... the question is, is matter the only static and separative reality? Is the flux of vital Mind-Energy the ultimate truth ? Matter forms the lowest level of reality. Above it is the elan vital. Above the elan vital there is yet the domain of the Spirit. And the Spirit is a static substance and at the same a dynamic creative power. It is Being ( Sat ) that realises or expresses itself through certain... life, but also opens out to our sight the Truths, the fundamental realities behind that movement. Bergson does not, of course, point to any existence behind the continuous flux of life-power—the elan vital. He seems to deny any static truth or truths to be seen and seized in any scheme of knowledge. To him the dynamic flow—the Heraclitian panta reei is the ultimate reality. It is precisely to this ...
... question is, is matter the only static and separative reality? Is the flux of vital Mind-Energy the ultimate truth? Matter forms the lowest level of reality. Above it is the elan vital. Above the elan vital there is yet the domain of the Spirit. And the Spirit is a static substance and at the same a dynamic creative power. It is Being (Sat) that realises or expresses itself through... life, but also opens out to our sight the Truths, the fundamental realities behind that movement. Bergson does not, of course, point to any existence behind the continuous flux of life-power - the elan vital. He seems to deny any static truth or truths to be seen and seized in any scheme of knowledge.. To him the dynamic flow - the Heraclitian panta reei is the ultimate reality. It is precisely ...
... the splendour of the eternal Spirit: it is the authentic soul or divine spark as distinguished from the elan vital and the mind-force, behind and between which it is hidden and upon which it sheds its mystical influence. In Yoga the psyche is found at the back of that juncture of the elan vital and the mind-force — the emotional being whose physical effects we feel in the heart-region. It is the ...
... victorious seizure of the intuitive word with the leap of the elan vital in a vast variety of moods and situations, we may touch on a problem that has long vexed his scholars: "Was Shakespeare the real author of the dramas that now pass under his name?" I believe that the solution can be found if we keep steadily our sense of this elan vital that is the creator of those dramas. Let me sketch to ...
... just as concretely as Raman meant it when he won the Nobel Prize in Physics. In India the concrete was not synonymous with the material, even as consciousness did not stop with the level of the elan vital and the mind. Beyond apparently unconscious Matter and the grades of organic evolution there was for the Indian a Power which was the Spirit And this basic stuff of being, this divine ...
... egoistic desire dies at every turn of the plot and only a vast aspiration for God goes from strength to strength. It is God and not the ego who, in answer to the aspiration, flowers in the mind, the elan vital and the body. No attachment to things gross is at the back of the body's change: the thirst for divine integrality alone is the alchemist. The body's change is insisted on as a grand finale because ...
... catches us immediately in Sri Aurobindo's Ilion is the burning breath. We would not even feel the dexterous swing of the lines and their unwearying variety if we did not primarily stir to the elan vital that glorifies the metrical medium. Artistic devices are dead things by themselves, the finest words can become garish inanities. Neither structural skill nor choice locution is the stuff of poetry: ...
... gospels that counsel contentment within our imprisoning deficiencies? Great philosophers of evolution that have flourished during the last two Page 36 centuries have declared that the elan vital will not cease to produce new varieties of human and superhuman species or the urge inherent in Space and Time is preparing the birth of Deity or God in the making or drive of ingression of higher ...
... which they reared their respective epic edifices. Both of them believed in Evolution, and both had had mystic experiences. Kazantzakis, like Bergson, thought in terms of 'emergent evolution'; the elan vital, in their view, struggled and surged to achieve new forms of life. During his vigil on Mount Athos, Kazantzakis saw the Combatant pushing his way upward, and so achieving self-expression in newer ...
... ed but also because the poet puts behind them a vigorous "vital" being, carried over from his youth when it had its royal self-deployment in the impassioned narratives. Invitation brings this elan vital very effectively forward, even swamping the play of ideas yet channelling a wide intellectual sight of the Yogi Soul mounting Godward and throwing at the world its arduous call: With wind ...
... evolution than merely mechanical urge. He is inclined to attribute a 'rudiment of choice' to the species which, travelling by different paths, reach the same goal. Given a new situation, the 'urge' ( elan vital) , common to all members, leads them to meet it by a new method. According to Bergson, it is the inner urge, or life force, or an upward drive that incites the whole species in a definite ...
... Shakespeare and Donne. Donne differs from Shakespeare in several respects and is a much inferior and less harmonised poet on the whole and often he falls between two stools - the afflatus of the elan vital and the inspiration of the pure mind - but both these poets have a certain affinity in their treatment of language and metre, their manner of thinking out a theme, their attitude towards images ...
... direct approaches to what is here left too metaphysicised away or else inadequately metaphysicised. Bergson is perhaps the most notable: he has brought in his later works his earlier "Duree" and "Elan Vital" and "Intuition" or "In-feeling" into significant touch with the date of mystical experience. But there is not yet precisely the grand synthesis called for by the findings of science. Bergson is ...
... establish the type of a spiritual and psychic bhakti in the emotional-vital part of man, thus preparing that part in us to turn towards the Divine, at any rate, to fix the possibility of such a turn in man s nature. It was not that there had not been the emotional type of bhakti before; but the completeness of it, the elan, the vital s rapture in it had never manifested as it manifested in Sri Chaitanya ...
... the type of a spiritual and psychic bhakti and love in the emotional vital part of man, preparing the vital in us in that way to turn towards the Divine — at any rate, to fix that possibility in the earth-nature. It was not that there had not been the emotional type of bhakti before; but the completeness of it, the elan , the vital's rapture in it had never manifested as it manifested in Chaitanya. But... architects and sculptors of life, creative exponents, fashioners of significant forms of the national thought and religion and ethics and culture. A profound stress of thought on life, a large and vital view of religion and society, a certain strain of philosophic idea runs through these poems and the whole ancient culture of India is embodied in them with a great force of intellectual conception and... accuracy of turn, almost ascetic in its simplicity and directness and a frequent fine and happy bareness; it is the speech of a strong and rapid poetical intelligence and a great and straightforward vital force, brief and telling in phrase but by virtue of a single-minded sincerity and, except in some knotted passages or episodes, without any rhetorical labour of compactness, a style like the light and ...
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