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June 24, 2010

Sri Aurobindo admitted that he was unaware of any 'political action' by Vivekananda

Cross-cultural studies in curriculum: eastern thought, educational ... Claudia Eppert, Hongyu Wang - 2008 - 379 pages
Sri Aurobindo has admitted that anger, hatred, and violence are in human nature but has suggested that the growth of spiritual consciousness and of inner peace would help to purge them, emphasizing, "Peace is the first condition without ...
Humanity, truth, and freedom: essays in modern Indian Philosophy - Page 88 Raghunath Ghosh - 2008 - 164 pages
Sri Aurobindo has admitted that this physical or material body bears 'something more' or surplus thing which cannot give us satisfaction within this material world. Sri Aurobindo is found to use 'Super man' after a man's transformation ...
Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur ... - 2007 - 317 pages
The sensuous appeal is there, admits Sri Aurobindo, but he goes on to add that it is refined into "only one and not the chief element of the richness of a soul of psychic grace and beauty" which is for the Indian artist the true ...
Culture, Society and Leadership - Page 122 Chakraborty S K, Debangshu Chakraborty ... - 2006 - 426 pages
could be accounted for only by the degree of purity of emotional forces driving political activities. Sri Aurobindo had admitted: “I have done politics and the most violent kind of revolutionary politics, ...
Guru English: South Asian religion in a cosmopolitan language - Page 95 Srinivas Aravamudan - 2006 - 330 pages
had stood second to Aurobindo in the Greek paper of the Indian Civil Service exam, but had done better in Bengali. Aurobindo admitted to having had no facility with vernaculars in his youth except for a smattering of Hindustani. ...
Sri Aurobindo - Page 11 Purnima Majumdar - 2005 - 122 pages
was going to
Australia, via India, he stopped at Calcutta, settled all previous accounts, collected the dues and went away. No account is available, about who got Manmohan and Aurobindo admitted in St. Paul's school, London. ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2004
Sri Aurobindo admitted that 'from the view of the evolutionary future European and Indian civilisations at their best have been only half achievements' while 'the real and perfect civilisation yet waits to be discovered'. ...
Studies in Hinduism - Page 172 René Guénon, Henry D. Fohr, S. D. Fohr  2001, 2004 - 251 pages
What is more contestable is that Sri Aurobindo seems to admit not only a spiritual evolution for each being but also evolution in the sense of a 'progression' of the world in its totality. This is an idea which appears very modern to us ...
Secularisation of Indian mind: a study of political ideas in India ... V. Indira Devi - 2002 - 314 pages
Aurobindo admitted, however, that Indian science did come to a halt around the 13th century and it stagnated while modern science took great strides forward. Thus, ever since the ancient times, ...
Indian Political Thought - Page 254 Urmila Sharma, S.K. Sharma - 2001 - 416 pages Here Sri Aurobindo has admitted liberty as the one single goal of political movement. ...
Nationalism, terrorism, communalism: essays in modern Indian history Peter Heehs - 1998 - 174 pages
Even the gentlemanly Aurobindo admitted to having 'a strong hatred for the British'; but he kept this out of his public utterances, supporting his demand for independence with an appeal to the inherent right of peoples to ...
Nationalism, regionalism, and philosophy of national integration - Page 131, N. Malla - 1998 - 213 pages
However, Aurobindo admitted the "richness of internal interchange and variation." (pp. 391-2, in the essay, "Indian Culture and External Influence"). But, he continued with his fundamental pre-occupation in "Indian Polity - 3", ...
Makers Of Indian Literature Prem Chand - Page 10 Prakash Chandra Gupta - 1998 - 62 pages
Manmohan and Aurobindo, admitted to St. Paul's School, London and left the three brothers in London under the guardianship of his mother. The boys were not too happy with old Mrs. Drewett who insisted on their attending long family ...
The Ramakrishna-Vivekananda movement impact on Indian society and ..., Jayasree Mukherjee - 1997 - 338 pages
and the authorities of the Aurobindo Ashrama. Aurobindo admitted that he was unaware of any 'political action' by Vivekananda, but only heard of his 'intense patriotic feelings.' When Vivekananda was shaking the World Parliament ...
Social realities in Bihar Sachchidananda, K. K. Varma, Manohar Lal - 1997  395 pages ... Aurobindo admitted.
Sri Aurobindo and the new age: essays in memory of Kishor Gandhi Kishor Gandhi, Sachidananda Mohanty ... - 1997 - 239 pages
"Spirituality is not the monopoly of India," admits Sri Aurobindo (p. 10), but what makes India special is "spirituality made the leading motive and the determining power of both the inner and the outer life," which is different from ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram  1997 Sri Aurobindo admitted the various interpretations that have been made by different scholars. But all maintain that spirituality is their central theme. Sri Aurobindo has revealed the esoteric meaning of numberless Riks and also the ...
Journal of Sri Aurobindo Study Society 1990
Sri Aurobindo admitted that he held certain views which, although the world might castigate them as follies, frenzies, aberrations or obsessions, were part of his crystallised Faith, and they were ...
The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1989
Sri Aurobindo has admitted five cycles or stages in human history viz. symbolic, typal, conventional, individualistic and subjective'. Here the first stage is not repeated in the second and the second does not repeat itself in the third ...
The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1988
If 'truth' is the object of the study of philosophy, the spiritual and divine truth must occupy an important place in philosophy. And spiritual vision alone discovers the truth eternal. Sri Aurobindo has admitted no complete separation ...
Congress in Indian politics: a centenary perspective, Ram Joshi - 1988 - 299 pages
Years later, Aurobindo admitted that the younger nationalists from
Maharashtra decided to break the Congress and that though this decision was unknown to Tilak, it was known to him. Owning responsibility for the split, ...
Perspectives on Vedānta: essays in honor of Professor P.T. Raju - Page 77 Poolla Tirupati Raju, S. S. Rama Rao Pappu - 1988 - 206 pages
This was what Plato meant when he said that Good is beyond knowledge. Aurobindo admitted this when he wrote, "A certain kind of Agnosticism is the final truth of all knowledge. For when we come to the end of whatever path, the universe appears as only a symbol or an appearance of an unknowable Reality ...
Congress in Indian politics: a centenary perspective Ram Joshi, R. K. Hebsur - 1987 - 299 pages
Aurobindo admitted in later years that he had joined this secret society in 1902. It had a council of five members in
Bombay with several prominent 'Maratha' politicians as its members. The Thakur who led the secret society had won over ...
The concept of man in Sri Aurobindo and other themes Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1987 - 439 pages
In keeping with the old Vedic vision of a certain community of interest between earth and heaven, Sri Aurobindo refuses to admit any gulf between there and here. He admits it is easy to achieve success in the Beyond but to establish ...
The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1983
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1986
Sri Aurobindo admitted after his first meeting with Mirra Richard on 29-3-1914 that he had never before seen such an example of absolute surrender as the Mother had shown. It was the most perfect conceivable form of atma ...
Bipinchandra Pal and Indian national movement, Dilipkumar Chattopadhyay - 1986 - 147 pages
chandra was, even Aurobindo admitted that Pal could write, as he spoke, in spite of himself. He wrote almost under an inspiration, and he continued his avocation as a journalist from his 18th or 19th year till the end of his days. ...
Sri Aurobindo: archives and research Śri Aurobindo Ashram Trust - 1985
After a few minutes' conversation, the doctor, hearing Aurobindo's English, asked: "Were you educated in
England?" Aurobindo admitted that he was. Then the doctor gave them both their ...
Modern Indian political thought, Sankar Ghose  1975, 1984 - 509 pages
The extremist Pal said that in the disarmed and disorganized condition of the people any violent uprising could easily be suppressed by the government. Similarly, Aurobindo admitted that the physical strength of the country belonged largely to the established authority, and he warned the people not to come into any violent physical conflict with the authorities. In January 1907 Tilak declared: "We ...
Mazzini and his impact on the Indian national movement, Gita Srivastava - 1982 - 312 pages
The rupture started on the first day of the
Surat session and the whole-session ended in pandamonium, confusion and chaos on the next day. Aurobindo admitted that "very few people know that it was I (without consulting Tilak), ...
Politics of minorities: some perspectives, Moin Shakir - 1980 - 172 pages
British did not consider
India as a nation but only a "geographical expression". Even Sri Aurobindo admitted that nationalism in India necessitated "mental discipline and capacity to organize" which the country did not possess. The spiritual and cultural unity could be ...
The social philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, Ram Nath Sharma - 1980 - 230 pages
Here Sri Aurobindo has admitted liberty as the one single goal of political movement. In his moral philosophy the excellence of end decides the excellence of means and any means can be adopted to fulfill a spiritual end. ...
Neo-Hegelian and neo-Advaitic monism: a study in converging ..., Lakshmī Saksenā - 1980 - 198 pages
Philosophic consistency requires the boldness to confess not only the inability of our normal awareness to solve the problem of 'genesis' on its plane (as Aurobindo has admitted himself) but the further admission of the very falsity of the problem itself. It is this declaration that the problem of genesis is specifically a problem of the segmenting consciousness of man, ...
The future of man according to Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo Ghose J. Chetany - 1978 - 500 pages
Later on Aurobindo admitted that he had various such experiences in the Alipur Jail. He learned meditation, practised Yoga and experienced a special aesthetic sense for sculpture, painting etc. His muscles became strong and could lift ...
Say not the struggle: essays in honour of A.D. Gorwala Astad Dinshaw Gorwala - 1978 - 392 pages
Bande Mataram describing passive resistance as an instrument of political action. These were anonymous and the last in the series was not published because the police had seized the papers. Many years later, Sri Aurobindo admitted being their author and these were published in 1948 under the title The Doctrine of Passive Resistance. Aurobindo argued that the choice of political action by a subject country tor the ...
Manmohan Ghose, Lotika Ghose - 1975 - 96 pages
Mr. Drewett left for
Australia in 1885 but before leaving he had Manmohan and Aurobindo, admitted to St. Paul's School, London and left the three brothers in London under the guardianship of his mother. The boys were not too happy with ...
Annual 1975
After the war was over with the triumph of the Allies, Sri Aurobindo admitted in an autobiographical note how, in his retirement, he had nevertheless "kept a close watch on all that was happening in the world and in India, and actively ...
Studies in modern Indian aesthetics Sudhīrakumāra Nandī - 1975
all these the natural man clamours to know; and yet all these are things we are very fortunate not to know". Sri Aurobindo admitted that the historical method was attractive and it led to certain distinct advantages; it decidedly ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1974
so that it might not be subject in any mode to the so-called laws of Nature and would mark the beginning of a new, a supramental race. With the passing of Sri Aurobindo we saw a momentous shift in the plan: Sri Aurobindo admitted ...
Contemporary relevance of Sri Aurobindo Kishor Gandhi - 1973 - 343 pages
It is difficult to distinguish the poetry of the Overmind, admits Sri Aurobindo, unless one has lived in the light oneself. If this admission of the rarity of critical genuis is a limitation in Sri ...
The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-1908, Sumit Sarkar - 1973 - 552 pages
As Aurobindo admitted in his April 1907 article — op. cit., p. 61. 302 RNP(B) for week ending
29 February 1908. 303 History of the Second Year of the Swadeshi Movement. Home Political Progs Deposit, July 1909, n. 13. ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1973
No doubt, admits Sri Aurobindo, there are powerful, often overwhelming experiences which seem to validate this view and among seekers its adherents have always been in the majority. But is it not possible, he asks, that this may be the ...
Sri Aurobindo Sisirkumar Mitra - 1972 - 215 pages
1940, Sri Aurobindo said smiling, 'England destroyed 175 German planes, a very big number; as on 15 August' In one of our talks in 1943 Sri Aurobindo admitted that he had fixed these two dates on which Germany would have a heavy defeat. Writing about his intervention in the world affairs Sri Aurobindo said: 'In his retirement Sri Aurobindo ...
Light to superlight: unpublished letters of Sri Aurobindo Aurobindo Ghose, Arun Chandra Dutt - 1972 - 239 pages
Sri Aurobindo admitted that for the nine or ten months to follow he had had 'only fortuitous help', as already noted by us. On his own admission, he was then 'at the height of his difficulties — in debt, with no money for the ...
Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history 1972
As Sri Aurobindo admitted to a disciple: Certainly, my force is not limited to the Ashram and its conditions... it is also used for individual purposes outside the scope of the Ashram and the practice of Yoga; but that of course is ...
The liberator Sri Aurobindo, India, and the world Sisirkumar Mitra - 1970 - 307 pages
in Bengali that he would do everything for
India's liberation. Then Sri Aurobindo put to him certain questions covered by the pledge. Satisfied with his answers on every point, Sri Aurobindo admitted him to the organisation. ...
The Miscellany Writers Workshop (Calcutta, India) - 1970
It is difficult to distinguish the poetry of the Overmind, admits Aurobindo, unless one has lived in the light oneself. If this admission of the rarity of critical genius is a limitation in Aurobindo's aesthetic poetry, he seems willing ...
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 Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1963

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