Indian Aesthetics Combines in it three-fold concepts: Light, Beauty and Happiness; what illumines one's own mind, beautifies inner and outer environments and serves mellifluous Happiness that drips down from the thousandpetalled lotus of the Sahasrara (cerebrum). Indian Aesthetics does not come under any recognised system of Indian Philosophy-Theist, Atheist and Secular; but the journey of all the systems and Cults aims at the eternal reservoir of Satyam, Sivam, Sundram (Truth, Beauty and Bliss) that is assures and acts as (a system to see and observe) an agency to aisthanomai. It is the cream of Indian civilization of pre-historic, vedic classic, mediaeval and modern ages and an invaluable contribution of the Vedic, Mythic and Esoteric Literatures and Cultures.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.N. Ghoshal Sastri
Born in an orthodox Brahmana family of Bengal and educated traditionally in Varanasi, Dr. S.N. Ghoshal Sastri started his carrier as a teacher of a Sanskrit Institution and an editor of the Chaukhambha Sanskrit Series, Varanasi. During the time, he had the privilege to sit under the feet of some celebrated scholars of the time; like Mm. Pramthantha Tarkabhusana, Mm. Balakrsna Misra and Mm. Gopinath Kaviraj. He took active part in the '42 Movement and went underground as a suspect of the Chukaghat-case, Varanasi; that provided him a chance to learn English. Acquitted of the alleged charge, he completed university education from B. H. U. and joined Visva-Bharati with an experience of a Sanskrit lecturer for 12 years in Jaunpur and Varanasi, U.P. He was entrusted with teaching & editing MSS. In the Dept. of Sanskrit, Pali & Prakrita. In addition to his normal duties, he extended cooperation to other departments, like Philosophy, Education and Ancient Indian History Culture & Archaeology. As a veteran teacher and seasoned manuscriptologist, he edited two Urtexts on Indian Aesthetics of the Scholastic School as well as the Neo-Rasa-Scholastic School as well as the Neo-Rasa-School. He had the honour of compiling and publishing the Ist volume of the Descriptive Catalogues of Sanskrit MSS. Deposited in the Sanskrit MSS. Section, Vidya-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati. Now, as an inmate of poet Tagore's hermitage, Santiniketan; he dovoted his life to present the country a complete work on Indian Aesthetics, ventilating its three major streams; Poetry, Arts and Music, extracting their fundamental principles of 'one-in-Two,' from the Yamala stream of the Tantra-Sastra. Dr. S. N. Gghoshal Sastri, M.A.; B.T.; Ph.D.; Kavya-Vyakaranatirhta, Sahitya-sastri, Reader, Department of Sasnkrit, Pali & Prakrta Hony. Editor, Sanskrit MSS. Visva-Bharati: Santiniketan, West Bengal, India
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