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July 20, 2010

Sri Aurobindo was against the system of education framed by Macaulay

It never ceases to amaze me how the vedantic sages are literally talking about what we understand (if we comprehensively understand it that is) as Magick in their texts. Aurobindo was a contemporary of Crowley, and I love his writing especially because he was able to incorporate a lot of the movements of Modernity (such as the idea of progress and evolution) as well as post-modernity (plursalism and its issue into integrality) in his exegesis. Really amazing stuff. T
Ruminations on different siddhantas The Hindu CHENNAI, July 20, 2010 C. T. INDRA
The dominant tenor of the novel hence is its ruminations on different siddhantas, ideologies — ranging from Marxism to neo-modern spirituality. It is this tenor that impels the author to devote substantial space to the recapitulation of Sri Aurobindo's advocacy of supramental consciousness as the clue to the future of humanity.
CONSCIOUSNESS: The narration of the protagonist Kesava Murthy's visit to Pondicherry, along with his wife and friends, to have a darshan of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, especially the serene atmosphere, transports us to the hallowed premises. In this and other places, as for instance where the concept of ‘transmigration of souls' is expounded, the prime focus is on expansion of the mind and consciousness. 
Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion Purushottama Bilimoria, Andrew B. Irvine - 2009 - 340 pages
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... Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), and Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950), all educated in Victorian England. ... Thomas Babington Macaulay expressed ambivalence toward nabobs in his 1840 essay on Robert Clive (1725- 74), Major-General of ...
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In contrast, most of modern education, inaugurated in this country by Thomas Babington Macaulay, with its excessive ... in which the kind of freedom and choice that Sri Aurobindo advocates can really come into being and operate freely. ...
Value Education: Based On All The Religions Of The World (In Two ... - Page 89 S.L. Dhani - 2008 - 746 pages
Macaulay in his Minute on Education (1835) did not mince words that he wanted to do so. ... Sri Aurobindo recognized the deep all-containing truth of the Indian civilization and he remarked that her culture had from the beginning an ...
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... empire: it was to have dominion on the mind as well, to echo the eloquence of Victorian liberals like Macaulay. ... The enlightened first-generation nationalists, including Tagore, Aurobindo and Tilak, did not want
India to ever ...
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It is a world that seems somehow far from that of Anand and Aurobindo. Perhaps the most interesting chapter in Verma' ... have envisioned an
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Consequently, the Company commissioned Lord Macaulay to prepare and submit a detailed report on the ... The torch lit by luminaries like Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and others was taken over by the succeeding generation of leaders ...
In search of our nationalist roots for a philosophy of education: ... Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 2004 - 234 pages
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India will come out completely subservient. ...
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... of the modern west through the works of thinkers like Tom Paine, Thomas Babington Macaulay and John Stuart Mill. ... Aurobindo has very aptly described this spirit of self-inquiry in these words: For whatever temporary rotting and ...
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ICSSR journal of abstracts and reviews: political science Indian Council of Social Science Research - 2002
... that is being blown over the content of education, there is hardly any mention of Tagore, Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo and J. Krishnamurti. Their contributions to the process and content of education would certainly help to put Macaulay, ...
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