... to the misuse of these great instruments by the luxurious few who held the world and its good things in their hands in the intermediate period of human progress. Page 438 But the aesthetic faculties entering into the enjoyment of the world and the satisfaction of the vital instincts, the love of the beautiful in men and women, in food, in things, in articles of use and articles of pleasure... in education. It is obvious that no nation can afford to neglect an element of such high importance to the culture of its people or the training of some of the higher intellectual, moral and aesthetic faculties in the young. The system of education which, instead of keeping artistic training apart as a privilege for a few specialists, frankly introduces it as a part of culture no less necessary than ...
... nature an elemental power proceeding from the secret & elemental Power within which sees directly & creates sovereignly, & it passes at once to our vital & elemental parts. Intellect and the aesthetic faculties are necessary to the perfection of our critical enjoyment; but they were only assistants, not the direct agents of this divine birth. Page 404 ...
... movement. And because we shall have found out His way & seen everywhere Himself, things also will cause no kind of shrinking in us. We shall exceed the limitations of the senses & the ordinary aesthetic faculties,—we shall have gone beyond the poet & the artist. We shall know why the sages have called Him sarvasundara, the All-Beautiful. For things beautiful will have a more wonderful, intense, ecstatic ...
... certain extent, at least, of the higher intuitive mentality, the satyadrishti, the direct sight, and has driven the many to be content rather with the irregular intuitions of the heart, the aesthetic faculties & the senses; we have kept those faculties which receive the actual touch of the higher truth obscurely, with the eyes of the intellect closed but lost those which receive them directly, with ...
... forms of the pursuit of knowledge were given an absolute freedom of movement; the play of the emotions was allowed, refined, trained till they were fit for the divine levels; the demand of the aesthetic faculties was encouraged in its highest rarest forms and in life's commonest details. Indian culture did not deface nor impoverish the richness of the grand game of human life; it never depressed or mutilated ...
... primarily that of intelligence and mental capacity and knowledge of the world and things, but secondarily also of moral training and, though as yet very imperfectly, of the development of the aesthetic faculties. The intelligent thinking being, moralised, controlling his instincts and emotions by his will and his reason, acquainted with all that he should know of the world and his past, capable of organising ...
... looking upon the whole action of the universe & even his own action like one who is watching a play or a drama, takes the rasa or taste of the whole thing by the intellect, the sense and the aesthetic faculties. All things, all events are the manifestation of certain gunas or qualities in universal Being; God is Ananta guna, Infinite Qualities. The rose is a manifestation of form, colour, odour & other ...
... aspects of the student's personality, and not only the mind. In addition to training the intellect through the sciences and humanities, there is an emphasis on cultivating the emotional and aesthetic faculties through the arts, and the body through physical exercise. As for spiritual growth, the Mother once observed that "this cannot be done by any external method"; therefore there are no prescribed ...
... complex" exerts a control over the human self today before which earlier forms of fascism pale into insignificance. The paranoia, hypnosis and atrophy of our deeper intellectual, emotional and aesthetic faculties seem to leave little room in our present life for making a judgment based on individual conscience and integrity. It is against this backdrop that we can now assess the significance ...
... physical form which we erroneously imagine to be the whole body of our spirit. So too we have a double psychic entity in us, the surface desire-soul which works in our vital cravings, our emotions, aesthetic faculty and mental seeking for power, knowledge and happiness, and a subliminal psychic entity, a pure power of light, love, joy and refined essence of being which is our true soul behind the outer form ...
... creative field of art with which I am dealing, there is one important thing to remember: every level of consciousness has its own pitch to confer on the aesthetic faculty. And if the soul is not awake, the reader will not be able to have aesthetic appreciation at the soul's pitch. The art will be perceived with just a mental-vital sensitivity instead of a spiritual or "soulful" one. I am sure a man... from behind the veil and confers on Page 347 the aesthetic elements the pitch necessary to make them yield their full value to our consciousness. Their full value consists in their being an intense poetic embodiment of the mystical intuition, experience or realisation present in the lines. Only when the aesthetic faculty works at the soul-pitch will the elements I have exhibited in some... is so intense because you respond to the state of soul that is in each of them and not just to their aesthetic posture. It would indeed be a pity to take mystical poems in no other way than aesthetically, though it would be also a pity to take them mystically without getting the aesthetic delight of them. Most readers fail to combine the two ways. In thus failing, they fail as well to get ...
... how can an Englishman listen to Italian music and like it? SATYENDRA: Appreciation of pure music requires training. PURANI: Everybody can't appreciate or criticise music. The ear and the aesthetic faculty have to be trained. You can see in Bhishmadev and Biren that they enter into the spirit of music. Beethoven's Symphonies are played with instruments only. When Bhishmadev sings you can see that... he is conscious only of the notes and not of the words and that he tries to communicate his emotion through the notes. NIRODBARAN: Some people say Dilip's music is spiritual and Bhishmadev's is aesthetic. SATYENDRA: That is because Dilip sings Bhajans and religious songs. PURANI: What I have found in Dilip's music is that the atmosphere created is due to something other than the music—his p ...
... Disciple : Appreciation of pure music requires also training. Disciple : Everybody cannot appreciate or form a critical judgement about music. There has to be training and also aesthetic faculty. One can see in Bhishmadave and Biren that they have not merely technical perfection and rhythm but also they enter into the spirit of music. And there one can see that it is the notes, – the ...
... its intimations. Blake, Shelley, Wordsworth were first explorers of a new world of poetry other than that of the ancients or of the intermediate poets, which may be the familiar realm of the aesthetic faculty in the future, must be in fact if we are not continually to describe the circle of efflorescence, culmination and decay within the old hardly changing circle. Certain motives which led up to... inner and outer life of Nature and man. But every power in the end finds itself drawn towards its own proper home and own highest capacity and field of expression and one day or another the spiritual faculties of intuitive hearing and seeing must climb at last to the expression of things spiritual and eternal and their power and working in temporal things. Poetry will yet find in that supreme interpretation... something of it through myth and symbol; a religious mystic here and there may have attempted to give his experience rhythmic and imaginative form. But here is the first poetic attempt of the intellectual faculty striving at a high height of its own development to look beyond its own level directly into the unseen and the unknown and to unveil some ideal truth of its own highest universal conceptions hidden ...
... of our power of unfolding the True, the Beautiful and the Good - directs attention beyond the intellect which seeks to catch the whole of complex Reality in logically consistent formulas, the aesthetic faculty which strives to seize in delightful patterns all the affinities and contrasts of existence, the ethical nature which longs to turn the varied conditions of life into equal occasions for striking ...
... was in the idea of the ancients the seer and revealer of truth, and though we have wandered far enough from that ideal to demand from him only the pleasure of the ear and the amusement of the aesthetic faculty, still all great poetry instinctively preserves something of that higher turn of its own aim and significance. Poetry, in fact, being Art, must attempt to make us see, and since it is to the inner... Chapter V Poetic Vision and the Mantra This highest intensity of style and movement which is the crest of the poetical impulse in its self-expression, the point at which the aesthetic, the vital, the intellectual elements of poetic speech pass into the spiritual, justifies itself perfectly when it is the body of a deep, high or wide spiritual vision into which the life-sense, the... systems to music or even much more prosaic matter than a philosophic system, Hesiod and Virgil setting about even a manual of agriculture in verse! In Rome, always a little blunt of perception in the aesthetic mind, her two greatest poets fell a victim to this unhappy conception, with results which are a lesson and a warning to all posterity. Lucretius' work lives only, in spite of the majestic energy behind ...
... Europe and is now almost all over the world has been a great puzzle to me: So many claims have been advanced about its achieve' ments in the superlative degree that at times I wonder if my aesthetic faculty is really at fault, because I cannot bring myself round, to appreciate it. A. You can include in the field all arts—fine as well as plastic, for, behind all Modernist art is working... called " aesthetic emotion " as a necessary reaction to a work of art. It is said that art is essentially made up only of formal elements and that the subject' matter has nothing to do with art. The alphabets of beauty are the point, line, angle, cone, square, curve, mass, volume position, magnitudes, dimensions, perspective. Page 8 A. Do you mean to say that aesthetic emotion... that the religious background of this painting is not its essential part, it is an overtone, it has nothing to do with the pure "aesthetic emotion". It is the disposition of masses, the composition of the picture, the design and the colour-scheme that give rise to pure aesthetic emotion. A. Do you mean to say that Raphael while painting the picture kept the masses and colour-scheme before his vision ...
... that is the power of the Cosmic Spirit working out the cosmic and individual truth of things. Desire-soul — the surface soul in us, which works in our vital cravings, our emotions, aesthetic faculty and mental seeking for power, knowledge and happiness; the true soul is the subliminal psychic essence. the Divine — the Supreme Being from which all comes and in which all lives. In... Sleep-State, a consciousness corresponding to the supramental plane proper to the gnosis, which is beyond our experience because our causal body or envelope of gnosis is not developed in us, its faculties not active, and therefore we are in relation to that plane in a state of dreamless sleep. svabh ā va — "own being", "own becoming"; the essential nature and self-principle of being of ...
... erroneously imagine to be the whole body of our Page 233 spirit. So too we have a double psychic entity in us, the surface desire-soul which works in our vital cravings, our emotions, aesthetic faculty and mental seeking for power, knowledge and happiness, and a subliminal psychic entity, a pure power of light, love, joy and refined essence of being which is our true soul behind the outer form... universal from the aesthetic emotion or from the physical line or from the mental form of beauty or from the inner sense and power alike of that from which the ordinary man turns away and of that to which he is attached by a sense of pleasure. The seeker of knowledge, the God-lover who finds the object of his love everywhere, the spiritual man, the intellectual, the sensuous, the aesthetic all do this in ...
... manifestation. The mystical idea by itself is not sufficient for poetry to take birth, though it may bring with it, as you say, emotion and vision and rhythm; the artistic or aesthetic transmitting faculty in us has to be at work, the faculty of fashioning flawless form has to be the medium in us of that idea. A natural corollary to this is that in our appreciation of poetry the perception of flawless... presences and entities. The intellect is a valuable faculty; it is always there, I suppose, in some mode or other in all self-aware experience, Page 9 a human mode on our plane and a divine mode on higher planes, but its function is not successful in giving us the being and the body of anything: it has to join with other faculties, other modes of consciousness. To these modes prose ...
... consciousness that considers itself erroneously to be self-existent. Of this ego we Page 52 are conscious as the surface desire-soul which works in our vital cravings, our emotions, aesthetic faculty and mental seeking for power, knowledge and happiness. The egoistic ignorance in the mind of thoughts, in the heart of emotions and in the senses responds to the touch of things not by a courageous... often manifest. Each specialised system of Yoga selects one or two or more faculties of human psychology and uses them as its instruments, develops them, purifies them and employs through them a certain special method of concentration on the object that is sought to be realised. In the Integral Yoga, all powers and faculties are combined, developed and purified, and there is a progressive integral ... done. It makes formations for the future which the will can try to carry out if opportunity and circumstances become favourable or even it can work to make them favourable. In men of action this faculty is prominent and a leader of their nature; great men of action always have it in a very high measure. At a lower stage of the mental-vital, the vital passions, impulses and desires rise up and get ...
... centre of a finite consciousness that considers it self erroneously to be self-existent. Of this ego we are conscious as the surface desire-soul which works in our vital cravings, our emotions, aesthetic faculty and mental seeking for power, knowledge and happiness. The egoistic ignorance in the mind of thoughts, in the heart of emotion and in the sense responds to the touch of things not by a courageous... often manifest. Each specialised system of Yoga selects one or two or more faculties of human psychology and uses them as its instruments, develops them, purifies them and employs through them a certain special method of concentration on the object that is sought to be realised. In the Integral Yoga, all powers and faculties are combined, developed and purified, and there is a progressive integral... from the combined working of the three physical siddhis, laghima, mahima, and anima; it is connected especially with laghima. Vijnana(m) ideal knowledge, the supra-intellectual faculty; in the course of the Record, the meaning of vijnana becomes more and more precise and follows the ascending movement of the Yoga, gradually approaching Sri Aurobindo's definitive realisation of the ...
... the quintessential psychic-soul that is a portion of the Divine Soul: ...we have a double psychic entity in us, the surface desire-soul which works in our vital cravings, our emotions, aesthetic faculty and mental seeking for power, knowledge and happiness, and a subliminal psychic entity, a pure power of light, love, joy and refined essence of being which is our true soul... 18 Like... did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went. It is with his mental faculty that man usually tries to pluck the heart of Reality, but he is himself in it and of it, and he finds himself baffled in his attempts to seize it Page 415 in its unity and totality... of birth and growth and decay and death, but it is incapable of cerebration, and it indulges in no speculation about good and evil, pain and pleasure. It is man the mental being who has grown the faculty of interpreting phenomena in terms of the dualities. And yet human experience often jerks mental categories into hopeless confusion. Through the pangs of childbirth the mother experiences the ecstasy ...
... Crimson-white mooned oceans of pauseless bliss is a line of extreme subtle-sensuous energy, as is also Crossing power-swept silences rapture-stunned, . and they strike upon the aesthetic faculty in us with a splendour of poetry equal to the best of Francis Thompson and an immediacy of mystical perception more direct and concentrated than anything he could command. A mystical... detailed presence. We may get complete intellectual satisfaction and aesthetic pleasure — the meaning may stand out clear and the beauty may be vital and absolute; yet neither the meaning nor the beauty may do justice to what we cognise as pressing for poetic manifestation. The suggestive aura round the significant phrase and round the aesthetic form will not be dense and tense enough with the sheer Godhead... es of despair and denial. Every mood that finds faultless poetic Form lords it over us like a deity. What invests it with that gospel-glow is not merely our willingness to make-believe. The true aesthetic response is no playful assent to a pleasing verbal legerdemain; it is a seizure of the being by a magic and a mystery that has no scar of defect, it is a surrender by us, willy-nilly, to an assault ...
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