How to increase your creative power: the Hindu way!
The book under review is titled as ‘The Journal of Oriental Research’. This has been published in 2007 and has nine articles in English.
This book is highly recommended for reading and keeping by students, scholars and anyone interested in Indology.
The article, ‘Creativity and its Process: An Appointment with the Ancient Indian Beauticians’ gives you all the details to understand the multidimensional character of creativity with particular reference to nature and cultivation by following the ancient Indian beauticians and understanding some points essentials needed for creativity. Excellence.
This fantastic article has been written by C.Panduranga Bhatta, a renowned Sanskrit scholar.
The ancient Indians created wonderful literature, music, sculptures, buildings, and other creative products.
Rajasekara, the author of kavyamimamsa, has very clearly given eight factors as sources of creativity. Is it so:
1) Peace of mind (svasthya in Sanskrit)
2) Poetic intuition (pratibha in Sanskrit)
3) Practice (abhyasa in Sanskrit)
4) Devotion (bhakthi in Sanskrit)
5) Participation in the assembly of the learned (vidvatmatha in Sanskrit)
6) All inclusive knowledge (bahusrutata in Sanskrit)
7) Strong memory (Smrthi dhyanam in Sanskrit) and
8) Courage (anirveda in Sanskrit)
Those who want to increase creative power in any field must develop these eight qualities.
Concentration, which means unity of mind or single-mindedness, is also given due importance in creativity.
Hindu sages and poets firmly believed that there is a wide field for creativity in each and every field, be it literature or music or any other field.
This article details the awakening of the mind for creative thinking.
Other articles deal with the harmony in the Harshacarita of bana, the description of the nadis in the Vedic and Yogic texts, the worship of Vastu, etc.
We can also read reviews of nineteen books related to Indology.
The Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute located at Mylapore, Chennai, India is publishing important books that are valuable for scholars, students and book lovers who are interested in knowing many secrets revealed in Sanskrit literature.
While the arithmetical manuscript is covered in one article, the music varnam is explained in another article.
These articles have been written by world scholars such as SS Janaki, Takao Hayashi, NS Satagopan, V. Kameswari, KSBalasubramaniyan, TV Vasudeva, R. Vijayalakshmy, and Lalitha Ramakrishnan.
Sanskrit lovers, read this book without fail.