Kazi Motahar Husain :
As the natural beauty blossoms with the amalgamation of variety of the outer world, so does throw upward the unlimited mystery of human heart with the wonderful variety of the inner world’s thoughts and ideas.
Someone’s inner nature is as soft and fragrant as Shefali1; someone’s as audacious as that of Hasnahena2. Someone’s as pliant as a reed, somebody’s as firm-footed as hills, someone’s as deep as the star-studded sky, and somebody’s as ever tumult as the storm-stricken forest. As incomparable is the visible world with variety, so astonishing is the emotions of the inner world.
The outer world incidents and experiences produce our sensation by hitting at the door of our senses. Directly or indirectly, the mental tendency of each individual is thus the different expressions of this. The human reflection is depicted in literature; hence we find unlimited varieties in literature. These varieties are not only linguistic -these are about taste and nature as their root causes are in the heart of the waters.
Why there is a sensation or excitement of joy in the readers after reading literature? In response to this it can be said that this joy is the joy of getting introduced with the heart of the writers. The pictures that are aggregated in our mind become the sources of joy with the touch of the heart of the writers. This is the essence of literature. Though there is a deep relation between life and literature, literature is the statement of pastime, not the direct events. What delights or tortures us excessively while occurring, that decreases the intensity at the leisure time and creates the essence of literature by the towels of assembled heart of the root memory. Hence, in one way, we enjoy the happiness of the songs of harmony, love, youth and success, on the other way; we enjoy the same with the depiction of separation, hatred, ageing and the cruel clutch of your fate.
Literature cannot be enjoyed with a disturbed mind; an objective patience and calmness are needed for it. What is true for readers is true for the writers also. Creators of literature are not mere photographers or gramophones of events. The pictures that are depicted in the heart of the writer, there, according to his/her individual taste, some parts of them seem to be major, and some of them are comparatively non-major. This selection is the main characteristic of literature and herein lies the life of literature. Therefore, it is noticed that the plot or incidents that are represented in literature, though they have (at least from the point of view of probability) relations with real events, they are mostly the creation of the writer’s-are coloured with the hue of his/her own mind.
Often it is asked, for what type of differences in subject-matters literature becomes pure or vulgar? The good answer of this question is-literature does not become pure or vulgar because of the subject- matters-rather it happens due to the uses of subject-matters. Taste in literature cannot be prescribed by law: it is the personal asset of the writer, the spontaneous expression of the complete personality of the writer. As literature is ingrained in the mental essence, it becomes delightful and touchy.
Charlatanism in literature can be easily detected by this touchstone. Those who really have something to say and with this there is a longing in their heart to express it they are the real heirs of literary creation. Literary essence is not infused without the union with the heart. Hence the great and surprising word puns and exiting thought collection of the worst writers fail to win the heart of readers. Language pours down naturally from the epicentre of sensations of the genuine writer. But the dupe in literature has to prepare the frame of language by imitation, hyperbole, forced imagination. The meanness of fake pomp is easily felt in front of the candid magnanimity.
To enjoy literature one needs to be familiar with the points of view of the writer looking into the mental realm of him/her. To get this familiarity, his ancestral history is not needed. The peculiarity of his heart or point of view can be found in his writing. The mentality should be created before the best literature is produced-though this statement is hard for new-seeker-after of fame writers, is the absolute truth. On the mere ground of realism recently some are supporting vulgarity in literature. There is vulgarity in real world. No doubt on it, but when reality becomes literature, there is no cause for it to be dirty, vulgar or nefarious.
It is to be remembered that literature is selective. Inserting any event from any ambience essence in literature can be infused by right selection and right balance in amount and it is not that the essence will center only on erotic sentiment and ugliness. There are too many proofs in literature. Anyone cannot be taught simple knowledge of taste – it is inevitably ingrained in one’s heart. It is true that the ideology of good taste and bad taste is gradually changing, but it is also true that there always remains an unwritten standard yardstick of good taste in the gentle society. If anyone can insert this ideology in his/her heart by his/her effort, then there is no cause for him/her to be ashamed of it; rather the audacity or imprudence to violate the unanimous ideology of taste is detestable.
Many object to the use of yardstick of good taste or principle in literature. According to them literature is beyond rule or violation; here the practice of pleasure is for pleasure’s sake. There is nothing educative in literature. Therefore, there is no question of ideology of moral welfare in this regard. But this dogmatism is very dangerous. Practice of pleasure and enjoyment of pleasure is certainly a sign of literature. But the object of enjoyment is spotless; it has no relation with adulteration, and has no hostility between good taste and good principle. The question of taste and principle remains indirect at the time of enjoying pleasure- as in one hand, it does not spoil the pleasure raising one’s head unnecessarily, nor does it degenerate human beings to the inhumane stage by complete extinction, on the other hand.
It is usually said metaphorically that the field of literature is not the field of necessity; rather it is the field of absolute unnecessary pastime and recreation. It seems to me that this statement is erroneous. As for life the easily noticeable food and water are necessary, so also not unnecessary the unnoticed light and air. Nowadays we acknowledge the different attempts to earn money to be necessary because without it the difficulty that we have to face is easily noticeable. Yet we think enjoyment of literary pleasure to be more than what is necessary, the cause is that we did not put emphasis on the losses caused by the dry root of humanity for the lack of that enjoyment of literary pleasure. A few days back sports, jokes etc. remained closed and neglected in the quota of unnecessary in our country. Recently the inevitability of all these has been acknowledged. The inevitability of literature, as a matter of fact, has been being acknowledged from the beginning of creation; nonetheless for which is so much creation of literature? But it is holding the insignificant part of life, such a kind of thought is immovably occupying the mind of many. It seems that with the increase of experience of human civilisation the enjoyment of literary pleasure will be regarded as an unavoidable right. Through literature human delicacy increases. Through looking the parts of prosaic life a balanced relation between different aspects of life is established – in a word as lapse in life seems to be torturous, tenderness in characters profuse. Therefore, it is not easy to think all these separately from the field of necessity of human civilisation. If literature being produced with human efforts for the human beings does not point to the chronological development of human civilisation, it is a matter of great despair. There are educative things in literature. The education that enters the inner heart through literature there it leaves a permanent influence on human life. But the education system of school, college and that of literature are completely distinct. In school and college education is primary, and regarding this both teachers and learners are very aware of. The education of literature assembles naturally in the core of heart of the connoisseur of literature. When the reader is engrossed in enjoying the pleasure of literature, the relation that the diverse events of literature establish between the heart of reader and that of the writer is through symbiosis is the subject matter of literature, thus the personality of the writer is transferred to the heart of reader. This education is greater education. Many of them say, “Literature has no purpose” those who addresss Rabindranath as Gurudeb. The very job of a Guru is to teach. And Rabindranath did not teach the way a guru does. He expressed himself to the readers through creating literature being coloured with his own soul’s colour and readers had been encouraged by establishing pleasure-filled mental relation with his thought. This is a very mystical and perfectly secret teacher-student relation. The poems, stories, novels, plays etc. of Rabindranath are not the main matters, but the beautiful representation that is expressed there, surpassing all these and through these, is the main matter. Experiment of heart rendering beauty that is expressed is the main matter. The way he has increased the beauty of small things casting pleasure-filled eyes on them, the ways he had walked with patience and manliness against the road of eternal falsehoods looking at them with open attitude in one word, he had seen his relations with all things of the world with the eyes of love. we get this (not theoretical) pleasant introduction through his writing. We do not have to set our brain to work to get it, with pleasure and pictures of all these things floats in our mind naturally. This is the speciality of literature. Literature transfers the mental beauty of the artist into the soul of the loving readers effortlessly through the enjoyment of pleasure. Sharatchandra is also a ‘Shikshaguru’ (master educator) of Bengali society, but not a teacher. He wrote novels, wrote story after story in profusion of his mind; fresh characters were created being engrossed in his heart’s pleasure. The beauty that he infuses through the whole characters, in the core of this is his peculiar attitudes. For which magnanimity he could not see badness among the bad (rather there he found greatness) and with the complete sympathy he noticed the cruel torture of society on the abandoned and outcast-this individual view points of him are of most value. The attitudes of the genuine litterateur are a valuable asset-litterateur presents this attitude for the present and for the future-it is the cause of his immortality. There are many disputes regarding whether self-contained literature or literature from outside world is best. All these disputes are often made by the jugglery of words. In fact, literature is ingrained in the writer’s heart’s pleasure. Therefore, it obviously depends on the personal feelings or special viewpoints of the writer. In this way literature is certainly self-centered. Those who say, “Literature becomes of lower quality if it is self-centered”, the main target of their speech is that the agitation or feeling of one’s mind is purely a personal matter. Hence, what might be then there the cause of everyone’s curiosity or enjoyment in it? We mentioned earlier, “Literature is not unmixed description of an agitated mind. Rather it is the spontaneous sayings of tranquil condition of pleasure ridden-memory of personal experience and feelings. The way the writers look into the events or collection of thought makes it possible for them to be mature in heart and take on an all-infatuating shape. With this inducement of heart’s pleasure the personal becomes universal, the temporal feelings turn into a permanent beauty. A litterateur is the shower of truth: entering into the events and person’s heart he demystifies the inner obscurity and renders novelty to the familiar and gives magnanimity to the tiny. With the touch of the palette of the writer the unclear picture of the reader’s mind matures with beauty and good health creating an indescribable beauty. Hence high literature though apparently seems to be outwardly, they are deeply self-centered and as they are deeply self-centered they gain the prestige of all acceptance. The personality of literature is expressed in his/her view points. There remains an extraordinary characteristic in the view points of the litterateur, for this reason he/she can invent newer beauties. The beauty of the world is not caught by the eyes of common people. For this if it is said that litterateur’s beauty and goodliness are not only discovery, they create it; then it will not be inappropriate. The forest of thoughts of the universe is handed over to writer. They are propelling the world further from ideology and beyond. With the gradual maturity of the writers’ viewpoints, the whole nation’s viewpoints or thought patterns mature. Hence the world is ever indebted to the litterateurs. This hope is probably not a bad one that the literary perspective will be able to be the harbinger of a standard civilisation of love and affection leading from purer to the purest solving all temporary problems.
1. Shefali- a kind of sweet smelling flower
2. Hasnahena- a kind of flower that blooms in the evening
Translated By Md. Harun
As the natural beauty blossoms with the amalgamation of variety of the outer world, so does throw upward the unlimited mystery of human heart with the wonderful variety of the inner world’s thoughts and ideas.
Someone’s inner nature is as soft and fragrant as Shefali1; someone’s as audacious as that of Hasnahena2. Someone’s as pliant as a reed, somebody’s as firm-footed as hills, someone’s as deep as the star-studded sky, and somebody’s as ever tumult as the storm-stricken forest. As incomparable is the visible world with variety, so astonishing is the emotions of the inner world.
The outer world incidents and experiences produce our sensation by hitting at the door of our senses. Directly or indirectly, the mental tendency of each individual is thus the different expressions of this. The human reflection is depicted in literature; hence we find unlimited varieties in literature. These varieties are not only linguistic -these are about taste and nature as their root causes are in the heart of the waters.
Why there is a sensation or excitement of joy in the readers after reading literature? In response to this it can be said that this joy is the joy of getting introduced with the heart of the writers. The pictures that are aggregated in our mind become the sources of joy with the touch of the heart of the writers. This is the essence of literature. Though there is a deep relation between life and literature, literature is the statement of pastime, not the direct events. What delights or tortures us excessively while occurring, that decreases the intensity at the leisure time and creates the essence of literature by the towels of assembled heart of the root memory. Hence, in one way, we enjoy the happiness of the songs of harmony, love, youth and success, on the other way; we enjoy the same with the depiction of separation, hatred, ageing and the cruel clutch of your fate.
Literature cannot be enjoyed with a disturbed mind; an objective patience and calmness are needed for it. What is true for readers is true for the writers also. Creators of literature are not mere photographers or gramophones of events. The pictures that are depicted in the heart of the writer, there, according to his/her individual taste, some parts of them seem to be major, and some of them are comparatively non-major. This selection is the main characteristic of literature and herein lies the life of literature. Therefore, it is noticed that the plot or incidents that are represented in literature, though they have (at least from the point of view of probability) relations with real events, they are mostly the creation of the writer’s-are coloured with the hue of his/her own mind.
Often it is asked, for what type of differences in subject-matters literature becomes pure or vulgar? The good answer of this question is-literature does not become pure or vulgar because of the subject- matters-rather it happens due to the uses of subject-matters. Taste in literature cannot be prescribed by law: it is the personal asset of the writer, the spontaneous expression of the complete personality of the writer. As literature is ingrained in the mental essence, it becomes delightful and touchy.
Charlatanism in literature can be easily detected by this touchstone. Those who really have something to say and with this there is a longing in their heart to express it they are the real heirs of literary creation. Literary essence is not infused without the union with the heart. Hence the great and surprising word puns and exiting thought collection of the worst writers fail to win the heart of readers. Language pours down naturally from the epicentre of sensations of the genuine writer. But the dupe in literature has to prepare the frame of language by imitation, hyperbole, forced imagination. The meanness of fake pomp is easily felt in front of the candid magnanimity.
To enjoy literature one needs to be familiar with the points of view of the writer looking into the mental realm of him/her. To get this familiarity, his ancestral history is not needed. The peculiarity of his heart or point of view can be found in his writing. The mentality should be created before the best literature is produced-though this statement is hard for new-seeker-after of fame writers, is the absolute truth. On the mere ground of realism recently some are supporting vulgarity in literature. There is vulgarity in real world. No doubt on it, but when reality becomes literature, there is no cause for it to be dirty, vulgar or nefarious.
It is to be remembered that literature is selective. Inserting any event from any ambience essence in literature can be infused by right selection and right balance in amount and it is not that the essence will center only on erotic sentiment and ugliness. There are too many proofs in literature. Anyone cannot be taught simple knowledge of taste – it is inevitably ingrained in one’s heart. It is true that the ideology of good taste and bad taste is gradually changing, but it is also true that there always remains an unwritten standard yardstick of good taste in the gentle society. If anyone can insert this ideology in his/her heart by his/her effort, then there is no cause for him/her to be ashamed of it; rather the audacity or imprudence to violate the unanimous ideology of taste is detestable.
Many object to the use of yardstick of good taste or principle in literature. According to them literature is beyond rule or violation; here the practice of pleasure is for pleasure’s sake. There is nothing educative in literature. Therefore, there is no question of ideology of moral welfare in this regard. But this dogmatism is very dangerous. Practice of pleasure and enjoyment of pleasure is certainly a sign of literature. But the object of enjoyment is spotless; it has no relation with adulteration, and has no hostility between good taste and good principle. The question of taste and principle remains indirect at the time of enjoying pleasure- as in one hand, it does not spoil the pleasure raising one’s head unnecessarily, nor does it degenerate human beings to the inhumane stage by complete extinction, on the other hand.
It is usually said metaphorically that the field of literature is not the field of necessity; rather it is the field of absolute unnecessary pastime and recreation. It seems to me that this statement is erroneous. As for life the easily noticeable food and water are necessary, so also not unnecessary the unnoticed light and air. Nowadays we acknowledge the different attempts to earn money to be necessary because without it the difficulty that we have to face is easily noticeable. Yet we think enjoyment of literary pleasure to be more than what is necessary, the cause is that we did not put emphasis on the losses caused by the dry root of humanity for the lack of that enjoyment of literary pleasure. A few days back sports, jokes etc. remained closed and neglected in the quota of unnecessary in our country. Recently the inevitability of all these has been acknowledged. The inevitability of literature, as a matter of fact, has been being acknowledged from the beginning of creation; nonetheless for which is so much creation of literature? But it is holding the insignificant part of life, such a kind of thought is immovably occupying the mind of many. It seems that with the increase of experience of human civilisation the enjoyment of literary pleasure will be regarded as an unavoidable right. Through literature human delicacy increases. Through looking the parts of prosaic life a balanced relation between different aspects of life is established – in a word as lapse in life seems to be torturous, tenderness in characters profuse. Therefore, it is not easy to think all these separately from the field of necessity of human civilisation. If literature being produced with human efforts for the human beings does not point to the chronological development of human civilisation, it is a matter of great despair. There are educative things in literature. The education that enters the inner heart through literature there it leaves a permanent influence on human life. But the education system of school, college and that of literature are completely distinct. In school and college education is primary, and regarding this both teachers and learners are very aware of. The education of literature assembles naturally in the core of heart of the connoisseur of literature. When the reader is engrossed in enjoying the pleasure of literature, the relation that the diverse events of literature establish between the heart of reader and that of the writer is through symbiosis is the subject matter of literature, thus the personality of the writer is transferred to the heart of reader. This education is greater education. Many of them say, “Literature has no purpose” those who addresss Rabindranath as Gurudeb. The very job of a Guru is to teach. And Rabindranath did not teach the way a guru does. He expressed himself to the readers through creating literature being coloured with his own soul’s colour and readers had been encouraged by establishing pleasure-filled mental relation with his thought. This is a very mystical and perfectly secret teacher-student relation. The poems, stories, novels, plays etc. of Rabindranath are not the main matters, but the beautiful representation that is expressed there, surpassing all these and through these, is the main matter. Experiment of heart rendering beauty that is expressed is the main matter. The way he has increased the beauty of small things casting pleasure-filled eyes on them, the ways he had walked with patience and manliness against the road of eternal falsehoods looking at them with open attitude in one word, he had seen his relations with all things of the world with the eyes of love. we get this (not theoretical) pleasant introduction through his writing. We do not have to set our brain to work to get it, with pleasure and pictures of all these things floats in our mind naturally. This is the speciality of literature. Literature transfers the mental beauty of the artist into the soul of the loving readers effortlessly through the enjoyment of pleasure. Sharatchandra is also a ‘Shikshaguru’ (master educator) of Bengali society, but not a teacher. He wrote novels, wrote story after story in profusion of his mind; fresh characters were created being engrossed in his heart’s pleasure. The beauty that he infuses through the whole characters, in the core of this is his peculiar attitudes. For which magnanimity he could not see badness among the bad (rather there he found greatness) and with the complete sympathy he noticed the cruel torture of society on the abandoned and outcast-this individual view points of him are of most value. The attitudes of the genuine litterateur are a valuable asset-litterateur presents this attitude for the present and for the future-it is the cause of his immortality. There are many disputes regarding whether self-contained literature or literature from outside world is best. All these disputes are often made by the jugglery of words. In fact, literature is ingrained in the writer’s heart’s pleasure. Therefore, it obviously depends on the personal feelings or special viewpoints of the writer. In this way literature is certainly self-centered. Those who say, “Literature becomes of lower quality if it is self-centered”, the main target of their speech is that the agitation or feeling of one’s mind is purely a personal matter. Hence, what might be then there the cause of everyone’s curiosity or enjoyment in it? We mentioned earlier, “Literature is not unmixed description of an agitated mind. Rather it is the spontaneous sayings of tranquil condition of pleasure ridden-memory of personal experience and feelings. The way the writers look into the events or collection of thought makes it possible for them to be mature in heart and take on an all-infatuating shape. With this inducement of heart’s pleasure the personal becomes universal, the temporal feelings turn into a permanent beauty. A litterateur is the shower of truth: entering into the events and person’s heart he demystifies the inner obscurity and renders novelty to the familiar and gives magnanimity to the tiny. With the touch of the palette of the writer the unclear picture of the reader’s mind matures with beauty and good health creating an indescribable beauty. Hence high literature though apparently seems to be outwardly, they are deeply self-centered and as they are deeply self-centered they gain the prestige of all acceptance. The personality of literature is expressed in his/her view points. There remains an extraordinary characteristic in the view points of the litterateur, for this reason he/she can invent newer beauties. The beauty of the world is not caught by the eyes of common people. For this if it is said that litterateur’s beauty and goodliness are not only discovery, they create it; then it will not be inappropriate. The forest of thoughts of the universe is handed over to writer. They are propelling the world further from ideology and beyond. With the gradual maturity of the writers’ viewpoints, the whole nation’s viewpoints or thought patterns mature. Hence the world is ever indebted to the litterateurs. This hope is probably not a bad one that the literary perspective will be able to be the harbinger of a standard civilisation of love and affection leading from purer to the purest solving all temporary problems.
1. Shefali- a kind of sweet smelling flower
2. Hasnahena- a kind of flower that blooms in the evening
Translated By Md. Harun
