It is not important how much Yeats understood about Indian Philosophy. But he use them as a poetic metaphor or expressions. Yeats utilized the Indian thoughts in his works and he did it through his ways. Moreover, he popularized the Indians` spiritual life in his works. He tried to give an organic unity to his whole works and tried to express his efforts in his works with his desire for the spirit and its freedom. To him, it was an unavoidable thing to accept the Oriental thoughts and they affected so much in his spiritual world. Among them there were the Tantric System and Cabala from the Indian philosophy as a mystic experience of the sexual union, which means the resolve of the conflict. Yeats recognized and used the Veda and Tantra as a highly expressed poetic metaphor, also. And they were the great sources and materials for his poetic creation. Yeats intended to achieve his harmonic world, Unity of Being, in his poems from the practical human life. And he accepted Tantra because he believed that he could achieve the eternal world from the antimony through the complete sexual union of a man and a woman. He used it as a symbol of the Unity of Being and the Self. Yeats also tried to unify the Irish customs and thoughts and he found that the Self and the Soul is the same existence. His purpose in art was to establish the `Unity of Being` through the life and the conflict in it. And he concluded the God as that of the Self and `Universal Self”.
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