By Patrick Laude

This groundbreaking publication underlines the primordial richness of language via focusing upon the religious features in poetry which serve to bridge the human and the Divine.

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But in this second, semantic sense, it also means ‘ultimate significance’—the deepest meaning at which one arrives by dint of mystical effort and whose clarification resolves all the ambiguities of mundane existence. Rasa, said one of my most articulate informants, is the same as life; whatever lives has rasa and whatever has rasa lives. To translate such a sentence one could only render it twice: whatever lives feels 22 Hindu Poetics: The Liberating Word sight into this notion, so essential for the understanding of Indian poetry and its philosophical background.

51-2. 43 “The spirits who bestowed on us songs with words have given a great gift. These songs express our knowledge of and joy in the Creator, using an earthly language with rational terms. They have particular meaning and purposes and are sung accordingly. But the mind cannot think ‘Great Spirit’ (Wakan Tanka), or conceive reality as it truly is. Thus, additional songs have been given to us—songs with music only—praise expressed through a few sacred syllables which go beyond the mind, beyond language and say the inexpressible, sing what is intellectually unutterable.

40 Hamsa Upanishad, 16, cited in Jean Varenne, Upanishads du Yoga, p. 146. 41 Yogatattva Upanishad, 20-22, cited in Jean Varenne, Upanishads du Yoga, p. 72. 39 35 Singing the Way (The High-Priest addresses the King saying) I am That (ama, “He”), thou art This (sa); thou art This, I am That. I am Sky, thou art Earth. I am the Harmony (sāman), thou the Words (rc). Let us twain here unite our houses (samvahavahai purāni). 42 The duality described in this passage refers, in the poetic domain, to the necessary “marriage” of intellective form and linguistic and auditory matter.

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