February 03, 2013

Spiegelberg, Sharma, Shourie, Miri, and Giri

The truth about Mahatma Gandhi: He was not India's smiling saint Saturday, Feb 2, 2013, Agency: Daily Telegraph Patrick French
Although Gandhi may have looked like a saint, in an outfit designed to represent the poor of rural India, he was above all a wily operator and tactician. Having lived in Britain and South Africa, he was familiar with the system that he was attempting to subvert. He knew how to undermine the British, when to press an advantage and when to withdraw. Little wonder that one British provincial governor described Mr Gandhi as being as "cunning as a cartload of monkeys". Patrick French is the author of India: A Portrait (Vintage)

Though Tagore is often misconceived as a kind of Oriental mystic — a perception no doubt compounded by his big white beard and draping robes — he was in fact a proponent of rational thought and a champion of the liberating capacity of modern science, as evidenced by his famous conversation with Einstein. In 1934, after Gandhi made a public statement calling the Bihar earthquake divine retribution for India’s sins, an appalled Tagore wrote respectfully but assertively

A Place at the Multicultural Table: The Development of an American ... - Page 201 - Prema Kurien - 2007 - Preview - More editions Using a psychoanalytical approach, Kripal argues that the mystical and visionary experiences of Ramakrishna, a revered nineteenth-century Bengali Hindu saint, were driven by his conflicted, latent, homoerotic impulses. Many Hindus who ...
Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and ... - Jeffrey J. Kripal - 1998 - Preview - More editions In a substantial new preface to this second edition, Kripal answers his critics, addresses the controversy the book has generated in India, and traces the genealogy of his work in the history of psychoanalytic discourse on mysticism, ...
The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future - Page 251 - Martha NUSSBAUM - 2008 - Preview - More editions sues, and Kripal himself, an undogmatic scholar, has in some cases changed his view. But what can be said with confidence is that nobody has shown that the book was not a major contribution to the analysis of Ramakrishna's mysticism.
The Self Possessed: Deity And Spirit Possession in South Asian ... - Page 356 - Frederick M. Smith - 2006 - Preview - More editions ... North Indian spiritual discourse. Jeffrey Kripal notes that the Kathamrta records Ramakrishna as bhavavistha (established in ecstasy) and samadhistha (established in union). Kripal has not fully grasped the distinction between the two.
Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion - Page 62 - Jeffrey J. Kripal - 2007 - Preview - More editions Aurobindo, Spiegelberg, and Murphy into Esalen—it is important that we come to some understanding of its nature and content before we proceed any further. Let me begin with the ...
Encountering Kālī: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West - Rachel Fell McDermottJeffrey John Kripal - 2004 - Preview - More editions Responding to this phenomenon McDermott and Kripal’s volume focuses on the complexities involved in interpreting Kali in both her indigenous south Asian settings and her more recent Western incarnation.
Page 187 "By Most important, Aurobindo and the other revolutionaries drew upon precisely those elements of Sakti in her terrible form of Kali, and particularly those aspects that the British most feared and despised — the violent destructive Goddess ...
The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page xv - Peter Heehs - 2008 - Preview - More editions Special thanks to the late Jayantilal Parekh of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives and to Michael Murphy ofthe Esalen ... Ela Ghosh, Medha Gunay, Leslie Kriesel, Jeffrey Kripal, Marcel Kvassay, Julian Lines, Wendy Lines, Wendy Lochner, ...
Journal of global religious vision - Volume 1 - Page 214 - International Centre for Religious Studies (Delhi, India) - 1999 - One of course must have a superhuman capacity to feel in Sri Aurobindo 'anger', but do the likes of Kakar and Kripal believe that, they alone have the right to explain away man and a mystic must forfeit it to them? Do they believe that their ...
So, while Bankim wrote in Bengali, others such as Vivekananda and Aurobindo broke away from region-specific vernacular ... Related Topics Plato's Political Philosophy, Hobbes, Liberalism References Ambedkar, B.R. (2010) The Essential...
History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : ... - Page 11 -Sisir Kumar Das - 1995 - Preview - More editions The prose of socio-political concerns so effectively inaugurated by Sri Aurobindo had a splendid growth in the writings of other political leaders, Gandhi, Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose, M.N. Roy, B.R. Ambedkar and Radhakrishnan to name ...
Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language - Page 153 - Srinivas Aravamudan - 2005 - Preview - More editions This syncretic approach was brought out by Gandhi's crucial intervention as the heir to Tilak's legacy, with new strategies that posed a body politics of ... Aurobindo, on the other hand, despite his earlier affiliations with Tilak, opposed the interpretation of the Bhagavadgıta– for the ... The fascination The Hindu Sublime.
Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought: Toward a Fusion of Horizons - Page 43 - Rita DasGupta ShermaArvind Sharma - 2008 - Preview - More editions He hoped that by showing that Indians were not a savage race but had a sublime text such as the Gita, he could win the support of the ... Aurobindo, Sri (1984) (1915) Swami Dayananda, Pondicherry: All India Books. ... Gandhi, Leela (1998) Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
A Flag, A Song & a Pinch of Sa - Page 61 - Subhadra Sen GuptaSubhadra - 2007 - Preview Some years later he would give a scholarship and a job to an untouchable boy named Bhimrao Ambedkar. Aurobindo had left India at the age of seven and came back at twenty one. He returned in February 1893 on board the ship 55 ...
The Political Thought of Ambedkar (Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers) - Page 7 - K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - Preview There is hardly any book attempting a comprehensive exposition and evaluation of the Political Thought of Ambedkar. This work seeks ... Aurobindo regards organised religion as more an obstacle than a help to a fair and honest political life.
Explorations in Modern Bengal, C. 1800-1900: Essays on Religion, ... - Page 10 - Amiya P. Sen - 2010 - Preview Especially with Bankimchandra and after him, Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950), a religious devotion to God could be quite constructively ... that is strongly put in Bankimchandra but probably found its sublime expression in the neo-Vedantic discourse of Swami Vivekananda. ... Like Gandhi after him, Vivekananda could draw upon his first-hand experience of human tragedy in contemporary India; his was a life ...
Indian Political System: Trends and Challenges - Volume 10 - Page 363 - Verinder Grover - 1997 - Preview From Raja Ram Mohan Roy to Mahatma Gandhi, there is a whole galaxy of political leaders, who had a romantic, value-laden ... R.N. Tagore outlined 'the lofty vision of freedom;' Aurobindo stressed upon 'the organic totality of social existence;' G.K. Gokhale ... 4 The culture of politics, in brief, was lofty, high and sublime.
Modern Indian Interpreters of the Bhagavad Gita - Page 42 - Robert Neil Minor - 1986 - Preview - More editions ... the Upanishads with their sublime thought of the Supreme, could not stimulate the nationalistic tendencies that were then needed, and it is no wonder that Hindu leaders of nationalism from Bankim and Aurobindo to Tilak and Gandhi all ...
Indian critiques of Gandhi - Harold G. Coward - 2003 - A volume in the SUNY series in Religious Studies Harold Coward, editor Rabindranath Tagore: the poet sublime - Reeta Dutta Gupta – 2002
The Indian National Congress and cultural renaissance - Page 79 - Balmiki Prasad Singh - 2007 - Preview - More editions Aurobindo not only expounded the religious and philosophical basis of nationalism but also presented it as a sublime sentiment in human life. If Aurobindo ... Mahatma Gandhi used to call him "Gurudev" and the Great Sentinel. The poems and ...
Gandhi, a sublime failure - Page 22 - S. S. Gill - 2001 - Aurobindo emphasised that 'the proletariat was the real key to the situation.' Tilak wrote in ... Movement. And it is interesting to note that these two leaders were the torch-bearers of the Extremist faction of the 
Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analysing and Fighting Caste - Page 148 - Christophe Jaffrelot - 2005 - Preview - More editions Shourie then sees in Ambedkar the troublemaker who hampered both social reform launched by the 'really' enlightened spirits, such as 'Swami Dayananda, Swami Vivekananda, Lokmanya Tilak, Sri Aurobindo, Gandhiji, Ramana Maharshi ...
Dr. Ambedkar: Life and Mission - Page 272 - Dhananjay Keer - 1990 - Preview - More editions Ambedkar, however, was not the only man who preached annihilation of caste for the reorganization of Hindu society. ... Sir Jadunath Sarkar, Aurobindo Ghose, Ramanand Chatterjee, Lala Har Dayal and Veer Savarkar have condemned the ...
Dr. Ambedkar: pioneer of human rights - Page x - R. D. Suman - 1977 - Brotherhood, Sri Aurobindo points out, exists only in the soul and by the soul. The union of liberty and equality can only be achieved by the power of human brotherhood. Spiritual freedom is a condition of true fraternity. Ambedkar had no use ...
Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion - Page 99 - Purushottama. BilimoriaAndrew B. Irvine - 2009 - Preview - More editions Ashis Nandy, for example, absolves Sri Aurobindo's pre-modernism with these questions: “Did Sri Aurobindo symbolise ... The discourse has effectively ignored the Dalit voice of Jotirao Phule and Babasahib Ambedkar, the greatest exponents...
Talks with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 4 - Page 105 - NirodbaranAurobindo Ghose - 1989 - Sri Aurobindo: Now he may make it four and, if they refuse, he may take in the League, the Liberals and probably Savarkar and Ambedkar. P: The Working Committee is giving counter-proposals, it appears. Sri Aurobindo: Yes, many are in... 
Ends and means in private and public life - Page 96 - Rajendra Prasad, Indian Institute of Advanced Study - 1989 - ... much more clearly perhaps than ahimsa, is the opposite of egotism. It might be said, as Gandhi indeed did, ... And selflessness is but another name for ego- lessness. The rationality of the moral end is once again guaranteed 96 MRINALMIRI.
Grounding Morality: Freedom, Knowledge and the Plurality of Cultures - Jyotirmaya Sharma, A. Raghuramaraju - 2012 - Preview - More editions Put together to honour one of the most influential philosophers in recent times, Mrinal Miri, this book brings together articles on philosophy, politics, literature and society, and updates the status of enquiry in each of these fields.
Identity and the moral life - Mrinal Miri - 2003 - In this collection of essays written over thirty years, Miri, drawing on both Western and Indian traditions, provides fresh insight into some fundamental philosophical concerns--morality, modernity, individual and group identity, ...
Dharma, the categorial imperative - Page 110 - Ashok Vohra, Arvind Sharma, Mrinal Miri - 2005 - Explaining his notion of 'moral' or 'ethical' Gandhi goes on to say, "Morality in its turn means truth and non-violence.... Elaborating the relationship between means and ends he says, "in such matters, however, the means cannot be separated from the ends, hence I have written that ...
Conversations and Transformations: Toward a New Ethics of Self and ... - Page xiii - Ananta Kumar Giri - 2002 - Preview - More editions The third chapter, "Gandhi, Tagore, and a New Ethics of Argumentation," is a revised version of a paper presented at the seminar, "Gandhi and His Contemporaries," ... My thanks are due to Professors Mrinal Miri, Makarand Paranjape, and Dr.

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