Aristotle, Nietzsche, Iqbal, and Sri Aurobindo

Annual - Issues 5-8 - Page 85 - Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1946 - detached from the environment, but in unity with the sky and the landscape, low-lying or hilly. Thus regarded, these man-made structures will appear as one in motive with their setting. Sri Aurobindo describes the two structures in these lucid words: One of these buildings climbs up — bold, massive in projection, up-piled in the ... Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 171 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007

The Literary endeavour - Volume 4 - Page 46 1982 - ... portray the world as mythical; see man, nature and God as an integrated whole, intimately engaged in a natural-supernatural setting. Sri Aurobindo's use of archetypal symbology, like Shelley's, marks an evolution of the natural to spiritual. Indian writings in English - Volume 1 - Page 20 - Manmohan Krishna Bhatnagar – 1996 The Advent - Volume 39 - Page 21 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram – 1982

The yogi and the mystic: a study in the spirituality of Sri ... - Page 5 Jan Feys - 1977 - This historical setting, Sri Aurobindo comments, must be transposed to its symbolical level (EG chs. 5 and 6). The Gita next exposes its Sankhya theory in chapter II. 1-38 ; in Aurobindo's commentary this is interpreted as a justification of the ...

Light to superlight: unpublished letters of Sri Aurobindo - Page viii - Aurobindo Ghose, Arun Chandra Dutt - 1972 - She had put the Ashram in its right evolutionary setting. Sri Aurobindo now could devote himself more intensely to his Yoga. The Master was full of tenderness for his pupil — solicitous for his spiritual well-being, affectionate; the disciple, ...

Towards supermanhood: the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 1 - Pritibhushan Chatterjee - 1977 - His ideal is in tune with man's bio-psychological nature and his social setting. Sri Aurobindo sets before man the ideal of the Superman. It is the duty of every man to realise this ideal of Supermanhood. Hence Sri Aurobindo shows in the first ...

Gandhi marg - Volume 18 - Page 266 - Gandhi Peace Foundation (New Delhi, India), Gandhi Smarak Nidhi - 1974 - An embodiment of the synthesis of eastern and western cultures and a vehicle for accumulated knowledge since time immemorial in a modern setting, Sri Aurobindo is universally acknowledged as a philosopher-poet and a humanist of a high ...

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page xii - Peter Heehs - 2008 - Preview - More editions The problem is not whether the disputed statement is true, but whether anyone has the right to question an account that flatters a group identity. Aurobindo has been better served by his biographers than most of his contemporaries have.

Life and Times of Netaji Subhas: Yogi Sri Aurobindo's "terrorism", ... - Page 35 - Adwaita P. Ganguly - 2003 - Preview In fact he was seeking his real identity. Aurobindo started working at translations from the Mahabharata, the Indian epic; and simultaneously wrote articles on political matters for the magazine Indu Prakash, published from Bombay. His article...

Indian Literature in English: Critical Assessments - Volume 1 - Page 25 - Amar Nath Prasad, Ajay Kumar Srivastava - 2007 - Full view In Aurobindo all things seem to open their secret core, their secret meaning and secret identity. Aurobindo's vision sees all and feels all as an integral part of his consciousness. Yet all seems … Aurobindo and Rabindra: The Angel Eyes 25.

The oneness/otherness mystery: the synthesis of science and mysticism - Page 472 - Sutapas Bhattacharya - 1999 - Preview All knowledge is in fact knowledge by identity, Aurobindo asserted, restating the traditional wisdom that knowledge is being as I have stressed above with the term realization. This identity is with the object of consciousness which is in itself a ...

Sri Aurobindo: a centenary tribute - Page 141 - Aurobindo Ghose, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1974 - The comparative study of Iqbal and Sri Aurobindo can reveal not only certain similarities but also their identity. Sri Aurobindo reinterpreted Vedantic philosophy in modern terms. He stands in strong opposition to Shankara's negativis- tic ...

Evolutionary, Spiritual Conceptions of Life - Sri Aurobindo, ... - Page 33 - Michael Leicht - 2008 - Preview It seems to me that as Nietzsche shifts the stress form Apollonian harmony and reason to Dionysian ecstasy and disorder Aurobindo has made a similar shift by worshipping the destructive Shiva instead of the creative Brahman! Madhusudan ...

Malayalam literary survey - Volume 13 - Page 243 - Kēraḷa Sāhitya Akkādami - 1991 - And the man of today is an 'Incomplete Man' for he has lost his identity. Sri Aurobindo and Nietzsche would turn in their grave for the expected man to evolve himself into a Divine Being and Superman respectively. Nothing can be done about it...

Studies in Indian aesthetics and criticism - Page 45 - K. Krishnamoorthy - 1979 - ... growing into one Achieve perfection by the magic throb And passion of their close identity. Sri Aurobindo interprets even the Aristotelian idea of catharsis as involving purification and transmuting the soul's memory into a spiritual experience...

Individuals and worlds: essays in anthropological rationalism - Page 110 - Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya - 1976 - tion of fallibility does not arise in the case of knowledge by identity. Sri Aurobindo thinks that man's true identity, although in essence unchanging and eternal, is disclosed in time; man's essential eternity and temporal individuality are two ...

The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 50 - Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - Preview What is dissolved is not the seeker's individuality but the ignorance of the essence of reality. Once this ignorance is removed he or she will "find either his transcendent Self or his true Person", the true individual. Sri Aurobindo does not deny ...

Religions in four dimensions: existential and aesthetic, ... - Page 348 - Walter Arnold Kaufmann - 1976 - ... but even hideous and repellent." In response, Aurobindo called himself "only a poor coarse-minded Oriental." He also explained that he himself was offering in translation only those passages of the Upanishads that Western readers could ...

The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 139 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions ... perhaps because of his (Lamprecht's) being influenced by the school of historical materialism. Aurobindo thinks that the Vedic Age represented the symbolic phase of Indian history, with intuition, mystic vision and imagination predominating.

The philosophy of integralism, or, The metaphysical synthesis ... - Page 222 - Haridas Chaudhuri - 1954 - Einstein is perfectly right when he says that space-time is not itself the basic stuff but rather a form of some more ultimate stuff or substance the precise nature of which is more than science can determine. Sri Aurobindo is definite on this point... The philosophy of integralism: the metaphysical synthesis in Sri ... - Page 101 Haridas Chaudhuri - 1967 - Sri Aurobindo maintains that space...

Nationalism, terrorism, communalism: essays in modern Indian history - Page 56 - Peter Heehs - 1998 - Aurobindo and the Muzaffarpur Incident The third task we set ourselves was to determine Aurobindo's connection if any with the attempted assassination of Douglas Kingsford, District Judge of Muzaffarpur. According to a widely reported story, ...

The bomb in Bengal: the rise of revolutionary terrorism in India, ... - Page 143 - Peter Heehs - 1993 - ... Alexander II to death. Whether the rest of the story is fictitious is more difficult to determine. Aurobindo, as we have seen, denied playing an active part in the terrorists' affairs, although he did admit that Barin sometimes came To Kill Kingsford.

Life and Times of Netaji Subhas: Yogi Sri Aurobindo's "terrorism", ... - Page 23 - Adwaita P. Ganguly - 2003 - Preview Both Aurobindo and E.M. Forster were at the King's; Nehru at the Trinity; and Subhas was at the Fitzwilliam Hall. Is it just a coincidence that the above four did play the most significant role in the dissolution of the British Empire, the discussion ...

World union - Volume 20 - Page 24 - World Union (Organization) - 1980 - Sri Aurobindo Poverty is no more a necessity of social life than disease of the natural body; false habits of life and an ignorance of our true organisation are in both cases the peccant causes of an avoidable disorder. — Sri Aurobindo ...

Janu's death: and other Kulapati's letters (first series) - Page 79 Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi - As a result, the Congress held at Surat broke up in disorder, Sri. Aurobindo was the greatest dynamic factor in the Extremist party. I was a sort of valunteer in this camp. Rumours were afloat at the time about some arrangement made by the ...