Ma's negotiations with life:
Always a firm rationalist. According to Jungian typology that my friends of one time, Janet and Steve Walker, were very good at, she is a 'thinking/intuitive' kind. 'Intuition' is our common function, I being 'feeling/intuitive'.
'Thinking' and 'Feeling' types don't really get each other. One thinks rationally, reasonably and the other 'thinks' through 'feeling'. Some of the greatest artists and musicians have been the 'feeling/sensation' kind of person. Wordsworth was and so was Eliot. Once again, Janet who confirmed it through discussion.
Ma was an intense devotee of Rabindranath. Scoffed at any other person or divine agent or whatever. No interest in Sri Ramakrishna or Belur or any kind of ritual puja.
She believed in the freedom of the Upanasadic view of Brahman; Brahman inhered in everything. She is singularly free of superstition. You will never be able to convince her that 'sneezing' before one leaves the house is inauspicious.
But I think that also makes her insensitive to very subtle and fine gradations of feeling.
She would never have understood or appreciated Coleridge for instance, and his evocation of the supernatural in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner or Christabel. She would never have understood what the 'willing suspension of disbelief' was.
Always a firm rationalist. According to Jungian typology that my friends of one time, Janet and Steve Walker, were very good at, she is a 'thinking/intuitive' kind. 'Intuition' is our common function, I being 'feeling/intuitive'.
'Thinking' and 'Feeling' types don't really get each other. One thinks rationally, reasonably and the other 'thinks' through 'feeling'. Some of the greatest artists and musicians have been the 'feeling/sensation' kind of person. Wordsworth was and so was Eliot. Once again, Janet who confirmed it through discussion.
Ma was an intense devotee of Rabindranath. Scoffed at any other person or divine agent or whatever. No interest in Sri Ramakrishna or Belur or any kind of ritual puja.
She believed in the freedom of the Upanasadic view of Brahman; Brahman inhered in everything. She is singularly free of superstition. You will never be able to convince her that 'sneezing' before one leaves the house is inauspicious.
But I think that also makes her insensitive to very subtle and fine gradations of feeling.
She would never have understood or appreciated Coleridge for instance, and his evocation of the supernatural in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner or Christabel. She would never have understood what the 'willing suspension of disbelief' was.
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