Sri Aurobindo is invoked to justify soft Hindutva

In Defence of the Extracts - A critique of the book 25 Mar 2009 by Raman Reddy

I wish Heehs had more respect for the more well-established scholars such as Amal Kiran, Arindam Basu and S.K. Maitra, especially the last who has probably done the best comparative study on Sri Aurobindo and Western ... 

Feel Philosophy: S.K. Maitra 21 Oct 2005 S.K. Maitra. In my college days I was a great admirer of Hegel, whom I regarded as the greatest philosopher that had ever lived. Curiously enough, Kant left cold. In fact, I looked upon Kant as an incomplete Hegel and Hegel as ... Plain & Simple: The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo: Contributors 29 Jan 2007 Author of reports and articles on reclamation, historical and other subjects including the pamphlet Aurobindo: Prophet of Modern India. S. K. MAITRA. Honorary Professor of Philosophy and formerly Head of the Department of ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture: Volume 47 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1994 - I must confess your casual rating of Vyasa and Berdyaev vis-a-vis Aurobindo shocked me." Coming from someone who is an acknowledged name in these matters, this needs an answer from you. To provide you with some insight into this...

Escape from God: The Use of Religion and Philosophy to Evade ... - Page 155 - Dean Turner - 1991 - 291 pages - Preview ... to overcome death by finding eternal life, Hinduism is a desperate effort to overcome life and bring it to an end.13 Vis-a-vis Aurobindo's criticisms of Hinduism, I think of all the famished, destitute, suffering people in his land.

The journal of Asian studies: Volume 37, Issues 3-4 1978 - As can be expected, the devotees of Aurobindo's ashram trust that by the practice of integral yoga, political conditions will eventually be transmuted. O'Connor, on the other hand, expresses caution vis-a-vis Aurobindo's "hopeful ...

The Vedanta kesari: Volume 69 - Sri Ramakrishna Math (Madras, India), Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras - 1982 - Vis-a-vis Aurobindo's arguments against Sankara's philosophic position, the author asks: How can saccidananda be dynamic? Mixing up the traditional language of religion and the new language of Western Science, politics and even...

Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader Sachidananda Mohanty - 2012 - 180 pages - Preview ... flipside of commentators like S. Gurumurthy who claims, for instance, that there was 'no doubt in the mind of Maharshi Aurobindo' that 'India was a Hindu nation'. 52 Heehs sees some critics as offering a more balanced perspective.

The Religious, the Spiritual, and the Secular: Auroville and ... - Page 137 - Robert Neil Minor - 1999 - 208 pages - Preview Without mounting an argument, he merely asserted that, as opposed to that of Rajneesh, the Parliament should understand Aurobindo and the Mother's thought and its application as ...

South Asia in review: Volumes 1-4 1976 - Minor uses: a religio-historical approach to understanding Aurobindo, focussing upon Aurobindo's ultimate religious concern and the ethical system that this entailed. Chapter one outliner the objectives and method, ...

Hindutva: exploring the idea of Hindu nationalism - Jyotirmaya Sharma, Jyotirmaya Sharma - 2003 - 205 pages - In order to justify the claims of 'soft' Hindutva, invariably, the ideas of two icons — Swami Vivekananda and Maharshi Aurobindo — are resurrected.1 Atal Bihari Vajpayee chose to quote Swami Vivekananda twice in his musings from Goa in ...

India news - India. Embassy (U.S.). Information Service - 2002 - VAJPAYEE'S MESSAGE TO THE NATION (Continued from page I ) Maharshi Aurobindo, which he set out in his historic radio broadcast for August 15, 1947. "I have always held and said that India was arising, not to serve her own material...

Indian modernity: contradictions, paradoxes and possibilities - Page 100 - Avijit Pathak - 1998 - 243 pages - Preview Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.39 For Sri Aurobindo too, the national idea that Vivekananda wanted to retain was important. Aurobindo knew that for the average secular European mind, it was not easy ...

Hartshorne, Process Philosophy, and Theology - Page 122 - Robert Kane, Stephen H. Phillips - 1989 - 198 pages - Preview To understand Aurobindo's position, we need to review a concept of "knowledge by identity" that is expressed early in Indian thought, and that has known marked importance in several Indian schools: in Sanskrit, "svayamprakdsamdna ...

Social transformation of U.P. women, 1900-1947 - Pratima Asthana, Pratima Asthana - 2001 - 255 pages - She translated in Hindi the famous work 'Savitri' written in English by Maharshi Aurobindo. These eminent women of UP added a brilliant chapter to womens' history. They were creative and constructive, full of vision with new perceptions ...

Sri Aurobindo's prose style (with a foreword by V.K. Gokak) - Goutam Ghosal - 1991 - 154 pages - It is a common experience of the Aurobindonian writers that to appreciate Sri Aurobindo is to be influenced by the Master's prose style. The modes of KD Sethna, VK Gokak and KRS Iyengar are essentially poetic in the grand line, ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture: Volume 58 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2005 - Here in India, we are still too wrapped up in the old spirituality of world negation to appreciate Sri Aurobindo. Up till now, more than fifty years after his passing, Sri Aurobindo has not received even a small part of the recognition ...

Two Integral Visions » The Scientific and Medical Network - scimednet.org - But Vrinte is nothing if not even-handed, at least in appearance. In the following chapter he takes Aurobindo to task for failing fully to understand Freud and underemphasising physiological mechanisms in psychopathology, mistakes not made ...

Derrida and Indian Philosophy - Page 120 - Harold G. Coward - 1990 - 200 pages - Preview Like Derrida, Aurobindo protests any one-sided overbalancing. It is in the creative engagement of both its inner and outer aspects that language can be vigorous and creative — open to its full possibility. Not only would this lead to an ...

The other side of belief: interpreting U.G. Krishnamurti - Mukunda Rao - 2005 - 350 pages - ... boggling reading, undoubtedly a unique chapter in the history of mysticism. Almost in the style of Marx, Aurobindo too could well have said: The world over mystics have only talked about their ineffable God- experiences but it is ...

Philosophies of history: meeting of East and West in cycle-pattern ... - Grace Edith Cairns - 1971 - 496 pages - This resembles Hegel's philosophy of history but with the very important exception that the concrete manifestation of Spirit shown in cosmic history is not an essential one in Aurobindo's thought as in Hegel's. Aurobindo's more ...

The Indian Imagination: Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English - Page 231 - K. D. Verma - 2000 - 268 pages - Preview But in order to be fair to Aurobindo it must be recognized that he is raising a question about Blake's vision, myth and language, a question that the figure of Los in Blake debates extensively. Can language communicate adequately and ...

Critical survey of poetry: foreign language series Frank Northen Magill - 1984 - 546 pages - P. Lal, for example, attacked Sri Aurobindo at length, though Lal retracted his strictures a few years later; dividing readers into those who could appreciate Sri Aurobindo and those who could not, Lal firmly placed himself and the ...