RE: Shakespeare, Keats, and Ramana - Glimpses of Advai tic Bliss

[Guest guest]

Thank you, from one who has seen an occasional glimpse of this phenomena.

For quoting such a beautiful and resonant reaction.

 

Brian

 

|

| sunderh [sunderh]

| Monday, 30 July 2001 14:56

| advaitin

| Shakespeare, Keats, and Ramana - Glimpses of

| Advaitic Bliss

|

|

| Namaste,

|

| ..."Bhagavan was a perfect *rasajna* .......taught again the lesson

| that literature provides a safe and pleasant bridge between

| *paramaartha* and *vyavahara*.

|

| "Bhagavan listened like a child to passages from Shakespear's plays

| and Keats's letters and quickly and convincingly revealed the

| universal truth in each flower unique in its own beauty. On Keats's

| letter on 'negative capability' his passing comment was:'So

| there are

| Upanishads in English as in Sanskrit'. The nightingale whose song

| Keats heard [stanza i] and the immortal bird not born for death

| [stanza vii] are the same two birds mentioned in the Upanishad, one

| eating the fruit, the other looking on. After a passage from

| Shakespeare was read, discussed and duly praised, he uttered

| words to

| this effect:'The Self as joy alone exists. As Shakespeare,

| it enjoyed

| writing this, and now, as you, it enjoys reading it' "

| [from : Sri Ramana, The Self Supreme, by Prof. K. Swaminathan

| (1896-1994); Ramanashram, 1st ed. 1997; p. 16.]

|

|

| *rasajna: one who understands the taste or character of a work , the

| feeling or sentiment prevailing in it.

| [from 8 to 10 Rasas are generally enumerated, viz.

| shR^i~Ngaara,love ; viira, heroism; biibhatsa, disgust;

| raudra , anger or fury ; haasya , mirth ; bhayAnaka, terror ;

| karuNa, pity ; adbhuta, wonder ; shaanta , tranquillity,

| contentment ;

| vAtsalya, parental fondness].

|

| *paramartha: transcendental

|

| *vyavahara: empirical

|

| Regards,

|

| s.

|

|

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[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

In case someone would like to read the original references, the

links are:

 

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/4942/negcap.html [letter]

 

http://www.bartleby.com/101/624.html [poem]

 

 

Regards,

 

s.

 

 

advaitin, Brian Milnes <b.milnes@b...> wrote:

> Thank you, from one who has seen an occasional glimpse of this

phenomena.

> For quoting such a beautiful and resonant reaction.

>

> Brian