... literature, science and technology, of art, of music and dance and sculpture and architecture. In addition, a brief idea of the various aspects of Indian life and of the values which are embedded in arts and crafts, in music and dance, in festivals and in the general attitude relating to the ultimate aims of life which provide a clue to the enigma of the continuity of Indian culture and to the problems... (a) The aim of Indian art (b) An in-depth of one of the schools of Indian painting, dance, drama, sculpture or architecture (c) Folklore and folk dances (d) Indian arts and crafts 4. Indian Philosophy and Science: Page 198 (a) Methods of knowledge: Intuition, Reason and Sense-experience (b) An in-depth study of one of the great Indian scientists ...
... Director of Schools replied, 'Oh, don't talk about him! He is mad. He wants neither salary nor promotion.' " Rajnarain it was who first conceived of national fairs for the revival of native arts and crafts to stem the flooding of European goods into Indian markets. The Hindu Mela (National Exhibition) was started under his inspiration "a full quarter of a century before the Indian National Congress... lectures and the giving of literary prizes enlivened it, while an all-round review of India's depressing condition opened the eyes of many. Its popular features included an exhibition of indigenous arts and crafts from many parts of India, and performances of various physical and acrobatic feats. The Hindu Mela contributed in no small measure to getting life flowing again through sleeping Bengal. Rajnarain ...
... character will be insensibly trained to follow a similar law of beauty, harmony and just arrangement in the life of the adult man. This was the great importance of the universal proficiency in the arts and crafts or the appreciation of them which was prevalent in ancient Greece, in certain European ages, in Japan and in the better days of our own history. Art galleries cannot be brought into every home ...
... of well-being, a national culture and, above all, hope and ardour, if it is to maintain a national art based on a widespread development of artistic perception and faculty. Moreover, aesthetic arts and crafts cannot live against the onrush of cheap and vulgar manufactures under the conditions of the modern social structure. Industry can only become again beautiful if poverty and the struggle for life ...
... taste in the appointments of their life. The poorer classes cannot indulge in luxuries; the middle class, in the present condition of the country, should not. An organised preference of Swadeshi arts and crafts by the rich would revive and stimulate a great source of national wealth and reopen a field of national capacity. Articles of necessity can be divided into those indispensable for life and a decent ...
... a spiritual liberation of some kind is the highest possibility of the human spirit,—it was not interested in that alone. It looked equally at ethics, law, politics, society, the sciences, the arts and crafts, everything that appertains to human life. It thought on these things deeply and scrutinisingly and it wrote of them with power and knowledge. What a fine monument of political and administrative ...
... Page 408 all the members of the Aryan community, kṛṣṭayaḥ , remained always the large basis, but it developed an increasingly rich superstructure of commerce and industry and numerous arts and crafts and a smaller superstructure of specialised military and political and religious and learned occupations and functions. The village community remained throughout the stable unit, the firm grain ...
... Savitri's life opens doors for the secret powers to enter into gracious fields of activity. She acquires the lore of the world, learns its many philosophies and sciences and arts and crafts. But by her native right she also sees something beyond them. She is aware of the universal Self and in her embrace stay all, that she might breathe living happiness into them. But scarcely ...
... most perhaps a widening circle . Man today is not wiser than the ancient seers and sages and thinkers, not more spiritual than the great seekers of old, the first mighty mystics, not superior in arts and crafts to the ancient artists and craftsmen.” Didn’t a recent expert opinion tell us that art has not improved on the wall paintings at Lascaux? And Sri Aurobindo continues: “The old races that have ...
... shorter period by applying the art and science of concentration to it. In his natural process of flowering, he comes to combine work and play, and whether in his more formal studies or in the fine arts and crafts, he aims at cultivating and refining his actual and potential faculties. Page 484 A good pupil realizes that both body and mind should be developed vigorously and rigorously. He ...
... period by applying the art and science of concentration to it. In his natural process of flowering, he comes to combine work and play, and whether in his more formal studies or in the fine arts and crafts, he aims at cultivating and refining his actual and potential faculties. A good pupil realizes that both body and mind should be developed vigorously and rigorously. He discovers that ...
... cultures, not merely intellectually in ideas, theories and principles, but also vitally in habits and customs, in art, under all forms such as paintings, sculptures, music, architecture, decorative arts and crafts, — and physically, through dress, games, sports, industries, food, and even reconstruction of natural scenery. Multiplicity of ideas, richness of ideas, totality of points of view, — these ...
... physical life through the individual, Jiva, — this would be the aim. "The new content of education would relate to the theme of Man and the Universe and cover Page 279 all sciences, arts and crafts by means of which harmony between man and the universe could be established at all levels. "Methods of education would channelise the progressive relationship between the zeal of the pupil ...
... promise and its progressive fulfilment. IlI Let us underline that the master-key of India has been its spirituality. This spirituality was not negligent of material development, creative arts and crafts, activities of productivity and prosperity, and robust intellectuality. But at a later stage, India neglected matter, and while it continued to heap the treasures of the spirit, it registered ...
... and materialism and keep the democracy. We have to solve for the human race the problem of harmonising and spiritualising its impulses towards liberty, equality and fraternity.... Aesthetic arts and crafts cannot live against the onrush of cheap and vulgar manufactures under the conditions of the modem social structure. Industry can only be- come again beautiful if poverty and the struggle for ...
... the children could meet the objects of study and observe them in their original state and actual working: animals and plants in their natural environment, tools and machines in actual operation, arts and crafts in the productive setting. This is possible only rarely, but the opportunity should not be missed. Other means have to be resorted to and, as it is not possible to bring elephants, giraffes ...
... trace the origin of the movement to the exraordinary genius of Leonard da Vinci (1452-1519),and certainly he anticipated, if not ushered in, a basic improvement in the technology of almost all arts and crafts. 3. Exquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain. introduction. Périod I. 4. Heilbronner, The future as History, p. 24. 5. The Communist Manifesto. ...
... of thought "crossing the mystic seas of the Beyond", all play their part in Savitri's mental and spiritual evolution. Sculpture and painting, music and architecture, dance and poetry, the many arts and crafts, these are pressed into service too, and Savitri masters them, and is moulded by them. Nor are the intellectual disciplines and knowledges ignored—astronomy, mathematics and physics that make a ...
... be overcome before Science can help us, and that is the ignorance and apathy which is the general condition of the agricultural classes at present. Page 703 The failure of the old arts and crafts, and especially that of arms, has thrown vast numbers back on the soil, and these classes are neither intelligent nor progressive. Many old professions are dying out and while those, who should ...
... last of the arts in that decline to touch the bottom, has also been the first to rise again and lift the dawn fires of an era of new creation. It is not necessary to dilate on the decorative arts and crafts of India, for their excellence has always been beyond dispute. The generalised sense of beauty which they imply is one of the greatest proofs that there can be of the value and soundness of a national ...
... function and was identified by the Romans with their Minerva, the Goddess of learning and wisdom; similarly, Saraswati, a river Goddess, becomes in India the goddess of wisdom, learning and the arts and crafts: all the Greek deities have undergone a change in this direction—Apollo, the Sun-God, has become a god of poetry and prophecy, Hephaestus the Fire-God a divine smith, god of labour. In India the ...
... widening circle. Man today is not wiser than the ancient seers and sages and thinkers, not Page 864 more spiritual than the great seekers of old, the first mighty mystics, not superior in arts and crafts to the ancient artists and craftsmen; the old races that have disappeared showed as potent an intrinsic originality, invention, capacity of dealing with life and, if modern man in this respect ...
... If man's knowledge and his way of knowledge are imperfect, still more imperfect are his living and his doing. [His] works sometimes attain perfection. Some men have done well in poetry and the arts and crafts, more have done badly, most are conventional copyists or botchers. In science and works with a scientific basis, men have certainly done well and their works were often efficient or masterly, for ...
... hand painted with gold powder, very fine examples of blue and white china-ware, many varieties of chop sticks, lacquered bowls, dishes, teapots, brush paintings, kimonos and other traditional arts and crafts. The Mother collected some issues of an art magazine called “Koka”. Some of them have English translations of the articles and others are translated into French. While living in Japan the Mother ...
... prevail'." 5 Why is our magazine called a Monthly Review of Culture? Culture means essentially inner refinement and education. It means also the outer system of civilisation, the arts and crafts, the literature, the physical and psychological sciences, the social-political organisation, the economic and industrial set-up. In a deeper and truer sense, the culture of India is a way of life ...
... of utensils, erect cities, houses, temples, theatres, laboratories, factories, chisel from it statues and carve cave-cathedrals, invent architecture, sculpture, painting, poetry and a hundred arts and crafts, discover the mathematics and physics of the universe, and live for the sake of knowledge, develop into the thinker, the philosopher and scientist and become even the hunter after the invisible ...
... in that light would be to place the vital in its proper place as a will-force executing the inner and higher knowledge. Vital education is greatly aided by stress on different kinds of fine arts and crafts. Sri Aurobindo has written at length on the contribution that Art can make to the integral education in his important book, "The National Value of Art". He has pointed out that the first and ...
... that promise and its progressive fulfilment. Let us underline that the master-key of India has been its spirituality. This spirituality was not negligent of material development, creative arts and crafts, activities of productivity and prosperity, and robust intellectuality. But at a later stage, India neglected matter, and while it continued to heap the treasures of the spirit, it registered ...
... that light would be to place the vital in its proper place as a will-force executing the inner and higher knowledge. Vital education is greatly aided by stress on different kinds of fine arts and crafts. Sri Aurobindo has written at length on the contribution that Art can make to the integral education in his important book, "The National Value of Art". He has pointed out that the first and ...
... circle. It may be pointed out that man today is not wiser than the ancient seers and sages and thinkers, not more spiritual than the great seekers of old, the first mighty mystics, not superior in arts and crafts to the ancient artists and craftsmen. It may be further contended that the old races that have disappeared showed their potent and intrinsic originality, invention, capacity of dealing with life ...
... rose in armed revolt against masters and government, and gave desperate battle to the troops. Always they were defeated, and survivors crept back to their tasks. Some serfs were trained to arts and crafts, and supplied nearly all the needs of their masters. At a feast given to Catherine II (the Comte de Ségur tells us) the poet and the composer of the opera, the architect who had built the auditorium ...
... shorter period by applying the art and science of concentration to it. In his natural process of flowering, he comes to combine work and play, and whether in his more formal studies or in the fine arts and crafts, he aims at cultivating and refining his actual and potential faculties. A good pupil realizes that both body and mind should be developed vigorously and rigorously. He discovers that the qualities ...
... human dwellings, dresses, food, agriculture, means of transportation, relations of man with animals (hunting, fishing, taming, domestication, various uses of animals, pets, natural reserves), arts and crafts. Geography may have a few introductory separate work-sheets, after which a survey of the globe will be done through the history work-sheets. These work-sheets should naturally be drafted accordingly; ...
... sweet- ness and beauty of Her divine existence. Her radiant smile enfolds us in its heavenly charm, and her tenderness heals us of all grief and sorrow. And, as Mahāsaraswatī , She teaches us the arts and crafts of life, the techniques of action and execution, and turns our human incompetence and inaptitude into divine skill and efficiency. She cures us of all sloth and negligence and awkwardness, and ...
... knowledge and wide vision of the development of future. Promotion of the indigenous tradition of teacher-student relationship (Guru-Shishya parampara) in various fields of humanities, arts, crafts, sciences, technologies and yoga (psychological and physical education); Page 3 Promotion of advanced research relating to teachers' education for purposes of advancement ...
... higher secondary education; (iv) Computer-aided programmes at various stages of learning, devoted to self-learning, auto-corrections and learning to do; (v) New pathways in pedagogy for fine arts/ crafts/ vocation courses/ physical education/ NSS or NCC or Scout and Guide / development of hobbies / puppetry / children's drama / children's poetry / children's stories / children's music / children's ...
... the ancient Indian race grew to astonishing heights of culture and civilisation; it lived with a noble, well-based, ample and vigorous order and freedom; it developed a great literature, sciences, arts, crafts, industries; it rose to the highest possible ideals and no mean practice of knowledge and culture, of arduous greatness and heroism, of kindness, philanthropy and human sympathy and oneness; it... least attractive could be in a certain degree a means of self-finding and ordered self-satisfaction. In addition to this special function and training there were the general accomplishments, sciences, arts, graces of life, those which satisfy the intellectual, aesthetic and hedonistic powers of human nature. These in ancient India were many and various, were taught with minuteness, thoroughness and subtlety... of the free supersocial man, parivrājaka . The student life was framed to lay the groundwork of what the man had to know, do and Page 174 be. It gave a thorough training in the necessary arts, sciences, branches of knowledge, but it was still more insistent on the discipline of the ethical nature and in earlier days contained as an indispensable factor a grounding in the Vedic formula of ...
... one or two subjects can become qualified for one more profession, — that of becoming teachers or professors. It is only in recent times that some marginal place has been given to such subjects as arts, crafts and technologies of a few varieties. But the scheme as a whole has still remained what the colonial rulers had designed for us, and its goals have reduced the entire system to a mechanical routine... languages, mathematics, sciences, — natural and social, — and a bit of art and craft. The syllabus of each subject is formed in a linear fashion, which rises from the lowest to the highest; the theme of unity of knowledge, interdisciplinanty Page 150 and overarching unity of humanities, sciences, fine arts, and technology, — these important integrating aspects of knowledge are hardly ...
... 1857, and the Museum Library contains over six million volumes. Apart from the huge library, there was an enormous museum section. It displayed original antiquities—illustrating the histories, arts, crafts of numerous civilisations. I was fascinated to see ancient paintings, Greek sculptures, Assyrian winged bulls about forty feet high. There were priceless objects which had been excavated and now ...
... ancient Indian race grew to astonishing heights of culture and civilisation; it lived with a noble, well-based, ample and vigorous order and freedom; it developed a great literature, sciences, arts, crafts, industries; it rose to the highest possible ideals and no mean practice of knowledge and culture, of arduous greatness and heroism, of kindness, philanthropy and human sympathy and oneness; it... but the inner austerer things seem to draw back a little and to stand in the background.... It is the great period of logical philosophy, of science, of art and the developed Page 7 crafts, law, politics, trade, colonisation, the great kingdoms and empires with their ordered and elaborate administrations, the minute rule of the Shastras in all departments of thought and life, an enjoyment... dhamma and re-establish sangha. The Buddha made Asoka possible, and even after Asoka, in the Age of the imperial Guptas, India retained much of her vitality, strength and mastery of the arts of life and the key to the kingdoms of the Greater Life. For about 1,000 years since the beginning of the Christian era, Indian culture was a living thing, an expression of the sanity, vitality and ...
... that Promethean heat That can thy light relume. When the inner spark is extinguished, there is no art, no craft, no science, that can renew that spark, and give life back to the inert body. In the past, India mastered the arts of peace no less than the arts of war - the technique of good government and technique of wise and happy living as well. Theirs was a self-poised and balanced... the ancient Indian race grew to astonishing heights of culture and civilisation; it lived with a noble, well-based, ample and vigorous order and freedom; it developed a great literature, sciences, arts, crafts, industries; it rose to the highest possible ideals and no mean practice of knowledge and culture, of arduous greatness and heroism, of kindness, philanthropy and human sympathy and oneness; it... of knowledge as well as an intuitive understanding of motive, media and techniques. It is no small privilege, then, to be initiated by Sri Aurobindo into the oneness and manifoldness of art and the arts - their converging ultimate origins, their career of divergence from their source, the sovereign powers and difficulties of the several art forms, the unity of diversity in the visions of the Infinite ...
... political strife with its perpetual conflict, frequent oppression, dishonesties, turpitudes, selfish interests, its ignorance, ineptitude and muddle could have no ground for existence. The arts and the crafts would exist, not for any inferior mental or vital amusement, entertainment of leisure and relieving excitement or pleasure, but as expressions and means of the truth of the spirit and the beauty ...
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