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But Vyas has not only a high political and religious thought and deep-seeing ethical judgments, he deals not only with the massive aspects and worldwide issues of human conduct, but has a keen eye for the details of government and society, the ceremonies, forms and social order on the due stability of which public welfare is grounded. The principles of good government and the motives and impulses that move men to public action, no less than the rise and fall of States and the clash of mighty personalities and great powers form, incidentally and epically treated, the staple of Vyasa's epic. The poem was therefore, first and foremost, Jike the Iliad and Aeneid-and even more than the Iliad and Aeneid-national – a poem in which the religious, social and personal temperament and ideals of the Aryan nation have found a high expression and the institutions, actions and heroes in the most critical period of its history received the judgements and criticisms of one of its greatest and soundest minds.
Shri Aurobindo
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