Trenchant opposition of Sri Aurobindo to socialist practice

The political philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 344 Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1960 - ... and aesthetically cultivated life for all, but is intensely critical of the political techniques of organized socialist absolutism. The trenchant opposition of Aurobindo to socialist practice rests on political grounds. But even if a mechanism could be devised to integrate socialism and democracy, Sri Aurobindo thinks it can only achieve temporary success. Without the ... Sri Aurobindo's integral approach to political thought - Page 164 - Shiva Kumar Mital - 1981

Sri Aurobindo's integral approach to political thought - Page 155 - Shiva Kumar Mital - 1981 - To that he is vigorously opposed. Sri Aurobindo is also critical of the hesitating and vacillating character of social democracy which at times led to the rise of totalitarianism and dictatorship in several countries.43 Although favourable to the ...

Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers: The political thought of Aurobindo - Page 51 - K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - Preview Socialism represents the omni competence of the all-jealous state and, therefore, to him, totalitarianism is the natural, almost inevitable destiny of socialism. Aurobindo is apprehensive of the extension of state power under socialism. He is a...

Swami Vivekananda and the Indian quest for socialism - Page 149

Arun Kumar Biswas - 1986 - Sri Aurobindo: On The Evolution of Socialism Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950) popularly known as Sri Aurobindo, was a patriot and freedom-fighter, later turned saint and a prolific writer on philosophy. His interest in socialism was however ...

Punjab History Conference, thirty-third session, March 16-18, ... - Page 225 - Parm Bakhshish Singh, Punjabi University. Dept. of Punjab Historical Studies - 2002 - However, he accepted the egalitarian philosophy of socialism. Aurobindo's teachings were directed towards the Ideals of Divinising the whole humanity by transforming mind, life and matter. His theory of evolution, his integral yoga and his...

The Indian spirit - Page 96 - K. Satchidananda Murty - 1965 - ... live by the sweat of his brow has no right to live. One is the trustee of what one has, and should, they say, divide and share it with others. M. N. Roy in his later phase preached a kind of ethical socialism. Aurobindo was the first to talk of Asian ...

ICSSR journal of abstracts and reviews: Sociology and social ... - Volume 18 - Page 86 - Indian Council of Social Science Research - 1989 - ... Sri Aurobindo and Gandhi, leaving aside other eminent exponents. Vivekananda's Vedantic Socialism, Aurobindo's Integral Humanism and Gandhi's Oceanic Circles with humanism as basis, are sought to be fused in the ideological ferment which the author desires to see transformed into a strong pluralist ... The Indian journal of public administration - Volume 35 - Page 318 - Indian Institute of Public Administration – 1989

Environment Evolution & Values - Page 83 - D.P. Chattopadhyaya - 2007 - Preview - More editions Though critical of socialism, Sri Aurobindo admits of its inevitability. He speaks of the "triumph of the socialistic idea or of its practice in whatever disguise — in all continents." He adds that "... after a cycle of violent struggle between the ideal of ...

Sri Aurobindo's integral approach to political thought - Page 155 - Shiva Kumar Mital - 1981 - Referring to the ideal of modern socialism Sri Aurobindo writes, "to eliminate poverty, not by the cross idea of equal distribution but by the holding of all property in common and its management by the organised state, to equalise opportunity ...

Contemporary relevance of Sri Aurobindo - Page 285 Kishor Gandhi - 1973 - And this lesser goal is of socialism. Sri Aurobindo's integral philosophy is grand and vast, but it is a metaphysics. Metaphysics for me is not nonsense, but it is the deeper poetry of the soul evoking larger intellectual horizons and opening new ...

Swami Vivekananda and the Indian quest for socialism - Page 149 - Arun Kumar Biswas - 1986 - It is therefore very necessary to review the thoughts of the other Indian leaders who were honest enough in voicing their independent opinions on socialism. Sri Aurobindo: On The Evolution of Socialism Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950) ...

Talks with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 4 - Page 10 - Nirodbaran, Aurobindo Ghose - 1989 - Sri Aurobindo: What? N: State Socialism. Sri Aurobindo: Russia has not done it. P: No — only according to him. And then he says that when the British people are frightened they flare up. The Kaiser frightened them and he was defeated. Hitler also will have the ...

World union - Volume 32 - Page 32 - World Union (Organization) - 1990 - ... the collectivism as well as the individualism when Mikhail Gorbachev named it Renewed Socialism, Sri Aurobindo called this obvious trend in human society as Democratic Socialism to which any political power are now seriously thinking to ...

Ideology, modernization, and politics in India - Page 58 - Vrajendra Raj Mehta - 1983 - All of them tried to achieve, not a synthesis of cultures, which is absi'rd, but a new definition of the identity of India by bringing about a new national aggregation; Vivekananda in terms of Vedantic socialism, Sri Aurobindo in terms of integral ...

Rise & awakening of depressed classes in India - Page 34 - J. R. Kamble - 1979 - The laws preach equality, common citizenship and integrated Indian life but the traditional sentiments guided by caste taboos and sanctions present a mighty problem for the survival of Indian democracy and socialism (Sri Aurobindo).

Terror and the Postcolonial: A Concise Companion - Page 161 - Elleke Boehmer, Stephen Morton - 2009 - Preview Extremist political leaders differed over the question of force: Bipin Chandra Pal was opposed; Aurobindo was in favor of its use. This was one of the reasons that Pal was ousted from the editorial board of Bande Mataram. Though Aurobindo's ... History of Bangladesh, 1704-1971 - Volume 1 - Page 211 - Sirajul Islam, Aklam Hussain, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh - 1997

Considerations - Page 19 - Meenakshi Mukherjee - 1977 - ... he affirmed in opposition to Aurobindo - at their best neat and pleasing: My love is no less bright Than these bright birds today In the diffuse delight Of sun and wind at play- Think sparrow, tit, and crow, But, as the shades advance aslant, ... The Miscellany - Issues 28-30 - Page 55 - Writers Workshop (Calcutta, India) - 1968 Indian writing in English: critical essays - Page 55 - David McCutchion – 1969

The Modern schoolman - Volume 30 - Page 293 - St. Louis University. College of Philosophy and Letters, St. Louis University. Dept. of Philosophy - 1953 -... contingency, becoming, then we agree that such an irrational God cannot fall within the object of human knowledge and only an irrational experience can attain to an irrational God. Because of this irrational opposition, Aurobindo ...

The World of Asia - Page 149 - Akira Iriye - 1979 - ... in control of Congress for the next twelve years. This was made easier than it might have been by the removal of Sri Aurobindo and Tilak from the ranks of open opposition. Aurobindo was accused of complicity in a bombing incident in 1906. The Indian world - Page 55 - David Kopf, C. James Bishop - 1977

Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Social Development - Page 117 - Preview The social philosopher, while diagnosing this historical contrast in two forms of culture, should find out the psychological principles working in this opposition. Sri Aurobindo analyses this contrast to unravel the real problem in the process of ... The social philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 129 - Ram Nath Sharma – 1980 - The Psychology of the opposition of culture and conduct 

Sri Aurobindo: a study of his selected poems - Page 68 - Amar Nath Dwivedi - 1977 - But Savitri offers the vision of the true reconciliation of this opposition. Sri Aurobindo constantly speaks of the two ladders, one of the descent of the Absolute into the Nescience and the other of ascent from Nescience to the Supreme. Far from ...

The yogi and the mystic: a study in the spirituality of Sri ... - Page 89 Jan Feys - 1977 - 282) with its implied opposition, Sri Aurobindo prefers that of becoming an instrument, which connotes union : "such a complete renunciation both of the consciousness and the works to him that our being becomes one with his being and the ...

The philosophy of evolution in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin - Page 165 Jan Feys - 1973 - Nothing could oppose Aurobindo to Teilhaid more than this distinction between two types of evolution: for the latter, as we have seen, the correlation between organic complexity and intensity of consciousness is the one law which harmonizes...

The yogi and the mystic: a study in the spirituality of Sri ... - Page 228 - Jan Feys - 1977 - We have opposed Sri Aurobindo's inactivity to Teilhard's passivity. We have found that while the latter undergoes and suffer- evil, the former disentangles himself from the bondage of matter. The Akshara Brahman then corresponds — albeit ...

Sri Aurobindo and Bergson: a synthetic study - Page 143  Abhoy Chandra Bhattacharya - 1972 - His Cyclic evolution ... far the best rule of procedure that applies to the continual evolution Similarly, the process of cyclic development appears to be the best rule that would apply to the emergent view of evolution. as opposed Sri Aurobindo, ...

Sri Aurobindo: archives and research - Volumes 7-8 - Page 228 - Śri Aurobindo Ashram Trust - 1983 - ... Devi to an earlier occasion. Sundarananda in Document 13 retracted his original statement, agreeing with Ramchandra that the visit must have been earlier. Thus neither Ramchandra nor Sundarananda finally opposed Sri Aurobindo's ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 36 - Page 433 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1984 - (The Law of Entropy also was opposed.) Sri Aurobindo: One sun may be losing heat, but another sun may be created and thus perpetual creation go on. Nobody knows when creation began. P: They say that from a machine, for instance, some...

M. P. Pandit 50th birthday commemoration volume - Page 75 - Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Agali Venkappa Sastri - 1968 - ... marks a transcendence of the sense of unity and harmony over the oppositional, debating consciousness that always looks out for fissures and winning points in the opposition. Sri Aurobindo clearly perceives the twofold process in Reality.

International encyclopaedia of yoga & occultism - Volume 2 - Page 38 - Dr. Vikram Singh, Rameśa Guptā - 2010 - They created a Hitler as a leader of the opposition. Sri Aurobindo was active on the global level through his vibrating will-power, charged with his overmental force. He was calling for the supramental grace. When the Asuric forces broke his ...

Perspectives of Savitri - Volume 1 - Page 487 - R. Y. Deshpande - 2000 - But Savitri offers the vision of the true reconciliation of this opposition. Sri Aurobindo constantly speaks of the two ladders, one of the descent of the Supreme into the Nescience and the other of the ascent from Nescience to the Superconscient.

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