By Patrick Laude
This groundbreaking publication underlines the primordial richness of language via focusing upon the non secular characteristics in poetry which serve to bridge the human and the Divine
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Such a rasa would be expressive of Shanti, the great peace. ’”55 Such a view considers moksha as a state of utter indifference toward phenomena as well as an inner disposition that transcends all emotional modifications. However, the most common view of the supreme state, and one that seems to be more in agreement with the anthropological and spiritual viewpoint of Hinduism, consists in distinguishing between Ātman and the jīvātman, or the 54 55 Eliot Deutsch, Advaita Vedānta, p. 24. Krishna Chaitanya, Sanskrit Poetics, p.
This bridge is instrumental, but it is not an end in itself. 38 Some Upanishads even explicitly subordinate OM to silence, indicating that the latter is actually more effective to reach the goal than the former. 39 At the other extreme, the formal repetition of a mantra is like an indefinite extension of the pranava; it allows one to reach its essence by encompassing duration and sequence within it. ”40 The hyperbolic and maximal quantitative extension of the repeated mantra is like the complementary reverse of the synthetic power of the Omkāra.
The personal and the impersonal are the same Being, in the same way as are milk and its whiteness, or the diamond and its luster, or the serpent and its undulations. It is impossible to conceive of the one without the other. 23 The letter and the word, in so far as they manifest themselves as sounds, constitute through analogy secondary expressions of this dual dimension of the Divine. 24 As for names of worshiped deities (ishta devata), they properly constitute “sacramental” means of union with the Divine or one of Its aspects, the latter being ontologically identified with It.