{"id":2567,"date":"2013-07-13T01:42:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2013-12-03T20:04:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T04:04:27","slug":"58-pensees-vol-12-essays-divine-and-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/12-essays-divine-and-human\/58-pensees-vol-12-essays-divine-and-human","title":{"rendered":"-58_Pens\u00e9es.html"},"content":{"rendered":"
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God has a personality but no character; He is as we say in our Eastern thought, Anantaguna, of an infinite variation of qualities
\nwithout fixed limitation or rigid distinction and incompatibility. His superhuman cruelty melts into and harmonises with His
\nineffable pity; His fierce enmity is one mask of His intensest love. For, being alone existent, He is irresponsible and the harmonies He creates, are the figment of His own plastic will and governed by laws of aesthetics determined in His own unfettered
\nbut infallible fantasy. Out of His infinite personality He creates all these characters & their inevitable actions & destinies. So it is
\nwith every divine creator,\u2014with Homer, Shakespeare, Valmiki, Kalidasa. It is perfectly true that each has his own style of language & creation, his own preferred system or harmony of the poetic Art, just as the creator of this universe has fashioned it
\nin a particular style & rhythm & on certain preferred & fixed canons, differing from that of the other universes He may have
\nbuilt in His infinite Being. But within that style & harmony they are not bound by any fixed personality. It is rather the
\ninfinite they express though through their personality, than their personality through their works. The writers who are limited by
\ntheir personality may be among the fine artists of literature; they cannot be among the greatest creators; for to the creator freedom
\n& infinity are necessary attributes. It is the infinite alone that can create; the finite can only manufacture, reproduce or at the most
\nbring out a fine art & craftsmanship. Among all the Elizabethan dramatists Shakespeare alone has produced living men; the rest
\nare only admirable, trivial or monstrous sketches, caricatures or images of men. There is, however, one exception to this rule;
\nevery man can at his best moments cast out, create in some way or another\u2014for in our Indian languages the word for creating
\nis casting out, letting free out of one’s own being\u2014one living   
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creature & character,\u2014himself. Milton has produced several
\nbold & beautiful or fine outlines or descriptions, but only one living being, the rebel Archangel Satan, and only so in the first
\nfour books of Paradise Lost does Satan really live. When Milton ceases to portray himself in his fallen state and thinks only of his
\nplot & subject, Satan also ceases to live. But the great impersonal creators even in their slightest creations, cannot help creating
\nlife. Impersonal, I say, but I do not mean by impersonality the nirguna, devoid or pure of quality, but rather the unfixed &
\nunlimited by quality,\u2014an infinite & indefinable personality out of which is not manufactured or cunningly shaped but perfectly
\n& inevitably arises under the compelling eye of an intuitive Will to be this created world of innumerable brilliantly-coloured
\nvariously outlined individual existences. <\/span><\/p>\n

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