Sambodhi 2005 Vol 28

Author(s): Jitendra B Shah, K M Patel
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

Page 23

Vol. XXVIII, 2005
"POETIC CREATIVITY; ITS MANIFOLD....
aspect also, we can suggest that it has a wider embrace and it covers up such experiments as what they call "absurd theatre" or "absurd poetry" as well. Actually this experience is one and identical and the difference in sentiments results from difference in its medium i.e. "vibhāvā"dis". We can call it "mahā-rasa", or "śāntarasa" of Abhinavagupta, or "uttamākoti" of Bhoja, or "Adbhuta" of Nārāyana, or "Karuna" of Bhavabhūti. The experience is identical, i.e. it is “vedyā'ntaravigalitatva”-i.e. leaving the local and physical far behind and landing into the “divine", the "Siva.” It is a total experience of "ananda"-divine bliss—“ānanda-rūpatāsarvarasānām." It is a compact—"eka-ghana"-experience. “tena vah sivamayi daśā bhavet,” as Abhinavagupta puts it.
Thus poetic creativity takes off from physicality and lands into the Divine.
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