Amazon.com: The Lives of Sri Aurobindo: Peter Heehs A groundbreaking book, October 22, 2008 By Richard Hartz - See all my reviews
This is a scholarly but very readable biography based on decades of research. Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) was a major figure in modern Indian history, though he has been neglected and misunderstood. He was a remarkably wide-ranging and original thinker and one of the greatest spiritual philosophers of all time. A Cambridge-educated intellectual turned mystic, he achieved a sweeping synthesis of the thought and vision of East and West. Such a many-sided personality makes unusual demands on a biographer. Heehs has spent most of his life preparing himself to meet these challenges. He succeeds impressively in almost every respect.
The climax of the narrative is reached before the mid-point of the book in the gripping story of Aurobindo's brief but eventful role as one of the leaders of an early phase of the Indian freedom movement, marked by his year in jail and the famous Alipore Bomb Trial.
The climax of the narrative is reached before the mid-point of the book in the gripping story of Aurobindo's brief but eventful role as one of the leaders of an early phase of the Indian freedom movement, marked by his year in jail and the famous Alipore Bomb Trial.
Sri Aurobindo Ghose has been curiously neglected in Western scholarship. Heehs, one of the founders of the Aurobindo Ashram Archives, ...
It brings forth Sri Aurobindo's neglected social and international vision and underlines his role as a cultural critic, focusing on his view on ethnicity ...
Sri Aurobindo - A Contemporary Reader - Aurobindo Ghose, Sachidananda Mohanty - 2008 - 235 pages - Snippet view
A considerable body of Sri Aurobindo's writings related to pivotal contemporary studies in translation, cultural criticism and art history remain sadly neglected; a cardinal loss to the literary world. ...
In the process, we tend to ignore the many-sided nature of Sri Aurobindo's ...
In the first section the author highlights the often-neglected subject of Sri Aurobindo as a poet of Nature. He points out how Sri Aurobindo's concept of ...
The lecture deals with Sri Aurobindo's view of Indian culture and confronts its state of deep neglect in today's India
It deals with Sri Aurobindo's view of Indian culture and confronts its state of deep neglect in today's India
Plain & Simple: Sri Aurobindo's Opposition
Plain & Simple: Sri Aurobindo's Opposition
The reasons for the neglect Sri Aurobindo suffered among leftist intelligentsia in India
Sri Aurobindo and Bergson: a synthetic study - Abhoy Chandra Bhattacharya
- 1972 - This tendency in India has resulted in an ignorance or an uncritical study of Sri Aurobindo;1 and its result in the West is a total neglect of Bergson's last book, perhaps the most important work of the author. A strong bias against all ...
- 1972 - This tendency in India has resulted in an ignorance or an uncritical study of Sri Aurobindo;1 and its result in the West is a total neglect of Bergson's last book, perhaps the most important work of the author. A strong bias against all ...Neoplatonism and Indian philosophy - Page 186 - Paulos Gregorios, International Society for Neoplatonic Studies - 2002 - In Conclusion, if Neoplatonism is to be revived as a viable contemporary philosophy, I believe it needs to develop the neglected aspect of that philosophy outlined in this essay, and Sri Aurobindo 's Integral philosophy would serve as ...
Jayaprakash Narayan: a centenary volume - Page 211 - Sandip Das - 2005
- To conclude, l may say that when we try to asses the social significance of JP, we generally neglect this dimension which ... by the penetrating ideas of Sri Aurobindo, Bhagwan Das and Gandhi to place social order on a spiritual basis. ...
- To conclude, l may say that when we try to asses the social significance of JP, we generally neglect this dimension which ... by the penetrating ideas of Sri Aurobindo, Bhagwan Das and Gandhi to place social order on a spiritual basis. ...Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page 52 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - It is for this reason that Sri Aurobindo is primarily interested in the psychology of history and not in the sociology of ... We must make abstractions, we must neglect and select. But with this we arrive at . . . many histories.1 The ... Freedom and Future: An Imaginary Dialogue with Sri Aurobindo
The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 359 - Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - 42 Though Sri Aurobindo does not neglect the social, economic, cultural and political liberty in the spiritual synthesis of the individual and the collective being, he nevertheless emphasises only spiritual freedom. ...
The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 383 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - In his enthusiasm for spiritual individualism and even spiritualized anarchism Aurobindo does not neglect the socializing role of the state. Without denying the aggressive, despotic and brutal tendencies of the state in several ...
Indian Political Thought - Page 272 - Urmila Sharma, S.K. Sharma - 2001 - Sri Aurobindo's Neglect of Backward Classes In our comparison of Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx, we have already pointed out how Sri Aurobindo did not give sufficient attention to economic and social institutions. ...
India: a global power - Page 360 - Nayyar Shamsi - 2004 - At the height of our freedom struggle, the far-seeing apostle of Indian nationalism, Mahayogi Sri Aurobindo, ... Nationalism can afford to neglect and omit none. Anything done, consciously or unconsciously, to weaken the secular ...
Political thinkers of modern India - Page 98 - Adi Hormusji Doctor - 1997 - Nationalism can afford to neglect and omit none." Revivalism of ancient wisdom, was a very strong element in Aurobindo's nationalism. This revivalism was necessary in both the social and spiritual fields. Thus, Sri Aurobindo stood for ...
Sri Aurobindo's integral approach to political thought- Shiva Kumar Mital - 1981 - Sri Aurobindo's criticism of democracy and socialism mainly refers to theirneglect of the individual freedom. He visualises the advent of a spiritualised society for the sake of attaining integral freedom. The individual always remains ...
Sri Aurobindo, poet and social thinker - Sisirkumar Ghose - 1973 - THE POETRY OF SRI AUROBINDO: AN APPROACH This is Sri Aurobindo's centenary year and it is right and proper that on an occasion like this we ... But why this neglect and continued misunderstanding? The reasons are not one but many. ...
The poetry of Sri Aurobindo: a short survey - Sisirkumar Ghose, Aurobindo Ghose - 1969
- The reasons for neglect and misunderstanding are not one but many. For instance, the fact that Sri Aurobindo is a distinguished human being, indeed a culture hero. So few poets have been great as men! A leader in more fields than one, ...
- The reasons for neglect and misunderstanding are not one but many. For instance, the fact that Sri Aurobindo is a distinguished human being, indeed a culture hero. So few poets have been great as men! A leader in more fields than one, ...Sri Aurobindo's prose style (with a foreword by V.K. Gokak) - Goutam Ghosal - 1991
- Sri Aurobindo has suffered neglect for the same reason. The language of his prose is not hard. What is really uncommon is the experience which governs his style. Not many know that Sri Aurobindo wrote a lot of plain prose. ...
- Sri Aurobindo has suffered neglect for the same reason. The language of his prose is not hard. What is really uncommon is the experience which governs his style. Not many know that Sri Aurobindo wrote a lot of plain prose. ...Poetic plays of Sri Aurobindo - Page 180 - Bimal Narayan Thakur - 2004 - His plays, which are often neglected, are the integral part of Sri Aurobindo's integrated vision. It has been mentioned in the introduction that the genre of drama was created in order to facilitate transmission of such knowledge or ...
The literary criticism of Sri Aurobindo, with special reference to ... - Shree Krishna Prasad, Aurobindo Ghose - 1974
- It is significant that among the pioneers of the modern age Sri Aurobindo gives a place of honour to such neglected poets as Phillips, Carpenter and AE In the light of what he has to tell us about them we should do well to reflect ...
- It is significant that among the pioneers of the modern age Sri Aurobindo gives a place of honour to such neglected poets as Phillips, Carpenter and AE In the light of what he has to tell us about them we should do well to reflect ...Indo-English poetry: a study of Sri Aurobindo and four others - P. C. Kotoky - 1969 - Milton retired from public attention, blind and ignored, to neglected seclusion ; Sri Aurobindo, after creating a public sensation by his alleged participation in revolutionary activities, to Yogic meditation. Impelled by the necessity ...
The Yoga of Patanjali and the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - G. M. L. Shrivastava - 1987 - We can not neglect the matter for the sake of spirit. Truth or reality must satisfy all aspects of the existence in this world, ... That is why Sri Aurobindo writes, "No synthesis of yoga can be satisfying which does not, in its aim, ...
New Educational Philosophy - Page 397 - Bhagirathi Sahu - 2004 - The dreams and directions of great Indian thinkers like Swami Vivekananda
, Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, Rabindra Nath Tagore, ... The present education typically meets the needs of the minority and neglects the needs of the majority. ...
, Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, Rabindra Nath Tagore, ... The present education typically meets the needs of the minority and neglects the needs of the majority. ...Trends In Contemporary Indian Philosophy Of Education A Critical ... - Page 34 - G.R. Sharma - 2003
- They, however, never neglected the needs of the physical world. Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo particularly emphasised the need of physical development in the achievement of educational ideal. All these thinkers equally laid...
- They, however, never neglected the needs of the physical world. Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo particularly emphasised the need of physical development in the achievement of educational ideal. All these thinkers equally laid...Conversations and transformations: toward a new ethics of self and ... - Page 33 - Ananta Kumar Giri - 2002 - To neglect these can admittedly be compatible with the maintenance of humanity as an end in itself, ... To put it in the words of seekers such as Sri Aurobindo, the evolutionary march of Nature and History depends upon the sadhana of ...
GOD SHALL GROW UP Body, Soul, & Earth Evolving Together - Page 9 - Wayne Bloomquist - 2001 - On the other hand, Sri Aurobindo's spiritual collaborator, the Mother, has been all but neglected and ignored. In this country, she is virtually unknown. That is indeed strange, because Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were one ...
Sri Aurobindo Ghose: the dweller in the lands of silence - William Kluback, Michael Finkenthal - 2001 - I appeared to belong intimately to Sri Aurobindo's world. In it I found the spirit, the last realm of ... He has not neglected a single one of its capacities. His experiments are endless. His universities are spread throughout the world ...
Decolonizing international relations - Page 211 - Branwen Gruffydd Jones - 2006 - 91 It is here that Sri Aurobindo did not do full justice to his radical social reinterpretation of Advaita Vedanta of Samskara. He therefore neglected, first, the entire domain of political economy that Marx, for example, so assiduously ...
Facets of feminism: studies on the concept of woman in Indian ... - Page 80 - Raghunath Ghosh - 2005 - III A woman is taken as Mother Goddess by Sri Aurobindo. It is Sakti of the Divinity — through its manifestation the world is ... On the other hand, it is also not proper to neglect money or artha. Without taking recourse to money an ...
Human rights and poverty in India: theoretical issues and ... - Page 32 - S. N. Chaudhary
- In the process of welfare of the nation, minorities' valuable ideas are even neglected and ignored in the name of caste, creed and religion. The great Indian philosophers like Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo clearly revealed that ...
- In the process of welfare of the nation, minorities' valuable ideas are even neglected and ignored in the name of caste, creed and religion. The great Indian philosophers like Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo clearly revealed that ...Understanding Medical Physiology - Page 880 - Bijlani - 2004 - As Sri Aurobindo points out, desires starve in the absence of support from the ego. Surrender Surrender to a superior force, which we may call Nature, God, or by any other name, implies a few assumptions: first, that the force exists; ...
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: glimpses of their experiments, ... - Kireet Joshi - 1989
- Again, as Sri Aurobindo points out, synthesis does not mean a successive practice of the various systems. It is effected by neglecting the forms and outsides of the Yogic disciplines and seizing rather on the central principle common to ...
- Again, as Sri Aurobindo points out, synthesis does not mean a successive practice of the various systems. It is effected by neglecting the forms and outsides of the Yogic disciplines and seizing rather on the central principle common to ...Living Within: Yoga Approach to Psychological Health & Growth - Page 121 - Sri Aurobindo, Mother, A. S. Dalal - 1987 - Taking support from Sri Aurobindo's teaching that the body is an indispensable basis of yoga, that it should not be neglected and that, on the contrary, great care should be given to it, the physical consciousness concentrates almost ...
Looking from Within - Page 162 - Aurobindo Ghose, Mother, Sri Aurobindo - 1995 - This does not mean that we shall not keep the body in right order so far as we can; we have not to fall into violent asceticisms or a positive neglect of the physical frame. But we have not either to be affected in mind by hunger or ...
Bases of yoga - Sri Aurobindo - 2007 - Neither neglect this turn of the nature (food-desire) nor make too much of it; it has to be dealt with, purified and ... It is a mistake to neglect the body and let it waste away; the body is the means of the sadhana and should be ...
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