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A Craving
for Thorough Perfection
"The Muse
is again away" — complains Amal Kiran to Sri Aurobindo. And to
invoke her grace the "method" the Master proposes is to "turn
upward and inward". — Editors
The Muse is again
away and I am feeling impatient. Can't you give me some due about the
direction of consciousness by which I may draw her back to me or reach out to
her ? But, of course, I want the highest and I want
a thorough perfection. Perhaps I am too careful and self-critical
? But that is my nature as an artist. Has it got something to do with
the Muse's flight from me ? In any case, the
experience of uncreativenes
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A New
Landmark in English Poetry*
A
Review-Article
SOME years ago, in a series of illuminating essays, published in the journal Arya under the title "The Future
Poetry", Sri Aurobindo discussed the nature
and evolution of future poetry. As the most significant poetic trend in
recent times in this development he picked out the attempt to cast off the
more externalised forms of poetic expression and to
seek for a pure and authentic intuitive language, to bring forth the living
truths of the inmost spiritual being, to reveal its
light and vision, not in the inadequate speech of the surface mind but in the
inspired and revelat
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Inner
Sight and Inner Song
Nirodbaran's Achievement in Mystical Poetry
The following
article by Amal Kiran on Nirodbaran's poetry, written years ago, is being published, it is understood, in the author's forthcoming
book Inspiration and Effort. We reproduce the same here. As reviewer of a
poetry book this is perhaps a unique example of his literary writings. —
Editors
DOCTORS have
been good novelists: there are enough unusual incidents of human value in
their clinical experience to make arresting stories under the selective
surgery of a realistic imagination. But rare is the doctor who turns poet. A
Dr. Cronin is conceiv
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The
Triumphant Call of Sethna's Poetry
A REVIEWER of The Secret Splendour is handicapped at the beginning.
For, interspersed with K.D. Sethna's poems are Sri Aurobindo's own
appreciative remarks, and who dare disagree with the Colossus of India's
spiritual-literary renaissance? Especially
when he uses words like ‘beautiful', 'exceedingly fine' and 'magnificent'
quite often ?
Fortunately for us, neither Sethna nor Sri Aurobindo are clique-ridden. Ready
to face criticism, yes! For Sethna knows very well that mystic poetry has to
survive in a highly critical soil. Besides, this is the ruthless age of
science and technolog
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The
Significance of K.D. Sethna
In the Context
of the Problem of Aryan Origins
“ HERE is the book I was looking for," I had said to
myself aloud as I finished the first edition of The Problem of Aryan
Origins soon after it was published in early 1980. It was no outburst of
passing enthusiasm for what was undoubtedly a brilliant piece of research. I
had seen in this book the birth of a new dawn on the horizon of Indian
historiography.
Scholars had so far used the modern lore - linguistics, comparative
mythology, archaeology, and the rest - for denigrating and dismissing India's
indigenous historical traditions. Here
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Gandhi and
Indian Mysticism
It is
unfortunate that an impartial estimate of the greatness of Mahatma Gandhi,
done more than forty years ago by Amal Kiran in his book The Indian Spirit and the World's
Future, has not received its due recognition. While an average Indian
immediately links up Swaraj with Gandhi,
the author of this exegesis wonders if the elements of Indian mysticism in
the Mahatma's socio-political approach really draw nourishment from the rich
and invigorating traditions of the land. - Editors
THE idealisation of non-violence at all costs
serves also to throw into relief the precise meaning of Gandhi's saying:
"P
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BOOKS BY AMAL-KIRAN (K.D. SETHNA)
Published
Books.
1. The
Parnassians (1923)
2. Artist Love
(1925)
3. The Secret Splendour (1941)
4. Evolving
India: Essays on Cultural Issues (1947)
5. The Poetic
Genius of Sri Aurobindo (1947,1974)
6. The Adventure
of the Apocalypse (1949)
7. The Passing
of Sri Aurobindo: Its Inner Significance and
Consequence (1951)
8.
Life-Literature-Yoga: Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo
(1952, 1967)
9. The Indian
Spirit and the World's Future (1953)
10. Sri Aurobindo on Shakespeare (1965, 1991)
11. The Vision
and Work of Sri Aurobindo (1968, 1992)