Sri Aurobindo enthuses us to take to a life of scholarship

Speaking at a Ceremony to honour Dr.Prema Nandakumar and Ms Shraddhavan at SACAR December 25, 2012 by Murali Sivaramakrishnan

As persons I have not had the occasion to meet either Sri Aurobindo or the Mother but I came to Sri Aurobindo through the work of Srinivasa Iyengar. Prof. Iyengar has been a kind of eye-opener for me. Then I started working on Sri Aurobindo. I am sure Prema-ji started working on Sri Aurobindo ten years before I was born even, I think, because in the 1950s, she was working on Savitri. In 1957 she started working and by around I think 1960 when she finished her book—her monumental work—I was just a kid. Eventually, when I came to do my work so many years later, her book on Savitri was a piece of revelatory sort of experience for me and that I found quite challenging in two ways because I have always felt that the work of Sri Aurobindo needs to be read in multiple dimensions at the same time. 

Indian literature - Volume 15 - Page 104 Prema Nandakumar Sahitya Akademi - 1972 - Himself a scholar, he enthuses us to take to a life of scholarship. Having renounced his princely position in the Baroda College for the sake of Mother India, he makes our hearts glow with love for the Motherland. Regeneration is literally rebirth, ...

The swan and the eagle: essays on Indian English literature - Page 207 - C. D. Narasimhaiah - 1987 - ... well have inaugurated an Indian School of Criticism in the twenties and thirties. Which means 50 years ago. Aurobindo appears to me, theoretically at least, to have no fewer credentials for writing responsible criticism than, say, T. S. Eliot. Here is a man who was well grounded in Sanskrit Literature, knew his Bengali, Marathi and Gujarati well enough... The Literary criterion - Volume 15 - Page 14 1980 English studies in India: widening horizons - Page 99 - 2002 The function of criticism in India: essays in Indian response to ... 1986

Hartshorne Process Philo - Page 127 - Robert Kane, Stephen H. Phillips - 1989 - Preview - More editions Further, Aurobindo appears to hold that given that Supermind has created, or is creating a "world," a spatially and temporally extended manifestation of Brahman, it is possible that God revoke the primordially affirmative choice. Our world ...

Social psychology: the integral approach - Page 159 - N. V. Subbannachar - 1966 - Taking hold of the 'subconscient' and utilising it for the purpose of Integral evolution for Sri Aurobindo, appears to be of greater significance and implication than it is for Jung whose interest is limited to the 'digging up' of 'complexes' for ...

Indian English drama: a critical study - Page 22 - S. Krishna Bhatta - 1987 -... Viziers of Bassora, Sri Aurobindo appears to be under the spell of Shakespearian plays like The Merchant of Venice which has five stories interlinked. While playwrights like Marlowe created characters who would cling to one ambition, good ...

Revival of Upaniṣadic thought in contemporary Indian philosophy - Page 110 - Sankatha Prasad Singh - 1974 - Sri Aurobindo appears to have drawn inspiration from Heraclitus who was his favourite philosopher. He thinks that "Heraclitus's account of the cosmos is an evolution and involution out of his one eternal principle of Fire." Another Western ...

A History of Indian Literature 1911-1956: Struggle for Freedom: ... - Page 143 - Sisir Kumar Das - 1995 - Preview - More editions In the twentieth century among the noted poets Sri Aurobindo, appears to be the most inclined towards the European classical legends both because of temperament and training. Even in his early poems one finds the occurrence of Greek ...

Panch Mahabhuta Tatwa and Sharira: Five Gross Elements and Living ... - Page 24 - S. K. Prasoon - 2008 - Preview - More editions Here, the fear of Sri Aurobindo appears to be coming true. He felt that some day someone by cunningness or by simple mistake will press the wrong button and before God will get time to shout 'Save the Earth', the Earth will be destroyed.

All India Conference on the Relevance of Sri Aurobindo Today, ... - Page 93 - Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo Samiti - 1975 - In this recognition of the dangers of over-application of uniformity and standardization at any level — material, intellectual or spiritual, Sri Aurobindo appears to transcend the mere contemporaneity of the Brave New World or 1984. He bases ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 235 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007 - State cannot claim supremacy solely because it enjoys legitimate coercive power. Maclver observes that power is exercised only when relations are abnormal. Sri Aurobindo appears to support the pluralist viewpoint when he writes Problem of ...

Sri Aurobindo, Indian poet, philosopher and mystic - Page 44 - George Harry Langley - 1949 - By which Aurobindo appears to mean a truth of an inner unifying creative principle that has infinite expressions. “This many-sidedness is a sign of the approach of the soul to a living reality, not to an abstraction . . . that can be petrified into a ...

Sri Aurobindo's Life divine: lectures delivered in the U.S.A. - Page 21 - Ambalal Balkrishna Purani - 1966 - The same is true of Rabindranath Tagore but the thought of Sri Aurobindo appears to me more comprehensive and systematic than that of Tagore." I use this comparison just to show that students of philosophy, without becoming devotees or...

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 50 - Page 496 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1997 - Not on 24 November but some time later Sri Aurobindo appears to have realised that the Supermind proper had not arrived. What had arrived was distinctly explained by him in several letters in the subsequent period. The one of October ...

Dilip Kumar Roy: a lover of light among luminaries - Page 221 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology - 2002 - He never mustered up courage earlier, respectfully, to leave Sri Aurobindo in search of a person who could satisfy his longing for Krishna. One may often feel that his love for Sri Aurobindo appears to be neither genuine nor rational.

Prabuddha bharata: or awakened India - Volume 78 - Page 132 - Advaita Ashrama - 1973 - At a few other places also in his analysis of the Isa-upanishad, Sri Aurobindo appears to accept the insights of Sankara, as for instance, when he says that, of Brahman 'the unity and stability are the higher truth', and that the 'chain of Karma only binds the movement of Nature... Contemporary Indian philosophy - Page 39 - T. M. P. Mahadevan, G. V. Saroja - 1981

Insight - Volumes 2-3 - Page 75 - Temple of Understanding (U.S.) - 1977 - Indeed, chapter five opens with a kind of apologetic about the difficulty of evaluating the impact of Aurobindo, appears to suggest that means for evaluation do not exist, and then by some unnamed criterion dismisses a critique by Zaehner.

Prajña - Volume 18 - Page 220 - Banaras Hindu University - 1972 - Sri Aurobindo appears to share this belief, especially when he posits that the lion's share of the individual principles of evolution remains unabsorbed in the evolutionary process. Incidentally, such a view does not appear to be countenanced...

The Vedanta kesari - Volume 88 - Page 40 - Sri Ramakrishna Math (Madras, India), Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras - 2001 - Or, do they have any deeper meaning, being simply metaphors for an inner sacrifice? Modern Indologists subscribe to the former view, while Sri Aurobindo appears to opt for the latter interpretation. In his monumental works The Secret of the ...

Facets of Indian religio-philosophic indentity - Page 180 - Harsh Narain - 1983 - ... Sri Aurobindo appears to postulate two phases of descent, involution (but not of ascent, evolution), one for self-enfoldment, self-oblivion, and the other for self-unfoldment, self-recovery. All descent, all involution, is descent of the Spirit ...

English and India: essays presented to Professor Samuel Mathai on ... - Page 88

M. Manuel, K. Ayyappapanicker - 1978 - This expression arises from the so-called supra-mental consciousness which creates the divine humanity. Here Sri Aurobindo appears to echo Swedenborg and Blake. The poetry of this consciousness is something spoken by the soul to the ...

Aurobindo's Philosophy of Brahman - Page 39 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - Preview - More editions Although he is somewhat insensitive here to the distinction between a fact and a theory, Aurobindo appears to claim that a non-mystic would be unable to test the truth of a pm0 or the veridicality of the corresponding mystic experience, except ...

Readings in Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine Volume 3 - Page 100 - Santosh Krinsky - Preview While scientists and philosophers try to find some rationale or central theme in the evolution of species, Sri Aurobindo appears to have located the missing connecting point that explains the evolution as we see it occurring on the planet.

Concise history of the Indian National Congress, 1885-1947 - Page 52 - Nisith Ranjan Ray, Ravindrer Kumar, Manmath Nath Das - 1985 - Aurobindo appears to have been most consistent in his ideas and preachings. His series of articles entitled 'New Lamps for Old', published in 1893-94, marked the beginning of his crusade against Congress ideology and techniques, and the ... A Centenary history of the Indian National Congress, 1885-1985 - Volume 1 - Page 33 - B. N. Pande, Indian National Congress (I). All India Congress Committee - 1985

Life and Works of Sri Aurobindo - Page 120 - S.R. Sharma - 2003 - Sri Aurobindo appears to have stayed in Chandernagore for about six weeks. This indeed proved a blessing to Motilal Roy, for he profited greatly by his discussions with Sri Aurobindo on many aspects of Yogic Sadhana. This is how Motilal ...