Sri Aurobindo looks beyond the State

Radhikaranjan Das Wins Court Case – by Sridharan from Critique of The Lives Dec 11, 2012

On the 5^th of December, 2012 the Puducherry Court granted relief to Radhikaranjan Das who was abruptly deprived of his Sanskrit classes in the middle of the last academic year by Manoj Das Gupta, Registrar of the Ashram School cum Managing Trustee of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. The Court granted an injunction restraining the Registrar and the Ashram Trustees from disturbing or depriving Radhikaranjan of his classes in the Ashram School. 

Amateurs capture India's diversity Deccan Herald Tuesday 11 December 2012 Neha Das, Dec 11, 2012, DHNS: Visual TREAT Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication (SACAC). The college’s photography department has organised ‘Graduate Photography Exhibition’ … 

Shikha Mahipal, who is one of the 12 students exhibiting their photographs, says her conceptual works are based on Arana, a Sanskrit word meaning ‘depth’. According to Shikha, her work reflects human desire and the journey of life and death. “We as humans have so many desires. Some get fulfilled while others remain unfulfilled until death. That is why the egg used in my pictures signifies birth and simultaneously death - as an egg also denotes that the evolution of the individual did not take place, hence leaving a lot of desires unfulfilled.” Mumbai: TISS organises students' film festival IBNLive ... Jamia Millia Islamia and Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication, New Delhi; Film and Television Institute of India, Pune; Sophia Polytechnic, ...

Cutting class The Asian Age Tuesday Dec 11, 2012 Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

One immediately thinks of Jawaharlal Nehru in this connection because everyone makes heavy weather of his time at Harrow. But Sri Aurobindo did his entire schooling at London’s elite St. Paul’s School. 

Awaken Bharata: a call for India's rebirth - Page 243 - David Frawley - 1998 - in Korea against the communists. Aurobindo possessed a great historical vision. He saw the importance of the Vedas and their great antiquity in India. Aurobindo — like Dayananda, Vivekananda and Tilak before him — rejected the idea that ... The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 339 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions old Semitic belief in the eventual millennium and the return of the messiah. This hypothesis of Becker and Berdyaev involves a great amount of imaginative romanticism, but it does represent a great truth. Society does not radically ...

Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader Sachidananda Mohanty - 2012 - Preview - More editions Early in 1950, he gave a message regarding the Korean War where he spoke against the threat of Bolshevik communism. Sri Aurobindo passed away on 5 December 1950. The Sri Aurobindo Ashram continued with the Mother at the helm of ... Sri Aurobindo's integral approach to political thought - Page 159 - Shiva Kumar Mital - 1981 - ... a feeble grasp of the rights of man the danger of a featureless collectivism.50 The Ideological ard Tussle between Capitalism and Communism Sri Aurobindo thought that a possible tussle between capitalism and communism might occur.51...

Talks with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 4 - Page 241 - Nirodbaran, Aurobindo Ghose - 1989 - P: Shaw goes a step further — he wants communism. Sri Aurobindo: Communism exists nowhere, not even in Russia. Evening P: Sarat Bose is also expelled from the Congress. Sri Aurobindo (laughing): Yes, two great Bose brothers are gone ... Nirodbaran, divinity's comrade - Page 170 - Hemant Kapoor - 2003 - The only way, I told him, is to propagate Sri Aurobindo's ideas and, leaving Gandhi's constructive programme, take up the old village communism. " Sri Aurobindo: Communism? All that is an old formula. It won't do at all. How is he going to link ... Talks with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 4 - Page 129 - Nirodbaran, Aurobindo Ghose - 1989 - He says that all Europe will turn communist. Sri Aurobindo: Every communist says that. If Hitler is defeated, Germany may turn communist. In that case the whole of Europe will be communist. And after Hitler's death there may be dissensions in ...

Prajña - Volume 18 - Page 119 - Banaras Hindu University - 1972 - Snippet view - More editions He believed in the socialistic ideal of Society.7 Denouncing Communism, Sri Aurobindo remarked, "the actual danger presents itself rather as a clash between two opposing idealogies, one led by Russia and Red China and the other side a ... Manthan - Volume 11 - Page 17 - Deendayal Research Institute - 1990 - The nemesis of Hegelianism, which finds in the state the march of God on earth, has fallen upon the modern totalitarian theories like fascism, nazism and communism. Sri Aurobindo looks beyond the State. He is anti-State if it does not Swami Vivekananda and the Indian quest for socialism - Page 152 - Arun Kumar Biswas - 1986 - The presently existing rigid State socialism does not represent the essence of communism. Aurobindo did not believe that the principle of communism, necessarily leads to a 'termite civilisation or the suppression of the individual'. "It could well ...

The political philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 133 - Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1976 - Even according to the materialist Marx there is a goal in history — the attainment of freedom through a classless communism. Aurobindo is confident that the aspirations of mankind for freedom, light, peace and immortality are going to be ... Teilhard and Aurobindo: a study in religious complementarity - Page 83 - David M. Brookman - 1988 - While both Teilhard and Aurobindo were sympathetic to the humanistic elements in communism, Aurobindo did not accept its denial of spirit.36 The imposition of socialism by force does not offer a solution, for without inner transformation of the ...

ON HUMAN DANGERS Prosperity and austerity in contemporary philosophy December 10, 2012 Ian Bogost

OOO holds as a premise that philosophy, theory, and culture in general has been too content in putting human affairs at the center of being and therefore discourse, and that instead we should allow all things(including people) to be of potentially equal impact and concern. So, in that respect, OOO does ask us to expand our attention. And it makes this request on ontological grounds, because it holds metaphysics to be an additive rather than a subtractive philosophical medium. What does baffle me is the assumption that taking the OOO position entails a turning away from human beings and human suffering in particular. 

The terror and the tears

Anticipating Buber, he (Vyasa) saw history as the encounter of the temporal and the eternal, the empirical and the transcendental; and anticipating Berdyaev, he saw in history a divine programme for divinising human existence.

I hero worshipped [Sri] Aurobindo in my college days; but now half a century later, I am terribly disappointed. His discussion of time and eternity is wholly derived from that of Boethius; page after page in [The] Life Divine is watered down Plotinus. His vision of History has the bookishness of Hegel’s tidy schema, Spirit fulfilling its schedule of progress with no problem whatever. But history is fatefully open ended, for man can abuse his freedom to become an Asura and wreck himself too thereby. Man can regress to a cannibal, Bhima drinking Duhsasana’s blood. Man may commit race-suicide, as nearly happened in Kurukshetra where only 9 men survived out of 18 vast armies.

I am afraid [Sri] Aurobindo’s inflated rhetoric does not see the terror and the tears at the heart of things. I must confess your casual rating of Vyasa and Berdyaev vis-a-vis [Sri] Aurobindo shocked me. [Krishna Chaitanya (Dr. K.K. Nair)] 12:55 AM