Sri Aurobindo Society
: Meeting on 'The yoga of Savitri reading,' 3 Lajapathi Roy Road , Chinna Chokkikulam,
4 p.m.
Is ‘historical research’
the be all of Sri Aurobindo’s teaching or sadhana? Sri Aurobindo’s yoga is
surely no easy matter, nor is it for the average person… His association with
the Ashram is what confers some credibility to his highly prejudiced and
totally distorted views… But the Peter Heehs episode is entirely different. It
seeks to spread scandal in the guise of research studies, aiming to undermine
the very basis of the Aurobindonian movement.
An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Metaphysical
Cosmology: Part I ... - ericweiss.com 9 Jun 2006
June 9, 2006 I. Introduction A. It is my intention in this paper to give a
brief introduction to my interpretation of Sri Aurobindo’s metaphysical system.
The ideas presented here are very close to those of Sri Aurobindo, but they are
not identical. In particular, my treatment of the category of Being is very
influenced by my studies of Alfred North Whitehead… 12:52 PM -
I
think Bostock would have an unlikely ally in Walt Whitman, no Luddite, who
celebrated the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable in his poem “Passage
to India ,” which is
largely about the unfinished journey of Columbus . Whitman writes about this journey
symbolically (not from a historical perspective, which would reveal Columbus ’ mission to Christianize and enslave the
indigenous West) as an attempt to unite East and West by bringing Europe and India together
to begin a global civilization. (Columbus’s journey is also Edgar Morin’s
historical starting point for the beginning of the planetary era in his
book Seven Complex Lessons in Education for the Future, which I’ve
written about recently here)…
5:41 PM
Free ALL Your Minds From The Hobbesian Nightmare from ANTIDOTE by Sauvik von Chakraverti Dec 22, 2012
Leviathan
FELL FLAT as far as Englishmen in
that Cromwellian Age were concerned – which is why it was John Locke’s Two
Treatises on Civil Government (1690) that earned its author the
reputation of a “prophet” – and went on to inspire Whiggism, the colonists of
America, and the first “covenanted civil servants” of the Honourable East India
Company as well.
“Where there is no Property there is no Justice,”
wrote Locke. While Hobbes painted
“statelessness” – what he called the “State of Nature ” – in the most lurid prose: “A War Of Each Against All.” Adding
that statelessness, or the State of Nature ,
would result in lives that are all “nasty,
poore, brutish, and short.” In socialist India ,
we do have this Leviathan of a centralized State – but we have no Property – we
have no Justice – and the lives of over half the residents of the Capital City
The
Politics of God By MARK
LILLA The
Times Magazine: August 19, 2007
After centuries of strife, the West has learned to separate religion and politics — to establish the legitimacy of its leaders without referring to divine command. Next Page » Mark Lilla is professor of the humanities atColumbia
University
After centuries of strife, the West has learned to separate religion and politics — to establish the legitimacy of its leaders without referring to divine command. Next Page » Mark Lilla is professor of the humanities at
Christians
addled by apocalyptic dreams hunted and killed Christians with a maniacal fury
they had once reserved for Muslims, Jews and heretics. It was madness. The
English philosopher Thomas Hobbes tried to find a way out of this labyrinth.
Traditionally, political theology had interpreted a set of revealed divine
commands and applied them to social life. In his great treatise “Leviathan”
(1651), Hobbes simply ignored the substance of those commands and talked
instead about how and why human beings believed God revealed them. He did the
most revolutionary thing a thinker can ever do — he changed the subject, from
God and his commands to man and his beliefs. If we do that, Hobbes reasoned, we
can begin to understand why religious convictions so often lead to political
conflicts and then perhaps find a way to contain the potential for violence. The
contemporary crisis in Western Christendom created an audience for Hobbes and
his ideas.
The
ideal of human unity - Page 338 - Sri
Aurobindo - 1999 - Preview - More
editions One of the foremost Indian philosophers of the twentieth century, Sri Aurobindo was also a
political activist, a mystic, a spiritual leader and a poet. Between 1927 and
1950, Sri Aurobindo remained in seclusion while perfecting a new kind of ...
Ontology
of consciousness: percipient action - Page 400 - Helmut
Wautischer - 2008 - In the first half of the twentieth century, Aurobindo built a still
wider synthesis, encompassing not only what he felt was the essence of the
Indian tradition but also what he considered the best that the Western
civilization was in the process of ...
Knowledge,
freedom, and language: an interwoven fabrics of man, ... - Page 189 - Debi
Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1989 - At about the same time, in the second
decade of this century, Aurobindo in India (1914-1919) and Wittgenstein
in Europe (1913-1921) addressed themselves to, one might say, essentially
similar problems of knowledge and language. At least ...
Going
against the flow: an exercise in ethical syncretism - Page 238 - Alan
M. Laibelman - 2004 - Preview - More
editions It is in vain to talk of the interest of the community without
understanding what is the interest of the individual."41 In the
twentieth century, Aurobindo extended Bentham’s admission into a
definitive expression of political and social propriety, ...
Martin
Heidegger: Critical Assessments - Volume 2 - Page 7 - Christopher
E. Macann - 1992 - Preview - More
editions But whereas Heidegger (however marginally) was for a while
involved with one of the more lamentable regimes of the century, Sri
Aurobindo spent a significant portion of his life actively engaged in
contesting (verbally) the British occupation ...
Exploring
Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence - Page 132 - Peter
Burdon, Peter
Burdon (ed.) - 2011 - Preview
There have been many philosophies that are based on process, including
Heraclites of Ancient Greece and Lao Tzu of China and in the
twentieth century Sri Aurobindo in India, and Henri Bergson and
Teilhard de Chardin of France. Among...
Sri
Aurobindo came to me: reminiscences - Page ix - Dilip
Kumar Roy - 1964 - For I fully agree with a modern appraiser who
whites after referring to prophets "from Kierkegaard down to Buber"
that "while men of their calibre may be expected in every century, Sri
Aurobindo is an event over which Divine Providence is a ...
Christianity:
Dogmatic Faith & Gnostic Vivifying Knowledge: The ... - Page 92 - George
Heart - 2005 - Preview
One of the greatest Esoteric philosophers of the twentieth century, Sri Aurobindo has
devoted highly elaborated works to describe what he called the Supramental
Realm in which will live the man of the coming Golden Age.
East
West Poetics at Work: Papers Presented at the Seminar on ... - Page 160 - C.
D. Narasimhaiah - 1994 - Preview - More
editions
The poetry of Dryden and the poetry of 18th century,
Sri Aurobindo maintained, came from the surface mental level, though
earlier he felt like Arnold ,
that it was the poetry of the 'Age of prose and reason'. Browning and the
Victorians wrote ...
Oh
Calcutta - Volume 4 - Page 10 - 1974 - That is achievement enough for a
single century." Aurobindo Bankim
Chandra Chatterjee is the creator cf the Bengali novel — a pioneer among
pioneers. He heralded an era in literature. He created and ushered in a golden
age of which Sarat...
Vande
Mataram: the song perennial - Page 38 - Amarendra
Laxman Gadgil - 1978 - For Bankim chandra, Aurobindo played brilliantly
the same role in the first part of this century. Aurobindo has called
Bankim a Seer and a Sage. The atomic force compressed in the song and what
miracles it would work in future could only be ...
The
Sociology of Indian Politics - Page 300 - R.
Motwani, R.D. Sakxena - 2002 - Preview
All of India's leading political thinkers have followed Vivekananda's
conceptualization of politics and power. The first to accept him was also the
most systematic political philosopher of this century — Sri Aurobindo Ghose.
Among Aurobindo's ... Encyclopaedia
of Sociology of Politics - Page 300 K.
Motwani, R.D. Saksena - 2002 - Preview
Gandhi
marg - Volume 20 - Page 139 - Gandhi
Peace Foundation (New Delhi, India) - 1998 - Vivekananda's discussion
of individual freedom and social responsibility was continued and enlarged not
only by Gandhi but by other Indian theorists early in this century.
Aurobindo Ghose and Bipin Chandra Pal (1858-1932) conceptualized ...
"Of
Many Heroes": An Indian Essay in Literary Historiography - Page 82 - G.
N. Devy - 1998 - Preview - More
editions In this sense, Sri Aurobindo was the first original
historiographer of Indian literature during the twentieth century. Sri
Aurobindo argued in his passionate defence of Indian culture that though
temporarily occluded, it was not an entirely atrophied ...
Race
and Racialization: Essential Readings - Page 108 - Tania Das Gupta - 2007 - Preview
Hindu discussions about Aryan origins are probably best represented in the
speeches and writings of the nationalist activist and spiritualist Aurobindo
Ghose during the early part of this century. Aurobindo, a spiritual source
of emulation for...
History
Of Ancient India (portraits Of A Nation), 1/e - Page 107 - Kapur, Kamlesh -
2010 - Preview - More
editions In the beginning of the last century, Aurobindo Ghosh,
another noted philosopher said, "The racial identification of supposed
Aryans and non- Aryans was just a conjecture supported by other conjectures...
a myth of philologists." After studying...
Culture
and Customs of India - Page 29 - Carol
Henderson Garcia, Carol
E. Henderson - 2002 - Preview - More
editions In the twentieth century, Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950)
established an influential religious center in Pondicherry. A concept of
selflessness linked to a search for inner awareness energized many who called
for social change. In the 1980s and ...
Religion,
Conflict and Reconciliation: Multifaith Ideals and Realities - Page 48 -
Jerald D. Gort, Henry Jansen, H. M. Vroom - 2002 - Preview - More
editions From the late nineteenth century onwards, Sri Aurobindo was active
in political journalism and in behind-the-scenes organization of the first
stirrings of Indian revolutionary nationalism. In the first decade of the
twentieth century Aurobindo had ...
The
persistence of religion: an essay on Tantrism and Sri ... - Page 79 - Kees
W. Bolle - 1971 - Preview - More
editions Although the struggle for independence was never a merely
political issue for Indian leaders, particularly in the early years of
our century, Aurobindo found ways and traditional, religious terms in
which to voice the desire for independence that ... Studies
in the History of Religions - Page 79 - 1956 - Preview - More
editions
Indian
Wisdom and International Peace: From the Vedas & Lord ... - Page 33 - R
N. Vyas, Vyas
R N - 1987 - Preview
The religion of humanity was put forth for the first time in the West in
18th century. Aurobindo calls it "the manasa putra of the
rationalist thinkers who brought it forward as a substitute for the formal
spiritualism of ecclesiastical Christianity.
General
elections in India: electoral politics, electoral reforms, ... - Page 173 -
M.
L. Ahuja - 2005 - As a revolutionary nationalist writing in the first
decade of the 20th century,
Aurobindo welcomed pan-Islamism and the rise of a separate Muslim
self-consciousness. He saw it as a sign of the vitality of nationalism and as
part of the process of ...
Managing
the global: globalization, employment and quality of life - Page 146 - Donald
McLean Lamberton, Toda
Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research - 2002 - Preview - More
editions D.P. Chattopaclhyaya (1988 and 1997) has competently dwelt on the
subject, after the Indian savant of the 20th century, Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo 1972), and has stressed
that the Indian ideal encompasses both the physical and the mental ...
Dante
and Sri Aurobindo: a
comparative study of The divine comedy ... - Page 33 - Prema
Nandakumar - 1981 - Hence Savitri came to be written, not in Bengali
or Sanskrit, but in English. In a poetic career extending over half a century, Sri Aurobindo had
experimented with a variety of literary forms in English: essays, skits, poetic
dramas, lyrics, sonnets...
Śrī
Madhva's teachings in his own words - Page 23 - B.
N. Krishnamurti Sharma - 1979 - In the present century, Aurobindo Ghosh has gone
the farthest in trying to plumb the depths of mystic interpretation of Vedic
hymns. Madhva's influence on these two great modern representatives of the Arsa
tradition of Vedic interpretation ...
Page
115 - Preview
Thanks to the insight and inspirations of Dayananda at the close of the
Nineteenth Century, followed by spiritual experiences of another great savant
of the present century, Sri Aurobindo,
there has been a complete metamorphosis of our thinking and evaluation of
the Vedic texts.
Ancestral
Voices: Reflections on Vedic, Classical and Bhakti Poetry - Page 8 - Ramesh
Chandra Shah - 2006 - Preview - More
editions Vedic literature gives an emphatic and unambiguous answer to this
question when it declares that 'infinity alone can satisfy man' ('Bhumd
vaisukham ndlpe sukhamasti — Ch.U.7). In our own century, Sri Aurobindo, under Dayananda's ...
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