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Perseus The Deliverer
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Published January 1, 1908
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Sri Aurobindo
1,176 books426 followersSri Aurobindo (Bengali: শ্রী অরবিন্দ Sri Ôrobindo) was an Indian nationalist and freedom fighter, major Indian English poet, philosopher, and yogi. He joined the movement for India's freedom from British rule and for a duration (1905–10), became one of its most important leaders, before turning to developing his own vision and philosophy of human progress and spiritual evolution.
The central theme of Sri Aurobindo's vision is the evolution of life into a "life divine". In his own words: "Man is a transitional being. He is not final. The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth evolution. It is inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner spirit and the logic of Nature's process."
The principal writings of Sri Aurobindo include, in prose, The Life Divine, considered his single great work of metaphysics,The Synthesis of Yoga, Secrets of the Vedas, Essays on the Gita, The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity, Renaissance in India and other essays, Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, The Future Poetry, Thoughts and Aphorisms and several volumes of letters. In poetry, his principal work is Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol in blank verse.
The central theme of Sri Aurobindo's vision is the evolution of life into a "life divine". In his own words: "Man is a transitional being. He is not final. The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth evolution. It is inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner spirit and the logic of Nature's process."
The principal writings of Sri Aurobindo include, in prose, The Life Divine, considered his single great work of metaphysics,The Synthesis of Yoga, Secrets of the Vedas, Essays on the Gita, The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity, Renaissance in India and other essays, Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, The Future Poetry, Thoughts and Aphorisms and several volumes of letters. In poetry, his principal work is Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol in blank verse.
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July 6, 2024
This play is a sketch for Supermanhood. The task emphasized in the play is a problem of present day life of the world. And the single-mindedness of the playwright is to attain graciousness of existence. Hence, the proclamation of Goddess Athene in the prelude validates his resolution:
Me the Omnipotent
Made from his being to lead and discipline
The immortal spirit of man. till it attain.
To order and magnificent mastery
Of all his outword world.
In the preface, Sri Aurobindo has said: “For here the stage is the human mind of all times: the subject is an incident in its passage from a semiprimitive temperament surviving in a fairly advanced outward civilization to a brighter intellectualism and humanism”.
Aurobindo has derived the source from Perseus-Andromeda myth in the Greek mythology. But he has turned the myth into a real happening.
Perseus the Deliverer is something of a tour-de-force for it asked for not a little audaciousness on Sri Aurobindo’s part to go on board this escapade that placates us as drama, as poetry and also, as an inspired presentation of the notions of evolution and progress. Perseus the heroic hero of ancient Hellas, is depicted in this play as an out-and-out hero indeed, but one who also inaugurates a forward movement in the history of humanity as the consequence of monumental clatter of monumental opposites. Evolutionary man is embodied in him.
The preface, in Sri Aurobindo’s own words, tells: “The ancient legend has been divested of its original character of a heroic myth; it is made the nucleus round which there could grow the scenes of a romantic story of human temperament and life-impulses on the Elizabethan model . . . Time there is more than Einsteinian in its relativity, the creative imagination, is its sole disposer and arranger; fantasy reins sovereign. . . anacronisms romp in wherever they can get an easy admittance, ideas and associations from all climes and apaches mingle; myth romance and realism make up a single whole”.
And all these reflect Sri Aurobindo’s theory of Evolution, his philosophy of the Life Divine.
This romantic comedy was penned during Sri Aurobindo’s stay at Baroda, a life no less harder than at Calcutta. Certainly, he has the gift of writing. His life at Baroda signals the emergence of a great poet, a dramatist, a thinker, a philosopher and a Seer. The kernel of the Superman is by now sprouting. To make human life divine is the affirmed aim of Aurobindo’s extended journey.
Me the Omnipotent
Made from his being to lead and discipline
The immortal spirit of man. till it attain.
To order and magnificent mastery
Of all his outword world.
In the preface, Sri Aurobindo has said: “For here the stage is the human mind of all times: the subject is an incident in its passage from a semiprimitive temperament surviving in a fairly advanced outward civilization to a brighter intellectualism and humanism”.
Aurobindo has derived the source from Perseus-Andromeda myth in the Greek mythology. But he has turned the myth into a real happening.
Perseus the Deliverer is something of a tour-de-force for it asked for not a little audaciousness on Sri Aurobindo’s part to go on board this escapade that placates us as drama, as poetry and also, as an inspired presentation of the notions of evolution and progress. Perseus the heroic hero of ancient Hellas, is depicted in this play as an out-and-out hero indeed, but one who also inaugurates a forward movement in the history of humanity as the consequence of monumental clatter of monumental opposites. Evolutionary man is embodied in him.
The preface, in Sri Aurobindo’s own words, tells: “The ancient legend has been divested of its original character of a heroic myth; it is made the nucleus round which there could grow the scenes of a romantic story of human temperament and life-impulses on the Elizabethan model . . . Time there is more than Einsteinian in its relativity, the creative imagination, is its sole disposer and arranger; fantasy reins sovereign. . . anacronisms romp in wherever they can get an easy admittance, ideas and associations from all climes and apaches mingle; myth romance and realism make up a single whole”.
And all these reflect Sri Aurobindo’s theory of Evolution, his philosophy of the Life Divine.
This romantic comedy was penned during Sri Aurobindo’s stay at Baroda, a life no less harder than at Calcutta. Certainly, he has the gift of writing. His life at Baroda signals the emergence of a great poet, a dramatist, a thinker, a philosopher and a Seer. The kernel of the Superman is by now sprouting. To make human life divine is the affirmed aim of Aurobindo’s extended journey.
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