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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he so chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinctionâ â Aurobindo, âBhawani Mandirâ
âOne who may die but will not perish has life everlastingâ â Lao Tse<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(What can one say about Aurobindo. He's just perfect in every way.)
The following actually belongs in the Other Natural Traditions thread, but it's related to the last line in the above quoteblock:
I think something reminiscent of that saying by Lao Tse - who wrote Tao Te Ching - is also there in the exquisite Chinese animation about the Tao God Nezha's life. IIRC, after the little child Nezha has killed himself as a sacrifice to save his nation, and is reborn and wakes up to the Taoist Rishi Tai-Yi and the Crane who brought him back, he asks (moved to find himself alive) "I'm alive?" and then rushes to hug his Guru. The Rishi explains to Nezha that "You are a Spirit that is Indestructible" (and hence, also not to be contained by death). And in the end, once Bhagavan Nezha has taught the Dragons humility by defeating them and Nezha is going back to the heavens on his Deer Vahanam, it has the narrator explaining how "The spirit is free. Because he who knows how to live has no place for death to enter."
If people hadn't seen it already last time the adverts rolled around, at least
watch his Rebirth - because it is <i>absolute poetry in motion</i>: Starts at around 1:30 mins into part 6 at youtube and goes upto ~4 mins). While Nezha's moves when he is waking up again are reminiscent of Yoga or Bharatanatyam (well, Bharatanatyam is a form of Yoga, so...) - it's probably the Taoist practice of Tai-Chi that the child God is doing. It even does an almost Nataraja-pose <!--emo&
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His beautiful feet in golasu (sp?), his bracelets and the tilakam on his forehead - I'm sure that 'simple' character designs never looked quite so spectacular and captured the Divine quite so perfectly. <i>Always</i> astounding. One of those things that are really worth watching - and rewatching - in life.
via http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/05/bjp...-basics-or.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he so chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinctionâ â Aurobindo, âBhawani Mandirâ
âOne who may die but will not perish has life everlastingâ â Lao Tse<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(What can one say about Aurobindo. He's just perfect in every way.)
The following actually belongs in the Other Natural Traditions thread, but it's related to the last line in the above quoteblock:
I think something reminiscent of that saying by Lao Tse - who wrote Tao Te Ching - is also there in the exquisite Chinese animation about the Tao God Nezha's life. IIRC, after the little child Nezha has killed himself as a sacrifice to save his nation, and is reborn and wakes up to the Taoist Rishi Tai-Yi and the Crane who brought him back, he asks (moved to find himself alive) "I'm alive?" and then rushes to hug his Guru. The Rishi explains to Nezha that "You are a Spirit that is Indestructible" (and hence, also not to be contained by death). And in the end, once Bhagavan Nezha has taught the Dragons humility by defeating them and Nezha is going back to the heavens on his Deer Vahanam, it has the narrator explaining how "The spirit is free. Because he who knows how to live has no place for death to enter."
If people hadn't seen it already last time the adverts rolled around, at least
watch his Rebirth - because it is <i>absolute poetry in motion</i>: Starts at around 1:30 mins into part 6 at youtube and goes upto ~4 mins). While Nezha's moves when he is waking up again are reminiscent of Yoga or Bharatanatyam (well, Bharatanatyam is a form of Yoga, so...) - it's probably the Taoist practice of Tai-Chi that the child God is doing. It even does an almost Nataraja-pose <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> His beautiful feet in golasu (sp?), his bracelets and the tilakam on his forehead - I'm sure that 'simple' character designs never looked quite so spectacular and captured the Divine quite so perfectly. <i>Always</i> astounding. One of those things that are really worth watching - and rewatching - in life.