The Aims of Indian Art – Part 2
In this part, the author goes deeper into the essential purpose of art in India and also how it is different from the Western art.
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The Companion Speak – A Poetic Aspiration
A poem expressing the human being’s deepest aspiration to experience the liberation that is the soul’s essential nature.
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Power of Art – A Poet’s Call to Create Art of a New Kind
Here is a poet and a seeker of truth emphasising inviting artists to create art to help realise the earth’s destiny, a new world made of a new consciousness.
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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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Music and Beauty of the Whole
Rabindranath Tagore speaks of the wholeness of Music. It is the purest form of art because the music and musician are inseparable.
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Art, a Passage for Higher Life
The author summarizes a few essential points regarding the Indian vision of Culture and Art. He reminds us that the Indian view of Art arose from her integral vision of Life and Existence, which recognizes Art as an important means to refine one’s nature and prepare for a higher life, which is also the true meaning of culture.
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The Spiritual Roots of Art in India
India conceived the philosophy of art, early on in the Vedic period itself. The highest vision of the Rishis was at the root of all great art forms in India.
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Art, Spiritual Progress, and the World of Creation
Read about the various zones of what the Mother called as the World of Creation. This helps us understand how art can be a means for spiritual progress.
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The Different Paths of an Artist and a Sadhu
Through a masterful analysis the author concludes that if the aim of spirituality is to know the Self, then the aim of art too is the same.
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The Rapture of the Cosmic Dance – 1
Read about the sacred origins of dance as per the Indian cultural tradition. Also emphasized here is an integral vision of art in India.
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