A daughter of the West fulfilled the promise

Under The Mother's banner - Page 47 - Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1975 - Hemendra Prasad Ghosh rebutted this argument and convinced everyone that to start a Centre of Education in Pondicherry was the only way of paying our homage to Sri Aurobindo. I still remember one sentence spoken that day by Dr. Kalidas Nag. At the end of a brilliant ex tempore speech, he said: "When the Centre of Education comes of age and plays its role, it will be said that a daughter of the West fulfilled the promise made by a son of the East.” When I quoted that sentence to the Mother, she was immensely pleased and laughed. Well, that was the background of the Centre of Education. My duties did not cease with the ending of the Convention. I had occasion to talk to Mother on a...

Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader Sachidananda Mohanty - 2012 - Preview - More editions Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram. For a good rebuttal, see Peter Heehs, 2003. 'Shades of Orientalism: Paradoxes and Problems in Indian Historiography', History and Theory, vol. 42, pp. 169–95. All references to historians cited in Heeh's ...

Sri Aurobindo circle - Issues 46-47 - Page 82 - Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Sri Aurobindo Society - 1990 - What concerns us from this reply is the rebuttal of Woolf's argument that mysticism and mystics have always arisen in times of decadence, of the ebb of life, and that their loud "quacking" is a symptom of the decadence. Sri Aurobindo's rebuttal ...

Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion - Page 60 - Purusottama Bilimoria, Andrew B. Irvine - 2009 - Preview - More editions Archer's book, India and the Future is certainly forgotten today, though it was immortalized by Sri Aurobindo's detail rebuttal. The second series consisting of seven essays that Sri Aurobindo wrote against Archer was called “A Rationalistic...

The Renaissance In India And Other Essays On Indian Culture - Sri Aurobindo - 2004 - Sri Aurobindo began the 'Foundations' series as an appreciative review of Sir John Woodroffe's book, 'Is India Civilised?', continued it with a rebuttal of the hostile criticisms of William Archer in 'India and Its Future', and concluded it ...

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page 230 - Peter Heehs - 2008 - Preview - More editions A letter requesting Aurobindo's extradition had been sent to Paris, where it came to the attention of Mattéo Alfassa, ... He then rebutted various assertions made in the Times article, including the claim that Pondicherry was “swarming with ...

Studying Hinduism: Key Concepts and Methods - Page 270 - Sushil Mittal, Gene R. Thursby - 2008 - Preview - More editions Aurobindo Ghose, a radical nationalist and a champion of universalistic Hinduism, rebutted this early articulation of the “two-nation theory”: “We do not understand Hindu nationalism as a possibility under modern conditions....Under modern ...

Sri Aurobindo: archives and research - Volumes 7-8 - Page 215 - Śri Aurobindo Ashram Trust - 1983 - When Girija babu published his article about Sri Aurobindo's visit to Udbodhan Srijut Charu Chandra Dutt, I.C.S., rebutted it, writing: "He [Sri Aurobindo] never saw or met Sri Saradamani devi. I am informing the readers of Udbodhan about ...

Indian horizons - Volume 18 - Page 49 - Indian Council for Cultural Relations - 1969 - Sri Aurobindo on Art and its Utility THE vexed problem of defining the relation between art and utility has been taken for the horns of a supposed dilemma and Sri Aurobindo's rebuttal of the dilemma has been complete. The arm-chair aesthete's...

Towards eternity; Sri Aurobindo birth centenary volume, 15th ... - Page 421 - Aurobindo Ghose, V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1973 - First and most important, Sri Aurobindo was a mystic and deeply concerned to emphasise the spiritual content in Indian ... but at the worst I can hope that like the egregious Mr. Archer my views will serve to focus and inspire a powerful rebuttal.

'The Haj to Utopia': Anti-colonial Radicalism in the South Asian ... - Page 48 - Maia Ramnath - 2008 - Preview Like Aurobindo and Gandhi, Har Dayal too explicitly identified himself as a karma yogi, fixated always upon dynamic action almost as a value in itself. This philosophical emphasis ... Ah, but it would, came the rebuttal. Refusal to compromise ...

Discovery Of India - Page xxi - Jawaharlal Nehru - 2004 - Preview - More editions Nehru resisted the argument in which nationalist intellectuals in India and elsewhere commonly indulged: the rebuttal of ... Greek tragedies, Plato, Spinoza, Thoreau, Nietzsche, Mein Kampf, Sri Aurobindo, George Bernard Shaw, LinYu Tang, ...

Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice - Page 89 - Mark Singleton - 2010 - Preview - More editions ... Joseph Alter's “heretical,” though undeveloped, statement that it was Sandow, rather than Vivekananda or Aurobindo ... It could be used, in other words, both as a symbolic rebuttal of colonial degeneracy narratives and—at times—as an ...

Lives of Indian Images - Page 177 -  Richard H. Davis - 1999 - Preview - More editions ... as Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Sister Nivedita, Annie Besant, and the Tagore circle. In England indophilia provided a focus ... Warming to his rebuttal of Havell's address that afternoon, Birdwood pointed to a photograph of an Indonesian...

The poetry of Aurobindo: an oriental response to western materialism - Page 137 - Carla Sugarman Pasternak - 1972 - she brings forth represents, for Aurobindo, the awakening of human consciousness and the illumination of all of man's ... As the critic Purani discusses, Savitri's conquest over death is the ultimate rebuttal against materialistic determinism, ...

Sri Aurobindo's plays: a thematic study - Page 42 - Sheo Jaiswal - 1993 - In what may be considered as a very forcible rebuttal and a strong condemnation of such attempts of her husband, Khatoon speaks to him thus in a fit of intense grief when ... Hence the defeat of these dark forces

Sri Aurobindo--secularist? or nationalist? - Page 32 - Ke. Es Nārāyaṇācārya - 2006 - Do you therefore include Sri Aurobindo among 'Sangh Parivar' people or those belonging to some 'extreme Hindu outfits'? ... CHAPTER 2 EXAMINATION OF WRONG VIEWS, INSINUATIONS AND REBUTTALS Read 32 Attempts to Hijack ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 59 - Page 1008 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2006 - As a last example, I would like to quote the following: Sri Aurobindo: Because I allowed him to talk, and objected to his making ... One is amazed to find in his humorous rebuttals the profound knowledge of medicine Sri Aurobindo possessed!

Hindutva - Page 62 - M. G. Chitkara - 1997 - Preview - More editions territorial nationhood for India, a theory sharply rebutted by Iqbal. ... common humanity, so differences of faith and culture do not come between the inhabitants of India and their association and partnership in their homeland. Sri Aurobindo, ...

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh: National Upsurge - Page 130 M. G. Chitkara - 2004 - Preview A theory sharply rebutted by Iqbal. The men's differences in appearance ... Sri Aurobindo was never tired of telling the people that "a great future for India could be built only on the spiritual greatness of her past". Swami Vivekananda was still ...

Interdisciplinary studies in science, technology, philosophy and ... - Page 240 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1996 - It is in this context one has to understand Sri Aurobindo's spirited rebuttal of William Archer's highly controversial book Is India Civilized? The main lines of Sri Aurobindo's arguments consist in pointing out that Vedas and Upanisadas do not... Indian Art: forms, concerns and development in historical perspective - Page 30 B. N. Goswamy, Kavita Singh, Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture - 2000

Quest - Volumes 93-98 - Page 67 - Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom - 1975 - But where, precisely, is the confrontation? I find Alvares's rebuttal as remote from these scientific principles as Aurobindo's philosophy itself. Take, for example, the law of entropy. Alvares states it correctly that 'in any transformation of energy from one form to another in a closed system, ... Political Thinkers of Modern India: Sri Aurobindo Ghose - Volume 11 - Page 291 - Verinder Grover - 1993 - Preview

Journal of Tamil studies - Issues 14-18 - Page 39 - International Association of Tamil Research, International Institute of Tamil Studies - 1978 - Sri Aurobindo's influence can also be seen in Bharati's constant rebuttal of the Maya theory. Like Sri Aurobindo he saw the possibilities of a life divine on earth within the mortal span. Fools speak of Sivaloka And Vaikuntha after death.

The North and the South in Indian history: contact and adjustment - Page 175 Siba Pada Sen - 1976 - Like Sri Aurobindo, Bharati too rebutted the Maya theory and saw the possibilities of a life divine on earth within the mortal span. Fools speak of Sivaloka And Vaikunta after death. Blow loud O conch That they speak false. Blow O conch hailing ...

Nirodbaran, divinity's comrade - Page 292 Hemant Kapoor - 2003 - But Sri Aurobindo would always manage to pour 'pani', I mean cold water on Nirod-da's head and disarm him. One is amazed to find in his humorous rebuttals the profound knowledge of medicine Sri Aurobindo possessed! In another context ...

Subhas, a political biography - Page 26 -Sitanshu Das - 2001 - Taken aback by the strength of Subhas's rebuttal, Dilip Kumar sent his letter from Vienna to Sri Aurobindo who had also taken an interest in the spiritual queries contained in Subhas's letters to Dilip Kumar Roy. Sri Aurobindo in a letter to Roy answered at some length Subhas's criticism of "guru vad", the blind faith and matching ... Encyclopaedia Eminent Thinkers (vol. : 16 The Political Thought Of ... - Page 28 - Ashu Pasricha - 2008 - Preview - More editions

Sri Aurobindo stressed that a radical transformation of human nature is indispensable

Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader - Sachidananda Mohanty - 2012 - Preview - More editions It is worth noting that, in early life, Sri Aurobindo was an agnostic who turned a believer; a radical transformation indeed! Sri Aurobindo had once said, tongue-in-cheek: 'I shall have to write my ...

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page 130 - Peter Heehs - 2008 - Preview - More editions Certainly he was not a great builder or steady worker. But his radical interventions opened up paths that others could hardly imagine. Aurobindo was always most comfortable when working “behind the scenes.” When the Bande Mataram ...

Tradition and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 72 - David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - Preview In Aurobindoism, and in radical Calvinism and Protestant antinomianism, there is no need to renounce the world so long as we participate in God's will. To be "saved" (or "transformed" in Aurobindo's vocabulary) means that material activity ...

An Analysis of Sri Aurobindo's - Page vii - Roy Posner - Full view An Extraordinary Vision of the Future In one sense, Sri Aurobindo is the most radical of radicals. He begins with the extraordinary assertion that we humans might not be the ultimate form of life to emerge on earth. That we are likely to witness ...

Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern ... - Page 78 - Prasenjit Duara - 1997 - Preview - More editions Aurobindo emphasized Advaita Hinduism, a radically monistic faith which believes in the unity of all being and denies the reality of the many particular entities in the universe. In this highly abstract system, a communal framework was created...

The Phenomenon of Teilhard: Prophet for a New Age - Page 119 - David H. Lane - 1996 - Preview He stressed that if humanity is to survive, a radical transformation of human nature is indispensable. For Aurobindo "it is only the full emergence of the soul, the full descent of the native light and power of the Spirit and the consequent ...

Philosophies Of Education - Page 207 - A. S. Seetharamu - 1978 - Preview - More editions In this book, analysing the growth and decay of societies Aurobindo points out that "the radical defect of all civilisations has been the neglect of the spiritual element, the soul in which is man's true being". Economic prosperity and social ...

Political Philosophy Of Sri Aurobindo - Page 462 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions Hence, his famous theory of the philosopher-ruler is meant as a radical technique to reform the corrupt City-States. Aurobindo also stresses the growth of a spiritualized society governed not by coercive agencies but by an inner ...

Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's poetry, plays, and criticism - Page 144 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - Full view - More editions In a radical reinterpretaion of the English critical tradition, Terry Eagleton has shown how criticism was a tool of social protest in the eighteenth century and then how it acquired the status as a class 'possession'. Similarly, Sri Aurobindo ...

Poetic Plays of Sri Aurobindo - Page xx - Bimal Narayan Thakur - 2004 - Preview - More editions"The Viziers of Bassora depicts the education and fate of two radically opposite temperaments with basically different orientations of the energies of life”... Aurobindo are not sign-board characters of morality plays nor are they dressed-up ideas.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: sasay to zorgot - Volume 5 - Page 3881 - Mohan Lal - 1992 - Preview - More editions When late in life Sri Aurobindo embarked upon the adventure of a radical recast and transformation of Savitri, he had the double objective of dramatising the battle of mankind for eternal life and shaping the English language as a vehicle for mantric poetry...

The Political Thought of Aurobindo (Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers) - Page 23 - K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - Preview On April 24, 1951, the mother of the Ashram said, "Sri Aurobindo is present in our midst, and with all the power of his creative genius he presides over the formation of the University Centre which for ... He gave a radical philosophy to politics.

ICSE History & Civics X - Page 108 - Sudeshna Sengupta - Preview Inspiring speeches and writings and the attitude of Radicals like Tilak and Aurobindo Ghosh paved the way for future revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Chandrashekhar Azad, who laid down their lives for their motherland.

Reflections From Shillong: Speeches Of M.M. Jacob (vol. Iii) - Page 81 - David R. Syiemlieh - 2005 - Preview - More editions ... radical or nationalist counterparts — Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lajpat Rai and of course Sri Aurobindo. Among all the Congress leaders Sri Aurobindo was special and singular, because he was the supra-conscient intellectual, ...

Mass Communication In India: A Sociological Perspective - Page 68 - J V Vilanilam - 2005 - Preview - More editions Gokhale, Ranade, Annie Besant, Motilal Nehru, Pherozeshah Mehta and Dinshaw Waccha were considered moderates. Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai and Aurobindo Ghosh were called extremists and radicals.

Sri Aurobindo, his life unique - Page 208 - Rishabhchand - 1981 - ... by his intuition and inspiration, Tilak and Sri Aurobindo were the twin most creative forces in contemporary Indian politics ... and rendered immense help to Sri Aurobindo's radical endeavours to inculcate the true spirit of Swadeshi, inspire an...

Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion - Page 60 - Jeffrey J. Kripal - 2007 - Preview - More editions Aurobindo had died in 1950, but the Mother was still alive and active, running an ashram that Aurobindo had called his ... spiritual monarchies, as we have repeatedly learned over the last forty years, do not do well with democratic values like radical individualism, human equality, and the freedom of expression.

The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of ... - Page 222 - Pitirim A. Sorokin - 2002 - Preview - More editions ... transfiguration of Chaitanya. Escape from a deadly danger played the role of precipitant for St. Tychon. The shock of his first imprisonment by the English precipitated Sri Aurobindo's conversion from an atheist and radical political fighter...

Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain - Page 103 - Peter Van Der Veer - 2001 - Preview - More editions The language of masculinity as a counterpoint to colonial emasculation has been crucial not only to the RSS but to all radical Hindu movements, starting with Bengali anticolonial "terrorists" such as Aurobindo Ghosh (1872-1950), the later ...

Sri Aurobindo Ghose: the dweller in the lands of silence - Page 133 - William Kluback, Michael Finkenthal - 2001 - Sri Aurobindo spoke carefully about sex condemning neither abstinence nor indulgence. After speaking about abstinence as a ... We stand before radical changes in relationships between mind and body. We have experienced the Gulag and ...

From East to West: Odyssey of a Soul - Roy Bhaskar - 2012 - Preview - More editions In this radical book, Roy Bhaskar expands his philosophy of critical realism with an audacious re-synthesis of many aspects of Western and Eastern thought.

Obtaining other tools of perception

Integral Humanism and the BJP from Centre Right India by Pulakesh Upadhyaya Dec 8, 2012

Integral Humanism is one of the core ideologies on the basis of which the Jana Sangh and subsequently the BJP were founded… Most members in the BJP suffer from ideological haziness, and many of its stands have tended to depend on plain anti-Congressism and not on any of the foundational principles… The BJP is passing through a phase where it requires serious introspection, otherwise it does not take very long for political parties to break up and reach political oblivion. It has already shot itself in the foot by discarding ideologues and well-wishers, paying lip-service to icons who built the Jana Sangh; the only way it can kill itself is by losing whatever remains of its ideology.

Jean Gebser: Cartographer of Consciousness EnlightenNext: by Gary Lachman January 26, 2011 at 12:57 pm 8 comments

Gebser’s magnum opus, The Ever-Present Origin (first published in Germany in 1949 but not translated into English until 1984) is an immense, six-hundred-page exploration into an insight—a “lightning-like inspiration” as he called it—that first came to Gebser in Spain in 1931. This insight, that a new kind of consciousness was beginning to appear in the West, came to Gebser through his study of poetry, particularly that of the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. As Gebser unraveled it, he soon saw that evidence for this new consciousness could be found in developments in science too. In fact, the more he thought about it, the more Gebser discovered signs of this new consciousness in practically all aspects of Western culture.

For the next eighteen years, he gathered and organized his thoughts on what he called an impending “mutation” in consciousness, the most immediate manifestation of which was what he called the breakdown of the “mental-rational structure” of consciousness, the dominant “scientistic” rationalist reductive paradigm that has held sway over the West for the last few centuries. In 1949, when the first part of The Ever-Present Origin appeared—to be followed soon after by the second—Gebser had marshaled some of the most convincing arguments that a shift in Western consciousness was indeed taking place, and that its consequences would be felt by people of his and the following generations…

Speaking to a younger generation of readers eager to know more about different forms of consciousness and familiar with the work of Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin (two other thinkers concerned with the evolution of consciousness), in a preface to a new edition of The Ever-Present Origin, Gebser wrote that “the principal subject of the book, proceeding from man’s altered relationship to time, is the new consciousness, and to this those of the younger generation are keenly attuned.”

Politics and the Occult: The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen - Page 281 - Gary Lachman - 2008 - Preview - More editions Lachman's critique of occult politicians like Annie Besant, Emanuel Swedenborg, Nicholas Roerich, René Guénon, Julius Evola, Rudolf Steiner, Mircea Eliade, C. G. Jung, and Aleister Crowley shows that politics is as swayed by the occult now as it ever was. 

Amazon.com: Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century Edward Kelly (Author), Emily Williams Kelly (Author)

The authors systematically marshal evidence for a variety of psychological phenomena that are extremely difficult, and in some cases clearly impossible, to account for in conventional physicalist terms… The authors further show that these rogue phenomena are more readily accommodated by an alternative 'transmission' or 'filter' theory of mind/brain relations advanced over a century ago by a largely forgotten genius, F.W.H. Myers, and developed further by his friend and colleague William James. This theory, moreover, ratifies the commonsense conception of human beings as causally effective conscious agents, and is fully compatible with leading-edge physics and neuroscience. 

Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (Philosophy of Mind) by Andy Clark (Dec 31, 2010)

Andy Clark argues that our thinking doesn't happen only in our heads but that "certain forms of human cognizing include inextricable tangles of feedback, feed-forward and feed-around loops: loops that promiscuously criss-cross the boundaries of brain, body and world." The pen and paper of Feynman's thought are just such feedback loops, physical machinery that shape the flow of thought and enlarge the boundaries of mind.

Think of the Body October 22, 2005 by Tusar N. Mohapatra Review of Bodies of Thought: Embodiment, Identity and Modernity: Ian Burkitt

Growing interest in the consciousness studies is forcing the skeptics to look at it afresh, for it no longer belongs to the New-Ager's domain, alone. This book is a commendable compendium of path-breaking ideas reconstituting our conception of subjectivity. While post-modern sentiments amply spice the text, what should not be missed is the emphasis on body-mind continuum, which runs as an undercurrent, throughout the work.

Comparing Roger Penrose and Sri Aurobindo on the Mind from Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother by Sandeep Dec 8, 2012

In the last chapter of his book “The Emperor’s New Mind”, Roger Penrose draws on his scientific career to offer insights into the spontaneous, aesthetic and non-algorithmic nature of mathematical insight, the non-verbal thought process of the scientist, and other topics related to what he calls the “physics of the mind”. Many of his remarks chime quite well with corresponding observations made by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on the nature of the thought process, as we see in this article.

The Universal Law of Cause and Effect from Sri Aurobindo Studies 

Scientists have developed what they call “laws” of physics. These laws of physics describe the action of material energy, the laws of “cause and effect” in the physical universe. Similarly, we find other applications of the action of cause and effect. We observe that what occurs today is the result of energy expended and directed yesterday; and similarly, today’s action creates tomorrow’s result. The entire system of life in Western civilisation is based on the principles of cause and effect development. Sri Aurobindo makes it clear that this action of “cause and effect” is the fundamental essence of what is known in the East as the “law of Karma”…

Sri Aurobindo makes it clear that in a universe that functions under the kind of strict laws that we see everywhere at work, the idea that it is developed by Chance is incomprehensible. The reason for this mistake is contained as a seed in the first error, in that we attempt to explain things of a different order by an understanding based in the physical world, whereas our expanding insight is now beginning to show us that we need other forms of knowledge and other tools of perception when we begin to explore realms beyond the purely physical world.

Integral Yoga and Psychoanalysis - III On Love — Miranda Vannucci Publisher: Miranda Vannucci, Italy Binding: Soft Cover Pages: 151 Price: Rs 600

The third book in a series suggesting possible points of contact between the disciplines of psychotherapy and the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, this volume addresses, from a psychological point of view, certain aspects of love. Chapters cover such subjects as the acceptance of the self, the confusion between sexuality and the sentiments of love, maternal love and unconditional love, the awareness and purification of the vital, the union of two beings, forms of love such as friendship, fraternity, and solidarity, and love as one of the universal forces. Numerous extracts from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are used to elaborate the author’s premise.

Sri Aurobindo wrote to bring together politics and religion

Sri Aurobindo, the perfect and the good - Page 78  - Robert Neil Minor - 1978 - 224 In an article describing the purpose of the magazine in its first issue, Aurobindo wrote that the Karmayogin would bring together two main streams of Indian thought which had been divided, politics and "religion," into "one mighty invincible ...

The Hindu personality in education: Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo - Page 134 William Cenkner - 1976 - Nationalists were vigorously advocating swadeshi, boycott and national education, issues Aurobindo had raised in previous years. Bande Mataram became the voice of the movement as Aurobindo discussed the doctrine of passive...

India's struggle for freedom: role of associated movements - Volume 1 - Page 125 - Pran Nath Chopra, Xavier Arakal, Indian National Congress (I). Centenary Celebrations Committee - 1985 - It was a sequel to a debate with Bipin Chandra Pal on this issue. Aurobindo opined that 'Passive Resistance' would progressively develop into 'Active Resistance' and, if circumstances demanded, would be aggressive and armed in turn.

The journal of Asian studies - Volume 37, Issues 3-4 - Page 580 - 1978 - O'Connor goes so far as to suggest that by disregarding socio-political issues, Aurobindo may have had an adverse effect on social progress in India. In discussing Aurobindo's political activity during the partition crisis, O'Connor could have ...

Indian thought between tradition and the culture of technology - Page 85 - David Lawrence Johnson - 1995 - "The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth's evolution".i3 Mystical Conclusions and Cognitive Issues Aurobindo did not wish to have his views confused with ordinary philosophy. Any appeal for ...

Minds and sociocultures: an analysis of religious and dissenting ... - Page 508 - Kevin R. D. Shepherd - 1995 - ... infinite consciousness, but to overstate the symbolic nature of the Veda obscures the essential situation at issue. Aurobindo's symbolic interpretation of the Vedic hymns tends to place priestly distractions in a light of esoteric transcendence.

Sri Aurobindo - Page 17 - Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1998 - In February 1915, however, the outbreak of the World War obliged the Richards to return to France and hence the French edition had to be discontinued after seven issues. Sri Aurobindo had to carry on alone, writing all the 64 pages each ...

Twelve years with Sri Aurobindo - Page 132 - Nirodbaran - 1973 - Many other issues Sri Aurobindo discussed with us, as will be evident from the book Talks with Sri Aurobindo,1 as though we were all keen-sighted statesmen and generals, and the talks were usually enlivened by Sri Aurobindo's genial ...

Culture, Society And Leadership - Page 190 - Chakraborty S K, Debangshu Chakraborty - 2006 - Preview In response to these two issues Sri Aurobindo wrote: “Money is the visible sign of universal force, and this force in its manifestation on earth works on the vital and physical planes and is indispensable to the fullness of outer life. In its origin and ...

The life of Sri Aurobindo: a source book - Page 134 Ambalal Balkrishna Purani - 1964 - The negotiations broke down on these issues. Sri Aurobindo thought of continuing his own work independently. He saw that a movement like the one for Home Rule was a possibility. Mrs. Besant, in fact, later carried that into effect. But Sri ...

Sri Aurobindo and Bergson: a synthetic study - Page 230 Abhoy Chandra Bhattacharya - 1972 - In his earlier writings also, while dealing with social and political issues, Sri Aurobindo gives us sufficient evidence of his practical approach to problems. He never believed in airy talks. His suggestions on the renaissance of India are most practical. By renaissance he under...

The vision and work of Sri Aurobindo - Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1992 - I The "I" Who Wants to Do Yoga A Physical "Confrontation" and Some Spiritual Issues Sri Aurobindo from A to Z: A Book-Review The Goal and the Guide: A Book-Review To One on the Eve of a New-birth What is Essence? A Note on Two ...

Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture - Volume 53 - Page 54

Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 2002 - ... philosophy of Sri Aurobindo constitutes a point of view which he considers to be original Vedanta but which stands in strong opposition to the Advaita Vedanta of Shankara on several basic issues. ... Sri Aurobindo rejected categorically what ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 57 - Page 252 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2004 - 2 Ilion touches many areas of art and life and gives an insight into technical problems and psychological-cultural issues. Sri Aurobindo's eminence in the field lies in his fusing a deep and plenary breath of inspiration with a wide-eyed artistry...

The Advent - Volume 53 - Page 98 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1996 - In response to such issues Sri Aurobindo says, "Human beings have erected the rule of reward and punishment as a social necessity in order to restrain the doing of things harmful to the community and encourage what is helpful to it; but to ...

The Contemporary - Volume 12 - Page 19 - Society for Contemporary Studies - 1968 - Crystal-clear on political issues, Sri Aurobindo however could never be content with merely political patriotism. He addressed himself tirelessly to the soul of the Nation. No wonder Rabindranath Tagore had called him "The Voice of India's ...

Eternity in words: Sri Aurobindo's Savitri - Page 86 - Rameshwar Gupta - 1969 - ... of Hamlet's' to be or not to be' Shakespeare's Hamlet, so out of Savitri's 'to accept death or win immortality' issues Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. It is an answer to the pathetic cry of affrighted life. The word-intensity apart, the epic superstructure has ...

The Essential Aurobindo - Aurobindo Ghose, Robert A. McDermott - 2001 - Preview - More editions Here is an invaluable resource for understanding the underlying connections and common ground between Eastern and Western teachings and traditions for modern thinkers and spiritual seekers.

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page 287 - Peter Heehs - 2008 - Preview - 76 This chapter was published in the January 1921 issue of the Arya, which turned out to be the last issue. Aurobindo never wrote in detail on the final element of the third chatusthaya, samadhi or yogic trance. He also left untreated all of the ...

Readings in Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine Volume 3 - Page 39 - Santosh Krinsky - Preview ... an explanation of things that deprives cosmic and individual existence of all significance cannot be the whole explanation or the solution it proposes the sole true issue.” Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Book 2, Part 2, Chapter 16, The Integral ...

The hour of God: selections from his writings - Page viii - Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Manoj Das - 1995 - Preview While they were confidentially debating on the issue, Sri Aurobindo, obeying an inner inspiration, suddenly left Calcutta for the French pocket Chandernagore and later sailed for Pondicherry where he arrived in April 1910. Even then, in his ...

Sri Aurobindo: archives and research - Volumes 9-10 - Page 75 - Śri Aurobindo Ashram Trust - 1985 - In this piece, as in The Gods of the Veda, published in the last issue, Sri Aurobindo refers to Vedic "hymns" as "sutras". In the last issue this word was emended to the more usual "suktas"; in the present issue the manuscript-reading has been ...

Sri Aurobindo: archives and research - Volume 7 - Page 169 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust - 1983 - 103-104. This file, excluding the speech, is published as Document 2 in the present issue. Sri Aurobindo's speech was delivered on 6 September 1909, the second day of the Hooghly Conference, at Chinsurah, Hooghly District, West Bengal.

Talks with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 3 - Page 143 - Nirodbaran - 1973 - P: The corporation election seems to me more a personal issue. Sri Aurobindo: How personal ? When the Congress fought the election it was on a political issue, to capture the corporation for the Congress. There was no personal question ...

Sri Aurobindo, his life unique - Page 338 - Rishabhchand - 1981 - In the 19th February issue Sri Aurobindo started his poem, Baji Prabhou. It was prefaced by the following note: "This poem is founded on the historical incident of the heroic self-sacrifice of Baji Prabhou Deshpande who, to cover Shivaji's 338 ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 59 - Page 457 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2006 - ... prejudice the real issue, but these inconsequent streaks of fantasy give a false hue to the matter.2 The real issue, Sri Aurobindo asserted, is not a choice between modernism and antiquity, but between an imported civilisation and the greater ...

Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture - Volume 55 - Page 471

Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 2004 - 37 In fact, during their initial meeting, there were no direct parleys between Sri Aurobindo and Sister Nivedita on spiritual subjects. On this issue Sri Aurobindo speaks as follows: Spirituality or spiritual matters did not enter into them and I do not ...

On the Mother: the chronicle of a manifestation and ministry - Page 401 - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India) - 1994 - It was as though the Evening Talks of the pre-Siddhi days were now resumed, though under altered conditions. Whatever the issue, Sri Aurobindo spoke gently, intimately, and in a "finely cadenced voice", talking as if to himself and not looking...

Equals one - Issues 31-34 - Page 1921 - Sri Aurobindo Society, World Union, World Goodwill - 1972 - 1914 The 'Arya', a monthly review of pure philosophy was published for the first time from 7, rue Dupleix, Pondicherry, where the Mother was staying. ln this first issue, Sri Aurobindo started three of his major works simultaneously, 'The Life ...

Annual - Page 52 - Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1975 - Summing up the whole issue Sri Aurobindo concludes by saying: "If we take these three elements as making the whole Art, perfection of expressive form, discovery of beauty, revelation of the soul and essence of things and the powers of...

Haryana review - Volume 7 - Page 1 - Haryana (India). Public Relations Dept - 1973 - 8 In This Issue Sri Aurobindo — The greatest Patriot-savant of India Message Sri Aurobindo — A Tribute Sri Aurobindo — Upholder of World Peace and Humanism Sri Aurobindo — Prophet of Indian Nationalism Education and National ...

The Indian spirit and the world's future - Page 198 - Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1953 - ... dark basis of the submerged Divine from which evolution seems to issue. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, taking upon themselves as representative pioneers the agelong difficulties of all human nature, have been striking against this bed-rock ...

Female gurus

Father India: Westerners Under the Spell of an ... - Amazon.com - Jeffery Paine (Author) Amazingly insightful October 20, 2005 By Sanjay Agarwal

Paine traces the careers and Indian adventure of eight well-known persons who were either Westerners or were Indians influenced by the West to begin with, but later became deeply influenced by India. Yet in the process, they also influenced India itself. The list includes Lord Curzon, Mahatma Gandhi, E. M. Forster, Sri Aurobindo, Mira Behn (Madeleine Slade), Mother (Mirra Richard), Carl Jung, V. S. Naipaul and Annie Besant, all well-known figures in India and outside. In the process he weaves a magical yet sophisticated tapestry showing why India exercised a near-fatal charm for these people and how it changed them…

However, he becomes less sure of himself as he comes closer to the present, possibly because the processes are still going on, and the advantage of hindsight is not available. As a result, his handling of the chapter on Sri Aurobindo and his spiritual companion, the Mother, is less deft. He also fumbles with the conclusion, possibly because India is an incredibly complex phenomenon

Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship (Politics, History, and Culture) by Leela Gandhi (Jan 11, 2006)

Leela Gandhi argues in Affective Communities, to the hitherto neglected history of western anti-imperialism. Focusing on individuals and groups who renounced the privileges of imperialism to elect affinity with victims of their own expansionist cultures, she uncovers the utopian-socialist critiques of empire that emerged in Europe, specifically in Britain, at the end of the nineteenth century… Gandhi weaves together the stories of a number of South Asian and European friendships that flourished between 1878 and 1914, tracing the complex historical networks connecting figures like the English socialist and homosexual reformer Edward Carpenter and the young Indian barrister M. K. Gandhi, or the Jewish French mystic Mirra Alfassa and the Cambridge-educated Indian yogi and extremist Sri Aurobindo. In a global milieu where the battle lines of empire are reemerging in newer and more pernicious configurations, Affective Communities challenges homogeneous portrayals of “the West” and its role in relation to anticolonial struggles. Drawing on Derrida’s theory of friendship, Gandhi puts forth a powerful new model of the political: one that finds in friendship a crucial resource for anti-imperialism and transnational collaboration…

“A very original and thought-provoking book, Affective Communities offers an outstanding contribution to postcolonial and queer studies. Leela Gandhi provides detailed, brilliant discussions of particular figures such as Edward Carpenter, Henry Salt, and M. K. Gandhi and the ways in which they interwove their various radical counter-cultural interests into larger political strategies of anticapitalist utopianism.”—Robert J. C. Young, author of Postcolonialism

The American Soul Rush: Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege - Page 28 - Marion S. Goldman - 2011 - Preview - Around that time, Michael privately vowed to dedicate himself to Aurobindo's vision: “I was sitting by a statue on the Stanford campus meditating, and suddenly the vows just rose up within me” (Schwartz 1995:82–83). Despite his father's ...

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page 404 - Peter Heehs - 2008 - Preview - Sorokin said that “from the scientific and philosophical standpoint, the works of Sri Aurobindo are a sound antidote to the pseudoscientific psychology, psychiatry and educational art of the West.”160 He and other American academics were ...

Tradition and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 299 - David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - Preview Radical Aurovilians used the texts of the Aurobindian movement to pursue the politics of separation: cosmological writings, reminiscences of Aurobindo and the Mother, and historical writings of the movement. In the same way, American ...

Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century: Nationality, Identity, and ... Aida Audeh, Nick Havely - 2012 - Preview - This collection of essays provides an account of Dante's reception in a range of media-visual art, literature, theatre, cinema, and music-from the late eighteenth century through to the early twentieth and explores various appropriations ...

The myth of Islamic contribution to India from Centre Right India by Shankara

Karnad’s criticism of Naipaul stems from a historical narrative that is an apologist version of Indian history. A version, which trivializes the real impact of Islamic invasion on Hindu society and tries to weave a story of denial, ascribing positive aspects of the Islamic invasion of India like the Indo-Islamic cultural syncretism while sweeping away the mass destruction and holocaust that ensued as a mere generalization, isolated incidents, figment of Hindu imagination or plainly inevitable. People like Girish Karnad, William Dalrymple, Romila Thappar, Irfan Habib and few others have taken up the burden of projecting a benign image of Muslim rule in India, while the atrocities are ignored as isolated incidents… 

In the field of secular arts like, dance, drama, music, painting and literature

In the near 1000-year presence of Islam in India starting with 713 AD to the occupation by the British in 1857 I am hard pressed to find contribution of Islam towards the advancement of fine arts. Islam did not introduce anything unique that already did not exist in India or took any art form forward. Dance and music was banned except in royal palaces or in brothels. Drama, dance and music was not encouraged and continued under the patronage of Hindu kings, village and town folks, Mughal paintings were poor one-dimensional renderings which had not evolved since the 10^th century while Europe was mastering and perfecting painting in the meantime; the art of ‘shilpkaari’ or sculpting was banned so was temple building. No major literary works were written except panegyrics of emperors and nawabs and court chronicles. Urdu, the language of the army camps, a mixture of Khadi boli of North Indian plains, Persian and Turkish has no doubt enriched language and poetry but India with it’s own rich tradition of literature and language, the absence of Urdu wouldn’t have really mattered.

Indian Philosophy in English: From Renaissance to Independence - Page 451 - Nalini Bhushan, Jay L. Garfield - 2011 - Preview - In the work of Aurobindo, we see an avoidance of the distinctly philosophical risk associated with līlā. How does the doctrine of The Life Divine avoid this risk? Precisely by proposing not the life of a divinity, but a divine life for us. Aurobindo ...

Foundations of Indian Psychology Volume 1: Theories and Concepts - Page 122 - Cornelissen R. M. Matthijs - 2011 - Preview In the contemporary 'Runaway World' of increasingly complex cultural blending, we find a condition foreseen by Sri Aurobindo in 1914: 'The world today presents the aspect of a huge cauldron of Medea in which all things are being cast, ... This book rejects discussions in psychology based only on American or European thought by presenting fascinating insights on ... R. M. Matthijs Cornelissen teaches integral psychology at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in ... Page 520

The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States Karen Pechilis (Editor)

The essays explore how Hindu female gurus embody grace in both senses--as a feminine ideal and an attribute of the divine-and argue that their status as leaders is grounded in their negotiation of these two types of grace. This book provides biographical profiles of the following female gurus plus sensitive scholarly analysis of their spiritual paths: Ammachi, Anandamayi Ma, Gauri Ma, Gurumayi, Jayashri Ma, Karunamayi Ma, Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, Mother Meera, Shree Maa and Sita Devi.

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A festival of music and dance to celebrate the lives and poetic compositions of women bhaktas and sufis (6th to 18th Century AD) 6, 7, 8, 9 November 2012. Daily 6 p.m to 9 pm ICCR audotorium, Azad Bhavan IP Estate, Behind ITO, New Delhi Program 8th Nov 2012:

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