Sri Aurobindo tends to twist certain Indian critical terms

The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 51 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - Thus Aurobindo's theory is different from Carlyle's hero theory. Aurobindo believes that the hero derives his heroism from the strength and energy of God. Hence "the greatness of individuals is the greatness of the eternal Energy within".

Indian Ethics: Classical traditions and contemporary challenges - Page 411 - Puruṣottama Bilimoria, Joseph Prabhu, Renuka M. Sharma - 2007 - Preview - ... all action - his hedonism is strictly a psychological thesis, not an ethical theory. Aurobindo expressly denies an ethics of general utility, despite his psychological hedonism. He argues that pleasure, to include the bliss of mystical experience, ...

Indian Philosophy in English:From Renaissance to Independence - Page xx - Nalini Bhushan, Jay L. Garfield - 2011 - Preview - ... arguing that Indian aesthetics is not only a better theory for understanding Indian art, but that in global philosophical and aesthetic discussion, rasa theory belongs in the same conversation with Western aesthetic theory (Aurobindo, 2000).

Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers - Page 110 Prof. Mahendra Prasad Singh - 2011 - Preview - Several reformists of the 19th century as well as the moderates within the Congress had fallen victim to it and had interiorized this theory. Aurobindo rejected this line of argument and condemned the moderates for misleading the nation.

India's True Voice - Page 290 - Alvin Boyd Kuhn - 1992 - Preview - Yielding to the omnipresent pressure of general pessimistic theory, Aurobindo faces squarely the great problem of the existence of ignorance, evil and wrong in our world. Yet he holds faithfully to a positive explanation and redeems the utility...

Ortho Para V - Page 177 - Wallace Salzman - 2007 - Preview ... I am probably as close to an understanding of its message as anyone can be because of Ortho-Para theory. Aurobindo carefully pointed out that there are two approaches to the interpretation of the messages defined in the text. The older ...

A critical study of Aurobindo: with special reference to his ... - Page 4 - Laxman Ganpatrao Chincholkar - 1966 - Spiritual experience is the basis of the theory. Aurobindo's theory does not tend towards individual salvation. The descent would dispel the ignorance for ever and establish a divine race upon the earth. This would end, for ever, the anomalies ...

Mastering Western texts: essays on literature and society for A.N. ... - Page 24 - A. N. Kaul, Sambudha Sen, A. N. Sen - 2003 - Preview - The 'Indian point of view' critic was recognizable by his trademark bag of tricks, ever ready to unleash the unfailing formulae of rasa theory, Aurobindo mysticism, or some overwrought mishmash of Indo-mythological allusions and occultisms ...

Papers in language and linguistics - Volume 3 - Page 65 Ujjal Singh Bahri - 1997 - ... in contemporary literary theory has been expressed as intertext on which Harold Bloom has developed his anxiety of influence theory. Aurobindo's aesthetic theory grows out of body-plexus symbolism where he has a perfect scheme of eight ...

Understanding Sarkar: the Indian episteme, macrohistory, and ... - Page 111 - Sohail Inayatullah - 2002 - In this theory, Aurobindo does not directly follow the classic end of Kali and return to Krta. Rather, culture can fall into disintegration and collapse. The highest possible integration is where the nation follows the Spirit. But there need not be only...

Asian thought & society - Issues 40-42 - Page 41 1989 - EVOLUTIONARY MYSTICISM OF AUROBINDO (1872 - 1950) Aurobindo, the great mystic philosopher of the 20th century, offers a wonderful synthesis of Hindu spirituality and Western evolutionary theory. Aurobindo finds present day man ...

Indian philosophy, a study on Hindutva - Page 104 - Soorian K. Pandian - 1991 - Referring to this theory, Aurobindo observes, "It divided man in society into the fourfold order — an at once spiritual, psychic, ethical and economic order of Brahmin Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra - practically, the spiritual and intellectual man, ...

Colonialism, modernity, and religious identities: religious reform ... - Page 254 - Gwilym Beckerlegge - 2008 - The Aryan Invasion Theory Aurobindo never referred to the Harappan Civilization, which was excavated after he wrote his major works. He did sometimes speak of an issue related to the Harappan puzzle: the question of the Aryans' homeland ...

Tradition and modernity in contemporary religio-philosophic movements - Page 150 - A. R. Anasuya Devi - 1990 - ... subjective and universal meaning, a spiritual sense and direction.9 According to Sri Aurobindo spiritualism besides material management is the distinct and unique quality that provides an eternal value to the Hindu theory. Aurobindo points ...

Secularisation of Indian mind: a study of political ideas in India ... - Page 61 - V. Indira Devi - 2002 - Elaborating on his views on science, specially on Einstein's relativity theory, Aurobindo explained that a theory, confined to the domain of physics or at most to the general domain of science, cannot be generalised to cover the metaphysical ...

The seeker's handbook: the complete guide to spiritual pathfinding - Page 231 - John Lash - 1991 - See FOUR-BODY THEORY. AUrOBIndO, Sri (Shri Or-oh-BIN-doe) Indian philosopher, poet, and social reformer ( 1872- 1950), an early theorist of the New Age concept of uniting with the higher self by coevolution of consciousness and body.

Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the God-man - Page 85 - Daniel E. Bassuk - 1987 - An Avatar, or God-man, is one who does not pass through those processes but is born as a man who knows himself to be God'.69 According to this theory, Aurobindo is a Perfect Master and not an Avatar. And Baba indicated that the Avatar ...

The vision of self in early Vedānta - Page 188 - William Beidler - 1975 - This is a most difficult question, and does not seem immediately answerable by the Gita, and perhaps may be a defect in the whole avatara theory. Aurobindo who carefully distinguishes between the Vibhuti and the avatara gives the example ...

Worthy is the world: the Hindu philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 267 - Beatrice Bruteau - 1972 - THE MARKS OF A SOUND THEORY Aurobindo may not be a professional philosopher, but he has undertaken to construct a metaphysical system, and it is therefore appropriate to examine it as to its consistency, elegance, verifiability, and...

The future of man according to Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo Ghose - Page 117 - J. Chetany - 1978 - With apparent reference to Arrheneus' theory Aurobindo also says: "The curious speculation is now current that Life entered earth not from another world, but from another planet. To the thinker that would explain nothing.

The Colonial and the neo-colonial encounters in Commonwealth ... - Page 140 - H. H. Anniah Gowda, University of Mysore. Post-graduate Dept. of English,University of Mysore. Centre for Commonwealth Literature and Research - 1983 - In order to highlight the emphasis on the spiritual aspect of his theory, Aurobindo tends to twist certain Indian critical terms that he employes in The Future Poetry. Perhaps, the most interesting example of his twisted usage is the term rasa, ...

Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's poetry, plays, and criticism - Page 145 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - Full view - ... he brought four criteria 'imaginative originality, expressive poet,  creative genius, scope of subject-matter, the last criterion implying also scale of work'.19 By applying his own critical theory Sri Aurobindo classifies eleven poets 'for the utter first class but into three rows."20 In the top row he considers no more than four on an equal basis of essential excellence: Valmiki, Vyasa, Homer and ... Indian English literature: a new perspective - Page 169 - Gajendra Kumar - 2001 - Full view 

Poetic plays of Sri Aurobindo - Page 27 - Bimal Narayan Thakur - 2004 - Preview - All these sequences bespeak Sri Aurobindo's constant preoccupation with the problems of right education in the context resurgence".94 In his theory, Sri Aurobindo distinguished intellect into two of the national contemporary groups of ...

Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers: The political thought of Aurobindo - Page 23 - K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - Preview K. S. Bharathi. consciousness. On April 24, 1951, the mother of the Ashram said, "Sri Aurobindo is present in our midst, and with all the power of his creative genius he presides over the formation of the University Centre which for years he ...

Readings in Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine Volume 3 - Page 163 - Santosh Krinsky - Preview Of course, there are inexplicable facts and circumstances that actually cannot be explained by this theory. Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Book 2, Part 2, Chapter 20, The Philosophy of Rebirth, pg. 748 Beyond the Limitations of the Physical ...

Indian Poetry in English: Critical Essays - Page 139 - Zina Mitra - Preview - Difficult though it is to arrive at an answer, I will make an attempt to do that because in the answer lies the key to some vital aspects of Indian literary theory. Sri Aurobindo happens to be the Indian in whom there was the desire, and its ...

Humanity, truth, and freedom: essays in modern Indian Philosophy - Page 85 - Raghunath Ghosh - 2008 - Preview - ... the collective freedom or salvation can be attained. In social theory Sri Aurobindo has shown that each and every man can possess infinite power by awakening Caitya purusa existing in him, which provides honour and respect to mankind.

Jouissance as Ānanda: Indian Philosophy, Feminist Theory, and ... - Page 135 -Ashmita Khasnabish - 2006 - Preview - It is quite intriguing to see the spiritual essence of the future poetry as defined by Sri Aurobindo being manifest in Joyce's concept of aesthetic theory. Sri Aurobindo predicted the future of poetry in his The Future Poetry and it was first published ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 43 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007 - Without denying the importance of the mechanistic theory, Sri Aurobindo wants to give us his "conscious, supple, flexible, intensely surprising and constantly dramatic evolution by a 7. Sri Aurobindo, "Heraclitus" in The Supramental ...

Feminism, censorship and other essays - Page 30 - Kaushal Kishore Sharma - 2003 - Full view A poet of soul is the creator of spiritual joy, "Ananda", and not mere sensuous, intellectual or imaginative delight. True to his belief and theory, Sri Aurobindo as a poet gets poetic inspiration mainly from above his head. He would make himself ...

The White Heart: A Process of Creative Incubation - Page 155 - Shirley Lyons - 2011 - Preview - This resonated, as I read it, to the story of the Hundredth Monkey and the Morphogenetic Fields Theory. Sri Aurobindo left His body on December 5, 1950. For five days His body lay in His room, on His bed, from the morning of December 5th, ...

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1 - Page 37 - Nirodbaran, Aurobindo Ghose - 1969 - MYSELF (continuing): About your changing 'cowards into heroes', they put forward the same 'latency theory'. Sri Aurobindo's comment: How do they prove their theory — when they don't know what is or is not latent? In such conditions the the theory can neither be proved nor refuted. To say 'O, it was ...

Sri Aurobindo: a centenary tribute - Page 213 - Aurobindo Ghose, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1974 - ... to find the path through certain disciplines to attain the highest condition of human consciousness and existence according to their own theory. Sri Aurobindo never wrote his autobiography, and made fun of those who wrote his biographies.

Studies in comparative literature - Ed. Mohit K. Ray - 2002 - Preview Ed. Mohit K. Ray. rv Starting with Sri Aurobindo's conceptualisation of poetry as "mantra of the real" R.K. Mishra traces its support in the writings of Plato, Shelley, Abercrombie and others. Asha Choubey offers a fascinating reading of ...

Sri Aurobindo, the poet - Page 11 - Radhey L. Varshney, Shashi Prabha - 1991 - Aurobindo's Poetic Theory Sri Aurobindo, besides being a yogi and a poet, a philosopher and a saint, was also a great literary critic. The Future Poetry is the Magna Charta of literary criticism. This work is the new Poetics by the Aristotle of our ...

Talks with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 2 - Page 48 - Nirodbaran, Aurobindo Ghose - 1971 - N: He was one of the three most brilliant students of his year, the first being Satyen Bose. He says there are only two people who understand Einstein's Relativity Theory. SRI AUROBINDO: In India or the world? I thought there were five or six in...

Sri Aurobindo's treatment of Hindu myth - Page 39 - Jan Feys - 1983 - Further indications regarding the method are found in chapter 4 oc The Secret, The Foundations of the Psychological Theory'. Sri Aurobindo wants his system of interpretation to rest on the solid basis of linguistics. Do:s the Vedic language ...

Sri Aurobindo critical considerations - Page 70 - Dr. O. P. Mathur - 1997 - True to his belief and theory, Sri Aurobindo as a poet gets poetic inspiration mainly from above his head. He would make himself receptive and would submit himself completely to the Divine power. This does not mean that poetry is merely a...

Sanskrit and the evolution of human speech: based on Sri ... - Page 68 - Sampadananda Mishra - 2005 - 82 As a last step of his theory Sri Aurobindo states that "there are families of words, families of root-sounds, families of simple sounds, so also are there families of seed sounds. These families are known to all grammarians and in Sanskrit they ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 31 - Page 209 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1979 - Of course he takes the psychic in another sense than ours as he speaks of world-psyche. P: He takes his stand on the Buddhistic karma theory. Sri Aurobindo: Yes. His contention that everything is fixed reduces this world to Maya. Even the...

The Advent - Volume 57 - Page 40 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2000 - Of course like the seventeenth and eighteenth century social thinkers of Europe Sri Aurobindo does not hold that people have brutish ends, will, power for all time and age as in social contract theory. Sri Aurobindo has vision for the future and ...

The Hindu personality in education: Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo - Page 161 - William Cenkner - 1976 - Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo William Cenkner. CHAPTER ELEVEN Educational Theory Sri Aurobindo articulated his basic educational ideas in the early part of the century when he addressed himself to the problem of national education.

Nirodbaran, divinity's comrade - Page 610 - Hemant Kapoor - 2003 - And as contrasted with Darwin's theory, Sri Aurobindo's theory of evolution is based on the Vedantic theory of involution. The nature is evolving from matter to life and from life to mind. The upward spiral of Nature has reached till this day the ...

Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture - Volume 52 - Page 318

Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 2001 - He did the same thing in his spiritual theory. Sri Aurobindo basically was not a theorist, he was a yogi, he was a person whom I call the pioneer of the supramental. In the first part of his life he was a prophet of Indian nationalism, and in the ...

Annual - Issues 5-8 - Page 56 - Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1946 - Coming to the actual arguments for the Illusionist theory, Sri Aurobindo makes a close examination of the applicability of the analogy of dream and hallucination to the world-experience and his main conclusion is that the analogies are utterly ...

Indian literature - Volume 32 - Page 159 - Sāhitya Akademi - 1989 - ing to Tyagi, has a significant place in Sri Aurobindo's poetic theory: Sri Aurobindo has isolated the poet's function from that of the philosopher and the scientist. His function is primarily neither to think out the reality of things nor to dissect ...

Pragna - Volume 8 2006 - Disciple: There is also the question of Hindu-Muslim unity which the non-violence school is trying to solve on the basis of their theory. Sri Aurobindo: You can live amicably with a religion whose principle is toleration. But how is it possible to ...

The Vedanta kesari - Volume 84 - Page 138 - Sri Ramakrishna Math (Madras, India) - 1997 - ... for one year— May 1908 to May 1909. Already advanced in yoga and committed to the evolutionary theory, Sri Aurobindo utilized his imprisonment to get at a clue to the next step in evolution. Sri Aurobindo says that it was a series of 138.

Muslim separatism: causes and consequences - Page 107 - Sita Ram Goel - 1995 - 1 A few months later, on 13 July 1923, a disciple had observed that "There is also the question of Hindu-Muslim unity which the non-violence school is trying to solve on the basis of their theory". Sri Aurobindo had replied: "You ...

Rewriting Indian history - Page 15 - François Gautier - 1996 - Can one accept such a theory? Sri Aurobindo, while praising the original caste system, does not spare it in its later stages: "it is the nature of human institutions to degenerate; there is no doubt that the institution of caste degenerated. It ceased ...

Quality Management Practices - Page 315 - R P Mohanty - 2009 - Preview Taiteriya Upanishad contains the Panchakosha (Five sheath) theory. Sri Aurobindo and most of the exponents of Indian wisdom have recommended it in their thought on education and training. The five sheaths are: Physical: Anna Vital...

The search of the cradle of civilization: new light on ancient India - Page 216 - Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, David Frawley - 2005 - Preview - Writing two decades before this discovery, purely on the basis of yogic experience and theory, Sri Aurobindo made this pertinent observation: The intellect is an organ composed of several groups of functions, divisible into two important ...