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The Poetry of Sri Aurobindo
Ramabushnam, A.K.
Ramabushnam, A.K.
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Sri Aurobindo has been a spiritual force not only in India but also wherever the thirst for spiritual quest is felt. He defines poetry as ‘The Manta of the Real’. Essentially a visionary and a spiritualist, Sri Aurobindo was fully alive to the mantric value of words and used them as vehicles to bridge the gap between the unuttered and uttered, thereby directing us into the path of realisation of the Truth. Sound is the rhythmic vibration capable of stirring a corresponding rhythm in the personality or the inner self of the listener. A perceived spectacle may fade off by the passing of time, but an effect of an appealing harmony will never wear off. Thus to go down to the ordinary level, anything heard is retained for ever and the ancient scriptures of India are known as Srutis which mean not only what is heard but also whatever sound that is rhythmically uttered. “Sound, according to Vedicinquirers, is the first evolved property of material substance; it precedes from and has the power both to create and destroy it” (Sri Aurobindo 27:233).
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2006
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