“If there is a single seminal experience in his intellectual development,” Lelyveld writes, it occurs in 1894 when Gandhi receives a copy of Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God is Within You. The book is Tolstoy’s late-life confession “of a passionate Christian creed, founded on individual conscience and a doctrine of radical nonviolence.” Gandhi’s embrace of Tolstoy’s ideas would later lead the Bengali revolutionary
Sri Aurobindo to quip that Gandhi “is a European — truly a Russian Christian in an Indian body.”
Bharati's association with VVS Aiyer and Aurobindo went a long way in strengthening his will to pursue his goals — a casteless society; the uplift of the downtrodden; and the emancipation of women. Bharati's early years, his marriage at an early age ...
The book, which has a brief introduction to each chapter, provides cross-references to the Upanishads and commentaries by Acharyas like Adi Sankara and other eminent men such as Gandhiji, Tilak and Aurobindo. The book makes a wholesome reading. ...
These are the set of people who have never read even the bhagvad-Gita, the works of the world famous scholar Sri Aurobindo or the testimonials of the famous ...
Sri Aurobindo, in his inspiring poem Savitri, emphasises the need to undergo the pain in order to redeem the other sufferers as follows. ...
In the words of Sri Aurobindo: "All the stormiest passions of man's soul he [Madhusudan] expressed in gigantic language." Madhusudan Dutta's major works ...
C. S. Shastri, a Chartered Accountant from Chennai went to Sri Aurobindo and ... In reply to this request, Sri Aurobindo gave him the emblem with a Garuda, ...
As you mention Germany's example and Nazi time: Read Sri Aurobindo and his book, the Human Cycle. It describes quite well why Germany was falling into ...
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Indian renaissance didn't arrive for this -
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A safe space for discussing safe spaces -
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Doubt, dishonesty, falsehoods, and certitude of the Divine -
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JNU is not an easy university to repress -
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Accept, balance, and integrate the transcendent -
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Integral Liberation, Fulfilment, Realisation and Action -
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Mother's Agenda: One of the most amazing books ever published -
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What mid-21st century science will be like -
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Here rapture was a common incident;The lovelinesses of whose captured thrillOur human pleasure is a fallen thread,Lay, symbol shapes, a careless ornament,Sew...
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Belonging rationally to a tradition -
I ended last year pointing out that while one can love all wisdom, it is almost certainly too hard to … Continue reading →
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Post-Continental, post-Kantian, non-philosophy -
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Beyond the Dawn: Revaluation of Sri Aurobindo's Poetry -
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2016 Presidential Election and Political Ontology -
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Explorations in Savitri 46 Book 2 Canto 4 pp 148-150 -
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To be human is to experience that apodeictic sense of being a conscious subject -
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Harmony imposing its mesmerising impulsion -
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Saras, That Which Flows: Let the Inspiration Flow -
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The Fold -
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A thought-provoking study -
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Nalo Hopkinson – “Message in a Bottle” -
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Sri Aurobindo asked people to 'feel spirit' -
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