All for the want of a horse-riding spell

Sri Aurobindo, the hope of man - Keshavmurti - 1969 - 485 pages - How well the gods could utilise an insignificant incident like Aurobindo's failure to sit on a horse as an occasion to change the course of major events in England and India!

Life and Times of Netaji Subhas: Yogi Sri Aurobindo's "terrorism", ... - Page 28 -  Adwaita P. Ganguly - 2003 - 224 pages - Preview

The Senior tutor of Cambridge was so moved at Aurobindo's failure that he wrote to the authorities, "That a man of his calibre should be lost to the Indian government merely because he failed in sitting on a horse or did not keep an ...

Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913: A Critical Anthology - Page 355 - Mary Ellis Gibson - 2011 - 360 pages - Preview Indeed, heehs shows that Aurobindo's failure in the ICs was owing to what amounted to a personal and generational shift between his father's views and his own. Aurobindo's political views had already led him to conclude that he could do...

Guru English: South Asian Religion In A Cosmopolitan Language - Page 92 - Srinivas Aravamudan - 2006 - 330 pages - Preview Having passed all the written and oral requirements of the prestigious Indian Civil Service examination, Aurobindo failed by not appearing for the riding test— either because he lacked funds to take riding lessons or because he was ...

Explorations in Philosophy: Indian philosophy - Jitendranath Mohanty, Bina Gupta - 2001 - 272 pages - In the same year, Swami Vivekananda sailed for Chicago from Madras, and Sri Aurobindo failed to qualify for Indian Civil Service by failing in the riding test, and left for India to be the Principal of the Baroda College. Vivekananda's idea of ...

The Modern review: Volume 107 Ramananda Chatterjee - 1960 - Although Aurobindo was not able to As a student of Greek philosophy he was quite get into Indian Civil Service, this was a great conscious of the fact that through knowledge boon for him and India, because he was not man may become free ...

Aurobindo's philosophy of Brahman - Page 56 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - 200 pages - Preview As noted, Aurobindo was unable to speak any Indian language when he arrived in India, although he had studied Bengali a small bit at Cambridge. Securing employment first as a secretary for the Maharaja of Baroda and later as a professor...

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page 28 - Peter Heehs - 2008 - 496 pages - Preview 82 According to a classmate, Aurobindo failed to pass his medical examination the first time around on account of “something found wrong with his urinary organs.” He was “given a year's grace to improve,” and when he was reexamined his ...

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page 409 - Peter Heehs - 2008 - 496 pages - Preview That evening Sri Aurobindo was unable to eat, until at length the Mother came and fed him some fruit juice with a spoon. Later she took the doctors aside, and said: “He is fully conscious within but he is losing interest ...

Beyond man: life and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - Georges van Vrekhem, Georges van Vrekhem - 1997 - 544 pages - 17 We must conclude that Sri Aurobindo cannot have been the source of the belief or conviction that he and the Mother would transform their material body supramentally. Might it be that the Mother had given cause for this opinion to ...