INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

COMPLETE WORKS OF DR K.C.VARADACHARI – VOL10
valuation and creativity, we find Rabindranath
experimenting with all that makes this distillation and
expression of Ultimate beauty possible. Undoubtedly,
the chief strength and genius of Rabindranath did not
take up the epic mode of expression which demands a
universal vision and an altogether universal creativity
like that of Sri Aurobindo. Grand though the manner of
life of Rabindranath, this grand epic mode of expression
was not his natural ground. His is a more spontaneous
homeliness in the Iyrical moment and the fragment in
which was revealed the symbol and meaning and
message of the eternal. His operative vision was
circumscribed to the excellence of the insignificant
significant or universal-to behold eternity in an hour and
infinity in a flower. The Isavasyopanisad, which
Rabindranath so much loved, had suggested beholding
the Divine in every thing and everything in the Divine; it
had also insisted that one should behold the Divine as
having become each and every single thing in the
Universe. To this truth Rabindranath dedicated himself,
and every little thing was verily the womb of infinity.
This extraordinary perception it is that has begun to
work with such subtle refinement in his consciousness,
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