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The Advent February 1949

1949

For them the calm the light the power the bliss the freedom the wideness the heights of knowledge the seas of Ananda. [...] From an early stage it seized upon a double idea for its own guidance which it threw into a basic system of the individual life in the frame of the society; this was the double order of the chaturvarnya the system of the four classes and the Ashramas the four stages of the developing life. [...] Life was divided into four natural periods of the working out of this cultural idea of living the stage of the student the stage of the householder the stage of the recluse or forest-dweller the stage of the free supersocial man parivrajaka. [...] Zimmer's rendering of the story of the Kaikci Purcina we can watch awed and enraptured this play of the Great Mother the magic of Maya ordaining the creation of Dawn Kama and Rati the marriage of Shiva and Sati the self-determined death of Sati the frenzy and cataclysmic rage of Shiva the slow extinguishment of the rage and the agony the retirement in Brahma's company to the Sipra shore a [...] May the prophecy be speedily fulfilled "For the good of the Many for the salvation of the World." J. N. CHUBB" THE FUTURE POETRY (concluded)* THE WORD AND THE SPIRIT: ADEVELOPMENT of the kind of which we are speaking must affect not only the frames of poetry but initiate also a subtle change of its word and rhythmic movement.
philosophy religion
Pages
74
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120314
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-vi unknown view
Editorials
5-11 unknown view
Here and now
12-12 K.D. Sethna view
On Physical Culture
13-15 Aurobindo view
A Defence of Indian Culture
16-22 Aurobindo view
Oracles of Life
23-31 unknown view
The Anatomy of War
32-36 J.N. Chubb view
The Future Poetry
37-43 Sisir Ghosh view
Lights on the Fundamentals
44-47 T.V. Sastry view
Sri Aurobindo’s Esoteric Interpretation of the Vedas
47-48 Benoytosh Bhattacharya view
Sri Aurobindo Teacher and Leader
49-52 A.B. Purani view
Some Problems of Poetry
53-63 K.D. Sethna view
Reviews
63-68 K.D. Sethna view
Backmatter
i-ii K.D. Sethna view

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