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
The
Mahatma and the Poet: Tagore’s Letters to Gandhi on Power, Morality, and
Science by Maria Popova brainpickings.org 2013.01.30
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
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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 McDermott, Jeffrey
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 ...
The
Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy - Page 202 Gerald F.
Gaus, Fred D'Agostino - 2012 - Preview - More
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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 Sherma, Arvind
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
A
Flag, A Song & a Pinch of Sa - Page 61 - Subhadra
Sen Gupta, Subhadra -
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.
Bilimoria, Andrew
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 - Nirodbaran, Aurobindo
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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