A Study of Aesthetics in Relation to the Bhagavad Gita and W.B. Yeats

Abstract

The aesthetic tradition in the world follows its long trail from Plato in the West and from the Vedas in the East. Be it art or literature, the sole philosophy of both has carried the scent of beauty in their experience as well in their imaginative faculty employed. Both the texts of Oriental and Occidental literature open a channel for intertextuality giving out conclusions on the discourse of true beauty. The sovereign Indian treatise- the Bhagavad Gita guards the principle that the absolute soul lies in every matter which lives and sustains through its own immortal disposition. To that extent, this research article aims to study the arguments and reasons given by Western thinkers and ancient Indian treatises, to put out attributes and explore the truth about the universal absolute experience where the beauty of the self is cognised. Furthermore, this article also aims to study the intertextual aspects of both traditions with a comparative outlook, and to conceptualise that both the Gita and romantic poetry articulate a vision of beauty rooted in the divine unity of all beings. In the same regard it is understood that the Bhagavad Gita, and W.B. Yeats and William Wordsworth offer a rich conceptualisation of the subject matter. In the following observation an analysis to the effect has been undertaken.