Significance of Metrical Rhythm in the Mantra
This is the intensity of poetic movement out of which the greatest
possibility of poetic expression arises. It is where the metrical
movement remains as a base, but either enshrines and contains or
is itself contained and floats in an element of greater music which
exceeds it and yet brings out all its possibilities, that the music
for the Mantra makes itself audible. It is the triumph of the spirit
over the difficulties and limitations of its physical instrument.
Its listener seems to be that eternal spirit whom the Upanishad
speaks of as the ear of the ear, he who listens to all hearings;
and "behind the instabilities of word and speech'' it is the
inevitable harmonies of his own thought and vision for which he
is listening.
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