Sri Aurobindo understood Gandhi's experience as inferior

The post-condition: theory, texts, and contexts - Ranjit Kaur Kapoor, Manjit Inder Singh, Punjabi University - 2001 - 247 pages - In the second part of my paper, I offer a serious critique of postmodernist relativity or anomie from the point of view of Indian critical thinkers like Gandhi and Aurobindo, The latter spoke of an "antinomian tendency" that constantly ...

On Hinduism: reviews and reflections - Ram Swarup - 2000 - 232 pages - But there were others like Gandhi and Aurobindo who saw and acted differently. They did not feel that their Hinduism contradicted their nationalism. In fact, it gave them strength to be great nationalists and great humanists.

Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and ... - Page 347 - C. A. Bayly - 2011 - 360 pages - Preview Well before the writings of Gandhi and Aurobindo, it was Indian liberals who tried to marry individual liberty with the idea of spiritual freedom (mukti). Islamic ideas of good society drawn from the akhlaq tradition also subtly ...

Love, Life and Death - Page 111 - D.P. Chattopadhyaya - 2010 - 220 pages - Preview Thinkers like Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi and Aurobindo strongly believe in the essential goodness of the human nature. While they do recognize at the factual level the undeniable reality of class struggle, inequality, and conflict, ...

Capital, Interrupted: Agrarian Development and the Politics of ... - Page 69 - Vinay K. Gidwani - 2008 - 337 pages - Preview His continuing “experiments with truth” (satya ka prayog), as he calls them (after Gandhi), revolve around an evolving philosophy of praxis that draws on the thought of both Gandhi and Aurobindo Ghosh and are continually tempered ...

Issues of identity in Indian English fiction: a close reading of ... - Page 54 - H. S. Komalesha - 2008 - 195 pages - Preview Though both Gandhi and Aurobindo agree on the spiritual and religious dimensions of Nationalism in India, they differ in their opinions regarding the origin of nationalism in India is concerned. In his Hind Swaraj, Gandhi gives complete ...

Modernity and the Problem of Cultural Identity - Page 101 - Dr. A.P. Dubey - 2008 - 260 pages - Preview Nehru, Radhakrishnan, Tagore, Gandhi and Aurobindo all spoke of regeneration and undogmatic seeking for a culture where regional and the local is repeated and there is a great family of nations created living together in Peace.

Indian Ethics: Classical traditions and contemporary challenges - Page 333 - Puruṣottama Bilimoria, Joseph Prabhu, Renuka M. Sharma - 2007 - 431 pages -Preview One will find here a vast array of topics covered from the theodical account of Hindu ethics suggested by Max Weber, through historical accounts of the ethics of Gandhi and Aurobindo and of cultural rights in British India to ...

Practical And Professional Ethics (vol. 2 : Environmental Ethics - Page 101- Debashis Guha - 2007 - Preview We have chosen Gandhi and Aurobindo to clarify the stance, particularly when both have powerful visions on Gita's ecoethics, which has been touted as failing to have any such ethic, and we are trying to ...

Indian English poetry and fiction: critical elucidations: Volume 2 - Page 2 - Amar Nath Prasad, A.N. Prasad Rajiv K.Malik - 2007 - 290 pages - Full view The neo-Vedantism of Vivekananda, Gurudatta, Aurobindo, Ram Tirtha, Satyadeva, Radhakrishnan, and DM Dutta, the concept of swaraj of Dayananda, Tilak, Gandhi and Aurobindo and this integral humanism of Deen Dayal have their roots in the ...

Modern Indian political system: problems and prospects - Page 6 - B. K. Verma - 2006 - 314 pages - Preview Gandhi and Aurobindo were bitter critics of the commercialism, plutocracy and imperialism of the modern West. ... Tilak, Gandhi and Aurobindo, either wholly or partly, were stalwarts of some form of Vedic and Hindu revivalism.

Philosophical Humanism and Contemporary India - Page 190 - Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 2006 - 211 pages - Preview The neo-Vedantism of Vivekananda, Gurudatta Vidyarthi, Aurobindo, Rama Tirtha, Satyadeva, Radhakrishnan and DM Datta, the concept of Swaraj of Dayananda, Tilak, Gandhi and Aurobindo and the integral humanism of Deendayal have their...

Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God - Swami Vivekananda, Dave DeLuca - 2006 - 312 pages - Preview ... Aurobindo, and Tagore, have grown, flowered, and borne fruit under the double constellation of the Swan (Ramakrishna) and the Eagle (Vivekananda) –– a fact publicly acknowledged by both Gandhi and Aurobindo.

Explorations in management thought: a festschrift honoring Ishwar ... - Page 195 - Ishwar Dayal, Deepak Dogra, Vinay Auluck - 2006 - 298 pages - Preview It may be indicated that foundations of modern India as a nation are rooted in V1GA (Vivekananda, Gandhi and Aurobindo) thoughts in addition to borrowing certain western ideas. Thoughts of Vivekananda, Gandhi and I 195 ...

English Social And Cultural History An Introductory Guide And Glossary - Page 254 - Bibhash Choudhury - 2005 - 385 pages - Preview Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Aurobindo are two striking examples of how the Western model of education and experience of European life contributed to the harnessing of the nationalistic spirit in colonies like India.

Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: Resistance ... - Page 63 - Elleke Boehmer - 2005 - 239 pages - Preview Both Gandhi and Aurobindo, to quote only two examples, first read the Gita in English translation (Sir Edwin Arnold's influential The Song Celestial (1882) in Gandhi's case, and just possibly in Aurobindo's).70 With the rise of ...

Sri Aurobindo - Page 89 -  Purnima Majumdar - 2005 - 128 pages - Preview In Swaraj in Madras, Subba Rao's articles on Mahatma Gandhi and Aurobindo were also talked about. Theosophy was discussed. Suggestions were given on devotion. Photograph of future ascetics. Relations between teacher and student were ...

Against Empire: Feminisms, Racism, and the West - Page xvii - Zillah R. Eisenstein - 2004 - 236 pages - Preview I work backwards to the slave trade, and across to Mahatma Gandhi and Aurobindo Ghose and WEI3. DuBois and Ida 13. Wells who tell the stories of resistance, and forward to Afghanistan and Iraq and the next 'elsewhere'.

Global Peace And Anti-Nuclear Movements - Page 232 - Badruddin - 2003 - 273 pages - Preview Peace advocates and thinkers like Luther King, Tolstoy, Thompson, Galtung Wallestein, Gandhi and Aurobindo always dreamed of a society based on freedom, human equality and social justice. Today, Galtung can be the ...

In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in ... - Page 10 - Priya Joshi - 2002 - 363 pages - Preview ... the extent to which the Indian alternative, articulated in practical and cultural politics by figures such as MK Gandhi and Aurobindo Ghose, visibly seeped back and began to shape crucial aspects of the "internal culture of Britain.

Living With Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Culture - Page 124 -  Subramuniya - 2001 - 945 pages - Full view Others, such as Buddha, Gandhi and Aurobindo, became celibate after a period of marriage. For the individual preparing for monastic life, brahmacharya is essential in harnessing and transmuting the powerful sexual life energies into ...

From Mission to Church: The Reformed Church in America Mission to ... - Page 218 - Eugene P. Heideman - 2001 - 748 pages - Preview ... that continued for the next century through persons such as Rabindranath Tagore, Vivekananda, MK Gandhi, and Aurobindo. They declared that the corrupt elements were not ^8 French and Sharma, Religious Ferment, 22. 39 Ibid, 22-23.  

Approaches to the study of religion - Page 252 - Peter Connolly - 1999 - 286 pages - Preview For example, leading Hindus have learnt from Christian theology, men such as Ram Mohan Roy, Keshub Chander Sen, Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, Gandhi and Aurobindo.36 Undoubtedly Christians have deepened their own theology in dialogue with ...

The Other Half of My Soul: Bede Griffiths and the Hindu-Christian ... - Page 203 - Beatrice Bruteau, Bede Griffiths - 1996 - 397 pages - Preview The two contemporaries most influential upon Griffiths' life and thought were Mohandas Gandhi and Aurobindo Chose. On the impact of the latter upon his thinking, Griffiths said, "For many years I studied his writings — they have a ...

Hindu-Christian Dialogue: Perspectives and Encounters - Page 106 - Harold Coward - 1993 - 285 pages - Preview Keshab Chunder Sen had come to Europe to learn; Gandhi and AurobindoGhosh and Nehru to acquire an education; Radhakrishnan, like Vivekananda before him, came to teach. Throughout his career Radhakrishnan waged tireless war against ... Indian critiques of Gandhi - Harold G. Coward, Harold G. Coward - 2003 - 287 pages - Though both Gandhi and Aurobindo would claim "experience" as their authorities, their experiences were quite different and Aurobindo understood Gandhi's as inferior, lower level. Thus, from his understanding of the yogic experience he ...

Ascetic culture: renunciation and worldly engagement - Page 114 -  Karigoudar Ishwaran - 1999 - 160 pages - Preview ... who, nevertheless, is a monastic, supports the point with which I began this paper: Hindus identify modernity with certain monastics or ascetics, such as Dayananda, Gandhi and Aurobindo, but most importantly with Vivekananda, ...

The Political Thourght of Annie Besant - Page 102 - K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - 143 pages - Preview Like Mazzini, Gandhi and Aurobindo, Besant with all her eloquent rhetoric in the exaltation of the nation, accepted it as a stage — the stage of individuality. The second or higher stage was the consummation of a commonwealth of ...

Rabindranath Tagore: A centenary: Volumes 1861-1961 - Page 229 - Dr. S. Radhakrishnan - 1992 - 531 pages - Preview One cannot fail to notice in this connexion that while men like Bankimchandra, Tilak, Gandhi and Aurobindo went to the Gita for their ideological sustenance and emotional and intellectual inspiration, Tagore sought out the Upanishads ...