Leonardo da Vinci : (1452-1519), Italian painter, sculptor, architect & engineer. His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry into the workings of the human body & physical & natural laws as well as a mechanical inventiveness that were centuries ahead of his time. A manuscript of his notebooks depicting submarines, steam engines & snorkels, sold for 30.8 million in Dec. 1994. [The Indian Express$, 17 Dec. 1994, p.6]
... 1914. Clark, Kenneth. Leonardo da Vinci. Penguin Books. Durant,Will. The Story of Civilization'. Part V. The Renaissance. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. Selected and edited by Irma A. Richter, Oxford University Press, World's Classics Edn., 1980. Richter, Jean Paul. Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci. Oxford University Press... 10. Vasari, quoted in Richter, op. cit., p. 330. 11. For recent editions of Leonardo's notebooks, see Jean P. Richter, T1ie Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, 3rd ed., 2 vols. 1970; or Edward McCurdy, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci,! \o\s., 1955. 12. Leonardo, Codice Atlantico; quoted by Will Durant, op. cit., p. 220. 13. Leonardo, Codice Atlantico; quoted by Will Durant... approach to a new science of matter is what makes him the forerunner of early modern scientists like Galileo, Francis Bacon, William Harvey, Nicolaus Copernicus and Isaac Newton 1 .This man was Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo's lifetime was a period of great cultural turmoil, marked by such notable events as the introduction of the printing press (1455), the discovery of America (1492) and the beginning ...
... Mona to keep her name as it reminded him of Mona Lisa. Then the Mother added: “You know, Udar, I was Mona Lisa, and Sri Aurobindo, as Leonardo da Vinci, painted me in that famous picture.”’ 35 About Leonardo, Sri Aurobindo himself wrote: ‘What Leonardo da Vinci held in himself was all the new age of Europe on its many sides. But there was no question of Avatarhood or consciousness of a descent... smiled and said: “Yes, yes.” After seeing the painting Mother said: “This is the best.” Champaklal: “Is that so?” Mother: “I think so. We shall see. Sri Aurobindo was the artist.” Champaklal: “Leonardo da Vinci?” Mother smiled sweetly and said: “Yes.” Then I pointed to the picture [of Mona Lisa] and said: “Mother, it seems this is yours?” Mother: “Yes.”’ 34 In his Reminiscences, Udar narrates that... spiritual forces. Mysticism was no part of what he had to manifest.’ 36 According to Kenneth J. Atchity: ‘His multifaceted, wide-ranging mind, coupled with brilliant genius and ready wit, gave Leonardo da Vinci the title Renaissance man as soon as the word Renaissance came into use.’ 37 Leonardo’s painting of Mona Lisa is ‘perhaps the most famous image of a human face in the history of Western ...
... What is it? Someone has sent a photo of the place where Leonardo da Vinci died. Would you be interested to see that? I know that place, I went there ( Mother looks at the photo ). It's the place where he died. But it's in France. Yes, he died in France. 3 It has been said that Sri Aurobindo was Leonardo da Vinci... but Sri Aurobindo never told me so. 4 I don't know. Just... × Leonardo da Vinci left for France in 1515, and died there in 1519. × A disciple once put this question to Sri Aurobindo: "is it true that the same consciousness that took the form of Leonardo da Vinci had previously manifested as Augustus Caesar, the... the Middle Ages, this civilisation was reborn in a new mould in what is called the Renaissance, not in its life-aspects but in its intellectual aspects. It was therefore a supreme intellectual, Leonardo da Vinci, who took up again the work and summarised in himself the seeds of modern Europe." ( Life, Literature and Yoga , p. 6, July 29, 1937) ...
... on the head? If so, will you please tell me, as you did about Leonardo da Vinci, what exactly he stood for in the history of Europe?" Page 7 About Leonardo the disciple had asked Sri Aurobindo: "Mother or you are said to have declared that a divine descent was attempted during the Renaissance with Leonardo da Vinci as its centre - a credible report since you were Leonardo and... semi-Avatarhood, aware of the work he was destined to do, aware of the spiritual planes?" Sri Aurobindo replied: "Never heard before of my declaring or anybody declaring such a thing. What Leonardo da Vinci held in himself was all the new age of Europe on its many sides. But there was no question of Avatarhood or consciousness of a descent or pressure of spiritual planes. Mysticism was no part of... the Middle Ages, this civilisation was reborn in a new mould in what is called the Renaissance, not in its life aspects but in its intellectual aspects. It was therefore a supreme intellectual, Leonardo da Vinci, who took up again this work and summarised in himself the seeds of modern Europe." (29.7.1937) The appearance of Augustus in the very period when Christianity had its origination seems ...
... aspects. It was therefore a supreme intellectual, Leonardo da Vinci, who took up again the work and summarised in himself the seeds of modern Europe. Never heard before of my declaring or anybody declaring such a thing [ that a divine descent was attempted during the Renaissance with Leonardo da Vinci as its centre ]. What Leonardo da Vinci held in himself was all the new age of Europe on its... wrote an autobiography. What he said was in conversation with his disciples and others. He was certainly quite as much an Avatar as Christ or Chaitanya. Page 501 Augustus Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci Augustus Caesar organised the life of the Roman Empire and it was this that made the framework of the first transmission of the Graeco-Roman civilisation to Europe—he came for that work and ...
... think one could collect some hundreds of names—which would not include of course the still greater number not recorded in history or the transmitted memory of the past. Augustus Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci Augustus Caesar organised the life of the Roman Empire and it was this that made the framework of the first transmission of the Graeco-Roman civilisation to Europe—he came for that work and... the Middle Ages, this civilisation was reborn in a new mould in what is called the Renaissance, not in its life-aspects but in its intellectual aspects. It was therefore a supreme intellectual, Leonardo da Vinci, who took up again the work and summarised in himself the seeds of modern Europe. 29 July 1937 Leonardo and Einstein I do not know if by chance Einstein's theory of relativity may also... trying to get back into his mother's womb, e.g. Mussolini getting into Abyssinia, it was a straight drive for his mother's womb. The extreme of ridiculousness is reached when Freud analyses Leonardo da Vinci to show how he was pathological, how he failed disastrously in his adaptation to life, how his artistic imagination was an aberration and a maladaptation. All poets, all imaginative people, all ...
... with Leonardo Page 56 da Vinci as its centre—a very credible report since we believe you were Leonardo and the Mother Mona Lisa. I shall be much interested to know something about the inner side of this phenomenon. Was Leonardo aware of a semi-avatarhood or a pressure of spiritual planes? Never heard before of my declaring or anybody declaring such a thing. What Leonardo da Vinci held ...
... coexistence of the various time-experiences of the various forms of consciousness. The spectacular twentieth century with the dawning awareness of the unity of the one Earth was foreseen long before Leonardo da Vinci, 91 as long before Giordano Bruno, Johannes Kepler, Erasmus, Mercator, Vesalius, Christiaan Huygens and Galileo Galilei the coming was foreseen of the being that would be the fulfillment and... × Entretiens 57-58, 3 × ‘What Leonardo da Vinci held in himself was all the new age of Europe on its many sides.’ (Sri Aurobindo) × This is ...
... to science can bring. As a matter of fact, many of these painters and sculptors were also scientists. Some took advantage of the discoveries in anatomy made at the time, but some others like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo themselves per formed dozens of dissections, studying each muscle, each nerve and sinew. They ceaselessly observed human bodies in motion and studied the way they walk, they sit... unearthed in Rome. They also felt the urge to depict nude bodies, and even when the body was hidden by draperies, they wanted the anatomy of the body to show under the folds of the clothes. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519),who lived towards the end of the Italian Renaissance, was a perfect example of this new kind of artist who combined imaginative sensitivity and a scientific spirit of enquiry. "Those ...
... because now I don't remember accurately, and without accuracy they have no value." She had added, "For the Italian Renaissance as well: Leonardo da Vinci and Mona Lisa; and for the French Renaissance: François I and Marguerite.'' Significantly, Leonardo da Vinci had come to the Court of Frangois I as soon as the latter became King of France in 1515. This monarch was a great patron of art and literature ...
... but a being of a higher plane assisting in the evolution." 19.7.1937 Page 24 Is it true that the same consciousness- that took the form of Leonardo da Vinci had previously manifested as Augustus Caesar, the first Emperor of Rome? If so, will you please tell me what exactly Augustus Caesar stood for in the history of Europe ... Middle Ages, this civilisation was reborn in a new mould in what is called the Renaissance, not in its life-aspects but in its intel- lectual aspects. It was therefore a supreme intellectual, Leonardo da Vinci, who took up again the work and summarised in himself the seeds of modern Europe." 29.7.1937 What is meant by the light of the Mother's consciousness and is it the same ...
... like a guardian angel. I was spellbound to see the works of Leonardo da Vinci—especially "The Virgin of the Rocks" and "The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and John the Baptist." His self-portrait expressed his extraordinary personality and profoundness. Doris told me: There are approximately nine hundred pictures by Leonardo da Vinci in the world—out of them some six hundred are in the possession ...
... epitome of the Renaissance culture, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) springs to mind. Sri Aurobindo puts it all neatly. "After the interlude of the Middle Ages, this civilisation [Graeco-Roman] was reborn in a new mould in what is called the Renaissance, not in its life-aspects but in its intellectual aspects. It was therefore a supreme intellectual, Leonardo da Vinci, who took up again the work and summarised ...
... Italian Renaissance were daubers. You were not to pronounce the name of Raphael, it was a shame. And all the great period of the Italian Renaissance was "not worth very much"; even the works of Leonardo da Vinci; "You know, you must take them and leave them." Then they went a little further; they wanted something entirely new, they became extravagant. And then, from there, there was Page 300 ...
... stimulus was a versatile Page 5 personality who could claim to be representative of both East and West and who seemed to hold in himself, like a greater Leonardo da Vinci, the seeds of a new age. A Bengali by birth, he was yet educated from his seventh to his twenty-first year in England, first at St. Paul's School, London, and then at King's College, Cambridge ...
... powers that are sometimes associated with it but often separated from it, had already had * Nothing human is alien to me. Page 48 its initiation in Europe in the figure of Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was not only an artist but a supreme intellectual and he stands at the head of the Renaissance for the rebirth of the Graeco-Roman civilisation in its intellectual aspects: he sum-marised ...
... but also in “the ocean of Greater India and the Moluccas”, the Malay Archipelago; from this he deduced that at one time the landmass of which France was a part must have been under the sea. (Leonardo da Vinci had already drawn the conclusion that mountains must have been covered by the sea when fossil sea shells were brought to him from the Dolomites, but two centuries ago little was known about the ...
... review of the arguments in favour of rebirth, and only one or two of the most relevant points should be borne in mind. Notable Westerners have believed in reincarnation: Pythagoras, Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Leibniz, Benjamin Franklin, Goethe, Shelley, Victor Hugo, Balzac, Richard Wagner, Walt Whitman, Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Gauguin, Strindberg, Mondriaan, Jung, H. G. Wells. It was ...
... this subject.” 4 Among the Vibhutis may be counted: Veda Vyasa, Hatshepsut, Moses, Pericles, Socrates, Alexander, Confucius, Lao Tse, Julius Caesar, Caesar Augustus, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon, Shankara, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, and undoubtedly many more in all times and climes. All of them were concretely aware that they had a specific, superhuman mission to fulfil and so ...
... prognosis. Aristotle created his logic of classes to contemplate an order in this 'buzzing, booming' world: for him explanation was equated to this contemplation of order. But, first with Leonardo da Vinci, and afterwards with Galilei, Mercenne, Roberval and others, explanation took another sense. It was the age of 'bricoleurs et contre-ma î tres' to whom explanation meant the power of machin ...
... The Spirit of Auroville A letter dated 5.4.75 came from Gloria: Dear Huta, Thank you for sending us the book about Leonardo da Vinci. We have enjoyed reading it. I also remember your visit of the 21st February and spontaneously the memory came to me, with this deep feeling, so beautiful, expressed in the Book Three, Canto Two of Savitri : ...
... 1957 White Roses 06 February 1957 This is a painting (of St. Anne) from Leonardo da Vinci; is it not a beautiful image of Divine Love and Compassion? The Compassion that effaces all errors and wipes off all mistakes... ...
... Nolini), I guess I must have belonged to the period of the one or the other. The two certainties about Sri Aurobindo's past, as deducible from his correspondence with me, were Augustus Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci. To Amrita he said he still felt the edge of the guillotine on his neck. This would indicate that his birth immediately before the present one was associated with the French Revolution. If he ...
... which made it extremely interesting. I won't repeat them because I don't remember with exactness, and these things have no value unless they are exact. And then, for the Italian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa; and for the French Renaissance: François I, Marguerite de Valois, 2 and so forth. Twice I knew that it wasn't just images but something that had Page 230 happened ...
... approach the answer by recalling what Vasari, an Italian painter of the Page 32 Renaissance, who has written biographies of the great Masters of the period, has said about Leonardo da Vinci. He remarks: "With the splendour of his most magnificent face he could make every broken spirit whole." Now it is interesting that this observation should have been about Leonardo ...
... Guidance from Sri Aurobindo: Letters to a Young Disciple — Nagin Doshi (Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry, 1974), p. 285. Page 48 of him in the past: Augustus Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci. Should we not take all his previous births to have formed only Vibhutis, just as the Mother's evidently did? Going by a certain set of his correspondence with a disciple, we would ...
... receive supreme revelation in a flame-body of the symbol he gives to us, a symbol that is more than an image. A good painter has two chief objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul—says Leonardo da Vinci. A good poet adds to it the expressive power of the ineffable transcendent, coming in rhythms of its calm and silent delight. Such indeed is the Savitri given to us by the Rishi. Nowhere in ...
... and said: “Yes, yes.” After seeing the painting of Mona Lisa Mother said: “That is the best.” C: “Is that so?” Mother: “I think so. We shall see. Sri Aurobindo was the artist.” C: “Leonardo da Vinci?” Mother smiled sweetly and said: “Yes.” I pointed to the picture and asked: “Mother, it seems this is you?” Mother: “Yes. Don't you see the resemblance?” She put her finger on the lips ...
... those dark aspects of its history considering the choice, Love, that Jesus gave us. Look again at the answer to the question of the rich young man, Page 65 THE REDEMPTOR, by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) 17 "Good master, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" 18 And Jesus said to him, ....19 "You know the commandments:" ... 20 And he said to him, "Teacher, all these I ...
... first constructs within the womb the shape of man, and in due time awakens the soul that is to be its inhabitant. ________________________________________ Extracts from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci selected & edited by Irma A. Richter, Oxford University Press. Page 87 ...
... But Sri Aurobindo is no lonely creator working for personal aims and his creative work is not conned merely to poetry. He is the Master-moulder of the temper of the coming age. Though, like Leonardo Da Vinci of the earlier age, he might carry on his work away from the superficial tumult of his time, he, like him, is working at the Page i very centre of the evolutionary march of the race ...
... genial favour upon Raphael and Titian; and the meticulous care and the detailed surety in a Tintoretto makes us think of Mahasaraswati's grace. Mahasaraswati too seems to have especially favoured Leonardo da Vinci, although a brooding presence of Maheshwari also seems to be intermixed there. For it must be remembered that the human soul after all is not a simple and unilateral being, it is a little ...
... follow the same tradition, national custom, etc., but each has his own individual stamp. An artist does not express his personality, but it is stamped on his work. PURANI: Coomaraswamy says Leonardo da Vinci followed tradition, there is no stamp of personality on his art. SRI AUROBINDO: Not correct. What Coomaraswamy says about the inner and the outer vision is correct and interesting. The East ...
... mystical escapades do not represent the whole meaning of evolution. On the other hand, if we accept that the proper evolutionary course is that of the peak figures of earthly consciousness – Leonardo da Vinci, Beethoven, Alexander the Great, Dante – we are still forced to acknowledge that none of these great men has been able to transform life. Thus, the summits of the mind or the heart do not give ...
... s on Savitri: "Behind the appearances there is a subtle reality much closer to Truth; it is that one we are trying to show you." And yet, how is one to bring out the contours of the Divine? Leonardo da Vinci found it no easy matter to paint the figure of Christ in 'The Last Supper', the problem being to charge a human face with the aura of the Divine. How, then, Page 685 does a ...
... was nothing less than "the aspect of beauty Page 303 of the Divine manifestation". The artist too is like a Yogi who goes within seeking the right inspiration: A man like Leonardo da Vinci was a Yogi and nothing else .... Music too is an essentially spiritual art and has always been associated with religious feeling and an inner life.... ... Beethoven, when he composed ...
... direction. A dark Shakti now reigns over the world. If it is true that in India, in more gracious ages, woman was regarded as a living symbol of the Shakti (Rama and Sita, Shiva and Parvati, Leonardo da Vinci and Mona Lisa, Sri Aurobindo and Mother)—for in fact Woman is the Shakti, the creative Force, the foundation of life, and without her no real creation can ever be embodied; She is the one who ...
... from the concrete world of the senses. Technological development cannot argue a higher stage of essential consciousness. Is a modern scientist more evolved in consciousness than Aristotle or Leonardo da Vinci? Is Stalin on a higher plane of being than Draco or Lycurgus or our own Buddhist Asoka whom H. G. Wells, himself a scientific mind, calls the most enlightened ruler the world has seen? Not the ...
... what presently represents our highest intelligence are bound to be born in the coming decades. Geniuses? If one wishes, although the term refers to the notion of exceptional individuals—Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, Napoleon, Einstein—in whom the collective unconscious culminates, without the individual members of the collective being able to equal them. In this case, on the other hand, the men of ...
... Augustus established ensured the means for disseminating the Christian euangelion . It is here that Sethna dispels a prevalent misconception that Sri Aurobindo had stated his having been Leonardo da Vinci and the Mother Mona Lisa in a previous birth. He quotes Sri Aurobindo's written reply: "Never heard before of my declaring or anybody declaring such a thing." Objections raised regarding ...
... Of what is past, or passing, or to come. 13 Savitri, P.109. Page 243 are sometimes given bold embodiment in form and, though undoubtedly, supreme geniuses like Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo and Raphael from this period have left some of the most outstanding specimens of art in human history, a scrupulous naturalistic illusionism based on one-point perspective and ...
... receive supreme revelation in a flame-body of the symbol he gives to us, a symbol that is more than an image. A good painter has two chief objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul says Leonardo da Vinci. A good poet adds to it the expressive power of the ineffable transcendent, coming in rhythms of its calm and silent delight. Such indeed is the Savitri given to us by the Rishi. Nowhere in English ...
... happening. Perhaps it was destined. It illustrates how unprepared we are for her Grace. C: “Mother, the portrait you did of me, is that not nice?” Mother: “Perfect! If it had been signed Leonardo da Vinci, nobody would doubt it was not by him. Do not spoil it.” ...
... finished it in a few minutes and when she saw it, she was so happy with it that she took it immediately to Sri Aurobindo. It was regarding this picture that she said: “If I were to write the name Leonardo da Vinci here [as the artist who made this] nobody would question it.... The pencil just went on moving.” ...
... × Much of the seventeenth century scientific revolution was prefigured in the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, but they remained for the most part unknown. × Matthew Cobb: The Egg & Sperm Race , pp. 42-3 ...
... very chummy with the central group of the sadhaks — Nolini, Amrita, Purani, Anilbaran, Champaklal, Dyuman, Rajangam, Pavitra — was that, when in a past life of theirs Sri Aurobindo had been Leonardo da Vinci and the Mother Mona Lisa, Doraiswamy had been Francis 1, King of France (1494-1547). Francis 1 was renowned for his love of art and chivalry, he was a patron of Renaissance learning ...
... from the day I saw Sri Aurobindo I realised his all-soothing power and this power took its place in my heart. Vasari, the biographer of the great painters of the European Renaissance, wrote of Leonardo da Vinci: "With the splen- Page 222 dour of his most magnificent countenance he could make whole every broken spirit." You must have heard that in one of his past vibhuti-embodiments the ...
... did not like being put into question. The movement called “Renaissance” was much more complex than commonly realized. Nowadays it is superficially associated with the art of geniuses like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael, and with humanist scholars like Erasmus of Rotterdam. The art of the Renaissance was of course a most important aspect of the new way of looking at the world. A certain ...
... execute it outwardly; he creates according to this greater inner vision. This too is a kind of yogic discipline, for by it he enters into intimate communion with the inner worlds. A man like Leonardo da Vinci was a Yogi and nothing else. And he was, if not the greatest, at least one of the greatest painters,—although his art did not stop at painting alone. Music too is an essentially spiritual art ...
... execute it outwardly; he creates according to this greater inner vision. This too is a kind of yogic discipline, for by it he enters into intimate communion with the inner worlds. A man like Leonardo da Vinci was a Yogi and nothing else. And he was, if not the greatest, at least one of the greatest painters,—although his art did not stop at painting alone. Music too is an essentially spiritual ...
... this and what is done there is a great difference, but this is the true raison d'être of art. Have you understood? A little! Why are today's painters not so good as those of the days of Leonardo da Vinci? Because human evolution goes in spirals. I have explained this. 1 I said that art had become an altogether mercenary affair, obscure and ignorant, from the beginning of the last century ...
... Yes, that's right. And are you sure it's a woman? I'm not sure, either. Page 388 No. But I don't know why, I get the idea of a painter or a painting. A painter? ... Leonardo da Vinci? ( Laughing ) But he had a beard! ( To Sujata: ) Do you know this person? It's not the same Mother! Yes ( Mother takes one photo, then the other ): this and this are two different persons ...
... Eucharist The meal shared by Jesus and his disciples on the eve of his Passion at which he instituted the Holy Eucharist. The Last Supper has been immortalized by the famous painting of Leonardo da Vinci. In the painting, we see the Disciples sitting at a table with Jesus in the centre. And perhaps this is the image that the world generally has of this gathering. Jesus being Jewish, kept ...
... 188 Lamarck, 254 Lao-tse, 242 Laplace, 225, 312, 319, 388 League of Nations, 78, 80, 85 Leibnitz, 327 Lenin, 125 Leo X, 207 Leonardo da Vinci, 120 Lewis, Cecil Day, 195 Louis XIV, 207 Lucifer, 267 MACBETH, 186 Madhusudan Dutt, 120, 197 Mahabharata, the, 188,217,222 Mahalakshmi ...
... mistaken notion of the generality of common men. For, all connoisseurs of higher scholarship recognise that "learning should be bright and luminous, as cheerful as Sydney Smith, as optimistic as Leonardo da Vinci: gloom, like that of Carlyle, mostly means indigestion!" 4 Be it that laughter is decried by the self-styled serious Page 21 people, but even the Gods are said to laugh - ...
... by the Prophet Mohammed and the promises that they gave for the world and for the beyond; question of poets and artists and their search for excellence and perfection such as what we find in Leonardo da Vinci, search of Page 168 Sri Chaitanya and his unity with the supreme love and ecstasy; intellectual struggle to prove the existence of God and attainment of intellectual love of God such ...
... whose life was a constant fight, who was exposed continuously to dangers and to inclemencies, who was capable of as great an enthusiasm for the discoveries of Galileo as for the masterpieces of Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo, did not resemble modem man who lives in a steam-heated apartment, an air conditioned office, a closed car, who contemplates absurd films, listens to his radio, and plays golf ...
... Evolution and the idea of the Avatar The Great Greeks and Romans Augustus and World-Unity Puranas and Tantras The Bhakti Age of India Renaissance and Leonardo da Vinci Ideal of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: A Call to Yoga in World-Action Ideal of Nationalism and Internationalism The Place of Yoga in India's Role for the New Future ...
... his mission and the purpose and significance of the revolution. What historian can hope to study fruitfully the Renaissance in the West without arriving at a proper assessment of the role Leonardo da Vinci played in it? or, the scientific revolution of the modern times without a correct estimate of the part played in it by Newton and Einstein? We have, therefore, set out to study the history ...
... few minutes and when she saw it, she was so happy with it that she took it immediately to Sri Aurobindo. It was regarding this picture that she once said: "If 1 were to write thé name of Leonardo da Vinci hère (as thé artist) nobody would question it." "The pencil just went on moving", she had said. * Champoklal Speaks - Edited by M. P. Pandit. Page 11 ...
... 1940, Champaklal came in and showed the Mother a print of the celebrated 'Mona Lisa', and the following brief conversation ensued: Mother: Sri Aurobindo was the artist. Champaklal: Leonardo da Vinci? Mother smiled sweetly and said: Yes. Champaklal: Mother, it seems this [painting] is yours? Mother: Yes, do you not see the resemblance? 25 The Mother had once said, as ...
... the one who comes from above... a being of the Overmind plane or from elsewhere. 2 On 28 October, when a child asks the Mother why today's painters are not as good as those of the days of Leonardo da Vinci, she answers: "Because human evolution goes in spirals." And, she explains further, that evolution ...is a constant progress. But if you made it in a straight line, you would cover only a ...
... 15fn, 259 Kumud Patel 817, 820 Lacombe, Olivier 810 Lajpat Rai 226 Lalita (Daulat Pandey) 328-9, 690 Laljibhai Hindocha 684 Page 902 Lenin, Vladimir 142, 198 Leonardo da Vinci 304 Lizelle Raymond 321, 419 Lord of Falsehood, The (The Lord of Nations) see in The Mother - (3) Madanlal Himatsingka 816 Madhav P. Pandit 257, 321, 596, 691, 707-8, 815-6 Magre ...
... us to a more direct and luminous power of truth. But very obviously in the use of the intuition the poet and artist cannot proceed precisely in the same way as the scientist or philosopher. Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable intuitions in science and his creative intuitions in art started from the same power, but the surrounding or subordinate mental operations were of a different character and colour ...
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