Rasa: Its Meaning and Scope – 3
The author presents an ideal for an artist. The artist is one in whom the sattwic buddhi or the capacity for ideal sensibility predominates.
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Rasa: Its Meaning and Scope – 2
In this part the author explores if there a primary rasa from which other rasa-s originate. He also helps us reflect on how rasa is an attribute of the soul.
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Rasa: Its Meaning and Scope – 1
A few selections from a comprehensive essay, first published in two parts in the annual journal, Sri Aurobindo Circle (1949 and 1950).
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Sri Aurobindo’s Interpretation of Indian Culture: The Ramayana – 1
“At some fortuitous moment of time the glory of Indian civilisation met the grandeur of the Sanskrit language. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata were born.”
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Devabhasha – The Language Divine
To celebrate the World Sanskrit Day on August 15, we dedicate the present issue of ‘Renaissance’ to Sanskrit, the divine language.
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छात्रप्रश्नाः (A Student’s Questions)
A college student from Mumbai, who had attended a Sanskrit appreciation and learning workshop at Sri Aurobindo Society expresses her love for Sanskrit in this poem.
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The Wonderful World of Children’s Literature
We review three new Sanskrit books for children published by Samskrita Bālasāhitya Parishad. These books reflect the diversity of children’s literature in Sanskrit – one is a book of rhyming songs, the other is a collection of short humorous stories and the third is a beautifully illustrated story book.
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