Sri Aurobindo was impressed by the Christian ideals of equality and fraternity

Hinduism as a Missionary Religion books.google.com Arvind Sharma - 2011 - 176 pages - Preview

Reconsiders whether Hinduism can be considered a missionary religion.

The World's Religions: A Contemporary Reader - Page 309 books.google.com Arvind Sharma - 2010 - 392 pages - Preview

There are the teachings of great saints—Shri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo, Shri Ramak- rishna, Shri Swami Rama, Shri Yogananada, Mahesh Yogi, Maata Amrita, and Aanandamayi— whose thoughts and work lead us now in this critical period. ...

Hindu narratives on human rights - Page 153 books.google.com Arvind Sharma - 2010 - 167 pages - Preview

“SàvitrX tells Death she must follow her dead husband because such is the immemorial custom of the wife,” so Peter Heehs, “The Centre of the Religious and Cultural Nationalism in the Work of Sri Aurobindo,” in Antony Copley, ed.,...

Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought: Toward a Fusion of Horizons - Page 177 books.google.com Rita DasGupta Sherma, Arvind Sharma - 2008 - 249 pages - Preview

2. 4 Ved ̄anta De ́sika, ̄I ́s ̄av ̄asyopanis.adbh ̄as.ya, p. 6. 5 Aurobindo, The Upanishads. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1973, p. 63. 6 Olivelle, The Early Upanis.ads. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. ...

Neo-Hindu views of Christianity - Page 200 books.google.com Arvind Sharma - 1988 - 217 pages - Preview

Let me start by saying that Sri Aurobindo is definitely of the opinion that Christianity is more a moral and ... Sri Aurobindo is so impressed by the Christian ideals of equality and fraternity that he has commented on it on more than ...

Our religions books.google.com Arvind Sharma - 1993 - 536 pages - Snippet view

This is not to say that the works of a Rammohun Roy (1772/74-1833) or a Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) or even a Gandhi are acceptable as part of the sacred literature of Hinduism, though one must wonder whether the writings of Srl Aurobindo ...

Indian literature: Volume 26 books.google.com Sāhitya Akademi - 1983 - Snippet view

Arvind Sharma in the second part of the book depicts the contemporary scenario with a fair deal of objectivity despite ... The role of Swami Dayanand and Mahatma Gandhi and above all of Tagore and Aurobindo Ghosh, in promoting humanism, ...

World faiths insight: Volumes 5-7 books.google.com World Congress of Faiths, Temple of Understanding (U.S.) - 1982 - Snippet view

RELIGIOUS FERMENTS IN MODERN INDIA: Hal W. French and Arvind Sharma: St. Martin's Press, NY 1981. x + 185 pp. ... Sharma points to Aurobindo Ghosh as the outstanding exception to this, but more, he notes that Hinduism sets no ultimate ...

Sleep as a state of consciousness in Advaita Vedānta - Page 136 books.google.com Arvind Sharma - 2004 - 181 pages - Preview

It might be appropriate to close this investigation with precisely such an example, drawn from the writings of Sri Aurobindo. “But I do not insist on everybody passing through my experience or following the Truth that is its consequence. ...”