Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000

RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.

Countrymen,

ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT

Glenn Gould, auto-biographically, on Richard Strauss and the art and arts of life generally, The Glenn Gould Reader, p 86., Key Porter Books, 1984; originally an article, An Argument for Richard Strauss, High Fidelity, 1962:

“Richard Strauss, then, seems to me to be more than the greatest man of music of our time.  He is in my opinion a central figure in today’s most crucial dilemma of aesthetic morality – the hopeless confusion that arises when we attempt to contain the inscrutable pressures of self-guided artistic destiny within the neat, historical summation of collective chronology.  He is much more than a convenient rallying point for conservative opinion.  In him we have one of those rare, intense figures in whom the whole process of historical evolution is defied.”

DRG’s comment: “the inscrutable pressures of self-guided artistic destiny” = Kandinsky’s “inner necessity.”  The great ones keep God busy by jumping constantly into thin air.  He never fails them who concretize the “inscrutable pressures of self-guided artistic destiny.”  They are heroes.

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA