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Namah Vol. 32, Issue 3, 15th October 2024

an ascetic pull, but because, “.... the focus of world of creation with several zones which
attention and concentration of the being moves the Mother described exhaustively. The first
to a different domain (2).” zone is the one of forms that are expressed
as paintings, sculptures and architectures.
In fact, a refined and sensitive consciousness The second is the musical zone with great
at a certain degree of development could waves of soundless music that exist per se,
spontaneously and naturally select its own without striking any surface and inspire
parameter of beauty that would enhance the great composers. The third zone is the one
pursuit of a divine life. It is wrong to believe of thoughts, organised thoughts for plays
that aesthetics serves only our passions and and books, abstractions for philosophies. The
sensations. Beauty is an attribute of the fourth zone is one of forces that appear as
Supreme and aesthetics can be pursued as a coloured lights without forms. These forces
gateway to the Divine. As Sri Aurobindo puts can be combined for terrestrial action. It is a
it: “Cultivation of the sense of beauty refines zone of action independent of form, sound
the temperament. A refined temperament is and thought and can be used for particular
much more easy to purify than an unrefined events (5).
one…. the development of the sense of beauty is
as much a part of perfection as anything else. Not
only that; if a man has not developed the sense of
beauty he would miss the path of approach to the
Supreme which is through beauty (3).” Indeed,
the Mother considered that the loss of the sense
of beauty could become more responsible for
the downfall of a nation than poverty.

“Thus, we have form, expressed in painting,
sculpture or architecture; sound, expressed
in musical themes; and thought, expressed in
books, plays, novels, or even in philosophical
The Realm of Creativity and other kinds of intellectual theories (that’s
where you can send out ideas that will affect
Refinement of sensations and cultivation of the whole world, because they influence receptive
beauty lead to the realm of creativity. The brains in any land, and are expressed by
true realm of creativity is situated at the corresponding thoughts in the appropriate
summit of human consciousness, “on the language). And above this zone, free of form,
borderline between what Sri Aurobindo calls sound and thought, is the play of forces appearing
the lower and higher hemispheres (4).” It is a as coloured lights. And when you go there

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