Book Title: Jain Yug 1982
Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference

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________________ H814112-Superman -2 or 49 salda y ell old tradition that now and then a divine HIIHIN 24314 3441417 1 creature from far hearens takes mortal form ValHit uen de 244 . Lul- and sunters in order that it may einb રમાં નિષ્ફળતા, ધંધાની અસાધારણ મુશીબતે, and redeem mankind.... It is difficult not to think that he saw (or perhaps one should નિર્ધનતા, કાનની બહેરાશ અને અનેક આફત, say felt) that as the various movements, સંકટો અને મુંઝવણોથી જાણે કેમ હેના હજારો motives, melodies, phrases, ay, even sepaટૂકડા ન થઈ જતા હોય એવી સ્થિતિમાં બીથોવને rate notes. of a great symphony a Hani mbio (HI41' 43E1241) 20:12 for their distinct individualities, and yet are Hi e'3e43721 4132 9. la parts of one absolute unity--so the universe, આધ્યાત્મિક ખૂબિઓ પ્રસિદ્ધ માનસશાસ્ત્રી ઍડવર્ડ so the society of mankind, realises or is sürzt" Angle's Wings" 4141 Hall on its way to realise, the same harmony, ગ્રંથમાં કહી બતાવી છે. કાર્પેન્ટરના અવલોકનમાંથી the union of myriads of distinct beings in one life, થોડા શબ્દો અક્ષરશઃ અત્રે ઉતારવાની લાલચને હું દાબી શકતા નથીઃ The mood of feeling thus reached and Beethoven is the prophet of the new expressed by Beethoven in his last period era which the nineteenth century ushers became to him something like the solution in for mankind. As things must be felt of the enigma of life. And I cannot but before they can be acted out; so they may thank that he has (almost deliberately) exbe expressed in the indefinite emotional pressed these in his Ninth Symphony. The. forms of music, before they can be uttered enigma of Fate, of Destiny, and slight man and definitely imaged forth in words or face to face with it, is presented to us in pictorial shapes. Beethoven is great poet the first movement; the enigma of Nature, who holds Nature by the one hand and pitiless in her very beauty, appeals to us Man by the othes.... In his great heart em- in the second ; in the third we share in braced all mankind, with piercing insight the sweetness-and sadness--of twin human presented intellectually through all false- love. But all these are ultimately dismiss. hoods to the truth, and already in his art ed-even the last by itself is not sufficientwork gave outline to the religions, the hu- in favour of some feeling, some sense of man, the democratic yearnings, the loves. COMPASSION and 'DETERMINAthe Comradeship, the daring individualities, TION' which reaches out to iuclude all and all the heights and depths of feeling of mankind; a Gladness so assured that it a new dawning era of society. He was turns the edge of fate; a sense of Equality in fact, and he gave utterance to a new and Freedom which gives the soul habitatype of Man. What that struggle must tion everywhere, have been between inner and outer condi. tions--of his real self with the lonely and This air which its absolute simplicity mean surroumdings in which it was embo- of structure, tlre fruit of long meditation died-we only know though his music. When and labor, has that quality which we have we listen to it we can understand the world already noticed in many of his late subjects,

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