it will be all-powerful, for the mental world is full of innumerable formations of this kind and naturally they clash and contradict one another; hence the strongest and the most persistent will have the best of it.
Now, what is it that gives strength and persistence to mental formations? - It is emotion and will. If you know how to add to your mental formation an emotion, affection, tenderness, love, and an intensity of will, a dynamism, it will have a much greater chance of success. That is the first method. It is within the scope of all those who know how to think, and even more of those who know how to love. But as I said, the power is limited and there is great competition in that world.
Therefore, even if one has no knowledge at all but has trust in the divine Grace, if one has the faith that there is something in the world like the divine Grace, and that this something can answer a prayer, an aspiration, an invocation, then, after making one's mental formation, if one offers it to the Grace and puts one's trust in it, asks it to intervene and has the faith that it will intervene, then indeed one has a chance of success.
Try, and you will surely see the result.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1956, 253,#NFDB
755:What cannot be resolved inside the psyche,” put in the Expedition alienist, Otto Ghloix, “must enter the outside world and become physically, objectively ‘real.’ For example, one who cannot come to terms with the, one must say sinister unknowability of Light, projects an Æther, real in every way, except for its being detectable.” “Seems like an important property to be missing, don’t you think? Puts it in the same class as God, the soul—” “Fairies under mushrooms,” from a heckler somewhere in the group, whom nobody, strangely, seemed quite able to locate. Icelanders, however, had a long tradition of ghostliness that made the Brits appear models of rationalism. Earlier members of the Expedition had visited the great Library of Iceland behind the translucent green walls facing the sunlit sea. Some of these spaces were workshops or mess-halls, some centers of operation, stacked to the top of the great cliff, easily a dozen levels, probably more. Among the library shelves could be found The Book of Iceland Spar, commonly described as “like the Ynglingasaga only different,” containing family histories going back to the first discovery and exploitation of the eponymic mineral up to the present, including a record of each day of this very Expedition now in progress, even of days not yet transpired. “Fortune-telling! Impossible!” “Unless we can allow that certain texts are—” “Outside of time,” suggested one of the Librarians. “Holy Scripture and so forth.” “In a different relation to time anyhow. Perhaps even to be read through, mediated by, a lens of the very sort of calcite which according to rumor you people are up here seeking.” “Another Quest for another damned Magic Crystal. Horsefeathers, I say. Wish I’d known before I signed on. Say, you aren’t one of these Sentient Rocksters, are you?” Mineral consciousness figured even back in that day as a source of jocularity—had they known what was waiting in that category . . . waiting to move against them, grins would have frozen and chuckles turned to dry-throated coughing. “Of course,” said the Librarian, “you’ll find Iceland spar everywhere in the world, often in the neighborhood of zinc, or silver, some of it perfectly good for optical instruments. But up here it’s of the essence, found in no other company but its own. It’s the genuine article, and the sub-structure of reality. The doubling of the Creation, each image clear and believable. . . . And you being mathematical gentlemen, it can hardly have escaped your attention that its curious advent into the world occurred within only a few years of the discovery of Imaginary Numbers, which also provided a doubling of the mathematical Creation. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
756:You will encounter resentful, sneering non-readers who will look at you from their beery, leery eyes, as they might some form of sub-hominid anomaly, bookimus maximus. You will encounter redditters, youtubers, blogspotters, wordpressers, twitterers, and facebookers with wired-open eyes who will shout at from you from their crazy hectoring mouths about the liberal poison of literature. You will encounter the gamers with their twitching fingers who will look upon you as a character to lock crosshairs on and blow to smithereens. You will encounter the stoners and pill-poppers who will ignore you, and ask you if you have read Jack Keroauc’s On the Road, and if you haven’t, will lecture you for two hours on that novel and refuse to acknowledge any other books written by anyone ever. You will encounter the provincial retirees, who have spent a year reading War & Peace, who strike the attitude that completing that novel is a greater achievement than the thousands of books you have read, even though they lost themselves constantly throughout the book and hated the whole experience. You will encounter the self-obsessed students whose radical interpretations of Agnes Grey and The Idiot are the most important utterance anyone anywhere has ever made with their mouths, while ignoring the thousands of novels you have read. You will encounter the parents and siblings who take every literary reference you make back to the several books they enjoyed reading as a child, and then redirect the conversation to what TV shows they have been watching. You will encounter the teachers and lecturers, for whom any text not on their syllabus is a waste of time, and look upon you as a wayward student in need of their salvation. You will encounter the travellers and backpackers who will take pity on you for wasting your life, then tell you about the Paulo Coelho they read while hostelling across Europe en route to their spiritual pilgrimage to New Delhi. You will encounter the hard-working moaners who will tell you they are too busy working for a living to sit and read all day, and when they come home from a hard day’s toil, they don’t want to sit and read pretentious rubbish. You will encounter the voracious readers who loathe competition, and who will challenge you to a literary duel, rather than engage you in friendly conversation about your latest reading. You will encounter the slack intellectuals who will immediately ask you if you have read Finnegans Wake, and when you say you have, will ask if you if you understood every line, and when you say of course not, will make some point that generally alludes to you being a halfwit. Fuck those fuckers. ~ M J Nicholls, #NFDB
757:To my son,
If you are reading this letter, then I am dead.
I expect to die, if not today, then soon. I expect that Valentine will kill me. For all his talk of loving me, for all his desire for a right-hand man, he knows that I have doubts. And he is a man who cannot abide doubt.
I do not know how you will be brought up. I do not know what they will tell you about me. I do not even know who will give you this letter. I entrust it to Amatis, but I cannot see what the future holds. All I know is that this is my chance to give you an accounting of a man you may well hate.
There are three things you must know about me. The first is that I have been a coward. Throughout my life I have made the wrong decisions, because they were easy, because they were self-serving, because I was afraid.
At first I believed in Valentine’s cause. I turned from my family and to the Circle because I fancied myself better than Downworlders and the Clave and my suffocating parents. My anger against them was a tool Valentine bent to his will as he bent and changed so many of us. When he drove Lucian away I did not question it but gladly took his place for my own. When he demanded I leave Amatis, the woman I love, and marry Celine, a girl I did not know, I did as he asked, to my everlasting shame.
I cannot imagine what you might be thinking now, knowing that the girl I speak of was your mother. The second thing you must know is this. Do not blame Celine for any of this, whatever you do. It was not her fault, but mine. Your mother was an innocent from a family that brutalized her. She wanted only kindess, to feel safe and loved. And though my heart had been given already, I loved her, in my fashion, just as in my heart, I was faithful to Amatis. Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae. I wonder if you love Latin as I do, and poetry. I wonder who has taught you.
The third and hardest thing you must know is that I was prepared to hate you. The son of myslef and the child-bride I barely knew, you seemed to be the culmination of all the wrong decisions I had made, all the small compromises that led to my dissolution. Yet as you grew inside my mind, as you grew in the world, a blameless innocent, I began to realize that I did not hate you. It is the nature of parents to see their own image in their children, and it was myself I hated, not you.
For there is only one thing I wan from you, my son — one thing from you, and of you. I want you to be a better man than I was. Let no one else tell you who you are or should be. Love where you wish to. Believe as you wish to. Take freedom as your right.
I don’t ask that you save the world, my boy, my child, the only child I will ever have. I ask only that you be happy.
Stephen ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
758:Iran
I cringe (or is it shiver?)
every time I hear the word
motherland. I’d like to think
my blatant internationalism
foments the reaction. But is it
the latent fear forever held
by you, my pays natal, the terror
of un retour? I’d like to
remember the scent of your
jasmine, the ooze of
your pomegranate’s juice. But
the torture in your prisons
the sadism in your leaders’ eyes
pervade the reminiscence. I’m
drawn to the romance
of your poets, memorialised
so lyrically in the sepulchral shrines
of Shiraz. The tales of turbaned
bards drinking the forbidden,
singing the heady praises of Love
fill me with the desire
to love you, but the ubiquity
of sub-machineguns,
the vigilance of the Guards
repel. And I’ve been repulsed
across the globe. I’ve been
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made thoroughly homeless. Blame
Islam? The historical disaster
of a revolution without vision?
Anti-colonialism without
the aim of ending the slavery
of the soul to the superiority
of belief? Or, as always, ‘them’:
the Americans, greased up
for devouring your oil? Blame?
No, I’m not at all interested
in constructivism. I’ll accuse,
as they say in my surrogate patrie,
‘until the cows come home’. Why
the pretentious reliance on
Italicised French words and Anglo
slang? My mother-tongue
also terrifies. Once the language of
no doubt sublime poets and ghazals;
the discourse of submission
and hatred during my childhood.
Remember your theologians
interpreting reality? I don’t want to.
I don’t know if my psyche
can handle many more nightmares.
Let it suffice that I can recall
the purges, the bruises, the glow
of the incinerations. I’ll have
you know that I now fathom what
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you had in mind for me: a plot
among the ‘martyrs’
in the Heaven of Zahra
mausoleum in Tehran. Now
I hear you’re armed
to the teeth to continue your
infernal war against
timeless nemeses. Your wealthy
still holiday in Europe and plan
cosmetic surgeries. Your clerics
still issue death warrants
against ‘apostates’ and ‘infidels’. I’m
almost dead in the quicksand
of the deserts of foreignness and
exile. Do I even begin to dare
contemplate a return
to the makeshift terrains
of memory? To the localities
that cultivated my senses
of placement, to the orchards
that I wandered as a bored
child? The people are mostly dead.
The remaining form a diaspora
of regret and disillusionment. I’m,
as I said, not a positivist. Only
a fickle and shuddering ghost
rejuvenated and alarmed
by the mention of the word
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motherland.
~ Ali Alizadeh,#NFDB
759:Draw a line in the sand As you get going, keep in mind why you’re doing what you’re doing. Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. You have to believe in something. You need to have a backbone. You need to know what you’re willing to fight for. And then you need to show the world. A strong stand is how you attract superfans. They point to you and defend you. And they spread the word further, wider, and more passionately than any advertising could. Strong opinions aren’t free. You’ll turn some people off. They’ll accuse you of being arrogant and aloof. That’s life. For everyone who loves you, there will be others who hate you. If no one’s upset by what you’re saying, you’re probably not pushing hard enough. (And you’re probably boring, too.) Lots of people hate us because our products do less than the competition’s. They’re insulted when we refuse to include their pet feature. But we’re just as proud of what our products don’t do as we are of what they do. We design them to be simple because we believe most software is too complex: too many features, too many buttons, too much confusion. So we build software that’s the opposite of that. If what we make isn’t right for everyone, that’s OK. We’re willing to lose some customers if it means that others love our products intensely. That’s our line in the sand. When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious. For example, Whole Foods stands for selling the highest quality natural and organic products available. They don’t waste time deciding over and over again what’s appropriate. No one asks, “Should we sell this product that has artificial flavors?” There’s no debate. The answer is clear. That’s why you can’t buy a Coke or a Snickers there. This belief means the food is more expensive at Whole Foods. Some haters even call it Whole Paycheck and make fun of those who shop there. But so what? Whole Foods is doing pretty damn well. Another example is Vinnie’s Sub Shop, just down the street from our office in Chicago. They put this homemade basil oil on subs that’s just perfect. You better show up on time, though. Ask when they close and the woman behind the counter will respond, “We close when the bread runs out.” Really? “Yeah. We get our bread from the bakery down the street early in the morning, when it’s the freshest. Once we run out (usually around two or three p.m.), we close up shop. We could get more bread later in the day, but it’s not as good as the fresh-baked bread in the morning. There’s no point in selling a few more sandwiches if the bread isn’t good. A few bucks isn’t going to make up for selling food we can’t be proud of.” Wouldn’t you rather eat at a place like that instead of some generic sandwich chain? ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
760:I have detected," he said, "disturbances in the wash."
...
Arthur asked him to repeat what he had just said because he hadn't quite understood his meaning. Ford repeated it.
"The wash?" said Arthur.
"The space time wash," said Ford.
Arthur nodded, and then cleared his throat.
"Are we talking about," he asked cautiously, "some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?"
"Eddies," said Ford, "in the space-time continuum."
"Ah," nodded Arthur, "is he. Is he."
...
"What?" said Ford.
"Er, who," said Arthur, "is Eddy, then, exactly, then?"
Ford looked angrily at him.
"Will you listen?" he snapped.
"I have been listening," said Arthur, "but I'm not sure it's helped."
Ford grasped him by the lapels of his dressing gown and spoke to him as slowly and distinctly and patiently as if he were somebody from the telephone company accounts department.
"There seems..." he said, "to be some pools..." he said, "of instability," he said, "in the fabric..." he said.
Arthur looked foolishly at the cloth of his dressing gown where Ford was holding it. Ford swept on before Arthur could turn the foolish look into a foolish remark.
"...in the fabric of space-time," he said.
"Ah, that," said Arthur.
"Yes, that," confirmed Ford.
They stood there alone on a hill on prehistoric Earth and stared each other resolutely in the face.
"And it's done what?" said Arthur.
"It," said Ford, "has developed pools of instability."
"Has it," said Arthur, his eyes not wavering for a moment
"It has," said Ford, with the similar degree of ocular immobility.
"Good," said Arthur.
"See?" said Ford.
"No," said Arthur.
There was a quiet pause.
...
"Arthur," said Ford.
"Hello? Yes?" said Arthur.
"Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple."
"Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that."
They sat down and composed their thoughts.
Ford got out his Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic. It was making vague humming noises and a tiny light on it was flickering faintly.
"Flat battery?" said Arthur.
"No," said Ford, "there is a moving disturbance in the fabric of space-time, an eddy, a pool of instability, and it's somewhere in our vicinity."
...
"There!" said Ford, shooting out his arm; "there, behind that sofa!"
Arthur looked. Much to his surprise, there was a velvet paisley-covered Chesterfield sofa in the field in front of them. He boggled intelligently at it. Shrewd questions sprang into his mind.
"Why," he said, "is there a sofa in that field?"
"I told you!" shouted Ford, leaping to his feet. "Eddies in the space-time continuum!"
"And this is his sofa, is it?"
... 12 chapters pass ...
"All will become clear," said Slartibartfast.
"When?"
"In a minute. Listen. The time streams are now very polluted. There's a lot of muck floating about in them, flotsam and jetsam, and more and more of it is now being regurgitated into the physical world. Eddies in the space-time continuum, you see."
"So I hear," said Arthur. ~ Douglas Adams,#NFDB
761:The Conference Of The (Underemployed) Birds
"It shows the top half of the workforce enjoying permanent, well-paid, fulltime jobs,
while the bottom half can find only casual, poorly-paid, part-time work which, as
Labour
market economist Professor Sue Richardson warned this week, was creating a
class of
"excluded and dangerous" men with incomes to low to support a
family." - The Age, October 04, 2003.
"My discourse is sans words, sans tongue, sans sound: understand it then,
sans mind, sans ear."
- Farid Ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds
(i)
A Willy-Wagtails' call intercepts the morning. Birds were real once, like jobs.
The modem's dial-up scream is cut short; why is our technology suffering so?
Fake, Australian accents in the call centre aviary: Calcutta nest robbers gloat.
A taxidermy of outsourced work: ditto, we're all stuffed on the global floor.
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Bottom of the bird market. This new flu's crashed like tech stocks, Acme trap
For the Roadrunner managerial class, the coyote - disenfranchised American?
(ii)
Magpies don't attack in the open anymore, have you noticed: phenomena?
Phone tab's the way forward. Keep an eye on your receiver, not the skies.
There are new powers afoot for dealing with these full employment refos,
Our government issues wide-brimmed hats with strings of corks attached.
The contemporary job market has a thin eggshell; depleted proteins crack.
An excluded & dangerous class birthed? They backed job terrorism not us.
(iii)
I saw a hoopoe once. Was it Jaipur? Its crown of truth strutted on the lawn,
Painted a post-colonial green. What good is spiritual knowledge without law?
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You will play an integral role in this dynamic environment by fudging your
Work history for sure. Service orientate your brain - lively, world class, lame.
Dangerous as ideas? There's a metal storm inside your head. Try Sufism?
Was it John Lennon or Steve McQueen who went on about "ism ism ism?
"
(iv)
There are nightingales here reputedly. Wasn't it someone from myth who
Couldn't stand being unemployed anymore & turned themselves into one?
Hit an epic glass ceiling probably. Better to be amorous than under-employed?
There's no new twist in the figures though. The virtual exclusion of women
From net growth in full-time job mythology is eons old. Sumerians started it.
Gilgamesh's entrapment of Enkidu needed a woman's art: ‘Wanted Harlot.'
(v)
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Australia has plenty of parrots, but cockatiels inhabit our universal currency
Of shame. See them locked up in Athens, Rome, Madrid, Delhi & Bangkok.
Feathered service economies, budgerigars tell beak fortunes in Iranian streets.
Collars of gold chained to human profit. Flocks flee drought & agricultural rut.
We even killed off one sub-species called ‘Paradise', cleared full-time underbrush.
& if they were flightless, then we paid out redundancies see: dodo, puffin & moa.
~ B. R. Dionysius,#NFDB
762:Anumite mărturii, rare, ce-i drept, ni-l înfăţişează pe Gogol ca pe un sfînt; altele, mai frecvente, ca pe-o fantomă. Nu i se cunoaşte nicio relaţie amoroasă. Biografii săi vorbesc deschis de impotenţă. Nu e cusur care să izoleze mai mult. Impotentul dispune de o forţă lăuntrică ce-l singularizează, îl face inaccesibil şi, în chip paradoxal, primejdios: provoacă frică. Animal desprins de animalitate, bărbat fără neam, viaţă abandonată de instinct, el se înalţă prin tot ce a pierdut: e victima preferată a spiritului. Ne-am putea imagina un şobolan impotent? Rozătoarele realizează de minune actul cu pricina. Nu acelaşi lucru se poate afirma despre oameni: cu cît sînt mai excepţionali, cu atît se agravează la ei această slăbiciune majoră ce-i smulge din lanţul fiinţelor. Orice activitate le este îngăduită, mai puţin aceea ce ne înrudeşte cu ansamblul zoologiei. Sexualitatea ne egalizează; mai mult: ne răpeşte misterul... Ea este aceea care, în mai mare măsură decît orice altă nevoie şi activitate, ne pune pe picior de egalitate cu semenii noştri: cu cît o practicăm mai asiduu, cu atît devenim mai asemănători. Abstinenţa voluntară sau forţată, proiectînd individul în acelaşi timp mai sus şi mai jos de Specie, face din el un amestec de sfînt şi imbecil care ne pune pe ganduri şi ne consternează. De aici si ura echivocă pe care o simţim faţă de călugări, ca de altfel faţă de orice bărbat care a renunţat la femeie, care a renunţat să fie ca noi. Nu-i vom ierta niciodată singurătatea: ea ne umileşte şi ne dezgustă, ne sfidează. Gogol a mărturisit cîndva că dacă ar fi cedat iubirii, aceasta l-ar fi «făcut praf şi pulbere pe dată». O asemenea mărturisire, care ne răscoleşte şi ne fascinează, ne duce cu gîndul la «taina» lui Kierkegaard, la «ghimpele din carnea sa». Totuşi, filozoful danez era o natură erotică: ruperea logodnei, eşecul în iubire l-au chinuit întreaga viaţă şi i-au marcat pînă şi scrierile teologice. Ar trebui atunci să-l comparăm pe Gogol cu Swift, celălalt «osîndit»? Ar însemna să uităm că acesta a avut şansa, dacă nu să iubească, cel puţin să facă, victime. Pentru a fixa locul lui Gogol, trebuie să ne imaginăm un Swift fără Stella şi fără Vanessa. Fiinţele care trăiesc sub ochii noştri în Revizorul sau în Suflete moarte, observă un biograf, nu sînt «nimic». Şi fiind «nimic», sunt «totul». Intr-adevăr, «substanţa» le lipseşte; de unde, universalitatea lor. Ce sînt Cicikov, Pliuşkin, Sobakevici, Nozdriov, Malinov, eroul din Mantaua ori acela din Nasul, dacă nu noi înşine reduşi la adevărata noastră esenţă? «Suflete goale», spune Gogol; şi totuşi, ele au o anume măreţie: aceea a platitudinii. Un Shakespeare al meschinului,
s-ar spune, un Shakespeare preocupat să ne observe ideile fixe, micile obsesii, foiala noastră zilnică. Nimeni n-a mers mai departe decat Gogol în perceperea cotidianului. De prea multă realitate, personajele sale devin inexistente şi se preschimbă in simboluri în care ne recunoaştem pe deplin. Ele nu decad: sînt decăzute dintru început. Fără să vrem, ne vin în minte Demonii; dar, in vreme ce eroii lui Dostoievski se avîntă spre limitele lor, eroii lui Gogol dau îndărăt spre acelea ce le sînt proprii; unii par să răspundă unei chemări ce-i depăşeşte, ceilalţi nu dau ascultare decft nesfîrşitei lor vulgarităţi. ~ Emil M Cioran,#NFDB
763:Năzuinţa omului spre „liberul arbitru“, în înţelesul superlativ şi metafizic care din păcate mai domneşte încă în creierele semidocte, vrerea de a purta întreaga şi ultima responsabilitate pentru actele sale, descărcând-o din spinarea lui Dumnezeu, a lumii, a eredităţii, a întâmplării, a societăţii, este nici mai mult, nici mai puţin decât dorinţa de a fi însăşi causa sui. Cu o cutezanţă mai mare decât aceea a baronului de Munchhausen, omul încearcă, trăgându-se de păr, să se smulgă din mlaştina neantului, pentru a se înălţa în existentă. Iar de s-ar hotărî vreunul să-i facă vânt neroziei rustice a acestei noţiuni faimoase a „liberului arbitru“ şi să şi-o scoată din cap l-aş ruga să mai facă un pas pe calea „iluminării“ sale şi să procedeze aşijderea şi în privinţa contrariului acestei pseudonoţiuni a „liberului arbitru“: mă refer la „vrerea încătuşată“ care conduce la un abuz al noţiunilor de cauză şi efect. „Cauza“ şi „efectul“ nu trebuie concretizate, precum o fac în mod greşit naturaliştii (şi toţi cei care naturalizează azi în gândire, asemenea lor), care se conformează neroziei mecaniciste dominante ce îşi imaginează cauza drept ceva care trage şi împinge până în momentul în care este obţinut efectul: trebuie să ne folosim de „cauză“ şi de „efect" doar ca de nişte noţiuni pure, adică în chip de ficţiuni convenţionale în scopul desemnării, al comunicării, şi nu pentru cel al explicaţiei. Noţiunea de „în sine“ nu conţine nici un dram de „legătură cauzală“, de „necesitate“, de „determinism psihologic“, în cazul ei efectul nu este urmarea cauzei, în cadrul ei nu domneşte nici o „lege“. Noi singuri am fost cei care am inventat cauzele, succesiunea, reciprocitatea, relativitatea, obligativitatea, numărul, legea, libertatea, temeiul, ţinta; iar când introducem şi amestecăm în lucruri această lume de semne născocite de noi înşine, în chip de lucruri „în sine“, procedăm iarăşi precum am făcut întotdeauna, şi anume mitologic. „Voinţa încătuşată“ este un mit: în realitate, se poate vorbi doar despre voinţe puternice şi slabe. - Când un gânditor simte că a descoperit deodată în întreaga „înlănţuire cauzală" şi în întreaga „necesitate psihologică“ ceva ce seamănă a constrângere, a necesitate, a succesiune obligatorie, a presiune, a încătuşare - aceasta este mai întotdeauna semnul că în cazul lui ceva nu este în regulă: a simţi astfel e un simptom revelator, - respectivul se demască pe sine; şi, în general, în caz că observaţiile mele sunt exacte, problema determinismului este cercetată sub două aspecte diametral opuse, însă întotdeauna într-un mod profund personal: unii nu vor să cedeze cu niciun preţ din „responsabilitatea“ lor, din credinţa în sine, din dreptul personal asupra meritelor tor (acesta e cazul raselor vanitoase), ceilalţi, dimpotrivă, nu vor să-si asume responsabilitatea şi vinovăţia pentru nimic, dorind, dintr-un tăinuit dispreţ de sine, să poată da bir cu fugiţii, indiferent în ce direcţie, din faţa eului lor. Când scriu cărţi, aceştia din urmă obişnuiesc să ia apărarea în zilele noastre răufăcătorilor; deghizarea lor preferată este un fel de compătimire socialistă. Si, într-adevăr, fatalismul celor cu voinţa slabă se înfrumuseţează uimitor din momentul în care reuşeşte să se dea drept la religion de la souffrance humaine: este felul său de a-si demonstra „bunul gust“. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
764:În secolele târzii care se mândresc pe bună dreptate cu umanitatea lor, persistă încă o teamă atât de mare si de superstitioasă fată de „animalele sălbatice fioroase“, (tocmai dominatia asupra lor constituind mândria acelor secole mai umanitare) încât până si adevărurile evidente au fost trecute sub tăcere, rămânând, oarecum printr-o întelegere tacită, inexprimate secole la rând, deoarece ele aveau aerul că trezesc la viată acele fiare în sfârsit ucise. Poate că mă expun la anumite riscuri lăsând să-mi scape un astfel de adevăr: n-au decât să-i captureze altii si să-i dea de băut „laptele gândirii blajine“, până ce se va reîntoarce, linistit si uitat, în cusca în care dormita. - Trebuie să ne revizuim ideile privitoare la cruzime si să deschidem bine ochii; trebuie să ne deprindem cu nerăbdarea, pentru ca astfel de erori arogante si grosolane să înceteze o dată pentru totdeauna să se mai fâtâie virtuoase si impertinente în fată-ne, cum sunt de pildă erorile întretinute de către vechii si noii filozofi în privinta tragediei. Aproape tot ceea ce numim noi „cultură înaltă" are la bază spiritualizarea si aprofundarea cruzimii - aceasta e convingerea mea; „animalul sălbatic“ n-a fost nicidecum ucis, e bine sănătos, numai că a devenit - divin. Cruzimea este cea care produce voluptatea dureroasă a tragediei; senzatiile plăcute în savurarea asa-numitei compasiuni tragice si, de fapt, în toate cele sublime, până la culmile celor mai subtile fioruri ale metafizicii, îsi datorează dulceata numai si numai grăuntelui de cruzime amestecat în ele. Ce îl atrage pe roman în arenă, pe crestin în extazul crucii, pe spaniol în fata rugurilor sau la luptele de tauri, pe japonezul zilelor noastre care dă năvală la tragedii, pe lucrătorul suburbiilor pariziene care duce dorul revolutiilor sângeroase, pe wagneriana care cu vointa inhibată se lasă „coplesită“ de Tristan si Isolda? Cu totii, ei savurează si năzuiesc să soarbă în ei cu o ardoare misterioasă tocmai licorile aromate ale marii Circe pe nume „Cruzimea“. Fireste că trebuie izgonită totodată si neghioaba psihologie de odinioară care stie să ne învete doar că cruzimea ia nastere la vederea suferintei altcuiva: se poate afla plăcere, o plăcere cât se poate de mare, chiar si în propria-ti suferintă, în a-ti-provoca-suferintă, - si ori de câte ori omul se lasă înduplecat la lepădarea de sine, în sensul religios al cuvântului, sau la automutilare, precum o practicau fenicienii si ascetii, sau, în general, la renuntarea la nevoile simturilor si ale cărnii, la umilintă, la convulsii puritanice de pocăintă, la vivisectia constiintei si la pascaliana sacrifizio dell'inteletto, cruzimea sa este aceea care în taină îl ademeneste si îl îmboldeste, fiorul cel primejdios al cruzimii îndreptate împotriva lui însusi. În fine, luati în consideratie si recunoasteti faptul că însusi cunoscătorul, aplicând constrângerea asupra spiritului său, potrivnic înclinatiei acestuia si adeseori împotriva dorintelor inimii sale - si anume, spunând Nu atunci când ar dori să aprobe, să iubească, să adore -, actionează în chip de artist si adept al cruzimii: orice coborâre spre profunzimile si temeliile lucrurilor constituie prin ea însăsi o siluire, o vrere de îndurerare a vointei fundamentale a spiritului, care se avântă fără încetare spre aparentă si suprafată, - în orice vrere de cunoastere se află si câte o picătură de cruzime. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
765:Unor astfel de oameni ma voi arta asa cum sunt
5. Dar cu ce folos vor ei lucrul acesta? Doresc cumva sa ma felicite, dupa ce vor fi aflat cit de mult m-am apropiat de Tine prin darul pe care Tu mi l-ai dat, si sa se roage pentru mine cind vor fi aflat cit de mult zabovesc sub povara greutatii mele? Ma voi arata lor, celor care sint in acest fel. Caci, o, Dumnezeule al meu, nu e putin lucru ca tie sa ti se aduca multumiri de catre multi dintre noi si sa-Ti se adreseze multe rugaciuni pentru noi.
Sufletul lor fratesc sa iubeasca in mine ceea ce Tu le arati ca merita sa fie iubit, si sa deplinga ceea ce Tu le arati ca trebuie sa fie deplins. Acest lucru sa-l realizeze acel suflet fratesc, nu un altul din afara, nu al altor fii, a caror
gura a grait desertaciune si a caror dreaptat este dreapta nedreptatii , ci sufletul acela fratesc, care, atunci cind
ma aproba, se bucura de mine; dar care, atunci cind ma dezaproba, se intristeaza de mine: deoarece, fie ca ma aproba, fie ca ma dezaproba, acela ma iubeste. Unor asemenea oameni ma voi arata: cei care isi potrivesc
respiratia cu mine in cele bune ale mele si care suspina cu mine in cele rele. Or, bunurile mele sint rinduielile Tale si darurile Tale; iar relele mele sint pacatele mele si judecatile Tale; sa-si potriveasca respiratia cu mine in
unele, si sa suspine cu mine in celelalte, si cintul de preamarire si plinsul sa se urce pina la Tine din inimile fratesti, cadelnitele Tale. Iar Tu, o, Doamne, desfatat de mireasma templului Tau cel sfint, ai mila de mine dupa
mare mila Ta , pentru numele Tau si, neparasind nicidecum cele pe care deja le-ai inceput, pune capat
neajunsurilor mele.
6. Acesta este rostul marturisirilor mele, nu in ce fel voi fi fost eu, ci in ce fel sint acum, intrucit nu numai in fata Ta ma marturisesc intr-o tainica preamarire plina de cutremur si intr-o tainica jale plina de speranta, ci ma
marturisesc chiar in urechile fiilor oamenilor care cred in Tine, ei, partasii bucuriilor mele si ai destinului meu muritor, in urechile concetatenilor mei si in ale celor care calatoresc cu mine in lumea aceasta, ale celor care au fost inaintea mea si ale celor care vin dupa mine, in ale tuturor celor ce-mi urmeaza pasii, si devin partasi la calea
mea.
Acestia sint robii Tai, fratii mei, cei pe care Tu ai voit sa-i numesti fiii Tai, stapinii mei, cei carora Tu ai poruncit sa le slujesc, daca vreau sa traiesc cu Tine si din Tine. Si cuvintul acesta al Tau ar fi fost putin pentru mine, daca
el m-ar fi instruit vorbind doar, si nu ar fi mers inaintea mea lucrind. Iar eu fac acest lucru prin fapte si prin vorbe, savarsesc asta sub acoperamintul aripilor Tale ; sub amenintarea unei primejdii prea mari, daca sufletul
meu n-ar fi fost pus sub acoperamintul aripilor Tale si daca slabiciunea mea nu Ti-ar fi cunoscuta. Eu sint mititel, dar Tatal meu traieste vesnic, si Ocrotitorul meu este potrivit pentru mine: caci acelasi este si Cel Care m-a nascut si Cel Care ma pazeste. Tu insuti esti toate bunurile mele, Tu, CeL Atotputernic, Tu CeL Care esti cu
mine inainte ca eu sa fiu cu Tine. Asadar, ma voi arata unor astfel de oameni, carora Tu imi poruncesti sa le slujesc, nu cum am fost eu cindva, ci in ce fel am fost pina acum si inca sint. De altfel, nici eu nu ma judec pe
mine insumi ; deci in felul acesta sa fiu ascultat. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo,#NFDB
766:My office is over here—”
He stopped. Frowned. Looked about. Had to backtrack to the kitchen in order to find the various parties.
Sola’s grandmother had her head in the Sub-Zero refrigerator, rather as if she were a gnome looking for a cool place in the summer.
“Madam?” Assail inquired.
She shut the door and moved on to the floor-to-ceiling cabinets. “There is nothing here. Nothing. What do you eat?”
“Ah . . .” Assail found himself looking at the cousins for aid. “Usually we take our meals in town.”
The scoffing sound certainly appeared like the old-lady equivalent of Fuck that.
“I need the staples.” She pivoted on her little shiny shoes and put her hands on her hips. “Who is taking me to supermarket.”
Not an inquiry. And as she stared up at the three of them, it appeared as though Ehric and his violent killer of a twin were as nonplussed as Assail was.
The evening had been planned out to the minute—and a trip to the local Hannaford was not on the list.
“You two are too thin,” she announced, flicking her hand in the direction of the twins. “You need to eat.”
Assail cleared his throat. “Madam, you have been brought here for your safety.”
He was not going to permit Benloise to up the stakes—and so he’d had to lock down potential collateral damage.
“Not to be a cook.”
“You have already refused the money. I no stay here for free. I earn my keep. That is the way it will be.”
Assail exhaled long and slow. Now he knew where Sola got her independent streak.
“Well?” she demanded. “I no drive. Who takes me.”
“Madam, would you not prefer to rest—”
“Your body rest when dead. Who.”
“We do have an hour,” Ehric hedged.
As Assail glared at the other vampire, the little old lady hitched her purse up on her forearm and nodded. “So he will take me.”
Assail met Sola’s grandmother’s gaze directly and dropped his tone a register just so that the line drawn would be respected. “I pay. Are we clear—you are not to spend a cent.”
She opened her mouth as if to argue, but she was headstrong—not foolish. “Then I do the darning.”
“Our clothes are in sufficient shape—”
Ehric cleared his throat. “Actually, I have a couple of loose buttons. And the Velcro strip on his flak jacket is—”
Assail looked over his shoulder and bared his fangs at the idiot—out of eyesight of Sola’s grandmother, of course. Remarshaling his expression, he turned back around and— Knew he’d lost.
The grandmother had one of those brows cocked, her dark eyes as steady as any foe’s he’d ever faced.
Assail shook his head. “I cannot believe I’m negotiating with you.”
“And you agree to terms.”
“Madam—”
“Then it is settled.”
Assail threw up his hands. “Fine. You have forty-five minutes. That is all.”
“We be back in thirty.” At that, she turned and headed for the door.
In her diminutive wake, the three vampires played ocular Ping-Pong.
“Go,” Assail gritted out. “Both of you.”
The cousins stalked for the garage door—but they didn’t make it.
Sola’s grandmother wheeled around and put her hands on her hips. “Where is your crucifix?”
Assail shook himself. “I beg your pardon?”
“Are you no Catholic?”
My dear sweet woman, we are not human, he thought.
“No, I fear not.”
Laser-beam eyes locked on him. Ehric. Ehric’s brother. “We change this. It is God’s will.”
And out she went, marching through the mudroom, ripping open the door, and disappearing into the garage.
As that heavy steel barrier closed automatically, all Assail could do was blink. ~ J R Ward,#NFDB
767:Information or allegations reflecting negatively on individuals or groups seen less sympathetically by the intelligentsia pass rapidly into the public domain with little scrutiny and much publicity. Two of the biggest proven hoaxes of our time have involved allegations of white men gang-raping a black woman-- first the Tawana Brawley hoax of 1987 and later the false rape charges against three Duke University students in 2006. In both cases, editorial indignation rang out across the land, without a speck of evidence to substantiate either of these charges. Moreover, the denunciations were not limited to the particular men accused, but were often extended to society at large, of whom these men were deemed to be symptoms or 'the tip of the iceberg.' In both cases, the charges fit a pre-existing vision, and that apparently made mundane facts unnecessary.
Another widely publicized hoax-- one to which the President of the United States added his sub-hoax-- was a 1996 story appearing in USA Today under the headline, 'Arson at Black Churches Echoes Bigotry of the Past.' There was, according to USA Today, 'an epidemic of church burning,' targeting black churches. Like the gang-rape hoaxes, this story spread rapidly through the media. The Chicago Tribune referred to 'an epidemic of criminal and cowardly arson' leaving black churches in ruins.
As with the gang-rape hoaxes, comments on the church fire stories went beyond those who were supposed to have set these fires to blame forces at work in society at large. Jesse Jackson was quoted was quoted in the New York Times as calling these arsons part of a 'cultural conspiracy' against blacks, which 'reflected the heightened racial tensions in the south that have been exacerbated by the assault on affirmative action and the populist oratory of Republican politicians like Pat Buchanan.' Time magazine writer Jack White likewise blamed 'the coded phrases' of Republican leaders for 'encouraging the arsonists.' Columnist Barbara Reynolds of USA Today said that the fires were 'an attempt to murder the spirit of black America.' New York Times columnist Bob Herbert said, "The fuel for these fires can be traced to a carefully crafted environment of bigotry and hatred that was developed over the last century.'
As with the gang-rape hoaxes, the charges publicized were taken as reflecting on the whole society, not just those supposedly involved in what was widely presumed to be arson, rather than fires that break out for a variety of other reasons. Washington Post columnist Dorothy Gilliam said that society in effect was 'giving these arsonists permission to commit these horrible crimes.' The climax of these comments came when President Bill Clinton, in his weekly radio address, said that these church burnings recalled similar burnings of black churches in Arkansas when he was a boy. There were more that 2,000 media stories done on the subject after the President's address.
This story began to unravel when factual research showed that (1) no black churches were burned in Arkansas when Bill Clinton was growing up, (2) there had been no increase in fires at black churches, but an actual decrease over the previous 15 years, (3) the incidence of fires at white churches was similar to the incidence of fires at black churches, and (4) where there was arson, one-third of the suspects were black. However, retractions of the original story-- where there were retractions at all-- typically were given far less prominence than the original banner headlines and heated editorial comments. ~ Thomas Sowell,#NFDB
768:Let us now assume that under truly extraordinary circumstances, the daimon nevertheless breaks through in the individual, so to speak, and is this able to let its destructive transcendence be felt: then one would have a kind of active experience of death. Thereupon the second connection becomes clear: why the figure of the daimon or doppelgänger in the ancient myths could be melded with the deity of death. In the Nordic tradition the warrior sees his Valkyrie precisely at the moment of death or mortal danger.
In religious asceticism, mortification, self-renunciation, and the impulse of devotion to God are the preferred methods of provoking and successfully overcoming the crisis I have just mentioned. Everyone knows the expressions which refer to these states, such as the 'mystical death' or 'dark night of the soul', etc. In contrast to this, within the framework of a heroic tradition, the path to the same goal is the active rapture, the Dionysian unleashing of the active element. At its lower levels, we find phenomenons such as the use of dance as a sacred technique for achieving an ecstasy of the soul that summons and uses profound energies. While the individual’s life is surrendered to Dionysian rhythm, another life sinks into it, as if it where his abyssal roots surfacing. The 'wild host' Furies, Erinyes, and suchlike spiritual natures are symbolic picturings of this energy, thus corresponding to a manifestation of the daimon in its terrifying and active transcendence. At a higher level we find sacred war-games; higher still, war itself. And this brings us back to the ancient Aryan concept of battle and the warrior ascetic.
At the climax of danger and heroic battle, the possibility for such an extraordinary experience was recognized. The Lating ludere, meaning both 'to play' and 'to fight', seems to contain the idea of release. This is one of the many allusions to the inherent ability of battle to release deeply-buried powers from individual limitations and let them freely emerge. Hence the third comparison: the daimon, the Lar, the individualizing I, etc., are not only identical with the Furies, Erinyes, and other unleashed Dionysian natures, which themselves have many traits similar to the goddess of death — they are also synonymous with the storm maidens of battle, the Valkyries and Fravartis. In the texts, for example, the Fravartis are called 'the terrible, the all-powerful', 'those who attack in storm and bestow victory upon those who conjure them', or, more precisely, those who conjure them up in themselves.
From there to the final comparison is only a short step. In the Aryan tradition the same martial beings eventually take on the form of victory-goddesses, a transformation which denotes the happy completion of the inner experience in question. Just as the daimon or doppelgänger signifies a deep, supra-individual power in its latent condition as compared to ordinary consciousness; just as the Furies and Erinyes reflect a particular manifestation of daimonic rages and eruptions (and the goddesses of death, Valkyries, Fravartis, etc., refer to the same conditions, as long as these are facilitated by battle and heroism) — in the same way the goddess of victory is the expression of the triumph of the I over this power. She signifies the victorious ascent to a state unendangered by ecstasies and sub-personal forms of disintegration, a danger that always lurks behind the frenetic moment of Dionysian and even heroic action. The ascent to a spiritual, truly supra-personal condition that makes one free, immortal, and internally indestructible, when the 'Two becomes One', expresses itself in this image of mythical consciousness. ~ Julius Evola,#NFDB
769:Bibliothèque Nationale. Sunt mulți oameni în sală, dar nu-i simt. Ei sunt în cărți. Uneori se mișcă printre file, asemenea oamenilor care dorm și se răsucesc între două vise. Ah, ce bine este totuși să fii printre oamenii care citesc. De ce nu sunt mereu așa? Poți să te duci la unul și să-l atingi ușor: nu simte nimic. Și dacă îl atingi puțin pe vecin când te ridici și te scuzi, el face un semn din cap spre partea în care îți aude vocea, întoarce fața spre tine, dar nu te vede, iar părul lui arată ca părul unui om adormit. Ce bine e așa! Și eu stau și am un poet. Ce mai soartă! Acum poate că sunt în sală trei sute de oameni care citesc, dar este imposibil ca fiecare în parte să aibă un poet. (Dumnezeu știe ce au!) Nu există trei sute de poeți, dar ia uite ce soartă, eu, poate cel mai nevoiaș dintre acești cititori, un străin, eu am un poet. Deși sunt sărac. Deși costumul meu, pe care îl port zilnic, începe să se tocească în unele locuri, deși pantofii mei cam lasă de dorit. Ce-i drept, gulerul este curat, ca și lenjeria, și aș putea, așa cum sunt, să intru în orice cofetărie, chiar și pe marile bulevarde, să întind liniștit mâna spre farfuria cu prăjituri și să iau una. Nu s-ar mira nimeni de asta și n-aș fi certat și dat afară pentru că, oricum, este o mână din lumea bună, o mână spălată de patru-cinci ori pe zi. Da, sub unghii nu este nimic, degetul mijlociu nu e pătat de cerneală și în special încheieturile sunt impecabile. Este un fapt cunoscut că oamenii săraci nu se spală până acolo. De la curățenia lor se pot trage unele concluzii. Se și trag. Se trag în magazine. Există totuși câțiva oameni, pe Boulevard Saint-Michel de pildă și pe rue Racine, care nu se lasă derutați și cărora puțin le pasă de încheieturile mele. Ei mă privesc și știu. Ei știu că de fapt fac parte dintre ei, că joc doar un pic de comedie. Doar suntem în carnaval. Și nu vor să-și strice distracția; rânjesc un pic și-mi fac cu ochiul. N-a văzut nimeni. De altfel, mă tratează ca pe un domn. Trebuie numai să fie cineva în apropiere și atunci devin chiar servili. Se comportă ca și cum aș avea o haină de blană pe mine și în urma mea ar veni o mașină. Uneori le dau doi gologani, tremurând că ar putea să-i refuze, dar ei îi primesc. Și totul ar fi în regulă dacă n-ar rânji un pic și n-ar face cu ochiul. Cine sunt acești oameni? Ce vor de la mine? Mă așteaptă? De unde mă cunosc? Este adevărat, barba mea este cam neglijentă și de foarte, foarte departe, amintește de bărbile lor bolnave, bătrâne, spălăcite, care m-au impresionat întotdeauna, dar n-am oare dreptul să-mi neglijez barba? Mulți oameni ocupați fac asta și nimănui nu-i trece prin cap să-i socotească, din pricina asta, printre dezmoșteniți. Pentru mine este limpede: dezmoșteniții nu sunt numai cerșetori; nu, de fapt nu sunt cerșetori, trebuie să se facă distincție. Sunt deșeurile, cojile de oameni scuipate de soartă. Uzi încă de saliva sorții, se lipesc de un zid, de un felinar, de un stâlp cu afișe sau se scurg încet în josul străzii, lăsând în urma lor o dâră neagră, murdară. Ce dracu’ voia de la mine bătrâna aceea care, cu un sertar de noptieră în care se rostogoleau câțiva nasturi și câteva ace, ieșise din cine știe ce cocioabă? De ce se ținea întruna după mine și mă măsura cu privirea? Parcă încerca să mă recunoască cu ochii ei urduroși, care arătau ca și cum un bolnav ar fi scuipat flegmă verde pe pleoapele ei sângerii. Și cum a ajuns femeia aia cenușie, măruntă, să stea un sfert de oră lângă mine în fața unei vitrine, arătându-mi un creion vechi, lung, care ieșea nesfârșit de încet dintre mâinile ei murdare, împreunate. Mă prefăceam că privesc obiectele expuse în vitrină și că nu observ nimic. Ea însă știa că am văzut-o, știa că stau și mă întreb ce face de fapt. Înțelegeam foarte bine că nu putea fi vorba de creion: simțeam că era un semn, un semn pentru inițiați, un semn pe care-l cunosc dezmoșteniții. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
770:Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous. -George Leonard
Learning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it…the upward spurts vary; the plateaus have their own dips and rises along the way…To take the master’s journey, you have to practice diligently, striving to hone your skills, to attain new levels of competence. But while doing so–and this is the inexorable–fact of the journey–you also have to be willing to spend most of your time on a plateau, to keep practicing even when you seem to be getting nowhere. (Mastery, p. 14-15).
Backsliding is a universal experience. Every one of us resists significant change, no matter whether it’s for the worse or for the better. Our body, brain and behavior have a built-in tendency to stay the same within rather narrow limits, and to snap back when changed…Be aware of the way homeostasis works…Expect resistance and backlash. Realize that when the alarm bells start ringing, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re sick or crazy or lazy or that you’ve made a bad decision in embarking on the journey of mastery. In fact, you might take these signals as an indication that your life is definitely changing–just what you’ve wanted….Be willing to negotiate with your resistance to change.
Our preoccupation with goals, results, and the quick fix has separated us from our own experiences…there are all of those chores that most of us can’t avoid: cleaning, straightening, raking leaves, shopping for groceries, driving the children to various activities, preparing food, washing dishes, washing the car, commuting, performing the routine, repetitive aspects of our jobs….Take driving, for instance. Say you need to drive ten miles to visit a friend. You might consider the trip itself as in-between-time, something to get over with. Or you could take it as an opportunity for the practice of mastery. In that case, you would approach your car in a state of full awareness…Take a moment to walk around the car and check its external condition, especially that of the tires…Open the door and get in the driver’s seat, performing the next series of actions as a ritual: fastening the seatbelt, adjusting the seat and the rearview mirror…As you begin moving, make a silent affirmation that you’ll take responsibility for the space all around your vehicle at all times…We tend to downgrade driving as a skill simply because it’s so common. Actually maneuvering a car through varying conditions of weather, traffic, and road surface calls for an extremely high level of perception, concentration, coordination, and judgement…Driving can be high art…Ultimately, nothing in this life is “commonplace,” nothing is “in between.” The threads that join your every act, your every thought, are infinite. All paths of mastery eventually merge.
[Each person has a] vantage point that offers a truth of its own.
We are the architects of creation and all things are connected through us.
The Universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level . . . The intention of the universe is evolution.
We exist as a locus of waves that spreads its influence to the ends of space and time.
The whole of a thing is contained in each of its parts.
We are completely, firmly, absolutely connected with all of existence.
We are indeed in relationship to all that is. ~ George Leonard,#NFDB
771:Era o noapte minunată, cum numai în tinereţe pot fi nopţile, iubite cititorule. Bolta înstelată era atât de luminoasă, încât, privind-o, te întrebai fără să vrei: cum e cu putinţă oare, ca sub firmamentul acesta de vrajă să mai existe şi oameni posomorâţi ori cu toane? E foarte tinerească, desigur, şi această întrebare, iubite cititorule, deie Domnul ca ea să-ţi însenineze cât mai des sufletul! Alunecând însă cu gândul la feluriţi oameni îmbufnaţi şi cu toane, mi-am amintit şi de starea mea sufletească în tot cursul acelei zile. Un sentiment ciudat de înstrăinare puse pe nesimţite stăpânire pe mine, chiar din zori. Încercam senzaţia penibilă a omului însingurat care deodată se simte părăsit şi uitat de toţi. Oricine este în drept, fireşte, să mă întrebe: dar cine erau aceşti „toţi"? de vreme ce, în cei opt ani de când locuiesc aici, la Petersburg, n-am reuşit să leg aproape nici o cunoştinţă. Şi ce rost ar avea, la ce mi-ar folosi de fapt asemenea cunoştinţe, când, fără să fi cunoscut pe cineva direct, am ajuns să cunosc aproape tot Petersburgul! De aceea am şi avut impresia că mă pără¬sesc toţi, când oraşul întreg s-a ridicat deodată cu tot calabalâcul, pornind într-un exod grăbit spre localităţile de vilegiatură din împrejurimile capitalei. Îngrozit la gândul că rămân singur, am hoinărit trei zile la rând pe străzi, pradă unei tristeţi cople¬şitoare şi fără a izbuti să-mi dau seama de ceea ce se petrece cu mine. Fie că mergeam pe Bulevardul Nevski, fie că străbăteam parcul sau rătăceam de-a lungul cheiului — nu mai întâlneam acum nici un chip cunoscut, nici unul din oamenii aceia cu care mă obişnuisem a da ochii în cutare loc, la cutare oră, ani de-a rândul. Ei nu mă cunoscuseră, desigur, dar eu îi cunoşteam... Îi cunoşteam de aproape, căci le studiasem atât de bine chipurile, încât am ajuns să le admir când sunt voioase şi mă simt tare abătut când le văd întunecate. Am ajuns chiar să leg un fel de prietenie cu un bătrânel, pe care, nu e zi de la Dumnezeu, să nu-l întâlnesc, la aceeaşi oră, pe Fontanka. Are o înfăţişare atât de gravă şi e atât de cufundat în gânduri! Tot timpul mormăie ceva pe sub nas, gesticulează cu mâna stângă, iar în dreapta ţine un baston lung, noduros, cu măciulia aurită. Chiar şi el m-a observat şi manifestă faţă de mine o simpatie sinceră. Sunt convins că, dacă s-ar întâmpla să nu fiu la ora obişnuită şi pe locul ştiut de pe Fontanka, l-ar cuprinde ipohondria. Iată de ce câteodată aproape că ne şi salutăm, mai ales când amândoi suntem în bună dispoziţie. Mai deunăzi, după ce nu ne văzusem două zile la rând, întâlnindu-ne a treia zi, printr-o pornire spontană, duserăm involuntar mâinile la pălărie; ne oprirăm totuşi la timp, stăpânindu-ne gestul şi trecurăm cu simpatie unul pe lângă celălalt. La fel de bine îmi sunt cunoscute şi casele. Când trec pe stradă, fiecare parcă m-ar întâmpina cu aerul că vrea să-mi iasă în cale, mă priveşte cu toate ferestrele şi doar că nu-mi spune: „Bună ziua! Cum vă mai simţiţi? Cât despre mine, mulţumesc lui Dumnezeu, sunt bine sănătoasă, iar pe la începutul lunii am să mai capăt un etaj"; sau: „Cum o duceţi cu sănătatea? Eu de mâine intru în reparaţie" (...) Sau, n-am să uit niciodată întâmplarea cu o căsuţă foarte drăguţă, de culoare roz-pal. Era o căsuţă de zid, zveltă şi cochetă, şi mă privea cu atâta prietenie, iar la vecinele ei grosolane şi greoaie se uita atât de semeaţă, încât inima-mi tresaltă de bucurie ori de câte ori mi se întâmpla să trec pe lângă ea. Dar săptămâna trecută, având drum pe acea stradă şi aruncându-mi privirea spre prietena mea, o auzii căinându-se amarnic: „Priveşte, mă vopsesc în galben !" Mizerabilii! Nu-i cruţaseră nici coloanele, nici cornişele. Prietena mea se îngălbenise ca un canar. De supărare, simţii în gură gust de fiere şi nici până acum nu mi-am găsit puteri destule ca să mai dau ochi cu sărmana mea prietenă. (...)Aşadar, cititorule cred că înţelegi cam în cel fel cunosc eu tot oraşul Petersburg. youtubecom/watch?v=Fa5EVxyS7QM& ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
772:13. ‘’Cel pe care mi-l arati, ce insemnatate are cate stie? E asemenea unui dictionar. Important este ceea ce este.’’
14. ‘’ Si, una cate una, dintr-o contradictie invinsa in alta, ma indrept spre tacerea intrebarilor si astfel, catre fericire. O, limbutilor! Intrebarile au stricat atat de mult oamenii! Nebun cel care spera in raspunsul providentei! ‘’
15. ‘’Iubesti fiindca iubesti! Nu exista ratiune pentru a iubi. ‘’
16. ‘’Te folosesti de trecutul tau ca de o priveliste, marginita aici de un munte, dincolo de un fluviu si dispui in libertate de orasele viitoare, tinand seama de ceea ce exista. Iar daca ceea ce exista n-ar exista, ai inventa cu usurinta orase de vis, caci visului nimic nu-i rezista, dar vor fi nu numai usor de imaginat, ci si pierdute in arbitrar.’’
17. ‘’ Iar desfraul se naste din spaima de a nu reusi sa fii…La fel despre acela sau aceea care nu vedeau decat golul din oameni, caci ei sunt goi daca nu sunt ferestre inspre eternitate. Iata pentru ce in dragostea vulgara nu iubesti decat ceea ce-ti scapa, caci altfel vei fi satul si scarbit de placerea ta. ‘’
18. ‘’Caci exista un timp al judecatii. Dar exista si un timp al devenirii.’’
19. ‘’Nu confunda dragostea cu delirul posesiei, care adduce cea mai crunta suferinta. Caci, in ciuda parerii commune, nu dragostea te face sa suferi, ci instinctual proprietatii, care este contrariul dragostei.’’
20. ‘’De-abia v-a fost acordata dragostea si voi, intocmai ca in falsele voastre prietenii, transformati acest dar liber in servitute si robie si, din clipa in care sunteti iubiti, incepeti sa va simtiti lezati. Si va impuneti, pentru a aservi mai bine spectacolul suferintei voastre.’’
21. ‘’Si-ti voi raspunde prin acest mare secret, ascuns sub cuvinte vulgare si simple, pe care intelepciunea m-a facut sa-l aflu, putin cate putin, de-a lungul vietii: ca a pregati viitorul nu inseamna decat a crea prezentul. Iar cei care urmaresc imagini indepartate, fruct al inventiei lor, se irosesc in utopia si himera.’’
22. ‘’Din distrugere in distrugere, aluneci spre vanitate, caci ea ramane singura culoare posibila, atunci cand tot ce mai exista este doar reziduu ce nu te poate hrani. …Iata ca esti obligat, in pustiul tau, sa fii satisfacut de tine insuti, caci nu mai exista nimeni in afara ta. Si esti condamnat sa strigi de-acum inainte: ‘’Eu, eu, eu’’ in gol, si nu vei primi niciodata raspuns.’’
23. ‘’Nu aceeasi este placerea pe care ti-o da un diamant fals si un diamant pur. Cea care tace in fata ta nu este aceeasi cu o alta, in profunzimea tacerii ei. Si nu vei fi niciodata inselat de la inceput…Ce inseamna diamantul daca nu este un bolovanis tare de scurmat, care-l ascunde? Ce inseamna o spade, daca nu exista dusmani? Ce inseamna o revenire fara absenta? Ce inseamna fidelitate daca nu exista tentatie?’’
24. ‘’Am cautat si am gasit, caci spiritul nu doreste decat ceea ce poseda. A gasi inseamna a vedea. Si cum as putea cauta ceea ce pentru mine inca nu are sens? Ti-am spus, regretful dragostei inseamna dragoste. Nimeni nu sufera de dorinta a ceea ce nu concepe.''
25. ‘’Nu incerca sa transformi omul in altceva decat este. Caci, fara indoiala, ratiuni puternice , impotriva carora nu poti sa faci nimic, il oblige sa fie asa cum este si nu altfel. Dar il poti transforma in ceea ce este, caci omul e greu de substanta. Tu esti cel care trebuie sa alegi din el ceea ce iti place. Si sa faci desenul a ceea ce ai ales, astfel incat sa para evident tuturor si lui insusi.’’
26. ‘’Iata de ce nu am dusmani. In dusman vad prietenul. Iar el imi devine prieten. Iau toate partile. Nu am de ce sa schimb partile. Ci le leg printr-un alt limbaj. Si aceeasi fiinta se poarta altfel.’’
27. ‘’Umilinta inimii iti cere nu sa te umilesti, ci sa te deschizi. Aceasta este cheia transformarilor. Doar atunci poti sa daruiesti si sa primesti.’’
28. ‘’Daca iubirea ta dispretuieste semnele iubirii sub pretextul de a atinge esenta, ea nu mai este decat vocabular. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,#NFDB
773:It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men... and modern nations, in the consecrations of kings, and in several superstitious chimeras of divine rights in princes and nobles, are nearly unanimous in preserving remnants of it... Is the jealousy of power, and the envy of superiority, so strong in all men, that no considerations of public or private utility are sufficient to engage their submission to rules for their own happiness? Or is the disposition to imposture so prevalent in men of experience, that their private views of ambition and avarice can be accomplished only by artifice? — … There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, that the multitude have always been credulous, and the few artful. The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature: and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had any interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the inspiration of heaven, any more than those at work upon ships or houses, or labouring in merchandize or agriculture: it will for ever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses. As Copley painted Chatham, West, Wolf, and Trumbull, Warren and Montgomery; as Dwight, Barlow, Trumbull, and Humphries composed their verse, and Belknap and Ramzay history; as Godfrey invented his quadrant, and Rittenhouse his planetarium; as Boylston practised inoculation, and Franklin electricity; as Paine exposed the mistakes of Raynal, and Jefferson those of Buffon, so unphilosophically borrowed from the Recherches Philosophiques sur les Américains those despicable dreams of de Pauw — neither the people, nor their conventions, committees, or sub-committees, considered legislation in any other light than ordinary arts and sciences, only as of more importance. Called without expectation, and compelled without previous inclination, though undoubtedly at the best period of time both for England and America, to erect suddenly new systems of laws for their future government, they adopted the method of a wise architect, in erecting a new palace for the residence of his sovereign. They determined to consult Vitruvius, Palladio, and all other writers of reputation in the art; to examine the most celebrated buildings, whether they remain entire or in ruins; compare these with the principles of writers; and enquire how far both the theories and models were founded in nature, or created by fancy: and, when this should be done, as far as their circumstances would allow, to adopt the advantages, and reject the inconveniences, of all. Unembarrassed by attachments to noble families, hereditary lines and successions, or any considerations of royal blood, even the pious mystery of holy oil had no more influence than that other of holy water: the people universally were too enlightened to be imposed on by artifice; and their leaders, or more properly followers, were men of too much honour to attempt it. Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favour of the rights of mankind.
[Preface to 'A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States of America', 1787] ~ John Adams,#NFDB
774:A Letter To Doctor Ingelo, Then With My Lord
Whitlock, Ambassador From The Protector To The
Queen Of Sweden
Quid facis Arctoi charissime transfuga coeli,
Ingele, proh sero cognite, rapte cito?
Num satis Hybernum defendis pellibus Astrum,
Qui modo tam mollis nec bene firmus eras?
Quae Gentes Hominum, quae sit Natura Locorum,
Sint Homines, potius dic ibi sintre Loca?
Num gravis horrisono Polus obruit omnia lapsu,
Jungitur & praeceps Mundas utraque nive?
An melius canis horrescit Campus Aristis,
Amuius Agricolis & redit Orbe labor?
Incolit, ut fertur, saevam Gens mitior Oram,
Pace vigil, Bello strenua, justa Foro.
Quin ibi sunt Urbes, atque alta Palatia Regum,
Musarumque domus, & sua Templa Deo.
Nam regit Imperio populum Christina ferocem,
Et dare jura potest regia Virgo viris.
Utque trahit rigidum Magnes Aquilone Metallum,
Gandet eam Soboles ferrea sponte sequii.
Dic quantum liceat fallaci credere Famae,
Invida num taceat plura, sonet ve loquax.
At, si vera fides, Mundi melioris ab ortu,
Saecula Christinae nulla tulere parem.
Ipsa licet redeat (nostri decus orbis) Eliza,
Qualis nostra tamen quantaque Eliza fuit.
Vidimus Effigiem, mistasque Coloribus Umbras:
Sic quoque Sceptripotens, sic quoque visa Dea.
Augustam decorant (raro concordia) frontem
Majestas & Amor, Forma Pudorque simul.
Ingens Virgineo spirat Gustavus in ore:
Agnoscas animos, fulmineumque Patrem.
Nulla suo nituit tam lucida Stella sub Axe;
Non Ea quae meruit Crimine Nympha Polum.
Ah quoties pavidum demisit conscia Lumen,
Utque suae timuit Parrhasis Ora Deae!
Et, simulet falsa ni Pictor imagine Vultus,
Delia tam similis nec fuit ipsa sibi.
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Ni quod inornati Triviae sint forte Capilli,
Sollicita sed buic distribuantur Acu.
Scilicet ut nemo est illa reverentior aequi;
Haud ipsas igitur fert sine Lege Comas.
Gloria sylvarum pariter communis utrique
Est, & perpetuae Virginitatis Honos.
Sic quoque Nympharum supereminet Agmina collo,
Fertque Choros Cynthi per Juga, per Nives.
Haud aliter pariles Ciliorum contrahit Arcus
Acribus ast Oculis tela subesse putes.
Luminibus dubites an straverit illa Sagittis
Quae foret exuviis ardua colla Feram.
Alcides humeros coopertus pelle Nemaea
Haud ita labentis sustulit Orbis Onus.
Heu quae Cervices subnectunt Pectora tales.
Frigidiora Gelu, candidiora Nive.
Caetera non licuit, sed vix ea tota, videre;
Nam chau fi rigido stant Adamante Sinus.
Seu chlamys Artifici nimium succurrerit auso,
Sicque imperfectum fugerit impar Opus:
Sive tribus spernat Victrix certare Deabus,
Et pretium formae nec spoliata ferat.
Junonis properans & clara Trophaea Minervae;
Mollia nam Veneris praemia nosse piget.
Hinc neque consuluit fugitivae prodiga Formae,
Nectimuit seris invigilasse Libris.
Insommem quoties Nymphae monuere sequaces
Decedet roseis heu color ille Genis.
Jamque vigil leni cessit Philomela sopori,
Omnibus & Sylvis conticuere Ferae.
Acrior illa tamen pergit, Curasque fatigat:
Tanti est doctorum volvere scripta Virum.
Et liciti quae sint moderamina discere Regni,
Quid fuerit, quid sit, noscere quicquid erit.
Sic quod in ingenuas Gothus peccaverit Artes
Vindicat, & studiis expiat Una suis.
Exemplum dociles imitantur nobile Gentes,
Et geminis Infans imbuit Ora sonis.
Transpositos Suecis credas migrasse Latinos,
Carmine Romuleo sic strepit omne Nemus.
Upsala nec priscis impar memoratur Athenis,
Aegidaque & Currus hic sua Pallas habet.
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Illinc O quales liceat sperasse Liquores,
Quum Dea praesideat fontibus ipsa sacris!
Illic Lacte ruant illic & flumina Melle,
Fulvaque inauratam tingat Arena Salam.
Upsalides Musae nunc & majora conemus,
Quaeque mihi Famae non levis Aura tulit.
Creditur haud ulli Christus signasse suorum
Occultam gemina de meliore Notam.
Quemque tenet charo descriptum Nomine semper,
Non minus exculptum Pectore fida refert.
Sola haec virgineas depascit Flamma Medullas,
Et licito pergit solvere corda foco.
Tu quoque Sanctorum fastos Christina sacrabis,
Unica nec Virgo Volsiniensis erit.
Discite nunc Reges (Majestas proxima coelo)
Discite proh magnos hinc coluisse Deos.
Ah pudeat Tanitos puerilia fingere coepta,
Nugas nescio quas, & male quaerere Opes.
Acer Equo cunctos dum praeterit illa Britanno,
Et pecoris spolium nescit inerme sequi.
Ast Aquilam poscit Germano pellere Nido,
Deque Palatino Monte fugare Lupam.
Vos etiam latos in praedam jungite Campos,
Impiaque arctatis cingite Lustra Plagis.
Victor Oliverus nudum Caput exerit Armis,
Ducere sive sequi nobile laetus Iter.
Qualis jam Senior Solymae Godfredus ad Arces,
Spina cui canis floruit alba comis.
Et lappos Christina potest & solvere Finnos,
Ultima quos Boreae carcere Claustra premunt.
Aeoliis quales Venti fremuere sub antris,
Et tentant Montis corripuisse moras.
Hanc Dea si summa demiserit Arce procellam
Quam gravis Austriacis Hesperiisque cadat!
Omnia sed rediens olim narraveris Ipse;
Nec reditus spero tempora longa petit.
Non ibi lenta pigro stringuntur frigore Verba,
Solibus, & tandem Vere liquanda novo.
Sed radiis hyemem Regina potentior urit;
Haecque magis solvit, quam ligat illa Polum.
Dicitur & nostros moerens andisse Labores,
Fortis & ingenuam Gentis amasse Fidem.
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Oblatae Batavam nec paci commodat Aurem;
Nec versat Danos insidiosa dolos.
Sed pia festinat mutatis Foedera rebus,
Et Libertatem quae dominatur amat.
Digna cui Salomon meritos retulisset honores,
Et Saba concretum Thure cremasset Iter.
Hanc tua, sed melius, celebraverit, Ingele, Musa;
Et labor est vestrae debitus ille Lyrae.
Nos sine te frustra Thamisis saliceta subimus,
Sparsaque per steriles Turba vagamur Agros.
Et male tentanti querulum respondet Avena:
Quin & Rogerio dissiluere fides.
Haec tamen absenti memores dictamus Amico,
Grataque speramus qualiacumque fore.
~ Andrew Marvell,#NFDB
775:Crusoe in England
A new volcano has erupted,
the papers say, and last week I was reading
where some ship saw an island being born:
at first a breath of steam, ten miles away;
and then a black fleck—basalt, probably—
rose in the mate's binoculars
and caught on the horizon like a fly.
They named it. But my poor old island's still
un-rediscovered, un-renamable.
None of the books has ever got it right.
Well, I had fifty-two
miserable, small volcanoes I could climb
with a few slithery strides—
volcanoes dead as ash heaps.
I used to sit on the edge of the highest one
and count the others standing up,
naked and leaden, with their heads blown off.
I'd think that if they were the size
I thought volcanoes should be, then I had
become a giant;
and if I had become a giant,
I couldn't bear to think what size
the goats and turtles were,
or the gulls, or the overlapping rollers
—a glittering hexagon of rollers
closing and closing in, but never quite,
glittering and glittering, though the sky
was mostly overcast.
My island seemed to be
a sort of cloud-dump. All the hemisphere's
left-over clouds arrived and hung
above the craters—their parched throats
were hot to touch.
Was that why it rained so much?
And why sometimes the whole place hissed?
The turtles lumbered by, high-domed,
hissing like teakettles.
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(And I'd have given years, or taken a few,
for any sort of kettle, of course.)
The folds of lava, running out to sea,
would hiss. I'd turn. And then they'd prove
to be more turtles.
The beaches were all lava, variegated,
black, red, and white, and gray;
the marbled colors made a fine display.
And I had waterspouts. Oh,
half a dozen at a time, far out,
they'd come and go, advancing and retreating,
their heads in cloud, their feet in moving patches
of scuffed-up white.
Glass chimneys, flexible, attenuated,
sacerdotal beings of glass ... I watched
the water spiral up in them like smoke.
Beautiful, yes, but not much company.
I often gave way to self-pity.
"Do I deserve this? I suppose I must.
I wouldn't be here otherwise. Was there
a moment when I actually chose this?
I don't remember, but there could have been."
What's wrong about self-pity, anyway?
With my legs dangling down familiarly
over a crater's edge, I told myself
"Pity should begin at home." So the more
pity I felt, the more I felt at home.
The sun set in the sea; the same odd sun
rose from the sea,
and there was one of it and one of me.
The island had one kind of everything:
one tree snail, a bright violet-blue
with a thin shell, crept over everything,
over the one variety of tree,
a sooty, scrub affair.
Snail shells lay under these in drifts
and, at a distance,
you'd swear that they were beds of irises.
There was one kind of berry, a dark red.
I tried it, one by one, and hours apart.
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Sub-acid, and not bad, no ill effects;
and so I made home-brew. I'd drink
the awful, fizzy, stinging stuff
that went straight to my head
and play my home-made flute
(I think it had the weirdest scale on earth)
and, dizzy, whoop and dance among the goats.
Home-made, home-made! But aren't we all?
I felt a deep affection for
the smallest of my island industries.
No, not exactly, since the smallest was
a miserable philosophy.
Because I didn't know enough.
Why didn't I know enough of something?
Greek drama or astronomy? The books
I'd read were full of blanks;
the poems—well, I tried
reciting to my iris-beds,
"They flash upon that inward eye,
which is the bliss ..." The bliss of what?
One of the first things that I did
when I got back was look it up.
The island smelled of goat and guano.
The goats were white, so were the gulls,
and both too tame, or else they thought
I was a goat, too, or a gull.
Baa, baa, baa and shriek, shriek, shriek,
baa ... shriek ... baa ... I still can't shake
them from my ears; they're hurting now.
The questioning shrieks, the equivocal replies
over a ground of hissing rain
and hissing, ambulating turtles
got on my nerves.
When all the gulls flew up at once, they sounded
like a big tree in a strong wind, its leaves.
I'd shut my eyes and think about a tree,
an oak, say, with real shade, somewhere.
I'd heard of cattle getting island-sick.
I thought the goats were.
One billy-goat would stand on the volcano
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I'd christened Mont d'Espoir or Mount Despair
(I'd time enough to play with names),
and bleat and bleat, and sniff the air.
I'd grab his beard and look at him.
His pupils, horizontal, narrowed up
and expressed nothing, or a little malice.
I got so tired of the very colors!
One day I dyed a baby goat bright red
with my red berries, just to see
something a little different.
And then his mother wouldn't recognize him.
Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food
and love, but they were pleasant rather
than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things
like slitting a baby's throat, mistaking it
for a baby goat. I'd have
nightmares of other islands
stretching away from mine, infinities
of islands, islands spawning islands,
like frogs' eggs turning into polliwogs
of islands, knowing that I had to live
on each and every one, eventually,
for ages, registering their flora,
their fauna, their geography.
Just when I thought I couldn't stand it
another minute longer, Friday came.
(Accounts of that have everything all wrong.)
Friday was nice.
Friday was nice, and we were friends.
If only he had been a woman!
I wanted to propagate my kind,
and so did he, I think, poor boy.
He'd pet the baby goats sometimes,
and race with them, or carry one around.
—Pretty to watch; he had a pretty body.
And then one day they came and took us off.
Now I live here, another island,
that doesn't seem like one, but who decides?
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My blood was full of them; my brain
bred islands. But that archipelago
has petered out. I'm old.
I'm bored, too, drinking my real tea,
surrounded by uninteresting lumber.
The knife there on the shelf—
it reeked of meaning, like a crucifix.
It lived. How many years did I
beg it, implore it, not to break?
I knew each nick and scratch by heart,
the bluish blade, the broken tip,
the lines of wood-grain on the handle ...
Now it won't look at me at all.
The living soul has dribbled away.
My eyes rest on it and pass on.
The local museum's asked me to
leave everything to them:
the flute, the knife, the shrivelled shoes,
my shedding goatskin trousers
(moths have got in the fur),
the parasol that took me such a time
remembering the way the ribs should go.
It still will work but, folded up,
looks like a plucked and skinny fowl.
How can anyone want such things?
—And Friday, my dear Friday, died of measles
seventeen years ago come March.
~ Elizabeth Bishop,#NFDB
776:Inferno Canto 01
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura
ché la diritta via era smarrita .
When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray.
Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura
esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte
che nel pensier rinova la paura !
Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was,
that savage forest, dense and difficult,
which even in recall renews my fear:
Tant'è amara che poco è più morte;
ma per trattar del ben ch'i' vi trovai,
dirò de l'altre cose ch'i' v'ho scorte .
so bitter-death is hardly more severe!
But to retell the good discovered there,
I'll also tell the other things I saw.
Io non so ben ridir com'i' v'intrai,
tant'era pien di sonno a quel punto
che la verace via abbandonai .
I cannot clearly say how I had entered
the wood; I was so full of sleep just at
the point where I abandoned the true path.
Ma poi ch'i' fui al piè d'un colle giunto,
là dove terminava quella valle
che m'avea di paura il cor compunto ,
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But when I'd reached the bottom of a hillit rose along the boundary of the valley
that had harassed my heart with so much fear-
guardai in alto, e vidi le sue spalle
vestite già de' raggi del pianeta
che mena dritto altrui per ogne calle .
I looked on high and saw its shoulders clothed
already by the rays of that same planet
which serves to lead men straight along all roads.
Allor fu la paura un poco queta
che nel lago del cor m'era durata
la notte ch'i' passai con tanta pieta .
At this my fear was somewhat quieted;
for through the night of sorrow I had spent,
the lake within my heart felt terror present.
E come quei che con lena affannata
uscito fuor del pelago a la riva
si volge a l'acqua perigliosa e guata ,
And just as he who, with exhausted breath,
having escaped from sea to shore, turns back
to watch the dangerous waters he has quit,
così l'animo mio, ch'ancor fuggiva,
si volse a retro a rimirar lo passo
che non lasciò già mai persona viva .
so did my spirit, still a fugitive,
turn back to look intently at the pass
that never has let any man survive.
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Poi ch'èi posato un poco il corpo lasso,
ripresi via per la piaggia diserta,
sì che 'l piè fermo sempre era 'l più basso .
I let my tired body rest awhile.
Moving again, I tried the lonely slopemy firm foot always was the one below.
Ed ecco, quasi al cominciar de l'erta,
una lonza leggera e presta molto,
che di pel macolato era coverta ;
And almost where the hillside starts to riselook there!-a leopard, very quick and lithe,
a leopard covered with a spotted hide.
e non mi si partia dinanzi al volto,
anzi 'mpediva tanto il mio cammino,
ch'i' fui per ritornar più volte vòlto .
He did not disappear from sight, but stayed;
indeed, he so impeded my ascent
that I had often to turn back again.
Temp'era dal principio del mattino,
e 'l sol montava 'n sù con quelle stelle
ch'eran con lui quando l'amor divino
The time was the beginning of the morning;
the sun was rising now in fellowship
with the same stars that had escorted it
mosse di prima quelle cose belle;
sì ch'a bene sperar m'era cagione
di quella fiera a la gaetta pelle
when Divine Love first moved those things of beauty;
so that the hour and the gentle season
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gave me good cause for hopefulness on seeing
l'ora del tempo e la dolce stagione;
ma non sì che paura non mi desse
la vista che m'apparve d'un leone .
that beast before me with his speckled skin;
but hope was hardly able to prevent
the fear I felt when I beheld a lion.
Questi parea che contra me venisse
con la test'alta e con rabbiosa fame,
sì che parea che l'aere ne tremesse .
His head held high and ravenous with hungereven the air around him seemed to shudderthis lion seemed to make his way against me.
Ed una lupa, che di tutte brame
sembiava carca ne la sua magrezza,
e molte genti fé già viver grame ,
And then a she-wolf showed herself; she seemed
to carry every craving in her leanness;
she had already brought despair to many.
questa mi porse tanto di gravezza
con la paura ch'uscia di sua vista,
ch'io perdei la speranza de l'altezza .
The very sight of her so weighted me
with fearfulness that I abandoned hope
of ever climbing up that mountain slope.
E qual è quei che volontieri acquista,
e giugne 'l tempo che perder lo face,
che 'n tutt'i suoi pensier piange e s'attrista ;
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Even as he who glories while he gains
will, when the time has come to tally loss,
lament with every thought and turn despondent,
tal mi fece la bestia sanza pace,
che, venendomi 'ncontro, a poco a poco
mi ripigneva là dove 'l sol tace .
so was I when I faced that restless beast
which, even as she stalked me, step by step
had thrust me back to where the sun is speechless.
Mentre ch'i' rovinava in basso loco,
dinanzi a li occhi mi si fu offerto
chi per lungo silenzio parea fioco .
While I retreated down to lower ground,
before my eyes there suddenly appeared
one who seemed faint because of the long silence.
Quando vidi costui nel gran diserto,
«Miserere di me», gridai a lui,
«qual che tu sii, od ombra od omo certo !».
When I saw him in that vast wilderness,
"Have pity on me," were the words I cried,
"whatever you may be-a shade, a man."
Rispuosemi: «Non omo, omo già fui,
e li parenti miei furon lombardi,
mantoani per patria ambedui .
He answered me: "Not man; I once was man.
Both of my parents came from Lombardy,
and both claimed Mantua as native city.
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Nacqui sub Iulio, ancor che fosse tardi,
e vissi a Roma sotto 'l buono Augusto
nel tempo de li dèi falsi e bugiardi .
And I was born, though late, sub Julio,
and lived in Rome under the good Augustusthe season of the false and lying gods.
Poeta fui, e cantai di quel giusto
figliuol d'Anchise che venne di Troia,
poi che 'l superbo Ilión fu combusto .
I was a poet, and I sang the righteous
son of Anchises who had come from Troy
when flames destroyed the pride of Ilium.
Ma tu perché ritorni a tanta noia?
perché non sali il dilettoso monte
ch'è principio e cagion di tutta gioia? ».
But why do you return to wretchedness?
Why not climb up the mountain of delight,
the origin and cause of every joy?"
«Or se' tu quel Virgilio e quella fonte
che spandi di parlar sì largo fiume?»,
rispuos'io lui con vergognosa fronte .
"And are you then that Virgil, you the fountain
that freely pours so rich a stream of speech?"
I answered him with shame upon my brow.
«O de li altri poeti onore e lume
vagliami 'l lungo studio e 'l grande amore
che m'ha fatto cercar lo tuo volume .
"O light and honor of all other poets,
may my long study and the intense love
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that made me search your volume serve me now.
Tu se' lo mio maestro e 'l mio autore;
tu se' solo colui da cu' io tolsi
lo bello stilo che m'ha fatto onore .
You are my master and my author, youthe only one from whom my writing drew
the noble style for which I have been honored.
Vedi la bestia per cu' io mi volsi:
aiutami da lei, famoso saggio,
ch'ella mi fa tremar le vene e i polsi ».
You see the beast that made me turn aside;
help me, o famous sage, to stand against her,
for she has made my blood and pulses shudder,"
«A te convien tenere altro viaggio»,
rispuose poi che lagrimar mi vide,
«se vuo' campar d'esto loco selvaggio :
"It is another path that you must take,"
he answered when he saw my tearfulness,
"if you would leave this savage wilderness;
ché questa bestia, per la qual tu gride,
non lascia altrui passar per la sua via,
ma tanto lo 'mpedisce che l'uccide ;
the beast that is the cause of your outcry
allows no man to pass along her track,
but blocks him even to the point of death;
e ha natura sì malvagia e ria,
che mai non empie la bramosa voglia,
e dopo 'l pasto ha più fame che pria .
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her nature is so squalid, so malicious
that she can never sate her greedy will;
when she has fed, she's hungrier than ever.
Molti son li animali a cui s'ammoglia,
e più saranno ancora, infin che 'l veltro
verrà, che la farà morir con doglia .
She mates with many living souls and shall
yet mate with many more, until the Greyhound
arrives, inflicting painful death on her.
Questi non ciberà terra né peltro,
ma sapienza, amore e virtute,
e sua nazion sarà tra feltro e feltro .
That Hound will never feed on land or pewter,
but find his fare in wisdom, love, and virtue;
his place of birth shall be between two felts.
Di quella umile Italia fia salute
per cui morì la vergine Cammilla,
Eurialo e Turno e Niso di ferute .
He will restore low-lying Italy for which
the maid Camilla died of wounds,
and Nisus, Turnus, and Euryalus.
Questi la caccerà per ogne villa,
fin che l'avrà rimessa ne lo 'nferno,
là onde 'nvidia prima dipartilla .
And he will hunt that beast through every city
until he thrusts her back again to Hell,
for which she was first sent above by envy.
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Ond'io per lo tuo me' penso e discerno
che tu mi segui, e io sarò tua guida,
e trarrotti di qui per loco etterno ,
Therefore, I think and judge it best for you
to follow me, and I shall guide you, taking
you from this place through an eternal place,
ove udirai le disperate strida,
vedrai li antichi spiriti dolenti,
ch'a la seconda morte ciascun grida ;
where you shall hear the howls of desperation
and see the ancient spirits in their pain,
as each of them laments his second death;
e vederai color che son contenti
nel foco, perché speran di venire
quando che sia a le beate genti .
and you shall see those souls who are content
within the fire, for they hope to reachwhenever that may be-the blessed people.
A le quai poi se tu vorrai salire,
anima fia a ciò più di me degna:
con lei ti lascerò nel mio partire ;
If you would then ascend as high as these,
a soul more worthy than I am will guide you;
I'll leave you in her care when I depart,
ché quello imperador che là sù regna,
perch'i' fu' ribellante a la sua legge,
non vuol che 'n sua città per me si vegna .
because that Emperor who reigns above,
since I have been rebellious to His law,
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will not allow me entry to His city.
In tutte parti impera e quivi regge;
quivi è la sua città e l'alto seggio:
oh felice colui cu' ivi elegge! ».
He governs everywhere, but rules from there;
there is His city, His high capital:
o happy those He chooses to be there!"
E io a lui: «Poeta, io ti richeggio
per quello Dio che tu non conoscesti,
acciò ch'io fugga questo male e peggio ,
And I replied: "O poet-by that God
whom you had never come to know-I beg you,
that I may flee this evil and worse evils,
che tu mi meni là dov'or dicesti,
sì ch'io veggia la porta di san Pietro
e color cui tu fai cotanto mesti ».
to lead me to the place of which you spoke,
that I may see the gateway of Saint Peter
and those whom you describe as sorrowful."
Allor si mosse, e io li tenni dietro.
Then he set out, and I moved on behind him.
~ Dante Alighieri,#NFDB
777:There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men
With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen
Their baaing vanities, to browse away
The comfortable green and juicy hay
From human pastures; or, O torturing fact!
Who, through an idiot blink, will see unpack'd
Fire-branded foxes to sear up and singe
Our gold and ripe-ear'd hopes. With not one tinge
Of sanctuary splendour, not a sight
Able to face an owl's, they still are dight
By the blear-eyed nations in empurpled vests,
And crowns, and turbans. With unladen breasts,
Save of blown self-applause, they proudly mount
To their spirit's perch, their being's high account,
Their tiptop nothings, their dull skies, their thrones
Amid the fierce intoxicating tones
Of trumpets, shoutings, and belabour'd drums,
And sudden cannon. Ah! how all this hums,
In wakeful ears, like uproar past and gone
Like thunder clouds that spake to Babylon,
And set those old Chaldeans to their tasks.
Are then regalities all gilded masks?
No, there are throned seats unscalable
But by a patient wing, a constant spell,
Or by ethereal things that, unconfin'd,
Can make a ladder of the eternal wind,
And poise about in cloudy thunder-tents
To watch the abysm-birth of elements.
Aye, 'bove the withering of old-lipp'd Fate
A thousand Powers keep religious state,
In water, fiery realm, and airy bourne;
And, silent as a consecrated urn,
Hold sphery sessions for a season due.
Yet few of these far majesties, ah, few!
Have bared their operations to this globe
Few, who with gorgeous pageantry enrobe
Our piece of heavenwhose benevolence
Shakes hand with our own Ceres; every sense
Filling with spiritual sweets to plenitude,
As bees gorge full their cells. And, by the feud
'Twixt Nothing and Creation, I here swear,
Eterne Apollo! that thy Sister fair
Is of all these the gentlier-mightiest.
When thy gold breath is misting in the west,
She unobserved steals unto her throne,
And there she sits most meek and most alone;
As if she had not pomp subservient;
As if thine eye, high Poet! was not bent
Towards her with the Muses in thine heart;
As if the ministring stars kept not apart,
Waiting for silver-footed messages.
O Moon! the oldest shades 'mong oldest trees
Feel palpitations when thou lookest in:
O Moon! old boughs lisp forth a holier din
The while they feel thine airy fellowship.
Thou dost bless every where, with silver lip
Kissing dead things to life. The sleeping kine,
Couched in thy brightness, dream of fields divine:
Innumerable mountains rise, and rise,
Ambitious for the hallowing of thine eyes;
And yet thy benediction passeth not
One obscure hiding-place, one little spot
Where pleasure may be sent: the nested wren
Has thy fair face within its tranquil ken,
And from beneath a sheltering ivy leaf
Takes glimpses of thee; thou art a relief
To the poor patient oyster, where it sleeps
Within its pearly house.The mighty deeps,
The monstrous sea is thinethe myriad sea!
O Moon! far-spooming Ocean bows to thee,
And Tellus feels his forehead's cumbrous load.
Cynthia! where art thou now? What far abode
Of green or silvery bower doth enshrine
Such utmost beauty? Alas, thou dost pine
For one as sorrowful: thy cheek is pale
For one whose cheek is pale: thou dost bewail
His tears, who weeps for thee. Where dost thou sigh?
Ah! surely that light peeps from Vesper's eye,
Or what a thing is love! 'Tis She, but lo!
How chang'd, how full of ache, how gone in woe!
She dies at the thinnest cloud; her loveliness
Is wan on Neptune's blue: yet there's a stress
Of love-spangles, just off yon cape of trees,
Dancing upon the waves, as if to please
The curly foam with amorous influence.
O, not so idle: for down-glancing thence
She fathoms eddies, and runs wild about
O'erwhelming water-courses; scaring out
The thorny sharks from hiding-holes, and fright'ning
Their savage eyes with unaccustomed lightning.
Where will the splendor be content to reach?
O love! how potent hast thou been to teach
Strange journeyings! Wherever beauty dwells,
In gulf or aerie, mountains or deep dells,
In light, in gloom, in star or blazing sun,
Thou pointest out the way, and straight 'tis won.
Amid his toil thou gav'st Leander breath;
Thou leddest Orpheus through the gleams of death;
Thou madest Pluto bear thin element;
And now, O winged Chieftain! thou hast sent
A moon-beam to the deep, deep water-world,
To find Endymion.
On gold sand impearl'd
With lily shells, and pebbles milky white,
Poor Cynthia greeted him, and sooth'd her light
Against his pallid face: he felt the charm
To breathlessness, and suddenly a warm
Of his heart's blood: 'twas very sweet; he stay'd
His wandering steps, and half-entranced laid
His head upon a tuft of straggling weeds,
To taste the gentle moon, and freshening beads,
Lashed from the crystal roof by fishes' tails.
And so he kept, until the rosy veils
Mantling the east, by Aurora's peering hand
Were lifted from the water's breast, and fann'd
Into sweet air; and sober'd morning came
Meekly through billows:when like taper-flame
Left sudden by a dallying breath of air,
He rose in silence, and once more 'gan fare
Along his fated way.
Far had he roam'd,
With nothing save the hollow vast, that foam'd
Above, around, and at his feet; save things
More dead than Morpheus' imaginings:
Old rusted anchors, helmets, breast-plates large
Of gone sea-warriors; brazen beaks and targe;
Rudders that for a hundred years had lost
The sway of human hand; gold vase emboss'd
With long-forgotten story, and wherein
No reveller had ever dipp'd a chin
But those of Saturn's vintage; mouldering scrolls,
Writ in the tongue of heaven, by those souls
Who first were on the earth; and sculptures rude
In ponderous stone, developing the mood
Of ancient Nox;then skeletons of man,
Of beast, behemoth, and leviathan,
And elephant, and eagle, and huge jaw
Of nameless monster. A cold leaden awe
These secrets struck into him; and unless
Dian had chaced away that heaviness,
He might have died: but now, with cheered feel,
He onward kept; wooing these thoughts to steal
About the labyrinth in his soul of love.
"What is there in thee, Moon! that thou shouldst move
My heart so potently? When yet a child
I oft have dried my tears when thou hast smil'd.
Thou seem'dst my sister: hand in hand we went
From eve to morn across the firmament.
No apples would I gather from the tree,
Till thou hadst cool'd their cheeks deliciously:
No tumbling water ever spake romance,
But when my eyes with thine thereon could dance:
No woods were green enough, no bower divine,
Until thou liftedst up thine eyelids fine:
In sowing time ne'er would I dibble take,
Or drop a seed, till thou wast wide awake;
And, in the summer tide of blossoming,
No one but thee hath heard me blithly sing
And mesh my dewy flowers all the night.
No melody was like a passing spright
If it went not to solemnize thy reign.
Yes, in my boyhood, every joy and pain
By thee were fashion'd to the self-same end;
And as I grew in years, still didst thou blend
With all my ardours: thou wast the deep glen;
Thou wast the mountain-topthe sage's pen
The poet's harpthe voice of friendsthe sun;
Thou wast the riverthou wast glory won;
Thou wast my clarion's blastthou wast my steed
My goblet full of winemy topmost deed:
Thou wast the charm of women, lovely Moon!
O what a wild and harmonized tune
My spirit struck from all the beautiful!
On some bright essence could I lean, and lull
Myself to immortality: I prest
Nature's soft pillow in a wakeful rest.
But, gentle Orb! there came a nearer bliss
My strange love cameFelicity's abyss!
She came, and thou didst fade, and fade away
Yet not entirely; no, thy starry sway
Has been an under-passion to this hour.
Now I begin to feel thine orby power
Is coming fresh upon me: O be kind,
Keep back thine influence, and do not blind
My sovereign vision.Dearest love, forgive
That I can think away from thee and live!
Pardon me, airy planet, that I prize
One thought beyond thine argent luxuries!
How far beyond!" At this a surpris'd start
Frosted the springing verdure of his heart;
For as he lifted up his eyes to swear
How his own goddess was past all things fair,
He saw far in the concave green of the sea
An old man sitting calm and peacefully.
Upon a weeded rock this old man sat,
And his white hair was awful, and a mat
Of weeds were cold beneath his cold thin feet;
And, ample as the largest winding-sheet,
A cloak of blue wrapp'd up his aged bones,
O'erwrought with symbols by the deepest groans
Of ambitious magic: every ocean-form
Was woven in with black distinctness; storm,
And calm, and whispering, and hideous roar
Were emblem'd in the woof; with every shape
That skims, or dives, or sleeps, 'twixt cape and cape.
The gulphing whale was like a dot in the spell,
Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell
To its huge self; and the minutest fish
Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish,
And show his little eye's anatomy.
Then there was pictur'd the regality
Of Neptune; and the sea nymphs round his state,
In beauteous vassalage, look up and wait.
Beside this old man lay a pearly wand,
And in his lap a book, the which he conn'd
So stedfastly, that the new denizen
Had time to keep him in amazed ken,
To mark these shadowings, and stand in awe.
The old man rais'd his hoary head and saw
The wilder'd strangerseeming not to see,
His features were so lifeless. Suddenly
He woke as from a trance; his snow-white brows
Went arching up, and like two magic ploughs
Furrow'd deep wrinkles in his forehead large,
Which kept as fixedly as rocky marge,
Till round his wither'd lips had gone a smile.
Then up he rose, like one whose tedious toil
Had watch'd for years in forlorn hermitage,
Who had not from mid-life to utmost age
Eas'd in one accent his o'er-burden'd soul,
Even to the trees. He rose: he grasp'd his stole,
With convuls'd clenches waving it abroad,
And in a voice of solemn joy, that aw'd
Echo into oblivion, he said:
"Thou art the man! Now shall I lay my head
In peace upon my watery pillow: now
Sleep will come smoothly to my weary brow.
O Jove! I shall be young again, be young!
O shell-borne Neptune, I am pierc'd and stung
With new-born life! What shall I do? Where go,
When I have cast this serpent-skin of woe?
I'll swim to the syrens, and one moment listen
Their melodies, and see their long hair glisten;
Anon upon that giant's arm I'll be,
That writhes about the roots of Sicily:
To northern seas I'll in a twinkling sail,
And mount upon the snortings of a whale
To some black cloud; thence down I'll madly sweep
On forked lightning, to the deepest deep,
Where through some sucking pool I will be hurl'd
With rapture to the other side of the world!
O, I am full of gladness! Sisters three,
I bow full hearted to your old decree!
Yes, every god be thank'd, and power benign,
For I no more shall wither, droop, and pine.
Thou art the man!" Endymion started back
Dismay'd; and, like a wretch from whom the rack
Tortures hot breath, and speech of agony,
Mutter'd: "What lonely death am I to die
In this cold region? Will he let me freeze,
And float my brittle limbs o'er polar seas?
Or will he touch me with his searing hand,
And leave a black memorial on the sand?
Or tear me piece-meal with a bony saw,
And keep me as a chosen food to draw
His magian fish through hated fire and flame?
O misery of hell! resistless, tame,
Am I to be burnt up? No, I will shout,
Until the gods through heaven's blue look out!
O Tartarus! but some few days agone
Her soft arms were entwining me, and on
Her voice I hung like fruit among green leaves:
Her lips were all my own, andah, ripe sheaves
Of happiness! ye on the stubble droop,
But never may be garner'd. I must stoop
My head, and kiss death's foot. Love! love, farewel!
Is there no hope from thee? This horrid spell
Would melt at thy sweet breath.By Dian's hind
Feeding from her white fingers, on the wind
I see thy streaming hair! and now, by Pan,
I care not for this old mysterious man!"
He spake, and walking to that aged form,
Look'd high defiance. Lo! his heart 'gan warm
With pity, for the grey-hair'd creature wept.
Had he then wrong'd a heart where sorrow kept?
Had he, though blindly contumelious, brought
Rheum to kind eyes, a sting to human thought,
Convulsion to a mouth of many years?
He had in truth; and he was ripe for tears.
The penitent shower fell, as down he knelt
Before that care-worn sage, who trembling felt
About his large dark locks, and faultering spake:
"Arise, good youth, for sacred Phoebus' sake!
I know thine inmost bosom, and I feel
A very brother's yearning for thee steal
Into mine own: for why? thou openest
The prison gates that have so long opprest
My weary watching. Though thou know'st it not,
Thou art commission'd to this fated spot
For great enfranchisement. O weep no more;
I am a friend to love, to loves of yore:
Aye, hadst thou never lov'd an unknown power
I had been grieving at this joyous hour
But even now most miserable old,
I saw thee, and my blood no longer cold
Gave mighty pulses: in this tottering case
Grew a new heart, which at this moment plays
As dancingly as thine. Be not afraid,
For thou shalt hear this secret all display'd,
Now as we speed towards our joyous task."
So saying, this young soul in age's mask
Went forward with the Carian side by side:
Resuming quickly thus; while ocean's tide
Hung swollen at their backs, and jewel'd sands
Took silently their foot-prints. "My soul stands
Now past the midway from mortality,
And so I can prepare without a sigh
To tell thee briefly all my joy and pain.
I was a fisher once, upon this main,
And my boat danc'd in every creek and bay;
Rough billows were my home by night and day,
The sea-gulls not more constant; for I had
No housing from the storm and tempests mad,
But hollow rocks,and they were palaces
Of silent happiness, of slumberous ease:
Long years of misery have told me so.
Aye, thus it was one thousand years ago.
One thousand years!Is it then possible
To look so plainly through them? to dispel
A thousand years with backward glance sublime?
To breathe away as 'twere all scummy slime
From off a crystal pool, to see its deep,
And one's own image from the bottom peep?
Yes: now I am no longer wretched thrall,
My long captivity and moanings all
Are but a slime, a thin-pervading scum,
The which I breathe away, and thronging come
Like things of yesterday my youthful pleasures.
"I touch'd no lute, I sang not, trod no measures:
I was a lonely youth on desert shores.
My sports were lonely, 'mid continuous roars,
And craggy isles, and sea-mew's plaintive cry
Plaining discrepant between sea and sky.
Dolphins were still my playmates; shapes unseen
Would let me feel their scales of gold and green,
Nor be my desolation; and, full oft,
When a dread waterspout had rear'd aloft
Its hungry hugeness, seeming ready ripe
To burst with hoarsest thunderings, and wipe
My life away like a vast sponge of fate,
Some friendly monster, pitying my sad state,
Has dived to its foundations, gulph'd it down,
And left me tossing safely. But the crown
Of all my life was utmost quietude:
More did I love to lie in cavern rude,
Keeping in wait whole days for Neptune's voice,
And if it came at last, hark, and rejoice!
There blush'd no summer eve but I would steer
My skiff along green shelving coasts, to hear
The shepherd's pipe come clear from aery steep,
Mingled with ceaseless bleatings of his sheep:
And never was a day of summer shine,
But I beheld its birth upon the brine:
For I would watch all night to see unfold
Heaven's gates, and Aethon snort his morning gold
Wide o'er the swelling streams: and constantly
At brim of day-tide, on some grassy lea,
My nets would be spread out, and I at rest.
The poor folk of the sea-country I blest
With daily boon of fish most delicate:
They knew not whence this bounty, and elate
Would strew sweet flowers on a sterile beach.
"Why was I not contented? Wherefore reach
At things which, but for thee, O Latmian!
Had been my dreary death? Fool! I began
To feel distemper'd longings: to desire
The utmost privilege that ocean's sire
Could grant in benediction: to be free
Of all his kingdom. Long in misery
I wasted, ere in one extremest fit
I plung'd for life or death. To interknit
One's senses with so dense a breathing stuff
Might seem a work of pain; so not enough
Can I admire how crystal-smooth it felt,
And buoyant round my limbs. At first I dwelt
Whole days and days in sheer astonishment;
Forgetful utterly of self-intent;
Moving but with the mighty ebb and flow.
Then, like a new fledg'd bird that first doth shew
His spreaded feathers to the morrow chill,
I tried in fear the pinions of my will.
'Twas freedom! and at once I visited
The ceaseless wonders of this ocean-bed.
No need to tell thee of them, for I see
That thou hast been a witnessit must be
For these I know thou canst not feel a drouth,
By the melancholy corners of that mouth.
So I will in my story straightway pass
To more immediate matter. Woe, alas!
That love should be my bane! Ah, Scylla fair!
Why did poor Glaucus everever dare
To sue thee to his heart? Kind stranger-youth!
I lov'd her to the very white of truth,
And she would not conceive it. Timid thing!
She fled me swift as sea-bird on the wing,
Round every isle, and point, and promontory,
From where large Hercules wound up his story
Far as Egyptian Nile. My passion grew
The more, the more I saw her dainty hue
Gleam delicately through the azure clear:
Until 'twas too fierce agony to bear;
And in that agony, across my grief
It flash'd, that Circe might find some relief
Cruel enchantress! So above the water
I rear'd my head, and look'd for Phoebus' daughter.
Aeaea's isle was wondering at the moon:
It seem'd to whirl around me, and a swoon
Left me dead-drifting to that fatal power.
"When I awoke, 'twas in a twilight bower;
Just when the light of morn, with hum of bees,
Stole through its verdurous matting of fresh trees.
How sweet, and sweeter! for I heard a lyre,
And over it a sighing voice expire.
It ceasedI caught light footsteps; and anon
The fairest face that morn e'er look'd upon
Push'd through a screen of roses. Starry Jove!
With tears, and smiles, and honey-words she wove
A net whose thraldom was more bliss than all
The range of flower'd Elysium. Thus did fall
The dew of her rich speech: "Ah! Art awake?
O let me hear thee speak, for Cupid's sake!
I am so oppress'd with joy! Why, I have shed
An urn of tears, as though thou wert cold dead;
And now I find thee living, I will pour
From these devoted eyes their silver store,
Until exhausted of the latest drop,
So it will pleasure thee, and force thee stop
Here, that I too may live: but if beyond
Such cool and sorrowful offerings, thou art fond
Of soothing warmth, of dalliance supreme;
If thou art ripe to taste a long love dream;
If smiles, if dimples, tongues for ardour mute,
Hang in thy vision like a tempting fruit,
O let me pluck it for thee." Thus she link'd
Her charming syllables, till indistinct
Their music came to my o'er-sweeten'd soul;
And then she hover'd over me, and stole
So near, that if no nearer it had been
This furrow'd visage thou hadst never seen.
"Young man of Latmos! thus particular
Am I, that thou may'st plainly see how far
This fierce temptation went: and thou may'st not
Exclaim, How then, was Scylla quite forgot?
"Who could resist? Who in this universe?
She did so breathe ambrosia; so immerse
My fine existence in a golden clime.
She took me like a child of suckling time,
And cradled me in roses. Thus condemn'd,
The current of my former life was stemm'd,
And to this arbitrary queen of sense
I bow'd a tranced vassal: nor would thence
Have mov'd, even though Amphion's harp had woo'd
Me back to Scylla o'er the billows rude.
For as Apollo each eve doth devise
A new appareling for western skies;
So every eve, nay every spendthrift hour
Shed balmy consciousness within that bower.
And I was free of haunts umbrageous;
Could wander in the mazy forest-house
Of squirrels, foxes shy, and antler'd deer,
And birds from coverts innermost and drear
Warbling for very joy mellifluous sorrow
To me new born delights!
"Now let me borrow,
For moments few, a temperament as stern
As Pluto's sceptre, that my words not burn
These uttering lips, while I in calm speech tell
How specious heaven was changed to real hell.
"One morn she left me sleeping: half awake
I sought for her smooth arms and lips, to slake
My greedy thirst with nectarous camel-draughts;
But she was gone. Whereat the barbed shafts
Of disappointment stuck in me so sore,
That out I ran and search'd the forest o'er.
Wandering about in pine and cedar gloom
Damp awe assail'd me; for there 'gan to boom
A sound of moan, an agony of sound,
Sepulchral from the distance all around.
Then came a conquering earth-thunder, and rumbled
That fierce complain to silence: while I stumbled
Down a precipitous path, as if impell'd.
I came to a dark valley.Groanings swell'd
Poisonous about my ears, and louder grew,
The nearer I approach'd a flame's gaunt blue,
That glar'd before me through a thorny brake.
This fire, like the eye of gordian snake,
Bewitch'd me towards; and I soon was near
A sight too fearful for the feel of fear:
In thicket hid I curs'd the haggard scene
The banquet of my arms, my arbour queen,
Seated upon an uptorn forest root;
And all around her shapes, wizard and brute,
Laughing, and wailing, groveling, serpenting,
Shewing tooth, tusk, and venom-bag, and sting!
O such deformities! Old Charon's self,
Should he give up awhile his penny pelf,
And take a dream 'mong rushes Stygian,
It could not be so phantasied. Fierce, wan,
And tyrannizing was the lady's look,
As over them a gnarled staff she shook.
Oft-times upon the sudden she laugh'd out,
And from a basket emptied to the rout
Clusters of grapes, the which they raven'd quick
And roar'd for more; with many a hungry lick
About their shaggy jaws. Avenging, slow,
Anon she took a branch of mistletoe,
And emptied on't a black dull-gurgling phial:
Groan'd one and all, as if some piercing trial
Was sharpening for their pitiable bones.
She lifted up the charm: appealing groans
From their poor breasts went sueing to her ear
In vain; remorseless as an infant's bier
She whisk'd against their eyes the sooty oil.
Whereat was heard a noise of painful toil,
Increasing gradual to a tempest rage,
Shrieks, yells, and groans of torture-pilgrimage;
Until their grieved bodies 'gan to bloat
And puff from the tail's end to stifled throat:
Then was appalling silence: then a sight
More wildering than all that hoarse affright;
For the whole herd, as by a whirlwind writhen,
Went through the dismal air like one huge Python
Antagonizing Boreas,and so vanish'd.
Yet there was not a breath of wind: she banish'd
These phantoms with a nod. Lo! from the dark
Came waggish fauns, and nymphs, and satyrs stark,
With dancing and loud revelry,and went
Swifter than centaurs after rapine bent.
Sighing an elephant appear'd and bow'd
Before the fierce witch, speaking thus aloud
In human accent: "Potent goddess! chief
Of pains resistless! make my being brief,
Or let me from this heavy prison fly:
Or give me to the air, or let me die!
I sue not for my happy crown again;
I sue not for my phalanx on the plain;
I sue not for my lone, my widow'd wife;
I sue not for my ruddy drops of life,
My children fair, my lovely girls and boys!
I will forget them; I will pass these joys;
Ask nought so heavenward, so tootoo high:
Only I pray, as fairest boon, to die,
Or be deliver'd from this cumbrous flesh,
From this gross, detestable, filthy mesh,
And merely given to the cold bleak air.
Have mercy, Goddess! Circe, feel my prayer!"
That curst magician's name fell icy numb
Upon my wild conjecturing: truth had come
Naked and sabre-like against my heart.
I saw a fury whetting a death-dart;
And my slain spirit, overwrought with fright,
Fainted away in that dark lair of night.
Think, my deliverer, how desolate
My waking must have been! disgust, and hate,
And terrors manifold divided me
A spoil amongst them. I prepar'd to flee
Into the dungeon core of that wild wood:
I fled three dayswhen lo! before me stood
Glaring the angry witch. O Dis, even now,
A clammy dew is beading on my brow,
At mere remembering her pale laugh, and curse.
"Ha! ha! Sir Dainty! there must be a nurse
Made of rose leaves and thistledown, express,
To cradle thee my sweet, and lull thee: yes,
I am too flinty-hard for thy nice touch:
My tenderest squeeze is but a giant's clutch.
So, fairy-thing, it shall have lullabies
Unheard of yet; and it shall still its cries
Upon some breast more lily-feminine.
Oh, noit shall not pine, and pine, and pine
More than one pretty, trifling thousand years;
And then 'twere pity, but fate's gentle shears
Cut short its immortality. Sea-flirt!
Young dove of the waters! truly I'll not hurt
One hair of thine: see how I weep and sigh,
That our heart-broken parting is so nigh.
And must we part? Ah, yes, it must be so.
Yet ere thou leavest me in utter woe,
Let me sob over thee my last adieus,
And speak a blessing: Mark me! thou hast thews
Immortal, for thou art of heavenly race:
But such a love is mine, that here I chase
Eternally away from thee all bloom
Of youth, and destine thee towards a tomb.
Hence shalt thou quickly to the watery vast;
And there, ere many days be overpast,
Disabled age shall seize thee; and even then
Thou shalt not go the way of aged men;
But live and wither, cripple and still breathe
Ten hundred years: which gone, I then bequeath
Thy fragile bones to unknown burial.
Adieu, sweet love, adieu!"As shot stars fall,
She fled ere I could groan for mercy. Stung
And poisoned was my spirit: despair sung
A war-song of defiance 'gainst all hell.
A hand was at my shoulder to compel
My sullen steps; another 'fore my eyes
Moved on with pointed finger. In this guise
Enforced, at the last by ocean's foam
I found me; by my fresh, my native home.
Its tempering coolness, to my life akin,
Came salutary as I waded in;
And, with a blind voluptuous rage, I gave
Battle to the swollen billow-ridge, and drave
Large froth before me, while there yet remain'd
Hale strength, nor from my bones all marrow drain'd.
"Young lover, I must weepsuch hellish spite
With dry cheek who can tell? While thus my might
Proving upon this element, dismay'd,
Upon a dead thing's face my hand I laid;
I look'd'twas Scylla! Cursed, cursed Circe!
O vulture-witch, hast never heard of mercy?
Could not thy harshest vengeance be content,
But thou must nip this tender innocent
Because I lov'd her?Cold, O cold indeed
Were her fair limbs, and like a common weed
The sea-swell took her hair. Dead as she was
I clung about her waist, nor ceas'd to pass
Fleet as an arrow through unfathom'd brine,
Until there shone a fabric crystalline,
Ribb'd and inlaid with coral, pebble, and pearl.
Headlong I darted; at one eager swirl
Gain'd its bright portal, enter'd, and behold!
'Twas vast, and desolate, and icy-cold;
And all aroundBut wherefore this to thee
Who in few minutes more thyself shalt see?
I left poor Scylla in a niche and fled.
My fever'd parchings up, my scathing dread
Met palsy half way: soon these limbs became
Gaunt, wither'd, sapless, feeble, cramp'd, and lame.
"Now let me pass a cruel, cruel space,
Without one hope, without one faintest trace
Of mitigation, or redeeming bubble
Of colour'd phantasy; for I fear 'twould trouble
Thy brain to loss of reason: and next tell
How a restoring chance came down to quell
One half of the witch in me. On a day,
Sitting upon a rock above the spray,
I saw grow up from the horizon's brink
A gallant vessel: soon she seem'd to sink
Away from me again, as though her course
Had been resum'd in spite of hindering force
So vanish'd: and not long, before arose
Dark clouds, and muttering of winds morose.
Old Eolus would stifle his mad spleen,
But could not: therefore all the billows green
Toss'd up the silver spume against the clouds.
The tempest came: I saw that vessel's shrouds
In perilous bustle; while upon the deck
Stood trembling creatures. I beheld the wreck;
The final gulphing; the poor struggling souls:
I heard their cries amid loud thunder-rolls.
O they had all been sav'd but crazed eld
Annull'd my vigorous cravings: and thus quell'd
And curb'd, think on't, O Latmian! did I sit
Writhing with pity, and a cursing fit
Against that hell-born Circe. The crew had gone,
By one and one, to pale oblivion;
And I was gazing on the surges prone,
With many a scalding tear and many a groan,
When at my feet emerg'd an old man's hand,
Grasping this scroll, and this same slender wand.
I knelt with painreached out my handhad grasp'd
These treasurestouch'd the knucklesthey unclasp'd
I caught a finger: but the downward weight
O'erpowered meit sank. Then 'gan abate
The storm, and through chill aguish gloom outburst
The comfortable sun. I was athirst
To search the book, and in the warming air
Parted its dripping leaves with eager care.
Strange matters did it treat of, and drew on
My soul page after page, till well-nigh won
Into forgetfulness; when, stupefied,
I read these words, and read again, and tried
My eyes against the heavens, and read again.
O what a load of misery and pain
Each Atlas-line bore off!a shine of hope
Came gold around me, cheering me to cope
Strenuous with hellish tyranny. Attend!
For thou hast brought their promise to an end.
"In the wide sea there lives a forlorn wretch,
Doom'd with enfeebled carcase to outstretch
His loath'd existence through ten centuries,
And then to die alone. Who can devise
A total opposition? No one. So
One million times ocean must ebb and flow,
And he oppressed. Yet he shall not die,
These things accomplish'd:If he utterly
Scans all the depths of magic, and expounds
The meanings of all motions, shapes, and sounds;
If he explores all forms and substances
Straight homeward to their symbol-essences;
He shall not die. Moreover, and in chief,
He must pursue this task of joy and grief
Most piously;all lovers tempest-tost,
And in the savage overwhelming lost,
He shall deposit side by side, until
Time's creeping shall the dreary space fulfil:
Which done, and all these labours ripened,
A youth, by heavenly power lov'd and led,
Shall stand before him; whom he shall direct
How to consummate all. The youth elect
Must do the thing, or both will be destroy'd."
"Then," cried the young Endymion, overjoy'd,
"We are twin brothers in this destiny!
Say, I intreat thee, what achievement high
Is, in this restless world, for me reserv'd.
What! if from thee my wandering feet had swerv'd,
Had we both perish'd?""Look!" the sage replied,
"Dost thou not mark a gleaming through the tide,
Of divers brilliances? 'tis the edifice
I told thee of, where lovely Scylla lies;
And where I have enshrined piously
All lovers, whom fell storms have doom'd to die
Throughout my bondage." Thus discoursing, on
They went till unobscur'd the porches shone;
Which hurryingly they gain'd, and enter'd straight.
Sure never since king Neptune held his state
Was seen such wonder underneath the stars.
Turn to some level plain where haughty Mars
Has legion'd all his battle; and behold
How every soldier, with firm foot, doth hold
His even breast: see, many steeled squares,
And rigid ranks of ironwhence who dares
One step? Imagine further, line by line,
These warrior thousands on the field supine:
So in that crystal place, in silent rows,
Poor lovers lay at rest from joys and woes.
The stranger from the mountains, breathless, trac'd
Such thousands of shut eyes in order plac'd;
Such ranges of white feet, and patient lips
All ruddy,for here death no blossom nips.
He mark'd their brows and foreheads; saw their hair
Put sleekly on one side with nicest care;
And each one's gentle wrists, with reverence,
Put cross-wise to its heart.
"Let us commence,
Whisper'd the guide, stuttering with joy, even now."
He spake, and, trembling like an aspen-bough,
Began to tear his scroll in pieces small,
Uttering the while some mumblings funeral.
He tore it into pieces small as snow
That drifts unfeather'd when bleak northerns blow;
And having done it, took his dark blue cloak
And bound it round Endymion: then struck
His wand against the empty air times nine.
"What more there is to do, young man, is thine:
But first a little patience; first undo
This tangled thread, and wind it to a clue.
Ah, gentle! 'tis as weak as spider's skein;
And shouldst thou break itWhat, is it done so clean?
A power overshadows thee! Oh, brave!
The spite of hell is tumbling to its grave.
Here is a shell; 'tis pearly blank to me,
Nor mark'd with any sign or charactery
Canst thou read aught? O read for pity's sake!
Olympus! we are safe! Now, Carian, break
This wand against yon lyre on the pedestal."
'Twas done: and straight with sudden swell and fall
Sweet music breath'd her soul away, and sigh'd
A lullaby to silence."Youth! now strew
These minced leaves on me, and passing through
Those files of dead, scatter the same around,
And thou wilt see the issue."'Mid the sound
Of flutes and viols, ravishing his heart,
Endymion from Glaucus stood apart,
And scatter'd in his face some fragments light.
How lightning-swift the change! a youthful wight
Smiling beneath a coral diadem,
Out-sparkling sudden like an upturn'd gem,
Appear'd, and, stepping to a beauteous corse,
Kneel'd down beside it, and with tenderest force
Press'd its cold hand, and weptand Scylla sigh'd!
Endymion, with quick hand, the charm applied
The nymph arose: he left them to their joy,
And onward went upon his high employ,
Showering those powerful fragments on the dead.
And, as he pass'd, each lifted up its head,
As doth a flower at Apollo's touch.
Death felt it to his inwards; 'twas too much:
Death fell a weeping in his charnel-house.
The Latmian persever'd along, and thus
All were re-animated. There arose
A noise of harmony, pulses and throes
Of gladness in the airwhile many, who
Had died in mutual arms devout and true,
Sprang to each other madly; and the rest
Felt a high certainty of being blest.
They gaz'd upon Endymion. Enchantment
Grew drunken, and would have its head and bent.
Delicious symphonies, like airy flowers,
Budded, and swell'd, and, full-blown, shed full showers
Of light, soft, unseen leaves of sounds divine.
The two deliverers tasted a pure wine
Of happiness, from fairy-press ooz'd out.
Speechless they eyed each other, and about
The fair assembly wander'd to and fro,
Distracted with the richest overflow
Of joy that ever pour'd from heaven.
"Away!"
Shouted the new-born god; "Follow, and pay
Our piety to Neptunus supreme!"
Then Scylla, blushing sweetly from her dream,
They led on first, bent to her meek surprise,
Through portal columns of a giant size,
Into the vaulted, boundless emerald.
Joyous all follow'd, as the leader call'd,
Down marble steps; pouring as easily
As hour-glass sandand fast, as you might see
Swallows obeying the south summer's call,
Or swans upon a gentle waterfall.
Thus went that beautiful multitude, nor far,
Ere from among some rocks of glittering spar,
Just within ken, they saw descending thick
Another multitude. Whereat more quick
Moved either host. On a wide sand they met,
And of those numbers every eye was wet;
For each their old love found. A murmuring rose,
Like what was never heard in all the throes
Of wind and waters: 'tis past human wit
To tell; 'tis dizziness to think of it.
This mighty consummation made, the host
Mov'd on for many a league; and gain'd, and lost
Huge sea-marks; vanward swelling in array,
And from the rear diminishing away,
Till a faint dawn surpris'd them. Glaucus cried,
"Behold! behold, the palace of his pride!
God Neptune's palaces!" With noise increas'd,
They shoulder'd on towards that brightening east.
At every onward step proud domes arose
In prospect,diamond gleams, and golden glows
Of amber 'gainst their faces levelling.
Joyous, and many as the leaves in spring,
Still onward; still the splendour gradual swell'd.
Rich opal domes were seen, on high upheld
By jasper pillars, letting through their shafts
A blush of coral. Copious wonder-draughts
Each gazer drank; and deeper drank more near:
For what poor mortals fragment up, as mere
As marble was there lavish, to the vast
Of one fair palace, that far far surpass'd,
Even for common bulk, those olden three,
Memphis, and Babylon, and Nineveh.
As large, as bright, as colour'd as the bow
Of Iris, when unfading it doth shew
Beyond a silvery shower, was the arch
Through which this Paphian army took its march,
Into the outer courts of Neptune's state:
Whence could be seen, direct, a golden gate,
To which the leaders sped; but not half raught
Ere it burst open swift as fairy thought,
And made those dazzled thousands veil their eyes
Like callow eagles at the first sunrise.
Soon with an eagle nativeness their gaze
Ripe from hue-golden swoons took all the blaze,
And then, behold! large Neptune on his throne
Of emerald deep: yet not exalt alone;
At his right hand stood winged Love, and on
His left sat smiling Beauty's paragon.
Far as the mariner on highest mast
Can see all round upon the calmed vast,
So wide was Neptune's hall: and as the blue
Doth vault the waters, so the waters drew
Their doming curtains, high, magnificent,
Aw'd from the throne aloof;and when storm-rent
Disclos'd the thunder-gloomings in Jove's air;
But sooth'd as now, flash'd sudden everywhere,
Noiseless, sub-marine cloudlets, glittering
Death to a human eye: for there did spring
From natural west, and east, and south, and north,
A light as of four sunsets, blazing forth
A gold-green zenith 'bove the Sea-God's head.
Of lucid depth the floor, and far outspread
As breezeless lake, on which the slim canoe
Of feather'd Indian darts about, as through
The delicatest air: air verily,
But for the portraiture of clouds and sky:
This palace floor breath-air,but for the amaze
Of deep-seen wonders motionless,and blaze
Of the dome pomp, reflected in extremes,
Globing a golden sphere.
They stood in dreams
Till Triton blew his horn. The palace rang;
The Nereids danc'd; the Syrens faintly sang;
And the great Sea-King bow'd his dripping head.
Then Love took wing, and from his pinions shed
On all the multitude a nectarous dew.
The ooze-born Goddess beckoned and drew
Fair Scylla and her guides to conference;
And when they reach'd the throned eminence
She kist the sea-nymph's cheek,who sat her down
A toying with the doves. Then,"Mighty crown
And sceptre of this kingdom!" Venus said,
"Thy vows were on a time to Nais paid:
Behold!"Two copious tear-drops instant fell
From the God's large eyes; he smil'd delectable,
And over Glaucus held his blessing hands.
"Endymion! Ah! still wandering in the bands
Of love? Now this is cruel. Since the hour
I met thee in earth's bosom, all my power
Have I put forth to serve thee. What, not yet
Escap'd from dull mortality's harsh net?
A little patience, youth! 'twill not be long,
Or I am skilless quite: an idle tongue,
A humid eye, and steps luxurious,
Where these are new and strange, are ominous.
Aye, I have seen these signs in one of heaven,
When others were all blind; and were I given
To utter secrets, haply I might say
Some pleasant words:but Love will have his day.
So wait awhile expectant. Pr'ythee soon,
Even in the passing of thine honey-moon,
Visit my Cytherea: thou wilt find
Cupid well-natured, my Adonis kind;
And pray persuade with theeAh, I have done,
All blisses be upon thee, my sweet son!"
Thus the fair goddess: while Endymion
Knelt to receive those accents halcyon.
Meantime a glorious revelry began
Before the Water-Monarch. Nectar ran
In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd;
And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd
New growth about each shell and pendent lyre;
The which, in disentangling for their fire,
Pull'd down fresh foliage and coverture
For dainty toying. Cupid, empire-sure,
Flutter'd and laugh'd, and oft-times through the throng
Made a delighted way. Then dance, and song,
And garlanding grew wild; and pleasure reign'd.
In harmless tendril they each other chain'd,
And strove who should be smother'd deepest in
Fresh crush of leaves.
O 'tis a very sin
For one so weak to venture his poor verse
In such a place as this. O do not curse,
High Muses! let him hurry to the ending.
All suddenly were silent. A soft blending
Of dulcet instruments came charmingly;
And then a hymn.
"KING of the stormy sea!
Brother of Jove, and co-inheritor
Of elements! Eternally before
Thee the waves awful bow. Fast, stubborn rock,
At thy fear'd trident shrinking, doth unlock
Its deep foundations, hissing into foam.
All mountain-rivers lost, in the wide home
Of thy capacious bosom ever flow.
Thou frownest, and old Eolus thy foe
Skulks to his cavern, 'mid the gruff complaint
Of all his rebel tempests. Dark clouds faint
When, from thy diadem, a silver gleam
Slants over blue dominion. Thy bright team
Gulphs in the morning light, and scuds along
To bring thee nearer to that golden song
Apollo singeth, while his chariot
Waits at the doors of heaven. Thou art not
For scenes like this: an empire stern hast thou;
And it hath furrow'd that large front: yet now,
As newly come of heaven, dost thou sit
To blend and interknit
Subdued majesty with this glad time.
O shell-borne King sublime!
We lay our hearts before thee evermore
We sing, and we adore!
"Breathe softly, flutes;
Be tender of your strings, ye soothing lutes;
Nor be the trumpet heard! O vain, O vain;
Not flowers budding in an April rain,
Nor breath of sleeping dove, nor river's flow,
No, nor the Eolian twang of Love's own bow,
Can mingle music fit for the soft ear
Of goddess Cytherea!
Yet deign, white Queen of Beauty, thy fair eyes
On our souls' sacrifice.
"Bright-winged Child!
Who has another care when thou hast smil'd?
Unfortunates on earth, we see at last
All death-shadows, and glooms that overcast
Our spirits, fann'd away by thy light pinions.
O sweetest essence! sweetest of all minions!
God of warm pulses, and dishevell'd hair,
And panting bosoms bare!
Dear unseen light in darkness! eclipser
Of light in light! delicious poisoner!
Thy venom'd goblet will we quaff until
We fillwe fill!
And by thy Mother's lips"
Was heard no more
For clamour, when the golden palace door
Opened again, and from without, in shone
A new magnificence. On oozy throne
Smooth-moving came Oceanus the old,
To take a latest glimpse at his sheep-fold,
Before he went into his quiet cave
To muse for everThen a lucid wave,
Scoop'd from its trembling sisters of mid-sea,
Afloat, and pillowing up the majesty
Of Doris, and the Egean seer, her spouse
Next, on a dolphin, clad in laurel boughs,
Theban Amphion leaning on his lute:
His fingers went across itAll were mute
To gaze on Amphitrite, queen of pearls,
And Thetis pearly too.
The palace whirls
Around giddy Endymion; seeing he
Was there far strayed from mortality.
He could not bear itshut his eyes in vain;
Imagination gave a dizzier pain.
"O I shall die! sweet Venus, be my stay!
Where is my lovely mistress? Well-away!
I dieI hear her voiceI feel my wing"
At Neptune's feet he sank. A sudden ring
Of Nereids were about him, in kind strife
To usher back his spirit into life:
But still he slept. At last they interwove
Their cradling arms, and purpos'd to convey
Towards a crystal bower far away.
Lo! while slow carried through the pitying crowd,
To his inward senses these words spake aloud;
Written in star-light on the dark above:
Dearest Endymion! my entire love!
How have I dwelt in fear of fate: 'tis done
Immortal bliss for me too hast thou won.
Arise then! for the hen-dove shall not hatch
Her ready eggs, before I'll kissing snatch
Thee into endless heaven. Awake! awake!
The youth at once arose: a placid lake
Came quiet to his eyes; and forest green,
Cooler than all the wonders he had seen,
Lull'd with its simple song his fluttering breast.
How happy once again in grassy nest!
(line 1): Woodhouse notes that "Keats said, with much simplicity, 'It will be easily seen what I think of the present ministers, by the beginning of the third Book.'"
(line 407): Whether the reference is to the Pillars of Hercules, the confluence of the Mediterranean and Atlantic, or to the scene of the Death of Hercules, is not very clear; but probably "wound up his story" refers rather to his last labour than to his death on Mount ta.
(lines 863-65): This simile must surely be a reminiscence of Perrin's Fables Amusantes or some similar book used in Mr. Clarke's School. I remember the Fable of the old eagle and her young stood first in the book I used at school. The draft gives line 860 thus -- 'But soon like eagles natively their gaze...'
At the end of this Book Keats wrote in the draft, "Oxf: Sept. 26."
~ Poetical Works of John Keats, ed. H. Buxton Forman, Crowell publ. 1895. by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes
~ John Keats, Endymion - Book III
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778:A Lyrical Drama, In Four Acts.
Audisne haec amphiarae, sub terram abdite?
ACT I
Scene.A Ravine of Icy Rocks in the Indian Caucasus. Prometheus is discovered bound to the Precipice. Panthea andIone are seated at his feet. Time, night. During the Scene, morning slowly breaks.
Prometheus.
Monarch of Gods and Dmons, and all Spirits
But One, who throng those bright and rolling worlds
Which Thou and I alone of living things
Behold with sleepless eyes! regard this Earth
Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou
Requitest for knee-worship, prayer, and praise,
And toil, and hecatombs of broken hearts,
With fear and self-contempt and barren hope.
Whilst me, who am thy foe, eyeless in hate,
Hast thou made reign and triumph, to thy scorn,
O'er mine own misery and thy vain revenge.
Three thousand years of sleep-unsheltered hours,
And moments aye divided by keen pangs
Till they seemed years, torture and solitude,
Scorn and despair,these are mine empire:
More glorious far than that which thou surveyest
From thine unenvied throne, O Mighty God!
Almighty, had I deigned to share the shame
Of thine ill tyranny, and hung not here
Nailed to this wall of eagle-baffling mountain,
Black, wintry, dead, unmeasured; without herb,
Insect, or beast, or shape or sound of life.
Ah me! alas, pain, pain ever, for ever!
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
I ask the Earth, have not the mountains felt?
I ask yon Heaven, the all-beholding Sun,
Has it not seen? The Sea, in storm or calm,
Heaven's ever-changing Shadow, spread below,
Have its deaf waves not heard my agony?
Ah me! alas, pain, pain ever, for ever!
The crawling glaciers pierce me with the spears
Of their moon-freezing crystals, the bright chains
Eat with their burning cold into my bones.
Heaven's wingd hound, polluting from thy lips
His beak in poison not his own, tears up
My heart; and shapeless sights come wandering by,
The ghastly people of the realm of dream,
Mocking me: and the Earthquake-fiends are charged
To wrench the rivets from my quivering wounds
When the rocks split and close again behind:
While from their loud abysses howling throng
The genii of the storm, urging the rage
Of whirlwind, and afflict me with keen hail.
And yet to me welcome is day and night,
Whether one breaks the hoar frost of the morn,
Or starry, dim, and slow, the other climbs
The leaden-coloured east; for then they lead
The wingless, crawling hours, one among whom
As some dark Priest hales the reluctant victim
Shall drag thee, cruel King, to kiss the blood
From these pale feet, which then might trample thee
If they disdained not such a prostrate slave.
Disdain! Ah no! I pity thee. What ruin
Will hunt thee undefended through wide Heaven!
How will thy soul, cloven to its depth with terror,
Gape like a hell within! I speak in grief,
Not exultation, for I hate no more,
As then ere misery made me wise. The curse
Once breathed on thee I would recall. Ye Mountains,
Whose many-voicd Echoes, through the mist
Of cataracts, flung the thunder of that spell!
Ye icy Springs, stagnant with wrinkling frost,
Which vibrated to hear me, and then crept
Shuddering through India! Thou serenest Air,
Through which the Sun walks burning without beams!
And ye swift Whirlwinds, who on poisd wings
Hung mute and moveless o'er yon hushed abyss,
As thunder, louder than your own, made rock
The orbd world! If then my words had power,
Though I am changed so that aught evil wish
Is dead within; although no memory be
Of what is hate, let them not lose it now!
What was that curse? for ye all heard me speak.
First Voice
(from the Mountains).
Thrice three hundred thousand years
O'er the Earthquake's couch we stood:
Oft, as men convulsed with fears,
We trembled in our multitude.
Second Voice
(from the Springs).
Thunderbolts had parched our water,
We had been stained with bitter blood,
And had run mute, 'mid shrieks of slaughter,
Thro' a city and a solitude.
Third Voice
(from the Air).
I had clothed, since Earth uprose,
Its wastes in colours not their own,
And oft had my serene repose
Been cloven by many a rending groan.
Fourth Voice
(from the Whirlwinds).
We had soared beneath these mountains
Unresting ages; nor had thunder,
Nor yon volcano's flaming fountains,
Nor any power above or under
Ever made us mute with wonder.
First Voice.
But never bowed our snowy crest
As at the voice of thine unrest.
Second Voice.
Never such a sound before
To the Indian waves we bore.
A pilot asleep on the howling sea
Leaped up from the deck in agony,
And heard, and cried, 'Ah, woe is me!'
And died as mad as the wild waves be.
Third Voice.
By such dread words from Earth to Heaven
My still realm was never riven:
When its wound was closed, there stood
Darkness o'er the day like blood.
Fourth Voice.
And we shrank back: for dreams of ruin
To frozen caves our flight pursuing
Made us keep silencethusand thus
Though silence is as hell to us.
The Earth.
The tongueless Caverns of the craggy hills
Cried, 'Misery!' then; the hollow Heaven replied,
'Misery!' And the Ocean's purple waves,
Climbing the land, howled to the lashing winds,
And the pale nations heard it, 'Misery!'
Prometheus.
I heard a sound of voices: not the voice
Which I gave forth. Mother, thy sons and thou
Scorn him, without whose all-enduring will
Beneath the fierce omnipotence of Jove,
Both they and thou had vanished, like thin mist
Unrolled on the morning wind. Know ye not me,
The Titan? He who made his agony
The barrier to your else all-conquering foe?
Oh, rock-embosomed lawns, and snow-fed streams,
Now seen athwart frore vapours, deep below,
Through whose o'ershadowing woods I wandered once
With Asia, drinking life from her loved eyes;
Why scorns the spirit which informs ye, now
To commune with me? me alone, who checked,
As one who checks a fiend-drawn charioteer,
The falsehood and the force of him who reigns
Supreme, and with the groans of pining slaves
Fills your dim glens and liquid wildernesses:
Why answer ye not, still? Brethren!
The Earth.
They dare not.
Prometheus.
Who dares? for I would hear that curse again.
Ha, what an awful whisper rises up!
'Tis scarce like sound: it tingles through the frame
As lightning tingles, hovering ere it strike.
Speak, Spirit! from thine inorganic voice
I only know that thou art moving near
And love. How cursed I him?
The Earth.
How canst thou hear
Who knowest not the language of the dead?
Prometheus.
Thou art a living spirit; speak as they.
The Earth.
I dare not speak like life, lest Heaven's fell King
Should hear, and link me to some wheel of pain
More torturing than the one whereon I roll.
Subtle thou art and good, and though the Gods
Hear not this voice, yet thou art more than God,
Being wise and kind: earnestly hearken now.
Prometheus.
Obscurely through my brain, like shadows dim,
Sweep awful thoughts, rapid and thick. I feel
Faint, like one mingled in entwining love;
Yet 'tis not pleasure.
The Earth.
No, thou canst not hear:
Thou art immortal, and this tongue is known
Only to those who die.
Prometheus.
And what art thou,
O, melancholy Voice?
The Earth.
I am the Earth,
Thy mother; she within whose stony veins,
To the last fibre of the loftiest tree
Whose thin leaves trembled in the frozen air,
Joy ran, as blood within a living frame,
When thou didst from her bosom, like a cloud
Of glory, arise, a spirit of keen joy!
And at thy voice her pining sons uplifted
Their prostrate brows from the polluting dust,
And our almighty Tyrant with fierce dread
Grew pale, until his thunder chained thee here.
Then, see those million worlds which burn and roll
Around us: their inhabitants beheld
My spherd light wane in wide Heaven; the sea
Was lifted by strange tempest, and new fire
From earthquake-rifted mountains of bright snow
Shook its portentous hair beneath Heaven's frown;
Lightning and Inundation vexed the plains;
Blue thistles bloomed in cities; foodless toads
Within voluptuous chambers panting crawled:
When Plague had fallen on man, and beast, and worm,
And Famine; and black blight on herb and tree;
And in the corn, and vines, and meadow-grass,
Teemed ineradicable poisonous weeds
Draining their growth, for my wan breast was dry
With grief; and the thin air, my breath, was stained
With the contagion of a mother's hate
Breathed on her child's destroyer; ay, I heard
Thy curse, the which, if thou rememberest not,
Yet my innumerable seas and streams,
Mountains, and caves, and winds, and yon wide air,
And the inarticulate people of the dead,
Preserve, a treasured spell. We meditate
In secret joy and hope those dreadful words,
But dare not speak them.
Prometheus.
Venerable mother!
All else who live and suffer take from thee
Some comfort; flowers, and fruits, and happy sounds,
And love, though fleeting; these may not be mine.
But mine own words, I pray, deny me not.
The Earth.
They shall be told. Ere Babylon was dust,
The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child,
Met his own image walking in the garden.
That apparition, sole of men, he saw.
For know there are two worlds of life and death:
One that which thou beholdest; but the other
Is underneath the grave, where do inhabit
The shadows of all forms that think and live
Till death unite them and they part no more;
Dreams and the light imaginings of men,
And all that faith creates or love desires,
Terrible, strange, sublime and beauteous shapes.
There thou art, and dost hang, a writhing shade,
'Mid whirlwind-peopled mountains; all the gods
Are there, and all the powers of nameless worlds,
Vast, sceptred phantoms; heroes, men, and beasts;
And Demogorgon, a tremendous gloom;
And he, the supreme Tyrant, on his throne
Of burning gold. Son, one of these shall utter
The curse which all remember. Call at will
Thine own ghost, or the ghost of Jupiter,
Hades or Typhon, or what mightier Gods
From all-prolific Evil, since thy ruin
Have sprung, and trampled on my prostrate sons.
Ask, and they must reply: so the revenge
Of the Supreme may sweep through vacant shades,
As rainy wind through the abandoned gate
Of a fallen palace.
Prometheus.
Mother, let not aught
Of that which may be evil, pass again
My lips, or those of aught resembling me.
Phantasm of Jupiter, arise, appear!
Ione.
My wings are folded o'er mine ears:
My wings are crossd o'er mine eyes:
Yet through their silver shade appears,
And through their lulling plumes arise,
A Shape, a throng of sounds;
May it be no ill to thee
O thou of many wounds!
Near whom, for our sweet sister's sake,
Ever thus we watch and wake.
Panthea.
The sound is of whirlwind underground,
Earthquake, and fire, and mountains cloven;
The shape is awful like the sound,
Clothed in dark purple, star-inwoven.
A sceptre of pale gold
To stay steps proud, o'er the slow cloud
His veind hand doth hold.
Cruel he looks, but calm and strong,
Like one who does, not suffers wrong.
Phantasm of Jupiter.
Why have the secret powers of this strange world
Driven me, a frail and empty phantom, hither
On direst storms? What unaccustomed sounds
Are hovering on my lips, unlike the voice
With which our pallid race hold ghastly talk
In darkness? And, proud sufferer, who art thou?
Prometheus.
Tremendous Image, as thou art must be
He whom thou shadowest forth. I am his foe,
The Titan. Speak the words which I would hear,
Although no thought inform thine empty voice.
The Earth.
Listen! And though your echoes must be mute,
Gray mountains, and old woods, and haunted springs,
Prophetic caves, and isle-surrounding streams,
Rejoice to hear what yet ye cannot speak.
Phantasm.
A spirit seizes me and speaks within:
It tears me as fire tears a thunder-cloud.
Panthea.
See, how he lifts his mighty looks, the Heaven
Darkens above.
Ione.
He speaks! O shelter me!
Prometheus.
I see the curse on gestures proud and cold,
And looks of firm defiance, and calm hate,
And such despair as mocks itself with smiles,
Written as on a scroll: yet speak: Oh, speak!
Phantasm.
Fiend, I defy thee! with a calm, fixed mind,
All that thou canst inflict I bid thee do;
Foul Tyrant both of Gods and Human-kind,
One only being shalt thou not subdue.
Rain then thy plagues upon me here,
Ghastly disease, and frenzying fear;
And let alternate frost and fire
Eat into me, and be thine ire
Lightning, and cutting hail, and legioned forms
Of furies, driving by upon the wounding storms.
Ay, do thy worst. Thou art omnipotent.
O'er all things but thyself I gave thee power,
And my own will. Be thy swift mischiefs sent
To blast mankind, from yon ethereal tower.
Let thy malignant spirit move
In darkness over those I love:
On me and mine I imprecate
The utmost torture of thy hate;
And thus devote to sleepless agony,
This undeclining head while thou must reign on high.
But thou, who art the God and Lord: O, thou,
Who fillest with thy soul this world of woe,
To whom all things of Earth and Heaven do bow
In fear and worship: all-prevailing foe!
I curse thee! let a sufferer's curse
Clasp thee, his torturer, like remorse;
Till thine Infinity shall be
A robe of envenomed agony;
And thine Omnipotence a crown of pain,
To cling like burning gold round thy dissolving brain.
Heap on thy soul, by virtue of this Curse,
Ill deeds, then be thou damned, beholding good;
Both infinite as is the universe,
And thou, and thy self-torturing solitude.
An awful image of calm power
Though now thou sittest, let the hour
Come, when thou must appear to be
That which thou art internally;
And after many a false and fruitless crime
Scorn track thy lagging fall through boundless space and time.
Prometheus.
Were these my words, O Parent?
The Earth.
They were thine.
Prometheus.
It doth repent me: words are quick and vain;
Grief for awhile is blind, and so was mine.
I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
The Earth.
Misery, Oh misery to me,
That Jove at length should vanquish thee.
Wail, howl aloud, Land and Sea,
The Earth's rent heart shall answer ye.
Howl, Spirits of the living and the dead,
Your refuge, your defence lies fallen and vanquishd.
First Echo.
Lies fallen and vanquishd!
Second Echo.
Fallen and vanquishd!
Ione.
Fear not: 'tis but some passing spasm,
The Titan is unvanquished still.
But see, where through the azure chasm
Of yon forked and snowy hill
Trampling the slant winds on high
With golden-sandalled feet, that glow
Under plumes of purple dye,
Like rose-ensanguined ivory,
A Shape comes now,
Stretching on high from his right hand
A serpent-cinctured wand.
Panthea.
'Tis Jove's world-wandering herald, Mercury.
Ione.
And who are those with hydra tresses
And iron wings that climb the wind,
Whom the frowning God represses
Like vapours steaming up behind,
Clanging loud, an endless crowd
Panthea.
These are Jove's tempest-walking hounds,
Whom he gluts with groans and blood,
When charioted on sulphurous cloud
He bursts Heaven's bounds.
Ione.
Are they now led, from the thin dead
On new pangs to be fed?
Panthea.
The Titan looks as ever, firm, not proud.
First Fury.
Ha! I scent life!
Second Fury.
Let me but look into his eyes!
Third Fury.
The hope of torturing him smells like a heap
Of corpses, to a death-bird after battle.
First Fury.
Darest thou delay, O Herald! take cheer, Hounds
Of Hell: what if the Son of Maia soon
Should make us food and sportwho can please long
The Omnipotent?
Mercury.
Back to your towers of iron,
And gnash, beside the streams of fire and wail,
Your foodless teeth. Geryon, arise! and Gorgon,
Chimra, and thou Sphinx, subtlest of fiends
Who ministered to Thebes Heaven's poisoned wine,
Unnatural love, and more unnatural hate:
These shall perform your task.
First Fury.
Oh, mercy! mercy!
We die with our desire: drive us not back!
Mercury.
Crouch then in silence.
Awful Sufferer!
To thee unwilling, most unwillingly
I come, by the great Father's will driven down,
To execute a doom of new revenge.
Alas! I pity thee, and hate myself
That I can do no more: aye from thy sight
Returning, for a season, Heaven seems Hell,
So thy worn form pursues me night and day,
Smiling reproach. Wise art thou, firm and good,
But vainly wouldst stand forth alone in strife
Against the Omnipotent; as yon clear lamps
That measure and divide the weary years
From which there is no refuge, long have taught
And long must teach. Even now thy Torturer arms
With the strange might of unimagined pains
The powers who scheme slow agonies in Hell,
And my commission is to lead them here,
Or what more subtle, foul, or savage fiends
People the abyss, and leave them to their task.
Be it not so! there is a secret known
To thee, and to none else of living things,
Which may transfer the sceptre of wide Heaven,
The fear of which perplexes the Supreme:
Clothe it in words, and bid it clasp his throne
In intercession; bend thy soul in prayer,
And like a suppliant in some gorgeous fane,
Let the will kneel within thy haughty heart:
For benefits and meek submission tame
The fiercest and the mightiest.
Prometheus.
Evil minds
Change good to their own nature. I gave all
He has; and in return he chains me here
Years, ages, night and day: whether the Sun
Split my parched skin, or in the moony night
The crystal-wingd snow cling round my hair:
Whilst my belovd race is trampled down
By his thought-executing ministers.
Such is the tyrant's recompense: 'tis just:
He who is evil can receive no good;
And for a world bestowed, or a friend lost,
He can feel hate, fear, shame; not gratitude:
He but requites me for his own misdeed.
Kindness to such is keen reproach, which breaks
With bitter stings the light sleep of Revenge.
Submission, thou dost know I cannot try:
For what submission but that fatal word,
The death-seal of mankind's captivity,
Like the Sicilian's hair-suspended sword,
Which trembles o'er his crown, would he accept,
Or could I yield? Which yet I will not yield.
Let others flatter Crime, where it sits throned
In brief Omnipotence: secure are they:
For Justice, when triumphant, will weep down
Pity, not punishment, on her own wrongs,
Too much avenged by those who err. I wait,
Enduring thus, the retributive hour
Which since we spake is even nearer now.
But hark, the hell-hounds clamour: fear delay:
Behold! Heaven lowers under thy Father's frown.
Mercury.
Oh, that we might be spared: I to inflict
And thou to suffer! Once more answer me:
Thou knowest not the period of Jove's power?
Prometheus.
I know but this, that it must come.
Mercury.
Alas!
Thou canst not count thy years to come of pain?
Prometheus.
They last while Jove must reign: nor more, nor less
Do I desire or fear.
Mercury.
Yet pause, and plunge
Into Eternity, where recorded time,
Even all that we imagine, age on age,
Seems but a point, and the reluctant mind
Flags wearily in its unending flight,
Till it sink, dizzy, blind, lost, shelterless;
Perchance it has not numbered the slow years
Which thou must spend in torture, unreprieved?
Prometheus.
Perchance no thought can count them, yet they pass.
Mercury.
If thou might'st dwell among the Gods the while
Lapped in voluptuous joy?
Prometheus.
I would not quit
This bleak ravine, these unrepentant pains.
Mercury.
Alas! I wonder at, yet pity thee.
Prometheus.
Pity the self-despising slaves of Heaven,
Not me, within whose mind sits peace serene,
As light in the sun, throned: how vain is talk!
Call up the fiends.
Ione.
O, sister, look! White fire
Has cloven to the roots yon huge snow-loaded cedar;
How fearfully God's thunder howls behind!
Mercury.
I must obey his words and thine: alas!
Most heavily remorse hangs at my heart!
Panthea.
See where the child of Heaven, with wingd feet,
Runs down the slanted sunlight of the dawn.
Ione.
Dear sister, close thy plumes over thine eyes
Lest thou behold and die: they come: they come
Blackening the birth of day with countless wings,
And hollow underneath, like death.
First Fury.
Prometheus!
Second Fury.
Immortal Titan!
Third Fury.
Champion of Heaven's slaves!
Prometheus.
He whom some dreadful voice invokes is here,
Prometheus, the chained Titan. Horrible forms,
What and who are ye? Never yet there came
Phantasms so foul through monster-teeming Hell
From the all-miscreative brain of Jove;
Whilst I behold such execrable shapes,
Methinks I grow like what I contemplate,
And laugh and stare in loathsome sympathy.
First Fury.
We are the ministers of pain, and fear,
And disappointment, and mistrust, and hate,
And clinging crime; and as lean dogs pursue
Through wood and lake some struck and sobbing fawn,
We track all things that weep, and bleed, and live,
When the great King betrays them to our will.
Prometheus.
Oh! many fearful natures in one name,
I know ye; and these lakes and echoes know
The darkness and the clangour of your wings.
But why more hideous than your loathd selves
Gather ye up in legions from the deep?
Second Fury.
We knew not that: Sisters, rejoice, rejoice!
Prometheus.
Can aught exult in its deformity?
Second Fury.
The beauty of delight makes lovers glad,
Gazing on one another: so are we.
As from the rose which the pale priestess kneels
To gather for her festal crown of flowers
The areal crimson falls, flushing her cheek,
So from our victim's destined agony
The shade which is our form invests us round,
Else we are shapeless as our mother Night.
Prometheus.
I laugh your power, and his who sent you here,
To lowest scorn. Pour forth the cup of pain.
First Fury.
Thou thinkest we will rend thee bone from bone,
And nerve from nerve, working like fire within?
Prometheus.
Pain is my element, as hate is thine;
Ye rend me now: I care not.
Second Fury.
Dost imagine
We will but laugh into thy lidless eyes?
Prometheus.
I weigh not what ye do, but what ye suffer,
Being evil. Cruel was the power which called
You, or aught else so wretched, into light.
Third Fury.
Thou think'st we will live through thee, one by one,
Like animal life, and though we can obscure not
The soul which burns within, that we will dwell
Beside it, like a vain loud multitude
Vexing the self-content of wisest men:
That we will be dread thought beneath thy brain,
And foul desire round thine astonished heart,
And blood within thy labyrinthine veins
Crawling like agony?
Prometheus.
Why, ye are thus now;
Yet am I king over myself, and rule
The torturing and conflicting throngs within,
As Jove rules you when Hell grows mutinous.
Chorus of Furies.
From the ends of the earth, from the ends of the earth,
Where the night has its grave and the morning its birth,
Come, come, come!
Oh, ye who shake hills with the scream of your mirth,
When cities sink howling in ruin; and ye
Who with wingless footsteps trample the sea,
And close upon Shipwreck and Famine's track,
Sit chattering with joy on the foodless wreck;
Come, come, come!
Leave the bed, low, cold, and red,
Strewed beneath a nation dead;
Leave the hatred, as in ashes
Fire is left for future burning:
It will burst in bloodier flashes
When ye stir it, soon returning:
Leave the self-contempt implanted
In young spirits, sense-enchanted,
Misery's yet unkindled fuel:
Leave Hell's secrets half unchanted
To the maniac dreamer; cruel
More than ye can be with hate
Is he with fear.
Come, come, come!
We are steaming up from Hell's wide gate
And we burthen the blast of the atmosphere,
But vainly we toil till ye come here.
Ione.
Sister, I hear the thunder of new wings.
Panthea.
These solid mountains quiver with the sound
Even as the tremulous air: their shadows make
The space within my plumes more black than night.
First Fury.
Your call was as a wingd car
Driven on whirlwinds fast and far;
It rapped us from red gulfs of war.
Second Fury.
From wide cities, famine-wasted;
Third Fury.
Groans half heard, and blood untasted;
Fourth Fury.
Kingly conclaves stern and cold,
Where blood with gold is bought and sold;
Fifth Fury.
From the furnace, white and hot,
In which
A Fury.
Speak not: whisper not:
I know all that ye would tell,
But to speak might break the spell
Which must bend the Invincible,
The stern of thought;
He yet defies the deepest power of Hell.
A Fury.
Tear the veil!
Another Fury.
It is torn.
Chorus.
The pale stars of the morn
Shine on a misery, dire to be borne.
Dost thou faint, mighty Titan? We laugh thee to scorn.
Dost thou boast the clear knowledge thou waken'dst for man?
Then was kindled within him a thirst which outran
Those perishing waters; a thirst of fierce fever,
Hope, love, doubt, desire, which consume him for ever.
One came forth of gentle worth
Smiling on the sanguine earth;
His words outlived him, like swift poison
Withering up truth, peace, and pity.
Look! where round the wide horizon
Many a million-peopled city
Vomits smoke in the bright air.
Hark that outcry of despair!
'Tis his mild and gentle ghost
Wailing for the faith he kindled:
Look again, the flames almost
To a glow-worm's lamp have dwindled:
The survivors round the embers
Gather in dread.
Joy, joy, joy!
Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers,
And the future is dark, and the present is spread
Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head.
Semichorus I.
Drops of bloody agony flow
From his white and quivering brow.
Grant a little respite now:
See a disenchanted nation
Springs like day from desolation;
To Truth its state is dedicate,
And Freedom leads it forth, her mate;
A legioned band of linkd brothers
Whom Love calls children
Semichorus II.
'Tis another's:
See how kindred murder kin:
'Tis the vintage-time for death and sin:
Blood, like new wine, bubbles within:
Till Despair smothers
The struggling world, which slaves and tyrants win.
[All the Furies vanish, except one.
Ione.
Hark, sister! what a low yet dreadful groan
Quite unsuppressed is tearing up the heart
Of the good Titan, as storms tear the deep,
And beasts hear the sea moan in inland caves.
Darest thou observe how the fiends torture him?
Panthea.
Alas! I looked forth twice, but will no more.
Ione.
What didst thou see?
Panthea.
A woful sight: a youth
With patient looks nailed to a crucifix.
Ione.
What next?
Panthea.
The heaven around, the earth below
Was peopled with thick shapes of human death,
All horrible, and wrought by human hands,
And some appeared the work of human hearts,
For men were slowly killed by frowns and smiles:
And other sights too foul to speak and live
Were wandering by. Let us not tempt worse fear
By looking forth: those groans are grief enough.
Fury.
Behold an emblem: those who do endure
Deep wrongs for man, and scorn, and chains, but heap
Thousandfold torment on themselves and him.
Prometheus.
Remit the anguish of that lighted stare;
Close those wan lips; let that thorn-wounded brow
Stream not with blood; it mingles with thy tears!
Fix, fix those tortured orbs in peace and death,
So thy sick throes shake not that crucifix,
So those pale fingers play not with thy gore.
O, horrible! Thy name I will not speak,
It hath become a curse. I see, I see,
The wise, the mild, the lofty, and the just,
Whom thy slaves hate for being like to thee,
Some hunted by foul lies from their heart's home,
An early-chosen, late-lamented home;
As hooded ounces cling to the driven hind;
Some linked to corpses in unwholesome cells:
SomeHear I not the multitude laugh loud?
Impaled in lingering fire: and mighty realms
Float by my feet, like sea-uprooted isles,
Whose sons are kneaded down in common blood
By the red light of their own burning homes.
Fury.
Blood thou canst see, and fire; and canst hear groans;
Worse things, unheard, unseen, remain behind.
Prometheus.
Worse?
Fury.
In each human heart terror survives
The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear
All that they would disdain to think were true:
Hypocrisy and custom make their minds
The fanes of many a worship, now outworn.
They dare not devise good for man's estate,
And yet they know not that they do not dare.
The good want power, but to weep barren tears.
The powerful goodness want: worse need for them.
The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom;
And all best things are thus confused to ill.
Many are strong and rich, and would be just,
But live among their suffering fellow-men
As if none felt: they know not what they do.
Prometheus.
Thy words are like a cloud of wingd snakes;
And yet I pity those they torture not.
Fury.
Thou pitiest them? I speak no more!
[Vanishes.
Prometheus.
Ah woe!
Ah woe! Alas! pain, pain ever, for ever!
I close my tearless eyes, but see more clear
Thy works within my woe-illumd mind,
Thou subtle tyrant! Peace is in the grave.
The grave hides all things beautiful and good:
I am a God and cannot find it there,
Nor would I seek it: for, though dread revenge,
This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.
The sights with which thou torturest gird my soul
With new endurance, till the hour arrives
When they shall be no types of things which are.
Panthea.
Alas! what sawest thou more?
Prometheus.
There are two woes:
To speak, and to behold; thou spare me one.
Names are there, Nature's sacred watchwords, they
Were borne aloft in bright emblazonry;
The nations thronged around, and cried aloud,
As with one voice, Truth, liberty, and love!
Suddenly fierce confusion fell from heaven
Among them: there was strife, deceit, and fear:
Tyrants rushed in, and did divide the spoil.
This was the shadow of the truth I saw.
The Earth.
I felt thy torture, son; with such mixed joy
As pain and virtue give. To cheer thy state
I bid ascend those subtle and fair spirits,
Whose homes are the dim caves of human thought,
And who inhabit, as birds wing the wind,
Its world-surrounding aether: they behold
Beyond that twilight realm, as in a glass,
The future: may they speak comfort to thee!
Panthea.
Look, sister, where a troop of spirits gather,
Like flocks of clouds in spring's delightful weather,
Thronging in the blue air!
Ione.
And see! more come,
Like fountain-vapours when the winds are dumb,
That climb up the ravine in scattered lines.
And, hark! is it the music of the pines?
Is it the lake? Is it the waterfall?
Panthea.
'Tis something sadder, sweeter far than all.
Chorus of Spirits.
From unremembered ages we
Gentle guides and guardians be
Of heaven-oppressed mortality;
And we breathe, and sicken not,
The atmosphere of human thought:
Be it dim, and dank, and gray,
Like a storm-extinguished day,
Travelled o'er by dying gleams;
Be it bright as all between
Cloudless skies and windless streams,
Silent, liquid, and serene;
As the birds within the wind,
As the fish within the wave,
As the thoughts of man's own mind
Float through all above the grave;
We make there our liquid lair,
Voyaging cloudlike and unpent
Through the boundless element:
Thence we bear the prophecy
Which begins and ends in thee!
Ione.
More yet come, one by one: the air around them
Looks radiant as the air around a star.
First Spirit.
On a battle-trumpet's blast
I fled hither, fast, fast, fast,
'Mid the darkness upward cast.
From the dust of creeds outworn,
From the tyrant's banner torn,
Gathering 'round me, onward borne,
There was mingled many a cry
Freedom! Hope! Death! Victory!
Till they faded through the sky;
And one sound, above, around,
One sound beneath, around, above,
Was moving; 'twas the soul of Love;
'Twas the hope, the prophecy,
Which begins and ends in thee.
Second Spirit.
A rainbow's arch stood on the sea,
Which rocked beneath, immovably;
And the triumphant storm did flee,
Like a conqueror, swift and proud,
Between, with many a captive cloud,
A shapeless, dark and rapid crowd,
Each by lightning riven in half:
I heard the thunder hoarsely laugh:
Mighty fleets were strewn like chaff
And spread beneath a hell of death
O'er the white waters. I alit
On a great ship lightning-split,
And speeded hither on the sigh
Of one who gave an enemy
His plank, then plunged aside to die.
Third Spirit.
I sate beside a sage's bed,
And the lamp was burning red
Near the book where he had fed,
When a Dream with plumes of flame,
To his pillow hovering came,
And I knew it was the same
Which had kindled long ago
Pity, eloquence, and woe;
And the world awhile below
Wore the shade, its lustre made.
It has borne me here as fleet
As Desire's lightning feet:
I must ride it back ere morrow,
Or the sage will wake in sorrow.
Fourth Spirit.
On a poet's lips I slept
Dreaming like a love-adept
In the sound his breathing kept;
Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses,
But feeds on the areal kisses
Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses.
He will watch from dawn to gloom
The lake-reflected sun illume
The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom,
Nor heed nor see, what things they be;
But from these create he can
Forms more real than living man,
Nurslings of immortality!
One of these awakened me,
And I sped to succour thee.
Ione.
Behold'st thou not two shapes from the east and west
Come, as two doves to one belovd nest,
Twin nurslings of the all-sustaining air
On swift still wings glide down the atmosphere?
And, hark! their sweet, sad voices! 'tis despair
Mingled with love and then dissolved in sound.
Panthea.
Canst thou speak, sister? all my words are drowned.
Ione.
Their beauty gives me voice. See how they float
On their sustaining wings of skiey grain,
Orange and azure deepening into gold:
Their soft smiles light the air like a star's fire.
Chorus of Spirits.
Hast thou beheld the form of Love?
Fifth Spirit.
As over wide dominions
I sped, like some swift cloud that wings the wide air's wildernesses,
That planet-crested shape swept by on lightning-braided pinions,
Scattering the liquid joy of life from his ambrosial tresses:
His footsteps paved the world with light; but as I passed 'twas fading,
And hollow Ruin yawned behind: great sages bound in madness,
And headless patriots, and pale youths who perished, unupbraiding,
Gleamed in the night. I wandered o'er, till thou, O King of sadness,
Turned by thy smile the worst I saw to recollected gladness.
Sixth Spirit.
Ah, sister! Desolation is a delicate thing:
It walks not on the earth, it floats not on the air,
But treads with lulling footstep, and fans with silent wing
The tender hopes which in their hearts the best and gentlest bear;
Who, soothed to false repose by the fanning plumes above
And the music-stirring motion of its soft and busy feet,
Dream visions of areal joy, and call the monster, Love,
And wake, and find the shadow Pain, as he whom now we greet.
Chorus.
Though Ruin now Love's shadow be,
Following him, destroyingly,
On Death's white and wingd steed,
Which the fleetest cannot flee,
Trampling down both flower and weed,
Man and beast, and foul and fair,
Like a tempest through the air;
Thou shalt quell this horseman grim,
Woundless though in heart or limb.
Prometheus.
Spirits! how know ye this shall be?
Chorus.
In the atmosphere we breathe,
As buds grow red when the snow-storms flee,
From Spring gathering up beneath,
Whose mild winds shake the elder brake,
And the wandering herdsmen know
That the white-thorn soon will blow:
Wisdom, Justice, Love, and Peace,
When they struggle to increase,
Are to us as soft winds be
To shepherd boys, the prophecy
Which begins and ends in thee.
Ione.
Where are the Spirits fled?
Panthea.
Only a sense
Remains of them, like the omnipotence
Of music, when the inspired voice and lute
Languish, ere yet the responses are mute,
Which through the deep and labyrinthine soul,
Like echoes through long caverns, wind and roll.
Prometheus.
How fair these airborn shapes! and yet I feel
Most vain all hope but love; and thou art far,
Asia! who, when my being overflowed,
Wert like a golden chalice to bright wine
Which else had sunk into the thirsty dust.
All things are still: alas! how heavily
This quiet morning weighs upon my heart;
Though I should dream I could even sleep with grief
If slumber were denied not. I would fain
Be what it is my destiny to be,
The saviour and the strength of suffering man,
Or sink into the original gulf of things:
There is no agony, and no solace left;
Earth can console, Heaven can torment no more.
Panthea.
Hast thou forgotten one who watches thee
The cold dark night, and never sleeps but when
The shadow of thy spirit falls on her?
Prometheus.
I said all hope was vain but love: thou lovest.
Panthea.
Deeply in truth; but the eastern star looks white,
And Asia waits in that far Indian vale,
The scene of her sad exile; rugged once
And desolate and frozen, like this ravine;
But now invested with fair flowers and herbs,
And haunted by sweet airs and sounds, which flow
Among the woods and waters, from the aether
Of her transforming presence, which would fade
If it were mingled not with thine. Farewell!
END OF THE FIRST ACT.
ACT II
Scene I.
Morning. A lovely Vale in the Indian Caucasus. Asia alone.
Asia.
From all the blasts of heaven thou hast descended:
Yes, like a spirit, like a thought, which makes
Unwonted tears throng to the horny eyes,
And beatings haunt the desolated heart,
Which should have learnt repose: thou hast descended
Cradled in tempests; thou dost wake, O Spring!
O child of many winds! As suddenly
Thou comest as the memory of a dream,
Which now is sad because it hath been sweet;
Like genius, or like joy which riseth up
As from the earth, clothing with golden clouds
The desert of our life.
This is the season, this the day, the hour;
At sunrise thou shouldst come, sweet sister mine,
Too long desired, too long delaying, come!
How like death-worms the wingless moments crawl!
The point of one white star is quivering still
Deep in the orange light of widening morn
Beyond the purple mountains. through a chasm
Of wind-divided mist the darker lake
Reflects it: now it wanes: it gleams again
As the waves fade, and as the burning threads
Of woven cloud unravel in pale air:
'Tis lost! and through yon peaks of cloud-like snow
The roseate sunlight quivers: hear I not
The olian music of her sea-green plumes
Winnowing the crimson dawn?
[Panthea enters.
I feel, I see
Those eyes which burn through smiles that fade in tears,
Like stars half quenched in mists of silver dew.
Belovd and most beautiful, who wearest
The shadow of that soul by which I live,
How late thou art! the spherd sun had climbed
The sea; my heart was sick with hope, before
The printless air felt thy belated plumes.
Panthea.
Pardon, great Sister! but my wings were faint
With the delight of a remembered dream,
As are the noontide plumes of summer winds
Satiate with sweet flowers. I was wont to sleep
Peacefully, and awake refreshed and calm
Before the sacred Titan's fall, and thy
Unhappy love, had made, through use and pity,
Both love and woe familiar to my heart
As they had grown to thine: erewhile I slept
Under the glaucous caverns of old Ocean
Within dim bowers of green and purple moss,
Our young Ione's soft and milky arms
Locked then, as now, behind my dark, moist hair,
While my shut eyes and cheek were pressed within
The folded depth of her life-breathing bosom:
But not as now, since I am made the wind
Which fails beneath the music that I bear
Of thy most wordless converse; since dissolved
Into the sense with which love talks, my rest
Was troubled and yet sweet; my waking hours
Too full of care and pain.
Asia.
Lift up thine eyes,
And let me read thy dream.
Panthea.
As I have said
With our sea-sister at his feet I slept.
The mountain mists, condensing at our voice
Under the moon, had spread their snowy flakes,
From the keen ice shielding our linkd sleep.
Then two dreams came. One, I remember not.
But in the other his pale wound-worn limbs
Fell from Prometheus, and the azure night
Grew radiant with the glory of that form
Which lives unchanged within, and his voice fell
Like music which makes giddy the dim brain,
Faint with intoxication of keen joy:
'Sister of her whose footsteps pave the world
With lovelinessmore fair than aught but her,
Whose shadow thou artlift thine eyes on me.'
I lifted them: the overpowering light
Of that immortal shape was shadowed o'er
By love; which, from his soft and flowing limbs,
And passion-parted lips, and keen, faint eyes,
Steamed forth like vaporous fire; an atmosphere
Which wrapped me in its all-dissolving power,
As the warm aether of the morning sun
Wraps ere it drinks some cloud of wandering dew.
I saw not, heard not, moved not, only felt
His presence flow and mingle through my blood
Till it became his life, and his grew mine,
And I was thus absorbed, until it passed,
And like the vapours when the sun sinks down,
Gathering again in drops upon the pines,
And tremulous as they, in the deep night
My being was condensed; and as the rays
Of thought were slowly gathered, I could hear
His voice, whose accents lingered ere they died
Like footsteps of weak melody: thy name
Among the many sounds alone I heard
Of what might be articulate; though still
I listened through the night when sound was none.
Ione wakened then, and said to me:
'Canst thou divine what troubles me to-night?
I always knew what I desired before,
Nor ever found delight to wish in vain.
But now I cannot tell thee what I seek;
I know not; something sweet, since it is sweet
Even to desire; it is thy sport, false sister;
Thou hast discovered some enchantment old,
Whose spells have stolen my spirit as I slept
And mingled it with thine: for when just now
We kissed, I felt within thy parted lips
The sweet air that sustained me, and the warmth
Of the life-blood, for loss of which I faint,
Quivered between our intertwining arms.'
I answered not, for the Eastern star grew pale,
But fled to thee.
Asia.
Thou speakest, but thy words
Are as the air: I feel them not: Oh, lift
Thine eyes, that I may read his written soul!
Panthea.
I lift them though they droop beneath the load
Of that they would express: what canst thou see
But thine own fairest shadow imaged there?
Asia.
Thine eyes are like the deep, blue, boundless heaven
Contracted to two circles underneath
Their long, fine lashes; dark, far, measureless,
Orb within orb, and line through line inwoven.
Panthea.
Why lookest thou as if a spirit passed?
Asia.
There is a change: beyond their inmost depth
I see a shade, a shape: 'tis He, arrayed
In the soft light of his own smiles, which spread
Like radiance from the cloud-surrounded moon.
Prometheus, it is thine! depart not yet!
Say not those smiles that we shall meet again
Within that bright pavilion which their beams
Shall build o'er the waste world? The dream is told.
What shape is that between us? Its rude hair
Roughens the wind that lifts it, its regard
Is wild and quick, yet 'tis a thing of air,
For through its gray robe gleams the golden dew
Whose stars the noon has quenched not.
Dream.
Follow! Follow!
Panthea.
It is mine other dream.
Asia.
It disappears.
Panthea.
It passes now into my mind. Methought
As we sate here, the flower-infolding buds
Burst on yon lightning-blasted almond-tree,
When swift from the white Scythian wilderness
A wind swept forth wrinkling the Earth with frost:
I looked, and all the blossoms were blown down;
But on each leaf was stamped, as the blue bells
Of Hyacinth tell Apollo's written grief,
O, follow, follow!
Asia.
As you speak, your words
Fill, pause by pause, my own forgotten sleep
With shapes. Methought among these lawns together
We wandered, underneath the young gray dawn,
And multitudes of dense white fleecy clouds
Were wandering in thick flocks along the mountains
Shepherded by the slow, unwilling wind;
And the white dew on the new-bladed grass,
Just piercing the dark earth, hung silently;
And there was more which I remember not:
But on the shadows of the morning clouds,
Athwart the purple mountain slope, was written
Follow, O, follow! as they vanished by;
And on each herb, from which Heaven's dew had fallen,
The like was stamped, as with a withering fire;
A wind arose among the pines; it shook
The clinging music from their boughs, and then
Low, sweet, faint sounds, like the farewell of ghosts,
Were heard: O, follow, follow, follow me!
And then I said: 'Panthea, look on me.'
But in the depth of those belovd eyes
Still I saw, follow, follow!
Echo.
Follow, follow!
Panthea.
The crags, this clear spring morning, mock our voices
As they were spirit-tongued.
Asia.
It is some being
Around the crags. What fine clear sounds! O, list!
Echoes
(unseen).
Echoes we: listen!
We cannot stay:
As dew-stars glisten
Then fade away
Child of Ocean!
Asia.
Hark! Spirits speak. The liquid responses
Of their areal tongues yet sound.
Panthea.
I hear.
Echoes.
O, follow, follow,
As our voice recedeth
Through the caverns hollow,
Where the forest spreadeth; (More distant.)
O, follow, follow!
Through the caverns hollow,
As the song floats thou pursue,
Where the wild bee never flew,
Through the noontide darkness deep,
By the odour-breathing sleep
Of faint night flowers, and the waves
At the fountain-lighted caves,
While our music, wild and sweet,
Mocks thy gently falling feet,
Child of Ocean!
Asia.
Shall we pursue the sound? It grows more faint And distant.
Panthea.
List! the strain floats nearer now.
Echoes.
In the world unknown
Sleeps a voice unspoken;
By thy step alone
Can its rest be broken;
Child of Ocean!
Asia.
How the notes sink upon the ebbing wind!
Echoes.
O, follow, follow!
Through the caverns hollow,
As the song floats thou pursue,
By the woodland noontide dew;
By the forest, lakes, and fountains,
Through the many-folded mountains;
To the rents, and gulfs, and chasms,
Where the Earth reposed from spasms,
On the day when He and thou
Parted, to commingle now;
Child of Ocean!
Asia.
Come, sweet Panthea, link thy hand in mine,
And follow, ere the voices fade away.
Scene II.
A Forest, intermingled with Rocks and Caverns. Asia and Panthea pass into it. Two young Fauns are sitting on a Rock listening.
Semichorus I. of Spirits.
The path through which that lovely twain
Have passed, by cedar, pine, and yew,
And each dark tree that ever grew,
Is curtained out from Heaven's wide blue;
Nor sun, nor moon, nor wind, nor rain,
Can pierce its interwoven bowers,
Nor aught, save where some cloud of dew,
Drifted along the earth-creeping breeze,
Between the trunks of the hoar trees,
Hangs each a pearl in the pale flowers
Of the green laurel, blown anew;
And bends, and then fades silently,
One frail and fair anemone:
Or when some star of many a one
That climbs and wanders through steep night,
Has found the cleft through which alone
Beams fall from high those depths upon
Ere it is borne away, away,
By the swift Heavens that cannot stay,
It scatters drops of golden light,
Like lines of rain that ne'er unite:
And the gloom divine is all around,
And underneath is the mossy ground.
Semichorus II.
There the voluptuous nightingales,
Are awake through all the broad noonday.
When one with bliss or sadness fails,
And through the windless ivy-boughs,
Sick with sweet love, droops dying away
On its mate's music-panting bosom;
Another from the swinging blossom,
Watching to catch the languid close
Of the last strain, then lifts on high
The wings of the weak melody,
'Till some new strain of feeling bear
The song, and all the woods are mute;
When there is heard through the dim air
The rush of wings, and rising there
Like many a lake-surrounded flute,
Sounds overflow the listener's brain
So sweet, that joy is almost pain.
Semichorus I.
There those enchanted eddies play
Of echoes, music-tongued, which draw,
By Demogorgon's mighty law,
With melting rapture, or sweet awe,
All spirits on that secret way;
As inland boats are driven to Ocean
Down streams made strong with mountain-thaw:
And first there comes a gentle sound
To those in talk or slumber bound,
And wakes the destined soft emotion,
Attracts, impels them; those who saw
Say from the breathing earth behind
There steams a plume-uplifting wind
Which drives them on their path, while they
Believe their own swift wings and feet
The sweet desires within obey:
And so they float upon their way,
Until, still sweet, but loud and strong,
The storm of sound is driven along,
Sucked up and hurrying: as they fleet
Behind, its gathering billows meet
And to the fatal mountain bear
Like clouds amid the yielding air.
First Faun.
Canst thou imagine where those spirits live
Which make such delicate music in the woods?
We haunt within the least frequented caves
And closest coverts, and we know these wilds,
Yet never meet them, though we hear them oft:
Where may they hide themselves?
Second Faun.
'Tis hard to tell:
I have heard those more skilled in spirits say,
The bubbles, which the enchantment of the sun
Sucks from the pale faint water-flowers that pave
The oozy bottom of clear lakes and pools,
Are the pavilions where such dwell and float
Under the green and golden atmosphere
Which noontide kindles through the woven leaves;
And when these burst, and the thin fiery air,
The which they breathed within those lucent domes,
Ascends to flow like meteors through the night,
They ride on them, and rein their headlong speed,
And bow their burning crests, and glide in fire
Under the waters of the earth again.
First Faun.
If such live thus, have others other lives,
Under pink blossoms or within the bells
Of meadow flowers, or folded violets deep,
Or on their dying odours, when they die,
Or in the sunlight of the spherd dew?
Second Faun.
Ay, many more which we may well divine.
But, should we stay to speak, noontide would come,
And thwart Silenus find his goats undrawn,
And grudge to sing those wise and lovely songs
Of Fate, and Chance, and God, and Chaos old,
And Love, and the chained Titan's woful doom,
And how he shall be loosed, and make the earth
One brotherhood: delightful strains which cheer
Our solitary twilights, and which charm
To silence the unenvying nightingales.
Scene III.
A Pinnacle of Rock among Mountains.
Asia and Panthea.
Panthea.
Hither the sound has borne usto the realm
Of Demogorgon, and the mighty portal,
Like a volcano's meteor-breathing chasm,
Whence the oracular vapour is hurled up
Which lonely men drink wandering in their youth,
And call truth, virtue, love, genius, or joy,
That maddening wine of life, whose dregs they drain
To deep intoxication; and uplift,
Like Mnads who cry loud, Evoe! Evoe!
The voice which is contagion to the world.
Asia.
Fit throne for such a Power! Magnificent!
How glorious art thou, Earth! And if thou be
The shadow of some spirit lovelier still,
Though evil stain its work, and it should be
Like its creation, weak yet beautiful,
I could fall down and worship that and thee.
Even now my heart adoreth: Wonderful!
Look, sister, ere the vapour dim thy brain:
Beneath is a wide plain of billowy mist,
As a lake, paving in the morning sky,
With azure waves which burst in silver light,
Some Indian vale. Behold it, rolling on
Under the curdling winds, and islanding
The peak whereon we stand, midway, around,
Encinctured by the dark and blooming forests,
Dim twilight-lawns, and stream-illumd caves,
And wind-enchanted shapes of wandering mist;
And far on high the keen sky-cleaving mountains
From icy spires of sun-like radiance fling
The dawn, as lifted Ocean's dazzling spray,
From some Atlantic islet scattered up,
Spangles the wind with lamp-like water-drops.
The vale is girdled with their walls, a howl
Of cataracts from their thaw-cloven ravines,
Satiates the listening wind, continuous, vast,
Awful as silence. Hark! the rushing snow!
The sun-awakened avalanche! whose mass,
Thrice sifted by the storm, had gathered there
Flake after flake, in heaven-defying minds
As thought by thought is piled, till some great truth
Is loosened, and the nations echo round,
Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now.
Panthea.
Look how the gusty sea of mist is breaking
In crimson foam, even at our feet! it rises
As Ocean at the enchantment of the moon
Round foodless men wrecked on some oozy isle.
Asia.
The fragments of the cloud are scattered up;
The wind that lifts them disentwines my hair;
Its billows now sweep o'er mine eyes; my brain
Grows dizzy; see'st thou shapes within the mist?
Panthea.
A countenance with beckoning smiles: there burns
An azure fire within its golden locks!
Another and another: hark! they speak!
Song of Spirits.
To the deep, to the deep,
Down, down!
Through the shade of sleep,
Through the cloudy strife
Of Death and of Life;
Through the veil and the bar
Of things which seem and are
Even to the steps of the remotest throne,
Down, down!
While the sound whirls around,
Down, down!
As the fawn draws the hound,
As the lightning the vapour,
As a weak moth the taper;
Death, despair; love, sorrow;
Time both; to-day, to-morrow;
As steel obeys the spirit of the stone,
Down, down!
Through the gray, void abysm,
Down, down!
Where the air is no prism,
And the moon and stars are not,
And the cavern-crags wear not
The radiance of Heaven,
Nor the gloom to Earth given,
Where there is One pervading, One alone,
Down, down!
In the depth of the deep,
Down, down!
Like veiled lightning asleep,
Like the spark nursed in embers,
The last look Love remembers,
Like a diamond, which shines
On the dark wealth of mines,
A spell is treasured but for thee alone.
Down, down!
We have bound thee, we guide thee;
Down, down!
With the bright form beside thee;
Resist not the weakness,
Such strength is in meekness
That the Eternal, the Immortal,
Most unloose through life's portal
The snake-like Doom coiled underneath his throne
By that alone.
Scene IV.
The Cave of Demogorgon.
Asia and Panthea.
Panthea.
What viled form sits on that ebon throne?
Asia.
The veil has fallen.
Panthea.
I see a mighty darkness
Filling the seat of power, and rays of gloom
Dart round, as light from the meridian sun.
Ungazed upon and shapeless; neither limb,
Nor form, nor outline; yet we feel it is
A living Spirit.
Demogorgon.
Ask what thou wouldst know.
Asia.
What canst thou tell?
Demogorgon.
All things thou dar'st demand.
Asia.
Who made the living world?
Demogorgon.
God.
Asia.
Who made all
That it contains? thought, passion, reason, will, Imagination?
Demogorgon.
God: Almighty God.
Asia.
Who made that sense which, when the winds of Spring
In rarest visitation, or the voice
Of one belovd heard in youth alone,
Fills the faint eyes with falling tears which dim
The radiant looks of unbewailing flowers,
And leaves this peopled earth a solitude
When it returns no more?
Demogorgon.
Merciful God.
Asia.
And who made terror, madness, crime, remorse,
Which from the links of the great chain of things,
To every thought within the mind of man
Sway and drag heavily, and each one reels
Under the load towards the pit of death;
Abandoned hope, and love that turns to hate;
And self-contempt, bitterer to drink than blood;
Pain, whose unheeded and familiar speech
Is howling, and keen shrieks, day after day;
And Hell, or the sharp fear of Hell?
Demogorgon.
He reigns.
Asia.
Utter his name: a world pining in pain
Asks but his name: curses shall drag him down.
Demogorgon.
He reigns.
Asia.
I feel, I know it: who?
Demogorgon.
He reigns.
Asia.
Who reigns? There was the Heaven and Earth at first,
And Light and Love; then Saturn, from whose throne
Time fell, an envious shadow: such the state
Of the earth's primal spirits beneath his sway,
As the calm joy of flowers and living leaves
Before the wind or sun has withered them
And semivital worms; but he refused
The birthright of their being, knowledge, power,
The skill which wields the elements, the thought
Which pierces this dim universe like light,
Self-empire, and the majesty of love;
For thirst of which they fainted. Then Prometheus
Gave wisdom, which is strength, to Jupiter,
And with this law alone, 'Let man be free,'
Clothed him with the dominion of wide Heaven.
To know nor faith, nor love, nor law; to be
Omnipotent but friendless is to reign;
And Jove now reigned; for on the race of man
First famine, and then toil, and then disease,
Strife, wounds, and ghastly death unseen before,
Fell; and the unseasonable seasons drove
With alternating shafts of frost and fire,
Their shelterless, pale tribes to mountain caves:
And in their desert hearts fierce wants he sent,
And mad disquietudes, and shadows idle
Of unreal good, which levied mutual war,
So ruining the lair wherein they raged.
Prometheus saw, and waked the legioned hopes
Which sleep within folded Elysian flowers,
Nepenthe, Moly, Amaranth, fadeless blooms,
That they might hide with thin and rainbow wings
The shape of Death; and Love he sent to bind
The disunited tendrils of that vine
Which bears the wine of life, the human heart;
And he tamed fire which, like some beast of prey,
Most terrible, but lovely, played beneath
The frown of man; and tortured to his will
Iron and gold, the slaves and signs of power,
And gems and poisons, and all subtlest forms
Hidden beneath the mountains and the waves.
He gave man speech, and speech created thought,
Which is the measure of the universe;
And Science struck the thrones of earth and heaven,
Which shook, but fell not; and the harmonious mind
Poured itself forth in all-prophetic song;
And music lifted up the listening spirit
Until it walked, exempt from mortal care,
Godlike, o'er the clear billows of sweet sound;
And human hands first mimicked and then mocked,
With moulded limbs more lovely than its own,
The human form, till marble grew divine;
And mothers, gazing, drank the love men see
Reflected in their race, behold, and perish.
He told the hidden power of herbs and springs,
And Disease drank and slept. Death grew like sleep.
He taught the implicated orbits woven
Of the wide-wandering stars; and how the sun
Changes his lair, and by what secret spell
The pale moon is transformed, when her broad eye
Gazes not on the interlunar sea:
He taught to rule, as life directs the limbs,
The tempest-wingd chariots of the Ocean,
And the Celt knew the Indian. Cities then
Were built, and through their snow-like columns flowed
The warm winds, and the azure aether shone,
And the blue sea and shadowy hills were seen.
Such, the alleviations of his state,
Prometheus gave to man, for which he hangs
Withering in destined pain: but who rains down
Evil, the immedicable plague, which, while
Man looks on his creation like a God
And sees that it is glorious, drives him on,
The wreck of his own will, the scorn of earth,
The outcast, the abandoned, the alone?
Not Jove: while yet his frown shook Heaven, ay, when
His adversary from adamantine chains
Cursed him, he trembled like a slave. Declare
Who is his master? Is he too a slave?
Demogorgon.
All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil:
Thou knowest if Jupiter be such or no.
Asia.
Whom calledst thou God?
Demogorgon.
I spoke but as ye speak,
For Jove is the supreme of living things.
Asia.
Who is the master of the slave?
Demogorgon.
If the abysm
Could vomit forth its secrets. . . But a voice
Is wanting, the deep truth is imageless;
For what would it avail to bid thee gaze
On the revolving world? What to bid speak
Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these
All things are subject but eternal Love.
Asia.
So much I asked before, and my heart gave
The response thou hast given; and of such truths
Each to itself must be the oracle.
One more demand; and do thou answer me
As mine own soul would answer, did it know
That which I ask. Prometheus shall arise
Henceforth the sun of this rejoicing world:
When shall the destined hour arrive?
Demogorgon.
Behold!
Asia.
The rocks are cloven, and through the purple night
I see cars drawn by rainbow-wingd steeds
Which trample the dim winds: in each there stands
A wild-eyed charioteer urging their flight.
Some look behind, as fiends pursued them there,
And yet I see no shapes but the keen stars:
Others, with burning eyes, lean forth, and drink
With eager lips the wind of their own speed,
As if the thing they loved fled on before,
And now, even now, they clasped it. Their bright locks
Stream like a comet's flashing hair: they all
Sweep onward.
Demogorgon.
These are the immortal Hours,
Of whom thou didst demand. One waits for thee.
Asia.
A spirit with a dreadful countenance
Checks its dark chariot by the craggy gulf.
Unlike thy brethren, ghastly charioteer,
Who art thou? Whither wouldst thou bear me? Speak!
Spirit.
I am the shadow of a destiny
More dread than is my aspect: ere yon planet
Has set, the darkness which ascends with me
Shall wrap in lasting night heaven's kingless throne.
Asia.
What meanest thou?
Panthea.
That terrible shadow floats
Up from its throne, as may the lurid smoke
Of earthquake-ruined cities o'er the sea.
Lo! it ascends the car; the coursers fly
Terrified: watch its path among the stars
Blackening the night!
Asia.
Thus I am answered: strange!
Panthea.
See, near the verge, another chariot stays;
An ivory shell inlaid with crimson fire,
Which comes and goes within its sculptured rim
Of delicate strange tracery; the young spirit
That guides it has the dove-like eyes of hope;
How its soft smiles attract the soul! as light
Lures wingd insects through the lampless air.
Spirit.
My coursers are fed with the lightning,
They drink of the whirlwind's stream,
And when the red morning is bright'ning
They bathe in the fresh sunbeam;
They have strength for their swiftness I deem,
Then ascend with me, daughter of Ocean.
I desire: and their speed makes night kindle;
I fear: they outstrip the Typhoon;
Ere the cloud piled on Atlas can dwindle
We encircle the earth and the moon:
We shall rest from long labours at noon:
Then ascend with me, daughter of Ocean.
Scene V.
The Car pauses within a Cloud on the top of a snowy Mountain. Asia, Panthea, and the Spirit of the Hour.
Spirit.
On the brink of the night and the morning
My coursers are wont to respire;
But the Earth has just whispered a warning
That their flight must be swifter than fire:
They shall drink the hot speed of desire!
Asia.
Thou breathest on their nostrils, but my breath
Would give them swifter speed.
Spirit.
Alas! it could not.
Panthea.
Oh Spirit! pause, and tell whence is the light
Which fills this cloud? the sun is yet unrisen.
Spirit.
The sun will rise not until noon. Apollo
Is held in heaven by wonder; and the light
Which fills this vapour, as the areal hue
Of fountain-gazing roses fills the water,
Flows from thy mighty sister.
Panthea.
Yes, I feel
Asia.
What is it with thee, sister? Thou art pale.
Panthea.
How thou art changed! I dare not look on thee;
I feel but see thee not. I scarce endure
The radiance of thy beauty. Some good change
Is working in the elements, which suffer
Thy presence thus unveiled. The Nereids tell
That on the day when the clear hyaline
Was cloven at thine uprise, and thou didst stand
Within a veind shell, which floated on
Over the calm floor of the crystal sea,
Among the gean isles, and by the shores
Which bear thy name; love, like the atmosphere
Of the sun's fire filling the living world,
Burst from thee, and illumined earth and heaven
And the deep ocean and the sunless caves
And all that dwells within them; till grief cast
Eclipse upon the soul from which it came:
Such art thou now; nor is it I alone,
Thy sister, thy companion, thine own chosen one,
But the whole world which seeks thy sympathy.
Hearest thou not sounds i' the air which speak the love
Of all articulate beings? Feelest thou not
The inanimate winds enamoured of thee? List!
[Music.
Asia.
Thy words are sweeter than aught else but his
Whose echoes they are: yet all love is sweet,
Given or returned. Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
Like the wide heaven, the all-sustaining air,
It makes the reptile equal to the God:
They who inspire it most are fortunate,
As I am now; but those who feel it most
Are happier still, after long sufferings,
As I shall soon become.
Panthea.
List! Spirits speak.
Voice in the Air, singing.
Life of Life! thy lips enkindle
With their love the breath between them;
And thy smiles before they dwindle
Make the cold air fire; then screen them
In those looks, where whoso gazes
Faints, entangled in their mazes.
Child of Light! thy limbs are burning
Through the vest which seems to hide them;
As the radiant lines of morning
Through the clouds ere they divide them;
And this atmosphere divinest
Shrouds thee wheresoe'er thou shinest.
Fair are others; none beholds thee,
But thy voice sounds low and tender
Like the fairest, for it folds thee
From the sight, that liquid splendour,
And all feel, yet see thee never,
As I feel now, lost for ever!
Lamp of Earth! where'er thou movest
Its dim shapes are clad with brightness,
And the souls of whom thou lovest
Walk upon the winds with lightness,
Till they fail, as I am failing,
Dizzy, lost, yet unbewailing!
Asia.
My soul is an enchanted boat,
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing;
And thine doth like an angel sit
Beside a helm conducting it,
Whilst all the winds with melody are ringing.
It seems to float ever, for ever,
Upon that many-winding river,
Between mountains, woods, abysses,
A paradise of wildernesses!
Till, like one in slumber bound,
Borne to the ocean, I float down, around,
Into a sea profound, of ever-spreading sound:
Meanwhile thy spirit lifts its pinions
In music's most serene dominions;
Catching the winds that fan that happy heaven.
And we sail on, away, afar,
Without a course, without a star,
But, by the instinct of sweet music driven;
Till through Elysian garden islets
By thee, most beautiful of pilots,
Where never mortal pinnace glided,
The boat of my desire is guided:
Realms where the air we breathe is love,
Which in the winds and on the waves doth move,
Harmonizing this earth with what we feel above.
We have passed Age's icy caves,
And Manhood's dark and tossing waves,
And Youth's smooth ocean, smiling to betray:
Beyond the glassy gulfs we flee
Of shadow-peopled Infancy,
Through Death and Birth, to a diviner day;
A paradise of vaulted bowers,
Lit by downward-gazing flowers,
And watery paths that wind between
Wildernesses calm and green,
Peopled by shapes too bright to see,
And rest, having beheld; somewhat like thee;
Which walk upon the sea, and chant melodiously!
END OF THE SECOND ACT.
ACT III
Scene I.
Heaven. Jupiter on his Throne; Thetis and the other Deities assembled.
Jupiter.
Ye congregated powers of heaven, who share
The glory and the strength of him ye serve,
Rejoice! henceforth I am omnipotent.
All else had been subdued to me; alone
The soul of man, like unextinguished fire,
Yet burns towards heaven with fierce reproach, and doubt,
And lamentation, and reluctant prayer,
Hurling up insurrection, which might make
Our antique empire insecure, though built
On eldest faith, and hell's coeval, fear;
And though my curses through the pendulous air,
Like snow on herbless peaks, fall flake by flake,
And cling to it; though under my wrath's night
It climbs the crags of life, step after step,
Which wound it, as ice wounds unsandalled feet,
It yet remains supreme o'er misery,
Aspiring, unrepressed, yet soon to fall:
Even now have I begotten a strange wonder,
That fatal child, the terror of the earth,
Who waits but till the destined hour arrive,
Bearing from Demogorgon's vacant throne
The dreadful might of ever-living limbs
Which clothed that awful spirit unbeheld,
To redescend, and trample out the spark.
Pour forth heaven's wine, Idan Ganymede,
And let it fill the Ddal cups like fire,
And from the flower-inwoven soil divine
Ye all-triumphant harmonies arise,
As dew from earth under the twilight stars:
Drink! be the nectar circling through your veins
The soul of joy, ye ever-living Gods,
Till exultation burst in one wide voice
Like music from Elysian winds.
And thou
Ascend beside me, veild in the light
Of the desire which makes thee one with me,
Thetis, bright image of eternity!
When thou didst cry, 'Insufferable might!
God! Spare me! I sustain not the quick flames,
The penetrating presence; all my being,
Like him whom the Numidian seps did thaw
Into a dew with poison, is dissolved,
Sinking through its foundations:' even then
Two mighty spirits, mingling, made a third
Mightier than either, which, unbodied now,
Between us floats, felt, although unbeheld,
Waiting the incarnation, which ascends,
(Hear ye the thunder of the fiery wheels
Griding the winds?) from Demogorgon's throne.
Victory! victory! Feel'st thou not, O world,
The earthquake of his chariot thundering up
Olympus?
[The Car of the Hour arrives. Demogorgon descends, and moves towards the Throne of Jupiter.
Awful shape, what art thou? Speak!
Demogorgon.
Eternity. Demand no direr name.
Descend, and follow me down the abyss.
I am thy child, as thou wert Saturn's child;
Mightier than thee: and we must dwell together
Henceforth in darkness. Lift thy lightnings not.
The tyranny of heaven none may retain,
Or reassume, or hold, succeeding thee:
Yet if thou wilt, as 'tis the destiny
Of trodden worms to writhe till they are dead,
Put forth thy might.
Jupiter.
Detested prodigy!
Even thus beneath the deep Titanian prisons
I trample thee! thou lingerest?
Mercy! mercy!
No pity, no release, no respite! Oh,
That thou wouldst make mine enemy my judge,
Even where he hangs, seared by my long revenge,
On Caucasus! he would not doom me thus.
Gentle, and just, and dreadless, is he not
The monarch of the world? What then art thou?
No refuge! no appeal!
Sink with me then,
We two will sink on the wide waves of ruin,
Even as a vulture and a snake outspent
Drop, twisted in inextricable fight,
Into a shoreless sea. Let hell unlock
Its mounded oceans of tempestuous fire,
And whelm on them into the bottomless void
This desolated world, and thee, and me,
The conqueror and the conquered, and the wreck
Of that for which they combated.
Ai! Ai!
The elements obey me not. I sink
Dizzily down, ever, for ever, down.
And, like a cloud, mine enemy above
Darkens my fall with victory! Ai, Ai!
Scene II.
The Mouth of a great River in the Island Atlantis.Ocean is discovered reclining near the Shore; Apollo stands beside him.
Ocean.
He fell, thou sayest, beneath his conqueror's frown?
Apollo.
Ay, when the strife was ended which made dim
The orb I rule, and shook the solid stars,
The terrors of his eye illumined heaven
With sanguine light, through the thick ragged skirts
Of the victorious darkness, as he fell:
Like the last glare of day's red agony,
Which, from a rent among the fiery clouds,
Burns far along the tempest-wrinkled deep.
Ocean.
He sunk to the abyss? To the dark void?
Apollo.
An eagle so caught in some bursting cloud
On Caucasus, his thunder-baffled wings
Entangled in the whirlwind, and his eyes
Which gazed on the undazzling sun, now blinded
By the white lightning, while the ponderous hail
Beats on his struggling form, which sinks at length
Prone, and the areal ice clings over it.
Ocean.
Henceforth the fields of heaven-reflecting sea
Which are my realm, will heave, unstained with blood,
Beneath the uplifting winds, like plains of corn
Swayed by the summer air; my streams will flow
Round many-peopled continents, and round
Fortunate isles; and from their glassy thrones
Blue Proteus and his humid nymphs shall mark
The shadow of fair ships, as mortals see
The floating bark of the light-laden moon
With that white star, its sightless pilot's crest,
Borne down the rapid sunset's ebbing sea;
Tracking their path no more by blood and groans,
And desolation, and the mingled voice
Of slavery and command; but by the light
Of wave-reflected flowers, and floating odours,
And music soft, and mild, free, gentle voices,
And sweetest music, such as spirits love.
Apollo.
And I shall gaze not on the deeds which make
My mind obscure with sorrow, as eclipse
Darkens the sphere I guide; but list, I hear
The small, clear, silver lute of the young Spirit
That sits i' the morning star.
Ocean.
Thou must away;
Thy steeds will pause at even, till when farewell:
The loud deep calls me home even now to feed it
With azure calm out of the emerald urns
Which stand for ever full beside my throne.
Behold the Nereids under the green sea,
Their wavering limbs borne on the wind-like stream,
Their white arms lifted o'er their streaming hair
With garlands pied and starry sea-flower crowns,
Hastening to grace their mighty sister's joy. [A sound of waves is heard.
It is the unpastured sea hungering for calm.
Peace, monster; I come now. Farewell.
Apollo.
Farewell.
Scene III.
Caucasus. Prometheus, Hercules, Ione, the Earth, Spirits, Asia, and Panthea, borne in the Car with the Spirit of the Hour. Hercules unbinds Prometheus, who descends.
Hercules.
Most glorious among Spirits, thus doth strength
To wisdom, courage, and long-suffering love,
And thee, who art the form they animate,
Minister like a slave.
Prometheus.
Thy gentle words
Are sweeter even than freedom long desired
And long delayed.
Asia, thou light of life,
Shadow of beauty unbeheld: and ye,
Fair sister nymphs, who made long years of pain
Sweet to remember, through your love and care:
Henceforth we will not part. There is a cave,
All overgrown with trailing odorous plants,
Which curtain out the day with leaves and flowers,
And paved with veind emerald, and a fountain
Leaps in the midst with an awakening sound.
From its curved roof the mountain's frozen tears
Like snow, or silver, or long diamond spires,
Hang downward, raining forth a doubtful light:
And there is heard the ever-moving air,
Whispering without from tree to tree, and birds,
And bees; and all around are mossy seats,
And the rough walls are clothed with long soft grass;
A simple dwelling, which shall be our own;
Where we will sit and talk of time and change,
As the world ebbs and flows, ourselves unchanged.
What can hide man from mutability?
And if ye sigh, then I will smile; and thou,
Ione, shalt chant fragments of sea-music,
Until I weep, when ye shal smile away
The tears she brought, which yet were sweet to shed.
We will entangle buds and flowers and beams
Which twinkle on the fountain's brim, and make
Strange combinations out of common things,
Like human babes in their brief innocence;
And we will search, with looks and words of love,
For hidden thoughts, each lovelier than the last,
Our unexhausted spirits; and like lutes
Touched by the skill of the enamoured wind,
Weave harmonies divine, yet ever new,
From difference sweet where discord cannot be;
And hither come, sped on the charmd winds,
Which meet from all the points of heaven, as bees
From every flower areal Enna feeds,
At their known island-homes in Himera,
The echoes of the human world, which tell
Of the low voice of love, almost unheard,
And dove-eyed pity's murmured pain, and music,
Itself the echo of the heart, and all
That tempers or improves man's life, now free;
And lovely apparitions,dim at first,
Then radiant, as the mind, arising bright
From the embrace of beauty (whence the forms
Of which these are the phantoms) casts on them
The gathered rays which are reality
Shall visit us, the progeny immortal
Of Painting, Sculpture, and rapt Poesy,
And arts, though unimagined, yet to be.
The wandering voices and the shadows these
Of all that man becomes, the mediators
Of that best worship love, by him and us
Given and returned; swift shapes and sounds, which grow
More fair and soft as man grows wise and kind,
And, veil by veil, evil and error fall:
Such virtue has the cave and place around. [Turning to the Spirit of the Hour.
For thee, fair Spirit, one toil remains. Ione,
Give her that curvd shell, which Proteus old
Made Asia's nuptial boon, breathing within it
A voice to be accomplished, and which thou
Didst hide in grass under the hollow rock.
Ione.
Thou most desired Hour, more loved and lovely
Than all thy sisters, this is the mystic shell;
See the pale azure fading into silver
Lining it with a soft yet glowing light:
Looks it not like lulled music sleeping there?
Spirit.
It seems in truth the fairest shell of Ocean:
Its sound must be at once both sweet and strange.
Prometheus.
Go, borne over the cities of mankind
On whirlwind-footed coursers: once again
Outspeed the sun around the orbd world;
And as thy chariot cleaves the kindling air,
Thou breathe into the many-folded shell,
Loosening its mighty music; it shall be
As thunder mingled with clear echoes: then
Return; and thou shalt dwell beside our cave.
And thou, O, Mother Earth!
The Earth.
I hear, I feel;
Thy lips are on me, and their touch runs down
Even to the adamantine central gloom
Along these marble nerves; 'tis life, 'tis joy,
And through my withered, old, and icy frame
The warmth of an immortal youth shoots down
Circling. Henceforth the many children fair
Folded in my sustaining arms; all plants,
And creeping forms, and insects rainbow-winged,
And birds, and beasts, and fish, and human shapes,
Which drew disease and pain from my wan bosom,
Draining the poison of despair, shall take
And interchange sweet nutriment; to me
Shall they become like sister-antelopes
By one fair dam, snow-white and swift as wind,
Nursed among lilies near a brimming stream.
The dew-mists of my sunless sleep shall float
Under the stars like balm: night-folded flowers
Shall suck unwithering hues in their repose:
And men and beasts in happy dreams shall gather
Strength for the coming day, and all its joy:
And death shall be the last embrace of her
Who takes the life she gave, even as a mother
Folding her child, says, 'Leave me not again.'
Asia.
Oh, mother! wherefore speak the name of death?
Cease they to love, and move, and breathe, and speak,
Who die?
The Earth.
It would avail not to reply:
Thou art immortal, and this tongue is known
But to the uncommunicating dead.
Death is the veil which those who live call life:
They sleep, and it is lifted: and meanwhile
In mild variety the seasons mild
With rainbow-skirted showers, and odorous winds,
And long blue meteors cleansing the dull night,
And the life-kindling shafts of the keen sun's
All-piercing bow, and the dew-mingled rain
Of the calm moonbeams, a soft influence mild,
Shall clothe the forests and the fields, ay, even
The crag-built deserts of the barren deep,
With ever-living leaves, and fruits, and flowers.
And thou! There is a cavern where my spirit
Was panted forth in anguish whilst thy pain
Made my heart mad, and those who did inhale it
Became mad too, and built a temple there,
And spoke, and were oracular, and lured
The erring nations round to mutual war,
And faithless faith, such as Jove kept with thee;
Which breath now rises, as amongst tall weeds
A violet's exhalation, and it fills
With a serener light and crimson air
Intense, yet soft, the rocks and woods around;
It feeds the quick growth of the serpent vine,
And the dark linkd ivy tangling wild,
And budding, blown, or odour-faded blooms
Which star the winds with points of coloured light,
As they rain through them, and bright golden globes
Of fruit, suspended in their own green heaven,
And through their veind leaves and amber stems
The flowers whose purple and translucid bowls
Stand ever mantling with areal dew,
The drink of spirits: and it circles round,
Like the soft waving wings of noonday dreams,
Inspiring calm and happy thoughts, like mine,
Now thou art thus restored. This cave is thine.
Arise! Appear!
[A Spirit rises in the likeness of a winged child.
This is my torch-bearer;
Who let his lamp out in old time with gazing
On eyes from which he kindled it anew
With love, which is as fire, sweet daughter mine,
For such is that within thine own. Run, wayward,
And guide this company beyond the peak
Of Bacchic Nysa, Mnad-haunted mountain,
And beyond Indus and its tribute rivers,
Trampling the torrent streams and glassy lakes
With feet unwet, unwearied, undelaying,
And up the green ravine, across the vale,
Beside the windless and crystalline pool,
Where ever lies, on unerasing waves,
The image of a temple, built above,
Distinct with column, arch, and architrave,
And palm-like capital, and over-wrought,
And populous with most living imagery,
Praxitelean shapes, whose marble smiles
Fill the hushed air with everlasting love.
It is deserted now, but once it bore
Thy name, Prometheus; there the emulous youths
Bore to thy honour through the divine gloom
The lamp which was thine emblem; even as those
Who bear the untransmitted torch of hope
Into the grave, across the night of life,
As thou hast borne it most triumphantly
To this far goal of Time. Depart, farewell.
Beside that temple is the destined cave.
Scene IV.
A Forest. In the Background a Cave. Prometheus, Asia, Panthea, Ione, and the Spirit of the Earth.
Ione.
Sister, it is not earthly: how it glides
Under the leaves! how on its head there burns
A light, like a green star, whose emerald beams
Are twined with its fair hair! how, as it moves,
The splendour drops in flakes upon the grass!
Knowest thou it?
Panthea.
It is the delicate spirit
That guides the earth through heaven. From afar
The populous constellations call that light
The loveliest of the planets; and sometimes
It floats along the spray of the salt sea,
Or makes its chariot of a foggy cloud,
Or walks through fields or cities while men sleep,
Or o'er the mountain tops, or down the rivers,
Or through the green waste wilderness, as now,
Wondering at all it sees. Before Jove reigned
It loved our sister Asia, and it came
Each leisure hour to drink the liquid light
Out of her eyes, for which it said it thirsted
As one bit by a dipsas, and with her
It made its childish confidence, and told her
All it had known or seen, for it saw much,
Yet idly reasoned what it saw; and called her
For whence it sprung it knew not, nor do I
Mother, dear mother.
The Spirit of the Earth
(running to Asia).
Mother, dearest mother;
May I then talk with thee as I was wont?
May I then hide my eyes in thy soft arms,
After thy looks have made them tired of joy?
May I then play beside thee the long noons,
When work is none in the bright silent air?
Asia.
I love thee, gentlest being, and henceforth
Can cherish thee unenvied: speak, I pray:
Thy simple talk once solaced, now delights.
Spirit of the Earth.
Mother, I am grown wiser, though a child
Cannot be wise like thee, within this day;
And happier too; happier and wiser both.
Thou knowest that toads, and snakes, and loathly worms,
And venomous and malicious beasts, and boughs
That bore ill berries in the woods, were ever
An hindrance to my walks o'er the green world:
And that, among the haunts of humankind,
Hard-featured men, or with proud, angry looks,
Or cold, staid gait, or false and hollow smiles,
Or the dull sneer of self-loved ignorance,
Or other such foul masks, with which ill thoughts
Hide that fair being whom we spirits call man;
And women too, ugliest of all things evil,
(Though fair, even in a world where thou art fair,
When good and kind, free and sincere like thee),
When false or frowning made me sick at heart
To pass them, though they slept, and I unseen.
Well, my path lately lay through a great city
Into the woody hills surrounding it:
A sentinel was sleeping at the gate:
When there was heard a sound, so loud, it shook
The towers amid the moonlight, yet more sweet
Than any voice but thine, sweetest of all;
A long, long sound, as it would never end:
And all the inhabitants leaped suddenly
Out of their rest, and gathered in the streets,
Looking in wonder up to Heaven, while yet
The music pealed along. I hid myself
Within a fountain in the public square,
Where I lay like the reflex of the moon
Seen in a wave under green leaves; and soon
Those ugly human shapes and visages
Of which I spoke as having wrought me pain,
Passed floating through the air, and fading still
Into the winds that scattered them; and those
From whom they passed seemed mild and lovely forms
After some foul disguise had fallen, and all
Were somewhat changed, and after brief surprise
And greetings of delighted wonder, all
Went to their sleep again: and when the dawn
Came, wouldst thou think that toads, and snakes, and efts,
Could e'er be beautiful? yet so they were,
And that with little change of shape or hue:
All things had put their evil nature off:
I cannot tell my joy, when o'er a lake
Upon a drooping bough with nightshade twined,
I saw two azure halcyons clinging downward
And thinning one bright bunch of amber berries,
With quick long beaks, and in the deep there lay
Those lovely forms imaged as in a sky;
So, with my thoughts full of these happy changes,
We meet again, the happiest change of all.
Asia.
And never will we part, till thy chaste sister
Who guides the frozen and inconstant moon
Will look on thy more warm and equal light
Till her heart thaw like flakes of April snow
And love thee.
Spirit of the Earth.
What; as Asia loves Prometheus?
Asia.
Peace, wanton, thou art yet not old enough.
Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes
To multiply your lovely selves, and fill
With spherd fires the interlunar air?
Spirit of the Earth.
Nay, mother, while my sister trims her lamp
'Tis hard I should go darkling.
Asia.
Listen; look!
[The Spirit of the Hour enters.
Prometheus.
We feel what thou hast heard and seen: yet speak.
Spirit of the Hour.
Soon as the sound had ceased whose thunder filled
The abysses of the sky and the wide earth,
There was a change: the impalpable thin air
And the all-circling sunlight were transformed,
As if the sense of love dissolved in them
Had folded itself round the spherd world.
My vision then grew clear, and I could see
Into the mysteries of the universe:
Dizzy as with delight I floated down,
Winnowing the lightsome air with languid plumes,
My coursers sought their birthplace in the sun,
Where they henceforth will live exempt from toil,
Pasturing flowers of vegetable fire;
And where my moonlike car will stand within
A temple, gazed upon by Phidian forms
Of thee, and Asia, and the Earth, and me,
And you fair nymphs looking the love we feel,
In memory of the tidings it has borne,
Beneath a dome fretted with graven flowers,
Poised on twelve columns of resplendent stone,
And open to the bright and liquid sky.
Yoked to it by an amphisbaenic snake
The likeness of those wingd steeds will mock
The flight from which they find repose. Alas,
Whither has wandered now my partial tongue
When all remains untold which ye would hear?
As I have said, I floated to the earth:
It was, as it is still, the pain of bliss
To move, to breathe, to be; I wandering went
Among the haunts and dwellings of mankind,
And first was disappointed not to see
Such mighty change as I had felt within
Expressed in outward things; but soon I looked,
And behold, thrones were kingless, and men walked
One with the other even as spirits do,
None fawned, none trampled; hate, disdain, or fear,
Self-love or self-contempt, on human brows
No more inscribed, as o'er the gate of hell,
'All hope abandon ye who enter here;'
None frowned, none trembled, none with eager fear
Gazed on another's eye of cold command,
Until the subject of a tyrant's will
Became, worse fate, the abject of his own,
Which spurred him, like an outspent horse, to death.
None wrought his lips in truth-entangling lines
Which smiled the lie his tongue disdained to speak;
None, with firm sneer, trod out in his own heart
The sparks of love and hope till there remained
Those bitter ashes, a soul self-consumed,
And the wretch crept a vampire among men,
Infecting all with his own hideous ill;
None talked that common, false, cold, hollow talk
Which makes the heart deny the yes it breathes,
Yet question that unmeant hypocrisy
With such a self-mistrust as has no name.
And women, too, frank, beautiful, and kind
As the free heaven which rains fresh light and dew
On the wide earth, past; gentle radiant forms,
From custom's evil taint exempt and pure;
Speaking the wisdom once they could not think,
Looking emotions once they feared to feel,
And changed to all which once they dared not be,
Yet being now, made earth like heaven; nor pride,
Nor jealousy, nor envy, nor ill shame,
The bitterest of those drops of treasured gall,
Spoilt the sweet taste of the nepenthe, love.
Thrones, altars, judgement-seats, and prisons; wherein,
And beside which, by wretched men were borne
Sceptres, tiaras, swords, and chains, and tomes
Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance,
Were like those monstrous and barbaric shapes,
The ghosts of a no-more-remembered fame,
Which, from their unworn obelisks, look forth
In triumph o'er the palaces and tombs
Of those who were their conquerors: mouldering round,
These imaged to the pride of kings and priests
A dark yet mighty faith, a power as wide
As is the world it wasted, and are now
But an astonishment; even so the tools
And emblems of its last captivity,
Amid the dwellings of the peopled earth,
Stand, not o'erthrown, but unregarded now.
And those foul shapes, abhorred by god and man,
Which, under many a name and many a form
Strange, savage, ghastly, dark and execrable,
Were Jupiter, the tyrant of the world;
And which the nations, panic-stricken, served
With blood, and hearts broken by long hope, and love
Dragged to his altars soiled and garlandless,
And slain amid men's unreclaiming tears,
Flattering the thing they feared, which fear was hate,
Frown, mouldering fast, o'er their abandoned shrines:
The painted veil, by those who were, called life,
Which mimicked, as with colours idly spread,
All men believed or hoped, is torn aside;
The loathsome mask has fallen, the man remains
Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man
Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless,
Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king
Over himself; just, gentle, wise: but man
Passionless?no, yet free from guilt or pain,
Which were, for his will made or suffered them,
Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves,
From chance, and death, and mutability,
The clogs of that which else might oversoar
The loftiest star of unascended heaven,
Pinnacled dim in the intense inane.
END OF THE THIRD ACT.
ACT IV
Scene.A Part of the Forest near the Cave of Prometheus.Panthea and Ione are sleeping: they awaken gradually during the first Song.
Voice of unseen Spirits.
The pale stars are gone!
For the sun, their swift shepherd,
To their folds them compelling,
In the depths of the dawn,
Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and they flee
Beyond his blue dwelling,
As fawns flee the leopard.
But where are ye?
A Train of dark Forms and Shadows passes by confusedly, singing.
Here, oh, here:
We bear the bier
Of the Father of many a cancelled year!
Spectres we
Of the dead Hours be,
We bear Time to his tomb in eternity.
Strew, oh, strew
Hair, not yew!
Wet the dusty pall with tears, not dew!
Be the faded flowers
Of Death's bare bowers
Spread on the corpse of the King of Hours!
Haste, oh, haste!
As shades are chased,
Trembling, by day, from heaven's blue waste.
We melt away,
Like dissolving spray,
From the children of a diviner day,
With the lullaby
Of winds that die
On the bosom of their own harmony!
Ione.
What dark forms were they?
Panthea.
The past Hours weak and gray,
With the spoil which their toil
Raked together
From the conquest but One could foil.
Ione.
Have they passed?
Panthea.
They have passed;
They outspeeded the blast,
While 'tis said, they are fled:
Ione.
Whither, oh, whither?
Panthea.
To the dark, to the past, to the dead.
Voice of unseen Spirits.
Bright clouds float in heaven,
Dew-stars gleam on earth,
Waves assemble on ocean,
They are gathered and driven
By the storm of delight, by the panic of glee!
They shake with emotion,
They dance in their mirth.
But where are ye?
The pine boughs are singing
Old songs with new gladness,
The billows and fountains
Fresh music are flinging,
Like the notes of a spirit from land and from sea;
The storms mock the mountains
With the thunder of gladness.
But where are ye?
Ione.
What charioteers are these?
Panthea.
Where are their chariots?
Semichorus of Hours.
The voice of the Spirits of Air and of Earth
Have drawn back the figured curtain of sleep
Which covered our being and darkened our birth
In the deep.
A Voice.
In the deep?
Semichorus II.
Oh, below the deep.
Semichorus I.
An hundred ages we had been kept
Cradled in visions of hate and care,
And each one who waked as his brother slept,
Found the truth
Semichorus II.
Worse than his visions were!
Semichorus I.
We have heard the lute of Hope in sleep;
We have known the voice of Love in dreams;
We have felt the wand of Power, and leap
Semichorus II.
As the billows leap in the morning beams!
Chorus.
Weave the dance on the floor of the breeze,
Pierce with song heaven's silent light,
Enchant the day that too swiftly flees,
To check its flight ere the cave of Night.
Once the hungry Hours were hounds
Which chased the day like a bleeding deer,
And it limped and stumbled with many wounds
Through the nightly dells of the desert year.
But now, oh weave the mystic measure
Of music, and dance, and shapes of light,
Let the Hours, and the spirits of might and pleasure,
Like the clouds and sunbeams, unite.
A Voice.
Unite!
Panthea.
See, where the Spirits of the human mind
Wrapped in sweet sounds, as in bright veils, approach.
Chorus of Spirits.
We join the throng
Of the dance and the song,
By the whirlwind of gladness borne along;
As the flying-fish leap
From the Indian deep,
And mix with the sea-birds, half asleep.
Chorus of Hours.
Whence come ye, so wild and so fleet,
For sandals of lightning are on your feet,
And your wings are soft and swift as thought,
And your eyes are as love which is veild not?
Chorus of Spirits.
We come from the mind
Of human kind
Which was late so dusk, and obscene, and blind,
Now 'tis an ocean
Of clear emotion,
A heaven of serene and mighty motion
From that deep abyss
Of wonder and bliss,
Whose caverns are crystal palaces;
From those skiey towers
Where Thought's crowned powers
Sit watching your dance, ye happy Hours!
From the dim recesses
Of woven caresses,
Where lovers catch ye by your loose tresses
From the azure isles,
Where sweet Wisdom smiles,
Delaying your ships with her siren wiles.
From the temples high
Of Man's ear and eye,
Roofed over Sculpture and Poesy;
From the murmurings
Of the unsealed springs
Where Science bedews her Ddal wings.
Years after years,
Through blood, and tears,
And a thick hell of hatreds, and hopes, and fears;
We waded and flew,
And the islets were few
Where the bud-blighted flowers of happiness grew.
Our feet now, every palm,
Are sandalled with calm,
And the dew of our wings is a rain of balm;
And, beyond our eyes,
The human love lies
Which makes all it gazes on Paradise.
Chorus of Spirits and Hours.
Then weave the web of the mystic measure;
From the depths of the sky and the ends of the earth,
Come, swift Spirits of might and of pleasure,
Fill the dance and the music of mirth,
As the waves of a thousand streams rush by
To an ocean of splendour and harmony!
Chorus of Spirits.
Our spoil is won,
Our task is done,
We are free to dive, or soar, or run;
Beyond and around,
Or within the bound
Which clips the world with darkness round.
We'll pass the eyes
Of the starry skies
Into the hoar deep to colonize:
Death, Chaos, and Night,
From the sound of our flight,
Shall flee, like mist from a tempest's might.
And Earth, Air, and Light,
And the Spirit of Might,
Which drives round the stars in their fiery flight;
And Love, Thought, and Breath,
The powers that quell Death,
Wherever we soar shall assemble beneath.
And our singing shall build
In the void's loose field
A world for the Spirit of Wisdom to wield;
We will take our plan
From the new world of man,
And our work shall be called the Promethean.
Chorus of Hours.
Break the dance, and scatter the song;
Let some depart, and some remain.
Semichorus I.
We, beyond heaven, are driven along:
Semichorus II.
Us the enchantments of earth retain:
Semichorus I.
Ceaseless, and rapid, and fierce, and free,
With the Spirits which build a new earth and sea,
And a heaven where yet heaven could never be.
Semichorus II.
Solemn, and slow, and serene, and bright,
Leading the Day and outspeeding the Night,
With the powers of a world of perfect light.
Semichorus I.
We whirl, singing loud, round the gathering sphere,
Till the trees, and the beasts, and the clouds appear
From its chaos made calm by love, not fear.
Semichorus II.
We encircle the ocean and mountains of earth,
And the happy forms of its death and birth
Change to the music of our sweet mirth.
Chorus of Hours and Spirits.
Break the dance, and scatter the song,
Let some depart, and some remain,
Wherever we fly we lead along
In leashes, like starbeams, soft yet strong,
The clouds that are heavy with love's sweet rain.
Panthea.
Ha! they are gone!
Ione.
Yet feel you no delight
From the past sweetness?
Panthea.
As the bare green hill
When some soft cloud vanishes into rain,
Laughs with a thousand drops of sunny water
To the unpavilioned sky!
Ione.
Even whilst we speak
New notes arise. What is that awful sound?
Panthea.
'Tis the deep music of the rolling world
Kindling within the strings of the waved air
olian modulations.
Ione.
Listen too,
How every pause is filled with under-notes,
Clear, silver, icy, keen, awakening tones,
Which pierce the sense, and live within the soul,
As the sharp stars pierce winter's crystal air
And gaze upon themselves within the sea.
Panthea.
But see where through two openings in the forest
Which hanging branches overcanopy,
And where two runnels of a rivulet,
Between the close moss violet-inwoven,
Have made their path of melody, like sisters
Who part with sighs that they may meet in smiles,
Turning their dear disunion to an isle
Of lovely grief, a wood of sweet sad thoughts;
Two visions of strange radiance float upon
The ocean-like enchantment of strong sound,
Which flows intenser, keener, deeper yet
Under the ground and through the windless air.
Ione.
I see a chariot like that thinnest boat,
In which the Mother of the Months is borne
By ebbing light into her western cave,
When she upsprings from interlunar dreams;
O'er which is curved an orblike canopy
Of gentle darkness, and the hills and woods,
Distinctly seen through that dusk aery veil,
Regard like shapes in an enchanter's glass;
Its wheels are solid clouds, azure and gold,
Such as the genii of the thunderstorm
Pile on the floor of the illumined sea
When the sun rushes under it; they roll
And move and grow as with an inward wind;
Within it sits a wingd infant, white
Its countenance, like the whiteness of bright snow,
Its plumes are as feathers of sunny frost,
Its limbs gleam white, through the wind-flowing folds
Of its white robe, woof of ethereal pearl.
Its hair is white, the brightness of white light
Scattered in strings; yet its two eyes are heavens
Of liquid darkness, which the Deity
Within seems pouring, as a storm is poured
From jaggd clouds, out of their arrowy lashes,
Tempering the cold and radiant air around,
With fire that is not brightness; in its hand
It sways a quivering moonbeam, from whose point
A guiding power directs the chariot's prow
Over its wheeld clouds, which as they roll
Over the grass, and flowers, and waves, wake sounds,
Sweet as a singing rain of silver dew.
Panthea.
And from the other opening in the wood
Rushes, with loud and whirlwind harmony,
A sphere, which is as many thousand spheres,
Solid as crystal, yet through all its mass
Flow, as through empty space, music and light:
Ten thousand orbs involving and involved,
Purple and azure, white, and green, and golden,
Sphere within sphere; and every space between
Peopled with unimaginable shapes,
Such as ghosts dream dwell in the lampless deep,
Yet each inter-transpicuous, and they whirl
Over each other with a thousand motions,
Upon a thousand sightless axles spinning,
And with the force of self-destroying swiftness,
Intensely, slowly, solemnly roll on,
Kindling with mingled sounds, and many tones,
Intelligible words and music wild.
With mighty whirl the multitudinous orb
Grinds the bright brook into an azure mist
Of elemental subtlety, like light;
And the wild odour of the forest flowers,
The music of the living grass and air,
The emerald light of leaf-entangled beams
Round its intense yet self-conflicting speed,
Seem kneaded into one areal mass
Which drowns the sense. Within the orb itself,
Pillowed upon its alabaster arms,
Like to a child o'erwearied with sweet toil,
On its own folded wings, and wavy hair,
The Spirit of the Earth is laid asleep,
And you can see its little lips are moving,
Amid the changing light of their own smiles,
Like one who talks of what he loves in dream.
Ione.
'Tis only mocking the orb's harmony.
Panthea.
And from a star upon its forehead, shoot,
Like swords of azure fire, or golden spears
With tyrant-quelling myrtle overtwined,
Embleming heaven and earth united now,
Vast beams like spokes of some invisible wheel
Which whirl as the orb whirls, swifter than thought,
Filling the abyss with sun-like lightenings,
And perpendicular now, and now transverse,
Pierce the dark soil, and as they pierce and pass,
Make bare the secrets of the earth's deep heart;
Infinite mines of adamant and gold,
Valueless stones, and unimagined gems,
And caverns on crystalline columns poised
With vegetable silver overspread;
Wells of unfathomed fire, and water springs
Whence the great sea, even as a child is fed,
Whose vapours clothe earth's monarch mountain-tops
With kingly, ermine snow. The beams flash on
And make appear the melancholy ruins
Of cancelled cycles; anchors, beaks of ships;
Planks turned to marble; quivers, helms, and spears,
And gorgon-headed targes, and the wheels
Of scythd chariots, and the emblazonry
Of trophies, standards, and armorial beasts,
Round which death laughed, sepulchred emblems
Of dead destruction, ruin within ruin!
The wrecks beside of many a city vast,
Whose population which the earth grew over
Was mortal, but not human; see, they lie,
Their monstrous works, and uncouth skeletons,
Their statues, homes and fanes; prodigious shapes
Huddled in gray annihilation, split,
Jammed in the hard, black deep; and over these,
The anatomies of unknown wingd things,
And fishes which were isles of living scale,
And serpents, bony chains, twisted around
The iron crags, or within heaps of dust
To which the tortuous strength of their last pangs
Had crushed the iron crags; and over these
The jaggd alligator, and the might
Of earth-convulsing behemoth, which once
Were monarch beasts, and on the slimy shores,
And weed-overgrown continents of earth,
Increased and multiplied like summer worms
On an abandoned corpse, till the blue globe
Wrapped deluge round it like a cloak, and they
Yelled, gasped, and were abolished; or some God
Whose throne was in a comet, passed, and cried,
'Be not!' And like my words they were no more.
The Earth.
The joy, the triumph, the delight, the madness!
The boundless, overflowing, bursting gladness,
The vaporous exultation not to be confined!
Ha! ha! the animation of delight
Which wraps me, like an atmosphere of light,
And bears me as a cloud is borne by its own wind.
The Moon.
Brother mine, calm wanderer,
Happy globe of land and air,
Some Spirit is darted like a beam from thee,
Which penetrates my frozen frame,
And passes with the warmth of flame,
With love, and odour, and deep melody
Through me, through me!
The Earth.
Ha! ha! the caverns of my hollow mountains,
My cloven fire-crags, sound-exulting fountains
Laugh with a vast and inextinguishable laughter.
The oceans, and the deserts, and the abysses,
And the deep air's unmeasured wildernesses,
Answer from all their clouds and billows, echoing after.
They cry aloud as I do. Sceptred curse,
Who all our green and azure universe
Threatenedst to muffle round with black destruction, sending
A solid cloud to rain hot thunderstones,
And splinter and knead down my children's bones,
All I bring forth, to one void mass battering and blending,
Until each crag-like tower, and storied column,
Palace, and obelisk, and temple solemn,
My imperial mountains crowned with cloud, and snow, and fire;
My sea-like forests, every blade and blossom
Which finds a grave or cradle in my bosom,
Were stamped by thy strong hate into a lifeless mire:
How art thou sunk, withdrawn, covered, drunk up
By thirsty nothing, as the brackish cup
Drained by a desert-troop, a little drop for all;
And from beneath, around, within, above,
Filling thy void annihilation, love
Burst in like light on caves cloven by the thunder-ball.
The Moon.
The snow upon my lifeless mountains
Is loosened into living fountains,
My solid oceans flow, and sing, and shine:
A spirit from my heart bursts forth,
It clothes with unexpected birth
My cold bare bosom: Oh! it must be thine
On mine, on mine!
Gazing on thee I feel, I know
Green stalks burst forth, and bright flowers grow,
And living shapes upon my bosom move:
Music is in the sea and air,
Wingd clouds soar here and there,
Dark with the rain new buds are dreaming of:
'Tis love, all love!
The Earth.
It interpenetrates my granite mass,
Through tangled roots and trodden clay doth pass
Into the utmost leaves and delicatest flowers;
Upon the winds, among the clouds 'tis spread,
It wakes a life in the forgotten dead,
They breathe a spirit up from their obscurest bowers.
And like a storm bursting its cloudy prison
With thunder, and with whirlwind, has arisen
Out of the lampless caves of unimagined being:
With earthquake shock and swiftness making shiver
Thought's stagnant chaos, unremoved for ever,
Till hate, and fear, and pain, light-vanquished shadows, fleeing,
Leave Man, who was a many-sided mirror,
Which could distort to many a shape of error,
This true fair world of things, a sea reflecting love;
Which over all his kind, as the sun's heaven
Gliding o'er ocean, smooth, serene, and even,
Darting from starry depths radiance and life, doth move:
Leave Man, even as a leprous child is left,
Who follows a sick beast to some warm cleft
Of rocks, through which the might of healing springs is poured;
Then when it wanders home with rosy smile,
Unconscious, and its mother fears awhile
It is a spirit, then, weeps on her child restored.
Man, oh, not men! a chain of linkd thought,
Of love and might to be divided not,
Compelling the elements with adamantine stress;
As the sun rules, even with a tyrant's gaze,
The unquiet republic of the maze
Of planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.
Man, one harmonious soul of many a soul,
Whose nature is its own divine control,
Where all things flow to all, as rivers to the sea;
Familiar acts are beautiful through love;
Labour, and pain, and grief, in life's green grove
Sport like tame beasts, none knew how gentle they could be!
His will, with all mean passions, bad delights,
And selfish cares, its trembling satellites,
A spirit ill to guide, but mighty to obey,
Is as a tempest-wingd ship, whose helm
Love rules, through waves which dare not overwhelm,
Forcing life's wildest shores to own its sovereign sway.
All things confess his strength. Through the cold mass
Of marble and of colour his dreams pass;
Bright threads whence mothers weave the robes their children wear;
Language is a perpetual Orphic song,
Which rules with Ddal harmony a throng
Of thoughts and forms, which else senseless and shapeless were.
The lightning is his slave; heaven's utmost deep
Gives up her stars, and like a flock of sheep
They pass before his eye, are numbered, and roll on!
The tempest is his steed, he strides the air;
And the abyss shouts from her depth laid bare,
Heaven, hast thou secrets? Man unveils me; I have none.
The Moon.
The shadow of white death has passed
From my path in heaven at last,
A clinging shroud of solid frost and sleep;
And through my newly-woven bowers,
Wander happy paramours,
Less mighty, but as mild as those who keep
Thy vales more deep.
The Earth.
As the dissolving warmth of dawn may fold
A half unfrozen dew-globe, green, and gold,
And crystalline, till it becomes a wingd mist,
And wanders up the vault of the blue day,
Outlives the moon, and on the sun's last ray
Hangs o'er the sea, a fleece of fire and amethyst.
The Moon.
Thou art folded, thou art lying
In the light which is undying
Of thine own joy, and heaven's smile divine;
All suns and constellations shower
On thee a light, a life, a power
Which doth array thy sphere; thou pourest thine
On mine, on mine!
The Earth.
I spin beneath my pyramid of night,
Which points into the heavens dreaming delight,
Murmuring victorious joy in my enchanted sleep;
As a youth lulled in love-dreams faintly sighing,
Under the shadow of his beauty lying,
Which round his rest a watch of light and warmth doth keep.
The Moon.
As in the soft and sweet eclipse,
When soul meets soul on lovers' lips,
High hearts are calm, and brightest eyes are dull;
So when thy shadow falls on me,
Then am I mute and still, by thee
Covered; of thy love, Orb most beautiful,
Full, oh, too full!
Thou art speeding round the sun
Brightest world of many a one;
Green and azure sphere which shinest
With a light which is divinest
Among all the lamps of Heaven
To whom life and light is given;
I, thy crystal paramour
Borne beside thee by a power
Like the polar Paradise,
Magnet-like of lovers' eyes;
I, a most enamoured maiden
Whose weak brain is overladen
With the pleasure of her love,
Maniac-like around thee move
Gazing, an insatiate bride,
On thy form from every side
Like a Mnad, round the cup
Which Agave lifted up
In the weird Cadman forest.
Brother, wheresoe'er thou soarest
I must hurry, whirl and follow
Through the heavens wide and hollow,
Sheltered by the warm embrace
Of thy soul from hungry space,
Drinking from thy sense and sight
Beauty, majesty, and might,
As a lover or a chameleon
Grows like what it looks upon,
As a violet's gentle eye
Gazes on the azure sky
Until its hue grows like what it beholds,
As a gray and watery mist
Glows like solid amethyst
Athwart the western mountain it enfolds,
When the sunset sleeps
Upon its snow
The Earth.
And the weak day weeps
That it should be so.
Oh, gentle Moon, the voice of thy delight
Falls on me like thy clear and tender light
Soothing the seaman, borne the summer night,
Through isles for ever calm;
Oh, gentle Moon, thy crystal accents pierce
The caverns of my pride's deep universe,
Charming the tiger joy, whose tramplings fierce
Made wounds which need thy balm.
Panthea.
I rise as from a bath of sparkling water,
A bath of azure light, among dark rocks,
Out of the stream of sound.
Ione.
Ah me! sweet sister,
The stream of sound has ebbed away from us,
And you pretend to rise out of its wave,
Because your words fall like the clear, soft dew
Shaken from a bathing wood-nymph's limbs and hair.
Panthea.
Peace! peace! A mighty Power, which is as darkness,
Is rising out of Earth, and from the sky
Is showered like night, and from within the air
Bursts, like eclipse which had been gathered up
Into the pores of sunlight: the bright visions,
Wherein the singing spirits rode and shone,
Gleam like pale meteors through a watery night.
Ione.
There is a sense of words upon mine ear.
Panthea.
An universal sound like words: Oh, list!
Demogorgon.
Thou, Earth, calm empire of a happy soul,
Sphere of divinest shapes and harmonies,
Beautiful orb! gathering as thou dost roll
The love which paves thy path along the skies:
The Earth.
I hear: I am as a drop of dew that dies.
Demogorgon.
Thou, Moon, which gazest on the nightly Earth
With wonder, as it gazes upon thee;
Whilst each to men, and beasts, and the swift birth
Of birds, is beauty, love, calm, harmony:
The Moon.
I hear: I am a leaf shaken by thee!
Demogorgon.
Ye Kings of suns and stars, Dmons and Gods,
Aetherial Dominations, who possess
Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes
Beyond Heaven's constellated wilderness:
A Voice from above.
Our great Republic hears, we are blest, and bless.
Demogorgon.
Ye happy Dead, whom beams of brightest verse
Are clouds to hide, not colours to portray,
Whether your nature is that universe
Which once ye saw and suffered
A Voice from beneath.
Or as they
Whom we have left, we change and pass away.
Demogorgon.
Ye elemental Genii, who have homes
From man's high mind even to the central stone
Of sullen lead; from heaven's star-fretted domes
To the dull weed some sea-worm battens on:
A confused Voice.
We hear: thy words waken Oblivion.
Demogorgon.
Spirits, whose homes are flesh: ye beasts and birds,
Ye worms, and fish; ye living leaves and buds;
Lightning and wind; and ye untameable herds,
Meteors and mists, which throng air's solitudes:
A Voice.
Thy voice to us is wind among still woods.
Demogorgon.
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave;
A dupe and a deceiver; a decay;
A traveller from the cradle to the grave
Through the dim night of this immortal day:
All.
Speak: thy strong words may never pass away.
Demogorgon.
This is the day, which down the void abysm
At the Earth-born's spell yawns for Heaven's despotism,
And Conquest is dragged captive through the deep:
Love, from its awful throne of patient power
In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
And folds over the world its healing wings.
Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance,
These are the seals of that most firm assurance
Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength;
And if, with infirm hand, Eternity,
Mother of many acts and hours, should free
The serpent that would clasp her with his length;
These are the spells by which to reassume
An empire o'er the disentangled doom.
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates;
Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;
This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.
Composed at Este, Sept., Oct., 1818 (Act I); at Rome, March - April 6, 1819 (Acts II, III); at Florence, close of 1819 (Act IV). Published by C. and J. Ollier, London, summer of 1820.
Note from Mrs. Shelley: 'On the 12th of March, 1818, Shelley quitted England, never to return. His principal motive was the hope that his health would be improved by a milder climate; he suffered very much during the winter previous to his emigration, and this decided his vacillating purpose. .....Through the whole poem there reigns a sort of calm and holy spirit of love; it soothes the tortured, and is hope to the expectant, till the prophecy is fulfilled, and Love, untainted by any evil, becomes the law of the world. ....And, as he wandered among the ruins made one with Nature in their decay, or gaed on the Praxitelean shapes that throng the Vatican, the Capitol, and the palaces of Rome, his soul imbibed forms of loveliness which became a portion of itself. There are many passages in the Prometheus which show the intense delight he received from such studies, and give back the impression with a beauty of poetical description peculiarly his own. He felt this, as a poet must feel when he satisfies himself by the result of his labours; and he wrote from Rome, ''My Prometheus Unbound is just finished, and in a month or two I shall send it. It is a drama, with characters and mechanism of a kind yet unattempted; and I think the execution is better than any of my former attempts.'''
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
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10 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
9 Theosophy
9 The Integral Yoga
9 Raja-Yoga
8 Twilight of the Idols
8 The Problems of Philosophy
8 The Practice of Magical Evocation
8 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
8 The Divine Comedy
8 Cybernetics
7 Poe - Poems
7 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
6 Words Of The Mother III
6 Walden
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Alchemy of Happiness
6 Maps of Meaning
6 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
6 Faust
6 Dark Night of the Soul
6 Crowley - Poems
6 5.1.01 - Ilion
5 The Blue Cliff Records
5 Tara - The Feminine Divine
5 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
5 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
5 Goethe - Poems
5 Amrita Gita
4 Words Of The Mother I
4 The Red Book Liber Novus
4 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
3 The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
3 The Lotus Sutra
3 The Book of Certitude
3 Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
3 Songs of Kabir
3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
3 Rumi - Poems
3 Milarepa - Poems
3 Liber Null
3 Arabi - Poems
3 Anonymous - Poems
2 Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit
2 The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
2 The Ever-Present Origin
2 The Essentials of Education
2 The Castle of Crossed Destinies
2 Symposium
2 Selected Fictions
2 Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation In Theory and Practice
2 Rilke - Poems
2 Li Bai - Poems
2 God Exists
2 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
2 Alice in Wonderland
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
00.00 - Publishers Note A, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The present volume consists of the first seven parts of the book The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo which has run into twelve parts, as it stands now; of these twelve, parts five to nine are based upon talks of the Mother (given by Her to the children of the Ashram). In this volume the later parts of the Talks (8 and 9) could not be included: they are to wait for a subsequent volume. The talks, originally in French, were spread over a number of years, ending in about 1960. We are pleased to note that the Government of India have given us a grant to meet the cost of publication of this volume.
13 January 1972
0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Her step by step, as one discovers a forest, or rather as one fights with it, machete in hand - and then it melts, one loves, so sublime does it become. Mother grew beneath our skin like an adventure of life and death. For seven years we fought with Her. It was fascinating, detestable, powerful and sweet; we felt like screaming and biting, fleeing and always coming back: 'Ah! You won't catch me! If you think I came here to worship you, you're wrong!' And She laughed. She always laughed.
We had our bellyful of adventure at last: if you go astray in the forest, you get delightfully lost yet still with the same old skin on your back, whereas here, there is nothing left to get lost in! It is no longer just a matter of getting lost - you have to CHANGE your skin. Or die. Yes, change species.
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Day after day, for seventeen years, She sat with us to tell us of her impossible odyssey. Ah, how well we now understand why She needed such an 'outlaw' and an incorrigible heretic like us to comprehend a little bit of her impossible odyssey into 'nothing.' And how well we now understand her infinite patience with us, despite all our revolts, which ultimately were only the revolts of the old species against itself. The final revolt. 'It is not a revolt against the British government which any one can easily do. It is, in fact, a revolt against the whole universal Nature!' Sri Aurobindo had proclaimed fifty years earlier. She listened to our grievances, we went away and we returned. We wanted no more of it and we wanted still more. It was infernal and sublime, impossible and the sole possibility in this old, asphyxiating world. It was the only place one could go to in this barbedwired, mechanized world, where Cincinnati is just as crowded and polluted as Hong Kong. The new species is the last free place in the general Prison. It is the last hope for the earth. How we listened to her little faltering voice that seemed to return from afar, afar, after having crossed spaces and seas of the mind to let its little drops of pure, crystalline words fall upon us, words that make you see. We listened to the future, we touched the other thing. It was incomprehensible and yet filled with another comprehension. It eluded us on all sides, and yet it was dazzlingly obvious. The 'other species' was really radically other, and yet it was vibrating within, absolutely recognizable, as if it were THAT we had been seeking from age to age, THAT we had been invoking through all our illuminations, one after another, in Thebes as in Eleusis as everywhere we have toiled and grieved in the skin of a man. It was for THAT we were here, for that supreme Possible in the skin of a man at last. And then her voice grew more and more frail, her breath began gasping as though She had to traverse greater and greater distances to meet us. She was so alone to beat against the walls of the old prison. Many claws were out all around. Oh, we would so quickly have cut ourself free from all this fiasco to fly away with Her into the world's future. She was so tiny, stooped over, as if crushed beneath the 'spiritual' burden that all the old surrounding species kept heaping upon her. They didn't believe, no. For them, She was ninety-five years old + so many days. Can someone become a new species all alone? They even grumbled at Her: they had had enough of this unbearable Ray that was bringing their sordid affairs into the daylight. The Ashram was slowly closing over Her. The old world wanted to make a new, golden little Church, nice and quiet. No, no one wanted TO
BECOME. To worship was so much easier. And then they bury you, solemnly, and the matter is settled - the case is closed: now, no one need bother any more except to print some photographic haloes for the pilgrims to this brisk little business. But they are mistaken. The real business will take place without them, the new species will fly up in their faces - it is already flying in the face of the earth, despite all its isms in black and white; it is exploding through all the pores of this battered old earth, which has had enough of shams - whether illusory little heavens or barbarous little machines.
00.01 - The Approach to Mysticism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A scientist once thought that he had clinched the issue and cut the Gordian knot when he declared triumphantly with reference to spirit sances: "Very significant is the fact that spirits appear only in closed chambers, in half obscurity, to somnolent minds; they are nowhere in the open air, in broad daylight to the wide awake and vigilant intellect!" Well, if the fact is as it is stated, what does it prove? Night alone reveals the stars, during the day they vanish, but that is no proof that stars are not existent. Rather the true scientific spirit should seek to know why (or how) it is so, if it is so, and such a fact would exactly serve as a pointer, a significant starting ground. The attitude of the jesting Pilate is not helpful even to scientific inquiry. This matter of the Spirits we have taken only as an illustration and it must not be understood that this is a domain of high mysticism; rather the contrary. The spiritualists' approach to Mysticism is not the right one and is fraught with not only errors but dangers. For the spiritualists approach their subject with the entire scientific apparatus the only difference being that the scientist does not believe while the spiritualist believes.
Mystic realities cannot be reached by the scientific consciousness, because they are far more subtle than the subtlest object that science can contemplate. The neutrons and positrons are for science today the finest and profoundest object-forces; they belong, it is said, almost to a borderl and where physics ends. Nor for that reason is a mystic reality something like a mathematical abstraction, -n for example. The mystic reality is subtler than the subtlest of physical things and yet, paradoxical to say, more concrete than the most concrete thing that the senses apprehend.
Furthermore, being so, the mystic domain is of infinitely greater potency than the domain of intra-atomic forces. If one comes, all on a sudden, into contact with a force here without the necessary preparation to hold and handle it, he may get seriously bruised, morally and physically. The adventure into the mystic domain has its own toll of casualtiesone can lose the mind, one can lose one's body even and it is a very common experience among those who have tried the path. It is not in vain and merely as a poetic metaphor that the ancient seers have said
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For it must be understood that the heart, the mystic heart, is not the external thing which is the seat of emotion or passion; it is the secret heart that is behind, the inner heartantarhdaya of the Upanishadwhich is the centre of the individual consciousness, where all the divergent lines of that consciousness meet and from where they take their rise. That is what the Upanishad means when it says that the heart has a hundred channels which feed the human vehicle. That is the source, the fount and origin, the very substance of the true personality. Mystic knowledge the true mystic knowledge which saves and fulfilsbegins with the awakening or the entrance into this real being. This being is pure and luminous and blissful and sovereignly real, because it is a portion, a spark of the Divine Consciousness and Nature: a contact and communion with it brings automatically into play the light and the truth that are its substance. At the same time it is an uprising flame that reaches out naturally to higher domains of consciousness and manifests them through its translucid dynamism.
The knowledge that is obtained without the heart's instrumentation or co-operation is liable to be what the Gita describes as Asuric. First of all, from the point of view of knowledge itself, it would be, as I have already said, egocentric, a product and agent of one's limited and isolated self, easily put at the service of desire and passion. This knowledge, whether rationalistic or occult, is, as it were, hard and dry in its constitution, and oftener than not, negative and destructivewi thering and blasting in its career like the desert simoom.
00.01 - The Mother on Savitri, #Sweet Mother - Harmonies of Light, #unset, #Zen
On a few other occasion also, the Mother had spoken to the same sadhak on the value of reading Savitri which he had noted down afterwards. These notes have been added at the end of the main report. A few members of the Ashram had privately read this report in French, but afterwards there were many requests for its English version. A translation was therefore made in November 1967. A proposal was made to the Mother in 1972 for its publication and it was submitted to Her for approval. The Mother wanted to check the translation before permitting its publication but could check only a portion of it.
Do you read Savitri?
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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.
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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.
00.02 - Mystic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We can make a distinction here between two types of expression which we have put together indiscriminately, figures and symbols. Figures, we may say, are those that are constructed by the rational mind, the intellect; they are mere metaphors and similes and are not organically related to the thing experienced, but put round it as a robe that can be dropped or changed without affecting the experience itself. Thus, for example, when the Upanishad says, tmnam rathinam viddhi (Know that the soul is the master of the chariot who sits within it) or indriyi haynhu (The senses, they say, are the horses), we have here only a comparison or analogy that is common and natural to the poetic manner. The particular figure or simile used is not inevitable to the idea or experience that it seeks to express, its part and parcel. On the other hand, take this Upanishadic perception: hirayamayena patrea satyasyphitam mukham (The face of the Truth lies hidden under the golden orb). Here the symbol is not mere analogy or comparison, a figure; it is one with the very substance of the experience the two cannot be separated. Or when the Vedas speak of the kindling of the Fire, the rushing of the waters or the rise of the Dawn, the images though taken from the material world, are not used for the sake of mere comparison, but they are the embodiments, the living forms of truths experienced in another world.
When a Mystic refers to the Solar Light or to the Fire the light, for example, that struck down Saul and transformed him into Saint Paul or the burning bush that visited Moses, it is not the physical or material object that he means and yet it is that in a way. It is the materialization of something that is fundamentally not material: some movement in an inner consciousness precipitates itself into the region of the senses and takes from out of the material the form commensurable with its nature that it finds there.
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Man being an embodied soul, his external consciousness (what the Upanishad calls jgrat) is the milieu in which his soul-experiences naturally manifest and find their play. It is the forms and movements of that consciousness which clo the and give a concrete habitation and name to perceptions on the subtler ranges of the inner existence. If the experiences on these planes are to be presented to the conscious memory and to the brain-mind and made communicable to others through speech, this is the inevitable and natural process. Symbols are a translation in mental and sensual (and vocal) terms of experiences that are beyond the mind and the sense and the speech and yet throw a kind of echoing vibrations upon these lesser levels.
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00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It may be asked why the dog has been chosen as the symbol of Intuition. In the Vedas, the cow and the horse also play a large part; even the donkey and the frog have their own assigned roles. These objects are taken from the environment of ordinary life, and are those that are most familiar to the external consciousness, through which the inner experiences have to express themselves, if they are to be expressed at all. These material objects represent various kinds of forces and movements and subtle and occult and spiritual dynamisms. Strictly speaking, however, symbols are not chosen in a subtle or spiritual experience, that is to say, they are not arbitrarily selected and constructed by the conscious intelligence. They form part of a dramatization (to use a term of the Freudian psychology of dreams), a psychological alchemy, whose method and process and rationale are very obscure, which can be penetrated only by the vision of a third eye.
I. The Several Lights
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Man has two aspects or natures; he dwells in two worlds. The first is the manifest world the world of the body, the life and the mind. The body has flowered into the mind through the life. The body gives the basis or the material, the life gives power and energy and the mind the directing knowledge. This triune world forms the humanity of man. But there is another aspect hidden behind this apparent nature, there is another world where man dwells in his submerged, larger and higher consciousness. To that his soul the Purusha in his heart only has access. It is the world where man's nature is transmuted into another triune realitySat, Chit and Ananda.
The one, however, is not completely divorced from the other. The apparent, the inferior nature is only a preparation for the real, the superior nature. The Path of the Fathers concerns itself with man as a mental being and seeks so to ordain and accomplish its duties and ideals as to lead him on to the Path of the Gods; the mind, the life, and the body consciousness should be so disciplined, educated, purified, they should develop along such a line and gradually rise to such a stage as to make them fit to receive the light which belongs to the higher level, so allowing the human soul imbedded in them to extricate itself and pass on to the Immortal Life.
And they who are thus lifted up into the Higher Orbit are freed from the bondage to the cycle of rebirth. They enjoy the supreme Liberation that is of the Spirit; and even when they descend into the Inferior Path, it is to work out as free agents, as vehicles of the Divine, a special purpose, to bring down something of the substance and nature of the Solar reality into the lower world, enlighten and elevate the lower, as far as it is allowed, into the higher.
IV. The Triple Agni
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Earth represents the material world itself, Matter or existence in its most concrete, its grossest form. It is the basis of existence, the world that supports other worlds (dhar, dharitri),the first or the lowest of the several ranges of creation. In man it is his body. The principle here is that of stability, substantiality, firmness, consistency.
Water represents the next rung the vital world, the world life-force (pra). Physiologically also we know that water is the element forming three-fourths of the constituents of a living body and that dead and dry are synonymous terms; it is the medium in which the living cells dwell and through which they draw their sustenance. Water is the veritable sap of lifeit is the emblem of life itself. The principle it represents is that of movement, continuity, perpetuity.
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The Science of the Five Agnis (Fires), as propounded by Pravahan, explains and illustrates the process of the birth of the body, the passage of the soul into earth existence. It describes the advent of the child, the building of the physical form of the human being. The process is conceived of as a sacrifice, the usual symbol with the Vedic Rishis for the expression of their vision and perception of universal processes of Nature, physical and psychological. Here, the child IS said to be the final fruit of the sacrifice, the different stages in the process being: (i) Soma, (ii) Rain, (iii) Food, (iv) Semen, (v) Child. Soma means Rasaphysically the principle of water, psychologically the 'principle of delightand symbolises and constitutes the very soul and substance of life. Now it is said that these five principles the fundamental and constituent elementsare born out of the sacrifice, through the oblation or offering to the five Agnis. The first Agni is Heaven or the Sky-God, and by offering to it one's faith and one's ardent desire, one calls into manifestation Soma or Rasa or Water, the basic principle of life. This water is next offered to the second Agni, the Rain-God, who sends down Rain. Rain, again, is offered to the third Agni, the Earth, who brings forth Food. Food is, in its turn, offered to the fourth Agni, the Father or Male, who elaborates in himself the generating fluid.
Finally, this fluid is offered to the fifth Agni, the Mother or the Female, who delivers the Child.
The biological process, described in what may seem to be crude and mediaeval terms, really reflects or echoes a more subtle and psychological process. The images used form perhaps part of the current popular notion about the matter, but the esoteric sense goes beyond the outer symbols. The sky seems to be the far and tenuous region where the soul rests and awaits its next birthit is the region of Soma, the own Home of Bliss and Immortality. Now when the time or call comes, the soul stirs and journeys down that is the Rain. Next, it enters the earth atmosphere and clothes itself with the earth consciousness. Then it waits and calls for the formation of the material body, first by the contri bution of the father and then by that of the mother; when these two unite and the material body is formed, the soul incarnates.
Apart from the question whether the biological phenomenon described is really a symbol and a cloak for another order of reality, and even taking it at its face value, what is to be noted here is the idea of a cosmic cycle, and a cosmic cycle that proceeds through the principle of sacrifice. If it is asked what there is wonderful or particularly spiritual in this rather naf description of a very commonplace happening that gives it an honoured place in the Upanishads, the answer is that it is wonderful to see how the Upanishadic Rishi takes from an event its local, temporal and personal colour and incorporates it in a global movement, a cosmic cycle, as a limb of the Universal Brahman. The Upanishads contain passages which a puritanical mentality may perhaps describe as 'pornographic'; these have in fact been put by some on the Index expurgatorius. But the ancients saw these matters with other eyes and through another consciousness.
We have, in modern times, a movement towards a more conscious and courageous, knowledge of things that were taboo to puritan ages. Not to shut one's eyes to the lower, darker and hidden strands of our nature, but to bring them out into the light of day and to face them is the best way of dealing with such elements, which otherwise, if they are repressed, exert an unhealthy influence on the mind and nature. The Upanishadic view runs on the same lines, but, with the unveiling and the natural and not merely naturalisticdelineation of these under-worlds (concerning sex and food), it endows them with a perspective sub specie aeternitatis. The sexual function, for example, is easily equated to the double movement of ascent and descent that is secreted in nature, or to the combined action of Purusha and Prakriti in the cosmic Play, or again to the hidden fount of Delight that holds and moves the universe. In this view there is nothing merely secular and profane, but all is woven into the cosmic spiritual whole; and man is taught to consider and to mould all his movementsof soul and mind and bodyin the light and rhythm of that integral Reality.11
The central secret of the transfigured consciousness lies, as we have already indicated, in the mystic rite or law of Sacrifice. It is the one basic, fundamental, universal Law that upholds and explains the cosmic movement, conformity to which brings to the thrice-bound human being release and freedom. Sacrifice consists essentially of two elements or processes: (i) The offering or self giving of the lower reality to the higher, and, as a consequence, an answering movement of (ii) the descent of the higher into the lower. The lower offered to the higher means the lower sublimated and integrated into the higher; and the descent of the higher into the lower means the incarnation of the former and the fulfilment of the latter. The Gita elaborates the same idea when it says that by Sacrifice men increase the gods and the gods increase men and by so increasing each other they attain the supreme Good. Nothing is, nothing is done, for its own sake, for an egocentric satisfaction; all, even movements relating to food and to sex should be dedicated to the Cosmic BeingVisva Purusha and that alone received which comes from Him.
VII. The Cosmic and the Transcendental
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Besides this metaphysics there is also an occult aspect in numerology of which Pythagoras was a well-known adept and in which the Vedic Rishis too seem to take special delight. The multiplication of numbers represents in a general way the principle of emanation. The One has divided and subdivided itself, but not in a haphazard way: it is not like the chaotic pulverisation of a piece of stone by hammer-blows. The process of division and subdivision follows a pattern almost as neat and methodical as a genealogical tree. That is to say, the emanations form a hierarchy. At the top, the apex of the pyramid, stands the one supreme Godhead. That Godhead is biune in respect of manifestation the Divine and his creative Power. This two-in-one reality may be considered, according to one view of creation, as dividing into three forms or aspects the well-known Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra of Hindu mythology. These may be termed the first or primary emanations.
Now, each one of them in its turn has its own emanations the eleven Rudriyas are familiar. These are secondary and there are tertiary and other graded emanations the last ones touch the earth and embody physico-vital forces. The lowest formations or beings can trace their origin to one or other of the primaries and their nature and function partake of or are an echo of their first ancestor.
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The number of gods depends on the level of consciousness on which we stand. On this material plane there are as many gods as there are bodies or individual forms (adhar). And on the supreme height there is only one God without a second. In between there are gradations of types and sub-types whose number and function vary according to the aspect of consciousness that reveals itself.
IX. Nachiketas' Three Boons
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The secularisation of man's vital functions in modem ages has not been a success. It has made him more egocentric and blatantly hedonistic. From an occult point of view he has in this way subjected himself to the influences of dark and undesirable world-forces, has made an opening, to use an Indian symbolism, for Kali (the Spirit of the Iron Age) to enter into him. The sex-force is an extremely potent agent, but it is extremely fluid and elusive and uncontrollable. It was for this reason that the ancients always sought to give it a proper mould, a right continent, a fixed and definite channel; the moderns, on the other hand, allow it to run free and play with it recklessly. The result has been, in the life of those born under such circumstances, a growing lack of poise and balance and a corresponding incidence of neuras thenia, hysteria and all abnormal pathological conditions.
Chhandyogya, II, III.
00.04 - The Beautiful in the Upanishads, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The form of a thing can be beautiful; but the formless too has its beauty. Indeed, the beauty of the formless, that is to say, the very sum and substance, the ultimate essence, the soul of beauty that is what suffuses, with in-gathered colour and enthusiasm, the realisation and poetic creation of the Upanishadic seer. All the forms that are scattered abroad in their myriad manifest beauty hold within themselves a secret Beauty and are reflected or projected out of it. This veiled Name of Beauty can be compared to nothing on the phenomenal hemisphere of Nature; it has no adequate image or representation below:
na tasya pratimsti
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.
Indeed delight is the third and the supremely intimate element of the poetic personality. Dear and delightful is the poet, dear and delightful his works, priya, priyi His hand is dripping with sweetness,kavir hi madhuhastya.24 The Poet-God shines in his pristine beauty and is showering delight.25 He is filled with utter ecstasy so that he may rise to the very source of the luminous Energy.26? Pure is the Divine Joy and it enters and purifies all forms as it moves to the seat of the Immortals.27Indeed this sparkling Delight is the Poet-Seer and it is that that brings forth the creative word, the utterance of Indra.28
0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
The Book of the Law states simply, "Every man and every woman is a star." This is a startling thought for those who considered a star a heavenly body, but a declaration subject to proof by anyone who will venture into the realm of his own Unconscious. This realm, he will learn if he persists, is not hemmed in by the boundaries of his physical body but is one with the boundless reaches of outer space.
Those who, armed with the tools provided by the Qabalah, have made the journey within and crossed beyond the barriers of illusion, have returned with an impressive quantity of knowledge which conforms strictly to the definition of "science" in Winston's College Dictionary: "Science: a body of knowledge, general truths of particular facts, obtained and shown to be correct by accurate observation and thinking; knowledge condensed, arranged and systematized with reference to general truths and laws."
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When planning to visit a foreign country, the wise traveler will first familiarize himself with its language. In studying music, chemistry or calculus, a specific terminology is essential to the understanding of each subject. So a new set of symbols is necessary when undertaking a study of the Universe, whether within or without. The Qabalah provides such a set in unexcelled fashion.
But the Qabalah is more. It also lays the foundation on which rests another archaic science- Magic. Not to be confused with the conjurer's sleight-of-hand, Magic has been defined by Aleister Crowley as "the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will." Dion Fortune qualifies this nicely with an added clause, "changes in consciousness."
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A good many attri butions in other symbolic areas, I feel are subject to the same criticism. The Egyptian Gods have been used with a good deal of carelessness, and without sufficient explanation of motives in assigning them as I did. In a recent edition of Crowley's masterpiece Liber 777 (which au fond is less a reflection of Crowley's mind as a recent critic claimed than a tabulation of some of the material given piecemeal in the Golden Dawn knowledge lectures), he gives for the first time brief explanations of the motives for his attri butions. I too should have been far more explicit in the explanations I used in the case of some of the Gods whose names were used many times, most inadequately, where several paths were concerned. While it is true that the religious coloring of the Egyptian Gods differed from time to time during Egypt's turbulent history, nonetheless a word or two about just that one single point could have served a useful purpose.
Some of the passages in the book force me today to emphasize that so far as the Qabalah is concerned, it could and should be employed without binding to it the partisan qualities of any one particular religious faith. This goes as much for Judaism as it does for Christianity. Neither has much intrinsic usefulness where this scientific scheme is concerned. If some students feel hurt by this statement, that cannot be helped. The day of most contemporary faiths is over; they have been more of a curse than a boon to mankind. Nothing that I say here, however, should reflect on the peoples concerned, those who accept these religions. They are merely unfortunate. The religion itself is worn out and indeed is dying.
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All sorts of books have been written on the Qabalah, some poor, some few others extremely good. But I came to feel the need for what might be called a sort of Berlitz handbook, a concise but comprehensive introduction, studded with diagrams and tables of easily understood definitions and correspondences to simplify the student's grasp of so complicated and abstruse a subject.
During a short retirement in North Devon in 1931, I began to amalgamate my notes. It was out of these that A Garden of Pomegranates gradually emerged. I unashamedly admit that my book contains many direct plagiarisms from Crowley, Waite, Eliphas Levi, and D. H. Lawrence. I had incorporated numerous fragments from their works into my notebooks without citing individual references to the various sources from which I condensed my notes.
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Some modern Nature-worshippers and members of the newly-washed and redeemed witch-cult have complimented me on this closing chapter which I entitled 'The Ladder." I am pleased about this. For a very long time I was not at all familiar with the topic of witchcraft. I had avoided it entirely, not being attracted to its literature in any way. In fact, I only became slightly conversant with its theme and literature just a few years ago, after reading "The Anatomy of Eve" written by Dr. Leopold Stein, a Jungian analyst. In the middle of his study of four cases, he included a most informative chapter on the subject. This served to stimulate me to wider reading in that area.
In 1932, at the suggestion of Thomas Burke, the novelist, I submitted my manuscript to one of his publishers, Messrs. Constable in London. They were unable to use it, but made some encouraging comments and advised me to submit it to Riders. To my delight and surprise, Riders published it, and throughout the years the reaction it has had indicated other students found it also fulfilled their need for a condensed and simplified survey of such a vast subject as the Qabalah.
The importance of the book to me was and is five-fold. 1) It provided a yardstick by which to measure my personal progress in the understanding of the Qabalah. 2) Therefore it can have an equivalent value to the modern student. 3) It serves as a theoretical introduction to the Qabalistic foundation of the magical work of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. 4) It throws considerable light on the occasionally obscure writings of Aleister Crowley. 5) It is dedicated to Crowley, who was the Ankh-af-na-Khonsu mentioned in The Book of the Law -a dedication which served both as a token of personal loyalty and devotion to Crowley, but was also a gesture of my spiritual independence from him.
000 - Humans in Universe, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
world constitutes less than 17 percent of the subsequently-discovered-to-be-
spherical Planet Earth's surface. All the great empires of written history before A.D.
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science, nor is nature employing science's subsequently adopted
gram/centimeter/second weight/area/time exponents. Nature does not operate in
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rhombic dodecahedron 6. When the size information is introduced, it occurs only asfrequency of modular subdivision of each unit vector structuring of the primitive
family's respective 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-tetravolumes. Frequency to the third
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Ramkumar did not at first oppose the ways of his temperamental brother. He wanted Gadadhar to become used to the conditions of city life. But one day he decided to warn the boy about his indifference to the world. After all, in the near future Gadadhar must, as a householder, earn his livelihood through the performance of his brahminical duties; and these required a thorough knowledge of Hindu law, astrology, and kindred subjects. He gently admonished Gadadhar and asked him to pay more attention to his studies. But the boy replied spiritedly: "Brother, what shall I do with a mere bread-winning education? I would rather acquire that wisdom which will illumine my heart and give me satisfaction for ever."
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Hardly had he crossed the threshold of the Kali temple when he found himself again in the whirlwind. His madness reappeared tenfold. The same meditation and prayer, the same ecstatic moods, the same burning sensation, the same weeping, the same sleeplessness, the same indifference to the body and the outside world, the same divine delirium. He subjected himself to fresh disciplines in order to eradicate greed and lust, the two great impediments to spiritual progress. With a rupee in one hand and some earth in the other, he would reflect on the comparative value of these two for the realization of God, and finding them equally worthless he would toss them, with equal indifference, into the Ganges. Women he regarded as the manifestations of the Divine Mother. Never even in a dream did he feel the impulses of lust. And to root out of his mind the idea of caste superiority, he cleaned a pariahs house with his long and neglected hair. When he would sit in meditation, birds would perch on his head and peck in his hair for grains of food. Snakes would crawl over his body, and neither would be aware of the other. Sleep left him altogether. Day and night, visions flitted before him. He saw the sannyasi who had previously killed the "sinner" in him again coming out of his body, threatening him with the trident, and ordering him to concentrate on God. Or the same sannyasi would visit distant places, following a luminous path, and bring him reports of what was happening there. Sri Ramakrishna used to say later that in the case of an advanced devotee the mind itself becomes the guru, living and moving like an embodied being.
Rani Rasmani, the foundress of the temple garden, passed away in 1861. After her death her son-in-law Mathur became the sole executor of the estate. He placed himself and his resources at the disposal of Sri Ramakrishna and began to look after his physical comfort. Sri Ramakrishna later spoke of him as one of his five "suppliers of stores" appointed by the Divine Mother. Whenever a desire arose in his mind, Mathur fulfilled it without hesitation.
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According to the Tantra, the Ultimate Reality is Chit, or Consciousness, which is identical with Sat, or Being, and with Ananda, or Bliss. This Ultimate Reality, Satchidananda, Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute, is identical with the Reality preached in the Vedas. And man is identical with this Reality; but under the influence of maya, or illusion, he has forgotten his true nature. He takes to be real a merely apparent world of subject and object, and this error is the cause of his bondage and suffering. The goal of spiritual discipline is the rediscovery of his true identity with the divine Reality.
For the achievement of this goal the Vedanta prescribes an austere negative method of discrimination and renunciation, which can be followed by only a few individuals endowed with sharp intelligence and unshakable will-power. But Tantra takes into consideration the natural weakness of human beings, their lower appetites, and their love for the concrete. It combines philosophy with rituals, meditation with ceremonies, renunciation with enjoyment. The underlying purpose is gradually to train the aspirant to meditate on his identity with the Ultimate.
The average man wishes to enjoy the material objects of the world. Tantra bids him enjoy these, but at the same time discover in them the presence of God. Mystical rites are prescribed by which, slowly, the sense-objects become spiritualized and sense attraction is transformed into a love of God. So the very "bonds" of man are turned into "releasers". The very poison that kills is transmuted into the elixir of life. Outward renunciation is not necessary. Thus the aim of Tantra is to sublimate bhoga, or enjoyment into yoga, or union with Consciousness. For, according to this philosophy, the world with all its manifestations is nothing but the sport of Siva and Sakti, the Absolute and Its inscrutable Power.
The disciplines of Tantra are graded to suit aspirants of all degrees. Exercises are prescribed for people with "animal", "heroic", and "divine" outlooks. Certain of the rites require the presence of members of the opposite sex. Here the aspirant learns to look on woman as the embodiment of the Goddess Kali, the Mother of the Universe. The very basis of Tantra is the Motherhood of God and the glorification of woman. Every part of a woman's body is to be regarded as incarnate Divinity. But the rites are extremely dangerous. The help of a qualified guru is absolutely necessary. An unwary devotee may lose his foothold and fall into a pit of depravity.
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To develop the devotee's love for God, Vaishnavism humanizes God. God is to be regarded as the devotee's Parent, Master, Friend, Child, Husband, or Sweetheart, each succeeding relationship representing an intensification of love. These bhavas, or attitudes toward God, are known as santa, dasya, sakhya, vatsalya, and madhur. The rishis of the Vedas, Hanuman, the cow-herd boys of Vrindavan, Rama's mother Kausalya, and Radhika, Krishna's sweetheart, exhibited, respectively, the most perfect examples of these forms. In the ascending scale the-glories of God are gradually forgotten and the devotee realizes more and more the intimacy of divine communion. Finally he regards himself as the mistress of his Beloved, and no artificial barrier remains to separate him from his Ideal. No social or moral obligation can bind to the earth his soaring spirit. He experiences perfect union with the Godhead. Unlike the Vedantist, who strives to transcend all varieties of the subject-object relationship, a devotee of the Vaishnava path wishes to retain both his own individuality and the personality of God. To him God is not an intangible Absolute, but the Purushottama, the Supreme Person.
While practising the discipline of the madhur bhava, the male devotee often regards himself as a woman, in order to develop the most intense form of love for Sri Krishna, the only purusha, or man, in the universe. This assumption of the attitude of the opposite sex has a deep psychological significance. It is a matter of common experience that an idea may be cultivated to such an intense degree that every idea alien to it is driven from the mind. This peculiarity of the mind may be utilized for the subjugation of the lower desires and the development of the spiritual nature. Now, the idea which is the basis of all desires and passions in a man is the conviction of his indissoluble association with a male body. If he can inoculate himself thoroughly with the idea that he is a woman, he can get rid of the desires peculiar to his male body. Again, the idea that he is a woman may in turn be made to give way to another higher idea, namely, that he is neither man nor woman, but the Impersonal Spirit. The Impersonal Spirit alone can enjoy real communion with the Impersonal God. Hence the highest est realization of the Vaishnava draws close to the transcendental experience of the Vedantist.
A beautiful expression of the Vaishnava worship of God through love is to be found in the Vrindavan episode of the Bhagavata. The gopis, or milk-maids, of Vrindavan regarded the six-year-old Krishna as their Beloved. They sought no personal gain or happiness from this love. They surrendered to Krishna their bodies, minds, and souls. Of all the gopis, Radhika, or Radha, because of her intense love for Him, was the closest to Krishna. She manifested mahabhava and was united with her Beloved. This union represents, through sensuous language, a supersensuous experience.
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Totapuri was the bearer of a philosophy new to Sri Ramakrishna, the non-dualistic Vedanta philosophy, whose conclusions Totapuri had experienced in his own life. This ancient Hindu system designates the Ultimate Reality as Brahman, also described as Satchidananda, Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute. Brahman is the only Real Existence. In It there is no time, no space, no causality, no multiplicity. But through maya, Its inscrutable Power, time, space, and causality are created and the One appears to break into the many. The eternal Spirit appears as a manifold of individuals endowed with form and subject to the conditions of time. The Immortal becomes a victim of birth and death. The Changeless undergoes change. The sinless Pure Soul, hypnotized by Its own maya, experiences the joys of heaven and the pains of hell. But these experiences based on the duality of the subject-object relationship are unreal. Even the vision of a Personal God
is, ultimately speaking, as illusory as the experience of any other object. Man attains his liberation, therefore, by piercing the veil of maya and rediscovering his total identity with Brahman. Knowing himself to be one with the Universal Spirit, he realizes ineffable Peace. Only then does he go beyond the fiction of birth and death; only then does he become immortal. 'And this is the ultimate goal of all religions — to dehypnotize the soul now hypnotized by its own ignorance.
The path of the Vedantic discipline is the path of negation, "neti", in which, by stern determination, all that is unreal is both negated and renounced. It is the path of jnana, knowledge, the direct method of realizing the Absolute. After the negation of everything relative, including the discriminating ego itself, the aspirant merges in the One without a Second, in the bliss of nirvikalpa samadhi, where subject and object are alike dissolved. The soul goes beyond the realm of thought. The domain of duality is transcended. Maya is left behind with all its changes and modifications. The Real Man towers above the delusions of creation, preservation, and destruction. An avalanche of indescribable Bliss sweeps away all relative ideas of pain and pleasure, good and evil. There shines in the heart the glory of the Eternal Brahman, Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute. Knower, knowledge, and known are dissolved in the Ocean of one eternal Consciousness; love, lover, and beloved merge in the unbounded Sea of supreme Felicity; birth, growth, and death vanish in infinite Existence. All doubts and misgivings are quelled for ever; the oscillations of the mind are stopped; the momentum of past actions is exhausted. Breaking down the ridge-pole of the tabernacle in which the soul has made its abode for untold ages, stilling the body, calming the mind, drowning the ego, the sweet joy of Brahman wells up in that superconscious state. Space disappears into nothingness, time is swallowed in eternity, and causation becomes a dream of the past. Only Existence is. Ah! Who can describe what the soul then feels in its communion with the Self?
Even when man descends from this dizzy height, he is devoid of ideas of "I" and "mine"; he looks on the body as a mere shadow, an outer sheath encasing the soul. He does not dwell on the past, takes no thought for the future, and looks with indifference on the present. He surveys everything in the world with an eye of equality; he is no longer touched by the infinite variety of phenomena; he no longer reacts to pleasure and pain. He remains unmoved whether he — that is to say, his body — is worshipped by the good or tormented by the wicked; for he realizes that it is the one Brahman that manifests Itself through everything. The impact of such an experience devastates the body and mind. Consciousness becomes blasted, as it were, with an excess of Light. In the Vedanta books it is said that after the experience of nirvikalpa samadhi the body drops off like a dry leaf. Only those who are born with a special mission for the world can return
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. What is shallow is worthless and can never give real felicity. But the Knowledge by which one does not see another or hear another or know another, which is beyond duality, is great, and through such Knowledge one attains the Infinite Bliss. How can the mind and senses grasp That which shines in the heart of all as the Eternal subject?"
Totapuri asked the disciple to withdraw his mind from all objects of the relative world, including the gods and goddesses, and to concentrate on the Absolute. But the task was not easy even for Sri Ramakrishna. He found it impossible to take his mind beyond Kali, the Divine Mother of the Universe. "After the initiation", Sri Ramakrishna once said, describing the event, "Nangta began to teach me the various conclusions of the Advaita Vedanta and asked me to withdraw the mind completely from all objects and dive deep into the Atman. But in spite of all my attempts I could not altogether cross the realm of name and form and bring my mind to the unconditioned state. I had no difficulty in taking the mind from all the objects of the world. But the radiant and too familiar figure of the Blissful Mother, the Embodiment of the essence of Pure Consciousness, appeared before me as a living reality. Her bewitching smile prevented me from passing into the Great Beyond. Again and again I tried, but She stood in my way every time. In despair I said to Nangta: 'It is hopeless. I cannot raise my mind to the unconditioned state and come face to face with Atman.' He grew excited and sharply said: 'What? You can't do it? But you have to.' He cast his eyes around. Finding a piece of glass he took it up and stuck it between my eyebrows. 'Concentrate the mind on this point!' he thundered. Then with stern determination I again sat to meditate. As soon as the gracious form of the Divine Mother appeared before me, I used my discrimination as a sword and with it clove Her in two. The last barrier fell. My spirit at once soared beyond the relative plane and I lost myself in samadhi."
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From now on Sri Ramakrishna began to seek the company of devotees and holy men. He had gone through the storm and stress of spiritual disciplines and visions. Now he realized an inner calmness and appeared to others as a normal person. But he could not bear the company of worldly people or listen to their talk. Fortunately the holy atmosphere of Dakshineswar and the liberality of Mathur attracted monks and holy men from all parts of the country. Sadhus of all denominations — monists and dualists, Vaishnavas and Vedantists, Saktas and worshippers of Rama — flocked there in ever increasing numbers. Ascetics and visionaries came to seek Sri Ramakrishna's advice. Vaishnavas had come during the period of his Vaishnava sadhana, and Tantriks when he practised the disciplines of Tantra. Vedantists began to arrive after the departure of Totapuri. In the room of Sri Ramakrishna, who was then in bed with dysentery, the Vedantists engaged in scriptural discussions, and, forgetting his own physical suffering, he solved their doubts by referring directly to his own experiences. Many of the visitors were genuine spiritual souls, the unseen pillars of Hinduism, and their spiritual lives were quickened in no small measure by the sage of Dakshineswar. Sri Ramakrishna in turn learnt from them anecdotes concerning the ways and the conduct of holy men, which he subsequently narrated to his devotees and disciples. At his request Mathur provided him with large stores of food-stuffs, clothes, and so forth, for distribution among the wandering monks.
"Sri Ramakrishna had not read books, yet he possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of religions and religious philosophies. This he acquired from his contacts with innumerable holy men and scholars. He had a unique power of assimilation; through meditation he made this knowledge a part of his being. Once, when he was asked by a disciple about the source of his seemingly inexhaustible knowledge, he replied; "I have not read; but I have heard the learned. I have made a garland of their knowledge, wearing it round my neck, and I have given it as an offering at the feet of the Mother."
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Without being formally initiated into their doctrines, Sri Ramakrishna thus realized the ideals of religions other than Hinduism. He did not need to follow any doctrine. All barriers were removed by his overwhelming love of God. So he became a Master who could speak with authority regarding the ideas and ideals of the various religions of the world. "I have practised", said he, "all religions — Hinduism, Islam, Christianity — and I have also followed the paths of the different Hindu sects. I have found that it is the same God toward whom all are directing their steps, though along different paths. You must try all beliefs and traverse all the different ways once. Wherever I look, I see men quarrelling in the name of religion — Hindus, Mohammedans, Brahmos, Vaishnavas, and the rest. But they never reflect that He who is called Krishna is also called Siva, and bears the name of the Primal Energy, Jesus, and Allah as well — the same Rama with a thousand names. A lake has several ghats. At one the Hindus take water in pitchers and call it 'jal'; at another the Mussalmans take water in leather bags and call it pani'. At a third the Christians call it 'water'. Can we imagine that it is not 'jal', but only 'pani' or 'water'? How ridiculous! The substance is One under different names, and everyone is seeking the same substance; only climate, temperament, and name create differences. Let each man follow his own path. If he sincerely and ardently wishes to know God, peace be unto him! He will surely realize Him."
In 1867 Sri Ramakrishna returned to Kamarpukur to recuperate from the effect of his austerities. The peaceful countryside, the simple and artless companions of his boyhood, and the pure air did him much good. The villagers were happy to get back their playful, frank, witty, kind-hearted, and truthful Gadadhar, though they did not fail to notice the great change that had come over him during his years in Calcutta. His wife, Sarada Devi, now fourteen years old, soon arrived at Kamarpukur. Her spiritual development was much beyond her age and she was able to understand immediately her husband's state of mind. She became eager to learn from him about God and to live with him as his attendant. The Master accepted her cheerfully both as his disciple and as his spiritual companion. Referring to the experiences of these few days, she once said: "I used to feel always as if a pitcher full of bliss were placed in my heart. The joy was indescribable."
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Sarada Devi, in the company of her husband, had rare spiritual experiences. She said: "I have no words to describe my wonderful exaltation of spirit as I watched him in his different moods. Under the influence of divine emotion he would sometimes talk on abstruse subjects, sometimes laugh, sometimes weep, and sometimes become perfectly motionless in samadhi. This would continue throughout the night. There was such an extraordinary divine presence in him that now and then I would shake with fear and wonder how the night would pass. Months went by in this way. Then one day he discovered that I had to keep awake the whole night lest, during my sleep, he should go into samadhi — for it might happen at any moment —, and so he asked me to sleep in the nahabat."
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Sri Ramakrishna, dressed in a red-bordered dhoti, one end of which was carelessly thrown over his left shoulder, came to Jaygopal's garden house accompanied by Hriday. No one took notice of the unostentatious visitor. Finally the Master said to Keshab, "People tell me you have seen God; so I have come to hear from you about God." A magnificent conversation followed. The Master sang a thrilling song about Kali and forthwith went into samadhi. When Hriday uttered the sacred "Om" in his ears, he gradually came back to consciousness of the world, his face still radiating a divine brilliance. Keshab and his followers were amazed. The contrast between Sri Ramakrishna and the Brahmo devotees was very interesting. There sat this small man, thin and extremely delicate. His eyes were illumined with an inner light. Good humour gleamed in his eyes and lurked in the corners of his mouth. His speech was Bengali of a homely kind with a slight, delightful stammer, and his words held men enthralled by their wealth of spiritual experience, their inexhaustible store of simile and metaphor, their power of observation, their bright and subtle humour, their wonderful catholicity, their ceaseless flow of wisdom. And around him now were the sophisticated men of Bengal, the best products of Western education, with Keshab, the idol of young Bengal, as their leader.
Keshab's sincerity was enough for Sri Ramakrishna. Henceforth the two saw each other frequently, either at Dakshineswar or at the temple of the Brahmo Samaj. Whenever the Master was in the temple at the time of divine service, Keshab would request him to speak to the congregation. And Keshab would visit the saint, in his turn, with offerings of flowers and fruits.
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Pratap Chandra Mazumdar, the right-hand man of Keshab and an accomplished Brahmo preacher in Europe and America, bitterly criticized Sri Ramakrishna's use of uncultured language and also his austere attitude toward his wife. But he could not escape the spell of the Master's personality. In the course of an article about Sri Ramakrishna, Pratap wrote in the "Theistic Quarterly Review": "What is there in common between him and me? I, a Europeanized, civilized, self-centred, semi-sceptical, so-called educated reasoner, and he, a poor, illiterate, unpolished, half-idolatrous, friendless Hindu devotee? Why should I sit long hours to attend to him, I, who have listened to Disraeli and Fawcett, Stanley and Max Muller, and a whole host of European scholars and divines? . . . And it is not I only, but dozens like me, who do the same. . . . He worships Siva, he worships Kali, he worships Rama, he worships Krishna, and is a confirmed advocate of Vedantic doctrines. . . . He is an idolater, yet is a faithful and most devoted meditator on the perfections of the One Formless, Absolute, Infinite Deity. . . . His religion is ecstasy, his worship means transcendental insight, his whole nature burns day and night with a permanent fire and fever of a strange faith and feeling. . . . So long as he is spared to us, gladly shall we sit at his feet to learn from him the sublime precepts of purity, unworldliness, spirituality, and inebriation in the love of God. . . . He, by his childlike bhakti, by his strong conceptions of an ever-ready Motherhood, helped to unfold it [God as our Mother] in our minds wonderfully. . . . By associating with him we learnt to realize better the divine attributes as scattered over the three hundred and thirty millions of deities of mythological India, the gods of the Puranas."
The Brahmo leaders received much inspiration from their contact with Sri Ramakrishna. It broadened their religious views and kindled in their hearts the yearning for God-realization; it made them understand and appreciate the rituals and symbols of Hindu religion, convinced them of the manifestation of God in diverse forms, and deepened their thoughts about the harmony of religions. The Master, too, was impressed by the sincerity of many of the Brahmo devotees. He told them about his own realizations and explained to them the essence of his teachings, such as the necessity of renunciation, sincerity in the pursuit of one's own course of discipline, faith in God, the performance of one's duties without thought of results, and discrimination between the Real and the unreal.
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In the year 1879 occasional writings about Sri Ramakrishna by the Brahmos, in the Brahmo magazines, began to attract his future disciples from the educated middle-class Bengalis, and they continued to come till 1884. But others, too, came, feeling the subtle power of his attraction. They were an ever shifting crowd of people of all castes and creeds: Hindus and Brahmos, Vaishnavas and Saktas, the educated with university degrees and the illiterate, old and young, maharajas and beggars, journalists and artists, pundits and devotees, philosophers and the worldly-minded, jnanis and yogis, men of action and men of faith, virtuous women and prostitutes, office-holders and vagabonds, philanthropists and self-seekers, dramatists and drunkards, builders-up and pullers-down. He gave to them all, without stint, from his illimitable store of realization. No one went away empty-handed. He taught them the lofty .knowledge of the Vedanta and the soul
-melting love of the Purana. Twenty hours out of twenty-four he would speak without out rest or respite. He gave to all his sympathy and enlightenment, and he touched them with that strange power of the soul which could not but melt even the most hardened. And people understood him according to their powers of comprehension.
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But he remained as ever the willing instrument in the hand of God, the child of the Divine Mother, totally untouched by the idea of being a teacher. He used to say that three ideas — that he was a guru, a father, and a master — pricked his flesh like thorns. Yet he was an extraordinary teacher. He stirred his disciples' hearts more by a subtle influence than by actions or words. He never claimed to be the founder of a religion or the organizer of a sect. Yet he was a religious dynamo. He was the verifier of all religions and creeds. He was like an expert gardener, who prepares the soil and removes the weeds, knowing that the plants will grow because of the inherent power of the seeds, producing each its appropriate flowers and fruits. He never thrust his ideas on anybody. He understood people's limitations and worked on the principle that what is good for one may be bad for another. He had the unusual power of knowing the devotees' minds, even their inmost souls, at the first sight. He accepted disciples with the full knowledge of their past tendencies and future possibilities. The life of evil did not frighten him, nor did religious squeamishness raise anybody in his estimation. He saw in everything the unerring finger of the Divine Mother. Even the light that leads astray was to him the light from God.
To those who became his intimate disciples the Master was a friend, companion, and playmate. Even the chores of religious discipline would be lightened in his presence. The devotees would be so inebriated with pure joy in his company that they would have no time to ask themselves whether he was an Incarnation, a perfect soul, or a yogi. His very presence was a great teaching; words were superfluous. In later years his disciples remarked that while they were with him they would regard him as a comrade, but afterwards would tremble to think of their frivolities in the presence of such a great person. They had convincing proof that the Master could, by his mere wish, kindle in their hearts the love of God and give them His vision.
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But to the young men destined to be monks he pointed out the steep path of renunciation, both external and internal. They must take the vow of absolute continence and eschew all thought of greed and lust. By the practice of continence, aspirants develop a subtle nerve through which they understand the deeper mysteries of God. For them self-control is final, imperative, and absolute. The sannyasis are teachers of men, and their lives should be totally free from blemish. They must not even look at a picture which may awaken their animal passions. The Master selected his future monks from young men untouched by "woman and gold" and plastic enough to be cast in his spiritual mould. When teaching them the path of renunciation and discrimination, he would not allow the householders to be anywhere near them.
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One day Girish felt depressed because he was unable to submit to any routine of spiritual discipline. In an exalted mood the Master said to him: "All right, give me your power of attorney. Henceforth I assume responsibility for you. You need not do anything." Girish heaved a sigh of relief. He felt happy to think that Sri Ramakrishna had assumed his spiritual responsibilities. But poor Girish could not then realize that He also, on his part, had to give up his freedom and make of himself a puppet in Sri Ramakrishna's hands. The Master began to discipline him according to this new attitude. One day Girish said about a trifling matter, "Yes, I shall do this." "No, no!" the Master corrected him. "You must not speak in that egotistic manner. You should say, 'God willing, I shall do it.'" Girish understood. Thenceforth he tried to give up all idea of personal responsibility and surrender himself to the Divine Will. His mind began to dwell constantly on Sri Ramakrishna. This unconscious meditation in time chastened his turbulent spirit.
The householder devotees generally visited Sri Ramakrishna on Sunday afternoons and other holidays. Thus a brotherhood was gradually formed, and the Master encouraged their fraternal feeling. Now and then he would accept an invitation to a devotee's home, where other devotees would also be invited. Kirtan would be arranged and they would spend hours in dance and devotional music. The Master would go into trances or open his heart in religious discourses and in the narration of his own spiritual experiences. Many people who could not go to Dakshineswar participated in these meetings and felt blessed. Such an occasion would be concluded with a sumptuous feast.
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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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subodh Ghosh (Swami subodhananda)
Tulasi Charan Dutta (Swami Nirmalananda)
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Others destined to be monastic disciples of Sri Ramakrishna came to Dakshineswar. Taraknath Ghoshal had felt from his boyhood the noble desire to realize God. Keshab and the Brahmo Samaj had attracted him but proved inadequate. In 1882 he first met the Master at Ramchandra's house and was astonished to hear him talk about samadhi, a subject which always fascinated his mind. And that evening he actually saw a manifestation of that superconscious state in the Master. Tarak became a frequent visitor at Dakshineswar and received the Master's grace in abundance. The young boy often felt ecstatic fervour in meditation. He also wept profusely while meditating on God. Sri Ramakrishna said to him: "God favours those who can weep for Him. Tears shed for God wash away the sins of former births."
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subodh visited the Master in 1885. At the very first meeting Sri Ramakrishna said to him: "You will succeed. Mother says so. Those whom She sends here will certainly attain spirituality." During the second meeting the Master wrote something on subodh's tongue, stroked his body from the navel to the throat, and said, "Awake, Mother! Awake." He asked the boy to meditate. At once subodh's latent spirituality was awakened. He felt a current rushing along the spinal column to the brain. Joy filled his soul.
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supernatural cause to a natural phenomenon. They believed that the Master's body, a material thing, was subject, like all other material things, to physical laws. Growth, development, decay, and death were laws of nature to which the Master's body could not but respond. But though holding differing views, they all believed that it was to him alone that they must look for the attainment of their spiritual goal.
In spite of the physician's efforts and the prayers and nursing of the devotees, the illness rapidly progressed. The pain sometimes appeared to be unbearable. The Master lived only on liquid food, and his frail body was becoming a mere skeleton. Yet his face always radiated joy, and he continued to welcome the visitors pouring in to receive his blessing. When certain zealous devotees tried to keep the visitors away, they were told by Girish, "You cannot succeed in it; he has been born for this very purpose — to sacrifice himself for the redemption of others."
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When Sri Ramakrishna's illness showed signs of aggravation, the devotees, following the advice of Dr. Sarkar, rented a spacious garden house at Cossipore, in the northern suburbs of Calcutta. The Master was removed to this place on December 11, 1885.
It was at Cossipore that the curtain fell on the varied activities of the Master's life on the physical plane. His soul lingered in the body eight months more. It was the period of his great Passion, a constant crucifixion of the body and the triumphant revelation of the Soul. Here one sees the humanity and divinity of the Master passing and repassing across a thin border line. Every minute of those eight months was suffused with touching tenderness of heart and breath-taking elevation of spirit. Every word he uttered was full of pathos and sublimity.
It took the group only a few days to become adjusted to the new environment. The Holy Mother, assisted by Sri Ramakrishna's niece, Lakshmi Devi, and a few woman devotees, took charge of the cooking for the Master and his attendants. Surendra willingly bore the major portion of the expenses, other householders contributing according to their means. Twelve disciples were constant attendants of the Master: Narendra, Rakhal, Baburam, Niranjan, Jogin, Latu, Tarak, the-elder Gopal, Kali, Sashi, Sarat, and the younger Gopal. Sarada, Harish, Hari, Gangadhar, and Tulasi visited the Master from time to time and practised sadhana at home. Narendra, preparing for his law examination, brought his books to the garden house in order to continue his studies during the infrequent spare moments. He encouraged his brother disciples to intensify their meditation, scriptural studies, and other spiritual disciplines. They all forgot their relatives and their
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Some days later, Narendra being alone with the Master, Sri Ramakrishna looked at him and went into samadhi. Narendra felt the penetration of a subtle force and lost all outer consciousness. Regaining presently the normal mood, he found the Master weeping.
Sri Ramakrishna said to him: "Today I have given you my all and I am now only a poor fakir, possessing nothing. By this power you will do immense good in the world, and not until it is accomplished will you return." Henceforth the Master lived in the disciple.
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
There is no joke or subtle meaning in the publisher's
imprint.
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twenty paragraphs. The subject of each chapter is
determined more or less definitely by the Qabalistic
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subtly ironical or cynical. At first sight the book is a
jumble of nonsense intended to insult the reader. It
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that substance is composed of many spheres.
The account given of Creation is the same as that
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of this chapter and its subject.
It does, however, refer to the key of the Tarot called
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but a lie. For there is no subject, and there is no
predicate; nor is there the contradictory of either
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subtle reference to the nature of that light.
Eleven is the great number of Magick, and this
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A Sorcerer by the power of his magick had subdued
all things to himself.
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We shall frequently recur to this subject.
By "the wheel spinning in the spire" is meant the
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Dharana gets rid of the subjective.
Dhyana gets rid of the Ego.
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the subject of the chapter is OUR LADY BABALON,
who is conceived as the feminine counterpart of IT.
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subject is appropriately doubt.
The title of the chapter is borrowed from the health-
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fonder". (PS. I seem to get a subtle after-taste of
bitterness.)
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subtle for the average reader in Oshkosh for whom
this book is evidently written.)
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O sublime tragedy and comedy of THE GREAT
WORK!
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sublimity, in the supreme Art, in the intensity of the
passion and ecstasy which it brings forth. (Note that
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In the last paragraph we reach the sublime mystic
doctrine that whatever you have must be abandoned.
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This chapter returns to the subject of Laylah, and
to the subject already discussed in Chapters 3 and
others, particularly Chapter 56.
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The chapter recurs to the subject of Laylah, whom
the author exalts above God, in continuation of the
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criticism of metaphysics as such, and this is doubtless one of its many sub-
meanings.
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uncle into Harpocrates. It is a subtle way for Frater P.
to insist upon his virility, since otherwise he could not
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Frater P. continues the subject of Chapter 79.
He pictures himself as a vigorous, reckless, almost
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The title of this chapter, and its two sub-titles, will
need no explanation to readers of the classics.
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The subject of the chapter is consequently corollary
to Chapters 79 and 80, the ethics of Adept life.
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This continues the subject of Chapter 83.
The title refers to the mental attitude of the Master;
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written as a point in a circle ({Sun}), the sublime hieroglyph of the
Sun in the Macrocosm, and in the Microcosm of the Lingam
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0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"M", as the author modestly styles himself, was peculiarly qualified for his task. To a reverent love for his master, to a deep and experiential knowledge of that master's teaching, he added a prodigious memory for the small happenings of each day and a happy gift for recording them in an interesting and realistic way. Making good use of his natural gifts and of the circumstances in which he found himself, "M" produced a book unique, so far as my knowledge goes, in the literature of hagiography. No other saint has had so able and indefatigable a Boswell. Never have the small events of a contemplative's daily life been described with such a wealth of intimate detail. Never have the casual and unstudied utterances of a great religious teacher been set down with so minute a fidelity. To Western readers, it is true, this fidelity and this wealth of detail are sometimes a trifle disconcerting; for the social, religious and intellectual frames of reference within which Sri Ramakrishna did his thinking and expressed his feelings were entirely Indian. But after the first few surprises and bewilderments, we begin to find something peculiarly stimulating and instructive about the very strangeness and, to our eyes, the eccentricity of the man revealed to us in "M's" narrative. What a scholastic philosopher would call the "accidents" of Ramakrishna's life were intensely Hindu and therefore, so far as we in the West are concerned, unfamiliar and hard to understand; its "essence", however, was intensely mystical and therefore universal. To read through these conversations in which mystical doctrine alternates with an unfamiliar kind of humour, and where discussions of the oddest aspects of Hindu mythology give place to the most profound and subtle utterances about the nature of Ultimate Reality, is in itself a liberal, education in humility, tolerance and suspense of judgment. We must be grateful to the translator for his excellent version of a book so curious and delightful as a biographical document, so precious, at the same time, for what it teaches us of the life of the spirit.
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May it enable seekers of Truth to grasp the subtle laws of the supersensuous realm, and unfold before man's restricted vision the spiritual foundation of the universe, the unity of existence, and the divinity of the soul!
- Sw mi Nikhilnanda
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Sri Mahendra Nath Gupta, familiary known to the readers of the Gospel by his pen name M., and to the devotees as Master Mahashay, was born on the 14th of July, 1854 as the son of Madhusudan Gupta, an officer of the Calcutta High Court, and his wife, Swarnamayi Devi. He had a brilliant scholastic career at Hare School and the Presidency College at Calcutta. The range of his studies included the best that both occidental and oriental learning had to offer. English literature, history, economics, western philosophy and law on the one hand, and Sanskrit literature and grammar, Darsanas, Puranas, Smritis, Jainism, Buddhism, astrology and Ayurveda on the other were the subjects in which he attained considerable proficiency.
He was an educationist all his life both in a spiritual and in a secular sense. After he passed out of College, he took up work as headmaster in a number of schools in succession Narail High School, City School, Ripon College School, Metropolitan School, Aryan School, Oriental School, Oriental Seminary and Model School. The causes of his migration from school to school were that he could not get on with some of the managements on grounds of principles and that often his spiritual mood drew him away to places of pilgrimage for long periods. He worked with some of the most noted public men of the time like Iswar Chandra Vidysgar and Surendranath Banerjee. The latter appointed him as a professor in the City and Ripon Colleges where he taught subjects like English, philosophy, history and economics. In his later days he took over the Morton School, and he spent his time in the staircase room of the third floor of it, administering the school and preaching the message of the Master. He was much respected in educational circles where he was usually referred to as Rector Mahashay. A teacher who had worked under him writes thus in warm appreciation of his teaching methods: "Only when I worked with him in school could I appreciate what a great educationist he was. He would come down to the level of his students when teaching, though he himself was so learned, so talented. Ordinarily teachers confine their instruction to what is given in books without much thought as to whether the student can accept it or not. But M., would first of all gauge how much the student could take in and by what means. He would employ aids to teaching like maps, pictures and diagrams, so that his students could learn by seeing. Thirty years ago (from 1953) when the question of imparting education through the medium of the mother tongue was being discussed, M. had already employed Bengali as the medium of instruction in the Morton School." (M The Apostle and the Evangelist by Swami Nityatmananda Part I. P. 15.)
Imparting secular education was, however, only his profession ; his main concern was with the spiritual regeneration of man a calling for which Destiny seems to have chosen him. From his childhood he was deeply pious, and he used to be moved very much by Sdhus, temples and Durga Puja celebrations. The piety and eloquence of the great Brahmo leader of the times, Keshab Chander Sen, elicited a powerful response from the impressionable mind of Mahendra Nath, as it did in the case of many an idealistic young man of Calcutta, and prepared him to receive the great Light that was to dawn on him with the coming of Sri Ramakrishna into his life.
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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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Besides the prompting of his inherent instinct, the main inducement for M. to keep this diary of his experiences at Dakshineswar was his desire to provide himself with a means for living in holy company at all times. Being a school teacher, he could be with the Master only on Sundays and other holidays, and it was on his diary that he depended for 'holy company' on other days. The devotional scriptures like the Bhagavata say that holy company is the first and most important means for the generation and growth of devotion. For, in such company man could hear talks on spiritual matters and listen to the glorification of Divine attri butes, charged with the fervour and conviction emanating from the hearts of great lovers of God. Such company is therefore the one certain means through which Sraddha (Faith), Rati (attachment to God) and Bhakti (loving devotion) are generated. The diary of his visits to Dakshineswar provided M. with material for re-living, through reading and contemplation, the holy company he had had earlier, even on days when he was not able to visit Dakshineswar. The wealth of details and the vivid description of men and things in the midst of which the sublime conversations are set, provide excellent material to re-live those experiences for any one with imaginative powers. It was observed by M.'s disciples and admirers that in later life also whenever he was free or alone, he would be pouring over his diary, transporting himself on the wings of imagination to the glorious days he spent at the feet of the Master.
During the Master's lifetime M. does not seem to have revealed the contents of his diary to any one. There is an unconfirmed tradition that when the Master saw him taking notes, he expressed apprehension at the possibility of his utilising these to publicise him like Keshab Sen; for the Great Master was so full of the spirit of renunciation and humility that he disliked being lionised. It must be for this reason that no one knew about this precious diary of M. for a decade until he brought out selections from it as a pamphlet in English in 1897 with the Holy Mother's blessings and permission. The Holy Mother, being very much pleased to hear parts of the diary read to her in Bengali, wrote to M.: "When I heard the Kathmrita, (Bengali name of the book) I felt as if it was he, the Master, who was saying all that." ( Ibid Part I. P 37.)
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And Swamiji added a post script to the letter: "Socratic dialogues are Plato all over you are entirely hidden. Moreover, the dramatic part is infinitely beautiful. Everybody likes it here or in the West." Indeed, in order to be unknown, Mahendranath had used the pen-name M., under which the book has been appearing till now. But so great a book cannot remain obscure for long, nor can its author remain unrecognised by the large public in these modern times. M. and his book came to be widely known very soon and to meet the growing demand, a full-sized book, Vol. I of the Gospel, translated by the author himself, was published in 1907 by the Brahmavadin Office, Madras. A second edition of it, revised by the author, was brought out by the Ramakrishna Math, Madras in December 1911, and subsequently a second part, containing new chapters from the original Bengali, was published by the same Math in 1922. The full English translation of the Gospel by Swami Nikhilananda appeared first in 1942.
In Bengali the book is published in five volumes, the first part having appeared in 1902
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As time went on and the number of devotees increased, the staircase room and terrace of the 3rd floor of the Morton Institution became a veritable Naimisaranya of modern times, resounding during all hours of the day, and sometimes of night, too, with the word of God coming from the Rishi-like face of M. addressed to the eager God-seekers sitting around. To the devotees who helped him in preparing the text of the Gospel, he would dictate the conversations of the Master in a meditative mood, referring now and then to his diary. At times in the stillness of midnight he would awaken a nearby devotee and tell him: "Let us listen to the words of the Master in the depths of the night as he explains the truth of the Pranava." ( Vednta Kesari XIX P. 142.) Swami Raghavananda, an intimate devotee of M., writes as follows about these devotional sittings: "In the sweet and warm months of April and May, sitting under the canopy of heaven on the roof-garden of 50 Amherst Street, surrounded by shrubs and plants, himself sitting in their midst like a Rishi of old, the stars and planets in their courses beckoning us to things infinite and sublime, he would speak to us of the mysteries of God and His love and of the yearning that would rise in the human heart to solve the Eternal Riddle, as exemplified in the life of his Master. The mind, melting under the influence of his soft sweet words of light, would almost transcend the frontiers of limited existence and dare to peep into the infinite. He himself would take the influence of the setting and say,'What a blessed privilege it is to sit in such a setting (pointing to the starry heavens), in the company of the devotees discoursing on God and His love!' These unforgettable scenes will long remain imprinted on the minds of his hearers." (Prabuddha Bharata Vol XXXVII P 497.)
About twenty-seven years of his life he spent in this way in the heart of the great city of Calcutta, radiating the Master's thoughts and ideals to countless devotees who flocked to him, and to still larger numbers who read his Kathmrita (English Edition : The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna), the last part of which he had completed before June 1932 and given to the press. And miraculously, as it were, his end also came immediately after he had completed his life's mission. About three months earlier he had come to stay at his home at 13/2 Gurdasprasad Chaudhuary Lane at Thakur Bari, where the Holy Mother had herself installed the Master and where His regular worship was being conducted for the previous 40 years. The night of 3rd June being the Phalahrini Kli Pooja day, M.
0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
Today's news consists of aggregates of fragments. Anyone who has taken part in any event that has subsequently appeared in the news is aware of the gross disparity between the actual and the reported events. The insistence by reporters upon having advance "releases" of what, for instance, convocation speakers are supposedly going to say but in fact have not yet said, automatically discredits the value of the largely prefabricated news. We also learn frequently of prefabricated and prevaricated events of a complex nature purportedly undertaken for purposes either of suppressing or rigging the news, which in turn perverts humanity's tactical information resources. All history becomes suspect. Probably our most polluted resource is the tactical information to which humanity spontaneously reflexes.
Furthermore, today's hyperspecialization in socioeconomic functioning has come to preclude important popular philosophic considerations of the synergetic significance of, for instance, such historically important events as the discovery within the general region of experimental inquiry known as virology that the as-yet popularly assumed validity of the concepts of animate and inanimate phenomena have been experimentally invalidated. Atoms and crystal complexes of atoms were held to be obviously inanimate; the protoplasmic cells of biological phenomena were held to be obviously animate. It was deemed to be common sense that warm- blooded, moist, and soft-skinned humans were clearly not to be confused with hard, cold granite or steel objects. A clear-cut threshold between animate and inanimate was therefore assumed to exist as a fundamental dichotomy of all physical phenomena. This seemingly placed life exclusively within the bounds of the physical.
The supposed location of the threshold between animate and inanimate was methodically narrowed down by experimental science until it was confined specifically within the domain of virology. Virologists have been too busy, for instance, with their DNA-RNA genetic code isolatings, to find time to see the synergetic significance to society of the fact that they have found that no physical threshold does in fact exist between animate and inanimate. The possibility of its existence vanished because the supposedly unique physical qualities of both animate and inanimate have persisted right across yesterday's supposed threshold in both directions to permeate one another's-previously perceived to be exclusive- domains. subsequently, what was animate has become foggier and foggier, and what is inanimate clearer and clearer. All organisms consist physically and in entirety of inherently inanimate atoms. The inanimate alone is not only omnipresent but is alone experimentally demonstrable. Belated news of the elimination of this threshold must be interpreted to mean that whatever life may be, it has not been isolated and thereby identified as residual in the biological cell, as had been supposed by the false assumption that there was a separate physical phenomenoncalled animate within which life existed. No life per se has been isolated. The threshold between animate and inanimate has vanished. Those chemists who are preoccupied in synthesizing the particular atomically structured molecules identified as the prime constituents of humanly employed organisms will, even if they are chemically successful, be as remote from creating life as are automobile manufacturers from creating the human drivers of their automobiles. Only the physical connections and development complexes of distinctly "nonlife" atoms into molecules, into cells, into animals, has been and will be discovered. The genetic coding of the design controls of organic systems offers no more explanation of life than did the specifications of the designs of the telephone system's apparatus and operation explain the nature of the life that communicates weightlessly to life over the only physically ponderable telephone system. Whatever else life may be, we know it is weightless. At the moment of death, no weight is lost. All the chemicals, including the chemist's life ingredients, are present, but life has vanished. The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic.
It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
0.01f - FOREWARD, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
tedious subject ? Is it not precisely one of the attractions of science
that it rests our eyes by turning them away from man ?
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which their consciousness could penetrate without being sub-
mitted to it or changing it. They are now beginning to realise
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endomorphism. Object and subject marry and mutually trans-
form each other in the act of knowledge ; and from now on
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radiate? In that event the subjective viewpoint coincides with
the way things are distributed objectively, and perception reaches
0.01 - I - Sri Aurobindos personality, his outer retirement - outside contacts after 1910 - spiritual personalities- Vibhutis and Avatars - transformtion of human personality, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Over and above Sadhana, writing work and rendering spiritual help to the world during his apparent retirement there were plenty of other activities of which the outside world has no knowledge. Many prominent as well as less known persons sought and obtained interviews with him during these years. Thus, among well-known persons may be mentioned C.R. Das, Lala Lajpat Rai, Sarala Devi, Dr. Munje, Khasirao Jadhav, Tagore, Sylvain Levy. The great national poet of Tamil Nadu, S. subramanya Bharati, was in contact with Sri Aurobindo for some years during his stay at Pondicherry; so was V.V.S. Aiyar. The famous V. Ramaswamy Aiyangar Va Ra of Tamil literature[3] stayed with Sri Aurobindo for nearly three years and was influenced by him. Some of these facts have been already mentioned in The Life of Sri Aurobindo.
Jung has admitted that there is an element of mystery, something that baffles the reason, in human personality. One finds that the greater the personality the greater is the complexity. And this is especially so with regard to spiritual personalities whom the Gita calls Vibhutis and Avatars.
0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
which eluded you at first glance. Moreover, these "conversations" make no claim to exhaust their subjects or even to deal
with them thoroughly. Rather they are hints whose purpose is
0.01 - Life and Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
HERE are two necessities of Nature's workings which seem always to intervene in the greater forms of human activity, whether these belong to our ordinary fields of movement or seek those exceptional spheres and fulfilments which appear to us high and divine. Every such form tends towards a harmonised complexity and totality which again breaks apart into various channels of special effort and tendency, only to unite once more in a larger and more puissant synthesis. Secondly, development into forms is an imperative rule of effective manifestation; yet all truth and practice too strictly formulated becomes old and loses much, if not all, of its virtue; it must be constantly renovated by fresh streams of the spirit revivifying the dead or dying vehicle and changing it, if it is to acquire a new life. To be perpetually reborn is the condition of a material immortality. We are in an age, full of the throes of travail, when all forms of thought and activity that have in themselves any strong power of utility or any secret virtue of persistence are being subjected to a supreme test and given their opportunity of rebirth. The world today presents the aspect of a huge cauldron of Medea in which all things are being cast, shredded into pieces, experimented on, combined and recombined either to perish and provide the scattered material of new forms or to emerge rejuvenated and changed for a fresh term of existence. Indian Yoga, in its essence a special action or formulation of certain great powers of Nature, itself specialised, divided and variously formulated, is potentially one of these dynamic elements of the future life of humanity. The child of immemorial ages, preserved by its vitality and truth into our modern times, it is now emerging from the secret schools and ascetic retreats in which it had taken refuge and is seeking its place in the future sum of living human powers and utilities. But it has first to rediscover itself, bring to the surface
The Conditions of the Synthesis
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In the right view both of life and of Yoga all life is either consciously or subconsciously a Yoga. For we mean by this term a methodised effort towards self-perfection by the expression of the secret potentialities latent in the being and - highest condition of victory in that effort - a union of the human individual with the universal and transcendent Existence we see partially expressed in man and in the Cosmos. But all life, when we look behind its appearances, is a vast Yoga of Nature who attempts in the conscious and the subconscious to realise her perfection in an ever-increasing expression of her yet unrealised potentialities and to unite herself with her own divine reality. In man, her thinker, she for the first time upon this Earth devises selfconscious means and willed arrangements of activity by which this great purpose may be more swiftly and puissantly attained.
Yoga, as Swami Vivekananda has said, may be regarded as a means of compressing one's evolution into a single life or a few years or even a few months of bodily existence. A given system of Yoga, then, can be no more than a selection or a compression, into narrower but more energetic forms of intensity, of the general methods which are already being used loosely, largely, in a leisurely movement, with a profuser apparent waste of material and energy but with a more complete combination by the great
Mother in her vast upward labour. It is this view of Yoga that can alone form the basis for a sound and rational synthesis of Yogic methods. For then Yoga ceases to appear something mystic and abnormal which has no relation to the ordinary processes of the World-Energy or the purpose she keeps in view in her two great movements of subjective and objective selffulfilment; it reveals itself rather as an intense and exceptional use of powers that she has already manifested or is progressively
Life and Yoga
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Rajayoga, for instance, depends on this perception and experience that our inner elements, combinations, functions, forces, can be separated or dissolved, can be new-combined and set to novel and formerly impossible workings or can be transformed and resolved into a new general synthesis by fixed internal processes. Hathayoga similarly depends on this perception and experience that the vital forces and functions to which our life is normally subjected and whose ordinary operations seem set and indispensable, can be mastered and the operations changed or suspended with results that would otherwise be impossible and that seem miraculous to those who have not seized the rationale of their process. And if in some other of its forms this character of Yoga is less apparent, because they are more intuitive and less mechanical, nearer, like the Yoga of Devotion, to a supernal ecstasy or, like the Yoga of Knowledge, to a supernal infinity of consciousness and being, yet they too start from the use of some principal faculty in us by ways and for ends not contemplated in its everyday spontaneous workings. All methods grouped under the common name of Yoga are special psychological processes founded on a fixed truth of Nature and developing, out of normal functions, powers and results which were always latent but which her ordinary movements do not easily or do not often manifest.
But as in physical knowledge the multiplication of scientific processes has its disadvantages, as that tends, for instance, to develop a victorious artificiality which overwhelms our natural human life under a load of machinery and to purchase certain forms of freedom and mastery at the price of an increased servitude, so the preoccupation with Yogic processes and their exceptional results may have its disadvantages and losses. The
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Yoga in man becomes, like the subconscious Yoga in Nature, outwardly conterminous with life itself and we can once more, looking out both on the path and the achievement, say in a more perfect and luminous sense: "All life is Yoga."
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
in the subconscient mind; but it is made stronger by becoming
conscious.
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Stupidities are always rooted deep down in the subconscient.
1 July 1932
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which led to a subdued revolt in me and consequent
illness. He pointed to his fingers and said that he was
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The movement comes from a subconscient layer which is not
allowed to express itself in the daytime.
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and the subconscious sincerity, and into the action some small
factors creep in which may seem unimportant, but which are
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right. We shall both submit our views to Mother and she will
decide."
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You have made me aware of the subconscious movements governing my action. Whenever a similar opportunity arises, will You please make me more and more
aware. Do not withdraw from me when You see me sad.
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Prayers and Meditations, 7 March 1914. The sadhak has substituted "my" for "our".
X has just written that he has recognised his mistake in having
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Afterwards we may more easily find the one common principle and the one common power from which all derive their being and tendency, towards which all subconsciously move and in which, therefore, it is possible for all consciously to unite.
The progressive self-manifestation of Nature in man, termed in modern language his evolution, must necessarily depend upon three successive elements. There is that which is already evolved; there is that which, still imperfect, still partly fluid, is persistently in the stage of conscious evolution; and there is that which is to be evolved and may perhaps be already
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displayed, if not constantly, then occasionally or with some regularity of recurrence, in primary formations or in others more developed and, it may well be, even in some, however rare, that are near to the highest possible realisation of our present humanity. For the march of Nature is not drilled to a regular and mechanical forward stepping. She reaches constantly beyond herself even at the cost of subsequent deplorable retreats.
She has rushes; she has splendid and mighty outbursts; she has immense realisations. She storms sometimes passionately forward hoping to take the kingdom of heaven by violence.
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If the bodily life is what Nature has firmly evolved for us as her base and first instrument, it is our mental life that she is evolving as her immediate next aim and superior instrument. This in her ordinary exaltations is the lofty preoccupying thought in her; this, except in her periods of exhaustion and recoil into a reposeful and recuperating obscurity, is her constant pursuit wherever she can get free from the trammels of her first vital and physical realisations. For here in man we have a distinction which is of the utmost importance. He has in him not a single mentality, but a double and a triple, the mind material and nervous, the pure intellectual mind which liberates itself from the illusions of the body and the senses, and a divine mind above intellect which in its turn liberates itself from the imperfect modes of the logically discriminative and imaginative reason. Mind in man is first emmeshed in the life of the body, where in the plant it is entirely involved and in animals always imprisoned. It accepts this life as not only the first but the whole condition of its activities and serves its needs as if they were the entire aim of existence. But the bodily life in man is a base, not the aim, his first condition and not his last determinant. In the just idea of the ancients man is essentially the thinker, the Manu, the mental being who leads the life and the body,3 not the animal who is led by them. The true human existence, therefore, only begins when the intellectual mentality emerges out of the material and we begin more and more to live in the mind independent of the nervous and physical obsession and in the measure of that liberty are able to accept rightly and rightly to use the life of the body. For freedom and not a skilful subjection is the true means of mastery. A free, not a compulsory acceptance of the conditions, the enlarged and sublimated conditions of our physical being, is the high human ideal. But beyond this intellectual mentality is the divine.
The mental life thus evolving in man is not, indeed, a
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The only approximate terms in the English language have other associations and their use may lead to many and even serious inaccuracies. The terminology of Yoga recognises besides the status of our physical and vital being, termed the gross body and doubly composed of the food sheath and the vital vehicle, besides the status of our mental being, termed the subtle body and singly composed of the mind sheath or mental vehicle,5 a third, supreme and divine status of supra-mental being, termed the causal body and composed of a fourth and a fifth vehicle6 which are described as those of knowledge and bliss. But this knowledge is not a systematised result of mental questionings and reasonings, not a temporary arrangement of conclusions and opinions in the terms of the highest probability, but rather a pure self-existent and self-luminous Truth. And this bliss is not a supreme pleasure of the heart and sensations with the experience of pain and sorrow as its background, but a delight also selfexistent and independent of objects and particular experiences, a self-delight which is the very nature, the very stuff, as it were, of a transcendent and infinite existence.
antah.karan.a.
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Do such psychological conceptions correspond to anything real and possible? All Yoga asserts them as its ultimate experience and supreme aim. They form the governing principles of our highest possible state of consciousness, our widest possible range of existence. There is, we say, a harmony of supreme faculties, corresponding roughly to the psychological faculties of revelation, inspiration and intuition, yet acting not in the intuitive reason or the divine mind, but on a still higher plane, which see Truth directly face to face, or rather live in the truth of things both universal and transcendent and are its formulation and luminous activity. And these faculties are the light of a conscious existence superseding the egoistic and itself both cosmic and transcendent, the nature of which is Bliss. These are obviously divine and, as man is at present apparently constituted, superhuman states of consciousness and activity. A trinity of transcendent existence, self-awareness and self-delight7 is, indeed, the metaphysical description of the supreme Atman, the self-formulation, to our awakened knowledge, of the Unknowable whether conceived as a pure Impersonality or as a cosmic Personality manifesting the universe. But in Yoga they are regarded also in their psychological aspects as states of subjective existence to which our waking consciousness is now alien, but which dwell in us in a superconscious plane and to which, therefore, we may always ascend.
For, as is indicated by the name, causal body (karan.a), as opposed to the two others which are instruments (karan.a), this crowning manifestation is also the source and effective power of all that in the actual evolution has preceded it. Our mental activities are, indeed, a derivation, selection and, so long as they are divided from the truth that is secretly their source, a deformation of the divine knowledge. Our sensations and emotions have the same relation to the Bliss, our vital forces and actions to the aspect of Will or Force assumed by the divine consciousness, our physical being to the pure essence of that Bliss and
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we are the terrestrial summit may be considered, in a sense, as an inverse manifestation, by which these supreme Powers in their unity and their diversity use, develop and perfect the imperfect substance and activities of Matter, of Life and of Mind so that they, the inferior modes, may express in mutable relativity an increasing harmony of the divine and eternal states from which they are born. If this be the truth of the universe, then the goal of evolution is also its cause, it is that which is immanent in its elements and out of them is liberated. But the liberation is surely imperfect if it is only an escape and there is no return upon the containing substance and activities to exalt and transform them.
The immanence itself would have no credible reason for being if it did not end in such a transfiguration. But if human mind can become capable of the glories of the divine Light, human emotion and sensibility can be transformed into the mould and assume the measure and movement of the supreme Bliss, human action not only represent but feel itself to be the motion of a divine and non-egoistic Force and the physical substance of our being sufficiently partake of the purity of the supernal essence, sufficiently unify plasticity and durable constancy to support and prolong these highest experiences and agencies, then all the long labour of Nature will end in a crowning justification and her evolutions reveal their profound significance.
So dazzling is even a glimpse of this supreme existence and so absorbing its attraction that, once seen, we feel readily justified in neglecting all else for its pursuit. Even, by an opposite exaggeration to that which sees all things in Mind and the mental life as an exclusive ideal, Mind comes to be regarded as an unworthy deformation and a supreme obstacle, the source of an illusory universe, a negation of the Truth and itself to be denied and all its works and results annulled if we desire the final liberation. But this is a half-truth which errs by regarding only the actual limitations of Mind and ignores its divine intention.
0.03 - III - The Evening Sittings, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Sri Aurobindo was never a social man in the current sense of the term and definitely he was not a man of the crowd. This was due to his grave temperament, not to any feeling of superiority or to repulsion for men. At Baroda there was an Officers' Club which was patronised by the Maharajah and though Sri Aurobindo enrolled himself as a member he hardly went to the Club even on special occasions. He rather liked a small congenial circle of friends and spent most of his evenings with them whenever he was free and not occupied with his studies or other works. After Baroda when he went to Calcutta there was hardly any time in the storm and stress of revolutionary politics to permit him to lead a 'social life'. What little time he could spare from his incessant activities was spent in the house of Raja subodh Mallick or at the Grey Street house. In the Karmayogin office he used to sit after the office hours till late chatting with a few persons or trying automatic writing. Strange dictations used to be received sometimes: one of them was the following: "Moni [Suresh Chakravarty] will bomb Sir Edward Grey when he will come as the Viceroy of India." In later years at Pondicherry there used to be a joke that Sir Edward took such a fright at the prospect of Moni's bombing him that he never came to India!
After Sri Aurobindo had come to Pondicherry from Chandernagore, he entered upon an intense period of Sadhana and for a few months he refused to receive anyone. After a time he used to sit down to talk in the evening and on some days tried automatic writing. Yogic Sadhan, a small book, was the result. In 1913 Sri Aurobindo moved to Rue Franois Martin No. 41 where he used to receive visitors at fixed times. This was generally in the morning between 9 and 10.30.
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What was talked in the small group informally was not intended by Sri Aurobindo to be the independent expression of his views on the subjects, events or the persons discussed. Very often what he said was in answer to the spiritual need of the individual or of the collective atmosphere. It was like a spiritual remedy meant to produce certain spiritual results, not a philosophical or metaphysical pronouncement on questions, events or movements. The net result of some talks very often was to point out to the disciple the inherent incapacity of the human intellect and its secondary place in the search for the ultimate Reality.
But there were occasions when he did give his independent, personal views on some problems, on events or other subjects. Even then it was never an authoritarian pronouncement. Most often it appeared to be a logically worked out and almost inevitable conclusion expressed quite impersonally though with firm and sincere conviction. This impersonality was such a prominent trait of his personality! Even in such matters as dispatching a letter or a telegram it would not be a command from him to a disciple to carry out the task. Most often during his usual passage to the dining room he would stop on the way, drop in on the company of four or five disciples and, holding out the letter or the telegram, would say in the most amiable and yet the most impersonal way: "I suppose this has to be sent." And it would be for someone in the group instantly to volunteer and take it. The expression he very often used was "It was done" or "It happened", not "I did."
From 1918 to 1922, we gathered at No. 41, Rue Franois Martin, called the Guest House, upstairs, on a broad verandah into which four rooms opened and whose main piece of furniture was a small table 3' x 1' covered with a blue cotton cloth. That is where Sri Aurobindo used to sit in a hard wooden chair behind the table with a few chairs in front for the visitors or for the disciples.
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This subject was given for composition in our French
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There are thieves in the subtle world just as in the outer world.
But you must close to them the doors of your thoughts and
0.03 - The Threefold Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
He can subordinate this aim, but only to physical Nature's other instincts, the reproduction of the individual and the conservation of the type in the family, class or community. Self, domesticity, the accustomed order of the society and of the nation are the constituents of the material existence. Its immense importance in the economy of Nature is self-evident, and commensurate is the importance of the human type which represents it. He assures her of the safety of the framework she has made and of the orderly continuance and conservation of her past gains.
But by that very utility such men and the life they lead are condemned to be limited, irrationally conservative and earthbound. The customary routine, the customary institutions, the inherited or habitual forms of thought, - these things are the life-breath of their nostrils. They admit and jealously defend the changes compelled by the progressive mind in the past, but combat with equal zeal the changes that are being made by it in the present. For to the material man the living progressive thinker is an ideologue, dreamer or madman. The old Semites who stoned the living prophets and adored their memories when dead, were the very incarnation of this instinctive and unintelligent principle in Nature. In the ancient Indian distinction between the once born and the twice born, it is to this material man that the former description can be applied. He does Nature's inferior works; he assures the basis for her higher activities; but not to him easily are opened the glories of her second birth.
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The mental life concentrates on the aesthetic, the ethical and the intellectual activities. Essential mentality is idealistic and a seeker after perfection. The subtle self, the brilliant Atman,1 is ever a dreamer. A dream of perfect beauty, perfect conduct, perfect Truth, whether seeking new forms of the Eternal or revitalising the old, is the very soul of pure mentality. But it knows not how to deal with the resistance of Matter. There it is hampered and inefficient, works by bungling experiments and has either to withdraw from the struggle or submit to the grey actuality. Or else, by studying the material life and accepting the conditions of the contest, it may succeed, but only in imposing temporarily some artificial system which infinite Nature either rends and casts aside or disfigures out of recognition or by withdrawing her assent leaves as the corpse of a dead ideal. Few and far between have been those realisations of the dreamer in Man which the world has gladly accepted, looks back to with a fond memory and seeks, in its elements, to cherish.
1 Who dwells in Dream, the inly conscious, the enjoyer of abstractions, the Brilliant.
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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 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I beg to submit some facts for your gracious consideration. The weakest and smallest of the bullocks used by
X's cart-men are carrying more than 600 Dem of sand.
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unacceptable. Some kind of submission can thus be obtained
perhaps, but of the worst kind. The beasts lose more and more
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I can tell you this to finish with the subject, that from the
roof I concentrated the power on the bullocks ordering them to
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so on. I am not submitting all this to have permission
to do like that for our cattle. But I am tempted to beg
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I am sorry to submit to Thee the following about X. For
no reason he has beaten Ra with the back of his sandal in
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a substitute for his brother?
Certainly not.
0.04 - The Systems of Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Yet it is always through something which she has formed in her evolution that Nature thus overpasses her evolution. It is the individual heart that by sublimating its highest and purest emotions attains to the transcendent Bliss or the ineffable Nirvana, the individual mind that by converting its ordinary functionings into a knowledge beyond mentality knows its oneness with the
Ineffable and merges its separate existence in that transcendent unity. And always it is the individual, the Self conditioned in its experience by Nature and working through her formations, that attains to the Self unconditioned, free and transcendent.
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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.
For the contact of the human and individual consciousness with the divine is the very essence of Yoga. Yoga is the union of that which has become separated in the play of the universe with its own true self, origin and universality. The contact may take place at any point of the complex and intricately organised consciousness which we call our personality. It may be effected in the physical through the body; in the vital through the action of
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Self. Hathayoga selects the body and the vital functionings as its instruments of perfection and realisation; its concern is with the gross body. Rajayoga selects the mental being in its different parts as its lever-power; it concentrates on the subtle body. The triple Path of Works, of Love and of Knowledge uses some part of the mental being, will, heart or intellect as a starting-point and seeks by its conversion to arrive at the liberating Truth,
Beatitude and Infinity which are the nature of the spiritual life.
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By its numerous asanas or fixed postures it first cures the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working them off in action and movement the vital forces poured into it from the universal Life-Ocean, gives to it an extraordinary health, force and suppleness and seeks to liberate it from the habits by which it is subjected to ordinary physical
Nature and kept within the narrow bounds of her normal operations. In the ancient tradition of Hathayoga it has always been supposed that this conquest could be pushed so far even as to conquer to a great extent the force of gravitation. By various subsidiary but elaborate processes the Hathayogin next contrives to keep the body free from all impurities and the nervous system unclogged for those exercises of respiration which are his most important instruments. These are called pran.ayama, the control of the breath or vital power; for breathing is the chief physical functioning of the vital forces. Pranayama, for the Hathayogin, serves a double purpose. First, it completes the perfection of the body. The vitality is liberated from many of the ordinary necessities of physical Nature; robust health, prolonged youth, often an extraordinary longevity are attained.
On the other hand, Pranayama awakens the coiled-up serpent of the Pranic dynamism in the vital sheath and opens to the Yogin fields of consciousness, ranges of experience, abnormal faculties denied to the ordinary human life while it puissantly intensifies such normal powers and faculties as he already possesses.
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These advantages can be farther secured and emphasised by other subsidiary processes open to the Hathayogin.
The results of Hathayoga are thus striking to the eye and impose easily on the vulgar or physical mind. And yet at the end we may ask what we have gained at the end of all this stupendous labour. The object of physical Nature, the preservation of the mere physical life, its highest perfection, even in a certain sense the capacity of a greater enjoyment of physical living have been carried out on an abnormal scale. But the weakness of Hathayoga is that its laborious and difficult processes make so great a demand on the time and energy and impose so complete a severance from the ordinary life of men that the utilisation of its results for the life of the world becomes either impracticable or is extraordinarily restricted. If in return for this loss we gain another life in another world within, the mental, the dynamic, these results could have been acquired through other systems, through Rajayoga, through Tantra, by much less laborious methods and held on much less exacting terms. On the other hand the physical results, increased vitality, prolonged youth, health, longevity are of small avail if they must be held by us as misers of ourselves, apart from the common life, for their own sake, not utilised, not thrown into the common sum of the world's activities. Hathayoga attains large results, but at an exorbitant price and to very little purpose.
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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the powers of disorder. The preliminary movement of Rajayoga is a 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, glad, clear state of mind and heart is established.
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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 pran.ayama, 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 kun.d.alin, 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
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Rajayoga aimed not only at Swarajya, self-rule or subjective empire, the entire control by the subjective consciousness of all the states and activities proper to its own domain, but included
Samrajya as well, outward empire, the control by the subjective consciousness of its outer activities and environment.
We perceive that as Hathayoga, dealing with the life and body, aims at the supernormal perfection of the physical life and its capacities and goes beyond it into the domain of the mental life, so Rajayoga, operating with the mind, aims at a supernormal perfection and enlargement of the capacities of the mental life and goes beyond it into the domain of the spiritual existence.
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But in Rajayoga it tends to withdraw into a subliminal plane at the back of our normal experiences instead of descending and possessing our whole existence.
The triple Path of devotion, knowledge and works attempts the province which Rajayoga leaves unoccupied. It differs from
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the "plane" from which they come, it is surely the subtle physical, where the memory of all the conceptions and works of art
realised on earth is stored.
0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Hathayoga and Rajayoga are thus successively practised. And in a recent unique example, in the life of Ramakrishna Paramhansa, we see a colossal spiritual capacity first driving straight to the divine realisation, taking, as it were, the kingdom of heaven by violence, and then seizing upon one Yogic method after another and extracting the substance out of it with an incredible rapidity, always to return to the heart of the whole matter, the realisation and possession of God by the power of love, by the extension of inborn spirituality into various experience and by the spontaneous play of an intuitive knowledge. Such an example cannot be generalised. Its object also was special and temporal, to exemplify in the great and decisive experience of a master-soul the truth, now most necessary to humanity, towards which a world long divided into jarring sects and schools is with difficulty labouring, that all sects are forms and fragments of a single integral truth and all disciplines labour in their different ways towards one supreme experience. To know, be and possess
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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.
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Yoga that we seek must also be an integral action of Nature, and the whole difference between the Yogin and the natural man will be this, that the Yogin seeks to substitute in himself for the integral action of the lower Nature working in and by ego and division the integral action of the higher Nature working in and by God and unity. If indeed our aim be only an escape from the world to God, synthesis is unnecessary and a waste of time; for then our sole practical aim must be to find out one path out of the thousand that lead to God, one shortest possible of short cuts, and not to linger exploring different paths that end in the same goal. But if our aim be a transformation of our integral being into the terms of God-existence, it is then that a synthesis becomes necessary.
The method we have to pursue, then, is to put our whole conscious being into relation and contact with the Divine and to call Him in to transform our entire being into His. Thus in a sense
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its own realisation. The divine and all-knowing and all-effecting descends upon the limited and obscure, progressively illumines and energises the whole lower nature and substitutes its own action for all the terms of the inferior human light and mortal activity.
In psychological fact this method translates itself into the progressive surrender of the ego with its whole field and all its apparatus to the Beyond-ego with its vast and incalculable but always inevitable workings. Certainly, this is no short cut or easy sadhana. It requires a colossal faith, an absolute courage and above all an unflinching patience. For it implies three stages of which only the last can be wholly blissful or rapid, - the attempt of the ego to enter into contact with the Divine, the wide, full and therefore laborious preparation of the whole lower Nature by the divine working to receive and become the higher Nature, and the eventual transformation. In fact, however, the divine
Strength, often unobserved and behind the veil, substitutes itself for our weakness and supports us through all our failings of faith, courage and patience. It "makes the blind to see and the lame to stride over the hills." The intellect becomes aware of a Law that beneficently insists and a succour that upholds; the heart speaks of a Master of all things and Friend of man or a universal Mother who upholds through all stumblings. Therefore this path is at once the most difficult imaginable and yet, in comparison with the magnitude of its effort and object, the most easy and sure of all.
There are three outstanding features of this action of the higher when it works integrally on the lower nature. In the first place it does not act according to a fixed system and succession as in the specialised methods of Yoga, but with a sort of free, scattered and yet gradually intensive and purposeful working determined by the temperament of the individual in whom it operates, the helpful materials which his nature offers and the obstacles which it presents to purification and perfection. In a sense, therefore, each man in this path has his own method of
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Thirdly, the divine Power in us uses all life as the means of this integral Yoga. Every experience and outer contact with our world-environment, however trifling or however disastrous, is used for the work, and every inner experience, even to the most repellent suffering or the most humiliating fall, becomes a step on the path to perfection. And we recognise in ourselves with opened eyes the method of God in the world, His purpose of light in the obscure, of might in the weak and fallen, of delight in what is grievous and miserable. We see the divine method to be the same in the lower and in the higher working; only in the one it is pursued tardily and obscurely through the subconscious in
Nature, in the other it becomes swift and self-conscious and the instrument confesses the hand of the Master. All life is a Yoga of Nature seeking to manifest God within itself. Yoga marks the stage at which this effort becomes capable of self-awareness and therefore of right completion in the individual. It is a gathering up and concentration of the movements dispersed and loosely combined in the lower evolution.
0.06 - INTRODUCTION, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
although the subject of the stanzas which he is glossing is a much wider one,
comprising the whole of the mystical life and ending only with the Divine embraces
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his observations, but because, even in spite of himself, he betrays the sublimity of
his own mystical experiences. Once more, too, we may admire the crystalline
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and bad, are brought into subjection, and thus, until these are purged, the
rebellions and depravities of sense cannot be purged thoroughly.' 9
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heights of sublimity.
Chapter ix describes how, although these purgations seem to blind the spirit,
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impresses indelibly upon the mind the fundamental concept of this most sublime of
all purgations. Marvellous, indeed, are its effects, from the first enkindlings and
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and prepared for the desired union with the Spouse, a union which is the subject
that the Saint proposed to treat in his commentary on the five remaining stanzas.
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treatise. They lose both in flexibility and in substance through the closeness with
which they follow the stanzas of which they are the exposition. In the Ascent and
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between the principles of sound reason and the sublimest manifestations of Divine
grace.
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This Series is organised broadly by subject into thirteen parts - the form in which
it was originally published; in this it differs from the other Series, which are arranged
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which pulls downwards and therefore is subject to all outer
influences.
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physical plane. If your heart were not willing to submit to the
strict discipline of beating regularly and constantly, you would
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completely transformed and no longer subject to any of the laws
governing it at present.
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to turn all this towards the divine Will and submit it to this Will.
The vital being seeks only power - material possession
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most subtle enemy of yoga.
XII
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Many things have been said on the subject but, as far as my own
experience goes, I do not attach much importance to that belief.
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us from subjection to the horoscope; the horoscope expresses
the position one has in relation with the material world, but by
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But I submit reports about it because once you expressed
a desire that I should do so.
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thee my will of progressive submission and increasing
adoration.
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What is meant by "a subtle physical prolongation
of the superficial form of the mental envelope"?
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a photographic imprint) left in the subtle physical by the superficial mental form, an image that can become visible under
certain conditions. These images can move about (like cinema
images), but they have no substantial reality. It is the fear or
emotion of those who see these images that sometimes gives
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purely subjective and depend on each one's reaction to contacts
coming from outside.
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to the study of this subject and to its practical application .
2 November 1959
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What exactly are the subconscient and the inconscient?
The inconscient is that part of Nature which is so obscure and
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We too carry it in ourselves, in the substance of our body,
since the substance of our body is the same as that of the earth.
But by evolution, this sleeping and hidden consciousness
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and in them subconscience begins; this subconscience, with the
appearance of mind in man, culminates in consciousness. This
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We too, then, carry in ourselves the subconscience which
links us to the animal, and the superconscience which is our
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This consciousness is double, at first psychological and subjective, within oneself, expressing itself through thoughts, feelings,
emotions, sensations; then objective and concrete when one is
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normal subliminal parts."4 Sweet Mother, now after the
descent of the Supermind,5 is it still like that?
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Sri Aurobindo has written on this subject in great detail in
some of his letters, in The Synthesis of Yoga and in Essays on
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the most opaque substances and acts even in the unconsciousness.
But then its action is slow and takes a very long time to
01.01 - A Yoga of the Art of Life, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
When Sri Aurobindo said, Our Yoga is not for ourselves but for humanity, many heaved a sigh of relief and thought that the great soul was after all not entirely lost to the world, his was not one more name added to the long list of Sannyasins that India has been producing age after age without much profit either to herself or to the human society (or even perhaps to their own selves). People understood his Yoga to be a modern one, dedicated to the service of humanity. If service to humanity was not the very sum and substance of his spirituality, it was, at least, the fruitful end and consummation. His Yoga was a sort of art to explore and harness certain unseen powers that can better and ameliorate human life in a more successful way than mere rational scientific methods can hope to do.
Sri Aurobindo saw that the very core of his teaching was being missed by this common interpretation of his saying. So he changed his words and said, Our Yoga is not for humanity but for the Divine. But I am afraid this change of front, this volte-face, as it seemed, was not welcomed in many quarters; for thereby all hope of having him back for the work of the country or the world appeared to be totally lost and he came to be looked upon again as an irrevocable metaphysical dreamer, aloof from physical things and barren, even like the Immutable Brahman.
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Here is the very heart of the mystery, the master-key to the problem. The advent of the superhuman or divine race, however stupendous or miraculous the phenomenon may appear to be, can become a thing of practical actuality, precisely because it is no human agency that has undertaken it but the Divine himself in his supreme potency and wisdom and love. The descent of the Divine into the ordinary human nature in order to purify and transform it and be lodged there is the whole secret of the sadhana in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. The sadhaka has only to be quiet and silent, calmly aspiring, open and acquiescent and receptive to the one Force; he need not and should not try to do things by his independent personal effort, but get them done or let them be done for him in the dedicated consciousness by the Divine Master and Guide. All other Yogas or spiritual disciplines in the past envisaged an ascent of the consciousness, its sublimation into the consciousness of the Spirit and its fusion and dissolution there in the end. The descent of the Divine Consciousness to prepare its definitive home in the dynamic and pragmatic human nature, if considered at all, was not the main theme of the past efforts and achievements. Furthermore, the descent spoken of here is the descent, not of a divine consciousness for there are many varieties of divine consciousness but of the Divine's own consciousness, of the Divine himself with his Shakti. For it is that that is directly working out this evolutionary transformation of the age.
It is not my purpose here to enter into details as to the exact meaning of the descent, how it happens and what are its lines of activity and the results brought about. For it is indeed an actual descent that happens: the Divine Light leans down first into the mind and begins its purificatory work therealthough it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness and receives more easily and readily the Radiances that descend. From the Mind the Light filters into the denser regions of the emotions and desires, of life activity and vital dynamism; finally, it gets into brute Matter itself, the hard and obscure rock of the physical body, for that too has to be illumined and made the very form and figure of the Light supernal. The Divine in his descending Grace is the Master-Architect who is building slowly and surely the many-chambered and many-storeyed edifice that is human nature and human life into the mould of the Divine Truth in its perfect play and supreme expression. But this is a matter which can be closely considered when one is already well within the mystery of the path and has acquired the elementary essentials of an initiate.
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As to the extent of realisation, we say again that that is not a matter of primary consideration. It is not the quantity but the substance that counts. Even if it were a small nucleus it would be sufficient, at least for the beginning, provided it is the real, the genuine thing
Swalpamapyasya dharmasya tryate mahato bhayt1
01.01 - Sri Aurobindo - The Age of Sri Aurobindo, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Apart from the well-recognised fact that only in distress does the normal man think of God and non-worldly things, the real matter, however, is that the inner life is a thing apart and follows its own line of movement, does not depend upon, is not subservient to, the kind of outer life that one may happen to live under. The Bible says indeed, "Blessed are the poor, blessed are they that mourn"... But the Upanishad declares, on the other hand, that even as one lies happily on a royal couch, bathes and anoints himself with all the perfumes of the world, has attendants all around and always to serve him, even so, one can be full of the divine consciousness from the crown of the head to the tip of his toe-nail. In fact, a poor or a prosperous life is in no direct or even indirect ratio to a spiritual life. All the miseries and immediate needs of a physical life do not and cannot detain or delay one from following the path of the ideal; nor can all your riches be a burden to your soul and overwhelm it, if it chooses to walk onit can not only walk, but soar and fly with all that knapsack on its back.
If one were to be busy about reforming the world and when that was done then alone to turn to other-worldly things, in that case, one would never take the turn, for the world will never be reformed totally or even considerably in that way. It is not that reformers have for the first time appeared on the earth in the present age. Men have attempted social, political, economic and moral reforms from times immemorial. But that has not barred the spiritual attempt or minimised its importance. To say that because an ideal is apparently too high or too great for the present age, it must be kept in cold storage is to set a premium on the present nature of humanity arid eternise it: that would bind the world to its old moorings and never give it the opportunity to be free and go out into the high seas of larger and greater realisations.
01.01 - The New Humanity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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.
This mastery will be effected not merely in will, but in mind and heart also. For the New Man will know not by the intellect which is egocentric and therefore limited, not by ratiocination which is an indirect and doubtful process, but by direct vision, an inner communion, a soul revelation. The new knowledge will be vast and profound and creative, based as it will be upon the reality of things and not upon their shadows. Truth will shine through every experience and every utterance"a truth shall have its seat on our speech and mind and hearing", so have the Vedas said. The mind and intellect will not be active and constructive agents but the luminous channel of a self-luminous knowledge. And the heart too which is now the field of passion and egoism will be cleared of its noise and obscurity; a serener sky will shed its pure warmth and translucent glow. The knot will be rent asunderbhidyate hridaya granthih and the vast and mighty streams of another ocean will flow through. We will love not merely those to whom we are akin but God's creatures, one and all; we will love not with the yearning and hunger of a mortal but with the wide and intense Rasa that lies in the divine identity of souls.
And the new society will be based not upon competition, nor even upon co-operation. It will not be an open conflict, neither will it be a convenient compromise of rival individual interests. It will be the organic expression of the collective soul of humanity, working and achieving through each and every individual soul its most wide-winging freedom, manifesting the godhead that is, proper to each and every one. It will be an organisation, most delicate and subtle and supple, the members of which will have no need to live upon one another but in and through one another. It will be, if you like, a henotheistic hierarchy in which everyone will be the greatest, since everyone is all and all everyone simultaneously.
The New Humanity will be something in the mould that we give to the gods. It will supply the link that we see missing between gods and men; it will be the race of embodied gods. Man will attain that thing which has been his first desire and earliest dream, for which he coveted the gods Immortality, amritatwam. The mortalities that cut and divide, limit and bind man make him the sorrowful being he is. These are due to his ignorance and weakness and egoism. These are due to his soul itself. It is the soul that requires change, a new birth, as Christ demanded. Ours is a little soul that has severed itself from the larger and mightier self that it is. And therefore does it die every moment and even while living is afraid to live and so lives poorly and miserably. But the age is now upon us when the god-like soul anointed with its immortal royalties is ready to emerge and claim our salutation.
01.01 - The One Thing Needful, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
To find the Divine is indeed the first reason for seeking the spiritual Truth and the spiritual life; it is the one thing indispensable and all the resit is nothing without it. The Divine once found, to manifest Him, - that is, first of all to transform one's own limited consciousness into the Divine Consciousness, to live in the infinite Peace, Light, Love, Strength, Bliss, to become that in one's essential nature and, as a consequence, to be its vessel, channel, instrument in one's active nature. To bring into activity the principle of oneness on the material plane or to work for humanity is a mental mistranslation of the Truth - these things cannot be the first true object of spiritual seeking. We must find the Self, the Divine, then only can we know what is the work the Self or the Divine demands from us. Until then our life and action can only be a help or a means towards finding the Divine and it ought not to have any other purpose. As we grow in inner consciousness, or as the spiritual Truth of the Divine grows in us, our life and action must indeed more and more flow from that, be one with that. But to decide beforeh and by our limited mental conceptions what they must be is to hamper the growth of the spiritual Truth within. As that grows we shall feel the Divine Light and Truth, the Divine Power and Force, the Divine Purity and Peace working within us, dealing with our actions as well as our consciousness, making use of them to reshape us into the Divine Image, removing the dross, substituting the pure Gold of the Spirit. Only when the Divine Presence is there in us always and the consciousness transformed, can we have the right to say that we are ready to manifest the Divine on the material plane. To hold up a mental ideal or principle and impose that on the inner working brings the danger of limiting ourselves to a mental realisation or of impeding or even falsifying by a halfway formation the truth growth into the full communion and union with the Divine and the free and intimate outflowing of His will in our life. This is a mistake of orientation to which the mind of today is especially prone. It is far better to approach the Divine for the Peace or Light or Bliss that the realisation of Him gives than to bring in these minor things which can divert us from the one thing needful. The divinisation of the material life also as well as the inner life is part of what we see as the Divine Plan, but it can only be fulfilled by an ourflowing of the inner realisation, something that grows from within outwards, not by the working out of a mental principle.
The realisation of the Divine is the one thing needful and the rest is desirable only in so far as it helps or leads towards that or when it is realised, extends and manifests the realisation. Manifestation and organisation of the whole life for the divine work, - first, the sadhana personal and collective necessary for the realisation and a common life of God-realised men, secondly, for help to the world to move towards that, and to live in the Light - is the whole meaning and purpose of my Yoga. But the realisation is the first need and it is that round which all the rest moves, for apart from it all the rest would have no meaning.
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... the principle of this Yoga is not perfection of the human nature as it is but a psychic and spiritual transformation of all the parts of the being through the action of an inner consciousness and then of a higher consciousness which works on them, throws out the old movements or changes them into the image of its own and so transmutes lower into higher nature. It is not so much the perfection of the intellect as a transcendence of it, a transformation of the mind, the substitution of a larger greater principle of knowledge - and so with all the rest of the being.
This is a slow and difficult process; the road is long and it is hard to establish even the necessary basis. The old existing nature resists and obstructs and difficulties rise one after another and repeatedly till they are overcome. It is therefore necessary to be sure that this is the path to which one is called before one finally decides to tread it.
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
At peace in its subconscient moonless cave
To raise its head and look for absent light,
01.02 - Natures Own Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The first contact that one has with this static supra-reality is through the higher ranges of the mind: a direct and closer communion is established through a plane which is just above the mind the Overmind, as Sri Aurobindo calls it. The Overmind dissolves or transcends the ego-consciousness which limits the being to its individualised formation bounded by an outward and narrow frame or sheath of mind, life and body; it reveals the universal Self and Spirit, the cosmic godhead and its myriad forces throwing up myriad forms; the world-existence there appears as a play of ever-shifting veils upon the face of one ineffable reality, as a mysterious cycle of perpetual creation and destructionit is the overwhelming vision given by Sri Krishna to Arjuna in the Gita. At the same time, the initial and most intense experience which this cosmic consciousness brings is the extreme relativity, contingency and transitoriness of the whole flux, and a necessity seems logically and psychologically imperative to escape into the abiding substratum, the ineffable Absoluteness.
This has been the highest consummation, the supreme goal which the purest spiritual experience and the deepest aspiration of the human consciousness generally sought to attain. But in this view, the world or creation or Nature came in the end to be looked upon as fundamentally a product of Ignorance: ignorance and suffering and incapacity and death were declared to be the very hallmark of things terrestrial. The Light that dwells above and beyond can be made to shed for a while some kind of lustre upon the mortal darkness but never altogether to remove or change itto live in the full light, to be in and of the Light means to pass beyond. Not that there have not been other strands and types of spiritual experiences and aspirations, but the one we are considering has always struck the major chord and dominated and drowned all the rest.
01.02 - Sri Aurobindo - Ahana and Other Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
What is the world that Sri Aurobindo sees and creates? Poetry is after all passion. By passion I do not mean the fury of emotion nor the fume of sentimentalism, but what lies behind at their source, what lends them the force they have the sense of the "grandly real," the vivid and pulsating truth. What then is the thing that Sri Aurobindo has visualised, has endowed with a throbbing life and made a poignant reality? Victor Hugo said: Attachez Dieu au gibet, vous avez la croixTie God to the gibbet, you have the cross. Even so, infuse passion into a thing most prosaic, you create sublime poetry out of it. What is the dead matter that has found life and glows and vibrates in Sri Aurobindo's passion? It is something which appears to many poetically intractable, not amenable to aesthetic treatment, not usually, that is to say, nor in the supreme manner. Sri Aurobindo has thrown such a material into his poetic fervour and created a sheer beauty, a stupendous reality out of it. Herein lies the greatness of his achievement. Philosophy, however divine, and in spite of Milton, has been regarded by poets as "harsh and crabbed" and as such unfit for poetic delineation. Not a few poets indeed foundered upon this rock. A poet in his own way is a philosopher, but a philosopher chanting out his philosophy in sheer poetry has been one of the rarest spectacles.1 I can think of only one instance just now where a philosopher has almost succeeded being a great poet I am referring to Lucretius and his De Rerum Natura. Neither Shakespeare nor Homer had anything like philosophy in their poetic creation. And in spite of some inclination to philosophy and philosophical ideas Virgil and Milton were not philosophers either. Dante sought perhaps consciously and deliberately to philosophise in his Paradiso I Did he? The less Dante then is he. For it is his Inferno, where he is a passionate visionary, and not his Paradiso (where he has put in more thought-power) that marks the nee plus ultra of his poetic achievement.
And yet what can be more poetic in essence than philosophy, if by philosophy we mean, as it should mean, spiritual truth and spiritual realisation? What else can give the full breath, the integral force to poetic inspiration if it is not the problem of existence itself, of God, Soul and Immortality, things that touch, that are at the very root of life and reality? What can most concern man, what can strike the deepest fount in him, unless it is the mystery of his own being, the why and the whither of it all? But mankind has been taught and trained to live merely or mostly on earth, and poetry has been treated as the expression of human joys and sorrows the tears in mortal things of which Virgil spoke. The savour of earth, the thrill of the flesh has been too sweet for us and we have forgotten other sweetnesses. It is always the human element that we seek in poetry, but we fail to recognise that what we obtain in this way is humanity in its lower degrees, its surface formulations, at its minimum magnitude.
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It is the bare truth, "truth in its own home", as I have said already using a phrase of the ancient sages, that is formulated here without the prop of any external symbolism. There is no veil, no mist, no uncertainty or ambiguity. It is clarity itself, an almost scientific exactness and precision. In all this there is something of the straightness and fullness of vision that characterised the Vedic Rishis, something of their supernal genius which could mould speech into the very expression of what is beyond speech, which could sublimate the small and the finite into forms of the Vast and the Infinite. Mark how in these aphoristic lines embodying a deep spiritual experience, the inexpressible has been expressed with a luminous felicity:
Delight that labours in its opposite,
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The heart and its urges, the vital and its surges, the physical impulsesit is these of which the poets sang in their infinite variations. But the mind proper, that is to say, the higher reflective ideative mind, was not given the right of citizenship in the domain of poetry. I am not forgetting the so-called Metaphysicals. The element of metaphysics among the Metaphysicals has already been called into question. There is here, no doubt, some theology, a good dose of mental cleverness or conceit, but a modern intellectual or rather rational intelligence is something other, something more than that. Even the metaphysics that was commandeered here had more or less a decorative value, it could not be taken into the pith and substance of poetic truth and beauty. It was a decoration, but not unoften a drag. I referred to the Upanishads, but these strike quite a different, almost an opposite line in this connection. They are in a sense truly metaphysical: they bypass the mind and the mental powers, get hold of a higher mode of consciousness, make a direct contact with truth and beauty and reality. It was Buddha's credit to have forged this missing link in man's spiritual consciousness, to have brought into play the power of the rational intellect and used it in support of the spiritual experience. That is not to say that he was the very first person, the originator who initiated the movement; but at least this seems to be true that in him and his au thentic followers the movement came to the forefront of human consciousness and attained the proportions of a major member of man's psychological constitution. We may remember here that Socrates, who started a similar movement of rationalisation in his own way in Europe, was almost a contemporary of the Buddha.
Poetry as an expression of thought-power, poetry weighted with intelligence and rationalised knowledge that seems to me to be the end and drive, the secret sense of all the mystery of modern technique. The combination is risky, but not impossible. In the spiritual domain the Gita achieved this miracle to a considerable degree. Still, the power of intelligence and reason shown by Vyasa is of a special order: it is a sublimated function of the faculty, something aloof and other-worldly"introvert", a modern mind would term it that is to say, something a priori, standing in its own au thenticity and self-sufficiency. A modern intelligence would be more scientific, let us use the word, more matter-of-fact and sense-based: the mental light should not be confined in its ivory tower, however high that may be, but brought down and placed at the service of our perception and appreciation and explanation of things human and terrestrial; made immanent in the mundane and the ephemeral, as they are commonly called. This is not an impossibility. Sri Aurobindo seems to have done the thing. In him we find the three terms of human consciousness arriving at an absolute fusion and his poetry is a wonderful example of that fusion. The three terms are the spiritual, the intellectual or philosophical and the physical or sensational. The intellectual, or more generally, the mental, is the intermediary, the Paraclete, as he himself will call it later on in a poem9 magnificently exemplifying the point we are trying to make out the agent who negotiates, bridges and harmonises the two other firmaments usually supposed to be antagonistic and incompatible.
Indeed it would be wrong to associate any cold ascetic nudity to the spiritual body of Sri Aurobindo. His poetry is philosophic, abstract, no doubt, but every philosophy has its practice, every abstract thing its concrete application,even as the soul has its body; and the fusion, not mere union, of the two is very characteristic in him. The deepest and unseizable flights of thought he knows how to clo the with a Kalidasian richness of imagery, or a Keatsean gusto of sensuousness:
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And because our Vedic poets always looked beyond humanity, beyond earth, therefore could they make divine poetry of humanity and what is of earth. Therefore it was that they were pervadingly so grandiose and sublime and puissant. The heroic, the epic was their natural element and they could not but express themselves in the grand manner Sri Aurobindo has the same outlook and it is why we find in him the ring of the old-world manner.
Mark the stately march, the fullness of voice, the wealth of imagery, the vigour of movement of these lines:
01.02 - The Creative Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now the centre of this energy, the matrix of creativity is the soul itself, one's own soul. If you want to createlive, grow and be real-find yourself, be yourself. The simple old wisdom still remains the eternal wisdom. It is because we fall off from our soul that we wander into side-paths, paths that do not belong to our real nature and hence that lead to imitation and repetition, decay and death. This is what happens to what we call common souls. The force of circumstances, the pressure of environment or simply the momentum of custom or habit compel them to choose the easiest and the readiest way that may lie before them. They do not consult the demand of the inner being but the requirement of the moment. Our bodily needs, our vital hungers and our mental prejudices obsess and obscure the impulsions that thrill the hidden spirit. We hasten to gratify the immediate and forget the eternal, we clutch at the shadow and let go the substance. We are carried away in the flux and tumult of life. It is a mixed and collective whirla Weltgeist that moves and governs us. We are helpless straws drifting in the current. But manhood demands that we stop and pause, pull ourselves out of the Maelstrom and be what we are. We must shape things as we want and not allow things to shape us as they want.
Let each take cognisance of the godhead that is within him for self is Godand in the strength of the soul-divinity create his universe. It does not matter what sort of universe he- creates, so long as he creates it. The world created by a Buddha is not the same as that created by a Napoleon, nor should they be the same. It does not prove anything that I cannot become a Kalidasa; for that matter Kalidasa cannot become what I am. If you have not the genius of a Shankara it does not mean that you have no genius at all. Be and become yourselfma gridhah kasyachit dhanam, says the Upanishad. The fountain-head of creative genius lies there, in the free choice and the particular delight the self-determination of the spirit within you and not in the desire for your neighbours riches. The world has become dull and uniform and mechanical, since everybody endeavours to become not himself, but always somebody else. Imitation is servitude and servitude brings in grief.
In one's own soul lies the very height and profundity of a god-head. Each soul by bringing out the note that is his, makes for the most wondrous symphony. Once a man knows what he is and holds fast to it, refusing to be drawn away by any necessity or temptation, he begins to uncover himself, to do what his inmost nature demands and takes joy in, that is to say, begins to create. Indeed there may be much difference in the forms that different souls take. But because each is itself, therefore each is grounded upon the fundamental equality of things. All our valuations are in reference to some standard or other set up with a particular end in view, but that is a question of the practical world which in no way takes away from the intrinsic value of the greatness of the soul. So long as the thing is there, the how of it does not matter. Infinite are the ways of manifestation and all of them the very highest and the most sublime, provided they are a manifestation of the soul itself, provided they rise and flow from the same level. Whether it is Agni or Indra, Varuna, Mitra or the Aswins, it is the same supreme and divine inflatus.
The cosmic soul is true. But that truth is borne out, effectuated only by the truth of the individual soul. When the individual soul becomes itself fully and integrally, by that very fact it becomes also the cosmic soul. The individuals are the channels through which flows the Universal and the Infinite in its multiple emphasis. Each is a particular figure, aspectBhava, a particular angle of vision of All. The vision is entire and the figure perfect if it is not refracted by the lower and denser parts of our being. And for that the individual must first come to itself and shine in its opal clarity and translucency.
01.02 - The Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And the subtle images of things that were,
Her witness spirit stood reviewing Time.
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Her mood could harbour his sublimer breath
Spiritual that can make all things divine.
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His high warm subtle ether he refound
And moved in her as in his natural home.
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But not to submit and suffer was she born;
To lead, to deliver was her glorious part.
01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Is there not a fundamental difference, difference not merely with regard to the poetic personality, but with regard to the very stuff of consciousness? There is direct vision here, the fullness of light, the native rhythm and substance of revelation, as if
In the dead wall closing from a wider self,
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It is not merely by addressing the beloved as your goddess that you can attain this mysticism; the Elizabethan did that in merry abundance,ad nauseam.A finer temper, a more delicate touch, a more subtle sensitiveness and a kind of artistic wizardry are necessary to tune the body into a rhythm of the spirit. The other line of mysticism is common enough, viz., to express the spirit in terms and rhythms of the flesh. Tagore did that liberally, the Vaishnava poets did nothing but that, the Song of Solomon is an exquisite example of that procedure. There is here, however, a difference in degrees which is an interesting feature worth noting. Thus in Tagore the reference to the spirit is evident, that is the major or central chord; the earthly and the sensuous are meant as the name and form, as the body to render concrete, living and vibrant, near and intimate what otherwise would perhaps be vague and abstract, afar, aloof. But this mundane or human appearance has a value in so far as it is a support, a pointer or symbol of the spiritual import. And the mysticism lies precisely in the play of the two, a hide-and-seek between them. On the other hand, as I said, the greater portion of Vaishnava poetry, like a precious and beautiful casket, no doubt, hides the spiritual import: not the pure significance but the sign and symbol are luxuriously elaborated, they are placed in the foreground in all magnificence: as if it was their very purpose to conceal the real meaning. When the Vaishnava poet says,
O love, what more shall I, shall Radha speak,
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Among the ancients, strictly speaking, the later classical Lucretius was a remarkable phenomenon. By nature he was a poet, but his mental interest lay in metaphysical speculation, in philosophy, and unpoetical business. He turned away from arms and heroes, wrath and love and, like Seneca and Aurelius, gave himself up to moralising and philosophising, delving 'into the mystery, the why and the how and the whither of it all. He chose a dangerous subject for his poetic inspiration and yet it cannot be said that his attempt was a failure. Lucretius was not a religious or spiritual poet; he was rather Marxian,atheistic, materialistic. The dialectical materialism of today could find in him a lot of nourishment and support. But whatever the content, the manner has made a whole difference. There was an idealism, a clarity of vision and an intensity of perception, which however scientific apparently, gave his creation a note, an accent, an atmosphere high, tense, aloof, ascetic, at times bordering on the supra-sensual. It was a high light, a force of consciousness that at its highest pitch had the ring and vibration of something almost spiritual. For the basic principle of Lucretius' inspiration is a large thought-force, a tense perception, a taut nervous reactionit is not, of course, the identity in being with the inner realities which is the hallmark of a spiritual consciousness, yet it is something on the way towards that.
There have been other philosophical poets, a good number of them since thennot merely rationally philosophical, as was the vogue in the eighteenth century, but metaphysically philosophical, that is to say, inquiring not merely into the phenomenal but also into the labyrinths of the noumenal, investigating not only what meets the senses, but also things that are behind or beyond. Amidst the earlier efflorescence of this movement the most outstanding philosopher poet is of course Dante, the Dante of Paradiso, a philosopher in the mediaeval manner and to the extent a lesser poet, according to some. Goe the is another, almost in the grand modern manner. Wordsworth is full of metaphysics from the crown of his head to the tip of his toe although his poetry, perhaps the major portion of it, had to undergo some kind of martyrdom because of it. And Shelley, the supremely lyric singer, has had a very rich undertone of thought-content genuinely metaphysical. And Browning and Arnold and Hardyindeed, if we come to the more moderns, we have to cite the whole host of them, none can be excepted.
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The growth of a philosophical thought-content in poetry has been inevitable. For man's consciousness in its evolutionary march is driving towards a consummation which includes and presupposes a development along that line. The mot d'ordre in old-world poetry was "fancy", imaginationremember the famous lines of Shakespeare characterising a poet; in modern times it is Thought, even or perhaps particularly abstract metaphysical thought. Perceptions, experiences, realisationsof whatever order or world they may beexpressed in sensitive and aesthetic terms and figures, that is poetry known and appreciated familiarly. But a new turn has been coming on with an increasing insistencea definite time has been given to that, since the Renaissance, it is said: it is the growing importance of Thought or brain-power as a medium or atmosphere in which poetic experiences find a sober and clear articulation, a definite and strong formulation. Rationalisation of all experiences and realisations is the keynote of the modern mentality. Even when it is said that reason and rationality are not ultimate or final or significant realities, that the irrational or the submental plays a greater role in our consciousness and that art and poetry likewise should be the expression of such a mentality, even then, all this is said and done in and through a strong rational and intellectual stress and frame the like of which cannot be found in the old-world frankly non-intellectual creations.
The religious, the mystic or the spiritual man was, in the past, more or Jess methodically and absolutely non-intellectual and anti-intellectual: but the modern age, the age of scientific culture, is tending to make him as strongly intellectual: he has to explain, not only present the object but show up its mechanism alsoexplain to himself so that he may have a total understanding and a firmer grasp of the thing which he presents and explains to others as well who demand a similar approach. He feels the necessity of explaining, giving the rationality the rationale the science, of his art; for without that, it appears to him, a solid ground is not given to the structure of his experience: analytic power, preoccupation with methodology seems inherent in the modern creative consciousness.
The philosophical trend in poetry has an interesting history with a significant role: it has acted as a force of purification, of sublimation, of katharsis. As man has risen from his exclusively or predominantly vital nature into an increasing mental poise, in the same way his creative activities too have taken this new turn and status. In the earlier stages of evolution the mental life is secondary, subordinate to the physico-vital life; it is only subsequently that the mental finds an independent and self-sufficient reality. A similar movement is reflected in poetic and artistic creation too: the thinker, the philosopher remains in the background at the outset, he looks out; peers through chinks and holes from time to time; later he comes to the forefront, assumes a major role in man's creative activity.
Man's consciousness is further to rise from the mental to over-mental regions. Accordingly, his life and activities and along with that his artistic creations too will take on a new tone and rhythm, a new mould and constitution even. For this transition, the higher mentalwhich is normally the field of philosophical and idealistic activitiesserves as the Paraclete, the Intercessor; it takes up the lower functionings of the consciousness, which are intense in their own way, but narrow and turbid, and gives, by purifying and enlarging, a wider frame, a more luminous pattern, a more subtly articulated , form for the higher, vaster and deeper realities, truths and harmonies to express and manifest. In the old-world spiritual and mystic poets, this intervening medium was overlooked for evident reasons, for human reason or even intelligence is a double-edged instrument, it can make as well as mar, it has a light that most often and naturally shuts off other higher lights beyond it. So it was bypassed, some kind of direct and immediate contact was sought to be established between the normal and the transcendental. The result was, as I have pointed out, a pure spiritual poetry, on the one hand, as in the Upanishads, or, on the other, religious poetry of various grades and denominations that spoke of the spiritual but in the terms and in the manner of the mundane, at least very much coloured and dominated by the latter. Vyasa was the great legendary figure in India who, as is shown in his Mahabharata, seems to have been one of the pioneers, if not the pioneer, to forge and build the missing link of Thought Power. The exemplar of the manner is the Gita. Valmiki's represented a more ancient and primary inspiration, of a vast vital sensibility, something of the kind that was at the basis of Homer's genius. In Greece it was Socrates who initiated the movement of speculative philosophy and the emphasis of intellectual power slowly began to find expression in the later poets, Sophocles and Euripides. But all these were very simple beginnings. The moderns go in for something more radical and totalitarian. The rationalising element instead of being an additional or subordinate or contri buting factor, must itself give its norm and form, its own substance and manner to the creative activity. Such is the present-day demand.
The earliest preoccupation of man was religious; even when he concerned himself with the world and worldly things, he referred all that to the other world, thought of gods and goddesses, of after-death and other where. That also will be his last and ultimate preoccupation though in a somewhat different way, when he has passed through a process of purification and growth, a "sea-change". For although religion is an aspiration towards the truth and reality beyond or behind the world, it is married too much to man's actual worldly nature and carries always with it the shadow of profanity.
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This, I say, is something different from the religious and even from the mystic. It is away from the merely religious, because it is naked of the vesture of humanity (in spite of a human face that masks it at times) ; it is something more than the merely mystic, for it does not stop being a signpost or an indication to the Beyond, but is itself the presence and embodiment of the Beyond. The mystic gives us, we can say, the magic of the Infinite; what I term the spiritual, the spiritual proper, gives in addition the logic of the Infinite. At least this is what distinguishes modern spiritual consciousness from the ancient, that is, Upanishadic spiritual consciousness. The Upanishad gives expression to the spiritual consciousness in its original and pristine purity and perfection, in its essential simplicity. It did not buttress itself with any logic. It is the record of fundamental experiences and there was no question of any logical exposition. But, as I have said, the modern mind requires and demands a logical element in its perceptions and presentations. Also it must needs be a different kind of logic that can satisfy and satisfy wholly the deeper and subtler movements of a modern consciousness. For the philosophical poet of an earlier age, when he had recourse to logic, it was the logic of the finite that always gave him the frame, unless he threw the whole thing overboard and leaped straight into the occult, the illogical and the a logical, like Blake, for instance. Let me illustrate and compare a little. When the older poet explains indriyani hayan ahuh, it is an allegory he resorts to, it is the logic of the finite he marshals to point to the infinite and the beyond. The stress of reason is apparent and effective too, but the pattern is what we are normally familiar with the movement, we can say, is almost Aristotelian in its rigour. Now let us turn to the following:
Our life is a holocaust of the Supreme. ||26.15||
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Poetry, actually however, has been, by and large, a profane and mundane affair: for it expresses the normal man's perceptions and feelings and experiences, human loves and hates and desires and ambitions. True. And yet there has also always been an attempt, a tendency to deal with them in such a way as can bring calm and puritykatharsisnot trouble and confusion. That has been the purpose of all Art from the ancient days. Besides, there has been a growth and development in the historic process of this katharsis. As by the sublimation of his bodily and vital instincts and impulses., man is gradually growing into the mental, moral and finally spiritual consciousness, even so the artistic expression of his creative activity has followed a similar line of transformation. The first and original transformation happened with religious poetry. The religious, one may say, is the profane inside out; that is to say, the religious man has almost the same tone and temper, the same urges and passions, only turned Godward. Religious poetry too marks a new turn and development of human speech, in taking the name of God human tongue acquires a new plasticity and flavour that transform or give a new modulation even to things profane and mundane it speaks of. Religious means at bottom the colouring of mental and moral idealism. A parallel process of katharsis is found in another class of poetic creation, viz., the allegory. Allegory or parable is the stage when the higher and inner realities are expressed wholly in the modes and manner, in the form and character of the normal and external, when moral, religious or spiritual truths are expressed in the terms and figures of the profane life. The higher or the inner ideal is like a loose clothing upon the ordinary consciousness, it does not fit closely or fuse. In the religious, however, the first step is taken for a mingling and fusion. The mystic is the beginning of a real fusion and a considerable ascension of the lower into the higher. The philosopher poet follows another line for the same katharsisinstead of uplifting emotions and sensibility, he proceeds by thought-power, by the ideas and principles that lie behind all movements and give a pattern to all things existing. The mystic can be of either type, the religious mystic or the philosopher mystic, although often the two are welded together and cannot be very well separated. Let us illustrate a little:
The spacious firmament on high,
01.03 - Rationalism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It might be said, however, that the guarantee or sanction of Reason does not lie in the extent of its application, nor can its subjective nature (or ego-centric predication, as philosophers would term it) vitiate the validity of its conclusions. There is, in fact, an inherent unity and harmony between Reason and Reality. If we know a little of Reality, we know the whole; if we know the subjective, we know also the objective. As in the part, so in the whole; as it is within, so it is without. If you say that I will die, you need not wait for my actual death to have the proof of your statement. The generalising power inherent in Reason is the guarantee of the certitude to which it leads. Reason is valid, as it does not betray us. If it were such as anti-intellectuals make it out to be, we would be making nothing but false steps, would always remain entangled in contradictions. The very success of Reason is proof of its being a reliable and perfect instrument for the knowledge of Truth and Reality. It is beside the mark to prove otherwise, simply by analysing the nature of Reason and showing the fundamental deficiencies of that nature. It is rather to the credit of Reason that being as it is, it is none the less a successful and trustworthy agent.
Now the question is, does Reason never fail? Is it such a perfect instrument as intellectualists think it to be? There is ground for serious misgivings. Reason says, for example, that the earth revolves round the sun: and reason, it is argued, is right, for we see that all the facts are conformableto it, even facts that were hitherto unknown and are now coming into our ken. But the difficulty is that Reason did not say that always in the past and may not say that always in the future. The old astronomers could explain the universe by holding quite a contrary theory and could fit into it all their astronomical data. A future scientist may come and explain the matter in quite a different way from either. It is only a choice of workable theories that Reason seems to offer; we do not know the fact itself, apart perhaps from exactly the amount that immediate sense-perception gives to each of us. Or again, if we take an example of another category, we may ask, does God exist? A candid Rationalist would say that he does not know although he has his own opinion about the matter. Evidently, Reason cannot solve all the problems that it meets; it can judge only truths that are of a certain type.
It may be answered that Reason is a faculty which gives us progressive knowledge of the reality, but as a knowing instrument it is perfect, at least it is the only instrument at our disposal; even if it gives a false, incomplete or blurred image of the reality, it has the means and capacity of correcting and completing itself. It offers theories, no doubt; but what are theories? They are simply the gradually increasing adaptation of the knowing subject to the object to be known, the evolving revelation of reality to our perception of it. Reason is the power which carries on that process of adaptation and revelation; we can safely rely upon Reason and trust It to carry on its work with increasing success.
But in knowledge it is precisely finality that we seek for and no mere progressive, asymptotic, rapprochement ad infinitum. No less than the Practical Reason, the Theoretical Reason also demands a categorical imperative, a clean affirmation or denial. If Reason cannot do that, it must be regarded as inefficient. It is poor consolation to man that Reason is gradually finding out the truth or that it is trying to grapple with the problems of God, Soul and Immortality and will one day pronounce its verdict. Whether we have or have not any other instrument of knowledge is a different question altogether. But in the meanwhile Reason stands condemned by the evidence of its own limitation.
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
He feels his substance of undying self
And loses his kinship to mortality.
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And, striking off subjection's rigorous clause,
Annulled the soul's treaty with Nature's nescience.
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Aims too sublime for Nature's daily will:
The gifts of the spirit crowding came to him;
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And subtler bodies than these passing frames,
Objects too fine for our material grasp,
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The voice came of a truth submerged, unknown
That flows beneath the cosmic surfaces,
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A low muttering rose from the subconscient caves,
The stammer of the primal ignorance;
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The touch replied to subtle infinities,
And with a silver cry of opening gates
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An old pull of subconscious cords renews;
It draws the unwilling spirit from the heights,
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A subtle and all-knowing guest and guide,
Till they too feel the need and will to change.
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To feel again the old sublimities,
Bring the high saving touch, the ethereal flame,
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In the deep subconscient glowed her jewel-lamp;
Lifted, it showed the riches of the Cave
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Even his body's subtle self within
Could raise the earthly parts towards higher things
01.03 - Yoga and the Ordinary Life, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I may say briefly that there are two states of consciousness in either of which one can live. One is a higher consciousness which stands above the play of life and governs it; this is variously called the Self, the Spirit or the Divine. The other is the normal consciousness in which men live; it is something quite superficial, an instrument of the Spirit for the play of life. Those who live and act in the normal consciousness are governed entirely by the common movements of the mind and are naturally subject to grief and joy and anxiety and desire or to everything else that makes up the ordinary stuff of life.
Mental quiet and happiness they can get, but it can never be permanent or secure. But the spiritual consciousness is all light, peace, power and bliss. If one can live entirely in it, there is no question; these things become naturally and securely his.
01.04 - Motives for Seeking the Divine, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
"A self-less self-giving is the best policy." Only one does not do it out of policy. Ananda is the result, but it is done not for the result, but for the self-giving itself and for the Divine himself - a subtle distinction, it may seem to the mind, but very real.
01.04 - The Intuition of the Age, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
However, we are concerned more with the immediate past, the mentality that laid its supreme stress upon the human rationality. What that epoch did not understand was that Reason could be overstepped, that there was something higher, something greater than Reason; Reason being the sovereign faculty, it was thought there could be nothing beyond, unless it were draison. The human attribute par excellence is Reason. Exactly so. But the fact is that man is not bound by his humanity and that reason can be transformed and sublimated into other more powerful faculties.
Now, the question is, what is the insufficiency of Reason? How does it limit man? And what is the Superman into which man is asked or is being impelled to grow?
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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.
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Matter forms the lowest level of reality. Above it is the elan vital. Above the elan vital there is yet the domain of the Spirit. And the Spirit is a static substance and at the same a dynamic creative power. It is Being (Sat) that realises or expresses itself through certain typal nuclei or nodi of consciousness (chit) in a continuous becoming, in a flow of creative activity (ananda). The dynamism of the vital energy is only a refraction or precipitation of the dynamism of the spirit; and so also static matter is only the substance of the spirit concretised and solidified. It is in an uplift both of matter and vital force to their prototypesswarupa and swabhavain the Spirit that lies the real transformation and transfiguration of the humanity of man.
This is the truth that is trying to dawn upon the new age. Not matter but that which forms the substance of matter, not intellect but a vaster consciousness that informs the intellect, not man as he is, an aberration in the cosmic order, but as he may and shall be the embodiment and fulfilment of that orderthis is the secret Intuition which, as yet dimly envisaged, nevertheless secretly inspires all the human activities of today. Only, the truth is being interpreted, as we have said, in terms of vital life. The intellectual and physical man gave us one aspect of the reality, but neither is the vital and psychical man the complete reality. The one acquisition of this shifting of the viewpoint has been that we are now in touch with the natural and deeper movement of humanity and not as before merely with its artificial scaffolding. The Alexandrine civilisation of humanity, in Nietzsche's phrase, was a sort of divagation from nature, it was following a loop away from the direct path of natural evolution. And the new Renaissance of today has precisely corrected this aberration of humanity and brought it again in a line with the natural cosmic order.
Certainly this does not go far enough into the motive of the change. The cosmic order does not mean mentalised vitalism which is also in its turn a section of the integral reality. It means the order of the spirit, it means the transfiguration of the physical, the vital and the intellectual into the supernal substance, Power and Light of that Spirit. The real transcendence of humanity is not the transcendence of one or other of its levels but the total transcendence to an altogether different status and the transmutation of humanity in the mould of that statusnot a Nietzschean Titan nor a Bergsonian Dionysus but the tranquil vision and delight and dynamism of the Spirit the incarnation of a god-head.
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01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
When we say one is conscious, we usually mean that one is conscious with the mental consciousness, with the rational intelligence, with the light of the brain. But this need not be always so. For one can be conscious with other forms of consciousness or in other planes of consciousness. In the average or normal man the consciousness is linked to or identified with the brain function, the rational intelligence and so we conclude that without this wakeful brain activity there can be no consciousness. But the fact is otherwise. The experiences of the mystic prove the point. The mystic is conscious on a level which we describe as higher than the mind and reason, he has what may be called the overhead consciousness. (Apart from the normal consciousness, which is named jagrat, waking, the Upanishad speaks of three other increasingly subtler states of consciousness, swapna, sushupti and turiya.)And then one can be quite unconscious, as in samadhi that can be sushupti or turiyaorpartially consciousin swapna, for example, the external behaviour may be like that of a child or a lunatic or even a goblin. One can also remain normally conscious and still be in the superconscience. Not only so, the mystic the Yogican be conscious on infraconscious levels also; that is to say, he can enter into and identify with the consciousness involved in life and even in Matter; he can feel and realise his oneness with the animal world, the plant world and finally the world of dead earth, of "stocks and stones" too. For all these strands of existence have each its own type of consciousness and all different from the mode of mind which is normally known as consciousness. When St. Francis addresses himself to the brother Sun or the sister Moon, or when the Upanishad speaks of the tree silhouetted against the sky, as if stilled in trance, we feel there is something of this fusion and identification of consciousness with an infra-conscient existence.
I said that the supreme artist is superconscious: his consciousness withdraws from the normal mental consciousness and becomes awake and alive in another order of consciousness. To that superior consciousness the artist's mentalityhis ideas and dispositions, his judgments and valuations and acquisitions, in other words, his normal psychological make-upserves as a channel, an instrument, a medium for transcription. Now, there are two stages, or rather two lines of activity in the processus, for they may be overlapping and practically simultaneous. First, there is the withdrawal and the in-gathering of consciousness and then its reappearance into expression. The consciousness retires into a secret or subtle worldWords-worth's "recollected in tranquillity"and comes back with the riches gathered or transmuted there. But the purity of the gold thus garnered and stalled in the artistry of words and sounds or lines and colours depends altogether upon the purity of the channel through which it has to pass. The mental vehicle receives and records and it can do so to perfection if it is perfectly in tune with what it has to receive and record; otherwise the transcription becomes mixed and blurred, a faint or confused echo, a poor show. The supreme creators are precisely those in whom the receptacle, the instrumental faculties offer the least resistance and record with absolute fidelity the experiences of the over or inner consciousness. In Shakespeare, in Homer, in Valmiki the inflatus of the secret consciousness, the inspiration, as it is usually termed, bears down, sweeps away all obscurity or contrariety in the recording mentality, suffuses it with its own glow and puissance, indeed resolves it into its own substance, as it were. And the difference between the two, the secret norm and the recording form, determines the scale of the artist's creative value. It happens often that the obstruction of a too critically observant and self-conscious brain-mind successfully blocks up the flow of something supremely beautiful that wanted to come down and waited for an opportunity.
Artists themselves, almost invariably, speak of their inspiration: they look upon themselves more or less as mere instruments of something or some Power that is beyond them, beyond their normal consciousness attached to the brain-mind, that controls them and which they cannot control. This perception has been given shape in myths and legends. Goddess Saraswati or the Muses are, however, for them not a mere metaphor but concrete realities. To what extent a poet may feel himself to be a mere passive, almost inanimate, instrumentnothing more than a mirror or a sensitive photographic plateis illustrated in the famous case of Coleridge. His Kubla Khan, as is well known, he heard in sleep and it was a long poem very distinctly recited to him, but when he woke up and wanted to write it down he could remember only the opening lines, the rest having gone completely out of his memory; in other words, the poem was ready-composed somewhere else, but the transmitting or recording instrument was faulty and failed him. Indeed, it is a common experience to hear in sleep verses or musical tunes and what seem then to be very beautiful things, but which leave no trace on the brain and are not recalled in memory.
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The absolute passivity is attainable, perhaps, only by the Yogi. And in this sense the supreme poet is a Yogi, for in his consciousness the higher, deeper, subtler or other modes of experiences pass through and are recorded with the minimum aberration or diffraction.
But the Yogi is a wholly conscious being; a perfect Yogi is he who possesses a conscious and willed control over his instruments, he silences them, as and when he likes, and makes them convey and express with as little deviation as possible truths and realities from the Beyond. Now the question is, is it possible for the poet also to do something like that, to consciously create and not to be a mere unconscious or helpless channel? Conscious artistry, as we have said, means to be conscious on two levels of consciousness at the same time, to be at home in both equally and simultaneously. The general experience, however, is that of "one at a time": if the artist dwells more in the one, the other retires into the background to the same measure. If he is in the over-consciousness, he is only half-conscious in his brain consciousness, or even not conscious at allhe does not know how he has created, the sources or process of his creative activity, he is quite oblivious of them" gone through them all as if per saltum. Such seems to have been the case with the primitives, as they are called, the elemental poetsShakespeare and Homer and Valmiki. In some others, who come very near to them in poetic genius, yet not quite on a par, the instrumental intelligence is strong and active, it helps in its own way but in helping circumscribes and limits the original impulsion. The art here becomes consciously artistic, but loses something of the initial freshness and spontaneity: it gains in correctness, polish and elegance and has now a style in lieu of Nature's own naturalness. I am thinking of Virgil and Milton and Kalidasa. Dante's place is perhaps somewhere in between. Lower in the rung where the mental medium occupies a still more preponderant place we have intellectual poetry, poetry of the later classical age whose representatives are Pope and Dryden. We can go farther down and land in the domain of versificationalthough here, too, there can be a good amount of beauty in shape of ingenuity, cleverness and conceit: Voltaire and Delille are of this order in French poetry.
The three or four major orders I speak of in reference to conscious artistry are exampled characteristically in the history of the evolution of Greek poetry. It must be remembered, however, at the very outset that the Greeks as a race were nothing if not rational and intellectual. It was an element of strong self-consciousness that they brought into human culture that was their special gift. Leaving out of account Homer who was, as I said, a primitive, their classical age began with Aeschylus who was the first and the most spontaneous and intuitive of the Great Three. Sophocles, who comes next, is more balanced and self-controlled and pregnant with a reasoned thought-content clothed in polished phrasing. We feel here that the artist knew what he was about and was exercising a conscious control over his instruments and materials, unlike his predecessor who seemed to be completely carried away by the onrush of the poetic enthousiasmos. Sophocles, in spite of his artistic perfection or perhaps because of it, appears to be just a little, one remove, away from the purity of the central inspiration there is a veil, although a thin transparent veil, yet a veil between which intervenes. With the third of the Brotherhood, Euripides, we slide lower downwe arrive at a predominantly mental transcription of an experience or inner conception; but something of the major breath continues, an aura, a rhythm that maintains the inner contact and thus saves the poetry. In a subsequent age, in Theocritus, for example, poetry became truly very much 'sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought', so much of virtuosity and precocity entered into it; in other words, the poet then was an excessively self-conscious artist. That seems to be the general trend of all literature.
But should there be an inherent incompatibility between spontaneous creation and self-consciousness? As we have seen, a harmony and fusion can and do happen of the superconscious and the normally conscious in the Yogi. Likewise, an artist also can be wakeful and transparent enough so that he is conscious on both the levels simultaneouslyabove, he is conscious of the source and origin of his inspiration, and on the level plain he is conscious of the working of the instrument, how the vehicle transcribes and embodies what comes from elsewhere. The poet's consciousness becomes then divalent as it werethere is a sense of absolute passivity in respect of the receiving apparatus and coupled and immisced with it there is also the sense of dynamism, of conscious agency as in his secret being he is the master of his apparatus and one with the Inspirerin other words, the poet is both a seer (kavih) and a creator or doer (poits).
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The consciously purposive activity of the poetic consciousness in fact, of all artistic consciousness has shown itself with a clear and unambiguous emphasis in two directions. First of all with regard to the subject-matter: the old-world poets took things as they were, as they were obvious to the eye, things of human nature and things of physical Nature, and without questioning dealt with them in the beauty of their normal form and function. The modern mentality has turned away from the normal and the obvious: it does not accept and admit the "given" as the final and definitive norm of things. It wishes to discover and establish other norms, it strives to bring about changes in the nature and condition of things, envisage the shape of things to come, work for a brave new world. The poet of today, in spite of all his effort to remain a pure poet, in spite of Housman's advocacy of nonsense and not-sense being the essence of true Art, is almost invariably at heart an incorrigible prophet. In revolt against the old and established order of truths and customs, against all that is normally considered as beautiful,ideals and emotions and activities of man or aspects and scenes and movements of Natureagainst God or spiritual life, the modern poet turns deliberately to the ugly and the macabre, the meaningless, the insignificant and the triflingtins and teas, bone and dust and dustbin, hammer and sicklehe is still a prophet, a violent one, an iconoclast, but one who has his own icon, a terribly jealous being, that seeks to pull down the past, erase it, to break and batter and knead the elements in order to fashion out of them something conforming to his heart's desire. There is also the class who have the vision and found the truth and its solace, who are prophets, angelic and divine, messengers and harbingers of a new beauty that is to dawn upon earth. And yet there are others in whom the two strains mingle or approach in a strange way. All this means that the artist is far from being a mere receiver, a mechanical executor, a passive unconscious instrument, but that he is supremely' conscious and master of his faculties and implements. This fact is doubly reinforced when we find how much he is preoccupied with the technical aspect of his craft. The richness and variety of patterns that can be given to the poetic form know no bounds today. A few major rhythms were sufficient for the ancients to give full expression to their poetic inflatus. For they cared more for some major virtues, the basic and fundamental qualitiessuch as truth, sublimity, nobility, forcefulness, purity, simplicity, clarity, straightforwardness; they were more preoccupied with what they had to say and they wanted, no doubt, to say it beautifully and powerfully; but the modus operandi was not such a passion or obsession with them, it had not attained that almost absolute value for itself which modern craftsmanship gives it. As technology in practical life has become a thing of overwhelming importance to man today, become, in the Shakespearean phrase, his "be-all and end-all", even so the same spirit has invaded and pervaded his aesthetics too. The subtleties, variations and refinements, the revolutions, reversals and inventions which the modern poet has ushered and takes delight in, for their own sake, I repeat, for their intrinsic interest, not for the sake of the subject which they have to embody and clothe, have never been dream by Aristotle, the supreme legislator among the ancients, nor by Horace, the almost incomparable craftsman among the ancients in the domain of poetry. Man has become, to be sure, a self-conscious creator to the pith of his bone.
Such a stage in human evolution, the advent of Homo Faber, has been a necessity; it has to serve a purpose and it has done admirably its work. Only we have to put it in its proper place. The salvation of an extremely self-conscious age lies in an exceeding and not in a further enhancement or an exclusive concentration of the self-consciousness, nor, of course, in a falling back into the original unconsciousness. It is this shift in the poise of consciousness that has been presaged and prepared by the conscious, the scientific artists of today. Their task is to forge an instrument for a type of poetic or artistic creation completely new, unfamiliar, almost revolutionary which the older mould would find it impossible to render adequately. The yearning of the human consciousness was not to rest satisfied with the familiar and the ordinary, the pressure was for the discovery of other strands, secret stores of truth and reality and beauty. The first discovery was that of the great Unconscious, the dark and mysterious and all-powerful subconscient. Many of our poets and artists have been influenced by this power, some even sought to enter into that region and become its denizens. But artistic inspiration is an emanation of Light; whatever may be the field of its play, it can have its origin only in the higher spheres, if it is to be truly beautiful and not merely curious and scientific.
That is what is wanted at present in the artistic world the true inspiration, the breath from higher altitudes. And here comes the role of the mystic, the Yogi. The sense of evolution, the march of human consciousness demands and prophesies that the future poet has to be a mysticin him will be fulfilled the travail of man's conscious working. The self-conscious craftsman, the tireless experimenter with his adventurous analytic mind has sharpened his instrument, made it supple and elastic, tempered, refined and enriched it; that is comparable to what we call the aspiration or call from below. Now the Grace must descend and fulfil. And when one rises into this higher consciousness beyond the brain and mind, when one lives there habitually, one knows the why and the how of things, one becomes a perfectly conscious operator and still retains all spontaneity and freshness and wonder and magic that are usually associated with inconscience and irreflection. As there is a spontaneity of instinct, there is likewise also a spontaneity of vision: a child is spontaneous in its movements, even so a seer. Not only so, the higher spontaneity is more spontaneous, for the higher consciousness means not only awareness but the free and untrammelled activity and expression of the truth and reality it is.
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Whether the original and true source of the poet's inspiration lies deep within or high above, all depends upon the mediating instrument the mind (in its most general sense) and speech for a successful transcription. Man's ever-growing consciousness demanded also a conscious development and remoulding of these two factors. A growth, a heightening and deepening of the consciousness meant inevitably a movement towards the spiritual element in things. And that means, we have said, a twofold change in the future poet's make-up. First as regards the substance. The revolutionary shift that we notice in modern poets towards a completely new domain of subject-matter is a signpost that more is meant than what is expressed. The superficialities and futilities that are dealt with do not in their outward form give the real trend of things. In and through all these major and constant preoccupation of our poets is "the pain of the present and the passion for the future": they are, as already stated, more prophets than poets, but prophets for the moment crying in the wildernessalthough some have chosen the path of denial and revolt. They are all looking ahead or beyond or deep down, always yearning for another truth and reality which will explain, justify and transmute the present calvary of human living. Such an acute tension of consciousness has necessitated an overhauling of the vehicle of expression too, the creation of a mode of expressing the inexpressible. For that is indeed what human consciousness and craft are aiming at in the present stage of man's evolution. For everything, almost everything that can be normally expressed has been expressed and in a variety of ways as much as is possible: that is the history of man's aesthetic creativity. Now the eye probes into the unexpressed world; for the artist too the Upanishadic problem has cropped up:
By whom impelled does the mind fall to its target, what is the agent that is behind the eye and sees through the eyes, what is the hearing and what the speech that their respective sense organs do not and cannot convey and record adequately or at all?
Like the modern scientist the artist or craftsman too of today has become a philosopher, even a mystic philosopher. The subtler and higher ranges of consciousness are now the object of inquiry and investigation and expression and revelation for the scientist as well as for the artist. The external sense-objects, the phenomenal movements are symbols and signposts, graphs and pointer-readings of facts and realities that lie hidden, behind or beyond. The artist and the scientist are occult alchemists. What to make of this, for example:
Beyond the shapes of empire, the capes of Carbonek, over
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But all is screened, subliminal, mystical;
It needs the intuitive heart, the inward turn,
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Are a cipher of subliminal quiverings
Which rarely we surprise or vaguely feel,
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A portion of a parable sublime.
It wears to the perishable creature's eyes
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An anniversary of the Birth sublime:
Our soul shall justify its chequered walk,
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He is the substance, he the self of things;
She has forged from him her works of skill and might:
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He is governed by her subtle and mighty laws.
His consciousness is a babe upon her knees,
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His soul is a subtle atom in a mass,
His substance a material for her works.
His spirit survives amid the death of things,
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His pure transcendent force submits to hers.
In the mystery of her cosmic ignorance,
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Prescient now dwells in our subliminal depths,
A luminous individual Power, alone.
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 in direct line with those bards who have sung of the Spirit, who always soared high above the falsehoods and uglinesses of a merely mundane life and lived in the undecaying delights and beauties of a diviner consciousness. Spiritual reality was the central theme of his poetic creation: only and naturally he viewed it in a special way and endowed it with a special grace. We know of another God-intoxicated man, the Jewish philosopher Spinoza, who saw things sub specie aeternitatis, under the figure or mode of eternity. Well, Tagore can be said to see things, in their essential spiritual reality, under the figure or mode of beauty. Keats indeed spoke of truth being beauty and beauty truth. But there is a great difference in the outlook and inner experience. A worshipper of beauty, unless he rises to the Upanishadic norm, is prone to become sensuous and pagan. Keats was that, Kalidasa was that, even Shelley was not far different. The spiritual vein in all these poets remains secondary. In the old Indian master, it is part of his intellectual equipment, no doubt, but nothing much more than that. In the other two it comes in as strange flashes from an unknown country, as a sort of irruption or on the peak of the poetic afflatus or enthousiasmos.
The world being nothing but Spirit made visible is, according to Tagore, fundamentally a thing of beauty. The scars and spots that are on the surface have to be removed and mankind has to repossess and clo the itself with that mantle of beauty. The world is beautiful, because it is the image of the Beautiful, because it harbours, expresses and embodies the Divine who is Beauty supreme. Now by a strange alchemy, a wonderful effect of polarisation, the very spiritual element in Tagore has made him almost a pagan and even a profane. For what are these glories of Nature and the still more exquisite glories that the human body has captured? They are but vibrations and modulations of beauty the delightful names and forms of the supreme Lover and Beloved.
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The spirit of the age demands this new gospel. Mankind needs and awaits a fresh revelation. The world and life are not an illusion or a lesser reality: they are, if taken rightly, as real as the pure Spirit itself. Indeed, Spirit and Flesh, Consciousness and Matter are not antinomies; to consider them as such is itself an illusion. In fact, they are only two poles or modes or aspects of the same reality. To separate or divide them is a one-sided concentration or abstraction on the part of the human mind. The fulfilment of the Spirit is in its expression through Matter; human life too reaches its highest term, its summum bonum, in embodying the spiritual consciousness here on earth and not dissolving itself in the Transcendence. That is the new Dispensation which answers to the deepest aspiration in man and towards which he has been travelling through the ages in the course of the evolution of his consciousness. Many, however, are the prophets and sages who have set this ideal before humanity and more and more insistently and clearly as we come nearer to the age we live in. But none or very few have expressed it with such beauty and charm and compelling persuasion. It would be carping criticism to point out-as some, purists one may call them, have done-that in poetising and aesthetising the spiritual truth and reality, in trying to make it human and terrestrial, he has diminished and diluted the original substance, in endeavouring to render the diamond iridescent, he has turned it into a baser alloy. Tagore's is a poetic soul, it must be admitted; and it is not necessary that one should find in his ideas and experiences and utterances the cent per cent accuracy and inevitability of a Yogic consciousness. Still his major perceptions, those that count, stand and are borne out by the highest spiritual realisation.
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.
01.05 - The Nietzschean Antichrist, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Nietzsche as the apostle of force is a name now familiar to all the world. The hero, the warrior who never tamely accepts suffering and submission and defeat under any condition but fights always and fights to conquersuch is the ideal man, according to Nietzsche,the champion of strength, of greatness, of mightiness. The dominating personality infused with the supreme "will to power"he is Ubermensch, the Superman. Sentiment does not move the mountains, emotion diffuses itself only in vague aspiration. The motive power, the creative fiat does not dwell in the heart but somewhere higher. The way of the Cross, the path of love and charity and pity does not lead to the kingdom of Heaven. The world has tried it for the last twenty centuries of its Christian civilisation and the result is that we are still living in a luxuriant abundance of misery and sordidness and littleness. This is how Nietzsche thinks and feels. He finds no virtue in the old rgimes and he revolts from them. He wants a speedy and radical remedy and teaches that by violence only the Kingdom of Heaven can be seized. For, to Nietzsche the world is only a clash of forces and the Superman therefore is one who is the embodiment of the greatest force. Nietzsche does not care for the good, it is the great that moves him. The good, the moral is of man, conventional and has only a fictitious value. The great, the non-moral is, on the other hand, divine. That only has a value of its own. The good is nothing but a sort of makeshift arrangement which man makes for himself in order to live commodiously and which changes according to his temperament. But the great is one with the Supreme Wisdom and is absolute and imperative. The good cannot create the great; it is the great that makes for the good. This is what he really means when he says, "They say that a good cause sanctifies war but I tell thee it is a good war that sanctifies all cause." For the goodness of your cause you judge by your personal predilections, by your false conventionalities, by a standard that you set up in your ignoranceBut a good war, the output of strength in any cause is in itself a cause of salvation. For thereby you are the champion of that ultimate verity which conduces to the ultimate good. Do not shrink, he would say, to be even like the cyclone and the avalanche, destructive, indeed, but grand and puissant and therefore truer emblems of the BeyondJenseitsthan the weak, the little, the pitiful that do not dare to destroy and by that very fact cannot hope to create.
This is the Nietzsche we all know. But there is another aspect of his which the world has yet been slow to recognise. For, at bottom, Nietzsche is not all storm and fury. If his Superman is a Destroying Angel, he is none the less an angel. If he is endowed with a supreme sense of strength and power, there is also secreted in the core of his heart a sense of the beautiful that illumines his somewhat sombre aspect. For although Nietzsche is by birth a Slavo-Teuton, by culture and education he is pre-eminently Hellenic. His earliest works are on the subject of Greek tragedy and form what he describes as an "Apollonian dream." And to this dream, to this Greek aesthetic sense more than to any thing else he sacrifices justice and pity and charity. To him the weak and the miserable, the sick and the maimed are a sort of blot, a kind of ulcer on the beautiful face of humanity. The herd that wallow in suffering and relish suffering disfigure the aspect of the world and should therefore be relentlessly mowed out of existence. By being pitiful to them we give our tacit assent to their persistence. And it is precisely because of this that Nietzsche has a horror of Christianity. For compassion gives indulgence to all the ugliness of the world and thus renders that ugliness a necessary and indispensable element of existence. To protect the weak, to sympathise with the lowly brings about more of weakness and more of lowliness. Nietzsche has an aristocratic taste par excellencewhat he aims at is health and vigour and beauty. But above all it is an aristocracy of the spirit, an aristocracy endowed with all the richness and beauty of the soul that Nietzsche wants to establish. The beggar of the street is the symbol of ugliness, of the poverty of the spirit. And the so-called aristocrat, die millionaire of today is as poor and ugly as any helpless leper. The soul of either of them is made of the same dirty, sickly stuff. The tattered rags, the crouching heart, the effeminate nerve, the unenlightened soul are the standing ugliness of the world and they have no place in the ideal, the perfect humanity. Humanity, according to Nietzsche, is made in order to be beautiful, to conceive the beautiful, to create the beautiful. Nietzsche's Superman has its perfect image in a Grecian statue of Zeus cut out in white marble-Olympian grandeur shedding in every lineament Apollonian beauty and Dionysian vigour.
The real secret of Nietzsche's philosophy is not an adoration of brute force, of blind irrational joy in fighting and killing. Far from it, Nietzsche has no kinship with Treitschke or Bernhard. What Nietzsche wanted was a world purged of littleness and ugliness, a humanity, not of saints, perhaps, but of heroes, lofty in their ideal, great in their achievement, majestic in their empirea race of titanic gods breathing the glory of heaven itself.
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Compels all substance by her wand of Mind.
Mind is a mediator divinity:
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Jets of the screened subliminal's caprice,
Tags of the gramarye of Inconscience,
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Life in him learned its huge subconscient rear;
The little fronts unlocked to the unseen Vasts:
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A map of subtle signs surpassing thought
Was hung upon a wall of inmost mind.
01.06 - On Communism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The individual must find himself and establish his secret god-head, and then only, when such free and integral individualities meet and reciprocate and coalesce, can the community they form have a living reality and a permanent potency. On the other hand, unless individuals come together and through the interchange of each other's soul and substance' enhance the communal Godhead, the separate individual godheads also will not manifest in their supreme and sovereign powers.
If society, that is to say, community, be the fieldkshetra for the individual to live, move and have its being, then we must begin at the very outset with the community itself, at least, with a nucleus that will go to form such a thing. The fear that the untimely grouping together of immature souls may crush out individuality and dig its own grave has, no doubt, sufficient justification behind it to deter one from the attempt; but neither can we be certain that souls nursed and nourished in solitary cells, absolutely apart from any mellowing and broadening influence of the outside world will ever reach to that stage of perfect maturity when they will suddenly and spontaneously break open their cells and recognise in one another the communal brother-self.
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Now how to escape the dilemma? Only if we take the commune and the individual togetheren bloc, as has already been suggested. This means that the commune should be at the beginning a subtle and supple thing, without form and even without name, it should be no more than the circumambient aura the sukshma deha that plays around a group of individuals who meet and unite and move together by a secret affinity, along a common path towards a common goal. As each individual develops and defines himself, the commune also takes a more and more concrete shape; and when at the last stage the individual rises to the full height of his godhead, takes possession of his integral divinity, the commune also establishes its solid empire, vivid and vibrant in form and name.
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01.06 - Vivekananda, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The gospel of strength that Vivekananda spread was very characteristic of the man. For it is not mere physical or nervous bravery, although that too is indispensable, and it is something more than moral courage. In the speeches referred to, the subject-matter (as well as the manner to a large extent) is philosophical, metaphysical, even abstract in outlook and treatment: they are not a call to arms, like the French National Anthem, for example; they are not merely an ethical exhortation, a moral lesson either. They speak of the inner spirit, the divine in man, the supreme realities that lie beyond. And yet the words are permeated through and through with a vibration life-giving and heroic-not so much in the explicit and apparent meaning as in the style and manner and atmosphere: it is catching, even or precisely when he refers, for example, to these passages in the Vedas and the Upanishads, magnificent in their poetic beauty, sublime in their spiritual truth,nec plus ultra, one can say, in the grand style supreme:
Yasyaite himavanto mahitv
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"They can no longer tell us that it is only small minds that have piety. They are shown how it has grown best in one of the the greatest geometricians, one of the subtlest metaphysicians, one of the most penetrating minds that ever existed on earth. The piety of such a philosopher should make the unbeliever and the libertine declare what a certain Diocles said one day on seeing Epicurus in a temple: 'What a feast, what a spectacle for me to see Epicurus in a temple! All my doubts vainsh, piety takes its place again. I never saw Jupiter's greatness so well as now when I behold Epicurus kneeling down!"1
What characterises Pascal is the way in which he has bent his brainnot rejected it but truly bent and forced even the dry "geometrical brain" to the service of Faith.
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"One must know where one should doubt, where one should submit."3
"Two excesses are equally dangerous: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason."4
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The process of conversion of the doubting mind, of the dry intellectual reason as propounded and perhaps practised by Pascal is also a characteristic mark of his nature and genius. It is explained in his famous letter on "bet" or "game of chance" (Le Pari). Here is how he puts the issue to the doubting mind (I am giving the substance, not his words): let us say then that in the world we are playing a game of chance. How do the chances stand? What are the gains and losses if God does not exist? What 'are the gains and losses if God does exist? If God exists, by accepting and reaching him what do we gain? All that man cares forhappiness, felicity. And what do we lose? We lose the world of misery. If, on the other 'hand, God does not exist, by believing him to exist, we lose nothing, we are not more miserable than what we are. If, however, God exists and we do not believe him, we gain this world of misery but we lose all that is worth having. Thus Pascal concludes that even from the standpoint of mere gain and loss, belief in God is more advantageous than unbelief. This is how he applied to metaphysics the mathematics of probability.
One is not sure if such reasoning is convincing to the intellect; but perhaps it is a necessary stage in conversion. At least we can conclude that Pascal had to pass through such a stage; and it indicates the difficulty his brain had to undergo, the tension or even the torture he made it pass through. It is true, from Reason Pascal went over to Faith, even while giving Reason its due. Still it seems the two were not perfectly synthetised or fused in him. There was a gap between that was not thoroughly bridged. Pascal did not possess the higher, intuitive, luminous mind that mediates successfully between the physical discursive ratiocinative brain-mind and the vision of faith: it is because deep in his consciousness there lay this chasm. Indeed,Pascal's abyss (l' abme de Pascal) is a well-known legend. Pascal, it appears, used to have very often the vision of an abyss about to open before him and he shuddered at the prospect of falling into it. It seems to us to be an experience of the Infinity the Infinity to which he was so much attracted and of which he wrote so beautifully (L'infiniment grand et l'infiniment petit)but into which he could not evidently jump overboard unreservedly. This produced a dichotomy, a lack of integration of personality, Jung would say. Pascal's brain was cold, firm, almost rigid; his heart was volcanic, the faith he had was a fire: it lacked something of the pure light and burned with a lurid glare.
And the reason is his metaphysics. It is the Jansenist conception of God and human nature that inspired and coloured all his experience and consciousness. According to it, as according to the Calvinist conception, man is a corrupt being, corroded to the core, original sin has branded his very soul. Only Grace saves him and releases him. The order of sin and the order of Grace are distinct and disparate worlds and yet they complement each other and need each other. Greatness and misery are intertwined, united, unified with each other in him. Here is an echo of the Manichean position which also involves an abyss. But even then God's grace is not a free agent, as Jesuits declare; there is a predestination that guides and controls it. This was one of the main subjects he treated in his famous open letters (Les Provinciales) that brought him renown almost overnight. Eternal hell is a possible prospect that faces the Jansenist. That was why a Night always over-shadowed the Day in Pascal's soul.
Man then, according to Pascal, is by nature a sinful thing. He can lay no claim to noble virtue as his own: all in him is vile, he is a lump of dirt and filth. Even the greatest has his full share of this taint. The greatest, the saintliest, and the meanest, the most sinful, all meet, all are equal on this common platform; all have the same feet of clay. Man is as miserable a creature as a beast, as much a part and product of Nature as a plant. Only there is this difference that an animal or a tree is unconscious, while man knows that he is miserable. This knowledge or perception makes him more miserable, but that is his real and only greatness there is no other. His thought, his self-consciousness, and his sorrow and repentance and contrition for what he is that is the only good partMary's part that has been given to him. Here are Pascal's own words on the subject:
"The greatness of man is great in this that he knows he is miserable. A tree does not know that it is miserable.
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"Ils ne peuvent plus nous dire qu'il n'y a que de petits esprits qui aient de la pit: car on leur en fait voir de la mieux pouss dans run des plus grands go-mtres, l'un des plus subtils mtaphysiciens, et des plus pntrants esprits que aient jamais t au monde. La pit d'un tel philosophe devrait faire dire aux indvots et awe libertins ce que dit un jour un certain Diocls, en voyant Epicure dans un temple: 'Quelle fte,' s'criait-il, 'quelle spectacle pour moi, de voir Epicure dans un temple! Tous mes soupons s'vanouissent: la pit reprend sa place; et je ne vis jamais mieux la grandeur de Jupiter que depuis que je vois Epicure genoux!' " aBayle: Nouvelle de la Rpublique des Lettres.
"La dernire dmarche de la raison, c'est de connatre qu'il y a une infinit de chases qui la surpassent. Elle est bien faible si elle ne va jusque-l
01.07 - The Bases of Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is this persuasion which, has led many spiritual souls, siddhas, to declare that theirs is not the kingdom upon this earth, but that the kingdom of Heaven is within. And it is why great lovers of humanity have sought not to eradicate but only to mitigate, as far as possible, the ills of life. Earth and life, it is said, contain in their last analysis certain ugly and loathsome realities which are an inevitable and inexorable part of their substance and to eliminate one means to annihilate the other. What can be done is to throw a veil over the nether regions in human nature, to put a ban on their urges and velleities and to create opportunities to make social arrangements so that the higher impulses only find free play while the lower impulses, for want of scope and indulgence, may fall down to a harmless level. This is what the Reformists hope and want and no more. Life is based upon animality, the soul is encased in an earth-sheathman needs must procreate, man needs must seek food. But what human effort can achieve is to set up barriers and limitations and form channels and openings, which will restrain these impulses, allow them a necessary modicum of play and which for the greater part will serve to encourage and enhance the nobler urges in man. Of course, there will remain always the possibility of the whole scaffolding coming down with a crash and the aboriginal in man running riot in his nudity. But we have to accept the chance and make the best of what materials we have in hand.
No doubt this is a most dismal kind of pessimism. But it is the logical conclusion of all optimism that bases itself upon a particular view of human nature. If we question that pessimism, we have to question the very grounds of our optimism also. As a matter of fact, all our idealism has been so long infructuous and will be so in the future, if we do not shift our foundation and start from a different IntuitionWeltanschauung.
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What then is required is a complete spiritual regeneration in man, a new structure of his soul and substancenot merely the realisation of the highest and supreme Truth in mental and emotional consciousness, but the translation and application of the law of that truth in the power of the vital. It is here that failed all the great spiritual or rather religious movements of the past. They were content with evoking the divine in the mental being, but left the vital becoming to be governed by the habitual un-divine or at the most to be just illumined by a distant and faint glow which served, however, more to distort than express the Divine.
The Divine Nature only can permanently reform the vital nature that is ours. Neither laws and institutions, which are the results of that vital nature, nor ideas and ideals which are often a mere revolt from and more often an auxiliary to it, can comm and the power to regenerate society. If it is thought improbable for any group of men to attain to that God Nature, then there is hardly any hope for mankind. But improbable or probable, that is the only way which man has to try and test, and there is none other.
01.08 - A Theory of Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There are three lines, as the Psycho-analysts point out along which this control or censuring of the primary instincts acts. First, there is the line of Defence Reaction. That is to say, the mind automatically takes up an attitude directly contrary to the impulse, tries to shut it out and deny altogether its existence and the measure of the insistence of the impulse is also the measure of the vehemence of the denial. It is the case of the lady protesting too much. So it happens that where subconsciously there is a strong current of a particular impulse, consciously the mind is obliged to take up a counteracting opposite impulse. Thus in presence of a strong sexual craving the mind as if to guard and save itself engenders by a reflex movement an ascetic and puritanic mood. Similarly a strong unthinking physical attraction translates itself on the conscious plane as an equally strong repulsion.
Secondly, there is the line of substitution. Here the mind does not stand in an antagonistic and protestant mood to combat and repress the impulse, but seeks to divert it into other channels, use it to other purposes which do not demand equal sacrifice, may even, on the other hand, be considered by the conscious mind as worthy of human pursuit. Thus the energy that normally would seek sexual gratification might find its outlet in the cultivation of art and literature. It is a common thing in novels to find the heroine disappointed in love taking finally to works of charity and beneficence and thus forgetting her disappointment. Another variety of this is what is known as "drowning one's sorrow in drinking."
Thirdly, there is the line of sublimationit is when the natural impulse is neither repressed nor diverted but lifted up into a higher modality. The thing is given a new sense and a new value which serve to remove the stigma usually attached to it and thus allow its free indulgence. Instances of carnal love sublimated into spiritual union, of passion transmuted into devotion (Bhakti) are common enough to illustrate the point.
The human mind naturally, without any effort on its part, takes to one or more of these devices to control and conceal the aboriginal impulses. But this spontaneous process can be organised and consciously regulated and made to serve better the purpose and urge of Nature. And this is the beginning of yoga the conscious fulfilment of Nature. The Psycho-analysts have given us the first and elementary stage of this process of yoga. It is, we may say, the fourth line of control. With this man enters a new level of being, develops a new mode of life. It is when the automatism of Nature is replaced by the power of Conscious Control. Man is not here, a blind instrument of forces, his activities (both indulging and controlling) are not guided according to an ignorant submission to the laws of almost subconscious impulsions. Conscious control means that the mind does not fight shy of or seek to elude the aboriginal insistences, but allows them to come up freely, meets them squarely, recognises them and establishes an easy mastery over them.
The method of unconscious or subconscious nature is fundamentally that of repression. Apart from Defence Reaction which is a thing of pure coercion, even in substitution and sublimation there always remains in the background a large amount of repressed complexes in all their primitive strength. The system is never entirely purified but remains secretly pregnant with those urges; a part only is deflected and camouflaged, the surface only assumes a transformed appearance. And there is always the danger of the superstructure coming down helplessly by a sudden upheaval of the nether forces. The whole system feels, although not in a conscious manner, the tension of the repression and suffers from something that is unhealthy and ill-balanced. Dante's spiritualised passion is a supreme instance of control by sublimation, but the Divina Comedia hardly bears the impress of a serene and tranquil soul, sovereignly above the turmoils of the tragedy of life and absolutely at peace with itself.
In conscious control, the mind is for the first time aware of the presence of the repressed impulses, it seeks to release them from the pressure to which they are habitually and normally subjected. It knows and recognises them, however ugly and revolting they might appear to be when they present themselves in their natural nakedness. Then it becomes easy for the conscious determination to eliminate or regulate or transform them and thus to establish a healthy harmony in the human vehicle. The very recognition itself, as implied in conscious control, means purification.
Yet even here the process of control and transformation does not end. And we now come to the Fifth Line, the real and intimate path of yoga. Conscious control gives us a natural mastery over the instinctive impulses which are relieved of their dark tamas and attain a purified rhythm. We do not seek to hide or repress or combat them, but surpass them and play with them as the artist does with his material. Something of this katharsis, this aestheticism of the primitive impulses was achieved by the ancient Greeks. Even then the primitive impulses remain primitive all the same; they fulfil, no doubt, a real and healthy function in the scheme of life, but still in their fundamental nature they continue the animal in man. And even when Conscious Control means the utter elimination and annihilation of the primal instinctswhich, however, does not seem to be a probable eventualityeven then, we say, the basic problem remains unsolved; for the urge of nature towards the release and a transformation of the instincts does not find satisfaction, the question is merely put aside.
Yoga, then, comes at this stage and offers the solution in its power of what we may call Tran substantiation. That is to say, here the mere form is not changed, nor the functions restrained, regulated and purified, but the very substance of the instincts is transmuted. The power of conscious control is a power of the human will, i.e. of an individual personal will and therefore necessarily limited both in intent and extent. It is a power complementary to the power of Nature, it may guide and fashion the latter according to a new pattern, but cannot change the basic substance, the stuff of Nature. To that end yoga seeks a power that transcends the human will, brings into play the supernal puissance of a Divine Will.
This is the real meaning and sense of the moral struggle in man, the continuous endeavour towards a transvaluation of the primary and aboriginal instincts and impulses. Looked at from one end, from below up the ascending line, man's ethical and spiritual ideals are a dissimulation and sublimation of the animal impulsions. But this is becauseas we see, if we look from the other end, from above down the descending lineman is not all instinct, he is not a mere blind instrument in the hands of Nature forces. He has in him another source, an opposite pole of being from which other impulsions flow and continually modify the structure of the lower levels. If the animal is the foundation of his nature, the divine is its summit. If the bodily demands form his manifest reality, the demands of the spirit enshrine his higher reality. And if as regards the former he is a slave, as regards the latter he is the Master. It is by the interaction of these double forces that his whole nature has been and is being fashioned. Man does not and cannot give carte blanche to his vital, inclinations, since there is a pressure upon them of higher forces coming down from his mental and spiritual levels. It is these latter which have deviated him from the direct line of the pure animal life.
Thus then we may distinguish three types of control on three levels. First, the natural control, secondly the conscious, i.e. to say the mental the ethical and religious control, and thirdly the spiritual or divine control. Now the spirit is the ultimate truth and reality, behind the forces that act in the mind and in the body, so that the natural control and the ethical control are mere attempts to establish and realise the spiritual control. The animal impulses feel the hidden stress of the divine urges that are their real essence and thus there rises first an unconscious conflict in the natural life and then a conscious conflict in the higher ethical life. But when both of these are transcended and the conflict is carried on to a still higher level, then do we find their real significance and arrive at the consummation to which they move. Yoga is the ultimate transvaluation of physical (and of moral) values, it is the trans- substantiation of life-power into its spiritual substance.
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01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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.
Indeed, the kernel of the mystic discipline and its whole bearingconsists in one and only one principle: to love Jhesu. All roads lead to Rome: all preparations, all trials lead to one realisation, love of God, God as a living person close to us, our friend and lover and master. The Christian mystic speaks almost in the terms of the Gita: Rise above your senses, give up your ego-hood, be meek and humble, it is Jesus within you, who embraces your soul: it is he who does everything for you and in you, give yourself up wholly into his hands. He will deliver you.
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Indeed, it would be interesting to compare and contrast the Eastern and Western approach to Divine Love, the Christian and the Vaishnava, for example. Indian spirituality, whatever its outer form or credal formulation, has always a background of utter unity. This unity, again, is threefold or triune and is expressed in those great Upanishadic phrases,mahvkyas,(1) the transcendental unity: the One alone exists, there is nothing else than theOneekamevdvityam; (2) the cosmic unity: all existence is one, whatever exists is that One, thereare no separate existences:sarvam khalvidam brahma neha nnsti kincaa; (3) That One is I, you too are that One:so' ham, tattvamasi; this may be called the individual unity. As I have said, all spiritual experiences in India, of whatever school or line, take for granted or are fundamentally based upon this sense of absolute unity or identity. Schools of dualism or pluralism, who do not apparently admit in their tenets this extreme monism, are still permeated in many ways with that sense and in some form or other take cognizance of the truth of it. The Christian doctrine too says indeed, 'I and my Father in Heaven are one', but this is not identity, but union; besides, the human soul is not admitted into this identity, nor the world soul. The world, we have seen, according to the Christian discipline has to be altogether abandoned, negatived, as we go inward and upward towards our spiritual status reflecting the divine image in the divine company. It is a complete rejection, a cutting off and casting away of world and life. One extreme Vedantic path seems to follow a similar line, but there it is not really rejection, but a resolution, not the rejection of what is totally foreign and extraneous, but a resolution of the external into its inner and inmost substance, of the effect into its original cause. Brahman is in the world, Brahman is the world: the world has unrolled itself out of the Brahmansi, pravttiit has to be rolled back into its, cause and substance if it is to regain its pure nature (that is the process of nivitti). Likewise, the individual being in the world, "I", is the transcendent being itself and when it withdraws, it withdraws itself and the whole world with it and merges into the Absolute. Even the Maya of the Mayavadin, although it is viewed as something not inherent in Brahman but superimposed upon Brahman, still, has been accepted as a peculiar power of Brahman itself. The Christian doctrine keeps the individual being separate practically, as an associate or at the most as an image of God. The love for one's neighbour, charity, which the Christian discipline enjoins is one's love for one's kind, because of affinity of nature and quality: it does not dissolve the two into an integral unity and absolute identity, where we love because we are one, because we are the One. The highest culmination of love, the very basis of love, according to the Indian conception, is a transcendence of love, love trans-muted into Bliss. The Upanishad says, where one has become the utter unity, who loves whom? To explain further our point, we take two examples referred to in the book we are considering. The true Christian, it is said, loves the sinner too, he is permitted to dislike sin, for he has to reject it, but he must separate from sin the sinner and love him. Why? Because the sinner too can change and become his brother in spirit, one loves the sinner because there is the possibility of his changing and becoming a true Christian. It is why the orthodox Christian, even such an enlightened and holy person as this mediaeval Canon, considers the non-Christian, the non-baptised as impure and potentially and fundamentally sinners. That is also why the Church, the physical organisation, is worshipped as Christ's very body and outside the Church lies the pagan world which has neither religion nor true spirituality nor salvation. Of course, all this may be symbolic and it is symbolic in a sense. If Christianity is taken to mean true spirituality, and the Church is equated with the collective embodiment of that spirituality, all that is claimed on their behalf stands justified. But that is an ideal, a hypothetical standpoint and can hardly be borne out by facts. However, to come back to our subject, let us ow take the second example. Of Christ himself, it is said, he not only did not dislike or had any aversion for Judas, but that he positively loved the traitor with a true and sincere love. He knew that the man would betray him and even when he was betraying and had betrayed, the Son of Man continued to love him. It was no make-believe or sham or pretence. It was genuine, as genuine as anything can be. Now, why did he love his enemy? Because, it is said, the enemy is suffered by God to do the misdeed: he has been allowed to test the faith of the faithful, he too has his utility, he too is God's servant. And who knows even a Judas would not change in the end? Many who come to scoff do remain to pray. But it can be asked, 'Does God love Satan too in the same way?' The Indian conception which is basically Vedantic is different. There is only one reality, one truth which is viewed differently. Whether a thing is considered good or evil or neutral, essentially and truly, it is that One and nothing else. God's own self is everywhere and the sage makes no difference between the Brahmin and the cow and the elephant. It is his own self he finds in every person and every objectsarvabhtsthitam yo mm bhajati ekatvamsthitah"he has taken his stand upon oneness and loves Me in all beings."2
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."
If you are told you are still full of sins and you are not worthy to follow the path, that you must go and work out your sins first, here is your answer: "Go shrive thee better: trow not this saying, for it is false, for thou art shriven. Trust securely that thou art on the way, and thee needeth no ransacking of shrift for that that is passed, hold forth thy way and think on Jerusalem." That is to say, do not be too busy with the difficulties of the moment, but look ahead, as far as possible, fix your attention upon the goal, the intermediate steps will become easy. Jerusalem is another name of the Love of Jesus or the Bliss in Heaven. Grow in this love, your sins will fade away of themselves. "Though thou be thrust in an house with thy body, nevertheless in thine heart, where the stead of love is, thou shouldst be able to have part of that love... " What exquisite utterance, what a deep truth!
01.09 - The Parting of the Way, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The differentia, in each case, lies in the degree and nature of consciousness, since it is consciousness that forms the substance and determines the mode of being. Now, the inorganic is characterised by un-consciousness, the vegetable by sub-consciousness, the animal by consciousness and man by self-consciousness. Man knows that he knows, an animal only knows; a plant does not even know, it merely feels or senses; matter cannot do that even, it simply acts or rather is acted upon. We are not concerned here, however, with the last two forms of being; we will speak of the first two only.
We say, then, that man is distinguished from the animal by his having consciousness as it has, but added to it the consciousness of self. Man acts and feels and knows as much as the animal does; but also he knows that he acts, he knows that he feels, he knows that he knowsand this is a thing the animal cannot do. It is the awakening of the sense of self in every mode of being that characterises man, and it is owing to this consciousness of an ego behind, of a permanent unit of reference, which has modified even the functions of knowing and feeling and acting, has refashioned them in a mould which is not quite that of the animal, in spite of a general similarity.
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Indeed it is a divine creature that should be envisaged on the next level of evolution. The mental and the moral, the psychical and the physical transfigurations which must follow the change in the basic substratum do imply such a mutation, the birth of a new species, as it were, fashioned in the nature of the gods. The vision of angels and Siddhas, which man is having ceaselessly since his birth, may be but a prophecy of the future actuality.
This then, it seems to us, is the immediate problem that Nature has set before herself. She is now at the parting of the ways. She has done with man as an essentially human being, she has brought out the fundamental possibilities of humanity and perfected it, so far as perfection may be attained within the cadre by which she chose to limit herself; she is now looking forward to another kind of experiment the evolving of another life, another being out of her entrails, that will be greater than the humanity we know today, that will be superior even to the supreme that has yet been actualised.
Nature has marched from the unconscious to the sub-conscious, from the sub-conscious to the conscious and from the conscious to the self-conscious; she has to rise yet again from the self-conscious to the super-conscious. The mineral gave place to the plant, the plant gave place to the animal and the animal gave place to man; let man give place to and bring out the divine.
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01.09 - William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But the process, Monsieur Thibon rightly asserts, must begin with the individual and within the individual. Man must "turn within, feel alive within himself", re-establish his living contact with God, the source and origin from which he has cut himself off. Man must learn to subordinate having to being. Each individual must be himself, a free and spontaneous expression. Upon such individual , upon individuals grouped naturally in smaller collectivities and not upon unformed or ill-formed wholesale masses can a perfect human society be raised and will be raised. Monsieur Thibon insistsand very rightlyupon the variety and diversity of individual and local growths in a unified humanity and not a dead uniformity of regimented oneness. He declares, as the reviewer of the London Times succinctly puts it: "Let us abolish our insensate worship of number. Let us repeal the law of majorities. Let us work for the unity that draws together instead of idolizing the multiplicity that disintegrates. Let us understand that it is not enough for each to have a place; what matters is that each should be in his right place. For the atomized society let us substitute an organic society, one in which every man will be free to do what he alone is qualified and able to do."
So far so good. For it is not far enough. The being or becoming that is demanded in fulfilment of the divine advent in humanity must go to the very roots of life and nature, must seize God in his highest and sovereign status. No prejudice of the past, no notion of our mental habits must seek to impose its law. Thus, for example, in the matter of redeeming the senses by the influx of the higher light, our author seems to consider that the senses will remain more or less as they are, only they will be controlled, guided, used by the higher light. And he seems to think that even the sex relation (even the institution of marriage) may continue to remain, but sublimated, submitted to the laws of the Higher Order. This, according to us, is a dangerous compromise and is simply the imposition of the lower law upon the higher. Our view of the total transformation and divinisation of the Lower is altogether different. The Highest must come down wholly and inhabit in the Lowest, the Lowest must give up altogether its own norms and lift itself into the substance and form too of the Highest.
Viewed in this light, Blake's memorable mantra attains a deeper and more momentous significance. For it is not merely Earth the senses and life and Matter that are to be uplifted and affianced to Heaven, but all that remains hidden within the bowels of the Earth, the subterranean regions of man's consciousness, the slimy viscous undergrowths, the darkest horrors and monstrosities that man and nature hide in their subconscient and inconscient dungeons of material existence, all these have to be laid bare to the solar gaze of Heaven, burnt or transmuted as demanded by the law of that Supreme Will. That is the Hell that has to be recognised, not rejected and thrown away, but taken up purified and tran substantiated into the body of Heaven itself. The hand of the Highest Heaven must extend and touch the Lowest of the lowest elements, transmute it and set it in its rightful place of honour. A mortal body reconstituted into an immemorial fossil, a lump of coal revivified into a flashing carat of diamond-that shows something of the process underlying the nuptials of which we are speaking.
The Life Divine
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo has written a lot on this subject (in his letters)
and I too have explained everything in the book Education. One
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practical? And so on. It is a subject on which it is not
easy to find a solution satisfactory enough for everyone,
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a particular subject and want to pursue it to the full.
But where is this freedom to become, for instance, a
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few words on the subject of this freedom?
The freedom I speak of is the freedom to follow the will of the
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It is atavistic and comes from the subconscient.
This instinct is based both on masculine pride, the foolish
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In children, all this is still subconscious, but it influences their
actions.
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to subdue the lower mind and establish a connection with higher
forces or with deities. These Japas must be given by the Guru,
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subject, you must at least read all he has written on that subject.
You will then see that he seems to have said the most contradictory things. But when one has read everything and understood
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this subject.
5 January 1965
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But the shades of difference are subtle and many, and it is
by a very attentive and sincere observation (that is to say, free
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Sri Aurobindo has written very clearly on this subject. And
what he has written on it has appeared in The Synthesis of Yoga.
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or commit an injustice towards their subordinates, what
should be the attitude of those affected by these errors?
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the body is complete, that means no subjection to
death.... One creates a new body for oneself when
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Those who have a supramentalised body will not be subject to
the law of aging; consequently the question of age will not arise
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penetrate into a subtler consciousness; then the fortress will no
longer be impenetrable.
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all the many and varied opinions on social and political subjects. All these are only OPINIONS and have no value at all
from the Divine point of view - the Divine who does not
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told me that he had no opinion on the subject. "My
business," he said, "is to write." And he asked me what
01.10 - Principle and Personality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We do not speak like politicians or banias; but the very truth of the matter demands such a policy or line of action. It is very well to talk of principles and principles alone, but what are principles unless they take life and form in a particular individual? They are airy nothings, notions in the brain of logicians and metaphysicians, fit subjects for discussion in the academy, but they are devoid of that vital urge which makes them creative agencies. We have long lines of philosophers, especially European, who most scrupulously avoided all touch of personalities, whose utmost care was to keep principles pure and unsullied; and the upshot was that those principles remained principles only, barren and infructuous, some thing like, in the strong and puissant phrase of BaudelaireLa froide majest de la femme strile. And on the contrary, we have had other peoples, much addicted to personalitiesespecially in Asiawho did not care so much for abstract principles as for concrete embodiments; and what has been the result here? None can say that they did not produce anything or produced only still-born things. They produced living creaturesephemeral, some might say, but creatures that lived and moved and had their days.
But, it may be asked, what is the necessity, what is the purpose in making it all a one man show? Granting that principles require personalities for their fructuation and vital functioning, what remains to be envisaged is not one personality but a plural personality, the people at large, as many individuals of the human race as can be consciously imbued with those principles. When principles are made part and parcel of, are concentrated in a single solitary personality, they get "cribbed and cabined," they are vitiated by the idiosyncrasies of the man, they come to have a narrower field of application; they are emptied of the general verities they contain and finally cease to have any effect.
01.11 - Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A similar compilation was published in the Arya, called The Eternal Wisdom (Les Paroles ternelles, in French) a portion of which appeared later on in book-form: that was more elaborate, the contents were arranged in such a way that no comments were needed, they were self-explanatory, divided as they were in chapters and sections and subsections with proper headings, the whole thing put in a logical and organised sequence. Huxley's compilation begins under the title of the Upanishadic text "That art Thou" with this saying of Eckhart: "The more God is in all things, the more He is outside them. The more He is within, the more without". It will be interesting to note that the Arya compilation too starts with the same idea under the title "The God of All; the God who is in All", the first quotation being from Philolaus, "The Universe is a Unity".The Eternal Wisdom has an introduction called "The Song of Wisdom" which begins with this saying from the Book of Wisdom: "We fight to win sublime Wisdom; therefore men call us warriors".
Huxley gives only one quotation from Sri Aurobindo under the heading "God in the World". Here it is:
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"To its heights we can always come. For those of us who are still splashing about in the lower ooze, the phrase has a rather ironical ring. Nevertheless, in the light of even the most distant acquaintance with the heights and the fullness, it is possible to understand what its author means. To discover the Kingdom of God exclusively within oneself is easier than to discover it, not only there, but also in the outer worlds of minds and things and living creatures. It is easier because the heights within reveal themselves to those who are ready to exclude from their purview all that lies without. And though this exclusion may be a painful and mortificatory process, the fact remains that it is less arduous than the process of inclusion, by which we come to know the fullness as well as the heights of spiritual life. Where there is exclusive concentration on the heights within, temptations and distractions are avoided and there is a general denial and suppression. But when the hope is to know God inclusivelyto realise the divine Ground in the world as well as in the soul, temptations and distractions must not be avoided, but submitted to and used as opportunities for advance; there must be no suppression of outward-turning activities, but a transformation of them so that they become sacramental."
The neatness of the commentary cannot be improved upon. Only with regard to the "ironical ring" of which Huxley speaks, it has just to be pointed out, as he himself seems to understand, that the "we" referred to in the phrase does not mean humanity in general that 'splashes about in the lower ooze' but those who have a sufficiently developed inner spiritual life.
01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Satan proposes to lead man down into hell through a sure means, nothing more sure, according to him, viz., love for a woman and a woman's love in return. Nothing like that to make man earth-bound or hell-bound and force out of him the nostalgic cry, "Time must have a stop." A most simple, primal and primeval lyric love will most suit Satan's purpose. Hence the Margaret episode. Love=Passion=Lust=Hell; that is the inevitable equation sequence, and through which runs the magic thread of infatuation. And that charm is invincible. Satan did succeed and was within an ace, as they say, of the final and definitive triumph: but that was not to be, for he left out of account an incalculable element. Love, even human love has, at least can have, a wonderful power, the potency of reversing the natural decree and bring about a supernatural intervention. Human love can at a crucial momentin extremiscall down the Divine Grace, which means God's love for man. And the soul meant for perdition and about to be seized and carried away by Satan finds itself suddenly free and lifted up and borne by Heaven's messengers. Human Jove is divine love itself in earthly form and figure and whatever its apparent aberrations it is in soul and substance that thing. Satan is hoisted with his own petard. That is God's irony.
But Goethe's Satan seems to know or feel something of his fate. He knows his function and the limit too of his function. He speaks of the doomsday for people, but it is his doomsday also, he says in mystic terms. Yes, it is his doomsday, for it is the day of man's liberation. Satan has to release man from the pact that stands cancelled. The soul of man cannot be sold, even if he wanted it.
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The total eradication of Evil from the world and human nature and the remoulding of a terrestrial life in the substance and pattern of the Highest Good that is beyond all dualities is a conception which it was not for Goe the to envisage. In the order of reality or existence, first there is the consciousness of division, of trenchant separation in which Good is equated with not-evil and evil with not-good. This is the outlook of individualised consciousness. Next, as the consciousness grows and envelops the whole existence, good and evil are both embraced and are found to form a secret and magic harmony. That is the universal or cosmic consciousness. And Goethe's genius seems to be an outflowering of something of this status of consciousness. But there is still a higher status, the status of transcendence in which evil is not simply embraced but dissolved and even transmuted into a supreme reality of which it is an aberration, a reflection or projection, a lower formulation. That is the mystery of a spiritual realisation to which Goe the aspired perhaps, but had not the necessary initiation to enter into.
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01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Our poet is too self-conscious, he himself feels that he has not the perfect voice. A Homer, even a Milton possesses a unity of tone and a wholeness of perception which are denied to the modern. To the modern, however, the old masters are not subtle enough, broad enough, psychological enough, let us say the word, spiritual enough. And yet the poetic inspiration, more than the religious urge, needs the injunction not to be busy with too many things, but to be centred upon the one thing needful, viz., to create poetically and not to discourse philosophically or preach prophetically. Not that it is impossible for the poet to swallow the philosopher and the prophet, metabolising them into the substance of his bone and marrow, of "the trilling wire in his blood", as Eliot graphically expresses. That perhaps is the consummation towards which poetry is tending. But at present, in Eliot, at least, the strands remain distinct, each with its own temper and rhythm, not fused and moulded into a single streamlined form of beauty. Our poet flies high, very high indeed at times, often or often he flies low, not disdaining the perilous limit of bathos. Perhaps it is all wilful, it is a mannerism which he cherishes. The mannerism may explain his psychology and enshrine his philosophy. But the poet, the magician is to be looked for elsewhere. In the present collection of poems it is the philosophical, exegetical, discursive Eliot who dominates: although the high lights of the subject-matter may be its justification. Still even if we have here doldrums like
That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence
01.14 - Nicholas Roerich, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Ex oriente lux. Out of the East the Light, and that light is of the nature and substance of beauty, of creative and dynamic beauty in the life the spirit. This, I suppose, is Roerich's message in a nutshell. The Light of the East is always the light of the ample consciousness that dwells on the heights of our being in God.
The call that stirred a Western soul, made him a wanderer over the world in quest of the Holy Grail and finally lodged him in the Home of the Snows is symbolic of a more than individual destiny. It is representative of the secret history of a whole culture and civilisation that have been ruling humanity for some centuries, its inner want and need and hankering and fulfilment. The West shall come to the East and be reborn. That is the prophecy of occult seers and sages.
I speak of Roerich as a Western soul, but more precisely perhaps he is a soul of the mid-region (as also in another sense we shall see subsequently) intermediary between the East and the West. His external make-up had all the characteristic elements of the Western culture, but his mind and temperament, his inner soul was oriental. And yet it was not the calm luminous staticancientsoul that an Indian or a Chinese sage is; it is a nomad soul, newly awakened, young and fresh and ardent, something primitive, pulsating with the unspoilt green sap of life something in the manner of Whitman. And that makes him all the more representative of the young and ardent West yearning for the light that was never on sea or land.
Is it not strange that one should look to the East for the light? There is a light indeed that dwells in the setting suns, but that is the inferior light, the light that moves level with the earth, pins us down to the normal and ordinary life and consciousness: it" leads into the Night, into Nihil, pralaya. It is the light of the morning sun that man looks up to in his forward march, the sun that rises in the East whom the Vedic Rishi invoked in these magnificent lines:
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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.
A Russian artist (Monsieur Benois) has stressed upon the primitivealmost aboriginalelement in Roerich and was not happy over it. Well, as has been pointed out by other prophets and thinkers, man today happens to be so sophisticated, artificial, material, cerebral that a [all-back seems to be necessary for him to take a new leap forward on to a higher ground. The pure aesthete is a closed system, with a consciousness immured in an ivory tower; but man is something more. A curious paradox. Man can reach the highest, realise the integral truth when he takes his leap, not from the relatively higher levels of his consciousness his intellectual and aesthetic and even moral status but when he can do so from his lower levels, when the physico-vital element in him serves as the springing-board. The decent and the beautiful the classic grace and aristocracyform one aspect of man, the aspect of "light"; but the aspect of energy and power lies precisely in him where the aboriginal and the barbarian find also a lodging. Man as a mental being is naturally sattwic, but prone to passivity and weakness; his physico-vital reactions, on the other hand, are obscure and crude, simple and vehement, but they have life and energy and creative power, they are there to be trained and transfigured, made effective instruments of a higher illumination.
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the message for the radio You substituted the word
"union" for the word "unity".5 May I know, Sweet
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most material to the most subtle.
Integral means horizontally in all the different and often
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say that the emanation is made up of the very substance of
the emanator, whereas the formation is made up of a substance
external to the formator.
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like a child made from the substance of its mother and that the
formation is like a living statue made out of a material external
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Does the subconscient go on recording during sleep?
For most people, in their sleep, it is precisely what has been
recorded in the subconscient during the day or previously which
becomes active again and constitutes their dreams.
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It does not go away, but enters the subconscient and continues
to act.
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What should one do to reduce the range of the subconscient?
To grow in consciousness is the very aim of life on earth. It is
0.13 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
in the subtle physical or the mental. There are any number of
different possibilities in dreams.
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
do, and to strive to submit your external nature to its decisions.
11 December 1971
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be able to conquer the defeatism of the subconscient.
20 December 1971
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physical world which are the cause of subconscient pessimism.
It is only in perfect union with the Divine that the consciousness
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In the first three categories, one is naturally subject to the
ordinary law of suffering, disappointment and sorrow.
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contrary be sublimated and used for progress and higher development so as to prepare the coming of the new race. But first, the
vital and the physical have to be free of all desire - otherwise
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not to be subject to one's desires and mistake them for the truth
of one's being.
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It is a subject for contemplative meditation.
18 March 1972
0 1955-09-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother suddenly everything seems to have crystallizedall the little revolts, the little tensions, the ill will and petty vital demandsforming a single block of open, determined resistance. I have become conscious that from the beginning of my sadhana, the mind has led the gamewith the psychic behind and has held me in leash, helped muzzle all contrary movements, but at no time, or only rarely, has the vital submitted or opened to the higher influence. The rare times when the vital participated, I felt a great progress. But now, I find myself in front of this solid mass that says No and is not at all convinced of what the mind has been imposing upon it for almost two years now.
Mother, I am sufficiently awakened not to rebel against your Light and to understand that the vital is but one part of my being, but I have come to the conclusion that the only way of convincing this vital is not to force or stifle it, but to let it go through its own experience so it may understand by itself that it cannot be satisfied in this way. I feel the need to leave the Ashram for a while to see how I can get along away from here and to realize, no doubt, that one can really brea the only here.
0 1955-10-19, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Generally, when these movements are made in the right way, they are followed by a perfect identification, a dissolution of the ego, bringing about a sublime felicity.
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0 1956-09-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This text was noted down by a disciple from memory. On the original manuscript submitted for her approval, Mother wrote, 'This account is quite correct,' and She signed the text. Words added or corrected by Mother are in italics.
(During the Wednesday class)
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I had had a somewhat similar experience at the time of the union of the supreme creative principle with the physical consciousness. But that was a subtle experience, while this was materialin the body.
I did not have the experience, I did not look at it: I WAS it.
0 1956-09-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
A former disciple who left the Ashram, and subsequently committed suicide.
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0 1957-07-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This means that before hoping to realize such a gnostic collectivity, each one must first of all become (or at least start to become) a gnostic being. It is obvious that the individual work must take the lead and the collective work follow; but the fact remains that spontaneously, without any arbitrary intervention of will the individual progress IS restrained or CHECKED, as It were, by the collective state. Between the collectivity and the individual, there exists an interdependence from which one cannot be totally free, even if one tries. And even he who might try, in his yoga, to free himself totally from the human and terrestrial state of consciousness, would be at least subconsciously bound by the state of the whole, which impedes and PULLS BACKWARDS. One can attempt to go much faster, one can attempt to let all the weight of attachments and responsibilities fall off, but in spite of everything, the realization of even the most advanced or the leader in the march of evolution is dependent upon the realization of the whole, dependent upon the state in which the terrestrial collectivity happens to be. And this PULLS backwards to such an extent that sometimes one has to wait centuries for the earth to be ready before being able to realize what is to be realized.
This is why Sri Aurobindo has also written somewhere else that a double movement is necessary: the effort for individual progress and realization must be combined with the effort of trying to uplift the whole so as to enable it to make a progress indispensable for the greater progress of the individual: a mass progress, if you will, that allows the individual to take a further step forward.
0 1957-12-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The other day you told me that in order to know things, you plug into the subtle plane, and there it all unrolls as on a tape recorder. How does this work, exactly?
There is a whole gradation of planes of consciousness, from the physical consciousness to my radiant consciousness at the very highest level, that which knows the Will of the Supreme. I keep all these planes of consciousness in front of me, working simultaneously, coordinatedly, and I am acting on each plane, gathering the information proper to each plane, so as to have the integral truth of things. Thus, when I have a decision to make in regard to one of you, I plug into you directly from that level of the supreme consciousness which sees the deep truth of your being. But at the same time, my decision is shaped, as it were, by the information given to me by the other planes of consciousness and particularly by the physical consciousness, which acts as a recorder.
0 1958-01-01, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And suddenly, as if resounding from every corner of the earth, I heard these great notes which are sometimes heard in the subtle physicalra ther like those of Beethovens Concerto in Dwhich come at moments of great progress, as though fifty orchestras were bursting forth all at once without a single discordant note, to sound the joy of this new communion of Nature and Spirit, the meeting of old friends who, after a long separation, find each other once more.
Then came these words: O Nature, Material Mother, thou hast said that thou wilt collaborate, and there is no limit to the splendor of this collaboration.
0 1958-02-03b - The Supramental Ship, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The experience I had on February 3 proves this. Before, I had had an individual, subjective contact with the supramental world, whereas on February 3, I went strolling there in a concrete wayas concretely as I used to go strolling in Paris in times pastin a world that EXISTS IN ITSELF, beyond all subjectivity.
It is like a bridge being built between the two worlds.
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The supramental world exists in a permanent way, and I am there permanently in a supramental body. I had proof of this today when my earthly consciousness went there and consciously remained there between two and three oclock in the afternoon: I now know that for the two worlds to join in a constant and conscious relationship what is missing is an intermediate zone between the existing physical world and the supramental world as it exists. This zone has yet to be built, both in the individual consciousness and in the objective world, and it is being built. When formerly I used to speak of the new world that is being created, I was speaking of this intermediate zone. And similarly, when I am on this side that is, in the realm of the physical consciousness and I see the supramental power, the supramental light and substance constantly permeating matter, I am seeing and participating in the construction of this zone.
I found myself upon an immense ship, which is the symbolic representation of the place where this work is being carried out. This ship, as big as a city, is thoroughly organized, and it had certainly already been functioning for quite some time, for its organization was fully developed. It is the place where people destined for the supramental life are being trained. These people (or at least a part of their being) had already undergone a supramental transformation because the ship itself and all that was aboard was neither material nor subtle-physical, neither vital nor mental: it was a supramental substance. This substance itself was of the most material supramental, the supramental substance nearest the physical world, the first to manifest. The light was a blend of red and gold, forming a uniform substance of luminous orange. Everything was like that the light was like that, the people were like thateverything had this color, in varying shades, however, which enabled things to be distinguished from one another. The overall impression was of a shadowless world: there were shades, but no shadows. The atmosphere was full of joy, calm, order; everything worked smoothly and silently. At the same time, I could see all the details of the education, the training in all domains by which the people on board were being prepared.
This immense ship had just arrived at the shore of the supramental world, and a first batch of people destined to become the future inhabitants of the supramental world were about to disembark. Everything was arranged for this first landing. A certain number of very tall beings were posted on the wharf. They were not human beings and never before had they been men. Nor were they permanent inhabitants of the supramental world. They had been delegated from above and posted there to control and supervise the landing. I was in charge of all this since the beginning and throughout. I myself had prepared all the groups. I was standing on the bridge of the ship, calling the groups forward one by one and having them disembark on the shore. The tall beings posted there seemed to be reviewing those who were disembarking, allowing those who were ready to go ashore and sending back those who were not and who had to continue their training aboard the ship. While standing there watching everyone, that part of my consciousness coming from here became extremely interested: it wanted to see, to identify all the people, to see how they had changed and to find out who had been taken immediately as well as those who had to remain and continue their training. After awhile, as I was observing, I began to feel pulled backwards and that my body was being awakened by a consciousness or a person from here1and in my consciousness, I protested: No, no, not yet! Not yet! I want to see whos there! I was watching all this and noting it with intense interest It went on like that until, suddenly, the clock here began striking three, which violently jerked me back. There was the sensation of a sudden fall into my body. I came back with a shock, but since I had been called back very suddenly, all my memory was still intact. I remained quiet and still until I could bring back the whole experience and preserve it.
The nature of objects on this ship was not that which we know upon earth; for example, the clothes were not made of cloth, and this thing that resembled cloth was not manufacturedit was a part of the body, made of the same substance that took on different forms. It had a kind of plasticity. When a change had to be made, it was done not by artificial and outer means but by an inner working, by a working of the consciousness that gave the substance its form or appearance. Life created its own forms. There was ONE SINGLE substance in all things; it changed the nature of its vibration according to the needs or uses.
Those who were sent back for more training were not of a uniform color; their bodies seemed to have patches of a grayish opacity, a substance resembling the earth substance. They were dull, as though they had not been wholly permeated by the light or wholly transformed. They were not like this all over, but in places.
The tall beings on the shore were not of the same color, at least they did not have this orange tint; they were paler, more transparent. Except for a part of their bodies, only the outline of their forms could be seen. They were very tall, they did not seem to have a skeletal structure, and they could take on any form according to their needs. Only from their waists to their feet did they have a permanent density, which was not felt in the rest of their body. Their color was much more pallid and contained very little red, it verged rather on gold or even white. The parts of whitish light were translucid; they were not absolutely transparent, but less dense, more subtle than the orange substance.
Just as I was called back, when I was saying, Not yet , I had a quick glimpse of myself, of my form in the supramental world. I was a mixture of what these tall beings were and the beings aboard the ship. The top part of myself, especially my head, was a mere silhouette of a whitish color with an orange fringe. The more it approached the feet, the more the color resembled that of the people on the ship, or in other words, orange; the more it went up towards the top, the more translucid and white it was, and the red faded. The head was only a silhouette with a brilliant sun at its center; from it issued rays of light which were the action of the will.
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What I can say is that the criterion or the judgment was based EXCLUSIVELY on the substance constituting the peoplewhe ther they belonged completely to the supramental world or not, whether they were made of this very special substance. The criterion adopted was neither moral nor psychological. It is likely that their bodily substance was the result of an inner law or an inner movement which, at that time, was not in question. At least it is quite clear that the values are different.
When I came back, along with the memory of the experience, I knew that the supramental world was permanent, that my presence there is permanent, and that only a missing link is needed to allow the consciousness and the substance to connectand it is this link that is being built. At that time, my impression (an impression which remained rather long, almost the whole day) was of an extreme relativityno, not exactly that, but an impression that the relationship between this world and the other completely changes the criterion by which things are to be evaluated or judged. This criterion had nothing mental about it, and it gave the strange inner feeling that so many things we consider good or bad are not really so. It was very clear that everything depended upon the capacity of things and upon their ability to express the supramental world or be in relationship with it. It was so completely different, at times even so opposite to our ordinary way of looking at things! I recall one little thing that we usually consider bad actually how funny it was to see that it is something excellent! And other things that we consider important were really quite unimportant there! Whether it was like this or like that made no difference. What is very obvious is that our appreciation of what is divine or not divine is incorrect. I even laughed at certain things Our usual feeling about what is anti-divine seems artificial, based upon something untrue, unliving (besides, what we call life here appeared lifeless in comparison with that world); in any event, this feeling should be based upon our relationship between the two worlds and according to whether things make this relationship easier or more difficult. This would thus completely change our evaluation of what brings us nearer to the Divine or what takes us away from Him. With people, too, I saw that what helps them or prevents them from becoming supramental is very different from what our ordinary moral notions imagine. I felt just how ridiculous we are.
(Then Mother speaks to the children)
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A true, sincere, spontaneous life, as in the supramental world, is a springing forth of things through the fact of conscious will, a power over substance that shapes this substance according to what we decide it should be. And he who has this power and this knowledge can obtain whatever he wants, whereas he who does not has no artificial means of getting what he desires.
In ordinary life, EVERYTHING is artificial. Depending upon the chance of your birth or circumstances, you have a more or less high position or a more or less comfortable life, not because it is the spontaneous, natural and sincere expression of your way of being and of your inner need, but because the fortuity of lifes circumstances has placed you in contact with these things. An absolutely worthless man may be in a very high position, and a man who might have marvelous capacities of creation and organization may find himself toiling in a quite limited and inferior position, whereas he would be a wholly useful individual if the world were sincere.
0 1958-03-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
On the way, I stopped at J and Es place. They are living like native fishermen, in loincloths, in a coconut grove by the sea. The place is exceedingly beautiful, and the sea full of rainbow-hued coral. And suddenly, within twenty-four hours, I realized an old dreamor rather, I purged myself of an old and tenacious dream: that of living on a Pacific island as a simple fisherman. And all at once, I saw, in a flash, that this kind of life totally lacks a center. You float in a nowhere. It plunges you into some kind of higher inertia, an illumined inertia, and you lose all true substance.
As for me, I am totally out of my element in this new life, as though I were uprooted from myself. I am living in the temple, in the midst of pujas,1 with white ashes on my forehead, barefoot dressed like a Hindu, sleeping on cement at night, eating impossible curries, with some good sunburns to complete the cooking. And there I am, clinging to you, for if you were not there I would collapse, so absurd would it all be. You are the only realityhow many times have I repeated this to myself, like a litany! Apart from this, I am holding up quite well physically. But inside and outside, nothing is left but you. I need you, thats all. Mother, this world is so horrifyingly empty. I really feel that I would evaporate if you werent there. Well, no doubt I had to go through this experience Perhaps I will be able to extract some book from it that will be of use to you. We are like children who need a lot of pictures in order to understand, and a few good kicks to realize our complete stupidity.
0 1958-05-01, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
To do the divine Will I have been doing the sadhana for a long time, and I can say that not a day has passed that I have not done the Divines Will. But I didnt know what it was! I was living in all the inner realms, from the subtle physical to the highest regions, yet I didnt know what it was I always had to listen, to refer things, to pay attention. Now, no morebliss! There are no more problems, and everything is done in such harmony! Even if I had to leave my body, I would be in bliss! And it would happen in the best possible way.
Only now am I beginning to understand what Sri Aurobindo has written in The Synthesis of Yoga! And the human mind, the physical mind, appears so stupid, so stupid!
0 1958-05-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The difficulty is greater for Westerners than for Indians. Its as though their substance were steeped in falsehood. It also happens with Indians, of course, but generally the falsehood is much more in the vital than in the physicalbecause after all, the physical has been utilized by bodies belonging to enlightened beings. The European substance seems steeped in rebellion; in the Indian substance this rebelliousness is subdued by an influence of surrender. The other day, someone was telling me about some Europeans with whom he corresponds, and I said, But tell them to read, to learn, to follow The Synthesis of Yoga!it leads you straight to the path. Whereupon he replied, Oh, but they say its full of talk on surrender, surrender, always surrender and they want none of it.
They want none of it! Even if the mind accepts, the body and the vital refuse. And when the body refuses, it refuses with the stubbornness of a stone.
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No. From the minute it is conscious, it is conscious of its own falsehood! It is conscious of this law, of that law, of this third law that fourth law, this tenth laweverything is a law. We are subject to physical laws: this will produce such and such a result if you do that, this will happen, etc. Oh! It reeks! I know it well. I know it very well. These laws reek of falsehood. In the body, we have no faith in the divine Grace, none, none, none, none! Those who have not undergone a tapasya2 as I have, say, Yes, all these inner moral things, feelings, psychology, all that is very good; we want the Divine and we are ready to But all the same, material facts are material facts, they have their concrete reality, after all an illness is an illness, food is food, and everything you do has a consequence, and when you are bah, bah, bah, bah, bah!
We must understand that this isnt trueit isnt true, its a falsehood, all this is sheer falsehood. It is NOT TRUE, it is not true!
0 1958-06-06 - Supramental Ship, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It is the result of the descent of the supramental substance into Matter. Only this substancewhat it has put into physical Mattercould have made it possible. It is a new ferment. From the material standpoint, it removes from physical Matter its tamas, the heaviness of its unconsciousness, and from the psychological standpoint, its ignorance and its falsehood. Matter is subtilized. But it has surely come only as a first experience to show how it will be.
It is truly a state of absolute omniscience and omnipotence in the body which changes all the vibrations around it.
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Its action will be somewhat similar to what is described in the Last Judgment, which is an entirely symbolic expression of something that makes us discern between what belongs to the world of falsehood which is destined to disappear and what belongs to this same world of ignorance and inertia but is transformable. One will go to one side and the other to the other side. All that is transformable will be permeated more and more with this new substance and this new consciousness to such an extent that it will rise towards it and serve as a link between the two but all that belongs incorrigibly to falsehood and ignorance will disappear. This was also prophesied in the Gita: among what we call the hostile or anti-divine forces, those capable of being transformed will be uplifted and go off towards the new consciousness, whereas all that is irrevocably in darkness or belongs to an evil will shall be destroyed and vanish from the Universe. And a whole part of humanity that has responded to these forces rather too zealously will certainly vanish with them. And this is what was expressed in this concept of the Last Judgment.
May 1, 1958.
0 1958-07-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
A subject for this evening
Something I have never said completely. On the one hand, there is the attitude of those in yesterday evenings film2: God is everything, God is everywhere, God is in he who smites you (as Sri Aurobindo wroteGod made me good with a blow, shall I tell Him: O Mighty One, I forgive you your harm and cruelty but do not do it again!), an attitude which, if extended to its ultimate conclusion, accepts the world as it is: the world is the perfect expression of the divine Will. On the other hand, there is the attitude of progress and transformation. But for that, you must recognize that there are things in the world which are not as they should be.
0 1958-07-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
You see, this is how it happened: theres this Ganesh2 We had a meditation (this was more than thirty years ago) in the room where Prosperity3 is now distributed. There were eight or ten of us, I believe. We used to make sentences with flowers; I arranged the flowers, and each one made a sentence with the different flowers I had put there. And one day when the subject of prosperity or wealth came up, I thought (they always say that Ganesh is the god of money, of fortune, of the worlds wealth), I thought, Isnt this whole story of the god with an elephant trunk merely a lot of human imagination? Thereupon, we meditated. And who should I see walk in and park himself in front of me but a living being, absolutely alive and luminous, with a trunk that long and smiling! So then, in my meditation, I said, Ah! So its true that you exist!Of course I exist! And you may ask me for whatever you wish, from a monetary standpoint, of course, and I will give it to you!
So I asked. And for about ten years, it poured in, like this (gesture of torrents). It was incredible. I would ask, and at the next Darshan, or a month or several days later, depending, there it was.
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For the last, for money, he told me, I still dont know exactly what it depends on. Then one day I entered into trance with this idea in mind, and after a certain journey I came to a place like a subterranean grotto (which means that it is in the subconscient, or perhaps even in the inconscient) which was the source, the place and the power over money. I was about to enter into this grotto (a kind of inner cave) when I saw, coiled and upright, an immense serpent, like an all black python, formidable, as big as a seven-story house, who said, You cannot pass!Why not? Let me pass!Myself, I would let you pass, but if I did, they would immediately destroy me.Who, then, is this they?They are the asuric4 powers who rule over money. They have put me here to guard the entrance, precisely so that you may not enter.And what is it that would give one the power to enter? Then he told me something like this: I heard (that is, he himself had no special knowledge, but it was something he had heard from his masters, those who ruled over him), I heard that he who will have a total power over the human sexual impulses (not merely in himself, but a universal power that is, a power enabling him to control this everywhere, among all men) will have the right to enter. In other words, these forces would not be able to prevent him from entering.
A personal realization is very easy, it is nothing at all; a personal realization is one thing, but the power to control it among all men that is, to control or master such movements at will, everywhereis quite another. I dont believe that this condition has been fulfilled. If what the serpent said is true and if this is really what will vanquish these hostile forces that rule over money, well then, it has not been fulfilled.
0 1958-07-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Not to waste energy means to utilize it towards the ends for which it was given. If energy is given for the transformation, for the sublimation of the being, it must be used for that; if energy is given to restore something that has been disrupted in the body, it must be used for that.
Naturally, if a special work is given to someone along with the energy to do this work, its very good as long as it is being used towards the end for which it was given.
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
We know nothing. We believe we know, but as soon as it is a question of that (the body), we know nothing. As soon as we are in the subtle physical, we know everything, we live in bliss but here, we know nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing.
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0 1958-09-16 - OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
That is the normal state. It creates an atmosphere of an intensity almost more material than the subtle physical; its like almost like the phosphorescent radiations from a medium. And it has a great action, a very great action: it can prevent an accident. And it accompanies you all the time, all the time.
But it is up to you to know what you want to do with it.
0 1958-10-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The progress above follows a certain trajectory, and in some cases the distance increases, in others it decreases (although on the whole, the distance remains relatively unchanged), but my feeling is that the collective receptivity will increase as the action becomes increasingly supramentalized. And the need for an individual receptivitywith all its distortions and alterations and limitationswill decrease in importance as the supramental influence increasingly imposes its power. This influence will impose itself in such a way that it will no longer be subject to the defects in receptivity.
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0 1958-10-25 - to go out of your body, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I had a Danish friend, an artist, to whom this happened. He wanted me to teach him how to go out of his body. He had interesting dreams so he thought it might be worthwhile to go there consciously. I helped him to go out but it was frightful! When he dreamed, a part of his mind indeed remained conscious, active, and a kind of link remained between this active part and his outer being, so he remembered some of his dreams, but it was only a very partial phenomenon. To go out of your body means that you must gradually pass through ALL the states of being, if you are to do it systematically. But already in the subtle physical it was almost non-individualized, and as soon as he went a bit further, there was no longer anything! It was unformed, nonexistent.
So they sit down (they are told to interiorize, to go within themselves), and they panic!Naturally they feel that they that they are disappearing: there is nothing! There is no consciousness!
0 1958-11-04 - Myths are True and Gods exist - mental formation and occult faculties - exteriorization - work in dreams, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
They are beings who belong to the progressive creation of the universe and who have themselves presided over its formation from the most etheric or subtle regions to the most material regions. They are a descent of the divine creative Spirit that came to repair the mischief in short, to repair what the Asuras had done. The first makers created disorder and darkness, an unconsciousness, and then it is said that there was a second lineage of makers to repair that evil, and the gods gradually descended through realities that were ever moreone cant say dense because it isnt really dense, nor can one even say material, since matter as we know it does not exist on these planesthrough more and more concrete substances.
All these zones, these planes of reality, received different names and were classified in different ways according to the occult schools, according to the different traditions, but there is an essential similarity, and if we go back far enough into the various traditions, hardly anything but words differ, depending upon the country and the language. The descriptions are quite similar. Moreover, those who climb back up the ladderor in other words, a human being who, through his occult knowledge, goes out of one of his bodies (they are called sheaths in English) and enters into a more subtle bodyin order to ACT in a more subtle body and so forth, twelve times (you make each body come out from a more material body, leaving the more material body in its corresponding zone, and then go off through successive exteriorizations), what they have seen, what they have discovered and seen through their ascensionwhe ther they are occultists from the Occident or occultists from the Orientis for the most part analogous in description. They have put different words on it, but the experience is very analogous.
There is the whole Chaldean tradition, and there is also the Vedic tradition, and there was very certainly a tradition anterior to both that split into two branches. Well, all these occult experiences have been the same. Only the description differs depending upon the country and the language. The story of creation is not told from a metaphysical or psychological point of view, but from an objective point of view, and this story is as real as our stories of historical periods. Of course, its not the only way of seeing, but it is just as legitimate a way as the others, and in any event, it recognizes the concrete reality of all these divine beings. Even now, the experiences of Western occultists and those of Eastern occultists exhibit great similarities. The only difference is in the way they are expressed, but the manipulation of the forces is the same.
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He said he had received initiation in India (he knew a little Sanskrit and the Rig-Veda thoroughly), and then he formulated a tradition which he called the cosmic tradition and which he claimed to have received I dont know howfrom a tradition anterior to that of the Cabala and the Vedas. But there were many things (Madame Theon was the clairvoyant one, and she received visions; oh, she was wonderful!), many things that I myself had seen and known before knowing them which were then substantiated.
So personally, I am convinced that there was indeed a tradition anterior to both these traditions containing a knowledge very close to an integral knowledge. Certainly, there is a similarity in the experiences. When I came here and told Sri Aurobindo certain things I knew from the occult standpoint, he always said that it conformed to the Vedic tradition. And as for certain occult practices, he told me that they were entirely tantric and I knew nothing at that time, absolutely nothing, neither the Vedas nor the Tantras.
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But now, there is only a very small number of people in the West who know that it isnt merely subjective or imaginative (the result of a more or less unbridled imagination), and that it corresponds to a universal truth.
All these regions, all these realms are filled with beings who exist separately in their own realms, and if you are awake and conscious on a given plane for example, if while going out of a more material body you awaken on some higher planeyou can have the same relationship with the things and people of that plane as with the things and people of the material world. In other words, there exists an entirely objective relationship that has nothing to do with your own idea of things. Naturally, the resemblance becomes greater and greater as you draw nearer the physical world, the material world, and there is even a moment when one region can act directly upon the other. In any case, in what Sri Aurobindo calls the kingdoms of the overmind, you find a concrete reality entirely independent of your personal experience; whenever you come back to it, you again find the same things, with some differences that may have occurred DURING YOUR ABSENCE. And your relationships with the beings there are identical to those you have with physical beings, except that they are more flexible, more supple and more direct (for example, there is a capacity to change the outer form, the visible form, according to your inner state), but you can make an appointment with someone, come to the meeting and again find the same being, with only certain differences that may have occurred during your absence but it is absolutely concrete, with absolutely concrete results.
However, you must have at least a little experience of these things to understand them. Otherwise, if you are convinced that all this is just human fancy or mental formations, if you believe that these gods have such and such a form because men have imagined them to be like that, or that they have such and such defects or qualities because men have envisioned it that wayas with all those who say God is created in the image of man and exists only in human thoughtall such people wont understand, it will seem absolutely ridiculous to them, a kind of madness. You must live a little, touch the subject a little to know how concrete it is.
Naturally, children know a great dealif they have not been spoiled. There are many children who return to the same place night after night and continue living a life they have begun there. When these faculties are not spoiled with age, they can be preserved within one. There was a time when I was especially interested in dreams, and I could return exactly to the same place and continue some work I had begun there, visit something, for example, or see to something, some work of organization or some discovery or exploration; you go to a certain place, just as you go somewhere in life, then you rest a while, then you go back and begin againyou take up your work just where you left it, and you continue. You also notice that there are things entirely independent of you, certain variations which were not at all created by you and which occurred automatically during your absence.
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Once you have worked in this field, you realize that when you have studied a subject, when you have mentally understood something, it gives a special tonality to the experience. The experience may be quite spontaneous and sincere, but the simple fact of having known this subject and of having studied it gives a particular tonality; on the other hand, if you have learned nothing of the subject, if you know nothing at all, well, when the experience comes, the notation of it is entirely spontaneous and sincere. It can be more or less adequate, but it is not the result of a former mental formation.
What happened in my life is that I never studied or knew things until AFTER having the experienceonly BECAUSE OF the experience and because I wanted to understand it would I study things related to it.
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(Then the disciple asks for details on going out of each successive body into the next, more subtle one)
There are subtle bodies and subtle worlds that correspond to these bodies; it is what the psychological method calls states of consciousness, but these states of consciousness really correspond to worlds. The occult process consists in becoming aware of these various inner states of being, or subtle bodies, and of mastering them sufficiently to be able to make one come out of the other, successively. For there is a whole hierarchy of increasing subtletiesor decreasing, depending upon the direction and the occult process consists in making a more subtle body come out from a denser body, and so forth, right to the most ethereal regions. You go out through successive exteriorizations into more and more subtle bodies or worlds. Each time it is rather like passing into another dimension. In fact, the fourth dimension of the physicists is only the scientific transcription of an occult knowledge.
To give another comparison, it could be said that the physical body is at the centerit is the most material and the most condensed, as well as the smallestand the more subtle inner bodies increasingly overlap the limits of this central physical body; they pass through it and extend further and further out, like water evaporating from a porous vase which creates a kind of steam all around it. And the more subtle it is, the more its extension tends to fuse with that of the universe: you finally become universal. It is an entirely concrete process that makes the invisible worlds an objective experience and even allows you to act in those worlds.
In Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's terminology, 'psychic' or 'psychic being' means the soul or the portion of the Supreme in man which evolves from life to life until it becomes a fully self-conscious being. The soul is a special capacity or grace of human beings on earth.
0 1958-11-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother specified: 'The subconscious memory of the past creates a kind of irresistible desire to escape from the difficulty, and you recommence the same foolishness, or an even greater foolishness.'
The disciple wanted to leave for the forest, the Congo, to do the most unlikely things there.
0 1958-11-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As it is, the physical body is really only a very disfigured shadow of the eternal life of the Self, but this physical body is capable of a progressive development; the physical substance progresses through each individual formation, and one day it will be able to build a bridge between physical life as we know it and the supramental life that is to manifest.
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0 1958-12-15 - tantric mantra - 125,000, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother, things are far from being what they were the first time in Rameswaram, and I am living through certain moments that are hell the enemy seems to have been unleashed with an extraordinary violence. It comes in waves, and after it recedes, I am literally SHATTEREDphysically, mentally and vitally drained. This morning, while going to the temple, I lived through one of these moments. All this suffering that suddenly sweeps down upon me is horrible. Yes, I had the feeling of being BACKED UP AGAINST A WALL, exactly as in your vision I was up against a wall. I was walking among these immense arcades of sculptured granite and I could see myself walking, very small, all alone, alone, ravaged with pain, filled with a nameless despair, for nowhere was there a way out. The sea was nearby and I could have thrown myself into it; otherwise, there was only the sanctuary of Parvati but there was no more Africa to flee to, everything closed in all around me, and I kept repeating, Why? Why? This much suffering was truly inhuman, as if my last twenty years of nightmare were crashing down upon me. I gritted my teeth and went to the sanctuary to say my mantra. The pain in me was so strong that I broke into a cold sweat and almost fainted. Then it subsided. Yet even now I feel completely battered.
I clearly see that the hour has come: either I will perish right here, or else I will emerge from this COMPLETELY changed. But something has to change. Mother, you are with me, I know, and you are protecting me, you love me I have only you, only you, you are my Mother. If these moments of utter darkness return and they are bound to return for everything to be exorcised and conqueredprotect me in spite of myself. Mother, may your Grace not abandon me. I want to be done with all these old phantoms, I want to be born anew in your Light; it has to beotherwise I can no longer go on.
0 1958-12-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Swami told me that the mantra to Durga is intended to pierce through into the subconscient. To complement this work, he does his pujas to Kali, and finally one of his friends, X, the High Priest of the temple in Rameswaram (who presided over my initiation and has great occult powers), has undertaken to say a very powerful mantra over me daily, for a period of eight days, to extirpate the dark forces from my subconscious. The operation already began four days ago. While reciting his mantra, he holds a glass of water in his hand, then he makes me drink it. It seems that on the eighth day, if the enemy has been trapped, this water turns yellow then the operation is over and the poisoned water is thrown out. (I tell you all this because I prefer that you know.) In any event, I like X very much, he is a very luminous, very good man. If I am not delivered after all this!
In truth, I believe only in the Grace. My mantra and all the rest seem to me only little tricks to try to win over your Grace.
0 1959-01-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
My explanations will have to be simple, for X speaks English with difficulty, thus subtleties are out of the question. (I am teaching him a little English while he is teaching me Sanskrit, and we manage to understand each other rather well all the same. He understands more than he can speak.)
I do not want to mention this to Swami, as X is not very happy about the way Swami seizes upon every occasion to appropriate things, and particularly mantras (I will explain this to you when we meet again). It is especially the way he says I. Nothing very seriousit is Swamis bad side, though he has good ones too. You know that, however.
0 1959-03-10 - vital dagger, vital mass, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Sri Aurobindo calls this realm the intermediate zone, a zone in which, he says, you can have all the experiences you wish if you enter into it. But it isnt (laughing) very advisable!and I understand why! I had that experience because I had just read what Sri Aurobindo says on this subject in a letter in this latest book, On Yoga; I wanted to see for myself what it was. Ah, I understood!
And I express this in my own way when I say1 that thoughts come and go, flow in and out. But thoughts concerning material things are formations originating in that world, they are kinds of wills coming from the vital plane which try to express themselves, and most often they are truly deadly. If you are annoyed, for example, if someone says something unpleasant to you and you react It always happens in the same way; these little entities are there waiting, and when they feel its the right moment, they introduce their influence and their suggestions. This is what is vitally symbolized by the being with his dagger rushing forward to stab youand in the back, at that! Not even face to face! This then expresses itself in the human consciousness by a movement of anger or rage or indignation: How intolerable! How ! And the other fellow says, Yes! We shall put an end to it!
0 1959-05-19 - Ascending and Descending paths, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The thing can still be brought down as far as the mental and vital planes (although Sri Aurobindo said that thousands of lifetimes would be needed merely to bring it down to the mental plane, unless one practiced a perfect surrender1). With Sri Aurobindo, we went down below Matter, right into the subconscient and even into the Inconscient. But after the descent comes the transformation, and when you come down to the body, when you attempt to make it take one step forwardoh, not even a real step, just a little step!everything starts grating; its like stepping on an anthill And yet the presence, the help of the supreme Mother, is there constantly; thus you realize that for ordinary men such a task is impossible, or else millions of lives would be needed but in truth, unless the work is done for them and the sadhana of the body done for the entire earth consciousness, they will never achieve the physical transformation, or else it will be so remote that it is better not even to speak of it. But if they open themselves, if they give themselves over in an integral surrender, the work can be done for themthey have only to let it be done.
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!
0 1959-06-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
1) X spoke to me of the Vedic times when a single emperor or sage ruled the entire world with the help of governors; then these governors gradually became independent kings, and conflicts were born. So I asked him what was going to happen after this next war and whether the world would be better. He replied as follows: Yes, great sages like Sri Aurobindo who are wandering now in their subtle bodies will appear. Some sages may take the physical body of political leaders in the West. It will be the end of ignorant atomic machines and the beginning of a new age with great sages leading the world. So it seems that Xs vision links up with Sri Aurobindos prediction for 1967.
He did not give me any further details about this war, except to say that the countries which will suffer the most will be the countries of the North and the East, and he cited Burma, Japan, China and Russia. He said rather categorically that Russia would be swept away and that America would triumph.
0 1959-10-06 - Sri Aurobindos abode, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I found myself in another world, but not far away (I was not in a total trance). This world was almost as substantial as the physical world. There were roomsSri Aurobindos room with the bed he rests on and he was living there, he was there all the time: it was his abode. Even my room was there, with a large mirror like the one I have here, combs, all kinds of things. And the substance of these objects was almost as dense as in the physical world, but they shone with their own light. It was not translucent, not transparent, not radiant, but self-luminous. The various objects and the material of the rooms did not have this same opacity as the physical objects here, they were not dry and hard as in the physical world we know.
And Sri Aurobindo was there, with a majesty, a magnificent beauty. He had all his beautiful hair as before. It was all so concrete, so substantialhe was even being served some kind of food. I remained there for one hour (I had looked at my watch before and I looked at it afterwards). I spoke to Sri Aurobindo, for I had some important questions to ask him about the way certain things are to be realized. He said nothing. He listened to me quietly and looked at me as if all my words were useless: he understood everything at once. And he answered me with a gesture and two expressions on his face, an unexpected gesture that did not at all correspond to any thought of mine; for example, he picked up three combs that were lying near the mirror (combs similar to those I use here, but larger) and he put them in his hair. He planted one comb in the middle of his head and the two others on each side, as if to gather all his hair over his temples. He was literally COIFFED with these three combs, which gave him a kind of crown. And I immediately understood that by this he meant that he was adopting my conception: You see, I embrace your conception of things, and I coif myself with it; it is my will. Anyway, I remained there for one hour.
And when I awoke, I didnt have this feeling of returning from afar and of having to re-enter my body, as I usually do. No, it was simply as though I were in this other world, then I took a step backwards and found myself here again. It took me a good half an hour to understand that this world here existed as much as the other and that I was no longer on the other side but here, in the world of falsehood. I had forgotten everythingpeople, things, what I had to do; everything had gone, as if it had no reality at all.
0 1959-11-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
There is one element that remains fixed: for each type of atom, the inner organization of the elements is different, which is what creates the difference in their substance. So perhaps similarly, each individual has a different, particular way of organizing the cells of his body, and it is this particular way that persists through all the outer changes. All the rest is undone and redone, but undone in a forward thrust towards the new instead of collapsing backwards into death, and redone in a constant aspiration to follow the progressive movement of the divine Truth.
But for that, the body the body-consciousness must first learn to widen itself. It is indispensable, for otherwise all the cells become a kind of boiling porridge under the pressure of the supramental light.
0 1960-01-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Of course, things are now going better, especially since Sri Aurobindo became established in the subtle physical, an almost material subtle physical.2 But there are still plenty of question marks The body understands once, and then it forgets. The Enemys opposition is nothing, for I can see clearly that it comes from outside and that its hostile, so I do whats necessary. But where the difficulty lies is in all the small things of daily material lifesuddenly the body no longer understands, it forgets.
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
0 1960-05-16, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
If there is one fundamental necessity, it is humility. To be humble. Not humble as it is normally understood, such as merely saying, I am so small, Im nothing at allno, something else Because the pitfalls are innumerable, and the further you progress in yoga, the more subtle they become, and the more the ego masks itself behind marvelous and saintly appearances. So when somebody says, I no longer want to rely on anything but Him. I want to close my eyes and rest in Him alone, this comfortable Him, which is exactly what you want him to be, is the egoor a formidable Asura, or a Titan (depending on each ones capacity). Theyre all over the earth, the earth is their domain. So the first thing to do is to pocket your egonot preserve it, but get rid of it as soon as possible!
You can be sure that the God youve created is a God of the ego whenever something within you insists, This is what I feel, this is what I think, this is what I see; its my way, my very ownits my way of being, my way of understanding, my relationship with the Divine, etc.
0 1960-05-21 - true purity - you have to be the Divine to overcome hostile forces, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
At times, I feel that Ill never get over the difficulty. We are besieged by this enormous world of hostile forcesoceans of forces, churning and combining and submerging each other in gigantic pralayas,1 then again regrouping and combining. When you see that, it feels as if you had to be the Divine Himself to get over the difficulty. Precisely so! (And its the hostile forces who help you to see this, its their role.) You have TO BE THE DIVINE, that is the solution, that is the true divine purity.
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Formations, in occult language, refer to all the psychological movements and impulses, conscious or unconscious, constantly emanating from the disciples and others, and which leave an imprint in the subtle atmosphere or a wandering entity seeking to fulfill itself.
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0 1960-05-24 - supramental flood, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Words cannot express it. No translation, none, not even the most subtle mental translation can express this. It was Even now the memory I have of it is inexpressible. You have to be in it to feel it, otherwise
However, to the consciousness it was very, very clear. It was neither mysterious nor incomprehensible, it was absolutely obviousthough untranslatable to our mental consciousness. For they were contradictory, yet they existed simultaneously, indistinguishable: they were not stacked one upon anotherit was all simultaneous. How can you explain that?! Its too difficult. It must be experienced.
0 1960-05-28 - death of K - the death process- the subtle physical, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
object:0_1960-05-28 - death of K - the death process- the subtle physical
author class:The Mother
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But as he was accustomed to going out of his body, he didnt know! He even used to make experimentshe would go out, circle around in his room, see his body from outside, observe the difference between the subtle physical and the material physical, etc. So he didnt know. And its only when they burned his body
I tried to delay the moment, but he was in the hospital, so it was difficult. I was in my room when they burned his body, and then suddenly I saw him arrivesobbingsaying, But But I m dead. I DIDNT WANT to die! Why am I dead, I DIDNT WANT to die! It was dreadful. So I kept him and held him against me to quiet him down.
0 1960-06-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
There are two things to avoid: falling into a stupor of unconsciousness, with all those things coming up from the subconscious and the unconscious that invade and penetrate you, and a vital and mental hyperactivity in which you pass your time literally fightingterrible battles. People come out of that black and blue, as if they had been beaten and they have been, it is not as if! And I see only one way outto change the nature of sleep.
Mother added:
0 1960-07-26 - Mothers vision - looking up words in the subconscient, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
object:0_1960-07-26 - Mothers vision - looking up words in the subconscient
author class:The Mother
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Coming at the end of the night as it did, it means that its an exploration in some part or another of a subconscious mental activity. And you can make so many discoveries there it is unbelievable! But its lovely. And rarely unpleasant. There was a time when it was very unpleasant, oppressive, full of effort and resistance. I would want to go somewhere, but it would be impossible; I toiled and struggled, but everything would go wrong the straight paths would suddenly plunge into an abyss, and Id have to cross the abyss. For years it was like that. Just recently, I looked back over this whole period But now it is over. Now its something its lovely, its enjoyable, its a little it has a childlike simplicity.
However, its not a personal subconscient, but a its more than the Ashram. For me, the Ashram is not a separate individualityexcept in that vision the other day,1 which is what surprised me. Its hardly that. Rather, it is still this Movement of everything, of everything that is included. So its like entering into the subconscient of the whole earth, and it takes on forms which are quite familiar images to me, but they are absolutely symbolic and very, very funny! It took a moment to see that vainquons is spelled q-u-o-n-s. And I wasnt sure! I meant to ask Pavitra for a dictionary which gives verb conjugations, for then if Im stuck on something while writing, I can look it up.
The other day I wrote somethingit was a letter I gave Pavitra to read. I think theres a spelling mistake, he said. Its quite possible, I answered, I make plenty of them. He looked it up in a splendid dictionary and, as a matter of fact, it was a mistake. I meant to ask him for a dictionary this morning.
Its very simple, actually; its a convention, a conventional construction somewhere in the subconscious brain, and you write automatically. But if you want to try to bring the light of a slightly higher reason into it, its terrible. It becomes meaningless, and you forget everything.
You have to be inside this automatic convention to remember; its very difficult (Mother laughs). So I make a lot of spelling mistakes (under her breath, in a mischievous tone) I think Ill ask him for his dictionary (laughter)!
0 1960-08-10 - questions from center of Education - reading Sri Aurobindo, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
If you carefully study what Sri Aurobindo has written on every subject
He wrote on EVERYTHING, there is not one subject on which he has not written! The point is to find it everywhere.
a complete knowledge of the things of the world can be easily achieved.
What I call studying is to take Sri Aurobindos books, where he quotes or speaks of one thing or another, then have the corresponding bookswhen he quotes something, you must take the book it corresponds to; when he speaks of something, you must study the writings on that subject. This is what I call studying. Then, after having read the corresponding works, you compare them with what Sri Aurobindo has said, and in this way there may be a beginning of understanding. If someone is very studious, he can review all that has ever been written or taught by going through Sri Aurobindos books. I mean this for someone who loves working.
I SEE this state of mind, this mental attitude Oh! Its its so repugnant. People are so afraid of taking sides, so afraid of appearing biased; they are so afraid of appearing to have faith, so afraid Oh, its disgraceful.
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What a comparison! (Mother laughs) Oh, they have such psychological subtleties!
But its especially for the spelling of verbs. I believe I know how to conjugate!
0 1960-09-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It gives discipline. Its an almost subconscious discipline of the character more than of thought.
Especially at the beginning, Sri Aurobindo used to shatter to pieces all moral ideas (you know, as in the Aphorisms, for example). He shattered all those things, he shattered them, really shattered them to pieces. So theres a whole group of youngsters7 here who were brought up with this idea that we can do whatever we want, it doesnt matter in the least!that they need not bother about all those concepts of ordinary morality. Ive had a hard time making them understand that this morality can be abandoned only for a higher one So, one has to be careful not to give them the Power too soon.
Its an almost physical discipline. Moreover, I have seen that the japa has an organizing effect on the subconscient, on the inconscient, on matter, on the bodys cellsit takes time, but by persistently repeating it, in the long run it has an effect. It is the same principle as doing daily exercises on the piano, for example. You keep mechanically repeating them, and in the end your hands are filled with consciousness it fills the body with consciousness.
I have a hard time making X understand that I have work to do when Im with him. He doesnt understand that one can work.
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I was watching all this sugar canepiles of sugar canewhich is thrown into the machine, and then it travels along and falls down to be crushed, crushed, and crushed some more. And then it comes back up to be distilled. And then I saw all this is living when its thrown in, you see, its full of its vital force, for it has just been cut. As a result, the vital force is suddenly hurled out of the substance with an extreme violence the vital force comes out the English word angry is quite expressive of what I meanlike a snarling dog. An angry force.10
So I saw this I saw it moving about. And it kept coming and coming and coming, accumulating, piling up (they work 24 hours a day, six days a weekonly on the seventh do they rest). So I thought that this angry force must have some effect on the peoplewho knows, maybe this is what creates accidents. For I could see that once the sugar cane was fully crushed and had gone back up the chute, this force that had been beaten out was right there. And this worried me a little; I thought that there must be a certain danger in doing such a thing! What saves them is their ignorance and their insensitivity. But Indians are never entirely insensitive in the way Westerners arethey are much more open in their subconscious.
I didnt speak of it to anyone, but it caused me some concern. And just the next day the machine broke down! When I was informed, immediately I thought It was then repaired, and again it broke downthree times. Then the following night, just before ten oclock I should mention that during the day I had thought, But why not attract these forces to our side, take them and satisfy them, give them some peace and joy and use them? I thought about it, concentrated a little, but then I didnt bother any further. At ten oclock that evening, they came upon mein a flood! They kept coming and coming. And I was busy with them the whole time. They were not ugly (not so luminous either! ), they were wholesome, straightforwardhonest forces. So I worked on them. This began exactly at 9:30, and for one hour I was busy working. After an hour, Id had enough: Listen, this is quite fine, youre very nice, but I cant spend all my time like this! We shall see what to do later for it absorbed my whole consciousness. They kept coming and coming (you understand what that means to a body?!). So at 10:30 I told them, Listen, my little ones, be quiet now, thats enough for today At 10:30, the machine broke down!
0 1960-10-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Sanskrit is better. Sanskrit is a much fuller and subtler language, so its probably much better. But these modern languages are so artificial (by this, I mean superficial, intellectual); they cut things up into little pieces and remove the light behind.
I also read On the Veda where Sri Aurobindo speaks of the difference between the modern mind and the ancient mind; and its quite obvious, especially from the linguistic point of view. Sanskrit was certainly much more fluid, a better instrument for a more global, more comprehensive light, a light containing more things within itself.
0 1960-10-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
There was this Themanlys, my brothers schoolmate; he wrote books, but he was lazy-minded and didnt want to work! So he had passed that job on to me. But it was impossible, you couldnt do a thing with it. And what words! Theon would invent words for the subtle organs, the inner senses; he had found a word for each thinga frightful barbarism! And I took care of everything: I found the printer, corrected the proofsall the work for a long time.
They were stories, narratives, an entire initiation in the form of stories. There was a lot in it, really a lot. She knew many things. But it was presented in such a way that it was unreadable.
0 1960-10-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I looked and saw the realm which is under the influence of thought the power of thought on the body is tremendous! You cannot imagine how tremendous it is. Even a subconscious or sometimes unconscious thought acts and provokes fantastic results! Ive studied this. Ive been studying it IN DETAIL for the last two yearsits incredible! If I had the time one day to explain all this, it would be interesting.
Even tiny, the tiniest mental or vital reactionsso tiny that to our ordinary consciousness they dont appear to have the LEAST importanceact upon the bodys cells and can create disorders You see, when you observe carefully, you suddenly become aware of a very slight uneasiness, a mere nothing (when youre busy, you dont even notice it), and then if you follow this uneasiness to see what it is, you perceive that it comes from something quite imperceptible and insignificant to our active consciousness but its enough to create an uneasy feeling in the body.
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The problem is that when you enter into the ordinary consciousness, these things become so subtle and require such a scrupulous observance that people are justified (they FEEL justified) in having the attitude, Oh, its Nature, its Fate, its the Divine Will! But with that conviction, the Yoga of Perfection is impossible and appears as a mere utopian fantasy but this is FALSE. The truth is something else entirely.
(long silence)
0 1960-10-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And the experience just now (during meditation) was somehow mixed with what I usually see at night (it was not a combinationor maybe it was a combination ), for it had that same light It was a kind of powdering, even finer than tiny dotsa powdering like an atomic dust, but with an EXTREMELY intense vibration but without any shifting of place. And yet its in constant motion Something shifting about within something that vibrates on the same spot without moving (something does move, but its subtler, like a current of tremendous power which passes through a milieu that doesnt move at all: rather, it vibrates on the same spot with an extreme intensity). But I dont exactly know how it is different from the present experience It becomes less golden at night, the gold is less visible, whereas the other colorswhite, blue and a sort of pinkare much more visible.
Oh, now I remember! It was PINK during the second phase, just afterwards, after Egypt! Oh, it was like like at the end of a sunrise when it gets very clear and luminous. A magnificent color. And it kept coming down and down, in a flood that part was new. Its something I see very rarely. It was not there at all the last time we meditated together. And it came filled with such a joy! Oh! It was absolutely ecstatic. It lasted quite a long time. And from there I went into this trance where I saw (laughing) that man congratulating you! I heard him say (his voice is what roused me from my trance, and then I saw him), Congratulations, its a great success! (Mother laughs)
0 1960-11-05, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And we carry that within us! We arent aware of it, its almost subconscious for you see, the consciousness is there to prevent us from yielding to thatits cowardly, and it can make you fall sick IN A MINUTE. I saw it, I saw things that had been cured and overcome in myself (cured in the true manner, not in an outer way), and then they return! Its cured, but then it begins again.
So then I went in search of its origin. Its something in the subconscientin the cells subconscient. Its roots are there, and on the least occasion And its so very, very ingrained that For example, you can be feeling very good, the body can be perfectly harmonious (and when the body is perfectly harmonious, its motions are harmonious, things are in their true places, everything works exactly as it should without needing the least attentiona general harmony), when suddenly the clock strikes, for example, or someone utters a word, and you have just the faint impression Oh, its late, Im not going to be on timea second, a split second, and the whole working of the body falls apart. You suddenly feel feeble, drained, uneasy. And you have to intervene. Its terrible. And were at the mercy of such things!
To change it, you have to descend into itwhich is what Im in the midst of doing. But you know, it makes for painful moments. Anyway, once its done, it will be something. When that is done, Ill explain it to you. And then Ill have the power to restore you to health.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
How strange it is! You have the feeling of ascending, of a progress in consciousness, and everything, all the events and circumstances of life follow one another with an unquestioning logic. You see the Divine Will unfolding with a wonderful logic. Then, from time to time, there appears a little set of circumstances (either isolated or repeated), which are like snags on the way; you cant explain them, so you put them aside for later on. Some such accidents have been quite significant, but they dont seem to follow this ascending line of the present individuality. Theyre scattered along the way, sometimes repeated, sometimes only once, and then they vanish. And when you go through such an experience, you sense that they are things put aside for later on. And then, all of a sudden (especially during these last two years when I have again descended to take all that up), all of a sudden, one after another, all these snags return. And they dont follow the same curve; rather, its as if suddenly you reach a certain state and a certain impersonal breadth that far surpasses the individual, and this new state enters into contact with one of those old accidents that had remained in the deepest part of the subconscientand that makes it rise up again, the two meet in an explosion of light. Everything is explained, everything is understood, everything is clear! No explanation is needed: it has become OBVIOUS.
This is entirely another way of understandingits not an ascent, not even a descent nor an inspiration it must be what Sri Aurobindo calls a revelation. Its the meeting of this subconscious notationthis something which has remained buried within, held down so as not to manifest, but which suddenly surges forth to meet the light streaming down from above, this very vast state of consciousness that excludes nothing and from it springs forth a lightoh, a resplendence of light!like a new explanation of the world, or of that part of the world not yet explained.
And this is the true way of knowing.
0 1960-11-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Its a lack of plasticity in the mind, and they are bound by the expression of things; for them, words are rigid. Sri Aurobindo explained it so well in The Secret of the Veda; he shows how language evolves and how, before, it was very supple and evocative. For example, one could at once think of a river and of inspiration. Sri Aurobindo also gives the example of a sailboat and the forward march of life. And he says that for those of the Vedic age it was quite natural, the two could go together, superimposed; it was merely a way of looking at the same thing from two sides, whereas now, when a word is said, we think only of this word all by itself, and to get a clear picture we need a whole literary or poetic imagery (with explanations to boot!). Thats exactly the case with these children; theyre at a stage where everything is rigid. Such is the product of modern education. It even extracts the subtlest nuance between two words and FIXES it: And above all, dont make any mistake, dont use this word for that word, for otherwise your writings no good. But its just the opposite.
(silence)
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But generally and this is something Theon had told me (Theon was very qualified on the subject of hostile forces and the workings of all that resists the divine influence, and he was a great fighteras you might imagine! He himself was an incarnation of an asura, so he knew how to tackle these things!); he was always saying, If you make a VERY SMALL concession or suffer a minor defeat, it gives you the right to a very great victory. Its a very good trick. And I have observed, in practice, that for all things, even for the very little things of everyday life, its trueif you yield on one point (if, even though you see what should be, you yield on a very secondary and unimportant point), it immediately gives you the power to impose your will for something much more important. I mentioned this to Sri Aurobindo and he said that it was true. It is true in the world as it is today, but its not what we want; we want it to change, really change.
He wrote this in a letter, I believe, and he spoke of this system of compensation for example, those who take an illness on themselves in order to have the power to cure; and then theres the symbolic story of Christ dying on the cross to set men free. And Sri Aurobindo said, Thats fine for a certain age, but we must now go beyond that. As he told me (its even one of the first things he told me), We are no longer at the time of Christ when, to be victorious, it was necessary to die.
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But three times now, Ive really felt that I was on the verge of falling apart. The first time it brought a fever, a fever so I dont know, as if I had at least 115!I was roasting from head to toe; everything became red hot, and then it was over. That was the day when suddenlysuddenly I was You see, I had said to myself, All right, you must be peaceful, lets see what happens, so then I brought down the Peace, and immediately I was able to pass into a second of unconsciousness and I woke up in the subtle physical, in Sri Aurobindos abode.4 There he was. And then I spent some time with him, explaining the problem.
But that was really an experience, a decisive experience (it was many months ago, perhaps more than a year ago).
0 1960-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I dont know if its due to Zs visit1 or simply if the time had come and things converged (because thats what generally happens), but a whole period of the past is coming up again and its not a purely personal past, for it includes all the acquaintances I used to have, a whole collection of things that represents not only my individual life but something rather collective (as it always is; each of us is always a collectivity but we arent aware of it, and if anything were taken away, it would unbalance the whole). A whole set of things that were absolutely wiped clean from the memory (it must have been buried somewhere in the subconscient or the semi-conscientin any case, something more unconscious than the subconscient), and it has all come back up. Oh, things such things If just two weeks ago someone had asked me, Do you remember that? I would have replied, No, not at all! And its coming from every side. Oh, such mediocrity! (mediocre in the way of consciousness, experiences and activities) and so gray, so dull, so flat! Only this morning, while getting ready for the balcony, I thought, Is it possible to live like that?!
And then it became so clear that behind all this there was always the same luminous Presence, this Presence that is everywhere, always, watching over everything.
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It all began the day I received the news of Zs arrival. All right, I thought, heres a chunk of life sent back to me for clarifying. I must work on it. But it didnt stop there Its strange how all this past had been swept clean I could no longer remember dates, I couldnt even remember when Z had been here before, I no longer knew what had happened, it had all been wiped cleanwhich means that it had all been pushed down into the subconscient. I didnt even know how I used to speak to him when I saw him, nothing, it was all gone. All that had remained alive were one or two movements or facts which were clearly connected to the psychic life, the psychic consciousness but just one or two or three such memories; all the rest was gone.
So a whole slice of my life came back, but it didnt stop there! It keeps extending back further and further, and memories keep on coming, things that go back sixty years now, even beyond, seventy, seventy-five yearsthey are all coming back. And so it all has to be put in order.
0 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
All this goes on in the subconscient; these are things that were pushed out of the physical consciousness down into the subconscient, so theyre there and they come back up whenever they please.
Two nights ago (no, three the night before Darshan), I had one of those experiences that that leaves you pensive the whole day
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And then, at the same time, some rather interesting things are happening. Imagine, X is starting to understand certain things that is, in his own way he is discovering the progress I am making; hes discovering it as a received teaching (through subtle channels). He wrote a letter to Amrita two or three days ago in which he translates in his own language, with his own words and his own way of speaking, exactly my most recent experiencesthings that I have conquered in a general way.
This interests me, for these things do not at all enter through the mind (he doesnt receive a thing there, hes closed there). So in his letter he says that this thing or that is necessary (he describes it in his own words), and he adds, This is why we must be so grateful to have among us the the great Mother7 (as he puts it), the great Mother who knows these things.Good! I said to myself. (It had to do with something specific concerning the capacity for discrimination in the outside world, the different qualities and different functions of different beings, all of which depends on ones inner construction, as it were.) So I see that even this, even these physical experiences, is received (and yet I hadnt tried, I had never tried to make him receive it); it merely works like this, you see (gesture of a widespread diffusion), and the experience is veryhow should I say?drastic, with a kind of (power of radiation). Imperative.
0 1960-12-17, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
(Soon afterwards, concerning the conversation of November 5 on the subconscious roots in the cells that can make everything fall apart in a second: To change it, you have to descend into it it makes for painful moments Once its done, Ill have the power )
When was this? November 5? And now its December 17 Well, its still continuing!
0 1960-12-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And now, all these different attitudes which individuals, groups and categories of men hold are coming from every direction (while Im walking upstairs) to assert their own points of view as the true thing. And I see that for myself, Im being forced to deal with a whole mass of things, most of which are quite futile from an ordinary point of viewnot to mention the things of which these moral or religious types disapprove. Quite interestingly, all kinds of mental formations come like arrows while Im walking for my japa upstairs (Mother makes a gesture of little arrows in the air coming into her mental atmosphere from every direction); and yet, Im entirely in what I could call the joy and happiness of my japa, full of the energy of walking (the purpose of walking is to give a material energy to the experience, in all the bodys cells). Yet in spite of this, one thing after another comes, like this, like that (Mother draws little arrows in the air): what I must do, what I must answer to this person, what I must say to that one, what has to be done All kinds of things, most of which might be considered most futile! And I see that all this is SITUATED in a totality, and this totality I could say that its nothing but the body of the Divine. I FEEL it, actually, I feel it as if I were touching it everywhere (Mother touches her arms, her hands, her body). And all these things neither veil nor destroy nor divert this feeling of being entirely this a movement, an action in the body of the Divine. And its increasing from day to day, for it seems that He is plunging me more and more into entirely material things with the will that THERE TOO it must be done that all these things must be consciously full of Him; they are full of Him, in actual fact, but it must become conscious, with the perception that it is all the very substance of His being which is moving in everything
It was quite beautiful on the balcony this morning
0 1961-01-10, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Put this way, there is no need to bring the principle of love into our explanation. But if we want to know or understand the nature of the Force or Power that permits and accomplishes this transformation (specially in the case of evil, but for ugliness to some extent as well), we see that of all powers, Love is obviously the mightiest, the most integralintegral in that it applies to all cases. Its even mightier than the power of purification which dissolves bad wills and is, in a way, master over the adverse forces, but which doesnt have the direct transforming power; because the power of purification Must FIRST dissolve in order to form again later. It destroys one form to make a better one from it, while Love doesnt need to dissolve in order to transform: it has the direct transforming power. Love is like a flame changing the hard into the malleable, then sublimating even the malleable into a kind of purified vapor. It doesnt destroy: it transforms.
Love, in its essence and in its origin, is like a white flame obliterating ALL resistances. You can have the experience yourself: whatever the difficulty in your being, whatever the weight of accumulated mistakes, the ignorance, incapacity, bad will, a single SECOND of this Lovepure, essential, suprememelts everything in its almighty flame. One single moment and an entire past can vanish. One single TOUCH of That in its essence and the whole burden is consumed.
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But as its all-powerful, a certain receptivity must be prepared on earth so its effects are not devastating. Sri Aurobindo has explained it in one of his letters. Someone asked him, Why doesnt this Love come now?, and he replied something like this: If divine Love in its essence were to manifest on earth, it would be like an explosion; for the earth is not supple enough or receptive enough to widen to the measure of this Love. The earth must not only open itself but become wide and supple. Matternot just physical Matter, but the substance of the physical consciousness as wellis still much too rigid.
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0 1961-01-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But until then, there is this kind of indignation stemming from the fact that one is not entirely above: its a period when one totally disapproves of certain things and would be incapable of doing them. And up to this point, there is nothing to say, unless one gives an external, violent expression to his indignation. If anger interferes, it indicates an entire contradiction between the feeling one wants to have and this reaction towards others. Because anger is a deformation of vital power originating from an obscure and thoroughly unregenerate vital,1 a vital still subject to all the ordinary actions and reactions. When an ignorant, egoistic individual will exploits this vital power and encounters opposition from other individual wills around it, then under the pressure of opposition this power changes into anger and tries to obtain through violence what could not be achieved by the pressure of the Force alone.
Anger, moreover, like all forms of violence, is always a sign of weakness, impotence and incapacity. Here the deception comes from the approval one gives it or the flattering adjective one covers it with; for rage can be no more than blind, ignorant and asuricopposed to the light.
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This mental habit of always cloaking everything with a favorable appearance, of giving all movements a favorable explanation, is at times so flagrant that it can fool nobody but oneself (although it may occasionally be subtle enough to create an illusion). It is a sort of habitual self-exoneration, the habit of giving a favorable mental excuse, a favorable mental explanation for all one does, all one says, all one feels. For example, someone with no self-control who strikes another in great indignation and is ready to call it divine wrath! Righteous2 is perfect, because righteous immediately introduces this element of puritanical moralitywonderful!
This power of self-deception, the minds craft in devising splendid justifications for any ignorance or folly whatsoever, is tremendous.
0 1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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.
Japa: the continuous repetition of a mantra. Mother's mantra is a song of the cells, the sole material or physical process used by her for awakening the cells and stabilizing the Supramental Force in her body.
Later, Mother specified: 'These are elements in the material substance entirely possessed by adverse forces and opposed to the transformation.'
On the previous day, January 21, Saraswati Puja, Mother had given a message and photos to each disciple.
0 1961-01-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I must say that after this, when I read The Secret of the Veda as I do each evening. In fact, I am in very close contact with the entire Vedic world since Ive been reading that book: I see beings, hear phrases. It comes up in a sort of subliminal consciousness, a lot of things are from the ancient Vedic tradition. (By the way, I have even come to see that the pink marble bathtub I told you about last time, which Nature had offered me, belongs to the Vedic world, to a civilization of that epoch.3) There werethere are alwaysSanskrit words coming up, sentences, bits of dialogue. This is of interest, because I realized that what I had seen the other day (I told you about it) and then what I saw yesterday that whole domainwas connected to what the Vedas call the dasyus the panis and the dasyus4the enemies of the Light. And this Force that came was very clearly a power like Indras5 (though something far, far greater), and at war with darkness everywhere, like this (Mother sketches in space a whirling force touching points here and there throughout the world), this Force attacked all darkness: ideas, people, movements, events, whatever made stains, patches of shadow. And it kept on going, a formidable power, so great that my hands were like this (Mother clenches her fists). Later when I read (I happened to be reading just the chapter concerning the fight against the dasyus), this proximity to my own experience became interesting, for it was not at all intellectual or mental there was no idea, no thought involved.
The remainder of the evening passed as usual. I went to bed, and at exactly a quarter to twelve I got up with the feeling that this presence in me had increased even further and really become rather formidable. I had to instill a great deal of peace and confidence into my body, which felt as though it wasnt so easy to bear. So I concentrated, I told my body to be calm and to let itself go completely.
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In the Vedas, the panis and dasyus represent beings or forces hidden in subterranean caves who have stolen the 'Riches' or the 'Lights', symbolized by herds of cows. With the help of the gods, the Aryan warrior must recover these lost riches, the 'sun in the darkness,' by igniting the flame of sacrifice. It is the path of subterranean descent.
Indra represents the king of the gods, the master of mental power freed from the limitations and obscurities of the physical consciousness.
0 1961-01-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This consciousness of immortality is OUR becoming conscious of the realms where immortality exists; but to bring immortality into the physical consciousness requires not only a transformation of physical consciousness but a transformation of physical substance as well. So.
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0 1961-01-31, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The physical mind, you see, makes use of the nervous substance; if we withdraw it from the nervous substance, we no longer feel anything, for thats what gives us the perception of sensation. We know something is wrong, but we no longer suffer from it.
This was a very important experience. Afterwards (especially yesterday afternoon and this morning), I gradually began to realize that this kind of indifferent detachment is the ESSENTIAL condition for the establishment of true Harmony in the most material Matter the most external, physical Matter (Mother pinches the skin of her hand).
0 1961-02-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Lately, the nights are being spent in a subconscious realm that absolutely must be clarified; its precisely the realm where one feels helpless, foolish, ignorant, utterly unprogressive, bound up in all sorts of stupidities. It all must be clarified.
These nights, I have been having experiences which, if I didnt know what I do or hadnt had the experiences Ive had, would be very discouraging: how to get out of it? Seekers have always had the very same impression: that we are all incurable imbeciles. And always the same solution, to flee life and escape this folly. Now I see it from another angle.
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Pandanus tectorius (Keora or Screw Pine). subsequently, Mother named this flower 'Spiritual Perfume.'
Tapasya: ascetic or yogic discipline.
0 1961-02-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And if you are not ready for the effort and the struggle, then it is better to accept the fact that life will be dull and unsatisfactory, and submit quietly to this fact.
Thats for the complainers.
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So it would seem that if one wants to use his individuality, his body, to transform the whole that is, if one wants to use his bodily presence to act upon the universal corporeal substance theres no end to it. No end to the difficulties, no end to the battle BATTLE!
(silence)
Those who try to lead a spiritual life have always been compared to warriors (there are classic writings on this subject), and one must truly be a fighterfighter is more exact than warrior because you wage war against no one: everything wages war against you! Everything (Mother makes a gesture like an avalanche falling upon her) and with such savage opposition!
Ah, well.
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
55Be wide in me, O Varuna; be mighty in me, O Indra; O Sun, be very bright and luminous; O Moon, be full of charm and sweetness. Be fierce and terrible, O Rudra; be impetuous and swift, O Maruts; be strong and bold, O Aryama; be voluptuous and pleasurable, O Bhaga; be tender and kind and loving and passionate, O Mitra. Be bright and revealing, O Dawn; O Night, be solemn and pregnant. O Life, be full, ready and buoyant; O Death, lead my steps from mansion to mansion. Harmonise all these, O Brahmanaspati. Let me not be subject to these gods, O Kali.1
He invokes all these Vedic gods and tells each one to take possession of him; and THEN he tells Kali to free him from their influence! It is very amusing!
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In the present case, of course, the body is always saying, I am ready for everything I will do anything at all; yet I still cant say that it has this. Its trying to be completely pure according to the spiritual conceptit doesnt sense its separate personality. More and more, year after year, it has been striving to feel only the divine Presence, the divine Life, the divine Force and the divine Will, all within itself; and to feel that without them it is nothing, it doesnt exist. This is fully realized in its consciousness (the conscious part). In the subconscient and inconscient,5 obviously it is not realized otherwise, logically, it shouldnt be ill.
The whole disorder evidently originates from the subconscient and inconscient; all the more so as it came with various indications (sent by the hostile forces but this can always be useful, provided you are careful) saying, Yes, everything is going well in your higher centers, but(because the different points of attack have clearly followed the order of the centers). Four or five days ago, or maybe a week, before this latest difficulty occurred, I saw little beings coming out of the subconscient and saying, Ah! Your legs havent had any trouble for a long time! Its the turn of the lower centers! I swept it all away, of course, but.
Taken this way, it could be an indication that all this needs a somewhat brutal preparation in order to be put in the necessary condition.
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To realize what one has to realize, it is absolutely indispensable to be TOTALLY free of all ties with the ordinary, false consciousness common to material body-consciousness the consciousness of the body- substancederiving from the subconscient and the inconscient. This must not only be mastered (it has been mastered for a long time)but there must be complete independence so that it no longer has the power to provoke any reaction at all. But we arent there yet, its still not like that, and as long as it isnt, we are not on the safe side. But when all the bodys cells, even in their most subconscious reactions, will come to know what I myself know, that the Supreme alone exists, when they will know that, it will be goodnot before. As I told you just now, they still have ordinary reactions: If I have to stay on my feet, (this isnt a thought; Im obliged to use words, but it isnt a thought), If I have to stay on my feet, Im going to get tired; if I do too much, Ill be tired, if I do this, it will have that consequence, if. This stupid, automatic little mechanism. its not yet THAT, not yet That!
Of course, theres the constant difficulty of all the thoughts coming from outside and from the people you live with. But now the consciousness is such that these outer things are seen objectively (Mother makes a gesture of seeing vibrations coming and stopping before her eyes)automatically I see everything that comes from the surrounding vibrations objectively: far, near, above, below, everywhere. The vibration comes WITH THE KNOWLEDGE. In other words, its not that you see what it is only after it has been received and absorbed: it comes with the knowledge, and this is a great help. This type of perception has considerably increased and become much more precise since that experience [of January 24], much more; it has made a big difference.
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There is one question I would very much like to ask you How can all this work you are doing on your body, this work of consciousness, act upon the corporeal substance outside you? How is it generally valid?
In the same way as alwaysbecause the vibration spreads out! Thats how it works.
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Thats how it works. Because all substance is ONE. All is onewe constantly forget that! We always have a sense of separation, and that is total, total falsehood; its because we rely on what our eyes see, on (Mother touches her hands and arms, as if to indicate a separate body, cut off from other bodies). That is truly Falsehood. As soon as your consciousness changes a little, you realize that what we see is like an image plastered over something. But its not true, NOT TRUE AT ALL. Even in the most material Matter, even a stoneeven in a stoneas soon as ones consciousness changes, all this separation, all this division, completely vanishes. These are (how to put it?) modes of concentration (something akin to yet not quite that), vibratory modes WITHIN THE SAME THING.8
(The clock strikes) Oh, now I must go!
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The terminology used by Mother and Sri Aurobindo is distinct from the terminology of Western psychology. This is how Sri Aurobindo defines 'inconscient' and ' subconscient': 'All upon earth is based on the Inconscient, as it is called, though it is not really inconscient at all, but rather a complete " sub"-conscience, a suppressed or involved consciousness, in which there is everything but nothing is formulated or expressed. The subconscient lies between this Inconscient and the conscious mind, life and body.'
Cent. Ed., XXII, p. 354
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A recentand unifying (!)theory postulated by the American Nobel Laureate, Murray Gell-Mann, would reduce this somewhat startling enumeration to more reasonable proportions through the introduction of a unique sub-particle constituting all matter: the quark. Nevertheless, there would still exist several kinds of quarks (e.g., 'strange,' 'charmed,' 'colored' in red, yellow and blue) for accommodating the various qualities of matter. A proton, for example, would consist of three quarks: red, yellow and blue. However, it should be noted that quarks are basically mathematical intermediaries to facilitate the comprehension or interpretation of certain experiments thus far unexplained. Moreover, the simple question still remains, even if they do exist materially: 'What are quarks made of?'
Nevertheless, a mathematical model resulting from a recent theory that attempts to represent our material universe strangely resembles Mother's perception, for it postulates a milieu consisting entirely of electromagnetic waves of very high frequency. According to this theory, Matter itself is the 'coagulation' of these waves at the moment they exceed a certain frequency threshold; our perception of emptiness, of fullness, of the hard or the transparent, being finally due only to the differences in vibratory frequencies'vibratory modes within the same thing.'
0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Right in the subconscient, a subconscient oh, hopelessly weak and dull and (how to put it?) enslaved to a host of thingsenslaved to EVERYTHING. It has been unfolding before me night after night, night after night, to show me. Last night, it was indescribable! It goes on and onit seems to have no limits! Naturally, the body feels the effects of this, poor thing! It is the bodys subconscient, but its not personalit is personal and not personal: it becomes personal only when it enters the body.
You cant imagine the accumulation of impressions recorded and stored in the subconscient, heaped one on top of another. Outwardly, you dont even notice, the waking consciousness isnt aware of it; but they come in, they keep on coming and coming, piling up hideous!
So well see how long this is going to last. I understand why people have never tried to change it: stir up that quagmire? No! It takes a lot (laughing), a lot of courage! Oh, its so easy to escape, so easy to say, None of that concerns me. I belong to higher spheres, it doesnt concern me.
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But is it necessary to descend to the same level as all these subconscious things? Cant they be acted upon from above?
Act from above. My child, I have been acting from above for more than thirty years! It changes nothingor if it changes it doesnt transform.
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Even mastery can be achievedits quite easy to do from above. But for the transformation one must descend, and that is terrible. Otherwise, the subconscient will never be transformed, it will remain as it is.
One can even pose as a superman! (Mother laughs) But it remains like that (gesture in the air), its not the real thing. Its not the new creation, its not the next step in terrestrial evolution.
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Completely. (Mother reflects a moment) Well, completely material, noonly through me. He is conscious of material things through me, not directly. He is very conscious in the subtle physical, but thats not quite the same, not quite (Mother makes a vague gesture), there is a difference.
To give a rather curious example, there was a kind of spell of illness over the Ashram, stemming mainly from peoples thoughts, from their way of thinking. It was quite widespread and it was horrible, gloomy, full of fear, pettiness, blind submission, oh! Everyone was in a state of expectation.1 In short, the atmosphere was such that there was an attempt to prevent me from leaving my room I had to sneak out! It was disgusting! Well, on the very night I saw the spell over the Ashram, Sri Aurobindo was lying sick in his bed, just as I had seen him in 1950. Normally, we spend almost every night together, doing this, seeing that, arranging things, talkingits a kind of second life behind this one, and it makes existence pleasant. But that night when I had to sneak out of my room (in my nightgown!), and people were trying to find me to (laughing) force me back into bed, he was lying sick in bedand this struck me hard, for it means these things still affect him in his consciousness. He was in a kind of trance and not at all well. It didnt last, but nonetheless.
Oh, the things that can collect there,2 ugh!
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(After another digression, Mother again speaks of her experience of January 24, which triggered a backlash of subconscious difficulties.)
A great deal has been brought to light since that experience. It has been the starting point for such turmoil, even physically, such strong jolts that I might have wondered, Was I dreaming or was it real?. And more and more I am coming to understand that this is the INDISPENSABLE preparation in the most material world for that experience to become definitively established, to express itself outwardly, constantlythis is obvious.
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I have a feeling (but these are old ideas) that if I were all alone somewhere and didnt have to look after these people and things, it would be easier. But that would not be the TRUE thing. For when I had the experience [of January 24], all that is normally under my care was present: the whole earth seemed to be present at the experience. There is no individuality (Mother indicates her body). I have difficulty finding an individuality now, even in my own body. What I do find in this body are the subconscious vibrations (conscious as well as subconscious) of a WORLD, a whole world of things. So it can be done ONLY on a large scale, otherwise its the same old story but then its not the power HERE [in matter]one simply quits this world. Oh, these people cant imagine what it is! They have made such a fuss over their departure. They have wanted us to believe it was something quite extraordinary. But its infantile, its childs play, its nothing at all to quit this world! One simply goes poff!, like diving into watera little kick and one resurfaces, and thats all there is to it, its done (Mother laughs).
And the same goes for their stories about attachments and desiresmy god! Theres nothing to it! Imagine, with anything concerning my body, through all this horror of the subconscient, NOT ONCE have I had to bear the consequence of a desire; I have always had to bear the consequences of the battle against lifes unconscious and malicious resistances, but not once has something come up like that (gesture of something resurging from below) to tell me, You see! You had a desire, now heres the result of it! Not oncevery, very sincerely.
Thats really not the difficulty the difficulty is that the world is not ready! The very substance one is made of (Mother touches her body) shares in the worlds lack of preparationnaturally! Its the same thing, the very same thing. Perhaps there is a tiny bit more light in this body, but so little that its not worth mentioning-its all the same thing. Oh, a sordid slavery!
(silence)
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In the subconscient.
In French, the word 'chouer' means both 'to fail' and 'to run aground.'
Sri Aurobindo et la Transformation du Monde [Sri Aurobindo and the Transformation of the World], a book that Editions du Seuil had asked Satprem to write and subsequently refused on the pretext that it did not conform to the 'spirit of the collection.' This book would never see the light of day. Satprem would later write another book entitled Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness.
A long-time disciple (Suzanne Karpeles) and a member of the cole Franaise d'Extrme Orient.
0 1961-03-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This is the text of Mother's reply to J.: 'I have read Z's account and your own letter on this subject. in the faith of his devotion, he must have been quite offended. The truth in what he says is that any idea, WHATEVER its degree of truth, is ineffective if it does not also carry the power acquired through realization, by a real change of consciousness. And if the proponent of this idea does not himself have the realization, he must seek the backing of those who have the power. On the other hand, what you say is true: an idea ought to be accepted on the basis of its inherent truth and not because of the personality expounding it, however great this personality may be. These two truths or aspects of the question are equally true but also equally incomplete: they are not the whole truth. Both of them must be accepted and combined with many other aspects of the question if you want to even begin to approach the dynamic power of the realization. Don't you see how ridiculous this situation is? Three people of goodwill meet in the hope of teaching men the necessity for a "World Union" and they are not even able to keep a tolerant or tolerable union among themselves, because each sees a different angle of the procedure to be followed for implementing their plan.'
Although it began as a fund-raising organization for the needs of the Ashram and Auroville, this 'strictly external thing,' which had 'nothing to do with working for an ideal,' would, after Mother's departure, coolly declare itself the 'owner' and guide of Auroville.
0 1961-03-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A similar memory has recurred several times under different circumstancesnot exactly the same scene and the same images, because it wasnt something I was seeing but A LIFE I was living. During a certain period, at any time, night or day, I would experience a particular state of trance in which I was rediscovering a life I had lived. I was fully conscious that this life had to do with the first flowering of the human form upon earth, the first human forms able to incarnate the divine being from above. This was the first time I could manifest in a particular terrestrial form (not a general life but an individual form); that is, for the first time, through the mentalization of this material substance, the junction between the higher Being and the lower being was made. I have lived that several times, and always in a similar setting and with quite a similar feeling of such joyous simplicity, without complexity, without problems, without all these questions. It was the blossoming of a joy of lifenothing but that; love and harmony prevailed: flowers, minerals, animals all got along together perfectly.
Things began to go wrong only a LONG time afterwards, long after (but this is a personal impression), probably because certain mental crystallizations were necessary, inevitable, for the general evolution, so that the mind might prepare itself to move on to something else. That was when oh, it seems like a fall into a pitinto ugliness, darkness! Everything became so dark, so ugly, so difficult, so painful. Really really the sense of a fall.
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This enigmatic experience was actually very important, as Mother will later explain (on March 17): Mother was leaving behind the subjection to mental functioning, symbolized by this place where Pavitra was working.
Salmon-colored hibiscus.
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This is the origin of such legends as Shangri-la. But 'psychics' most often confuse two planes of reality, attri buting to their subTLE vision a physical reality which it does not have or no longer has: they have merely entered into contact with the memory of a place for places, like beings, have a memory.
At first, Mother had said, 'But it's impossible.' Then, laughing, she had the word deleted.
0 1961-03-14, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yet the cells sense so perfectly that. All the experiences in the subconscient at night are quite clear proofs that a a WORLD of things and vibrations is being cleaned outall the vibrations opposed to the cellular transformation. But how can one poor little body do all that work! The body is quite aware of being a sort of accumulation and concentration of things (yet there is inevitably a selectionMo ther laughsbecause if everything had to be worked out in one center like this [her body] it would be it would be impossible!). Oh, if you knew how deeply and perfectly convinced these cells are, in all their groups and sub-groups, each one individually and within the whole, that everything is not only decreed but executed by the Divine, everything! They have a kind of constant awareness so filled with a conscious faith in His infinite wisdom, even when there is what the ordinary consciousness calls suffering or pain. Thats not what it is for the cellsits something else! And the result is a state of yes, a state of peaceful combat. There is a sense of Peace, the vibration of Peace, and simultaneously an impression of being (how to put it?) on the alert, in constant combat. Taken all together it creates a rather odd situation.
And within oh! Its like waves, constantly, the equivalent of those nuances of color I was speaking about, waves of this joy of life, the joy of life rippling past, touching; but instead of being. At times, you see, the body is in a sort of equilibrium (what we, in our ordinary outer consciousness, call equilibrium that is, good health), and then this joy is constant, like swells on the sea (Mother shapes great waves): it seems to flow on behind everything; it comes and shows its face for a moment, then vanishes. In the very tiny things of lifeyes, physical life the joy of these things, the joy life contains, this luminous, special kind of vibration, rises up as if to remind us that its here; it is here, it mustnt be forgotten, its here but its kept down by this tension.
0 1961-03-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Between 2 and 3 oclock this morning, I had an experience something resurging from the subconscient: it was appalling, my child, the disclosure of an appalling inefficiency! Disgraceful!
The experience occurred in a place corresponding to ours [the main Ashram building], but immense: the rooms were ten times bigger, but absolutely one cant say emptythey were barren. Not that there was nothing in them, but nothing was in order, everything was just where it shouldnt be. There wasnt any furniture so things were strewn here and therea dreadful disarray! Things were being put to uses they werent made for, yet nothing needed for a particular purpose could be found. The whole section having to do with education [the Ashram School] was in almost total darkness: the lights were out with no way to switch them on, and people were wandering about and coming to me with incoherent, stupid proposals. I tried to find a comer where I could rest (not because I was tired; I simply wanted to concentrate a little and get a clear vision in the midst of it all), but it was impossible, no one would leave me alone. Finally I put a tottering armchair and a footstool end-to-end and tried to rest; but someone immediately came up (I know who, Im purposely not giving names) and said, Oh! This wont do at all! It CANT be arranged like that! Then he began making noise, commotion, disorderwell, it was awful.
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When I told you last time about that experience [of March 11, with Pavitra] the night I met you and was saying good-bye, I neglected to mention one very important point, the most important, in fact: I was leaving the subjection to mental functioning permanently behind That was the meaning of my departure.
For a very long time now I have been watching all the phases of the subjection to mental functioning come undone, one after another for a very long time. That night was the end of it, the last phase: I was leaving this subjection behind and rising up into a realm of freedom. You had been very, very helpful, as I told you. Well, this latest experience was something else! It came to make me look squarely at the fact of our incapacity!
Can you imagine!
One thing after another, one thing after another! This subconscient is interminable, interminable, if you only knew I am skipping the details-such stupidity, oh! This person I wont name, who so clumsily prepared breakfast, told me, Ah, yes, Sri Aurobindo is a little morose today, he is depressed. I could have slapped him: You fool! You dont understand anything! And Sri Aurobindo, although he didnt want to show it, was completely aware of our incapacity.
(silence)
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A sort of power over circumstances does come to me, however, as if I could rise above it all and give the subconscient a bit of a work-over. Naturally this has some results: entire areas are brought under control. Thats the most important thing. Individuals get the repercussions later because they are very very coagulated, a bit hard! A lack of plasticity.
Take the case of this man Im not naming Ive been training him, working with him, for more than thirty years and I still havent managed to get him to do things spontaneously, according to the needs of the moment, without all his preconceived ideas. Thats the point where he resists: when things have to be done quickly he follows his usual rule and it takes forever! This was illustrated strikingly that night. I told him, Just look: its there its THEREhurry up and warm it a little and Ill go. Ah! He didnt protest, didnt say anything, but he did things exactly according to his own preconceptions.
0 1961-03-21, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then I woke up (I always wake up three or four times during the night) and when I went back to bed I had an attack of what the doctor and I have taken to be filariasis but a strange type of filariasis, for as soon as I master it in one spot it appears in another, and when I master it there it reappears somewhere else. Last night it was in the arms (it lasted quite a while, between 2:30 and 4 a.m.); but I was fully conscious, and each time the attack came, I went like this (gestures over the arms, to drive away the attack) and my arms were not affected at all. When it was over, I consciously entered the most material subtle physical, just beyond the body. I was sitting in my room there (an immense, cubic room) reading or writing something, when I heard the door open and close, but I was busy and didnt pay attention, presuming it was one of the people usually around me. Then suddenly I had such an unpleasant sensation in my body that I raised my head and looked, and I saw someone there. Do you know how the magicians in Europe dress, in short satin breeches and a shirt? He was wearing something like that. He was Indian, tall and rather dark, with slicked-down hairwhat you would normally call a handsome young man. He seemed to have been drawn1 there becausehe was standing in front of me staring into space, not looking at me. And the moment I saw him, there was the same sensation in all my cells as I have with what Ive been calling filariasis (its a special, minute kind of pain) and simultaneously all the cells felt disgusta tremendous will of rejection. Then I sat up straight (I didnt stand up) and said to him as forcefully as possible, How do you dare to come in here! I said it so loudly that the noise woke me up! I dont know what happened then, but things went much better afterwards.
The moment I saw this person I knew he was only an instrument, but a well-paid instrumentsomeone paid a great deal to have him do that! I would recognize him again among hundreds I can still see him I see him more clearly than with physical eyes. He is an unintelligent man with no personal animosity, merely a very well-paid instrumentsomeone is hiding behind him, using him as a screen.
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I had told N. to knock at the door when he arrived with X, but he didnt do itluckily I heard the door opening. I stood up, still in that state and almost fell over! X must have thought I was having a spell of weakness or something, because I was holding onto the arms of the chair, and when I took his flowers, my hands were trembling I wasnt in my body. And afterwards, ah, what a concentration! We remained in it for about thirty-five minutes. It was SOLIDan extraordinary solidity! I didnt want to waste time waiting for it to subside before coming here, and you must have seen how I was when I arrived: like a sleepwalker! I said to the people I passed in the corridor, Im coming back, Im coming back! Thats all I could say, like an idiot.
(silence)
0 1961-03-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its very difficult to explain, its extremely subtle.
But it made me think that something like this must be happening with people here. Because, not to boast, but I do give you people experiences!
0 1961-03-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The extreme subjectivity of experiences is very disconcerting.
Yesterday, while waiting for X, I was as usual in communion with the Supreme in his aspect of Love. Suddenly I felt X arriving and spontaneously, like a Veda, a movement of gratitude for his great goodwill arose from my heart, and it was formulated as a prayer to the Supreme: Give him [X] the bliss of Your Love and the joys of Your Truth.
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Its not that I was disappointed by his way of being, certainly not; but it has suddenly confronted me with a terrible problem: Is it impossible to live a truth in material consciousness? Is it really impossible? An absolute, I mean an absolute truthnot something entirely subjective and relative, each one living his own truth in his own manner. Will one person always be like this and the other like that and the third like something else? So that only by putting all the pieces together do we actually amount to anything and yet to what?! Is it completely impossible for absolute truth to manifest in the present state of Matter? This is the problem that has seized me.
Why? Probably because I was ready to face it. But it has been posed so intensely. It was so intense that it was painful.
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That risks a terrible misunderstanding; be careful. Perhaps he wont even remember what he said anymore. Its difficult with X because he doesnt say things with his mindit just comes like that, and then he forgets. You know how it is. Something may have made him speak. For instance, I know that with N. he almost always says unpleasant things about people and situations and this entirely results from N.s atmosphere. I have told N., He speaks like that because of your inner attitude. To one person he will say one thing, to another something completely different on the same subjectit depends a great deal on who hes talking to. No, I havent told you all this for you to speak with X about it, I have told you because it has posed a serious problem for me.
Its best to wait and see. I put a certain force into that note I wrote this morning (I wrote it at a very early hour) and you know that a formation4 is created when I write; I willed it to go to himand he may have received it. Well see what happens. Its better not to speak of it because it might speaking is too external.
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The following undated note (which could date from this or any number of other times!) was found among Mother's scattered papers: Now the situation has become very critical, all the reserves have been swallowed up, there are debts, many important works remain unfinished and the daily life has become a problem. It is the subsistence of more than 1,200 people which is in question.
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0 1961-04-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The truth is that the body is holding its own quite well. But its a formidable affair. They1 are multiplying by the millions; so you can see it will take time to get rid of them! They circulate throughout the body, sometimes for two, three or four hours at night, pricking and stinging from inside out; they prick like fiery needles. And they go everywhere, in the legs, the trunk, the armstheyre really having fun! But anyway, its subsiding: the legs are better. Its not quite right yet, but its coming along. Its nothing.
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When external difficulties subside, when the body becomes passive and quiet, when it is not constantly demanding attention, then you can LIVE in this supramental consciousness and it does not seem so difficult; you feel it is so victorious in its essence that it will end all difficulties.
But for this to come about, you must remain for a while on those higher reaches and not be constantly, constantly dragged down below where you have to fight each minute simply to LASTto last in all ways: not just personally, but collectively.2 Its a minute-to-minute bout, simply to last. And how long do we have to last for the thing to be done?
0 1961-04-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All kinds of things are coming up from the subconscient. We seem to be constantly descending instead of ascending.
Oh, the subconscient! Every night its a real invasion of things that are so the WHOLE subconscient keeps coming up, coming up, coming upnot just mine but everybodys. There seems to be no end to it.
But now I have the knack of forgetting I just forget. Because when I used to remember, I had to fight for entire days. So as soon as I wake up, I erase it right away: go away! Gone!
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The subconscient is seething.
We shall see.
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Only just towards the end of the night, after 2 a.m., does all this subconscient rise up to be relived. And with such a new and unexpected perception, oh! Its incredible! It changes all values and relationships and reactions (Mother shapes great movements of shifting forces); its like a chessboard absolutely unexpected!
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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Actually, in these scenes from the subconscient presented during the night, there were things I had believed ill-omened in my lifeyet suddenly I saw the vibration of this aspiration arising, with such a power and intensity EVEN THERE. Oh, I said, how mistaken we are!
And this aspiration depends neither on the state of health nor. Its absolutely independent of all circumstances I have felt this aspiration in the cells of my body at the very moment when things were at their most disorganized, when, from an ordinary medical standpoint, the illness was serious. The cells THEMSELVES aspire. And this aspiration has to be everywhere.
0 1961-04-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There used to be a kind of mainspring, which had its raison dtre and so persisted: do this to arrive at that, and this leads to that (its more subtle, of course); but this mainspring suddenly seems to have been abolished, because it became useless.
Now a kind of absoluteness prevails at each and every second, in each movement, from the most subtle, the most spiritual, to the most material. The sense of linking has disappeared: that isnt the cause of this, and this isnt done for that; there is no there one is heading towardsit all seems.
(silence)
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have seen other things but I have rarely seen anything favorable in churches. Here, I remember going to M I was taken inside and received there in quite an unusual waya highly respected person introduced me as a great saint! They led me up to the main altar where people are not usually allowed to go, and what did I see there! An asura (oh, not a very high-ranking one, more like a rakshasa4), but such a monster! Hideous. So I went wham! (gesture of giving a blow) I thought something was going to happen. But this being left the altar and came over to try to intimidate me; of course, he saw it was useless, so he offered to make an alliance: If you just keep quiet and dont do anything, I will share all I get with you. Well, I sent him packing! The head of this Math5. It was a Math with a monastery and temple, which means a substantial fortune; the head of the Math has it all at his disposal for as long as he holds the position and he is appointed for life. But he has to name his successor and as a rule, his own life is considerably shortened by the successorthis is how it works. Everyone knew that the present head had considerably shortened the life of his predecessor. And what a creature! As asuric as the god he worshipped! I saw some poor fellows throw themselves at his feet (he must have been squeezing them pitilessly), to beg forgiveness and mercyan absolutely ruthless man. But he received meyou should have seen it! I said nothing, not a word about their god; I gave no sign that I knew anything. But I thought to myself, So thats how it is!
Another thing happened to me in a fishing village near A., on the seashore, where there is a temple dedicated to Kalia terrible Kali. I dont know what happened to her, but she had been buried with only her head sticking out! A fantastic story I knew nothing about it at all. I was going by car from A. to this temple and halfway there a black form, in great agitation, came rushing towards me, asking for my help: Ill give you everything I haveall my power, all the peoples worshipif you help me to become omnipotent! Of course, I answered her as she deserved! I later asked who this was, and they told me that some sort of misfortune had befallen her and she had been buried with only her head above ground. And every year this fishing village has a festival and slaughters thousands of chickensshe likes chicken! Thousands of chickens. They pluck them on the spot (the whole place gets covered with feathers), and then, after offering the blood and making the sacrifice, the people, naturally, eat them all up. The day I came this had taken place that very morningfea thers littered everywhere! It was disgusting. And she was asking for my help!
0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This was the first time I had this experience. It was much more substantial than the physical contact, which, as I told you, I had already had.1 It was much more material, and related to taste. It was as if the whole atmosphere and all the things in it were a marvelous food an ecstatic nourishment.
I had already had the experience for the sense of smell the divine vibration, the vibration of Ananda in odors. Just under my window, you know, Nripendra has his kitchen, where every morning and afternoon food is prepared for the children2it all comes wafting up on gusts of air. And when the Samadhi tree is in flower, the scent wafts up to me on gusts of air; when people burn incense down below, it comes wafting up here on gusts of aireach and every fragrance (fragrancelets say odor). And generally it all comes while I am walking for my japaan Ananda of odors, each one with its meaning, its expression, its (how to say it?) its motivation and its goal. Marvelous! And there are no longer any good or bad odors that notion is gone completely. Each one has its meaningits meaning and its raison dtre. I have been experiencing this for a long time.
0 1961-06-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the sublime joy of a perfect confidence,
an absolute serenity, a surrender total and
0 1961-06-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What is bewildering is the subtlety of the problem.
Take absolutely identical circumstances: the same outer circumstances, the same inner circumstances the psychological condition is the same; circumstances of life, the same; events, the same; people, no appreciable difference. Identical circumstances, a few hoursnot even a dayapart. And in one case, the body that is, the cellular consciousness feels a sort of eurhythmy and general harmony, everything dovetails in such a marvelous way, without rubbing, without frictioneverything functions and organizes itself in a total harmony. Its a peace and a joy (without the vital intensity, of courseits something physical). All, all is so harmonious and truly you feel a sense of the divine organization of everything, of all the cellsall is marvelous and the body feels well. Then in the other case everything is the same, the consciousness is the same and something escapes the perception of harmony is no longer there. For what reason? One doesnt understand anymore. And then the body begins to function wrongly. Yet everything is absolutely identicalmental conditions, vital conditions, physical conditions, all identical and suddenly it all seems meaningless. One still has the consciousness, the full consciousness of the divine Presence, and one senses somewhere something escaping, and all becomes its like running after something that escapes. Things become meaningless. In absolutely identical conditionseven the movements of the body (functional movements, I mean) may be identical, but they are felt to be disharmonious (these words are much too crude, its more subtle than that), meaningless, disharmonious. And what escapes? You cant make it out.
What is it?
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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?
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And its so subtle, so incomprehensible theres a distinct impression of it TOTALLY eluding even the highest conscious will. What is it? What is it?
If we found that, perhaps we would have it all the total Secret.
0 1961-06-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then she is thinking about itperhaps not consciously, but in her subconscient.
It happened some time ago. I even spoke to Sujata about it and said that someone over there was calling you. Did she tell you?
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Have I told you about the experience I had the day I suddenly found myself in Sri Aurobindos home in the subtle physical?7Well, its as if I took a step and entered a far more concrete world than the physicalmore concrete because things contain more truth. I spent a good while there with Sri Aurobindo and then, when it was over, I took another step and I found myself back here slightly dumbfounded. It took me quite some time to regain my bearings here, because it was this world that seemed unreal to me, not the other.
But its simply thatyou take a step, and you enter another room. And when you live in your soul there is a continuity, because the soul remembers, it keeps the whole memory; it remembers all occurrences, even outer occurrences, all the outer movements it has been associated with. So its a continuous, uninterrupted movement, here and there, from one room to another, from one house to another, from one life to another.
0 1961-06-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have had an oft repeated experience of reliving the past1 (its a phenomenon of consciousness, possible because everything is preserved and continues to exist somewhere), with a kind of willwhich would be the sign of a powerto change it. I dont know, but at the moment of reliving it, instead of reliving the past just as it had been preserved, a power to make it different was introduced. I am not speaking of the power to change the consequences of the past (that is obvious and functions all the time)it wasnt that; it was the power to change the circumstances themselves (circumstances not quite material but of the subtle physical, with a predominantly psychological content). And since the will was there, from the standpoint of consciousness it actually happened that is, instead of circumstances developing in one direction, they developed in another. So it must correspond to something real, otherwise I would not have had the experience. It wasnt a product of the imagination; it wasnt something one thinks of and would really like to be differentit wasnt that; it was a phenomenon of consciousness: my consciousness was reliving certain circumstances (which are still quite living and obviously continue to exist within their own domain), but reliving them with the power and the knowledge acquired between that past moment and the present, and with a power to change the past moment. A new power entered the scene and turned the circumstance being relived in a new direction. I have had this experience many times and it has always surprised meits not a phenomenon of mental imagination, which is something else entirely.
It opens the door to everything.
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I have what could be called a tactile sensation that the contents of the subtle atmosphere are increasing. This atmosphere is not part of material space as we conceive of or see it physically, where one thing has to give place to another (Mother changes the position of an eraser on the table)and even that (laughing) I believe is an illusion! It only SEEMS like that to us! Its not on the wholly material plane, but just behind or within (how to put it?), and its contents are increasing. And as its happening within inner dimensions, it can augment, so to speak, indefinitely; things become more and more interwoven, if you see what I meanwhere there was one phenomenon of consciousness there may now be hundreds, interwoven with each other in the inner dimensions; which means, for example, considering only our tiny planet, that the earth is becoming more and more compact and rich with all that has been since the beginning of its formationbecause its all there, it is all still there.
Actually, as soon as one is not totally, totally tied down by the physical sense organs. For example, I am more and more frequently experiencing changes in the quality of vision. Quite recently, yesterday or the day before, I was sitting in the bathroom drying my face before going out and I raised my eyes (I was sitting before a mirror, although I dont usually look at myself); I raised my eyes and looked, and I saw many things (Mother laughs, greatly amused). At that moment, I had an experience which made me say to myself, Ah! Thats why, from the physical, purely material standpoint, my vision seems to be a bit blurred. Because what I was seeing was MUCH clearer and infinitely more expressive than normal physical sight. And I recalled that it is with these clearer eyes that I see and recognize all my people at balcony darshan. (From the balcony I recognize all my people.) And its that vision (but with open eyes!) which. It is of another order.
0 1961-07-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo told me he had been French in a previous life and that French flowed back to him like a spontaneous memoryhe understood all the subtleties of French.
How is your work going?
0 1961-07-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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.
I am putting this purposely into rather childish terms so that it will be clearly understood. But this is the way it is. I am sure of it because I have observed it in myself for a VERY long time, and I had to. Due to the whole subconscious formation of childhoodenvironment, education, and so forthwe have to DRUM into this (Mother touches her body) the consciousness of Unity : the absolute, EXCLUSIVE unity of the Divineexclusive in the sense that nothing exists apart from this Unity, even the things which seem most repulsive.
Sri Aurobindo also had to struggle against this because he too received a Christian education. And these Aphorisms are the result the floweringof the necessity to struggle against the subconscious formation which has produced such questions (Mother takes on a scandalized tone): How can God be weak? How can God be foolish? How. But there is nothing but God! He alone exists, there is nothing outside of Him. And whatever seems repugnant to us is something He no longer wishes to existHe is preparing the world so that this no longer manifests, so that the manifestation can pass beyond this state to something else. So of course we violently reject everything in us that is destined to leave the active manifestation. There is a movement of rejection.
Yet it is He. There is nothing other than He! This should be repeated from morning to night, from night to morning, because we forget it every minute.
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All the believers, all the faithful (those from the West in particular) think in terms of something else when they speak of GodHe cannot be weak, ugly, imperfect, He is something immaculate but this is wrong thinking. They are dividing, separating. For subconscious thought (I mean thinking without reflecting, instinctively, out of habit, without observing oneself thinking), what is generally considered perfection is precisely what is seen or felt or postulated as being virtuous, divine, beautiful, admirable but its not that at all! Perfection means something in which nothing is missing. The divine perfection is a totality. The divine perfection is the Divine in his wholeness, with nothing left out. The divine perfection is the whole of the Divine, with nothing subtracted from it. For the moralists it is the exact opposite: divine perfection is nothing but the virtues they stand for!
From the true standpoint, the divine perfection is the whole (Mother makes a global gesture), and the fact that within this whole nothing can be missing is precisely what makes it perfect.1 Consequently, perfection means that each thing is in its place, exactly what it should be, and that relationships among things are also exactly what they should be.
0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it has become acute since.1 No, I dont read these days, because Ive had a hemorrhage in this eye. There have been too many letters, and its difficult for me to decipher handwriting the result is this hemorrhage. So I have gone on strike. All right, I said, I wont read any letters for a week. People can write as much as they please, its all the same to me Im not reading any more. But just before stopping (I stopped reading for only three days), I read a passage where Sri Aurobindo speaks of his own experience and his own work and explains in full what he means by the supramental transformation. This passage confirmed and made me understand many experiences I had after that experience of the bodys ascent [January 24, 1961] (the ascent of the body-consciousness, followed by the descent of the supramental force into the body); immediately afterwards, everything (how to put it?) outwardly, according to ordinary consciousness, I fell ill; but its stupid to speak this way I did not fall ill! All possible difficulties in the bodys subconscient rose up en masseit had to happen, and it surely happened to Sri Aurobindo, too. How well I understood! How well, indeed. And its no joke, you know! I had wondered why these difficulties had hounded him so ferociouslynow I understand, because I am being attacked in the same relentless fashion.
Actually, it springs from everything in material consciousness that can still be touched by the adverse forces; that is, not exactly the body-consciousness itself but, one could say, material substance as it has been organized by the mind the initial mentalization of matter, the first stirrings of mind in life making the passage from animal to human. (The same complications would probably exist in animals, but as there is no question of trying to supramentalize animals, all goes well for them.) Well, something in there protests, and naturally this protest creates disorder. These past few days I have been seeing. No one has ever followed this path! Sri Aurobindo was the first, and he left without telling us what he was doing. I am literally hewing a path through a virgin forestits worse than a virgin forest.
For the past two days there has been the feeling of not knowing anythingNOTHING at all. I have had this feeling for a very long time, but now it has become extremely acute, as it always does at times of crisis, at times when things are on the verge of changingor of getting clarified, or of exploding, or. From the purely material standpointchemically, biologically, medically, therapeutically speaking I dont believe many people do know (there may be some). But it doesnt seem very clear to mein any case, I dont know. Yogically (I dont mean spiritually: that was the first stage of my sadhana), its very easy to be a saint! Oh, even to be a sage is very easy. I feel I was born with itits spontaneous and natural for me, and so simple! You know all that has to be done, and doing it is as easy as knowing it. Its nothing. But this transformation of Matter! What has to be done? How is it to be done? What is the path?
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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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After my interview with Nature, when she told me that she would collaborate,2 I thought this difficulty would cease; many things have improved considerably (ONE part of Nature is collaborating), but not this. Plainly and clearly, it comes from the subconscient and the inconscient (wherever there is consciousness, all is well); its rising up all the time, all the time, and withoh, disgusting persistence!
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.
Well, since I believerightly or wrongly, I dont know that the doctor has more experience than I, that from the therapeutic and biological standpoint he knows a bit more, I showed him the eye and asked, Can I read? Better not read until its finished, he replied, and told me to wash my eyes with glucose. (Its a useful piece of information for those with tired eyes: mix the glucoseliquid glucose, the kind that comes in ampoules for injectionwith something like the blue water we make here, half and half. Open the ample, put a third of it in the eye-cup, then add the blue water.) I have already tried it once and found that it gives a great deal of strength to the eyes. Tomorrow Im going to start doing it regularly. There you are.
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Everything depends upon the balance (not the equilibrium, the proportion) between the amount of resistance in physical substance, and the Power.
But are these merely material resistances or are they rather hostile forces?
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For example, as I was saying at the beginning, the bodys formation has a very minimal, a quite subordinate importance for a saint or a sage. But for this supramental work, the way the body is formed has an almost crucial importance, and not at all in relation to spiritual elements nor even to mental power: these aspects have no importance AT ALL. The capacity to endure, to last is the important thing.
Well, in that respect, it is absolutely undeniable that my body has an infinitely greater capacity than Sri Aurobindos had.
That was the basic problembecause the identification of the two [Sri Aurobindo and Mother] was almost childs play, it was nothing: for me to merge into him or him to merge into me was no problem, it wasnt difficult. We had some conversations on precisely this subject, because we saw that (there were many other things, too, but this isnt the time to speak of them) the prevailing conditions were such that I told him I would leave this body and melt into him with no regret or difficulty; I told him this in words, not just in thought. And he also replied to me in words: Your body is indispensable for the Work. Without your body the Work cannot be done. After that, I said no more. It was no longer my concern, and that was the end of it.
This was said in 1949, just a little more than a year before he left.
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I must say that there was a time when, as Sri Aurobindo had entrusted his work to me, there was a kind of tension to do it (it cant be called an anxiety); a tension in the will. This too has now ended (Mother stretches her arms into the Infinite). Its finished. But there MAY still be something tense lurking somewhere in the subconscient or the inconscient I dont know, its possible. Why? I dont know. I mean I have never been told, at any time, neither through Sri Aurobindo nor directly, whether or not I would go right to the end. I have never been told the contrary, either. I have been told nothing at all. And if at times I turn towards Thatnot to question, but simply to know the answer is always the same: Carry on, its not your problem; dont worry about it. So now I have learned not to worry about it; I am consciously not worried about it.
(silence)
0 1961-07-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am constantly seeing images! Not images, living thingslike answers to questions. A magnificent peacock was taking shape (its the symbol of victory here in India) and its tail opened out, and on it a construction appeared, like this construction of an ideal place. Its a pity this subtle world cant be photographed! There ought to be photographic plates sensitive enough to do it. It has been tried. It would be interesting because it moves, its like a movie.
All right, then. What did you want to ask?
0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All at once, as I gaze above me, I glimpse something roseate; I draw nearer and discern what appears to be a shrub, as large as a tree, held fast to a blue reef. The denizens of the waters glide to and fro, myriad and diverse. Now I find myself standing upon fine, shining sand. I gaze about me in wonder. There are mountains and valleys, fantastic forests, strange flowers that could as well be animals, and fish that might be flowersno separation, no gap is there between stationary beings and mobile. Colors everywhere, brilliant and shimmering, or subdued, but always harmonious and refined. I walk upon the golden sands and contemplate all this beauty bathed in a soft, pale blue radiance, tiny, luminous spheres of red, green and gold circulating through it.
How marvelous are the depths of the sea! Everywhere the presence of the One in whom all harmonies reside is felt!
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Has the sleeper sensed my presence? For now he awakens and rises in all his grace and beauty. He turns towards me and his eyes meet mine, mauve and luminous eyes with a gentle, an infinitely tender expression. Wordlessly he bids me a sublime welcome and my whole being joyously responds. Taking my hand, he leads me to the couch he has just left. I stretch out on this downy whiteness, and his harmonious visage bends over me; a sweet current of force enters wholly into me, invigorating, revitalizing each cell.
Then, wreathed by the splendid colors of the rainbow, enveloped by lulling melodies and exquisite perfumes, beneath his gaze so powerful, so tender, I drift into a beatific repose. And during my sleep I learn many beautiful and useful things.
0 1961-08-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When one descends into the subconscient, a time comes when its no longer personal the whole world is there! Then what can we do? Im not speaking of you, but what can people like us do to change it? Its a Sisyphean labor! Vibrations from the whole world keep coming in at each instant. How can we change it?
No, you have to approach the problem from the other direction.
Evolution begins with the Inconscient, complete Inconscience; and from this Inconscient a subconscient gradually emerges that is, a half or quarter-consciousness. There are two different things here. Consider life on earth (because the process is slightly different in the universe); earth-life begins with total Inconscience and little by little what was involved within it works out and changes this Inconscience into semi-consciousness or subconsciousness. At the same time, there is an individual working that awakens the INDIVIDUAL inconscient to an individual semiconsciousness, and here, of course, the individual has controlalthough its not actually individualized because individualization begins with consciousness. The subconscient of plants or animals, for example, isnt individualized; what we call an animals behavior doesnt arise from individualization but from the genius of the species. Consequently, the individual subconscient is something already evolved out of the general subconscient. But when one descends to accomplish a work of transformationto bring Light into the different layers of life, for instanceone descends into a cosmic, terrestrial subconscient, not an individual subconscient. And the work of transformation is done within the wholenot through individualization, but through the opposite movement, through a sort of universalization.
No, what I mean is that as we progress, we automatically become universalized.
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And we are told that we have to change the subconscient, to bring Light into it; but being universal it has no end! New vibrations keep coming in at every instant
No!
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Even Buddha said that if you have a vibration of desire, this vibration goes all around the terrestrial atmosphere. The opposite is whats impossible! Its impossible to separate yourself. You can have the idea of being separate, but you cant be separate in reality. In fact, if you are trying to eliminate the subconscient in yourself your movement must necessarily be general; it cant be personal, you would never get anywhere.
Yes, of course, but these vibrations are ceaselessly re-created.
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So it all keeps circling round and round in the earths atmosphere. But compared to the universe, the earths atmosphere is a very tiny thing. Well, all this keeps circling around within it. And in fact, because of the movement of evolution, there is a progress. The present Inconscient is not as unconscious as the initial Inconscient, and the present subconscient is not as subconscious nor as generalized as it was at the beginning. This is the meaning of terrestrial evolution.
But if, as you say, it keeps circling around in the earths atmosphere, doesnt this mean that vibrations are ceaselessly re-created?
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A re-creation would mean that a new contingent of the Inconscient and subconscient would come in from other spheres, or from the Supremewell, this isnt the case. We consider the Inconscient to be an accident: if it happened, it happened; but its not part of an infinite and eternal creation.
Then are our vibrations of consciousness effective for changing these general vibrations?
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In fact, we are the first possible instruments for making the world progress. For example (this is one way of putting it), the transformation of the Inconscient into the subconscient is probably far more rapid and complete now than it was before man appeared upon earth; man is one of the first transformative elements. Animals are obviously more conscious than plants, but WILLED (and thus more rapid) progress belongs to humanity. Likewise, what one hopes (more than hopes!), what one expects is that when the new supramental race comes upon earth, the work will go much more swiftly; and man will necessarily benefit from this. And since things will be done in true order instead of in mental disorder, animals and everything else will probably benefit from it also. In other words, the whole earth, taken as one entity, will progress more and more rapidly. The Inconscient (oh, all this comes to me in English, thats the difficulty!) is meant to go and necessarily the subconscient will go too.
Broadly speaking, does this mean that physical Matter will become conscious?
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Its quite obvious that the Inconscient, the subconscient and the semi-conscient are accidental; they are not a permanent part of the creation, so are bound to disappear, to be transformed.
Years ago, when Sri Aurobindo and I descended together from plane to plane (or from mode of life to mode of life) and reached the subconscient, we saw that it was no longer individual: it was terrestrial. The rest the mind, the vital and of course the bodyis individualized; but when you descend below this level, thats no longer the case. There is indeed something between the conscious life of the body and this subconscious terrestrial lifeelements are thrown out1 as a result of the action of individual consciousness upon the subconscious substance; this creates a kind of semiconsciousness, and that stays. For example, when people are told, You have pushed your difficulty down into the subconscient and it will resurface, this does not refer to the general subconscient, but to something individualized out of the subconscient through the action of individual consciousness and remaining down there until it resurfaces. The process is, so to speak, interminable, even the personal part of it.
Every night, you know, I continue to see more and more astounding things emerging from the subconscient to be transformed. Its a kind of mixturenot clearly individualizedof all the things that have been more or less closely associated in life. For example, some people are intermingled there. One relives things almost as in a dream (although these are not dreams), one relives it all in a certain setting, within a certain set of symbolic, or at any rate expressive, circumstances. Just two days ago I had to deal with someone (I am actively at work there and I had to do something with him), and upon seeing this person, I asked myself, is he this one or that one? As I became less involved in the action and looked with a more objective consciousness, the witness-consciousness, I saw that it was simply a mixture of both personseverything is mixed in the subconscient. Already when I lived in Japan there were four people I could never distinguish during my nighttime activitiesall four of them (and god knows they werent even acquainted!) were always intermingled because their subconscious reactions were identical.
In fact, this is what legitimizes the ego; because if we had never formed an ego, we would have lived all mixed up (laughing), now this person, now another! Oh, it was so comical, seeing this the other day! At first it was a bit bewildering, but when I looked closely, it became utterly amusing: two little people with no physical resemblance, yet of a similar typesmall and in short, a similarity. Its like the four men I used to see in Japan: there was an Englishman, a Frenchman, a Japanese and one more, each from a different country; well, at night they were all the same, as if viewed one through the other, all intermingledvery amusing!
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I.e., they are cast aside or eliminated from the individual subconscient.
'That' seems to refer to physical immortality.
0 1961-08-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Another detail. In several places, Sri Aurobindo speaks of the circumconscient or environmental consciousness through which we enter into contact with the external world. Is this the same as the subtle physical, the subtle envelope? What is this circumconscient?
Its the encircling consciousness. Isnt it called the milieu in French?
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Yes, there is subconscient, conscient, subliminal and circumconscient.
Oh!
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You see, the subtle physical extends a long way beyond the body.
Then comes what Theon called the nervous sub-level, which lies between this subtle physical and the vital. And it acts as a protection: if it is stable, harmonious and strong, it protects youit protects you even physicallyfrom contagious diseases, for instance, and even from accidents. I experienced it when I was living at Val-de-Grce. It was the year I resolved to attain union with the psychic being and I was concentrated on this from morning to night and night to morning. Every day I spent some time in the Luxembourg Gardens. They were right near the house, but to get there I had to go all the way down Rue du Val-de-Grce and cross Boulevard Saint Michel, where there were streetcars, automobiles, buses the whole circus. I would remain in my concentration the whole time, and once, while crossing the boulevard, I felt a shock about this far from my body [slightly more than arms length], so spontaneously I jumped backjust enough for the streetcar to pass by. I hadnt heard anything; I was totally absorbed, and without that warning I would surely have been run over; instead, I jumped back just in time, and the streetcar sped by. I understood then that this nervous sheath was something entirely concrete, because what I had felt was not an idea of danger but a shocka material SHOCK.
So its true that as long as this envelope is strong and undamaged, you are protected. But for instance, if you are over-tired or worried or flusteredanything that brings disorder into the atmosphere seems to make holes in this envelope, and all kinds of things can enter.
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But isnt this the subtle physical?
It surrounds the subtle physical.
First there is the subtle physical and then the circumconscient?
Yes; the subtle physical is visiblevisible. You have seen heat vibrations when its very hot, havent you? Thats the subtle physicalone form of it.
The subtle physical is right here (gesture on the surface of the skin). Some people are sensitive in the subtle physical; you move your hand near them and they feel it immediately. Others dont even noticeit depends on the subtle physicals sensitivity. And the circumconscient surrounds it like an envelope. If there are no tears in it, this envelope is a magnificent protection.4 And its not dependent on any spiritual or intellectual rationale, but on a harmony with Nature and life, a kind of stability in the material being. People with strong envelopes are almost always in good health and succeed in what they do. It isnt something mentalwhen they do a work it comes out nicely, if they want to meet someone, they meet him. Things of this nature.
The circumconscient must be that.
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No, no, no. Most of the time in sleep, with very few exceptions, one is in contact with all that rises up from the subconscient: a cerebral subconscient, an emotive subconscient, a material subconscient; this is what produces ninety-nine percent of the dreams people have. Sometimesusually the mind goes wandering, but ninety-nine and a half percent of the time, one remembers nothing when it returns, because the link is not properly established.
The purpose of sleep is to re-establish contact with the consciousness of Sachchidananda. But I dont think one person in a hundred does so! They enter into unconsciousness far more than into Sachchidananda.
0 1961-08-08, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
X's astonishment raises an extremely important point, drawing the exact dividing line between all the traditional yogas and the new yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Mother. To a tantric, for example, it seems unthinkable that Mother, with a consciousness so powerful as to scoff at the laws of nature and comm and the elements (if she wishes), could be subjected to absurd head colds or an eye hemorrhage or even more serious disorders. For him, it is enough to simply lift a finger and emit a vibration which instantly muzzles the disorderyes, of course, but for Mother it is not a question of 'curing' a head cold by imposing a higher POWER on Matter, but of getting down to the cellular root and curing or transforming the source of the evil (which causes death as easily as head colds, for it is the same root of disorder). It is not a question of imposing oneself on Matter through a 'power,' but of transforming Matter. Such is the yoga of the cells.
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0 1961-09-10, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I feel this so often now. How to put it. I always try not to talktalking bothers me. Yes, its a real nuisance. When I see someone, the first thing I do is to avoid talking. Then, when the Vibration comes, its good; there is a sort of communication, and if the person is the least bit receptive, what comes is like a its subtler than music; its a vibration bringing its own principle of harmony. But people usually get impatient after a while and, wanting something more concrete, oblige me to talk. They always insist on it. Then, being in a certain atmosphere, a certain vibration, I immediately feel something going like this (gesture of a fall to another level), and then hardening. Even when I babble (you see, the very effort of trying to be more subtle makes me babble), even my babblings (laughing) become dry by comparison. There are all sorts of things that are so much fullerfull, packed with an inner richnessand as soon as this is put into words, oh!
The night before last, around 3 in the morning, I was in a place where there were a lot of people from here (you were there), and I was trying to play some music, precisely in order to SAY something. There were three pianos there, which seemed to be interlocked into each other, so I leaned over sideways to get at one of the three and began playing on it. It was in a large hall with people seated at a distance, but you were just at my left alongside a young lady who was a symbol figure (that is, the vibration or impression I received from her and the relationship I had with her could be applied as well to four or five persons here: it was like relating to an amalgam something that is very interesting and often happens to me). Anyway, I was leaning over one of the keyboards and trying trying to work something out, to illustrate how this would translate into that. Finally I realized that playing half-standing, half-leaning was unnecessary acrobatics, because a grand piano was right there in front, so I sat down before it. Well, the most amusing part of it was that the keys (there were two keyboards) were all bluelike the marbled paper we are making now, all blue, and with every possible marbled effect. Black keys, white keys, high keys, low keys (all of them were the same width, quite wide, like this), all seemed to be coated but it wasnt paperwith this blue. Facing the piano I said to myself, Well now, this cant be played with physical eyesit has to be played FROM ABOVE.
0 1961-10-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This concentration on finding the mechanism sprang from the fact that there were disorders in the body which were vanishing and then reappearingpermanent cure seemed impossible. So I told myself, Somewhere, probably in the subconscient, something must be justifying their presence. Then, after concentrating and searching and concentrating some more, suddenly a memory rose up from the subconscient (a memory which is a kind of continued existence under a certain form), the memory of a particular set of movements and actions (not physical movements, but attitudes) that go back many years and had never attracted my attention. None of it had ever been included in the general clearing-out because, like so many other things, it all seemed to be due to normal, ongoing circumstances. But thats just where I saw (what to call it?) the hue, the taint of Falsehood. Its very subtle. These are very subtle things. But suddenly, oh! It caught hold of me and created a revolution in the whole being. All those vibrations were cast up and transformedan extraordinary thing. It stirred up much more commotion and revolution than I had ever expected. And ah! A relief. Something was clarified, bringing a brilliant, new comprehension, and then quite interesting physical results. Before this, I was really feeling rather poorly, extremely tired, with the impression of a decline into decrepituderelatively speaking! (It was in a very superficial part of the being, but it was enough to be disagreeable.) And all of itpfft! Gone in a single stroke.
And that very day, I had this experience with the possessed personit all came together. And then afterwards, a sort of mastery over the problem and the impression of a breakthroughan opening up of the WAY to change, which is this enlargement. First, the movement of generosity (not that shriveling movement, but its exact opposite the movement of expansion), and from there you go on to universality, and from universality to Totality.
0 1961-10-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The first time you read your manuscript, I called Sri Aurobindo to hear it. He was in the subtle physical and he listened. Yesterday when I sat down to listen, I thought, It would be much better if he entered my brain because that way. In fact, I called him; he entered my brain. It took some time; all through the beginning of the reading we were still two; then he came in more and more, more and more, more and more. My headmy physical headseemed to be swelling up! There was no longer space for anyone but him. It was the light that dark blue light of mental power (but true mental power) in the physical the tantrics use it, you always see it with Xs action, but Ive never seen it this way before! My head was full, you knowfull, full, not an atom of space to spare I could feel it swelling up!
And this light was absolutely immobilevibrationless, totally compact and coherent. When I see Xs light, for example, there are always vibrations in it; it vibrates, vibrates, things are shifting about; out with this, not a single vibration, not one movement: a MASS that seemed eternally immobile but which was (how to put it?) attentive, listening. It was a volume with the form of the head, as if that had wholly taken over the head. It was full, so full, yet with no feeling of tension or of anything resisting, none at all; there was only a kind of immobile eternity and COMPACT, compact, absolutely coherent, no vibrations. And it increased, increased more and more, it became heavy, but with a very particular heavinessnot a weight, the feeling of a mass.
0 1961-10-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I mean that theres a feeling of being on the wrong track: ordinarily, when seeking the Supermind, one looks for it on the heights. But thats not it! Thats not it. And one always imagines a sort of subtilization, something etherealized, but its not that.
All right, you dont need to keep a record of this [for the Agenda]. Theyll lock me up, Im telling you!
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The secret lies in matter. Because Agni is imprisoned in matter and we ourselves are imprisoned there. It is said that Agni is without head or feet, that it conceals its two extremities: above, it disappears into the great heaven of the supraconscient (which the Rishis also called the great ocean), and below, it sinks into the formless ocean of the inconscient (which they also called the rock). We are truncated. But the Rishis were men of a solid realism, a true realism resting upon the Spirit; and since the summits of mind opened out upon a lacuna of lightecstatic, to be sure, but with no hold over the worldthey set upon the downward way.6 Thus begins the quest for the lost sun, the long pilgrimage of descent into the inconscient and the merciless fight against the dark forces, the thieves of the sun, the panis and vritras, pythons and giants, hidden in the dark lair with the whole cohort of usurpers: the dualizers, the confiners, the tearers, the COVERERS. But the divine worker, Agni, is helped by the gods, and in his quest he is led by the intuitive ray, Sarama, the heavenly hound with the subtle sense of smell who sets Agni on the track of the stolen herds (strange, shining herds). Now and again there comes the sudden glimmer of a fugitive dawn then all grows dim. One must advance step by step, digging, digging, fighting every inch of the way against the wolves whose savage fury increases the nearer one draws to their denAgni is a warrior. Agni grows through his difficulties, his flame burns more brilliantly with each blow from the Adversary; for, as the Rishis said, Night and Day both suckled the divine Child; they even said that Night and Day are the two sisters, Immortal, with a common lover [the sun] common they, though different their forms (I.113.2,3). These alternations of night and brightness accelerate until Day breaks at last and the herds of Dawn7 surge upward awakening someone who was dead (I.113.8). The infinite rock of the inconscient is shattered, the seeker uncovers the Sun dwelling in the darkness (III.39.5), the divine consciousness in the heart of Matter. In the very depths of Matter, that is to say, in the body, on earth, the Rishis found themselves cast up into Light that same Light which others sought on the heights, without their bodies and without the earth, in ecstasy. And this is what the Rishis would call the Great Passage. Without abandoning the earth they found the vast dwelling place, that dwelling place of the gods, Swar, the original Sun-world that Sri Aurobindo calls the Supramental World: Human beings [the Rishis emphasize that they are indeed men] slaying the Coverer have crossed beyond both earth and heaven [matter and mind] and made the wide world their dwelling place (I.36.8). They have entered the True, the Right, the Vast, Satyam, Ritam, Brihat, the unbroken light, the fearless light, where there is no longer suffering nor falsehood nor death: it is immortality, amritam.
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0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have noticed that as soon as one speaks of Richard one is unwittingly led to tell lies. Thats why I am so terribly careful to avoid the subject.
The first issue began with The Wherefore of the Worlds (the English following the French), and in it Richard attributed the origin of the world to Desire. They were in perpetual disagreement on this subject, Richard saying, It is Desire, and Sri Aurobindo, The initial force of the Manifestation is Joy. Then Richard would say, God DESIRED to know Himself, and Sri Aurobindo, No, God had the Joy of knowing Himself. And it went on and on like that!
When Richard went to Japan, he sent his manuscripts to Sri Aurobindo, including The Wherefore of the Worlds and The Eternal Wisdom, and Sri Aurobindo continued to translate them into English.
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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.
0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This lasted for a few months. Then we descended into the Physical and all the trouble began.5 But we didnt stay in the Physical, we descended into the subconscient and from the subconscient to the Inconscient. That was how we worked. And it was only when I descended into the Inconscient that I found the Divine Presence there, in the midst of Darkness.
It wasnt the first time; when I was working with Theon at Tlemcen (the second time I was there), I descended into the total, unindividualized that is, general Inconscient (it was the time he wanted me to find the Mantra of Life). And there I suddenly found myself in front of something like a vault or a grotto (of course, it was only something like that), and when it opened, I saw a Being of iridescent light reclining with his head on his hand, fast asleep. All the light around him was iridescent. When I told Theon what I was seeing, he said it was the immanent God in the depths of the Inconscient, who through his radiations was slowly waking the Inconscient to Consciousness.
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I am telling you this because, as soon as I got your letter, I replied with what Ill read to you now; then I was immediately faced with something I couldnt formulate, the kind of thing that gives you the feeling of the unknown (all I knew was my own experience). So I did the usual thingbecame blank, turned towards the Truth; and I questioned Sri Aurobindo and beyondasking, if there were something to be known, that it be told to me. Then I dropped it, I paid no more attention. And only as I was coming here today was I told I cant really use the word told, but anyway, what was communicated to me concerning your question was that the difference between the two processes [the Rishis and the present one] is purely subjective, depending upon the way the experience is registered. I dont know if I can make myself clear. There is something which is the experience and which will be the Realization; and what appears to be a different, if not opposite, process is simply a subjective mental notation of one SINGLE experience. Do you follow?
Thats what I was told.
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Yes, the Rishis give an absolutely living description of what you experience and experience continuallyas soon as you descend into the subconscient: all these battles with the beings who conceal the Light and so on. I experienced these things continually at Tlemcen and again with Sri Aurobindo when we were doing the Workits raging quite merrily even now!
As soon as you go down there, thats what happensyou have to fight against all that is unwilling to change, all that dominates the world and does not want to change.
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After reading your letter, I had a very strong feeling that you put the problem like that because you were considering it from a mental plane, which is the only plane where it exists; if you go beyond, there are no more oppositions or problems. These things are subtle, you know, and as soon as you try to formulate them, they elude youformulation deforms.
What I mean is that its not necessarily in trance, in another world, that one gets the supramental consciousness.
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When one has these experiences, like the ones Ive had in the subtle physical, for example, the body is certainly in trance but the part having the experience doesnt AT ALL feel deprived or lacking in anything. The experience comes with a fullness of life, consciousness, independence, individuality. Its not like going out in trance to accomplish a work and feeling linked to the body its not that: the body no longer exists nor has any reason to! Its simply not there. And its a nuisance to go back into itwhat is this useless burden! you wonder. As a result, if this experience becomes permanent, you live in a world thats just as concrete, just as real and just as TANGIBLE as our physical world, with the same qualities of duration, permanence and stability.
Its very difficult to express, because as soon as we notice it.
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A word coined by Theon, which might roughly translate as 'the sublime.'
By 'standard,' Mother means a sort of model or archetype.
0 1961-12-16, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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.
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0 1961-12-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is something deeper. And within this deeper thing there was: quiet, quiet, quiet, we will wait; and the impression (but vague, distant and uncertain) of some attempt being made to introduce a very good possibility into the atmosphere. I never see on the purely physical plane, you know (its always on the subtle physical, the plane of possibilities thats more real to me; the purely physical generally eludes me, but I see the subtle physical clearly), and I was seeing I dont know, it was like something higher, from above, trying to make someone enter the field of possibilities, a brain that would suddenly be touched by the book and reverse the situation. I dont know who, I dont know what, I dont know how. Ah, you know that yellow rose I just gave you? Its fringed in pink. Well, what came was like a slender pink fringe winding through the atmosphere of this situation.
Its possibleall is possible!
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It was a truly stupendous experience, petty though the object is (she is insignificant, without any great substance or powera very minor incarnation; she does have certain not quite human capacities, but they are so veiled by a tiny human personality that scarcely anyone but I can see them).
And in the experience there was no difference between my physical and my inner being (actually, its that way more and more for me); even physically, externally, there was a kind of love full of adoration, and so spontaneousnot even any sense of wonder! And there was such a formidable Power in it, formidable from the standpoint of the entire earth. It lasted one hour. After an hour, the experience slowly began to fade (it had to fade for purely practical reasons). But it left me so confident of a radical changenot a total change, for it wasnt permanent but so radical that even outwardly, way down below in me, something was saying, Ah, how will the meditations with X be now? I caught Myself not thinking, not myself: someone thought like that, somewhere way down below. This pulled me out of the experience and I wondered, Thats strange, whos thinking like that? It was one of the personalities4 (in terms of work, its the one that gives each action its proper place), someone way down below, spontaneously feeling: But thats going to change the meditations! What will they be like now? When I returned and began to look at things with the usual discernment, I told myself that perhaps there actually will be a change.
0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres a seat in my bathroom upstairs, and between the seat and the wall are two small tables (not tables, but small stools where a few things are kept), and a porcelain towel bar (luckily, everything has rounded corners). I found myself wedged in between the seat and the two small tables (a space about this wide!). And all that matter the material substance of the table and the objects on the table and the porcelain seatit all seemed so unreceptive! It doesnt give way like it should for things to be comfortable; but it wasnt that my body was uncomfortable there was no body! The whole set-up was bizarre, everything was in a bizarre and absurd situation which I couldnt really understand, couldnt make out: Whats this big lump doing here, I seemed to be wondering, taking up so much room, getting in the way?
My elbow had ended up leaning on a little plastic tray I have there, where I keep pencils, ball-point pens, note pads and so forth. The body was leaning on this tray, evidently trying to get up, and the whole thing started cracking noisily under the weight. And in a diffuse but very clear consciousness I was saying to myself, But why? Whats all this ridiculous noise? And whats this heavy thing doing? What disorder. There shouldnt be such disorder. And it went on crack-crack-cracking. Then suddenly normal consciousness returnedto be exact, what returned was the normal RELATIONSHIP consciousness has with thingsand I said, Well, really! What a ridiculous situation! What is this elbow doing on that tray? It should realize its breaking it! And when things were all completely back to normal I told my body, What are you doing, you idiot! Come on, pick yourself up, get moving! Immediately, docile as a little child, it extricated itself, turned around, and stood up straightquite straight. I had scratched my knee, scratched my elbow, and taken three knocks on the head. Luckily there were no sharp edgesit was all hard enough, but no sharp edges. Anyway, in the end I was all right, no damage done.
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These past few days Ive had some interesting experiences from this standpoint. I had what is commonly called fever, but it wasnt feverit was a resurfacing from the subconscient of all the struggles, all the tensions this body has had for what will soon be eighty-three years. I went through a period in my life when the tension was tremendous, because it was psychological and vital as well as physical: a perpetual struggle against adverse forces; and during my stay in Japan, particularly oh, it was terrible! So at night, everything that had been part of that life in Japanpeople, things, movements, circumstancesall of it seemed to be surrounding my body in the form of vital3 vibrations, and to be taking the place of my present state, which had completely vanished. For hours during the night, the body was reliving all the terrible tensions it had during those four years in Japan. And I realized how much (because at the time you pay no attention; the consciousness is busy with something else and not concentrated on the body), how much the body resists and is tense. And just as I was realizing this, I had a communication with Sri Aurobindo: But youre keeping it up! he told me. Your body still has the habit of being tense. (Its much less now, of course; its quite different since the inner consciousness is in perfect peace, but the BODY keeps the habit of being tense.) For instance, in the short interval between the time I get up and the time I come down to the balcony,4 when I am getting ready (I have to get this body ready to come down) well, the body is tense about being ready in time. And thats why accidents happen at that moment. So the following morning I said, All right, no more tension, and I was exclusively concerned with keeping my body perfectly tranquil I was no later than usual! So its obviously just one of the bodys bad habits. Everything went off the same as usual, and since then things are better. But its a nasty habit.
And so I looked. Is it something particular to this body? I wondered. To everyone who has lived closely with it, my body gives the impression of two things: a very concentrated, very stubborn will, and such endurance! Sri Aurobindo used to tell me he had never dreamed a body could have such endurance. And thats probably why. But I dont want to curtail this ability in any way, because it is a CELLULAR will, and a cellular endurance toowhich is quite intriguing. Its not a central will and central endurance (thats something else altogether)its cellular. Thats why Sri Aurobindo used to tell me this body had been specially prepared and chosen for the Workbecause of its capacity for obstinate endurance and will. But thats no reason to exercise this ability uselessly! So I am making sure it relaxes now; I tell it constantly, Now, now! Just let go! Relax, have some fun, wheres the harm in it? I have to tell it to be quiet, very quiet. And its very surprised to hear that: Ah! Can I live that way? I dont have to hurry? I can live that way?
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For material substance its a necessity.
Its exactly what I was complaining about: If this stuff cant go on without flagging, if it cant take it and absolutely has to relax, if it cant keep up with the movement of consciousness and just has to slacken from time to time, well how can it ever be supramentalized? Precisely what everyone has always said: It CANNOT hold the charge, it has to let go. It cant hold the charge of Energy. And especially THIS Energy, which seems almost abnormal to peoplean Energy that works like this (inflexible gesture) and can keep it up indefinitely.
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Given the worlds present set-up, this is normal but if the supramental world were to be realized, it shouldnt remain normal. Clearly, a considerable change has to take place in the physical substance. That will probably be the essential difference between the bodies fashioned by Natures methods and those to be fashioned by supramental knowledgea new element will come in, and we will no longer be natural. But so long as this natural element is present, well, a certain amount of patience is probably requiredlet the body catch its breath, otherwise something gives way.
It gets much less winded, of course, when you have the inner equality of the divine Presence. So much fatigue is due to excess tension produced by desire or effort or struggle, by the constant battle against all opposing forces. All that can go.
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And only in the last few days have all those memories been allowed to rise up again from the subconscient where they were being kept; and with that, the state I lived in for thirty years has resurfacedwith this tremendous difference.
And suddenly I said to myself, How could it be? During all the time he was here, the time we were together (after I came back from Japan, when we were together), life, life on earth, lived such a wondrous divine possibility, so really so unique, something it had never lived to such an extent and in such a way, for thirty years, and it didnt even notice!
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It always revolves around the same thing, but here its presented in a very subtle way.
To cherish in secret the sense of sin. No, I cant say Ive had that experience, in the sense that I have never had a very pronounced love of virtue.
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The criterion or the judgment [for passing the tests] was based EXCLUSIVELY on the substance constituting the peoplewhe ther they belonged completely to the supramental world or not, whether they were made of this very special substance. The criterion adopted was neither moral nor psychological. It is likely that their bodily substance was the result of an inner law or an inner movement which, at that time, was not in question. At least it is quite clear that the values are different.
And then you add:
0 1962-01-12 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive said something on the subject somewhere. Do you remember that gentleman from Madras who had asked a question?1 There was an indication there.
Because I followed the thread, I put myself back in contact with the experience of the supramental ship, and I noticed that it had a DECISIVE effect on my position: the required conditions were established quite clearly, precisely, and definitively by that experience. In that respect, it was interesting.
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So long as theres no question of physical transformation, the psychological and in large part, the subjective point of view is sufficientand thats relatively easy. But when it comes to incorporating matter into the work, matter as it is in this world where the very starting point is false (we start off in unconsciousness and ignorance), well, its very difficult. Because, to recover the consciousness it has lost, Matter has had to individualize itself, and for that for the form to last and retain this possibility of individualityit has been created with a certain indispensable measure of rigidity. And that rigidity is the main obstacle to the expansion, to the plasticity and suppleness necessary for receiving the Supermind. I constantly find myself facing this problem, which is utterly concrete, absolutely material when youre dealing with cells that have to remain cells and not vaporize into some nonphysical reality, and at the same time have to have a suppleness, a lack of rigidity, enabling them to widen indefinitely.
There have been times, while working in the most material mind (the mind ingrained in the material substance), when I felt my brain swelling and swelling and swelling, and my head becoming so large it seemed about to burst! On two occasions I was forced to stop, because it was (was it only an impression, or was it a fact?) in any event it seemed dangerous, as if the head would burst, because what was inside was becoming too tremendous (it was that power in Matter, that very powerful deep blue light which has such powerful vibrations; it is able to heal, for example, and change the functioning of the organsreally a very powerful thing materially). Well then, thats what was filling my head, more and more, more and more, and I had the feeling that my skull was (it was painful, you know) that there was a pressure inside my skull pushing out, pushing everything out. I wondered what was going to happen. Then, instead of following the movement, helping it along and going with it, I became immobile, passive, to see what would happen. And both times it stopped. I was no longer helping the movement along, you see, I simply remained passive and it came to a halt, there was a sort of stabilization.
(silence)
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It was taking place in the subtle physical. The people who had patches on their bodies and had to be sent back were always the ones who lacked the plasticity those two movements required. But the main thing was the movement of expansion; the progressive movement, the movement of following the Becoming, seemed to be a subsequent preoccupation for those who had landed. The preparation on the boat concerned that capacity for expansion.
Another thing I didnt mention to you when I related the experience was that the ship had no engine. Everything was set in motion through will powerpeople, things (even the clothes people wore were a result of their will). And this gave all things and every persons shape a great suppleness, because there was an awareness of this willwhich is not a mental will but a will of the Self, what could be called a spiritual will or a soul-will (to give the word soul that particular meaning). I have that experience right here when theres an absolute spontaneity in action, I mean when the action for instance, an utterance or a movementis not determined by the mind, and not even (not to mention thought or intellect), not even by the mind that usually sets us in motion. Generally, when we do something, we can perceive in ourselves a will to do it; when you watch yourself, you see this: there is always (it can happen in a flash) the will to do. When you are conscious and watch yourself doing something, you see in yourself the will to do itthis is where the mind intervenes, its normal intervention, the established order in which things happen. But the supramental action is decided by a leap over the mind. The action is direct, with no need to go through the mind. Something enters directly into contact with the vital centers and activates them without going through the mindyet in full consciousness. The consciousness doesnt function in the usual sequence, it functions from the center of spiritual will straight to matter.
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For thought, its elementary, very simple. Its not difficult for the feelings either; for the heart, the emotional being, to expand to the dimensions of the Supreme is relatively easy. But this body! Its very difficult, very difficult to do without the body losing its center (how can I put it?) its center of coagulationwithout it dissolving into the surrounding mass. Although, if one were in a natural environment, with mountains and forests and rivers, with lots of space and lots of natural beauty, it could be rather pleasant! But its physically impossible to take a single step outside ones body without meeting unpleasant, painful things. At times you come in contact with a pleasant substance, something harmonious, warm, vibrating with a higher light; it happens. But its rare. Flowers, yes, sometimes flowers sometimes, not always. But this material world, oh! It batters you from all sides; it claws you, mauls youyou get clawed and scraped and battered by all sorts of things which which just dont blossom. How hard it all is! Oh, how closed human life is! How shriveled, hardened, without light, without warmth let alone joy.
While sometimes, when you see water flowing along, or a ray of sunlight in the treesoh, how it sings! The cells sing, they are happy.
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
This recent period has been very difficult. I see clearly that it was a preparationto prepare the way for that experience. It came to reverse the attitude, the attitude of struggling to surmount, subdue and abolish everything antidivine in creation.
Up till now, this attitude was probably (not probablycertainly) necessary to prepare things. But now theres a sort of sudden reversal, as if the moment had come for the creative principle, the force, the universal creative Force to say, This too is Me. For it is time for it to disappear. This too is Me: I no longer treat it as an enemy to get rid of; I accept it as Myself, so that it truly does become Me.
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Your practice of psycho-analysis was a mistake. It has, for the time at least, made the work of purification more complicated, not easier. The psycho-analysis of Freud is the last thing that one should associate with yoga. It takes up a certain part, the darkest, the most perilous, the unhealthiest part of the nature, the lower vital subconscious layer, isolates some of its most morbid phenomena and attributes to it and them an action out of all proportion to its true role in the nature. Modern psychology is an infant science, at once rash, fumbling and crude. As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mindto take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of Nature in its narrow termsruns riot here. Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood and it can have a nasty influence and tend to make the mind and vital more and not less fundamentally impure than before.
It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, and even of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners,is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole. The subliminal self stands behind and supports the whole superficial man; it has in it a larger and more efficient mind behind the surface mind, a larger and more powerful vital behind the surface vital, a subtler and freer physical consciousness behind the surface bodily existence. And above them it opens to higher superconscient as well as below them to lower subconscient ranges. If one wishes to purify and transform the nature, it is the power of these higher ranges to which one must open and raise to them and change by them both the subliminal and the surface being. Even this should be done with care, not prematurely or rashly, following a higher guidance, keeping always the right attitude; for otherwise the force that is drawn down may be too strong for an obscure and weak frame of nature. But to begin by opening up the lower subconscious, risking to raise up all that is foul or obscure in it, is to go out of ones way to invite trouble. First, one should make the higher mind and vital strong and firm and full of light and peace from above; afterwards one can open up or even dive into the subconscious with more safety and some chance of a rapid and successful change.
The system of getting rid of things by anubhava [experience] can also be a dangerous one; for on this way one can easily become more entangled instead of arriving at freedom. This method has behind it two well-known psychological motives. One, the motive of purposeful exhaustion, is valid only in some cases, especially when some natural tendency has too strong a hold or too strong a drive in it to be got rid of by vicra [intellectual reflection] or by the process of rejection and the substitution of the true movement in its place; when that happens in excess, the sadhak has sometimes even to go back to the ordinary action of the ordinary life, get the true experience of it with a new mind and will behind and then return to the spiritual life with the obstacle eliminated or else ready for elimination. But this method of purposive indulgence is always dangerous, though sometimes inevitable. It succeeds only when there is a very strong will in the being towards realisation; for then indulgence brings a strong dissatisfaction and reaction, vairagya, and the will towards perfection can be carried down into the recalcitrant part of the nature.
The other motive for anubhava is of a more general applicability; for in order to reject anything from the being one has first to become conscious of it, to have the clear inner experience of its action and to discover its actual place in the workings of the nature. One can then work upon it to eliminate it, if it is an entirely wrong movement, or to transform it if it is only the degradation of a higher and true movement. It is this or something like it that is attempted crudely and improperly with a rudimentary and insufficient knowledge in the system of psycho-analysis. The process of raising up the lower movements into the full light of consciousness in order to know and deal with them is inevitable; for there can be no complete change without it. But it can truly succeed only when a higher light and force are sufficiently at work to overcome, sooner or later, the force of the tendency that is held up for change. Many, under the pretext of anubhava, not only raise up the adverse movement, but support it with their consent instead of rejecting it, find justifications for continuing or repeating it and so go on playing with it, indulging its return, eternising it; afterwards when they want to get rid of it, it has got such a hold that they find themselves helpless in its clutch and only a terrible struggle or an intervention of divine grace can liberate them.Some do this out of a vital twist or perversity, others out of sheer ignorance; but in yoga, as in life, ignorance is not accepted by Nature as a justifying excuse. This danger is there in all improper dealings with the ignorant parts of the nature; but none is more ignorant, more perilous, more unreasoning and obstinate in recurrence than the lower vital subconscious and its movements. To raise it up prematurely or improperly for anubhava is to risk suffusing the conscious parts also with its dark and dirty stuff and thus poisoning the whole vital and even the mental nature. Always therefore one should begin by a positive, not a negative experience, by bringing down something of the divine nature, calm, light, equanimity, purity, divine strength into the parts of the conscious being that have to be changed; only when that has been sufficiently done and there is a firm positive basis, is it safe to raise up the concealed subconscious adverse elements in order to destroy and eliminate them by the strength of the divine calm, light, force and knowledge. Even so, there will be enough of the lower stuff rising up of itself to give you as much of the anubhava as you will need for getting rid of the obstacles; but then they can be dealt with with much less danger and under a higher internal guidance.
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I find it difficult to take these psycho-analysts at all seriously when they try to scrutinise spiritual experience by the flicker of their torch-lights,yet perhaps one ought to, for half-knowledge is a powerful thing and can be a great obstacle to the coming in front of the true Truth. This new psychology looks to me very much like children learning some summary and not very adequate alphabet, exulting in putting their a-b-c-d of the subconscient and the mysterious underground super-ego together and imagining that their first book of obscure beginnings (c-a-t cat, t-r-e-e tree) is the very heart of the real knowledge. They look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below, upari budhna esam. The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms for ever in the Light above. The self-chosen field of these psychologists is besides poor, dark and limited; you must know the whole before you can know the part and the highest before you can truly understand the lowest. That is the promise of the greater psychology awaiting its hour before which these poor gropings will disappear and come to nothing.4
Questioned about the meaning of these words, Mother said, "The state I was in was like a memory."
0 1962-01-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And once the world has become like that, has become the vital world in all its darkness, and they, from this vital world, have created Matter, the supreme Mother sees (laughing) the result of her first four emanations and She turns towards the Supreme in a great entreaty: Now that this world is in such a dreadful state, it has to be saved! We cant just leave it this way, can we? It has to be saved, the divine consciousness must be given back to it. What to do? And the Supreme says, Thrust yourself into a new emanation, an emanation of the ESSENCE of Love, down into the most material Matter. That meant plunging into the earth (the earth had become a symbol and a representation of the whole drama). Plunge into Matter. So She plunged into Matter, and that became the primordial source of the Divine within material substance. And from there (as is so well described in Savitri), She begins to act as a leaven in Matter, raising it up from within.
And as She plunged into the earth, a second series of emanations was sent forth the godsto inhabit the intermediary zones between Sachchidananda and the earth. And these gods (laughing) well, great care was taken to make them perfect, so they wouldnt give any trouble! But they are a bit a bit too perfect, arent they? Yes, a bit too perfect: they never make mistakes, they always do exactly as theyre told. In short, rather lacking in initiative. They do have some, but.
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But there is one advantage: without those beings, without the worlds distortion, many things would be lacking. Those beings potentially embodied certain absolutely unique elementsunderstandably so, since they were the first wave. And precisely because they still WERE the Supreme to such a great extent, each one felt he was the Supreme, and that was that. Only it wasnt quite sufficient, for the simple reason that they were already divided into four, and one single division is enough to make everything go wrong. Its readily understandable: its not something essentially evil, but a question of wrong FUNCTIONING; its not the substance, not the essence. The essence isnt evil, but the functioning is faulty.
But if you understand.
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The divisions and subdivisions of the being were described down to the slightest detail and with perfect precision. I went through the experience again on my own, without any preconceived ideas, just like that: leaving one body after the other, one body after the other, and so on twelve times. And my experienceapart from certain quite negligible differences, doubtless due to differences in the receiving brainwas exactly the same.
(the clock strikes)
0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then, action is no longer a choice subject to error, correction, discussion, but the clear vision of what must be done. And this vision is infallible.
(silence)
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Japa, like meditation, is a procedureapparently the most active and effective procedure for joining, as much as possible, the Divine Presence to the bodily substance. It is the magic of sound, you see.
Naturally, if theres also an awareness of the idea behind it, if one does japa as a very active CONSCIOUS invocation, then its effects are greatly multiplied. But the basis is the magic of sound. This is a fact of experience, and its absolutely true. The sound OM, for instance, awakens very special vibrations (there are other such sounds as well, but of course that one is the most powerful of all).
It is an attempt to divinize material substance.
From another, almost identical point of view, it fills the physical atmosphere with the Divine Presence. So time spent in japa is time consecrated to helping the material substance enter into more intimate rapport with the Divine.
And if one adds to this, as I do, a mantric program, that is, a sort of prayer or invocation, a program for both personal development and helping the collective, then it becomes a truly active work. Then theres also what I call external work: contact with others, reading and answering letters, seeing and speaking to people, and finally all the activities having to do with the organization and running of the Ashram (in meditation this work becomes worldwide, but physically, materially, it is limited for the moment to the Ashram).
0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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.
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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.
Oh, thats enough talk for now!
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Mother used to say that when Sri Aurobindo cured somebody, one often saw a subtle hand come with a current of blue force and seize, as it were, the vibration of the illness or disorder between its fingertips.
On the afternoon of the 21st, Mother went to watch a performance given by the children.
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Tapas: literally, heat. It is the concentrated energy constituting everythingnot generated by some mechanism, but by the very concentration of the power of Consciousness (chit). In Indian tradition, the world was created by Tapas in the form of an egg the primordial eggwhich broke open from the incubating heat of consciousness-force and gave birth to the world. To "become the tapas of things" is to uncover in one's own material, bodily substance that same formidable, supramental seat of energy (what physicists, following Einstein, call atomic energy: E = mc2), the energy that animates the stone and the bird and the universe for then like can act upon like. Mother was reaching that point.
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0 1962-02-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anyway, to go back to what I was saying, depending on the plane of ones vision, one can judge approximately how much time it will take to be realized. Immediate things are already realized, they are self-existent and can be seen in the subtle physical they already exist there, and the reflection (not even transcription) or projection of this image is what will take place in the material world the next day or a few hours later. In this case you see the thing accurately, in all its details, because its already there. Everything hinges on the precision and power of your vision: if your vision is objective and sincere, you will see the thing as it is; if you add personal sentiments or impressions, it gets colored. Accuracy in the subtle physical depends exclusively on the instrument, the one who sees.
But as soon as you move into a subtler realm, like the vital (and the mental even more so), there is a narrow margin of possibilities. You can see the rough outlines of what is going to take place, but in the details it can be this way or that way: it is possible for certain wills or influences to interfere and create discrepancies.
This is so because the original Will is reflected, as it were, in different realms, and in each realm the organization and relation of the images are changed. The world we live in is a world of imagesnot THE thing itself in its essence, but its reflection. We could say that in our material existence we are merely a reflection, an image of what we are in our essential reality. And the modalities of these reflections are what introduce all the errors and all the falsifications (what is seen in its essence is perfectly true and pure, existing from all eternity, while images are essentially variable). And according to the amount of falsehood introduced into the vibrations, the amount of distortion and alteration increases. Each circumstance, each event and each thing can be said to have one pure existenceits true existence and a considerable number of impure or distorted existences in the various realms of being. There is a substantial beginning of distortion, for instance, in the intellectual realm (indeed, the mental realm holds a considerable amount of distortion), and it increases as all the emotional and censorial realms interfere. Arriving at the material plane, the vision is most often unrecognizable. Completely distorted. To such a point that its sometimes very hard to realize that this is the material expression of thattheres not much resemblance any longer!
This approach to the problem is rather new and can provide the key to many things.
Take the case of someone you know well and are used to seeing materially: seeing him in the subtle physical, certain aspects become more prominent, more visible, more marked; physically they went unseen because in the material grayness they had blended with many other things. Certain character traits that never showed up physically now become so marked as to be quite visible. When you look at someone physically, you see the color of his complexion, the shape of his features, his expression. Seeing him at the same moment in the subtle physical, you suddenly notice different colors on different parts of the face, in the eyes an expression or a particular light you hadnt seen beforea strong impression of a very different overall appearance, which to our physical eyes would seem rather outlandish. But for the subtle vision its all very expressive and revealing of the persons character, or even of the influences hes under (what I am talking about is something I observed a few days ago).
So, according to the plane where you are conscious and can see, you perceive images and see events from varying distances and with varying degrees of accuracy. The only true and sure vision is the vision of the Divine Consciousness. The problem, therefore, is to become conscious of the Divine Consciousness and constantly maintain it in all lifes details.
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Some people also have the faculty of predicting things already existing on earth but at a distance, far from physical eyestheyre generally those who have the capacity to expand and extend their consciousness. Their vision is slightly more subtle than physical vision, and depends on an organ subtler than its purely material counterpart (what could be called the life of this organ). So, by projecting their consciousness, and having the will to see, they can clearly see things that already exist but are beyond our ordinary field of vision. Those who have this capacitysincere people who tell what they see, not blufferssee with perfect precision and exactness.
Ultimately, absolute sincerity is the great deciding factor for those who predict or foresee. Unfortunately, because of peoples curiosity, their insistence and the pressure they exert (which very few can resist), an almost involuntary mechanism of inner imagination comes to add just that small missing element to something not seen with precision or exactness. Thats what causes flaws in prediction. Very few have the courage to say, Ah no, I dont know this, I dont see that, this eludes me. They dont even have the courage to say it to themselves! So then, with a tiny drop of imagination, which acts almost subconsciously, the vision or information gets rounded outit can turn out to be anything at all! Very few people can resist this tendency. I have known many, many psychics, many extraordinarily gifted beings, and only a handful were able to stop just at the point where their knowledge stopped. Or else they embellish. Thats what gives these faculties their slightly dubious quality. One would have to be a great saint, a great sage, and completely free from other peoples influences (I dont speak of those who seek fame: they fall into the most flagrant traps); because even goodwillwanting to satisfy people, please them, help themis enough to distort the vision.
(Smiling) Are you satisfied? Have I answered everything?
Im tempted to ask one question. Once events are already prepared in the subtle physical and one sees them, is it too late to alter their course? Can one still act?
Theres one very interesting example I always give. The man involved told me about it himself. A long time ago (you must have been a baby), every day the newspaper Le Matin published a small cartoon of a boy dressed like a lift attendant (he told me the story in English), or a sort of bellboy, pointing with his finger to the date or whatever. This man was traveling and staying at a big hotel in some city (I dont remember which), a big city. And he told me that one night or early one morning he had a dream: he saw this bellboy showing him a hearse (you know, what they use in Europe for taking people to the cemetery) and inviting him to step inside! He saw that. And when he got ready that morning and left his room (which was on the top floor) there on the landing was the same boy, identically dressed, inviting him to go down in the elevator. It gave him a shock. He refused: No, thanks! The elevator fell to the ground. It was smashed to pieces, and the people inside were all killed.
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He asked me about it and my explanation was that an entity had forewarned him. The image of the bellboy indicates an intelligent, conscious intermediaryit doesnt seem to come from the mans subconscient.1 Or else he had seen it in the subtle physical and his subconscient knew but then why did it present him with such an image? I dont know. Perhaps something in his subconscient knew, because the accident already existed in the subtle physical. Before it occurred here, the accident the law of the accidentexisted.
Of course, in every case there is invariably a time-lag, sometimes a few hours (thats the maximum), sometimes a few seconds. Quite frequently things announce their presence, but to come in contact with your consciousness, it may take them a couple of minutes or just seconds. I am constantly, constantly aware of whats going to happenutterly uninteresting things, as a matter of fact; knowing them in advance changes nothing. But they exist all around us, and with a wide enough consciousness we can know it all. For example, I know that so and so is going to bring me a parcel, that someone is about to come, and so forth. And its like this every day. Because my consciousness is spread far and wideit comes into contact with things.
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For the subtler senses, the method is to create an exact image of what you want, make contact with the corresponding vibration and then concentrate and practice. For instance, you practice seeing through an object, or hearing through a sound2 or seeing at a distance. As an example, I was once bedridden for several months, which I found quite boring I wanted to see. I was staying in one room and beyond that room was another little room and after that a sort of bridge; in the middle of the garden the bridge changed into a stairway going down into a very spacious and beautiful studio built in the middle of the garden.3 I wanted to go see what was happening in the studio I was bored stiff in my room! So I stayed very still, shut my eyes and gradually, gradually sent out my consciousness. I did the exercise regularly, day after day, at a set hour. You begin with your imagination, and then it becomes a fact. After a while, I distinctly sensed my vision physically moving: I followed it and saw things going on downstairs I knew absolutely nothing about. I would verify it in the evening, asking, Did it happen like this? Was that how it was?
But each of these things must be practiced for months, patiently, almost stubbornly. You take the senses one after another: hearing, sight, and eventually even the subtle aspects of taste, smell and touch.
Its easier with the mind because we are more used to concentrating there. When you want to reflect and find a solution to something, instead of using mental deduction, you stop everything, focus on the idea or problem, and then concentrate, concentrate, intensifying the crux of the problem. You stop everything and wait until, through sheer intensity of concentration, a response comes. Learning that also demands a little time; but if you were ever a good student you have something of the aptitudeits not so very difficult.
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Mother elaborated: "What makes me think it was an entity is the image, normally, the subconscient would have simply forewarned him of the fact itself."
"Hearing behind a sound," Mother explained, "means to make contact with the subtle reality behind the material fact: behind the word or the physical sound, or behind music, for example. You concentrate and then hear what is behind. It means contacting the vital reality behind appearances (there can also be a mental reality, but usually what is immediately behind the physical noise is a vital reality)."
The studio on Rue Lemercier in Paris, in 1898.
0 1962-03-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its simply to ensure that the consciousness is in a state of perfect equanimity; I mean, whether things turn out like this or like that leaves me completely indifferent: what You willspontaneously and integrally and exclusivelyMy Will. I say My Will on purpose, to show total adhesion. Its not submission, it has nothing to do with submission; its like this (gesture of total abandonment). Well, in spite of that, theres not much progress.
Although sometimes, yes, all of a sudden. Take this example (it may seem a mere trifle, but when you have reached this point): the first sudden glimmer of conscious control over a bodily functioning, giving you a glimpse of the time when everything will function through the action of a conscious will. That has begun but its a tiny, tiny, tiny beginning. And the slightest mental intrusion from the old movement spoils it all I mean the old way of behaving with your body: you want this and you want that and you want to make it do this and you want to make it The minute that pops up, everything stops. Progress comes to a standstill. One must be in a state of beatific union then one can feel the new functioning begin.
But it has become such a delicate play! A MINUTE thing, minute, can throw everything out of gearone simple ordinary movement. If through habit you slip back into the ordinary functioning (these are infinitesimal things, not easily seen, subtle, tenuous; one must be very, very, VERY alert), if this happens, the whole new thing stops. Then you have to wait. Wait until the ordinary functioning consents to stop, and that means meditating, entering into contemplationgoing over the whole path again. Then, when you have caught hold of That again and can stay there for a few seconds, sometimes a few minutes (its marvelous when it lasts a few minutes). And then it gets jammed again and everything has to be done over.
I am not saying this to discourage you, but to tell you that one must really and truly be patient. The only possible way to do it is in a sort of passivity: not to WANT the resultWANTING the result brings in an ego movement which spoils it all.
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The healing of Mother's legs: "Now, O unbelieving substance, you can't say there are no miracles."
See conversation of February 24.
0 1962-03-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The other day, didnt I tell you the story of those entities working for me? (It wasnt you? Id had a vision.) In fact, I very often see entities like Nature spirits when I enter the subtle physical and work there (usually for people here and the Ashram, and for the world at large), I very, very often have them with me, or else I meet them in the course of my work. They are forces, generally feminine in appearance, that do some work and have a great deal of power. They are usually the ones that respond to Tantric invocations (I dont mean the Tantrics who call on Kali or Durga, thats something else altogether, those belong to a totally different world). Most of the time these Nature forces are very willing to helpat any rate, they are wonderfully obliging with me! But they are limited beings, with their own ideas and laws, their own volition, and when vexed they can do unpleasant things. Yet they are not hostile beings, nor are they vital beings: they are personified forces of physical Nature, in the subtle physical.
A world of things could be said.
0 1962-03-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Instead of putting on grand airs and saying its difficult, I make jokes. But its something else entirely. I dont like drama I just dont like it. The greatest, loftiest, noblest, most sublime things can be said with simplicity. Theres no need to be dramatic, to see things tragically. I dont want to be a victim or a hero or or a martyr or anything of the kind!
How well I understand!
0 1962-05-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Night of July 24-25, 59: first penetration of the supramental force into the body. Sri Aurobindo alive in a concrete and permanent subtle physical body.
I told you about that experience of meeting Sri Aurobindo (the true Sri Aurobindo) in the subtle physical. This is the exact dateearly that morning I jotted it down on this paper. And it gives me the approximate date of the other vision: that is, I must have had my first experience with those people somewhere around the end of June or the beginning of July, 1959.
Did I tell you about it? It was a sort of vision that I took for a beginning of work on the subconscient. I had come to a place where Sri Aurobindo was staying and found him closeted in his room. There was a sort of large hall, an immense hall with rooms opening onto it, and his apartment was off to one side (gesture). I asked to see him. I was told it wasnt possible and I had to wait. I was astonished. Then certain things happened in the hall concerning A. and M. (rather interesting things, but concerning them personally). And at the same time, I was waiting. When it was all over, I asked once again to go into the room. Then through the doorway I saw I saw a tall Sri Aurobindomuch taller than he actually wasstrong but rather thin, thin in a way that not the way he really wasit was rather a gauntness, very harsh, very cold; and he was somewhat darker than he used to be. I saw him there, walking up and down; and when he was told I was asking to see him, I saw him in the distance saying, No, I dont want to see her. I wont acknowledge her and I dont want anything to do with hershe has betrayed me. Something like that (I couldnt hear the actual words, but the gestures were plain enough). Well, that was the very first timenothing of the kind had ever occurred before.
And I immediately felt that it was the expression of certain peoples thoughts. During the war there was a whole clique (I know their names and all the details) who said I had influenced Sri Aurobindo, made him deviate from his nationalist path and turn towards the Allies; they considered me to have ruined his life, his consciousness, his workeverything, you understand.1
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Later, when I had that second vision April 3, 1962, I saw that the same being was behind this would-be Sri Aurobindo (and with a whole group organized around himpeople, ceremonies and so on). So from that I concluded that the thing had been developing. But when I first encountered those people [in 1959] it was merely something in the subconscient and the effect was only psychological (an hour or two was enough to sort things out and put them in order). It didnt affect my health. But this time.
So it was in 59 that I first saw them, and it must have been the end of June or the beginning of July. This note [the desk-calendar page] is what gave me the clue, because I know that the other experience [of Sri Aurobindo in the subtle physical] came a few weeks later.
You say there was a whole group organized around that asuric beingpeople, ceremonies.
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But what I would like to ask is whether those people exist in the subtle physical or in our physical world.
No, nomy visions are in the subtle physical, but those people exist here on earth, although I dont know who they are. As I said, I knew only one of them. But its certain that a physical organization corresponding to these visions does exist. I dont know the details they just havent been given to me. But it corresponds to a group of PHYSICAL people.
Powerful?
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My physical consciousness has been universalized for a long, long time, it encompasses all terrestrial movements3; but the body is limited solely to this small concentration of substance (Mother touches her body)thats what I call the body-consciousness.
And when I said, I have left the body,4 it certainly didnt mean I have left the physical consciousness my overall contact with the terrestrial world has remained the same. It concerns only the purely bodily aspect, the specific concretization or concentration of substance giving each of us a different bodya different APPEARANCE.
And a rather illusory appearance, besides. As soon as you rise to a certain height (I saw it quite clearly during that progressive reconcretization5), this appearance quickly loses its reality. Our external appearance is very, very illusory. Our particular form (this ones form, that ones form), the form we see with our physical eyes is very superficial, you know. From the vital world onwards, its completely different.
--
(Somewhat later, Mother gives Satprem the old desk-calendar page on which she had noted the experience of July 24-25, 59the first meeting with Sri Aurobindo in the subtle physicalalong with another sheet of paper on which she had written: I am only realizing what He has conceived. I am only the protagonist and the continuator of His work.6 Mother explains.)
Some people wanted to get me nominated for the Nobel peace prize; I was asked for a statement and thats what I wrote. I wanted to say that it wasnt this person who did thingsit was all Sri Aurobindo.
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There was, in fact, a whole group of Ashram people (they might be called the Ashram "intelligentsia") who, influenced by subhas Bose, were strongly in favor of the Nazis and the Japanese against the British. (It should be recalled that the British were the invaders of India, and thus many people considered Britain's enemies to be automatically India's friends.) It reached the point where Sri Aurobindo had to intervene forcefully and write: "I affirm again to you most strongly that this is the Mother's war.... The victory of one side (the Allies) would keep the path open for the evolutionary forces: the victory of the other side would drag back humanity, degrade it horribly and might lead even, at the worst, to its eventual failure as a race, as others in the past evolution failed and perished.... The Allies at least have stood for human values, though they may often act against their own best ideals (human beings always do that); Hitler stands for diabolical values or for human values exaggerated in the wrong way until they become diabolical.... That does not make the English or Americans nations of spotless angels nor the Germans a wicked and sinful race, but...." (July 29, 1942 and Sept. 3, 1943, Cent. Ed., Vol. XXVI.394 ff.) And on her side also, Mother had to publicly declare: "It has become necessary to state emphatically and clearly that all who by their thoughts and wishes are supporting and calling for the victory of the Nazis are by that very fact collaborating with the Asura against the Divine and helping to bring about the victory of the Asura.... Those, therefore, who wish for the victory of the Nazis and their associates should now understand that it is a wish for the destruction of our work and an act of treachery against Sri Aurobindo." (May 6, 1941, original English.)
See note at the end of this conversation
0 1962-05-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was a relation, I kept a link with it, but it took some days to get established (I dont know how many, because for a long time I couldnt keep track of anything). After some days (say ten days, twenty days, I dont know), the will began to function, the body was again under the control of the will. But that didnt happen right away for some days, the will that deals with the body was annulled (I was entirely conscious and alive, but not in my body). The body was merely something moved around by the people looking after me. Not that it was separate, but I couldnt even say, its a body it wasnt anything any more! Something. Having undergone so much preparation, the universalization of the body-consciousness and all that, the experience didnt even seem strange to me (in fact, it was certainly the result of all that preparation). The body was something like a mass of substance being driven by the will of the three people looking after it. Not that I was unaware of it but. I wasnt much concerned with it, to tell the truth; but as far as my attention was turned to it, it was a corporeal mass being moved around by a few wills. The supreme Will was in full agreement; the body had been entrusted, in a way (I dont know how to express this) yes, it was like something entrusted, and I was simply looking on I watched it all for I dont know how many days, with hardly any interest.
The one really concrete link was pain. Thats how the contact was kept.
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What is coming back is the way objects the whole mass of material substance making up this bodys environmenthad been organized; thats what is coming back, with some small changes (none of this comes through the head; the head has nothing to do with it). It is a sort of formation reconcretizing itself for lifes outer organization.
The old way of relating no longer exists at all.
0 1962-05-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(The beginning of this conversation, unfortunately not kept, dealt with certain instances of human ugliness. The topic, in fact, was Satprem's break with X who had been his guru for the past few years. The reasons for this rupture may one day be told, but it should be stressed right now that the fault did not really lie with X, whom Satprem continued to respect, but with a group of schemers at the Ashram who fastened onto X in the hope of god knows what "powers." It is perhaps just as well that the human "ugliness" here in question has vanished from Satprem's records, foralthough it did come up again immediately after Mother's departureit concerned only the Ashram disciples. All the details and all Mother's reflections on the subject have thus been lost, with the exception of this last fragment:)
What a world!
0 1962-05-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(The subject here is a letter, no longer extant, in which Satprem expresses his desire to go write his new book1 in the Himalayas, far from present circumstances. These circumstances included poor health, but mainly, lurking behind, was the violent and almost physical inner wound caused by his break with X. The idea was to go away for a change of air.)
(With an ironic smile) On the meandering path of the world, this trip doesnt look too bad! For you personally, its an experience that yes, that would give you a concrete sense of the vanity of a number of things that still. You see, throughout all ones lives and all of lifes circumstances, theres one thing after another, one thing after another, one thing after another (zigzag gesture) to remove the scales from your eyes.
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But there are a certain number of beingsnot manywho have come back on earth ONLY to take part in a particular work, in a particular way. And outer things, personal and individual things, are virtually sacrificed to that. Certain faculties, for instance, whose source is the higher entity, faculties that in an ordinary life would result in a measure of power or fame or success or realization, are placed under conditions where their outer effect is subordinated to the needs of a particular work.
Let me put it to you more clearly: your physical body, for example, should have been either stronger or more supple or endowed with certain very strong vital compensations, so that you wouldnt suffer from your working conditions. Of course, for someone following a yogic ascent, whose soul is in the process of formation, the external conditions of life are normally what is best for inner development, whatever that may beeven if, on the surface, those conditions arent good. So the only advice you can give such a person is, Well, either renounce the spiritual life or else putup with it. But thats not your case. There is a Mission, a work, and a kind of gap between a certain physical formation and that Mission. So if you ask me plainly what I see, I can tell you plainly, instead of saying as I would to certain sadhaks or anyone sincerely wanting to do yoga, Take it or leave it; you must learn to transform yourself inwardly to the point where you can master the body and its needs. I cant tell you that, because thats not how it is for you.
0 1962-05-29, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, I sensed its very subtle, but I sensed a change for the better.
For my taste (do I still have tastes? I certainly have no preferences, but some things do come more spontaneously than others) my spontaneous movement, you know, would be this (all-embracing gesture, open to all horizons)and then just let go.
0 1962-05-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, these dreams arise from the subconscient; they are primarily subconscious habits. But the pain, the thorns in the garmentits so clear! (Mother laughs) And no way to get comfortable!
In the past, a dream like that would nag me for hours, I would worry, wondering what calamities were going to befall me (this was long, long agoages ago). But that was idiotic, as I later understood; its a certain something in the subconscient, a symbolic form of well, of certain bad psychological habits we have, thats all. And I used to torment myself: How can I get rid of this? (Were all loaded with a multitude of such weaknesses built into the body.) And then through experience I understood I saw it was merely certain bad habits.
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.
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Words that repeat themselves automatically, with no effort of will (but the body itself is quite aware that although these three particular Words happen to have been given to it, it might also have been something elseit was originally the choice of a higher Intelligence). This has become an automatic accompaniment. It is not so much the words in themselves as what they will represent and bring with them in their vibration. I mean it would be quite inaccurate to say, Only these Words are helpful, no, not that. But they provide an accompaniment, an accompaniment of subtle, physical vibrations, which has built up a certain state or experience, a sort of association between the presence of those words and this movement of eternal Life, that undulating vibration.
Obviously, another center of consciousness, another (how shall I put it?) another concretization, another amalgam, mightwould of coursehave another vibration.
--
In the substance of the body.
***
0 1962-06-02, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are boxes that can only be opened in a certain way, and if you dont know the way. Some cupboards are like that, too. Its not obvious. It really is a trick, but even more than a trick, a kind of very subtle little mechanism. Like being just on the verge of attaining something, and suddenlyah! You know youve got it!
***
0 1962-06-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, but I mean rather than being something subjective, some thing you experience, it should be a power that, for instance, could change this material hardness into a softness.
I havent changed.
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Yes, but that different world you conceive of, will it be different subjectively, or in its material properties? Will that world be different to us only subjectively, in the way we think of it, or.
Power logically, one has power over things.
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There is indeed the case of Madame Thons sandals, which came and put themselves on her feet instead of her feet going and putting themselves in the sandals, but that that belongs to yet another realm. It wasnt what you would call a natural phenomenon: she was applying her will and her action, and the substance of the sandals was becoming receptive. But does that mean the world will be that way? I dont know.
Two or three times, like a flash, I have seen something manifest, change place. But it was over in less time than it takes to tell, so it might be entirely subjective. To make sure, I would have to check it with someone else, wouldnt I?
We will see. Patience.
0 1962-06-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(In the course of the preceding conversation, Satprem had thought that rather than a subjective change, a change in one's attitude towards things, there should be an objective change, a power capable of changing the very substance of things: their property of hardness, for instance. Here Mother elucidates her previous statement that "if matter were changeable, it would have changed long ago," a statement that, at first glance, seemed to shatter all hope of transformation.)
There is nothing to change! Only the relations between things change.
--
The notion of subjective and objective STILL belongs to the old world and to the three, or at most four, dimensions. It is one and the same Power that changes the interrelations within one and the same element; to put things simply, the Power that gives the subjective experience AND the objective realization is the same; it is only a matter of a greater or lesser totality of experience, as it were. And if the experience were total it would be the experience of the Supreme, and it would be universal.
Does what I am saying make any sense?
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And power is what makes the difference. The greater the power, you might say (these words are all very clumsy), the farther the experience spreads. How great the power is depends on its starting point. If its starting point is the Origin, the power is lets say universal (we wont consider more than one universe for the moment); it is universal. As this Power manifests from plane to plane, it becomes more concrete and limited; on each plane, the field of action becomes more limited. If your power is vital (or pranic, as its called here in India), the field of action is terrestrial, and sometimes limited to just a few individuals, sometimes its a power capable of acting on just one small being. But originally its the SAME power, acting on the SAME substance I cant express it, words are impossible; but I sense very clearly what I mean.
I can affirm that this notion of subjective and objective still belongs to the world of illusion. The CONTENT of the experience is what may be either microscopic or universal, depending on the specific quality of the power being expressed, or its field of action. The limitation of power can be voluntary and deliberate; it can be a willed, and not an imposed limitation, which means that the Will-Force may come from the Origin but deliberately limit itself, limit its field of action. But it is the same power and the same substance.
Ultimately there is but one power and one substance. There are varying modalitiescountless modalitiesof power and substance, but there is but ONE power and ONE substance, as there is but ONE consciousness and ONE truth.
Yes, but when you say that what changes is only the relations between things, its still a matter of subjectivity (I use the word for lack of a better one). But when we come down to the brass tacks of transformationphysical immortality in the body, for instancedoesnt it involve more than a simple inner change of relations? Doesnt MATTER itself have to be transformed? So there has to be a power over matter. Not merely a change of relations no?
No; you cant grasp what I mean by the word relation unless you take it scientifically. Your body, and my body, this table, this carpet, are all made up of atoms; and these atoms are constituted of the SAME thing. The differences we seedifferent bodies, different formsare due to the movements or the interrelations within this same thing.
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But this has to be very concretely grasped. Well, I say that the power must change this intra-atomic movement. Then, instead of disintegrating, your bodily substance will obey the movement of Transformation, you follow? But its all the SAME thing! What must change are the relations among things.
And so it becomes EVIDENT that immortality can be achieved! Things get destroyed simply because of their own rigidity and even then, its only a semblance of destruction; the essential element stays the same, everywhere, in everything, in decay just as much as in life.
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And looking up THERE, I tell you, I am sure there is no difference between subjective and objectiveexcept when you give your individuality and your individual consciousness an independent reality; that is, when you cut everything into little bits with your imagination. Then, of course.
In fact, physicists today unanimously admit that the mathematical "models" explaining the corpuscular structure of matter have become excessively complex: "There are too many kinds of quarks [theoretical elementary particles and 'ultimate' constituents of matter] and far too many of their aspects are unobservable." There is a call for a simpler working hypothesis, a new idea, simplifying and unifying, that would explain matter without recourse to "unobservables."
0 1962-06-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Unexpectedly, this conversation led into the subject of Satprem's break with X, who had been his guru for the past few years. Here then, briefly, is the story behind the rupture: No sooner had Satprem brought X to the Ashram than a swarm of disciples threw themselves at him. Conspicuous among these were the moneymen, the same wheelerdealers who, eleven years later, after Mother's departure, were to reveal their ambitions in Auroville as well as Pondicherry. Satprem's somewhat straightforward manner soon got in the way of their schemes. He had a deep affection for X and when he repeatedly saw that these peoplespiritual scoundrels is the only word for themwere, in the hope of sowing confusion (for they always prosper best in confusion), bringing false reports to Mother of things X had supposedly said, he tried in all innocence to put X on his guard against the false reports and dishonest people who were wronging him. But instead of listening to Satprem and understanding that he spoke out of love, Xwith all his Tantric power behindflew into a violent rage against him, as if he had been casting a slur on X's prestige. Satprem then broke with X, but not without sorrow.)
Anything new?
0 1962-06-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Pavitra was telling me the other day that, according to the latest scientific discoveries, matter in its present state can be immortal. Theres no reason that it couldnt change (for it changes all the time) enough to avoid decay. Nothing in matters composition stands in the way of its immortalityimmortality of form, I mean. If science simply follows its own course (and does not suddenly find itself confronted with something beyond its grasp), theres no reason it should not provide people who dont have a mystical or occult turn of mind with a way to use the present substance in imperishable forms, without recourse to anything from other realms.
This is a great support for practical-minded people.
0 1962-06-23, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If you like, Ill read what she noted down: I am in Pavitras office, standing on the carpet next to his table. I raise my eyes and look down the corridor. It is empty. Then suddenly, all the way at the other end, next to her bathroom, I see Mother appear. She is so tiny, my dear little Mother! She starts towards the office where I am. She leaves the boudoir behind on her right, keeps coming forward, passes by the big window with the birds and the pink vases on her left. And she is growing. With each step she grows taller. One after the other, she goes by her chair, the door to the stairway, my lab, and Mother continues to grow. Then the door to Pavitras room, the door to the terrace, and Mother comes to the office. She crosses the threshold: her head almost touches the top of the door. Mother comes in. She is so tall! Her head now touches the ceiling.2 Standing, I barely come to her knees! Something in me is staggered before that sublime height. I prostrate myself.
(After a silence) I see her quite frequently at night.
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There is a whole range of things from the subconscient (vital and physical subconscient) quite new, things I didnt have before. It isnt my subconscient, its much more general, and it comes with what are practically revelations; I mean I suddenly see certain things concerning people (people I know extremely well, whose inner beings I know very well) and I get a lot of surprises: Well! So that was there!
People, people lots of people.
0 1962-06-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Previously, when I had an experience, I took great care to keep everything quiet and still so that it wouldnt be interrupted; but afterwards it was always made use of by the mind in its typical way (not exactly typical, but typical to the mind), and this appeared to be inevitable. But now it doesnt work in the same way: its limited to a few inevitable interventions; I mean people speak to me or I to them (I keep as silent as I can, but they still chatter away about every possible subject and I am obliged to answer), and its limited to that. But as it is, even that as soon as I am a bit concentrated, even that seems so not wrong or distorted, not that, but INADEQUATE. It expresses absolutely nothing, thats all I can say.
The TRUE thing escapes completely.
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But this is still a period of preparation; the best thing to do now is to look and look and look again, observe and observe and observe again; and to have experiences, lots of experiences, because all that is nothing the thing ITSELF must be grasped. Weve got to catch the tail of the true functioning, so it can be substituted for the other at will. Thats it exactly.
And that requires minute-to-minute observation.
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It is a subtle-physical beingnot a vital but a subtle-physical being, and I am tall and strong.
Tell her shes not the only one who sees me this waymany do. When I see myself at night, thats how I see myself. Perhaps well, this (Mother touches her body) would have to yield. But when? I dont know.
--
And it is subtle-physical. You can tell her.
Its peculiar, she says, since March I have been seeing Mother taller.
0 1962-06-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Satprem subsequently asked Mother:
You almost seem to be saying that during the Vedic era there was no divine presence in man!
0 1962-07-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
"I mean a subTLE form," Mother clarified, "it's the body's subtle form."
One week later, Mother added: "It has worked out: he has gone to the psychic domain for a while (I think it's only for a while) to concentrate."
0 1962-07-07, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What youve written is for an enlightened public fond of ideasexcellent. But its not a book you buy for a couple of dollars and read on the train between stations; no, the reader must sit quietly and think about what hes reading. Theres not one in a million like that! They put it in their pocket, you see, and on the subwaymaybe not the subway, theres no time!but while theyre on the train, they pull it out of their pocket and.
(Satprem makes a discouraged gesture)
--
(A little later, the subject of the increasing scarcity of the tapes Satprem uses to record these conversations comes up. It should be mentioned that Mother has never wanted to use the Ashrams tapes.)
And then after all, if its lost, its lost! It will have been the Lords decision, so it doesnt matter.
0 1962-07-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have seen you very often in visions, symbolic visions in the mental realm, but thats not what it was. It was in the subtle physical, this close (same gesture); you came deliberately, and you looked at me. Oh, I told you, how nice!
I had a dream about you, but I felt the subconscient made it up.
No, it must be a transcription.
--
Looking at it now (1979), this "dream" doesn't seem to be from the subconscient but actually from the subtle physical, with that whole crowd of people relentlessly assailing Mother and exhausting her (and pushing Satprem away, besides). But DESPITE the crowd, Satprem crossed through and came up "very close" to Mother, which concurs with her vision. "Dressed as a Sannyasin" means in his essentiality, divested of day-to-day material circumstances.
When one goes out of the body (and probably at death), there is always the impression of moving "upwards," or "inwards," which means into a deeper plane (either way, it is simply the expression of a change of dimension). What is striking about Mother's experience is this LEVEL movement, indicating that she had not left the physical world. We are faced with a strange enigma: a physical world WITHIN the physical worldano ther world, or the same one lived differently? A physical world where death no longer exists: one has died unto death. The world to come?...
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.
0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Let me tell you in brief one or two things about what I have long seen. My idea is that the chief cause of the weakness of India is not subjection nor poverty, nor the lack of spirituality or dharma [ethics] but the decline of thought-power, the growth of ignorance in the motherl and of Knowledge. Everywhere I see inability or unwillingness to thinkthought-incapacity or thought-phobia. Whatever may have been in the middle ages, this state of things is now the sign of a terrible degeneration. The middle age was the night, the time of the victory of ignorance. The modern world is the age of the victory of Knowledge. Whoever thinks most, seeks most, labors most, can fathom and learn the truth of the world, and gets so much more Shakti. If you look at Europe, you will see two things: a vast sea of thought and the play of a huge and fast-moving and yet disciplined force. The whole Shakti of Europe is in that. And in the strength of that Shakti it has been swallowing up the world, like the tapaswins [ascetics] of our ancient times, by whose power even the gods of the world were terrified, held in suspense and subjection. People say Europe is running into the jaws of destruction. I do not think so. All these revolutions and upsettings are the preconditions of a new creation.
Then look at India. Except for some solitary giants, everywhere there is your simple man, that is, the average man who does not want to think and cannot think, who has not the least Shakti but only a temporary excitement. In India, you want the simple thought, the easy word. In Europe they want the deep thought, the deep word; there even an ordinary laborer or artisan thinks, wants to know, is not satisfied with surface things but wants to go behind. But there is still this difference: there is a fatal limitation in the strength and thought of Europe. When it comes into the spiritual field, its thought-power can no longer move ahead. There Europe sees everything as riddlenebulous metaphysics, yogic hallucination. They rub their eyes as in smoke and can see nothing clear. Still, some effort is being made in Europe to surmount even this limitation. We already have the spiritual sensewe owe it to our forefa thersand whoever has that sense has at his disposal such Knowledge and Shakti as with one breath might blow away all the huge power of Europe like a blade of grass. But to get that Shakti one must be a worshiper of Shakti. We are not worshipers of Shakti. We are worshipers of the easy way. But Shakti is not to be had by the easy way. Our forefa thers dived into a sea of vast thought and gained a vast Knowledge and established a mighty civilization. As they went on in their way, fatigue and weariness came upon them. The force of thought diminished and with it also the strong current of Shakti. Our civilization has become an achalayatana [prison], our religion a bigotry of externals, our spirituality a faint glimmer of light or a momentary wave of religious intoxication. And so long as this sort of thing continues, any permanent resurgence of India is improbable
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Some receive it from above; for others, it rises from below (gesture to the base of the spine). As I once told you, the old system always proceeds from below upwards, while Sri Aurobindo pulls from above downwards. This becomes very clear in meditation (well, in yoga, in yogic experience): for those who follow the old system, its invariably the kundalini at the base [of the spine] rising from center to center, center to center, until the lotus (in an ironic tone) bursts open here gesture at the crown of the head). With Sri Aurobindo, it comes like this (gesture of descending Force) and then settles here (above the head); it enters, and from there it comes down, down, down, everywhere, to the very bottom, and even below the feet the subconscientand lower still, the inconscient.
Its the Shakti. He said, you know (I am still translating it), that the shakti drawn up from below (this is what happens in the individual process) is already what could be called a veiled shakti (it has power, but it is veiled). While the Shakti drawn down from above is a PURE Shakti; and if it can be brought down carefully and slowly enough so that it isnt (how shall I put it?) polluted or, in any case, obscured as it enters matter, then the result is immediately much better. As he has explained, if you start out with this feeling of a great power in yourself (because its always a great power no matter where it awakens), theres inevitably a danger of the ego meddling in. But if it comes pure and you are very careful to keep it pure, not to rush the movement but let it purify as it descends, then half the work is done.
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Mother is referring to a letter of Sri Aurobindo's which Satprem had quoted in his manuscript: "... in the calm mind, it is the substance of the mental being that is still, so still that nothing disturbs it. If thoughts or activities come, they do not rise at all out of the mind, but they come from outside and cross the mind as a flight of birds crosses the sky in a windless air. It passes, disturbs nothing, leaving no trace. Even if a thousand images or the most violent events pass across it, the calm stillness remains as if the very texture of the mind were a substance of eternal and indestructible peace. A mind that has achieved this calmness can begin to act, even intensely and powerfully, but it will keep its fundamental stillnessoriginating nothing from itself but receiving from Above and giving it a mental form without adding anything of its own, calmly, dispassionately, though with the joy of the Truth and the happy power and light of its passage."
Cent. Ed., XXIII. 637.
0 1962-08-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive been observing all this in a neuro-physical realm, subtle-physical, that is but its still physical and in a complete mental silence where all judgments (you know, judgments) have disappeared, along with a certain way of observing things. Thats why I cant talk about it.
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.
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Formerly (I mean before last April 13), the process was different; now it has totally changed. This body is nothing but a field of experience, its no longer an individualitynot at all, at all, at all. But its a very willing field of experience. And the experience is going on in a particular realm by day and in another by nightits beginning to clarify the whole subconscient. From this angle, there is a very rapid progress.
So theres a countless series of experiences coming one after the other, one after the other, like that; but theres no coordination between them, no unified whole. I dont even know if that is possible5at any rate, it will be for much later on.
0 1962-08-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive had this great formative power ever since my earliest childhood, but I had channeled it and stopped it because I considered it useless. But it came back recently, along with the sure sign that it was coming from the very highest origin: This is it, this is how things will be. But thats for later, of course. To our external reason, those things seem totally unrealizable, but they will be realizable in perhaps a few hundred years, I dont knowits the future being prepared. And indeed, that vision has a tremendous power of creation and realization, and it is always felt physically (the rest is very still), its always physical. But it triggered a kind of very rapid movement of the physical consciousness (within the most material substance), and caused a dislocation. And so2 the day before yesterday, that old formation suddenly returned and made me understand one aspect of the bodys nature, the way the body is CONSTRUCTED and the usefulness of that construction. So now things are all right. It has been one more step.
But when you receive those bad vibrations affecting your body,3 are they exhausted by your accepting them?
Its not that I receive bad vibrations, but that the physical substance is not entirely (how can I explain?) in the proper movement or rhythm. For instance, between the vision of that old formation I spoke of and this (I cant call it a toothache, but anyway, something went wrong) there was no visible connection to speak of. The toothache wasnt caused by a particular vibration, its rather as if one thing or another provided the opportunity for absorbing a certain quantity or type of vibration (its more a quantity than a typeprobably both), a vibratory MODE, in order to put it in contact with THE vibratory mode the divine one.
But I understand your question. You want to know if this has an effect on all identical vibratory modes in the world. In principle, yes. But the effects may not be immediately visible; in the first place, our field of observation is nothingmaterially, what do we know? Only our immediate surroundings thats nothing. In 1920, for example, I had an experience of that type, which resulted in a symbolic but terrestrial action. It was a vision (I dont remember enough details to make it interesting) where each nation was represented by a symbolic entity, and there was a certain type of horrorof terror, rather. A certain will of terror was trying to manifest in that gathering of all nations. And I was witness to the whole thing. I remember it being a very conscious and rather long and detailed vision with a more intense reality than physical things have (it was in the subtle physical). And after it was over and I had done what needed to be done (I am not saying what because I dont remember all the details, and without accuracy it loses its value), when I came out of it I could say with TOTAL conviction: Terror has been overcome in the world. Of course, its not literally true, plenty of people still feel terror, but a certain type of terror was as if UNDERMINED at the foundations. What had already manifested kept on and is gradually being exhausted, but the terror that was trying to increase and dominate the life of nations was stopped cold.
I have had other similar experienceson Durgas day, for instance, when Sri Aurobindo was still here (you know, thats the day when Durga masters an asura; she doesnt kill him, she masters him). Well, each year one particular type of thing was undermined (and my experiences were never mental: the experience would suddenly come, and AFTERWARDS I would realize it was Durgas day), and each time I used to tell Sri Aurobindo, Looktoday this (or that) thing has been cut off at the roots. Thats how it works with the adverse forcesyes, like something being uprooted from the world. Whatever has already spread out keeps going and follows its karma, but the SOURCE is dried up. Thats also what happened (it was in 1904, I believe) when the Asura of Consciousness and Darkness made his surrender and was converted; he told me, I have millions and millions of emanations, and these will keep on living, but their source has now run dry.4 How much time will it take to exhaust it all? We cant say, but the source has dried up and that is something extremely important. In 1920, that terror was trying to spread all over the world and to become really catastrophic; and then in my inner vision I could see that a whole movement had dried up at its source. This means that little by little, little by little, little by little the karma is being exhausted.
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Mother's cheek is swollen from an abscessed tooth.... Note that Satprem had assumed that "I never thought this would have any consequences" referred to the visit from the old formation. Mother corrected: "It is subtler than that! I didn't think THAT EXPERIENCE would have any consequences, because the old formation is meaningless nowit was connected with Sri Aurobindo (I didn't want to say it, but it was connected with Sri Aurobindo's physical presence), so now it has no more meaning, it cannot be realized. He did what was necessary to make its realization utterly impossible. But this experience is like a REMINDER of what was. I didn't think it would have any consequences, but it did!"
Mother touches her cheek.
0 1962-08-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The feeling is rather one of vibrations gathered together and coagulated somewhere and even at that, theres a very supple inner play, for it spreads out like this (Mother makes a gesture of diffusion or expansion all around her) through a sort of subtilization or etherization. And its limitlesshow could it have any limits! It goes like this (same radiating gesture)these same vibrations are everywhere, in all bodies and all things. What people call this body is merely the result of a willed concentration organized in a specific way; thats how it spontaneously feels, all the time (not that its observing itself, but if something forces it to observe itself, thats what it spontaneously feels). And the delimitation that exists in all beings, and which WAS in this body (was it this body? Havent the cells changed? I dont know), which once existed in what people call this body, has completely disappeared. Before (thirty years or so ago), it used to feel like something separate moving among other separate things thats all gone.
I have tried several times, telling myself, Ah, lets have a good lookis there anything, anywhere, that feels that separation? (I am looking at the body from above.) Theres nothingtruly? Are you one hundred percent spontaneously sincere? Nothing at all? Its impossible to find a thing. Impossible.
For all the states of being, the mental, the vital, and even the subtle physical, that sense of separation has long been gone. But now I am speaking of the body. I say I, of course but what says I is its something as vast as the universe. And it CANNOT be otherwise. Its not that I want it this way, or because I insist on it, its not the result of a tapasya or not at all: it CANNOT BE OTHERWISE, thats how it is. Its my spontaneous way of being. The experience has become completely (how to put it?) externalized.
And thats what makes the ESSENTIAL difference for this body. Thats why it feels different from other bodies. Its (Mother shakes her head) no, its not the same thing, it distinctly feels its not the samebecause its reactions are different!
0 1962-08-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mon petit, we had a meditation here on the 15th, at ten oclock.2 At a quarter to ten, I was sitting here at the table in a total silence. And then I cant say Sri Aurobindo came, for he is always here, but he manifested in a special way. Concretely, in the subtle physical, he became so tall that, sitting cross-legged as they do here, he covered the whole compoundeven extended a bit beyond it! He was literally sitting upon the compound; so to the extent that the people meditating were not closed, they were all inside him. He was sitting like that (not on their heads!), and I could feel (I was here, you see) the FRICTION of his presence in the subtle physicalan utterly physical friction! And I saw him (as you well know, I am not shut up in here [the body]), I saw him sitting there, very tall and perfectly proportioned; and then he started gently, gently descendingthis descent is what caused the frictiongently, very gently, so as not to give people a shock. Then he settled there and stayed for a little more than half an hour, a few minutes more, like that, absolutely still, but fully concentrated on all the people they were inside him.
I was sitting here smiling, almost almost laughing, really; you could feel him like that everywhere (Mother touches her whole body), everywhere. And with such peace! Such peace, such force, such power. And a sense of eternity, immensity, and absoluteness. A sense of absoluteness, as if all were fulfilled, so to speak, and one lived in Eternity.
0 1962-08-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(It is extremely unfortunate that the beginning of this conversation, which would have thrown a clear light on what follows, was not kept. As far as Satprem remembers, the subject was his sleep. It seems Mother was saying that while his "strolls by the sea" took place during sleep and by passing into another state, for herand this is where the notes beginthere was no more "sleep" and no more "passing" into another state, from the ordinary physical to the subtle physical, because everything seemed to have become or was becoming one and the same continuous Matter. The true Matter, probably.)
Thats one thing thats happening. The two [the ordinary physical and the subtle physical] seem to be fusing more and more.
I have already explained this to you on several occasions: instead of SHIFTING from one to the other, its as if one were permeated by the other, like this (Mother slips the fingers of her right hand in between the fingers of her left hand), and you can almost feel both simultaneously. Its one of the results of whats going on these days. A very slight concentration, for example, is all it takes to feel both at the same time, which leads me to a near conviction that true change in the physical results from a kind of PENETRATION. The most material physical substance no longer has that unreceptive sort of density, a density that resists penetration: it is becoming porous, and thus can be penetrated. Several times, in fact, Ive had the experience of one vibration quite naturally changing the quality of the other the subtle physical vibration was bringing about a sort of almost a transformation, or in any case a noticeable change in the purely physical vibration.
That seems to be the process, or at least one of the most important processes.
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You see, the subtle physical seems to DOSE OUT its power and light and capacity of consciousness according to the amount of receptivity in the purely physical vibration. Thats why the effects stretch over a long period of time. Its being done very, very gradually. But its an almost continuous work. Only when theres some bodily activity and the consciousness must turn outwards (not in the same way as before, thats impossible, but still in a way that seems like a continuation of the old consciousness), then, if the work continues at all, its invisible and maybe it doesnt continue. I dont know. But as soon as all activity stops and the body is concentrated or immobileperhaps no more than simply passive that penetration is perceptible: its visible. Visible. And its not like something more subtle penetrating something less subtle without altering it; the essential point is that this penetration actually changes the composition. Its not merely a degree of subtlety, its a change in the internal composition. Ultimately, this action probably has an effect on the atomic level. And thats how the practical possibility of transformation can be accounted for.
Its an experience I have all the time.
0 1962-08-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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.
Voil, petit.
0 1962-09-05, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Then Satprem reads a passage relating to the subtle physical and exteriorization; among other things, he cites the experience of D., who, when he exteriorized for the first time, was unable to get back into his body because he tried to reenter through the legs! Here is the story:)
I was lying on my chaise longue in concentration when all at once I found myself in my friend Zs house. He and several others were playing music. I could see everything very clearly, even more clearly than in the physical, and I moved around very quickly, unimpeded. I stayed there watching for a while, and even tried to attract their attention, but they were unaware of me. Then suddenly something pulled me, a sort of instinct: I must go back. I felt pain in my throat. I remember that to get out of their room, which was all closed except for one small opening high up, my form seemed to vaporize (because I still had a form, though unlike our material onemore luminous, less opaque), and I went out like smoke through the open window. Then I found myself back in my room, next to my body, and I saw that my head was twisted and rigid against the cushion, and I was having trouble breathing. I wanted to get into my body: impossible. So I became afraid. I entered through the legs, and when I reached the knees I seemed to bounce back out; two, three times like that: the consciousness rose and then bounced back out like a spring. If I could only tip over this stool, I thought (there was a small stool under my feet), the noise would wake me up! But nothing doing. And I was breathing more and more heavily. I was terribly afraid. Suddenly I remembered Mother and cried out, Mother! Mother! and found myself back in my body, awake, with a stiff neck.
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The other things, exteriorization and so forth, are innate, just as some people are born artists or painters or aviators. Its one of Natures special combinations. Ive known some downright stupid girls who could exteriorize remarkably well and be fully conscious of their experiences in the subtle physical or the mind or the material vital (when one is undeveloped its more often in the material vital than the subtle physical). And they would tell you all about what they saw. But incapable of yoga.
Natures fancies, I tell you.
0 1962-09-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It doesnt touch me because that whole realm has been completely set in order, but it does touch the atmosphere and puts me in contact with things I usually dont deal with. And as its a difficult time for the body now. As I told you in our last conversations, the physical is being penetrated by the subtle physical.
The body obviously doesnt need any more difficulties than it already has.
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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.
0 1962-09-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There may be a very dim and subdued lightnot bright, I mean but its self-luminous. And so the higher you rise, the more brilliant and uniform light becomes.
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0 1962-09-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the middle of the First World War, Sri Aurobindo noted with prophetic force: The defeat of Germany could not of itself kill the spirit then incarnate in Germany; it may well lead merely to a new incarnation of it, perhaps in some other race or empire, and the whole battle would then have to be fought over again. So long as the old gods are alive, the breaking or depression of the body which they animate is a small matter, for they know well how to transmigrate. Germany overthrew the Napoleonic spirit in France in 1813 and broke the remnants of her European leadership in 1870; the same Germany became the incarnation of that which it had overthrown. The phenomenon is easily capable of renewal on a more formidable scale.2 Today we are finding that the old gods know how to transmigrate. Gandhi himself, seeing all those years of nonviolence culminate in the terrible violence that marked Indias partition in 1947, ruefully observed shortly before his death: The attitude of violence which we have secretly harboured now recoils on us, and makes us fly at each others throats when the question of distribution of power arises. Now that the burden of subjection is lifted, all the forces of evil have come to the surface. For neither nonviolence nor violence touch upon the root of Evil.
Ahimsa: nonviolence.
0 1962-10-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Take the gods raiment, for example. Their raiment, which they change at will in the same way they change their forms, is made not of physical but of overmental substance, and that substance contains its own light. Its like that with everything, its all. Theres no sun casting light and shadows: the substance is self-luminous.
And beyond, in the Supramental?
0 1962-10-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have lived this in recent days. I have seen it. Last night or the night before, I spent at least two hours in a world the subtle physical worldwhere the living mingle with the dead with no sense of difference, it makes absolutely no difference there. For instance, when Mridu1 was in her body I used to see her at night maybe once a year (maybe not even that much). For years she was utterly nonexistent in my consciousness but since she left her body, I see her almost every night! There she is, just as she was, you know (rotund gesture), but no longer troubled, thats all. No longer troubled. And there were both living and what we call the living and the deadthey were both there together, eating together, moving around together, having fun together; and all in a lovely, tranquil lightpleasant, very pleasant. There! I thought, and humans have drawn a sharp line, saying, Now hes dead! Dead! And what really takes the cake is the way they treat the body like an unconscious object, and its still conscious!
Its treated like an object: Now then! Lets get rid of this just as quickly as we can: its a nuisance and it gets in the way. And even those who feel the most sorrow dont want to see it; its too painful for them.
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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.)
I am skipping all the details (it was a long thing, lasting an hour), but suddenly he went out of the room, leaving me alone (after expressing what he wanted to tell me with a gesture, which I understood). And then I simply seemed to take a step (gesture of crossing a threshold), and I found myself lying in my bed again. And at that moment I said to myself, Really! We make all kinds of complications, and its so simple: you just have to go like this (same gesture) and there you are; then you go like that (same gesture in the opposite direction) and youre back here.
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Personally, you know, I have come to feel Him everywhere, all the time, all the time, to the point of actual physical contact (its subtle physical, but physical): in things, in the air, in people, in like this (Mother presses her hands against her face). So I dont have far to go! I just have to do this (Mother turns her hands slightly inwards), one seconds concentration and there He is! Because He is here, you know, He is everywhere.
He is far only if we think Hes far.
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It is quite remarkable that it was the body-consciousness that discoverednine years after his passingSri Aurobindo's abode (experience of July 24-25, 1959). The world where Mother went is thus a material world, not an "inner" world. The other Matter, the true Matter? We recall that in her very last Playground class, on November 28, 1958, Mother said: "Through each individual formation, physical substance progresses, and one day it will be able to build a bridge between physical life as we know it and the supramental life that is to manifest."
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0 1962-10-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All kinds of things. On each rack lay a number of notes on a particular subject. There were three rows at each level, one like that, one like that, one like that (on the upper part; I couldnt see the bottom because it was behind you). And the sheets of paper were lifting up slightly to show me there were several of them.
Its going to go into your head! (Mother laughs.)
0 1962-10-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There used to be a bad attitude in the body, which always hampered my playing, and now that it has gone, I would like to see what happens. It was something in the subconscient standing in the way: everything you learn when you study music, that you cant play this note with that note and so forth and so on. I would tune in above and listen there, but those old subconscious habits kept interfering. That has all changed now and I would like to see what happensit may yield only cacophony!
But what I play isnt music, I dont try to play music: its simply a sort of meditation with sound.
0 1962-10-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(A little later, Satprem goes back to music, a subject from the previous conversation:)
Do those zones of music and painting and so forth form part of the overmind or not?
0 1962-11-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its more a sort of weariness. I spend terrible nights in the subconscient. Over the past six months theres been a really abrupt change in my dreams. Previously I would remember something once in a while; now I remember nothing except the subconscient, and what a subconscient! Im lucky when its not hellish.
Mon petit, from that point of view my nights are abominable toothey cant really be abominable because I live in beatitude, but what I see, what I am forced to see each night is horrible. Just horrible. It seems like an attempt to make me thoroughly disgusted with my work. The subconscient is really a mass of horrors. And its been going on like this for at least six months.
Its a hell of a thing to wake up with!
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And what inventionssheer horror! Really, the people who are in contact with that world and express it on earth, its appalling the inventions they can make. Oh, the tortures men have invented, the things theyve doneyou cant believe its real. And it all comes from that subconscient world, which means it is indispensable to clean it out.
But oh, what a tough work! And thankless too. Thankless because no sooner do you think youve come to the end of something (not that you really think so, you know what its like there, but you still hope), than it comes back in another form, which seems even worse than the previous one.
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And sometimes it becomes terribly personal, as if you were being personally attacked. I have a whole theme of such things which cant even be spoken about because theyre too personalpersonal in that they appear to involve this body. Last night (ah, by the way, I remember noticing I was physically youngit was in the subtle physical, of course, and I was quite young) but what a life I led, with so many oh, revolutions, battles; I was involved in everything, there was tremendous activity. But I was being personally harassed by four or five of the most vile and disgusting old swine, and I had to confront them, hold them in place, keep them under control and make them obey. Ohh, was I glad to wake up! (It was time to get up; these things always stop automatically because I make it a point to get out of there at four-thirty) But the images, the sensations that went along with it. Oh, how is it possible! And I was fully conscious of the usefulness of this work: I was keeping them under control.1 But the things it involves ugh! Because for me, all knowledge is through identityeven in the subconscient its a knowledge through identityso you can imagine what that means.
Yes oh, there are some horrible beings there!
0 1962-11-10, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats what I was beginning to see towards the end. It took form gradually, gradually, and it was all there by the time you finished reading. At the beginning my attention was divided between what you were reading and what was going on; afterwards it was entirely focused on what was happening: your sheets of paper falling and landing weightlessly, like birds, and spreading over a floor that wasnt solid (it was there just to give the impression of a room, but you could see through it). And while you were reading, he was gathering them all up, with a long robe trailing behind him. This being was made of practically the same substance as the sheets coming out of the piano (it was a kind of piano, it was playing music, but it was the principle of what you have written). So he gathered up everything, and when he had a stack this big, he said, I am going to take it and show it to them.
It was really lovely.
0 1962-11-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem reads a passage from his manuscript describing the relation between the subconscient and the supraconscient, in which he says: "One cannot be healed unless one goes down to the very bottom; and one cannot go down to the very bottom unless one goes up to the very heights.")
Its getting interesting. Its the formulationnot the theory, not the explanation (its more than intellectual), but the literary expression of what Ive been experiencing all these nights. Not only at night, in the daytime too.
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In the Alipore jail: "I was mentally subjected to all sorts of torture for fifteen days. I had to look upon scenes of all sorts of suffering...." (See A.B. Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo, p. 122.)
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0 1962-11-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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.
All I know is that it was a very bad night, and I woke up this morning completely drained and with plenty of difficultiesand its not over yet.2
0 1962-11-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In order to be discernible, the cube was enveloped in something that looked like a kind of tulle, a tulle made of a pale gray substance, which expressed the individual nonexistence, the perfect humility that completely abolishes the ego: because of that there wasnt the least possibility of egoif you ask me why, I cant say, but thats how it was. And I was seeing that tulle all the time something extremely delicate, scarcely perceptible, yet maintaining the cubes form. It was perfect humility (in the divine sense) and total absence of egothere wasnt even the memory or idea of it, nothing whatever: the abolition of the ego. And it served to receive that immobile immensity which manifested through an action of the Power. And then, the action of the Power. I was conscious (I was consciouswhere was I? I dont know; the cube represented my physical being: I had been TOLD it was my physical being), and I was watching it without being situated I myself had no precise place but could see and understand the whole thing. And I could discern all the action being done through the cube: this action for that thing, this for that, this for that the whole earth (gesture expressing forces radiating outward, each for a special purpose), things from the past and things FAR into the future.
And it was so imperative!
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And the charm, the charm of the substance enveloping the cube was inexpressible! Something I cant describe. There were no contrasts, no the whole thing was in total harmony. Of course, to say it resembled tulle is a crude comparisona very, very fine tulle, and gray. Do you know that little wild grass Ive named Humility?4
Yes, its silver, silver-gray.
0 1962-12-19, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I had an interesting experience the other day, when this new room was inaugurated. Those rascals set up a balcony! And there was such a crowdin all the streets, on the rooftops that I had no choice but to go out on the balcony. And I realized that there has been a complete break between my life before and now, with that famous experience1 as the dividing line: I have to make the same movement I make to summon up the memory of a past life! It was so concrete, I was flabbergasted. The same movement of consciousness as when you summon up a past life: it was as though I had to recall what I used to do on the balcony in my former life! I was teaching the body as if it had no idea what to do. I was calling back what had to be done from the depths of a subconscious memory. But it was not the same thing, since the doors were not the same, the setup was different, so it was a little bit complicated. But when I found myself at the edge of the balcony, I suddenly drew on something, and this came: Heres how it was, heres what I used to do; and once again the Presence was there. And the whole time I was standing on the balcony it was it was better than before, much clearermuch clearer the experiences are much simpler and much more absolute (when I know something, I know it better than before).
But in the past, you see, I used to go up and down the stairs four or five times a day; I would go out, go down the other stairs, it gave me some exercise. Nowadays I dont get any exercise, except walking for half an hour twice a day, but thats no substitute: my legs are a bit stiff from lack of exercise. So I didnt feel like walking on the balcony like a puppet before of all those people waiting and wondering. You see, more than three-quarters of them think I was very sick (Mother laughs), practically dying (thats the form it takes in their consciousness). I couldnt show them someone who seemed to be emerging from a serious illness! So I clearly saw I had to tell my body, Now dont walk like that! Youve got to walk like thisthis is how you used to walk. And the body was listening like a little child. Youre going to walk, I had to tell it, youre going to walk like this. And it started walking! It was funny.
(Mother hands a box to Satprem) F. and R. have come and she brought me some candied chestnuts from Paris.
0 1962-12-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have had some rather strange things have been happening. I dont know whether you understand the difference between the memory of an inner experience (from the subtle physical, the subconscient, all the inner regions) and the memory of a physical fact. There is a very great difference in quality, the same difference that exists between inner vision and physical vision. Physical vision is precise, well defined, and at the same time flat I dont know how to explain it: its very flat, totally superficial, but very accurate, with the kind of accuracy and precision that defines things which are really not defined at all. Well, theres the same difference in quality between the two types of memory as between the two types of vision. And in the last few days Ive realized that I had the memory of having gone downstairs, of having seen certain people and things, spoken and organized certain thingsseveral different scenes of the PHYSICAL memory. Not at all things I saw with the inner vision while exteriorized, but the MATERIAL memory of having done certain things.
Afterwards, I had to look into it: it really was a memory. It suddenly struck me, and I wondered, Did I really go downstairs physically? There are plenty of people here to prove that I didnt, that I didnt stir from here. And yet I have the physical memory of having done so, and of having done certain other things as well; I even remember going outside.
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Could it be some exteriorization in the subtle physical?
Not at all! The memory of an exteriorization in the subtle physical is VERY different. I have a lot of experience of it, you know! I have been familiar with the phenomenon for something like sixty yearsits completely different. But this is entirely the type of experience one has in the physical Falsehood, if you will, in the ordinary physical consciousness.
I havent said anything because people here tend to think I am going off my rocker, and I dont want to add to their impression! But even for me, it left me it took me a little while (it didnt happen just once, but two or three times, for different things), I kept very still for a while to look into the phenomenon and try to analyze it.
0 1962-12-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This cleansing of the middle ground is the whole story of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother I had been dredging, dredging, dredging the mire of the subconscious. The supramental light was coming down before November,2 but afterwards all the mud arose and it stopped.3 Once again Sri Aurobindo verified, not individually this time but collectively, that if one pulls down too strong a light, the violated darkness below is made to moan. It is noteworthy that each time Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had some new experience marking a progress in the transformation, this progress automatically materialized in the consciousness of the disciples, without their even knowing anything about it, as a period of increased difficulties, sometimes even revolts or illnesses, as though everything were grating and grinding. But then, one begins to understand the mechanism. If a pygmy were abruptly subjected to the simple mental light of a cultivated man, we would probably see the poor fellow traumatized and driven mad by the subterranean revolutions within him. There is still too much jungle beneath the surface. The world is still full of jungle, thats the crux of the matter in a word; our mental colonization is a minuscule crust plastered over a barely dry quaternary. And the battle seems endless; one digs and digs, said the Rishis, and the deeper one digs, the more the bottom seems to recede: I have been digging, digging. Many autumns have I been toiling night and day, the dawns aging me. Age is diminishing the glory of our bodies. Thus, thousands of years ago, lamented Lopamudra, wife of Rishi Agastya, who was also seeking transformation. But Agastya doesnt lose heart, and his reply is magnificently characteristic of the conquerors the Rishis were: Not in vain is the labor which the gods protect. Let us relish all the contesting forces, let us conquer indeed even here, let us run this battle race of a hundred leadings.
(Rig-Veda I.179)
0 1963-01-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres a practical question Id like to ask you regarding the subtle physical. I understand the mind centers, which correspond to a particular world, the vital centers, which receive all sorts of influences, but which center corresponds to the subtle physical, and what are the influences coming from the subtle physical? Is there a center that corresponds to the subtle physical?
Where do you situate the center for the vital?
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Well, for the subtle physical it goes from the navel down to the last center,1 that whole region.
And what are the influences that come from the subtle physical?
Generally they are of a far higher quality than material influences. I have noticed (I dont know whether its a personal or a general thing) that the subtle physical I see is always of a somewhat higher quality than the physical proper. I mean somewhat more harmonious: things are smoother. All that comes from the vital is more often than not aggressive, quarrelsome and so on and difficult. But this realm is generally calmcalm, orderly, where things are more harmoniousGENERALLY (I cant say whether its the case with everybody, but in my own case its like that).
As I told you, Sri Aurobindo lives there permanently, as though in a house of his own: you can see him, you can stay with him, he is busy. It is very much like the physical, but a physical that would be less grating, you understand, where things are more harmonious and satisfying, less excited. There is less of that feeling of haste and uncertainty. In that house where Sri Aurobindo lives, life unfolds very, very harmoniously: people come and go, there are meals even. But all that obeys more general laws, and a sense of security and certainty not to be found in physical life. And the symbolism is more exact (I dont know how to express it), the symbolic transcription of things is less distorted, more exact.
This is the subtle physical as I know it, I cant say if it is the same for everyone. Sri Aurobindo said, There is a true physical, well, I have a feeling that this is what he calls the true physicala subtler physical, the true physical which is behind.
But does it influence the whole earth?
Oh, yes! In general, these things are terrestrial. But probably its still quite subjective, in the sense that each one has an impression of it according to what he is and his stage of development.
But does it exert a DIRECT action on the earth, just as the vital has an action on the earth?
I think that as the Supramental descends, the subtle physical will have a greater and greater action on earth, because it is the world where the new creation will be formed before it descends, before it becomes absolutely visible and concrete.
I often have a sense that it would take only a very tiny thingwhich is hard to definea very tiny movement of materialization to make this new creation concrete to us as we are. And it is probablyit will probably be formed completely in that subtle world before it materializes.
I think few people are able to make the distinction. They have rather an impression that its their dream way of seeing things; I mean they say, Oh, its just a dream. In most cases its like that. The subtle physical has the character of a realm where things are more fluid and harmonious than physical things, but with the same concrete quality; its nature is not like that of vital things, which have vibrations of power but again not that very concrete and objective quality characteristic of material things. In the subtle physical, things are very concrete. For instance, if someone stands in your way, you have to push him aside: he doesnt just vanish, you cant walk through him. If you see an object thats not in its place, you have to move it. Voil.
The muladhara, at the base of the spine.
0 1963-01-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Unfortunately, I have lost the habit of French, the words I use to express myself are quite limited and the right word doesnt come something looks up in the word store and doesnt find the word. I can sense it as if elusively, I feel there is a word, but all sorts of substitutes come forward that are worthless.
Now the sensation is altogether, altogether new. Its not the customary movement of words pouring in and so on: you search and suddenly you catch hold of somethingits no longer that way at all: as though it were the ONLY thing that remained in the world. All the restmere noise.
0 1963-02-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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!
The night before last, he had put on a sari of mine. He told me (laughing), Why not? Dont you find it suits me! I answered, It suits you beautifully! A sari of brown georgette, lustrous bronze, with big golden braid! It was a very beautiful sari (I used to have it, it was one of my saris), and he was wearing it. Then he asked me to do his hair. I remember seeing that the nape of his neck and his hair had become almost luminoushis hair was never quite white, there was an auburn shimmer to it, it was almost golden, and it stayed that way, very fine, not at all like the hair people have here. His hair was almost like mine. So while I was doing his hair, I saw the luminous nape of his neck, and his hair, so luminous! And he said to me, Why shouldnt I wear a sari!
0 1963-02-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
She went to Sri Aurobindos home in the subtle physical the thing is true, real, concrete, as concrete as here.
As soon as I got her letter, I saw: thats where she went. Besides, I knew she had gone there. Plenty of people go there and are unaware of it! They forget. But she had a nice memory.
0 1963-03-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I could say a lot on the subject, but At any rate, perhaps Ill tell you one day, but it cant be used for the Bulletin these arent public matters.
But what people call miracles nowadays are almost always performed by beings of the vital world, or by men in relation with such beings, so theres a mixtureit accepts the reality of certain things, the truth of certain things that arent true. And it works on that basis. So its unacceptable.
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Which means there is a difference between the miracle taking place through or in the mind, and the miracle taking place directly in the physical and vital. For instance, all those who perform miracles like levitation, moving objects, generating lights (Mother keeps silent for a while, then drops the subject). Its a field that I dont find very living, it doesnt interest me very much.2
But thats how it worked with healing. When the Power was there, he said it was even effortless, all he had to do was to put that Power of order, of supramental harmony, and it would act instantly.3
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I would lend my hand and look elsewhere I didnt look at what I was drawing to make sure there was no subconscious interference. And I could distinctly feel his hand moving mine. After a while, I said to myself, I think Ill take a look. I looked I say, I told him, Its not up to much!
It was in Tlemcen.
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All that I thought I knew now seems to me completely superficial, and I have almost laid my finger on something which, in contrast, gave me the impression of a stupendous discovery. But it was just a flash, the thing is not at my command. I cant speak about it. So it might be better to wait a while before dealing with that subject.
Is this aphorism on death?
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I tell you, it would mar a subject that may, in a few months (a few months or a few years, I dont know), grow clearer. There may be something worth telling then.
On a few occasions, you know, I was like this (Mother makes a gesture of hovering between two worlds7), as if I were really put in contact with what I have called the death of death. It was the unreality of death. From a COMPLETELY material standpoint. It was a question of cells and of the consciousness in the cells. Like when you are within an inch of something: There it is! Im going to catch it, there it is! But then it fades away. It has stayed as an impression.
0 1963-03-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Later, Mother added: "That is to say, an extremely powerful experience but which doesn't stay, except in its effect: becoming another person, changing position. I wouldn't be able to describe the experience, but my position changed. That's what happened every time. It's very different from the other experiences: they stay, you understand them fully, they don't fade away but they don't have the power to change your person. They are two types of experience, both very useful, but very different from each other. The experiences of the very powerful but very brief type are those that, afterwards, are expressed in the form of the other type. The other experiences are those that ESTABLISH in a certain domain of consciousness that first experience which had come only as a shocka compelling but transient shock. And sometimes it may take longformerly it took years between the first experience and the resulting ones; now the interval seems a bit shorter, though it still takes some time. And it follows the same course every time: something comes, has the necessary effect, and then the consciousness seems to go to sleep on that point, as if a silent incubation period were neededyou stop dealing actively with the subjectand it reemerges at the end of a long curve, but as if it had been digested, assimilated, and you were now ready for the full experience."
With a sort of incomprehensible comprehension, we are reminded of the words of the Vedic Rishis: "He uncovered the two worlds, eternal and in ONE nest."
0 1963-04-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, its not a question of just these cells here: its a question of cells in, well, quite a lot of people, hundreds, maybe thousandsall that clings anywhere and in any way to the higher Consciousness. And since my mind is silent (I deliberately keep the mind absolutely still, trying not to react to all that constantly comes to it from outside, or trying to react almost subconsciously), nothing is there to think, Oh, its this ones body, its that ones body its THE Body! Thats what is so difficult for people to understand. It is THE bodythis (Mother touches her body) is not my body any more than other bodies (a bit more, in the sense that it is more directly the object of the concentration of the Force). So everything, all the sensations, the movements of consciousness, the battles, all of it is everywhere. And suddenly, with this little affair, oh, I understood a fantastic number of thingsand also the difficulty, mon petit! The difficulty because really, after this experience, the body was not ill but very tired. But then it is seized with such things all the time! All the time, all the time, all the time, you know, they spring up, brrm! pounce on it, brrm! from this side, that side, every which way. So I have to keep still (gesture of stopping, silent, in the midst of other activities), and then I start waging the battle.
(silence)
0 1963-04-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is always a vibration subtler than his vibration of peace, and that one must remain free, without getting enclosed in the other. For example, if something pulls and causes a mental tension in the head, just keep in contact with that peace (oh, he does have a capacity of mental immobility), and let it penetrate you, but without concentrating all your being on it: allow the rest of your activity to unfold as usual in an infinity. Its only the vibrations of the physical mind that you should keep in that stability.
Its difficult to put it into words. But if you are able to do that, it could do you good, it could be restful.
My experience, you see, is that his mental silence is rigidrigid, closed but the mental substance, the brains physical substance really rests, his silence can rid you of a headache, for instance.
Its a very, very material vibration, he has some mastery there.
0 1963-06-08, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was yesterday, I think, in the night (not last night, the night before, the 6th of June, that is), for more than three hours without stop, there was no consciousness of anything any morenot a thought, not a will, not an action, not an observation, nothing. Everything was at a standstill. For instance, all that happens when you have experiences and you work in the subconscientall that, everything, everything was at a standstill. It was like the action of a Force. Without any thought or idea, only the sensation and a sort of perception (awareness is the right word) of a Force, but a stupendous Force, you know, like the Force of the earthall the combinations of the forces along with an action that came from above and worked on them. It was going through me (especially around the head down to the chest, but it was going on in the whole body, and it was spherical), it went through me and out, and out, and out in this direction, that direction, another direction, innumerable directions, and nothing but movements of Force (there was something like a perception of colors, but not in the ordinary way: like a knowledge that certain vibrations corresponded to a particular color), but it was an incalculable MASS, almost indefinite, at any rate, and simultaneous. At first I said to myself (laughing), Whats going on? Then I thought, All right, it doesnt matter, Ill just let it happen. And it went on and on and onthree hours without letup.
I didnt know I didnt know anything any more, didnt understand anything any more, had no bearings any more; there was only a Force on the move, and what Force! It was a Force that came from beyond and acted upon all the forces of the earth: on big things, on small things, on small, precise points, on enormous things, and it was going on and on and on, on this point, that point, all points together and everywhere. I suppose that if the mind had been associated with the experience, it would have gone a bit mad! It gave that impression, you see, because it was so overwhelming that And all the time, all the time in the physical center (the physical center, that is, in the corporeal base), with something in an ecstatic state; it was very interesting how that ecstasyan ecstasy that sparkled like a diamondwas there, so sweet, so sweet, so peaceful, as though it were there all the while, telling the body, Dont be afraid, (laughing) dont worry, dont be afraid, all is well. As though the supreme Power were saying all the while, Dont worry, dont worry, leave it to me, leave it to me. It lasted more than three hours.
0 1963-06-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is evidently a mental domain. A mental subconscient. But its horrible. Horrible.
Then in the morning, I asked myself, What? Is there still a lot like that? A world! A whole world, a mass of things. And that powerlessness in which you find yourself; which means that unless I am given the key, there is no way. That funny little old man, oh, he almost made me angry (I cannot get angry, but I was almost angry and thats what woke me up), I was indignant. Aah, aah (Mother takes the old mans rasping tone), so you want to get out of here?! But no one gets out of this place! And why do you want to get out? Theres no way to get out, cant you see that theres no getting out of here and why do you want to get out?! Anyway, I came to tell you, I only came to tell you to put out that sun! That dazzling sun, you know!
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It must be to reach subconscient and inconscient depths. Thats always what gives difficultiesan abyss.
I havent yet tried to take the plunge. So far, nothing ever pushed me to plunge downseveral times I did find an unexpected way, but there was never the impulsion: Too bad, Ill throw myself off.
0 1963-07-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I saw two examples of this, one physically and the other intellectually (I am referring to things I was in contact with materially). Intellectually, it was a studio friend; for years we had done painting together, she was a very gentle girl, older than I, very serious, and a very good painter. During the last years of my life in Paris, I saw her often and I spoke to her, first of occult matters and the Cosmic philosophy, then of what I knew of Sri Aurobindo (I had a group there and I used to explain certain things), and she would listen with great understandingshe understood, she approved. Now, one day, I went to her house and she told me she was in a great torment. When she was awake, she had no doubts, she understood well, she felt the limitations and obscurities of religion (she came from a family with several archbishops and a cardinalwell, one of those old French families). But at night, she told me, I suddenly wake up with an anguish and somethingfrom my subconscient, obviouslytells me, But after all this, what if you go to hell? And she repeated, When I am awake it doesnt have any force, but at night, when it comes up from the subconscient, it chokes me.
Then I looked, and I saw a kind of huge octopus over the earth: that formation of the Churchof hellwith which they hold people in their grip. The fear of hell. Even when all your reason, all your intelligence, all your feeling is against it, there is, at night, that octopus of the fear of hell which comes and grips you.
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(Later, the subject is the English translation of Satprems recent book on Sri Aurobindo:)
I think E. will be able to find a public over there, in America especiallymore than in France.
0 1963-07-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I can still see Sri Aurobindo, a little taller than me, and myself bent forward and smiling, pointing to the left, and he said, Yes. And I could see I saw lots of people. Because its a strange thing, the eyesight is absolutely different (its in the subtle physical), the sight is absolutely different from physical sight: you see thousands of miles away and very near at the same time, and distance is implied only by a given place in the atmosphere (I dont know how to explain this), but whats far away is as near from the standpoint of action as whats very close by. You see, the action is just as concrete and close, but it is as though differently placed (Mother shows different levels in the atmosphere). I never gave it a thought, but probably in that activity of the subtle physical we are physically much taller, I think; yet the proportions remain the same; but things are smaller [than Mother or Sri Aurobindo]. Its the same for going up or down, it doesnt have the meaning it has here. And that country I was pointing to was to the left, a little not backward, a little forward and lower down, like this (gesture).
Sri Aurobindo was very tall there. But I, too, was tall.
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In other words, one domain after another, one difficulty after another, one kind of obstacle after another (obstacles that are either subconscious or in the most material consciousness or the lower vital), it all comes for an ACTION. An action which is very sustained and varied; even when some other thing (some other difficulty or problem) is in the foreground, predominant in the consciousness, everything is there [in the surrounding atmosphere], and all the time there is that Light (Mother makes a gesture of cleaning in the atmosphere) which has always been with meof which I became totally conscious with Madame Thon, who told me what it wasa Light I have always kept with me, a white Light, absolutely pure, so dazzlingly white that eyes cannot look at it, a Light which is
(long silence Mother goes off into that Light, her eyes closed)
0 1963-07-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Only little by little, little by little do you learn the true functioning; because those things that are added on and spoil everything arent deliberate additions arising from a desire or impatience or overenthusiasmits none of that, its due to a habit. Its quite simply a habit. That is, the psychological element is purified and doesnt interfere: its just a habit. The subSTANCE has the habit of doing things that way, and so it does them that way. So it must be taught not to stir, to keep quiet, so that when the Vibration comes, the something that always rushes forward doesnt do so.
Its very interesting.
0 1963-07-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats too muchagitation is too much, its rather a lack of rest. Not agitation really, but something that lacks the rest of certainty. I constantly catch my cells being like that. Naturally I react, but for them its a very normal state: always straining after the next moment, never the quietude of the present moment. The result (the words I use give a very concrete character to something rather fluid), the result is the feeling that you have to bear or endure, and the haste to get out of that enduring, along with the hope (a very faint and flimsy hope) that the next moment will be better. Thats how it is from moment to moment, from moment to moment, from moment to moment. As soon as the Consciousness comes (gesture of descent) and concentrates, as soon as I bring the Consciousness into the present moment, everything becomes quiet, immobile, eternal. But if I am not CONSTANTLY attentive, the other condition [of restlessness] comes almost as a subconsciousness: its always there. And VERY tiringit must be one of the most important sources of fatigue in mankind. Especially here (Mother touches her forehead and temples), its very tiring. Only when you can live in the eternity of the present minute does it all stopeverything becomes white, immobile, calm, everything is fine.
But it means constant vigilanceconstant. Its infinitely more difficult than when one worked even in the vital; in the vital, its nothing, its childs play in comparison. But here, phew! Because, you see, in the mind or the vital, its all movements of organization, of action, of choice, of decisionits very easy to decide, to rule! But that cellular tension is there EVERY SECOND: its the activity inherent in material existence. Its only when you go into samadhi that it stops. That is, when outwardly you are in trance. Then it stops.
0 1963-07-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is not advisable to discuss too much what it [the supermind] will do and how it will do it, because these are things the supermind itself will fix, acting out of the Divine Truth in it, and the mind must not try to fix for it grooves in which it will run. Naturally, the release from subconscient ignorance and from disease, duration of life at will, and a change in the functionings of the body must be among the ULTIMATE (Mother repeats) elements of a supramental change; but the details of these things must be left for the supramental Energy to work out according to the Truth of its own nature.
(XXII.8)
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Thats why with all the consciousness and force, I tell people, You make yourselves sick with your idiotic fear! (A subconscious fear sometimes mental, but then its utterly stupidat any rate a fear in the cells, a subconscious fear.) You make yourselves sick. Stop being afraid and you wont get sick. And I can say that with absolute assurance.
Its interesting.
0 1963-07-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The work consists, I could say, in either removing or transforming (I am not sure which of the two) all the bodys cells that are or have been under the influence of Falsehood (not lie but falsehood), of the state contrary to the Divine. But since probably a radical purge or transformation would have resulted in nothing but the bodys dissolution, the work goes on in stages, progressively (I am going very far back in time, to my first attacks). So the sequence is the following: first, a series of activities or visions (but those visions are always activities at the same time: both activities and visions) in the subconscious domain, showing in a very living and objective way the Falsehood that has to be removed (transformed or removed). At first, I took them as adverse attacks, but now I see they are states of falsehood to which certain elements in the physical being are linked (at the time, I thought, I am brought into contact with that because of the correspondence in me, and I worked on that level but its another way of seeing the same thing). And it produces certainly there is a dissolution there is a transformation, but a dissolution tooand that dissolution naturally brings about an extreme fatigue or a sort of exhaustion in the body; so between two of those stages of transformation, the body is given time to recover strength and energy.1 And I had noticed that those attacks always come after the observation (an observation I made these last few days) of a great increase in power, energy and force; when the body grows more and more solid, there always follows the next day or the day after, first, a series of nights I could call unpleasant (they are not, for theyre instructive), and then a terrible battle in the body. This time I was consciousnaturally, I am conscious every time, but (smiling) more so every time.
I had observed lately that the body was getting much stronger, much more solid, that it was even putting on weight (!), which is almost abnormal. Then, I had a first vision (not vision: an activity, but very clear), then another, and then a third. Last night, I was fed a subtle food, as if to tell me that I would need it because I wouldnt take any physical food2 (not that I thought about it, I simply noticed I had been fed, given certain foods). And with the visions I had the two preceding nights, I knew that at issue were certain elements forming part of the bodys construction (psychological construction), and that they had to be eliminated. So I worked hard for their elimination. And today, the battle was waged.
But then, as I had worked hard for the elimination, the battle was quite formidablewhen it exceeds a certain measure, the heart has trouble, and then I need to rest. Thats how it happened. But it was so clear, so obvious! And the entire process was SEEN from the beginning, every single step of it, its a marvel! A marvel of consciousness, of measure, of dosage, to allow the purification and transformation to take place without disrupting the balance, so that dissolution does not occur. Its based on the capacity to endure and withstand (naturally, if the body were unable to endure, that work couldnt be done).
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A few days later, Mother added: "There is also something I left unsaid: an urgent need to cease all material activity in order to enable the body to receive fullyas fully as possible the divine Force that will replace what has been removed. There is something absolute about that need: to stay totally still, quiet, letting the Force descendpermeate the body, rather. All physical activity must be suspended in some way, and if the material organization, or the habit, tends to make it continue, a kind of material impossibility, an excessive fatigue or discomfort, comes to oblige the body to keep still. Because simply to remove or change what shouldn't be there won't do; it must also be replaced by what SHOULD be there. Otherwise, there would be a dwindling or gradual reduction of substance resulting in dissolution. What has been sublimated or removed has to be replaced by something which is the true Vibration, the one that comes straight from the Supreme."
Mother did not eat anything this morning.
0 1963-08-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Physical Matter, physical substance the very elementary consciousness thats in physical substancehas been so ill-treated (since mans presence on earth, I suppose, because before man, there probably wasnt enough self-consciousness to be aware of being ill-treated; the substance wasnt conscious enough, I suppose, to make a distinction between a normal peaceful state and unfavorable conditions; but anyway, that goes back quite long time), so ill-treated that it finds it very hard to believe things can be different. That consciousness has an aspirationan aspiration especially for a LUMINOUS peace, something that isnt the dark peace of Unconsciousness, which it doesnt like (I dont know if it ever liked it, but it no longer does). It aspires to a luminous peace; not to a consciousness full of various things, not that: simply to a peaceful consciousness, very peaceful, very quiet, very luminous thats what it wants. Yet at the same time, it has some difficulty believing that its possible. I am experiencing it: the concrete and absolutely tangible intervention of the supreme Power, supreme Light and supreme Goodnessit [the consciousness in physical substance] has the experience of that, and every time it has a new sense of wonder, but in that sense of wonder I can see something like: Is it really possible?
It gives me the impression, you know, of a dog that has been beaten so much that it expects nothing but blows.
0 1963-08-13a, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding an old "Playground Talk" of 1950 and noted from memory by a disciple, which Mother asks Satprem to scrap. The subject was Nirvana, which one was to reachor so the notation saidby withdrawing all one's energies into the psychic being or soul.)
None of that is true!
0 1963-08-21, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
These days, I dont know whether it has come to the last battle, but it has descended very deep into the cells worst-lit realm: what still belongs most to the world of Unconsciousness and Inertia and is most foreign to the divine Presence. It is, so to say, the primal substance that was first used by Life, and it has a sort of inability to feel, to experience a reason for that life.
In fact, its something I had never experienced [that absence of meaning]; even in my earliest childhood, when there was no development, I always had a perception (not a mentalized but a vibrant perception) of a Power behind all things which is the Raison dtre of all thingsa Power, a Force, a kind of warmth.
0 1963-08-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I delivered great speeches to you on the subject, but I dont remember! (Laughing) It was in the night, I delivered a whole speech to you, and I even thought, in the middle of the night, Well, thats just what I should tell Satprem tomorrow!
I told you that the only process Ive known, and which recurred several times in my life, is to renounce an error. Something you believe to be truewhich probably was true for a timeon which you partly base your action, but which, in actuality, was only one opinion. You thought it was a truthful finding with all its logical consequences, and your action (part of your action) was based on it, so that everything proceeded from it automatically. Till suddenly an experience, a circumstance or an intuition warns you that your finding isnt so true as it appeared to be (!) Then there is a whole period of observation and study (sometimes too it comes as a revelation, a massive proof), and then its not just your idea or false knowledge that needs to be changed, but also all its consequences, perhaps an entire way of acting on a particular point. At that moment, you get a sort of sensation, something that feels like a sensation of renunciation; that is to say, you have to undo a whole collection of things you had built. Sometimes its quite considerable, sometimes a very small thing, but the experience is the same: the movement of a force, a dissolving power, and the resistance of all that must be dissolved, all the past habit. It is the contact of the movement of dissolution with the corresponding resistance that probably translates in the ordinary human consciousness as the sense of renunciation.
0 1963-09-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I remember that for a few days I was occupied with that memory, as part of a vast work on certain physical vibrations, in all the physical domains with which I deal. And it came (strangely, its always LOCATED, located somewhere), and the perception I have is very acute, absolutely like the perception of something that happened to me personally (but all that comes to me now comes in this way). Only, there was the knowledge that it was your own body that had gone through that experience. And then yes, I remember, there was a certain quality of vibration (Mother looks silently), and it was connected with a study on the experience the cells gain in the process of death. I remember, I was studying the cellular experiences (which the cells have more often than not semiconsciously and often unconsciously), those semiconscious experiences that stay in the subconscient and help to make some cells more and more receptive and prepared for the new Force. And as I was studying that, your experience of the camps came, and I saw in fact that a certain number of your cells, a rather considerable number (cells that are partly in the brain, partly in the throat center and partly here [gesture to the upper part of the chest]) have had the preliminary experience of death.
And that gives them a very special capacity of consciousness.
0 1963-09-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(The beginning of this conversation was to disappear, but Satprem chanced on it on a second track of the tape-recording. He found it charming and inserted it back here. Quite often he deleted these beginnings of conversations.... Here the subject was his health, Sujata having written to Mother that it was deteriorating" and proposed that a supplementary diet be given him.)
So, let me contemplate you! (laughter)
0 1963-09-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because NOTHING in the consciousness budged during those changeovers [back and forth from the true to the false movement]; the consciousness is like that, turned not upward, not inward, turned simply turned to the Lord, living in His Light, which, in the physical world, becomes a golden splendor. The consciousness is turned to That. There is nothing but That, its the sole reality, the sole truth. And It vibrates like this (Mother touches her hands, her arms), It vibrates in all the cells, everywhere. I go like this (Mother makes a gesture of collecting it in the air around), as if I picked it up. It isnt ethereal, its very material; it feels like an air that is thick but vibrant, very vibrant. The consciousness is like that. And all this goes on in the body. But with the presence of that old idiot which is immediately pessimistic, catastrophic, defeatisthow defeatist, oh it sees everything as a calamity. And then that wonderful character, after imagining the worse (in the space of a second, of course), it submits it all to the Lord and tells Him, Here, Lord, here is Your work, its all Yours, do what You will with it! The silly idiot, why did it have to prepare its catastrophes! A catastrophe, invariably a catastrophe, everything is catastrophic but it offers its catastrophe to the Lord!
And the answer is invariably a smile full of such patience, oh! That patience gives me a sense of wonder every second.
0 1963-09-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the night before, I was with Sri Aurobindo, who gave me a revelation. I was with him, he was reclining (not stretched out but on a sort of chaise longue) and I was supposed to bring him something to eat (not at all like physical food, its something else I dont know what it is its rather different in that world the subtle physical), and it was expressed to me (there were no words in my consciousness; I dont know why, no words), he told me something which I understood perfectly, not only understood but it made me very happy, a joy came into me, and I answered, Yes, exactly! It corresponds to the experience I had today and which is??? (Mother leaves her sentence hanging) You see, I was conscious while I was having all the activity, but it was expressed in words [there] that arent words [here], so I dont know what to do! And he told me in the tone you take when expressing a definitive and overwhelming experience (his tone was one of absolute power) something that was translated like this: Now, the nourishment (it wasnt nourishment but food) comes from the whole of Nature at once. (Mother utters those words like a riddle or an open sesame that has not yet opened the door) And he told me to bring it to him (that too was a translation): Yes, you will bring it (the it was that food coming from the whole Nature at onceits a seemingly silly transcription, but anyway), you will bring it in this translucent bowl. And I replied, Yes, I knew, I knew that I had to use this translucent bowl to bring you the food. But what on earth does that correspond to?? Yet it was so evident! There was such a joy! (Because as I was conscious, I thought, Well, all the same, I am still following him closely in his development, its going on as when he was here: when he wins a victory, it is materialized in me.) Thus I was perfectly conscious and I told him, Ah, I am glad! (I am faltering, of course, it wasnt that at allit was admirable.) Oh, I am glad, I knew that I had to bring you the food in this translucent bowl. And the translucent bowl was a marvel! I had it, you see, it was beautiful! It was like opaline, living glass, all luminous but with all the lights alive and moving, and what colors! Pink, mauve, silver and gold, oh, it was so very beautiful. And I brought it to him.
It impressed me very strongly. Very strongly: I was under a spell, probably because the experience was still too strong and powerful for the material brain. And I saw it immediately; at the very moment of the experience, I saw it was a transcription, and an extraordinarily poor transcription, but nothing better could be done.
0 1963-10-05, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I didnt have any sense of dangernot at all. Only that slight feeling of being upset: They ought to inform people before doing things of that sort! And they were the supreme heads of the organization (there was nothing religious or spiritual about it: it was very concrete, in Matter). But that water I kept admiring it, thinking, Oh, they have control over that water! It was like liquid diamond. It was a marvel, as if everything it touched were purified. And that being who came out of the huge swimming pool (it wasnt a human being: it looked like a vital being who was neither a man nor a woman) came out in a kind of bathing suit, wrapped himself up and disappeared. But otherwise ALL the doors were closed, there wasnt a soulonly me on my square, with the square around me and my back against a closed door, watching the whole scene from a great height. And everything was filling up with that substanceit looked like water, but it wasnt water.
The impression lingered, as if there were something I had to understand.
0 1963-10-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here is what happened: I do my usual bath of the Lord and it is arranged that, after a time, Champaklal opens the doorwhich signals to me the end of the visit. So I looked at X, just to see (I had looked at him several times before, but there was nothing particular), I looked at him and saw in front of him a sort of mass of substance, not material but responsive to a mental formation, which means that mental thought and will can make this substance take different shapes I know it (Mother makes a gesture of fingering the substance), its very like the sort of substance mediums use for their apparitions (less material, more mental, but anyway the same kind). There was a sort of mass in front of him, which was hiding him; it wasnt luminous, not black either, but dark enough. So I looked at it, STARED at it to see what it was, and as I was staring, I saw that there was a will or an effort to give that mass of substance a shape. It was exactly in front of Xs head and shoulders. And there was a will to give it a shape (gesture of molding). As I stared very carefully, it took the shape of Sri Aurobindos head as it appears in newspapers and magazines (what I call the popular Sri Aurobindo, as he is shown in books), the substance took that form. Immediately I thought (ironic tone), Oh, its the popular form, that doesnt resemble him! And instantly, the substance rearranged itself and took the form of Cartier-Bressons Sri Aurobindo1 (the three-quarter face photo, where he is seated in his armchair). That was better! (Mother holds back a chuckle) It wasnt yet quite good, but anyway it was better (although, mind you, it had neither light nor life: it was mattera subtle matter, of courseput into shape by a mental will). So I began to wonder: Whatever is this?! Does he want me to believe that Sri Aurobindo is in him, or what? Because Xs head and shoulders had completely disappeared, there was nothing left but that. And I thought (not a strong thought, just a reflection): No, its not very good, really not very lifelike! (Mother laughs) Then there was a last attempt and it became very like the photo that was taken when he left his body (that photo which we stood on end and called Meditation), it was very like the photo, (in an ironic tone) a very good likeness. And it stayed. So I thought, Oh yes! This is the photo.
Then I concentrated just a little and thought, Lets see, now. Whom is he trying to delude? And instantly, everything vanished. And I saw X, his head.
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[Satprem cannot believe what Mother has just told him:] It was a will coming from him? It wasnt someone else who used that substance?
No. It was either he or his guruhis guru interferes in many things. And I saw his guru several times by his side I wasnt positively sure it was X, but if it wasnt X, it was his guru, it can only be one or the other. And it was done DELIBERATELY, to make me think that Sri Aurobindo was there, in X, using X as a means of expression.
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He clearly knows how to put mental substance into shape but this handling of mental matter to give it a shape, everybody does it unknowingly, automatically; you only have to think a little strongly for it to be done. Only, people dont see it because they dont have the mental vision. And here, it was so funny [Xs mental formation], because it responded so well (thats what made me think it was he who was doing it, not someone else), it responded so well to my immediate thought (and I didnt think strongly). I looked at the thing, and spontaneously, within myself, I thought, Oh, no! Almost as if Sri Aurobindo were saying, Oh, no! Thats my popular portrait, its no good! Voil.4
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Its still there; even in those who have developed their higher mind, who are able to emerge from that darkness and ignorance, its still there its still there in a sort of mental or vital subconscient. And its so dark! Thoroughly stupid, you know: it can be given hundreds and thousands of proofs, it remains unaffecteda kind of incapacity to understand. And then it constantly rises to the surface, and I am constantly obliged (gesture of offering to the Heights) to present it: This is still there, that is still there, that And I see very well that the distinction between what goes on in this body and its atmosphere, and what goes on in all other bodies is I dont know if the distinction still exists, but its imperceptible. And the consciousness is aware of all those movements as if they were personal to the physical person. But the physical person (Mother touches her body) isnt just this body I am not yet sure whether the physical person isnt the whole earth (for certain things, it is the whole earth), or whether the physical person is the entirety of all the bodies of the people I am in contact with. During the last hours of the night, that is, between 2 and 4, I see precise forms; but those precise forms are themselves representative, meaning there are TYPES and those types take on the image of someone I am in contact with or was in personal contact with. But to me they are types: Oh, its such and such a type but that can be thousands of people. And the action (its always for an action), the action on the person-type has repercussions on all that he represents.
And thats a labor which seems infiniteendless, at any rate.
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You see, what I do is this: the thing comes, its taken up, presented (gesture to the Heights) as though it were mine: But look, see how I am (but its the Ithe great I), its presented to the Lord, very humbly, with the sense and feeling of complete helplessness I simply say, Here, change it. The feeling that only He can do it, that everything that people have tried everywhere appears childisheverything appears to be childish. The most sublime intelligence seems to me childish. All the attempts that are made to enlighten, organize, educate mankind, to awaken it to a higher consciousness, to give it mastery over Nature and its forces, all of itall of it, which for a human vision is sometimes utterly sublime, seems absolutely like children playing and having fun in a nursery. And children who love dangerous games, who believe TERRIBLY in what they do (as do children, naturally). I have never met more serious and stern a justice than the justice children have in their games. They really take life seriously. Well, thats exactly the impression it makes on me: the impression of a mankind in infancy which takes what it does with ferocious seriousness. And which will never get out of itit will never get out of it, it lacks the little something (which may be really nothing at all), a very little something thanks to which ah, everything becomes clear and organizedall that comes from mankind always BORDERS on Truth.
So the only thing I can do is this (gesture of presenting): Look, Lord, see how ignorant and powerless we are, how utterly stupid we areits up to You to change it. How do you change it? You cant even imagine the change, you cant even do that. So all my time (same gesture)not from time to time: constantly, day and night, without letup, day and night without letup. If for an interval of one or two minutes this isnt done, there is something that catches up: Oh, all that time wasted! And if I take a close look at what happened, then I see; I see that for these few minutes, I was blissful in the Lord, letting myself live blissfully in the Lord; so I no longer presented things to Himit happens two or three times a day. A relaxation, you know, you let yourself flow blissfully in the Lord. And its so natural and spontaneous that I dont even notice it; I notice it when I resume my attitude (same gesture to the Heights) of transferring everything to the Lord every minute.
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You must be having revelations without even noticing them! You have all this here (gesture above Satprems head), its full of revelations, mon petit! And there you are, trying to see with the eyes of the vital, to have experiences in the subtle physical, all kinds of things, which cannot even come because you are here (gesture above), and that is the sediment.
(silence)
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Everyone is born with (what can I call it?) some special twist (laughing)I know my own twist, I know it quite well! (I dont talk about it because it isnt enjoyable.) But thats what remains last of all. With our idiotic human logic, we think, Thats what should go first, but its not true: its what goes last! Even when it all becomes clear, clear (gesture above), even when you have all the experiences, the habit stays on and it keeps coming back. So you push it back: it rises again from the subconscient; you chase it away: it comes back from outside. So if for one minute you arent on your guard, it shows up againoh, what a nuisance! But Sri Aurobindo wrote about this somewhere, I dont remember the words; I read it very recently, and when I read it, I thought, Ah, there it is! He knew it was that way. So it comforted me, and I thought, All right, then. He said that he who has purified his mind and so on and so forth, who is ready to work towards Perfection (its in the Synthesis, The Yoga of Self-Perfection), He is ready and patient for lapses and the recurrence of old errors, and he works quietly, waiting patiently till the time comes for them to leave. I thought, Very well, thats how it is now. I am patiently waiting for the time when (though I dont miss any opportunity to catch them by the tip of their nose, or the tip of their ear, and to say, Ha, youre still here!).
The first thing is to detach your consciousness, thats most important. And to say: I-AM-NOT-THIS, its something that has been ADDED, placed to enable me to touch Matter but it isnt me. And then if you say, That is me (gesture upward), youll see that you will be happy, because it is lovelylovely, luminous, sparkling. Its really fine, it has an exceptional quality. And thats you. But you have to say, That is me, and be convinced that its you. Naturally, the old habits come to deny it, but you must know that theyre old habits, nothing else, they dont matter that is you.
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We are given everythingEVERYTHING. All the difficulties that have to be overcome, all of them (and the more capable we are, that is, the more complex the instrument is, the more numerous the difficulties are), all the difficulties, all the opportunities to overcome them, all the possible experiences, and limited in time and space so they can be innumerable. And it has repercussions and consequences all over the earth (I am not concerned with what goes on in the universe because, for the time being, that isnt my work). But it is certain (because it has been said so and I know it) that what goes on on the earth has repercussions throughout the universe. Sitting there, you live the everyday life with its usual insignificance, its unimportance, its lack of interest and its a WONDERFUL field of experiences, of innumerable experiences, not only innumerable but as varied as can be, from the most subtle to the most material, without leaving your body. Only, you should have RETURNED to it. You cannot have authority over your body without having left it.
Once the body is no longer you at all, once it is something that has been added and TACKED onto you, once it is that way and you look at it from above (a psychological above), then you can come down into it again as its all-powerful master.
0 1963-11-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No. You know, what lends force to the opposition is superstitious ignorancesuperstitious in the sense of a sort of faith or at least of belief in Destiny, in Fate. Its ingrained, as if woven into the human substance. They have the same superstition, the same superstitious belief in what is favorable to them as in what is unfavorable; in the divine Power as in the adverse powerits the SAME attitude. And thats why the divine Power doesnt have its full force, and also precisely why the adverse force has so much power over them, because its absolutely a movement of Falsehood, of Ignoranceof total Ignorance.
Recently, I was following the thing down to the smallest detail, in everybodys mentality. Even in those who have read Sri Aurobindo, who have studied Sri Aurobindo, who have understood, who have come into contact with that region of light, its still there its still there. Its very yes, its very tightly woven into the most outward and material part of the consciousness. Its a kind of submissiveness, which may be quite rebellious, but which gives a sense, as you said, of something hanging over your head and shoulders: a sort of Fate, of Destiny.
So there is the good destiny and the bad destiny; there is a divine force which one regards as something entirely beyond understanding, whose designs and aims are perfectly inexplicable, and the submission, the surrender consists in acceptingblindlyall that happens. Ones nature revolts, but revolts against an Absolute against which it is helpless. And all of that is Ignorance. Not one of all those movements is truefrom the most intense revolt to the blindest submission, its all false, not one true movement.
I dont know if its in Sri Aurobindos writings (I dont remember), but I hear very strongly (not for me, for mankind):
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And even this body, which has been worked on and kneaded for years Its in the subconscient of the body. And so that was the answer, it was said to the body:
AWAKE AND WILL
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And that submissiveness, you know, that acceptance of the worst, with the idea that it comes from the Lord! Not only that, but almost imagining the worst as a trial, as a test to find out if youre really surrendered thats another stupidity! If you need to imagine such things in order to find out if you really havent revolted, it means there is still somewhere the germ or residue of revolt.
And the fear of being selfish, the fear of being rebelliousit means its still there, otherwise you wouldnt have that fear.
0 1963-11-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are landmarks of that kind. I had told you, you remember, how that great Asura (who in fact was the first born; its for him that I had built a subtle body) had said he was going to China and that Chinas revolution (a long time ago!) would signal the beginning of the work of transformation of the earth.1 Those things are like milestones on a road, and the Chinese revolution was like the first milestone, opening up the road. Well, Kennedys assassination is one of those signs, one of the landmarks Ive been told this.
(silence)
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Its a minimum of distortion. I am forever studying, in the body, the difference between THE Thing and its transcription. Its very interesting. Very subtlevery subtle. And it takes a mere nothing for it not to be the True Thing any more.
See Agenda III. January 15, 1962, p. 44
0 1963-11-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was a being from the subtle physical, she didnt seem human at all.
And there were no letters: the words were ready-made, she took them and arranged them; then when there was a certain number of them on the paper, she would put the paper in front of you.
0 1963-12-07 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I think (I think, like the scientists it appears) I can announce that something is getting organized in the subconscientits beginning to get organizedin the subconscient of individuals as well as in the general subconscient. Its less unconscious (!) Its a bit more yes, a bit more conscious, reflective and organizeda very faint beginning of organization, very little, but a growth in consciousness; it isnt quite so unconscious any more.
Its always the last part of the night that I spend there. You remember that story of the supramental ship and how things were organized by the will, not by external means? Well, thats the action which is beginning to exist in the subconscient.
Last night, for instance, early in the morning, there were several layers of cells,1 as it were, and each cell was I cant say the property, but the possession of someone: what was under his direct control and reflected his mood, as it is customarily called, his way of being. And there were many levels: you could go upstairs and downstairs. And the impression I had of myself was that I was much, much taller and that I towered above it all; and I had a different texture, as if I were made of a different substance, not quite the same as the others. It was as if all that were inside me without being inside me (I cant explain): I was looming over everything and at the same time acting inside. And then, according to the action, people were going upstairs or downstairs, going and coming; but everyone had his own little boxthey were BEGINNING to have it, it was beginning to get organized. Each cell was more or less precise: some were very precise, others more blurred, as if on the way to becoming precise. And the whole experience, last night, had a kind of precision about it. I was like something very big, outside, and I was laughing, talking to everyone, but they werent aware of the action [of Mother]. You see, they seemed to me this tall (gesture: four inches), tiny. But quite alive: they were going and coming, moving about. And I was talking to them, but they didnt know where the voice was coming from. So I laughed, I found it funny, I said to some, There! You see, thats your idea of things. And it was oh, if I compare it to last year, there is a tremendous difference of CONSCIOUSNESS, from the point of view of consciousness. Before, all the movements were reflexes, instincts, as if people were impelled by a force which they were totally unconscious of and considered to be their character, most of the time, or else Destiny (either their character or Fate, Destiny). They were all like puppets on strings. Now, they are conscious beings theyre BEGINNING, theyre beginning to be conscious.
The proportion has changed.
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It was in the subconscient of individuals?
Of individuals, yes.
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No, no! Its not individuals as they know themselves it is their subconscient. It is in the subconscient. The subconscient is a realm just as the material world is a realmits in the subconscient.
There have been many efforts, concentrations, meditations, prayers to bring about the clarification and control of all those semiconscious reflexes that govern individualsa great concentration on that point. And this experience seems to be the outcome.
0 1963-12-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was in the subconscient a frightful battle in the night from the 8th to the 9thoh! It was like a return of the attack on me when you went to Rameswaram (long ago1); X said it was a Tantric who had made that formation (it happened on December 9 too and I was very sick, I didnt go out). Well, it was an attack of that kind. I dont know if it comes from the same I cant say person, but from the same origin of forces. And very violent, during the night. It went on during the meditation on the 9th: for the first time during those meditations, there was a tremendous battle, in the subconscient. And the body was in a state a not too happy state. It stops the heart, you see, so it was unpleasant.
But afterwards, I saw that it did dislodge something, it wasnt useless. It dislodged something. But its forces with a radical ill will: they are not merely ignoranta radical ill will.
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The difference between before and after the 9th is that before the 9th there was a constant pressure of adverse suggestions, as Sri Aurobindo said in that letter we translated last time: Its all an illusion, its all imagination. A constant harassment. And sometimes it even takes very precise forms: You think youre integrally conscious of the Lordnot in the least! Its just a little bit in your head, vaguely, and so you imagine its true. When I heard that, it annoyed me very much, and I said, All right, Ill see. And it is after that kind of battle in the subconscient that the voice stopped and I had this experience: It flows in the blood, it vibrates in the nerves, it lives in the cells.
And everywhere, you see, not just my cells, not just the cells of this body: when the experience comes, it is quite widespread; I have an impression of many bloods, many cells, many nerves. Which means that the CENTRAL consciousness isnt always aware of it, the individual isnt always aware of it (it has an extraordinary feeling, but it doesnt know what it is), while the cells are aware of it, but they cannot express it.
0 1963-12-14, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I see someone like N., who obviously is an exceptional subject in the sense that he vibrates with the intellectual vibration (Sri Aurobindo used to say, and it is obvious, that of all those around him, he was the one who understood best), well, even for him it goes off at a tangent. Its not that he understands nothing, but its at a tangent. Its a mitigated understanding, very slightly distorted, and which relates everything to the sense of the person, of the [Mothers] individual, so the thing loses all the ESSENCE of its value. What I would like to be able to communicate is precisely that absence of individual. But when I express myself, I am forced to say I, the sentence always has a personal turn, and thats what people see. When I have my experience, it is there, living; you yourself feel it, and with a little movement of adaptation you eliminate the distortion that comes from the language, but others dont do it.
The best way to communicate your experience would be to give some of these recordings for people to hear, because then the thing is pure, its you, YOUR vibration.
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But the difficulties are still there, and theyre very subconscious.
Its very interesting.
0 1963-12-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is at the moment an entire study going on in the subconscient on the cause of illnesses. I am not seeing very pleasant things.
There is a whole zone in the most material vital which penetrates, as it were, the subtle physical thats where illnesses are formed. You see swarms of completely crooked formationsa lack of sincerity. And it expresses itself in images: I see all kinds of people and do all kinds of things in a special zone the same people who are elsewhere are here too under a special aspect. Its a mixture of the deformation of consciousness, the deformation of language, the deformation of formsswarms and swarms! For hours.
But I was always accompanied by a form, not a very precise one, but which was the materialization in that realm of the Lords Presence. I remember having for the work entered a huge room, completely bare, without anything, in a half-light, when suddenly I felt something grabbing hold of me here (gesture at the nape of the neck), something I even felt physically (I was lying in my bed, but I felt it physically). So I pointed it out to that Form which was accompanying me everywhereso attentive, so closeto explain and show things to me; I complained, saying, Look, something has grabbed hold of me, it even hurts physically. So I saw a kind of arm come and take that thing on my neck, pull it away and present it to me: it was like one of those big bats that are called flying fox (there are some here, they eat little birds, chicks), it was clinging to my neck! He said, Oh, its nothing! Its only that. (Mother laughs) And it was a big thing like this (about three feet) which had grabbed hold of me here and had its two claws still out (he had wrenched it off my neck). It had become flat and almost inert, but it was still as vicious as anything.
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It isnt a pleasant realm. Its the realm thats just like this (Mother places one hand over the other), immediately beyond (how can I put it? Its neither higher nor deeper inside) beyond the subtle physical, and its the realm in which formations of illness MATERIALIZE. I spent more than three hours of the night in it.
Its a kind of study a useful one, maybe. And I noticed, I remember having complained, Oh, it hurts! (Apparently I was sound asleep, but I was very conscious of my body.) So it interested me, and I turned to the Lord: It hurts quite a bit. So He extended his hand, took that thing away and presented it to me, saying, Oh, its only that! It wasnt pretty. But then, INSTANTLY, the pain went away. I had been feeling some pain in the evening before going to bed (the nerves ached, the neck muscles hurt, it was like something weighing down heavily and clinging to me painfully); I saw His hand take it and present that animal to me, and I heard the voice say, Oh, its only that (He speaks to me in English), its only thatgone!
0 1964-01-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Imperial Maheshwari is seated in the wideness above the thinking mind and will and sublimates and greatens them into wisdom and largeness or floods with a splendour beyond them. For she is the mighty and wise One who opens us to the supramental infinities and the cosmic vastness, to the grandeur of the supreme Light, to a treasure-house of miraculous knowledge, to the4
There isnt enough light for me.
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Imperial MAHESHWARI is seated in the wideness above the thinking mind and will and sublimates and greatens them into wisdom and largeness or floods with a splendour beyond them. For she is the mighty and wise One who opens us to the supramental infinities and the cosmic vastness, to the grandeur of the supreme Light, to a treasure-house of miraculous knowledge, to the measureless movement of the Mothers eternal forces. Tranquil is she and wonderful, great and calm for ever. Nothing can move her because all wisdom is in her; nothing is hidden from her that she chooses to know; she comprehends all things and all beings and their nature and what moves them and the law of the world and its times and how all was and is and must be. A strength is in her that meets everything and masters and none can prevail in the end against her vast intangible wisdom and high tranquil power. Equal, patient and unalterable in her will she deals with men according to their nature and with things and happenings according to their Force and the truth that is in them. Partiality she has none, but she follows the decrees of the Supreme and some she raises up and some she casts down or puts away from her into the darkness. To the wise she gives a greater and more luminous wisdom; those that have vision she admits to her counsels; on the hostile she imposes the consequence of their hostility; the ignorant and foolish she leads according to their blindness. In each man she answers and handles the different elements of his nature according to their need and their urge and the return they call for, puts on them the required pressure or leaves them to their cherished liberty to prosper in the ways of the Ignorance or to perish. For she is above all, bound by nothing, attached to nothing in the universe. Yet has she more than any other the heart of the universal Mother. For her compassion is endless and inexhaustible; all are to her eyes her children and portions of the One, even the Asura and Rakshasa and Pisacha6 and those that are revolted and hostile. Even her rejections are only a postponement, even her punishments are a grace. But her compassion does not blind her wisdom or turn her action from the course decreed; for the Truth of things is her one concern, knowledge her centre of power and to build our soul and our nature into the divine Truth her mission and her labour.
Ganapati, or Ganesh: the son of the supreme Mother, god of material knowledge and wealth. He is represented with an elephant's head.
0 1964-01-15, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is a curious transitional state in the most material consciousness, the body consciousness. A transition from the state of subjugation, of helplessness, in which one is constantly at the mercy of forces, vibrations, unexpected movements, all sorts of impulsesto the Power. The Power that asserts and realizes itself. Its the transition between the two; and there is almost a swarm of experiences of all types, from the most mental part of that consciousness down to the darkest, most material part.
And when I want to say something, there immediately comes from all corners a swarm of things that want to be said and rush in all at the same timewhich, naturally, prevents me from speaking.
0 1964-01-18, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its own, a place where every human being of goodwill, sincere in his aspiration, could live freely as a citizen of the world, obeying one single authority, that of the supreme Truth; a place of peace, concord, harmony, where all the fighting instincts of man would be used exclusively to conquer the causes of his sufferings and miseries, to surmount his weakness and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and incapacities; a place where the needs of the spirit and the concern for progress would take precedence over the satisfaction of desires and passions, the search for pleasures and material enjoyment. In this place, children would be able to grow and develop integrally without losing contact with their souls; education would be given not with a view to passing examinations or obtaining certificates and posts, but to enrich ones existing faculties and bring forth new ones. In this place, titles and positions would be replaced by opportunities to serve and organize; everyones bodily needs would be provided for equally, and in the general organization, intellectual, moral and spiritual superiority would be expressed not by increased pleasures and powers in life, but by greater duties and responsibilities. Beauty in all its art formspainting, sculpture, music, literaturewould be accessible to all equally, the ability to share in the joys it brings being limited solely by ones capacities and not by social or financial position. For in this ideal place, money would no longer be the sovereign lord; individual worth would have a far greater importance than that of material wealth and social position. There, work would not be for earning ones living, but the means to express oneself and develop ones capacities and possibilities, while at the same time being of service to the group as a whole, which would in turn provide for everyones subsistence and field of action. In short, it would be a place where human relationships, ordinarily based almost exclusively on competition and strife, would be replaced by relationships of emulation in trying to do ones best, of collaboration and real brotherhood.
The earth is not ready to realize such an ideal, for humanity does not yet possess either the knowledge necessary to understand and adopt it or the conscious force indispensable for its execution. This is why I call it a dream.
0 1964-02-05, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Some time ago, I was saying to myself, Some people see physical things at a distance, but I have never seen anything of the sort. I have seen things in the subtle physical (very close to the physical, with a very small difference), but that wasnt a physical vision: it was a vision in the subtle physical. Some time ago I said to myself, Thats odd, physically I have no special capacities, I have never observed interesting phenomena! (Mother laughs) But that was in passing. And now this story! But, mon petit, it took me forty-eight hours to be convinced that it wasnt in the book! I havent yet got over it! Because my eyes have the eyes memory, a very precise memory; they were educated by painting and they see things very exactly as they are (well, as they pretend to be materially). You know, I could have sworn that it was in the book. And clearly it isnt. Four people, apart from me, have seen the book, and its not there!
I found that interesting, its new.
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Ill have to find the way to organize this new type of experience and make use of it but I need to know how it comes about! Because when I was looking at those pictures, I wasnt at all in a special state, I was looking at them somewhat superficially I was finding them hm! I saw their effort to be artistic and I found the perspectives from which the photos were taken interesting, but thats all. The subjects except for the angler (there were more than four anglers in the book, mon petit!) and people sleeping in the street, things of that sort. And then people kissing everywhere: on chairs, on the banks of the Seine, on benches, in swings in amusement parks. And rather vulgar. But the photos, the patches of light and shadewell taken. I didnt want to tire my eyes reading those peoples literature, but it must be very modern probably there were some authors signatures! The signature alone was the portrait of the individual: pretentious, affected.
The atmosphere of Paris is unbreathable. When I returned to France, first I fell sick, and then that atmosphere
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And I understood that this is the way of knowing a language. I always had it in French when I wrotein the past it was less precise, more hazy, but there was the sense of the rhythm of a sentence: if the sentence has this rhythm, its correct; if its incorrect, the rhythm is missing. It was very vague, I had never tried to go deeper into it or make it more precise, but these last few days it has become very accurate. In English I find it more interesting, because, of course, English is less subconscious in my brain than French is (not much less, but a little less), and now its instantaneous! And then so obvious, you know, that if the greatest scholar were to tell me, No, I would answer him, You are wrong, its like this.
Thats the remarkable thing, this knowledge is completely independent of outer, scholarly knowledge, completely, and it is ABSOLUTE, it doesnt tolerate discussion: You may say whatever you like, you may tell me about grammar and dictionaries and usage. This is the true way, and thats that.
0 1964-02-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This week, you know, I should have remained quiet (meaning that I would have liked to), because the result of that intensity of aspiration [in the body] is to give me a crystal clear and almost constant perception of the extent to which the material substance is made of Falsehood and Ignoranceas soon as the consciousness is clear, at rest, peaceful, in a luminous vision, falsities seem to come up from all sides. It isnt an active perception, in the sense that I dont try to know: these are things that PRESENT themselves to the consciousness. And then you realize what it takes to clarify all that, to transform all thatwhat tremendous power of Truth-Force! And you notice that the intensity of the aspirationwhich hastens the transformation and brings the realization nearermay well (Mother touches her eye) yes, heres the result.
And I notice that, all around, those nearer to the center of descent are very shaken upvery. I see very few bodies around me capable of bearing it. But then, if thats how it is, necessarily the descent is so filtered and diminished that how much will get through?
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So, if by our next meeting you feel something or see something or think of something, or have a dream, you will tell me. I dont have much hope left because these last few days there has been a great intensity, rather hard to beartremendousand this morning when I got up, the intensity had lifted a little. The night was good (I perceive the general subconscient and the state of receptivity, the conditionsit wasnt bad, it was rather satisfying), but I noticed that the Pressure, the intensity of the Pressure, had lessened.
It was only during the work here [with the secretaries], that hour of work (labor, not work), I felt something here (gesture to the forehead and temple) that was a bit tired, like a fatigue coming from outside. Anyway
0 1964-03-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The feeling that the cells of the body are constantly subjected to a sort of poundingits ceaseless, night and day. Since I told you about it last time, its been like that all the time.
It seems to be an endless work.
0 1964-03-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I noticed (Ive known it for some time, but it was quite concrete this time) that in my rest, as soon as I am at rest, the body is completely identified with the material substance of the earth, that is to say, the experience of the material substance of the earth becomes its ownwhich may be expressed by all sorts of things (it depends on the day, on the occasion). I had known for a long time that it was no longer the individual consciousness; it isnt the collective consciousness of mankind: its a terrestrial consciousness, meaning it also contains the material substance of the earth, including the unconscious substance. Because I have prayed a lot, concentrated a lot, aspired a lot for the transformation of the Inconscient (since it is the essential condition for the thing to happen)because of that there has been a kind of identification.
Last night it became a certainty.
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For a very long time the body hasnt felt in the least separatenot in the least. There is even a sort of constant identification with the people around which at times is troublesome enough, but which I see as a means of action (of control and action). Ill give an example: on the 4th, the last time I saw you, the doctor left for America. He had his lunch here (I told you he was very moved); he was given a sort of little ceremony for his departure. He was sitting on the floor as usual, next to me (I was seated at the table, facing the light), and they served him his lunch; he turned towards me to receive the things. He was in a state of intense emotion (nothing apparent at all; the appearance was very quiet, he didnt say or do anything extraordinary, but inwardly). At one point I looked at him to encourage him to eat, and our eyes met. Then there came into me from him such a violent emotion that I almost started sobbing, can you imagine! And its always there, in the lower abdomen (really in the abdomen), that this identification with the outside world takes place. There (gesture above the heart center), it dominates; the identification is here (gesture to the abdomen), but the Force dominates (Mother holds up her head); while here (the abdomen), it seems to be still its the lower vital, I mean the lower vital OF MATTER, the vital subdegree OF MATTER. Its on the way to transformation, this is where the work is being done materially. But all those emotions have rather unpleasant repercussions. Even, when I looked at it in detail, I came to think that there must be something analogous in you; you must be open to certain currents of force in the lower vital, and those kinds of spasms which you get must be the result. So then, the solution there is only one solution, because immediately I called, I put the Lords Presence there (gesture to the abdomen), and I saw it was extremely CONTAGIOUS. Because I had received the vibrations, they had entered straight in without meeting any obstacles; so the response had a considerable contagious power I saw it immediately: I stopped the doctors vibrations; it took me a few minutes, and everything was back in order again. Then I understood that this opening, this contagion was kept as a means of actionit isnt pleasant for the body (!), but its a means of action.
Its the same thing with that necessity of returning to the superficial consciousness. In the beginning, in the very beginning, when I identified myself with that pulsation of Love that creates the world, for many days I refused to resume entirely the ordinary, habitual consciousness (to which I was just referring: that sort of surface consciousness which is like bark), I no longer wanted it. Thats why I was outwardly so helpless; in other words, I refused to make any decisions (Mother laughs), the others had to decide and do things for me! Thats what convinced them that I was extremely ill!
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When I got up this morning, I had the feeling that a corner had been turned. But not at alloh, not at all!a subjective thing, not at all: a corner has been turned FOR THE EARTH. It doesnt matter in the least if people arent aware of it.2
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The penetration and permeation into material substance of the Ananda of the power of progress in Life.
It wasnt a permeation into the Mind: it was a permeation into Lifeinto Life, into the material, earthly substance, which had become alive. Even plants participated in last nights experience: it isnt something that was the privilege of the mental being, its the whole vital substance (vitalized material substance) of the earth that received this ananda of the power of progressit was triumphant. Triumphant.
And when I came back (it took me perhaps five or six minutes to come back), it was with a sort of quiet certainty that the return was a necessity, and that something else would occur thanks to which it wont be necessary to leave one state for the other (thats the trouble, we still have to leave one state for the other). It hasnt left, but its in the backgroundit should be in the front.
0 1964-03-18, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To translate I go to the place where things are crystallized and formulated. Nowadays my translations are not exactly an amalgamation, but they are under the influence of both languages: my English is a little French and my French is a little Englishits a mixture of the two. And I see that from the standpoint of expression, its rather beneficial, for a certain subtlety comes from it.
I dont translate at all, I never try to translate: I simply go back to the place where it came from, and instead of receiving this way (gesture above the head, like scales tipping to the right for French) I receive that way (the scales tip to the left for English), and I see that it doesnt make much difference: the origin is a sort of amalgamation of the two languages. Perhaps it could give birth to a somewhat more supple form in both languages: a little more precise in English, a little more supple in French.
0 1964-03-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But when you are in that Truth-Consciousness, is it a subjective experience, or does Matter itself really change in its appearance?
Yes, everything the whole world is different! Everything is different. And the experience has convinced me of one thing, which I am still feeling constantly: that both states [of Truth and Falsehood] are simultaneous, concomitant, and theres only yes, a change of consciousness, as he calls it, which means that you are in this consciousness or in that consciousness, and yet youre not moving.
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Yesterday again, the experience was quite concrete and powerful: it isnt necessary to move, or to move anything, for this Truth-Consciousness to replace the consciousness of deformation or distortion. In other words, the capacity to live in and be this true Vibrationessential and trueseems to have the power to subSTITUTE this Vibration for the vibration of Falsehood and Distortion, to such an extent that For instance, the outcome of Distortion or of the vibration of distortion should naturally have been an accident or catastrophe, but if, within those vibrations, there is a consciousness that has the power to become aware of the Vibration of Truth and therefore manifest the Vibration of Truth, it canit mustcancel the other vibration. Which would be translated, in the external phenomenon, by an intervention that would stop the catastrophe.
There is a growing feeling that the True is the only way to change the world; that all the other processes of slow transformation are always at a tangent (you draw nearer and nearer but you never arrive), and that the last step must be this the substitution of the true Vibration.
There are partial proofs. But as they are partial, they arent conclusive. Because, to the ordinary vision and understanding, you can always find explanations: you can say it was foreseen and predestined that the accident would miscarry, for example, and that consequently that intervention isnt at all what made it miscarryit was Determinism that had decided it. And how do you prove anything? How do you even prove to yourself that it is otherwise? Its not possible.
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You see, this aphorism would eventually lead to an absolute subjectivity, and only that absolute subjectivity would be truewell, its NOT like that. Because that means pralaya, it means Nirvana. Well, there isnt only Nirvana, there is an objectivity thats real, not false but how can you say what it is! Its something I have felt several timesseveral times, not just in a flash: the reality of (How can we express ourselves? We are always deceived by our words) In the perfect sense of Oneness and in the consciousness of Oneness there is room for the objective, for objectivityone doesnt destroy the other, not at all. You may have the sense of a differentiation; not that it isnt yourself, but its a different vision. I told you, all that we can say is nothing, its nonsense, because the purpose of words is to express the unreal world, but Yes, that may be what Sri Aurobindo calls the sense of Multiplicity in Unity (maybe that corresponds a little), just as you feel the internal multiplicity of your being, something of that sort. I dont at all have the sensation of a separate self anymore, not at all, not at all, not even in the body, yet that doesnt prevent me from having a certain sense of an objective relationshipwell, yes, it leads us back to his change in the relation of sun-consciousness and earth-consciousness. (Laughing) Maybe thats really is the best way of putting it! Its a relation of consciousness. It isnt at all the relationship between oneself and othersnot at all, thats entirely canceled but it might be like the relation of consciousness between the various parts of ones being. And it gives objectivity to those various parts, obviously.
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To come back to that very easily understood example of the aborted accident, we may very well conceive that the intervention of the Truth-Consciousness had been decided from all eternity and that there isnt any new element; but that does nothing to alter the fact that this intervention is what stopped the accident (which gives an exact image of the power of this true consciousness over the other one). If we project our way of being onto the Supreme, we may conceive that He enjoys carrying out many experiments to see how it all plays (this is something else, it doesnt follow that there isnt an All-Consciousness that knows all things from all eternityall this with utterly inadequate words), but that does nothing to alter the fact that, when we look at the process, this intervention is what was able to make the accident miscarry: the substitution of a true consciousness for a false consciousness stopped the process of the false consciousness.
And it seems to me it occurs often enoughmuch more often than people think. For example every time an illness is cured, every time an accident is avoided, every time a catastrophe, even a global one, is avoided, all that is always the intervention of the Vibration of Harmony into the vibration of Disorder, allowing Disorder to cease.
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Even from that point of view, I have seen You know, the ordinary idea that the phenomenon [of transformation] must necessarily occur first in the body in which the Consciousness is expressed the most constantly seems to me quite unnecessary and secondary. On the contrary, it occurs at the same time wherever it can occur the most easily and totally, and this aggregate of cells (Mother points to her own body) isnt necessarily the most ready for this operation. It may therefore remain a very long time as it apparently is, even if its understanding and receptivity are special. I mean that this bodys awareness, its conscious perception is infinitely superior to the one all the bodies it comes into contact with can have, except for a few minutesa few minuteswhen other bodies, as if through a grace, have the Perception. While for it, its a natural and constant state; its the effective result of this Truth-Consciousness being more constantly concentrated on this collection of cells than on othersmore directly. But the substitution of one vibration for another in facts, in actions, in objects, occurs wherever the result is the most striking and effective.
I dont know if I can make myself understood, but it is something I have felt very, very clearly, and which one cannot feel as long as the physical ego is there, because the physical ego has the sense of its own importance, and that disappears entirely with the physical ego. When it disappears, one has a clear perception that the intervention or manifestation of the true Vibration doesnt depend on egos or individualities (human or national individualities, or even individualities of Nature: animals, plants and so on), it depends on a certain play of the cells and Matter in which there are aggregates particularly favorable for the transformation to occurnot transformation: the substitution, to be precise, the substitution of the Vibration of Truth for the vibration of Falsehood. And the phenomenon may be very independent of groupings and individualities (it may happen in one part here, another part there, one thing here, another thing there); and it always corresponds to a certain quality of vibration that causes a sort of swellinga receptive swelling and then, the thing can occur.
Unfortunately, as I said at the beginning, all words belong to the world of appearances.
0 1964-04-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
How empty the days arethey are full of empty things, of empty people and empty movement. You feel you must constantly pull down the Force in order to fill up this enormous Emptiness, or else you would be utterly crushed. I keep my watch by Indian time, so that I always know where you are, although I never know what time it is in France! I have to make a complicated calculation and subtract four and a half hours: its now 2:30 P.M. in our garden, therefore 10 A.M. here, and I have an appointment. I will probably see Corra1 tomorrow. My friend M. tells me that they definitely agree to publish the book, but they would like to cut certain passages! So I will have to argue to try and keep my book more or less whole! What a world! I will write to Mother tomorrow, once I know what the publishers demands are.
I have to see a doctor day after tomorrow but no doctor can close the hole in my heart.
0 1964-05-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You ask me if I see you. You do not come to me in a subtle body, but I am with you very concretely, so concretely that I see through your eyes and speak through your mouth. In this way, you made me meet people whom I dont know at all physically and have strange conversations with them. A useful preparation is certainly going on.
Through repeated, everyday experience, I am increasingly convinced that all disorders in the body and all diseases are the result of DOUBT in the cells or a certain group of cells. They doubt the Divines concrete reality, they doubt the Divine Presence in them, they doubt their being divine in their very essence, and this doubt is the cause of all disorders.2
0 1964-07-18, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres a lot of substance.
And this is his wife, a Russian.
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More substance here [in the brother]. A lot of substance, a lot.
Hes fine, your brother.
0 1964-07-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then, immediately, without transition, it was as if I was plunged in a bath of the Supremes Love with the sensation of something limitless; in other words, when you have the perception of space, that something is everywhere (its beyond the perception of space, but if you have the perception of space, its everywhere). And its a kind of homogenous vibratory mass, IMMOBILE, yet with an unparalleled intensity of vibration, which can be described as a warm, golden light (but its not that, its much more marvelous than that!). And then, its everywhere at once, everywhere always the same, without alternations of high and low, unchanging, in an unvarying intensity of sensation. And that something which is characteristic of divine nature (and is hard to express with words) is at the same time absolute immobility and absolute intensity of vibration. And That loves. There is no Lord, there are no things; there is no subject, no object. And That loves. But how can you say what That is? Its impossible. And That loves everywhere and everything, all the time, all at the same time.
All those stories those so-called saints and sages told about Gods Love coming and going, oh, its unspeakably stupid!Its THERE, eternally; It has always been there, eternally; It will always be there, eternally, always the same and at the highest of its possibility.
0 1964-07-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But in this case, there was such a precise action of the Force. And at the same time I had another experience (but a much more personal and subjective one), which confirmed me in my perception Did you read Rodogune by Sri Aurobindo? In Rodogune, there is a scene in which an eremite meets a young prince and utters these words, This man has around him the atmosphere of someone who is going to die. (The prince had just won a great victory, anyway all was for the best, and he had decided to go to such and such a place; thats when the eremite uttered those words.) When I read that, I tried to make contact with that vibration the eremite called the atmosphere of a man who is going to die. And when I received S.s letter telling me that with the talisman, he was sure all would be wellexactly the same vibration. That sort of exultation, of assertion of power and force, and, behind, there was exactly the same vibration. So it confirmed for me what I had seen.
But I was very happy with the American doctors receptivity.
0 1964-07-31, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are too many guides, founders of sects, heads of temples or monasteries, sadhus or saints who intervene between humanity and the supreme Lord under the pretext that they are intermediaries, and who keep for their glorified little persons the waves of gratitude that should go straight, straight to their true goal: the supreme Lord. I always refrain from having anything to do with those people, whether they are on earth or in the subtle world. Whatever the Lord wills for us He will always give us, and I prefer to receive it directly rather than through intermediaries, however great they may be.
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0 1964-08-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last night, and maybe the night before, oh, you and I talked for a very, very long time about all sorts of subjects, and I became aware that there is a place, somewhere in the physical Mind, but very close to the earth, where people must almost inevitably go at night. There are sorts of big meeting rooms where people come and discuss all kinds of problems: they meet, work out programs and discuss problems. I dont know why, Ive been going there for the last two nights (I am afraid it is because of all those seminars and all that business where they play tape-recordings of me1), something pulls me there. And I am literally bombarded with questions by all those people (some I know, others I dont), and I start answering this one, answering that one, addressing a crowd, oh! When I wake up from it, I say to myself, Well, how silly can I be! Physically I am out of it all, but now I am doing it at night! This morning, I was thoroughly disgusted: I woke up delivering a speech, oh! There was a crowd, and people were asking me questionsseriously, very seriously!
But you were there, you are always there. So I wonder why you dont remember.
--
(After a long silence) Its a subject I dont talk about, first because its understood that we do not concern ourselves with politics; I made the decision not to concern myself with politics until WE do it, that is, until we are in power. But in spite of this, since the day of liberation (already seventeen years ago to the dayseventeen years!), I have ceaselessly repeated, These people are going to ruin the country. They have neither consciousness nor knowledge nor will, and they are going to ruin the country. Every time, whenever they made a blunder, I repeated the same thing.
Now the country is ruined.
0 1964-08-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So then, that would be the difference between the subtle physical and the physicalimmortality in the subtle physical is even perfectly obvious: its not only easy to imagine, its a fact; but the PASSAGE? The passage, which for most people is like passing from the waking consciousness to the sleep consciousness and from the sleep consciousness to the waking consciousness. The most concrete experience I have had was like taking a step here and then taking a step therethere is still a step; there is still this-that (gesture of reversal).
But this subtle physical is very, very concrete, in the sense that you find things again in the same place and in the same way: YEARS LATER, I found again some places where I had been, with certain little inner differences, if I may say so, but the thing, for instance a house or a landscape, remains the same, with little differences in the arrangementas there are in life. Anyway it has a continuity, a sort of permanence.
(silence)
0 1964-09-16, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In this connection, there has been a whole period of study of this subject, on the purely physical level. To rise above all possibility of error, you tend to eliminate the opportunities for error; for instance, if you dont want to utter unnecessary words, you stop speaking. People who make a vow of silence imagine it gives a control over speech thats not true! It only eliminates the opportunities to speak, and therefore of saying unnecessary things. For food, its the same problem: how to eat only just what is needed? In the transitional state we find ourselves in, we no longer want to live that wholly animal life based on material exchanges and food, but it would be folly to think we have reached the state in which the body can live on without any food at all (still, there is already a big difference, since they are trying to find the nutritional essence in foods in order to reduce their volume); but the natural tendency is fastingwhich is a mistake!
For fear of acting wrongly, we stop doing anything; for fear of speaking wrongly, we stop saying anything; for fear of eating for the pleasure of eating, we stop eating anything thats not freedom, its simply reducing the manifestation to its minimum. And the natural outcome is Nirvana. But if the Lord wanted only Nirvana, there would be only Nirvana! He obviously conceives the coexistence of all opposites and that, to Him, must be the beginning of a totality. So, of course, you may, if you feel that you are meant for that, choose only one of His manifestations, that is to say, the absence of manifestation. But thats still a limitation. And its not the only way of finding Him, far from it!
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Sri Aurobindo, too, wrote it: Aspire intensely, but without impatience. The difference between intensity and impatience is very subtle (everything is a difference of vibration); its subtle, but it makes the whole difference.
Intensely, but without impatience. Thats it: thats the state in which we must be.
0 1964-09-18, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know, it was a few days ago, not very long ago, maybe a week or two, I dont remember (I never keep track of time), but anyway I had the feeling it was something being prepared in your subtle atmosphere, and that when the time has come, it will simply go like this (gesture of a vertical fall), it will drop down on your head (!), and then you will feel the urge to write.
And I was waiting for that.
I dont feel its really very immediate, but its clearly on the way to realization. Thats all I can tell you on the subject.
I even saw rather interesting things, because there were events that were like reminiscences of your past lives, and they found a place in your book. Those things are still quite in your subliminal. (They call it subliminal, dont they? Its something thats neither the subconscient nor the clear supraconscient; its a sort of subliminal consciousness.) Theyre there, they have remained as a memory and it is clear. And those reminiscences are like you know, what they put inside a clay statue to hold it up?
An armature.
0 1964-09-23, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its very subtle there is something to be found; and its something that, obviously, I havent found because it keeps coming back again and again. At times, I even say, Oh, for Peace, Peace, Peace but then I feel it is a weakness. I say, To let myself go, not thinking of anything, not trying to know anything, but then something instantly rises there, somewhere, and says, Tamas.2
(silence)
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But its so subtle in its nature that it is incomprehensible for people around you; you seem to be making a lot of fuss about nothing. Those are things which, in their unconsciousness, they dont feel at all, not at allit takes shouting and quarrels and battles, almost, for them to notice that theres disorder!
Voil.
0 1964-09-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is a domain in which disease and cure no longer exist, but only disorder, confusion, and harmony, organization. A domain in which everything, but everything that takes place in the body works in that way, and necessarily, first of all, everything that involves the functioning of the organs themselves (disorder in the organs themselves). And there, there is a whole way of seeing things that leads you very close to the Truth. There remain only the diseases that come from outside, like diseases that are contagious through germs, microbes, bacilli, all that business, viruses thats still under the aspect of attacks from adverse forces, its another plane of action. But there is a point where it all meets. I would like, oh, I would very much like to discuss certain things or certain details of the bodys functioning and organization with a man who thoroughly knows anatomy, biology, physical and bodily chemistryall those things thoroughly and who UNDERSTANDS, who is ready to understand that all those things are a projection of other forces, subtler forces; who is able to feel things as I feel them in my own body. That would be very interesting.2
(silence)
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There are two things. One, for instance, which I have often observed: an illness is triggered, or a disorder is triggered, and there is a kind of it isnt a contagion (how can I explain it?), it would almost be like an imitation, but thats not quite it. Lets say that a certain number of cells give way; for some reason or other (there are countless reasons), they submit to the disorderobey the disorder and a particular point becomes ill according to the ordinary view of illness. But that intrusion of Disorder makes itself felt everywhere, it has repercussions everywhere: wherever there is a weaker point which doesnt resist the attack so well, it manifests. Take someone who is in the habit of getting headaches, or toothaches, or a cough, or neuralgic pains, whatever, a host of little things of that sort that come and go, increase and decrease. But if there is an attack of Disorder somewhere, a serious attack, all those little troubles reappear instantly, here, there, there. Its a fact I have observed. And the opposite movement follows the same pattern: if you are able to bring to the attacked spot the true Vibration the Vibration of Order and Harmony and you stop the Disorder all the other things are put back in order, as if automatically.
And that doesnt happen through contagion, you see; it isnt that, for instance, the blood carries the illness here or there, thats not it: it is almost like a spirit of imitation.
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Mother is led to carry out all kinds of experiments in her body for the work of Transformation. One of them consists in receiving or taking upon oneself every possible disorder for several hours, several days or several minutes, in one's body, in order to act on them, and, consequently, to act on disorders of the same nature in the worldor on THE Disorder. Mother is thus constantly led to work on the meeting point between the subtle forces behind and the bodily or material mechanisms. In her body it is an uncommon chemistry that takes place, the subtle elements of which she knows better than the gross ones.
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0 1964-09-30, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is very material, its in the subtle physical. And it always takes that form; it doesnt say, You should do this or You should do that, or You shouldnt do thisnothing like that: You SHALL do what the Lord wills, just like that, You SHALL do and, you know, you shall do it, so beware!
It is a strong Light, with what looks like precise little details (which probably must be translated as details of action, I dont know): they are like lines that make little marks like this (gesture). Its a formation.
0 1964-10-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was clearly a phenomenon of a subtle physical order (in its origin) or material vital (in its origin), but which manifested physically, and which may very well have come from other planets that are a little more subtle than the earth.
There are many other experiences; this one I remember clearly.
0 1964-10-10, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For a very long time, I used to seesee images, scenes and so on I used to see, but I didnt hear. Then, all of a sudden, I began to hear; and I would hear the slightest noise, I would hear in a perfectly coherent and natural way. It was as though the sense had suddenly developed. Well, there is a certain state of vision as a result of which I read I read written things; now that I no longer read physically, I read at night. Which means that all this inner development of the physical and subtle physical is still a whole unknown world to be learned.
I dont know its laws, I am only a spectator. And it obeys a will of an absolutely different order from the will at work in the physical world.
0 1964-10-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And they fuss around. The subtle impression I get of it all isnt good.
(Here Mother hands Satprem a letter of explanation from the author of the poster. The letter gives the references of Mothers quotation: a personal letter from Mother to a disciple written ten years earlier.)
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These last few nights, an experience has been developing. There is a sort of objectification, like scenes unfolding in which I am one of the characters; but it isnt me, it is some character or other that I play in order to have the double consciousness, the ordinary consciousness and the true consciousness at the same time. There was a whole series of experiences to show simultaneously the True Thing and the sort of half-death (its his word that makes me think of this I am too dead), the half-death of the mind. In those experiences, the state of ordinary mentality is something dry (not exactly hard because its crumbly), lifeless, without vibrationdry, cold; and as a color, its always grayish. And then, there is a maximum tension, an effort to understand and remember and knowknow what you should do; when you go somewhere, know how you should go there; know what people are going to do, know Everything, you see, is a perpetual question of the mind (its subconscious in the mindsome are conscious of it, but even in those who are apparently quiet, its there constantly that tension to know). And its a sort of superficial thing, shallow, cold and dry, WITHOUT VIBRATION. At the same time, as if in gusts, the true consciousness comes, as a contrast. And it happens in almost cinematographic circumstances (there is always a story, to make it more living). For instance, last night (its one story among many, many others), the I that was conscious then (which isnt me, you understand), the I that was playing had to go somewhere: it was with other people in a certain place and had to go through the town to another place. And she knew nothing, neither the way nor the name of the place she was going to, nor the person she had to seeshe knew nothing. She knew nothing, but she knew she had to go. So then, that tension: how, how can you know? How can you know? And questioning people, asking questions, trying to explain, You know, its like this and like that, innumerable details (it lasts for hours). And now and then, a flood of lighta warm, golden, living, comfortable lightand the feeling that everything is prearranged, that all that will have to be known will be known, that the way has been prepared beforeh and that all you have to do is let yourself live! It comes like that, in gusts. But then, there is an intensity of contrast between that constant effort of the mind, which is an enormous effort of tension and concentrated will, and then and then that glory. That comfortable glory, you know, in which you let yourself go in trusting happiness: But everything is ready, everything is luminous, everything is known! All you have to do is let yourself live. All you have to do is let yourself live.
Its as if a play were performed to make it more living, more realone subject, another subject, this, that. If you enter a certain state, then another time enter the other state, you can remember the difference and its useful, but in this form of a play, with the double consciousness, the opposition becomes so real, so concrete that you come out of it wondering, How can you go on living in this aberration when you have once TOUCHEDtouched, experienced the True Thing?
Its as if the body were being dealt with like a child who has to be educated. Because that mind I am talking about is the physical mind, the material mind (not the speculative mind: the vibration isnt the same at all), its the mind OF THE EARTH, the mind of everyday life, the mind you carry along in your every movement and which tires the body so much! Such a tension, an anguishliving is an anguish. Yes, the feeling of a living death.
0 1964-10-17, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its very concrete: concrete like physical life (its in the subtle physical). Concrete in the sense that when you eat, you have the taste of it; when you touch, you have the feel of it; you have the smell. And what stories! Stories fantastic inventions! I dont note all that down because it would take hours and anyway I dont find it worthwhile, but what stories it would make!
Fantastic.
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I am not aware of what people nowadays think they know, but, for example, when the animal reign dominated the earth, before it appeared and to make it appear, were there ever any catastrophes? Of course, you can vaguely feel an earth that slowly grows colder and is first purely mineral, then plants appear little by littleyou see that very well (Ive even seen very interesting photographs), but is it the fact of growing colder that itself caused catastrophes? Earthquakes, submersions, floods?
Yes, there was a period of great foldings.
0 1964-10-24a, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, but there has been a dreadful revolt in the Ashrams atmosphere! Not in their conscious mind, but in the subconscienta terrible revolt. In order to write down my declaration, in order to formulate it, I had to overcome a whole mass of things, it was extraordinary! There have even been individual reactions: Then I am going away. I said, Very well, here is the exact proof.
It was interesting.
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No, what should be asked, since were always asking for something, is for the substance to become conscious enough to receive the Force and itself work its own miracle, get cured, or this or that, anyway do the work.
Yes, it mustnt be a favor. Give me the Force to be what I should be, that, yes.
0 1964-10-24b, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They havent understood. But anyway, its going on in the subconscient.
No, no! They DELIBERATELY hadnt understood it before my declaration, because Sri Aurobindo never said we would work miracles! They deliberately hadnt understood. So, naturally, theyre furious. But it may be better not to insist outwardly by publishing this.1 It will come in its own time.
0 1964-10-30, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its in this problem that I have been living these past few days. And mark you, it isnt at all the speculation of a higher being or a being who belongs to other worlds: its the substance of physical life that wants to know its own inner, deeper law.
(silence)
0 1964-11-12, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is something interesting (not the faintings!). You know that Z has started a yoga in the body (I didnt ask her to do anything, she did it spontaneously); she wrote to me her first experiences, and there were observations quite similar to those I had made and with an accuracy that interested me I have encouraged her. She is going on. I dont have the time to read her letters: theyre piling up there. But what I found very interesting is that yesterday I was read a letter from an English writer (a lady): she has a little group there, they meditate together, and they had a sort of Indian guru (I dont know who) who was teaching them meditation. Then they came across Sri Aurobindos writings, and they began to study and follow his indications and try to understand. As it happened (about a year ago now), during their meditation, instead of their making an effort of ascent to awaken the Kundalini and rise towards the heights, all of a sudden the Force the Power, the Shaktibegan to descend from above downward. They informed their guru, who told them, Very bad! Very dangerous, stop it, terrible things are going to happen to you! That was about a year ago. They werent quite sure that the gentleman was right and they went on, with very good results. Then, yesterday, that lady wrote, giving a detailed notation of their experiencesalmost the SAME WORDS as Z! Now thats beginning to be interesting. Because it represents an impersonalization of the Action, in other words it doesnt express itself subjectively according to each individual: it has a WAY of acting.
I was very happy, I wrote her a note to congratulate her.
--
Mother is perhaps referring to the following passage of The Hour of God: "The experiment of human life on an earth is not now for the first time enacted. It has been conducted a million times before and the long drama will again a million times be repeated. In all that we do now, our dreams, our discoveries, our swift or difficult attainments we profit subconsciously by the experience of innumerable precursors and our labour will be fecund in planets unknown to us and in worlds yet uncreated...."
XVII.149
0 1964-11-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is another thing. Recently, one day, I suddenly I am extremely sensitive to the composition of the air, from my earliest childhood: airs, if I may say so, they each had their own taste, their own color and quality, and I would recognize them to such a point that sometimes I would say, Oh, the air of (I was a child, of course), the air of this country or the air of that place has come here. It was like that. I was extremely sensitive to the quality of pure air, that is, without the elements that come from the decomposition of life and especially from the places where people are crowded together. It was like that to an extremely sharp degree: for instance, if I was moved from one place to another, I could be suddenly cured of an illness from the change of air. When I met Thon, it became conscious, an object of study, and it still goes on. Perhaps a few days ago (I cant say, time has no meaning), but not very long ago, I said, Theres something new in the air. And something very unpleasant, extremely pernicious; I felt that that something (I didnt say anything to anyone, naturally) had a peculiar, extremely subtle odor, not a physical one, and had the power to separate vital vibrations from physical vibrations that is to say, an extremely noxious element.
Immediately I set to work (it lasted for hours), and the night was spent counteracting it: I tried to find which higher vibration could counteract it, until I succeeded in clarifying the atmosphere. But the memory remained very precise. And very recently (maybe a day or two ago), they told me that the Chinese had chosen an Indian territory, in the North, to test a certain kind of atomic bomb, and that they had exploded a certain bomb there. When they told me this, the memory of my odor abruptly came back.1
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Can a bomb have a nonphysical action, a vital or subtle action?
It acts only because it has a subtle actionnothing would move, everything would be inert if it didnt have a subtle action.
Its the vital contained in Matterits like the phenomenon of radiation. Its a violent liberation of something contained in Matter. Like radiation. And it spreads out. They have indeed noticed it, but they dont want to know: when they exploded the bomb in Japan, the consequences went much, much farther than they expected, they were infinitely more serious and long-lasting than expected, because the sudden liberation of those forces They only perceive a certain quantity, but there is all that is behind, which spreads out and has its action. You see, they observe, for instance, that cows are poisoned and their milk isnt drinkable for a certain time (it happened in England), but thats the most crude and outer phenomenon there is another, deeper one, which is FAR more serious.
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I like it when its with him because it gives me a sort of certainty that it isnt an experience of my subjectivityits impersonal, entirely impersonal. Even if my subjectivity is worldwide, I dont want my experience to be subjective: I want every consciousness, whatever it may be, human or nonhuman, every consciousness awakening in that field, to have an identical experience, if it is truly objective. So when its with him, I am quite sure.
(silence)
0 1964-11-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it has become very subtle, very hidden, difficult to ferret out. When almost everything was like that, it was visible, it was conspicuous; but that state changed very fast: the difficulty is whats hidden underneath and isnt voluminous enough to draw attention to itself. And, oh, those habits, those habits. For instance (magnifying it to make it more easily visible), the habit of foreseeing catastrophes.
And anything that disturbs the Inertia is, for Inertia, a catastrophe. In the world, the earthly world (its the only one I can speak of with competence; of the others, I have only overall visions), in the earthly world, for Inertia (which is the basis of the creation and is necessary to fix, to concretize things), anything that disturbs it is a catastrophe. That is to say, the advent of Life was a monstrous catastrophe, and the advent of intelligence in Life another monstrous catastrophe, and now the advent of Supermind is the final catastrophe! Thats how it is. And for the unenlightened mind, it really is a catastrophe! I know cases, for instance, of people who are sick: if they follow the routine of the doctor and medicines and treatment and disease, they get well; if by some mischance (!) they call on the Force and I apply it, the more I apply, the more terrified they are! They feel absolutely unexpected phenomena and they are terrified: Whats happening to me! Whats happening to me! As if it were absolutely catastrophic. The minute the Force comes and they feel just a bit of it, like one drop, they tense up, they resist, they panic, they become absolutely restless. Thats right: they become so restless, so absolutely restless! That is, the whole system spends its time rejecting and rejecting all that comes.
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Well, I dont know, but there is a long, long way to goa long wayto change this into a substance plastic enough, receptive enough, strong enough to express the supreme Power. There is a lot to be done, a whole lot.
(silence)
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It begins with something he calls aspirationoh, its beautiful! I have rarely heard something with so pure and so beautiful an inspiration. All of a sudden, a sound comes, which is exactly the sound you hear up above. And it isnt too mixed (the fault I find with all classical music is all the accompaniment which is there to give more substance, but which spoils the purity of the inspiration: to me, its padding), well, with Sunil, the padding isnt there. He doesnt claim to be making music, of course, and the padding isnt there, so its truly beautiful.
I have decided not to play this year for January 1st. Even last year, I very much hesitated to play because I was absolutely conscious of the inadequacy the poorness and inadequacyof the physical instrument; but there was a sort of reasonable wisdom which knew how a refusal to play would be interpreted [by the disciples], so I playedwithout satisfaction, and it wasnt worth much. But the music I heard yesterday was so much THAT, SO much what I would like to play, that I said to myself, Well, now it would be unreasonable to want to keep in a personal manifestation something that has a much better means of expression [Sunil]. So I have decided to say No for January 1st. But I will see if Sunil couldnt prepare something on the theme of next years message, something that would be recorded and played for everyone, in an anonymous wayno need to say, Its by this or that person, its music, thats all.
You know that they are printing two calendars, one here and one in Calcutta. In the Calcutta calendar, I look happy and I greet with folded hands; so I wrote underneath, Salut Toi, Vrit [Salute to you, O Truth]. In English (theyre a bit slow, you know!), they wanted something more explicit, so I wrote, Salute to the advent of the Truth. I am going to give the subject to Sunil: Make some music on this.
But still, its a pity for you to give up music.
0 1965-01-06, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its odd, all that music of the past, European music, which I knew very well and admired, it seems to me almost void of substance, while here, there is a contact right up above: you plunge into it instantly.
Yes, thats right. When I heard his music for the first time, something suddenly opened up and I was right in the middle of the place I know, from which true Harmony comessuddenly.
0 1965-03-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
While you were in hospital, I had a sort of I cant say it was a vision because it was very it was lived. It was lived in the subtle physical world, which is symbolic of Reality (the forms are symbolic of Reality, they express Reality, and at the same time they are self-existent). Almost every night I spend some time with Sri Aurobindo in that world, and things are always happening that are indications.1 But that night, it was quite particular.
Sri Aurobindo and I were in an extremely comfortable car, and we were both resting in an eternity of peace and blissquietly, next to each other. The car was driven by the eternal Driver. It was supreme Bliss, you know. Until suddenly, outside the car (I dont know how), two papers were thrown on the road, and one of the papers was a letter (it was an envelope that had come by mail, there were stamps on it), and the other was something written; and with a lightness (the car was still moving), quite a divine lightness, Sri Aurobindo leaps out of the car onto the road to pick up the letters. I said to myself, Ah, the Bliss is over (laughing) now well have to get back to work! And I also got out of the car (which disappeared).
0 1965-03-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, problems of illness, problems of possession (vital and mental possession), problems of egos that refuse to yield (and this results in circumstances which, humanly, are described in the ordinary way: such and such a thing has happened to so-and-so but thats not how it comes into the consciousness), well, if you look at things in a sufficiently general way, those problems REMAIN problems. There is indeed something, but a something that is still elusive (elusive in its essence): it has to do with feeling, with sensation, with perception, also with aspirationit has to do with all that, and it is what we habitually call divine Love (that is, essential Love, that which is expressed by Love and seems to be beyond the Manifestation and Nonmanifestation, which, naturally, becomes Love in the Manifestation). And That would be the ALL-POWERFUL expression. In other words, That is what would have the power to transform into divine consciousness and substance all the chaos we now call world.
There was the experience of That [the experience of the great pulsations], but it was an experience (how can I put it?) of a drop that would be an infinite, or of a second that would be an eternity. While the experience is there, there is absolute certitude; but outwardly, everything starts up again as it was one minute beforeThat (gesture of pulsation for a second), puff! everything is changed; then everything starts up again, with perhaps a slight change thats perceptible only to a consciousness (perceptible to the consciousness, but not concretely perceptible), and with, generally, violent reactions in the Disorder: something that revolts.
0 1965-03-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For instance, the first time I felt this in a clear way was when I heard Sunils music on The Hour of God; that was the first time, and at the time I didnt know it was something completely organized, a sort of organization of experience. But now, after all these months, it has become classified, and it gives me an absolutely certain indication, which doesnt correspond to any active thought or any active will I am simply an infinitely sensitive instrument for receiving vibrations. Thats how I know where things come from. There is no thought. Thats how the vibration of Sujatas dream came to me (Mother gestures down, below her feet): it was in the realm of the subconscient. So I knew it was a recording.
And the other day, when Nolini read me his article, it was neutral (vague gesture to a medium height), neutral all the time, and then, suddenly, a spark of Ananda; thats what made me appreciate it. And when you read me just now that text by Y., when she expressed her experience of the sunrise, there was a little beam of light (gesture to the throat level), so I knew. A pleasant beam of lightnot Ananda, but a pleasant light here (same gesture), so I knew there was something there, that she had touched something.
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Yes, I am quite submerged in matter.
Thats right.
0 1965-04-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I cant say. Its neither superconscious nor subconscious I might say it is intraconsciousits just the underside of things. And then (Mother shakes her head)
(silence)
0 1965-04-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This, in particular: The difference between the present human body and the supramental creation is so considerable, the substance must be so different
Of course.
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What I meant by an improved physical body is that sort of mastery over the body thats being gained nowadays through physical training. I have seen lately magazines showing how it had started: the results in the beginning and todays results; and from the standpoint of the harmony of forms (I am not talking about excesses there are excesses everywhere I am talking about what can be done in the best possible conditions), from the standpoint of the harmony of forms, of strength and a certain sense of beauty, of the development of certain capacities of endurance and skill, of precision in the execution combined with strength, its quite remarkable if you think of how recent physical training is. And its spreading very quickly nowadays, which means that the proportion of the human population that is interested in it and practices it is snowballing. So when I saw all those photos (for me, its especially through pictures that I see), it occurred to me that through those qualities, the cells, the cellular aggregates acquire a plasticity, a receptivity, a force that make the substance more supple for the permeation of the supramental forces.
Lets take the sense of form, for example (I am giving one example among many others). Evolution is openly moving towards diminishing the difference between the female and the male forms: the ideal thats being created makes female forms more masculine and gives male forms a certain grace and suppleness, with the result that they increasingly resemble what I had seen all the way up, beyond the worlds of the creation, on the threshold, if I can call it that, of the world of form. At the beginning of the century, I had seen, before even knowing of Sri Aurobindos existence and without having ever heard the word supramental or the idea of it or anything, I had seen there, all the way up, on the threshold of the Formless, at the extreme limit, an ideal form that resembled the human form, which was an idealized human form: neither man nor woman. A luminous form, a form of golden light. When I read what Sri Aurobindo wrote, I said, But what I saw was the supramental form! Without having the faintest idea that it might exist. Well, the ideal of form we are now moving towards resembles what I saw. Thats why I said: since there is an evolutionary concentration on this point, on the physical, bodily form, it must mean that Nature is preparing something for that Descent and that embodimentit seems logical to me. Thats what I meant by an improved physical form.
0 1965-04-30, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then that force (it was a force, it was a being, it was an action, it wasnot a human being) said when I spoke of going to your home, Oh, but he is in exceptional conditions! Ah, why? I asked Oh, he has that netting, and all the air that comes in the subtle airbecomes impregnated with your atmosphere as it enters. (Mother laughs) I said, Good.
It was early this morning, between two and three, you were sleeping.
0 1965-05-29, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Even with scientific development taken to its utmost, to the point where one really feels there is almost no difference left, when, for instance, they reach the oneness of substance and there seems to remain just an almost insensible or imperceptible passage from one condition to the other [the material to the spiritual], well, no, its not like that! In order to perceive that sort of identity, you must carry already in yourself the experience of the OTHER THING; otherwise you cannot.
And precisely because they have acquired the capacity to explain, they explain for themselves the inner phenomena, so that they remain in their negation of inner phenomena: they say they are like extensions of what they have studied.
Only, owing to mans very constitution (because there is so to speak no human being who doesnt have at least a reflection or a hint or a beginning of relationship with his subtle, inner being, his soul), owing to that, there is always a flaw in their negation; but they consider it a weaknessand its their only strength!
(silence)
0 1965-06-02, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sometimes (often), the same thing happens to me with speech. I feel as if I am speaking from very far away or from behind a woolly substance that blunts the precision of vibrations. In its extreme form, its because of this that I sometimes dont hearnothing: when some people speak to me, I hear absolutely nothing. With others, I hear the drone of a sound devoid of meaning. And with other people, I hear EVERYTHING they say. But its a different way of hearing: what I hear is the vibration of their thought and thats what makes it very clear.
I have the same thing with hearing, the same thing with sight.
It begins with taste, but that doesnt interest me much, so I dont take notice, I dont pay attention. But a few days ago I had the experience that the quality of tastes had changed: certain things had an artificial taste (the usual taste is an artificial taste) while others carried in themselves a TRUE taste; so this is very clearvery clear and very precise. But its not so interesting a subject, so I am not occupied with it so much.
What struck me the most is sight. Hearing for a very, very long timeyears Ive had the feeling that when people dont think very clearly, I cant hear. But thats not quite the point: its when their consciousness isnt ALIVE in what theyre sayingits not so much a question of thought, its their consciousness that isnt ALIVE in what theyre saying; its a mental machine; then I dont understand anything at allnothing. When their consciousness is alive, it reaches me. And I have noticed, for instance, that people whom I dont hear think its because I am deaf in the ordinary way, so they start shoutingwhich is even worse! Then its as if they were throwing stones in my face.1
0 1965-06-05, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You can classify this one in the subjects for meditation (!) on the Governments manners.
Sometimes, for someone or other, Ill write a sentence in that way, but I wont send it, Ill keep it; then, after a week or two weeks or a month, the person tells me he had an experience and that I told him such and such a thing the very thing I had written. Its a very good method.
0 1965-06-18 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last night, for a long time, we went to all sorts of places unknown to me: towns, countrysides, forests, etc. It lasted a very long time. And once, we were there, near a forest (near a road that crossed the forest) and we were busy and talking when all of a sudden, he leaped to his feet. You know, he never wears any clothes, so to speak; when I saw him the first time in his house (his supramental house), in the subtle physical, he was without clothes; but its a kind of vibrant matter: its very material, very concrete, and it has a sort of color that isnt a color, which is a bit golden and radiantit doesnt send out rays, but it vibrates with a radiant light. And at least nine times out of ten he is that way; generally, when we are together for some work, he is that way. Last night he was that way. So then I was busy (we had arranged something and I was busy) when, suddenly, I see him leap to his feet and run a hundred-meter sprint. At first I was shocked, I said to myself, Whats this?! And with great ease, you know: he darted off, then stopped a few minutes, and then ran back. Then he stopped again, and went off a third time on a sprint: like the 100-meter race they run. But the third time, he had grown tall, with a slim body. Grown tall as if to demonstrate to me: this is the way the body will be transformed. He had grown very tall, very strong.
It was very interesting and absolutely unexpected.
The second time, he was stronger than the first; and the third time, he was magnificent: a tall, superb being with that vibrant, radiant substance. And what a sprint! What leaps! It was fantastic. The last time, it was fantastic, as if he skimmed over the ground.
We speak very, very rarely. Sometimes he tells me something, but its with a special import and a special aimwe understand each other without words. There he didnt say anything, but I understood.
--
There still remains the question I asked you on the same subject: I find it hard to see how the supramental body, which is made of a very material but nevertheless different matter2
Ah, I had another experience about that a few days ago. You know that they are speaking of a substance denser than physical substance. What do they call it? (Mother cannot remember) Thon had already spoken about it, but I thought it was his imagination. But I have been told that it has been scientifically discovered and that the amount of that denser matter seems to be INCREASING.
What do they call it? There is a name. I dont remember now, but some time ago, a month or two, someone who came from France told me that in scientific circles they now seem to be saying that matter denser than physical matter appears to be increasing in amount on earththis would be extremely interesting.3
As for Thon, he used to say that the glorified body would be made of a matter denser than physical matter, but with qualities that physical matter doesnt have. And this substance does have qualities, they say, that Matter doesnt have, like for instance elasticity. Well, a few nights ago (I dont remember when), I was in a place in which a sort of pale gray substance had been collected, which looked like diluted clay (a paste, that is). And elastic, (laughing) glutinous! It was like diluted cement, but very pale, a really lovely pearl gray, and sticky: it could be stretched like chewing gum! And then there were a number of people who had gathered there to ba the in that substance. Some were crawling in it with delight! They were smearing themselves all over with it, and it was sticky! And I myself Once you were there, you were inevitably plunged in it to some extent: it seemed to be there even in the air; you couldnt avoid it. But there was a lady who took great care of me so it wouldnt be too inconvenient: I remember that I had a sort of luminous dress, white and red (white with red decorations) in which I wrapped myself so that substance wouldnt stick to me. But I watched the whole thing, and I saw, for instance, our Purani4 wallowing in it, sliding with delight, dripping with that mud all over! And everybody was in that mud. Only, it was a mud of a very lovely pearl gray, but was it sticky! And in the morning when I woke up, I said to myself it must be the new substance in preparationits not yet fully ready but its in preparation.
There were some highly amusing details: it was arranged like the establishments, you know, in those big stylish spas. It was like that. And people came there to take baths in that substance.
What do they call it? Pavitra would know the name. I used to know it: Thon had given it the name they give it today. But I dont remember. A matter denser than physical Matter. But elastic.
--
Of the force that will transform that into an acceptable substance.
(silence)
The consciousness that will learn to use that substance (just as there was a consciousness that learned to use the bodys substance) will probably know how to turn it into something that can be used. Because we have grown accustomed to it, but obviously its a sort of superchemistry that made this corporeal substance. We find it perfectly natural, but it hasnt always been this waythere is a long way from the jellyfish, for example, to this body.
I had the impression of a substance that has to undergo a work of adaptation, transformation, utilization, and that would serve as an outer form for the supramental being.
My impression is that Sri Aurobindo already has his subtle supramental form. For instance, when he has to move, he doesnt give the impression of being subject to the same laws as we are; but as its subtle, it doesnt appear surprising. And also a sort of ubiquity: he is in several places at the same time. And a plasticity, an adaptability according to the work he wants to do, the people he meets. In those activities I am quite aware that I see him in a certain way, but I think others dont see him the same waythey see him differently, probably wearing clothes. When he ran in the forest, we were all alone, and it was a large forest without anyone there; then a few minutes later, we were somewhere else and there were people, other people to whom he spoke, and I didnt at all feel that the others were seeing him without clothes: they were certainly seeing him wearing clothes.
I saw him once, rather long ago: I told you the story of his boat, made also of clay.
--
Satprem meant that he found it hard to see how the new substance, nevertheless very different from Matter, could be prepared through gymnastics for the physical body.
Mother is perhaps referring to "ionized matter"?
0 1965-06-23, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I will explain myself: the residential section, where there will be the houses of people who will have already subscribed, and all the others who come in their numbers to have a plot in Auroville. That will be towards the Lake.
The international section We have already approached a number of ambassadors and countries so each country would have its pavilion there: a pavilion for every country (that was my old idea); some have already accepted, anyhow its under way. Each pavilion has its own garden with, as far as possible, a selection of the plants and produce of the country represented. If they have enough money and space, they can also have a sort of small museum or permanent exhibition of the achievements of the country. And the pavilion should be built according to the architecture of the country represented: it should be like a document of information. Then depending on the amount of money they want to put in, they can also have quarters for students, conference rooms, etc., the countrys cuisine, a restaurant of the country they can have all sorts of developments.
0 1965-06-30, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All chronic illnesses come from that. There may be an accident (something happens, an accident) and then there is a sort of submissive and unconscious goodwill that causes the effect of the accident to be repeated: We must repeat, we must repeat, we must repeat that (gesture in a circle). And it stops only if a consciousness is in contact with the cells and can make them understand that No, in this case, you mustnt go on repeating! (Mother laughs)
There are cases in which this power of repetition is extremely useful. I even think that this is what gives stability to the form, otherwise we would change form or appearance, or we would liquefy.
0 1965-07-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I could tell you all sorts of stories, but anyway, stories about doctors arent amusing; there are always ridiculous details. And it comes back: you throw their suggestion out of the window, you dont bother about it, you think its all over, and its gone into the subconscient; and suddenly, one fine day, a tiny little incident, and it comes back, formidable: The doctor said this such and such a doctor said this the Doctor with a capital D said this, or Medical Science said this, and the cells begin to panica frightful hypnotic power.
No, its an interesting subject (laughing) I seem not to be taking your misfortune seriously (!), but its a very interesting subject, I assure you. To me, it belongs entirely to the world of Disorder, it doesnt have any deep truthit doesnt. So if one lets the power of Truth act, it must give way. I am not saying it gives way willingly, I am not saying it goes away as if by miracle, no, but it MUST give way.
Oh, I could keep talking for hours!
--
I have nothing to boast about, you know! I am preaching to this body as much as to others. I should be upright, strong, solid. Why am I stooped like this? I know why, but its not a compliment. I know why, its because all this is still subject to all those suggestions from the world, all the medical thought and all that derives from it and all the suggestions from life. And habits. And all these people here So theres nothing to boast about. Only, I know (the advantage is that I know it), I know it should be otherwise. I know it and the cells also know it, and I told you, yesterday evening they were crying over it, there on my bed; they kept moaning and groaning: I was not made for this life of darkness and disorder, I was made for Light, for Strength and Love. And the answer: Ah! Take it, then! And they were moaning, Why am I compelled to be like this? And all of a sudden, instead of giving them free play: the full Presencein one second it was all gone. But the collective suggestion, the collective atmosphere is so rotten, I may say, that it acts all the time.
But you (speaking to Sujata) are one of those who can say that when I come at night, I am tall and strong. And at night, I work, I am tall, I am strong. And it goes on moaning! Its idiotic. Not only idiotic, but there is still that sort of self-pity (Mother strokes her cheek), which of all things is the most repugnant: Oh, poor little thing, how tired you are. Oh, poor little thing, how people tire you, how hard life is, how difficult things are. And then moaning and groaning like an idiot. If it were just for me, I would give them a good thrashing! But I am asked not to do it, so I dont do it. But I do feel that before the eyes of this wonderful Graceof this resplendent divine Love and this omnipotent Powerwe are deeply ridiculous, thats all.
--
Maheshwaris light. But it seems I always had it, because when Madame Thon saw me, its the first thing she told me; she didnt speak of Maheshwari, but she said, You have the white light that automatically dissolves all ill will. And I did experience it: I saw beings crumble into dust. So you take that, picture that, and you build a cocoon around yourselfyou know, just as insects build their own cocoonsyou build a cocoon before falling asleep. I will do it here, but your picturing is to help it be better adapted, better adjusted. You build a cocoon, and when you are quite wrapped in that white cocoon, when the enemies cannot get through it, you let yourself go into sleep. Then all that comes from outside with a manifest ill will cannot get in. Thats certain. Naturally, there is what one carries in ones subconscient one must eliminate that by ones own will, little by little.
But this Light is all-powerful, mon petit! (Speaking to Sujata:) You too can do the same thing if you have enemies at night.
0 1965-07-17, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
She nursed her husband, she even almost brought him back to life, and when he recovered speech and consciousness, the first thing he did was to cut off her means of subsistence and discredit her! To thank her, he spread the word that he was no longer responsible for her. Anyway, thats life for you.2
Would you like to read her letter?
0 1965-07-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the last two nights, the activities of the morning, those that take place in the subtle physical with Sri Aurobindo and all the people here, have suddenly become concerned with food! But in a very different form. Its always to give me indications about people, about things. The night before last, there was an amusing incident. You know that Mridu, the fat woman who used to cook for Sri Aurobindo, is in the subtle physical. When she died, Sri Aurobindo (I didnt even know she had died), Sri Aurobindo went to fetch her in her house, then brought her to me and put her at my feet here: thats how I knew she had died (I was told the next morning). But I didnt understand what had happened; I saw Sri Aurobindo go into Mridus house, then come back (laughing) with a small bundle like this, and put it at my feet! I was flabbergasted, I saw it was Mridu, and I ran after Sri Aurobindo to ask him, What on earth does this mean?! Then everything vanished. The next day, I was told she was dead. And she lives like that, in the subtle physical, and I see her very, very often, very often (she is a little better than she was physically, but not much more intelligent!). But the other night, she brought me big prunes (they were this big), and I ate a few, and found them very good; then Pavitra came along, looked at those poor prunes and told me, Oh, you shouldnt eat this, theres mold on it! I remembered it because it amused me. And I looked, saying (laughing), I dont see any mold, and anyway they are very good! And last night, there was a man (whom I know very well, but I cant remember his name) who told me I absolutely must drink milk! (For years and years I havent drunk a drop of milk.) And he showed me the milk saying, You see, you should mix the milk in soup, in this, in that. I wondered, Thats odd, why all of a sudden? I never, ever used to have dreams of food! (They arent dreams, by the way: I am not asleep, I am perfectly conscious.) It began two nights ago: first I ate prunesbig prunes like this then last night, I was told to take milk! But it was so insistent that for a moment this morning I wondered if I should start drinking milk!
This is also new.
--- Overview of noun sub
The noun sub has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep ::: (a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States)
2. submarine, pigboat, sub, U-boat ::: (a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes)
--- Overview of verb sub
The verb sub has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) substitute, sub, stand in, fill in ::: (be a substitute; "The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague"; "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sub
2 senses of sub
Sense 1
bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep
=> sandwich
=> snack food
=> dish
=> nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victuals
=> food, nutrient
=> substance
=> matter
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
submarine, pigboat, sub, U-boat
=> submersible, submersible warship
=> warship, war vessel, combat ship
=> ship
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=> craft
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=> conveyance, transport
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=> whole, unit
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=> physical entity
=> entity
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=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
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--- Hyponyms of noun sub
1 of 2 senses of sub
Sense 2
submarine, pigboat, sub, U-boat
=> attack submarine
=> auxiliary research submarine
=> fleet ballistic missile submarine
=> nautilus, nuclear submarine, nuclear-powered submarine
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sub
2 senses of sub
Sense 1
bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep
=> sandwich
Sense 2
submarine, pigboat, sub, U-boat
=> submersible, submersible warship
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun sub
2 senses of sub
Sense 1
bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep
-> sandwich
=> butty
=> ham sandwich
=> chicken sandwich
=> club sandwich, three-decker, triple-decker
=> open-face sandwich, open sandwich
=> hamburger, beefburger, burger
=> tunaburger
=> hotdog, hot dog, red hot
=> Sloppy Joe
=> bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep
=> gyro
=> bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, BLT
=> Reuben
=> western, western sandwich
=> wrap
Sense 2
submarine, pigboat, sub, U-boat
-> submersible, submersible warship
=> submarine, pigboat, sub, U-boat
--- Grep of noun sub
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suborder megachiroptera
suborder megaloptera
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suborder pachycephalosaurus
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suborder petromyzoniformes
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suborder plesiosauria
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suborder serpentes
suborder strepsirhini
suborder tarsioidea
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Wikipedia - Banksia dallanneyi subsp. media -- Subspecies in the family Proteaceae endemic to the South West Botanical Province of Western Australia
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Wikipedia - Banksia integrifolia subsp. compar -- Subspecies of plant in the family Proteaceae from eastern Australia
Wikipedia - Banksia integrifolia subsp. integrifolia -- Subspecies of plant in the family Proteaceae from eastern Australia
Wikipedia - Banksia ionthocarpa subsp. ionthocarpa -- Subspecies of plant in the family Proteaceae endemic to the South West Botanical Province of Western Australia
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Wikipedia - Banksia plumosa subsp. plumosa -- Subspecies in the family Proteaceae endemic to the South West Botanical Province of Western Australia
Wikipedia - Banksia prolata subsp. archeos -- Subspecies in the family Proteaceae endemic to the South West Botanical Province of Western Australia
Wikipedia - Banksia prolata subsp. calcicola -- Subspecies in the family Proteaceae endemic to the South West Botanical Province of Western Australia
Wikipedia - Banksia prolata subsp. prolata -- Subspecies in the family Proteaceae endemic to the South West Botanical Province of Western Australia
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Wikipedia - Banksia sect. Banksia -- Section of ''Banksia'' subgenus ''Banksia''
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Wikipedia - Banksia subg. Spathulatae -- Subgenus in the family Proteaceae
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Wikipedia - Banksia subpinnatifida -- Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae endemic to Western Australia
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Wikipedia - Battle of Gangwana -- 18th-century battle on the Indian subcontinent, between Jodhpur/Marwar vs Jaipur
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Wikipedia - British Sub-Aqua Club -- Recreational diving club, training and certification agency based in the UK
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Wikipedia - Buddleja subcapitata -- Species of plant
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Wikipedia - Bukit Besi (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
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Wikipedia - Bungku-Tolaki languages -- Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
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Wikipedia - Buru-Sula-Taliabo languages -- Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
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Wikipedia - Cactoideae -- Subfamily of the cactus family, Cactaceae
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Wikipedia - Caladeniinae -- Subtribe of orchids
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Wikipedia - Calochrominae -- Subfamily of beetles
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Wikipedia - Caltech Submillimeter Observatory -- Decommissioned radio telescope in Hawaii, USA
Wikipedia - Calymmanthium substerile -- Species of plant
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Wikipedia - Cambrian substrate revolution -- Diversification of animal burrowing
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Wikipedia - Chidambaram Subramaniam
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Wikipedia - China's spaceplane program -- Manned Spacecraft sub-system
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Wikipedia - Cholevinae -- Subfamily of beetles
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Wikipedia - Chorizomena -- Genus of geometer moths (Geometridae) in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Chornobai Raion -- Former subdivision of Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine
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Wikipedia - Chroma subsampling
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Wikipedia - City Hall station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) -- former New York City Subway station in Manhattan
Wikipedia - City of federal subject significance
Wikipedia - City pop -- Sub-genre of music
Wikipedia - Citywest -- Suburban development southwest of Dublin
Wikipedia - Ciudad Nueva (Hato Rey) -- Subbarrio in Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Clarehall Shopping Centre -- Shopping centre in northeastern suburban Dublin
Wikipedia - Classical archaeology -- Sub-discipline of archeology
Wikipedia - Classic - Dance of Love -- 2005 film by Babbar Subhash
Wikipedia - Clavelinidae -- Family of chordates in the tunicates subphylum
Wikipedia - Cleaning agent -- Substance used to remove dirt or other contaminants
Wikipedia - Clendinning Range -- Coast Mountains' Pacific Ranges subrange
Wikipedia - Cleora sublunaria -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Clerinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Client/Server Runtime Subsystem
Wikipedia - Cliff -- A vertical, or near vertical, rock face of substantial height
Wikipedia - Clifton, Rotherham -- Suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England
Wikipedia - Clinical epidemiology -- Subfield of epidemiology focused on clinical medicine
Wikipedia - Clinocerinae -- Subfamily of flies
Wikipedia - C-Lion1 -- Submarine communications cable between Finland and Germany
Wikipedia - Clongriffin -- Housing estate in the Dublin suburb of Donaghmede
Wikipedia - Clonliffe -- Suburban area of north Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Clonsilla -- Western suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Clonskeagh -- Suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Clontarf, Dublin -- Coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Clopen set -- Subset that is both open and closed
Wikipedia - Closed circle of suspects -- Subgenre of detective fiction
Wikipedia - Closed graph -- A graph of a function that is also a closed subset of the product space
Wikipedia - Closed subset
Wikipedia - Close-space sublimation -- Method of producing thin-films
Wikipedia - Cluster munition -- Munition containing multiple submunitions meant to disperse effects of the munitions
Wikipedia - CMY color model -- Subtractive color model for dyes and pigments
Wikipedia - CMYK color model -- Subtractive color model, used in color printing
Wikipedia - C (New York City Subway service) -- New York City Subway service
Wikipedia - CNOOC Petroleum North America ULC -- Chinese oil and gas company, Alberta, Canada-based subsidiary of CNOOC
Wikipedia - CN York Subdivision -- Railway line in Greater Toronto
Wikipedia - Coating -- Any substance spread over a surface
Wikipedia - Coat of arms of the Szekelys -- Ethnic coat of arms of the Szekelys, a subgroup of the Hungarians
Wikipedia - Cob (material) -- Building material made from subsoil, water, and fibrous organic material
Wikipedia - Coccidulinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Coccinellinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Cochylidia subroseana -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Cochylimorpha subwoliniana -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Cocoa solids -- A mixture of many substances remaining after cocoa butter is extracted from cacao beans
Wikipedia - Coco Solo -- United States Navy submarine base
Wikipedia - Codimension -- Difference between the dimensions of mathematical object and a sub-object
Wikipedia - Coelogyninae -- Subtribe of orchids
Wikipedia - Coenophila subrosea -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Cofiniteness -- Being a subset whose complement is a finite set
Wikipedia - Cognitive archaeology -- Archaeological sub-discipline
Wikipedia - Cognitive psychology -- Subdiscipline of psychology
Wikipedia - Coldean -- suburb of Brighton and Hove, England
Wikipedia - Coleoidea -- Subclass of cephalopods
Wikipedia - Coleophora subula -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - College station (Toronto) -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Colloid -- A mixture of an insoluble or soluble substance microscopically dispersed throughout another substance
Wikipedia - Colombian tinamou -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Colony -- Territory under the political control of an overseas state, generally with its own subordinate colonial government
Wikipedia - Colour piece -- Section of a publication that focuses mainly on impressions or descriptions of the subject matter
Wikipedia - Columbia-class submarine -- US Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarine class
Wikipedia - Columbian sharp-tailed grouse -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Columbinae -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Colymbetinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Comando Raggruppamento Subacquei e Incursori Teseo Tesei -- Italian special forces diving unit
Wikipedia - Comb Ceramic -- Type of pottery subjected to geometric patterns from the comb-like tool
Wikipedia - Comedy hip hop -- Hip hop subgenre
Wikipedia - Comic book death -- Apparent death and subsequent return of a fictional character
Wikipedia - Command substitution
Wikipedia - Commelinoideae -- Subfamily of flowering plants
Wikipedia - Committee -- Body of one or more persons that is subordinate to a deliberative assembly
Wikipedia - Common subexpression elimination
Wikipedia - Communaute de communes -- France intercommunal subdivision combining smaller communes
Wikipedia - Communaute urbaine -- France intercommunal subdivision integrating a city and its suburbs
Wikipedia - Commune (country subdivision) -- Commune (country subdivision)
Wikipedia - Commune-level subdivisions (Vietnam)
Wikipedia - Communes of France -- France territorial subdivision for municipalities
Wikipedia - Communication University of China station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Community areas in Chicago -- Subdivisions of Chicago
Wikipedia - Community Unit School District 300 -- School district in Chicago suburbs
Wikipedia - Commutation (law) -- Substitution of a lesser penalty after the conviction for a crime
Wikipedia - Commutator subgroup -- Smallest normal subgroup by which the quotient is commutative
Wikipedia - Commuter rail in North America -- Rail passenger service primarily for travel between a city and its suburbs
Wikipedia - Compact car -- Cars that are larger than a subcompact car but smaller than a mid-size car
Wikipedia - Compactification (mathematics) -- Embedding a topological space into a compact space as a dense subset
Wikipedia - Company rule in India -- Rule or dominion of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Comparison of Subversion clients -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - Component (group theory) -- Finite group is a quasisimple subnormal subgroup
Wikipedia - Composite material -- Material made from a combination of two or more unlike substances
Wikipedia - Computational archaeology -- Archaeological sub-discipline
Wikipedia - Computational materials science -- Subfield of materials science
Wikipedia - Computational microscopy -- Subfield of computational imaging
Wikipedia - Computer graphics (computer science) -- Sub-field of computer science
Wikipedia - Computer screen film -- Film subgenre where the action takes place entirely on a screen of a computer or a smartphone
Wikipedia - Conanby -- Suburb of Conisbrough in South Yorkshire, England
Wikipedia - Conchoecinae -- Subfamily of ostracods
Wikipedia - Condadito (Santurce) -- Subbarrio of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Condado (Santurce) -- Subbarrio of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Condor seamount -- A submarine mountain west-southwest of Faial Island in the Azores
Wikipedia - Confederation Mondiale des Activites Subaquatiques -- International organisation for underwater activities in sport and science, and recreational diver training and certification
Wikipedia - Confined liquid -- A liquid that is subject to geometric constraints on a nanoscopic scale so that most molecules are close enough to an interface to sense some difference from standard bulk conditions
Wikipedia - Conglomerate (geology) -- A coarse-grained clastic sedimentary rock with mainly rounded to subangular clasts
Wikipedia - Connect (insurance company) -- American insurance company, subsidiary of American Family Insurance
Wikipedia - Conning tower -- raised platform on a ship or submarine used to command the vessel
Wikipedia - Connoisseur -- Subject-matter expert
Wikipedia - Conoderinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Conquest -- Act of forceful subjugation
Wikipedia - Conservative Friends -- Subset of Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Wikipedia - Conspiracy fiction -- Subgenre of thriller fiction
Wikipedia - Consubstantiality -- Identity of substance, as between the three Persons of the Trinity and as between Christ and other humans
Wikipedia - Consubstantial
Wikipedia - Consubstantiation
Wikipedia - Contact lithography -- Lithography technique where a photomask comes into direct contact with a photoresist-coated substrate
Wikipedia - Contemporary archaeology -- Archaeological sub-discipline
Wikipedia - Continental shelf -- A portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water known as a shelf sea
Wikipedia - Continuous integration -- Software development practice based on frequent submission of granular changes
Wikipedia - Contrast agent -- Substance used in medical imaging to enhance the contrast of structures or fluids within the body
Wikipedia - Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
Wikipedia - Controlled natural language -- Subset of a natural language
Wikipedia - Controlled Substances Act
Wikipedia - Conus daucus riosi -- Subspecies of sea snail
Wikipedia - Conus submarginatus -- Species of sea snail
Wikipedia - Convention on Psychotropic Substances
Wikipedia - Convex optimization -- Subfield of mathematical optimization
Wikipedia - Coolant -- Substance used to reduce or regulate the temperature of a system
Wikipedia - Cooleman Court -- Australian sub-regional shopping centre
Wikipedia - Coolock -- Large northern suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Copelatinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Copenhagen Suborbitals -- Amateur crowdfunded human space programme
Wikipedia - Copiocerinae -- Subfamily of grasshoppers
Wikipedia - Coppery-naped puffleg -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Coptacrinae -- Subfamily of grasshoppers
Wikipedia - Coptoclavinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Copyright status of work by U.S. subnational governments
Wikipedia - Cord-cutting -- Mass cancellation of cable television subscriptions
Wikipedia - Corduff -- Northwestern suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Corner Rise Seamounts -- A chain of extinct submarine volcanoes in the northern Atlantic Ocean
Wikipedia - Corporation MRT station -- MRT subway station in Singapore
Wikipedia - Correlated subquery
Wikipedia - Corringham Wapentake -- Ancient subdivision of Lincolnshire, England
Wikipedia - Corticariinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Cosmetinae -- Subfamily of arthropods
Wikipedia - Cosmic Ray Subsystem -- Instrument aboard the ''Voyager 1'' and ''Voyager 2'' spacecraft
Wikipedia - Cossoninae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Cotton effect -- Characteristic change in optical rotatory dispersion and/or circular dichroism in the vicinity of an absorption band of a substance
Wikipedia - Coues's gadwall -- Extinct subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Council of Ministers of Crimea -- Former subnational governmental body in Ukraine
Wikipedia - Counterculture -- Subculture whose values and norms of behavior deviate from those of mainstream society
Wikipedia - Counties of Denmark -- Former administrative subdivisions of metropolitan Denmark
Wikipedia - Counties of Estonia -- First-level administrative subdivisions of Estonia
Wikipedia - Counties of New Zealand -- Former administrative subdivision of New Zealand
Wikipedia - Counties of the United Kingdom -- Subnational divisions of the United Kingdom
Wikipedia - Count of Flanders -- Ruler or sub-ruler of the county of Flanders
Wikipedia - Country pop -- Pop-inspired subgenre of country music
Wikipedia - Country subdivision -- A territorial entity for administration purposes
Wikipedia - County (United States) -- Subdivision used by most states in the United States of America
Wikipedia - Coupled substitution -- Geological process by which two elements simultaneously substitute into a crystal
Wikipedia - Cousins Subs -- American restaurant chain
Wikipedia - Coverture -- Status of wife's legal personality subsumed into husband's
Wikipedia - Covina massacre -- Nine people killed in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California, US
Wikipedia - Cowboy pop -- Subgenre of pop music
Wikipedia - Cowcaddens subway station -- Glasgow subway station
Wikipedia - Cowin C3 -- Chinese subcompact car
Wikipedia - Cowley, London -- suburban village in the United Kingdom
Wikipedia - Coxwell station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Crambinae -- Subfamily of moths
Wikipedia - Crassula subaphylla -- Species of plant
Wikipedia - Crawford, Cape Town -- Suburb of Cape Town, in Western Cape, South Africa
Wikipedia - Creobiina -- Subtribe of beetles
Wikipedia - Cressi-Sub -- Italian manufacturer of recreational diving and swimming equipment.
Wikipedia - Criocerinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Crocodile -- Subfamily of large reptilian carnivores
Wikipedia - Cromwell Current -- An eastward-flowing subsurface current that extends along the equator in the Pacific Ocean
Wikipedia - Crookston, Glasgow -- Suburb of Glasgow, Scotland
Wikipedia - Cropmark -- Means through which sub-surface features can be visible from the air
Wikipedia - Cross Gates -- A suburb in east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Wikipedia - Cross Kirkland Corridor -- Suburban rail trail
Wikipedia - Crossroads Centre -- Substance abuse treatment facility in Antigua
Wikipedia - Crossroads, Western Cape -- Suburb of Cape Town in Western Cape, South Africa
Wikipedia - Cross-sectional data -- A type of data collected by observing many subjects at the same point of time, or without regard to differences in time
Wikipedia - Crotalus cerastes laterorepens -- Subspecies of reptile
Wikipedia - Crotophaginae -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Crumlin, Dublin -- Suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Crustal recycling -- Tectonic process by which surface material from the lithosphere is recycled into the mantle by subduction erosion or delamination
Wikipedia - Crypsityla -- Genus of geometer moths (Geometridae) in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Cryptic relatedness -- Presence of undetected relatedness between subjects in genetic association studies
Wikipedia - Cryptocephalinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Cryptodira -- Suborder of reptiles
Wikipedia - Cryptomonad -- Subphylum of algae
Wikipedia - Cryptophaginae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Cryptorhynchinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Crystal Cubism -- Subgenre of the painting style cubism
Wikipedia - Ctenodactylinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Ctenophorinae -- Subfamily of flies
Wikipedia - Cuigezhuang station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Culling -- Segregation and likely subsequent disposal of organisms based on specific criteria
Wikipedia - Cultural icon -- Artifact that is recognised by members of a culture or sub-culture as representing some aspect of cultural identity
Wikipedia - Cultural subsidy
Wikipedia - Cumberland Subdivision -- Railroad line between U.S. states of West Virginia and Maryland.
Wikipedia - Cupeyalia subterranea -- Genus of beetles
Wikipedia - Curare -- Group of chemical substances used as poison
Wikipedia - Curassow -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Cure -- Substance or procedure that ends a medical condition
Wikipedia - Curry -- Dish from Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Custom car -- Passenger vehicle that has been substantially altered in its appearance
Wikipedia - Customer-premises equipment -- Terminal and associated equipment located at a subscriber's premises
Wikipedia - Cuteness -- Subjective physical trait
Wikipedia - Cut-off -- Modified and decorated jacket worn in biker, metal and punk subcultures
Wikipedia - C. V. Subramanian -- Indian mycologist, taxonomist and plant pathologist
Wikipedia - Cyan -- Color visible between blue and green; subtractive (CMY) primary color
Wikipedia - Cyberpunk derivatives -- Subgenres of this speculative fiction genre
Wikipedia - Cybistrinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Cyclidia substigmaria -- Species of hook-tip moth
Wikipedia - Cyclidiinae -- Subfamily of hook-tip moths
Wikipedia - Cyclominae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Cydistinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Cyladinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Cylindrotominae -- Subfamily of flies
Wikipedia - Cymindis subcarinata -- Beetle species
Wikipedia - Cynipinae -- Subfamily of insects
Wikipedia - Cynodont -- Suborder of Therapsids
Wikipedia - Cynthia (butterfly) -- Subgenus of insects
Wikipedia - Cyphagoginae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Cyphonocerinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Cyprininae -- Subfamily of fishes
Wikipedia - Cypseloidinae -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Cyrtacanthacridinae -- Subfamily of grasshoppers
Wikipedia - Cytochrome c oxidase subunit III -- Enzyme of the respiratory chain encoded by the mitochondrial genome
Wikipedia - Cytochrome c oxidase subunit II -- Enzyme of the respiratory chain encoded by the mitochondrial genome
Wikipedia - Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I -- Enzyme of the respiratory chain encoded by the mitochondrial genome
Wikipedia - Cytoskeletal drugs -- Substances or medications that interact with actin or tubulin
Wikipedia - CZ-USA -- US subsidiary of Czech firearms manufacturer
Wikipedia - Dabaotai station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - DAB BNP Paribas -- German corporate subsidiary
Wikipedia - Dacia Logan -- Subcompact car produced by Renault and Dacia
Wikipedia - Dacia Sandero -- Subcompact car produced by Renault and Dacia
Wikipedia - Dacia Solenza -- Subcompact liftback
Wikipedia - Daewoo Telecom K7 -- Submachine gun
Wikipedia - Da Gama Park -- Suburb of the City of Cape Toen, Western Cape, South Africa
Wikipedia - Daguanying station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Dagudu Moothalu -- 1964 film by Adurthi Subba Rao
Wikipedia - Dahna, Podgorica -- suburb of Podgorica, Montenegro
Wikipedia - Dahongmen Nan (South) station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Dahongmen station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Daily fantasy sports -- subset of fantasy sport games
Wikipedia - Daisen-in -- Sub-temple of Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Japan
Wikipedia - Dajiaoting station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Dajing station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Dalianpo station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Dalkey -- Suburb of Dublin, Ireland, in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
Wikipedia - Dal makhani -- Dish originating from the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Damak (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Damselfly -- Suborder of insects
Wikipedia - Daniel d'Auger de Subercase
Wikipedia - Danish India -- Former settlements and trading posts of Denmark and Norway on the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Daotian station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Daoxianghu Lu station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Dardic languages -- Sub-group of the Indo-Aryan languages natively spoken in northern Pakistan's Gilgit Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern India's Jammu and Kashmir, and eastern Afghanistan
Wikipedia - Darkcore -- UK rave subgenre of breakbeat hardcore
Wikipedia - Dark fantasy -- Subgenre of fantasy
Wikipedia - Dark fermentation -- Conversion of organic substrate to biohydrogen
Wikipedia - Darndale -- Residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Dartry -- Small suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Das Boot -- 1981 German submarine drama film directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Wikipedia - Dashihe East station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Dashilan Subdistrict -- Subdistrict in Xicheng, Beijing
Wikipedia - Dasytinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Dasyurinae -- Subfamily of mammals
Wikipedia - Datsun mi-Do -- Russia-exclusive Nissan subcompact hatchback
Wikipedia - Datsun on-Do -- Russia-exclusive Nissan subcompact sedan
Wikipedia - Datunlu East station -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - David Ausubel
Wikipedia - David Wanklyn -- Royal Navy submarine commander
Wikipedia - Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus -- Early submarine escape oxygen rebreather also used for shallow water diving.
Wikipedia - Davisville station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Dawanglu station -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Dawayao station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Daxing Airport station -- Station on Beijing Subway & China Railway
Wikipedia - Daxing Xincheng station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Dazhongsi station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - DD Kashir -- Regional subsidiary television station of Doordarshan in Jammu and Kashmir
Wikipedia - Deadpan -- The deliberate display of emotional neutrality as a form of comedic delivery to contrast with the subject matter.
Wikipedia - Deathcore -- |Fusion subgenre of death metal and metalcore
Wikipedia - Death-doom -- Extreme subgenre of heavy metal
Wikipedia - Death metal -- Extreme subgenre of heavy metal music
Wikipedia - Death of Subhas Chandra Bose -- Conspiracy theories regarding the death of Subhas Chandra Bose
Wikipedia - Death of the Virgin -- subject in art
Wikipedia - Death rock -- Rock music subgenre
Wikipedia - Decay scheme -- A graphical presentation of all the transitions occurring in a decay of a radioactive substance
Wikipedia - Decision intelligence -- Subfield of machine learning
Wikipedia - Deck gun -- Naval artillery mounted on the deck of a submarine
Wikipedia - Decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Decomposition -- The process in which organic substances are broken down into simpler organic matter
Wikipedia - Decouvertes Gallimard -- A collection of illustrated, pocket-sized books on a variety of subjects
Wikipedia - Dectaflur -- Fluoride-containing substance
Wikipedia - Deep biosphere -- Life in the deep subsurface of the Earth
Wikipedia - DeepFlight Merlin -- 3-seater wet sub diver propulsion vehicle
Wikipedia - Deep house -- Subgenre of house music that originated in the 1980s
Wikipedia - Deepsea Challenger -- Deep-diving submersible designed to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep
Wikipedia - Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle
Wikipedia - Deep-submergence rescue vehicle -- Submersible used for rescue of downed submarines and clandestine missions
Wikipedia - Deep-submergence vehicle -- Deep-diving manned submarine that is self-propelled
Wikipedia - DeepWorker 2000 -- Submarine vehicle
Wikipedia - Deevinchandi -- 2001 Telugu film directed by Muthyala Subbaiah
Wikipedia - Dehalococcoides -- Genus of bacteria within class Dehalococcoidia that obtain energy via the oxidation of hydrogen and subsequent reductive dehalogenation of halogenated organic compounds in a mode of anaerobic respiration called organohalide respiration
Wikipedia - Delhi Sultanate -- Successive Islamic dynasties that ruled large parts of the Indian subcontinent (1206-1526)
Wikipedia - Delia's Canary Catering -- Catering company and a subsidiary body of Norwich City F.C
Wikipedia - Delwara -- Sub-Tehsil in Rajsamand district of Rajasthan, India
Wikipedia - Demao station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Demon core -- Historical subcritical mass of plutonium
Wikipedia - Demoscene -- Computer art subculture
Wikipedia - Dena -- Sub-range within the Zagros Mountains
Wikipedia - Dendermonde (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Dendermonde-Sint-Niklaas (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Dendermonde-Sint-Niklaas (Flemish Parliament constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Dendrometrinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Dendrophilinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Dengshikou station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Denny Substation -- Electrical substation in Seattle, Washington
Wikipedia - Denson Seamount -- A submarine volcano in the Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain at the end of the chain near the Canada-United States border
Wikipedia - Departments of Guatemala -- Political subdivision of Guatemala
Wikipedia - Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation -- RBI subsidiary
Wikipedia - Depressaria subalbipunctella -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Depth charge -- Anti-submarine weapon
Wikipedia - Derazhnia Raion -- Former subdivision of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine
Wikipedia - Dermis -- Layer of skin between the epidermis (with which it makes up the cutis) and subcutaneous tissues
Wikipedia - DeRoI-class locomotive (Mitsubishi) -- Class of 3 electric locomotives built by Mitsubishi
Wikipedia - Desalination -- Removal of salts and minerals from a substance
Wikipedia - Descendant subgroup -- abstract algebra subgroup
Wikipedia - Descriptive set theory -- Subfield of mathematical logic
Wikipedia - Desert climate -- Arid climate subtype in the Koppen climate classification system
Wikipedia - Deshastha Brahmin -- Indian Hindu Brahmin subcaste
Wikipedia - Desi -- People, cultures, and products of the Indian subcontinent and their diaspora
Wikipedia - Desmatosuchinae -- Subfamily of reptiles
Wikipedia - Detection dog -- Dog that is trained to use its senses to detect certain substances or items
Wikipedia - Detective fiction -- Subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction
Wikipedia - Determinacy -- Subfield of set theory
Wikipedia - Deuterogoniinae -- Subfamily of moths
Wikipedia - Devil's Peak Estate -- Suburb of Cape Town, in Western Cape, South Africa
Wikipedia - Dhaba -- Roadside eateries in the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Dhaka Subway -- Underground urban rail network in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Wikipedia - Dhamar (music) -- One of the talas used in Hindustani classical music from the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Dhangadhi -- Sub-metropolitan city in Sudurpashchim Pradesh, Nepal
Wikipedia - Dhilip Subbarayan -- Actor
Wikipedia - Dhimmitude -- Permanent status of subjection in which Jews and Christians have been held under Islamic rule
Wikipedia - Dhoper chop -- a snack originating from the Indian Subcontinent
Wikipedia - Dialictus -- Subgenus of insects
Wikipedia - Dicercina -- Subtribe of beetles
Wikipedia - Dichomeridinae -- Subfamily of moths
Wikipedia - Didemnidae -- Family of chordates in the tunicates subphylum
Wikipedia - Diego Ramirez Islands -- Subantarctic islands of Chile
Wikipedia - Diekirch (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Dielectric -- Electrically poorly conducting or non-conducting, non-metallic substance of which charge carriers are generally not free to move
Wikipedia - Dieselpunk -- Retrofuturistic science fiction subgenre inspired by early-to-mid 20th-century diesel-based technology
Wikipedia - Differential calculus -- Area of mathematics; subarea of calculus
Wikipedia - Digital signage -- Sub-segment of electronic signage
Wikipedia - Digital subchannel -- Method of transmitting multiple program streams on a digital radio or television multiplex
Wikipedia - Digital subscriber line -- Series of transfer standards in data transmission
Wikipedia - Digital subtraction angiography -- Method for delineating blood vessels using contrast medium
Wikipedia - Dikarya -- Subkingdom of fungi
Wikipedia - Diksmuide (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Dinant (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Dinant-Philippeville (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Dinesh Subasinghe
Wikipedia - Dingxiang Commandery -- Historical political subdivision in China
Wikipedia - Diplazontinae -- Subfamily of insects
Wikipedia - Diplodactylinae -- Subfamily of reptiles
Wikipedia - Direct Rendering Manager -- Subsystem of the Linux kernel
Wikipedia - Dirtbag left -- Mode of left-wing politics that eschews civility in order to convey a socialist or left-wing populist message using subversive vulgarity
Wikipedia - Disabilities affecting intellectual abilities -- Subnormal intellectual functioning (cognitive disorder)
Wikipedia - Disability anthropology -- Subdiscipline of anthropology
Wikipedia - Discovery of the neutron -- Scientific background leading to the discovery of subatomic particles
Wikipedia - Disease ecology -- Sub-discipline of ecology
Wikipedia - Disney Branded Television -- Subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company
Wikipedia - Disney Consumer Products -- Retailing and licensing subsidiary of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products
Wikipedia - Disney Cruise Line -- Cruise line operation that is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company
Wikipedia - Disney Interactive -- interactive subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company
Wikipedia - Disney Regional Entertainment -- Former subsidiary of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
Wikipedia - Disney Theatrical Productions -- Subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company
Wikipedia - Disney+ -- American subscription video streaming service
Wikipedia - Dispur -- Suburb and state capital of Assam, India
Wikipedia - District-level town (Vietnam) -- Type of second-tier subdivision of Vietnam
Wikipedia - District of Arizona -- Subordinate district of the Department of New Mexico territory
Wikipedia - Districts of Bangladesh -- administrative subdivision of the South Asian country below the division level but above the upazila level
Wikipedia - Districts of England -- Level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government
Wikipedia - Districts of Indonesia -- Third-level administrative subdivision of Indonesia
Wikipedia - Districts of Libya -- First-level administrative subdivisions of the State of Libya
Wikipedia - Districts of Vienna -- Administrative subdivisions of Vienna
Wikipedia - District (Vietnam) -- Type of second-tier subdivision of Vietnam
Wikipedia - Distrito Nacional -- Subdivision of the Dominican Republic
Wikipedia - Ditrysia -- Suborder of moths and butterflies
Wikipedia - Divergent double subduction -- Two parallel subduction zones with different directions are developed on the same oceanic plate
Wikipedia - Divide-and-conquer algorithm -- Algorithms which recursively solve subproblems
Wikipedia - Diving shot -- Substantial weighted near-vertical line with buoy
Wikipedia - Divisor (algebraic geometry) -- Generalizations of codimension-1 subvarieties of algebraic varieties
Wikipedia - Djent -- |Subgenre of progressive metal
Wikipedia - DJ Subroc -- English musician
Wikipedia - DMZ (computing) -- Subnetwork of a system exposed to external world
Wikipedia - D (New York City Subway service) -- New York City Subway service
Wikipedia - Dnistrovskyi Raion -- Subdivision of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine
Wikipedia - Dodonaeoideae -- Subfamily of flowering plants
Wikipedia - Doerries's pygmy woodpecker -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Dole, Jura -- Subprefecture and commune in Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France
Wikipedia - Dolgorae-class submarine -- Submarine class
Wikipedia - Dolichoderinae -- Subfamily of ants
Wikipedia - Dolichopeza subalbipes -- Species of fly
Wikipedia - Dolichopezinae -- Subfamily of flies
Wikipedia - Dollymount -- Locality with the Dublin suburb of Clontarf
Wikipedia - Dolphin-class submarine -- Israeli Navy submarine class
Wikipedia - Domain (software engineering) -- target subject of a computer program
Wikipedia - Domestic muscovy duck -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Domestic pigeon -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Dominance and submission -- Erotic roleplay involving the submission of one person to another
Wikipedia - Dom Joao de Castro Bank -- A large submarine volcano in the north Atlantic between Sao Miguel and Terceira in the Azores
Wikipedia - Donaciinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Donaghmede Shopping Centre -- Shopping centre in suburban northeastern Dublin
Wikipedia - Donaghmede -- Residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Dongdan station -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Dongdaqiao station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Dongfengbeiqiao station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Dongfeng Fengxing Jingyi X3 -- Subcompact CUV
Wikipedia - Donggao Di station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Dongguantou Nan(S) station -- future Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Donghuqu station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Dongsi Shitiao station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Dongsi station -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Dong (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Dongxiayuan station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Dongzhimen station -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Donja Gorica, Podgorica -- suburb of Podgorica, Montenegro
Wikipedia - Donlands station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Don Mills station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Donnybrook, Dublin -- Inner suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Donnycarney -- Northern suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Doom metal -- Subgenre of heavy metal music
Wikipedia - Doon Doon, New South Wales -- Suburb of Tweed Shire, New South Wales, Australia
Wikipedia - Dopamine receptor D3 -- Subtype of the dopamine receptor protein
Wikipedia - Doppelganger domain -- Domain spelled identically to a legitimate domain name but missing the dot between host/subdomain and domain
Wikipedia - Dorairajan Balasubramanian
Wikipedia - Dorcadionoides subaeneus -- Genus of beetles
Wikipedia - Dorcasominae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Dorudontinae -- Subfamily of mammals
Wikipedia - Dorylinae -- Subfamily of ants
Wikipedia - Dosan Ahn Changho-class submarine -- Submarine class
Wikipedia - Dothideomycetidae -- Subclass of fungi
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Wikipedia - Downey High School -- Senior high school in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey, California
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Wikipedia - Downtown Crossing station -- Subway station in Boston, Massachusetts
Wikipedia - Drabiv Raion -- Former subdivision of Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine
Wikipedia - Draft:2020 Lafayette Square protest -- Protest and subsequent act of force at the White House after the death of George Floyd
Wikipedia - Draft:African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW) -- Technical sub-committee of the [[African Union]] on Water and Sanitation
Wikipedia - Draft:Chael Sonnen's Submission Underground -- Amateur wrestling competitions
Wikipedia - Draft:GMA Worldwide -- Subsidiary of GMA Network
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Wikipedia - Draguignan -- Subprefecture of Var, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Wikipedia - Drama-Kavala-Xanthi Super-prefecture -- Former subdivision of Greece
Wikipedia - DraM-DM-^M, Podgorica -- suburb of Podgorica, Montenegro
Wikipedia - Dreadnought-class submarine -- Class of British nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines
Wikipedia - Drepaninae -- Subfamily of hook-tip moths
Wikipedia - Drimnagh -- Suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Drosera subg. Lasiocephala -- Subgenus of plants
Wikipedia - Drosophila subobscura -- Species of insect (fruit fly)
Wikipedia - Drowned World/Substitute for Love -- 1998 single by Madonna
Wikipedia - Drug -- Substance having an effect on the body
Wikipedia - Drumcondra, Dublin -- Inner northern suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Drumlin -- Elongated hill formed by the action of glacial ice on the substrate
Wikipedia - Dry Combat Submersible -- Midget submarine project
Wikipedia - Dry etching -- Controlled material removal, without the use of liquid substances
Wikipedia - Dryophthorinae -- Subfamily of weevils
Wikipedia - Dryptinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - DSK Hyp -- German subsidiary of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
Wikipedia - DSRV-1 Mystic -- US Navy deep-submergence rescue vehicle
Wikipedia - DSRV-2 Avalon -- Mystic-class deep-submergence rescue vehicle
Wikipedia - D subminiature military -- Electric/data connector used in aerospace, military, aviation, and electric cars
Wikipedia - D-subminiature
Wikipedia - DSV-5 Nemo -- Submersible used by the United States Navy
Wikipedia - DSV Alvin -- A manned deep-ocean research submersible owned by the United States Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Wikipedia - DSV Sea Cliff -- US Navy manned deep-ocean research submersible
Wikipedia - DSV Shinkai 2000 -- Japanese manned research submersible
Wikipedia - DSV Shinkai 6500 -- Japanese manned research submersible that can dive up to a depth of 6,500 metres
Wikipedia - DSV Shinkai -- Manned research submersible
Wikipedia - DSV Turtle -- US Navy manned deep-ocean research submersible
Wikipedia - Dublin Suburban Rail -- Five-line railway network serving Greater Dublin and beyond
Wikipedia - Dubtronica -- Music subgenre
Wikipedia - Duchy of Alsace -- Former political subdivision of the Frankish kingdoms
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Wikipedia - Dugald rail accident -- 1947 head-on collision and subsequent fire in Manitoba, Canada
Wikipedia - Duke of M-CM-^Vland -- Swedish substantive title
Wikipedia - Dummy subject
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Wikipedia - Dunant (submarine communications cable) -- Transatlantic communications cable connecting the US to France
Wikipedia - Dundas station (Toronto) -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Dundas West station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Dundee-Crown High School -- High school in Chicago suburbs
Wikipedia - Dundrum, Dublin -- Suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Dundrum Town Centre -- Large shopping centre in southern suburban Dublin
Wikipedia - Dungkhag -- Sub-district of a dzongkhag (district) of Bhutan
Wikipedia - Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology -- Creative arts and media third level institution in suburban Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Dun Laoghaire -- County town of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown and suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Dunoon, Cape Town -- Suburb of Cape Town, , South Africa
Wikipedia - Dupont station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Dusky Canada goose -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Duyong (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Dvinosauria -- Suborder of prehistoric amphibians
Wikipedia - Dvorak technique -- A subjective technique to estimate tropical cyclone intensity
Wikipedia - Dye-sublimation printer
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Wikipedia - Dynamopodinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Dynastinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Dyseriocrania subpurpurella -- Moth species in family Eriocraniidae
Wikipedia - Dytiscinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - E7M-BM-= -- Subalgebra of E8 containing E7
Wikipedia - Eared nightjar -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Early history of the IRT subway -- First New York City Subway line
Wikipedia - Earth lodge -- Semi-subterranean building
Wikipedia - EASSy -- Submarine fibre optic cable system
Wikipedia - East Coast hip hop -- Regional subgenre of hip hop music
Wikipedia - Eastern Algonquian languages -- A subgroup of the Algonquian languages
Wikipedia - Eastern box turtle -- Subspecies of reptile
Wikipedia - Eastern Herzegovinian dialect -- Subdialect of Serbo-Croatian
Wikipedia - Eastern Hills Mall -- Shopping mall in Clarence, New York, a suburb of Buffalo
Wikipedia - Eastern Iranian languages -- Subgroup of Iranian languages
Wikipedia - Eastern line (Kolkata Suburban Railway) -- transit line in Kolkata, India
Wikipedia - Eastern Mediterranean Optical System 1 -- Submarine fibre optic cable system
Wikipedia - Eastern Records -- Record label subsidiary
Wikipedia - Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line -- Rail service in Sydney, Australia
Wikipedia - Eastern Suburbs > Illawarra railway line
Wikipedia - East Gate of Peking University station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - East Ham -- Suburban district of London, England
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Wikipedia - East Kildonan, Winnipeg -- Suburban community in southeast Manitoba.
Wikipedia - East (London sub region)
Wikipedia - East Madagascar Current -- Current that flows southward on the east side of Madagascar and subsequently feeds the Agulhas Current
Wikipedia - East Tasman Plateau -- A submerged microcontinent south east of Tasmania
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Wikipedia - Eazhaiyin Sirippil -- 2000 film by K. Subash
Wikipedia - Ecca Group -- The second of the main subdivisions of the Karoo Supergroup of geological strata in southern Africa
Wikipedia - ECFS (cable system) -- Submarine fibre optic cable system
Wikipedia - Echeveria subrigida
Wikipedia - Ecosystem of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre -- The largest contiguous ecosystem on earth and a major circulating system of ocean currents
Wikipedia - Ecstasy (emotion) -- Subjective experience of total involvement of subject with object of their awareness
Wikipedia - Ectatomminae -- Subfamily of ants
Wikipedia - Ectoedemia subbimaculella -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Ectoedemia suberis -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Ectoplasm (paranormal) -- Substance in spiritualism
Wikipedia - Eczemotellus subtilipectus -- Genus of beetles
Wikipedia - Edenmore -- Suburban locality in Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Edibe SubaM-EM-^_i -- Turkish aviator
Wikipedia - Edition (book) -- Specific version of a work, resulting from its edition, adaptation, or translation; set of substantially similar copies of a work
Wikipedia - Edoid languages -- Subgroup of Volta-Niger languages of southern Nigeria
Wikipedia - Educational technology in sub-Saharan Africa
Wikipedia - Edward George Hudson Oliver -- (1938 - ) South African botanist is the recognized world authority on the subfamily ''Ericoideae''
Wikipedia - Edward L. Beach Jr. -- US Navy submarine officer and author
Wikipedia - Eeklo (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Eerste River, Western Cape -- Suburb of Cape Town, in Western Cape, South Africa
Wikipedia - Egerniinae -- Subfamily of skinks
Wikipedia - Egg substitutes -- Food products which can be used to replace eggs in cooking and baking
Wikipedia - Eglinton station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Eglinton, Western Australia -- Suburb of Perth, Western Australia
Wikipedia - Eglinton West station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Ego (2018 film) -- 2018 film directed by R.V. Subramanyam
Wikipedia - Ego death -- Complete loss of subjective self-identity
Wikipedia - Egoliinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Eiji Tsuburaya -- Japanese film director
Wikipedia - Ek Je Aachhe Kanya -- 2001 Indian Bengali film by Subrata Sen
Wikipedia - Elachista subalbidella -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Elachista subnigrella -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Elachista subocellea -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Elaeocarpus subvillosus -- Species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae
Wikipedia - Elaphrinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Elasmobranchii -- Subclass of fishes
Wikipedia - Elaterinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Electoral district of Eastern Suburbs (New South Wales) -- state electoral district of New South Wales, Australia
Wikipedia - Electoral district of Western Suburbs -- former state electoral district of New South Wales, Australia
Wikipedia - Electoral results for the district of Western Suburbs -- results for state seat of Western Suburbs, New South Wales, Australia
Wikipedia - Electrical resistivity and conductivity -- Measure of a substance's ability to resist or conduct electric current
Wikipedia - Electrical resistivity tomography -- A geophysical technique for imaging sub-surface structures
Wikipedia - Electric power transmission -- Bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site to an electrical substation
Wikipedia - Electric-Techno Neon Gods -- Taiwanese subcultural dance performance
Wikipedia - Electron -- Subatomic particle with negative electric charge (-1)
Wikipedia - Elementary particle -- Subatomic particle having no known substructure
Wikipedia - Elizabeth Subercaseaux -- Chilean journalist and writer
Wikipedia - Ellam Unakkaga -- 1961 film by Adurthi Subba Rao
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Wikipedia - Elminae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Embryophyte -- Subclade of green plants, also known as land plants
Wikipedia - Emergence -- Phenomenon in complex systems where interactions produce effects not directly predictable from the subsystems
Wikipedia - Emilie Schenkl -- Secretary to Subhas Chandras Bose
Wikipedia - Emonn M-CM-^S Braonain -- Subject of an Irish poem (died 1632)
Wikipedia - Emotion -- Subjective, conscious experience characterised primarily by psychophysiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states
Wikipedia - Emo -- Music genre derivative of punk rock music with emotional, introspective lyrics as well as a subculture based around it
Wikipedia - Empelinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Emperor of China (volcano) -- A submarine volcano in the western part of the Banda Sea, Indonesia
Wikipedia - Empidinae -- Subfamily of flies
Wikipedia - Empis (Anacrostichus) -- Subgenus of dance fly
Wikipedia - Encoptolophus subgracilis -- Species of grasshopper
Wikipedia - Endau (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Endomychinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - E (New York City Subway service) -- New York City Subway service
Wikipedia - Engineer -- Professional practitioner of engineering and its sub classes
Wikipedia - English Association -- A subject association for English
Wikipedia - English subjunctive
Wikipedia - Ennominae -- Subfamily of the geometer moths
Wikipedia - Ennomos subsignaria -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Enopliinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Enstatite -- Pyroxene: magnesium-iron silicate with MgSiO<sub>3</sub> and FeSiO<sub>3</sub> end-members
Wikipedia - Enterogona -- Order of marine animals in the tunicates subphylum
Wikipedia - Enterprise MRT station -- MRT subway station in Singapore
Wikipedia - Entheogen -- Psychoactive substances that induce spiritual experiences
Wikipedia - Entiminae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Entity List -- List published by the Bureau of Industry and Security of businesses, research institutions, government and private organizations, individuals, and other types of legal persons subject to specific license requirements for the export, reexport and/or transfer of specified items
Wikipedia - Environmental archaeology -- Sub-discipline of archaeology
Wikipedia - Environmental hazard -- A harmful substance, a condition or an event
Wikipedia - Eobelinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Epidapus subgracilis -- Species of fly
Wikipedia - Epidendroideae -- Subfamily of orchids
Wikipedia - Epilachninae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Epiphloeinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Epipocinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Epiprocta -- Taxonomic suborder of insects
Wikipedia - Episodic tremor and slip -- Seismological phenomenon observed in some subduction zones
Wikipedia - Epoch (geology) -- Subdivision of geological time; shorter than a period and longer than an age
Wikipedia - Equivalent spherical diameter -- The diameter of a sphere of the same volume as an irregularly-shaped subject
Wikipedia - ErdM-EM-^Qs-Szekeres theorem -- Sufficiently long sequences of numbers have long monotonic subsequences
Wikipedia - Ergative-absolutive alignment -- Pattern relating to the subject and object of verbs
Wikipedia - Erianthinae -- Subfamily of grasshoppers
Wikipedia - Ericoideae -- Subfamily of flowering plants in the heather family Ericaceae
Wikipedia - Eridard Nsubuga -- Anglican bishop that serves in Uganda
Wikipedia - Erligou station -- future Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Ermera Subdistrict -- Administrative division of East Timor
Wikipedia - Erotica -- Media, literature or art dealing substantively with erotically stimulating or sexually arousing subject matter
Wikipedia - Erotinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Erotomania -- Subtype of a delusional disorder
Wikipedia - Erotylinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Error threshold (evolution) -- A limit on the number of base pairs a self-replicating molecule may have before mutation will destroy the information in subsequent generations of the molecule
Wikipedia - Ersatz good -- Substitute good, particularly in wartime
Wikipedia - Escape character -- Character that invokes an alternative interpretation on subsequent characters in a character sequence
Wikipedia - Escape from Suburbia
Wikipedia - Escape trunk -- Ambient pressure escape system for submarines
Wikipedia - Escudo hummingbird -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Etampes -- Subprefecture and commune in M-CM-^Nle-de-France, France
Wikipedia - Etchplain -- A plain where the bedrock has been subject to considerable subsurface weathering
Wikipedia - Ethical subjectivism
Wikipedia - Ethnolect -- Lect associated with a certain ethnic or cultural subgroup
Wikipedia - Etlingera subulicalyx -- Species of plant
Wikipedia - Etruria, Staffordshire -- suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Wikipedia - Euaesthetinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Eubriinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. niphophila -- Subspecies of plant
Wikipedia - Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. pauciflora -- Species of plant
Wikipedia - Eucalyptus socialis subsp. eucentrica -- Subspecies of plant
Wikipedia - Eucalyptus socialis subsp. socialis -- Subspecies of plant
Wikipedia - Eucalyptus socialis subsp. victoriensis -- Subspecies of plant
Wikipedia - Eucalyptus socialis subsp. viridans -- Subspecies of plant
Wikipedia - Eucestoda -- Subclass of worms
Wikipedia - Eugenia subterminalis -- Species of plant in the family Myrtaceae
Wikipedia - Eugongylinae -- Subfamily of skinks
Wikipedia - Eulechria subpunctella -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Euler substitution -- A method of integration for rational functions.
Wikipedia - Eulima subula -- Species of sea snail
Wikipedia - Eunoe subfumida -- Species of annelid
Wikipedia - Eupholidota -- Suborder of pangolins
Wikipedia - Euphorbia heterophylla -- Species of plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to tropical and subtropical America
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subalba -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subanis -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subbreviata -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subcanipars -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subconclusaria -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subexiguata -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subextremata -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subfenestrata -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subflavolineata -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subfumosa -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subinduta -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subita -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia sublasciva -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia submiranda -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subnixa -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia suboxydata -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subplacida -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subpulchrata -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subregulosa -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subscriptaria -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subtilis -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subumbrata -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subvaticina -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupithecia subvulgata -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Eupterote subcurvifera -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Euretinae -- A subfamily of hexactinellid sponges
Wikipedia - European dhole -- Paleosubspecies of the dhole which ranged throughout much of Western and Central Europe during the Middle and Late Pleistocene
Wikipedia - Eutheria -- Clade of mammals in the subclass Theria
Wikipedia - Euzophera subcribrella -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Evaluation -- A systematic determination of a subject's merit, worth and significance,
Wikipedia - Evergestis subfuscalis -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Everyday Aesthetics -- Philosophy subfield
Wikipedia - Eviron, New South Wales -- Suburb of Tweed Shire, New South Wales, Australia
Wikipedia - Evolution of cells -- The evolutionary origin and subsequent development of cells
Wikipedia - Evolution of insects -- Development of insects from an ancestral crustacean and their subsequent radiation
Wikipedia - Evolution of nervous systems -- Origin and subsequent variation and development of neurons and neural tissues and organs
Wikipedia - Evolution of photosynthesis -- The origin and subsequent evolution of the process by which light energy is used to synthesize sugars
Wikipedia - Existence of God -- Subject of debate in the philosophy of religion and popular culture
Wikipedia - Exo-CBX -- Sub-unit of Exo
Wikipedia - Exocrine gland -- Gland that produces and secretes substances onto an epithelial surface way of a duct
Wikipedia - Exo-SC -- Sub-unit of Exo
Wikipedia - Experimental archaeology -- Archaeological sub-discipline
Wikipedia - Experimental Model 2 submachine gun -- Japanese submachine gun
Wikipedia - Experiment subject
Wikipedia - Expert witness -- Witness who is found by a court to have expertise and specialised knowledge in a particular subject beyond that of the average person
Wikipedia - Explicit substitution
Wikipedia - Explosive -- Substance that can explode
Wikipedia - Extra attacker -- Substitution of goalie for extra player in ice hockey
Wikipedia - Extreme metal -- Any of a number of related heavy metal music subgenres
Wikipedia - Exurb -- Area of less density than suburbs
Wikipedia - Eyprepocnemidinae -- Subfamily of grasshoppers
Wikipedia - Fabiola lucidella -- Species of concealer moth in subfamily Oecophorinae
Wikipedia - Faboideae -- Subfamily of plants
Wikipedia - Fadogia homblei -- perennial sub-Saharan shrublet
Wikipedia - Fahhad Al-Subaie -- Saudi athlete
Wikipedia - Fairey Firefly -- Carrier-based fighter and anti-submarine aircraft
Wikipedia - Fairmont Subdivision -- Railroad line between Grafton and Rivesville in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
Wikipedia - Fairy Bower, Queensland -- Suburb of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Wikipedia - Faisal Subzwari -- Pakistani politician (born 1975)
Wikipedia - Falconinae -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Faltings' product theorem -- On when a subvariety of a product of projective spaces is a product of varieties
Wikipedia - Family Red Apple boycott -- Boycott of a Korean-owned shop and subsequent anti-Korean sentiment among African Americans in New York
Wikipedia - Fangshan Chengguan station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Fangzhuang station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Fansub -- Practice of fans adding translation subtitles to media that has none
Wikipedia - Farallon Trench -- A subduction related tectonic formation off the coast of western California during the late to mid Cenozoic era
Wikipedia - Farrants Hill, New South Wales -- Suburb of Tweed Shire, New South Wales, Australia
Wikipedia - Far-right subcultures -- The symbolism, ideology and traits that hold relevance to various politically extreme right-wing groups and organisations
Wikipedia - Fatuberliu Subdistrict -- Administrative division of East Timor
Wikipedia - Fatumean Subdistrict -- Administrative division of East Timor
Wikipedia - Fault (technology) -- Abnormal condition or defect at the component, equipment, or sub-system level which may lead to a failure
Wikipedia - Faure, South Africa -- Suburb of the City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Wikipedia - FAW Vita -- Chinese subcompact car
Wikipedia - FB PM-63 -- Polish submachine gun
Wikipedia - Fear of God -- Fear or a specific sense of respect, awe, and submission to a deity
Wikipedia - Federal district -- Country subdivision administered by the federal government rather than being its own constituent state; may or may not have its own local government
Wikipedia - Federal subjects of Russia
Wikipedia - Federazione Italiana Attivita Subacquee -- Italian non-profit recreational diver training organisation affiliated to CMAS
Wikipedia - Feeling -- Conscious subjective experience of emotion
Wikipedia - Felpham -- Suburb of Bognor Regis, England
Wikipedia - Feltham -- Suburb of West London
Wikipedia - Feltia subterranea -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Femslash -- Subgenre of slash fan fiction
Wikipedia - Fengbo station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Fengtai Dongdajie station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Fengtainanlu station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Fengtai railway station -- Beijing Subway and under-construction railway station
Wikipedia - Fengtai Science Park station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Fenzhongsi station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Fenzhongsi -- transportation node and subway station in Beijing
Wikipedia - Feral (subculture)
Wikipedia - Ferret-class destroyer -- Subclass of the A-class destroyers
Wikipedia - Ferrybank, Waterford -- Suburb of Waterford city, in Counties Waterford and Kilkenny, Ireland
Wikipedia - Fertilizer -- Substance added to soils to supply plant nutrients for a better growth
Wikipedia - Fervent-class destroyer -- Subclass of the A-class destroyers
Wikipedia - Festival Omladina -- music festival held in Subotica, Serbia
Wikipedia - Feynman diagram -- Pictorial representation of the behavior of subatomic particles
Wikipedia - Fiat Oggi -- Subcompact car produced in South America by Fiat
Wikipedia - Fiat -- Automotive brand manufacturing subsidiary of FCA Italy
Wikipedia - Fiber -- Natural or synthetic substance made of long, thin filaments
Wikipedia - Fibre multi-object spectrograph -- Fibre optic spectrograph that is part of the Subaru telescope in Hawaii
Wikipedia - Ficus salicifolia -- Species or subspecies of Afrotropical fig
Wikipedia - Figueroa (Santurce) -- Subbarrio of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Filioque -- Latin term added to the original Nicene Creed, and which has been the subject of great controversy between Eastern and Western Christianity
Wikipedia - Filter (mathematics) -- In mathematics, a special subset of a partially ordered set
Wikipedia - Final good -- Commodity which is produced and subsequently consumed by the consumer
Wikipedia - Financial technology -- Subset of technologies used in finance
Wikipedia - Finch station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Finch West station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Finglas -- Outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Finitely generated abelian group -- A commutative group where every element is the sum of elements from one finite subset
Wikipedia - Finnish submarine Vesikko -- Submarine museum ship
Wikipedia - Fire retardant -- Substance reducing flammability
Wikipedia - Firhouse -- Outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Fishing bait -- Substance or device used to attract fish
Wikipedia - Five years plan to governing aborigines -- Military plan to submit the Taiwanese aboriginals to Japanese occupation
Wikipedia - Flag of Kemerovo Oblast -- Flag of a Russian federal subject
Wikipedia - Flag of Krasnodar Krai -- Flag of a Russian federal subject
Wikipedia - Flag of the Szekelys -- Ethnic flag of the Szekelys, a subgroup of the Hungarians
Wikipedia - Flag of Voronezh Oblast -- Flag of a Russian federal subject
Wikipedia - Flame retardant -- Substance applied to items to slow burning or delay ignition
Wikipedia - Flat (geometry) -- Affine subspace of an Euclidean space
Wikipedia - Flattr -- Swedish-based microdonation subscription service
Wikipedia - Float (oceanographic instrument platform) -- An oceanographic instrument platform used for making subsurface measurements in the ocean
Wikipedia - Flood -- Overflow of water that submerges land that is not normally submerged
Wikipedia - Floral formula -- Floral formula is a means to represent the structure of a flower using numbers, letters and various symbols, presenting substantial information about the flower in a compact form.
Wikipedia - Florence Owens Thompson -- Native-American farm worker, subject of Dorothea Lange's famous photo Migrant Mother
Wikipedia - Flores-Lembata languages -- Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - Florida banded water snake -- Subspecies of reptile
Wikipedia - Flower chafer -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Flowers of sulfur -- Very fine, bright yellow sulfur powder that is produced by sublimation and deposition
Wikipedia - Fluid -- Substance which continuously deforms under an applied shear stress, including liquids and gases
Wikipedia - Fluorescence -- Emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light
Wikipedia - Flying toilet -- A plastic bag that is used as a simple toilet substitute
Wikipedia - F (New York City Subway service) -- New York City Subway service
Wikipedia - FN P90 -- Personal defense weapon/Short and compact SMG gun(Submachine Gun)
Wikipedia - Fohoren Subdistrict -- Administrative division of East Timor
Wikipedia - Fontainea subpapuana -- Species of plant
Wikipedia - Fontconfig -- Free software library to provide configuration, enumeration and substitution of fonts
Wikipedia - Food -- Substances consumed as nutrition
Wikipedia - Football Bowl Subdivision
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Wikipedia - Ford Brasil -- Brazilian subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company
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Wikipedia - Ford Fiesta -- Series of subcompact automobiles produced by Ford
Wikipedia - Ford India Private Limited -- Indian subsidiary of Ford
Wikipedia - Ford of Europe -- Automotive manufacturing subsidiary of Ford Motor Company
Wikipedia - Ford Pinto -- Ford subcompact car (1971-1980)
Wikipedia - Forensic psychiatry -- Subspeciality of psychiatry, related to criminology
Wikipedia - Formalist-substantivist debate -- Debate between substantivist and formalist economic models
Wikipedia - Formation and evolution of the Solar System -- Formation of the Solar System by gravitational collapse of a molecular cloud and subsequent geological history
Wikipedia - Formica subaenescens -- Species of ant
Wikipedia - Formica subintegra -- Species of ant
Wikipedia - Formica subpolita -- Species of ant
Wikipedia - Formica subsericea -- Species of ant
Wikipedia - Formiciinae -- Extinct subfamily of ants
Wikipedia - Formicinae -- Subfamily of ants
Wikipedia - Formosan clouded leopard -- Extinct clouded leopard subspecies that was endemic to Taiwan
Wikipedia - Forsyth County News -- Subscription-based local newspaper presiding over Forsyth County in Georgia
Wikipedia - Fort Garry, Winnipeg -- Suburb of Winnipeg, Canada
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Wikipedia - Forward substitution
Wikipedia - Fox (Bulgarian TV channel) -- Fox International Channels subsidiary
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Wikipedia - Foxrock -- Suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Fractional crystallization (chemistry) -- Method for refining substances based on differences in their solubility
Wikipedia - Fragrant Hills station -- Beijing Subway light rail station
Wikipedia - Francis Parker Shepard -- An American sedimentologist known for work on submarine canyons and associated sea level change
Wikipedia - Francis Slattery -- American submarine commander
Wikipedia - Franklin Avenue Shuttle -- New York City Subway service
Wikipedia - Fratelli tutti -- Encyclical of Pope Francis published on 3 October 2020 on the subject of human fraternity
Wikipedia - Free fall -- Motion of a body subject only to gravity
Wikipedia - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing -- Online, searchable, encyclopedic dictionary of computing subjects
Wikipedia - Freguesia -- Administrative subdivision of Portugal
Wikipedia - Fremantle (company) -- Television content and production subsidiary
Wikipedia - French drain -- Sub-surface drainage system
Wikipedia - French submarine Arethuse (1916) -- Amphitrite-class French submarine
Wikipedia - French submarine Casabianca (S603) -- French submarine Casabianca (S603)
Wikipedia - French submarine Curie (P67) -- French submarine in the Second World War
Wikipedia - French submarine Euler -- French submarine
Wikipedia - French submarine Minerve (S647) -- Daphne-class patrol submarine, lost 1968
Wikipedia - French submarine Morse (1925) -- French submarine
Wikipedia - French submarine Narval (1925) -- French Requin-class submarine
Wikipedia - French submarine Nautilus (1930) -- French Saphir-class submarine
Wikipedia - French submarine Perle (1935) -- Saphir-class submarine built for the French Navy
Wikipedia - French submarine Phoque (1926) -- French Requin-class submarine
Wikipedia - French submarine Requin (1924) -- French Requin-class submarine
Wikipedia - French submarine Surcouf -- French submarine
Wikipedia - French submarine Turquoise (1908) -- Submarine of the French Navy
Wikipedia - Fresh'n -- 1970s toilet paper substitute
Wikipedia - Fretting -- Wear process that occurs at the contact area between two materials under load and subject to minute relative motion
Wikipedia - Friedrich Ernst Dorn -- German physicist and first to discover radioactive substance emitted from radon
Wikipedia - Fries rearrangement -- Rearrangement reaction of a phenolic ester to a keto-substituted phenol
Wikipedia - Frigatebird -- A family of seabirds found across tropical and subtropical oceans
Wikipedia - Frontier Telephone of Rochester -- Subsidiary
Wikipedia - Fruit preserves -- Semi-creamy substance made of fruits and/or vegetables and sugar.
Wikipedia - Fubuhe station -- Subway station in Hunan, China
Wikipedia - Fuchengmen station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Fuddu -- 2016 Indian film directed by Sunil Subramani
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Wikipedia - Fugue -- Contrapuntal musical form based on a subject that recurs in imitation
Wikipedia - Fuhrerbunker -- Subterranean bunker complex used by Adolf Hitler
Wikipedia - Fuji FA-200 Aero Subaru -- Single-engine piston-powered airplane
Wikipedia - Fukuoka City Subway -- Fukuoka City rapid transit lines
Wikipedia - Fukuoka Subway 1000 series -- Japanese train type
Wikipedia - Fukuoka Subway 2000 series -- Japanese train type
Wikipedia - Fukuoka Subway 3000 series -- Japanese train type
Wikipedia - Fukuzumi Station -- Subway station in Sapporo, Japan
Wikipedia - Fukyugata -- Kata practiced in many styles of Okinawan karate, particularly Matsubayashi-ryu
Wikipedia - Fulwood, Sheffield -- Suburb of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England
Wikipedia - Fumio M-EM-^Ltsubo -- Japanese entrepreneur
Wikipedia - Funky house -- Subgenre of house music
Wikipedia - Furry fandom -- Subculture interested in anthropomorphic animal characters
Wikipedia - Fur seal -- Subfamily of mammals
Wikipedia - Futong station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Future history -- Postulated history of the future and is used by authors in the subgenre of speculative fiction
Wikipedia - Future house -- House subgenre with metallic sound and frequency-modulated basslines
Wikipedia - Fuxing Men station (Beijing Subway) -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Fuzzy subalgebra
Wikipedia - GAA Handball -- Governing body for Gaelic handball on the island of Ireland, a subsidiary of the GAA
Wikipedia - Gabon forest robin -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Gadhimai, Bara -- part of Jeetpur Simara Sub-Metropolitan City in Province No. 2, Nepal
Wikipedia - Gakuen-Mae Station (Hokkaido) -- Subway station in Sapporo, Japan
Wikipedia - Galactic tide -- Tidal force experienced by objects subject to the gravitational field of a galaxy
Wikipedia - Galatsi -- Northern suburb of Athens, Greece
Wikipedia - Galerucinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Gallai-Edmonds decomposition -- Partition of the vertices of a graph into subsets satisfying certain properties
Wikipedia - Gambir (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - GameClub -- Mobile video game subscription service
Wikipedia - Gammaherpesvirinae -- Subfamily of viruses
Wikipedia - Gandhara -- Ancient kingdom in the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Gandul (Santurce) -- Subbarrio of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Gangari Brahmin -- Brahmin sub-caste in Uttarakhand, India
Wikipedia - Gangaridai -- Term used by ancient Greco-Roman writers for a people of the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Gangwar (social group) -- Farming sub-caste in India
Wikipedia - Ganjia Kou station -- future Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Gao Bei Dian station -- Beijing Subway station
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Wikipedia - Garay Department -- administrative subdivision of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina
Wikipedia - Garden Expo Park station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Gardens, Cape Town -- Inner-city suburb of Cape Town in Western Cape, South Africa
Wikipedia - Garrha submissa -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Gaunpalika -- Nepalese administrative subdivisions
Wikipedia - Gay skinhead -- Gay subculture
Wikipedia - GCE Advanced Level -- Subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education
Wikipedia - Geebung, Queensland -- Suburb of Brisbane, Australia
Wikipedia - Geek Squad -- Subsidiary of the US and Canadian company Best Buy
Wikipedia - Geely Binyue -- Chinese subcompact crossover SUV
Wikipedia - GE Healthcare -- U.S. corporate subsidiary
Wikipedia - Gek Poh MRT station -- MRT subway station in Singapore
Wikipedia - Gemas (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Gender and politics -- Academic subfield
Wikipedia - Gender history -- Sub-field of history and gender studies
Wikipedia - General Dynamics Electric Boat -- Submarine builder for US Navy
Wikipedia - General motion control -- Sub-field of automation
Wikipedia - General strike -- Strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labour force in a city, region, or country participates
Wikipedia - Generator (mathematics) -- Element of a generating set, a subset of an algebraic structure that allows specifying all elements of the structure
Wikipedia - Generic Substation Events -- Communications method used in power grids
Wikipedia - Geoarchaeology -- Archaeological sub-discipline
Wikipedia - Geographe, Western Australia -- Suburb of Busselton, Western Australia
Wikipedia - Geological period -- Subdivision of geological time; shorter than an era and longer than an epoch
Wikipedia - Geometrinae -- Subfamily of moths
Wikipedia - Geophagia -- Practice of eating earth or soil-like substrates such as clay or chalk
Wikipedia - George Washington's teeth -- The teeth of the first American President and the dentures that substituted them.
Wikipedia - Geotrupinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Geraldocossus -- Monotypic moth genus in subfamily Polizariellinae
Wikipedia - Geraniales -- Order of flowering plants in the rosid subclade of eudicots
Wikipedia - Gerbillinae -- Subfamily of mammals (rodents; Gerbillinae)
Wikipedia - Germanic languages -- Subgroup of the Indo-European language family
Wikipedia - Germanic substrate hypothesis
Wikipedia - German submarine U-104 (1940) -- German World War II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-1107 -- German world war II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-11 (1935) -- Type IIB U-boat
Wikipedia - German submarine U-116 (1941) -- German World War II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-1 (1935) -- Type IIA U-boat
Wikipedia - German submarine U-1195 -- German submarine sunk by antisubmarine mortar to the southeast of the Isle of Wight
Wikipedia - German submarine U-1206 -- German world war II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-1210 -- German world war II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-122 (1939) -- Missing German World War II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-1303 -- German world war II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-1304 -- German world war II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-13 (1935) -- Type IIB U-boat
Wikipedia - German submarine U-15 (1936) -- Type IIB U-boat
Wikipedia - German submarine U-17 (1935) -- Type IIB U-boat
Wikipedia - German submarine U-183 -- German WWII U-boat
Wikipedia - German submarine U-184 -- Missing German World War II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-19 (1935) -- Type IIB U-boat
Wikipedia - German submarine U-213 -- German world war II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-2 (1935) -- Type IIA U-boat
Wikipedia - German submarine U-22 (1936) -- German World War II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-238 -- German world war II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-25 (1936) -- Type I U-boat
Wikipedia - German submarine U-26 (1936) -- Type I U-boat
Wikipedia - German submarine U-3 (1935) -- Type IIA U-boat
Wikipedia - German submarine U-342 -- German World War II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-3505 -- German World War II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-35 (1936) -- 1936 U-boat
Wikipedia - German submarine U-352 -- German submarine sunk by depth charges south of Morehead City, North Carolina
Wikipedia - German submarine U-355 -- Germansubmarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-396 -- Missing German World War II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-40 (1938) -- German submarine sunk by a mine in the English Channel
Wikipedia - German submarine U-410 -- German type VIIC world war II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-4 (1935) -- Type IIA U-boat
Wikipedia - German submarine U-450 -- German world war II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-47 (1938) -- World War II German submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-473 -- German World War II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-505 -- German Type IXC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II
Wikipedia - German submarine U-515 -- German world war II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-517 -- German world war II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-5 (1935) -- Type IIA U-boat
Wikipedia - German submarine U-54 (1939) -- German World War II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-550 -- Submarine in WW2
Wikipedia - German submarine U-569 -- German world war II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-588 -- German world war II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-6 (1935) -- Type IIA U-boat
Wikipedia - German submarine U-651 -- German world war II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-669 -- German World War II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-672 -- Nazi's World War II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-69 (1940) -- German world war II submarine
Wikipedia - German submarine U-710 -- Type VIIC U-boat
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Wikipedia - German submarine U-74
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Wikipedia - German submarine U-9 (1935) -- Type IIB U-boat
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Wikipedia - German submarine U-96
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Wikipedia - German Type U 81 submarine -- Class of U-boats
Wikipedia - Gex, Ain -- Subprefecture and commune in Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
Wikipedia - G-funk -- Subgenre of hip hop music that emerged from West Coast gangsta rap in the early 1990s
Wikipedia - Ghagra choli -- A traditional clothing of women from Indian Subcontinent
Wikipedia - Gharial -- Crocodilian species native to the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Ghent (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Ghent-Eeklo (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Ghent-Eeklo (Flemish Parliament constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Ghetto house -- Sub-genre of house music
Wikipedia - Ghirardelli Chocolate Company -- American confectioner founded in 1852, subsidiary of Swiss confectioner Lindt & Sprungli
Wikipedia - Ghost crab -- Subfamily of crustaceans
Wikipedia - Gi alpha subunit
Wikipedia - Giant Canada goose -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Gillidanda -- Ameteur sport originating from the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Girls' toys and games -- Subset of toy and games that appeal to female children
Wikipedia - Girne Central Sub-district -- Administrive area in Northern Cyprus
Wikipedia - Glamour photography -- Photography genre; subjects are portrayed in glamorous poses
Wikipedia - Glasgow Subway -- Underground rapid transit line in Glasgow, Scotland
Wikipedia - Glasnevin -- Northern suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Glass house effect -- Awareness that one is subject to ubiquitous surveillance
Wikipedia - Glaucestrilda -- Subgenus of finch in the Estrildidae family
Wikipedia - Glazovsky Uyezd -- A subdivision of the Vyatka Governorate of the Russian Empire
Wikipedia - Gleeking -- Projection of saliva from the sublingual gland
Wikipedia - Glencairn, Cape Town -- Seaside suburb of Cape Town in Western Cape, South Africa
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Wikipedia - Globicephalinae -- subfamily of oceanic dolphins
Wikipedia - Glochid -- Detachable, irritating spines on cacti of the sub-family Opuntioideae
Wikipedia - Glomar Explorer -- Deep-sea drillship platform used by CIA to recover secretly a sunken Soviet submarine
Wikipedia - Glossata -- Suborder of moths and butterflies
Wikipedia - Glycosylation -- The covalent attachment and further modification of carbohydrate residues to a substrate molecule.
Wikipedia - GM Korea -- South Korean subsidiary of General Motors
Wikipedia - GMM Bravo -- Thai television content and production subsidiary
Wikipedia - Gnat -- Any of many species of tiny flying insects in the dipterid suborder Nematocera
Wikipedia - G (New York City Subway service) -- New York City Subway service
Wikipedia - Gnome Subtitles -- Open-source subtitle editor
Wikipedia - Gnoristinae -- Subfamily of flies
Wikipedia - GO-1 -- Submarine communications cable
Wikipedia - Goatstown -- Suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Gokulamlo Seeta -- 1997 Telugu film directed by Mutyala Subaiya
Wikipedia - Golden starfrontlet -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Golden Triangle (Norwich) -- Area within the south western suburbs Norwich, England
Wikipedia - Golf-class submarine -- Diesel electric ballistic missile submarine class
Wikipedia - Gomelsky Uyezd -- A subdivision of the Mogilev Governorate of the Russian Empire
Wikipedia - Gomphocerinae -- Subfamily of grasshoppers
Wikipedia - Gomphodontosuchinae -- Subfamily of traversodontid cynodonts
Wikipedia - Gonghuacheng station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Gongyixiqiao station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Gongzhufen station -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Gonzalo Payo Subiza -- Spanish politician
Wikipedia - Googie architecture -- Form of post-modern architecture style, a subdivision of futurist architecture
Wikipedia - Google China -- Chinese subsidiary of Google
Wikipedia - Google Environment -- Subsidiary company of Alphabet
Wikipedia - Google One -- Subscription cloud storage service developed by Google for managing storage used by Google's productivity software on the same account
Wikipedia - Google Play Pass -- Games and apps subscription service
Wikipedia - Gopalganj Subdivision -- Administrative subdivision in Bihar, India
Wikipedia - Gordon's Bay -- Harbour suburb of Cape Town in the Western Cape, South Africa
Wikipedia - Goregaon -- suburb of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Wikipedia - Goretsky Uyezd -- A subdivision of the Mogilev Governorate of the Russian Empire
Wikipedia - Gornja Gorica, Podgorica -- suburb of Podgorica, Montenegro
Wikipedia - Gorontalo-Mongondow languages -- Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - GOSUB
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Wikipedia - Gothic Western -- Contemporary subculture
Wikipedia - Goth subculture -- Contemporary subculture
Wikipedia - Gould's inca -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Govan subway station -- Glasgow subway station
Wikipedia - Governorate (Russia) -- Historic administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire and early Soviet Union
Wikipedia - Governorates of Jordan -- Administrative subdivisions of Jordan
Wikipedia - Gq alpha subunit
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Wikipedia - Grace Hopper (submarine communications cable) -- Transatlantic communications cable connecting the US to UK and Spain
Wikipedia - Graham Hawkes -- British marine engineer and designer of deep submersibles
Wikipedia - Graham Island (Mediterranean Sea) -- A submerged volcanic island south of Sicily
Wikipedia - Grain entrapment -- Being submerged in grain, with possibly fatal consequences
Wikipedia - Grandiose delusions -- Subtype of delusion
Wikipedia - Grangegorman -- Inner northern suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Granophyre -- A subvolcanic rock that contains quartz and alkali feldspar in characteristic angular intergrowths
Wikipedia - Graphite -- Allotrope of carbon, mineral, substance
Wikipedia - Graptolithina -- Subclass of Pterobranchia in the phylum Hemichordata
Wikipedia - Grasse -- Subrefecture of Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Wikipedia - Greasbrough -- Suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England
Wikipedia - Greaser (subculture) -- 1950s and 60s youth subculture in the United States
Wikipedia - Greater Central Philippine languages -- Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - Greater Mekong Subregion -- Trans-national region of the Mekong River in Southeast Asia
Wikipedia - Greater North Borneo languages -- Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - Greatest Hits (Sublime album) -- compilation album by Sublime
Wikipedia - Great Trigonometrical Survey -- 19th-century survey to measure the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Green-crowned woodnymph -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Green Line B branch -- Boston Massachusetts subway line
Wikipedia - Green Line C branch -- Boston Massachusetts subway line
Wikipedia - Green Line D branch -- Boston Massachusetts subway line
Wikipedia - Green Line E branch -- Boston Massachusetts subway line
Wikipedia - Green Line (MBTA) -- Boston Massachusetts subway line
Wikipedia - Greenmeadow -- Suburb of Cwmbran in Monmouthshire, Wales
Wikipedia - Green Mountains -- Subrange of the Appalachian Mountains in Quebec, Canada and Vermont, United States
Wikipedia - Greenwood station (Toronto) -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Gregarinasina -- Subclass of protists
Wikipedia - Grevenmacher (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Grevillea subterlineata -- Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae endemic to Western Australia
Wikipedia - Grevillea subtiliflora -- Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae endemic to Western Australia
Wikipedia - Grevilleoideae -- Subfamily of plants in the family Proteaceae, mainly from the Southern Hemisphere
Wikipedia - Gridlink Interconnector -- Subsea electricity connector
Wikipedia - Grimdark -- Subgenre of speculative fiction
Wikipedia - Grodnensky Uyezd -- A subdivision of the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire
Wikipedia - Gromov's compactness theorem (topology) -- On limiting subsequences of sequence of pseudoholomorphic curves with uniform energy bound
Wikipedia - Grouper -- Subfamily of fishes
Wikipedia - Growth factor -- Protein or other substance that stimulates cellular proliferation
Wikipedia - Grumman S-2 Tracker -- Family of carrier-borne anti-submarine and maritime patrol aircraft
Wikipedia - Gs alpha subunit
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Wikipedia - Guadalupe Mountains (Hidalgo County) -- long, sub-mountain range|range]] in southwest New Mexico adjacent the southeast border of Arizona
Wikipedia - Guadalupe wren -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Guaguanco -- Subgenre of Cuban rumba
Wikipedia - Guaira Falls -- Submerged waterfall on the Parana River in Brazil and Paraguay
Wikipedia - Guai (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Guam Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse -- Government agency of Guam
Wikipedia - Guan (bird) -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Guang'anmennei station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Guangqumennei station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Guangqumenwai station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Guangximen station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Guangyangcheng station -- Beijing Subway station
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Wikipedia - Guappo -- Historical criminal subculture and term of address in Neapolitan language
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Wikipedia - Guidelines for human subject research
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Wikipedia - Guloudajie station -- Beijing Subway interchange station
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Wikipedia - Gunavanthudu -- 1975 Telugu film directed by Adurthi Subba Rao
Wikipedia - Gunong Semanggol (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
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Wikipedia - Guomao station (Beijing Subway) -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Guo Yuan station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Guozhuangzi station -- Beijing Subway station
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Wikipedia - Gutter punk -- Punk subculture
Wikipedia - Gymnure -- Subfamily of mammals
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Wikipedia - Habrocerinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Hacker culture -- Subculture of individuals
Wikipedia - Hacker (programmer subculture)
Wikipedia - Hack (programmer subculture)
Wikipedia - Hadeninae -- Subfamily of moths
Wikipedia - Haeteriinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Hagik station -- railway station on Suin Line of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway
Wikipedia - Haidianhuangzhuang station -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Haidomyrmecinae -- Extinct subfamily of ants
Wikipedia - Haihu Tun station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Hajong people -- Ethnic group in the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Haj subsidy -- Subsidy given to Hajj pilgrims by Govt of India
Wikipedia - Hakea subsulcata -- Species of shrub in the family Proteacea endemic to Western Australia
Wikipedia - Hakhshara -- Centers where Zionist youth would learn technical skills necessary for their emigration to Israel and subsequent life in kibbutzim
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Wikipedia - Halmahera swiftlet -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Halothamnus subaphyllus -- Species of plant
Wikipedia - Hamilton East, New Zealand -- Suburb of Hamilton, New Zealand
Wikipedia - Hamster -- Subfamily of rodents (Cricetinae)
Wikipedia - Hande SubaM-EM-^_i -- Turkish actress
Wikipedia - Handy-class destroyer -- Subclass of the A-class destroyers
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Wikipedia - Hanukkah film -- Film genre whose main subject matter is the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah
Wikipedia - Haplogroup Q-M25 -- Subgroup of a human Y-DNA haplogroup
Wikipedia - HapM-EM-+ -- Sub-tribe in Maoridom (and in Aotearoa New Zealand)
Wikipedia - Harbor Point (Subic) -- Shopping mall in the Philippines
Wikipedia - Hardcore punk -- Subgenre of punk rock
Wikipedia - Hardline (subculture) -- Subculture that advocates a biocentric worldview
Wikipedia - Hardy-class destroyer -- Subclass of the A-class destroyers
Wikipedia - Harmattan -- Season in the West African subcontinent which occurs between the end of November and the middle of March
Wikipedia - Harmonstown railway station -- Suburban rail (DART) stop, northern Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Harmonstown -- Northern suburban locality of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Harnham -- Suburb of Salisbury, England
Wikipedia - Harpactirinae -- Subfamily of African tarantula spiders
Wikipedia - Harpalinae -- Subfamily of ground beetles
Wikipedia - Harsh noise wall -- Subgenre of harsh noise
Wikipedia - Harti -- Sub-clan of the Somali Darod clan
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Wikipedia - Hasselt-Tongeren-Maaseik (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Hasselt-Tongeren-Maaseik (Flemish Parliament constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Hathazari Upazila -- Subdistrict in Chittagong District, Bangladesh
Wikipedia - Hatkar -- Hindu caste native to the Indian state of Maharashtra, where it is a sub-caste of Dhangar caste
Wikipedia - Hatolia Subdistrict -- Administrative division of East Timor
Wikipedia - Hatwal -- A sub-caste of Garhwali brahmins
Wikipedia - Hauptvermutung -- Must two triangulations of a triangulable space have equivalent subdivisions? (No)
Wikipedia - Havock-class destroyer -- Subclass of the A-class destroyers
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Wikipedia - Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System -- Submarine communications cable system
Wikipedia - Hawkins Bank -- A large, submerged bank off the Mascarene Plateau in the Indian Ocean
Wikipedia - Hayatnagar Subhas Samity Library -- Library in West Bengal, India
Wikipedia - Hayu (subscription service) -- Video streaming service
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Wikipedia - Hazardous Substances Data Bank
Wikipedia - Hazard substitution -- Replacing a material or process with a lower risk alternative
Wikipedia - Hazard -- A substance or situation which has the potential to cause harm to health, life, the environment, property, or any other value
Wikipedia - HBO Go -- Subscription video-on demand service
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Wikipedia - Healy (volcano) -- Submarine volcano in New Zealand's Kermadec Islands
Wikipedia - HEARTECT platform -- Subcompact car platform
Wikipedia - Heath hen -- Extinct subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Heat shield -- Component to shield a substance from absorbing excessive heat
Wikipedia - Heavy metals -- Loosely defined subset of elements that exhibit metallic properties
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Wikipedia - Heckler & Koch MP7 -- German series of submachine guns
Wikipedia - Hedgehog (weapon) -- 1940s shipboard multi-barrel anti-submarine mortar weapon of British origin
Wikipedia - Hedgehog -- Subfamily of small spiny mammals
Wikipedia - Heideveld -- Suburb of Athlone, in Western Cape, South Africa
Wikipedia - Heine-Borel theorem -- A subset of Euclidean space is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded
Wikipedia - Hei Zhuang Hu station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Heliastus subroseus -- Species of grasshopper
Wikipedia - Helicia subcordata -- Species of plant in the family Proteaceae endemic to Papua New Guinea
Wikipedia - Helicteroideae -- Subfamily of plants
Wikipedia - Heliopolis, Cairo -- Cairo suburb
Wikipedia - Hell -- Afterlife location in which souls are subjected to punitive suffering, often torture
Wikipedia - Helminthoglyptinae -- Subfamily of land snails
Wikipedia - Help:Substitution -- Help about using templates
Wikipedia - Hemiacridinae -- Subfamily of grasshoppers
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Wikipedia - Hemiopinae -- Subfamily of beetles
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Wikipedia - Hepingmen station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Hepingxiqiao station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Herbert Kleber -- American psychiatrist and substance abuse researcher
Wikipedia - Hermit (hummingbird) -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Herniaria lusitanica subsp. berlengiana -- Subspecies of plant
Wikipedia - Herpetotherinae -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Herrera (Santurce) -- Subbarrio of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Hertsa Raion -- Former subdivision of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine
Wikipedia - Hesioninae -- Subfamily of annelids
Wikipedia - Heterocongrinae -- Subfamily of Congridae
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Wikipedia - Heteroponerinae -- Subfamily of ants
Wikipedia - Heteroscleromorpha -- A subclass of demosponges
Wikipedia - Heworth, York -- Suburb of the City of York, North Yorkshire, England
Wikipedia - Hexasterophora -- A subclass of Hexactinellid sponges
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Wikipedia - Hibarigaoka Station (Hokkaido) -- Subway station in Sapporo, Japan
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Wikipedia - Hidden subgroup problem
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Wikipedia - Hierarchy -- System of elements that are subordinated to each other
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Wikipedia - Higashi-Sapporo Station -- Subway station in Sapporo, Japan
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Wikipedia - Hiletinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Hilina Slump -- Subsided section of the Big Island of Hawaii
Wikipedia - Hill cipher -- Substitution cipher based on linear algebra
Wikipedia - Hillcrest, Hamilton -- Suburb of Hamilton, New Zealand
Wikipedia - Hillfields -- Suburb of Coventry, England
Wikipedia - Hillhead subway station -- Glasgow subway station
Wikipedia - Hillingdon -- suburban area within the London Borough of Hillingdon
Wikipedia - Hillion Mall -- Suburban shopping mall in Bukit Panjang, Singapore
Wikipedia - Hilsa, Bihar -- Sub-division of the Nalanda district in Bihar, Indian
Wikipedia - Hindu joint family -- Extended family common in the Indian subcontinent particularly founded in India
Wikipedia - Hindu-Muslim unity -- Religiopolitical concept in the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Hindustani classical music -- Art music of northern regions of the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Hindustan Petroleum -- Indian oil marketing company and a subsidiary of ONGC
Wikipedia - Hindustan Unilever -- Indian subsidiary of Unilever
Wikipedia - Hindustan -- Historic and geographic term for the whole or part of the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Hip hop -- Subculture including music, dance and graffiti
Wikipedia - Hipodromo (Santurce) -- Subbarrio of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Hippomelanina -- Subtribe of beetles
Wikipedia - Hippopotamus -- large, mostly herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa
Wikipedia - Hipster (contemporary subculture)
Wikipedia - Hiragishi Station (Sapporo) -- Subway station in Sapporo, Japan
Wikipedia - Hispanoclavinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Histerinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Historian's fallacy -- Assumption that decision makers of the past viewed events from the same perspective and having the same information as those subsequently analyzing the decision
Wikipedia - Historic Roman Catholic Properties in Mobile Multiple Property Submission -- multiple listing in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Wikipedia - History and culture of substituted amphetamines -- Socio-cultural aspects and history of amphetamine
Wikipedia - History of agriculture in the Indian subcontinent -- Overview of the history of agriculture in the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - History of clothing in the Indian subcontinent -- Aspect of history
Wikipedia - History of India -- Historical aspects of the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - History of science and technology in the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - History of the New York City Subway -- Aspect of history
Wikipedia - History painting -- Genre in painting defined by narrative subjects
Wikipedia - Hitotsubashi-Gakuen Station -- Railway station in Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan
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Wikipedia - H. L. Hunley (submarine)
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Wikipedia - HMC ML Q051 -- A wooden Fairmile B Motor Launch (ML) upgunned sub chaser delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) on 24 November 1941.
Wikipedia - HMC ML Q052 -- A wooden Fairmile B Motor Launch (ML) upgunned submarine chaser delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) on 31 October 1941.
Wikipedia - HMC ML Q053 -- A wooden Fairmile B Motor Launch (ML) upgunned submarine chaser delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) on 17 November 1941.
Wikipedia - HMC ML Q054 -- A wooden Fairmile B Motor Launch (ML) upgunned sub chaser delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) on 17 October 1941.
Wikipedia - HMC ML Q055 -- A wooden Fairmile B Motor Launch (ML) upgunned sub chaser delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) on 6 November 1941.
Wikipedia - HMC ML Q057 -- A wooden Fairmile B Motor Launch (ML) upgunned submarine chaser delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) on 28 October 1941.
Wikipedia - HMCS Windsor -- Long-range hunter-killer (SSK) submarine
Wikipedia - HM-EM-^Msui-Susukino Station -- Subway station in Sapporo, Japan
Wikipedia - HMS A1 -- The Royal Navy's first British-designed submarine
Wikipedia - HMS A3 -- A-class submarine of the Royal Navy
Wikipedia - HMS Agamemnon (S124) -- Astute-class submarine
Wikipedia - HMS Agincourt (S125) -- Astute-class submarine
Wikipedia - HMS Ambush (S120) -- Astute-class nuclear fleet submarine of the Royal Navy
Wikipedia - HMS Anson (S123) -- Astute-class submarine
Wikipedia - HMS Aurochs (P426) -- Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy
Wikipedia - HMS Bradman -- Anti-submarine warfare trawler of the Royal Navy
Wikipedia - HMS E31 -- British E class submarine
Wikipedia - HMS E5 -- British E-class submarine
Wikipedia - HMS Falmouth (1910) -- Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy sunk off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire by German submarines
Wikipedia - HMS G2 -- British G-class submarine
Wikipedia - HMS G4 -- British G-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during World War I
Wikipedia - HMS G8 -- Submarine
Wikipedia - HMS Graph -- German World War II submarine
Wikipedia - HMS J6 -- J class submarine
Wikipedia - HMS K2 -- K class submarine
Wikipedia - HMS K4 -- British K class submarine built by Vickers
Wikipedia - HMS M1 -- Submarine of the British Royal Navy launched in 1917
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Wikipedia - HMS Revenge (S27) -- Resolution-class submarine launched in 1968
Wikipedia - HMS Safari -- Royal Navy S-class submarine which served in World War II
Wikipedia - HMS Salmon (N65) -- Submarine
Wikipedia - HMS Sceptre (P215) -- UK submarine
Wikipedia - HMS Seadog -- Submarine
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Wikipedia - HMS Snapper (39S) -- Submarine
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Wikipedia - Holcopogoninae -- Subfamily of moths
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Wikipedia - Honda Fit -- Subcompact/supermini car manufactured by Honda
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Wikipedia - Hulu Besut (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
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Wikipedia - Human challenge study -- Intentional exposure of test subjects to a pathogen to test a vaccine or drug
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Wikipedia - Human fat -- Historic pharmaceutical substance of human origin
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Wikipedia - Human subject research
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Wikipedia - Hunan University station -- Subway station in Hunan, China
Wikipedia - Hundreds of Norfolk -- Traditional administrative subdivision of Norfolk, England
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Wikipedia - Hunter-killer Group -- World War II groups of anti-submarine warships
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Wikipedia - Huojian Wanyuan station -- Beijing Subway station
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Wikipedia - Huoying station -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Huperzioideae -- subfamily of plants
Wikipedia - Hurricane engineering -- Sub-discipline of civil engineering
Wikipedia - Huy (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Huy-Waremme (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Hyblaea subcaerulea -- Moth species in family Hyblaeidae
Wikipedia - Hybosorinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Hybrid integrated circuit -- Miniature electronic circuit combining different semiconductor devices and passive components on a substrate
Wikipedia - Hybrid open-access journal -- Journal publishing a mixture of open access and subscription based content
Wikipedia - Hyde Park (Hato Rey) -- Subbarrio of Hato Rey Sur barrio, in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Hydnocerinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Hydrangeoideae -- Subfamily of plants
Wikipedia - Hydrate -- Substance containing water or its constituent elements
Wikipedia - Hydrobatinae -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Hydrodytinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Hydroidolina -- A subclass of hydrozoans
Wikipedia - Hydrophilinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Hydrophylloideae -- Subfamily of plants
Wikipedia - Hydroporinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Hyperinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Hyperspace -- "sub-region" or alternate superluminal travel depicted in science fiction
Wikipedia - Hypocalinae -- Subfamily of moths
Wikipedia - Hyposmocoma subaurata -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Hyundai Accent -- subcompact car produced by Hyundai
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Wikipedia - Hyundai Creta -- Subcompact crossover
Wikipedia - Hyundai Kona -- Subcompact crossover SUV
Wikipedia - Hyundai Venue -- Subcompact crossover SUV
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Wikipedia - Iberoformica subrufa -- Species of ant
Wikipedia - Ibogaine -- Psychoactive substance found in plants in the family Apocynaceae
Wikipedia - IbriM-DM-^Mevina, Podgorica -- suburb of Podgorica, Montenegro
Wikipedia - Ibrox subway station -- Glasgow subway station
Wikipedia - Ichitsubo Station -- Railway station in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Wikipedia - Icing conditions -- Atmospheric conditions that can lead to the formation of ice on aircraft surfaces and lead to substantial disturbance of the aerodynamics.
Wikipedia - Ictineo I -- Pioneering submarine constructed in Barcelona, Spain in 1858-1859
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Wikipedia - Idaea subsaturata -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Idaea subsericeata -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Ideal (set theory) -- A non-empty family of sets that is closed under finite unions and subsets.
Wikipedia - IEEE 1613 -- IEEE standard for communications networking devices in electric power substations
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Wikipedia - Ijebu people -- Ethnic subtribal group of Nigeria
Wikipedia - Iki (aesthetics) -- Japanese aesthetical concept of subdued expressions of taste and wealth
Wikipedia - Illusory palinopsia -- Subtype of palinopsia
Wikipedia - Image subtraction -- Digital image manipulation technique
Wikipedia - I-ME-WE -- Submarine communications cable system between India and France
Wikipedia - Immigrans-tripunctata radiation -- Species group of the subgenus Drosophila
Wikipedia - Immune tolerance -- State of unresponsiveness of the immune system to substances or tissue that have the capacity to elicit an immune response
Wikipedia - Immunoglobulin heavy chain -- Large polypeptide subunit of an antibody
Wikipedia - Impersonal verb -- Verb that has no determinate subject
Wikipedia - Impossible Foods -- U.S. company making plant-based meat substitutes
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Wikipedia - Imputation (statistics) -- Process of replacing missing data with substituted values
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Wikipedia - Incheon Subway Line 2 -- Subway line in Incheon, South Korea
Wikipedia - Inchicore -- Suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Incroyables and merveilleuses -- Fashionable aristocratic subculture in Paris during the French Directory (1795-1799)
Wikipedia - IND Concourse Line -- New York City Subway line
Wikipedia - IND Crosstown Line -- New York City Subway line
Wikipedia - IND Culver Line -- New York City Subway line
Wikipedia - IND Eighth Avenue Line -- New York City Subway line
Wikipedia - Independent Subway System -- Defunct subway operator in New York City
Wikipedia - Inderapura (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - IND Fulton Street Line -- New York City Subway line
Wikipedia - Indian classical music -- Classical music from the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Indian English -- Group of English dialects spoken primarily in the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Indian indenture system -- System of indentured servitude, functioning as a substitute for slave labour, following the abolition of the slave trade in 1833 and continued until the 1920s
Wikipedia - Indian leopard -- Leopard subspecies
Wikipedia - Indian philosophy -- Philosophical traditions of the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Indian religions -- Religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Indian Subcontinent
Wikipedia - Indian sub continent
Wikipedia - Indian subcontinent -- Peninsular region in south-central Asia south of the Himalayas
Wikipedia - Indian wolf -- Wolf subspecies
Wikipedia - Indigenous archaeology -- Sub-discipline of western archaeological theory
Wikipedia - Indo-Aryan migrations -- Theory of migrations of Indo-Aryan peoples into the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Indochinese leopard -- Leopard subspecies
Wikipedia - Indo-Greek Kingdom -- Hellenistic kingdom, covered parts of northwest Indian subcontinent during the two last centuries BC
Wikipedia - Indology -- Academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Indo-Persian culture -- Persian aspects integrated into or absorbed into the cultures of the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - IND Queens Boulevard Line -- New York City Subway line
Wikipedia - Indra Hang Subba -- Indian politician
Wikipedia - IND Rockaway Line -- New York City Subway line
Wikipedia - IND Sixth Avenue Line -- New York City Subway line
Wikipedia - Induced subgraph
Wikipedia - Industrial archaeology -- Archaeological sub-discipline
Wikipedia - Industrial hip hop -- Subgenre of hip hop
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Wikipedia - Informed consent -- Process for obtaining subject approval prior to treatment or research
Wikipedia - Infoshop -- A space that serves as a node for the distribution of political, subcultural and radical information
Wikipedia - Infosys BPM -- Company subsidiary
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Wikipedia - INIS character set -- 7-bit ASCII subset used for the International Nuclear Information System
Wikipedia - Inorganic substance -- Inorganic substance
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Wikipedia - Inspectorates-General (Turkey) -- Former Turkish regional administrative subdivision
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Wikipedia - Insubmersibility
Wikipedia - Insubres
Wikipedia - Insubria -- Historical-geographical region in Europe
Wikipedia - Insular India -- The isolated land mass which became the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Insular Plate -- Ancient oceanic plate that began subducting under the west-coast of North America around the early Cretaceous time
Wikipedia - Integrated Authority File -- International authority file for personal names, subject headings and corporate bodies
Wikipedia - Integrated Ocean Drilling Program -- Marine research program between 2003-2013 to monitor and sample sub-seafloor environments
Wikipedia - Integration by substitution -- Technique in integral evaluation
Wikipedia - Intensive care medicine -- Medical care subspecialty, treating critically ill
Wikipedia - Interborough Rapid Transit Company -- Defunct subway operator in New York City
Wikipedia - Intergradation -- Connections between subspecies
Wikipedia - International Chemical Identifier -- Identifier for chemical substances
Wikipedia - International Linear Collider -- Proposed linear accelerator for subatomic particles
Wikipedia - International mobile subscriber identity -- ITU-T recommendation
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Wikipedia - Introduction to evolution -- non-technical overview of the subject of biological evolution
Wikipedia - Invariant subspace problem
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Wikipedia - Iranian subsidy reform plan
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Wikipedia - Iron Man and Sub-Mariner
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Wikipedia - IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line -- New York City Subway line
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Wikipedia - Japanese submarine I-17 -- 1941 1st class submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy
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Wikipedia - Japanese submarine I-1 -- Imperial Japanese Navy submarine
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Wikipedia - Japanese submarine I-24 (1939) -- Type C cruiser submarine
Wikipedia - Japanese submarine I-32 -- Type B1 submarine
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Wikipedia - Japanese submarine I-46 -- Type C cruiser submarine
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Wikipedia - List of Argentine submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Australian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Bangladeshi submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Bhutanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Bolivian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of books and publications related to the hippie subculture
Wikipedia - List of Bosnian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Brazilian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Cambodian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Cameroonian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
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Wikipedia - List of Chadian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of Chilean submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Chinese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of classical music sub-titles, nicknames and non-numeric titles -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of closed New York City Subway stations -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Colombian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Costa Rican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of Costa Rican films
Wikipedia - List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of country subdivisions by population -- List of the most populous first-level administrative country subdivisions in the world
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Wikipedia - List of county subdivisions in Michigan -- List of county subdivisions in Michigan
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Wikipedia - List of Croatian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of crotaline species and subspecies -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Cuban submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Czechoslovak submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Czech submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Danish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Democratic Republic of the Congo submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of discredited substances -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of district-level subdivisions in Vietnam
Wikipedia - List of Dominican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of Dominican films
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Wikipedia - List of Dutch submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Ecuadorian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Egyptian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII on the Rosary -- Encyclicals by Pope Leo XIII on the subjecy of the Rosary
Wikipedia - List of erycine species and subspecies -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Estonian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Ethiopian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of etymologies of country subdivision names -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic particles -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Fijian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of film and television scores composed by Dinesh Subasinghe -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of films related to the hippie subculture -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Finnish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of first-level administrative country subdivisions by nominal GDP per capita -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of flags from Japanese subregions -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Gato-class submarines -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Georgian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of German Type XXIII submarines -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Ghanaian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Ghanaian films
Wikipedia - List of Glasgow Subway stations -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Greek subdivisions by GDP -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Greek submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Greenlandic submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of Guatemalan submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of Guatemalan films
Wikipedia - List of Haitian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of heads of federal subjects of Russia -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Honduran submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of Hong Kong submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Hungarian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Icelandic submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Indian spices -- Variety of spices grown across the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - List of Indian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Indonesian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of inner suburbs in the United States -- Wikimedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Iranian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Iraqi submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Irish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Israeli submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Italian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Ivorian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Jordanian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Juggalo gang subsets -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Kazakhstani submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Kenyan submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of Kenyan films
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Wikipedia - List of KonoSuba episodes -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Kosovan submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of Kuwaiti submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Kyrgyz submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of language subsystems -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Laotian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of Latin music subgenres -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Latvian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Lebanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of leptotyphlopid species and subspecies -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Lesotho submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Lesotho films
Wikipedia - List of Lithuanian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of longest subway tunnel sections -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Los Angeles-class submarines -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of lost Russian or Soviet submarines -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Luxembourgish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Macedonian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Malawian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of Malaysian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Maltese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of marine bony fishes of South Africa -- A Sublist of the List of marine fishes of South Africa
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Wikipedia - List of mathematical symbols by subject -- Wikipedia list of math symbols organized by subject
Wikipedia - List of Mauritanian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
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Wikipedia - List of Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Mitsubishi A6M Zero operators -- Wikimedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Mitsubishi-Jartazi rosters -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Moldovan submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Mongolian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Montenegrin submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of Moroccan submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of most-subscribed YouTube channels -- Most-subscribed YouTube channels
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Wikipedia - List of Mozambican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of Mumbai Suburban Railway stations -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Nepalese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Nepalese films
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Wikipedia - List of New Zealand submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of Nicaraguan submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of Nicaraguan films
Wikipedia - List of Nigerian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Nigerian films
Wikipedia - List of Nigerien submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of noise music sub-genres -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of non-English-language newspapers with English-language subsections -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Norwegian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of nuclear submarines -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Pakistani submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Palestinian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Panamanian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Paraguayan submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of people subject to banning orders under apartheid -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Peruvian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Philippine submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Podgorica neighbourhoods and suburbs -- Neighbourhoods and suburbs in Podgorica, capital of Montenegro
Wikipedia - List of Polish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of political and geographical subdivisions by population -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area (all) -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area in excess of 1,000,000 square kilometers -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area in excess of 200,000 square kilometers -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Portuguese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of postos of Mozambique -- Administrative subdivisions of Mozambique
Wikipedia - List of pre-20th century submarines -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Puerto Rican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of purpose-built capitals of country subdivisions -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of pythonid species and subspecies -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of regions and sub-regions of Portugal -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Romanian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Russian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Saudi Arabian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of films
Wikipedia - List of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei episodes -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Senegalese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- List of Senegalese films
Wikipedia - List of Serbian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of ships and submarines built in Barrow-in-Furness -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Singaporean submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Slovak submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Slovenian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of snack foods from the Indian subcontinent -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of South African submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of South Korean submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Soviet and Russian submarine classes -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of Spanish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of specifications of submarines of World War II -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Sri Lankan submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of state leaders in 19th-century British south Asia subsidiary states -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - List of submissions for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of submissions to the 29th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film -- Wikipedia list article
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Wikipedia - North Slavs -- Subgroup of Slavic peoples
Wikipedia - North Station (subway) -- Rapid transit station in Boston
Wikipedia - North Vanuatu languages -- Subgroup of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - Northwestern wolf -- Subspecies of mammal
Wikipedia - Northwest Sumatra-Barrier Islands languages -- Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - North York Centre station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Nose Station -- Railway station in Tsubata, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
Wikipedia - Nothobroscina -- Subtribe of beetle
Wikipedia - Nothurinae -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Nototylus -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Nottingham Suburban Railway -- British railway company
Wikipedia - Nova Ushytsia Raion -- Former subdivision of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine
Wikipedia - Novel -- Narrative text, normally of a substantial length and in the form of prose describing a fictional and sequential story
Wikipedia - Novoselytsia Raion -- Former subdivision of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine
Wikipedia - Novotroitske Raion -- Former subdivision of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine
Wikipedia - Novovorontsovka Raion -- Former subdivision of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine
Wikipedia - NOx -- Generic term for the nitrogen oxides NO and NO<sub>2</sub>
Wikipedia - Nsubane Pongola Transfrontier Conservation Area -- A proposed protected area in South Africa and Swaziland
Wikipedia - Nubian giraffe -- subspecies of giraffe
Wikipedia - Nuclear chain reaction -- one single nuclear reaction causes more subsequent nuclear reactions
Wikipedia - Nuclear submarine -- Submarine propelled by nuclear power
Wikipedia - Nuclear triad -- nuclear weapons launchable from strategic bombers, submarines and ICBMs
Wikipedia - Nucleophilic substitution -- Class of chemical reactions
Wikipedia - Null-subject language -- Language whose grammar permits an independent clause to lack an explicit subject
Wikipedia - Nu metal -- Subgenre of alternative metal
Wikipedia - Nunose Station -- Railway station in Matsubara, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Wikipedia - Nutgrove Shopping Centre -- Mid-size suburban shopping facility, Rathfarnham, Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Nutrient -- Substance that an organism uses to live
Wikipedia - Nyanga, Western Cape -- Suburb of Cape Town, in Western Cape, South Africa
Wikipedia - Nyzhni Sirohozy Raion -- Former subdivision of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine
Wikipedia - Object (philosophy) -- Philosophy term often used in contrast to the term subject
Wikipedia - Obreption and subreption (Catholic canon law)
Wikipedia - Obrero (Santurce) -- Subbarrio of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
Wikipedia - Occupational exposure limit -- Upper limit on the acceptable concentration of a hazardous substance
Wikipedia - Oceaneering International -- Subsea engineering and applied technology company
Wikipedia - Oceanic languages -- Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - Ocean Park (Santurce) -- Subbarrio of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Ochthebiinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Ochus subvittatus -- Species of butterfly
Wikipedia - Octocorallia -- A subclass of Anthozoa with 8-fold symmetry
Wikipedia - Octolepidoideae -- Subfamily of plants
Wikipedia - Odd Down -- Suburb of Bath, England
Wikipedia - Oenothera deltoides subsp. howellii -- Subspecies of plant
Wikipedia - Oesilo Subdistrict -- Administrative division of East Timor
Wikipedia - Oestodinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - O-Ethyl methylphosphonothioic acid -- A chemical often used in the creation of harmful substances.
Wikipedia - Office of Insular Affairs -- Subsidiary of the Department of the Interior
Wikipedia - Officer, Victoria -- Suburb of Melbourne, Australia
Wikipedia - Offshore geotechnical engineering -- A sub-field of engineering concerned with human-made structures in the sea
Wikipedia - Ogasawara Subprefecture -- Subprefecture of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan
Wikipedia - Ogasawara subtropical moist forests -- Ecoregion in Japan
Wikipedia - OGLE-2018-BLG-0799Lb -- Sub-Saturn- mass exoplanet
Wikipedia - Ohio-class submarine -- Class of US nuclear ballistic missile submarines
Wikipedia - Ohio River Subdivision -- Railroad line between Wheeling and Huntington in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
Wikipedia - Oi! -- Subgenre of punk rock
Wikipedia - Okuryangava -- Suburb of Windhoek, Namibia
Wikipedia - Old Kildonan -- A suburb of Winnipeg, Canada
Wikipedia - Old Mill station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata -- Subspecies of the olive tree
Wikipedia - Oleshky Raion -- Former subdivision of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine
Wikipedia - Olethreutinae -- Subfamily of moths
Wikipedia - Olev Subbi -- Estonian artist
Wikipedia - Olga Tsuberbiller -- Russian mathematician
Wikipedia - Oligochaeta -- Subclass of annelids including earthworms
Wikipedia - Olisthaerinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Oloron-Sainte-Marie -- Subprefecture of PyrM-CM-)nM-CM-)es-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Wikipedia - OLPC XO -- Inexpensive subnotebook computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world
Wikipedia - Oluranti Adebule -- 15th substantive Deputy Governor of Lagos state
Wikipedia - Olympic Green station -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Olympic Sports Center station (Beijing Subway) -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Omaliinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Omalisinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Omega Sagittarii -- G-type subgiant star in the constellation of Sagittarius
Wikipedia - Omer (submarine) -- Series of human-powered submarines
Wikipedia - Omni Park -- Suburban shopping facility in northern Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Oncidiinae -- Subtribe of flowering plants
Wikipedia - OneSoccer -- Canadian subscription over-the-top streaming service
Wikipedia - Ongar, Dublin -- Outer residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Ongole (Lok Sabha constituency) -- Indian political subdivision
Wikipedia - OnlyFans -- British subscription-only content service launched in 2016
Wikipedia - On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances -- Paper by Josiah Willard Gibbs
Wikipedia - On the Sublime
Wikipedia - Onthophilinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - ON TV (TV network) -- American subscription television service
Wikipedia - Onycha -- Unknown biblical substance used in incense
Wikipedia - Opel Crossland -- Subcompact crossover SUV
Wikipedia - Opel -- German automotive brand, subsidiary of Groupe PSA
Wikipedia - OpenGL ES -- A subset of the OpenGL API for embedded systems
Wikipedia - Open set -- Basic subset of a topological space
Wikipedia - Operatic pop -- Subgenre of pop music
Wikipedia - Operation Midnight Climax -- CIA sub-project of Project MKUltra studying the effects of LSD
Wikipedia - Operation Sandblast -- Code name for the first submerged circumnavigation of the world
Wikipedia - Operation Source -- Second World War Royal Navy midget submarine attacks on heavy German warships in Norway
Wikipedia - Ophioglossidae -- Subclass of ferns
Wikipedia - Opinion -- Judgment, viewpoint, or statement that is not conclusive; may deal with subjective matters in which there is no conclusive finding
Wikipedia - OpM-EM-!tina -- Administrative subdivision in Slavic countries roughly equivalent to a municipality
Wikipedia - Opsonin -- Any molecule that identifies and marks cells or substances for destruction by the immune system
Wikipedia - Optimal substructure
Wikipedia - Optonica -- Hi-Fi subbrand of Sharp
Wikipedia - Orakei -- Suburb of Auckland
Wikipedia - Oral administration -- Route of administration where a substance is taken through the mouth
Wikipedia - Orange Caramel -- South Korean girl group, sub-unit of After School
Wikipedia - Orange Line (MBTA) -- MBTA subway line
Wikipedia - Oranjezicht -- Suburb od Cape Town, in Western Cape, South Africa
Wikipedia - Orarion -- Long, narrow stole decorated with crosses worn by deacons and subdeacons of the Eastern Orthodox church
Wikipedia - Orchidoideae -- Subfamily of orchids
Wikipedia - Oregocerata submontana -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Oreta sublustris -- Species of hook-tip moth
Wikipedia - Oreta subvinosa -- Species of hook-tip moth
Wikipedia - Organelle -- Specialized subunit within a cell
Wikipedia - Organic chemistry -- Subdiscipline of chemistry
Wikipedia - Organizational behavior management -- subdiscipline of applied behavior analysis
Wikipedia - ORP Bielik (1965) -- Polish submarine
Wikipedia - Orphninae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - ORP Orzel (1938) -- Polish WWII submarine
Wikipedia - Orshansky Uyezd -- A subdivision of the Mogilev Governorate of the Russian Empire
Wikipedia - Orthacridinae -- Subfamily of grasshoppers
Wikipedia - Orthoceratoidea -- Subclass of cephalopods
Wikipedia - Orthogoniinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Oruc Reis-class submarine -- Submarine class
Wikipedia - Osaka Municipal Subway 30000 series -- Japanese train type
Wikipedia - Osaka Municipal Subway 70 series -- Japanese train type
Wikipedia - Osaka Municipal Subway New 20 series -- Japanese train type
Wikipedia - Osbourn Seamount -- The western-most and oldest unsubducted seamount of the Louisville Ridge
Wikipedia - Oscar Gugen -- A founder of the British Sub-Aqua Club
Wikipedia - Osgoode station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Oshawa Seamount -- A submarine volcano in the Pacific off the coast of Haida Gwaii (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia
Wikipedia - Osoriinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Osprey Reef -- A submerged atoll in the Coral Sea, northeast of Queensland, Australia. It is part of the Northwestern Group of the Coral Sea Islands
Wikipedia - Ossington station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Ossu Subdistrict -- Administrative division of East Timor
Wikipedia - Osu, Accra -- Suburb of Accra
Wikipedia - Otorhinolaryngology -- Surgical subspeciality concerned with ear, nose, and throat conditions
Wikipedia - Ototretinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Otter -- Subfamily of mammals (Lutrinae)
Wikipedia - Ottery, Cape Town -- Suburb of Cape Town, in Western Cape, South Africa
Wikipedia - Oudenaarde (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Ou Kaapse Weg -- Mountain pass in the Cape Peninsula between the Southern Suburbs and Fish Hoek Valley
Wikipedia - Our Lady of Soufanieh -- Marian apparitions reported in Soufanieh, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, in the 1980's
Wikipedia - Outcasts (Marvel Comics Subterranea) -- Fictional comic book group
Wikipedia - Outer trench swell -- A subtle ridge on the seafloor near an oceanic trench, where a descending plate begins to flex and fault
Wikipedia - Outlaw motorcycle club -- Motorcycle subculture
Wikipedia - Overconfidence effect -- Bias in which a person's subjective confidence in their judgment is greater than the objective accuracy of those judgments
Wikipedia - Overlapping subproblems
Wikipedia - Overman Committee -- US Senate Committee on the Judiciary subcommittee (1918-1919)
Wikipedia - Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program -- international project to study the link between water mass transformation at high latitudes and the meridional overturning circulation in the North Atlantic
Wikipedia - Oxidizing agent -- Chemical compound used to oxidize another substance in a chemical reaction
Wikipedia - Oxycoryninae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Oxyinae -- Subfamily of grasshoppers
Wikipedia - Oxynopterini -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Oxyporinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Oxytelinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Oyashio Current -- A cold subarctic ocean current that flows south and circulates counterclockwise in the western North Pacific Ocean
Wikipedia - Pace (transit) -- Suburban bus service in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Wikipedia - Pachucas -- Female Mexican American subculture
Wikipedia - Pachyplectrinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Packard Bell -- Dutch-based computer manufacturing subsidiary of Acer
Wikipedia - Padang Tengku (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Padma Subrahmanyam -- Indian classical Bharata Natyam dancer
Wikipedia - Paederinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Pagan metal -- Subgenre of metal music
Wikipedia - Paint scraper -- Tool for scraping paint or other coating from a substrate
Wikipedia - Paka (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Pakora -- Fritter from the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Pak Subuh
Wikipedia - Pala Empire -- Empire in the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Palaiseau -- Subprefecture and commune in M-CM-^Nle-de-France, France
Wikipedia - Palaungic languages -- Subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family
Wikipedia - Palawanic languages -- Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - Palembangese people -- Malay ethnic subgroup
Wikipedia - Paleopathology -- Archaeological sub-discipline
Wikipedia - Pallavi Subhash -- Sri Lankan film actress
Wikipedia - Palliser Range -- Subrange of the Front Ranges in Alberta, Canada
Wikipedia - Palmetto Subdivision -- CSX railroad line in Florida
Wikipedia - Paloh (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Palong (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Palophaginae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Palsa -- A low, often oval, frost heave occurring in polar and subpolar climates
Wikipedia - Pamiers -- Subprefecture and commune in Occitanie, France
Wikipedia - Panagaeinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - PAN AM (cable system) -- Submarine communications cable system
Wikipedia - Panching (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Pandanaceae -- Family of flowering plants native to the tropics and subtropics of the Old World
Wikipedia - Pandan Reservoir MRT station -- MRT subway station in Singapore
Wikipedia - Pangkor (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Panjiayuan station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Panniculus carnosus -- Subcutaneous tissue
Wikipedia - Panskurar Chop -- A snack originating from the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Pantai Remis (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Pante Macassar Subdistrict -- Administrative division of East Timor
Wikipedia - Panthera pardus spelaea -- Pleistocene leopard subspecies
Wikipedia - Panthera tigris soloensis -- Subspecies of mammal
Wikipedia - Panti (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Panurginae -- Bee subfamily
Wikipedia - Papadum -- A thin, crisp, round flatbread from the Indian subcontinent.
Wikipedia - Pape station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Papilio machaon oregonius -- Subspecies of swalllowtail butterflies
Wikipedia - Papilioninae -- Subfamily of butterflies
Wikipedia - Parablacinae -- Subfamily of click beetles
Wikipedia - Parabola (magazine) -- Quarterly magazine on the subjects of mythology and the world's religious and cultural traditions
Wikipedia - Paracellular transport -- Transfer of substances by passing through space between cells
Wikipedia - Paralarva -- Young cephalopods in the planktonic stages between hatchling and subadult
Wikipedia - Parallelodiplosis subtruncata -- Species of fly
Wikipedia - Parandrinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Paranormal radio shows -- Radio programs focusing on paranormal subjects
Wikipedia - Parapatric speciation -- Speciation within a population where subpopulations are reproductively isolated
Wikipedia - Paraphyly -- Property of a group which includes only descendants of a common ancestor, but excludes at least one monophyletic subgroup
Wikipedia - Parareptilia -- Subclass of reptiles
Wikipedia - Parasimuliinae -- Subfamily of insects
Wikipedia - Paratha -- Flatbread originating in the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Parathyreinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Parel Vallei -- Suburb of Somerset West in the Western Cape, South Africa
Wikipedia - Pargana -- Former administrative unit of the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Parit Raja (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Parkchester General Hospital -- defunct hospital in The Bronx/NYC, subsequently a nursing home
Wikipedia - Parkgate, South Yorkshire -- Suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England
Wikipedia - Parklands, Western Cape -- Suburb od Cape Town, in Western Cape, South Africa
Wikipedia - Park Ranges -- Subrange of the Continental Ranges in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada
Wikipedia - Park Street station (MBTA) -- Subway station in Boston, United States
Wikipedia - Park Subin -- South Korean singer
Wikipedia - Parque (Santurce) -- Subbarrio of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Pars compacta -- Dopamine-releasing portion of the substantia nigra
Wikipedia - Pars reticulata -- GABA-releasing portion of the substantia nigra
Wikipedia - Partick station -- Glasgow subway and railway station
Wikipedia - Partido (region) -- Administrative subdivision in various countries
Wikipedia - Pashmina -- Fine subset of cashmere wool
Wikipedia - Pasir Panjang (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Pasir Pinji (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Pasir Raja (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Passiflora suberosa -- Species of plant
Wikipedia - Patagonian crested duck -- Subspecies of duck native to South America
Wikipedia - Patient -- Person who takes a medical treatment or is subject of a case study
Wikipedia - Patnam Subramania Iyer -- Indian composer
Wikipedia - Patsoi -- Sub-district in Imphal West District of Manipur
Wikipedia - Pattuthoovaala -- 1965 film by P. Subramaniam
Wikipedia - Paucitubulatina -- A suborder of gastrotrichs in the order Chaetonotida
Wikipedia - Pay television -- Subscription-based television services
Wikipedia - Paywall -- System that prevents Internet users from accessing webpage content without a paid subscription
Wikipedia - Pearic languages -- Subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family
Wikipedia - Pediasia subflavellus -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Pedosphere -- The outermost layer of the Earth that is composed of soil and subject to soil formation processes
Wikipedia - Pei Commandery -- Ancient Chinese political subdivision
Wikipedia - Pekan Nanas (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Peking Man -- Subspecies of the genus Homo (fossil)
Wikipedia - Pelangai (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Pelham Bay General Hospital -- defunct hospital in The Bronx/NYC, subsequently a nursing home
Wikipedia - Pemanis (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Pembroke Township -- Former local administrative area in the suburbs of Dublin, Ireland (1863-1930)
Wikipedia - Penal substitution
Wikipedia - Penawar (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Penggaram (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Pengkalan Baharu (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Pengkalan Berangan (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Pengkalan Hulu (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Peng Kang Hill MRT station -- MRT subway station in Singapore
Wikipedia - Penguin Bank -- A now-submerged shield volcano of the Hawaiian Islands
Wikipedia - Penitente (snow formation) -- Field of regularly spaced ice formations formed by sublimation at high altitudes
Wikipedia - Penn State child sex abuse scandal -- Concerned allegations and subsequent convictions of child sexual abuse committed by Jerry Sandusky
Wikipedia - Pennsylvanian (geology) -- Second subperiod of the Carboniferous
Wikipedia - Penny sterling -- Subdivision of pound sterling, currently worth one hundredth of a pound
Wikipedia - Peramu Jaya (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances -- Class of chemical compounds
Wikipedia - Perdicinae -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Peregrinus (Roman) -- Free provincial subject of the Roman Empire who was not a Roman citizen
Wikipedia - Performance archaeology -- Subset of archaeological theory
Wikipedia - Performance-enhancing substance
Wikipedia - Perfume -- Mixture of fragrant substances, usually in liquid form, used to give agreeable scent to objects, air or living creatures
Wikipedia - Pericopina -- List of subtribe of insects
Wikipedia - Perinthina -- Subtribe of beetles
Wikipedia - Peritrich -- Subclass of ciliate eukaryotes
Wikipedia - Perkin triangle -- Chemistry apparatus specialized for the distillation of air-sensitive substances
Wikipedia - Permaisuri (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Permas (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Persian Gulf Residency -- Colonial subdivision of the British Raj
Wikipedia - Persian leopard -- Leopard subspecies
Wikipedia - Persiculinae -- Subfamily of sea snails
Wikipedia - Personal defense weapon -- Type of submachine gun
Wikipedia - Persoonioideae -- Subfamily of plants of closely related genera in the family Proteaceae
Wikipedia - Perspiration -- Substance secreted by sweat gland
Wikipedia - Pertang (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Peruvian Yungas -- Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in the Yungas of Peru
Wikipedia - Pesticide -- Substance used to destroy pests
Wikipedia - Peter Still -- Former slave and subject of slave narrative
Wikipedia - Peter Suber
Wikipedia - Petroleum jelly -- Chemical substance used as lubricating agent
Wikipedia - Petroleum reservoir -- Subsurface pool of hydrocarbons
Wikipedia - Petta (film) -- 2019 Indian Tamil-language film by Karthik Subbaraj
Wikipedia - Petts Wood -- Suburb of southeastern Greater London, United Kingdom
Wikipedia - Peugeot -- French automotive brand manufacturing subsidiary of Groupe PSA
Wikipedia - Pezotettiginae -- Subfamily of grasshoppers
Wikipedia - PG 1047+003 -- Subdwarf B star in the constellation Sextans
Wikipedia - Phaegopterina -- Subtribe of moths
Wikipedia - Phalangeriformes -- Suborder of arboreal marsupials
Wikipedia - Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme -- Australian Government subsidy for prescription medication
Wikipedia - Phasianinae -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Phenomenology (psychology) -- Psychological study of subjective experience
Wikipedia - Phiala subiridescens -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Phiala subochracea -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Philip Arnold Subira Anyolo -- Kenyan Roman Catholic bishop
Wikipedia - Philippeville (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Philippine Trench -- A submarine trench to the east of the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean
Wikipedia - Philippi, Western Cape -- Suburb of Cape Town, in Western Cape, South Africa
Wikipedia - Phillipstown, New Zealand -- Suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand
Wikipedia - Philosopher's stone -- Legendary alchemical substance
Wikipedia - Philosophical ethology -- Field of multidisciplinary research which gathers natural sciences, social science, human studies and is dedicated to the issue of animal subjectivity
Wikipedia - Philosophy of self -- Defines, among other things, the conditions of identity that make one subject of experience distinct from all others
Wikipedia - Phlebobranchia -- Suborder of marine animals in the tunicates subphylum
Wikipedia - Phloeocharinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Phonk -- Subgenre of hip hop inspired by Memphis rap
Wikipedia - Photochemistry -- Sub-discipline of chemistry
Wikipedia - Photurinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Phycitinae -- Subfamily of moths
Wikipedia - Phycitodes subcretacella -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Phyllonorycter suberifoliella -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Phyllonorycter sublautella -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Physical chemistry -- Study of macroscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems in terms of laws and concepts of physics
Wikipedia - Physical substance
Wikipedia - Physodactylinae -- Subfamily of click beetles
Wikipedia - Picinae -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Piculet -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Pierinae -- Subfamily of butterflies
Wikipedia - Piestinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Pilah (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose -- Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
Wikipedia - Pilrig -- Suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland
Wikipedia - Pilton, Edinburgh -- Suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland
Wikipedia - Pim-on Klaisuban -- Thai sports shooter
Wikipedia - Pine Creek Subdivision -- Railroad line wholly within Omar in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
Wikipedia - Piney Creek Subdivision -- Railroad line in West Virginia
Wikipedia - Ping'anli station -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Pingguo Yuan station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Pingleyuan station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Pingxifu station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Pinus torreyana subsp. torreyana -- Subspecies of plant
Wikipedia - Pipe-laying ship -- Ship type used to lay subsea pipelines
Wikipedia - Pisces-class deep submergence vehicle -- Three person research deep-submergence vehicles
Wikipedia - Pit viper -- Subfamily of venomous vipers
Wikipedia - Pityobiinae -- Subfamily of click beetles
Wikipedia - Pixar Canada -- Former Pixar animation studio subsidiary
Wikipedia - Pizza Principle -- Comparison between the cost of a slice of pizza and a subway ride in New York City
Wikipedia - Placebo -- Substance or treatment of no therapeutic value
Wikipedia - Plane (esotericism) -- A subtle state, level, or region of reality
Wikipedia - Planetary romance -- Subgenre of science fiction focussing on adventures on alien planets
Wikipedia - Plantago subnuda -- Species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae
Wikipedia - Plant evolution -- subset of evolutionary phenomena that concern plants
Wikipedia - Plasma Wave Subsystem -- Instrument on board the Voyager space probes
Wikipedia - Platform gap filler -- Movable platform edge extensions at subway or railway stations
Wikipedia - Platyedra subcinerea -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Platyninae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Platypodinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Playfair cipher -- Early block substitution cipher
Wikipedia - Pleurothallis subnulla -- Species of plant
Wikipedia - Pleurothallis subreniformis -- Species of plant
Wikipedia - Pleurothallis subsinuata -- Species of plant
Wikipedia - Pleurothallis subtilis -- Species of plant
Wikipedia - Pleurothallis tsubotae -- Species of plant
Wikipedia - Plover -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Plum -- Subgenus of plants
Wikipedia - Plunger-class submarine -- 1903 class of submarines of the United States Navy
Wikipedia - Plympton -- A suburb of Plymouth, England
Wikipedia - PNS Ghazi -- Pakistani War Submarine
Wikipedia - PNS Hangor (S131) -- Pakistani submarine
Wikipedia - PNS Shushuk (S132) -- Pakistan Navy diesel-electric submarine
Wikipedia - PobreM-EM->je, Podgorica -- suburb of Podgorica, Montenegro
Wikipedia - Poddar -- Surname native to the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Pogonomyrmex subdentatus -- Species of ant
Wikipedia - Pogonomyrmex subnitidus -- Species of ant
Wikipedia - Pointe-Claire -- Suburban municipality of Montreal, Canada
Wikipedia - Poison -- Substance that causes death, injury or harm to organs
Wikipedia - Pokok Assam (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Polar set -- Subset of all points that is bounded by some given point of a dual (in a dual pairing)
Wikipedia - Polar topology -- Dual space topology of uniform convergence on some sub-collection of bounded subsets
Wikipedia - Police procedural -- Subgenre of detective fiction
Wikipedia - Policy studies -- Subdisicipline of political science
Wikipedia - Polistinae -- Subfamily of insects
Wikipedia - Political philosophy -- Sub-discipline of philosophy and political science
Wikipedia - Politics of country subdivisions
Wikipedia - Pollutant -- Substance or energy damaging to the environment
Wikipedia - Polonne Raion -- Former subdivision of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine
Wikipedia - Polyamorphism -- The ability of a substance to exist in more than one distinct amorphous state
Wikipedia - Polycestinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Polyclinidae -- Family of chordates in the tunicates subphylum
Wikipedia - Polygonoideae -- Subfamily of the knotweed family of plants (Polygonaceae)
Wikipedia - Polygraphic substitution -- Cipher
Wikipedia - Polyipnus matsubarai -- Species of fish
Wikipedia - Polylepis subsericans -- Species of plant
Wikipedia - Polymath -- Individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects
Wikipedia - Polymer science -- Subfield of materials science concerned with polymers
Wikipedia - Polymer -- Substance composed of macromolecules with repeating structural units
Wikipedia - Polynormal subgroup -- subgroup group in group theory in mathematics
Wikipedia - Polyopisthocotylea -- A subclass of parasitic flatworms in the class Monogenea
Wikipedia - Polyphaga -- Suborder of beetles
Wikipedia - Polypodiineae -- Suborder of ferns
Wikipedia - Polysorbate 20 -- Chemical substance
Wikipedia - Pom Prap -- Administrative sub-district in Bangkok
Wikipedia - Ponerinae -- Subfamily of ants
Wikipedia - Ponginae -- Subfamily of mammals
Wikipedia - Ponte Sublicio -- Bridge in Rome
Wikipedia - Pontine cistern -- Subarachnoid cistern in front of the pons
Wikipedia - Pontoise -- Subprefecture and commune in M-CM-^Nle-de-France, France
Wikipedia - Popolocan languages -- Subfamily of Oto-Manguean languages of southern Mexico
Wikipedia - PorM-DM-^Yby Wolskie -- Village in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland
Wikipedia - Portal:Africa/Subportals -- Wikimedia portal subpage
Wikipedia - Portal:Aviation/Categories and Main topics -- Wikimedia portal subpage
Wikipedia - Portal:Canada/Selected panorama -- Wikimedia portal subpage
Wikipedia - Portal:Olympic Games/Did you know -- Wikimedia portal subpage
Wikipedia - Portal:Olympic Games/Selected article -- Wikimedia portal subpage
Wikipedia - Portal:Olympic Games/Selected athlete -- Wikimedia portal subpage
Wikipedia - Portal:Olympic Games/Selected picture -- Wikimedia portal subpage
Wikipedia - Portal:Olympic Games/Selected quote -- Wikimedia portal subpage
Wikipedia - Portals (Sub Focus and Wilkinson album)
Wikipedia - Portal:War/Topics -- Wikimedia portal subpage
Wikipedia - Portland Library Society -- Subscription library in Maine, US
Wikipedia - Portmarnock -- Coastal outer suburban village north of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Portrait painting -- Genre in painting, where the intent is to depict a specific human subject
Wikipedia - Port Sunlight -- Model village and suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England
Wikipedia - Positron -- Subatomic particle with positive charge
Wikipedia - Postal counties of the United Kingdom -- Subdivision of the United Kingdom
Wikipedia - Post-medieval archaeology -- Archaeological sub-discipline
Wikipedia - Post-progressive -- Rock subgenre related to progressive rock
Wikipedia - Post-rock -- Subgenre of rock music, often instrumental
Wikipedia - Post Street Electric Substation -- An electric substation on the Spokane River in the city of Spokane, Washington
Wikipedia - Post-structuralist subject
Wikipedia - Postum -- roasted-grain beverage popular as a coffee substitute
Wikipedia - Potter wasp -- Subfamily of insects
Wikipedia - PowerBook Duo -- Line of subnotebooks manufactured and sold by Apple Computer
Wikipedia - Power metal -- Subgenre of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal
Wikipedia - Pozo del Hato (Santurce) -- Subbarrio of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Prabowo Subianto -- Indonesian minister and politician
Wikipedia - Prades, PyrM-CM-)nM-CM-)es-Orientales -- Subprefecture of PyrM-CM-)nM-CM-)es-Orientales, Occitanie
Wikipedia - Pranitha Subhash -- Indian film actress
Wikipedia - Preble's meadow jumping mouse -- Subspecies of mammal
Wikipedia - Prefecture -- An administrative jurisdiction or subdivision in any of various countries
Wikipedia - Pre-Greek substrate -- Extinct language of prehistoric Greece
Wikipedia - Premiere (TV channel) -- Former European subscription movie channel
Wikipedia - Preminchu -- 2001 film by Boyina Subba Rao
Wikipedia - Preppy -- Modern, widespread subculture in the United States
Wikipedia - Pressure vessel -- A container designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure substantially different from the ambient pressure
Wikipedia - Preview (subscription service) -- American subscription television service
Wikipedia - Prigorje -- Geographical subregion around Zagreb, Croatia
Wikipedia - Primary succession -- Gradual growth and change of an ecosystem on new substrate
Wikipedia - Primedia Broadcasting -- Subsidiary of the South African media group Primedia
Wikipedia - Prioninae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Priorswood -- District in the northern Dublin suburb of Coolock
Wikipedia - Priya Balasubramaniam -- Indian engineer
Wikipedia - Priz-class deep-submergence rescue vehicle -- Russian submersibles
Wikipedia - Proceratiinae -- Subfamily of ants
Wikipedia - Proceratophrys subguttata -- Species of frog
Wikipedia - Process substitution
Wikipedia - Proctolabinae -- Subfamily of grasshoppers
Wikipedia - Production (computer science) -- In computer science, a rewrite rule specifying a substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new sequences
Wikipedia - Professional submissive -- Sex worker who performs the submissive role in BDSM activities
Wikipedia - Profile (engineering) -- Engineering concept; subset internal to a specification
Wikipedia - Pro-form -- Word or form that substitutes for another word
Wikipedia - Progressive Dawoodi Bohra -- A reform movement within the Dawoodi Bohra subsect of Mustaali Ismai'li Shi'a Islam
Wikipedia - Progressive osseous heteroplasia -- Rare genetic condition characterised by cutaneous or subcutaneous ossification
Wikipedia - Progressive rock -- Rock music subgenre
Wikipedia - Project Azorian -- 1974 CIA project to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129
Wikipedia - Project Cumulus -- 1950s UK government initiative and subject of conspiracy theories
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Wikipedia - Project MKUltra -- CIA program experiments on human subjects
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Wikipedia - Prokaryotic small ribosomal subunit -- Smaller subunit of the 70S ribosome found in prokaryote cells
Wikipedia - Promecognathinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Pronoun -- Word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase
Wikipedia - Proper subset
Wikipedia - Proscopiinae -- Subfamily of grasshoppers
Wikipedia - Prosecco (Trieste) -- suburb of Trieste, Italy
Wikipedia - Prospect Hospital -- defunct hospital in The Bronx/NYC, subsequently a nursing home
Wikipedia - Prostantheroideae -- Subfamily of flowering plants in the sage family Lamiaceae
Wikipedia - Prostration -- Reverential or submissive posture
Wikipedia - Protected areas of the United States -- Area subject to management by federal, state, tribal or local authorities, with variability in protection received
Wikipedia - Protector Shoal -- A submarine volcano NW of Zavodovski Island in the South Sandwich Islands
Wikipedia - Proteininae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Protein quaternary structure -- Number and arrangement of multiple folded protein subunits in a multi-subunit complex
Wikipedia - Protein subcellular localization prediction
Wikipedia - Protocoleoptera -- Extinct suborder of beetles
Wikipedia - Proton X50 -- Malaysian subcompact crossover SUV
Wikipedia - Proto-punk -- Subgenre of rock music
Wikipedia - Protorabinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Prototyphis eos paupereques -- Subspecies of mollusc
Wikipedia - Provinces and territories of Canada -- Top-level subdivisions of Canada
Wikipedia - Provinces of Costa Rica -- First level administrative subdivision in Costa Rica
Wikipedia - Provinces of Indonesia -- First-level subdivision of Indonesia
Wikipedia - Provinces of Thailand -- 1st level administrative subdivision of Thailand
Wikipedia - Province -- A major administrative subdivision within a country or sovereign state
Wikipedia - Provincial city (Vietnam) -- Type of second-tier subdivision of Vietnam
Wikipedia - Proxy card -- Easily acquired or home-made substitute for a collectible card
Wikipedia - Prunus subg. Cerasus
Wikipedia - Prunus subhirtella
Wikipedia - Przewalski's horse -- Subspecies of mammal
Wikipedia - Pselaphinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Pseudatemelia subgilvida -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Pseudatemelia subochreella -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Pseudoarchaeology -- Scientifically insubstantial theories interpreting archaeology
Wikipedia - Pseudo-atoll -- An island that encircles a lagoon, either partially or completely that is not formed by subsidence or coral reefs
Wikipedia - Pseudomorphinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Pseudomyrmecinae -- Subfamily of ants
Wikipedia - Pseudo-nitzschia australis -- Species of pennate diatom found in temperate and sub-tropic marine waters
Wikipedia - Pseudopsinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri -- Indian Sanskrit scholar
Wikipedia - P. Subramaniam -- Indian film director
Wikipedia - Psychedelic substance
Wikipedia - Psychedelic therapy -- Medical treatment using altered states of consciousness induced by psychedelic substances to treat mental disorders
Wikipedia - Psychoactive substance
Wikipedia - Psychobilly -- Musical genre; sub genre of rockabilly
Wikipedia - Psychological horror -- Narrative subgenre
Wikipedia - Psychologist's fallacy -- An observer assumes that their subjective experience reflects the true nature of an event
Wikipedia - Psychology of self -- The study of either the cognitive, conative or affective representation of one's identity, or the subject of experience
Wikipedia - Psydrinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Pterodactyloidea -- suborder of pterosaurs (fossil)
Wikipedia - Pterostichinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Pterygota -- Subclass of insects
Wikipedia - Ptiliinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Ptilinopinae -- Subfamily of birds
Wikipedia - Public housing in Puerto Rico -- System of subsidized housing units
Wikipedia - Public housing in the United Kingdom -- Subsidised housing programmes of the British government
Wikipedia - Public land -- Land owned by a national, subnational, or local government
Wikipedia - Publish-subscribe pattern
Wikipedia - Publish/subscribe
Wikipedia - PubSub Concepts
Wikipedia - Puccinia subnitens -- Species of fungus
Wikipedia - Pucciniomycotina -- Subdivision of fungi
Wikipedia - Puerta de Tierra, San Juan -- Subbarrio of San Juan Antiguo in Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Puerto Rican broad-winged hawk -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Puerto Rican sharp-shinned hawk -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Puerto Rican slider -- Subspecies of reptile
Wikipedia - Puhuangyu station -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Pukao (seamount) -- A submarine volcano, the most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain
Wikipedia - Pukkuksong-1 -- North Korean Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile
Wikipedia - Pulai Sebatang (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Pulau Manis (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Pulau Tawar (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Pulayanarkotta -- Suburb in Thiruvananthapuram
Wikipedia - Pulguero (Santurce) -- Subbarrio of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Pull-apart basin -- A structural basin where two overlapping faults or a fault bend creates an area of crustal extension which causes the basin to subside
Wikipedia - Pungi -- Wind instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Punk fashion -- Fashion of punk subculture
Wikipedia - Punk subculture -- Large subculture
Wikipedia - Puritans -- Subclass of English Reformed Protestants
Wikipedia - Purna Kumari Subedi -- A Nepali politician
Wikipedia - Purple Line Extension -- Future subway corridor in western Los Angeles County
Wikipedia - Puteri Wangsa (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Putyla Raion -- Former subdivision of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine
Wikipedia - Pyralinae -- Subfamily of moths
Wikipedia - Pyrgomorphinae -- Subfamily of grasshoppers
Wikipedia - Pyrobombus -- Subgenus of insects
Wikipedia - Pyroloideae -- Subfamily of flowering plants in the heather family Ericaceae
Wikipedia - Pyrolysis oil -- Petroleum substitute
Wikipedia - Qantas Freight -- Cargo subsidiary of Qantas
Wikipedia - Qarapapaqs -- Turkoman sub-ethnic group of Azerbaijanis
Wikipedia - Qianmen station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Qiaohuying station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Qiaowan station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Qilizhuang station -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Qinghe Commandery -- Historical political subdivision in China
Wikipedia - Qinghuadongluxikou station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Qingnianlu station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Qingyuanlu station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Q (New York City Subway service) -- New York City Subway service
Wikipedia - QSZ-class submersible -- Diving equipment manufactured in the People's Republic of China
Wikipedia - Quadrat -- A rectangular frame used to demarcate a part of the substrate for detailed analysis
Wikipedia - Quagga -- An [[extinct subspecies]] of plains zebra from South Africa and Namibia
Wikipedia - Qualia -- Individual instances of subjective, conscious experience
Wikipedia - Quantum entanglement -- Correlation between measurements of quantum subsystems, even when spatially separated
Wikipedia - Quechula -- Submerged village in Mexico
Wikipedia - Queen Elizabeth Islands Subplate -- A small tectonic plate containing the Queen Elizabeth Islands of Northern Canada
Wikipedia - Queen's Park station (Toronto) -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Queen station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Quercus suber -- Species of plant
Wikipedia - Qun Fang station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Qutubuddin Koka -- Mughal subahdar of Bengal Subah
Wikipedia - Qwest TV -- subscription video-on-demand music service
Wikipedia - R12 (New York City Subway car) -- Class of New York City Subway car
Wikipedia - R179 (New York City Subway car) -- Class of New York City Subway car
Wikipedia - R188 (New York City Subway car) -- Class of New York City Subway car
Wikipedia - R21 (New York City Subway car) -- New York City Subway car
Wikipedia - R22 (New York City Subway car) -- New York City Subway car
Wikipedia - R36 (New York City Subway car) -- Class of New York City Subway cars
Wikipedia - R62A (New York City Subway car) -- A Bombardier-made class of NYC Subway rolling stock
Wikipedia - Race (biology) -- Informal rank in the taxonomic hierarchy, below the level of subspecies
Wikipedia - Radar picket -- Radar-equipped station, ship, submarine, aircraft, or vehicle used to increase the radar detection range around a force
Wikipedia - Radical substitution -- Substitution reaction in organic chemistry involving free radicals
Wikipedia - Radioactive contamination -- Presence of radioactive substances where they are undesirable
Wikipedia - Radium, and Other Radioactive Substances -- Book by William Joseph Hammer
Wikipedia - Radon's theorem -- Says d+2 points in d dimensions can be partitioned into two subsets whose convex hulls intersect
Wikipedia - RAFOS float -- Submersible device used to map ocean currents well below the surface
Wikipedia - Ragga -- Sub-genre of dancehall music or reggae
Wikipedia - Rahang (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Raheny -- Suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Raiatea fruit-dove -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Rail subsidies
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Wikipedia - Raised floor -- Elevated floor above a solid substrate to create a void for mechanical and electrical services
Wikipedia - Raja Salban -- King of the Indian subcontinent in the 2nd century CE
Wikipedia - Rajat Subhra Hazra -- Indian Mathematician
Wikipedia - Raja -- Monarch or princely ruler in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia
Wikipedia - Rajeev Balasubramanyam -- British writer
Wikipedia - Rajma -- Red kidney beans dish, originating from the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Rakaposhi-Haramosh Mountains -- Subrange of the Karakoram mountain range
Wikipedia - Raksha Bandhan -- Annual ritual originating from the Indian Subcontinent
Wikipedia - Ralliart -- Motorsports division of Mitsubishi Motors
Wikipedia - Ramachandran Balasubramanian
Wikipedia - Ramaytush -- Linguistic subdivision of Ohlone people
Wikipedia - Ramayyagari Subhash Reddy -- Judge of Supreme Court of India
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Wikipedia - Ramila Yusubova -- Azerbaijani judoka
Wikipedia - Rammed earth -- Technique for constructing foundations, floors, and walls by compacting a damp mixture of sub soil
Wikipedia - Ramya Subramanian -- Indian actress and television presenter
Wikipedia - Rana FM -- Sub language radio station in regions
Wikipedia - Rantau Abang (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Raolefu station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Rasgulla -- a syrupy dessert popular in the Indian subcontinent and regions with South Asian diaspora
Wikipedia - Rasht District -- Eastern district in the Region of Republican Subordination in Tajikistan
Wikipedia - Rathgar -- Suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Rathmines -- Suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - Ravi Subramanian (umpire) -- Indian cricket umpire
Wikipedia - Raya Oromo people -- Oromo subgroup of northern Ethiopia
Wikipedia - Raymondionyminae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - RBU-1200 -- Russian anti submarine rocket launcher
Wikipedia - R/changemyview -- Subreddit dedicated to presenting opposing viewpoints by discussing controversial topics
Wikipedia - R/dataisbeautiful -- Subreddit focused on data visualization
Wikipedia - Reagent -- Substance or compound that is added to a system in order to bring about a chemical reaction, or added to see if a reaction occurs
Wikipedia - Real estate -- Subset of land that has been legally defined and the improvements to it made by human efforts
Wikipedia - Realism (arts) -- Artistic style of representing subjects realistically
Wikipedia - Reality legal programming -- Television programming subgenre of reality television
Wikipedia - Real-time strategy -- Strategy video game sub-genre
Wikipedia - Rear Admiral Submarines -- Post in the Royal Navy
Wikipedia - Rector Street station (IRT Sixth Avenue Line) -- Former subway station in New York City
Wikipedia - Redan, Victoria -- Suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Wikipedia - Red-billed quelea -- A small, migratory weaver bird native to Sub-Saharan Africa
Wikipedia - Red grouse -- Subspecies of bird
Wikipedia - Red Horse (Lakota chief) -- Miniconjou Sioux sub-chief
Wikipedia - Red Line (MBTA) -- Boston subway line
Wikipedia - Red mercury -- alleged chemical substance
Wikipedia - Redwood Library and Athenaeum -- Subscription library in Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Wikipedia - Reentrant (subroutine)
Wikipedia - Reflection seismology -- Explore subsurface properties with seismology
Wikipedia - Refrigerant -- Substance in a refrigeration cycle
Wikipedia - Reginald (sub-prior) -- 13th-century Archbishop of Canterbury-elect
Wikipedia - Regional district -- Administrative subdivision in British Columbia
Wikipedia - Region (mathematics) -- Mathematical subset of a space
Wikipedia - Regions of England -- Highest tier of sub-national division in England
Wikipedia - Regions of Ethiopia -- Territorial subdivisions of Ethiopia
Wikipedia - Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances -- Database of toxicity information
Wikipedia - Regong arts -- Popular arts on the subject of Tibetan Buddhism
Wikipedia - Regulatory T cell -- Subpopulation of T cells that modulate the immune system, maintain tolerance to self-antigens, and prevent autoimmune disease.
Wikipedia - Regulus missile submarines -- A group of submarines operated by the US Navy
Wikipedia - Reichsgau Wartheland -- Nazi administrative subdivision
Wikipedia - Reichsgau -- Nazi administrative subdivision
Wikipedia - Reims -- Subprefecture and commune in Grand Est, France
Wikipedia - Relative density -- Ratio of the density (mass per volume) of a substance to the density of a given reference material
Wikipedia - Reliability engineering -- Sub-discipline of systems engineering that emphasizes dependability in the lifecycle management of a product or a system
Wikipedia - Religious debates over the Harry Potter series -- Debates based on claims that the Harry Potter novels contain occult or satanic subtexts
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Wikipedia - Religious denomination -- Identifiable religious subgroup with a common structure and doctrine
Wikipedia - Remote sensing -- Acquisition of information at a significant distance from the subject
Wikipedia - Renault Kiger -- Subcompact crossover SUV
Wikipedia - Rengit (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Renmin University station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Repah (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Representative money -- Any type of money that has face value greater than its value as material substance
Wikipedia - Repressive desublimation
Wikipedia - RER A -- Hybrid suburban commuter railway line in Paris, France
Wikipedia - Rescue buoy (submarine) -- Floating buoy, attached to a submarine and released in the event of a serious accident or sinking
Wikipedia - Residencia Subira -- Historic house in Ponce, Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Resin -- Solid or highly viscous substance
Wikipedia - Restricted sumset -- A sumset of a field subject to a specific polynomial restriction
Wikipedia - Reticulated giraffe -- subspecies of giraffe
Wikipedia - Retreat (survivalism) -- Place of refuge for those in the survivalist subculture or movement
Wikipedia - Revenue block -- Sub-division of an Indian state district
Wikipedia - Reverse speech -- Pseudoscientific claim of subconscious hidden messages
Wikipedia - Revisionist Western -- subgenre of Western films
Wikipedia - Rheumaptera subhastata -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus -- Subspecies of mammal
Wikipedia - RhoBTB -- Protein subgroup of the Rho family of small GTPases
Wikipedia - Rhododendron subsect. Ledum -- Subsection of genus Rhododendron
Wikipedia - Rhodonite -- Single chain manganese inosilicate (MnSiO<sub>3</sub>)
Wikipedia - Rhyacodrilinae -- Subfamily of annelid
Wikipedia - Rhysodinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Rhytidochrotinae -- Subfamily of grasshoppers
Wikipedia - Rialto, Dublin -- Inner suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - RibeauvillM-CM-) -- Subprefecture and commune in Grand Est, France
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Wikipedia - Richmond West, Winnipeg -- A neighbourhood in suburb of Fort Richmond.
Wikipedia - Riemannian submersion
Wikipedia - Rie Matsubara -- Japanese rhythmic gymnast
Wikipedia - Right-wing authoritarianism -- Personality trait of submission to authority, conventionalism and hostility towards non-conformists
Wikipedia - Rim (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Rio Piedras Antiguo (Pueblo) -- Subbarrio of Pueblo in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Risa Tsubaki -- Japanese voice actress
Wikipedia - Rise Park, Nottingham -- Suburb of Nottingham, England
Wikipedia - River Fleet -- Subterranean river in London, England
Wikipedia - Riverside station (MBTA) -- Boston subway station
Wikipedia - Rivoli Cinemas -- Cinema in the Hawthorn East suburb of Melbourne, Australia
Wikipedia - RJK -- Submarine telecommunications cable system
Wikipedia - RMS Lusitania -- British ocean liner sunk by German submarine in World War I
Wikipedia - RNA virus -- Subclass of viruses
Wikipedia - R (New York City Subway service) -- New York City Subway service
Wikipedia - Robert H. Rice -- American submarine commander
Wikipedia - Robert Suba -- Hungarian paracanoeist
Wikipedia - RoboSub
Wikipedia - Roca Remolino -- Submarine mountain
Wikipedia - Rochester subway -- Former light rail rapid transit line in the city of Rochester, New York
Wikipedia - Rockaway Park Shuttle -- New York City Subway service
Wikipedia - Rockdale Plaza -- Shopping centre in the suburb of Rockdale, Sydney, Australia
Wikipedia - Rocket-class destroyer -- Subclass of the A-class destroyers
Wikipedia - Roermond (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Roeselare (Chamber of Representatives constituency) -- Belgian political subdivision
Wikipedia - Roger Bannister -- British athlete who ran the first sub-4-minute mile
Wikipedia - Roguelike -- Subgenre of role-playing video games
Wikipedia - ROKS Ahn Mu -- Dosan Ahn Changho-class submarine
Wikipedia - ROKS Choe Museon (SS-063) -- Submarine of the Republic of Korea Navy
Wikipedia - ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho -- Dosan Ahn Changho-class submarine
Wikipedia - ROKS Jang Bogo (SS-061) -- Submarine of the Republic of Korea Navy
Wikipedia - ROKS Jung Woon (SS-067) -- Submarine of the Republic of Korea Navy
Wikipedia - ROKS Lee Jongmoo (SS-066) -- Submarine of the Republic of Korea Navy
Wikipedia - ROKS Na Dae-yong (SS-069) -- Submarine of the Republic of Korea Navy
Wikipedia - ROKS Park Wi (SS-065) -- Submarine of the Republic of Korea Navy
Wikipedia - ROKS Yi Cheon (SS-062) -- Submarine of the Republic of Korea Navy
Wikipedia - ROKS Yi Eokgi (SS-071) -- Submarine of the Republic of Korea Navy
Wikipedia - ROKS Yi Sun-sin (SS-068) -- Submarine of the Republic of Korea Navy
Wikipedia - Rolandic epilepsy -- Most common epilepsy syndrome in childhood, usually subsiding with age
Wikipedia - Rolling block -- Firearm action, subclass of breech loader
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Wikipedia - Romaleinae -- Subfamily of grasshoppers
Wikipedia - Roman Catholic Suburbicarian Diocese of Albano
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Wikipedia - Roman diocese -- administrative subdivision of the Roman Empire
Wikipedia - Romanichal -- Romani sub-group
Wikipedia - Roman-Latin wars -- Wars fought between ancient Rome (including both the Roman Kingdom and the Roman Republic) and the Latins, from the earliest stages of the history of Rome until the final subjugation of the Latins to Rome in the aftermath of the Latin War
Wikipedia - Romanus of Subiaco
Wikipedia - Ron Allum -- Submarine designer, cave diver and inventor.
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Wikipedia - Rongchangdongjie station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Rongjingdongjie station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Ronis-class submarine -- Latvian class of submarine
Wikipedia - Ropes Crossing, New South Wales -- Suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Wikipedia - Rorschach test -- Psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and analyzed using psychological interpretation and/or complex algorithims
Wikipedia - Rosedale station (Toronto) -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Rose Prince -- Canadian subject of pilgrimage
Wikipedia - Roth's theorem on arithmetic progressions -- On the existence of arithmetic progressions in subsets of the natural numbers
Wikipedia - Route of administration -- Path by which a drug, fluid, poison, or other substance is taken into the body
Wikipedia - Rowan -- Common name of a subgenus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae
Wikipedia - Royal College of Physicians -- Professional body of doctors of general medicine and its subspecialties in the UK
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Wikipedia - R. Ramasubbier -- Indian politician
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Wikipedia - Rubin Design Bureau -- Russian submarine designer
Wikipedia - Rubioideae -- Subfamily of flowering plants
Wikipedia - Rude boy -- Jamaican street subculture
Wikipedia - Rudrasena II (Western Satrap) -- Third-century king in the Indian sub-continent
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Wikipedia - Rule of law -- Political situation where every citizen is subject to the law
Wikipedia - Runan Commandery -- Historical political subdivision in China
Wikipedia - Runda -- Suburb of Nairobi, Kenya
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Wikipedia - Running key cipher -- Type of polyalphabetic substitution cipher
Wikipedia - Runnymede station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - RUR-5 ASROC -- Anti-submarine missile system
Wikipedia - Rural Municipality of East St. Paul -- A suburb of Winnipeg, Canada
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Wikipedia - Russian deep submergence rescue vehicle AS-28 -- Priz-class deep-submergence rescue vehicle of the Russian Navy
Wikipedia - Russian Space Forces -- Sub-branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces
Wikipedia - Russian submarine AS-34 -- Priz-class deep-submergence rescue vehicle
Wikipedia - Russian submarine B-871 -- Attack submarine
Wikipedia - Russian submarine Dmitriy Donskoi (TK-208) -- Ballistic missile submarine
Wikipedia - Russian submarine Losharik
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Wikipedia - S1 Line, Beijing Subway
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Wikipedia - S5-class submarine -- Planned class of Ballistic missile submarines
Wikipedia - Sack of Rome (1527) -- 1527 Habsburg siege and subsequent sack of Papal Rome
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Wikipedia - SACS (cable system) -- Submarine communications cable in the South Atlantic Ocean
Wikipedia - Sadak-Arjuni taluka -- Taluka in Arjuni Morgaon Subdivision of Gondiya district, Maharashtra, India
Wikipedia - Saeedabad Taluka -- administrative subdivision in the Sindh province of Pakistan
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Wikipedia - Safad Sanjak -- Subdivision of the Ottoman Empire
Wikipedia - SAFE (cable system) -- Submarine communications cable system
Wikipedia - Sagar Rajput(caste) -- Sub-caste of Rajput and Dhangar caste
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Wikipedia - Sahota -- Caste in Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Saichi Oba -- Japanese submarine commander
Wikipedia - SAIL (cable system) -- Submarine communications cable system
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Wikipedia - Saint-Claude, Jura -- Subprefecture and commune in Bourgogne-Franche-ComtM-CM-), France
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Wikipedia - Saint Francis' satyr -- Endangered butterfly subspecies found only in the US state of North Carolina
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Wikipedia - Saint-Paul, RM-CM-)union -- Subprefecture and commune in RM-CM-)union, France
Wikipedia - Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene -- Subject of many religious artworks
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Wikipedia - Salp -- Family of marine animals in the subphylum Tunicata
Wikipedia - Saluan-Banggai languages -- Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
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Wikipedia - Same language subtitling
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Wikipedia - San Augustin Mountains -- Mountain subrange of the San Andres Mountains
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Wikipedia - Sandige -- A fried snack, originating from the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Sandomierzacy -- Polish subethnic group
Wikipedia - Sandycove -- Sandycove is an affluent suburb of Dublin, near Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
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Wikipedia - San Francisco, Old San Juan -- Subbarrio of San Juan Antiguo in Puerto Rico
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Wikipedia - Sangiric languages -- Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - Sangok station -- railway station on Seoul Subway Line 7
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Wikipedia - Scopula acinosa -- Species of geometer moths in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula actuaria -- Species of geometer moths in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula acyma -- Species of geometer moths in subfamily Sterrhinae
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Wikipedia - Scopula adelpharia -- Species of geometer moths in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula adenensis -- Species of geometer moths in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula adeptaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula aegrefasciata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula aequidistans -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula aequifasciata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula aetheomorpha -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula afghana -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula africana -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula agnes -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula agrapta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula agrata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula agutsaensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula alargata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula alba -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula albiceraria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula albidaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula albida -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula albidulata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula albiflava -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula albilarvata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula albivertex -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula albomaculata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula alboverticata -- Species of geometer butterfly in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula aleuritis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula alfierii -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula alma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula alstoni -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula amala -- Species of geometer moth in the subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula amazonata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ambigua -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula amphiphracta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula amseli -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula anaitisaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula anatreces -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula andalusiaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula andresi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula anfractata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula angusticallis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula aniara -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula annexata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula annubiata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula annularia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula anoista -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ansorgei -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ansulata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula antankarana -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula antiloparia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula anysima -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula aphercta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula apicipunctata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula apparitaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula arenosaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula argentidisca -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula argillina -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula asiatica -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula asopiata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula asparta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula aspiciens -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula aspilataria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula astheniata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula astrabes -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula asymmetrica -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula atramentaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula atricapilla -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula atridiscata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula attentata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula axiata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula axiotis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula batesi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula beccarii -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula beckeraria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula benenotata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula benguetensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula benigna -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula bifalsaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula bigeminata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula bimacularia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula bispurcata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula bistrigata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula brachypus -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula brookesae -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula bullata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula butleri -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula butyrosa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula cacuminaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula caducaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula caeria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula caesaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula cajanderi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula calcarata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula caledonica -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula callibotrys -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula calotis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula campbelli -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula candidaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula candida -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula canularia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula capnosterna -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula caricaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula carnosa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula cassiaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula cassioides -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula castissima -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula cavana -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula celebraria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula cervinata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula cesa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula chalcographata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula chrysoparalias -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula chydaea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula cineraria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula cinnamomata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula circumpunctata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula clandestina -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula clarivialis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula cleoraria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula coangulata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula coenona -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula comes -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula commaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula compensata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula complanata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula concinnaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula concolor -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula concurrens -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula conduplicata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula confertaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula confinaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula confusa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula coniargyris -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula coniaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula conotaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula conscensa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula consimilata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula conspersa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula conspicillaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula contramutata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula convergens -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula convictorata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula cornishi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula corrivalaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula corrupta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula costata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula coundularia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula crassipuncta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula crawshayi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula cumulata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula cuneilinea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula curvimargo -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dapharia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula declinata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula decolor -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula decorata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula defectiscripta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula defixaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula deflavaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula deflavarioides -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dehortata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula deiliniata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula deliciosaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula delitata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula delospila -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula demissaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula densicornis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dentilinea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dentisignata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula derasata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula deserta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula desita -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula despoliata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula destituta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula detentata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dhofarata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula didymosema -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula diffinaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dignata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dimoera -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dimoeroides -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dimorphata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula disclusaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula discrepans -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dismutata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula disparata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dissonans -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula divisaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dohertyi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula donaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula donovani -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dorsinigrata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dotina -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula drenowskii -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dubernardi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula duplicipuncta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula duplinupta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dux -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula dysmorpha -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula eburneata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula eclipes -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ectopostigma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula elegans -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula elegantula -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula eleina -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula elisabethae -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula elwesi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula emissaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula emma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula emutaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula enucloides -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula epigypsa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula epiorrhoe -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula episcia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula episticta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula erebospila -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula erici -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula erinaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula erlangeri -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula erubescens -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula erymna -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula euchroa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula eulomata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula eunupta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula euphemia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula eurata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula extimaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula falcataria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula falcovitshi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula falsaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula farinaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula fernaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ferrilineata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ferruginea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula fibulata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula fimbrilineata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula flaccata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula flaccidaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula flavifurfurata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula flavinsolata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula flavissima -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula flavorosearia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula flexio -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula fluidaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula forbesi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula formosana -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula fragilis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula francki -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula frigidaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula froitzheimi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula fucata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula fulminataria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula fulvicolor -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula fumosaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula furfurata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula fuscata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula fuscescens -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula fuscobrunnea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula galactina -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula gastonaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula gazellaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula gibbivalvata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula gilva -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula gnou -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula gracilis (Brandt, 1941) -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula graphidata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula grasuta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula griseolineata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula grisescens -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula guancharia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula habilis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula hackeri -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula haemaleata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula haematophaga -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula haeretica -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula halimodendrata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula hanna -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula harteni -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula heba -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula hectata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula helcita -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula herbuloti Karisch, 2001 -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula herbuloti -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula hesycha -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula hoerhammeri -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula homaema -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula homodoxa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula honestata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula horiochroea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula humifusaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula humilis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula hyphenophora -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula hypocallista -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula hypochra -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ichinosawana -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula idearia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula idnothogramma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ignobilis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula imitaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula immistaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula immorata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula immutata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula impersonata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula impicta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula improba -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula impropriaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula inactuosa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula inangulata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula incalcarata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula incanata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula indicataria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula inductata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula infantilis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula inficita -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula infota -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula innocens -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula innominata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula inscriptata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula insincera -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula instructata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula intensata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula internataria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula internata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula iranaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula irrorata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula irrubescens -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula irrufata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula isodesma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula isomala -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula isomerica -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula iterata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula jacta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula jejuna -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula johnsoni -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula julietae -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula junctaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula juruana -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula kashmirensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula klaphecki -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula kuhitangica -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula kuldschaensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula lacriphaga -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula lactaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula lactarioides -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula lactea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula laevipennis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula laresaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula larseni -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula latelineata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula lathraea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula latifera -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula latimediata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula latitans -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula lechrioloma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula lehmanni -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula leucoloma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula leucopis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula leuculata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula leuraria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula libyssa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula limbata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula limosata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula linearia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula liotis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula longitarsata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula loxographa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula loxosema -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula lubricata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ludibunda -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula lugubriata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula luridata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula lutearia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula luteicollis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula luteolata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula luxipuncta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula lydia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula macrocelis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula macronephes -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula magnidiscata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula magnipunctata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula malagasy -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula malayana -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula manengouba -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula manes -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula manifesta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula mappata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula marcidaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula margaritaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula marginepunctata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula mariarosae -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula mascula -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula mecysma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula megalocentra -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula megalostigma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula melanopis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula melanstigma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula melinau -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula mendax -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula mendicaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula mentzeri -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula menytes -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula merina -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula mesophaena -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula metacosmia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula micara -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula michinoku -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula micrata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula microphylla -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula minoa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula minorata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula minuta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula misera -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula mishmica -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula modesta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula modicaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula moinieri -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula molaris -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula mollicula -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula monosema -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula monotropa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula montivaga -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula moorei -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula moralesi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula mustangensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nacida -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula napariata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula natalensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula natalica -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nebulata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nemoraria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nemorivagata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula neophyta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula neoxesta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nepalensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nepheloperas -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nephotropa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nesciaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nesciaroides -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nigralba -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nigricornis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nigricosta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nigridentata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nigrifrons -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nigrinotata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nigristellata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nigrocellata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nigrociliata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nigropunctata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nipha -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nitidata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nitidissima -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nivearia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula normalis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nostima -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nubifera -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nucleata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula nupta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula obliquifascia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula obliquiscripta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula obliquisignata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula obliviaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ocellata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ocellicincta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ocheracea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ochraceata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ochrea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ochreofusa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ochreolata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ochricrinita -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ochrifrons -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula oenoloma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula oliveta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula omana -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula omissa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula omnisona -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ophthalmica -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula opicata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula opperta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula oppilata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula oppunctata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula optivata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula orbeorum -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ordinaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ordinata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula orientalis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula origalis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ornata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula orthoscia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ossicolor -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ourebi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula oxysticha -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula oxystoma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula paetula -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula palleuca -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pallida -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pallidiceps -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pallidilinea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula palpata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula palpifera -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula paradela -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula paradelpharia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula parallelaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula parodites -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula parvimacula -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula patularia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pauperata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pedilata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pelloniodes -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula penricei -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula penultima -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula peractaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula perialurga -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula perlata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula perlimbata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula permutata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula perornata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula perpunctata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula personata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula perstrigulata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pertinax -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula phallarcuata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula phyletis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula phyxelis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula picta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pinguis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pirimacula -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pithogona -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula placida -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula planidisca -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula planipennis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula plantagenaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula plionocentra -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula plumbearia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula poliodesma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula polystigmaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula polyterpes -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula praecanata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula praesignipuncta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pratana -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula preumenes -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula prisca -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula privata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula promethes -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula propinquaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula prosoeca -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula prosthiostigma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula protecta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula proterocelis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula prouti -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula proximaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pruinata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula psephis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pseudagrata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pseudoafghana -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pseudocorrivalaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pseudodoxa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pseudophema -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pudicaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula puerca -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pulchellata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pulverosa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula punctatissima -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula puncticosta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula punctilineata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula purata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pyraliata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula pyrrhochra -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula quadratisparsa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula quadrifasciata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula quadrilineata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula quinquefasciata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula quinquestriata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula radiata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rantaizanensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rebaptisa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rectisecta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula recurvata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula recurvinota -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula recusataria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula regenerata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula relictata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula remotata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula restricta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula retracta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rhodinaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rhodocraspeda -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula riedeli -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula risa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rivularia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula roezaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula romanarioides -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula roseocincta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rossi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rostrilinea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rubellata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rubiginata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rubraria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rubriceps -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rubrocinctata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rubrosignaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ruficolor -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rufigrisea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rufisalsa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rufistigma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rufolutaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rufomixtaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula rufotinctata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sacraria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sagittilinea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sanguinifissa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sanguinisecta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula saphes -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sapor -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sarcodes -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sarfaitensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sauteri -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula scalercii -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula scialophia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula scotti -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sebata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula seclusa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula seclusoides -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sedataria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula segregata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula semispurcata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula semitata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sentinaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula separata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula seras -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula serena -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula serratilinea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sevandaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula seydeli -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula shiskensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula siccata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sideraria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula silonaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula similata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula simplificata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sincera -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sinnaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sinopersonata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sjostedti -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sordaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sordida -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sparsipunctata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula spectrum -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula spinosicrista -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula spissitarsata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula spoliata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula stenoptera -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula stenoptila -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula stephanitis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula stigmata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula straminea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subaequalis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subcandida -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subcarnea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subdecorata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subgastonaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sublinearia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sublobata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sublutescens -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula submutata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subnictata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subobliquata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subpartita -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subpectinata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subperlaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subpulchellata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subpunctaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subquadrata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subrubellata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subserena -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subtaeniata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subtilata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula subtracta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula succrassula -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula suda -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula suffecta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula suffundaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula suna -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula superciliata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula superior -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula supernivearia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula supina -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula sybillaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula synethes -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula szechuanensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tahitiensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula taifica -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula takao -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tanalorum -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula technessa -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tenera -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tensipallida -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tenuimargo -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tenuimedia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tenuiscripta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tenuisocius -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tenuispersata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula terminata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula ternata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula terrearia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tersicallis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tessellaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula thrasia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula thysanopus -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula timandrata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula timboensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula timia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula toquilla -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tornisecta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tosariensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula toxophora -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula traducta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula transmeata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula transsecta -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula trapezistigma -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tricommata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula trisinuata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tsekuensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula tumiditibia -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula turbidaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula turbulentaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula uberaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula umbilicata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula umbratilinea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula undilinea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula undulataria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula unicornata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula unilineata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula unisignata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula urnaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula usticinctaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula uvarovi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula vacuata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula valentinella -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula variabilis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula vicina (Gaede, 1917) -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula vicina -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula viettei -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula vigensis -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula vigilata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula vinocinctata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula violacea -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula virgulata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula vitellina -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula vitiosaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula vittora -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula vojnitsi -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula voluptaria -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula walkeri -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula wegneri -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula -- Genus of geometer moths in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula wittei -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula xanthocephalata -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula xanthomelaena -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula yamanei -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula yihe -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
Wikipedia - Scopula zophodes -- Species of geometer moth in subfamily Sterrhinae
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Wikipedia - Sub-Riemannian manifold -- Type of generalization of a Riemannian manifold
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Wikipedia - Sulawesi swiftlet -- Subspecies of bird
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Wikipedia - Sumatran elephant -- Subspecies of mammal
Wikipedia - Sumatra Trench -- Subduction trench in the Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone in the eastern Indian Ocean
Wikipedia - Sumba-Flores languages -- Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - Sumba-Hawu languages -- Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - Sumba languages -- Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - Sumikawa Station -- Subway station in Sapporo, Japan
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Wikipedia - Sunda Trench -- An oceanic trench in the Indian Ocean near Sumatra where the Australian-Capricorn plates subduct under a part of the Eurasian Plate.
Wikipedia - Sunfish-class destroyer -- Subclass of the A-class destroyers
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Wikipedia - Sventsyansky Uyezd -- A subdivision of the Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire
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Wikipedia - Sword and planet -- A subgenre of science fantasy
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Wikipedia - Sympetalae -- Historical subclass of flowering plants with fused petals
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Wikipedia - Symphyotrichum subulatum -- A flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to parts of Mexico, Caribbean, and North America
Wikipedia - Syndesinae -- Subfamily of beetles
Wikipedia - Synemosyninae -- Subfamily of arachnids
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Wikipedia - Syrian elephant -- Extinct subspecies of the Asian elephant
Wikipedia - Syringa oblata subsp. dilatata -- Sub-species of flowering plant in the family Oleaceae
Wikipedia - System F-sub -- Typed lambda calculus
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Wikipedia - Table of specific heat capacities -- For some substances and engineering materials, includes volumetric and molar values
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Wikipedia - Temperate Northern Atlantic -- A biogeographic region of the Earth's seas, comprising the temperate and subtropical waters of the North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
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Wikipedia - Vyzhnytsia Raion -- Subdivision of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine
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Wikipedia - Wadiyar dynasty -- former dynasty on the Indian subcontinent
Wikipedia - Wage subsidy -- Economic policy
Wikipedia - Wakaf Mempelam (state constituency) -- Political subdivision in Malaysia
Wikipedia - WAKS-HD2 -- Digital subchannel of Cleveland market radio station WAKS (96.5 FM)
Wikipedia - Wakumusubi -- Japanese deity
Wikipedia - Walsgrave on Sowe -- Suburban village of Coventry, West Midlands, England
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Wikipedia - Wan'an station -- Beijing Subway light rail station
Wikipedia - Wangfujing station -- Beijing Subway station
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Wikipedia - Wangjing station -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Wangjing Subdistrict -- subdistrict of Chaoyang District, Beijing
Wikipedia - Wangjing West station -- Beijing Subway interchange station
Wikipedia - Wanpingcheng station -- future Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Wanquanhe Qiao station -- future Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Wansheng Dong (East) station -- Beijing Subway station
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Wikipedia - Wanshou Si station -- future Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Wanyuanjie station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Wanzi station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Waputik Mountains -- Subrange of the Park Ranges in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada
Wikipedia - Ward (electoral subdivision) -- Subdivision of a local government unit, used for electoral purposes
Wikipedia - Warden station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom -- Electoral districts at sub-national level represented by one or more councillors
Wikipedia - Wards of Japan -- Subdivision of cities designated by government ordinance in Japan
Wikipedia - Warrant canary -- Method of indirect notification of a subpoena
Wikipedia - Washington's 9th congressional district -- U.S. House district in suburbs of Seattle
Wikipedia - Waterloo-Reading line -- A suburban electric railway line in England, linking London Waterloo and Reading
Wikipedia - Water -- Chemical compound with formula H<sub>2</sub>O
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Wikipedia - Web of Science -- Online subscription index of citations
Wikipedia - WebSub
Wikipedia - Weddell Sea Bottom Water -- A subset of Antarctic Bottom Water mass that is at -0.7 M-BM-0C or colder
Wikipedia - Weetwood -- Suburb of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England
Wikipedia - Weierstrass substitution -- Change of variable for integrals involving trigonometric functions
Wikipedia - Weigongcun station -- Beijing Subway station
Wikipedia - Weird fiction -- Subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Wikipedia - Welfare in Puerto Rico -- System of nutrition assistance, public health, education, and subsidized public housing
Wikipedia - Wellesley station -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Wellington Suburbs (New Zealand electorate) -- Former New Zealand electorate
Wikipedia - Welsh Association of Sub Aqua Clubs -- Welsh national governing body for underwater sport and recreational diving
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Wikipedia - Wenyang Lu station -- Beijing Subway station
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Wikipedia - West Coast hip hop -- Regional subgenre of hip hop music
Wikipedia - WestEnd Shopping Park -- Suburban shopping facility in Blanchardstown near Dublin, Ireland
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Wikipedia - Western lowland gorilla -- Subspecies of ape
Wikipedia - Western Romance languages -- Subdivision of the Romance languages
Wikipedia - Western Subanon language -- Austronesian language spoken on the Philippines
Wikipedia - West Gate of Summer Palace station -- Beijing Subway light rail station
Wikipedia - West Green, London -- sub-district of Tottenham, north London
Wikipedia - West Kildonan, Winnipeg -- Suburb of Winnipeg, Canada
Wikipedia - Westland Wasp -- Anti-submarine helicopter, British, 1962-2000
Wikipedia - West Riding of Yorkshire -- One of the historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England
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Wikipedia - Westwood (subdivision), Houston
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Wikipedia - White-breasted cormorant -- A member of the cormorant family Phalacrocoracidae from Sub-Saharan Africa
Wikipedia - White-fronted plover -- Species of shorebird of the family Charadriidae from Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar
Wikipedia - White gas -- Name for a number of flammable substances
Wikipedia - Whitehall, Dublin -- Northern suburb of Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - White Huns -- Sub-group of the Huna
Wikipedia - White M-CM-)migrM-CM-) -- A Russian subject who emigrated from the territory of former Imperial Russia in the wake of the Russian Revolution (1917) and Russian Civil War
Wikipedia - White power skinhead -- Members of a neo-nazi, white supremacist and antisemitic offshoot of the skinhead subculture
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Wikipedia - Wikipedia:Indian and Pakistani Wikipedians cooperation board -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:Portal -- Pages intended to serve as "Main Pages" for broad subject areas
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:Rusyns -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Articles -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
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Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals -- Subject-matter collaboration area
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Afghanistan -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Ageing and culture -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture/Beekeeping task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Agriculture
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Engines -- Sub-project of WikiProject Aircraft
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Airlines/Defunct airlines task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Airlines
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Airsoft -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Alaska -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Algae -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternate History -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative medicine -- subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative music -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject American Old West -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Amiga -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Amusement Parks/Task Forces/Cedar Fair -- Sub-project of WikiProject Amusement Parks
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Amusement Parks -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Anarchism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Anatomy -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt/Religion work group -- Sub-project of WikiProject Ancient Egypt
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near East -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Andorra -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Anglicanism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Angola -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal anatomy -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal rights -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals in media -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals -- Wikimedia subject-area collaborative project
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Animation/Animated films work group -- Sub-project of WikiProject Animation
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Animation/DreamWorks Animation work group -- Sub-project of WikiProject Animation
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Animation/Thomas & Friends task force -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Dragon Ball -- Sub-project of WikiProject Anime and manga
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica/British Antarctic Territory work group -- Sub-project of WikiProject Antarctica
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica Highways -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2008 -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Apps -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Aquarium Fishes -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Arabic -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab world -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Aramea -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Archaeology -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture -- Wikimedia subject-area collaborative project
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Arctic -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Argentina -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Arizona -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Armenia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Arunachal Pradesh -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Asian Americans -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject A Song of Ice and Fire -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Astrology -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian music -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian places -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Roads -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Autism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Aerospace biography task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Aviation
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Aviation accident task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Aviation
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Awards -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Azerbaijan -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Bacon -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Badminton -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Bagpipes -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Bahrain -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Ballet -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladeshi Universities -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Banksia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Barack Obama -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject BBC Radio -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject BBC -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Beer -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Belarus -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Belize -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Berbers -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Berkshire -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Bermuda -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Bible -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Bibliographies -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment -- Sub-project of WikiProject Biography
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Military -- Sub-project of WikiProject Biography
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Science and academia -- Sub-project of WikiProject Biography
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Sports and games -- Sub-project of WikiProject Biography
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration on biological topics
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Bitcoin -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Board and table games -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Books -- subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Boston Red Sox -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Boxing -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Breakfast -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Brigham Young University -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Brighton -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Bristol -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject British and Irish hills -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject British Overseas Territories -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject British Royalty -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Brunei -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Buddhism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Bulgaria -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Business -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject California/California State University task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject California
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject California -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Calvinism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Canoeing and Kayaking -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Capitalism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean/Aruba work group -- Sub-project of WikiProject Caribbean
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Carnival -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Cartoon Network/Ben 10 task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Cartoon Network
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Cartoon Network -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Cascadia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Catholicism -- Subject-matter collaboration area
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Celts -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Central America -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Central Asia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Cetaceans -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Charismatic Christianity -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemical and Bio Engineering -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago Bears -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject China/Transportation task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject China
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject China -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Christian history -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Anabaptist work group -- Sub-project of WikiProject Christianity
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Christianity in China work group -- Sub-project of WikiProject Christianity
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Methodism work group -- Sub-project of WikiProject Christianity
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Christian music/Contemporary Christian music -- Sub-project of WikiProject Christian music
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup -- subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Citizendium Porting -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Civil engineering -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical League -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music/Contemporary music task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Classical music
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Climbing -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Cold War -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/DC Comics work group -- Sub-project of WikiProject Comics
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Marvel Comics work group -- Sub-project of WikiProject Comics
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Webcomics work group -- Sub-project of WikiProject Comics
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Commonwealth -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Community -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Comoros -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer graphics -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer music -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Computer hardware task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Computing
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Computer networking task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Computing
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Early computers task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Computing
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Connecticut -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Constructed languages/Esperanto task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Constructed languages
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Constructed languages -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Consumer Reports -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Correction and Detention Facilities -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Corruption -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Costa Rica -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Country Music -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Croatia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Crowded House -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Cuba -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Cue sports -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Current events -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Cycling -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Cyprus -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Czech Republic -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Dacia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Dadra and Nagar Haveli -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Days of the year -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Death/Suicide task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Death
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Death -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Delaware -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Delhi -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Denmark -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Dentistry -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Deserts -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Devon -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Digital Preservation -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Disaster management -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Discographies -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Discrimination -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Disney -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Djibouti -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Dogs -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Dominican Republic -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Dubai -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Earthquakes -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject EastEnders -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Eastern Orthodoxy -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject East Timor -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecoregions -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject El Salvador -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Elvis Presley -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Energy -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Engineering -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject England -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Entertainment -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Entrepreneurship policies in the Arab world -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethiopia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject European history -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject European Microstates -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/ESA -- Sub-project of WikiProject Europe
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Eurovision -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Evolutionary biology -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Explosives -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Extinction -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Faroe Islands -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Fashion -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Featured articles -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Feminism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Fencing -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Fiji -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Australian cinema task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Film
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/British cinema task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Film
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Christian films task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Film
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Film awards task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Film
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Film festivals task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Film
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Filmmaking task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Film
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Film -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance & Investment -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Firearms -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Fishes -- Mikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries/Austria-Hungary task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Former countries
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries/Italian task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Former countries
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject France -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Franco-Americans -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Freedom of speech -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Freemasonry -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Frisia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Fungi -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Furry -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Futures studies -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Gaelic games -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Gambia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Games -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Game theory -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender studies -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject General Audience -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates -- Wikipedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography of India -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography -- Wikimedia subject-area collaborative project
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/Atlanta task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Ghana -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Ghost towns -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Glaciers -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Glossaries -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Goa -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Golden ratio -- Defunct Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Google/Alphabet task force -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Google -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Guatemala -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Guyana -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration on Guyana
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Hampshire County, West Virginia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Hampshire -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Haryana -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Hawaii -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Health and fitness -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Hertfordshire -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Higher education -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/United Kingdom -- Sub-project of WikiProject Highways
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Hiking trails -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Himachal Pradesh -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Hinduism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindustani and allied languages -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Hip hop -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Historical Atlas -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Historical information -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Historic sites -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject History Merge -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Canada -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject History -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Homeschooling -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Horror -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Hospitals -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Hotels -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Human rights -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Idaho -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Igbo -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Illinois -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Illyria -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Inclusion -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Indiana -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian maps -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian music -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian states -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject India -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous languages of California -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Indonesia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Inline Templates -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject International relations -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Internet culture -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Internet/Semantic Web task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Internet
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Internet -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Introductions -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Invention -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Government -- Sub-project of WikiProject Iowa
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Iran -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject IRC -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Irish republicanism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam in China -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam/Sunni Islam task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Islam
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Islands -- Wikimedia subject-area collaborative project
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Italy/Bernini -- Sub-project of WikiProject Italy
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Jacksonville -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject James Bond -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Jammu and Kashmir -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Janet Jackson -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Mythology task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Japan
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject JavaScript -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Knots -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Korea/North Korea -- Sub-project of WikiProject Korea
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Korea -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Lacrosse -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Lady Gaga -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Lagos -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin music/Tropical music -- Sub-project of WikiProject Latin music
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Latvia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Law -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Lead Improvement Team -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Led Zeppelin -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Lepidoptera -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Lethwei -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Libraries -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Library of Congress -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Liechtenstein -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Lighthouses -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Limited recognition -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists -- subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Literature -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Living people -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Location Format -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Logic -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisiana/Shreveport -- Sub-project of WikiProject Louisiana
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Magic -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Maine -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Malaysia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Mali/Azawad task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Mali
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Manual of Style -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Mars -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Media franchises -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Media -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Translation task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Medicine
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Men's Issues -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Merge -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Merseyside -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Mesoamerica -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Metal -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Miami -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Michael Jackson -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Micronesia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Microsoft -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Microsoft Windows -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle-earth -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/American Revolutionary War task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Military history
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Military history
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Chinese military history task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Military history
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Classical warfare task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Military history
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Military science, technology, and theory task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Military history
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Russian, Soviet and CIS military history task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Military history
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/South American military history task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Military history
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Mizzou -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology/Genetics -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology/Molecular and Cell Biology -- Sub-project of WikiProject Molecular Biology
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Monaco -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Montana -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Moon -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Motorsport -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains of the Alps -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Museums -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Instruments -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Music
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Regional and national music taskforce -- Sub-project of WikiProject Music
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Music -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Mysticism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration about mysticism
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Mythology -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Namibia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject National geography -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject National Health Service -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject NATO -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Nepal -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject .NET -- subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Neuroscience -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Nevada -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject New France -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject New Orleans -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject New South Wales -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Newspapers -- Wikipedia Newspapers subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject New York (state) -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Nigeria -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Non-tropical storms -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Noongar -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Normandy -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Norse history and culture -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Northamptonshire -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject North Carolina -- Wikimedia North Carolina subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject North Dakota -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject North East England -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject North Macedonia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Fantasy task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Novels
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Harry Potter task force -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Lemony Snicket task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Novels
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Military fiction task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Novels
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Rick Riordan task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Novels
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Nudity -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Objectivism -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Occult -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceans -- Wikimedia subject-area collboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/Deaflympics -- Sub-project of WikiProject Olympics
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/Paralympics -- Sub-project of WikiProject Olympics
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Organizations -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Organized Labour -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Ottoman Empire -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject OWS -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Oz -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistani cities -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Palaeontology -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Palestine -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Parliamentary Procedure -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Perl -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy/Mind -- Sub-project of WikiProject Philosophy
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy/Science -- Sub-project of WikiProject Philosophy
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography/History of Photography -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Physical Chemistry -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Taskforces/Relativity -- Sub-project of WikiProject Physics
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Pittsburgh -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Podcasting -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Policy and Guidelines -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics/Corporatism -- Sub-project of WikiProject Politics
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics/Fascism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics/Libertarianism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Polymers -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Polynesia/French Polynesia work group -- Sub-project of WikiProject Polynesia
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Popular Culture -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Pornography -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Ports -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Portugal -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Private Equity -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling -- Wikipedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Proposed deletion patrolling -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychopathic Records -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Pteridophytes -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Puducherry -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Puerto Rico -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Punjab -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject QRpedia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Radio Stations -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Radio -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject R&B and Soul Music -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Rave -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Record Labels -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Reliability -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/New religious movements work group -- Sub-project of WikiProject Religion
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration about religions
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Richard Wagner -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject RISC OS -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject River Thames -- Inactive Wikipedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Rocketry -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Rock music/Queens of the Stone Age taskforce -- Sub-project of WikiProject Rock music
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Rock music -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Rodents -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Role-playing games -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Romance -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Roman Curia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Roots music -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Royal Society -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Royalty and Nobility -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby league -- Wikipedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby union -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Running -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Russia/Human geography of Russia task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Russia
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Russia -- subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Rutgers -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Rwanda -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Saints -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Sanitation -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration for sanitation related topics
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Scheduled Tasks -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Science -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Scientology -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Scotland/Scottish Gaelic task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Scotland
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Sculpture -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Seamounts -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Seattle -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Seton Hall University -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Severe weather -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality/Sex work task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Sexology and sexuality
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Seychelles -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Shakespeare -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Sherlock Holmes -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Shopping Centers -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Slovakia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Socialism/sandbox -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Socialism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Solar System/Taskforces/Jupiter -- Sub-project of WikiProject Solar System
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Solar System -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Solomon Islands -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa -- Wikipedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject South Carolina -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject South Dakota -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject South Sudan -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Soviet Union -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Space Colonization -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Space -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Speed Skating -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Spirits -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Square Enix -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Squash -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Squatting -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject St. Louis -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Sumo -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Superfund -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Sussex -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Sweden -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Swimming -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Syria -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Systems -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Talk pages -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Tamil civilization -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Tamil Eelam -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Tamil Nadu -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration on Tamil Nadu
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Taylor Swift -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Technology -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/24 task force -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/American television task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Television
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Avatar: The Last Airbender task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Television
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/British television task force/Shows -- Sub-project of WikiProject British television
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/British television task force -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Canadian television task force -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Degrassi task force -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Fawlty Towers task force -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Grey's Anatomy task force -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Holby task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Television
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Lost task force -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Monty Python task force -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Television stations task force -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Television -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Tennessee -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Tennis -- Wikimedia subject-area collaborative project
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Terrorism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas A&M -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas Tech University -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Textile Arts -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Three Kingdoms -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Time -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Tirana -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Toys -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Rail transport in Germany task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Trains
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Transhumanism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Transport -- Wikimedia subject-area collaborative project
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Taxobox task force -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Turtles -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Tuvalu -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject TypoScan -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Railways -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Ukraine -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Underwater diving -- Wikipedia subject-area collaboration for underwater diving topics
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject United Nations -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Government -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject United States governors -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/Hispanic and Latino Americans task force/Mexican-American task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject United States
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Presidents -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Territories -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject United States -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Cambridge -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Pittsburgh -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Urban studies and planning -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Census -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. counties -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/California -- Sub-project of WikiProject U.S. Roads
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Interstate Highways -- Sub-project of WikiProject U.S. Roads
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Mississippi -- Sub-project of WikiProject U.S. Roads
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Nevada -- Sub-project of WikiProject U.S. Roads
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Puerto Rico -- Sub-project of WikiProject U.S. Roads
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/U.S. Route 66 -- Sub-project of WikiProject U.S. Roads
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads -- Wikimedia subject-matter collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Wisconsin -- Sub-project of WikiProject U.S. Roads
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Streets -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Uzbekistan -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Vatican City -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Venezuela -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Vermont -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Veterinary medicine -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sega -- Sub-project of WikiProject Video games
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games -- Wikipedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Vietnam -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Villages of Bangladesh -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Volcanoes -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Warhammer 40,000 -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Washington University in St. Louis -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Asia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Western New York -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Sahara -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians for encyclopedic merit -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiltshire -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine -- Subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Wisconsin -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject World Rally -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Wyoming -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Wyoming/Yellowstone task force -- Sub-project of WikiProject Wyoming
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Years in science -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Years -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Yemen -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Yoga -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Yoruba -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Zambia -- Wikipedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Zoo -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Zoroastrianism -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wildcard character -- Character used to substitute for any other character/s in a string
Wikipedia - Wildwood Subdivision -- CSX railroad line in Florida
Wikipedia - Willard A. Saunders -- Decorated submarine commander
Wikipedia - Wilma Subra
Wikipedia - Wilmslow Urban District -- Former local government subdivision of Cheshire, UK
Wikipedia - Wilson station (Toronto) -- Toronto subway station
Wikipedia - Wilston, Queensland -- Suburb of Brisbane, Australia
Wikipedia - Wilton Shopping Centre -- Shopping centre in the suburbs of Cork, Ireland
Wikipedia - Wimbledon, London -- Suburb of London, England
Wikipedia - Windham Classics -- Subsidiary of Spinnaker Software
Wikipedia - Windows Subsystem for Linux -- Compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables natively on Windows
Wikipedia - Winnertziinae -- Subfamily of flies
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auromere - messages-on-subtle-planes
auromere - subtle-forms-of-the-ego
auromere - the-subtle-sounds-which-indicate-progress-in-yoga
auromere - description
auromere - subconscient
auromere - the-action-of-subliminal-memory
auromere - constitution-of-man
auromere - mental-sheath
auromere - subconscient
auromere - subconscient
auromere - subconscient
auromere - pancha-mahabhutas-the-five-subtle-constituents-of-matter
auromere - subconscient
auromere - subconscient
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auromere - subconscient
Integral World - Peer production in an integral and intersubjective framework, Michel Bauwens
Integral World - (W)Hole Being, The Subject of (Non-)Duality, Brahman and the Signifier, John J. Connolly
Integral World - The Transdarwinian Mechanisms of Subtle and Causal Fields: Toward an Integral Evolutionary Theory, Joe Corbett
Integral World - Auszug G : Auf dem Weg zu einer umfassenden Theorie der subtilen Energien
Integral World - Essay Submission Page of Integral World
Integral World - The Avatar Project, How Virtual Reality is Ken Wilber's Subtle Realm Incarnated, David Lane
Integral World - The Qualia Question, What is the Evolutionary Advantage of Subjective Awareness?, A Two-Minded Discussion, David Lane and Brandon Gillett
Integral World - The Quantum Mind, Closing the Gap between Concrete Reality and Subjective Experience, Brandon Gillett and David Lane in Dialogue
Integral World - The Subtlety of Physical Cues, Exploring the Physics of Being a Psychic Surfer, David Lane
Integral World - The Ideal Ascent Thwarted: Why are 'Dominator' Hierarchies recreated with each Subsequent Developmental Hierarchy?, Giorgio Piacenza
Integral World - Ken Wilber, Rumo a Uma Teoria Completa de Energias Sutis - 1
Integral World - Ken Wilber, Rumo a Uma Teoria Completa de Energias Sutis - 2
Integral World - Ken Wilber, Rumo a Uma Teoria Completa de Energias Sutis - 3
Integral World - Ken Wilber, Rumo a Uma Teoria Completa de Energias Sutis - 4
Integral World - Ken Wilber, Rumo a Uma Teoria Completa de Energias Sutis - Notes
Integral World - Auszug G : Auf dem Weg zu einer umfassenden Theorie der subtilen Energien
Integral World - Different Views: Intersubjectivity, Interobjectivity and the Collapse of the Four-Quadrant Model, essay by Andrew Smith
Integral World - The intersubjective meditator, Andy Smith
Integral World - The Corona Conspiracy, Part 6: The Subtle Science of Genome Sequencing, Frank Visser
Integral World - Reflections on "Subtle Energy", essay by Frank Visser
Integral World - Subtle bodies, higher worlds, essay by Frank Visser
subject class:Integral Theory
Intersubjectivity, Social Justice, and Climate
selforum - suppression of sublime
selforum - subtle body
selforum - tapping subliminal
selforum - subtler regions of field of action
selforum - philosophy is at once most sublime and
selforum - experience of subjects
selforum - subjective objective dichotomy
selforum - cauldron of subjective fantasies
selforum - subjectivity and responsibility
selforum - subtler truths about physical
selforum - sublimation altruism suppression
selforum - mythology ideology and subjective
selforum - how to bring now subconscious parts
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https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2012/10/subtle-bodies.html
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2012/10/subud.html
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2012/10/subversive-thinking-blog-article-on-guy.html
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-subtle-body.html
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2012/12/subtle-perceptions.html
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2014/02/subjective-spiritual-experiences-can-be.html
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-dimension-of-subud.html
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2014/04/subquantum-kinetics-nontechnical-summary.html
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2014/06/subjective-mental-experience-and.html
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-subtle-physical.html
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-subtle-discrimination-between.html
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2015/05/psychosis-and-sublime-in-american-art.html
dedroidify.blogspot - language-subliminal-symbolism
dedroidify.blogspot - dmt-as-substitute-to-pharmaceuticals
dedroidify.blogspot - subliminal-exposure-to-corporate-logos
dedroidify.blogspot - subliminals
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dedroidify.blogspot - subs-music-is-new-religion
dedroidify.blogspot - beatles-yellow-submarine
dedroidify.blogspot - sublime-with-rome
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dedroidify.blogspot - sublimo
dedroidify.blogspot - 9-yesod-foundation-subconscious
dedroidify.blogspot - everything-is-due-nothing-is-submitted
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https://esotericotherworlds.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-listing-of-paranormal-subjects.html
https://esotericotherworlds.blogspot.com/2012/12/listing-of-subjects-on-earth-mysteries.html
https://esotericotherworlds.blogspot.com/2013/01/mental-projectionand-subtle-bodies.html
https://esotericotherworlds.blogspot.com/2013/01/qualia-subjective-experience.html
https://esotericotherworlds.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-subject-listing-connected-with.html
https://esotericotherworlds.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-subject-listing-for-quantum-mind.html
https://esotericotherworlds.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-subject-listing-of-devices-to-alter.html
https://esotericotherworlds.blogspot.com/2013/02/subject-listing-of-conciousness-studies.html
https://esotericotherworlds.blogspot.com/2013/03/sceptics-and-believerssubversive.html
https://esotericotherworlds.blogspot.com/2013/11/subjective-experience.html
subject class:Integral Yoga
wiki.auroville - Loretta_reads_Savitri:Two.II_"The_Kingdom_of_Subtle_Matter"_part_1
wiki.auroville - Loretta_reads_Savitri:Two.II_"The_Kingdom_of_Subtle_Matter"_part_2
wiki.auroville - Loretta_reads_Savitri:Two.II_"The_Kingdom_of_Subtle_Matter"_part_3
wiki.auroville - Subconscient
wiki.auroville - Subliminal_being
wiki.auroville - Subtle_body
wiki.auroville - Subtle_physical_plane
wiki.auroville - Subtle_senses
wiki.auroville - Subtle_sight
wiki.auroville - Subtle_sight_and_photographs
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Dharmapedia - Abhi_Subedi
Dharmapedia - Category:Islamic_rule_in_the_Indian_subcontinent
Dharmapedia - Haj_subsidy
Dharmapedia - History_of_education_in_the_Indian_subcontinent
Dharmapedia - History_of_metallurgy_in_the_Indian_subcontinent
Dharmapedia - History_of_science_and_technology_in_the_Indian_subcontinent
Dharmapedia - Indian_subcontinent
Dharmapedia - List_of_early_Hindu-Muslim_military_conflicts_in_the_Indian_subcontinent
Dharmapedia - Muslim_conquest_in_the_Indian_subcontinent
Dharmapedia - Muslim_conquests_of_the_Indian_subcontinent
Dharmapedia - Muslim_conquests_on_the_Indian_subcontinent
Dharmapedia - Pottery_in_the_Indian_subcontinent
Dharmapedia - Sanjay_Subrahmanyam
Dharmapedia - Subhas_Chandra_Bose
Dharmapedia - Subhash_Kak
Dharmapedia - Subramania_Bharati
Dharmapedia - Subramanian_Swamy
Dharmapedia - Subtle_body
Dharmapedia - Subtle_physical
Dharmapedia - Tallapragada_Subba_Row
Dharmapedia - The_Subtle_Body
subject class:Psychology
Psychology Wiki - Instructional_techniques_within_each_subject
Psychology Wiki - Integral_psychology_(Sri_Aurobindo)#Subconscient
Psychology Wiki - Integral_psychology_(Sri_Aurobindo)#Subtle_physical
Psychology Wiki - Medical_Subject_Headings
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Psychology Wiki - Subconscious_mind
Psychology Wiki - Subculture
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Psychology Wiki - Subjective_well-being
Psychology Wiki - Subjectivism
Psychology Wiki - Subjectivity
Psychology Wiki - Subject_(philosophy)
Psychology Wiki - Subliminal_stimuli
Psychology Wiki - Sub-Saharan_Africa
Psychology Wiki - Substance
Psychology Wiki - Substance_abuse
Psychology Wiki - Substance_dualism
Psychology Wiki - Substance_theory
Psychology Wiki - Vedanta#Sub-schools_of_Vedanta
subject:Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - logic-substructural
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - substance
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - vasubandhu
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