WILLIAMSJI MAVELI - LITERARY ESSAY: BEAUTY OF POETRY

BEAUTY OF POETRY

• When we take the time to observe the beauty of the world around us, we are able to see parallels within our own lives. An ideal poet is one who is in tune with nature and is in tune with the practice of different living styles.  Nature moves in a twisting as do our personal lives. It is significant to spend time in nature because in this way we can become aware of its wisdom. If we ignore the beauty of nature and spend all our time in an urban jungle, our stress levels go up and we begin to feel as if we are made out of the concrete that we see all around us.
•  If our soul is poetic, we must be acquainted with our character and behavior, our own particular longings, and desires, the path of our soul, and the special spiritual sustenance, This requires to satisfy our spiritual life, just as air is required to breathe. We may join with other gifted people for other spiritual necessities. But never forget that we are summoned to stand firm upon our own spiritual foundation.
• From our spirit, which is pure and powerful, filled with a song that is holy, alive, and unblemished, sprinkle upon all service of God, all discussion, teachings, examinations, analyses, logic, pure streams of light, expressions of song, the elevation of the soul, which constantly desires our  Beloved, our Redeemer, the  God Almighty. When the poetic, sensitive soul gazes upon supernal matters of greatness before they have been put in order for her and well-arranged, she descends to activism regarding finite, this-worldly matters. She is susceptible at every step to enthusiasms whose particular character is falsehood.
• At such a time, an exalted individual must find the inspiring foundation from which that spirit of falsehood comes forth so poetically, and rectify its character internally, without expressing the spirit in unavailing words. Then the idea proceeds, reflecting heavenly matters of greatness. In this context, the greatest exaggeration merely indicates the smallest expression of what heaven is.
•  And if then, from the midst of the flow of spirit that constantly ascends, rising beyond all boundaries, there are still, at times, obvious misstatements, these are like an error that appears to come from the governing power of God. Such this-worldly words shall be a source of blessing and learning. When many poets were turning inward, writing obscure and esoteric poetry to an ever decreasing audience of readers, new generation poets turns outward, using language and themes, attitudes and ideas familiar to anyone who has the ability simply to read

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