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Misc — Attempted Synthesis

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Lulled by Time’s beats eternity sleeps in us. A couple of earlier pieces that don’t quite fit into ‘Articles’. A Guide to Applying (US, Engineering). A guide I’d written in 2003, for students coming to the US, based on my own experiences and learnings from others. Detailed, but hasn’t been revisited since mid-2004. Hopefully still somewhat useful.Guide to Applying (US, Engineering). Illusions and the world as I see it. Back in high-school, though now I have no idea why. Last updated : 23rd August, 2012.

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On the Poetic Word — Attempted Synthesis

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Lulled by Time’s beats eternity sleeps in us. On the Poetic Word. Ave you ever been asked “hmm… but what. I ask because I have been asked, and have been quite tongue-tied; The experiment is repeatable; I’d likely mumble, employ a few umms and errs, stare into space and eventually give up. Nothing from my own (little) experience seems to aid in defining this joyous creative endeavour. The definition is not relevant? Or if it is, perhaps it’s good only for academics to conjure up and debate? The sharply ut...

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On the power of Greek poetry — Attempted Synthesis

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Lulled by Time’s beats eternity sleeps in us. On the power of Greek poetry. The Greeks found it hard to realize political unity, but they were bound together psychologically through the soul-revealing words of their epic poems, just as, to this day, India’s epics bind the remotest corners of the country together. In describing the effect of poetry in moulding people and civilisations, Sri Aurobindo remarks that. Greek poetry and its effect on European culture. The Character of English Poetry. Sri Aurobin...

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V – The Imperative before us — Attempted Synthesis

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Lulled by Time’s beats eternity sleeps in us. V The Imperative before us. He would guide the world, himself he cannot guide. The ‘they’ versus ‘us’ conflict. Or are we only meant to watch the play? It depends on how we see ourselves relative to everyone else. Is there some truth to this ‘ one Self in all. Perhaps it would be worthwhile to look at the one ‘self’ we are most familiar with:. I’ insist, because what I say is obviously the whole truth. On the matter and there can be nothing else. War IV : Pea...

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III – Heraclitus and Nietzsche on War, the Upanishadic view — Attempted Synthesis

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Lulled by Time’s beats eternity sleeps in us. III Heraclitus and Nietzsche on War, the Upanishadic view. Destruction is always a simultaneous or alternate element which keeps pace with creation and it is by destroying and renewing that the Master of Life does his long work of preservation. More, destruction is the first condition of progress. Inwardly, the man who does not destroy his lower self-formations, cannot rise to a greater existence. Creation, destruction, war and the principle of harmlessness.

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II – The elimination and passing of war? — Attempted Synthesis

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Lulled by Time’s beats eternity sleeps in us. II The elimination and passing of war? A growing register of calamities. Is the past’s account, the future’s book of Fate:. The centuries pile man’s follies and man’s crimes. Upon the countless crowd of Nature’s ills;. Can there be a day when war becomes impossible? For all our dislike of war, and its consequences, is it even conceivable that nations and ideologies would one day just stop warring? Commercialism should do the trick. But why this ideal at all?

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On the spirit of Greek art and sculpture

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Lulled by Time’s beats eternity sleeps in us. On the spirit of Greek art and sculpture. 8220;Architecture, sculpture and painting, because they are the three great arts which appeal to the spirit through the eye, are those too in which the sensible and the invisible meet with the strongest emphasis on themselves and yet the greatest necessity of each other.”. Where are the Sculptors? Try and name three sculptors from anywhere. Hard, isn’t it? Amongst the moderns, we may. On the Art of Sculpture. If there...

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Discovering Greece before getting there

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Lulled by Time’s beats eternity sleeps in us. Discovering Greece before getting there. I’ve been fascinated by Greece ever since I first heard of the great poet Homer, and since then subconsciously I’ve thought of Greece as ‘the land of Homer’, romanticizing the idea of his two epic poems as carrying the soul of this phenomenal ancient civilisation. Why Greece is special. 8220;he who made the material conquest is conquered by the spirit of the vanquished.”. Bit of the essentials, and to avoid getting los...

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On the Greek mind, Hellenic culture and us ‘moderns’

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Lulled by Time’s beats eternity sleeps in us. On the Greek mind, Hellenic culture and us ‘moderns’. The Greek conception of life? At the very start of the classic work ‘The Human Cycle’, in an essay titled ‘The Age of Individualism and Reason’, Sri Aurobindo makes a remark on one of the determining characteristics that enabled 14. Century Europe to be reborn and recast into the modern age. To me, the most striking words here were ‘. gave back. It is almost a ‘universal’ ideal. The intelligent thinking be...