CWSA 36
Autobiographical Notes 13 Family Letters,
1890 1919 Extract from a Letter
to His Brother. 1899 1900.
Only a short while ago I had a letter from you — I cannot lay my hands
on the passage, but I remember it contained an unreserved condemnation of Hindu
legend as trivial and insipid, a mass of crude and monstrous conceptions, a
[lumber-room]1 of Hindu banalities. The main point of your
indictment was that it had nothing in it simple, natural, passionate and human,
that the characters were lifeless patterns of moral excellence. I have been so
long accustomed to regard your taste and judgment as sure and final that it is
with some distrust I find myself differing from you…
Will you accept this poem as part-payment of a deep intellectual debt
I have been long owing to you? Unknown to yourself, you taught and encouraged
me from my childhood to be a poet. From your sun my farthing rush-light was
kindled, and it was in your path that I long strove to guide my uncertain and
faltering footsteps. If I have now in the inevitable development of an
independent temperament in independent surroundings departed from your guidance
and entered into a path, perhaps thornier and more rugged, but my own, it does
not lessen the obligation of that first light and example. It is my hope that
in the enduring fame which your calmer and more luminous genius must one day bring
you, on a distant verge of the skies and lower plane of planetary existence,
some ray of my name may survive and it be thought no injury to your memory that
the first considerable effort of my powers was dedicated to you. Page – 137-8
41 Note On The Texts
Sri
Aurobindo made a typed copy of these pages from a letter written to his second
brother Manmohan (1869 1924). His intention was to use them as an
introduction to his poem Love and Death, written in 1899. At the
top of the transcript he typed "To my Brother". This apparently was
meant to be the dedication of the poem and not the salutation of the letter.
When he was preparing Love and Death for publication in 1920, he dropped both the dedication and the introduction. Page – 570-1
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and Interbehavioral Psychology: Selected and Revised Papers ... - Page 74 - Noel
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editions In other words, Renou holds that it is not he who
is imposing literalism but rather Aurobindo who
is imposing mystical constructs. The pitfalls of allegorical interpretations may be seen by
comparing those of different writers and noting the ...
The
Strides of Vishnu: Hindu Culture in Historical Perspective - Page 11 - Ariel
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editions Mythical interpretation is a politically saturated activity, and
chapter 9 points out some of its pitfalls but highlights the ... to
British colonialism in modern India, focusing on Rammohun Roy, Mohandas K.
Gandhi, and Sri Aurobindo Ghosh.
Emotions
in Asian Thought: A Dialogue in Comparative Philosophy - Page 101 - Joel
Marks, Roger
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editions So he invents a new, metaphorical language that has its own pitfalls but that nevertheless
takes seriously the dimension of transcendence in a way that ... A contemporary of Tillich's
in this tradition, Sri Aurobindo,
proposed a philosophy ...
Penguin
Sri Aurobindo Reader -
Page xxix - Paranjape, Makarand - Preview By
separating what is still relevant from what was specific to a particular time
and age we can avoid the pitfalls of
disillusionment or self-deception. Such indeed was the approach that Sri Aurobindo himself recommended to
a classic text like the Gita. A full resolution of the paradox, ...
Hindutva:
Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism - Page 56 - Jyotirmaya
Sharma - 2011 - Preview - More
editions In proposing the revival of kshatriyahood among all Indians, at
least in spirit, Aurobindo was
acutely aware of the pitfalls.
He realized that once the Kshatriya fulfilled his limited role, the survival of
the ideal would amount to 'an unrelieved ...
Religion
and Public Culture: Encounters and Identities in Modern ... - Page 145 - John
Jeya Paul, Keith
Edward Yandell - 2000 - Preview Aurobindo and the Mother both believed that all
institutions should be no more though they will aspire to egoistic permanence. ... How to avoid the usual pitfalls of a collective body,
described by Sri Aurobindo as
"its characteristic attempts to ...
Sri Aurobindo and the new age: essays
in memory of Kishor Gandhi - Page 17 - Sachidananda Mohanty, Nirodbaran,
Maurice Shukla - 1997 - While there is the powerful idealistic tradition of
Plato onwards, Sri Aurobindo's line
of enquiry and conclusions seem far too radical and iconoclastic for the
conventional mind to accept. At the same time, there are always problems in the ...
Issues
of Identity in Indian English Fiction: A Close Reading of ... - Page 59 - H.
S. Komalesha - 2008 - Preview
The arguments of Aurobindo and
Tagore stand in stark contrast to each other and they might appear extremist
stands. ... life and
the positive forces of religion, on the other hand, he is equally aware of the pitfalls of both nation and
religion.
Philosophy
and religion: essays in interpretation - Page 174 - Jarava
Lal Mehta - 2004 - Snippet view - More
editions A reader of Aurobindo in
the last quarter of this century may find some of his phraseology and
conceptualization ... Renou himself acknowledges that
'the Sruti is essentially symbolic, basing itself on an indirect and 'second
semantic', thus ...
J.L.
Mehta on Heidegger, Hermeneutics, and Indian Tradition - Page 165 - Jarava
Lal Mehta, William
Joseph Jackson - 1992 - Preview
Even so, Louis Renou and
others have only conceded the point, if at all, ... Aurobindo is, of course, nowhere mentioned in Luders'
outstanding two-volume work of Vedic research published in 1951 and 1959
respectively, not even in the ...
Hymns
of the Rig Veda - Page xxvi - 2004 - Preview - More
editions In this translation I have availed myself of the work of previous
scholars, students, and masters in the field, particularly McDonnell, Griffith, Renou, Agrawala, Gonda, Coomaraswamy,
and Aurobindo. The method I
have followed is simple: every ...
Sri Aurobindo's treatment of Hindu myth -
Page 42 - Jan
Feys - 1983 - A Vedic scholar of the magnitude of L. Renou recently expressed his
doubts as to the plausibility of Aurobindo's thesis113
The concluding chapter of The Secret sums up Aurobindo's findings after two years of research into the
symbolism of the...
Gosvāmī
Tulasīdāsakr̥ta Śrīrāmacaritamānasa:
Shriramacharitamanasa - Page 859 - Tulasīdāsa,
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editions Sri Aurobindo has
called the Ramacharitamanasa a combination of 'lyric intensity' and 'the
sublimity of the epic imagination' and Louis Renou calls it 'a lyrical epic'. The lyricism of the work is
in this personal realization of a faith which the poet ...
Barindra Kumar Ghosh -
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia or, popularly, Barin Ghosh (5 January 1880 – 18 April
1959) was an Indian revolutionary and journalist. The
Tale of My Exile - Barindra
Kumar Ghosh - 2010 - No preview - More
editions This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. History
- Page 179 - Raghunath
Rai - Preview
The extremist leaders Aurobindo Ghosh and Bipin Chandra Pal followed the method
of constitutionalism. But the revolutionaries under the leadership of Barindra Kumar Ghosh and
Bhupindranath Dutt started terrorist activities.
In the May 1996 issue of Lingua Franca, in the article "A
Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies", Sokal revealed that his
"Transgressing the Boundaries" was a hoax and concluded
that Social Text "felt comfortable publishing
an article on quantum physics without bothering to consult anyone knowledgeable
in the subject" because of its ideological proclivities and editorial bias.
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