... effulgence of The Divine Comedy but it has the clear detached vision whose lines suggest the absolute because they take rise in the illumined mind. In the Illiad we have the highest reach of the Hellenic mind. In The Divine Comedy we have the highest attainment of Christian mystical experience; in Paradise Lost we have the highest elevation of Christian ethical striving. Unlike these Savitri has ...
... and ethical righteousness and the promised rewards of right worship and right doing, but innocent of science and philosophy, careless of knowledge, Page 94 indifferent to beauty. The Hellenic mind was less exclusively but still largely dominated by a love of the play of reason for its own sake, but even more powerfully by a high sense of beauty, a clear aesthetic sensibility and a worship... to that which had been lacking to it, the serious pursuit of truth and the evolution of systems of ethical self-discipline; but it could only think, it could not successfully practise. The later Hellenic mind and Athenian centre of culture gave to Rome the great Stoic system of ethical discipline which saved her in the midst of the orgies of her first imperial century, but could not itself be stoical ...
... dislike of anything uplifted far beyond the human measure and others again in which we see a subtle survival of the Greek limitation, the fear, gloom and aversion with which the sunny terrestrial Hellenic mind commonly met the idea of the beyond, the limitless, the unknown; but that reaction has no place in Indian mentality. And as for the strangeness or formidable aspect of certain unhuman figures or ...
... Savitri is rational-cum-transrational, throughout experience and burning intensity of the divine. To summarise in Lotika Ghosh's words: "In the Iliad we have the highest reach of the Hellenic mind. In The Divine Comedy we have the highest attainment of Christian mystical experience; in Paradise lost we have the highest elevation of Christian ethical striving. Unlike these, Savitri ...
... fervour, the serious, almost grim spirit of Righteousness that formed and even now forms a major strain in the European or Christian culture and civilisation. The famous "sweetness and light" of the Hellenic mind supplied the other strain. The Roman genius for law and government is a well-known commonplace of history. Well-known also India's spirituality. All these modes of consciousness are elements – forces ...
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