Sri Aurobindo Analysis

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Sri Aurobindo is one of the leading writers in the field of Indo-anglian literature and his contribution in Indo-anglian drama is inevitable. He was dramatist, a master of prose art with his wonderful mastery over languages like English, Sanskrit and Bengali, poet of great power and versatility and critic of life and literature. Indian English dramas are influenced by the epic myths and legends. Most of Sri Aurobindo's plays are mythological or legendary. Sri Aurobindo has written many plays of which only five are complete: Perseus the Deliverer, Vasavadatta, Rodogune, The Viziers of Bassora and Eric. We also find the impact of Sanskrit playwrights like Bhasa, Kalidas and Bhavabhuti on Aurobindo.
He was a great philosopher and seer. One of …show more content…

According to Sri Aurobindo, “it is at this moment for the first time becoming possible to let a supramental consciousness enter into one’s being and transform it in every respect”. The comprehensive, supramental transformation of all aspects of human nature is the central theme of Sri Aurobindo’s work. He says,
Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence – it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it – not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself.. When it wants to liberate itself, slowly, evolutionarily, out of Matter, but still in the form, it emerges as life, as animal, as man and it can go on evolving itself still farther out of its involution and become something more than mere man.
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She is a beauty with brain. She is a contrast to the intuitive emotional Vuthsa Udayan. She is an obedient daughter of her father. He was treated well and requested to teach `Vasavadatta’ the art of playing lute. Udayan employs the power of love to uplift and hormony, which are conditions of the super mind. `Vasavadatta’ initially fails to comprehend Udayan’s words. His skill as a worrier later as a musician and lover like lord Krishna charms all around the people. It is a great irony that it is art and love for music which becomes the prime cause of his capture. There is a fierce conflict in her mind and she becomes the captive of Vuthsa. She

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