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July 15, 2012

Sri Aurobindo was a puzzle to his contemporaries

Studies on Rabindranath Tagore: Volume 1 - Page 122 - Mohit Kumar Ray - 2004 - 554 pages - Preview KRS lyengar critically evaluates his scholastic personality in his framework: Next only to Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo, Tagore has been the supreme inspiration to millions in modern India.1 It is true mat his poetry has ...
Indian Society, Institutions and Change - Page 262 - Rajendra K. Sharma - 2004 - 384 pages - Preview MK Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. In the words of Sri Aurobindo, "A religion which is itself a congeries of religions and which at the same time provides each man with his own turn of inner experience, would be the most in consonance with ...
Muslim Identity, Print Culture, and the Dravidian Factor in Tamil Nadu - Page 142 -  J. B. Prashant More - 2004 - 329 pages - Preview EV Ramasamy's contemporaries such as Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, and Sri Aurobindo, all of whom hailed from northern India, were more interested in fostering the aastika traditions. Though, some of them were ...
Conversations and Transformations: Toward a New Ethics of Self and ... - Page xx - Ananta Kumar Giri - 2002 - 347 pages - Preview ... an impressive array of Indian texts and ideas, many of which remain unfairly ignored in the West. Thus, one encounters in the book (unsurprisingly) venerable figures of the Indian independence struggle like Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo.
The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of ... - Page 280 - Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin - 2002 - 552 pages - Preview With some variations, the techniques of bodily control practiced by many other monastic orders — Christian and non-Christian — have been similar.24 Among the great contemporary altruists, Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo give concrete examples...
Feminism and Indian Realities - Page 308 - K. A Kunjakkan - 2002 - 419 pages - Preview ... applying our minds and spiritual energy (like Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo) to evolve an alternative way of governance in tune with our innate needs and aspirations, and follow this course consistently and courageously without ...
Cultures of peace: the hidden side of history - Page 46 - Elise Boulding - 2001 - 347 pages - Preview Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo were the two revolutionarv leaders who had the most highlv evolved community development models, based on years of experiment and practice. Both offered educational systems that provided for the holistic ...
Cultural Selection - Page 127 - Agner Fog - 1999 - 322 pages - Preview Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo, both of whom have had considerable influence on Hinduism, were both educated in England where they read the bible and were influenced by Christian thought, which has left considerable marks in their...
In the footsteps of Xuanzang: Tan Yun-shan and India - Page 77 - Chung TanIndira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts - 1999 - 251 pages - Preview But, he had enjoyed in his own personal cultivation the inspiration of many an lndian great man, like Gurudeva Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, and Sri Aurobindo with all of whom Tan had maintained personal contacts. Thus, Tan Yun-shan was the ...
Coming into being: artifacts and texts in the evolution of ... - Page 249 - William Irwin Thompson - 1998 - 284 pages - Preview In our century, this archetypal opposition is like the difference between the revolutionary nationalists Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo: one moves into revolutionary politics but cannot avert a civil war, the other moves into exile ...
Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers: The political thought of ... - Page 48 - K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - 115 pages - Preview Radhakrishnan was deeply influenced by Tagore, Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. In his Religion of the Spirit one hears the distinct echoes of Tagore's The Religion of Man, Gandhi's Hindu Dharma, and Sri Aurobindo's The Religion of Humanity.
Yoga Journal - Sep-Oct 1997 - Page 103 160 pages - Magazine - Full view "What I learned from Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo was that all of us, through dedication in our professional lives, can serve humanity and God," Dr. V said in a 1992 Harvard Business School case study of Aravind.
Sociology, ideology, and utopia: socio-political philosophy of ... - Page 228 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1997 - 236 pages - Preview I have trust in the insights of the persons like Emerson, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. Somewhere Gandhi observes that "Good moves in snail's pace". I think what as a non-violent activist he had in mind is durable Good or ...
Beyond Orientalism: Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter - Page 77 - Fred Reinhard Dallmayr - 1996 - 277 pages - Preview As in the case of the Brahma Sutra, Radhakrishnan first recounts the interpretive history of the Gita, ranging from Shankara and Ramanuja to Vallabha and, in our century, to Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. Next, he sketches the metaphysical ...
Philosophical foundation of education: Part 1 - Page 14 - S. Bhattacharya - 1996 - 100 pages - Preview The programme of evaluation should also be developed according to the objectives of education. Evolving an Indian philosophy of education demands a study of Vivekananda. Tagore. Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo, with their relevance in modern...
Human Action in Business: Praxiological and Ethical Dimensions - Page 171  - Wojciech GasparskiLeo V. Ryan - 1996 - 525 pages - Preview In all the pages that follow our principal source of inspiration and guidance has been the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. They had travelled widely over the world, ...
A tradition of teachers: Śakara and the jagadgurus today - Page 180 - William Cenkner - 1995 - 210 pages - Preview ... the teaching tradition of India as the communication of the truth of the personality.2 There I demonstrated that the contemporary figures of Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo Ghose were exemplary teachers because the truth 1.
Initiates of Theosophical Masters: K. Paul Johnson - Page 66 - K. Paul Johnson - 1995 - 255 pages - Preview Rabindranath Tagore, Krishnamurti, Mohandas Gandhi, and Sri Aurobindo were among the most influential thinkers of twentieth-century India; all were linked indirectly with the TS although none was a member for very long.
New economic policy: reforms and development - Page 28 - Siddheswar Prasad, Jagdish Prasad - 1993 - 294 pages - Preview Therefore, in spite of poverty India had Paramahans Ramakrishna, Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo but the West had none. The difficulty with the West is that it has split personality. It is Christian in religion and Pagan in science.
The argumentative imagination: Wordsworth, Dryden, religious dialogues - Page 169 - George Myerson - 1992 - 186 pages - Preview ... p. iii) as one of the four great authorities of modern times on the Gita - the others being Tilak, Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. It is important to recognise that such views also belong to the political development of modern India, ...
Indian philosophy since independence: Volume 1 - Page 106 - Dale Maurice Riepe - 1979 - 397 pages - Preview (4) Intellectual Backwardness, which has been encouraged by irrational, nationalistic, revivalistic, conservative strains, exemplified at times even by Tilak, Gandhi, and Sri Aurobindo, and occasionally by the Nehrus and their ...
Six Pillars: Introduction to the Major Works of Sri Aurobindo Robert McDermott - 2012 - 216 pages - Aurobindo, the revolutionary turned yogi, was a puzzle to his contemporaries and remained one to later generations. This is probably still true today. But puzzles are there to be solved. These essays can help to do that.
Yoga morality: ancient teachings at a time of global crisis - Georg Feuerstein - 2007 - 292 pages - ... Vedic era some 5000 years ago up to the time of the Gnostic tracts of the Upanishads.13 Going forward in time, I have availed myself of the writings of modern Indian thinkers and sages, notably "Mahatma" Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. 
Also, alienation often has ontological roots. Indeed, thinkers such as Hegel and Marx, Heidegger and Sartre discuss the problem of alienation at some length. In our own country, Dr. BR Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo have ...
Altruistic love: a study of American "good neighbors" and ... - Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin - 1950 - 253 pages - ... Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, the Apostles, Mohammed, Al Hallaj, up to M.Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo.2 Since the ethical code and altruism of such un- 1 For what is law, the official and intuitive law, the moral or ethical norms, ...
Culture, Society And Leadership - Page 392 - Chakraborty S Kdebangshu Chakraborty - 2006 - 426 pages - Preview He explained his points using pertinent maxims and sayings by great personalities like Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. According to him, the quotient of both values and skills are to be lifted, ...
Reflections and mobilizations: dialogues with movements and ... - Page 294 - Ananta Kumar Giri - 2005 - 436 pages - Preview ... taking inspiration from both Maharma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo ... More editions

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