This is the Western model that Indians currently want to emulate.
Large sections of India
is currently enamoured by the desire to mimic the American lifestyle. There is
lot of money flowing into the country and this has boosted people’s aspirations…
They take pride in being “secular” – which means they have no value system
other than some minimal ethical principles.
The
Lives of Sri Aurobindo -
Page 23 - Peter
Heehs - 2008 - Preview - More
editions ... whole way
of life, which was simple and penurious in the extreme, is against this: they
were due entirely to circumstances beyond his control. Despite his heavy load
and relative poverty, Aurobindo passed two happy years
at Cambridge .
Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1 - Page 807
- Aurobindo
Ghose - 1970 - The increasing poverty of the masses has been the subject of innumerable
pamphlets, speeches and newspaper articles, but we are apt to think our duty
done when we have proved that the poverty problem
is there ; we leave the solution to ...
His
Majesty's Opponent - Page 26 - Sugata
Bose - 2012 - Preview - More
editions Aurobindo had
inspired Bengal's young revolutionaries of the Swadeshi era, before retiring
into a life of religious ... This
experience unfolded before him “a picture of real India, the India of the
villages—where poverty stalks
over the land, men ...
The
Mother - Page 15 - Aurobindo
Ghose, Sri
Aurobindo - 1995 - Preview - More
editions a certain
distorting influence stamped on it ...Some
even put a ban on money and riches and proclaim poverty and bareness of life as the only spiritual condition.
But this is an error; it leaves the power in the ...
Poverty and Sustainable
Development: Concepts and Measures - Page 72 - Indian
Economic Association. Conference, N. Sreenivas Iyengar - 2010 - Preview
Sri Aurobindo, however,
looked at it from the point of view of an organized society. He said: "The
acceptance of poverty is
noble and beneficial in a class or an individual, but it becomes fatal and
pauperizes the life of its richness and expansion...
Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: Integral
Sociology and Dialectical ... - Page 137 - Debi
Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - Preview
To be good he is asked tc cultivate and realise the virtues of poverty and austerity… The
pro-Marxist critique of bourgeois culture is understandable and to a certain
extent acceptable to Sri Aurobindo.
Sociology,
Ideology and Utopia: Socio-Political Philosophy of East ... - Page 46 - Debi
Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1997 - Preview - More
editions If one accepts Sri Aurobindo's stricture
against vulgar capitalism, it is difficult to see how one can consistently
dissociate oneself from the protest against inequality, poverty and hunger of the majority of the humankind spread
over the globe.
Sri Aurobindo circle - Volume 54 -
Page 10 - Sri
Aurobindo Ashram - 1998 - This was, of course, the message reiterated
several decades later by Mahatma Gandhi. Sri Aurobindo was no armchair philosopher. He gave away with a
natural ease. That is history. But his point was never poverty for the sake of poverty, but...
Readings
in The Mother by Sri Aurobindo -
Page 33 - Santosh
Krinsky - 2012 - Preview
Many religious orders enjoin a vow of poverty on those joining the monastery or convent. We
find ... Sri Aurobindo's view of this matter
differs from this long tradition: “...most spiritual disciplines insist on a
complete self-control, detachment and ...
Empire,
the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920:Resistance ... - Page 54 - Elleke
Boehmer - 2005 - Preview - More
editions Along with its neo-Hinduist Renaissance, the second crucial
element shaping nationalist sentiment in Bengal was what Aurobindo referred
to as the 'one great fact . . . the terrible poverty of India and its
rapid increase under British rule', that is...
Immortal
Sarvoday - Page xvii - N.hazary -
2007 - Preview
Aurobindo believed that India could be rescued from the state of decline
and decadence, poverty and exploitation and could usher into a better
life only through Swaraj. Tilak, Aurobindo and Gandhi worked for
swadeshi and national education ...
Swami
Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India - Page 353 - P.
R. Bhuyan - 2003 - Preview
Besides, amidst wretchedness, poverty and starvation it is too
difficult to preach Advaitism and realise the grand dream of ... Such
consideration made Aurobindo a critic of the modern capitalism, which
is characterised by oppression and ...
Life
and Times of Netaji Subhas: From Cuttack to Cambridge, 1897-1921 - Page 105
- Adwaita
P. Ganguly - 2001 - Preview - More
editions Reading of Sri Aurobindo thus appeared to him
'refreshing' and 'inspiring' and he wished Aurobindo would come back
in ... Those of you who are poor and obscure - I should like to see
their poverty and obscurity devoted to the service of the ...
Netaji
Subhas Chandra Bose and Indian Freedom Struggle (Set in 2 ... - Page 41 - Ratna
Ghosh - 2006 - Preview - More
editions Comparing Vivekananda's views on the Yogas with threat of
Sri Aurobindo's conception of Yoga, Subhas Chandra wrote: ... Those
of you who are poor and obscure — I should like to see your poverty and
obscurity devoted to the service of the ...
Bhatkhande's
Contribution to Music: A Historical Perspective - Page 26 - Nair
Sobhana - 1989 - Preview - More
editions At this time Aurobindo Ghosh flung himself into this
movement and organised Sabhas, Samitis, Akharas and Ashrams ... a
Bar-at-Law, he chose a life of self-imposed poverty, as he wanted to
identify himself with the poverty-stricken masses.
Ascetic
Culture: Renunciation and Wordly Engagement - Page 111 - Karigoudar
Ishwaran - 1999 - Preview - More
editions ... Sri Aurobindo and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
Three were monastics, and Gandhi lived a life guided by the monastic vows of
chastity and poverty. It could be argued that the other three, Roy, Tagore
and Radhakrishnan often functioned as ...
Sri Aurobindo and
Iqbal: a comparative study of their philosophy - Page 6 - M.
Rafique - 1974 - Iqbal condemned the doctrine of dissolution of the
human self into the featureless Absolute as an ideal of inaction and poverty of
life. This point becomes ... Just like Sri Aurobindo, he also
holds self-fulfilment as the highest ideal of human life.
Management
principles and practices - Page 90 - Raghubir Dayal, Peter Zachariah,
Kireet Rajpal - 1996 - Preview - More
editions Swami Nikhilananda contends that 'Religion has never been the
cause of India's poverty; it is indifference to religious ... Sri Aurobindo's observation,
as the most profound scholar-mystic of modern India, and probably no less an
achiever than ...
Principles
Of Education - Page 261 - S.S.
Chandra, Rajendra
Kumar Sharma - 2004 - Preview - More
editions For example, it is now being recognized that the excessive
increase in poverty in any one part of the world is almost certain to
affect the ... Sri Aurobindo was a staunch
internationalist, in spite of his very emphatic expression of nationalism.
Gandhi:
The Traditional Roots Of Charisma - Page 62 - Susanne
Hoeber Rudolph, Lloyd
I. Rudolph - 1987 - Preview
... Vivekananda, Tagore, Aurobindo, and Gandhi himself played a
significant part in shaping India's national identity and helping her to make ... Self-sufficient
villages stand in the way of their quest for a release from poverty and
dependence.
Makers
of Modern India - Page 13 - Guha, Ramachandra
Guha - 2011 - Preview - More
editions Both were, in their own day, quite
influential; yet (as with Radhakrishnan and Aurobindo) their influence has
passed. ... The book was called Poverty and Un-British Rule
in India ;
it chastised the rulers for focusing on draining wealth out of the...
Gandhi:
'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings - Page xxxi - Mohandas
Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel - 1997 - Preview - More
editions In contrast to the Moderates, no Extremist is mentioned by name in Hind Swaraj - an indication of Gandhi's distance from them. In other words, Tilak and Aurobindo Ghose, their distinguished leaders, are passed over in silence... Neither would Aurobindo Ghose's appeal to shakti - power
in its creative but violent forms, mythologised by Durga, Bhavani and Kali
- have been more reassuring to the Mahatma. While no work by the Extremists is
included in the Appendix, two works by the Moderates, Poverty and
Un-British Rule in ...
Immortal
Sarvoday - Page 30 - N.hazary -
2007 - Preview
Gandhiji gave serious thought to the question of Swaraj in 1908 in his book Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule.
But the Swaraj of his conception was different from the concept of Swaraj of
Tilak and Aurobindo.
Violence
denied: violence, non-violence and the rationalization of ... - Page 329 - Jan
E. M. Houben, K.
R. van Kooij - Preview
In
rather the same vein as in the piece from 1908, Aurobindo argues here that violence basically ... In Hind Swaraj, first published in 1908
in South Africa (in Gujarati), Gandhi says about 'soul-force': "The force
implied in ...
Socialism
Of Jawaharlal Nehru - Page ix - Rabindra
Chandra Dutt - 1981 - Preview - More
editions It was this kind of sterility of public debate and discussion
which led Aurobindo Ghosh to write in Arya the following ... shells
and rags of the past ... he would be- amazed by the extent of mental poverty,
the immobility, the static repetition, the ...
Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh: National Upsurge - Page 130 - M. G. Chitkara - 2004 - Preview
Sri Aurobindo was never tired of telling the people that "a
great future for India
could be built only on the spiritual greatness of her past". Swami ...
In
Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in ... - Page 171
- Priya
Joshi - 2002 - Preview - More
editions The adaptations that Bankim made with such apparent ease in the
Bengali novel were a lot harder in the English one, compounding Aurobindo Ghose's
contention that for an Indian in the British empire "to be original in an
acquired tongue is ...
From
the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the ... - Pankaj
Mishra - 2012 - As the British gunned down the last heirs to the
Mughal Empire, burned down the Summer Palace in Beijing, or humiliated the
bankrupt rulers of the Ottoman Empire, it was clear that for Asia to recover a
vast intellectual effort would be ...
Conversations
and Transformations: Toward a New Ethics of Self and ... - Ananta
Kumar Giri - 2002 - Preview - More
editions In this intriguing new book, Indian social theorist Ananta Kumar
Giri issues a stirring call for scholars of contemporary social theory and
practice to grapple with late modernity's most pressing social and political
issues.
Between
Jerusalem/Benare: Comparative Studies in Judaism and Hinduism - Page 265 - Hananya
Goodman - 1994 - Preview - More
editions ... of the poverty of the historic situation in
their day, and despite the fact that full-fledged nationhood had yet to come
into ... While in Kook's thinking this was deeply grounded in the
messianic idea, there was nothing similar for Sri Aurobindo to ...
Postcolonial
Philosophy of Religion - Page 97 - Purusottama
Bilimoria, Andrew
B. Irvine - 2009 - Preview - More
editions In this Sri Aurobindo has the support of Bal Gangadhar
Tilak who said: “The point is to have the entire control in our ... a
purity of intention that incarnates itself in that particular caste that
symbolises renunciative will and voluntary poverty.
The
Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965) - Page 32 - Vinayak
Krishna Gokak - 1970 - Preview - More
editions ... J. Furtado's The Old Irani, Nissim Ezekiel's Night of the
Scorpion and Enterprise, Karan Singh's The Seminar and Sri Aurobindo's A
Dream of Surreal Science. It becomes even more bitter when the poets deal with poverty and
social injustice ...
Victorian
Vulgarity: Taste in Verbal and Visual Culture - Page 234 - Susan
David Bernstein, Elsie
B. Michie - 2009 - Preview For Coomaraswamy, commercialism promulgated
the "increasing contrast between extremes of wealth and poverty, the ... The
nationalist Aurobindo [Ghose] who led the Swadeshi national movement
from 1905 to 1908 and defended the ...
Sri Aurobindo:
The hour of God, and other writings - Page 103 - Aurobindo
Ghose - The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust
and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy
awakening of the conscience of a robber. Valmikie, our ancient epic poet,
includes among the signs of a just and ...
Sri Aurobindo Reader
- Page 62 - Makarand
Paranjape, Makarand - Preview
... its 'own style, just and precise and sins rather by economy of phrase
than by excess, by over-pregnancy rather than by poverty of
sense. ... A Retrospect of Vedic Theory Veda, then, is the creation
The
Dialogue With Death (Sri Aurobindo`S
Savitri, A Mystical Approach) - Page 208 - Rohit
Mehta - 2003 - Preview - More
editions Savitri was indeed impatient of the poverty of time and she wanted to spend in love, in one day,
what would have been legitimate for a century. Such was the irresitible passion
that seized Savitri. One year was too short a period, and her love ...
Rebirth
& Karma - U.S. Edition - Page 22 - Sri
Aurobindo, Ashram - 1992 - Preview
Nature seems to start with an extraordinary poverty of original broad variative conceptions and to proceed to
an extraordinary richness of her minuter consequential variations, which
amounts to a forging of constant ...
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