Finding a New Gandhi in the Book 'Great Soul' Miller-McCune.com By Sameer Pandya August 2, 2011
“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.”
Study on Bharati The Hindu
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Exposition of the Gita The Hindu
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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