Transcendence

SL beat Aussies by 13 runs. When Brett Lee was bowled by Jayasuria for 37, one of the most thrilling onedayer ended ! What an incredible game ! The new SL medium pacers did the trick ! The Aussie middle order caved in ! Let us see what will happen on Sunday, when India take on the Australian might !

- By: Ella Wilson, 2008-02-28 A game that has captured the heart of millions and still manages to enthrall millions of spectators when any game is being played on the field, anywhere in the world - is cricket for you. The 11 players of each team rise above the ordinary and achieve the status of icons once they are out to play their game. Every strike of the bat change the possible outcome of the game and that is what makes it possible for each game to have a nail biting finish. Long after the match is over the enthusiastic fans are still found dissecting the game and have their own piece of advice about how the game could have been played in a better manner. The losing team has to bear the brunt of anger of their devoted fans, while the winning team is put up on a pedestal. However, irrespective of the outcome of the game, the fans still want to preserve the memories of the match long after and that of their favorite players, and the cricket wallpapers are one of the best ways to do it

- By: Ella Wilson, 2008-02-29 Watching a cricket match is always fascinating and on getting a chance to catch it live, then the cricket freaks can surely could not ask for anything more. The adrenaline level keeps going higher and higher with every ball and run. However, it is a fundamental truth that mystery holds more charm and passion and a live match is in no comparison less than that. The game in itself is superbly exciting with its unpredictable highs and lows. There are people who sincerely follow everything about cricket and their favorite cricketers. And just wonder what how sad it is for such cricket lovers to miss their matches just for some trivial issues. Actually a sincere thought has already been made regarding this problem and it resulted in amazing invention of cricket online. Now the entire live cricket video can be watched on Internet Live cricket video is a boon for cricket fans who are forced to miss out on catching live cricket action on field or television. There

- By: Ella Wilson, 2008-02-27 A lazy Sunday at home and a cricket match between your home team and their biggest rivals, spells out the perfect way to spend a day for any cricket fan. Watching an enticing cricket match on television and seeing the possible outcome of the game change with every ball and every strike of the bat is one of most preferred activities of any cricket enthusiast. The nail biting finish provides an immense sense of relief and the emotions are varied accordingly to the final cricket score. A win registered by the favorite team can find people celebrating out on the streets while a loss can infuriate the fans to a great extent. In many countries such as India, the game has attained the position of a religion while the players have become Gods. The cricket fans get emotionally involved with the game and it is not just an event where two teams are fighting it out on the field to get the winning score, the war is much more personal when you are an involved fan. The c

Indian swing bowlers do it again. SL 93/6 ! Praveen Kumar took 3 wickets. The all rounder India has been waiting for ! Ishant takes the sixth wicket and SL is reeling. In the last game ( I was so busy with Web 2.0 ) India fought valiantly with Uthappa and Gambhir clicking. Indian boys are short of experience on Aussie pitches and the more they acclimatise, the better will they perform. So Indian boys not doing badly, even though much more is expected from them !

In the auctions in Mumbai, Dhoni gets 6 crores, Ishant 3.8 , Harbhajan 3.6 and Sreeshant 2.5 crores Chennai picked up Dhoni for 6 crores and Symonds came next, swallowed by Hyderabad. Jayasuria was third and Ishant Sharma was fourth. Irfan Pathan came next followed by Jacques Kallis. Brett Lee, RP Singh, Harbhajan Singh & Robin Uthappa followed later. What about ICL ? ICL may rise to the challenge, let us hope !

A great innings by Dhoni and an equally responsible innings from Dhoni, an unbeaten 50 and India win a thrilling game. Kumar Sangakara's century goes in vain. He got the Man of the Match award ! Now Yuvraj has come into back and this is good news for India. This is the first 50 he has scored during the Aussie tour. The same Yuvi-Dhoni combine which has steered India so many times has done the trick again. Now SL will have to work very hard on Friday, as they take on formidable Australia !

Out of a still Immensity all came! These million universes were to it The poor light-bubbles of a trivial game, A fragile glimmer in the Infinite. It could not find its soul in all that vast: It drew itself into a little speck Infinitesimal, ignobly cast Out of earth's mud and slime strangely awake,- A tiny plasm on a little globe, In the small system of a dwarflike sun, A little life wearing the flesh for robe, A little mind winged through wide space to run! It lived, it knew, it saw its self sublime, Deathless, outmeasuring Space, outlasting Time. Article Source : http://www.shortpoems.org/poets/sri_aurobindo/infinite.html

by: Sri Aurobindo 1 - The Silence Into the Silence, into the Silence, Arise, O Spirit immortal, Away from the turning Wheel, breaking the magical Circle. Ascend, single and deathless: Care no more for the whispers and the shoutings in the darkness, Pass from the sphere of the grey and the little, Leaving the cry and the struggle, Into the Silence for ever. Vast and immobile, formless and marvellous, Higher than Heaven, wider than the universe, In a pure glory of being, In a bright stillness of self-seeing, Communing with a boundlessness voiceless and intimate, Make thy knowledge too high for thought, thy joy too deep for emotion; At rest in the unchanging Light, mute with the wordless self-vision, Spirit, pass out of thyself; Soul, escape from the clutch of Nature. All thou hast seen cast from thee, O Witness. Turn to the Alone and the Absolute, turn to the Eternal: Be only eternity, peace and silence, world-transcending nameless Oneness, Spirit immortal. 2 - Beyond the Silence Out

Joe Perez said... hi alan - i'm looking forward to reading more aurobindo next year. i feel a kinship with your thoughts on aurobindo, wilber, etc, but hesitate to comment more because my knowledge of aurobindo is superficial. but I have studied Hegel in some degree of depth, and I find Aurobindo's prose to be more or less of the same difficulty. That is to say, extremely "abstract." And yet it is beautiful, more so than ... well, very much so. I hope you can find a way to communicate Aurobindo's genius in more plain language. joe 12:05 AM m alan kazlev said... Hi Joe, I have to say I have found ideas in your blog very helpful in further developing and widening my understanding of Integral and the Integral movement. Yes much of Sri Aurobindo's writings are heavy in style, perhaps because of his English private school upbring. Interestingly his Letters on Yoga (it's since been published under another title, On Yoga or some such) are very easy to read; they&

He who would save the world must be one with the world… His soul must be wider than the universe And feel eternity as its very stuff, Rejecting the moment's personality, Know itself older than the birth of Time, Creation an incident in its consciousness, Arcturus and Belphegor grains of fire Circling in a corner of its boundless self, The world's destruction a small transient storm In the calm infinity it has become… Consent to be nothing and none, dissolve Time's work, Cast off thy mind, step back from form and name. Annul thyself that only God may be 60: The sun before abysmal Night A Spiritual Biography of Savitri A calm slow sun looked down from tranquil heavens… The night's gold treasure of autumnal moons Came floating shipped through ripples of fairy air. And Savitri's life was glad, fulfilled like earth's; She had found herself, she knew her being's aim. Although her kingdom of marvellous change within Remained unspoken in her secret breast, All th

Gangotri INVITATION With wind and the weather beating round me Up to the hill and the moorland I go. Who will come with me? Who will climb with me? Wade through the brook and tramp through the snow? Not in the petty circle of cities Cramped by your doors and your walls I dwell; Over me God is blue in the welkin Against me the wind and the storm rebel. I sport with solitude here in my regions, Of misadventure have me a friend. Who would live largely? Who would live freely? Here to the wind-swept uplands ascend. I am the lord of tempest and mountain, I am the Spirit of freedom and pride. Stark must he be and a kinsman to danger Who shares my kingdom and walks at my side. --(Alipore Jail 1908-09) REVELATION Someone leaping from the rocks Past me ran with windblown locks Like a startled bright surmise Visible to mortal eyes, -- Just a cheek of frightened rose That with sudden beauty glows, Just a footstep like the wind And a hurried glance behind, And then nothing, -- as a thought Escape

Krishna by Sri Aurobindo At last I find a meaning of soul's birth Into this universe terrible and sweet, I who have felt the hungry heart of earth Aspiring beyond heaven to Krishna's feet. I have seen the beauty of immortal eyes, And heard the passion of the Lover's flute, And known a deathless ecstasy's surprise And sorrow in my heart for ever mute. Nearer and nearer now the music draws, Life shudders with a strange felicity; All Nature is a wide enamoured pause Hoping her lord to touch, to clasp, to be. For this one moment lived the ages past; The world now throbs fulfilled in me at last.

Indian swing bowlers did the trick again, skittling out the formidable Aussies to 159. Sreesanth 3/31, Sharma 4/38 & Pathan 2/26, With Sachin scoring 44 and young Rohit Sharma 39 no, India won by 5 wickets. This is an incredible win, considering that India is playing in Australia, like the Perth victory ! Hope Indians keep up the winning streak. Only if India emerges triumphant can there be a strong rival to keep the mighty Aussies at bay !

A glorious hundred by Gambhir and a swashbuckling 88 not out by Dhoni saw India finishing the innings at 267/4. The match was abandoned. So the Indian batting is trying to reassert itself !