The Visvabharati Quarterly

You have written that just one little girl went to her elder sister and yelled and quite warmed up the gathering ; but the amount of yelling that went on in our grounds and the various noises that made it up beat counting ! The crying of small children the shouting of the grown-ups the beating of the little drums the creaking of the bullock-cart wheels the yelling of the village theatrical par [...] To mention only a few : (I) the fusion of the pre-Aryan Siva-Sakti cult with the Vedic Aryan cults (2) the compilation of the Vedic hymns composed at different places and times and by different branches of the people into the three canonized Sathhitis (3) the admission of the Atharvan to the status of the fourth Veda (4) the attempt of Bridarriyana in the Brahma-Sutra to systematize and harmoni [...] But even the philosophical dicussion of such universal topics arises out of certain concepts and beliefs current in particular places and times ; and the words that formulate the problems are charged with meanings and associtions obtaining in the society which speak the language ; and the arguments are always addressed to minds nurtured in the ideas and beliefs obtaining in the society of th [...] I14 THE VISVABHARATI QUARTERLY The High-brows in Philosophy — their Ivory Tower Under the influence of an undesirable and decadent phase of Western Philosophy there has developed amongst a section of our modern Indian philosophers a tendency to confine the word `philosophy' only to the discussion of some abstract theoretical logical and metaphysical problems such as the status of the sensa the c [...] Tagore we find an acceptance of the Western scientific and evolutionist conception of nature interpreted in the light of the Upanisadic idea of creation as an expression of the spontaneous joy ( ananda ) of the Absolute the conception of beauty as God's122 THE VISVABHARATI QUARTERLY wooing of His creatures the conception of art culture and religion as the expressions of the surplus in man a ph