Sri Aurobindo is a more intellectually satisfying writer

The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 124 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions In stating this historical defence of war as a political mechanism, Aurobindo resembles some of the nineteenth century historical scholars who justified war by historical examples. 1 Sri Aurobindo, Heraclitus, p. 39. Ibid. The Ideal of Human...

Modern Indian political thought - Page 230 - Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1971 - ... Enlightenment, and the subjective age starting with Romanticism were the five psychological eras of German history. Aurobindo applied Lamprecht's typology to India. Lamprecht himself believed in the universal applicability of his scheme.

Environment Evolution & Values - Page 62 - D.P. Chattopadhyaya - 2007 - Preview - More editions ... exhibit certain definite rhythms, indicating thereby that there are some general laws of history. Sri Aurobindo also finds definite rhythms in history; but believing as he does in the existence and operation of an intelligent principle in history, it is ...

The Essential Aurobindo - Page 20 - Aurobindo Ghose, Robert A. McDermott - 2001 - Preview - More editions poses a more fundamental commitment to historical evolution on a transnational or global basis. India and World History Sri Aurobindo's address on Indian Independence Day, August l5, l947, was as much a retrospective on his own political ...

5 Indian Masters - Page 25 - Raja Rao, Rabindranath Tagore, Khushwant Singh - 2003 - Preview And just as the materialism of Stalin and not his impersonal sense of history, but his material interpretation of history made him end up like the Egyptians in being embalmed and made immortal as history, Sri Aurobindo tried to make this ...

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Indian freedom struggle - Volume 2 - Page 31 - Ratna Ghosh - 2006 - Preview - More editions It is consciousness that determines the material environment of society. This interpretation is diametrically opposed to the Marxist interpretation of history. Sri Aurobindo says that the course of evolution is not in a straight line but upward moving ...

Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history - Page 464 - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - With scores of such national units in existence, which is a more desirable consummation, - a federation of free nations, or a few empires and imperial hegemonies? With a wealth of illustration drawn from history, Sri Aurobindo considers the ...

The social philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 214 - Ram Nath Sharma - 1980 - Thus while in his analysis of Nationalism and the process of Human history Sri Aurobindo has definitely unravelled many new truths, his pre-occupation with Yogic practices and seclusion from direct politics has led him to lay too much ...

Inspirations: insights on human evolution & transformation - Page 228 - Roy Posner - Preview It was a totally unexpected, creative, and unprecedented resolution of the Cold War that only the Truth Consciousness and Force of the Divine could have made possible. Sri Aurobindo, The Mother Altered the Course of History Sri Aurobindo...

Sri Aurobindo: a centenary tribute - Page 65 - Aurobindo Ghose, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1974 - In fact it has not been allowed to play its full role, as the infra-rational has dominated the rational so far in human history. Sri Aurobindo's vision of the transformed state of humanity becomes clear when he announces: "It (Spirit) will aim at ...

At the Edge of History - Page 123 - William Irwin Thompson - 1989 - Preview - More editions Perhaps because he began his career as a political revolutionary, or perhaps because as a Cambridge graduate in classics he was more familiar with the enantiodromias of history, Sri Aurobindo is a more intellectually satisfying writer on the ...

Sri Aurobindo - Page 185 Sisirkumar Mitra - 1972 - In the fifties the Mother said: 'Since the beginning of earth history, Sri Aurobindo has always presided over the great earthly transformations, under one form or another, one name or another. 'What Sri Aurobindo represents in the world's history...

Talks with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1 - Page 259 - Nirod Baran Chakravarty, Aurobindo Ghose - 1966 - P: Coming to Europe, I want to ask you if it can be said that there was an inrush of forces from the subtle worlds at the time of the French Revolution and in Napoleon's time, changing the course of history. SRI AUROBINDO : Yes, there was.

Towards eternity; Sri Aurobindo birth centenary volume, 15th ... - Page v - Aurobindo Ghose, V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1973 - Since the beginning of earth history, Sri Aurobindo has always presided over the great earthly transformations, under one form or another, one name or another. Sri Aurobindo incarnated in a human body the supramental consciousness and ...

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 3 - Page 20 - Nirod Baran Chakravarty, Aurobindo Ghose - 1974 - Is it something besides the recognised ones in spiritual history? Sri Aurobindo: I don't know. I always prefer something new to the old labels. I will see the Supramental and perhaps find something. Myself: They were saying that 'a sweet ...

Sri Aurobindo for all ages: a biography - Page 220 - Nirodbaran - 1990 - Of course the war figured prominently during our talks in the evening. Apart from his deep knowledge of history, Sri Aurobindo had a masterly grasp of military strategy, although he never made a special study of the subject, and we were ...

Sri Aurobindo's integral approach to political thought - Page 235 - Shiva Kumar Mital - 1981 - As a political philosopher, Sri Aurobindo accepts spiritual determinism in history. Sri Aurobindo's metaphysical concept of Ultimate Reality is linked with his concept of integral knowledge and truth. An integral knowledge presupposes integral...

Sri Aurobindo: or, The adventure of consciousness - Page 225 - Satprem - 1968 - Therefore I say that the man in his position is not only standing before the bar of this court, but before the bar of the High Court of History." Sri Aurobindo was thirty-seven. His brother Barin, beside him in the cage, was sentenced to the gallows.

Sri Aurobindo - Page x - Navajata - 1972 - Snippet view - More editions 'Since the beginning of earth history, Sri Aurobindo has always presided over the great earthly transformations, under one form or another, one name or another,' affirms The Mother. His whole earthly life was a continuous effort to create ...

Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta: The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Page 46 - Nolini Kanta Gupta - 1973 - And I tell you that since the beginning of earth history, Sri Aurobindo has always presided over the great earthly transformations, under one form or another, one name or another. And if he came this time and said this is the final, then it must be...

Sri Aurobindo, a brief biography - Page 116 - Peter Heehs - 1989 - In the course of this study of ancient and modern history Sri Aurobindo showed that political entities evolved according to a predictable pattern. Isolated units were brought together in pre-national empires (like the Roman). These eventually ...

Science of Meditation - Page 32 - Rohit Mehta - 1995 - Preview - More editions Today we stand at another major turning point of history. Sri Aurobindo describes man as a Transitional Being. This means he is on the move to reaching greater heights of being. Today we are witnessing a crisis of consciousness or a crisis of ... Introduction To The Study Of Society - Page 32 - Adhar Chandra Das - 1972 - Preview - More editions

Governance Reform for Vision India - Page 3 - Birendra Prasad Mathur - 2005 - Preview - More editions ... embodied the highest realization and hope for mankind. INDIA'S GREAT HERITAGE India's great culture and heritage has let the country survive through the tumultuous period of five thousand years of her chequered history. Sri Aurobindo,6...

The religious roots of Indian nationalism: Aurobindo's early ... - Page 23 - David L. Johnson - 1974 - As for history, Aurobindo argues that in all countries (except England) the movement to overthrow despotic rule was initiated not by the learned but by the ignorant, not by lawyers but by workers. For example, France : It was not a convocation ...

Miracles do happen: a physician's experience with alternative medicine - Page 207 - Norman C. Shealy, C. Norman Shealy - 1996 - The conquest of difficulties makes up all that is valuable in earth's history. -Aurobindo Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. -Albert Schweitzer If all the pharmacopoeia in the world were thrown into the ocean,...

Religion in modern India - Page 22 Giri Raj Gupta - 1983 - In his philosophy of history Aurobindo describes the history of humanity from ancient times to the present to show the stages of progress towards the Age of Supermind (or Spirit, or Supramental Being, or Gnostic Being). The Age of Spirit or...

Sri Aurobindo, a brief biography - Page 12 - Peter Heehs - 1989 - In his reading of history Aurobindo concentrated on 'the revolutions and rebellions which led to national liberation', and made heroes of Joan of Arc, Mazzini, and others who fought against foreign domination. These historical studies fertilized ...

R̥gveda saṃhitā: - Volume 1 - Page 106 - Satya Prakash - 1977 - .. a great scholar assures us, the Sun and the twelve months. The career of Napolean is the most perfect sun-myth in all legend or history. (Aurobindo) conclusively shown from the Vedic texts that the Punjab, the 106 Modem Indian Interpreters.

Role of religion in Indian politics, 1900-1925 - Page 132 - K. C. Chaudhry - 1978 - ... spiritual aspect on his life even during his stay at Baroda.4 Exhorting the students of the Bengal National College to extend single-minded devotion to the country in the crucial period of her history, Aurobindo while resigning his Principalship ...

Secular democracy - Volume 4 - Page 48 1971 - Aurobindo: the Later Phase (1910-50). Aurobindo's View of Man and Universe. Aurobindo's Views on Society and History. Aurobindo & the Indian Philosophical Tradition. Aurobindo's Mysticism as revealed in his Poetry. Aurobindo and Bengal...

Radhakrishnan: comparative studies in philosophy presented in ... - Page 175 - William Ralph Inge - 1951 - Moreover, the Christian, typified by Brunner, sees in Christ the new destiny of man realized, and regards the Heilsgeschichte of the Gospel as super-history. Aurobindo expects the New Man in the future, and unless I have misunderstood him, ...

Philosophies of History: Meeting of East and West in Cycle - ... - Page 301 - Grace Edith Cairns - 1962 - All cosmic history and all human history has functioned and is at present functioning to usher in this new evolutionary development which is the goal of history. Aurobindo sees the present era of human society not merely as a transitional one...

The Indian Imagination: Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English - Page 67 - K. D. Verma - 2000 - Preview - More editions In the continued strain of a philosopher of history Aurobindo notes the growth of "strenuous intellectuality" and the contributions of Emerson, Carlyle and Ruskin in building "a bridge of transition from the intellectual transcendentalism of the ...

Tradition and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 106 - David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - Preview This is best reflected in the view of world history Aurobindo put forward in The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity, and is summarized in figure 6. Second, Aurobindian cosmology locates the motor of events off the human stage.

Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: Resistance ... - Page 80 - Elleke Boehmer - 2005 - Preview - More editions The lines of their cross-referentiality on both religion and politics, indeed of their demonstrable interdiscursivity, therefore tie them together, as do the shared if largely silent pages of their collaborative history. aurobindo ghose in england: 'the ...

Indian Ethos And Values In Management - Page 37 - Sankar - 2011 - Preview The rest is history. Aurobindo Ghosh had spent fourteen years of education (from the age of seven to twenty one) in England — Manchester, London and Cambridge. He too was far away from Sri Aurobindo when he returned to India in 1893.

Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress: The dismal fate of new nations - Page 153 - Ernst B. Haas - 2000 - Preview 3 The core elements of Hindu thought — dharma, karma, and bhakti — animate that wheel. They encompass the work of Gandhi and of Nehru, all of Indian history. Aurobindo Ghose proclaimed, "Nationalism is not a mere political program; ...

Sri Aurobindo's treatment of Hindu myth - Page 28 - Jan Feys - 1983 - Speaking of the bhakti phase in Indian religious history Aurobindo maintains that if Indian religiosity must attain its spiritual consummation, then it must link up with the bhakti tradition and not opt for "a mere revival or a prolongation of the ...

Social and political orientations of Neo-Vedantism: study of the ... - Page 37 - S. L. Malhotra - 1970 - Similarly both believe that some transcendental power governs the whole process of history. Aurobindo argues that it is not the intelligent mind or intellectual reason which is a sole disposer of the future 31. Aurobindo, Letters, second series ...

Glimpses Of Indian National Movement - Page 66 - Abel M - 2005 - Preview Referring to the lessons he has leant from history, Aurobindo Ghosh, one of the prominent exponents of this emerging new nationalism, said: “Tyrants have tried but have they ever succeeded in repressing the natural love of freedom in man?

The poetry of Sri Aurobindo: a journey from ego to self - Page 105 - Kishor Gandhi - 2001 - Like the Vedic hymns the poems of this period are the vehicle of the poet's "self-expression in some important or even critical moment of his life's inner history" (Aurobindo 10: 10). These poems thus communicate experiences unfamiliar to our...

Indian literary criticism in English: critics, texts, issues - Page 23 - P. K. Rajan - 2004 - In the continued strain of a philosopher of history Aurobindo notes the growth Sri Aurobindo as a Critic 23.

Research journal: humanities & social science - Volume 1, Issue 1 - Page 18 - University of Indore - 1972 - Being a mystic who read the Will of God in history, Aurobindo interpreted all the principal events in the course of the Bengal nationalist movement as well as the movement of Indian nationalism as designed and willed by God. He considered ...

Modernity, morality, and the Mahatma - Page 153 adhuri Sondhi - 1997 - Evolutionary theory & the Interpretation of History: Aurobindo's interpretation of history derived from his metaphysical theories of reality and evolution. In spirit, his position is often held to be close to that of Tantra, in that it posits two fundamental...

The Journal of the Bihar Research Society - Volumes 43-44 - Page 94 - Bihar Research Society - 1957 - I have a strong conviction that as a philosopher reflecting and generalising on comparative history Aurobindo shows not only the want of empiricial substantiations of his generalisations but at times revels in obiter dicta about the superiority of ...

Understanding Sarkar: the Indian episteme, macrohistory, and ... - Page 110 - Sohail Inayatullah - 2002 - By attempting to frame the divine in history, Aurobindo can then easily justify the French revolution as an act of God with Mirabeau, Danton, Robespierre and Napoleon serving their respective parts. Napoleon is finally destroyed by Kali for ...

Colonialism, modernity, and religious identities: religious reform ... - Page 268 - Gwilym Beckerlegge - 2008 -  ... respectively, of the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and several classical poems and plays] are the essence of the history of ancient India; if all else were lost, they would still be its sole and sufficient cultural history' (Aurobindo 2003: 152).

Newsweek - Volume 80, Issues 19-26 - Page 91 - Jean Strouse - 1972 - ... Eastern spirituality with a Western sense of history, Aurobindo offers a structured philosophy geared to the hope for a united world community. And in the Mother, disciples have a powerful figure around whom they can sustain a cult.

Modern Vedanta - Page 324 - P. K. Das - 2004 -  ... in Gandhian thought there is a contradiction between his professing the ideals of a reactionary rural conflictless society, and a faith in moral progress in successive epochs of social history. Aurobindo in this connection had a clearer vision.

Synthesis: The realization of the self - Volume 2 - Page 46 1978 - To achieve it, the follower of Integral Yoga does not depend on physical, postural, or breathing exercises nor on tantric practices, because inherent in them is the danger of subjugation of the inner being by its physical mechanism. Aurobindo...

Readings in Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine Volume 3 - Page 161 - Santosh Krinsky - Preview In order to cover the range of possibilities relating to the existence of the soul and the human personality, and thereby determine the question of rebirth as either an unnecessary or necessary mechanism, Sri Aurobindo quickly reviews various ...

Contemporary Indian philosophy - Page 173 - Basant Kumar Lal - 2010 - Preview - More editions 1 Thus, in the first sense, it is a power, constructive and creative, and in the second sense it is a delusion-producing mechanism. Sri Aurobindo does not feel inclined to accept the second meaning of the word Maya, because that reduces the ...