Renaissance Renascence : the revival of art & letters of Europe, under the influence of its classical models, which began in Italy in the 14th century & covered a period of roughly two hundred years in its history. That Renaissance spread from Italy to France, Spain, Germany, & northern Europe.
... The Renaissance in India The Renaissance in India The Renaissance in India The Renaissance in India - 1 There has been recently some talk of a Renaissance in India. A number of illuminating essays with that general title and subject have been given to us by a poet and subtle critic and thinker, Mr. James H. Cousins, and others have touched suggestively... of a creative spirit which can only be understood by seeing it in the full tide of its greatness; the renascence is the return of the tide and it is the same spirit that is likely to animate it, although the forms it takes may be quite new. To judge therefore the possibilities of the renascence, the powers that it may reveal and the scope that it may take, we must dismiss the idea that the tendency... maintained itself even in the decline of the national vitality; it was certainly that which saved India always at every critical moment of her destiny, and it has been the starting-point too of her renascence. Any other nation under the same pressure would have long ago perished soul and body. But certainly the outward members were becoming gangrened; the powers of renovation seemed for a moment to be ...
... The Renaissance in India The Renaissance in India The Renaissance in India The Renaissance in India - 2 The process which has led up to the renaissance now inevitable, may be analysed, both historically and logically, into three steps by which a transition is being managed, a complex breaking, reshaping and new building, with the final result yet distant... here and there the first bases may have been already laid,—a new age of an old culture transformed, not an affiliation of a new-born civilisation to one that is old and dead, but a true rebirth, a renascence. The first step was the reception of the European contact, a radical reconsideration of many of the prominent elements and some revolutionary denial of the very principles of the old culture. The... power has passed away beyond any chance of vigorous revival. Nevertheless, this earliest period of crude reception left behind it results that were of value and indeed indispensable to a powerful renaissance. We may single out three of them as Page 19 of the first order of importance. It reawakened a free activity of the intellect which, though at first confined within very narrow bounds ...
... of a creative spirit which can only be understood by seeing it in the full tide of its greatness; the renascence is the return of the tide and it is the same spirit that is likely to animate it, although the forms it takes may be quite new. To judge therefore the possibilities of the renascence, the powers that it may reveal and the scope that it may take, we must dismiss the idea that the tendency... idealists, erudites and sentimentalists, patient, docile and industrious certainly, but politically inapt, — "admirable, ridiculous Germany"? Europe has had a terrible awakening from that error. When the renascence of India is complete, she will have an awakening, not of the same brutal kind, certainly, but startling enough, as to the real nature and capacity of the Indian spirit. Spirituality is indeed... a new eye on its past culture, reawoke to its sense and import, but also, at the same time, saw it in relation to modern knowledge and ideas. Out of this awakening vision and impulse the Indian renaissance is arising, and that must determine its future tendency. The recovery of the old Page 50 spiritual knowledge and experience in all its splendour, depth and fullness is its ...
... ideas and to give a new scope to its spirit, if it is willing to understand, master and assimilate novel growths and necessities, then there is a rebirth, a fresh lease of life and expansion, a true renascence. Page 168 Indian civilisation passed in its own large and leisurely manner through all these stages. Its first period was that of a great spiritual outflowering in which the forms were... resulted that began with the threat of a total death and irretrievable destruction of the culture; but its course is now uplifted on the contrary by the strong hope of a great revival, transmutation and renascence. Each of these three stages has its special significance for the student of culture. If we would understand the essential spirit of Indian civilisation, we must go back to its first formative period... period of decline. If, finally, we would discover the directions it is likely to follow in its transformation, we must try to fathom what lies beneath the still confused movements of its crisis of renascence. None of these can indeed be cut clean apart from each other; for what developed in one period Page 169 is already forecast and begun in the preceding age: but still on a certain large ...
... The Renaissance in India Indian Culture and External Influence In considering Indian civilisation and its renascence, I suggested that a powerful new creation in all fields was our great need, the meaning of the renascence and the one way of preserving the civilisation. Confronted with the huge rush of modern life and thought, invaded by another dominant... and there is possibly much temporary perplexity and difficulty, many doubtful and perilous movements, but also the opportunity of a great self-developing transformation or an immense and vigorous renascence. The group-soul differs from the individual only in being more self-sufficient by reason of its being an assemblage of many individual selves and capable within of many group variations. There... it out or, better, work it out in its own light and power,—as the Bengal artists are working it out in their own sphere,—and contribute some illumination or effectuation. The spirit of the Indian renascence will take care of the rest, that power of the universal Time-Spirit which has begun to move in our midst for the creation of a new and greater India. Page 52 ...
... the great French Revolution which was the final coup de grace to all that still remained of mediaevalism, even in its outer structure, political and economical. In India the spirit of renascence came very late, late almost by three centuries; and even then it could not flood the whole of the continent in all its nooks and corners, psychological and physical. There were any number of pockets... uprooted so easily; needed, because India's and the world's future demands it and depends upon it. Only, the religious spirit has to be bathed and purified and enlightened by the spirit of the renascence: that is to say, one must learn and understand and realize that Spirit is the thing – the one thing needful – Tamevaikam jānatha ; 'religions' are its names and forms, appliances and decorations... authentic and, which for the moment, suffused the whole consciousness with a large and high afflatus, commensurate with the amplitude of man's aspiration. I refer, of course, to the spirit of the Renaissance. It was a spirit profane and secular, no doubt, but on that level it brought a catholicity of temper and a richness in varied interest – a humanistic culture, as it is called – which constituted ...
... in the great French Revolution which was the final coup de grace to all that still remained of mediaevalism, even in its outer structure, political and economical. In India the spirit of renascence came very late, late almost by three centuries; and even then it could not flood the whole of the continent in all its nooks and corners, psychological and physical. There were any number of pockets... uprooted so easily; needed, because India's and the world's future demands it and depends upon it. Only, the religious spirit has to be bathed and purified and enlightened by the spirit of the renascence: that is to say, one must learn and understand and realize that Spirit is the thing—the one thing needful— Tamevaikam janatha; 'religions' are its names and forms, appliances and decorations. Let... authentic and, which for the moment, suffused the whole consciousness with a large and high afflatus, commensurate with the amplitude of man's aspiration. I refer, of course, to the spirit of the Renaissance. It was a spirit profane and secular, no doubt, but on that level it brought a catholicity of temper and a richness in varied interest—a humanistic culture, as it is called—which constituted a living ...
... in the great French Revolution which was the final coup de grace to all that still remained of mediaevalism, even in its Outer structure, political and economical. In India the spirit of renascence came very late, late almost by three centuries; and even then it could not flood the whole of the continent in all its nooks and corners, psychological and physical. There were any number of pockets... uprooted so easily; needed, because India's and the world's future demands it and depends upon it. Only, the religious spirit has to be bathed and purified and enlightened by the spirit of the renascence: that is to say, one must learn and understand and realize that Spirit is the thing-—the one thing needful— Tamevaikam j ā natha ; 'religions' are its names and forms, Page 77 appliances... authentic and, which for the moment, suffused the whole consciousness with a large and high afflatus, commensurate with the amplitude of man's aspiration. I refer, of course, to the spirit of the Renaissance. It was a spirit profane and secular, no doubt, but on that level it brought a catholicity of temper and a richness in varied interest—a Page 76 humanistic culture, as it is called—which ...
... hidden forces and tendencies concealed in the apparent march of things, for the signs are already apparent, that India is on the verge, in some directions already in the first movements of a great renascence, more momentous, more instinct with great changes and results, than anything that has gone before it. Every new awakening of the kind comes by some impact slight or great on the national consciousness... changing environment. The spirit of the nation has to take account of its powers and possibilities and is stirred by a will to new formation and new creation. The change does not always amount to a renascence. But the impact in which we live at the present hour is nothing less than that of a new world. It is not merely the pressure of the whole Western civilisation upon the ancient spirit of the East... traditional civilisation, but it is a great worldwide change, an approaching new birth of mankind itself of which the change in us is only a part. Therefore the result that we are face to face with, is a renascence, the birth of the Spirit into a new body, new forms in society and politics, new forms of literature, art, science, philosophy, action and creation of all kinds. And the question arises what in the ...
... y perhaps that India has yet seen,—a society electric with thought and loaded to the brim with passion. Bengal was at that time the theatre of a great intellectual awakening. A sort of miniature Renascence was in process. An ardent and imaginative race, long bound down in the fetters of a single tradition, had had suddenly put into its hands the key to a new world thronged with the beautiful or profound... has by centuries of Brahmanic training acquired a religious temper, a taste for law and a taste for learning, yet his peculiar sphere is language. Another circumstance must not be forgotten. Our renascence was marked like its European prototype, though not to so startling an extent, by a thawing of old moral custom. The calm, docile, pious, dutiful Hindu ideal was pushed aside with impatient energy... Pagan freedom. The ancient Hindu cherished a profound sense of the nothingness and vanity of life; the young Bengali felt vividly its joy, warmth and sensuousness. This is usually the moral note of a Renascence, a burning desire for Life, Life in her warm human beauty arrayed gloriously like a bride. It was the note of the sixteenth century, it is the note of the astonishing return to Greek Paganism, which ...
... Bengal renaissance, even the Indian renaissance. Examining their lives, works, and even their graves will convince us that what they represented was something unique and unprecedented in Indian culture. Whether we can call it a renaissance or not is debatable, but it was quite different in content, style, and substance from what was available in India earlier. II The Renaissance in India... of what we call the renaissance in India. What can we learn by revisiting their graves? What story do they tell us? Can we build a narrative around these memorials? These are some of the questions that I hope to ask before I go on to discuss Sri Aurobindo's eponymous essay, "The Renaissance in India." In the title of my paper, I have put a question mark after "The Renaissance in India." I do this... we've had on this topic that the idea of the renaissance in India in the 19th Page 365 century was more or less a colonial idea. As Professor Kapoor says, "It was a slave's renaissance, quite different for what happened to the free people of Europe." If one analyses the reasons for such a naming, one quickly discovers that the term renaissance was used because it flattered the colonizers ...
... body. The shaping for itself of a new body, of new philosophical, artistic, literary, cultural, political, social forms by the same soul rejuvenescent will, I should think, be the type of the Indian renascence, — forms not contradictory of the truths of life which the old expressed, but rather expressive of those truths restated, cured of defect, completed." In the light of this, without going ...
... imaginative curiosity, an insatiable passion for knowledge, an eager lust of finding, a seeking eye of intelligence awakened to all the multiform possibilities of an endless new truth and discovery. The Renascence was an awakening of the life spirit to wonder and curiosity and reflection and the stirred discovery of all that is brilliant and curious in the things of the life and the mind on their surface;... sensation and thought, is now beginning to reach beyond these things or rather through their subtlest and strongest intensities of sight and feeling towards the truths of the Spirit. The soul of the Renascence was a lover of life and an amateur of knowledge; but the modern spirit has been drawn rather by the cult of a clear, broad and minute intellectual and practical Truth: the dominating necessity of... unfinished literature, stretching from Rousseau and Chateaubriand to Hugo and taking on its way Goethe, Schiller and Heine, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats and Shelley, which forms a hasty transition from the Renascence and its after-fruits to the modernism of today which is already becoming the modernism of yesterday. Much of it we can now see to have been ill-grasped, superficial and tentative; much, as in Ch ...
... The Renaissance in India Note on the Texts The thirty-two essays that make up this volume were first published in the monthly journal Arya between August 1918 and January 1921. Each essay was written immediately before its publication. The Renaissance in India . Four essays appeared in the Arya between August and November 1918 under the title The... The Renaissance in India . In September 1920 they were published under the same title by the Prabartak Publishing House, Chandernagore, after being revised lightly by Sri Aurobindo. The publisher's note to this edition stated: "The subject matter of the book was written in a way of appreciation of Mr. James H. Cousins' book of the same name." Cousins' Renaissance in India , a series of articles... and other subjects, was published by Ganesh & Co., Madras, with a preface dated June 1918. New editions of Sri Aurobindo's Renaissance in India were published in 1927, 1937, 1946, 1951 and 1966. The 1966 edition has been frequently reprinted. In 1971 and 1972 The Renaissance in India was published along with The Foundations of Indian Culture (see below) as volume 14 of the Sri Aurobindo Birth ...
... Book Two Book Two Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 28.May-22.Dec.1907 Bande Mataram Eastern Renascence 03-September-1907 When the mailed fist of young Japan was striking blow after blow at the huge Russian bear our benevolent rulers who were secretly dismayed and astonished tried to put on a smiling face as best they could and persuade ...
... than in literature. But it is perhaps in art, literature and science that the future will see what was most definitive in the creations of the present hour, the most significant thing in the Indian renascence; for these things reveal most freely the spirit which is coming to birth; they have found their field, discovered their motive; the rest is still only a primary effort to escape out of unnatural ...
... the opposite of its nature and not its fulfilment. This insufficiency of the aesthetic view of life becomes yet more evident when we come down to its other great example, Italy of the Renascence. The Renascence was regarded at one time as pre-eminently a revival of learning, but in its Mediterranean birth-place it was rather the efflorescence of art and poetry and the beauty of life. Much more than... from and not Page 92 towards the higher curve of human evolution. It must be our definite verdict upon it that it was inferior as an age of culture to ancient Athens, to Italy of the Renascence, to ancient or classical India. For great as might be the deficiencies of social organisation in those eras and though their range of scientific knowledge and material achievement was immensely inferior ...
... The Roots of Nazism The Roots of Nazism 7. Superior People Hitler and his God Renaissance and Reformation Whereas the so-called Revolutionary of the Upper Rhine thought and wrote in the tradition of the medieval eccentrics, the Renaissance scholars formed a network all over Europe, sharing their erudition, discoveries and enthusiasm for “the new learning”... historians in various periods, is not over yet. The Renaissance rediscovered the courage and art of thinking for oneself in the way the ancient Greeks and Romans had done, but this was a very suspect exercise in the eyes of the powers-that-be. They did not like questions because they did not like being put into question. The movement called “Renaissance” was much more complex than commonly realized.... “the grammarians”, would win the day and develop the “natural philosophy” we call science. There was also a third component in the Renaissance movement, the “emotional”. In Thucydides, Demosthenes and Pericles, as in Caesar, Cicero and Tacitus, the Renaissance men rediscovered the pride and glory of belonging, of patriotism, of “the general weal”, of the heartening inspiration of tradition and ...
... tradition of Chivalry is distilled, though with less lovely art. The Renaissance he cannot consider Romantic because it "tended to look scorn on the rags of medieval romance". He sees in it merely a few attempts here and there to make a compromise between the "old Romance" and the "new Classics". 7 But, he 8 remarks, "these Renaissance attempts show the self-consciousness thatbesets all literary revivals"... 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 the seeds of a new European intellectuality taking up the work of that civilisation in new life-moulds. But the vitalistic energy set free from the grip of the Middle Ages assumed the lead in the Renaissance and brought it to its full flush, and it was... Hand in hand with its development went the rise of a new Classicism - the Miltonic, the French and the pseudo-Augustan. And by the time this happened the tide of the Renaissance had started ebbing. As part of the Renaissance's elan of the Life-force we have the literature of the first Romanticism and this literature is at its most expressive in Elizabethan poetry, both more powerful and more ...
... culture, a partial shifting even of the standpoint from which it was accustomed to see and judge all that it saw. In matters of art the Western mind was long bound up as in a prison in the Greek and Renascence tradition modified by a later mentality with only two side rooms of escape, the romantic and the realistic motives, but these were only wings of the same building; for the base was the same and a... failure is there, that I am seeking for something which was not meant in the spirit of this art and which I ought not to expect from its characteristic creation. And if I had steeped myself in this Renascence mind as in the original Hellenic spirit, I could have added something to my inner experience and acquired a more catholic and universal aesthesis. I lay stress on this psychological misunderstanding... A Defence of Indian Culture A Defence of Indian Culture Indian Art The Renaissance in India XII Indian Art - 1 A good deal of hostile or unsympathetic Western criticism of Indian civilisation has been directed in the past against its aesthetic side and taken the form of a disdainful or violent depreciation of its fine arts, architecture, sculpture and ...
... brilliant figures in a fascinating period of European history, the Italian Renaissance. He is mostly known as an artist, but he was much .more, and his impact on the course of Western history has been immeasurable. Leonardo's unparalleled diversity of talents justifies calling him a "genius", a true embodiment of the Renaissance ideal of a universal man. Not only did he excel as a painter and sculptor... of the time was so highly rated as Leonardo's plaster Sforza; no drawing has ever surpassed The Virgin, Child and Ste Anne; and nothing in Renaissance philosophy soared above Leonardo's conception of natural law. He was not "the man of the Renaissance", for he was too gentle, introverted, and refined to typify an age so violent and powerful in action and speech. He was not quite "the universal... the Platonic world-view in his painting Primavera (Spring) in 1475. See Edgar Wind, Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance (London: Faber and Faber, 1958). Hermetic literature dates from the first to the last parts of the third century AD, and was rediscovered during the Renaissance. Hermetism is an effort to bridge the gap between religion and science and to deify man through knowledge of the ...
... selection and a strong mastering assimilation is a I serious deficiency and a danger to the existence. 60 The renaissance in India in the wake of the British impact was not like the European renaissance, awakening to the old Greco-Roman spirit; a closer parallel would be the Celtic renaissance. A great past had been followed by a period of decline, and the coming of the West meant the stir of new life... December 1919 to January 1921, but were later subjected to some revision before publication in book form. The four essays that make The Renaissance in India were published even earlier, between August and November 1918. Together, the Foundations and the Renaissance give us a view of India's living past and throbbing present that is refreshingly original as well as stimulating and enlightening. Coming... a forbidding treatise - the Foundations and the Renaissance add up to a very reliable guide to the multiverses of India's cultural history. While the Veda and the Gita and two of the shorter Upanishads have been studied in depth separately (as reviewed in an earlier chapter), the complementary works, the Foundations and the Renaissance, recapture with a compellingly sure insight the essence ...
... Leonardo's drawing: human proportions Page 78 An Artist's View of the Human Body - Introduction of the Human Body The Renaissance is the period of European history which is marked by a break with the Middle Ages. Renaissance means re-birth. The first people to speak of the birth of a new and luminous age, who saw the previous period, the Middle Ages, as Dark Ages, were... had lived strongly and with a sort of sombre force, but always under the burden of an obligation to aspire through suffering to a beyond, in Italy a new confidence, a new optimism was born: the Renaissance was an enthusiastic discovery of joy and beauty in every aspect of life. Inspired by the rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman manuscripts, by the finding of antique statues, by their passion ate... 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 who devote themselves to practice without science are like sailors ...
... is obvious that such a solution could not last and, if obstinately persisted in, would lead to the most undesirable results, if not to eventual disaster. The renascence of India is as inevitable as the rising of tomorrow's sun, and the renascence of a great nation of three hundred millions with so peculiar a temperament, such unique traditions and ideas of life, so powerful an intelligence and so great ...
... young Bengal of the fifties, the most extraordinary perhaps that India has yet seen,—a society Page 40 electric with thought and loaded to the brim with passion. A sort of miniature Renascence was in the process. An ardent and imaginative race, long bound in the fetters of a single tradition, had had suddenly put into its hand the key to a new world thronged with the beautiful or profound... Pagan freedom. The ancient Hindu cherished a profound sense of the nothingness and vanity of life; the young Bengali felt vividly its joy, warmth and sensuousness. This is usually the moral note of a Renascence, a burning desire for Life, Life in her warm human beauty arrayed gloriously like a bride........" He did not forget to sketch Bankim's youth and his academic life: "The first picture we have of ...
... as well as a scientific preoccupation. In ancient days, fo example, we had the Water of Thales or the Fire of Heraclitus as the one original unifying principle of this kind. With the coming of the Renascence and the New Illumination we laughed them out and installed instead the mysterious Ether. For a long time this universal reigned supreme and now that too has gone the way of its predecessors. We ...
... others or have to give place to a new race and people, but having itself fused into its life many original smaller societies and attained to its maximum natural growth pass without death through many renascences. And even if at any time it appears to be on the point of absolute exhaustion and dissolution, it may recover by the force of the spirit and begin another and perhaps a more glorious cycle. The history... A Defence of Indian Culture A Defence of Indian Culture Indian Polity The Renaissance in India XXII Indian Polity - 2 The true nature of the Indian polity can only be realised if we look at it not as a separate thing, a machinery independent of the rest of the mind and life of the people, but as a part of and in its relation to the organic totality of ...
... The Renaissance in India The Renaissance in India The Renaissance in India The Renaissance in India - 4 The renaissance thus determining itself, but not yet finally determined, if it is to be what the name implies, a rebirth of the soul of India into a new body of energy, a new form of its innate and ancient spirit, prajñā purāṇī , must insist much more... modernity which she must follow if she is to be an efficient and a well-organised nation able to survive in the shocks of the modern world. We must therefore try to make clear what it is we mean by a renaissance governed by the principle of spirituality. But first let us say what we do not mean by this ideal. Clearly it does not signify that we shall regard earthly life as a temporal vanity, try to become... problems over which all mankind is labouring and stumbling, for the clue to their solutions is there in her ancient knowledge. Whether she will rise or not to the height of her opportunity in the renaissance which is coming upon her, is the question of her destiny. Page 40 ...
... pass, what foreign invasions interfere with the physical expression and what defects and decadences set in as a result of its own folly. Even death may threaten again and again, but every time a renascence occurs and the wrinkles straighten out, the stiff limbs recover healthy resilient tissue, the crust of dull habit and stifling conservative restraint breaks to reveal an enterprising and creative ...
... The Renaissance in India The Renaissance in India The Renaissance in India The Renaissance in India - 3 To attempt to penetrate through the indeterminate confusion of present tendencies and first efforts in order to foresee the exact forms the new creation will take, would be an effort of very doubtful utility. One might as well try to forecast a harmony... thought the insistence on life has been growing marked, self-conscious and positive. This is at present the most significant immediate sign of the future. Probably, here lies the key of the Indian renaissance, in a return from forms to the depths of a released spirituality which will show itself again in a pervading return of spirituality upon life. But what are likely to be the great constructive... yet unexpressed implications of its own culture, but as yet no sufficient will or means of execution. It is probable that only with the beginning of a freer national life will the powers of the renaissance take effective hold of the social mind and action of the awakened people. Page 31 ...
... pass, what foreign invasions interfere with its physical expression and what defects and decadences set in as a result of its own folly. Even death may threaten again and again, but every time a renascence occurs and the wrinkles straighten out, the stiff limbs recover healthy resilient tissue, the crust of dull habit and stifling conservative restraint breaks to reveal an enterprising and creative ...
... nationalism awoke as part of the “romantic” trend of the Renaissance, its most powerful voice being that of Martin Luther. Around this time, the awareness of a difference between the Roman-Latin-Welsh south and the Aryan-Nordic-Germanic north was mooted for the first time. “Luther detested the urban and humanistic culture of the Renaissance, which was a threat to the simple peasant piety he admired... to the Teutonic people second only to international Jewry.” 527 Luther’s attitude and the enthusiastic response it encountered resulted in the fact that, as Albert Speer noted, “fundamentally the Renaissance skirted Germany when it spread from Italy to France and England. Perhaps one of the roots of Hitler’s successes may be traced to this failure on Germany’s part to participate in humanistic culture ...
... PUBLISHER'S NOTE The text presented here is taken from a series of essays written by Sri Aurobindo in 1918 and published in the Arya, an English monthly, under the title The Renaissance in India. Our aim in publishing this short extract is to trigger a reflection on what constitutes the specific genius of this country and what it is that Sri Aurobindo meant by a rebirth or a resurgence ...
... complex modern mind of intellectual and imaginative curiosity - the contribution of "dreamers of daring tales" - the seminal significance of Rousseau Looking at certain elements of the Renascence Romanticism - the curious, the audacious, the subtly sweet, the drive towards the intimately inward and strangely symbolic or at least allegoric and away from the pressure of the rational as well... deepening intellectual and imaginative curiosity, a passion for knowledge, a passion for finding, an eye of intelligence awakened to all the multiform possibilities of new truth and discovery. The Renascence was an awakening of the life spirit to wonder and curiosity and reflection and the stirred dis-covery of the things of the life and the mind; but the fullness of the modern age has been a much larger... of discovery and an insistent need to know and possess the truth of Nature and man and the universe and whatever may lie hidden behind their first appearances and suggestions.... The soul of the Renascence was a lover of life and an amateur of knowledge; the modem spirit is drawn by the cult of a clear, broad and minute intellectual and practical Truth; knowledge and a power of life founded on the ...
... That was when the Italian Renaissance (c. 1350-1600) of which we have heard Page 124 so much took place. As the 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 ...
... sympathy, this predominance of religion has been violently attacked and rejected by that portion of humanity which was for that time the standard bearer of thought and progress, Europe after the Renascence, modern Europe. This revolt in its extreme form tried to destroy religion altogether, boasted indeed of having killed the religious instinct in man,—a vain and ignorant boast, as we now see, for... of its whole life towards the Divine. The Western recoil from religion, that minimising of its claim and insistence by which Europe progressed from the mediaeval religious attitude through the Renascence and the Reformation to the modern rationalistic attitude, that making of the ordinary earthly life our one preoccupation, that labour Page 179 to fulfil ourselves by the law of the lower ...
... of the Renaissance with the importance of literary discipline, the need to mould deliberately a fitting diction of choice word and resonant rhythm. The poet as "maker" bulked larger than the poet as "seer". In the Middle Ages the poems of Virgil constituted a book of inspired wisdom: we hear of the sortes Virgilianae, divination by chance selection of passages from Virgil. The Renaissance did not... note that none of the Renaissance poets - neither the Italian Tasso who wrote Gerusalemme Liberata, the epic of the Crusades, nor the Portuguese Camoës who penned Os Luciados, the epic of Vasco de Gama and Portuguese colonisation in the East - raised so dense an edifice of song as did Milton. There is more softness in them. Milton has less of it not because the ideal Renaissance epic has to crush out... as it led to a grandly lop-sided culmination of his genius. Another cause of this kind of development was the intense influence exercised on Milton by what we may call the poetic mind of Renaissance Europe aspiring after heroic poetry. Greatness was intrinsic to his being, and even in his youth he looked beyond the fashionable modes of verse in his day and sought for "some graver subject", ...
... soul''. In all cases individualism was aflame - and we are reminded of the Hellenistic and humanistic stress on the indi-vidual in the Romanticism of the Renascence. But here is no outcome of the mere Life-force's upsurge. In the Renascence there was no stress on individualism in principle - no formu-lated recognition of it. Modernism with its more intellectual character is individualistic with... personality and for its view of society as not a rigid whole subordinating the members but a group of free individuals spontaneously associating with one another. There is a dif-ference here from the Renascence explosion of individual zest - the riotous giantism of Rabelais, the curious and happy self-regard of Montaigne, the artistic egotism of Benvenuto Cellini, the perplexed individualistic passion and ...
... even I begin my discourse. We all know very well that the ideals of the Renaissance are long past from the field of art in Europe—for art also reflects the culture of the time—and yet in spite of all the changes that have taken place during 3 or 4 centuries, it is possible to stand before a picture of the Renaissance period and feel admiration for it, to enter into its world and enjoy it. Could... It was during the Renaissance that churches, statues and paintings came as if in floods. Gothic, Romanesque and Baroque and other styles found expression in church-building. Great creators came on the scence almost in a crowd. The soul of the people found expression in an inspired art which is the wonder and admiration of mankind for all time. The art of the Renaissance was mainly religious... Paris, has remained the dynamic centre of European Page 49 Painting for nearly three hundred years. Between the idealism of the Renaissance and intellectualism of today there are many phases. The Age of Reason followed the Renaissance and materialistic sciences advanced in Europe. Reason gradually became the leader in all the fields of life. The attention of Europe was then again ...
... capacity for work and his joyous vitality and indestructible buoyancy make him a towering reproach to the indolent, listless, sneering and anaemic generation that intervened between him and the recent renascence. Page 679 ...
... and institute. For, eventually, the evolution of Europe was determined less by the Reformation than by the Renascence; it flowered by the vigorous return of the ancient Graeco-Roman mentality of the one rather than by the Hebraic and religio-ethical temperament of the other. The Renascence gave back to Europe on one hand the free curiosity of the Greek mind, its eager search for first principles and ...
... The Roots of Nazism The Roots of Nazism 7. Superior People Hitler and his God Romanticism (1770-1840) The three trends we distinguished in the Renaissance continued to dominate the cultural and intellectual life in Europe – and do so even today, quite simply because they are elementary aspects of the human make-up. This consists of an emotional, a mental... the human personality, which is its basis on this Earth, and which in most cases remains its principal interest. Intellect and emotion went on affirming themselves in the centuries following the Renaissance, more often in discordance than in harmony. (In Europe the magical, occult, semi-spiritual side of existence would remain in the background, although it was always present behind the other two elements... the battlefield (and so was its spiritual growth). The role of the emotions or life-forces in humanity can be followed, in their dialectical battle with reason, from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance into the Romantic period. The importance of all this for our story is that this development leads directly to the völkisch movement, Fascism in general and Nazism in particular. Passions clashed ...
... today in Europe is a distemper of comparatively recent growth. Its farthest limit .does not go beyond the sixteenth or the fifteenth century when the first seeds were sown by the Humanists of the Renaissance. It sprouted with the rationalists of the eighteenth century and the French Revolution cleared the ground for its free and untrammelled growth. But only in the nineteenth Page 149 ... almost slain in the Page 151 combat, physically, but would not lose her soul. And now she rises victorious at long last, her ancient spirit shines resplendent, the voice of the Irish Renaissance that speaks through Yeats and Russell * heralds a new dawn for her and who knows if not for Europe and the whole West? Is it meant that "Mediaeval obscurantism" was Europe's supreme ideal... worst. The truth of the matter is that in its decline the Middle Age clung to and elaborated only the formal aspect of its culture, leaving aside its inner realisation, its living inspiration. The Renaissance was a movement of reaction and correction against the lifeless formalism, the dry scholasticism of a decadent Middle Age; it sought to infuse a new vitality, by giving a new outlook and intuition ...
... now flourish; the creations of its mind have been arrested, this art like others has ceased or fallen into decay, but the thing from which it rose, the spiritual fire within still burns and in the renascence that is coming it may be that this great art too will revive, not saddled with the grave limitations of modern Western work in the kind, but vivified by the nobility of a new impulse and power of... A Defence of Indian Culture A Defence of Indian Culture Indian Art The Renaissance in India XIV Indian Art - 3 The sculpture and painting of ancient India have recently been rehabilitated with a surprising suddenness in the eyes of a more cultivated European criticism in the course of that rapid opening of the Western mind to the value of oriental thought ...
... waste of poetic virtue. The new light and impulse that set free the silence of the poetic spirit in England for its first abundant and sovereign utterance, came from the Renaissance in Italy and Spain and France. The Renaissance meant many things and it meant too different things in different countries, but one thing above all everywhere, the discovery of beauty and joy in every energy of life. The... foreign teaching. Chaucer gives English poetry a first shape by the help of French romance models and the work Page 65 of Italian masters; the Elizabethans start anew in dependence on Renaissance influences from France and Italy and a side wind from Spain; Milton goes direct to classical models; the Restoration and the eighteenth century take pliantly the pseudo-classical form from the c... always under the shadow of death and under the burden of an obligation to aspire through suffering to a beyond; their life is bordered on one side by the cross and on the other by the sword. The Renaissance brings in the sense of a liberation from the burden and the obligation; it looks at life and loves it in excess; it is carried away by the beauty of the body and the senses and the intellect, the ...
... foundation of truth.” With the individualistic stage “the Age of Protestantism has begun, the Age of Reason, the Age of Revolt, Progress, Freedom” 967 – the age of possible renewal and rebirth, renaissance and reformation. It is this age of breaking up of the petrified layers of human thought and society which allows humanity to see the world new again and to explore the living reality. It is the... phases of this “human cycle” will be clear after everything we have learned in our story about the end of the Christian era in Europe, the beginning of a new cycle of searching possibilities with the Renaissance and the Age of Reason, and the importance of the great mutation, the Wende, starting around 1880 in which we are still fully involved at present and which has already produced such dramatic events ...
... death of an exhausted humanity, and that these are nothing but the last convulsions. It is also possible that we are at the beginning, at the birth of a new humanity.” 646 The questioning of the Renaissance and the reign of the intellect in the Age of Reason had undermined the age-old Christian tradition and tried to install the foundations of a new future. The certainties of the past had decayed, but... the soul of the Volk, with nature, and with God. The traditional, dogmatic answers did not any longer satisfy a generation which, after all, had come alive to the questions and criticisms of the Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers – not to forget the stance taken by Martin Luther of the individual’s right to turn towards God directly and be saved by his personal faith, without the interference of ...
... the gravest of tragedies and most to be fought against. For, if Indians can bring forth the real genius of their country the world's degeneration will be halted: the hope of the future is in the renascence and resurgence of essential India. And all the more powerful will be her influence because her genius is not only the typical idealist of the Divine but also a multi-mooded idealist, holding something ...
... civilisation of Europe and Asia, both of them so necessary to human development. Two great obstacles stand in her way. The blindness of the bureaucracy which is straining every nerve to crush the Indian renascence in the vain hope that it can continue to rule, is the least of the two. Far more formidable is the greater though more excusable blindness of the people themselves who still persist in connecting ...
... and consideration of the world and things, a revaluation in other terms and categories of a new consciousness. The greatest, at least, the most representative movement of this kind is that of the Renaissance. It was really a New Illumination: a flood of light poured upon the mind and intellect and understanding of the period. There was a brightness, a brilliance, a happy agility and keenness in the movements... nineteenth century, is another outstanding example of a similar phenomenon, of the descent of light into human consciousness. The light that descended into human consciousness at the time of the Renaissance captured the higher mind and intelligence – the Ray touched as it were the frontal lobe of the brain; the later descent touched the heart, the feelings and emotive sensibility, it evoked more vibrant... movement that led her up to Independence was at a crucial moment a mighty evocation of both Light and Power. It had not perhaps initially the magnitude, the manifest scope or scale of either the Renaissance or the Great Revolutions we mention. But it carried a deeper import, its echo far-reaching into the future of humanity. For it meant nothing less than the spiritual awakening of India and therefore ...
... and consideration of the world and things, a revaluation in other terms and categories of a new consciousness. The greatest, at least, the most representative movement of this kind is that of the Renaissance. It was really a New Illumination: a flood of light poured upon the mind and intellect and understanding of the period. There was a brightness, a brilliance, a happy agility and keenness in the... nineteenth century, is another outstanding example of a similar phenomenon, of the descent of light into human consciousness. The light that descended into human consciousness at the time of the Renaissance captured the higher mind and intelligence— the Ray touched as it were the frontal lobe of the brain; the later descent touched the heart, the feelings and emotive sensibility, it evoked more vibrant... movement that led her up to Independence was at a crucial moment a mighty evocation of both Light and Power. It had not perhaps initially the magnitude, the manifest scope or scale of either the Renaissance or the Great Revolutions we mention. But it carried a deeper import, its echo far-reaching into the future of humanity. For it meant nothing less than the spiritual awakening of India and therefore ...
... me—but he has not yet come. My love and blessings are always with you. Doris took me to the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Victoria and Albert Museum is a beautiful building in the Renaissance style which was first built in 1857. The present building was opened in 1909 by King Edward VII. It is the national museum of industrial art, illustrating the crafts of all nations at various periods—all ...
... 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 Art.’ 38 At the time when her famous... relationship, their meeting during the Renaissance as Mona Lisa and Leonardo da Vinci would be an explanation for the time and artistry Leonardo lavished on the portrait, for the personal value he attached to it, and for the smile which keeps so many people spellbound up to the present day. The Mother has said more than once that during the Italian and French Renaissance, just as during the time of Christ... Earthly Paradise The Mother, according to her own statements, has had innumerable reincarnations. Sometimes she had several simultaneously, for instance at the time of Christ and during the Renaissance. ‘The Mother’s Vibhutis would usually be feminine personalities most of whom would be dominated by one of the four personalities of the Mother’ 6 – i.e. Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and ...
... quite different from the sense of European religions; and even mediaeval Christianity, especially as now looked at by the modern European mind which has gone through the two great crises of the Renascence and recent secularism, will not in spite of its oriental origin and affinities be of much real help. To bring in into the artistic look on an Indian temple occidental memories or a comparison with... A Defence of Indian Culture A Defence of Indian Culture Indian Art The Renaissance in India XIII Indian Art - 2 Architecture, sculpture and painting, because they are the three great arts which appeal to the spirit through the eye, are those too in which the sensible and the invisible meet with the strongest emphasis on themselves and yet the greatest ...
... 14 Vedic Studies 15 The Secret of the Veda 16 Hymns to the Mystic Fire 17 Isha Upanishad 18 Kena and Other Upanishads 19 Essays on the Gita 20 The Renaissance in India 21 The Life Divine -1 11 The Life Divine -11 23 The Synthesis of Yoga -1 24 The Synthesis of Yoga - II 25 The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity, War ...
... Volume 14 — The Foundations of Indian Culture AND THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA: Is India Civilised?; Page 819 A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture; A Defence of Indian Culture (Religion and Spirituality, Indian Art, Indian Literature, Indian Polity); Indian Culture and External Influence; The Renaissance in India. Volume 15 — Social and Political Thought:... (1965); The Meeting of the East and the West in Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy (1968) Manibhai. A Practical Guide to Integral Yoga (1971) Majumdar, R.C . Studies in the Bengali Renaissance Mary, Countess of Minto. India: Minto and Morley (1934) Mazumdar, A. C. Indian National Evolution (1915) Misra, R. S. The Integral Advaitism of Sri Aurobindo (1957) Page... Five Parts (1969-71) Pearson, Nathaniel. Sri Aurobindo and the Soul Quest of Man (1952) Piper, Raymond F. The Hungry Eye: An Introduction to Cosmic Art Poddar, Arabinda. Renaissance in Bengal: Quests and Confrontations (1970) Pradhan, R.G. India's Struggle for Swaraj (1930) Prasad, Narayan. Life in Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1965; 1968) Purani, A.B. ...
... shall meet and possess its divine and mighty destiny. Sri Aurobindo - 1907 Page 155 The renascence of India is as inevitable as the rising of tomorrow's sun, and the renascence of a great nation of three hundred millions with so peculiar a temperament, such unique traditions and ideas of life, so powerful an intelligence and so great... idealists, erudites and sentimentalists, patient, docile and industrious certainly, but politically inapt, —"admirable, ridiculous Germany"? Europe has had a terrible awakening from that error. When the renascence of India is complete, she will have an awakening, not of the same brutal kind, certainly, but startling enough, as to the real nature and capacity of the Indian spirit. Spirituality is indeed ...
... Such is the content which I put into this date of India's liberation; whether or how far this hope will be justified depends upon the new and free India . -Sri Aurobindo The Renaissance in India India can best develop herself and serve humanity by being herself and following the law of her own nature. This does not mean, as some narrowly and blindly suppose, the rejection... problems over which all mankind is labouring and stumbling, for the clue to their solutions is there in her ancient knowledge. Whether she will rise or not to the height of her opportunity in the renaissance which is coming upon her, is the question of her destiny. -Sri Aurobindo The recovery of the old spiritual knowledge and experience in all its splendour, depth and fullness ...
... 252 27. A. & R., December 1984, p . 132, 136 66 . Th e Renaissance in India , .14.401 -404 28 . A. & R., December 1985, p , 152 , 168 67. War and S elf-Determination, 15.598 29 . A. & R., April 1979, p . 93-94 68 . Ibid., 15.605-606 30. Ibid., p . 94 69 . The Renaissance in India , 14.426·433 3 1. See Th e Politics o f History , by ...
... Laftent, 1990, Paris. Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL), 1971, Pondicherry, Vol.13. Sri Aurobindo, The Foundations of Indian Culture and the Renaissance in India, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL), 1971, Pondicherry, Vol.14. Sri Aurobindo, Hymns to the Mystic Fire, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL), 1971, Pondicherry ...
... the national awakening as the movement towards Swaraj or as the new School of Art. If this crude Swadeshi were to collapse and the national movement towards autonomy come to nothing, the artistic renascence he Page 248 has praised so highly, would wither and sink with the drying up of the soil in which it was planted. A nation need not be luxuriously wealthy in order to be profoundly artistic ...
... the establishment of an All India Muslim Political Conference, both in 1888, but his plans were aborted because of opposition or lack of response from other leaders. The Indian Renaissance As already seen, by 1857, the whole of the Indian subcontinent had come under the control of the British. The exploitation of India by the British had reached very great proportions. The... the relationship of Hinduism with Islam and the problem of their coexistence in the new circumstances under the domination of a people alien to both. It was at this critical moment that the Indian renaissance began and this was essentially due to the manner in which Hinduism reacted to the foreign domination. This reaction, which first started in Bengal, spread to all other parts of the country and included ...
... Dayananda: The Man and His Work Among the great company of remarkable figures that will appear to the eye of posterity at the head of the Indian Renascence, one stands out by himself with peculiar and solitary distinctness, one unique in his type as he is unique in his work. It is as if one were to walk for a long time amid a range of hills rising to ...
... progress, and must therefore be the grand political exemplar of every nation animated by a like spirit, and it must be peculiarly and beyond dispute such for India in her present critical stage of renascence. I am quite aware that in the eyes of that growing community which Mr. Ghose is pleased to call the thinking class, these plausible assertions are only the elementary axioms of political science ...
... constant immergence in the high holy fire of the Old and New Testaments, the wide steady light of the Greek and Roman Classics, the strange or sombre or changing chiaroscuro of the Mediaeval and Renaissance writers. Out of this immergence resulted not only a poetic style at once reminiscent of past tones and typical of the sheer Milton: there resulted also the paradox that Milton is at the same time... powerful in Milton. But in spite of it he was English poetry's greatest artist because there were two other forces at work in him. Both of them carried the Page 74 spirit of the Renaissance. One was Humanism, which revived the culture of Classical antiquity, affirmed the beauty of the natural world, the right of the senses and the emotions to self-fulfilment, the ability of the intellect... Having a sensuous nature and a rich imagination, he could not toe the firm line of Puritanism: he indeed exercised a strong ethical will, but only to sublimate and not extirpate the spirit of the Renaissance in him. And partly it was this spirit and partly a vein of noble cheerfulness in his own nature that mingled with the Puritan to make even his religious self not altogether a hard one. None can miss ...
... “The Children of Wotan” In the part of the globe which one may roughly call “the West”, the Christian era and its civilization were breaking up, and the West had become, since the Renaissance, a world in transition. “As the Christian view of the world loses its authority, the more menacingly will the ‘blond beast’ be heard prowling about in its underground prison, ready at any moment ...
... halo! I don't know what exactly to say about the term "rishi". Sri Aurobindo has explained its root-meaning and applied it to Bankim Chandra Chatterji for his discovery of the mantra of India's renascence in "Bande Mataram" ("I bow to you, O Mother!"). In its highest connotation, "rishi" means one who brings about the creative expression of the secret divine spirit of things, either in word or action ...
... down, clasped her around her knees and looked up at her like a child in utter self-abandonment. The Mother too looked at him with a smile full of love and compassion. The scene reminded me of some Renaissance painting of the Madonna and the child. We wondered who this lucky fellow was, how he came to the Mother. The Pranam- scene was repeated for two or three days, I believe. He paraded himself as an ...
... evolution and end of Athenian democracy, the transition from the Roman republic to the empire, the emergence of feudal Europe out of the ruins of Rome, the Christianisation of Europe, the Reformation and Renascence together preparing a new society, the French Revolution, the present rapid movement towards a socialistic State and the replacing of competition by organised cooperation. Because our view of European ...
... disdain. Science metaphysically dogmatized became Scientism. The hypothetical gap between science and religion or spirituality turned into a cause of serious tension, for instance during the late Renaissance when Galileo Galilei was put on trial by the Inquisition of the Catholic Church. “The Galileo Affair had a catastrophic effect on the Church, putting her in discredit for her inability to accept... and its manifestations on Earth, the time arrived that its hierarchical structure and authority began to falter. This period of questioning, roughly from the 14th to the 17th century, we call the Renaissance, synonymous with the urge of rediscovery and exploration in matters intellectual and artistic as well as physical. New continents on the globe were discovered, and so were new realms of the mind... necessity of the experiment which has remained and will remain forever valid. The need of the experiment was the direct consequence of the doubt of any affirmations by any authority, until the Renaissance so docilely accepted in all places of learning and teaching. The “natural philosopher” (as Isaac Newton still called himself) became an experimenter who communicated the results of his findings to ...
... the indulgence of the eye's desire in perfection of form and colour becomes an enlightenment of the inner being through the power of a certain spiritually aesthetic Ananda. Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India: Indian Art - IV O Lord, awaken in me the ardent desire to know You. I aspire to consecrate my life to Your service. The Mother, Some Answers from the Mother: 24 December ...
... Germany’s fragmented past, than “völkisch ego” or, for the sake of convenience, “national ego”, in its numerous variants from “self-awareness” up to “feeling of superiority”. From the time of the Renaissance onward the Germans developed a chronically inflated or inflamed ego, which would in the end blind them to reality. This national ego was the main cause of the Hitler phenomenon and the disasters ...
... 1952). Essays on the Gita (Sri Aurobindo Ashram Library Inc., New York, 1950) The Foundations of Indian Culture (Sri Aurobindo Library Inc., New York, 1953). The Renaissance in India (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1947). The Life Divine (Sri Aurobindo Library Inc., New York, 1951). The Mother (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 3" 1 Impression... Reader for Students (Oxford University Press, London, 1917). Mackenzie, J.S. Cosmic Problems : An Essay on Speculative Philosophy (Macmillan, London, 1931). Matthiessen, F.O. American Renaissance : Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (Oxford University Press, London, 1946). Mctaggart.J. McT. Ellis. Philosophical Studies (Edward Arnold, London... (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956). Three Philosophical Poets : Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1935). Sarma, D.S. Studies in the Renaissance of Hinduism in the 19 th and 20 th centuries (Benares Hindu University, Benares, 1944). Sayers, Dorothy L. Further Papers on Dante (Methuen, London, 1957). Sen, Kshitimohan ...
... Hitler. An anonymous publicist, called “the Revolutionary of the Upper Rhine”, wrote the Book of a Hundred Chapters in 1510, at a time that European thought, stirred up by the revolution of the Renaissance, was in total turmoil. (Luther would pin his ninety-five theses on the door of a church at Wittenberg in 1517.) This elderly fanatic, writes Norman Cohn, “was thoroughly familiar with the enormous ...
... characters are the cult of the inquiring, defining, effective, practical reason and the cult of life. The great high tides of European civilisation, Greek culture, the Roman world before Constantine, the Renascence, the modern age with its two colossal idols, Industrialism and physical Science, have come to the West on the strong ascending urge of this double force. Whenever the tide of these powers has ebbed... A Defence of Indian Culture A Defence of Indian Culture A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture The Renaissance in India IV A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture - 4 A right judgment of the life-value of Indian philosophy is intimately bound up with a right appreciation of the life-value of Indian religion; religion and philosophy are too intimately ...
... term "rishi" and decide if it can be applied to Tagore. Well, Sri Aurobindo has explained its root meaning and applied it to Bankim Chandra Chatterji for his discovery of the mantra of India's renascence in the song Bande Mataram, that cry of obeisance to the divine Mother Spirit which is felt behind India's idealistic and soul-questing activity down the ages. In its highest connotation, "rishi" ...
... other for mastery. Such a wealth of forceful personalities as were found in the circle of the Diadochi (successors) was never repeated till the epoch of the condottieri and tyrants of the Italian Renaissance. (...) The most powerful of the Diadochi was Antigonous, who gradually acquired a great part of Asia and aimed at sole sovereignty over Alexander's empire. Against him and his son Demetrius in long ...
... 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 to ME, but it ...
... 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 Mother Mona Lisa. But I shall be much interested to know something about the inner side of the phenomenon. Was... writings of Virgil and Horace and others helped greatly towards the success of his mission. After the interlude 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 ...
... 327 Indra, 9, 222 Industrial Revolution, 101 Industrial League, 102 Inge, Dean, 341 -Mysticism in Religion, 341n Iraq, 106 Ireland 106, 127, 151 Irish Renaissance, 152 Ishwara, 4 Inquisition, the, 123 Isis, 220 Islam, 55-6, 110 Israel, 219 Italy, 89, 244 JANAKA,396 Japan, 70, 160,209 ... 55 Ramayana, the, 217 Ramdas, 396 Raphael, 176-8 Red Cross, 104 Reichenbach, Hans, 315 -Atom .& Cosmos, 315n Relativity, 141 Renaissance, 21, 52, 130, 145, 149, 152, 163, 206-8, 211, 329 Renan, Emest, 91, 94 -Qp'est-ce qu'une nation?, 94n Ribhus; 271 Richelieu, 90 Riemann, 325 Romains, Jules, 69, ...
... that “he almost personifies the German character”, and Thomas Mann calls him “a gigantic incarnation of the German being”. There was in him the refinement, broad interest and great learning of the Renaissance; his inspired use of the written and spoken word practically created the German language anew; he had a feeling of music and liked to play within the circle of his family. There was the recognition ...
... to my taste). They began to depreciate Rembrandt─Rembrandt was a dauber, Titian was a dauber, all the great painters of the 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 ...
... man to develop and grow in readiness for the ultimate aim of life. Sri Aurobindo has explained the distinctive character of Indian Culture in his books: The Foundations of Indian Culture, The Renaissance in India, Essays on the Gita, The Synthesis of Yoga. We can sum up the distinctive character of Indian Culture in the following passage from Sri Aurobindo's writings: "...the... human life. 7. "The Cause of Culture", Mother India, March 1952, pp. 1-2. Page 67 A message was given by the Mother to the Society for the Spiritual and Cultural Renaissance of Bharat on 23 August 1951: "Let the splendour of Bharat's past be reborn in the realisation of her imminent future with the help and blessings of her living soul." Throughout ...
... “the Enormous”, a small but qualitatively significant group. The Cosmics, according to David Clay Large, wanted to rejuvenate a calcified and too much intellectually shaped modern world through a renaissance of paganism. Their common points, however much they may have differed on others, were again the rejection of industrial modernity, liberal rationalism, parliamentarian democracy and orthodox Christianity ...
... 26 Ibid P. 15. Page 49 of new stuff into eternal body has always been in the past a peculiar power of the genius of India." " The renaissance of India is inevitable as the rising of tomorrow's sun, and the renaissance of a great nation of three hundred millions with so peculiar a temperament such unique traditions and ideas of life, so powerful a' intelligence and so great... Sri Aurobindo - some aspects of His Vision PART II SRI AUROBINDO AND INDIAN CULTURAL RENAISSANCE When I think of the subject my mind goes back to the nineties of the last century and the first decade of our century The urge for political freedom was becoming irresistible. In my memory I still see my old uncle scolding my elder brother... moment. Some of these attempts at cultural rejuvenation seem to lack the very central springs of Indian culture. These may be regarded as three independent approaches to the problem of the Indian renaissance. Sri Aurobindo's synthetic vision is cosmic and has the merits of comprehensiveness and clarity. It points the way to a new creation ( may I say, a world culture ? ) on sound foundations ...
... A Defence of Indian Culture A Defence of Indian Culture Indian Spirituality and Life The Renaissance in India XI Indian Spirituality and Life - 5 The most general charge against Indian culture in its practical effects can be dismissed without any serious difficulty. The critic with whom I have to deal has, in fact, spoiled his case by the spirit of frantic... and broke out constantly into new revivals under the ever increasing stress of continuously adverse circumstances. The modern Indian revival, religious, cultural, political, called now sometimes a renaissance, which so troubles and grieves the minds of her critics, is only a repetition under altered circumstances, in an adapted form, in a greater though as yet less vivid mass of movement, of a phenomenon... appeal; she may have no parallel to the swarm of interesting but often disturbing, questionable or even dark and revolting figures which illuminate and stain the story of the Italian cities during the Renaissance, although she has had too her crowded moments thronged by figures of a different kind. But she has had many rulers, statesmen and encouragers of art as great in their own way as Pericles or Lorenzo ...
... this trend travels away from and not towards the higher curve of human evolution. It must be our definite verdict upon it that it was inferior as an age of culture to ancient Athens, to Italy of the Renascence, to ancient or classical India. For great as might be the deficiencies of social organisation in those eras and though their range of scientific knowledge and material achievement was immensely inferior ...
... merchants ( vaishyas ); and last and very much least there was the class of the workers ( shudras ), mostly serfs without any rights, on a par with the animals and other possessions. Because of the Renaissance this social pyramid, which had shaped the Western outlook on life for centuries, was put into question, together with everything else in life. Acquiring the ideals of the Enlightenment – among them ...
... of India's history had started coming to the surface in the works of Maharshi Dayananda, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, and some other stalwarts of the Hindu Renaissance during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. But it met a vehement Page 399 opposition from the powerful Marxist-Muslim combine which had international ...
... they keep cropping up in the thinking of writers who deem themselves positivists, materialists, reductionists, atheists. The Reformation was the direct offspring of the Renaissance (its leaders, Luther included, were learned Renaissance men); it was followed by the Enlightenment, the high tide of Reason in the West; the Enlightenment resulted in the American and French Revolutions, followed by the positivist... Cycle 20 set in: the conventions were more and more felt as restrictions by sensitive and intelligent people, and a need for individualisation began to be felt. This need formed the basis of the Renaissance and its direct offspring, the Reformation. “The individualistic age of Europe was in its beginning a revolt of reason, in its culmination a triumphal progress of physical Science. Such an evolution... truth.” 22 In these sentences Sri Aurobindo gives the gist of what caused the profound turn in the history of the West (with far-reaching consequences in the global history) that were the Renaissance and the Reformation. Everything the decrepit Catholic Church represented was put into question. But the tenets and the dogmas of the Catholic Church were so ingrained in the Western psyche that even ...
... the Middle Ages off had already come to pass, the Renaissance. The Renaissance had a great vital gusto and a sense of things of the earth and also a humanist enthusiasm which refused to take interest in religious things or in things which could not be seen and touched. Naturally, devils and angels were not very popular with the typical Renaissance thinkers. But the artists carried on the religious ...
... Again the same difference is apparent between the ancient and the modern. Sparks of intuition are scattered all over Page 77 the ancient arts, and inspiration marks the modern. The Renaissance of Europe failed in its attempt, however sincere, at imitating the intuition of Homer and Virgil of the remote past and unwittingly managed to usher in the epoch of inspiration. Dante was the harbinger ...
... is seeking. There are deeper questionings and explorations; attempts are being made to turn more and more decisively to the dimension of values. The rationalistic age which began with the Renaissance has enabled man to fathom deep into the possibilities of reason as the governor of life. At the beginning of its journey in modern times, reason had the faith that it would be able, at its highest ...
... all other faculties and movements in man. The end of that epoch and the first beginnings of the Modern Age were signalised by the Mind, i.e., the Reason, declaring its independence. This was the Renaissance; and it was then that the seed was sown of modern science and scientism. Mind – mind in its rational mode – thus emancipated, exercised in its turn a domineering control over man's entire nature ...
... tremendous Inertia and obscurity. Even then, the Indian spirit began to re-assert itself from the middle of the 19th century which marks the begimiing of what has come to be called the Indian Renaissance. The period, beginning from 1800 A.D., when the British established the supremacy in India, is generally called the modern Page 85 period of Indian history. It was at the beginning ...
... lines of mental movement mark off two definite stages in the cultural history of man. Down to the Middle Ages man's mental life was moved and coloured by his libido – desire soul; it is with the Renascence that he began to free his mind from, the libido and transfer and transform the libido into non-egoistic and realistic thinking. In simpler psychological terms we can say that man's mentality was ...
... lines of mental movement mark off two definite stages in the cultural history of man. Down to the Middle Ages man's mental life was moved and coloured by his libido —desire-soul; it is with the Renascence that he began to free his mind from the libido and transfer and transform the libido into non-egoistic and realistic thinking. In simpler psychological terms we can say that man's mentality was coloured ...
... your past lives, though from general impressions I would be inclined to wager that you were not only in Athens (that is evident) but in England during the Restoration time or thereabouts, in Renaissance Italy etc: these, however, are only impressions." 12.5.37 There is an idea that Harin is a reincarnation of Shelley. It is supposed to be based on your own intuition... writings of Virgil and Horace and others helped greatly towards the success of his mission. After the interlude 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 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 ...
... dormant since the Western invasion. The plan of the review is designed to meet a very real need of the moment and the future: for its purpose is to bring together in its pages the mind of the Indian renaissance and the most recent developments of European culture. In India we as yet know next to nothing of what the most advanced minds of Europe are thinking and creating in the literary, artistic and philosophic... that draw towards the future. The superstition of the perfect excellence of the Graeco-Roman tradition as rendered by England and France—more strictly the Latinised or semi-Latinised mind and the Renaissance tradition—survives: but as a matter of fact that tradition or what remains of it is a dead shell. The Time-Spirit has left it, retaining no doubt what it needs for its ulterior aims, and is passing ...
... Brunton seems to have thought I was Lao-Tse. Maybe, I can't say it is impossible. 7 December 1936 The Mother or you are said to have declared that a divine descent was attempted during the Renaissance, 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 ...
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