June 09, 2010

Sri Aurobindo never considered politics as alien to his mission

Colonialism, modernity, and religious identities: religious reform ... Gwilym Beckerlegge - 2008 - 274 pages
The Aryan Invasion Theory Aurobindo never referred to the Harappan Civilization, which was excavated after he wrote his major works. He did sometimes speak of an issue related to the Harappan puzzle: the question of the Aryans' homeland ...
Sri Aurobindo - A Contemporary Reader Sachidananda Mohanty, Aurobindo Ghose - 2008 - 180 pages
Neverthless, Sri Aurobindo never considered politics as alien to his mission. His concern for
India and the welfare of mankind, including the amelioration of the socio-political conditions of the vast majority of our countrymen, ...
Encyclopaedia Eminent Thinkers (vol. : 16 The Political Thought Of ... - Page 29, Ashu Pasricha - 2008
Yet Aurobindo never repudiated his own political activism before he withdrew from action to devote himself exclusively to yoga; nor did he underestimate the strength of the Gandhi-led nationalist movement he had broken the bonds with ... Page 30 reverence for Sri Aurobindo never diminished, their common attachment to Deshbandhu did not stop them from drifting apart when the two took very differing positions during the Second World War. On
19 September 1940, Sri Aurobindo ... Subhas, a political biography, Sitanshu Das - 2001 - 634 pages
Critical Response To Indian Poetry In English - Page 46, A.N. Prasad, Bithika Sarkar - 2008 - 346 pages
... O Golden Mystery, flower Sun on the head of the Timeless, guest of the marvellous Hour. Aurobindo never condemns the earth or bodily existence of man on it. In his words, "Make earth the home of the wonderful and life ...
Eastern Lights - Page 279, Mahendrnath Sircar - 2007 - 328 pages
Aurobindo never favours the prospect of will-less bliss as the goal of life. Movement, life and bliss are his attractions. I Aurobindo has no liking for a negative attitude in life; hence, though he sees the dignity of the Nirvanic calm ...
India's freedom movement: legacy of Bipin Chandra Pal Binay Bhattacharya, Bipin Chandra Pal Memorial ... - 2007 - 271 pages
As we shall see, Sri Aurobindo never lost this appreciation of Bipin Pal. Infact, the largest number of lead article in Bande Mataram from the pen of Sri Aurobindo were denoted to one individual leader, it was BC Pal. ...
Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 99 Hugh B. Urban - 2007 - 372 pages
Henceforth he began to write a vast body of works on various aspects of spirituality, along with poems, plays, and even epics. Despite urgings from many members of the nationalist movement, Aurobindo never reentered the political arena, ...
Culture, Society and Leadership - Page 72 Chakraborty S K, Debangshu Chakraborty ... - 2006 - 426 pages
One of the most significant lessons Sri Aurobindo never tires of repeating to us is that the human race as it is today comprises the mental, half-animal person who is but a clumsy interlude between the instinct-driven creature and the ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2006
Sri Aurobindo: Never rely on these voices — not only so but never listen to them, turn your attention elsewhere when you hear them and cut all connection. They are deceptive voices and are trying to disturb you.
29/10/33: Mother, ...
An Illust History Of Indian Lit In English - Page 119 Arvind Krishna Mehrotra - 2005 - 406 pages
During the forty years he passed in
PondicherryAurobindo never ceased working with his pen, producing a vast body of poetry, philosophical prose, and correspondence. Between 1910 and 1914 Aurobindo published nothing, ...
Mira to Mother - Page 64 Udhaya Kumar - 2004
Sri Aurobindo never disturbed the confident cat in any way, but simply, precariously sat on the little border-space all the time he remained there. He did not wait for anyone to get into the chair, he got it first himself. ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2004
about to revolt and leave the Ashram they would not envisage a dark end for him but set the delicate balance so that the other side, the spiritually receptive part, might not go down. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo never saw things in ...
Japanese journal of religious studies Kokusai Shūkyō Kenkyūjo (Japan) - 2004
While this philosophy shares quite a few similarities with Nishida's thought — ironically their political philosophies show surprising affinities — Aurobindo neverseemed interested in developing a "logic" or a formal philosophical ...
Consciousness, Indian Psychology, and Yoga Kireet Joshi, Matthijs Cornelissen, Project of ... - 2004 - 495 pages
Where it is needed to distinguish the two I will refer to Sri Aurobindo's conception as the "ongoing evolution of consciousness" even though Sri Aurobindo neverused this phrase as such. 7. The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy for ...
Modern Vedanta, P. K. Das - 2004 - 396 pages
Although Aurobindo never has been an advocate of the absolute concept of Ahimsa, still he has held that the advent of the gnostic society will amount to the absolute domination of the vitalistic malady of war . To this extent their idea ...
The Journal of transpersonal psychology Transpersonal Institute, American ... 2004
In addition, Wilber cites Sri Aurobindo often and ranks him as one of the pioneers of integral studies. Although Wilber feels Sri Aurobindo never fully assimilated the intersubjective (cultural) and ...
A history of Indian literature in English Arvind Krishna Mehrotra - 2003 - 406 pages
Love and Death (written 1899, published 1921). These show a growing mastery of English blank verse, which would remain his preferred metre throughout. Aurobindo never doubted that a regular rhythmic line was the right medium for poetic utterance; but he was also a believer in the Romantic cult of the inspired poet. True inspiration could be channelled only by one who had mastered a ...
Knowledge, consciousness and religious conversion in Lonergan and ... - Page 219, Michael T. McLaughlin - 2003 - 318 pages
Aurobindo never refers to Bergson directly in The Life Divine or the Integral Yoga but the influence seems pervasive. These similarities involve the most basic elements of each system. Both philosophies generate a metaphysics based on ..
Indian critiques of Gandhi - Page 87 Harold G. Coward - 2003 - 287 pages
On his part, Aurobindo never accepted the centrality of Gandhi's message of "nonviolence" nor Gandhi's emphasis on voluntary suffering and self-abasement. Sri Aurobindo was not a "Gandhian." What we know of Aurobindo's criticism, ...
It would be a mistake to distinguish the political from the religious in Aurobindo’s life and thought. Aurobindo never did. Though his later followers, and even the Indian Supreme Court, distinguished the secular from the religious and asserted that Aurobindo did too, for Aurobindo politics and all else were also religious. ...
Life and works of Sri Aurobindo, Sita Ram Sharma - 2003 - 271 pages
"Aurobindo never cared for money. When I was at
Baroda, he was getting a pretty fat salary. He was alone, he knew no luxury, nor the least extravagance. But at the end of every month he had not a shot in the locker. ...
The secret of the Veda - Page 600 Sri Aurobindo - 2003 - 604 pages
Sri Aurobindo never found time to resume the series, and left The Secret of the Veda incomplete. Selected Hymns. These thirteen translations with commentaries were published in the first twelve issues of the Arya, from August 1914 to ...
Indian writing in English: a critical study - Page 176, Krishna Autar Agrawal - 2003 - 256 pages
the effective poetical expression of my vision."" Thus, the vision dominates the form of the epic. Sri Aurobindo never claims for the originality of the theme because he is dealing with the original ...
The radiance of being: understanding the grand integral vision : ... Allan Combs - 2002 - 380 pages
To my knowledge Sri Aurobindo never directly answered this question. The answer, however, may in part have to do with the idea, above, that the direction of the evolutionary ascent is already contained in matter itself. ...
Holy war: violence and the Bhagavad Gita, Steven Rosen - 2002 - 229 pages
But Sri Aurobindo never made a cult of ideology either, and in those same articles he had also elucidated the limits of non-cooperation and passive resistance, which he saw as the only practicable policy of the day in the face of the ...
Immortal Paradigms: Sri Aurbindo Home-Coming Centenary Volume - Page 8 Charu Sheel Singh - 2002 - 264 pages
Inspite of his colourful weavings of tales and dialogues in his poems, Sri Aurobindo never brushes aside life on earth as vain or as an illusion. Thus Sri Aurobindo's Rishi to Manu: "O King, sight is not in vain, nor any sound. ...
Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - 568 pages
The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 543 In his integral approach, Sri Aurobindo never overlooked historical contributions in other fields of knowledge, and it is up to his followers to integrate the ...
Indian religions: a historical reader of spiritual expression and ... - Page 458 Peter Heehs - 2002 - 620 pages
[161] Extracts from Letters to Disciples Between 1926 and 1950, Sri Aurobindo never left his three-room apartment, seeing and speaking to no one but the Mother and a few personal attendants. During these years, he stayed in contact with ...
Dilip Kumar Roy: a lover of light among luminaries, Amrita Paresh Patel, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai ... - 2002 - 255 pages
them that tells them that this is the truth, the thing that must be followed and done."16 Sri Aurobindo never cared for any fame, publicity or earthly success. Once Dilip Roy wrote a letter to Sri Aurobindo, appealing on behalf of ...
Lest one should be carried away by the conviction that Sri Aurobindo never came down from his Himalayan heights, a light- hearted Sonnet is included here. The Sonnet A Dream of Surreal Science is 'different' from the others. ...
As I see it--: the Karan Singh reader 2001 - 275 pages As I See it
It must be added, however, that to his great credit Sri Aurobindo never allowed his nationalism to degenerate into mere chauvinism or narrow revivalism. In fact, as we have seen, he looked upon
India's emancipation as only an essential ...
Overman: the intermediary between the human and the supramental being, Georges van Vrekhem - 2001 - 189 pages
For as far as we know, in The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Sri Aurobindo never even mentioned the physical mind, surely not in this context. The Mind of Light, he wrote, was "the last in a series of descending planes of ...
Secular "gods" blame Hindu "demons": the Sangh Parivar through the ..., Ramesh N. Rao - 2001 - 276 pages
as speaking of the 'Aryan race' without explaining the semantic itinerary of the expression is tantamount to manipulating the readership into reading something into the phrase which Arya Samaj spokesmen and Aurobindo never intended. ...
The Vedanta kesari Sri Ramakrishna Math (Madras, India) - 2000
Sri Aurobindo never considered himself a philosopher. He was a practitioner of yoga. However, he wrote extensively on philosophical concepts and Advaita was one of them. He wrote a sonnet, The Bliss of Brahman: I am drunken with the ...
New perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's plays, Saryug Yadav - 2000 - 190 pages
Sri Aurobindo never intended his plays to-be enacted, albeit they could have been successfully staged had there been a genuine attempt to render them on the stage. The present work is a critical investigation into Sri Aurobindo's ...
The Mother: the story of her life, Georges Van Vrekhem - 2000 - 545 pages
Aurobindo was never his official secretary, but everybody was aware from where the Maharajah's sonorous English came. Aurobindo never let himself be daunted by his royal employer. His Bengali teacher had an anecdote: 'The Prince of ...
Gurus and their followers: new religious reform movements in ... Antony R. H. Copley - 2000 - 235 pages
So far as I know Aurobindo never commented publicly about how his own community measured up on the scale of authenticity and conventionality. When he instituted forms of collective practice, he took steps to insure that they did not ...
Contemporary religious movement in India: vis-a-vis Ramakrishna ..., Ananda - 2000 - 349 pages
"Sri Aurobindo never imagined that the ultimate goal of his-a Divine life on earth, of transformed individuals joined together in a 'Gnostic Society'-could be achieved with miraculous rapidity" wrote the author Peter ...
Perspectives of Savitri 2000
Sri Aurobindo never did attempt to define the indefinable. One would have thought that is best left undefined. Otherwise you risk one of those laboured and unreadable metaphysical treatises written by those who seek doctorates in ...
Indian nationalism: study in evolution, Sitanshu Das - 1999 - 232 pages
Aurobindo never identified who the members of the Council were when he joined the society. Aurobindo was appointed the head of the circle of the society in
Gujarat which was then relatively quiet. Aurobindo and his younger brother, ... 
Prabuddha bharata: or awakened India Vivekananda (Swami), Advaita Ashrama - 1999
To quote him: The hypothesis goes positively against the direct testimony of Sri Aurobindo, who described her [Nivedita] as one of the active lead- wrote (translation ours) that Aurobindo never taught his group either the 'organization'...
Tradition and the rhetoric of right: popular political argument in ... - Page 81 David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - 339 pages
Because the practice of yoga had only just begun, and even Aurobindo neverclaimed that the change of consciousness would take place immediately, the emphasis in the Ashram was much more on the application of yogic methods in practical ...
A concise encyclopedia of Hinduism Klaus K. Klostermaier - 1998 - 243 pages
Aurobindo never left
Pondicherry and hardly ever left his room, spending an increasing amount of time in meditation. His work was continued by 'The Mother' and his numerous associates who planned to develop Auroville into a model city ...
Nationalism, terrorism, communalism: essays in modern Indian history Peter Heehs - 1998 - 174 pages
... politics For obvious reasons Aurobindo never publicly advocated revolutionary action during the time of his involvement in politics. But a number of statements in his writings of the period show that he was not averse to the use of ...
The Penguin Sri Aurobindo reader Aurobindo Ghose, Makarand R. Paranjape - 1999 - 375 pages
Sri Aurobindo never left his suite of rooms in these premises. As Purani notes in his Evening Talks, 'Then the curtain fell. Sri Aurobindo retired completely . . . ' (Second Series: 12). Until 1938, barring two or three exceptions ...
The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1999
acceptance and transformation of life by the spirit, but all who are free in mind and heart to accept a completer truth and labour for a greater ideal.11 Sri Aurobindo never tired of calling for what he termed "a national education. ...
American literature and Indian English literature: studies in ..., Varghese John, Union Christian College (Alwaye ... - 1999 - 175 pages
But Sri Aurobindo never refers to Yama by name. This is a dark power, Death, Ignorance, Nescience. He will brook no argument, he will not be bound by the finer points of Dharma, nor by words wise or pleasant. ...
Swami Kuvalayananda: a pioneer of scientific yoga and Indian ..., M. L. Gharote, Manmath M. Gharote - 1999 - 168 pages
Sri Aurobindo never directly took part in arms-training, making of bombs, collection of ammunition or military studies. He did the work of inspiring and of strengthening the moral fibre of those who wanted to join the groups.3 When ...
Glimpses of Vedantism in Sri Aurobindo's political thought, Samar BasuSri Aurobindo Ashram - 1998 - 73 pages
For more detail we may recall what Sri Aurobindo himself commented on the issue in rectifying certain errors committed by one of his biographers in presenting the Bande Mataram Case in his book: "Sri Aurobindo never brought any rancour into his politics... Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram – 1997
Exiled at home: comprising, At the edge of psychology, The ... Ashis Nandy - 1998 - 466 pages
Only one of them slips into the shrewd observation in his hagiography thatAurobindo never cared much about any of his relatives except his maternal grandfather. ...
The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1998
Sri Aurobindo never tires of pointing out her beauty of form and purity of soul. "A floating lily in moonlight" she is, but Rodogune has a character that cannot be trifled with, a point realised by the decadent ...
Sri Aurobindo circle Aurobindo Ghose - 1998
Sri Aurobindo never claimed to be a spokesman of any God. As he emphatically stated, "I have not come here to accomplish miracles, but to show, lead the way, help, in the road to a great inner change of our human nature. ...
Selected Works of M.P. Pandit: Sri Aurobindo, Rand Hicks - 1998
The one theme on which Sri Aurobindo never dwelt upon but Mother frequently alludes to, is what the supramental body will be like. She has had many visions, many deep experiences in which she says that the ...
Georges van Vrekhem - 1997 - 544 pages
Beyond man: life and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Through the backdoor of politics, he had arrived at the great Realization. Who had been guiding him on his way? 'Sri Aurobindo never took any formal initiation from anyone; he started his sadhana on his own account by the practice ...
The Quarterly review of historical studies Institute of Historical Studies (Calcutta, India) - 1997
But unlike Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo never made a fetish of non-violence. With him it was not an inviolable ethical creed but just a weapon of action against the British. And, to lend weight to it, it was to be necessarily complemented by ...
East-West evaluation of Man, Vedre Narayan Karan Reddy - 1996 - 390 pages
Similarly in India, Buddha served the whole world by his holy wanderings after his enlightenment whereas Sri Aurobindo never moved from his place yet there is no corner in the world of thought and action which is not touched by the ... Adi Sankara and Aurobindo V. Narayan Karan Reddy - 1992 - 85 pages
Gandhi's encounter with the Indian revolutionaries, Rama Hari Shankar - 1996 - 232 pages
Bipan Chandra Pal disapproved the tactics. Rabindranath Tagore was shocked by the extreme steps taken by the revolutionaries. Tilak and Aurobindo never openly accepted violence as the only path that would lead to the independence of the ...
The Journal of the Indian Academy of Philosophy Indian Academy of Philosophy - 1996
Sri Aurobindo never was an academic philosopher in search of a theory of life and the world. His is an integral yoga, and all his philosophising is nothing but a statement in mental terms of what he realised by yogic means. ...
The moon of Hoa Binh: a novel Nha Trang Công Huyn Tôn N, William L. Pensinger - 1994
Some observations regarding Aurobindo's 'integral yoga': Aurobindo never really came to full acceptance of the body. Though he insisted that the yoga must be 'brought down' into the body which must be transformed, still the body remains ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1994
Sri Aurobindo never meant such wonders to be our objective when he wrote of "an inward living" or of "going inward". As your second quotation from him shows, he was pointing to "self-finding". Let us devote our time to the quiet ...
Gandhi marg Gandhi Peace Foundation (New Delhi, India ... - 1994
There are other philosophers who are keen on applying their philosophy to their own lives and seek to find the path, through certain disciplines, to attain the highest condition of human existence according to their own theory. Sri Aurobindo never wrote his autobiography and made fun of those who wrote his biographies. He said, 'My life is not on the surface as that of men of action'. But being a man full of humour, autobiographical bits peep through his vast correspondence and innumerable conversations with the baffling variety of people he came across and the numerous followers who sought his guidance almost ... Sri Aurobindo: a centenary tribute Aurobindo Ghose, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1974 - 346 pages
The bomb in Bengal: the rise of revolutionary terrorism in India, ..., Peter Heehs - 1993 - 324 pages
It is significant that in this passage and in all related passages of his autobiographical writings, Aurobindo never refers to the ...
Ever to the new and unknown: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of ..., Sri Aurobindo International Centre of ... - 1993 - 330 pages
Sri Aurobindo never lost his temper. "Anger is foreign to my nature," he said. His relation with each individual varied in tone, accent and style according to the nature and each felt the Master near to him. ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1993
But, of course, as I said before, the attaching of a certain label was something Sri Aurobindo never cared a tuppence for and the most important point is to understand Sri Aurobindo's mission and help the undeniable grandeur and immensity of it; the descent and establishment of the Supermind on earth, ...
Sri Aurobindo in Baroda, Roshan - 1993 - 181 pages
Unlike his brother Manmohan (also a professor in English) Sri Aurobindo never prepared himself for the class with elaborate notes. About his career as a professor Sri Aurobindo said in the course of a talk: "I was not so conscientious a ...
Sri Aurobindo's plays: a thematic study, Sheo Jaiswal - 1993 - 260 pages
He goes on to say (and this is significant in the context here) that though firmly grounded in the Indian tradition, Sri Aurobindo never seems to have attempted to draw upon the Sanskrit or folk modes, even in plays in which the ...
The vision and work of Sri Aurobindo, Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1992 - 238 pages
The Mother and Sri Aurobindo never saw things in small blocks of time and space: a boundless vista was ever in their eyes. And even beyond time and space their sense of being extended. Vividly does one of her disciples remember what she...
Guru, the search for enlightenment, John E. Mitchiner - 1992 - 146 pages
Aurobindo never fully abandoned his comments on political life; he claimed that he used his yogic powers to oppose Hitler and the Japanese, and on
India's independence in 1947 his message for her spiritual destiny was broadcast on ...
Sri Aurobindo Ghose, Verinder Grover - 1992 - 606 pages
Sri Aurobindo never belonged to this school of the worldly- wise who play safe; he aligned himself, first and last, to the Pleiad who cannot help but stake their all for the All-in-all, who put all their eggs in one basket, ... Six illuminates of modern India, Dilip Kumar Roy - 1982 - 200 pages The Advent 1981
Sri Aurobindo, the poet, Radhey L. Varshney, Shashi Prabha - 1991 - 144 pages
Though Sri Aurobindo never studied prosody in English, yet he learnt it naturally by reading and writing. He did not consider the study of prosody indispensable for the poet. His poetry reveals him as a master craftsman, an experimenter ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1991
Sri Aurobindo never makes us forget that light lurks beyond the veil of this phenomenal world. The tragic being is compelled to trudge along the thorny course of life but in that lies glory, in that the light of eternity dawns on him. ...
Sri Aurobindo's prose style (with a foreword by V.K. Gokak), Goutam Ghosal - 1991 - 154 pages
Sri Aurobindo never wrote like a scholar, not even in England or Baroda when he was a real scholar. Tradition formed his outline, the novelty came from experience. The more he matured, the more he depended on his own experience. ...
Mother's Agenda, 1965, Mother - 1990 - 384 pages
This "Guide to Yoga" is not a workl Sri Aurobindo never says things like that. That's exactly why doing so distorts him immediately. One good thing would be to have a book by him ready, because people will ask to read Sri Aurobindo ...
The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 302, V. P. Varma - 1990 - 494 pages
Although Aurobindo never has been an advocate of the absolute concept of Ahimsa, still he has held that the advent of the gnostic society will amount to the absolute elimination of the vitalistic malady of war. ...
The Bengal revolutionaries and freedom movement, Dalia Ray - 1990 - 204 pages
that violence would restore equality between the classes, we do not hear any more of this view in 1906-07. Perhaps the reason was that Aurobindo never made an attempt to establish a real contact with the proletariat, urban or rural. ...
Sri Aurobindo, a brief biography Peter Heehs - 1989 - 172 pages
Sri Aurobindo never suggested they spend their time in more edifying pursuits. Partly as a result of their financial ups and downs, Sri Aurobindo and his companions had to shift house ...
The Journal of Indian writing in English G. S. Balarama Gupta - 1989
As always, Sri Aurobindo never fails to astonish us. His vast knowledge overwhelms us while his quick wit provides thought-provoking amusement. Can a philosopher, a yogi, afford to laugh so easily? And yet this is also Sri Aurobindo, ...
The intimate enemy: loss and recovery of self under colonialism Ashis Nandy - 1988 - 121 pages
82 Only one of them slips into the shrewd observation in his hagiography thatAurobindo never cared much about any of his relatives except his maternal grandfather. ...
Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page 42 Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - 336 pages
In spite of this mechanical turn of the human mind, Sri Aurobindo never denies the superiority of the typal stage over the symbolic stage. But he rejects the intellectual notion of religion of the symbolic stage; he refuses to accept ... History, society, and polity: integral sociology of Sri Aurobindo, Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya - 1976 - 281 pages
The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1988
The author says that Sri Aurobindo never used the term 'Integral Education' and only since 1956, when the Mother first gave it currency, the term has caught on. The author considers Sri Aurobindo and the Mother 'the twin ...
A ready reference to philosophy East and West - Page 222, Eugene F. Bales - 1987 - 289 pages
In one sense, then, Aurobindo never ceased being a nationalist; the only real change for him came with the realization that the destiny of India could not be realized by a reliance on Western violence and technology. ...
Glory of India 1987
Sri Aurobindo never rejected any system of yoga but on the contrary he accepted them all and at the same time pointed out their limitations and then he exposed the Integral yoga. In his opinion all yogas are good but they all lead to ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1987
First of all, Sri Aurobindo never spoke of a synthesis of Indian wisdom and contemporary science. He spoke of "The Synthesis of Yoga", which is the title of one of his longest and most admired books, both in
India and abroad. ...
Mother's Chronicles: Mirra the Artist, Sujata Nahar - 1986 - 182 pages
But while speaking about the negative sides of a religion Mother would say in the same breath, "This is but ONE ASPECT of that religion." Both she and Sri Aurobindo never tired of saying that "There are ...
One man's world, Karan Singh (Sadr-i-Riyasat of Jammu and Kashmir) - 1986 - 331 pages
Even at the height of the nationalist movement, even in the white heat of nationalism Sri Aurobindo never fell into the error of simply looking at India for India's sake. He realised that
India had a much deeper message and a much ... In defence of religion and other essays Karan Singh - 1978 - 132 pages
Modern Indian interpreters of the Bhagavadgita - Page 65 Robert Neil Minor - 1986 - 273 pages
Aurobindo never accepted a pacifist posture and throughout his life the Gita would provide him with support for his position. In the Bande Mataram Aurobindo would also speak of the Nationalist movement as the "spirit of the ...
Aurobindo's philosophy of Brahman - Page 111, Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - 200 pages
If the unknown x underlying NB and PG and all other appearances were to be read as an idealist Absolute posited by reason, then we would have to say thatAurobindo never tries to demonstrate a need for the posit. ...
Study of the psychological foundation of the "free progress ..., Chandrakant P. Patel - 1986 - 290 pages
While dwelling on a point Sri Aurobindo never loses sight of the whole field. Moreover, all the western and eastern psychologies can find their proper places in the globe of the integral psychology if interpreted in terms of it and then ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1986
Sri Aurobindo never forgets the "power within" which is the source and cause of all the strengths and without whose aid nothing can be accomplished. "... a power within Directed, like effective spirit unseen Behind the mask of trivial ...
The Visva-Bharati journal of philosophy Visva-Bharati. Centre of Advanced Studies in ... - 1985
Sri Aurobindo never understands synthesis or unity in the sense alternatives. Even in 'Synthesis ot Yoga' he does not posit ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1985 Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna
Many people have notions that Sri Aurobindo never went through any hardship in his life. How untrue! Sri Aurobindo explains in one of his letters to a Sadhak: "But what strange ideas again! — that I was born with a supramental ...
Sri Aurobindo: archives and research Śri Aurobindo Ashram Trust - 1985
Sri Aurobindo never entirely gave up the idea of leaving
Pondicherry and returning to British India. In his letter to Baptista he said only that he was not thinking of going back "just now".45 Three months later he wrote his brother ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1989
Sri Aurobindo never sat down to take any posture for doing Yoga. He simply walked or wrote. His door was never locked. Occasionally I used to correct the proofs of his writings. Every evening he would meditate at
5 o'clock...
The Indian P.E.N. P.E.N. All-India Centre, Bombay - 1984
France and Ireland are two countries which Aurobindo never visited. But from the subjective point of view they have been more important to him than England which he knew so well. France had given to the world the ideals of freedom, ...
Sri Aurobindo: archives and research 1984
Sri Aurobindo never even dreamed of taking Sannyas or of entering into any established order of Sannyasis. ... In fact Sri Aurobindo never took any formal initiation from anyone ; he started his Sadhana on his own account by the ...
Sri Aurobindo, his life unique Rishabhchand - 1981 - 427 pages
amazing was that his noble heart had suffered not the least contamination from the luxury and dissipation, the glitter and glamour, the diverse impressions and influences, and the strange spell of Western society. "Aurobindo never ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1981
She and Sri Aurobindo never approved of fear of any kind. It was very harmful to our sadhana, they maintained. Sri Aurobindo once wrote to me, "All fear ought to be cast out." On 1
8 October 1931 the Mother ...
Realization of God according to Sri Aurobindo: a study of a ..., George Nedumpalakunnel - 1979 - 308 pages
quietly stage by stage until the being is ready and even then it is only the Grace that can bring in Cf. OH., p. 162. iii SY.,p. 268. It is interesting to note thatAurobindo never completed the chapter that contains this passage. ...
Constitutional History of India, Anil Chandra Banerjee - 1978
concludes that 'Aurobindo never directly participated in revolutionary acts.' Gokhale believed that Lajpat Rai was not a revolutionary. (BB Majumdar Militant Nationalism in India, p. 126.) 162 Complete Works of Vivekananda, Vol. ...
Horizons College Theology Society - 1978
Thus it is difficult to fault O'Connor's conclusion that "Aurobindo never achieved a 'full integration' nor 'dynamic synthesis' between the political and the spiritual." Aurobindo belongs with Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave and Camilo Torres in ...
Sri Aurobindo, the perfect and the good, Robert Neil Minor - 1978 - 191 pages
... "its essential and living message, that in it on which humanity has to seize for its perfection and its highest spiritual welfare."45 Aurobindo never uses "Scripture" as a proof for his statements. Though he quotes the Vedas at ...
The future of man according to Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo Ghose, J. Chetany - 1978 - 500 pages
After 1920 Aurobindo never went out of his house nor did he grant audience except very rarely. He gave up wine in 1924 and smoking in 1926 though he continued with his non-vegetarian. ...
Sri Aurobindo: archives and research Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust - 1978
Sri Aurobindo never called his wife to
Pondicherry for Sadhana. They never met again. Her father made a serious attempt after his retirement from Government service in 1916 to take her to Pondicherry but the attitude of Government at ...
The quest for political and spiritual liberation: a study in the ..., June O'Connor - 1977 - 153 pages
Unlike Gandhi, for example, but much like Tilak, he never esteemed ahimsa as a universal principle.18 Although Aurobindo never took direct part in arms-training, bomb-making, or collection of the ammunition, he was a key inspiration to ...
The latter clause brings a significant addition: if Sri Aurobindo repudiates mere earthly humanism, he wants us nonetheless to live for the world, and for mankind as he will tell us later.5 God or man: Sri Aurobindo never would ignore ...
For not only does Arjuna implore Sri Krishna, the divine Lord reciprocates man's prayer. Dialogue, however, presupposes persons as counterparts. In the Essays, on the contrary, Sri Aurobindo never addresses any theistic God, ...
Collected works of T. V. Kapali Sastry, T. V. Kapali Sastry - 1977
A disciple, an intelligent follower of Sri Aurobindo does not raise the question because he has no doubt whatever in this regard. For when words fall from the Master, he knows and is convinced that Sri Aurobindo never utters words from ..
Mother, or, The divine materialism, Satprem - 1977 - 446 pages
And in this way, Sri Aurobindo never imposed anything, one could even say that He did not teach; He simply set into motion the deep material and physiological mechanisms that silently and invisibly work in each man's flesh and in the ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1977
The Mother and Sri Aurobindo never interfered even if we faltered. We were expected to learn by experience and grow conscious. Their way of dealing was quite different from the traditional ways. ...
Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 1977
but the present book amply proves that Sri Aurobindo never lost his interest in what we call mundane affairs. ...
Education for a new life, Narayan Prasad - 1976 - 179 pages
distinguishing him from other teachers. The reply was: "... his openness to all opinions, his capacity to understand them and to inject a new element.... Sri Aurobindo never depreciated the past in order to give value to the future. ...
When two great hearts meet, Edward De Meulder - 1976 - 246 pages
Aurobindo never knew Christ and could therefore easily forget him. But he did encounter Sri Krisna. Now, however, he dismisses him, along with Christ. Twenty years later again, in 1936, Aurobindo is reminded of Christ once more. ...
Annual 1975
... years (1906- 10) for the eventual large-scale launching of the 'freedom movement' by Gandhi a few years after his return to
India in 1915. Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo never met, but a divinity doubtless shaped their ends ...
Political ideas and movements in India, Sankar Ghose - 1975 - 558 pages
Independence could be attained only through passive resistance. But this passive resistance of Aurobindo, unlike that of Gandhi in succeeding years, was not part of a gospel of non-violence. Aurobindo never concealed his opinion that a ...
Sri Aurobindo: a centenary tribute Aurobindo Ghose, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1974 - 346 pages
II From 1910 to 1950, for 40 years Sri Aurobindo never once moved out of
Pondicherry, and he perfected there a most remarkable and startling system of Yoga with which he sought to usher in a new dimension of consciousness. ...
Haryana review 1973
Sri Aurobindo never cared for the so-called greatness or prestige or apparent success. When the Viceroy of India saw in him the most dangerous person in the country, when aspirants of freedom were looking towards him for guidance, ...
Twelve years with Sri Aurobindo, Nirodbaran - 1973 - 306 pages
Nevertheless, even in his personal relation, Sri Aurobindo never lost his impersonality. Now, as far as I was concerned, I was face to face with a disquieting situation. Dr. Manilal was to depart. He had come on a short leave for the ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1973
Himself having done his writing almost entirely in English, Sri Aurobindo neverhad occasion to feel self-conscious about it. He felt at home in this medium as he felt at home in this country. He envisaged a vital role for English as a ...
Contemporary relevance of Sri Aurobindo, Kishor Gandhi - 1973 - 343 pages
Thirdly, even in his metaphysical and esoteric treatises, Sri Aurobindo neverloses sight of the world and its problems and the technics of their solution.3 Politics is concerned with the authoritative administration and organisation of ...
Breath of grace, Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1973 - 368 pages
The Mother and Sri Aurobindo never approved that anyone should be frightened at anything, as it is very harmful for sadhana. Sri Aurobindo once wrote to me, "All fear ought to be cast out." The Mother fell seriously ill on 18th October ...
Sri Aurobindo in the first decade of the century, Manoj Das - 1972 - 207 pages
Aurobindo never hesitated to put that forward over and over again. I object to the Government of this country not because it is an autocratic Government, not because it is not a democratic Government or of its particular actions which ...
Twentieth century Indian philosophy: nature and destiny of man, Nilima Sharma - 1972 - 292 pages
He is aware not only of his pere- pheral differences but also of his basic underlying unity. Thus Aurobindo never regards that man's destiny is to conquer the bare abstract unity by completely rejecting his individuality. ...
The radical thinkers: Heidegger and Sri Aurobindo, Rhoda Priscella Le Cocq - 1972 - 214 pages
Sri Aurobindo, never denies or overlooks some of the debts he owes to ancient yogas, his restatement adds existential and modern insights of his own which are a message of hope to man. The central core of his individual contribution is ...
On the Mahabharata, Sri AurobindoAurobindo Ghose - 1991 - 187 pages
Sri Aurobindo never prepared the essay for publication; this explains its unfinished appearance. There are signs that he looked at it around 1909, but he never gave it a thorough revision. In 1932 the manuscript was discovered by his ... [Sri Aurobindo's interpretation of " the Mahabharata " (Transaction) 
Prema Nandakumar]
Sri Aurobindo: archives and research Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust - 1986
It is justified by the fundamental importance of the system. Sri Aurobindo neverwrote a complete explanation of Sapta ...
Sri Aurobindo: archives and research Śri Aurobindo Ashram Trust - 1977
For an idea of his linguistic theories one must read brief passages scattered throughout such works as The Secret of the Veda, The Future Poetry and Kena Upanishad. Sri Aurobindo never completed the major work on the origins of Aryan ...
Sri Aurobindo on Himself Sri Aurobindo - 1972 - 513 pages
There is also the fact that Sri Aurobindo never based his case for freedom on racial hatred or charges of tyranny or misgovern- ment, but always on the inalienable right of the nation to independence. His stand was that even good ... Sri Aurobindo, the hope of man Keshavmurti - 1969 - 485 pages
Bengal: change and continuity, Ingrid Aall - 1971 - 270 pages
After consulting all the available sources, including Home Department files, histories of the Bengal revolutionary movement, and memoirs of Aurobindo and biographies of them, it is evident that Aurobindo never directly participated in revolutionary acts. As with the editorship of Bande Mataram, he was careful never to expose and endanger himself. ...
Aurobindo and Jugantar, Arun Chandra Guha - 1970 - 91 pages
5 Along with this propaganda, he gave a definite shape to the revolutionary movement which was taking root in
Bengal then. Aurobindo never aspired to be a public leader. Aurobindo used to keep himself behind ...
The renaissance to militant nationalism in India, Sankar Ghose - 1969 - 387 pages
But this passive resistance of Aurobindo, unlike that of Gandhi in succeeding years, was not part of a gospel of non-violence or Ahimsa. "Sri Aurobindo never concealed his opinion that a nation is entitled to attain its freedom by violence if it can do so or if there is no other way; whether it should do so or not, would depend on what under particular circumstance is ...
Though Aurobindo never openly advocated resort to violence the reference to the bow of the Kshatriya being kept ready for use certainly gladdened the hearts of the terrorists. The extremists sought to follow the Irish method of Sinn ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1968
"When I came to the Ashram (it was long, long ago) Sri Aurobindo neverused to teach us anything of the Yoga or sadhana. ...
The Hindu world: an encyclopedic survey of Hinduism, Benjamin Walker - 1968 - 696 pages
Towards the end of his life Aurobindo never showed himself to anyone but a few select disciples, and on rare occasions he gave a darian (audience) to his other followers. To the public he appeared only three days in the year. ...
The extremist challenge: India between 1890 and 1910, Amales Tripathi - 1967 - 246 pages
Aurobindo never ruled out aggressive resistance of the Russian type as a supplementary to passive resistance. His divergence from Tilak became more pronounced. In a significant letter to his wife (
17 February 1907) he had confessed that ...
A critical study of Aurobindo: with special reference to his concept of spiritual evolution, Laxman Ganpatrao Chincholkar - 1966 - 216 pages
The spiritual evolution and the philosophy of Aurobindo have added much to the existing human thought. The spiritual evolution is, in a way, a confirmation of what already occurred in the Vedas and the Upanisads. Aurobindo never says ... [Sri Aurobindo and the theories of evolution;: A critical and comparative study of the Indian and western theories of evolution with special reference to ... evolution (The Chowkhamba Sanskrit studies) 
Rama Shanker Srivastava ]
The "psychic entity" in Aurobindo's The life divine, Roque Ferriols - 1966 - 157 pages
The tone of this work is that of a lyrical tantrism, with its devotion to Prakriti — the mysterious, fearful, yet loving feminine aspect of the Absolute. Finally, though Aurobindo never wrote an autobiography, a good part of Sri ...
Sri Aurobindo's Life divine: lectures delivered in the U.S.A., Ambalal Balkrishna Purani - 1966 - 282 pages
Sri Aurobindo never looked at the world as people do but when anybody met him he found him a perfect gentleman, very nice, very polite. They never could know that they had met a person who lived in the Divine, in the supreme Reality. ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1962
Sri Aurobindo never subscribed to this sunny view. On the contrary, he held that Nazism, in the form in which we then saw it, was, in spite of its terrible ugliness, no more than a small and slight beginning of a darkness of which we ...
Life in Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Narayan Prasad - 1965 - 319 pages
Reaching the highest height Sri Aurobindo never discarded the sorrow-racked earth. One of his memorable statements is: "I am concerned with the earth, not with the worlds beyond for their own sake, it is a terrestrial realisation that I ...
Social philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and the new age, Kishor Gandhi - 1965 - 273 pages
Spirit and life, Heaven and earth, God and man remain for ever antithetical. But Sri Aurobindo never admits this defeatist solution. On the contrary, he trenchantly and insistently rejects it as inconclusive and affirms that the resistance which life offers to the Spirit can be conquered, however formidable and ...
Mother India Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1964
Sri Aurobindo never leaves the ground of Mother Earth. In fact, it is towards it he leans. It is to humanity that is in grief that he points his finger. He does not speak of redemption after death. He is not satisfied with the mere hope ...
Mainstream 1964
As a realist political leader Aurobindo never propounded the use of any one method exclusively. He realized that it would be necessary to attack political dependence from all sides. The methods suggested by him ranged from passive...
Studies in modern Indian political thought: the moderates and the ... O. P. Goyal - 1964 - 113 pages
However, Passive Resistance was adopted by Aurobindo as the best policy for the National Movement at that stage and this was not a part of a gospel of Non- Violence or Ahimsa. "Sri Aurobindo never concealed his opinion that a nation is
The Journal of the Bihar Research Society Bihar Research Society - 1963
to his followers as little lees than the re-incarnation of a deity.' 1 Sir Aurobindo never posed himself as an Avatara, nor did his close ...
The adventure of criticism, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1962 - 691 pages
... from one or the other is a vain delusion and a mere weariness of effort, is demonstrated with matchless force and compelling logic in Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine. Although Sri Aurobindo never called his philosophy 'existential', it is quintessential existential because it is above everything else a philosophy of becoming, a philosophy of transformation from a limited ......
The political philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1960 - 471 pages
Although Aurobindo never has been an advocate of the absolute concept of Ahimsa, still he has held that the advent of the gnostic society will amount to the absolute elimination of the vitalistic malady of war. ...
The Indian journal of political science Indian Political Science Association - 1956
There are important differences between Aurobindo's political philosophy and the political and moral individualism of the west. Aurobindo never accepts the idea of the fulfilment of the demands of the ego.1 His views are ...
The future of English in India, Ardeshir Ruttonji Wadia - 1954 - 166 pages
The politician and the patriot in Aurobindo never died but it took a new form in him unlike his brother. He took to a deep study of Sanskrit, made Sanskrit lore his own, and brought to bear all the wealth of western culture on his study
of his own ancient classics and ...
Calcutta review University of Calcutta, University of Calcutta ...  1953  1921
Aurobindo never favoured democracy.1 Hence we have to construct an adequate spiritual philosophy of democracy which would not be exotic but would maintain a strong connexion with the traditions of our philosophy and culture. ...
Sri Aurobindo came to me, Dilip Kumar Roy - 1952 - 556 pages
... gaze is rivetted on what can be clearly seen by the mortal eye, it misses, necessarily, what authorises the seen phenomena: the ordaining Finger of the Unseen. Sri Aurobindo never missed this because he had acquired the third eye,...
Sri Aurobindo, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1945, 1950 - 404 pages
Sri Aurobindo never concealed his opinion that a nation is entitled to attain its freedom by violence, if it can do so or if there is m other way; whether it should do so or not, would depend on what under particular circumstances is ...
There was also this important consideration, which too might have influenced the prudent decision of the Government, — that Sri Aurobindo never based his case for freedom on racial hatred or charges of tyranny or misgovernment. ...
Journal of Sri Aurobindo Study Society Aurobindo Ghose - 1949
Latterly the face of the image has sometimes got mixed up with the Master's face, but not often. Aurobindo never admitted that he had given any such image to me. Whenever I questioned him, he replied in an offhand way, ...
Eminent Indians, Ermine A. Brown - 1946 - 214 pages
But Aurobindo never divorced politics from the spirit, although he is far too clear-sighted to have confused the two as all false prophets tend to do. Spiritual life is for a man as fiercely intellectual as Aurobindo, a most natural, ... 
Sri Aurobindo circle Aurobindo Ghose - 1945
As a matter of fact, Sri Aurobindo never urged his case for Indian Independence by detailing charges of misgovernment ; his thesis was simple — even good government was no substitute for self-government, and India had an inherent right...
Studies in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy, Susil Kumar Maitra - 1945 - 160 pages
I need hardly say that Sri Aurobindo never credits reason with such miraculous powers. It is certainly not his view that reason is a sort of magician's wand, at the very touch of which, intuition, which otherwise is a very feeble ...
World union World Union (Organization)
The fact is Sri Aurobindo never 'retired' from action; he only changed the field of action, the level of functioning. But he always held the entire life as his proper field, not only politics, not only literature, not only soul-oriented ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1958
Sri Aurobindo never cared to push himself to the forefront. On the contrary, he always preferred to remain behind the scene. Hence his part is overshadowed by the activities of others, of those prominent to the public eye. ...
Astadala Yogamala, Vol. 4 - Page 125 Aurobindo never mingled with the masses, but his works conveyed his knowledge and wisdom. Ramana experienced the real directly but used very few words which have been expanded by the scholars who were following him. ...

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