Download or read book The Symbol Dawn written by R. Y. Deshpande and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Symbol Dawn, the opening Canto of Sri Aurobindo's epic Savitri, has been the subject matter of many studies, and many studies will continue to appear, will continue to flourish and develop. There have been explanations and theses and dissertations written on it, any number of them, elucidations, talks, paintings, musical, choreographical presentations and representations, there will be sculptures and multi-media expositions based on it. The explorative dimensions are countless. The richness, the universality of it is inexhaustible and the creative spirit can reach intense depths or broadest widenesses or lofty heights. In fact these can be the means for endless realisations which Savitri holds for it. "It is a marvellous work, magnificent and of an incomparable perfection." This is what the Mother said about Savitri, Savitri whose "revelation is prophetic." What she said is seen in its fullness in the very first Canto itself, a Canto which got crystallised after some two dozen plus definitive drafts. Its inspiration is from another new realm of poetry: It is Overhead Poetry that brings to us the utterance of the dynamic and beauteous spirit itself. Sri Aurobindo's own early statement about Savitri is: "it is only an attempt to render into poetry a symbol of things occult and spiritual." Perhaps this symbol, of things occult and spiritual, is heaviest and profoundest in The Symbol Dawn, the dawn symbolising the appearance of a new and marvellous creation here on earth, in the mortal world. Our endeavour is to go essentially by the original text itself and see to what extent one can read those multiple layers of symbolism that are present in this rosy-fingered Dawn.
Download or read book The Symbol Dawn written by R. Y. Deshpande and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Symbol Dawn, the opening Canto of Sri Aurobindo's epic Savitri, has been the subject matter of many studies, and many studies will continue to appear, will continue to flourish and develop. There have been explanations and theses and dissertations written on it, any number of them, elucidations, talks, paintings, musical, choreographical presentations and representations, there will be sculptures and multi-media expositions based on it. The explorative dimensions are countless. The richness, the universality of it is inexhaustible and the creative spirit can reach intense depths or broadest widenesses or lofty heights. In fact these can be the means for endless realisations which Savitri holds for it. "It is a marvellous work, magnificent and of an incomparable perfection." This is what the Mother said about Savitri, Savitri whose "revelation is prophetic". What she said is seen in its fullness in the very first Canto itself, a Canto which got crystallised after some two dozen plus definitive drafts. Its inspiration is from another new realm of poetry: It is Overhead Poetry that brings to us the utterance of the dynamic and beauteous spirit itself.Sri Aurobindo's own early statement about Savitri is: "it is only an attempt to render into poetry a symbol of things occult and spiritual." Perhaps this symbol, of things occult and spiritual, is heaviest and profoundest in The Symbol Dawn, the dawn symbolising the appearance of a new and marvellous creation here on earth, in the mortal world. Our endeavour is to go essentially by the original text itself and see to what extent one can read those multiple layers of symbolism that are present in this rosy-fingered Dawn.
Download or read book A Look at the Symbol Dawn written by R. y. Deshpande and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Aurobindo's epic Savitri opens with the Symbol Dawn and immediately in the first two sentences poses the problem of this creation. It says that the Gods are not yet awake and that the mind of Night is standing in the way of the divine Event. The divine Event is the manifestation of a new creation upon earth, manifestation in the mortal world. If that is to happen then the mind of Night should be first dislodged from the path. It is only then that the transforming Gods will set themselves into action. The Event will proceed not with the waking of the Gods but with the removal of the mind of Night. That is crucial, significant.But what is this mind of Night? It is the physical's mind receiving and holding in it the charge of the inconscient Darkness; she receives her and shapes her ideas and objects. All this happens before the Gods awake—It was the hour before the Gods awake. Obviously in the presence of the mind of Night no transforming Gods will awake, will act. However, in this inscrutable Night's darkness there is something that wishes to know but knows not how to be. There is the urge straining to look for absent light. In response to it a message arrives from other side of the luminous boundlessness. It calls the adventure of consciousness and joy. A thought is sown, memory quivers. Hope is kindled. Indeed if the god-touch is there then what is it that cannot be done? There is the glory of the unseen sun, and the celestial vision moves in the wake of the dawn. The sky is lit with magnificent hues; in that early hour are planted crimson seeds of grandeur. The things which were promised long ago are going to get fulfilled.But, sadly, the bright omniscient Goddess who wished to come and stay could not. She would have been here and done what was to be done, but she found herself unwelcome. She was not wanted. Naturally she preferred to withdraw from the mortal range. She went back and what remained instead was only the light of the common earthly day.It is under these circumstances arrives in this world Savitri. She received the summons from the Sun-God and steps into the common day, accepts the common lot. That is the mortal birth of divine Savitri. She accepted mortality's lot, its anguish in all its deep measures. Yet ever she was divinely noble and true even in her humanity. Not the diktat of Time but the will of the Supreme that was all she obeyed. She entered into mortality yet she was divinely immortal in her humanity. Calm luminous delight had always been the dynamism of her nature. It is in it she found oneness with all.Oneness with all—that is the key to the flaming doors of ecstasy. Savitri was in possession of it. She has that necessary key but that key alone is not sufficient for the flaming doors of ecstasy. There is the inconscient stubbornness of earth-nature also, and it needs be tackled. The difficulty is, it is hard to persuade earth-nature's change. As long as earth-nature remains a product of Inconscience the key cannot work. Earth-nature cannot bear the assault of ether and of fire, the storming of the blueness of the vast and the fieriness of the orange luminous—they are too overpowering for it though the soul may be ready.In order to change this earth-nature it is necessary to go to the root of things, it springing from the inconscient brood. There is Ignorance, there is Death, there is Falsehood. At the material level these show up themselves as the mind of Night. It is this mind which needs to be transformed, made the mind of Light to receive the supramental Light and Force. When the physical receives this Light then can proceed the divine manifestation. But as long as the mind of Night casts her thick shadow on the divine Love, as long as he is in the grip of Death this cannot happen, will not happen. But when that Death's grip is removed then can function the transforming Gods.
Download or read book Savitri written by Aurobindo Ghose and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this epic spiritual poem, Sri Aurobindo reveals his vision of mankind's destiny within the universal evolution. He sets forth the optimistic view that life on earth has a purpose, and he places our travail within the context of this purpose: to participate in the evolution of consciousness that represents the secret thread behind life on Earth.
Download or read book The English of Savitri written by Shraddhavan and published by Auro e-Books. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1980, Shraddhavan has been teaching English in Auroville through close readings of Sri Aurobindo’s revelatory epic Savitri: a legend and a symbol. In August 1998 these classes were resumed at Savitri Bhavan, with a growing number of students, including young Tamil teacher-trainees from the Arul Vazhi School located in Promesse, Auroville. These classes were given the name ‘The English of Savitri’ and they concluded in May of 2009 as this group reached the end of the poem. This book is based on the transcripts of a new series of classes given by Shraddhavan between August 2009 and October 2010, which have been edited for conciseness and clarity, while aiming to preserve some of the informal atmosphere of the course. Edited transcripts of these classes began to be published serially in the Bhavan’s journal of Study Notes on Savitri, ‘Invocation’, from issue 32 onwards, since it was felt that they may be of interest to a wider audiance. They are now being published in book form in several volumes by Yukta Prakashan publishers of Vadodara. This suggested the idea of collecting the original English articles into a book form as well. This is the first such volume, covering all the five cantos of Book One of the poem, ‘The Book of Beginnings’.
Download or read book Dawn written by Elie Wiesel and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elie Wiesel's Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings. "The author . . . has built knowledge into artistic fiction." —The New York Times Book Review Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel's ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of assassination. The basis for the 2014 film of the same name, now available on streaming and home video.
Download or read book Symbols of the Dawn written by Jean Logan and published by Brand Nu Words. This book was released on 2014 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homo Symbolicus written by Christopher S. Henshilwood and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of symbolic culture, classically identified with the European cave paintings of the Ice Age, is now seen, in the light of recent groundbreaking discoveries, as a complex nonlinear process taking root in a remote past and in different regions of the planet. In this book the archaeologists responsible for some of these new discoveries, flanked by ethologists interested in primate cognition and cultural transmission, evolutionary psychologists modelling the emergence of metarepresentations, as well as biologists, philosophers, neuro-scientists and an astronomer combine their research findings. Their results call into question our very conception of human nature and animal behaviour, and they create epistemological bridges between disciplines that build the foundations for a novel vision of our lineage's cultural trajectory and the processes that have led to the emergence of human societies as we know them.
Download or read book Signs Symbols in Christian Art written by George Ferguson and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the use and meaning of Christian symbols found in Renaissance art.
Download or read book Symbol of Dawn written by Madli Puhvel and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Savitri Talks written by Ry Deshpande and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Talks on the Symbol Dawn, the opening canto of Sri Aurobindo's epic savitri, it is stated that these could be an essential tool for Savitri-lovers to develop the right perspective and context for Savitri-reading. It has not only synthesized a lot of earlier contributions, but also developed many essential original articulations. The concept of Savitri's yajna synthesises Savitri-readings with the Vedic perspective as, for instance, we have in the Purusha Sukta when seen as an Aurobindonian interpretation of the cosmology that goes with it. But perhaps certain aspects also need be elaborated, such as the Mother's story of creation, Asuras and Gods, the Mind of Night, the two Nothingnesses and the inability of the second Nothingness to create by itself, Matter as the theatre for the divine Event, the New Creation and many such key features. But perhaps these are already present in the Talks. The whole inspiration behind them is to grow in the richness of Savitri. Savitri gives us the Truth and the things of the Truth. To live in Savitri is to enter into the spirit of its luminous magnificence, Savitri who shall take us closer to the supreme Yogi-Poet.
Download or read book Nietzsche Daybreak written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of this important work of Nietzsche's 'mature' philosophy.
Download or read book The Reality Dysfunction written by Peter F. Hamilton and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2008-10-08 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reality Dysfunction is a modern classic of science fiction from Peter F. Hamilton, an extraordinary feat of storytelling on a truly epic scale. "A space opera that is big, boisterous, and has something for everyone." —Science Fiction Weekly Space is not the only void. . . In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries, defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceborn creatures. Huge fleets of sentient trader starships thrive on the wealth created by the industrialization of entire star systems. And throughout inhabited space the Confederation Navy keeps the peace. A true golden age is within our grasp. But on a primitive colony planet, a renegade criminal's chance encounter with an utterly alien entity unleashes the most primal of humanity’s fears. An extinct race which inhabited the galaxy aeons ago called it "The Reality Dysfunction." It is the nightmare which has prowled beside us since the beginning of history. The Night’s Dawn Trilogy The Reality Dysfunction The Neutronium Alchemist The Naked Go
Download or read book The Summer Prince written by Alaya Dawn Johnson and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart-stopping story of love, death, technology, and art set amid the tropics of a futuristic Brazil. The lush city of Palmares Tres shimmers with tech and tradition, with screaming gossip casters and practiced politicians. In the midst of this vibrant metropolis, June Costa creates art that's sure to make her legendary. But her dreams of fame become something more when she meets Enki, the bold new Summer King. The whole city falls in love with him (including June's best friend, Gil). But June sees more to Enki than amber eyes and a lethal samba. She sees a fellow artist.
Download or read book By Names and Images written by Peregin Wildoak and published by Skylight Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Dawn (GD) system of magic is the main source of the esoteric and magical wisdom and techniques practiced in the West today. While the rituals and bare teachings of the tradition have been published for sixty years, the inner workings and esoteric keys that empower those rituals have largely remained unpublished or unexplored in contemporary works. By Names and Images remedies this lack by providing detailed and clear instructions for the visualisations, spiritual connections and energetic practices required for every major GD practice and ritual, as well as several unpublished techniques. Focusing on the meanings and use of sacred names and practical techniques of visualisation, the book thoroughly explores meditation and divination, purification ritual, invocation and evocation, grades of initiation, and direct experience of the inner realms. Also covered is an explanation of the Qabalah and its use as a magical framework. While the book is sufficiently practical and clearly explained to be of huge benefit to a newcomer to magic, its primary aim is to allow people already practicing the Golden Dawn system to do so more effectively, and to be touched by the amazing spiritual blessings the rituals offer.
Download or read book Sacred Symbols of Light written by Jean Logan and published by Holy Ground Farm. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is a new language of Light that is to come on to the planet. It is an organization of Light particles that is encoded in the vibrations you are bringing through your glyphs. Your glyphs are emanating frequencies into the Light fields of the planet.... You are of the House of the Masters. ...you were sent to earth...to create the language of the masters here on earth." (From a reading by Judith Moore, Oracle for the Records of Creation). The symbols in this manual and Jean Logan's first manual, "Unlocking the Power of Glyphs" are given to help ease the suffering and prepare humankind for the changing energies that are to come."--Publisher information.
Download or read book Dawn of the Gods written by Jacquetta Hawkes and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
