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December 23, 2012

Sri Aurobindo's theory doesn't tend towards individual salvation

2011: - Page 274 - Asiananda - 2007 - Preview It is this cosmic drama that has been captured in Sri Aurobindo's Life Divine, it is upon this Life Divine the Code Indraprastha is grounded; the Passage we describe is the same phenomenon Sri Aurobindo works out as the Descent of the ...
Sri Aurobindo circle - Issues 1-4 - Page 1 - Aurobindo Ghose - 1945 - To the intense sight, intense word and intense rhythm that constitute the poetic phenomenon Sri Aurobindo and his followers bring a consciousness in living touch with realms beyond those that usually yield their riches in verse. Here is not...
The Indian Scriptures And The Life Divine - Page 94 - Binita Pani - 1993 - Preview The vital desire-impulse is, however, a natural element of the human personality. The vital mind always attempts to satisfy egoistic and individualistic desires and impulses. Explaining this phenomenon Sri Aurobindo says, The life — individual...
Darshana international - Volume 1 - Page 102 1961 - In that case why should we at all posit Isvara as an evanescent phenomenon? Sri Aurobindo thinks that either Isvara should be taken as a true manifestation of the truth of Transcendence or he should be the Transcendent itself. So, the main ...
On the Mother: the chronicle of a manifestation and ministry - Page 127 - K. R. Srinivasa IyengarSri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India) - 1994 - Commenting on this paradoxical phenomenon, Sri Aurobindo wrote rather outspokenly to Motilal Roy: The intellect of Bengal has been so much fed on chemical tablets of thought and hot-spiced foods that anything strong and substantial is ...
The Journal of transpersonal psychology - Volumes 36-37 - Page 115 - Transpersonal InstituteAmerican Transpersonal Association - 2004 - ... and that this compressive process happened (or is constantly happening) before time and space came into existence, because the space-time continuum is a material phenomenon. Sri Aurobindo calls the descending process through which ...
Integral health: a consciousness approach to health & healing - Page 95 - Soumitra BasuSri Aurobindo International Institute for Integral Health and Research- 2000 - None of them express the whole secret spirit behind, but they derive from it their main ideas and their cultural character."122 It follows therefore that the mental life of man is not a single but a stratified phenomenon. Sri Aurobindo cautions that ...
Consciousness, Indian Psychology, and Yoga - Page 362 - Kireet JoshiMatthijs CornelissenAshoke Kumar Sen Gupta - 2004 - ... in hidden assumptions about the nature of Cosmos and Reality and it would be a more fruitful exercise to clearly articulate these assumptions to facilitate and broaden the understanding of the human phenomenon. Sri Aurobindo's theory of ...
The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Page 3 - Cuttāanta Pāratiyār - 1949 - Long before his name came to the lime-light of public recognition, Sri Aurobindo began to practise Yoga. Initially he gathered some hints from the Gita, the Upanishads and one or two reliable Yogins. With these hints he followed the Inner ... The Advent - Volume 34 - Page 71 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1977 - All the hints he got, he made his own and ...
On the Mother: the chronicle of a manifestation and ministry - Page 86 - K. R. Srinivasa IyengarSri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India) - 1994 - The moment Mirra had so ardently looked forward to had arrived at last, and there was a blaze of instantaneous recognition. Sri Aurobindo was clearly the Master of her occult life, the "Krishna" she had met so often in her dream-experiences.
The New Yorker - Volume 51, Part 7 - Page 33 - 1976 - Snippet view - More editions Spiegelberg's lectures seemed to Murphy to be supercharged with personal meaning, and toward the end of the semester, when Spiegelberg got to Aurobindo, he felt an almost overwhelming surge of recognition. Sri Aurobindo ( 1872-1950)...
Essays on Vedanta - Page 159 - D. NesyUniversity of Kerala. Dept. of PhilosophyIndian Council of Philosophical Research - 2006 - The ideas of Vedanta borrowed from the ancient tradition were modified and multilated beyond recognition. Sri Aurobindo says that the Vedic principles are unfit, perhaps even dangerous to the ordinary human mind or in any case liable to ...
Indo-English poetry in Bengal - Page 168 - K. C. Lahiri - 1974 - He is now gaining recognition. Aurobindo Ghosh (Sri Aurobindo) was born in 1 872 and died in 1950. He founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, Kasiprasad Ghosh (1809-1873) in known as the "first of the lndo-Anglian poets," ...
Manthan - Volume 26 - Page 29 - Deendayal Research Institute - 2005 - The people of Calcutta were particularly exhorted to accord him a befitting reception. Aurobindo wrote, "Now that Bipin Chandra is coming out of prison, we look to his triumphant oratory, the Pythean inspiration of his matchless eloquence to ...
The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 51 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions Thus Aurobindo's theory is different from Carlyle's hero theory. Aurobindo believes that the hero derives his heroism from the strength and energy of God. Hence "the greatness of individuals is the greatness of the eternal Energy within".
Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1 - Page 37 - NirodbaranAurobindo Ghose - 1969 - MYSELF (continuing): About your changing 'cowards into heroes', they put forward the same 'latency theory'. Sri Aurobindo's comment: How do they prove their theory — when they don't know what is or is not latent? In such conditions the theory can neither be proved nor refuted. To say 'O, it was ...
Indian Ethics: Classical traditions and contemporary challenges - Page 411 - Puruottama BilimoriaJoseph PrabhuRenuka M. Sharma - 2007 - Preview - More editions ... all action - his hedonism is strictly a psychological thesis, not an ethical theory. Aurobindo expressly denies an ethics of general utility, despite his psychological hedonism. He argues that pleasure, to include the bliss of mystical experience, ...
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 ...
Indian Philosophy in English:From Renaissance to Independence - Page xx Nalini Bhushan, Jay L. Garfield - 2011 - Preview - More editions ... arguing that Indian aesthetics is not only a better theory for understanding Indian art, but that in global philosophical and aesthetic discussion, rasa theory belongs in the same conversation with Western aesthetic theory (Aurobindo, 2000).
Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers - Page 110 Prof. Mahendra Prasad Singh - 2011 - Preview - More editions Several reformists of the 19th century as well as the moderates within the Congress had fallen victim to it and had interiorized this theory. Aurobindo rejected this line of argument and condemned the moderates for misleading the nation.
India's True Voice - Page 290 - Alvin Boyd Kuhn - 1992 - Preview - More editions Yielding to the omnipresent pressure of general pessimistic theory, Aurobindo faces squarely the great problem of the existence of ignorance, evil and wrong in our world. Yet he holds faithfully to a positive explanation and redeems the utility...
Ortho Para V - Page 177 - Wallace Salzman - 2007 - Preview ... I am probably as close to an understanding of its message as anyone can be because of Ortho-Para theory. Aurobindo carefully pointed out that there are two approaches to the interpretation of the messages defined in the text. The older ...
A critical study of Aurobindo: with special reference to his ... - Page 4 - Laxman Ganpatrao Chincholkar - 1966 - Spiritual experience is the basis of the theory. Aurobindo's theory does not tend towards individual salvation. The descent would dispel the ignorance for ever and establish a divine race upon the earth. This would end, for ever, the anomalies...
Mastering Western texts: essays on literature and society for A.N. ... - Page 24 - A. N. KaulSambudha SenA. N. Sen - 2003 - Preview - More editions The 'Indian point of view' critic was recognizable by his trademark bag of tricks, ever ready to unleash the unfailing formulae of rasa theory, Aurobindo mysticism, or some overwrought mishmash of Indo-mythological allusions and occultisms ...
Papers in language and linguistics - Volume 3 - Page 65 Ujjal Singh Bahri - 1997 -  ... in contemporary literary theory has been expressed as intertext on which Harold Bloom has developed his anxiety of influence theory. Aurobindo's aesthetic theory grows out of body-plexus symbolism where he has a perfect scheme of eight ... 

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 31 - Page 209 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1979 - Of course he takes the psychic in another sense than ours as he speaks of world-psyche. P: He takes his stand on the Buddhistic karma theory. Sri Aurobindo: Yes. His contention that everything is fixed reduces this world to Maya. Even the...
The Advent - Volume 57 - Page 40 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2000 - Of course like the seventeenth and eighteenth century social thinkers of Europe Sri Aurobindo does not hold that people have brutish ends, will, power for all time and age as in social contract theory. Sri Aurobindo has vision for the future and ...
The Hindu personality in education: Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo - Page 161 William Cenkner - 1976 - Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo William Cenkner. CHAPTER ELEVEN Educational Theory Sri Aurobindo articulated his basic educational ideas in the early part of the century when he addressed himself to the problem of national education.
Nirodbaran, divinity's comrade - Page 610 Hemant Kapoor - 2003 - And as contrasted with Darwin's theory, Sri Aurobindo's theory of evolution is based on the Vedantic theory of involution. The nature is evolving from matter to life and from life to mind. The upward spiral of Nature has reached till this day the ...
Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture - Volume 52 - Page 318 - Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 2001 - He did the same thing in his spiritual theory. Sri Aurobindo basically was not a theorist, he was a yogi, he was a person whom I call the pioneer of the supramental. In the first part of his life he was a prophet of Indian nationalism, and in the ...
The Vedanta kesari - Volume 84 - Page 138 - Sri Ramakrishna Math (Madras, India) - 1997 - ... for one year— May 1908 to May 1909. Already advanced in yoga and committed to the evolutionary theory, Sri Aurobindo utilized his imprisonment to get at a clue to the next step in evolution. Sri Aurobindo says that it was a series of 138.
Indian literature - Volume 32 - Page 159 - Sāhitya Akademi - 1989 - ing to Tyagi, has a significant place in Sri Aurobindo's poetic theory: Sri Aurobindo has isolated the poet's function from that of the philosopher and the scientist. His function is primarily neither to think out the reality of things nor to dissect ...
Pragna - Volume 8 2006 - Disciple: There is also the question of Hindu-Muslim unity which the non-violence school is trying to solve on the basis of their theory. Sri Aurobindo: You can live amicably with a religion whose principle is toleration. But how is it possible to ...
Muslim separatism: causes and consequences - Page 107 - Sita Ram Goel - 1995 -  A few months later, on 13 July 1923, a disciple had observed that "There is also the question of Hindu-Muslim unity which the non-violence school is trying to solve on the basis of their theory". Sri Aurobindo had replied: "You ...

December 07, 2012

Sri Aurobindo is a more intellectually satisfying writer

The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 124 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions In stating this historical defence of war as a political mechanism, Aurobindo resembles some of the nineteenth century historical scholars who justified war by historical examples. 1 Sri Aurobindo, Heraclitus, p. 39. Ibid. The Ideal of Human...
Modern Indian political thought - Page 230 - Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1971 - ... Enlightenment, and the subjective age starting with Romanticism were the five psychological eras of German history. Aurobindo applied Lamprecht's typology to India. Lamprecht himself believed in the universal applicability of his scheme.
Environment Evolution & Values - Page 62 - D.P. Chattopadhyaya - 2007 - Preview - More editions ... exhibit certain definite rhythms, indicating thereby that there are some general laws of history. Sri Aurobindo also finds definite rhythms in history; but believing as he does in the existence and operation of an intelligent principle in history, it is ...
The Essential Aurobindo - Page 20 - Aurobindo GhoseRobert A. McDermott - 2001 - Preview - More editions poses a more fundamental commitment to historical evolution on a transnational or global basis. India and World History Sri Aurobindo's address on Indian Independence Day, August l5, l947, was as much a retrospective on his own political ...
5 Indian Masters - Page 25 - Raja RaoRabindranath TagoreKhushwant Singh - 2003 - Preview And just as the materialism of Stalin and not his impersonal sense of history, but his material interpretation of history made him end up like the Egyptians in being embalmed and made immortal as history, Sri Aurobindo tried to make this ...
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Indian freedom struggle - Volume 2 - Page 31 - Ratna Ghosh - 2006 - Preview - More editions It is consciousness that determines the material environment of society. This interpretation is diametrically opposed to the Marxist interpretation of history. Sri Aurobindo says that the course of evolution is not in a straight line but upward moving ...
Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history - Page 464 - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - With scores of such national units in existence, which is a more desirable consummation, - a federation of free nations, or a few empires and imperial hegemonies? With a wealth of illustration drawn from history, Sri Aurobindo considers the ...
The social philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 214 - Ram Nath Sharma - 1980 - Thus while in his analysis of Nationalism and the process of Human history Sri Aurobindo has definitely unravelled many new truths, his pre-occupation with Yogic practices and seclusion from direct politics has led him to lay too much ...
Inspirations: insights on human evolution & transformation - Page 228 - Roy Posner - Preview It was a totally unexpected, creative, and unprecedented resolution of the Cold War that only the Truth Consciousness and Force of the Divine could have made possible. Sri Aurobindo, The Mother Altered the Course of History Sri Aurobindo...
Sri Aurobindo: a centenary tribute - Page 65 - Aurobindo Ghose, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1974 - In fact it has not been allowed to play its full role, as the infra-rational has dominated the rational so far in human history. Sri Aurobindo's vision of the transformed state of humanity becomes clear when he announces: "It (Spirit) will aim at ...
At the Edge of History - Page 123 - William Irwin Thompson - 1989 - Preview - More editions Perhaps because he began his career as a political revolutionary, or perhaps because as a Cambridge graduate in classics he was more familiar with the enantiodromias of history, Sri Aurobindo is a more intellectually satisfying writer on the ...
Sri Aurobindo - Page 185 Sisirkumar Mitra - 1972 - In the fifties the Mother said: 'Since the beginning of earth history, Sri Aurobindo has always presided over the great earthly transformations, under one form or another, one name or another. 'What Sri Aurobindo represents in the world's history...
Talks with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1 - Page 259 - Nirod Baran ChakravartyAurobindo Ghose - 1966 - P: Coming to Europe, I want to ask you if it can be said that there was an inrush of forces from the subtle worlds at the time of the French Revolution and in Napoleon's time, changing the course of history. SRI AUROBINDO : Yes, there was.
Towards eternity; Sri Aurobindo birth centenary volume, 15th ... - Page v - Aurobindo GhoseV. Madhusudan Reddy - 1973 - Since the beginning of earth history, Sri Aurobindo has always presided over the great earthly transformations, under one form or another, one name or another. Sri Aurobindo incarnated in a human body the supramental consciousness and ...
Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 3 - Page 20 - Nirod Baran ChakravartyAurobindo Ghose - 1974 - Is it something besides the recognised ones in spiritual history? Sri Aurobindo: I don't know. I always prefer something new to the old labels. I will see the Supramental and perhaps find something. Myself: They were saying that 'a sweet ...
Sri Aurobindo for all ages: a biography - Page 220 - Nirodbaran - 1990 - Of course the war figured prominently during our talks in the evening. Apart from his deep knowledge of history, Sri Aurobindo had a masterly grasp of military strategy, although he never made a special study of the subject, and we were ...
Sri Aurobindo's integral approach to political thought - Page 235 - Shiva Kumar Mital - 1981 - As a political philosopher, Sri Aurobindo accepts spiritual determinism in history. Sri Aurobindo's metaphysical concept of Ultimate Reality is linked with his concept of integral knowledge and truth. An integral knowledge presupposes integral...
Sri Aurobindo: or, The adventure of consciousness - Page 225 - Satprem - 1968 - Therefore I say that the man in his position is not only standing before the bar of this court, but before the bar of the High Court of History." Sri Aurobindo was thirty-seven. His brother Barin, beside him in the cage, was sentenced to the gallows.
Sri Aurobindo - Page x - Navajata - 1972 - Snippet view - More editions 'Since the beginning of earth history, Sri Aurobindo has always presided over the great earthly transformations, under one form or another, one name or another,' affirms The Mother. His whole earthly life was a continuous effort to create ...
Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta: The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Page 46 - Nolini Kanta Gupta - 1973 - And I tell you that since the beginning of earth history, Sri Aurobindo has always presided over the great earthly transformations, under one form or another, one name or another. And if he came this time and said this is the final, then it must be...
Sri Aurobindo, a brief biography - Page 116 - Peter Heehs - 1989 - In the course of this study of ancient and modern history Sri Aurobindo showed that political entities evolved according to a predictable pattern. Isolated units were brought together in pre-national empires (like the Roman). These eventually ...
Science of Meditation - Page 32 - Rohit Mehta - 1995 - Preview - More editions Today we stand at another major turning point of history. Sri Aurobindo describes man as a Transitional Being. This means he is on the move to reaching greater heights of being. Today we are witnessing a crisis of consciousness or a crisis of ... Introduction To The Study Of Society - Page 32 - Adhar Chandra Das - 1972 - Preview - More editions
Governance Reform for Vision India - Page 3 - Birendra Prasad Mathur - 2005 - Preview - More editions ... embodied the highest realization and hope for mankind. INDIA'S GREAT HERITAGE India's great culture and heritage has let the country survive through the tumultuous period of five thousand years of her chequered history. Sri Aurobindo,6...
The religious roots of Indian nationalism: Aurobindo's early ... - Page 23 - David L. Johnson - 1974 - As for history, Aurobindo argues that in all countries (except England) the movement to overthrow despotic rule was initiated not by the learned but by the ignorant, not by lawyers but by workers. For example, France : It was not a convocation ...
Miracles do happen: a physician's experience with alternative medicine - Page 207 - Norman C. ShealyC. Norman Shealy - 1996 - The conquest of difficulties makes up all that is valuable in earth's history. -Aurobindo Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. -Albert Schweitzer If all the pharmacopoeia in the world were thrown into the ocean,...
Religion in modern India - Page 22 Giri Raj Gupta - 1983 - In his philosophy of history Aurobindo describes the history of humanity from ancient times to the present to show the stages of progress towards the Age of Supermind (or Spirit, or Supramental Being, or Gnostic Being). The Age of Spirit or...
Sri Aurobindo, a brief biography - Page 12 - Peter Heehs - 1989 - In his reading of history Aurobindo concentrated on 'the revolutions and rebellions which led to national liberation', and made heroes of Joan of Arc, Mazzini, and others who fought against foreign domination. These historical studies fertilized ...
R̥gveda sahitā: - Volume 1 - Page 106 - Satya Prakash - 1977 - .. a great scholar assures us, the Sun and the twelve months. The career of Napolean is the most perfect sun-myth in all legend or history. (Aurobindo) conclusively shown from the Vedic texts that the Punjab, the 106 Modem Indian Interpreters.
Role of religion in Indian politics, 1900-1925 - Page 132 - K. C. Chaudhry - 1978 - ... spiritual aspect on his life even during his stay at Baroda.4 Exhorting the students of the Bengal National College to extend single-minded devotion to the country in the crucial period of her history, Aurobindo while resigning his Principalship ...
Secular democracy - Volume 4 - Page 48 1971 - Aurobindo: the Later Phase (1910-50). Aurobindo's View of Man and Universe. Aurobindo's Views on Society and History. Aurobindo & the Indian Philosophical Tradition. Aurobindo's Mysticism as revealed in his Poetry. Aurobindo and Bengal...
Radhakrishnan: comparative studies in philosophy presented in ... - Page 175 - William Ralph Inge - 1951 - Moreover, the Christian, typified by Brunner, sees in Christ the new destiny of man realized, and regards the Heilsgeschichte of the Gospel as super-history. Aurobindo expects the New Man in the future, and unless I have misunderstood him, ...
Philosophies of History: Meeting of East and West in Cycle - ... - Page 301 - Grace Edith Cairns - 1962 - All cosmic history and all human history has functioned and is at present functioning to usher in this new evolutionary development which is the goal of history. Aurobindo sees the present era of human society not merely as a transitional one...
The Indian Imagination: Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English - Page 67 - K. D. Verma - 2000 - Preview - More editions In the continued strain of a philosopher of history Aurobindo notes the growth of "strenuous intellectuality" and the contributions of Emerson, Carlyle and Ruskin in building "a bridge of transition from the intellectual transcendentalism of the ...
Tradition and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 106 - David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - Preview This is best reflected in the view of world history Aurobindo put forward in The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity, and is summarized in figure 6. Second, Aurobindian cosmology locates the motor of events off the human stage.
Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: Resistance ... - Page 80 - Elleke Boehmer - 2005 - Preview - More editions The lines of their cross-referentiality on both religion and politics, indeed of their demonstrable interdiscursivity, therefore tie them together, as do the shared if largely silent pages of their collaborative history. aurobindo ghose in england: 'the ...
Indian Ethos And Values In Management - Page 37 - Sankar - 2011 - Preview The rest is history. Aurobindo Ghosh had spent fourteen years of education (from the age of seven to twenty one) in EnglandManchester, London and Cambridge. He too was far away from Sri Aurobindo when he returned to India in 1893.
Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress: The dismal fate of new nations - Page 153 - Ernst B. Haas - 2000 - Preview 3 The core elements of Hindu thought — dharma, karma, and bhakti — animate that wheel. They encompass the work of Gandhi and of Nehru, all of Indian history. Aurobindo Ghose proclaimed, "Nationalism is not a mere political program; ...
Sri Aurobindo's treatment of Hindu myth - Page 28 - Jan Feys - 1983 - Speaking of the bhakti phase in Indian religious history Aurobindo maintains that if Indian religiosity must attain its spiritual consummation, then it must link up with the bhakti tradition and not opt for "a mere revival or a prolongation of the ...
Social and political orientations of Neo-Vedantism: study of the ... - Page 37 - S. L. Malhotra - 1970 - Similarly both believe that some transcendental power governs the whole process of history. Aurobindo argues that it is not the intelligent mind or intellectual reason which is a sole disposer of the future 31. Aurobindo, Letters, second series ...
Glimpses Of Indian National Movement - Page 66 - Abel M - 2005 - Preview Referring to the lessons he has leant from history, Aurobindo Ghosh, one of the prominent exponents of this emerging new nationalism, said: “Tyrants have tried but have they ever succeeded in repressing the natural love of freedom in man?
The poetry of Sri Aurobindo: a journey from ego to self - Page 105 - Kishor Gandhi - 2001 - Like the Vedic hymns the poems of this period are the vehicle of the poet's "self-expression in some important or even critical moment of his life's inner history" (Aurobindo 10: 10). These poems thus communicate experiences unfamiliar to our...
Indian literary criticism in English: critics, texts, issues - Page 23 - P. K. Rajan - 2004 - In the continued strain of a philosopher of history Aurobindo notes the growth Sri Aurobindo as a Critic 23.
Research journal: humanities & social science - Volume 1, Issue 1 - Page 18 - University of Indore - 1972 - Being a mystic who read the Will of God in history, Aurobindo interpreted all the principal events in the course of the Bengal nationalist movement as well as the movement of Indian nationalism as designed and willed by God. He considered ...
Modernity, morality, and the Mahatma - Page 153 adhuri Sondhi - 1997 - Evolutionary theory & the Interpretation of History: Aurobindo's interpretation of history derived from his metaphysical theories of reality and evolution. In spirit, his position is often held to be close to that of Tantra, in that it posits two fundamental...
The Journal of the Bihar Research Society - Volumes 43-44 - Page 94 - Bihar Research Society - 1957 - I have a strong conviction that as a philosopher reflecting and generalising on comparative history Aurobindo shows not only the want of empiricial substantiations of his generalisations but at times revels in obiter dicta about the superiority of ...
Understanding Sarkar: the Indian episteme, macrohistory, and ... - Page 110 - Sohail Inayatullah - 2002 - By attempting to frame the divine in history, Aurobindo can then easily justify the French revolution as an act of God with Mirabeau, Danton, Robespierre and Napoleon serving their respective parts. Napoleon is finally destroyed by Kali for ...
Colonialism, modernity, and religious identities: religious reform ... - Page 268 - Gwilym Beckerlegge - 2008 -  ... respectively, of the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and several classical poems and plays] are the essence of the history of ancient India; if all else were lost, they would still be its sole and sufficient cultural history' (Aurobindo 2003: 152).
Newsweek - Volume 80, Issues 19-26 - Page 91 - Jean Strouse - 1972 - ... Eastern spirituality with a Western sense of history, Aurobindo offers a structured philosophy geared to the hope for a united world community. And in the Mother, disciples have a powerful figure around whom they can sustain a cult.
Modern Vedanta - Page 324 - P. K. Das - 2004 -  ... in Gandhian thought there is a contradiction between his professing the ideals of a reactionary rural conflictless society, and a faith in moral progress in successive epochs of social history. Aurobindo in this connection had a clearer vision.
Synthesis: The realization of the self - Volume 2 - Page 46 1978 - To achieve it, the follower of Integral Yoga does not depend on physical, postural, or breathing exercises nor on tantric practices, because inherent in them is the danger of subjugation of the inner being by its physical mechanism. Aurobindo...
Readings in Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine Volume 3 - Page 161 - Santosh Krinsky - Preview In order to cover the range of possibilities relating to the existence of the soul and the human personality, and thereby determine the question of rebirth as either an unnecessary or necessary mechanism, Sri Aurobindo quickly reviews various ...
Contemporary Indian philosophy - Page 173 - Basant Kumar Lal - 2010 - Preview - More editions 1 Thus, in the first sense, it is a power, constructive and creative, and in the second sense it is a delusion-producing mechanism. Sri Aurobindo does not feel inclined to accept the second meaning of the word Maya, because that reduces the ...

December 03, 2012

Sri Aurobindo tends to twist certain Indian critical terms

The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 51 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - Thus Aurobindo's theory is different from Carlyle's hero theory. Aurobindo believes that the hero derives his heroism from the strength and energy of God. Hence "the greatness of individuals is the greatness of the eternal Energy within".
Indian Ethics: Classical traditions and contemporary challenges - Page 411 - Puruottama BilimoriaJoseph PrabhuRenuka M. Sharma - 2007 - Preview - ... all action - his hedonism is strictly a psychological thesis, not an ethical theory. Aurobindo expressly denies an ethics of general utility, despite his psychological hedonism. He argues that pleasure, to include the bliss of mystical experience, ...
Indian Philosophy in English:From Renaissance to Independence - Page xx - Nalini Bhushan, Jay L. Garfield - 2011 - Preview - ... arguing that Indian aesthetics is not only a better theory for understanding Indian art, but that in global philosophical and aesthetic discussion, rasa theory belongs in the same conversation with Western aesthetic theory (Aurobindo, 2000).
Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers - Page 110 Prof. Mahendra Prasad Singh - 2011 - Preview - Several reformists of the 19th century as well as the moderates within the Congress had fallen victim to it and had interiorized this theory. Aurobindo rejected this line of argument and condemned the moderates for misleading the nation.
India's True Voice - Page 290 - Alvin Boyd Kuhn - 1992 - Preview - Yielding to the omnipresent pressure of general pessimistic theory, Aurobindo faces squarely the great problem of the existence of ignorance, evil and wrong in our world. Yet he holds faithfully to a positive explanation and redeems the utility...
Ortho Para V - Page 177 - Wallace Salzman - 2007 - Preview ... I am probably as close to an understanding of its message as anyone can be because of Ortho-Para theory. Aurobindo carefully pointed out that there are two approaches to the interpretation of the messages defined in the text. The older ...
A critical study of Aurobindo: with special reference to his ... - Page 4 - Laxman Ganpatrao Chincholkar - 1966 - Spiritual experience is the basis of the theory. Aurobindo's theory does not tend towards individual salvation. The descent would dispel the ignorance for ever and establish a divine race upon the earth. This would end, for ever, the anomalies ...
Mastering Western texts: essays on literature and society for A.N. ... - Page 24 - A. N. KaulSambudha SenA. N. Sen - 2003 - Preview - The 'Indian point of view' critic was recognizable by his trademark bag of tricks, ever ready to unleash the unfailing formulae of rasa theory, Aurobindo mysticism, or some overwrought mishmash of Indo-mythological allusions and occultisms ...
Papers in language and linguistics - Volume 3 - Page 65 Ujjal Singh Bahri - 1997 - ... in contemporary literary theory has been expressed as intertext on which Harold Bloom has developed his anxiety of influence theory. Aurobindo's aesthetic theory grows out of body-plexus symbolism where he has a perfect scheme of eight ...
Understanding Sarkar: the Indian episteme, macrohistory, and ... - Page 111 - Sohail Inayatullah - 2002 - In this theory, Aurobindo does not directly follow the classic end of Kali and return to Krta. Rather, culture can fall into disintegration and collapse. The highest possible integration is where the nation follows the Spirit. But there need not be only...
Asian thought & society - Issues 40-42 - Page 41 1989 - EVOLUTIONARY MYSTICISM OF AUROBINDO (1872 - 1950) Aurobindo, the great mystic philosopher of the 20th century, offers a wonderful synthesis of Hindu spirituality and Western evolutionary theory. Aurobindo finds present day man ...
Indian philosophy, a study on Hindutva - Page 104 - Soorian K. Pandian - 1991 - Referring to this theory, Aurobindo observes, "It divided man in society into the fourfold order — an at once spiritual, psychic, ethical and economic order of Brahmin Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra - practically, the spiritual and intellectual man, ...
Colonialism, modernity, and religious identities: religious reform ... - Page 254 - Gwilym Beckerlegge - 2008 - The Aryan Invasion Theory Aurobindo never referred to the Harappan Civilization, which was excavated after he wrote his major works. He did sometimes speak of an issue related to the Harappan puzzle: the question of the Aryans' homeland ...
Tradition and modernity in contemporary religio-philosophic movements - Page 150 - A. R. Anasuya Devi - 1990 - ... subjective and universal meaning, a spiritual sense and direction.9 According to Sri Aurobindo spiritualism besides material management is the distinct and unique quality that provides an eternal value to the Hindu theory. Aurobindo points ...
Secularisation of Indian mind: a study of political ideas in India ... - Page 61 - V. Indira Devi - 2002 - Elaborating on his views on science, specially on Einstein's relativity theory, Aurobindo explained that a theory, confined to the domain of physics or at most to the general domain of science, cannot be generalised to cover the metaphysical ...
The seeker's handbook: the complete guide to spiritual pathfinding - Page 231 - John Lash - 1991 - See FOUR-BODY THEORY. AUrOBIndO, Sri (Shri Or-oh-BIN-doe) Indian philosopher, poet, and social reformer ( 1872- 1950), an early theorist of the New Age concept of uniting with the higher self by coevolution of consciousness and body.
Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the God-man - Page 85 - Daniel E. Bassuk - 1987 - An Avatar, or God-man, is one who does not pass through those processes but is born as a man who knows himself to be God'.69 According to this theory, Aurobindo is a Perfect Master and not an Avatar. And Baba indicated that the Avatar ...
The vision of self in early Vedānta - Page 188 - William Beidler - 1975 - This is a most difficult question, and does not seem immediately answerable by the Gita, and perhaps may be a defect in the whole avatara theory. Aurobindo who carefully distinguishes between the Vibhuti and the avatara gives the example ...
Worthy is the world: the Hindu philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 267 - Beatrice Bruteau - 1972 - THE MARKS OF A SOUND THEORY Aurobindo may not be a professional philosopher, but he has undertaken to construct a metaphysical system, and it is therefore appropriate to examine it as to its consistency, elegance, verifiability, and...
The future of man according to Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo Ghose - Page 117 - J. Chetany - 1978 - With apparent reference to Arrheneus' theory Aurobindo also says: "The curious speculation is now current that Life entered earth not from another world, but from another planet. To the thinker that would explain nothing.
The Colonial and the neo-colonial encounters in Commonwealth ... - Page 140 - H. H. Anniah GowdaUniversity of Mysore. Post-graduate Dept. of English,University of Mysore. Centre for Commonwealth Literature and Research - 1983 - In order to highlight the emphasis on the spiritual aspect of his theory, Aurobindo tends to twist certain Indian critical terms that he employes in The Future Poetry. Perhaps, the most interesting example of his twisted usage is the term rasa, ...
Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's poetry, plays, and criticism - Page 145 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - Full view - ... he brought four criteria 'imaginative originality, expressive poet,  creative genius, scope of subject-matter, the last criterion implying also scale of work'.19 By applying his own critical theory Sri Aurobindo classifies eleven poets 'for the utter first class but into three rows."20 In the top row he considers no more than four on an equal basis of essential excellence: Valmiki, Vyasa, Homer and ... Indian English literature: a new perspective - Page 169 - Gajendra Kumar - 2001 - Full view 
Poetic plays of Sri Aurobindo - Page 27 - Bimal Narayan Thakur - 2004 - Preview - All these sequences bespeak Sri Aurobindo's constant preoccupation with the problems of right education in the context resurgence".94 In his theory, Sri Aurobindo distinguished intellect into two of the national contemporary groups of ...
Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers: The political thought of Aurobindo - Page 23 - K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - Preview K. S. Bharathi. consciousness. 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 years he ...
Readings in Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine Volume 3 - Page 163 - Santosh Krinsky - Preview Of course, there are inexplicable facts and circumstances that actually cannot be explained by this theory. Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Book 2, Part 2, Chapter 20, The Philosophy of Rebirth, pg. 748 Beyond the Limitations of the Physical ...
Indian Poetry in English: Critical Essays - Page 139 - Zina Mitra - Preview - Difficult though it is to arrive at an answer, I will make an attempt to do that because in the answer lies the key to some vital aspects of Indian literary theory. Sri Aurobindo happens to be the Indian in whom there was the desire, and its ...
Humanity, truth, and freedom: essays in modern Indian Philosophy - Page 85 - Raghunath Ghosh - 2008 - Preview - ... the collective freedom or salvation can be attained. In social theory Sri Aurobindo has shown that each and every man can possess infinite power by awakening Caitya purusa existing in him, which provides honour and respect to mankind.
Jouissance as Ānanda: Indian Philosophy, Feminist Theory, and ... - Page 135 -Ashmita Khasnabish - 2006 - Preview - It is quite intriguing to see the spiritual essence of the future poetry as defined by Sri Aurobindo being manifest in Joyce's concept of aesthetic theory. Sri Aurobindo predicted the future of poetry in his The Future Poetry and it was first published ...
Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 43 - Indrani SanyalKrishna RoyJadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007 - Without denying the importance of the mechanistic theory, Sri Aurobindo wants to give us his "conscious, supple, flexible, intensely surprising and constantly dramatic evolution by a 7. Sri Aurobindo, "Heraclitus" in The Supramental ...
Feminism, censorship and other essays - Page 30 - Kaushal Kishore Sharma - 2003 - Full view A poet of soul is the creator of spiritual joy, "Ananda", and not mere sensuous, intellectual or imaginative delight. True to his belief and theory, Sri Aurobindo as a poet gets poetic inspiration mainly from above his head. He would make himself ...
The White Heart: A Process of Creative Incubation - Page 155 - Shirley Lyons - 2011 - Preview - This resonated, as I read it, to the story of the Hundredth Monkey and the Morphogenetic Fields Theory. Sri Aurobindo left His body on December 5, 1950. For five days His body lay in His room, on His bed, from the morning of December 5th, ...
Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1 - Page 37 - NirodbaranAurobindo Ghose - 1969 - MYSELF (continuing): About your changing 'cowards into heroes', they put forward the same 'latency theory'. Sri Aurobindo's comment: How do they prove their theory — when they don't know what is or is not latent? In such conditions the the theory can neither be proved nor refuted. To say 'O, it was ...
Sri Aurobindo: a centenary tribute - Page 213 - Aurobindo Ghose, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1974 - ... to find the path through certain disciplines to attain the highest condition of human consciousness and existence according to their own theory. Sri Aurobindo never wrote his autobiography, and made fun of those who wrote his biographies.
Studies in comparative literature - Ed. Mohit K. Ray - 2002 - Preview Ed. Mohit K. Ray. rv Starting with Sri Aurobindo's conceptualisation of poetry as "mantra of the real" R.K. Mishra traces its support in the writings of Plato, Shelley, Abercrombie and others. Asha Choubey offers a fascinating reading of ...
Sri Aurobindo, the poet - Page 11 - Radhey L. VarshneyShashi Prabha - 1991 - Aurobindo's Poetic Theory Sri Aurobindo, besides being a yogi and a poet, a philosopher and a saint, was also a great literary critic. The Future Poetry is the Magna Charta of literary criticism. This work is the new Poetics by the Aristotle of our ...
Talks with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 2 - Page 48 - NirodbaranAurobindo Ghose - 1971 - N: He was one of the three most brilliant students of his year, the first being Satyen Bose. He says there are only two people who understand Einstein's Relativity Theory. SRI AUROBINDO: In India or the world? I thought there were five or six in...
Sri Aurobindo's treatment of Hindu myth - Page 39 - Jan Feys - 1983 - Further indications regarding the method are found in chapter 4 oc The Secret, The Foundations of the Psychological Theory'. Sri Aurobindo wants his system of interpretation to rest on the solid basis of linguistics. Do:s the Vedic language ...
Sri Aurobindo critical considerations - Page 70 - Dr. O. P. Mathur - 1997 - True to his belief and theory, Sri Aurobindo as a poet gets poetic inspiration mainly from above his head. He would make himself receptive and would submit himself completely to the Divine power. This does not mean that poetry is merely a...
Sanskrit and the evolution of human speech: based on Sri ... - Page 68 - Sampadananda Mishra - 2005 - 82 As a last step of his theory Sri Aurobindo states that "there are families of words, families of root-sounds, families of simple sounds, so also are there families of seed sounds. These families are known to all grammarians and in Sanskrit they ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 31 - Page 209 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1979 - Of course he takes the psychic in another sense than ours as he speaks of world-psyche. P: He takes his stand on the Buddhistic karma theory. Sri Aurobindo: Yes. His contention that everything is fixed reduces this world to Maya. Even the...
The Advent - Volume 57 - Page 40 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2000 - Of course like the seventeenth and eighteenth century social thinkers of Europe Sri Aurobindo does not hold that people have brutish ends, will, power for all time and age as in social contract theory. Sri Aurobindo has vision for the future and ...
The Hindu personality in education: Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo - Page 161 - William Cenkner - 1976 - Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo William Cenkner. CHAPTER ELEVEN Educational Theory Sri Aurobindo articulated his basic educational ideas in the early part of the century when he addressed himself to the problem of national education.
Nirodbaran, divinity's comrade - Page 610 - Hemant Kapoor - 2003 - And as contrasted with Darwin's theory, Sri Aurobindo's theory of evolution is based on the Vedantic theory of involution. The nature is evolving from matter to life and from life to mind. The upward spiral of Nature has reached till this day the ...
Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 2001 - He did the same thing in his spiritual theory. Sri Aurobindo basically was not a theorist, he was a yogi, he was a person whom I call the pioneer of the supramental. In the first part of his life he was a prophet of Indian nationalism, and in the ...
Annual - Issues 5-8 - Page 56 - Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1946 - Coming to the actual arguments for the Illusionist theory, Sri Aurobindo makes a close examination of the applicability of the analogy of dream and hallucination to the world-experience and his main conclusion is that the analogies are utterly ...
Indian literature - Volume 32 - Page 159 - Sāhitya Akademi - 1989 - ing to Tyagi, has a significant place in Sri Aurobindo's poetic theory: Sri Aurobindo has isolated the poet's function from that of the philosopher and the scientist. His function is primarily neither to think out the reality of things nor to dissect ...
Pragna - Volume 8 2006 - Disciple: There is also the question of Hindu-Muslim unity which the non-violence school is trying to solve on the basis of their theory. Sri Aurobindo: You can live amicably with a religion whose principle is toleration. But how is it possible to ...
The Vedanta kesari - Volume 84 - Page 138 - Sri Ramakrishna Math (Madras, India) - 1997 - ... for one year— May 1908 to May 1909. Already advanced in yoga and committed to the evolutionary theory, Sri Aurobindo utilized his imprisonment to get at a clue to the next step in evolution. Sri Aurobindo says that it was a series of 138.
Muslim separatism: causes and consequences - Page 107 - Sita Ram Goel - 1995 - 1 A few months later, on 13 July 1923, a disciple had observed that "There is also the question of Hindu-Muslim unity which the non-violence school is trying to solve on the basis of their theory". Sri Aurobindo had replied: "You ...
Rewriting Indian history - Page 15 - François Gautier - 1996 - Can one accept such a theory? Sri Aurobindo, while praising the original caste system, does not spare it in its later stages: "it is the nature of human institutions to degenerate; there is no doubt that the institution of caste degenerated. It ceased ...
Quality Management Practices - Page 315 - R P Mohanty - 2009 - Preview Taiteriya Upanishad contains the Panchakosha (Five sheath) theory. Sri Aurobindo and most of the exponents of Indian wisdom have recommended it in their thought on education and training. The five sheaths are: Physical: Anna Vital...
The search of the cradle of civilization: new light on ancient India - Page 216 - Georg FeuersteinSubhash KakDavid Frawley - 2005 - Preview - Writing two decades before this discovery, purely on the basis of yogic experience and theory, Sri Aurobindo made this pertinent observation: The intellect is an organ composed of several groups of functions, divisible into two important ...