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Essays Divine and Human Vol. 12 of CWSA 519 pages 1997 Edition
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Short prose pieces written between 1910 and 1950, but not published during Sri Aurobindo's lifetime.

Essays Divine and Human

Writings from Manuscripts
1910 - 1950

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Sri Aurobindo

Short prose pieces written between 1910 and 1950, but not published during Sri Aurobindo's lifetime. The material is arranged in four parts: (1) 'Essays Divine and Human', complete essays on yoga and related subjects, (2) 'From Man to Superman: Notes and Fragments on Philosophy, Psychology and Yoga'; (3) 'Notes and Fragments on Various Subjects', and (4) Thoughts and Aphorisms. (Some of this material was formally published under the title 'The Hour of God and Other Writings')

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (CWSA) Essays Divine and Human Vol. 12 519 pages 1997 Edition
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Part III

Notes and Fragments on Various Subjects




Genius, Poetry, Beauty




The Beauty of a Crow's Wings

It is not only that the sable blackness of the crow's wings has in it wonderful shades of green and violet and purple which show themselves under certain stresses of sunlight, but that the black itself, sable of wing or dingy of back & breast has itself a beauty which our prejudiced habits of mind obscure to us. Under its darkness, we see, too, a glint of dingy white.

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