September 24, 2010

No evidence to indicate that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were sexual partners

Widening Horizons: For Educating the Gifted and General Education - Page 285 - Sujatha A. Krishna Rao - 2010 - 308 pages - Preview
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, 1972, pp. 110-3. 13. Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantam Books, 1995, p. 301. 14. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: A new education for a new consciousnessPondicherry: Sri Aurobindo ...
Transcendent in America: Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as ... - Page 229 - Lola Williamson - 2010 - 272 pages - Preview
There is today no central authority or organization, although there are many “centers” and study groups around the world that offer followers of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother a place to gather. There is also no clear articulation of the ...
Integral Education: New Directions for Higher Learning - Page 47 - Sean Esbj'orn-Hargens, Sean Esbjrn-Hargens, Jonathan Reams - 2010 - 416 pages- Preview
I will not dwell here on certain of the basic and unique philosophical assumptions that Sri Aurobindo and The Mother made. I will touch on them only later, in order to put them in proper context. For now let me summarize the notion ...
The Way Home: Making Heaven on Earth - Page 167 - Madis Senner - 2009 - 260 pages - Preview
27 Both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were contemporaries of Gandhi and spent a lot of time in spiritual efforts to win freedom for India, end to WWII and bring about world peace. Sri Aurobindo was a nationally known political activist ...
Science, Spirituality and the Modernization of India - Page 164 Makarand Paranjape - 2009 - 296 pages - Preview
Sri Aurobindo was the first modern rishi to expound the existence of the supramental that modern science is now ... We will restrict our discussion to the psychic mind that the Mother (Collected Works of The Mother, pp.16, 247–8; ...
Another Canon: Indian Texts and Traditions in English - Page 126 - Makarand Paranjape - 2009 - 293 pages - Preview
Page 124 This brings us to a question which has been raised again and again: how closely does Desai's character resemble the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, ...
Page 125 However, I do admit that I am a student of modern Indian spiritual traditions and also of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. So I had a special interest in ...
Page 126 There is no evidence to indicate that the Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were sexual partners. ... The case of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, they were always surrounded by disciples and attendants, so there was never any question about ...
In contrast to this fictional prudishness, there is no squeamishness in the Ashram circles about the relationship between Sri Aurobindo and the Mother...
The Rationality Illusion - Page 88 Falk Quest - 2010 - 212 pages
The theory of rebirth coupled to the concept of karma offers, as Sri Aurobindo put it, “a simple, symmetrical, convincing explanation of things”. To live to see a mass murderer escaping conviction and relishing a long sane life, ...
Leading Lights, The - Page 99 Dr. George Kaitholil - 2007 - 203 pages
Sri Aurobindo later said that while imprisoned he saw the convicts, jailers, policemen, the prison bars, the trees, the judge and the lawyers as different forms of Vasudeva or Krishna. As Aurobindo put it, "The only result of the wrath ...
Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 91 Hugh B. Urban - 2007 - 372 pages
... founded by Aurobindo and others in 1902 — and a looser group later known as Jugan- tar (the New Age).57 As Aurobindo put it in a letter of 19 11, his aim was to instigate "a secret revolutionary propaganda and organization. ...
Jouissance as Ananda: Indian Philosophy, Feminist Theory, and ... - Page 158 Ashmita Khasnabish - 2006 - 239 pages
Both Tagore and Sri Aurobindo put forth the message that the darkness has great potential, because darkness is unavoidable. Sri Aurobindo reiterates the truth that many times one falls back into inconscience — but, eventually one has to ...
Stories told by the Mother Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2006 - 123 pages
Nothing but that, not her moral or spiritual freedom, I did not speak of that at all. I simply said she was free from foreign domination, because, even to a question Sri Aurobindo put to me, I answered from ...
Process and the authentic life: toward a psychology of value - Page 622 Jason W. Brown - 2005 - 699 pages
Aurobindo put it nicely: “knowing too much they missed the whole to be known,” reminiscent of the lines of Goldsmith: And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. ...
Sri Aurobindo - Page 26 Purnima Majumdar - 2005 - 122 pages
Marriage Aurobindo put in his advertisement in the matrimonial column in 1901. He received a number of responses, but he married Mrinalini, the 14-year-old daughter of Bhopal Chandra Bose, who was a friend of Principal Girish Chandra ...
The universe of Acharya Sushil Muni: the philosophy of World religion Sādhanā (Sādhvī.) - 2005 - 502 pages
... experienced the same in the world religions and tried his level best to establish the same. For self-realization of the same higher religion Sri Aurobindo put the ideal of creating supramental ...
The Roots of Modern Magick: An Anthology - Page 54 A H Greenfield, A. H. Greenfield - 2004 - 260 pages
“As for certain occult practices, he told me that they were fully Tantric" (that is Sexual Yoga) as Sri Aurobindo put it to her. The respected though `eccentric' Freemasonic Leader John Yarker is known to have reviewed Davidson's work, and both worked closely with Papus and the Martinist Order, ...
Secrets of Happiness - Page 162 Tanushree Podder - 2004 - 187 pages
As Sri Aurobindo put it: "It is a mistake to think that by fearing or being unhappy you can progress. Fear is always a feeling to be rejected, because what you fear is just the thing that is likely to come to you: fear attracts the ...
Mira to Mother - Page 105 Udhaya Kumar - 2004 - 164 pages
Without the slightest hesitation Sri Aurobindo put aside his cigar. There was an end to an inveterate habit without the least fuss. When everything had settled down and our work had fallen into a regular ...
Vande mataram, the biography of a song Sabyasachi Bhattacharya - 2003 - 136 pages
The idea that it was a mantra as Aurobindo put it, the practices of the militant nationalist societies who adopted it as a vow and a battle cry, and finally the use of the two words in processions as a slogan to rally the populace — all ...
The deeper dimension of Yoga: theory and practice Georg Feuerstein - 2003 - 415 pages
Sri Aurobindo put it this way: The chief processes of Hathayoga are asana and pranayama. By its numerous Asanas or fixed postures it first cures the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working ...
Kr̥ṣṇayajurvedīya Taittirīya-sahitā Rangasami Laksminarayana Kashyap - 2003 - 766 pages
And Agni is, as Sri Aurobindo put it, the mystic fire that is valid equally on earth and in the high heavens. This especial message of the Veda becomes clear and comprehensive in this work on Taittiriya Samhita, undertaken by Dr. ...
Nirodbaran, divinity's comrade  Hemant Kapoor - 2003 - 639 pages
Previously the Moderates would draw up beautifully drafted resolutions requesting the British government to give them dominion status. As Sri Aurobindo put it, to give them the loaf of freedom crumb by crumb. ...
The conspiracy of life: meditations on Schelling and his time - Page 225  Jason M. Wirth - 2003 - 290 pages
As Aurobindo put it: "God is there not only in the silence, but in the action" (EG, 135). Without responsibility, with the implication of evil with the Good, how is one to understand Krsna's counsel? ...
Patterns of the present: from the perspective of Sri Aurobindo and ...  Georges van Vrekhem - 2002 - 238 pages
"To humanise Europe", as Sri Aurobindo put it, Christianity and the then still living force of its founder used the apparatus of the Roman Empire, which itself had absorbed the civilisation of the Greeks. Thus Greece, Rome, Judaism and ...
Secularisation of Indian mind: a study of political ideas in India ... V. Indira Devi - 2002 - 314 pages
... like Vivekananda and Aurobindo put forward the view that if man is to achieve liberation and perfection, the only means of achieving it is to become increasingly impersonal. Their belief was based on the view that down the ages it ...
The complete idiot's guide to Hinduism - Page 51 Linda Johnsen - 2002 - 408 pages
As the late sage Sri Aurobindo put it, it is the "one central idea of the Vedic religion, the idea of the One Being with the [gods] expressing in numerous names and forms the many-sidedness of His unity." This is why Al Biruni, ...
Sri Aurobindo Ghose: the dweller in the lands of silence  William Kluback, Michael Finkenthal - 2001 - 167 pages
With these remarks, Sri Aurobindo put aside every philosophy and religious belief that assumed that spiritual life without physical love was an adequate expression of man's existence. In fact, it was the expression of spiritual death, ...
GOD SHALL GROW UP Body, Soul,& Earth Evolving Together - Page 213 Wayne Bloomquist - 2001 - 351 pages
As Sri Aurobindo put it: By departing from the physical life, one does not disappear out of the Movement, but only passes into some other general state of consciousness than the material universe. These states are either obscure or ...
Science and technology in East Asia: the legacy of Joseph Needham Joseph Needham, Alain Arrault - 2001 - 152 pages
... metaphysical pragmatism bears much in common with seventeenth and eighteenth century naturphilosophie — the investigation of nature, as an Indian sage Aurobindo put it, was a preparatory stage to learning of the higher spiritual ...
Literature and culture Sachidananda Mohanty - 2001 - 232 pages
As Sri Aurobindo put it vividly: "Recover the source of all strength in yourselves and all else would be added to you — social soundness, intellectual preeminence, political freedom, the mastery of human thought. ...
Records of Yoga Aurobindo Ghose - 2001 - 1515 pages
Sri Aurobindo put a question-mark after the date "April 22d". The year of these entries is nowhere written, but the dates and days of the week correspond to those of 1915. After the entry of 26 August ... Letters on Savitri
Sri Aurobindo - 2000  113 pages 4 Aeneid, 1.462. In 1946 Sri Aurobindo put the source of this line's inspiration much higher than he does here. See below, p. 95. ...
The deciphered Indus script: methodology, readings, interpretations N. Jha, Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram - 2000 - 269 pages
It has no foundation to speak of, other than "conjectures supported only by wilder conjectures" — as Sri Aurobindo put it. A serious, even fatal flaw in these efforts is a complete failure to relate them to any existing historical, ...
Gurus and their followers: new religious reform movements in ... Antony R. H. Copley - 2000 - 235 pages
Aurobindo put this well: Certain men were born, men whom the educated world would not have recognized if that belief, if that God within them had not been there to open their eyes, men whose lives were very different from what our ...
Experiences of a pilgrim soul  Cuttān̲anta Pāratiyār - 2000 - 556 pages
Pal was an original thinker and speaker but not a dynamic actor. Sri Aurobindo put forth a bold policy of Self-Government without British control and he sought to destroy the shibboleths of the moderate, ...
The Mother: the story of her life  George Van Vrekhem - 2000 - 545 pages
Even to a question Sri Aurobindo put to me, I answered from the same [occult] place: "There will be no violence of any kind. It will come about without a revolution. It will be the English who will decide to go away because they will ...
Indian political thinkers: modern indian political thought - Page 153 N. Jayapalan - 2000 - 370 pages
Aurobindo put it that the idea of freedom now to be got was from the West. But it was not new to India as past cultural heritage put it. He wanted that the individual should be loyal to the Truth, the Self, the Spirit and the Divine. ...
Advaita Vedānta R. Balasubramanian, Project of History of ... - 2000 - 696 pages
The intellectual map of reality Sri Aurobindo put forward is holistic: nothing escapes from it as unexplained or unexplainable, as unreal, illusory, or fake. It is the design of his map to integrate all forms of existence — matter, ...
Sri Aurobindo Prithwindra Mukherjee - 2000 - 235 pages
... poisson pour la kyrielle des chats de gouttière qui avaient trouvé la maison convenable. C'est à Pondichéry, durant les quatre premières années, que SriAurobindo put se pencher sur une ascèse silencieuse accompagnée de l'étude du...
Asian agri-history Asian Agri-History Foundation - 2000
The whole enterprise, as the article amply demonstrates, is built up of 'conjectures supported by more conjectures' as Sri Aurobindo put it. Now that we have a firm basis that links archaeology to ancient literature, it is time for ...
Perspectives of Savitri R. Y. Deshpande - 2000
One fact alone makes me dumb with a reverent awe and exalted admiration: the colossal labour Sri Aurobindo put forth to build this unique structure. It reminds me of one of those majestic ancient temples like Konarak or of a Gothic ...
Colonialism, tradition, and reform: an analysis of Gandhi's ... - Page 45 Bhikhu C. Parekh - 1999 - 359 pages
They were in 'thralldom to outworn and stale ideas', lacked initiative, energy, enthusiasm, perseverance and a sense of commitment, and had become deeply fearful of anything new. Aurobindo put the point well: ...
The Penguin Sri Aurobindo reader Aurobindo Ghose, Makarand R. Paranjape - 1999 - 375 pages
As Sri Aurobindo put it, 'It is a step for which the whole of evolution has been a preparation.' Or in the Mother's words: 'Humanity has been waiting for centuries for this moment. It has come.' In this new age, all the old religions ...
Divine messengers of our time Susunaga Weeraperuma - 1999 - 166 pages
Sri Aurobindo put an end to speculation about his intentions by issuing a statement, which was published in ...
Tradition and the rhetoric of right: popular political argument in ... - Page 106 David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - 339 pages
The result is the seemingly arbitrary advance and retreat of history. This is best reflected in the view of world history Aurobindo put forward in The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity, and is summarized in figure 6. ...
Thinkers Of Indian Renaissance - Page 212 S A Abbasi - 1998 - 476 pages
As Aurobindo put it: .... If we look at World-Existence rather in its relation to the self delight of eternally existent being, we may regard, describe and realize it as Lila, the play, the child's joy, the poet's joy, the actor's joy, ...