USA Africa Dialogue Series - Between Beauty and Meaning : Adeyinka Bello and the Eloquent Radiation 2 [ Edited ]

                                                               

Between Beauty and Meaning

Adeyinka Bello and the Eloquent Radiation

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Adeyinka Bello in her office at Lagos State University

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

Compcros

Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems

"Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"

                               

The previous essay, "Between Beauty and Meaning : Adeyinka Bello and the Eloquent Radiation 1", explored the celebration of life demonstrated by the picture of Adeyinka Bello also central to this essay, concluding by contrasting two different Buddhist perspectives.

This essay explores the same theme through the same picture, this time in relation to Western esotericism, in the first quote, and Hinduism, from which the second quote comes.

"Since we were created with a shout of laughter, let spiritual happiness and holiness be truly one".

William G. Gray. Office of the Holy Tree of Life

Unqualified laughter, focused in the brilliant white of teeth open in joy, their radiance foregrounded by the tender red of lips evoking the rain freshened glory of ripe apples, neck pulsing with urgent life, a palpitating force evoked by the strategic position of the crimson necklace at the juncture of the delicate pillar of neck and robustness of body.

Balance of colours, flashing white teeth, light red necklace and earrings, harmonising with deep red coloured lips, absolute vitality represented by brown skin, projecting a visual force radiating outward...

"(I) salute the universe, which is Bhairava's visible body, the condensation of the flood of the juice (rasa) of consciousness that has assumed a defined form".

Quote from Jayaratha's commentary on Ch. 8, Verse 2, of Abhinavagupta's Tantraloka

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Edited from first publication of 29 October 2013 at Adeyinka Olarinmoye: Aesthetics, Thought, Action.

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