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<font size="4">The
Creative Soul</font></b></p>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">THE difference between living
organism and dead matter is that while the former is endowed with
creative activity, the latter has only passive receptivity. Life
adds, synthetises, new-creates – gives more than what it receives;
matter only sums up, gathers, reflects, gives just what it receives.
Life is living, glad and green through its creative genius. Creation
in some form or other must be the core of everything that seeks
vitality and growth, vigour and delight. Not only so, but a thing in
order to be real must possess a creative function. We consider a
shadow or an echo unreal precisely because they do not create but
merely image or repeat, they do not bring out anything new but simply
reflect what is given. The whole of existence is real because it is
eternally creative.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">So the problem that concerns
man, the riddle that humanity has to solve is how to find out and
follow the path of creativity. If we are not to be dead matter nor
mere shadowy illusions we must be creative. A misconception that has
vitiated our outlook in general and has been the most potent cause of
a sterilising atavism in the moral evolution of humanity is that
creativity is an aristocratic virtue, that it belongs only to the
chosen few. A great poet or a mighty man of action creates indeed,
but such a creator does not appear very frequently. A Shakespeare or
a Napoleon is a rare phenomenon; they are, in reality, an exception
to the general run of mankind. It is enough if we others can
understand and follow </span><I><span style="font-size:12pt;">them – Mahajano yena gatah – </span></I><span style="font-size:12pt;">let the
great souls initiate and create, the common souls have only to repeat
and imitate.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">But this is not as it should be,
nor is it the truth of the matter. Every individual soul, however
placed it may be, is by nature creative; every individual being lives
to discover and to create.</span></FONT><BR>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The
inmost reality of man is not a passive receptacle, a mere responsive
medium but it is a dynamo – a power-station generating and throwing
out energy that produces and creates.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Now the centre of this energy,
the matrix of creativity is the soul itself, one's own soul. If you
want to create – live, grow and be real-find yourself, be yourself.
The simple old wisdom still remains the eternal wisdom. It is because
we fall off from our soul that we wander into side-paths, paths that
do not belong to our real nature and hence that lead to imitation and
repetition, decay and death. This is what happens to what we call
common souls. The force of circumstances, the pressure of environment
or simply the momentum of custom or habit compel them to choose the
easiest and the readiest way that may lie before them. They do not
consult the demand of the inner being but the requirement of the
moment. Our bodily needs, our vital hungers and our mental prejudices
obsess and obscure the impulsions that thrill the hidden spirit. We
hasten to gratify the immediate and forget the eternal, we clutch at
the shadow and let go the substance. We are carried away in the flux
and tumult of life. It is a mixed and collective whirl – a
</span><I><span style="font-size:12pt;">Weltgeist </span></I><span style="font-size:12pt;">that moves and governs us. We are helpless straws
drifting in the current. But manhood demands that we stop and pause,
pull ourselves out of the Maelstrom and be what we are. We must shape
things as we want and not allow things to shape us as they want.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Let each take cognisance of the
godhead that is within him – for self is God – and in the
strength of the soul-divinity create his universe. It does not matter
what sort of universe he- creates, so long as he creates it. The
world created by a Buddha is not the same as that created by a
Napoleon, nor should they be the same. It does not prove anything
that I cannot become a Kalidasa; for that matter Kalidasa cannot
become what I am. If you have not the genius of a Shankara it does
not mean that you have no genius at all. Be and become </span><I><span style="font-size:12pt;">yourself –
ma gridhah kasyachit dhanam, </span></I><span style="font-size:12pt;">says the Upanishad. The
fountain-head of creative genius lies there, in the free choice and
the particular delight –the self-determination of the spirit within
you and not in the desire for your neighbor’s riches. The world has
become dull and uniform and mechanical, since everybody </span></FONT>
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to become not himself, but always somebody else. Imitation is
servitude and servitude brings in grief.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">In one's own soul lies the very
height and profundity of a god-head. Each soul by bringing out the
note that is his, makes for the most wondrous symphony. Once a man
knows what he is and holds fast to it, refusing to be drawn away by
any necessity or temptation, he begins to uncover himself, to do what
his inmost nature demands and takes joy in, that is to say, begins to
create. Indeed there may be much difference in the forms that
different souls take. But because each is itself, therefore each is
grounded upon the fundamental equality of things. All our valuations
are in reference to some standard or other set up with a particular
end in view, but that is a question of the practical world which in
no way takes away from the intrinsic value of the greatness of the
soul. So long as the thing is there, the how of it does not matter.
Infinite are the ways of manifesta&shy;tion and all of them the very
highest and the most sublime, provided they are a manifestation of
the soul itself, provided they rise and flow from the same level.
Whether it is Agni or Indra, Varuna, Mitra or the Aswins, it is the
same supreme and divine inflatus.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The cosmic soul is true. But
that truth is borne out, effec&shy;tuated only by the truth of the
individual soul. When the individual soul becomes itself fully and
integrally, by that very fact it becomes also the cosmic soul. The
individuals are the channels through which flows the Universal and
the Infinite in its multiple emphasis. Each is a particular figure,
aspect – </span><I><span style="font-size:12pt;">Bhava, </span></I><span style="font-size:12pt;">a particular angle of vision of All. The
vision is entire and the figure perfect if it is not refracted by the
lower and denser parts of our being. And for that the individual must
first come to itself and shine in its opal clarity and translucency.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Not to do what others do, but
what your soul impels you to do. Not to be others but your own self.
Not to be anything but the very cosmic and infinite divinity of your
soul. Therein lies your highest freedom and perfect delight. And
there you are supremely creative. Each soul has a &nbsp;</span><I><span style="font-size:12pt;">consort –
Prakriti, </span></I><span style="font-size:12pt;">Nature -which it creates out of its own rib. And in this
field of infinite creativity the soul lives, moves and has its being.</span></FONT></P>
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