Karmayogi

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3. A rapprnchenea: with the popular mind with its ready gift for Mndemte party wherever powible reizing one aspect of truth out of and the reconstitution of an united many and crystallising error into Congress
the form of a provert, has exaltod 4. The regulation of the Boycott the poet into a splendid freak of movement sons to make bot!: the Nature exempt from the general political and the woman lycott law. A man without the inborn effective.
nratorical fire may be trained into 5. The orfanation of the Pro- A good speaker, another without the vinces if not of the whole master's inspiration of form and country recording to our original colour work out for himself a blameprogramme.
less technique, but Bomay # 6. A systein of rn-operation mongte talent become by diliwhich will not contine the law gence a machine for producing and will yet enable workers to pro- correct vote. Poetical genius ced with the work of self-help and needs experience and self-discipline national efficiency, if not quite ) as much as any other and by its etfictively before, yet with very complexity more than most. energy and suces
This in eminently true of great AUROBINDO GHOSE. poots with a varied gift. A narrow
though a high genius works best KALIDASA'S SEASONS.
on a single line and may show per. fection at an early stage; but
powerful and complex minds like 178 AUTHENTICITY. Shakespeare or Kalidne buldom
find themselves before & more The Seasons of Kalidasn is one of advanced period. Their previous 1 huse early works of a great pret work is certain to be full of power, which are even more interesting to promise and genius, but it will also
student of his evolution than his be flawed, unequal and often imilater masterpieces. We see his tative. This imperfection ariscs wharacteristic gift even in the in- naturally from the greater diffimature workmanship and uncertain cnlty in imposing the law of harTouch and can distinguish the mony of their various gifts on the persistent personality in spite of bodily case which is the instruthe defective self expression. ment of the spirit's self-expression. Where external round in scanty. To arrivo at this harmony re1h18 interest is often disturbod by quires time and effort, and meanshe question of nuthenticity, and while the work will often be haltwhere there is any excnas for the ing and unequal, varying betwoon doubt, it has first to be roinorod. inspiration expressed and the failure The impulse which leads Us of vision or expression. There is nu 1. deny authenticity to carly more manyuided, rich and Hexible and immature work, jy natural and genius in literature than Kalialmost inevitable. When wu tum dresa's, and in his cam pocially from the great harmonics and we must be on our guard against victorious imagination of the hasing donial of anthenticity on Ihaster to the new and perhaps falter- imperfection and minor differences, ing workmanship of these uncertain We have to judge, first, by the beginnings, we aro irresistibly in- prewence or abuenou of the creatin! felled to cry out, " This is not by and indefinablo wolf of Kalidas the same hand." But the impulse, which we fin apparent in all his however natural, is not always indubitable work, however various Teasonable. The inuxim that a poet the form or subject and after is born and not inade is only true that on those namcable characin the Ause that grat poetical teristics which are the rain and powers are there in the mind of fibro of his genius and least imitable the child, and in this menm the by othersIn the absence of Name remark might be applied with external evidence, which is in it no less truth to every species of self of littlus vuluo unlaw received human yonius; philosophers, sculp- from definito and contemporary or tors, painters, critics, ortor, states alinont contemporary Hourous, tho qoca are all born and not made. tent of personality is all-important; But bocause poetical genius is rarer nooidents and details are only use or at any rate wider and more last- ful as corroborativo evidence; for ing in its appeal than any other, the these are liable to variation and
imitation, but personality is a dis. tinguishable and permanent presenco a fagitive to imitation to analysis. Even a slight tineness of litorary palate con perceive the difference between the Nalodaya and Kalidasa's gennino work. Not only does it belong to an age or school in which poeticul tasto We debebunt and artificial, the poctical counterpart of these prose works for whose existence the displny of scholarship socis to to be the chief justification--but it presents in this matter of personality and per Histent characteristics no sufficient point of contact either with the Shucuntal or the Kumarasambhava or even with the House of Raghu. But in the Sea Kalidas personality is distinctly perceivel as well as his main characteristics. his furce of vision, his architectura style, his pervading sensuousness, the peculiar temperament of his similes his characteristic strokes of thought and imagination, his individual and inimitable east of dowription. Much of it is as yet in i haltdeveloped state, crtude consistence not yet fashioned with the mos terly touch he soon manifestar. but Kalidna is there quite in ovidently 18 Shakespeare in his earlier work, the Venus and Addons or Lucrec. Defects which t.b riper Kalidas avoids, are not uncommon in this III, --repetition of ideid, use of more words than uro absolutely required, haphazard rocurrence of words and phras not to produce a designed offert but froid careless , huste or in insufficient vocabulary; then morouver Constantine uncertalinty in the touch and frequent lack of tinished design. The port hur bren in to much hoste to vent he sense of poetical power and not sufficiently careful that the presiut whould be the bent he could cut pays. And yet. immature, greatly inferior in Chn. tity and clegance to his bout work marred by Hurious faulty of ounction, beuring evidence of hurt and levouines in the execution thu S on is for all this not con ly Huffined by a high though un chastened beauty, but marker with many of the most individual and intial feature of Kalidis strong an •xuberant goi1115 The defects are those natural tth. early work of a rich H ous temperament cagerly con patioal power but not yet in tructed and chastoned.
To be continual.
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