... Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2 The Call of Saraswati: Savitri in Relation to Sanskrit Poetry. Me from her lotus heaven Saraswati Has called to regions of eternal snow And Ganges pacing to the southern sea, Ganges upon whose shores the flowers of Eden blow. 1 Sri Aurobindo had already discovered poetry as the mainstream of... the hallmark of youth when the mind of a creative genius receives influences. Keeping this in mind we shall use extensively, in the study of influences, the early writings of Sri Aurobindo on Sanskrit poetry. 21 Sri Aurobindo has transcribed Sanskrit names differently at different periods. For the sake of uniformity I have adopted the generally accepted transcription and transliteration except... there was also the cultural difference. "The life and surroundings," says Sri Aurobindo, "in which Indian poetry moves cannot be rendered in the terms of English poetry." 26 While translating Sanskrit poetry he had to tackle this problem thoroughly. In his notes he points out, as he says, "rather sketchily", how he thinks it best to meet the difficulty. His contention is that the business of poetical ...
... published only in 1921, and some of the early lyrics were included in Ahana and Other Poems and issued In 1915. Apart from the above, Sri Aurobindo translated a large quantity of Bengali and Sanskrit poetry and also wrote numerous original poems and plays, but left most of it as drafts (often two or more drafts of the same work, or of particular passages or stanzas), some in a complete and some... t. III The Homeric enchantment was, of course, not to be easily or ever to be shaken off; but once - after his return to India - Sri Aurobindo had learned to lave in Bengali and Sanskrit poetry, he was also seized with the desire to translate some of it, whether lyric, didactic, narrative or dramatic, into English verse.* The mediaeval lyrics of Vidyapati, Chandidas and others were an... the meaning of fidelity, this tireless search for equivalent idiom, image and metre, all bespeak the Hero as Translator, a Hercules pt one of his difficult tasks. Bringing the power of great Sanskrit poetry into English verse was like bringing the Super mind into the human physical, vital and mental; but it was an effort of transformation worth in attempting, and it was in that spirit that Sri Aurobindo ...
... temperament will trust itself. The poetry of Kalidasa satisfies the sensuous imagination without enervating the virile chords of character; for virile energy is an unfailing characteristic of the best Sanskrit poetry, and Kalidasa is inferior to none in this respect. His artistic error has nevertheless had disastrous effects on the substance of his poem. It is written in six cantos answering to the six Indian ...
... tissue of the feeling betray a Moslem, a Persian, a Sufi influence. This source of inspiration appears in the title of some of the poems, and it has helped perhaps the tendency to lavishness. Sanskrit poetry, even when it clothes itself in the regal gold and purple of Kalidasa, or flows in the luscious warmth and colour of Jayadeva, keeps still a certain background of massive restraint, embanks itself ...
... pregnant images and an intense spontaneity of feeling. In the South a profounder philosophic utterance is often fused into the devotional note, especially in the Shaiva poets, and, as in the early Sanskrit poetry, vivified by a great power of living phrase and image, and farther north the high Vedantic spirituality renews itself in the Hindi poetry of Surdas and inspires Nanak and the Sikh gurus. The spiritual ...
... ample justification to what Spieglberg had observed. "The formal purity, the restraint even in richness, the freedom from rhetorical device and verbal excess mark his poetry away from Sanskrit poetry." Even when it comes to the spiritual themes Sri Aurobindo does not veil his mystic realisations. His insights in allegory, his use of myth or symbol, all have the language of living experience ...
... cannot be converted into a trochaic fifteener howsoever close it may seem to the original. But, more importantly, it is the spiritual inspiration that here matters the most. Not that all great Sanskrit poetry is so, nor do all spiritual compositions give us such poetry; but Valmiki and Vyasa are at first poets as much as they are, unlike Kalidasa, Rishis and the underlying aesthesis of their poetry ...
... less that eight different meters are used in the Kumarasambhava, and each canto is composed in a specific meter, with a change in the final stanza or last two stanzas. As Heifetz says, "The best Sanskrit poetry links the emotional possibilities of each fixed meter with a great range of meaning and sound to produce effects matched in the West perhaps only by the great Latin poets." Obviously a great challenge ...
... great personalities: Jesus Christ (a detailed story). 5. Listening to music: selected ragas (Indian) and harmonies (Western). 6. Examples of poetic excellence: regional poetry, Sanskrit poetry, English poetry. 7. Need to control and master the lower nature (topic for study and reflection). 8. Diet and health. II . Exercises to be recommended: 1. ...
... images draws its inspiration from the master sculptors of Greece. The formal purity, the restraint even in richness, the freedom from rhetorical device and verbal excess mark his poetry away from Sanskrit poetry specially in its latter stages when artistic and literary bias predominated and poetry was overloaded with rhetoric and showed an unrestraint in word and image which when it settled down to co ...
... 134 I enclose a lovely book [love poems in Hindi] by O. C. Ganguli 48 . Please glance at it once or twice and read on page 39 the lovely totaka [metre of twelve syllables in Sanskrit poetry] hindi song and on page 47 the magnificent varsa [monsoon] song. Wonderful! No ? What kallol 49 and rhythm. But laghu guru pure mind you. Read also his letters. It is strange he so much ...
... tranquil repose he feels that it is assuredly lending itself to express the bhavas and rasas , it is able to present or deliver the perceptive feelings and rhythmic essentialities of the original Sanskrit poetry that are there everywhere in gleaming abundance in the verses of the Gita. Thus, towards the end of the fourth chapter of Jnaneshwari we have the following: ( ...
... the epic. While the original is in poetic form, the translation that is presented here is in prose, and therefore it does not capture alI the vividity, colour, charm and rhythm of the original Sanskrit poetry of Valmiki; but a few passages of the Ramayana, which Sri Aurobindo has translated in poetic form in English, have been presented in Appendice 2 , to which readers may turn in Page 26 ...
... pointless either. Page 20 Some unique features of Kālidāsa's poetic genius Kālidāsa was unique in many respects, and in the words of M. R. Kale: His poetic genius has brought Sanskrit poetry to the highest elegance and refinement. His style is peculiarly pure and chaste... An unaffected simplicity of expression and an easy-flowing language mark his writings which are embellished ...
... Study of great personalities: Jesus Christ (a detailed study). Listening to music: selected ragas (Indian) and harmonies (Western). Examples of poetic excellence: regional poetry, Sanskrit poetry, English poetry. Need to control and master the lower nature (topic for study and reflection). Diet and health. Exercises to be recommended: To make in daily life the choice ...
... Study of great personalities: Jesus-Christ (a detailed study). 5. Listening to music: selected ragas (Indian) and harmonies (Western). 6. Examples of poetic excellence: regional poetry, Sanskrit poetry, English poetry 7. Need to control and master the lower nature (topic for study and reflection) 8. Diet and health. III. Exercises to be recommended: 1. To make in daily life the ...
... the company every year from Calcutta to Khulna. The Star Theatre was one 1. Jadabeshwar Tarkaratna, who had expressed to Dr. Ghose the wish to found a chatuspathi, where Sanskrit grammar, poetry, laws and philosophy are specially taught. Page 102 of the best in its day. On 20 September 1884 Ramakrishna Paramahansa went there to see a play on Sri Chaitanya, and blessed... father's line." This anglicized Indian's umbilical cord had remained attached to the land of his birth and its culture. While he was the Civil Surgeon at Rangpur, he helped a Sanskrit scholar 1 to set up a Sanskrit school —which was still doing well when last heard of (1932-33). Dr. K. D. Ghose was also a patron of arts. As a patron of the Star Theatre he bore the expenses of bringing the... Vivekananda observed on 11 March 1898, after his visit to the Far East. "You may easily imagine my astonishment when I saw written on the walls of many Chinese and Japanese temples some very familiar Sanskrit mantras . . . they were all Page 99 written in old Bengali script." Krishna Dhan refused. Honest to the core, he did not feel it a sin to cross the 'black waters,' so why should ...
... clarity of vision as in the Upanishads and expressed in the same kind of diction and the same simple penetrating rhythm although these lines are written in a language very different from Sanskrit. Spiritual poetry, Sri Aurobindo writes, has "the luminous and assured clarity of the fully expressed spiritual experience." 11 Sri Aurobindo and the Upanishadic seers write from the direct spiritual... Future Poetry , SABCL, Vol. 9, p. 195. 2. Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine , SABCL, Vol. 19, p. 910. Page 345 We can then say that psychic poetry is the poetry of delight and spiritual poetry is the poetry of knowledge. Taking a suggestion from Sri Aurobindo we may say that the psychic poetry is the poetry of the kingdoms of the deathless Rose and the spiritual poetry is that... speck Lost in a time-transcending loneliness. ("Suns") As the psychic poetry should not be confused with the poetry of religious devotion so the spiritual poetry should not be confused with the philosophical poetry. There is certainly a place for philosophy in poetry, but in the philosophical poetry the idea is of the mind and may reach the heights of pure intellect but it cannot reach ...
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