... people once had a keen sense of beauty. For example, take poetry, or Indian wood-carving, which, I am afraid, is dying now. Greece and ancient Italy had the perception of beauty. The Japanese are a remarkable people – even the poorest have got the aesthetic sense. If they produce ugly things, it is only for export to other countries. I am afraid the Japanese are losing that sense now because... it may be dangerous. Disciple : Does beauty belong to the vital world? Sri Aurobindo : The true vital world is a world full of beauty and grandeur. Disciple : Is not beauty a part of perfection? Sri Aurobindo : Yes, it is; but beauty and perfection do not always go together in life. Disciple : Is not beauty psychic in its origin? Sri Aurobindo ... depend? Sri Aurobindo : True beauty is a creation from the Ananda plane. Disciple : But some people say there is beauty in everything. Sri Aurobindo : Yes. There is a Stage in which everything has its beauty. For a perfect creation of beauty three elements are needed : 1. The fundamental element of beauty which is present in everything. 2. The pervading quality ...
... races have the sense of beauty in their very bones. Judging from what is left to us, it seems that all people had once a keen perception of beauty. For example, take pottery or Indian wood-carving which, I am afraid, is dying out now. Greece and ancient Italy had a wonderful sense of beauty. Japan, you know, is remarkable. Even the poorest people have that sense. If the Japanese produce anything ugly... the world in their togas! Plenty of Indian women do their work with their saris on. When this craze for utility comes, beauty goes to the dogs.This is the modern tendency. The moderns look at everything from point of view of utility, as if beauty were nothing. NIRODBARAN: But beauty and utility can be combined. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, but in the end utility gets the upper hand. NIRODBARAN: I at any... ugly, they export it to other countries! But I am afraid they are losing their aesthetic sense because of the general vulgarisation. By the way, the Chinese and the Japanese originally got their artistic impulse from India. Their Buddhist images have Indian inspiration: it is only later that they developed their own lines. Modern artists are putting an end to art. Vulgarisation every where! NIRODBARAN: ...
... it seems that all people had once a keen perception of beauty. For example, take pottery or Indian woodcarving, which, I am afraid, is dying out now. Greece and ancient Italy had a wonderful sense of beauty. Page 54 Japan, you know, is remarkable. Even the poorest people there have that sense. If the Japanese produce anything ugly, they export it to other countries... short, it betrays me; therefore I have to keep a little bit of a record to refresh my memory. Yes, last week, you remember, I read out to you a talk by Mother, on Japan. Showering high praise on the Japanese for their love of beauty, which you have seen already many times on the cinema screen, She came to the subject of their moral life which, She said, if you remember, is guided very strictly... 241-2] Disciple: They say the Japanese are not good in the air. They missed their targets many times. Sri Aurobindo: I don't know about that. The Japanese are good at concentrating on one thing at a time, but aeronautics requires concentration on many points at once ... I was thinking about how some races have the sense of beauty in their very bones. Judging from what ...
... people once had a keen sense of beauty. For example, take poetry, or Indian wood-carving, which, I am afraid, is dying now. Greece and ancient Italy had the perception of beauty. The Japanese are a remarkable people – even the poorest have got the aesthetic sense. If they produce ugly things, it is only for export to other countries. I am afraid the Japanese are losing that sense now because... world is a world full of beauty and grandeur. Disciple : Is not beauty a part of perfection? Sri Aurobindo : Yes, it is; but beauty and perfection do not always go together in life. Disciple : Is not beauty psychic in its origin? Sri Aurobindo : The psychic element gives only a certain charm to the form, not what people ordinarily call beauty. There is a vital and... Sri Aurobindo : True beauty is a creation from the Ananda plane. Disciple : But some people say there is beauty in everything. Sri Aurobindo : Yes. There is a Stage in which everything has its beauty. For a perfect creation of beauty three elements are needed : 1. The fundamental element of beauty which is present in everything. 2. The pervading quality or Guna. 3 ...
... photographs, but as visions - the distinctive beauty of the Japanese landscapes. As she explained in the course of a conversation in 1951: ... those landscapes of Japan; well, almost all- the most beautiful, the most striking ones - I had seen in vision in France; and yet I had not seen any pictures or photographs of Japan, I knew nothing of Japan. And I had seen these landscapes without human... that no artistic eye can remain indifferent to it. She found Japan a nation of tremendous vitality, and everywhere and in everyone she found that vitality and energy: With their perfect love for nature and beauty, this accumulated strength is, perhaps, the most distinctive and widely spread characteristic of the Japanese. 8 V Many years later, on 12 April 1951, she reminisced... piece with life .... A Japanese house is a wonderful artistic whole; always the right thing is there in the right place, nothing wrongly set, nothing too much, nothing too little. Everything is just as it needed to be, and the house itself blends marvellously with the surrounding nature .... ... the strict sense of beauty and art is a natural possession of the Japanese, they did not allow it ...
... learned to walk about under the hottest sun without suffering any ill-effects. - May 18 Kamo Maru arrives in Yokohama, Japan. 'For four years, from an artistic point of view, I lived from wonder to wonder.' 'Beauty rules over Japan as an uncontestable master'; Japanese art teaches 'the unity of art with life'. 1916-1917 Stays for a year in Tokyo with Dr. Okhawa Shumei, a Zen practitioner... all my bridges and cast myself headlong into the Unknown....' - Feb 28 Richard is commissioned by some business houses in France to represent them in Japan. - Mar 4-11 Crosses the channel from Boulogne to London. Departs for Japan aboard the Kamo Maru that will go round the Cape as the Suez is closed due to war. - Apr 6 Kamo Maru at Table Bay. Visits Capetown. - May 9-10... er and an active sympathiser with the Indian freedom movement. Shumei: 'We sat together in meditation every night for an hour.' Gives the talk 'To the Women of Japan'. Meets one of Tolstoy's sons, then on a tour to promote world unity through uniformity of dress, language, life style etc. Tells him, 'It would be a poor world, not worth living in.' Meets Rabindranath Tagore in Tokyo. Sketches ...
... 1939, when the discussion was on the susceptibility of some races to beauty, Sri Aurobindo went into silence for a while, and then said: I was thinking how some races have the sense of beauty in their very bones. Judging from what is left to us, it seems our people once had a keen sense of beauty. The Japanese, although they had it once, were losing it "because of the general ... five months' of humiliating retreat and terrific loss of men and territory, Russia counter-attacked on 6 December with astonishing success. On 7 December, Japan bombed Pearl Harbour, and on 11 December Hitler declared war against America. Japan also turned against the British, French and Dutch possessions Page 703 in the Far East, bombed Calcutta, Visakhapatnam and Madras, and extended... Malaysian peninsula had been overrun, and still there was no halting the advance of Japanese arms. In this critical situation, the people of India heard only confused counsels. While Jinnah talked of the "Muslim Nation", Gandhi swore by non-violence. Subhas Chandra Bose had in the meantime joined hands with Japanese and formed an "army of liberation" or the Indian National Army, Nehru felt overtaken ...
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