... the religious myths are a type of poetry addressed to a peculiar mental constitution, and the sudden shock of the bizarre which repels occidental imagination the moment it comes in contact with Puranic literature, reveals to us where the line lies that must eternally divide East from West. The difference is one of root-temperament and therefore unbridgeable. There is the mental composition which has no ...
... sacrifice of Purusha which is one of the mysteries of the Vedic tradition, can be seen to be the precursor of the concept of the Divine avatara which has played a major role in the epical and Puranic literature of India. Here, too, we can see the continuity of the Veda in the Puranas. IV Inner significance of the Puranas can be appreciated when we realise that the Puranic religion was an effort ...
... Sri Krishna In Brindavan Part II On Puranic Literature A few extracts from Sri Aurobindo's "The Foundations of Indian Culture" The Puranas are essentially a true religious poetry, an art of aesthetic presentation of religious truth. All the bulk of the eighteen Puranas does not indeed take a high rank in this kind: there is much waste substance ...
... of our times, who had had himself genuine experiences of Sri Krishna, and who has explained the profundities of the Gita in his famous "Essays on the Gita", and who has expounded the value of Puranic literature in his famous work, "The Foundations of Indian Culture". He has also explained in his writings the depth of that religion which has arisen in India from the episodes connected with Sri Krishna's ...
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