Kali The Mother By Sister Niveditha (Margaret E Noble )
Published in 1899
Contents
CONCERNING SYMBOLS
THE VISION OF SIVA
TWO SAINTS OF KALI
THE VOICE OF THE MOTHER
A VISIT TO DUKINESHWAR
AN INTERCESSION
THE STORY OF KALI FOR A WESTERN BABY
KALI THE MOTHER
Works of Vivekananda
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OUR daily life creates our symbol of God. No two ever cover quite the same conception.It is so with that symbolism which we know as language. The simple daily needs of mankind, seem, the world over, to be one. We look, therefore, for words that correspond in every land.Yet we know how the tongue of each people expresses some one group of ideas with especial clearness, and ignores others altogether. Never do we find an identical strength and weakness repeated: and always if we go deep enough, we can discover in the circumstances and habits of a country, a cause for its specific difference of thought or of expression.In the North we speak of a certain hour as "twilight," implying a space of time between the day and night. In India, the sane moments receive the name of "time of union," since there is no period of half-light,--the hours of sun and darkness seeming to touch each other in a point.The illustration can be carried further. In the word gloaming lies for us a wealth of associations,--the throbbing of the falling dusk, the tenderness of home-coming, the last sleepy laughter of children. The same emotional note is struck in Indian languages by the expression at the hour of cowdust
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Published in 1899
Contents
CONCERNING SYMBOLS
THE VISION OF SIVA
TWO SAINTS OF KALI
THE VOICE OF THE MOTHER
A VISIT TO DUKINESHWAR
AN INTERCESSION
THE STORY OF KALI FOR A WESTERN BABY
KALI THE MOTHER
Works of Vivekananda
ebook of Kali the mother by sister Niveditha
OUR daily life creates our symbol of God. No two ever cover quite the same conception.It is so with that symbolism which we know as language. The simple daily needs of mankind, seem, the world over, to be one. We look, therefore, for words that correspond in every land.Yet we know how the tongue of each people expresses some one group of ideas with especial clearness, and ignores others altogether. Never do we find an identical strength and weakness repeated: and always if we go deep enough, we can discover in the circumstances and habits of a country, a cause for its specific difference of thought or of expression.In the North we speak of a certain hour as "twilight," implying a space of time between the day and night. In India, the sane moments receive the name of "time of union," since there is no period of half-light,--the hours of sun and darkness seeming to touch each other in a point.The illustration can be carried further. In the word gloaming lies for us a wealth of associations,--the throbbing of the falling dusk, the tenderness of home-coming, the last sleepy laughter of children. The same emotional note is struck in Indian languages by the expression at the hour of cowdust
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