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 ...
Tradition
and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 327 - David
J. Lorenzo - 1999 - Preview
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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