Chief concern of Sri Aurobindo's drama is to establish order

Sociology, Ideology and Utopia: Socio-Political Philosophy of East ... - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1997 - Preview - More editions Yet this work is a sustained plea for improvable understanding between the East and the West and the transcultural value orientation of different cultures." Page 40 At this point of his argument Sri Aurobindo shifts his focus of attention from epistemology to ontology. Scientific reason, he concedes, has its need not only in practical life but also in the religious sphere of life. When religious forms or systems...

Journal of Shivaji University: Humanities - Volume 33 - Page 20 - Shivaji University - 1998 - Far from it, on the line of the ancient Indian epics Sri Aurobindo shifts the problem of evil into a conflict between ideal forces. There is evil, there is only a degree of ignorance with which all human characters are infected. The aim of human life ...

Globalization & culture: global mélange - Page 29 - Jan Nederveen Pieterse - 2009 - Preview - More editions The shift from Judaism to Christianity, from the Old to the New Testament, opening the door of the gospel to the ... Thus, according to the Indian philosopher and yogi Sri Aurobindo, “Collective life diffusing itself in too vast spaces seems to ...

Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre (Ambikatanayadatta) - Page 72 - G. S. Amur, Sahitya Akademi - 1995 - Preview - More editions Bendre had a great deal in common with Walt Whitman, the American poet whom Sri Aurobindo admired. He does not share the Romantic poet's agony born out of his separation from vision or his nostalgia for lost insight and innocence.

Towards eternity; Sri Aurobindo birth centenary volume, 15th ... - Page 89 - Aurobindo Ghose, V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1973 - Aurobindo Ghose, V. Madhusudan Reddy ... The intrinsic view of Art involved in a study of the uniqueness of each medium of expression, such as Lessing elaborated and a comparative study of world literature also opened up new vistas.

Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history - Volume 2 - Page 900 - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1972 - Here Sri Aurobindo elaborates the difference between sculpture and painting, as Lessing had done earlier in his contrastive study of Laocoon in ... ibid., p. 268. the python's coils by the poet and the sculptor respectively: 900 SRI AUROBINDO.

On the Mother: the chronicle of a manifestation and ministry - Page 703 - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India) - 1994 - It was Lessing who first drew a meaningful distinction between fluid poetic description and the static art of sculpture, but ...

Sri Aurobindo and his contemporary thinkers - Page 254 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University - 2007 - However, it may be safely said that the historic classification of art begun by Lessing, Winckelmann and systematized by Hegel had some abiding influence on the thoughts of Dr Seal, as is ... 

Journal of social research - Volume 22 - Page 5 - Council of Social and Cultural Research, Bihar, Ranchi University. Dept. of Anthropology - 1979 -... humanism, Sri Aurobindo discussed at length the cosmic evolution. His thoughts are based on higher levels of spiritual consciousness (Srivastava : 1968). Rabindranath Tagore through his writings reflected on the problems of rural India at...

Prabuddha bharata: or Awakened India - Volume 84 - Page 293 1979 - ... to be confused with the apparent polytheism of nature-worship and mechanical ritualism and caste-system lacking the larger and deeper ethics of a spiritual humanism. Sri Aurobindo approaches the Vedas with a pronounced mystic spirit, ...

Hinduism with a human face - Page 50 - Madhuri Sondhi - 1990 - There is an ecumenical movement within Hinduism today which is utilising the emotional content of the Hindu psyche to educate Hindu society for humanism. Sri Aurobindo saw in his Yoga the justification of the "cosmic labour towards love ...

Hinduism's human face - Page 65 - M. L. Sondhi - 2002 - There is an ecumenical movement within Hinduism today which is utilising the emotional content of the Hindu psyche to educate Hindu society for humanism. Sri Aurobindo saw in his Yoga the justification of the "cosmic labour towards love ...

Organiser - Volume 30 - Page 45 1978 - If Gandhiji attempted to establish the oneness of mankind in terms of nonviolence and talked of establishing a sort of spiritual humanism, Sri Aurobindo discussed at length the cosmic evolution. His thoughts are based on higher levels of ...

Secularism and materialism in modern India - Page 90 - Brij Gopal Tiwari - 1964 - Debendranath Tagore, Dayananda, Rablndra Nath Tagore and others, declares his opposition to Mayavada and, like Lokmanya Tilak, he seeks to refute Sankara's Monism and thus to promote "Spiritual Pragmatism." Sri Aurobindo, indeed, is metaphysically, ...

Jayashankar Prasad: His Mind and Art - Page 10 - Nagendra - 1989 - Preview - More editions Rejecting the old traditional and ritualistic form of religion, Gandhi, Aurobindo and Tagore advocated for religion based on morality, spiritualism, truth, unity in ... 

Tamil Literature - Page 66 - Kamil Zvelebil - 1974 - Preview - More editions Bharati's romantic-mystical visions of Aryan gods were inspired by his own translations of a few Rgvedic hymns (on the instigation of Sri Aurobindo, who also in 1912 induced him to translate the Bhagavadgita into Tamil). These poems are of ...

Aurobindo's Philosophy of Brahman - Page 132 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - Preview - Page 134 Furthermore, what must be considered his major work, the epic Savitri, may be seen as a typically Romantic attempt to ... Aurobindo, whether directly — he no doubt read much of the Bible — or indirectly through Romantic reworkings of ...

Sri Aurobindo - Page 148 - Jesse Roarke - 1973 - To say that there is some spiritual inspiration in the English Romantic poetry (as there is not, incidentally, according to Sri Aurobindo, in the Romantic poetry of the continent), is not to say that there was much if any genuine spiritual experience ...

Myth in Indian drama - Page 123 - R. G. Joshi - 1994 - The chief concern of Sri Aurobindo's drama is to establish order in the disorder of this world. The order, thus established, must be in tune with the cosmic order which he finds embedded, as it were, in myths and legends. Even the love-affair of ...

Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's poetry, plays, and criticism - Page 99 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - Full view - More editions But, though we admit that Sri Aurobindo was influenced by the Victorians writing in the fashion of the Elizabethans and included Elizabethan romantic themes in his plays, he did not indulge in his plays the free flights of imagination and was ...

The Political Thought of Aurobindo (Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers) - Page 44 - K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - Preview Democracy, socialism and pacifism are to a great extent the by-products of, or at least vitally inspired by, the inward presence of the idea of humanism. Aurobindo thinks there have been four consequences of the individualistic democratic ideal ...

The structure of Indian thought - Page 242 - Ramakant A. Sinari - 1984 - ... the English-educated Indians who came under the influence of Ramakrishna's and Vivekananda's mysticism and spiritualistic humanism, Aurobindo Ghose rose to an unbelievable height of eminence as a yogi, a philosopher and a patriot.

Prāci-jyotī: digest of Indological studies - Volume 9 - Page 312 - Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra University. Institute of Indic Studies - 1973 - Although these thinkers also have their roots in the Upanisadic philosophy, yet Tagore has interpreted the same ancient wisdom from the point of view of humanism, Aurobindo from evolutionary point and Gandhi from the point of socialism.  

Philosophy East & West - Volume 3 - Page 179 - Project Muse - 1953 - This may be called a higher humanism, and it is certainly fundamentally different from the Comte-Mill brand of humanism. (Sri Aurobindo has called his standpoint that of "a spiritual religion of humanity" in his book The Ideal of Human Unity.) ...

The Visva-Bharati journal of philosophy - Volume 30, Issue 2 - Page A-17 - Visva-Bharati. Centre of Advanced Studies in Philosophy - 1994 - But it may be asked as to why it should be considered as a form of humanism? Sri Aurobindo's religion is not away from human considerations. It is not anti-human. He has a specific view about the reality of life and living. This view, from the...

Indian philosophical annual - Volume 8 - Page 88 - University of Madras. Centre of Advanced Study in Philosophy - 1976 - His is spiritual humanism. Sri Aurobindo's central contention is that the present state of man's reason and intellect is a product of evolution in ignorance. It has to be divinised, we must rise higher. He does not condemn the intellect as the mere ...

Bulletin - Volume 46 - Page 84 - Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India) - 1994 - ... an incident in its passage from a semi-primitive temperament surviving in a fairly advanced outward civilisation to a brighter intellectualism and humanism.... Sri Aurobindo 'The Deliverer' was based on the foregoing words of Sri Aurobindo.

Quest for truth: a felicitation volume in honour of Prof. S. P. Kanal - Page 414 - Satewan Parsram Kanal, Kewal Krishan Mittal - 1976 - Sri Aurobindo's concept of spiritual religion of humanity, as the subsequent discussions will show, is a significant attempt for crossing over the opposition between classical religion and modern naturalistic humanism. Sri Aurobindo, in his ...

Indian journal of physical anthropology and human genetics - Volume 5 - Page 93 - Ethnographic and Folk-Culture Society (Uttar Pradesh, India) - 1979 - If Gandhiji attempted to establish the oneness of mankind in terms of nonviolence and talked of establishing a sort of spiritual humanism, Sri Aurobindo discussed at length the cosmic evolution. His thoughts are based on higher levels of ... Eastern anthropologist - Volume 32 - Page 133 1979 Ideas and Trends in World Anthropology - Page 6 - Charles Frantz - 1981 - Preview