... mean that in noble and lofty poetry we look for originality in the sense of "chemical purity". Contact with literature of the past has its own alchemic role to play,—even in what is called the Overmind aesthesis. The deeper sources of inspiration that have been explored by the past can be the part of a larger experience of the future when explored and assimilated in its creative enterprise. In that sense ...
... I would like to dwell on his poetic evolution, especially the aspect that took shape through his contact with the literature of ancient India culminating in the discovery of what he calls the Overmind aesthesis. I am fully aware that it is impossible to unravel the rich and complex structure of a great poetic mind, but we can nevertheless sort out some trends of its texture. The task becomes easier... important influences besides those of Valmiki, Vyasa and Kalidasa, namely that of the Veda and the Upanishads. These four influences form in their conjunction the basis of Sri Aurobindo's global Overmind aesthesis. We shall now consider how they have shaped some of the features of Savitri . The Influence of Sanskrit Poetry on Sri Aurobindo's Savitri . In order to understand the influence... form of the spirit's delight of existence." 109 We can hear many distant echos of Kalidasa's verse in Savitri, where the rasa -aesthetics is transformed and lifted to the spiritual Overmind aesthesis. Before closing this section I shall give one more example of this transformation. There is, I think, a subtle relation between the birth and growth of Kalidasa's Parvati and that of Sri ...
... justified; for all freedom must have a truth in it and an order, either a rational or an instinctive and intuitive order. 26 April 1946 The Overmind Aesthesis Something more might need to be said in regard to the overhead note in poetry and the overmind aesthesis; but these are exactly the subjects on which it is difficult to write with any precision or satisfy the intellect's demand for clear and... different but of the same essential calibre in the line you quote: While sad eyes watch for feet that never come. It is still more difficult to say anything very tangible about the overmind aesthesis. When I wrote about it I was thinking of the static aesthesis that perceives and receives rather than of the dynamic aesthesis which creates; I was not thinking at all of superior or inferior... has its own best which escapes from comparison and stands apart in its own value. Let us then leave for the present the question of poetic greatness or superiority aside and come back to the overmind aesthesis. By aesthesis is meant a reaction of the consciousness, mental and vital and even bodily, which receives a certain element in things, something that can be called their taste, Rasa, which passing ...
... of Keats: what do you say to that? I think Stephen Phillips had more to do with it. 7.7.1947 Page 27 3: Overmind Aesthesis Something more might need to be said in regard to the Overhead note in poetry and the Overmind aesthesis; but these are exactly the subjects on which it is difficult to write with any precision or satisfy the intellect's demand for clear... you quote: Sad eyes watch for feet that never come. It is still more difficult to say anything very tangible about the 15 Henry IV, III. i. Page 34 Overmind aesthesis. When I wrote about it I was thinking of the static aesthesis that perceives and receives rather than of the dynamic aesthesis which creates; I was not thinking at all of superior or inferior... comparison and stands apart in its own value. Let us then leave for the present the question of poetic greatness Page 35 or superiority aside and come back to the Overmind aesthesis. By aesthesis is meant a reaction of the consciousness, mental and vital and even bodily, which receives a certain element in things, something that can be called their taste, Rasa, which, ...
... al aesthesis that makes Homeric poetry, vital aesthesis that makes the poetry of Shakespeare, mental aesthesis that makes the poetry which is Miltonic and Overmind aesthesis that makes the Aurobindonian poetry. Knock Overmind aesthesis out of Savitri and we shall have The Life Divine or The Synthesis of Yoga in the guise of a Legend and a Symbol. Truth will still remain, but not poetry... first blush to imply superiority for it. But I believe that they refer to the spiritually greater, wider and deeper nature of the plane from which this poetry leaps out. In other words, the Overmind aesthesis functions from the plane of the transcendent or spiritual which is more great, wide and deep than the rest of the planes, yet in thus functioning it produces not superior poetry but poetry ...
... new taste, new aesthetic pleasure, new meanings and shades, new sounds and new rhythms, new subtleties that are offered to us by such a creation. We have to open ourselves to it. Overmind Aesthesis When in the 1940s Sri Aurobindo was extensively revising Savitri and giving to it the final shape, he also took some time off for writing detailed letters or notes to explain the... . The correspondence is undoubtedly of rare literary eminence forming "a great poet's informal self-commentary." 44 About the overhead note in poetry and particularly the nature of overmind aesthesis we have a number of expressive revelations made by Sri Aurobindo in his 1946 letter written to Amal Kiran. We shall first briefly summarise these in the following. 45 One significant character... Millennium, p. 178. Divine," 57 —the Divine not only in the radiant world, divyaloka, but also in the mortal world, mrityuloka. Thus when the truest and the widest sense of the overmind aesthesis arrives at this satyamantra, the Mantra of the Real, the Word of Truth-Revelation, then in the evolutionary everlastingness is also achieved at once the highest possible realisation. ...
... on what he had learnt from his Guru, I believe. And then what about the chapter on "Overmind Aesthesis"? Has anything of the kind been said before? We are told that Sanskrit poetic literature is very rich and profound as regards the subject of aesthesis. This chapter on Overmind aesthesis opens a window to a vast new horizon of poetic art and is a sheer creative delight, new to the ...
... a prolongation of the Aesthetic Movement, in which Wilde participated, of the last century's closing quarter. We may be considered aspirants to what Sri Aurobindo has described to me as "the Overmind aesthesis" which sees and feels the world as the manifold play of a single divine Delight, revealing beauty everywhere - even in the most unlikely forms - and inspiring vision and word and deed shot with ...
... the metaphorical/ illuminative, the intuitive/ revelatory/inspired/inevitable. Of Sethna's two articles, the most outstanding feature to my mind was his detailed technical exploration of the Overmind aesthesis particularly the elaborate discussion of that mantric window into nuclear fission: The riven invisible atom's omnipotent force. Ruud Lohman's lapidary insight into the detailed ...
... method."5 "It has to observe them and do what it can to heighten, deepen and enlarge." "It is still more difficult to say anything very tangible about Overmind aesthesis. What happens at present is that something comes down and accepts to work under the law of the mind and with a mixture of the mind and it must be judged by the laws and standards of the mind ...
... mental law and method". — Letters III. "It has to observe them and do what it can to heighten, deepen and enlarge. "It is still more difficult to say anything very tangible about Overmind aesthesis. What happens at present is that something comes down and accepts to work under the law of the mind and with a mixture of the mind and it must be judged by the laws and standards of the mind ...
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