# Auspicious

Auspicious means good omen, indicating future success (lucky, fortunate), marked by success, favorable, promising, propitious and prosperous. Its derivatives terms are auspiciously and auspiciousness. Auspicious is a Latin-derived word originally pertaining to the taking of 'auspices' by the augurs of ancient Rome.

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* It is universally held that the unicorn is a supernatural being and of auspicious omen; so say the odes, the annals, the biographies of worthies, and other texts whose authority is unimpeachable. Even village women and children know that the unicorn is a lucky sign. But this animal does not figure among the barnyard animals, it is not always easy to come across, it does not lend itself to zoological classification. Nor is it like the horse or bull, the wolf or deer. In such circumstances we may be face to face with a unicorn and not know for sure that we are. We know that a certain animal with a mane is a horse and that a certain animal with horns is a bull. We do not know what the unicorn looks like.
** Jorge Luis Borges in: Peter Costello The magic zoo: the natural history of fabulous animals, Sphere Books, 1979, p. 181.
* Every moment is auspicious. There is always some magic in it.
** Amit Ray in Mindfulness : Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
* On paper curiously shaped Scribblers to-day of every sort, In verses Valentines Yclep'd, To Venus chime their annual court. I too will swell the motley throng, And greet the all auspicious day, Whose privilege permits my song My love thus secret to convey.
** Henry G. Bohn in MS. From his Dictionary of Poetical Quotations, Valentines quoted in: Kate Louise Roberts Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, 1922, p. 828 .
* Parent of golden dreams, Romance Auspicious queen of childish joys, Who lead'st along, in airy dance, Thy votive train of girls and boys.
** George Gordon Byron in: The poetical works, Murray, 1867, p. 24.
* Were I to choose an auspicious image for the new millennium, I would choose this one: The sudden agile leap of the poet-philosopher who raises himself above the weight of the world, showing that with all his gravity he has the secret of lightness, and that what many consider to be the vitality of the times--noisy, aggressive, revving and roaring--belongs to the realm of death, like a cemetery for rusty, old cars.
** Italo Calvino in: Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Harvard University Press, 1 January 1988, p. 12.
* Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe: Won by their sweets, in nature's languid hour, The way-worn pilgrim seeks thy summer bower; There, as the wild bee murmurs on the wing, What peaceful dreams thy handmaid spirits bring! What viewless forms th' Æolian organ play, And sweep the furrow'd lines of anxious thought away! Angel of life! thy glittering wings explore Earth's loneliest bounds, and Ocean's wildest shore.
** Thomas Campbell (poet) in: William Collins The pleasures of hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and other poems. To which are added, Collins' & Gray's poetical works , 1854, p. 4.
* Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe.
** Thomas Campbell in: Robert Aitkin Bertram A Dictionary of Poetical Illustrations: Specially Selected with View to the Needs of the Pulpit and Platform, Richard D. Dickinson, 1877, p. 364.
* If you do not pray to God, what is that to Him? It is only your misfortune. The conjunction of the day and the night is the most auspicious time for calling on God. The mind remains pure at this time
** Sarada Devi in: Women Saints of East and West: Śrī Sāradā Devī (the Holy Mother) Birth Centenary Memorial, RamaKrishna Vedanta Centre, 1955, p. 118.
* Quisquis enim hic felicem agit vitam, atque rempublicam recte gubernat, sicut nobilissimus meus pater fecit, qui promouit omnem pietatem atque expulit omnem ignorantiam, habet certissimum iter in coelum.
* [W]hoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven.
** King Edward VI to his stepmother, Dowager Queen, Katherine Parr, February 7, 1547. (Harley MS 5087, art. 34, fol.14r.) in:, Janel Mueller, ed., Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence, 2011 University Of Chicago Press, p. 128-129.
* On the first day of Diwali, housewives consider it auspicious to spring clean the home and shop for gold or kitchen utensils.
** National Geographic in: Diwali, nationalgeographic.com.
* Georgium Sidus 0 jam nune assuesec vocari- to a star which, with respect to us, first began to shine under his auspicious reign.
** Sir William Herschel in: The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 14; Volume 77, Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1871, p. 725.
* In the LSD state the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world more or less disappear, depending on the depth of the inebriation. Feedback between receiver and sender takes place. A portion of the self overflows into the outer world, into objects, which begin to live, to have another, a deeper meaning. This can be perceived as a blessed, or as a demonic transformation imbued with terror, proceeding to a loss of the trusted ego. In an auspicious case, the new ego feels blissfully united with the objects of the outer world and consequently also with its fellow beings. This experience of deep oneness with the exterior world can even intensify to a feeling of the self being one with the universe. This condition of cosmic consciousness, which under favorable conditions can be evoked by LSD or by another hallucinogen from the group of Mexican sacred drugs, is analogous to spontaneous religious enlightenment, with the unio mystica. In both conditions, which often last only for a timeless moment, a reality is experienced that exposes a gleam of the transcendental reality, in which universe and self, sender and receiver, are one.
** Dr. Albert Hofmann in: LSD : My Problem Child (1980), Ch. 11 : LSD Experience and Reality, The Psychedelic Library and also in: John Strausbaugh, Donald Blaise The Drug User: Documents 1840-1960, Blast Books, 1991, p. 85.
* This [LSD] can be perceived as a blessed, or as a demonic transformation imbued with terror, proceeding to a loss of the trusted ego. In an auspicious case, the new ego feels blissfully united with the objects of the outer world and consequently also with its fellow beings.
** Albert Hofmann in: John Strausbaugh, Donald Blaise The Drug User: Documents 1840-1960, Blast Books, 1991, p. 85.
* Roman alphabet: The Namokara Mantra namo Arahamtanam, namo Siddhdnam, namo Airiydnam, namo Uvajjhdydnam, namo loe sawa-sdhunam.
* English translation: Obeisance to the Arihants, perfect souls –Godmen<br Obeisance to the Siddhas-liberated bodiless [[souls] Obeisance to the masters-heads of congregations Obeisance to the teachers = ascetic teachers Obeisance to all the ascetic aspirants in the universe This fivefold obeisance mantra destroys all demerit And is the first and foremost of all Auspicious recitations.
** Jyotiprasāda Jaina in: Religion & Culture of the Jains, Bharatiya Jnanpith, 1999.
* I do not personally know of anyone more worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize than this gentle Buddhist monk from Vietnam. This would be a notably auspicious year for you to bestow your Prize on the Venerable Nhat Hanh. Here is an apostle of peace and non-violence, cruelly separated from his own people while they are oppressed by a vicious war which has grown to threaten the sanity and security of the entire world.
** Martin Luther King, Jr. in: Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay), The Nobel Institute
* Sri-Laksmi is today one of the most popular and widely venerated deities of the Hindu pantheon. Her auspicious nature and her reputation for granting fertility, luck, wealth, and well-being seem to attract devotion in every Indian village...All of India’s back country is the dominion of Lakshmi, the goddess of the lotus...she accompanies every mile traveled through central India, every visit to a temple...Her likenesses are omnipresent on the walls, pillars, lintels and niches of sanctuaries, regardless of the deity of their specific dedication.
** David Kinsley in: Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1 January 1998, p. 32.
* But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis personae [masked man]
** Brian Leaf in: Name That Movie! A Painless Vocabulary Builder Romantic Comedy & Drama Edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 11 November 2010, p. 97.
* Yoga practitioners advise the times around sunrise and sunset, well before eating a meal, as the best time for yoga and meditation practice. The science of biometeorology (the study of natural forces on human and animal life) tells us that the sun has a tremendous impact upon the lives of plants, animals, and human beings. Even our blood chemistry changes with the rising and setting of the sun! Therefore, there may be a chemical basis for the thousands of years of belief, in every spiritual tradition, that to meditate and pray at sunrise and sunset is somehow more effective, more auspicious.
** Vimala Schneider McClure in: A Woman's Guide to Tantra Yoga, p. 106.
* Om, Praise be to the auspicious Ganga, gift of Shiva, O Praise! Praise be to her who is Vishnu embodied, the very image of Brahma, O praise! Praise to her who is the form of Rudra, Shankara, the embodiment of all gods, the embodiment of healing, O praise!
** Hymns in Ganga Mahatmaya, translation by John Stratton Hawley, Donna Marie Wulff in:The Divine Consort: Rādhā and the Goddesses of India, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe, 1 January 1982, p. 179.
* The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and in the depths Of the imagination dominates; And his are all things that eschew the light. The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance, For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now, And the dark work, complete of preparation, He draws by force into the realm of light. Now must we hasten on to action, ere The scheme, and most auspicious posture Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight, For the heavens journey still, and adjourn not.
** Friedrich Schiller in: Schiller's Complete Works, Volume 1, I. Kohler, 1861, p. 539.
* By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune — Now my dear lady — hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
** William Shakespeare in The Tempest (1604), Prospero, in Act I, scene ii, quoted in: Reuben Arthur Brower The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, Paul F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821, p. 40.
* Know thus far forth: By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune — Now my dear lady — hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
** William Shakespeare in: The Tempest (c. 1610-1612), Act I, scene 2., Yale University Press, 2006, p. 21.
* Musick! soft charm of heav'n and earth, Whence didst thou borrow thy auspicious birth? Or art thou of eternal date, Sire to thyself, thyself as old as Fate.
** Edmund Smith in: Mary Jane ESTCOURT Music the voice of harmony in creation. Selected and arranged by M. J. E., Longmans, 1857, p. 23.
* And you, fair nymphs of Tagus, parent stream, If e'er your meadows were my pastoral theme, While you have listen'd, and by moonshine seen My footsteps wander o'er your banks of green, O come auspicious, and the song inspire With all the boldness of your hero's fire: Deep and majestic let the numbers flow, And, rapt to heaven, with ardent fury glow; Unlike the verse that speaks the lover's grief, When heaving sighs afford their soft relief, And humble reeds bewail the shepherd's pain: But like the warlike trumpet be the strain To rouse the hero's ire; and far around, With equal rage, your warriors' deeds resound.
** Tobias George Smollett in: The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 32, W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1771, p. 107.
* This [LSD] can be perceived as a blessed, or as a demonic transformation imbued with terror, proceeding to a loss of the trusted ego. In an auspicious case, the new ego feels blissfully united with the objects of the outer world and consequently also with its fellow beings.
** In: John Strausbaugh, Donald Blaise The Drug User: Documents 1840-1960, Blast Books, 1991, p. 85.
* Oh Man, being exalted in humanity, may you be triumphant here and in heaven. Oh! Friend! May your love spread everywhere and may you develop the feeling "everyone is dear to me." May you shine with grand inner quintessence and effulgence. Develop faith in the righteous path that is gentle and devoid of contamination. As a result, may auspiciousness come to you from everywhere. Let not religion, country or caste divide you. May you develop inclination towards the Absolute Reality.
** Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji in: Online text at Yoga Sangeeta, yogasangeeta.org.
* Auspicious was the conjunction of the planets in an auspicious house; auspicious the moment; auspicious the day of the week and of the month; and full of delight was all creation, animate and inanimate, when Rama, father of delights, was born.
** Tulasīdās Frederic Salmon Growse in: The Rámáyana of Tulsi Dás: Children, North-western Provinces Government Press, 1877, p. 109.
* Hymn X- Fathers: Thy portion is the goat: with heat consume him: let thy fierce flame, thy glowing splendour, burn him With thine auspicious forms, o Jatavedas, bear this man to the region of the pious.
** Rig Veda in: All Four Vedas, IslamKotob.
* 1. Yea, Waters, ye bring health and bliss: so help ye us to energy. That we may look on great delight! 2. Give us a portion of the dew, the most auspicious that ye have, Like mothers in their longing love! 3. For you we gladly go to him to whose abode ye speed us on, And, Waters, give us procreant strength!
** Sama Veda in: Ralph T.H. Griffith in: Hymns Of The Samaveda Translated with a Popular Commentary by Ralph T.H. Griffith, sacred-texts.com.
* ...meditation and concentration on the secrets of mysteries, my mid breath and inner strength, my vital heat that controls the winds and electric currents of the body system and the water, the pranic vitality related to prana and udana (breath and upper motions of energy wind), and inner light between the solar and lunar plexi and its effects on health, and the energy for movement and my movements, and mypurity of mind and vital energy, and my churner and dairy foods and apparatuses, may all these grow strong and be good and auspicious for me and all by yajna.
** Yajurveda and Atharva Veda in: translation by Agniveer Yajur Veda: Authentic English Translation,Agniveer, 09-Nov-2013, p. 546.