Sri Aurobindo's defence of the position of women sounds unconvincing

The Modern schoolman: Volume 30 - St. Louis University. College of Philosophy and Letters, St. Louis University. Dept. of Philosophy - 1953 - It is because Aurobindo fails to grasp the value of this distinction that he defeats his own purpose of making the world real by denying the world subsistence. He has made God the universal substance of the world and made the world ...

Sri Aurobindo: the prophet of life divine Haridas Chaudhuri, Haridas Chaudhuri - 1973 - 224 pages - But Sri Aurobindo cannot see eye to eye with Alexander on this point. He admits that at the prehuman or infrahuman stages of evolution Nature was under the necessity of going beyond the existing order of creation in order to bring to ...

Freedom, transcendence, and identity: essays in memory of ... - Kalidas Bhattacharya, Pradip Kumar Sengupta, Indian Council of Philosophical Research - 1988 - 222 pages - Mind [says Sri Aurobindo] cannot possess the infinite, it can only suffer or be possessed by it ; it can only lie blissfully helpless under the luminous shadow of the real cast down on it from planes of existence beyond its reach.12 It ...

Sociology, ideology, and utopia: socio-political philosophy of ... - Page 47 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1997 - 236 pages - Preview Finally, a careful reader of the ideas of Sri Aurobindo cannot help thinking that some of his writings, especially those on the Vedas, the Upanisads and the Gita, have been written primarily in a justificationist vein...

For example, Sri Aurobindo's defence of the position of women in the Indian Society, couched in highly theoretical terms, sounds unconvincing and is at variance with the ground-level reality. To make one culture intelligible to another ...

The politics of philosophy: a Marxian analysis -  A. Pampapathy Rao - 1983 - 118 pages - And not being content with this achievement, Chattopadhyaya points out Sri Aurobindo's failure as writer by bringing to our notice how "while developing a serious point or a subtle argument Sri Aurobindo 'strays' into an apparently ...

On the edge of the future: Esalen and the evolution of American ... - Page 112 - Jeffrey John Kripal, Glenn W. Shuck - 2005 - 323 pages - Preview ... spiritual writer, and it is certainly likely that he lacked the physical books to reference anyway at his ashram, but one must still wonder about Aurobindo's failure to mention even the names of intellectual influences on him.

Sri Aurobindo--the poet: Volume 2, Part 4 -  Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1999 - 436 pages - than recommends the spiritual poetry. And possibly even the rest of Sri Aurobindo failed to impress her as poetic enough in spite of its would-be lofty language.

Enlightening studies in Indian English poetry - Amar Kumar Singh - 1994 - 288 pages - Aurobindo failed as a poet, but the failure was Titanic and "in such failure ... lie seeds of fruition later' V Parthasarthy too found fault with Savitri. According to him, "Savitri fails as a poem because Ghose's talent and ...

Indo-Anglian literature, 1800-1970: a survey - Haydn Moore Williams, Haydn Moore Williams - 1976 - 137 pages - Aurobindo cannot match the allusiveness or the great blank verse music of Milton. In Savitri grandness often dissolves into mere vagueness and the poem lacks concreteness. Nevertheless, it is a noble attempt to breathe the new life of ...

Nanakism: a new world order, temporal and spiritual - Ishar Singh - 1976 - 288 pages - But Aurobindo failed to see that Guru Nanak's teachings continue to exist in the most authoritative, original, and genuine form in the Adi-Granth, which is free from all sectarianism and narrowism. Secondly Guru Nanak's spirit continues to live ...

The saga of the land of Jagannatha -  Mayadhar Mansinha - 1971 - 290 pages - He saw his Oriya fellowmen scattered pell-mell in four different provinces, including Bengal, suffering in each, as an exploited and neglected minority. It is strange that even a visionary like Sri Aurobindo failed to see the logicality of young and ...