VLADIMIR TREFILОV. «SRI AUROBINDO’S CREATIVE CAREER. SPIRITUAL POETRY»
This will serve as the basis for supramentalization of earthly existence. A
new supramentalman will find immortality and will establish divine life on
the Earth. "Gnostic superhumanity is the next distant triumphal victory which
will be won by the spirit descending into terrestrial nature" 8; it will be a perfect collective life of "Gnostic individualities" constituting a new species ofbeings. Outlining the contours of the future world, Sri Aurobindo notes that
"the only rule of Gnostic life will be self-expression of the spirit, the will and
the Supreme being." 9
Philosophical and mystical poetry
One of the brightest manifestations of Sri Aurobindo's creative genius is his
philosophical and mystical poetry. His first poems were published when he
was eleven years old. Throughout the whole period of studies he wrote
poems and plays. The classical works by young Aurobindo were highly appreciated by the famous English writer and scientist Оscar Browning. Later, in
spite of active participation in political struggle, Aurobindo continued his
literary activity. He wrote numerous articles and treatises, translated classical
works of Indian literature from Sanskrit into
English.
The poetry by Aurobindo is directly connected
with his Integral yoga. More than once he noted
that as a Yogi makes progress in Yoga practices,
his creative abilities come to reveal themselves.
This has been proved in full measure both by his
own creative work and by that of his followers
and disciples in different parts of the world.
Aurobindo's poetry is quite different from traditional poetic forms. "The goal here is not delight
or entertainment, but self-expression of the inner
truth, of vision of things and ideas farfrom the
ordinary mind, the revelation of the innermost experience. It is rather truth
than novelty that the poet strives for." 10 At the same time, the poet does not
seek absolutely new poetic forms. Such traditional forms as sonnet, poem,
and others he fills with a new content, which considerably transforms their
architectonics. His innovation in creating new forms is manifested first of all
on the level of trope. For expressing the сovert truth, Aurobindo tries to find
" the true word, the true phrase, the true image or symbol, and if possible —
the unavoidable word". 11
To a fresh reader the poetry by Aurobindo may seem toо сomplicated, toо
intelleсtual, and its figurative style too singular. Explaining its specificity, the
author wrote: "When it is in comprehensible, it means that the truths expressed in the poem are far from the ordinary mind, or belong to unexplored
areas, or to the field of occult experience, but not because there is an inclination to the dark uncertain profundity or a desire to esсарe reflection. This
way of thinking is not intellectual; rather it is intuitive and even more than
that: it is ever-expressing vision, spiritual contact, or knowledge passing
through penetration into the essence of things, through identification." 12
In the poems by Aurobindo the reality is reflected from the perspective of
the highestlevel of consciousness —the Supermind. The Supermind, according to Aurobindo, " embraces the beauty and sublimes it; it possesses the
essential aestheticism which is not limited bylaws and canons; it watches the
universal and eternal be auty as it ascends and transforms everything that is
limited and partial. Besides, it is concerned with things different from beauty
and aesthetics. It is especially concerned with truth and knowledge, or rather
wisdom, surpassing what we call knowledge; its truthis above the truth of the
fact or that of the thought".13
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The objects of poetical reflection for Aurobindo
are the basic concepts of Hindu philosophy: Brahman and Atman, Purusa and Prakriti, the Path of
Yoga and its different forms, the process of man's
transformation into "God-man", different states of
human spirit. To reflect these complicated concepts,
processes and phenomena, Sri Aurobindo finds
splendid forms of poetic expression .It is in poetry
that Aurobindo the most vividly expressed the very
essence of his philosophy and his Yoga:
"This transfiguration is earth's due to heaven:
A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme:
His nature we must put on as he put ours;
We are sons of God and must be even is he:
His human portion, we must grow divine.
Our life is a paradox with God for key"
Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book I, Cunto IV
Literature
1. Интегральная Йога Шри Ауробиндо. М., 1992. С.
21.
2. Ibid, C. 11.
3. Ibid, C. 24.
4. Шри Ауробиндо Гхош. Синтез Йоги. СПб, 1992. С
5.
5. Там же. С. 556-569, 592-662.
6. Интегральная Йога Шри Ауробиндо. М., 1992. С.
363-364.
7. Ibid, C. 367.
8. Ibid, C. 377.
9. Ibid, C. 378.
10. Шри Ауробиндо. Савитри. Легенда и символ.
СПб.: Изд-во Чернышева, 1993. С XVII-XVIII.
11. Ibid, C. XVI.
12. Ibid, C. XII-XIII.
13. Ibid, C. XVI.
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