The members of the Auroville unanimously raised their concern and
solidarity over Tibet and
pledge to write articles and books on the current crisis in Tibet . The talk
was later aired in the Auroville Community Radio. The following day, the
delegates called upon, Sri Manoj Das Gupta, International Head and the Managing
Trustee of Sri Aurobindo Ashram and apprised him of the Tibet
situation.
Sri Manoj warmly received the delegates at his office and discussed
the issue of Tibet
in depth with them. He also reminded the delegates that the great late Mother
of Sri Aurobindo supported the Tibetan people and their struggle. And that
during a meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in January 1973, the Mother
told the Dalai Lama that Tibet will be free one day.
Sri Manoj further assured the delegates that Tibet has the
truth and the spiritual power and will definitely succeed in the end. ‘Of
course China will definitely
change and Tibet
will regain its freedom’, he stressed. Sri Manoj however stated that though he
did appreciate and understand their sentiments of the Tibetan self-immolators
but he does not approve their action. ‘Self immolation is not a correct way. We
need these young Tibetans for Tibet ’.
Bidding the delegation’s success, Mr. Das offered gifts produced by the Ashram
inmates and raised his fist calling, ‘Victory’ ala Bod Gyalo.
Either successful completion of the SACAR Certificate Programme in
Introduction to Sri Aurobindo Studies,
or passing a SACAR entrance test that covers the ...
10m - Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty
- @TheRajarshi [Sri
Aurobindo found the clue in the Vedic conception of ‘Vya̅hṛti’, the seven worlds. -C. Krishnamurthy] The Foundations of Psychological Theory in the Veda
from Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore - C. Krishnamurthy (chamathu2003@yahoo.co.uk)
Sri Aurobindo was convinced that the Vedantic and Puranic systems are
identical and depend on the same idea of seven principles of subjective
consciousness formulating themselves in seven objective worlds, thus giving him
a total clarity on the symbolism.
Mr. Jared Quek will continue with his series of talks based on three
ofSri Aurobindo's seminal
works - 'The Synthesis of Yoga', 'The Secret of the Veda' and 'The ...
SATTWA:
the Principle of Knowledge and Harmony By: Ramesh Bijlani on Jan 17,
2013 2
responses Sattwic action is free from egoism, is not motivated by profit, and is
yet enthusiastic. The sattwic person is attached neither to the work nor to its
outcome, and yet puts his heart and soul into the work. When it comes to food,
the sattwic person goes for what is good for the body, in just the right
quantity – neither too much nor too little.
Sattwa does not come naturally to most of us. Either the rajas (the
principle of dynamism and desires) in us tries to dominate it by introducing
the desire for wealth, power, prestige or sensory pleasure; or the tamas (the
principle of laziness) in us tempts us towards inactivity. Therefore, sattwa
has to be cultivated by self-discipline – both inner and outer. At first it
means voluntarily giving up several pleasures to which we have got accustomed.
The process involves much suffering and struggle – a process that has been
described by Sri Aurobindo as churning of our nature yielding at first bitter
poison. But eventually the churning yields sweet nectar of enduring
happiness.
Our surface nature, impelled by the force of desire, wants to believe
that the law of karma operates in such a way as to provide material prosperity
and well-being in return for our good acts in the realm of moral and ethical
conduct; and similarly ...
Eco-Doom or Redemption: The Mad Movement and the
Sixties ... by Seth Farber
Sri Aurobindo was the first great Eastern
mystic to blend mysticism with messianism. Aurobindo and Mira Richard --
"the Mother"-- were themselves a mature manifestation of the same
trend as the 1960s counter-culture. It was no surprise that in the 1960s
the Mother (then in her 80s) hailed the counter-culture as a spiritual
breakthrough. Aurobindo who lived from 1872 to 1950 presaged the 1960s
counter-culture: he fused the mystical and the messianic and his work provides
the strongest refutation to all those who denigrate the messianic
Imaginary. From Aurobindo's perspective the messianic perspective completes the
mystical experience -- the mystical experience is a portent of the messianic
future.
The only other option is to reduce mysticism
either to a consolation ("the opium of the people"), or to construe
it as a Gnostic-type revelation revealing the lack of goodness of worldly
existence. This is in fact the position of the Therevadan Buddhist -- once one
is freed from ignorance and karma one will choose to forgo incarnations and to
merge with non-being.
Aurobindo revered the Hindu scriptures
but he disagreed with the philosophers' interpretations. He eviscerated for
example the interpretations of Sankara ,
India India as
Gandhi. When he first returned to India
after his education in Britain ,
he made it known that he was not interested in a mysticism that entailed
renunciation of the world.
His love of the world was reflected also in
his full acceptance of the Feminine which found expression in his love for his
spiritual partner, Mira Richard, known as the Mother -- they were a dual-power
of God. "The Mother and I are one in two bodies." His life story
assumed the mythic dimension of a man on the hinge of the messianic age -- so
his profound Avataric witness and astute teleological perspective ought to have
provided a basis for a spiritually informed political activism, but few people
familiarized themselves with his work. (Ken Wilber often cited him.)
Aurobindo's messianism was based on his teleological concept of spiritual
evolution… Like Aurobindo Pinchbeck posits an evolutionary teleology: Despite
the imminent chaos humanity is undergoing a "a natural process
accompanying an evolutionary advance in human consciousness" (330). Like Aurobindo
and Buber, Pinchbeck does not counsel either despair or complacency but a
redemptive praxis. Like Aurobindo Pinchbeck realized that those who are aware
have a great responsibility since "a desirable outcome can be realized if
an elite vanguard overcomes all obstacles and prior conditioning to attain an
intensified awareness of the situation, and then works efficiently and
collaboratively to propagate this new paradigm across the earth"
(331).
The
yogi and the mystic: a study in the spirituality of Sri ... - Page 19 - Jan
Feys - 1977 - In jail Sri Aurobindo evolves from political
to religious nationalism, and indeed to a universal Messianism. Even so,
the Voice seems to enjoin something different still. The speech ends on the
somewhat ambiguous note, casting a certain doubt ...
The
life of a yogi - Page 38 - Jan
Feys - 1976 - During his jail-term then Sri Aurobindo evolves
from political nationalism to a universal Messianism. But not all is
clear. Towards the end of his term in jail, he still struggles with the
uncertainty as to what his mission is : "I do not know what work ...
Encyclopaedia
of Hinduism - Volume 29 - Page 605 - Nagendra
Kr Singh - 1997 - Tilak and Aurobindo entered the national
scene with great goals for the country. They even displayed an element of messianism in
their utterances. Aurobindo, for example, declares the mission of India in the
following words: . . . Because God ...
Modern
Indian political thought - Page 191 - Vishwanath
Prasad Varma - 1971 - Aurobindo's leadership was recognized by
the nationalists and he was made the president of the various nationalist conferences
held at ... The notion of Messianism, the conception that India
was rising Cf. Zacharias, Renascent India, p. 151 ...
The
Indian journal of political science - Volume 19 - Page 20 - Indian
Political Science Association - 1958 - But Aurobindo said
that the political salvation of India
was essential for the spiritual redemption of mankind. The notion of messianism,
the conception that India was rising for shedding the glories of Sanatan Dharma
in the world is very strong ... Political
Thought and Leadership of Lokmanya Tilak - Page 15 - N. R. Inamdar - 1983
- Preview
- The
life and philosophy of Lokamanya Tilak: with excerpts from ... - Page 446 -
Vishwanath
Prasad Varma - 1978
Writing
cultural history in colonial and postcolonial India - Page 69 - Henry
Schwarz - 1997 - Leonard Gordon offers a more sympathetic view: Aurobindo's
messianism is attributable to "birth, training, political role,
martyrdom by imprisonment and especially the fact that he was chosen by God for
glorious and important work."
Bengal:
change and continuity - Issues 16-18 - Page 41 Robert Paul Beech, Mary Jane
Beech, Ingrid
Aall - 1971 - Aurobindo, demonstrating what Bolle calls "the urge
to incorporate everything," has syncretically fused religious elements and
national messianism. Aurobindo gives fallen India a mission
to "aryanise the world.” in designing a world ...
Tantra:
Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 95 - Hugh
B. Urban - 2007 - Preview - More
editions Aurobindo . . . syncretized religious elements and
national messianism. Aurobindo gives fellow Indians a mission to
Aryanize' the world." The central figure of Bhawani Mandir is the goddess
Sakti, who is nothing other than "pure power.
Encyclopaedia
of Eminent Thinkers: The political thought of Aurobindo - Page 90
- K.
S. Bharathi - 1998 - Preview
The Indian people were facing a dangerous threat to their sense of self-esteem
and their residues of personal, social and national integrity. Messianism developed
as a necessary counterpoise to political and economic subjection. Aurobindo ...
Political
Thinkers of Modern India - Page 98 - Adi
Hormusji Doctor - 1997 - Preview
This belief explains why Aurobindo, although he spoke as if appealing to
the Hindus alone, was very keen to carry all ... and, finally,
revivalism and the kindred concepts of messianism can encourage the
belief of being a "chosen people" and ...
The
Calcutta historical journal - Volumes 19-20 - Page 4 - University
of Calcutta - 1998 - Whatever the so called 'progressives' might say,
Bankim Chandra, Tilak and Bepin Pal do not possess the same ideological
wavelength of Dayananda or Aurobindo.... A hard headed bania realism
overcame a past-looking messianism.
The
Spiritual Tourist - Mick
Brown - 2010 - Preview - More
editions Her vision and determination had fostered the growth not only of
the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, but also – and this was ... But
alongside her idealism, her unquenchable faith in the innate divinity of man,
lay a clear streak of Messianism, and an ...
Sri Aurobindo's
integral approach to political thought - Page 184 - Shiva
Kumar Mital - 1981 - Secondly, it is strongly suffused with elements
of messianism. As a revivalist, Sn Aurobindo looked to the ancient
heroic periods of India 's
splendour and not to the revival of the decadent and moribund India of the
eighteenth century, which by ...
Patna
University journal - Volume 12 - Page 70 1958 - At such an hour Aurobindo's gospel
and plan of human unity and a religion of humanity represent his great ... Revivalism
and the kindred concept of messianism generate an attitude of racial pride
and superiority and that can be a danger to ...
Ariel
- Issues 56-62 - Page 35 - Israel.
Miśrad ha-ḥuts - 1984 -
Professor Bergman in his Jerusalem
study, 1961 Aurobindo's "conversion" occurred in 1908 when
an informer caused him to be imprisoned ... he asserted that,
"This Indian visionary comes closest of all to the Jewish concept ofmessianism .
Mother India:
monthly review of culture - Volume 34 - Page 339 - Sri
Aurobindo Ashram - 1982 - make the magazine a unique cultural event.
The aim ... It was a period of Messianism and of intense
striving for a synthesis of art and religion. Various influences produced this
new orientation of...
Ethical
ideas in the world outlook of Swami Vivekananda, Lokamanya ... - Page 97 - Irina
Pavlovna Chelysheva - 1989 - ... or his religious Messianism as
expressed in his endeavour to present Vedanta (namely, its mystical elements)
as a doctrine in which answers to all actual and global problems were to be
found. It is, naturally, the first period of Sri Aurobindo's...
Political
protest in Bengal: boycott and terrorism 1905-18 - Page 74 - Hiren
Chakrabarti - 1992 - It may also be supposed, though we cannot prove
it, that Aurobindo had some acquaintance with the Hebraic ideas of
the chosen people, the Covenant and messianism and also the ideas of
Herder and Hegel that the nation and the state ...
International
relations - Volume 28 - Page 41 - Israel
Institute of International Affairs - 1989 - Has the historian the
right, the philosopher would ask, to bury the messianism which a Jehuda
Halevi, a Nietzsche, a Soloviev or Aurobindo represented?" The
question can be referred to the political pessimism of either Donoso Cortes or
to ...
Journal
of Research: Letters - Volumes 1-5 - Page 130 - Agra
University - 1952 - In the interest of a more vigorous phase of human
life than any that we have witnessed hitherto, Sri Aurobindo would, ... derived
from his studies in human history and in cosmic and biological evolution and
from the doctrine of Messianism.
The
extremist challenge: India between 1890 and 1910 - Page 115 - Amales
Tripathi - 1967 - 20 Aurobindo was already possessed of
a messianism that saw in terms of a battle royal between devas and
asuras, the forces of good and light and the forces of evil and darkness.
"Politics is especially the business of the Kshatriya."
The
Journal of the Bihar Research Society - Volumes 43-44 - Page 81 - Bihar
Research Society - 1957 - ... obtained any great importance.
Among some leaders of Indian nationalism the notion of spiritual messianism has
been strong. Dayananda, Vivekananda, Gandhi and Aurobindo believed
that India has a religious mission and message ...
The
Library journal book review - Page 438 - R.R.
Bowker Company - 1974 - REL Selections from the essential writings of
Sri Aurobindo concerning his philosophy, his spiritual insights, and
his vision of ... sources, but shows considerable originality in the
basic themes, especially marked in his treatment of messianism.
Religion
and society - Volume 23 - Page 60 - Christian
Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, Bangalore - 1976 - of
unitive vision is the only thing worth the name of ' religion ', and therefore
to consider the messianic type of religion as a ... Vivekananda,
through Radhakrishnan and Aurobindo Ghosh to Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave
whom I have mentioned.
Ideological
struggle in modern India, implications of Hinduism - Page 141 - Olʹga
Vasilʹevna Mezent︠s︡eva - 1988 - But in Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghose,
Ramkrishna, Mahatma Gandhi and others the apologetics of their religion ... It
seems that in the system of Golwalkar's views the idea of India's
spiritual messianism performed varying functions.
Asian
Englishes - Volume 4 - Page 335 - Kingsley
Bolton, Braj
B. Kachru - 2006 - Christianity and social messianism in the
nineteenth century sought to destroy the Orientalists' glorification of the
Asian ... Among them Sri Aurobindo is one who is
distinguished for being an ardent nationalist who also thought and spoke
in ...
The
Indo-Asian culture - Volumes 15-16 - Page 23 - Indian
Council for Cultural Relations - 1966 - ... the idea of a chosen
people, (ii) the emphasis on common historical experience and (iii) National Messianism,
similarly in India from ... asks Sri Aurobindo and answers,
"It is not a piece of land, nor a figure of speech, nor a fiction of the
mind.
The
philosophy of Martin Buber - Page 305 - Paul Arthur Schilpp, Maurice
S. Friedman, Martin
Buber - 1967 - When Sri Aurobindo calls upon us to
"offer every action to the Divine and do it as the work given," the
agreement with Buber is ... The second question that we must put
concerns the redemption of the world, and the Messianic final goal,
in the ...
Partners
in dialogue: Christianity and other world religions - Page 78 - Arnulf
Camps - 1983 - Sri Aurobindo, one of India's greatest thinkers,
views humanity in the process of cosmic evolution and regards humanity as the
goal of that process. One can go further ... In Buddhism there is now
talk of some sort of messianism. Some thinkers...
British
Book News - Page 17 -British
Council, National
Book Council (Great Britain), National
Book League (Great Britain) - 1981 - ... its hold not only on the
masses but also on intellectuals like Aurobindo in India and on
middle-class Western youths in ... who was opposed to the persecution
of religion and who might have seen in the Soviets a 'Russian Messianism'
with a ...
The
Spiritual Gift of Madness: The Failure of Psychiatry and the ... - Seth
Farber, Kate
Millett - 2012 - "A bold call for the 'insane' to reclaim their
rightful role as prophets of spritual and cultural transformation"--
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