{"id":64963,"date":"2026-10-08T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=64963"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:12:06","slug":"64963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=64963","title":{"rendered":"The Eighteen Liberating Arts !"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Logic, Rheotric &amp; Grammar,<br>Comprise the Trivium,<br>The Three Liberal Arts,<br>Rhetoric being the Art of Eloquence !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About Rhetoric, Dante wrote,<br>We came to the foot of a Noble Castle,<br>Defended by Seven Lofty walls,<br>And defended by a fair Rivulet !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Noble Castle stands for Philosophy,<br>Seven walls are the Seven Cardinal Virtues,<br>Rivulet is emblem of Rhetoric,<br>Theory and practice of Eloquence !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Logic is the science of the regulative,<br>Principles of Thought !<br>And Grammar ? Vasti vyakaranam tasya,<br>Samhita pada lakshanam !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we move on to the Quadrivium,<br>Four more Arts which are liberating,<br>Dialects, the Art of Reasoning,<br>Arithmetic, Science of magnitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Music, 17th Science ,<br>Of Philosophia Indica !<br>Ayurvedam Dhanurvedam,<br>Gandharvo Veda eva cha !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thou Art Timeless and Time,<br>Spaceless and all that is in Space,<br>Causality, the Cause and the Effect !<br>Thou art all, by Thy own Yoga Maya !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For, we find that Being turns into Becoming,<br>But is Itself and other than its Becomings,<br>Indeterminate determines itself,<br>As the Infinite and the Finite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One becomes an innumerable multitude,<br>The non relative Absolute,<br>Has Relativity in its embrace !<br>Immutable teems with mutations and differentiae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One turns into Many,<br>And Many turn into One!<br>Individual universalises itself,<br>And Universal individualises itself !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Great Melpathur,<br>Equated the world to a Kathakali drama,<br>Ya Krithva Visva rangam<br>Mukunda Swayamapi Ramate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Night as the Curtain,<br>And Sun resplendent as Lamp,<br>Projwalal Bhanu Deepam,<br>With constellations as witnesses !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SWaswal santhushta sat prekshaka makhila Jagat,<br>Bhranti Natyam Vithanya !<br>With Karma as Mridangas,<br>And Vasanas as Song !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thou playest this supreme Drama,<br>With Thy august Self,<br>Thyself the Play, Thyself the Player,<br>Thyself, the Playground !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logic, Rheotric &amp; Grammar,Comprise the Trivium,The Three Liberal Arts,Rhetoric being the Art of Eloquence ! About Rhetoric, Dante wrote,We came to the foot of a Noble Castle,Defended by Seven Lofty walls,And defended by a fair Rivulet ! The Noble Castle stands for Philosophy,Seven walls are the Seven Cardinal Virtues,Rivulet is emblem of Rhetoric,Theory and practice &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=64963\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Eighteen Liberating Arts !&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64966,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64963\/revisions\/64966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}