नीचे समंदर की चौड़ी, गरजती हुई लहरें चट्टान की गहरी नींव से टकराती हैं। लेकिन पहाड़, समुद्र और चट्टानों की चोटियों के बहुत ऊपर, ब्रह्मांड की अगाध गहराइयों से वह शाश्वत सौंदर्य चुपचाप खिल उठता है।
Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.
Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.
लेकिन सौंदर्यशास्त्र कोई धर्म नहीं है, और धर्म की जड़ें कहीं और ही होती हैं। वैसे भी, ये गुलाब इतनी मीठी खुशबू बिखेर रहे हैं और टकराती हुई लहरों की गहरी गड़गड़ाहट इतनी भव्य है कि अभी इन गंभीर विषयों पर न्याय नहीं किया जा सकता।
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
एक बच्चा प्रकृति की महानता और सुंदरता तथा ईश्वर की रचना के वैभव को नहीं समझ पाता।
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
कृष्ण स्वयं एक ऐतिहासिक व्यक्ति थे, इसमें वास्तव में कोई संदेह नहीं है।
That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.
That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.
और डॉ. ओटो की भाषा में कहें तो 'पवित्र' (द होली), 'दिव्य शक्ति' (न्यूनस) और 'नैतिकता' का एक मिला-जुला रूप होगा; या उनके एक पसंदीदा रूपक के अनुसार, यह एक ऐसा ताना-बाना है जिसमें अतार्किक दिव्य अनुभव बाना (weft) है और तार्किक तथा नैतिक अनुभव ताना (warp) है।
And ‘the holy’ will be, in Dr. Otto’s language, a complex category of the ‘numinous’ and the ‘moral’, or, in one of his favourite metaphors, a fabric in which we have the non-rational numinous experience as the woof and the rational and ethical as the warp.
And ‘the holy’ will be, in Dr. Otto’s language, a complex category of the ‘numinous’ and the ‘moral’, or, in one of his favourite metaphors, a fabric in which we have the non-rational numinous experience as the woof and the rational and ethical as the warp.