Embracing Life in Its Many Colours and Hues

Sri Aurobindo writes in The Human Cycle, “The art, music and literature of the world, always a sure index of the vital tendencies of the age, have also undergone a profound revolution in the direction of an ever-deepening subjectivism. The great objective art and literature of the past no longer commands the mind of the new age.”

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Rasa: Its Meaning and Scope – 2

CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Editor’s note: Is there a primary rasa from which other rasa-s originate? In what way is rasa an attribute of the soul? Before we read the author’s insights on these questions, let us meditate on this small clip depicting the Navarasa. Rasa: The Seership of the Artist It has been shown

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Envisioning the Divine in Indian Art

The essential element of the highest art in India is the artist’s insistence on expressing the Infinite in a finite form. To quote from Sri Aurobindo, it is to “disclose something of the Self, the Infinite, the Divine to the regard of the soul, the Self through its expressions, the Infinite through its living finite symbols, the Divine through his powers”

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