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December 26, 2012

Like Conrad Sri Aurobindo broadened the range of English language

India gains new respect in Muslim world By Sultan Shahin Nov 25, 2003
Almost 90 years before Samuel Huntington wrote his famous essay on the impending clash of civilizations and later developed it into a book with the same title, and decades before even the RSS was formally organized in 1925, Bipin Chandra Pal, a Hindu nationalist leader of India's freedom movement, had foreseen this clash among various civilizations and predicted that Hindu civilization will side with the Judeo-Christian West in its war against Islamic and Chinese civilizations. 
Pal's essays and articles written almost a century ago make fascinating reading. A genuine thinker and visionary, Pal propounded his theories despite the fact that he considered the West as the greatest danger to humanity and was a great admirer of Islam's spiritual values. He thought that Islam was going to conquer large parts of the world, through its power of propaganda and not through war. He considered this inevitable. He was, however, scared of Islam's political manipulation. He foresaw the dangers of political Islam, which he considered an aberration. For, in his view, Islam is not only "extra-territorial" in its ideology, but also "extra-political". 
In order to appreciate better the mindset and intellectual training the BJP leaders have received, we can do nothing better than read brief excerpts from some of Pal's original writings. Despite the archaic early 20th century prose style, these passages are quite exciting. In a collection of his essays entitled "Nationality and Empire", Pal writes under the sub-head Pan-Islamism and Pan-Mongolianism: (Copyright 2003 Asia Times Online Co, Ltd. All rights reserved.)

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page 404 - Peter Heehs - 2008 - Preview - More editions Sorokin said that “from the scientific and philosophical standpoint, the works of Sri Aurobindo are a sound antidote to the pseudoscientific psychology, psychiatry and educational art of the West.” He and other American academics were ...
Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader - Sachidananda Mohanty - 2012 - Preview - More editions showed the President the last testament of Sri Aurobindo dated 11 November 1950 (the latter passed away on ... to facilitate an American intervention in our favor and, what is of still greater moment, an American prevention of Mao's evil ...
Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page 181 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - Preview In this connection Sri Aurobindo refers to the idea of a League of Nations as advanced by President Wilson and also to the changing patterns of the Commonwealth. But unfortunately when the League of Nations was actually formed. America ...
Thus, for Aurobindo, accurate historical descriptions, correct ethics, and higher consciousness coincide. ... been recycled in a celebration of one of the Ashram's more famous inmates in a movement publication put out by American followers.
Sri Aurobindo Ghose - Page 429 - Verinder Grover - 1993 - Preview Aurobindo's efforts to maintain contacts with the Second International and other Labour Parties vindicated his position as a thoroughgoing anti-colonialist though he looked at the national and colonial issue from a non-proletarian standpoint.
Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of ... - Page 234 - Makarand R. Paranjape - 2012 - Preview - More editions When Jones died, the challenge before India was nothing short of saving herself from cultural death or subjection, such was the pressure of the material and mental subordination under colonialism. But by the time Sri Aurobindo left his body in ...
Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's poetry, plays, and criticism - Page 142 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - Full view - More editions In case of Sri Aurobindo, his critical output may not be systematic but is vivifying with verve and vitality almost startling…
He is not a pedagogue or an academic, but essentially a poet and prophet above all a critic of new social and intellectual order which came in the wake of colonialism and the Renaissance. Quite natural to Sri Aurobindo he has recorded visions and insights rather than built intellectual systems. Page 143 In his thoughtful essay "The Aryan Ideal and the Three Gunas" Sri Aurobindo expresses a similar view 'Sattwa can never be the cause of downfall, indeed a nation which is predominantly Sattwic cannot remain bound in chains of slavery'.
Essays On The Gita - Page 469 - Sri Aurobindo - 2000 - Preview - More editions Sri Aurobindo. the necessity of the intervention of sattwa.
The sattwic quality is a first mediator between the higher and the lower nature. It must indeed at a certain point transform or escape from itself and break up and dissolve into its source; ...
Realization of God according to Sri Aurobindo: a study of a ... - Page 62 - George Nedumpalakunnel - 1979 - to the dominant guna in a man, he may be called either sattwic, or rajasic or tamasic.3 The spiritual discipline of Aurobindo, we shall see afterwards, in fact takes full acoqnt of this existential situation of man in the lower nature. He visualizes...
Aurobindo's Philosophy of Brahman - Page 132 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - Preview - While mystic experience does stand out not only justificationally but in his idea of the nature of divine life, Aurobindo's stress is on a continuity, mutual value, and mutual reality obtaining between the mystical and and our more ordinary ... Page 133 (… But note that it is the Romantic poet John Keats who puts forth the idea of the world as "the vale of soul-making.") Furthermore, these ideas connect with his yogic teaching that a worldly (as opposed to an ascetic) life is indispensable to ...
Poetic plays of Sri Aurobindo - Page 13 - Bimal Narayan Thakur - 2004 - Preview - More editions Sri Aurobindo had succeeded in conveying much though saying little, he had made Bhawani Mandir both the Virgin and the dynamo, both a manifesto for change and transformation and an ultimatum to the colonial power". And Bhawani ...
Critical essays on post-colonial literature - Page 19 - Bijay Kumar Das - 2007 - Preview - More editions of telling that English language has gained from Sri Aurobindo. He comes to this conclusion by comparing Sri Aurobindo with Joseph Conrad. Thus, he observes: Like Conrad who broadened the descriptive range of the English language, ...
New perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's plays - Page 25 - Saryug Yadav - 2000 - S.K. Nandi rightly evaluates the critical contribution of Sri Aurobindo in the perspective of colonialism and modernity. He remarks: "Thus the philosophies of art and beauty as found in the two Tagores (Rabindranath and Abanindrananath) and ...
Neo-Hindu views of Christianity - Page 212 - Arvind Sharma - 1988 - Preview - More editions Sattwa when predominant can make intelligence transparent, calm, poised and thus render it capable of reflecting the Light ... Sri Aurobindo says that evolution is now ready to take a further step in its work of releasing a level of consciousness ...
Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation - Page 157 - G. N. Devy - 2002 - Preview - More editions The perfect inspiration in the intuitive intellect is the sattwic or luminous inspiration, which is disinterested, self-contained, yet at will noble, ... Sri Aurobindo, The Harmony of Virtue The Essence of Poetry In order to get a firm SRIAUROBINDO 157.

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