2   The "planes" of poetic expression - the psychological plane of Classicism: the creative Intelligence - the four phases of Classicism   We have quoted Sri Aurobindo as saying that the poet, by means of the images Nature affords us not on one but on many planes of her creation, aims essentially at interpreting what she conceals from us but is ready, when rightly approached, to reveal. "Many planes of creation" - it is through such a vision of things that we get Sri Aurobindo's formula of

4   The climax of the first Romanticism: Elizabethan poetry -Shakespeare and Spenser   As a poet of Romantic drama, Shakespeare is - to quote Sri Aurobindo's words1 - "quite unique in his spirit, method and quality. For his contemporaries resemble him only in exter-nals'; they have the same outward form and crude materials, but not the inner dramatic method by which he transformed and gave' them a quite other meaning and value; and later romantic drama, though it has tried hard to imitate the Shakespearian motive and touch, has been governed by another kind of poetic mind and its intrinsic as distinguished from its external method has been really d

5   The psychological plane of the. second Romantic phase: the 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 as the dogmatic - we might be disposed to mix up with it the Romanticism which came much later and to consider as almost its revival in a new garb that revolt against a pseudo-Classical

8   Romantic Pantheism and its philosophy - Coleridge on the Imagination -Keats on Beauty and Truth   In a general way all the great Romantics of Wordsworth's time are true to the "type of the wise" illustrated by him when he let his poem To a Skylark end as an answer in the negative to its owri opening question: Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky, Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? C. M. Bowra1 rightly remarks: "There are perhaps poets who live entirely in dreams and hardly notice the familiar scene. But the Romantics are not of their number... We cannot complain that by their devotion to the mysteries of life the Rom

3   Romanticism and Classicism - the two phases of Roman-ticism - the psychological plane of the first phase: the Life-force of the Renaissance   When we turn to Romanticism we need to make two capital distinctions. We have not only to mark Romanticism off from Classicism. We have also to mark off two Romanticisms one from the other - and in a sense in which we do not mark off the various phases of the Classical. Differentiating Romanticism from Classicism, R. A. Scott-James1 labels as Classical the virtues and defects which go with the notions of fitness, propriety, measure, restraint, conservatism, authority, calm, experience, comeliness and in contrast he la

-02_Publisher's Note.htm Publisher's Note (2nd Edition) The Clear Ray Trust is happy to bring out this Long-Overdue 2nd Edition of the Popular Collection The Mother: Past—Present—Future during K.D. Sethna's Centenary Year. The text has been further revised and amended at a few places in this reprint. Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute, A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. THE MOTHER

-25_Sri Aurobindo's Home in the Subtle-Physical (Sehra).htm Sri Aurobindo's Home in the Subtle-Physical* A LETTER TO THE MOTHER, WITH THE MOTHER'S The Letter 27.2.1963 Last night Amal told me that you had spoken of "a permanent home of Sri Aurobindo in the subtle-physical". At once my mind went back to a dream in last September. This is how it ran: I enter the Ashram and see that there is some difference in the building. I say, "Well, something has changed." And I see a staircase and climb. I pass through a corridor upstairs towards a room at the end of it. In this room there are cupboards very high, reaching near to the ceiling. All the walls are lined with such cupboards which h

-17_Sri Aurobindo's Work and the Way to Its Fulfilment.htm Sri Aurobindo's Work and the Way to Its Fulfilment* A LOOK TOWARDS THE FUTURE FROM THE STANDPOINT OF NOVEMBER 17,1973 Sri Aurobindo left his body on December 5,1950. The Mother departed from hers on November 17, 1973. But the Ashram which they founded is aware of their presence all the time. The Samadhi in the courtyard of the main Ashram-building—holding the physical remains of both these mighty pioneers of a new world—is a living power. All who have stood before it have known a Light and a Love ready to respond to their prayers and aspirations. A giant Grace breathes out from this simple flower-laden incense-haunted monume

-23_A Talk of the Mother on April 17, 1969 (D. and N.S.).htm A Talk of the Mother on April 17, 1969* A REPORT BASED ON NOTES TAKEN AT THE TIME I know very well the troubles and difficulties India is facing. I am constantly giving my help and blessings to her leader. As for the danger of Communism, Communism is a truth that has been distorted. When the truth comes out, the distortion will fall off. The truth is that all one's efforts and all one's work should be turned to the Divine. But in place of the Divine the State has been put. Only one country in the world knows that there is only one Truth to which everything should be turned, and that country is India. Other countries have forg

-15_Physical Pain-The Turn of the Consciousness-The Victory of the Divine's Truth.htm Physical Pain— The Turn of the Consciousness— The Victory of the Divine's Truth* AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MOTHER ON NOVEMBER 25,1962 SEHRA: The doctors say that when Amal's kidney stone will come out, there will be a great deal of pain. THE MOTHER: The doctors always say things like that. You then make a formation of fear and keep expecting the pain. And the pain comes even when it needn't. AMAL: I recently read the review of a book on heart-trouble. The reviewer says that unless one has the courage of a lion, the hide of a rhinoceros and the intelligence of a moron, this book will make one take as