Sri Aurobindo enthuses us to take to a life of scholarship

Speaking at a Ceremony to honour Dr.Prema Nandakumar and Ms Shraddhavan at SACAR December 25, 2012 by Murali Sivaramakrishnan

As persons I have not had the occasion to meet either Sri Aurobindo or the Mother but I came to Sri Aurobindo through the work of Srinivasa Iyengar. Prof. Iyengar has been a kind of eye-opener for me. Then I started working on Sri Aurobindo. I am sure Prema-ji started working on Sri Aurobindo ten years before I was born even, I think, because in the 1950s, she was working on Savitri. In 1957 she started working and by around I think 1960 when she finished her book—her monumental work—I was just a kid. Eventually, when I came to do my work so many years later, her book on Savitri was a piece of revelatory sort of experience for me and that I found quite challenging in two ways because I have always felt that the work of Sri Aurobindo needs to be read in multiple dimensions at the same time. 

Indian literature - Volume 15 - Page 104 Prema Nandakumar Sahitya Akademi - 1972 - Himself a scholar, he enthuses us to take to a life of scholarship. Having renounced his princely position in the Baroda College for the sake of Mother India, he makes our hearts glow with love for the Motherland. Regeneration is literally rebirth, ...

The swan and the eagle: essays on Indian English literature - Page 207 - C. D. Narasimhaiah - 1987 - ... well have inaugurated an Indian School of Criticism in the twenties and thirties. Which means 50 years ago. Aurobindo appears to me, theoretically at least, to have no fewer credentials for writing responsible criticism than, say, T. S. Eliot. Here is a man who was well grounded in Sanskrit Literature, knew his Bengali, Marathi and Gujarati well enough... The Literary criterion - Volume 15 - Page 14 1980 English studies in India: widening horizons - Page 99 - 2002 The function of criticism in India: essays in Indian response to ... 1986

Hartshorne Process Philo - Page 127 - Robert Kane, Stephen H. Phillips - 1989 - Preview - More editions Further, Aurobindo appears to hold that given that Supermind has created, or is creating a "world," a spatially and temporally extended manifestation of Brahman, it is possible that God revoke the primordially affirmative choice. Our world ...

Social psychology: the integral approach - Page 159 - N. V. Subbannachar - 1966 - Taking hold of the 'subconscient' and utilising it for the purpose of Integral evolution for Sri Aurobindo, appears to be of greater significance and implication than it is for Jung whose interest is limited to the 'digging up' of 'complexes' for ...

Indian English drama: a critical study - Page 22 - S. Krishna Bhatta - 1987 -... Viziers of Bassora, Sri Aurobindo appears to be under the spell of Shakespearian plays like The Merchant of Venice which has five stories interlinked. While playwrights like Marlowe created characters who would cling to one ambition, good ...

Revival of Upaniṣadic thought in contemporary Indian philosophy - Page 110 - Sankatha Prasad Singh - 1974 - Sri Aurobindo appears to have drawn inspiration from Heraclitus who was his favourite philosopher. He thinks that "Heraclitus's account of the cosmos is an evolution and involution out of his one eternal principle of Fire." Another Western ...

A History of Indian Literature 1911-1956: Struggle for Freedom: ... - Page 143 - Sisir Kumar Das - 1995 - Preview - More editions In the twentieth century among the noted poets Sri Aurobindo, appears to be the most inclined towards the European classical legends both because of temperament and training. Even in his early poems one finds the occurrence of Greek ...

Panch Mahabhuta Tatwa and Sharira: Five Gross Elements and Living ... - Page 24 - S. K. Prasoon - 2008 - Preview - More editions Here, the fear of Sri Aurobindo appears to be coming true. He felt that some day someone by cunningness or by simple mistake will press the wrong button and before God will get time to shout 'Save the Earth', the Earth will be destroyed.

All India Conference on the Relevance of Sri Aurobindo Today, ... - Page 93 - Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo Samiti - 1975 - In this recognition of the dangers of over-application of uniformity and standardization at any level — material, intellectual or spiritual, Sri Aurobindo appears to transcend the mere contemporaneity of the Brave New World or 1984. He bases ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 235 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007 - State cannot claim supremacy solely because it enjoys legitimate coercive power. Maclver observes that power is exercised only when relations are abnormal. Sri Aurobindo appears to support the pluralist viewpoint when he writes Problem of ...

Sri Aurobindo, Indian poet, philosopher and mystic - Page 44 - George Harry Langley - 1949 - By which Aurobindo appears to mean a truth of an inner unifying creative principle that has infinite expressions. “This many-sidedness is a sign of the approach of the soul to a living reality, not to an abstraction . . . that can be petrified into a ...

Sri Aurobindo's Life divine: lectures delivered in the U.S.A. - Page 21 - Ambalal Balkrishna Purani - 1966 - The same is true of Rabindranath Tagore but the thought of Sri Aurobindo appears to me more comprehensive and systematic than that of Tagore." I use this comparison just to show that students of philosophy, without becoming devotees or...

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 50 - Page 496 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1997 - Not on 24 November but some time later Sri Aurobindo appears to have realised that the Supermind proper had not arrived. What had arrived was distinctly explained by him in several letters in the subsequent period. The one of October ...

Dilip Kumar Roy: a lover of light among luminaries - Page 221 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology - 2002 - He never mustered up courage earlier, respectfully, to leave Sri Aurobindo in search of a person who could satisfy his longing for Krishna. One may often feel that his love for Sri Aurobindo appears to be neither genuine nor rational.

Prabuddha bharata: or awakened India - Volume 78 - Page 132 - Advaita Ashrama - 1973 - At a few other places also in his analysis of the Isa-upanishad, Sri Aurobindo appears to accept the insights of Sankara, as for instance, when he says that, of Brahman 'the unity and stability are the higher truth', and that the 'chain of Karma only binds the movement of Nature... Contemporary Indian philosophy - Page 39 - T. M. P. Mahadevan, G. V. Saroja - 1981

Insight - Volumes 2-3 - Page 75 - Temple of Understanding (U.S.) - 1977 - Indeed, chapter five opens with a kind of apologetic about the difficulty of evaluating the impact of Aurobindo, appears to suggest that means for evaluation do not exist, and then by some unnamed criterion dismisses a critique by Zaehner.

Prajña - Volume 18 - Page 220 - Banaras Hindu University - 1972 - Sri Aurobindo appears to share this belief, especially when he posits that the lion's share of the individual principles of evolution remains unabsorbed in the evolutionary process. Incidentally, such a view does not appear to be countenanced...

The Vedanta kesari - Volume 88 - Page 40 - Sri Ramakrishna Math (Madras, India), Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras - 2001 - Or, do they have any deeper meaning, being simply metaphors for an inner sacrifice? Modern Indologists subscribe to the former view, while Sri Aurobindo appears to opt for the latter interpretation. In his monumental works The Secret of the ...

Facets of Indian religio-philosophic indentity - Page 180 - Harsh Narain - 1983 - ... Sri Aurobindo appears to postulate two phases of descent, involution (but not of ascent, evolution), one for self-enfoldment, self-oblivion, and the other for self-unfoldment, self-recovery. All descent, all involution, is descent of the Spirit ...

English and India: essays presented to Professor Samuel Mathai on ... - Page 88

M. Manuel, K. Ayyappapanicker - 1978 - This expression arises from the so-called supra-mental consciousness which creates the divine humanity. Here Sri Aurobindo appears to echo Swedenborg and Blake. The poetry of this consciousness is something spoken by the soul to the ...

Aurobindo's Philosophy of Brahman - Page 39 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - Preview - More editions Although he is somewhat insensitive here to the distinction between a fact and a theory, Aurobindo appears to claim that a non-mystic would be unable to test the truth of a pm0 or the veridicality of the corresponding mystic experience, except ...

Readings in Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine Volume 3 - Page 100 - Santosh Krinsky - Preview While scientists and philosophers try to find some rationale or central theme in the evolution of species, Sri Aurobindo appears to have located the missing connecting point that explains the evolution as we see it occurring on the planet.

Concise history of the Indian National Congress, 1885-1947 - Page 52 - Nisith Ranjan Ray, Ravindrer Kumar, Manmath Nath Das - 1985 - Aurobindo appears to have been most consistent in his ideas and preachings. His series of articles entitled 'New Lamps for Old', published in 1893-94, marked the beginning of his crusade against Congress ideology and techniques, and the ... A Centenary history of the Indian National Congress, 1885-1985 - Volume 1 - Page 33 - B. N. Pande, Indian National Congress (I). All India Congress Committee - 1985

Life and Works of Sri Aurobindo - Page 120 - S.R. Sharma - 2003 - Sri Aurobindo appears to have stayed in Chandernagore for about six weeks. This indeed proved a blessing to Motilal Roy, for he profited greatly by his discussions with Sri Aurobindo on many aspects of Yogic Sadhana. This is how Motilal ...

Sri Aurobindo echoes Pragmatic, Humanist and Romantic ideals coupled with empiricist motive

Aurobindo's Philosophy of Brahman - Page 132 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - Preview - interpret Aurobindo as spurred by an allegiance to a kind of humanism to attempt to alter previous conceptions of brahman: thus Brahman would be, as we shall examine, truly and valuably expressed as our world of developing finite ... I think that the case for the interpretation that his overriding motive is empiricist is a good one. My chief reason for identifying this additional affinity is, as before, to try to comprehend his positions as fully as possible, although I also do not want ... While mystic experience does stand out not only justificationally but in his idea of the nature of divine life, Aurobindo's stress is on a continuity, mutual value, and mutual reality obtaining between the mystical and and our more ordinary ...

Page 133 (… But note that it is the Romantic poet John Keats who puts forth the idea of the world as "the vale of soul-making.") Furthermore, these ideas connect with his yogic teaching that a worldly (as opposed to an ascetic) life is indispensable to ... ... world-affirming alteration of earlier concepts of brahman. Aurobindo's world-affirmativism may be seen as his giving an evolutionary and millennial turn to the conception of Brahman's relation to the world, which suggests the Romantic notion of a resolution of evil ... ... and speaks of their successes and failures like one of the family. Fervent individualism and nationalism are key elements in his character as they are typically with Romantics. For these many reasons, his world-affirmativism should be considered to be born out of an allegiance to a Western ideal more than to any that is Indian, although it is predominantly expressed through the Indian concepts of Vedanta and Tantra.

Environment Evolution & Values - Page 75 - D.P. Chattopadhyaya - 2007 - Preview - More editions The concepts of ultra-hominization, hyper-personalization, megasynthesis and similar others are certainly very insightful and new in formulation; I say "in formulation" because from Nietzsche to Sri Aurobindo several other philosophers,...

Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page 31 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - Preview Secondly, selection by greater capacity of adaptation to altered circumstances may well mark a sort of regress or degeneration of the survivors in some respects. At times we survive by downgrading ourselves. Sri Aurobindo rejects the materialist accounts of the evolution of Man ...

Quest for truth: a felicitation volume in honour of Prof. S. P. Kanal - Page 451 - Satewan Parsram Kanal, Kewal Krishan Mittal - 1976 - The distinction finally begins to disappear when we turn to Sri Aurobindo. Normally political involvement and spiritual realisation are seen to correspond to opposite poles. But for Aurobindo they represented the two sides of the same coin.

The Bhagavad Gita - Page 265 - Penguin Books - 2005 - Preview Third, there are two in the list (Ashok Malhotra and P. Lal) that explicitly describe themselves as trans-creations. Nor should the Sri Aurobindo version be described as a translation. Indeed, Sri Aurobindo was careful to describe his essays as ...

Sri Aurobindo, the hope of man - Page 118 - Keshavmurti - 1969 - This paper became a source of constant headache to the government. In his editorials Sri Aurobindo was careful not to give any handle to the authorities to come up with their heavy hand of suppression or prosecution.9 In fact, so forthright,... Life and Works of Sri Aurobindo - Page 74 - S.R. Sharma - 2003

History of India: a new approach - Page 317 - Kittu Reddy - 2003 - While advocating non-cooperation, Sri Aurobindo was careful to define its limits. Here is a quotation from Sri Aurobindo: "There is a limit however to passive resistance. So long as the action of the executive is peaceful and within rules of the...

The potential contribution of Indian spiritual psychology to the ... - Page 86 - Ross McDonald, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Management Centre for Human Values - 2002 - We advance towards realising our evolutionary potential through a series of temporary advances but as we shall see, Aurobindo was careful to insist that we not see this as being a faultless and perfect advance. Humanity's progress is not ...

Indian Ethics: Classical traditions and contemporary challenges - Page 412 - Puruṣottama Bilimoria, Joseph Prabhu, Renuka M. Sharma - 2007 - Preview - More editions Note that these include ethical virtues, extraordinary degrees of compassion, fair- mindedness, and so on, traits that are endorsed by Aurobindo along with special abilities. Spirituality would normally include, according to him, such ...

The women revolutionaries of Bengal, 1905-1939 - Page 11 - Tirtha Mandal - 1991 - Pramatha Mitra became the President of the Anusilan Samiti while Aurobindo along with Chittaranjan Das its Vice-President. In initial years' of the Samiti, Aurobindo preferred to work for the organisation from behind. Hence he continued his...

The Routledge International Handbook of Learning - Page 491 - Peter Jarvis, Mary Watts - 2012 - Preview - More editions (Raina, 2000: 3) Sri Aurobindo, along with his partner The Mother, developed comprehensive theories and practices in integral education, in areas such as strengthening the body and mind through the study of science and technology; the five ...

Nationalism, terrorism, communalism: essays in modern Indian history - Page 54 - Peter Heehs - 1998 - Snippet view - More editions Moreover it was never Aurobindo's habit to interfere in what others were doing. This was as true of his life as a guru as it was of his revolutionary life. During his imprisonment in Alipore someone acting on Barin's behalf came to Aurobindo to ...

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page 72 - Peter Heehs - 2008 - Preview - More editions The Gaekwar busied Aurobindo with writing letter after letter about administrative matters, questions of social reform, a new house in Bombay, a new house in Ooty, alterations to Luxmivilas Palace, buying three elephants, Prince Jaisinghrao's ...

Sri Aurobindo's life and work is wider than the universe

Forward with nature: an integrated approach to world problems of ... - Jatindra Nath Mukherjee - 1979 - 188 pages - For all this, I am gratefully indebted to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. I owe an apology to the readers and to the authors of different schools of economic and sociological thoughts for having treated these subjects far too briefly or ...

Ethics in the Mahabharata: a philosophical inquiry for today - Sitansu S. Chakravarti - 2006 - 176 pages - Certainly I am indebted to Sri Aurobindo for inciting the spirit of academic quest in me in the area of spirituality through his writings. I remember I would find solace in his books during my days at Presidency College when I would use ...

Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker's Guide - Page 59 -  Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 384 pages - Preview Here again, we are greatly indebted to Sri Aurobindo and his insight into the nature of the divine and Man and to his revelatory interpretation of the great Eastern wisdom tradition. Fig. 4 is a simplified rendering based on his ...

Remembering Heraclitus - Page 107 - Richard G. Geldard - 2000 - 163 pages - Preview We are indebted to Sri Aurobindo for his sense of daimon as "divine force." Fragment 54 reads, then, For human beings, character is the divine force. Enough mystery remains to entice us to fur- 49. Aurobindo, p.

Studies in the renaissance of Hinduism in the nineteenth and ... - Dittakavi Subrahmanya Sarma - 1944 - 686 pages - At the same time, we are greatly indebted to Sri Aurobindo for his powerful re-statement of the integral spiritual ideal taught in our best scriptures and for the new emphasis he has laid on the personality of the ideal Yogin of the ...

Changing India - Raja Rao, Iqbal Singh - 1939 - 263 pages - We are personally indebted to Sri Aurobindo Ghose and Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy for permission to use extracts from their writings. Further, our thanks are due to the Hon. C. Rajagopalachari for extracts from his Jail Diary.

Unholy Madness: The Church's Surrender to Psychiatry - Page 9 - Seth Farber - 1999 - 162 pages - Preview ... George Ebert, Rita Di Carlo, Frank Schaeffer, Laura Woodruff, Jerry Foley, Evelyn Woodsom, Harold Channer and Monty Weinstein. In addition to the intellectual influences cited in these pages, I am indebted to Sri Aurobindo.

Gandhian Theory of Social Reconstruction - Page xxix - Parmeshwari Dayal - 2006 - 414 pages - Preview I had very fruitful discussion with him on the subject matter. I am deeply indebted to Sri Aurobindo, Vinobaji and Pitirim Sorokin whose works I have referred to for developing my theme. My thanks are also due to several authors whose ...

The literary criticism of Sri Aurobindo, with special reference to ... - Shree Krishna Prasad, Aurobindo Ghose - 1974 - 487 pages - —here, I am entirely indebted to Sri Aurobindo himself. My first acknowledgment of boundless gratitude is, therefore, to him, and also, of course, to his life-long collaboratrix, Madame M. Alfasa or the Mother, as she is popularly ...

Globalization, pre modern India - Page 19 -  Nagendra Rao - 2005 - 200 pages - Preview Not fearing to acknowledge his debt to Sri Aurobindo and the Indic traditions, Wilber has generally been quite up front with regard to his use and remodeling of the insights of the Indic traditions. Hopefully, Wilber and many others like him will ...

Let's write a paper on Blake, shall we integral-review by DG Anderson - 2010 - 32) and as “an integral worldview that understands the universe as a revelation or manifestation of consciousness, Spirit, or intelligence” (p. 33)—a position explicitly indebted to Aurobindo and Wilber, and an expression of Wilber's specific ...

The Indian journal of international law: official organ of the ...: Volume 5 - Indian Society of International Law - 1965 - Let us build together the common law of mankind as an essential element in the institutional embodiment and foundation of the ideal of human unity, an ideal one of the most memorable expositions of which we owe to Sri Aurobindo.

Journal of South Asian literature: Volumes 24-25 - Michigan State University. Asian Studies Center - 1989 - In his illuminating essay "Sri Aurobindo the Critic of Art," Mulk Raj Anand maintains that we no doubt "owe [to Sri Aurobindo] the boldest exposition of the development from manas or thought-sensations through attaSuddhi or ...

Mother India - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1964 - Did Bharati owe to Sri Aurobindo his Shakti cult? A good number of writers on Bharati opine that the poet owed his beautiful lyrics on Parasakti to Sri Aurobindo. The author of this book too says: "no doubt Bharati's fruitful ...

Creating Harmony: Conflict Resolution in Community - Page 113 Hildur Jackson - 2000 - 269 pages - Preview In this evolutionary vision, which we owe to Sri Aurobindo and his spiritual collaborator, the Mother, what we now know as 'human nature' is only a transitory phase towards a higher and truer consciousness. According to Sri Aurobindo, ...

The marriage of East and West - Bede Griffiths - 1982 - 224 pages - They are deeply rooted in the world of myth, but the rational mind has already begun to draw out all the complex meanings of words and to integrate them in a Cosmic vision. We owe to Sri Aurobindo, the sage of Pondicherry, ...

The ten commandments of Hinduism - Visvanatha Krishnamurthy - 1994 - 344 pages - Here the Samskrit text allows a deeper perception which we owe to Sri Aurobindo. Gender discrimination in Spirituality - indiadivine - 11 May 1999 different expressions of Your Light. All women in the universe are also so. Here the text allows a deeper perception which we owe to Aurobindo. 

Contemporary relevance of Sri Aurobindo - Kishor Gandhi - 1973 - 343 pages - In considering Sri Aurobindo's achievement one is again and again struck by the amazing versatility of his genius. It is difficult to assess his life and work that is wider than the universe. He was a writer par excellence and perhaps ...