Partition of India never did any good to anybody

The Hindu: NATIONAL TAMIL NADU: madurai today

Sri Aurobindo Society: Study circle meeting on 'The Mother' by Sri Aurobindo, 3 Lajapathi Roy Street, Chinna Chokkikulam, 10.30 a.m..

Sri Aurobindo Society Focus Area Integral Education
Just as 2012 drew to a close, Sri Aurobindo Society (SAS), under the auspices of its Integral Education programme, organized a unique workshop SENSES AND ...

The Three Inter-Connected Aspects of the Law of Karma « Sri ...

All existence is a nexus between the individual, the universal and the transcendent. The law of Karma, therefore, in order to be fully understood, must take into...

Sri Aurobindo on Nationalism Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The ...

These are a few selections from the writings of Sri Aurobindo on Nationalism... Some might wonder if nationalism as well as Sri Aurobindo's views on the topic ...

Hindi Translation of Barindra Kumar Ghose's “The Tale of My Exile”

aurofrance: Dr. Jitendra Sharma - Professor of French and Chairman, Sri Aurobindo Society of Calicut at St. Joseph's College, Devagiri, Calicut-673008 (Kerala),...

Ulrich Mohrhoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - the founding and managing editor of AntiMatters (ISSN 0973-8606), a quarterly open-access e-journal addressing issues in science and the humanities from non-materialistic perspectives, which appeared from August 2007 till November 2009. His textbook The World According to Quantum Mechanics: Why the Laws of Physics Make Perfect Sense After All, was published on April 7, 2011 by World Scientific Publishing.

Sri Aurobindo Ashram: its role, responsibility, and future ... - Page 1 - Jugal Kishore Mukherjee, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India) - 1997 - The Pioneers Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry, the great Institution known the world over, which draws its appellation from the name of Mahayogi Sri Aurobindo, was formally ... After a few months in the same year, two other young souls came to live with Sri Aurobindo: they were Saurin Bose in October and Nolini Kanta Gupta in November. The fifth ... And the following year 1926 saw the arrival of Anil Baran Roy.

Evening talks with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1 - Aurobindo Ghose, Ambalal Balkrishna Purani - 1970 - Ambalal Balkrishna Purani. Names of participants in the evening talks: — From 1923-1926 1. Barindra Kumar Ghose ... Anil Baran Roy 4. V. Chandra Shekhar 5. Kodanda Ram Aiyar 6. Purushottam Patel 7. Naren Das Gupta ...

A Critical Response to Indian English Literature - Page 124 - N. K. Mishra, Sabita Tripathy - 2002 - Preview

Gokak groups them as the Neo-Symbolist poets. ... The poets and disciples of Sri Aurobindo who thus represent a special trend are Nirodbaran, K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran), Anil Baran Roy, Nolini Kanta Gupta, Arjava, Amrita, Prithwi Singh Nahar, Sudhananda Bharati, Panjalal, Nishikanto, Romen, Themis, Madhusudan Reddy, V.K. Gokak, Dillip Kumar Roy, K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar and others.

Symbolism In The Poetry Of Sri Aurobindo - Page 102 - Syamala Kallury - 1989 - Preview - More editions All this speaks volumes of the impact that Sri Aurobindo has had on the contemporary age. ... K.D. Sethna, Anil Baran Roy, Nolini Kanta Gupta, Dilip Kumar Roy, Amrita, Prithwi Singh Nahar, Suddhananda Bharathi, Panjalal, Nishikanto, Romen, Themis, Madhusudan Reddy and V.K. Gokak are some of the poets who had found their ...

Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: K to Navalram - Page 2364 - Amaresh Datta, Sahitya Akademi - 1987 - The Aurobindonians and the traditionalists continue to write with varying degrees of self-confidence: K.D. Sethna, Romen, Nirodbaran, Dilip Kumar Roy, Themis, Punjalal, V.K. Gokak, Nishikanto, V. Madhusudan Reddy, Krishna Srinivas, R.M. Challa, Keshav Malik and Karan Singh are among the more important names.

Sri Aurobindo came to me - Page 77 - Dilip Kumar Roy - 1952 - ... her reassuring human ways which could win us back to allegiance. That is why I have often felt — I say. 1 A translation by Sri Aurobindo of a Bengali song written by Anil baran, one of his disciples. 1 Sethna was given by Gurudev the name ...

The philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 78 - Ram Nath Sharma - 1963 - In one of his— talks noted by Anil Baran Roy, Sri Aurobindo said, "At a certain stage of my sadhana I experienced all intellectual truths to be false. Then I came to know that they were incomplete truths. Now, I am in a position to put these truths ...

The Calcutta review - Page 54 - University Of Calcutta - The Second Annual jayanti Number of the Sri Aurobindo Mandir carries forward the same enlightening and ... on " Ideal of the Jivamukta " by Sj. Anil Baran Ray, " Sri Aurobindo and the Isha Upanishad ” by Sj. Charu Chandra Dutt and " Sri ...

Breath of grace - Page 146 - Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1973 - Many were they who wrote — Nolini Gupta, Suresh Chakravarty had been doing so for many years — even Anilbaran Roy ... We, Jyotirmala, Nirodbaran, Anil Bhatta, Amiya and myself, began to learn poetics from Dilip, who had then attained a ...

Down memory lane - Page 10 - Shyam Sunder Jhunjhunwala - 1996 - For this translation I always referred to Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita and Anil Baran Roy's translation of the Gita. Nolinida spoke to me of ... "Nolini does not need a watch," she said, and gave him a dictionary. Nolinida was so punctual in ...

Congress Politics In Bengal 1919-1939 - Page 39 - Srilata Chatterjee - 2002 - Preview - More editions In 1905 he participated in the anti-partition agitation. ... Anil Baran Roy, a professor of philosophy at the Bankura Missionary College, was one of those noncooperators who left his teaching post, influenced by Gandhian ideals.84 Nripendra ...

The Modern review - Volume 127 - Page 8 - Ramananda Chatterjee - 1970 - Anil Baran Roy, the octogenerian revolutionary is tenacious and strong minded and can be expected to carry out his ideas actively and with thoroughness. The partition of India never did any good to anybody and caused great suffering to ...

Indo-British review - Volume 17 - Page 157 - Indo-British Historical Society - 1989 - Leaflets like 'Annul the Fatal Partition of India' (by Anil Baran Roy) are also there in the collections. A careful perusal of P.D. Tandon Papers, Bulabhai Desai Papers and those of Sir Sita Ram, Sampurnanand and B.D. Chaturvedi may be ...

History of Bangladesh, 1704-1971 - Volume 2 - Page 187 - Sirajul Islam, Aklam Hussain, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh - 1997 - ... but the movement, though it was a success from the point of view of its object of annulling Bengal partition, was not as ... led an effective campaign in Midnapore, Anil Baran Roy who too directed a successful anti-Union Board movement in ...

Decolonizing the Hindu mind: ideological development of Hindu ... - Page 120 - Koenraad Elst - 2001 - Snippet view - More editions (through his secretary Anil Baran Roy who went to see Nehru), urging them to accept the Cripps Mission proposals, i.e. ... In the 1950s, spokesmen of his Ashram even claimed that he had said that the Partition was bound to be short-lived and ...

Deshbandhu C. R. Das: poet, reformer & politician - Page 107 - Dhirendramohan Biswas - 1996 - Their underground movement took a serious turn after the proclamation of the Partition of Bengal in 1905. ... It was, also, on record that Anil Baran Roy, a leading member of C. R. Das's Party, admitted that the Swarajya Party had attained...

The Naxalites and their ideology - Page 242 - Rabindra Ray - 1992 - Ray, Anil Baran. 'The Communal Attitudes to British Policies: The Case of the Partition of Bengal 1905'. Social Scientist, vol. vi, no. 5 (December 1977). Ray, Satyajit. ... Roy, Ashish Kumar. The Spring Thunder and After. Calcutta: Minerva 242 ...

Braudel, Broadie, Bede Griffiths and the transformation of the body

Review of an "Agreeable Connexion" from Adam Smith's Lost Legacy by Gavin Kennedy

Alexander Brodie. 2012. “Agreeable Connexions: Scottish Enlightenment links with France”. Edinburgh: John Donald, Birlinn Ltd.

This is a most agreeable book for scholars and those interested in the Scottish Enlightenment from which so much of the modern world evolved… Broadie’s thesis is that what became known as the Scottish Enlightenment has its roots in a long history of connections between Scottish intellectuals from the medieval period onwards, primarily with their French opposite numbers, despite their different theological traditions, particularly after the Reformation (largely inspired from Luther’s Germany).  Enlightened thinkers thought for themselves; unenlightened thinkers were tied to the unchanging thoughts of past, mainly theological, authorities. Where there is argument and debate without political repression, or at least passivity, Enlightenment may follow.  Brodie’s account of this background is enlightening itself…

In summary, I consider Alexander Broadie has established his thesis that the centuries long links between France and Scotland were foundational in what became the Scottish Enlightenment in the unpromising circumstances of each country, one dominated by an all embracing rigid Calvinism and the other by a monolithic Catholic Church, yet feeding each other intellectually in the prelude of the transformation of one world to another.  

Why OOO? from Larval Subjects Nov 13, 2012

First there was my encounter with DeLanda’s Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy and A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, both of which brought non-signifying differences and material processes to the fore and led me to read Deleuze in a very different way.  I was spitting mad and simultaneously fascinated when I encountered these books.  Was he really arguing that ocean currents and wind patterns (non-diacritical, a-signifying differences) played a key role in where European and American cities developed?  Preposterous!  But he got me reading the historian Braudel and his dry as dirt yet magnificent Capitalism and Civilization. 

Most Valuable Books of 2009 from Larval Subjects Dec 2, 2009

And in the background of all this was the material history of Ferdinand Braudel in the three volumes of Capitalism and Civilization. Braudel’s three volumes have been my nightly bedtime reading for the last few months. Let Harman have his Gibbon, I’ll take my Braudel. If reading Braudel has been such a transformative experience, then this is because he draws attention away from familiar territory revolving around signs, ideologies, texts, norms, and concepts, investigating instead infrastructures throughout history such as the presence or absence of roads, the epidemiology of diseases, diets, trade routes, clothing, forms of energy, etc., etc., etc.. You leave these works with an entirely new set of glasses, seeing the world and why the world is the way it is in an entirely different light. Suddenly things you were focused on in your social and political thought seem to become less important as a consequence of the rather minor role they play in social organization, while a whole host of other urgent questions come to the fore. 

A Higher Soul Nature and Law of Karma « Sri Aurobindo Studies

While it is the first formulation of human motivation, the force of desire, attraction towards what is pleasant and avoidance of what is unpleasant, is not the sole...

At the Feet of The Mother: The Integral Yoga and Traditional Paths

at Hall of Harmony, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India. ... So Sri Aurobindo says that perhaps they will find God outside life but will not find the Divine in ...

Inspirational & Religious 2013: Savitri and The Yoga of the Cells Sri Aurobindo (Author), The Mother (Author), RY Deshpande (Editor)

The body was not ready to hold the charge of luminous immortality in it. It had remained an unbaked vessel, atapta tanu. The cells of the body had not awakened yet to the reality that is seated deep within them. The problem of the inconscient nature had yet to be tackled.

Sri Aurobindo’s concern was chiefly this. It was a twofold effort, of invoking and bringing down the dynamism of the supreme Truth on the earthly plane, and preparing the unregenerate inconscient material nature to receive it for its unhampered action. The spiritual and occult-yogic tapasya carried out together by him and the Mother saw that this was done. That opened up new doors, bright doors of the physical, for the entry of the Infinite's dimensions in the earth-possibilities. Presently it has made its manifestation an accomplished fact, here in the physical’s subtle. 

SABDA - A Follower of Christ and a Disciple of Sri Aurobindo — Dr. Anand Reddy

A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST AND A DISCIPLE OF SRI AUROBINDO — CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN BEDE GRIFFITHS AND K. D. SETHNA (AMAL KIRAN)

So too, Griffiths tries to subsume Sri Aurobindo in Christianity:

      ‘To me it is important because I think that the transformation of the body is an essential element in Christian doctrine. The physical transformation which took place in Mary was seen as related to the physical transformation of the body of Christ in the resurrection, and this again as foreshadowing the physical transformation of man and the universe. This is where I find Aurobindo’s insistence on the transformation of matter and the body so significant’. (p.44)

      ‘I cannot resist the conviction that Jesus did exactly what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were attempting to do’. (p.72)

      ‘The resurrection of Christ is a physical event, which has effected all humanity and the whole creation. If this is not the same as the belief of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother it is extraordinarily close to their idea of the Supramental manifestation’. (p.86)

     Amal Kiran, in a note of tender mercies, replies: ‘What a diminution of his (Sri Aurobindo’s) colossal stature, his Herculean labour, to understand him as having come just to confirm Christianity and to establish a person more firmly in it! If he and the Mother have nothing really momentously new to give us, since everything was there in the Christian vision, all of us who are striving to live up to their teaching and example are misguided fools who could do much better to get baptized and join hands with the priests and nuns of Pondicherry’. (p.93)

     And in a stronger vein he argues: ‘Lastly, after postulating an evolution over millions of years following in man’s progressive spiritual history through the aspiring mind towards a Supramental which is still in the future, is it logical or reasonable or consistent to affirm that all evolution was summed up to thousand years ago in one man who did not exemplify an evolutionary transformation in his life-time but is alleged to have acquired a divinized body after his death?’ (p.61)

Rooting for the revival of a grand tree - The Hindu

The tree is an 82-year-old Peltophorum pterocarpum that stands next to Sri Aurobindo's Samadi, which was named 'Service Tree' by the Mother. Through the ..

Savitri’s place vis-à-vis the pantheon of English poetry

The Vision of Sri Aurobindo - AurovilleTV Created by: Amitanga 10 December 2012 Integral Yoga Excerpt from a lecture by Ashesh Joshi, Auroville, 12th August 2009 on the Sri Aurobindo Vision.

SAS UPCOMING EVENTS Dec 28-30, 2012 Workshop: Sensory Writing & Self Awareness An exploration of writing creatively from sensory experience, where each step leads us to deeper self awareness. Society House, Sri Aurobindo Society, Puducherry Integral Education - ICIE

Jan 3-11, 2013 Apply for the National Youth Camp–QUEST 2013 A camp that will help one to look at the world and at oneself, in a deeper and more meaningful way. Sri Aurobindo Society, Society House, No.11, St Martin Street, Puducherry Youth - AuroYouth

Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2013 Spandana: Feeling the Pulsation of a Divine Language The aim of this week long intensive course is to introduce Sanskrit to those who are genuinely interested learning this language, both in its spoken and written forms. Sri Aurobindo Society, Society House, No.11, St Martin Street, Puducherry Indian Culture – SAFIC

Integral Education – ICIE: EIFI Grant Winners Announced View Info Nov 27, 2012

HP has announced the grant winners of the EIFI, a collaborative project between the HP and the India Council for Integral Education (ICIE), an initiative of the Sri Aurobindo Society… The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM, A) was awarded the top grant of Rs.1 crore. 

A Plea Let us find a solution to the turmoil created by the book ‘The Lives of Sri Aurobindo’

‘The Lives of Sri Aurobindo’, by Peter Heehs, at many places, presents facts and information based on unreliable sources and contains misrepresentations and distortions of the life, work and yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The book also puts down other biographies written by scholars and devotees, which are certainly not hagiographies and have inspired a large number of devotees, seekers and scholars.  

Exhibition - Meditations on Savitri at Savitri Bhavan EXHIBITION Meditations on Savitri Books 4 – 7 125 paintings by Huta, made under the guidance of the Mother will be on display in the Picture Gallery from December 4th onwards. At Savitri Bhavan Everyone is welcome

Class Savitri Bhavan 03:00 PM Cultivating Concentration at Savitri Bhavan Cultivating Concentration led by Dr. Jai Singh Tuesdays 3-4 pm at Savitri Bhavan Everyone is welcome Auronet 

On Sri Aurobindo's Savitri (Part Two: Collected Comments) — Writings by Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) ISBN: 978-81-87916-11-6 Publisher: Clear Ray Trust, Pondicherry Binding: Soft Cover Pages: 335 Price: Rs 380

This is the second volume of a two-part compilation of Amal's Kiran's writings on Savitri and consists of passages relating to Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem that have been extracted from books, articles, or letters by Amal. Arranged thematically, the contents include passages on how to read Savitri, brief discussions on particular passages, lines, or words of the poem, extracts from talks and letters on poetry, and miscellaneous musings and letters in which a few lines from Savitri serve to illustrate or emphasise the author’s meaning. Whether writing of his own relation with the poem, which goes back to the days when Sri Aurobindo sent him selected lines and passages from the unpublished work, or discussing Savitri’s place vis-à-vis the pantheon of English poetry, Amal’s collected comments reflect his very personal and lifelong preoccupation with Sri Aurobindo’s epic masterpiece.

The Need For a Moral and Spiritual Law of Being « Sri Aurobindo ... Scientists have gained an increasing level of understanding of the laws of Matter. The development of Quantum Mechanics has led to a much more subtle view ...

Involution of Consciousness precedes Religion and Politics

To Thee Our Infinite Gratitude—A SABDA Publication from Savitri Dec 9, 2012 3:00 AM

Our grief has certainly been great, because the blow was unexpected. Above all, I measured the extent of the loss that the world suffered at a time when it is going through such a grave crisis. But a consolation has been given to us, which has proved to be greater and greater and which alone enables us to face the future. We feel the Presence of Sri Aurobindo, in us and around us, as powerfully if not more than when he was living, and we feel that this Presence is completely identified with that of the Mother. Thus is born and is confirmed this certitude that our Master has not left us, that his action is going on and that his work continues.

To Thee Our Infinite Gratitude Writings on the Passing of Sri Aurobindo — Compiled from various sources ISBN: 979-81-7058-016-3 Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department, Pondicherry Binding: Soft Cover Pages: 103 Price: Rs 95

This book of reminiscences, essays, letters, and excerpts evokes the hours and days before and after the passing of Sri Aurobindo on 5 December 1950. It begins with the Mother’s words, recalling his sacrifice and offering the assurance of his continued presence and spiritual action. There are personal accounts by Nirodbaran, Dr Prabhat Sanyal, and Pavitra that convey the gravity and emotion surrounding Sri Aurobindo’s final withdrawal, and essays by Amal Kiran, Udar Pinto, and K.R.S. Iyengar that attempt some understanding of its inner significance. The final remembrance is by the American scholar Rhoda P. LeCocq, who had come for the Darshan on 24 November, and later recorded her first impressions of the Ashram and her own experience of the Grace.

Towards the Rhythmic Word Studies in Sri Aurobindo's Theory of Poetry — Pabitrakumar Roy Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Samiti, Kolkata Binding: Hard Cover Pages: 181 Price: Rs 200

In this scholarly and philosophical work, the author has focused on certain aspects of Sri Aurobindo’s aesthetic philosophy: poetic discourse, imagination, poetry as mantra, and the value of art for spiritual life. He approaches his subjects through the lens of Sri Aurobindo’s writings on evolutionary metaphysics and the sociology of human development. His main interest is Sri Aurobindo’s theory of poetry, and he includes in his study an examination of the mystery of language, the function of imagination as the formative power of art, and the roles of reason and intuition in man’s mental and artistic progress.

No Chance! from Sri Aurobindo Studies Dec 9, 2012 4:25 AM

There are those who hold that the entire existence of the universe, and the apparent intelligence we see within the quantum world of sub-atomic energy, as well as in the interactive relationship of all forms of life existence to create an inter-dependent existence, is purely the work of Chance, a random combination of chemical reactions that yielded the “miracle” of Life.

There are those who would continue this line of understanding to make it a matter of “luck” as to how our lives unfold and whether we are “successful” or “failures” in our actions. This line of approach is essentially at the other end of the continuum from those who take the opposing viewpoint that everything, down to the smallest detail, is absolutely pre-destined and controlled with no amount of random chance whatsoever.

Sri Aurobindo takes issue with the idea that intelligence and consciousness can arise as a result of random chance. Sri Aurobindo’s view of the universe starts from a universal Consciousness that creates forms and energies out of itself, first through a process of involution, and then through a process of evolution. Inherent at all times is that universal consciousness and being. The inter-relationships and fine detail of the mechanisms and processes, the inter-dependencies and symbiotic relations all point to an incredibly complex consciousness that embraces the whole, at both the macro-and micro-levels. This is not the result of Chance!

IRNRD New Delhi Conference Week 2012

The International Research Network on Religion and Democracy (IRNRD), launched in 2008, consists of leading senior and junior scholars in the social sciences, political science, theology and philosophy. It pursues extensive interdisciplinary research in these fields, focussed particularly on issues of religion, culture and secularization, the so-called post-secular condition, religious violence and peace-building, as well as the challenges and prospects of the interface between religion and politics in global contexts. The network organises regular conferences to develop and disseminate its work and prepares collaborative educational programs and joint research projects, funded by scholarly grants. The most important directions of the scholarly activity of the Network find at 'Core Themes'.

THE IRNRD PROUDLY ANNOUNCES the PROGRAM of the NEW DELHI CONFERENCE WEEK 10-14 December 2012 For Visiting the Website of the Conference Week, with Detailed Program click here New Delhi 2012

Religion and Democracy: Local Questions, Global Perspectives
As the 5th Annual Conference of the IRNRD, 10-14 December 2012, we are working on a complex series of scholarly events. One of these will be a conference The Arab Spring: Local, Regional and Global Perspectives, hosted and generously sponsored by the Indian Council of World Affairs. The conference week will also include a workshop on Torkel Brekke's recent book on fundamentalism: Fundamentalism: Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization (Cambridge University Press, 2012) 

As a third element of this event, we work on a conference with a focus on the conception(s) of and the various problems concerning the 'postsecular'. The Organizational Committee of the IRNRD New Delhi Conference Week: Neera Chandhoke (Head); Hilal Ahmed, Mohammed Hashas, Péter Losonczi, Mika Luoma-aho, Silika Mohapatra, Aakash Singh. For more details visit: irnrdelhi2012.blogspot.com Contact Aakash Singh: aakashsinghrathore@yahoo.com Péter Losonczi: lospeter@yahoo.com

Routledge Book Release INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP IRNRD Launch and Discussion of Routledge Books on Aspects of Religion and Democracy Host& Sponsor: Routledge (India) Venue: R K Khanna Tennis Complex Africa Avenue Safdarjang Enclave New Delhi – 110029 Date: 12 December 2012 (3:00-5:30 pm) 

15:00: Routledge India: Multiple Book Launch Chair: Aakash Singh Rathore 

15:00-15:20: Peter Losonczi and Walter Van Herck introduce their forthcoming book Secularism, Religion, and Politics: Concepts and Context in India and Europe Discussants: Sebastiano Maffettone, Veit Bader

15:20-15:40: Gurpreet Mahajan presents her book Religion, Community and Development: Changing Contours of Politics and Policy in India Chair: Peter Losonczi Discussants: C. Upendra, Hilal Ahmed

15:40-16:00: Dilip Menon presents his Book Series Pathfinders Chair: Devrim Kabasakal Discussants: Sudarshan Padmanabhan, Dara Salam

16:00-16:20: Amit Prakash discusses Ranabir Samaddar's book New Subjects and New Governance in India Chair: Silika Mohapatra Discussants: Uriel Abulof, Meysam Badamchi

16:20-16:40: Hilal Ahmed on his forthcoming Routledge book Monuments Chair: Mohammed Hashas Discussants: Tom Bailey, Manohar Kumar

16:40-17:00: Ranjan Ghosh presents Making Sense of Secularism Chair: Kanchana Mahadevan Discussants: David Rasmussen, Gennaro Gervasio

Conference on the "Post-secular" Venue: Lady Shri Ram College of the University of Delhi (LSR) THURSDAY, 13 DECEMBER 2012 9:30 am Welcome Peter Losonczi (Director, IRNRD& Research Associate, Higher Institute of Philosophy, Leuven) Are We Postsecular? Religion & Politics in Comparative Contexts Silika Mohapatra (LSR Dept of Philosophy) 10:00-12:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESSES Chair: Tom Bailey (John Cabot University, Rome)

Sri Aurobindo perceived Dharma in terms of unity and dispelled many unhelpful dichotomies

The political philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 132 - Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1976 - claims do not seem to be adequately documented from the historical angle. Aurobindo's philosophy of history, in its idealization of the great man as the divinely chosen instrument of mother Kali — the Zeitgeist, reminds one of Hegel and ...

Link - Volume 15, Part 2 - Page 44 1972 - From the literary and intellectual angle, Aurobindo was probably the most highly gifted of his distinguished contemporaries, and his writings throw a flood of light upon the radical movement in India at the turn of the century. Gifted with a highly ...

Sri Aurobindo circle - Issue 33 - Page 122 - Aurobindo Ghose - 1977 - We can consider the relationship from two angles: they are the same but on different levels, and also they are different but have to be united through knowledge, experience and growth. From the first angle Sri Aurobindo says: "The psychic is a ...

Talks with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 4 - Page 316 - Nirodbaran, Aurobindo Ghose - 1989 - Or rather you believe but your arm doesn't. You identify with the arm. M: Last evening your knee was bending more than usual, Sir, wasn't it? Sri Aurobindo: Maybe. M: Coming almost to a right angle. Sri Aurobindo: It would have bent more but ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 129 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007 - ... from a spiritual angle: Sri Aurobindo's philosophy of education does not limit itself to encouraging the growth of moral, intellectual capacities in the individual with special reference to the full use of sense-organs only. In fact, he tries to give ...

Sri Aurobindo and world literature - Page 2 - Goutam Ghosal - 2000 - Very material subjects like economics and business management may be seen from the consciousness angle. Sri Aurobindo knows that Matter is secret God and therefore the material is as important as the spiritual. His one clause sums up ...

The Advent - Volume 63 - Page 33 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2006 - ... is imperfect and not definitive. It is only in the supermind that Awareness, Will, Force are always one movement and automatically effective."13 Essence of Consciousness Looking from a different angle, Sri Aurobindo CONSCIOUSNESS 33.

A study of "Savitri." - Page 304 - Prema Nandakumar - 1962 - ... to all (sarvam) — herself, her father, her mother, her parents-in-law, and all her husband's family. Re-reading the old bardic tale from a fresh angle, Sri Aurobindo invests Aswapathy's tapas with a vaster significance; it is a growth in ...

Collected Works: On thoughts and aphorisms - Page 315 - La Mère - 1987 - Step by step and from every angle, Sri Aurobindo shows us how the Truth is above and beyond all contraries and opposites, beyond divisions — in a radiant and total Unity. 25 February 1970 357 — The Brahmin first ruled by the book and the ...

Recent Indian English poets, expressions and beliefs - Page 124 Dr. R. K. Singh - 1992 - But philosophers treat death from an altogether different angle. Sri Aurobindo has given us an admirable definition of death in his epic poem Savitri: Although Death walks beside us on life's road, A dim bystander at the body's start And a last ...

The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 232 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions ... read in this perspective. Aurobindo supported active resistance provided passive resistance failed. In his famous article "The Morality of Boycott" he stated: "The Gita is the best answer to those who shrink from battle as a sin- and aggression ...

Consciousness in Advaita Vedānta - Page 129 - William M. Indich - 2000 - Preview - More editions Clearly, then, in the process of reconciling the traditional Advaitic conception of absolute consciousness with an evolutionary perspective, Aurobindo actually modifies the former to the point of giving up its most unique features. Furthermore ...

Hartshorne, Process Philosophy, and Theology - Page 118 - Robert Kane, Robert Kane Stephen H. Phillips - 1989 - Preview - More editions As a representative of Indian theism and a target for meaningful engagement from a process-theological perspective, Aurobindo presents particular advantages and disadvantages. Most encouraging is the wealth of concurrence in at least the ...

The yogi and the mystic: a study in the spirituality of Sri ... - Page 366 - Jan Feys - 1977 - To be adapted to Teilhard's perspective, Aurobindo's self must shed its solipsism. — The pure self, central in Aurobindo's spirituality must be purified of its exclusiveness and ultimacy to be adaptable to Teilhard. Section 29 : The Impassible Self ...

Towards a new mysticism: Teilhard de Chardin and Eastern religions - Page 211 - Ursula King - 1980 - In one respect, however, Teilhard and Aurobindo are curiously alike: despite their efforts to find a synthesis of thought between East and West, both remain locked in their own religious and cultural perspective. Aurobindo emphatically claims ...

Dynamic Facets of Indian Thought: Western impact on Indian thought - Page 95 - Anil Kumar Sarkar - 1988 - ... both from the Yogic-Tantric, and from symbolic aspects, as powerful effects for the transformation of the human mind, from an international perspective. Aurobindo's general suggestion is that all orders of confronted experience from Matter to ...

Zygon - Volume 42 - Page 731 - Meadville Theological School, Joint Publication Board of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science and the Center for Advanced Study in Religion and Science, OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online - 2007 - From his more monistic Advaita Vedantic perspective, Aurobindo sees both Nature and Spirit as ultimately a manifestation of the one absolute Godhead (Brahman). During the process of cosmic manifestation, the underlying C. Mackenzie...

Yoga, mathematics, and computer sciences: in change confronting ... - Page 85 1997 - present astro-physiological state from the earthly perspective. Aurobindo refers to this kind of astral life, but Yogananda adds a little more to this aspect of experiential possibility, in some concrete situations, maintaining another kind of ...

New technological civilization and Indian society - Page 51 - B. D. Nag Choudhuri, Indian Institute of Advanced Study - 1990 - II Now let us turn to one of the most respected and well-known thinkers of modern India, Aurobindo Ghose (1870-1950) in whose thoughts and works man and nature have been juxtaposed in an integral-evolutionary perspective. Aurobindo ...

Religion and society - Volume 26, Issue 3 - Page 67 - Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, Bangalore - 1979 - It has very much shaped the meaning and content of dharma, understood from an ethical perspective. Aurobindo Ghose also perceived of dharma in terms of unity. He had a vision of unity of humanity transcending race, caste, colour, creed ...

Indian book chronicle - Volume 1 - Page 173 1976 - From this perspective Aurobindo's presentation in this essay would be quite fascinating for the present day Western reader. B.G. Ray's 'Rabindranath Tagore' is a philosophico-lyrical view of Tagore. The essay justly introduces the multiple ...

Dharma of the twenty-first century: theological-ethical paradigm shift - Page 123

Somen Das - 1996 - 75 Therefore we should understand the apparent contradictions in this context and from this perspective. Aurobindo, in like manner, conceived of the divine life here on earth. Bruteau rightly notes, "It is a life in the midst of the world mingling all ...

Enlightening studies in Indian English poetry - Page v - Amar Kumar Singh - 1994 - Some new but serious topics have been analyzed as critically as possible — the chief themes of Indian English poetry, its chief drawbacks, the future of it, the position of it in world perspective, Aurobindo's mantric style, the revolt of the 

Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, V4.2 - Page 2 - Ken Wilbur - Preview - More editions He and The Mother considered this transformative process to be evolutionary in nature, opening a path to a post-human integral 2 Journal of Integral Theory and Practice—Vol. 4, No. 2 A. COMBS The Integral Perspective Sri Aurobindo.

The Bengalis: The People, Their History, and Culture. Religion and ... - Page 85

S.N.. Das - 2002 - Preview - More editions Sri Aurobindo's idea of India as a nation is, no doubt, a difficult concept. One cannot hope to understand it fully unless one first decides to place Sri Aurobindo in the proper perspective. Sri Aurobindo spent twenty-eight years of his life in the nineteenth century and the remaining fifty years in our present century. All India Conference on the Relevance of Sri Aurobindo Today, ... - Page 47 - Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo Samiti – 1975 The Bengali intellectual tradition: from Rammohun Ray to ... - Page 201 - Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay - 1979

The Bengalis: The People, Their History, and Culture. Religion and ... - Page 91 - S.N.. Das - 2002 - Preview - Judged from a different angle, Aurobindo's insistence on the spiritual soul of India, on the need of viewing India as a mother through whom the divine being has been manifesting himself may, of course, be said to have grown out of his great ...

Spirituality and Business: Exploring Possibilities for a New ... - Page 29 Sharda S. Nandram, Margot Esther Borden - 2009 - Preview On the basis of this perspective, Sri Aurobindo distinguished four different types of knowledge (Table 2.1) present in our outer mind (Cornelissen, 1999). 1. The one that objective science generates, which he called indirect as it is mediated by ... Spirituality and Business - Page 29 2010 - Preview

Foundations of Indian Psychology Volume 1: Theories and Concepts - Page 180

Cornelissen R. M. Matthijs - 2011 - Preview Disagreeing with the illusionist Advaitic perspective, Sri Aurobindo affirmed a realistic Advaita as noted in the preceding passage. He emphasized the equal importance and significance of the material worldly existence as of the spiritual, and...

The Indian Scriptures and the Life Divine - Page 193 - Binita Pani - 1993 - Preview ... qualified nor psychologically disposed to accept and interpret the Indian scriptures in their true perspective. Sri Aurobindo's main purpose in undertaking the translation of the Upanishads and other PHILOSOPHY OF THE UPANISADS 193.

Contemporary Indian philosophy - Page 180 - Basant Kumar Lal - 2010 - Preview - More editions Somehow we do not normally have the capacity to know ourselves in our true perspective. Sri Aurobindo says, "we are composed of many parts, each of which contributes something to the total movement of our consciousness, our thought, ...

Sri Aurobindo critical considerations - Page 41 - Dr. O. P. Mathur - 1997 - ... creation and dissolution that is incomprehensible has been explained by Sri Aurobindo from a refreshingly positive perspective. Sri Aurobindo writes: "There is no end to the World's stupendeous march, there is no rest for the embodied soul.

Critical Issues in Mathematics Education - Page 147 - Paul Ernest, Brian Greer, Bharath Sriraman - 2009 - Preview - More editions By contrast, our nondualist-integral perspective (Sri Aurobindo, 1998; Wilber, 2004) helps to dispel many unhelpful dichotomies, such as mathematics versus culture, knowledge versus activity, and meaning versus interpretation.

The Ideological Integration of East and West: An Enquiry ... - Page 4 - Moazziz Ali Beg - 2005 - Preview This discourse therefore, goes to bring the guiding philosophy of this civilization under examination for clearing the ground for the rise of a new perspective. Sri Aurobindo (1970) has warned us that the present arrangement of the world 4 The...

The Plays of Sri Aurobindo, a study - Page 118 - S. S. Kulkarni - 1990 -... dramatic blank verse is made by those critics who do not view late Victorian literature in another perspective. Sri Aurobindo himself, as is clear from his letter to Amal,5 did not think that late Victorian literature showed signs of decadence.

Philosophical Aspects of Thanatology - Volume 1 - Page 105 - Florence M. Hetzler, Austin H. Kutscher - 1978 - Preview - More editions If all groups and individuals would have a new common goal, they would share a new consciousness born of a prenatal rather subliminal awareness, and death would be seen in a new perspective. Sri Aurobindo expressed this new ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 59 - Page 558 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2006 - 3) The Hindu list of the ten avatars gives us another interesting perspective. Sri Aurobindo writes that the last three avatars, Krishna, Buddha and Kalki depict the stages of spiritual development upon earth. Krishna follows the normal course of ...

The Indian libertarian - Volume 19 - Page 26 - 1971 - Viewed in historical perspective, Sri Aurobindo's achievement as a nationalist-mystic is reminiscent of the Indian tradition of the philosopher-statesman. Like Janaka and Vidyaranya, Sri Aurobindo combined political wisdom and philosophical ... Indian Review - Volume 67 - Page 4 1971

Integral health: a consciousness approach to health & healing - Page 94 - Soumitra Basu, Sri Aurobindo International Institute for Integral Health and Research- 2000 - Culture: a Consciousness Perspective Sri Aurobindo elaborates, "The culture of a people may be roughly described as the expression of a consciousness of life which formulates itself in three aspects. There is a side of thought, of ideal, ...

World union - Volume 19 - Page 11 - World Union (Organization) - 1979 - In light of your comments on this larger scheme, how does one then view the persons of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, from this present perspective? Sri Aurobindo and the Mother identified themselves with humanity and worked out solutions ...

The Advent - Volume 61 - Page 22 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2004 - The traditional commentators point out that they set forth a cogent perspective. Sri Aurobindo says that they speak from a highly synthetic point of view. Therefore we cannot deny that a unified system of ideas is implicit in them. An attempt is ...

Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture - Volume 13 - Page 173 - Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 1962 -  ... existence were discussed in their proper perspective. Sri Aurobindo did pioneering work in both the philosophy and the technique of yoga. His Integral Yoga is a very distinctive contribution. This distinctiveness has been well regarded in this ...

Beyond man: life and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - Page 297 - Georges van Vrekhem - 1997 - ... at the end of the grand~ perspective Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had seen 'superman' standing, the being with the supramental Unity-Consciousness, the divine Man, the new species on the Earth. It was to make the transition from man to...

The yogi and the mystic: a study in the spirituality of Sri ... - Page 47 - Jan Feys - 1977 - Though the span of time coincides, it is seen here in a different perspective: Sri Aurobindo's yogic course begins to orient itself towards the future. For, there is still the fourth major experience, "that of the higher planes of consciousness leading...

The Indian journal of political science - Volume 68 - Page 487 - Indian Political Science Association - 2007 - While Darwin's theory of evolution studied the evolution of human being from the biological perspective, Sri Aurobindo almost applied this theory though from a different angle. In the evolutionary process, for Sri Aurobindo, human society ...

Journal of Dharma - Volume 27 - Page 169 - Dharmaram College. Centre for the Study of World Religions - 2002 - Person and perspective Sri Aurobindo, philosopher and mystic, poet and critic, was one of the most outstanding Indian thinkers of the twentieth century. A many-sided genius of extensive knowledge and intense mystical experience, ...

R̥gvedic legends - Prem Chand Shridhar - 2001 - ... Agni — Personification of Agni — Birth of Agni according to Kaegi — R.N. Dandekar' s View — Regarding transparent character of Vedic Agni — Etymology of the Word Agni — Agni in the philosophical perspective — Sri Aurobindo' s View.

Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research - Volume 5 - Page 147 - 1987 - They initiated the people to imitate antiquity and revive creative impulse. Perhaps for this perspective, Sri Aurobindo likened Indian Renaissance to the Celtic Renaissance of Ireland. In this short note, I propose, first, to delineate my arguments...

Transaction - Indian Institute of World Culture - Issue 105 - Page 3 - 2002 - It is only when we go beyond science that the true value of science itself appears in the right perspective. Sri Aurobindo once wrote in a striking aphorism: God's negations are as useful to us as His affirmations. It is He who as the Atheist ...