Showing posts with label Ananta Kumar Giri. Show all posts
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February 04, 2013

Sri Aurobindo stuck to the Elizabethan tradition having Greek touches

Correspondences, Interviews and Conversations with Sri Aurobindo ... - Avadhani, Bhanabhai G. PatelCompiled by Avadhani - 2002 - This compilation offers a wide choice of extracts from some of the correspondences, interviews, and conversations that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had with various sadhaks.
The Perennial Quest for a Psychology with a Soul: An Inquiry Into ... - Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - Preview The subject matter of this book is so vast that it would be presumptuous to attempt to deal with comprehensively and it would be pre-posterous to pretend to a final solution to a set of ideasas comprehensive as these worldviews.
In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in ... - Page 168 - Priya Joshi - 2002 - Preview - More editions Written at the height of the anticolonial movement, Aurobindo's homage further notes Bankim's real gift to Bengal: "he gave us a means by which the soul of Bengal could express itself to itself (10). That this new self should find itself in and ...
History Of Modern India1707 A.d. To 2000 A.d. - Page 348 - Radhey Shyam Chaurasia - 2002 - Preview In Bengal Barindra Kumar Ghose the younger brother of Sir Aurobindo Ghose and Bupendra Nath Dutta brother of Swami Vivekananda were the prominent leaders of the Terrorist Movement, B.K. Ghose started newspapers entitled "Yugantar" ...
Habitations Of Modernity - Page 23 - Dipesh Chakrabarty - 2002 - Preview - More editions The process of inversion is reflected clearly in Aurobindo's [a nationalist leader] famous Uttarpara speech ... "I spoke once before with this force in me and I said then that this movement is not a political movement and that nationalism is not ...
Spiritual Revolution - Premananda DevaLakshmi Devi - 2002 - Preview - More editions The truths in this book are discourses between the highest consciousness and the mental plane. they discuss methods for purification, for examination, and for elimination of the present problems on Earth, for a master plan.
Organisation Behaviour - Page 281 - S. Shajahan - 2007 - Preview - More editions Organizations are free to hire and fire employees based on the behaviour of the market and technological change. ... leaders like Swmai Vivenkananda, Rabindranath Tagore and Rishi Aurobindo, we may heading for the doomsdays in distant ...
Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation - Page 153 - G. N. Devy - 2002 - Preview - More editions Poet, philosopher, mystic, political activist and nationalist, Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) is quite an enigmatic and ... In no time, however, Aurobindo had acquired mastery over Bengali, Sanskrit, Gujarati as he had done with respect to English, ...
Studies In Indian Poetry In English - Page 56 - U. S. RukhaiyarAmar Nath Prasad - 2002 - Full view - More editions This particular extract authenticates Sri Aurobindo's views of poetry as mantra.. No classical literary critic had ever defined poetry as incantation. He points out that his long epic 'Savitri' is mantric in sound and effect. he attributes its versification ...
Indian English Literature - Page 4 2002 - Preview In Hindu consciousness death has been a perpetual theme with the Indian poets in English: from Derozio to Dutts, from Tagore to Aurobindo, from Ezekiel to Mahapatra, from Daruwalla to Bhatnagar but with Ramanujan it is transformed into a...
Hinterlands and Horizons: Excursions in Search of Amity - Margaret Chatterjee - 2002 - Preview - More editions The work starts with the Enlightenment's idea of fraternity and its destruction during the fratricide of the French Terror.
Conversations and Transformations: Toward a New Ethics of Self and ... - Ananta Kumar Giri - 2002 - Preview - More editions In this intriguing new book, Indian social theorist Ananta Kumar Giri issues a stirring call for scholars of contemporary social theory and practice to grapple with late modernity's most pressing social and political issues.
Building in the Margins of Shacks: The Vision and Projects of ... - Ananta Kumar Giri - 2002 - Preview This Book Is A Significant Contribution To The Study Of Religion, Social Movements And Globalization.
Social relevance of philosophy: essays on applied philosophy - P. George Victor - 2002 - The Essays Study The Relevance Of Philosophy At The Social Level, Examining Various Philosophical Systems.
Patterns of the present: from the perspective of Sri Aurobindo and ... - Georges van Vrekhem - 2002 - A companion volume to Overman: The Intermediary between the Human and the Supramental Being by the same author, Patterns of the Present is a profound, enjoyable read on the present situation of mankind and the world it lives in.
The Spectrum Of Consciousness - Page 140 - Ken Wilber - 2002 - Preview - More editions Further, the ways in which these changes affect our "breakthroughs to cosmic consciousness" have been elaborated by such renowned explorers as Teilhard de Chardin, Bucke, Sri Aurobindo, Jean Gebser, William I. Thompson, Rozak, von Weizacher, and others.
Gospel of Thomas Annotated & Explained - Page xix - Stevan L. Davies, Andrew Harvey - 2002 - Preview ... increasingly transfigured by the living light? The greatest of all modern philosophers—Sri Aurobindo—saw that only an “integral” transformation could provide the force and inspiration to change that must occur if humanity Foreword xix.
Postmodernism and Public Policy: Reframing Religion, Culture, ... - Page 45 - John B. Cobb - 2002 - Preview - More editions ... this book, but it is present already in Hindu literature. A fascinating example can be found in the writings of Sri Aurobindo, who had a series of quite varied mystical experiences, one of which Religious Pluralism and Truth 45.
Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought - Page 76 - R. Baine Harris - 2002 - Preview - More editions Here we find the influence of Plato, Jean Gebser and Sri Aurobindo prominent in Wilber's reformulation of the significance of spiritual development. This distinction better enables Wilber to criticize those theories that declare, for example, that ...
A Passage to Shiv K. Kumar: From Agony to Ecstasy - Page 195 - Prabhat K. Singh - 2002 - Full view - More editions ... the early plays of Michael Madhusudan Dutt and Rabindranath Tagore who adhered to the native folk tradition in the background of Bengali theatre, or the plays of Sri Aurobindo who stuck to the Elizabethan tradition having Greek touches.
The Language of Post-Colonial Literatures: An Introduction - Page 149 - Ismail S. Talib - 2002 - Preview - More editions For example, Aurobindo Ghose tries to 'catch something of the Upanishadic movement so far as it is possible in English' in his lengthy poem Savitri (1950), although his effort has not met with aesthetic success (Parthasarathy 1976: 2).
Between two worlds: East and West : an autobiography - Jitendranath Mohanty - 2002 - This Book Is A Fascinating Memoir By One Of The Most Distinguished Philosophers From India In Recent Years.
Secularisation of Indian mind: a study of political ideas in India ... - V. Indira Devi - 2002 - The main objective will be accomplished only if the present generation after going through this book will start taking pride in the rich cultural heritage that our country possesses.
Critical Response To Indian English Literature - N. K. MishraSabita Tripathy - 2002 - Preview These Articles Have Been Written To Stimulate A Genuine Desire In The Readers For Deeper Studies In Indian English Literature. This Book Is Expected To Be Of Considerable Interest And Use To The Students As Well As The Teachers As The ...
Absolutism: east and west : (a comparative study of Sri Aurobindo ... - Vijai Kant Dubey - 2002 - Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Banaras Hindu University.
Sri Aurobindo'S Savitri - Asoka K. Ganguli - 2002 The book has been mainly prepared in view of the need of students and of common readers of poetry, specially of Sri Aurobindo's poetry.
Sri Aurobindo: critical considerations Om Prakash Mathur - 2002 - Contributed articles on the poetry of Aurobindo Ghose, 1872-1950.
Sri Aurobindo The Spiritual Revo. - Atulindra Nath Chaturvedi - 2002 - These biographies have been written for the reader who is curious about the life, achievements and character of these legends.
Indian Religions: A Historical Reader of Spiritual Expression and ... - Peter Heehs - 2002 - Preview - More editions All the major traditions Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism and new Indian religions are included.
Kashmir Shaivism: Under Siege - Page 84 - M. G. Chitkara - 2002 - Preview They attained enlightenment by themselves without any substantial help from an external guru. Buddha, Christ, Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Ramana Maharshi, SriAurobindo - all attained enlightenment by themselves. In Tantrism, the guru is ...
Poetry Of Nissim Ezekiel - Page 27 - A. Raghu - 2002 - Preview The poets before him, some of whom like Sri Aurobindo were extremely prolific, had a limited stock of themes beyond the matrices of which they seldom ventured. In general, they mostly preferred to write on themes which were considered ...
Culture and Customs of India - Page 29 - Carol E. Henderson - 2002 - Preview - More editions In the twentieth century, Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950) established an influential religious center in Pondicherry. A concept of selflessness linked to a search for inner awareness energized many who called for social change. In the 1980s and ...
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial ... - Page 121 - Bill AshcroftGareth GriffithsHelen Tiffin - 2002 - Preview - More editions ... only a few), let alone the large body of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century writing, which includes such monumental figures as Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo, has already established itself as well worth critical attention.
The Himalayan Masters: A Living Tradition - Page 139 - Rajmani Tigunait - 2002 - Preview ... of Karvirpitham and was then known by the name of Sadashiva Bharati. Swami Rama did not know what he was stepping into. Before becoming Shankaracharya, he had lived with Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, and Sri Aurobindo, ...
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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.