... Not to live principally in the Page 93 activities of the sense-mind, but in the activities of knowledge and reason and a wide intellectual curiosity, the activities of the cultivated aesthetic being, the activities of the enlightened will which make for character and high ethical ideals and a large human action, not to be governed by our lower or our average mentality but by truth and beauty... development of the human being, yet are will, character, self-discipline, self-mastery indispensable to that development. They are the backbone of the mental body. Neither the ethical being nor the aesthetic being is the whole man, nor can either be his sovereign principle; they are merely two powerful elements. Ethical conduct is not the whole of life; even to say that it is three-fourths of life is to ...
... in order to find him; the finding is inevitable at the end of all earnest scepticism and denial. The same law holds good in Art; the aesthetic being of man rises similarly on its own curve towards its diviner possibilities. The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the ...
... between the aesthetic being and the psychic being ? Page 236 Sri Aurobindo : There is a sense of beauty in the aesthetic being and also there is a sense of beauty in the psychic being. Beyond that there is no necessary relation between the two. The aesthetic being belongs to the vital plane. If the man is not merely a master of form and line the aesthetic being sees that... that the beauty of form expresses something. The aesthetic being sees the beauty of form and line and sees also the beauty of something that is expressed, while the psychic being sees the charm of the soul. The psychic being has no beauty as it is ordinarily understood. It is rather "charm", – an inner beauty, beauty of the soul. But it need not necessarily have beauty of form, – though it may ...
... sighted and effective collaboration".27 We have dealt up till now with the first part of vital education, the building up of character. There is another part, the training of the aesthetic being, This begins with the education of the senses. They should be trained so as to attain precision and power. Much more can be done along these lines than is generally thought. To this... expression in his behaviour and will keep him away from many base and perverse movements.28 The Divine is Purity as well as Beauty and it is by the cultivation of both the ethical and the aesthetic being that the heart's needs can be really fulfilled. The teaching of the different Arts - dance, music, painting - should be based on the same fundamental principle: to give to the student the... characters lies always the beauty of the Divine in life and man and Nature and it is through their just transformation that what was at first veiled by them has to be revealed."29 In this way the aesthetic being of man will rise towards its diviner possibilities. The Mental Education The greatest mistake is to make an accumulation of factual knowledge, i.e., erudition, the ...
... heart's attraction to the Divine may be impersonal, the touch of an impersonal joy in something universal or transcendent that has revealed itself directly or indirectly to our emotional or our aesthetic being or to our capacity of spiritual felicity. That which we thus grow aware of is the Ananda Brahman, the bliss existence. There is an adoration of an impersonal Delight and Beauty, of a pure and an... and man and in all that is around us; or we may have the intuition of some transcendent Beauty of which all apparent beauty here is only a symbol. That is how it may come to those in whom the aesthetic being is developed and insistent and the instincts which, when they find form of expression, make the poet and artist, are predominant. Or it may be the sense of a divine spirit of love or else a helpful ...
... of Indian civilisation in the things most important to human culture, those activities that raise man to his noblest potentialities as a mental, a spiritual, religious, intellectual, ethical, aesthetic being, and in all these matters the cavillings of the critics break down before the height and largeness and profundity revealed when we look at the whole and all its parts in the light of a true un ...
... infinite of verities; life is a lower infinite of possibilities which seek to grow and find their own truth and fulfilment in the light of these verities. Our intellect, our will, our ethical and our aesthetic being are the reflectors and the mediators. The method of the West is to exaggerate life and to call down as much—or as little—as may be of the higher powers Page 15 to stimulate and embellish ...
... Therefore to everything that serves and belongs to the healthy fullness of these things, it gave free play, to the activity of the reason, to science and philosophy, to the satisfaction of the aesthetic being and to all the many arts great or small, to the health and strength of the body, to the physical and economical well-being, ease, opulence of the race,—there was never a national ideal of poverty ...
... bosom And kiss thy sweet wrung lips and hush thy cries. Love shall draw half thy pain into my limbs; Then we shall triumph glad of agony. Only a deaf man with his whole aesthetic being grown numb can refuse to find here "the music that enchants or disturbs". From the point of view of the inner music — that is, the thrill of the inspired consciousness — creating the outer that ...
... at spiritual realisation, spiritualising this mind itself at the same time. Then followed an era of the development of philosophies and Yoga processes which more and more used the emotional and aesthetic being as the means of spiritual realisation and spiritualised the emotional level in man through the heart and feeling. This was accompanied by Tantric and other processes which took up the mental will ...
... Man's present condition and possibilities of his further evolution. 5. Psychological experiences of various parts and domains of being. Conflicts between the rational being, the aesthetic being and the ethical being. How to resolve these conflicts? IV. Exercises to be recommended: 1. Sustained exercises of clear thought. 2. Intensive introspection. 3. P ...
... spiritualising this mind itself at the same time. Then followed an era of the development of philosophies and yoga processes which more Page 94 and more used the emotional and aesthetic being as the means of spiritual realisation and spiritualised the emotional level in man through the heart and feeling. This was accompanied by Tantric and other processes which took up the mental ...
... full-grown child a being governed by reason and capable of discrimination and rational thinking, with a healthy and strong body, a sensitive but chastened emotional Page 157 and aesthetic being, well trained in the conventional morality and customs of the present day social life, will appear to many educationists an ideal achievement so far as the individual child is concerned. But society ...
... July. Talk on Kaya Kalpa methods of rejuvenation current in India. 6 August. Talk on the relation between feelings and emotions. 13 August. Talk on psychology. 14 August. Talk on the aesthetic being and the psychic being and their relation. 16 August. There was a report of a memory of a past birth by someone in the Bareilly district; talk in the evening on the subject. 18 August. Explanation ...
... The inspiration of religion from arts almost dried up and Europe accepted the Greek ideal of perfection especially in its arts. The Greek ideal was a kind of balance between man's intellect, his aesthetic being and his body. To the Greeks, a human being endowed with intellectual eminence, a sense of beauty and a strong and beautiful body was the ideal. The Greeks never seriously looked beyond the intellect ...
... the intellectual being may erect knowledge and truth of knowledge as the governing principle of the Spirit, the will in the volitional being may see Will or Power as very God, the will in the aesthetic being enthrone beauty and harmony as the sovereign law, the will in the ethical being have a vision of it as Right or Love or Justice, and so on through a long chapter. But even though all these may ...
... infinite of verities; life is a lower infinite of possibilities which seek to grow and find their own truth and fulfilment in the light of these verities. Our intellect, our will, our ethical and our aesthetic being are the reflectors and the mediators. The method of the Page 51 It is when a greater light prevails and becomes general that we shall be able to speak... of the ...
... Absolute and Divine in all the forms and activities of the world and shape an image of our inner and our outer life in the highest image we can perceive and embody of the All-Beautiful, then the aesthetic being in us who was born for this end, has fulfilled himself and risen to his divine consummation. To find highest beauty is to find God; to reveal, to embody, to create, as we say, highest beauty is ...
... Cycle Chapter XV The Suprarational Good We begin to see, through the principle and law of our religious being, through the principle and law of our aesthetic being, the universality of a principle and law which is that of all being and which we must therefore hold steadily in view in regard to all human activities. It rests on a truth on which the sages have ...
... is a preparatory influence or influx in some part or tendency of the mind or life,—a spiritualised turn of thought with uplifting illuminations, or a spiritualised turn of the emotional or the aesthetic being, a spiritualised ethical formation in the character, a spiritualised urge in some life-action or other dynamic vital movement of the nature. An awareness comes perhaps of an inner light, of a guidance ...
... supramentalise itself and to a great extent succeed, and yet the thinking mind remain ordinary, poor in stuff and obscure in its light. There may be a development of intuitivity in the ethical or aesthetic being, but the rest may remain very much as it was. This is the reason of the frequent disorder or one-sidedness which we mark in the man of genius, poet, artist, thinker, saint or mystic. A partially ...
... a recurrent base. In short, it is inspiration metrically expressing itself. Is Sri Aurobindo wanting everywhere in that expression? Look at his blank verse. Only a deaf man with his whole aesthetic being grown numb can refuse to find "the music that enchants or disturbs" in a passage like the following from an early narrative, Love and Death, where a lover is represented as searching the underworld ...
... the New World, the New Creation. Certainly these ancient things are not in keeping with the Mother's "Dream" for the Luminous Future. Sri Aurobindo has written: The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the Spirit . Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle: ...
... leads towards something higher Sri Aurobindo's words are apt here: Art can express eternal Truth, it is not limited to the expression of form and appearance. The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit. ...
... developed mental being. Not to live principally in the activities of the sense-mind, but in the activities of knowledge and reason and a wide intellectual curiosity, the activities of the cultivated aesthetic being, the activities of the enlightened will which make for character and high ethical ideals and a large Page 282 human action, not to be governed by our lower or our average mentality ...
... occurs a preparatory influence or influx of the spiritual light, and there develops a spiritualized turn of thought with uplifting illuminations, or a spiritualized turn of the emotional or the aesthetic being, a spiritualized ethical formation in the character, a spiritualized urge in some life-action or other dynamic vital movement of the nature, increasing awareness of inner light, of a guidance ...
... occurs a preparatory influence or influx of the spiritual light, and there develops a spiritualized turn of thought with uplifting illuminations, or a spiritualized turn of the emotional or the aesthetic being, a spiritualized ethical formation in the character, a spiritualized urge in some life-action or other dynamic vital movement of the nature, increasing awareness of inner light, of a guidance or ...
... mental being are those of clarity, impartiality and synthesis. The values of ethical being are those of goodwill and disinterested action for the sake of its intrinsic rightness; the values of the aesthetic being are those of taste and joy and beauty of creativity. And if we study the integrating principle of human personality, we shall find that the values it seeks are those of the supra-rational Truth ...
... and collective. Man's present condition and possibilities of his further evolution. Psychological experiences of various parts and domains of being. Conflicts between the rational being, the aesthetic being and the ethical being. How to resolve these conflicts? Exercises to be recommended: Sustained exercises of clear thought. Intensive introspection Progressive harmonization of ...
... 4. Man's present condition and possibilities of his further evolution. 5. Psychological experiences of various parts and domains of being. Conflicts between the rational being, the aesthetic being and the ethical being. How to resolve these conflicts? IV. Exercises to be recommended: 1. Sustained exercises of clear thought. 2. Intensive introspection. 3. Progressive ...
... spiritual movement has tended to the same and has helped the realisation of it to a certain extent. The Vaishnavite religion wanted to bring the Truth into the Page 69 vital and the aesthetic being but it remained satisfied with it. The Vaishnavites indulged themselves, you may say, spiritually. The austerity of the effort was also lost. The Vedic Rishis had the conception of the Truth but ...
... Absolute and Divine in all the forms and activities of the world and shape an image of our inner and our outer life in the highest image we can perceive and embody of the All-Beautiful, then the aesthetic being in us who was born for this end, has fulfilled himself and risen to his divine consummation. To find highest beauty is to find God; to reveal, to embody, to create as we say, highest beauty is ...
... all the forms and activities of the world and shape and image of our inner and our outer life in the highest image, Page 81 we can perceive and embody of the all-Beautiful, then tl aesthetic being in us who was born for this end, has fulfilled himself and risen to his divine consummation. To fin highest beauty is to find God; to reveal, to embody, to create as we say, highest beauty is to ...
... rather it is an impulse, an instinct which seeks satisfaction and enjoyment. It seeks the joy of creating. This crude beginning, Sri Aurobindo calls the "infra- rational" stage of the aesthetic being. Then when reason begins to act in man it tries to regulate this crude infra- rational impulse; it organises the knowledge of the techniques of the arts, and lays down laws for the guidance of ...
... operations of higher and subtler planes and powers of our being and come into contact with the beings and the phenomena of the worlds behind which are unseen, not sensible by our physical organs, but ascertainable by the subtle mind and senses. Art leads to the same end; the aesthetic human being intensely preoccupied with Nature through aesthetic emotion must in the end arrive at spiritual emotion and... the principles of his being; only it carries the intelligent understanding which is all philosophy gives, into an intensity which carries it beyond thought into vision and beyond understanding into realisation and possession; what philosophy leaves abstract and remote, it brings into a living nearness and spiritual concreteness. The aesthetic and emotional mind and aesthetic forms are used by Yoga... infinite, but tends to stabilise the nature and create the tranquillity of the sage; and tranquillity is a sign of increasing self-mastery and purity. The preoccupation with universal beauty even in its aesthetic forms has an intense power for refining and subtilising the nature, and at its highest it is a great force for purification. Even the scientific habit of mind and the disinterested preoccupation with ...
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