Western learning ignited the pioneers of Indian nationalism

Raja Ram Mohun Roy - Page 150 Nalin C. Ganguly - 1934 - In rational thought the reformer was much influenced by the Muta'zalas (Moslem Rationalists) and the Absolute Vedanta, as well as by Locke, Rousseau, Hume, and the Encyclopaedists; yet he 'was above all and beneath all a religious ...

Studies on Sri Ramakrishna - Page 119 - Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 1988 - In his 'pure and rational theism', he was widely influenced by the Mutazales and monistic Vedanta, as well as by Locke, Rousseau, Hume, and the Encyclopaedists. At all events, he studied the major religions and searched out the element common to them all, viz. the unity of God.

Encyclopaedia Indica: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh - Volume 100 - Page 223 - S. S. Shashi - 1996 - In his inaugural address read at the Sri Ramkrishna Centenary Parliament of Religion and published in the Modern Review in April 1937, Dr Brajendranath Seal said: The Religions of the world - Volume 1 - Page 110 - Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture, Sri Ramakrishna Centenary Committee - 1938 -  Dr. Brajendra Nath Seal RAMMOHUN, KESHABCHANDRA AND RAMAKRISHNA Rammohun Roy, the precursor and in a very real sense the father of modern India, sought the Universal Religion, the common basis of the Hindu, Moslem, Christian and other faiths.

Glory Of Indian Culture - Page 84 Giriraj Shah Satya Pal Ruhela - 2003 - Preview The writings of Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Shakespeare, Locke, Hobbes, Schopenhauer, Mill, Dante, Nietzche and Karl Marx opened ... In this direction, pioneering work was done by Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Maharishi Debendranath Tagore.

Rammohun: a study - Page 32 - Nirmālya Bāgacī - 2005 - Brojendra Nath Seal has pointed out that Rammohun followed Voltaire and Volni when he classified mankind into four categories; and he had been influenced by Locke and Hume when he discussed the causes of superstitious beliefs.

Indian Political Thinkers: Modern Indian Political Thought - Page 18 - N. Jayapalan - 2000 - Preview Dr. Brajendra Nath Seal sums up his assessment of Roy as under : "He (Raja Ram Mohan Roy) gave a modern meaning and purpose to these ancient and medieval elements of Indian polity. He went on to link them up with representative ...

Hinterlands and Horizons: Excursions in Search of Amity - Page 34 - Margaret Chatterjee - 2002 - Preview - More editions

Taking factors such as these into account, Raja Rammohun Roy's patient debate with Marshman, and his support ... In both Shiv Nath Shastri's and Brajendrath Seal's assessment, the Raja's universalism points to a future in which religion ...

Swami Vivekananda: A Reassessment - Page 51 - Narasingha Prosad Sil - 1997 - Preview That he was deeply influenced by the Vedanta is attested to by his senior college mate Seal.52 Even Nivedita has reported Swamiji's acknowledgment of Rammohan's acceptance of the Vedanta, propagation of patriotism, and acceptance 3: ...

Ram Mohan Roy: social, political, and religious reform in 19th ... - Page xi - S. Cromwell Crawford - 1987 - For Sophia Dobson Collet, Ram Mohan presents "a most inspiring study for the New India of which he is the type and ... Brajendranath Seal credits him with having laid "the foundations of the true League of Nations in a league of National ...

Gandhi and the Challenge of Religious Diversity: Religious ... - Page 47 - Margaret Chatterjee - 2005 - Preview Raja Rammohun Roy (1772-1833), amidst his polemical encounters with Baptist missionaries, was anxious to maintain in ... but at the same time he did not accept any book or teacher as infallible'. Brajendranath Seal saw in him a man who ...

Modern Indian Political System: Problems and Prospects - Page 8 - B. K. Verma - 2006 - Preview - More editions Ram Mohan Roy was inspired by the teachings of Christian unitarianism and French enlightenment. Keshav Chandra ... Hegel's influence can be traced upon Brajendranath Seal, Aurobindo and Subhas Chandra Bose. Nietzsche's concept of...

Indian Political Thinkers: Modern Indian Political Thought - Page 14 -N. Jayapalan - 2000 - Preview Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a great champion of rights, Like Locke, Grotius and Paine, he accepted the theory of natural rights. Roy not only advocated the natural rights of life, property and liberty but also believed in the moral rights of the ...

Explorations in Modern Bengal, C. 1800-1900: Essays on Religion, ... - Page 31 - Amiya P. Sen - 2010 - Preview Rather than interpret or reinterpret dogma for the sake of defining belief, the greater intellectual challenge was to investigate the nature, tendency and function of belief itself. Like Locke and Newton whom he greatly admired, Rammohun ...

Social, Political, Economic, and Educational Ideas of Raja ... - Page 9 - Poonam Upadhyaya - 1990 - Preview - More editions But unlike some of the encyclopaedists, Rammohun was not a materialist. He also repudiated the ... As regards the political ideas of Rammohun Roy, he accepted like Locke, Grotius and Thomas Paine, the immutable sanctity of natural rights.

Calcutta: Society And Change 1690-1990 - Page 62 - Samaren Roy - 2005 - Preview - More editions Later Rammohun acquainted himself with the writings of empiricists from Bacon to Locke and Newton as well as the works of Hume, Voltaire and Tom Paine, and still later the Utilitarians. Never did Rammohun quote the Empiricists or Deists ...

Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective - Page 260 - ANU E Press - 2005 - Preview - More editions In a careful analysis of the material conditions of Rammohun's thought, S. N. Mukherjee did not erect the usual barrier ... Rammohun's faith in individualism was inspired by Western political philosophy, more particularly by the works of Locke and Bentham, ...

Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language - Page 41 - Srinivas Aravamudan - 2005 - Preview - More editions Rammohun was ultimately an anglicist, or an orientalist modernizer, depending upon one's interpretation. ... One of the earliest published accounts of an encounter with him by an English traveler records that he “quotes Locke and Bacon on ...

Vidyasagar: The Traditional Moderniser - Page 111 - Amales Tripathi - 1974 - Preview - More editions While Rammohun accepted British rule as affording pretection to natural rights, they might demand a government freely created by the consent of the Indians themselves, and even for an egalitarian right to property. Locke's utilitarian ethics ...

Gandhi And Indian Freedom Struggle - Page 144 - Mazhar Kibriya - 1999 - Preview Many of them studied the political ideas of Burke, Herbert Spencer, Macaulay, John Stuart Mill, Locke, Rousseau, Mazzini, Cavour, Voltaire, and Thomas Paine, and were imbued... Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Dadabhai Naoroji, W.C. Banerjea, Surendranath Banerjce, Pherozeshah Mehta, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, and D.E. Watcha were all educated in Western learning, and they became the first pioneers of Indian nationalism.

Ram Mohan Roy, his era and ethics - Page 32 -S. Cromwell Crawford - 1984 - The best-known guardian of the old ways was Radha Kanta Deb who crossed swords with Ram Mohan on more than one ... They sat at the feet of philosophers such as Locke, Hume, Reid, Stewart, Brown, Bentham; scientists, such as Dewey and Newton, social thinkers such as Tom Paine, Voltaire, and Adam Smith; and were...

History of political thought from Rammohun to Dayananda (1821-84) - Page 126 - Bimanbehari Majumdar - 1934 - Aristotle, Bacon, Locke, Comte, Laplace and Malthus. Not only does he mention their names ... The method of investigation followed by Akshoykumar differs fundamentally from that of Raja Rammohun Roy. The Raja drew his conclusions ...

Rammohun Roy: prophet of modern India - Page 76 - Sajal Basu - 2003 - Rammohun, the Father of Modern Political Movements in India. As the history of Western political thought ... like Plato and Aristotle in the ancient world, from Aquinas and Marsigli in the middle ages, and from Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, ...

Islam and the modern age - Volume 4 - Page 80 - Islam and the Modern Age Society - 1973 - Ram Mohan was thoroughly familiar with the writings of Voltaire, Rousseau, Locke, Jefferson and Thomas Paine. He drew inspiration from the spirit of the French and American Revolutions. He was so much stirred by the French Revolution ...

Hindu revivalism in Bengal: Rammohan to Ramakrishna - Page 19 - Kamal Kumar Ghatak - 1991 - Bacon to Locke and Newton as well as the propaganda of free thinkers like Hume, Gibbon, Voltaire, Tom Paine and others gradually confirmed Rammohun in his rejection of miracle, dogma and ritual. In his first philosphical work, the ...

Politics & society: Ram Mohan Roy to Nehru - Page 26 - Gollapalli Nagabhushana Sarma, Moin Shakir - 1983 - Ram Mohan Roy was also acquainted with the writings of Bacon, Locke, Blackstone, Bentham, Montesquieu and Adam Smith. The whole effort of Ram Mohan Roy was to create a "new '' religion on the basis of the rational interpretation of the ...

Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and ... - C. A. Bayly - 2011 - Preview - More editions Equally, Recovering Liberties contributes to the rapidly developing field of global intellectual history, demonstrating that the ideas we associate with major Western thinkers - Mills, Comte, Spencer and Marx - were received and transformed ...

Indian society: historical probings, in memory of D. D. Kosambi - Page 359 - R. S. Sharma - 1974 - It is not possible to single out any particular Western work which had influenced Rammohun most. But his works and correspondence clearly show that he was well acquainted with the works of Bacon, Locke, Blackstone and Bentham. It is ...

Whitman, Wittgenstein, Whitehead, and Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo Society : Meeting on 'The yoga of Savitri reading,' 3 Lajapathi Roy Road, Chinna Chokkikulam, 4 p.m.

Letter to the Ashram Trustees – by Nanjappa from Critique of The Lives 

Is ‘historical research’ the be all of Sri Aurobindo’s teaching or sadhana? Sri Aurobindo’s yoga is surely no easy matter, nor is it for the average person… His association with the Ashram is what confers some credibility to his highly prejudiced and totally distorted views… But the Peter Heehs episode is entirely different. It seeks to spread scandal in the guise of research studies, aiming to undermine the very basis of the Aurobindonian movement.

An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Metaphysical Cosmology: Part I ... - ericweiss.com 9 Jun 2006 June 9, 2006 I. Introduction A. It is my intention in this paper to give a brief introduction to my interpretation of Sri Aurobindo’s metaphysical system. The ideas presented here are very close to those of Sri Aurobindo, but they are not identical. In particular, my treatment of the category of Being is very influenced by my studies of Alfred North Whitehead… 12:52 PM - The Long Trajectory: The Metaphysics of Reincarnation and Life ... - Page 286 - Eric M. Weiss - 2012 - Preview It is these three terms that describe the metaphysical ultimates in Sri Aurobindo's system. Let us consider them one by one: Sat: Being In the metaphysical cosmology that grows out of transpersonal process metaphysics, “being,” or sat, ...

The Body Electric: Extending Soul into Cyberspace Posted by Andrew Neuendorf on November 12, 2012

I think Bostock would have an unlikely ally in Walt Whitman, no Luddite, who celebrated the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable  in his poem “Passage to India,” which is largely about the unfinished journey of Columbus. Whitman writes about this journey symbolically (not from a historical perspective, which would reveal Columbus’ mission to Christianize and enslave the indigenous West) as an attempt to unite East and West by bringing Europe and India together to begin a global civilization. (Columbus’s journey is also Edgar Morin’s historical starting point for the beginning of the planetary era in his book Seven Complex Lessons in Education for the Future, which I’ve written about recently here)… 5:41 PM

Free ALL Your Minds From The Hobbesian Nightmare from ANTIDOTE by Sauvik von Chakraverti Dec 22, 2012

Leviathan FELL FLAT as far as Englishmen in that Cromwellian Age were concerned – which is why it was John Locke’s Two Treatises on Civil Government (1690) that earned its author the reputation of a “prophet” – and went on to inspire Whiggism, the colonists of America, and the first “covenanted civil servants” of the Honourable East India Company as well.

“Where there is no Property there is no Justice,” wrote Locke. While Hobbes painted “statelessness” – what he called the “State of Nature” – in the most lurid prose: “A War Of Each Against All.” Adding that statelessness, or the State of Nature, would result in lives that are all “nasty, poore, brutish, and short.” In socialist India, we do have this Leviathan of a centralized State – but we have no Property – we have no Justice – and the lives of over half the residents of the Capital City itself are “nasty, poore, brutish and short”!

The Politics of God By MARK LILLA The Times Magazine: August 19, 2007
After centuries of strife, the West has learned to separate religion and politics — to establish the legitimacy of its leaders without referring to divine command. Next Page » Mark Lilla is professor of the humanities at Columbia University. This essay is adapted from his book “The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West,” which will be published next month. 7:15 PM

Christians addled by apocalyptic dreams hunted and killed Christians with a maniacal fury they had once reserved for Muslims, Jews and heretics. It was madness. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes tried to find a way out of this labyrinth. Traditionally, political theology had interpreted a set of revealed divine commands and applied them to social life. In his great treatise “Leviathan” (1651), Hobbes simply ignored the substance of those commands and talked instead about how and why human beings believed God revealed them. He did the most revolutionary thing a thinker can ever do — he changed the subject, from God and his commands to man and his beliefs. If we do that, Hobbes reasoned, we can begin to understand why religious convictions so often lead to political conflicts and then perhaps find a way to contain the potential for violence. The contemporary crisis in Western Christendom created an audience for Hobbes and his ideas. 

The ideal of human unity - Page 338 - Sri Aurobindo - 1999 - Preview - More editions One of the foremost Indian philosophers of the twentieth century, Sri Aurobindo was also a political activist, a mystic, a spiritual leader and a poet. Between 1927 and 1950, Sri Aurobindo remained in seclusion while perfecting a new kind of ...

Ontology of consciousness: percipient action - Page 400 - Helmut Wautischer - 2008 - In the first half of the twentieth century, Aurobindo built a still wider synthesis, encompassing not only what he felt was the essence of the Indian tradition but also what he considered the best that the Western civilization was in the process of ...

Knowledge, freedom, and language: an interwoven fabrics of man, ... - Page 189 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1989 - At about the same time, in the second decade of this century, Aurobindo in India (1914-1919) and Wittgenstein in Europe (1913-1921) addressed themselves to, one might say, essentially similar problems of knowledge and language. At least ...

Going against the flow: an exercise in ethical syncretism - Page 238 - Alan M. Laibelman - 2004 - Preview - More editions It is in vain to talk of the interest of the community without understanding what is the interest of the individual."41 In the twentieth century, Aurobindo extended Bentham’s admission into a definitive expression of political and social propriety, ...

Martin Heidegger: Critical Assessments - Volume 2 - Page 7 - Christopher E. Macann - 1992 - Preview - More editions But whereas Heidegger (however marginally) was for a while involved with one of the more lamentable regimes of the century, Sri Aurobindo spent a significant portion of his life actively engaged in contesting (verbally) the British occupation ...

Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence - Page 132 - Peter Burdon, Peter Burdon (ed.) - 2011 - Preview There have been many philosophies that are based on process, including Heraclites of Ancient Greece and Lao Tzu of China and in the twentieth century Sri Aurobindo in India, and Henri Bergson and Teilhard de Chardin of France. Among...

Sri Aurobindo came to me: reminiscences - Page ix - Dilip Kumar Roy - 1964 - For I fully agree with a modern appraiser who whites after referring to prophets "from Kierkegaard down to Buber" that "while men of their calibre may be expected in every century, Sri Aurobindo is an event over which Divine Providence is a ...

Christianity: Dogmatic Faith & Gnostic Vivifying Knowledge: The ... - Page 92 - George Heart - 2005 - Preview One of the greatest Esoteric philosophers of the twentieth century, Sri Aurobindo has devoted highly elaborated works to describe what he called the Supramental Realm in which will live the man of the coming Golden Age.

East West Poetics at Work: Papers Presented at the Seminar on ... - Page 160 - C. D. Narasimhaiah - 1994 - Preview - More editions

The poetry of Dryden and the poetry of 18th century, Sri Aurobindo maintained, came from the surface mental level, though earlier he felt like Arnold, that it was the poetry of the 'Age of prose and reason'. Browning and the Victorians wrote ...

Oh Calcutta - Volume 4 - Page 10 - 1974 - That is achievement enough for a single century." Aurobindo Bankim Chandra Chatterjee is the creator cf the Bengali novel — a pioneer among pioneers. He heralded an era in literature. He created and ushered in a golden age of which Sarat...

Vande Mataram: the song perennial - Page 38 - Amarendra Laxman Gadgil - 1978 - For Bankim chandra, Aurobindo played brilliantly the same role in the first part of this century. Aurobindo has called Bankim a Seer and a Sage. The atomic force compressed in the song and what miracles it would work in future could only be ...

The Sociology of Indian Politics - Page 300 - R. Motwani, R.D. Sakxena - 2002 - Preview All of India's leading political thinkers have followed Vivekananda's conceptualization of politics and power. The first to accept him was also the most systematic political philosopher of this century — Sri Aurobindo Ghose. Among Aurobindo's ... Encyclopaedia of Sociology of Politics - Page 300 K. Motwani, R.D. Saksena - 2002 - Preview 

Gandhi marg - Volume 20 - Page 139 - Gandhi Peace Foundation (New Delhi, India) - 1998 - Vivekananda's discussion of individual freedom and social responsibility was continued and enlarged not only by Gandhi but by other Indian theorists early in this century. Aurobindo Ghose and Bipin Chandra Pal (1858-1932) conceptualized ...

"Of Many Heroes": An Indian Essay in Literary Historiography - Page 82 - G. N. Devy - 1998 - Preview - More editions In this sense, Sri Aurobindo was the first original historiographer of Indian literature during the twentieth century. Sri Aurobindo argued in his passionate defence of Indian culture that though temporarily occluded, it was not an entirely atrophied ...

Race and Racialization: Essential Readings - Page 108 - Tania Das Gupta - 2007 - Preview Hindu discussions about Aryan origins are probably best represented in the speeches and writings of the nationalist activist and spiritualist Aurobindo Ghose during the early part of this century. Aurobindo, a spiritual source of emulation for...

History Of Ancient India (portraits Of A Nation), 1/e - Page 107 - Kapur, Kamlesh - 2010 - Preview - More editions In the beginning of the last century, Aurobindo Ghosh, another noted philosopher said, "The racial identification of supposed Aryans and non- Aryans was just a conjecture supported by other conjectures... a myth of philologists." After studying...

Culture and Customs of India - Page 29 - Carol Henderson Garcia, Carol E. Henderson - 2002 - Preview - More editions In the twentieth century, Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950) established an influential religious center in Pondicherry. A concept of selflessness linked to a search for inner awareness energized many who called for social change. In the 1980s and ...

Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation: Multifaith Ideals and Realities - Page 48 - Jerald D. Gort, Henry Jansen, H. M. Vroom - 2002 - Preview - More editions From the late nineteenth century onwards, Sri Aurobindo was active in political journalism and in behind-the-scenes organization of the first stirrings of Indian revolutionary nationalism. In the first decade of the twentieth century Aurobindo had ...

The persistence of religion: an essay on Tantrism and Sri ... - Page 79 - Kees W. Bolle - 1971 - Preview - More editions Although the struggle for independence was never a merely political issue for Indian leaders, particularly in the early years of our century, Aurobindo found ways and traditional, religious terms in which to voice the desire for independence that ... Studies in the History of Religions - Page 79 - 1956 - Preview - More editions

Indian Wisdom and International Peace: From the Vedas & Lord ... - Page 33 - R N. Vyas, Vyas R N - 1987 - Preview The religion of humanity was put forth for the first time in the West in 18th century. Aurobindo calls it "the manasa putra of the rationalist thinkers who brought it forward as a substitute for the formal spiritualism of ecclesiastical Christianity.

General elections in India: electoral politics, electoral reforms, ... - Page 173 - M. L. Ahuja - 2005 - As a revolutionary nationalist writing in the first decade of the 20th century, Aurobindo welcomed pan-Islamism and the rise of a separate Muslim self-consciousness. He saw it as a sign of the vitality of nationalism and as part of the process of ...

Managing the global: globalization, employment and quality of life - Page 146 - Donald McLean Lamberton, Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research - 2002 - Preview - More editions D.P. Chattopaclhyaya (1988 and 1997) has competently dwelt on the subject, after the Indian savant of the 20th century, Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo 1972), and has stressed that the Indian ideal encompasses both the physical and the mental ...

Dante and Sri Aurobindo: a comparative study of The divine comedy ... - Page 33 - Prema Nandakumar - 1981 - Hence Savitri came to be written, not in Bengali or Sanskrit, but in English. In a poetic career extending over half a century, Sri Aurobindo had experimented with a variety of literary forms in English: essays, skits, poetic dramas, lyrics, sonnets...

Śrī Madhva's teachings in his own words - Page 23 - B. N. Krishnamurti Sharma - 1979 - In the present century, Aurobindo Ghosh has gone the farthest in trying to plumb the depths of mystic interpretation of Vedic hymns. Madhva's influence on these two great modern representatives of the Arsa tradition of Vedic interpretation ...

Page 115 - Preview Thanks to the insight and inspirations of Dayananda at the close of the Nineteenth Century, followed by spiritual experiences of another great savant of the present century, Sri Aurobindo, there has been a complete metamorphosis of our thinking and evaluation of the Vedic texts.

Ancestral Voices: Reflections on Vedic, Classical and Bhakti Poetry - Page 8 - Ramesh Chandra Shah - 2006 - Preview - More editions Vedic literature gives an emphatic and unambiguous answer to this question when it declares that 'infinity alone can satisfy man' ('Bhumd vaisukham ndlpe sukhamasti — Ch.U.7). In our own century, Sri Aurobindo, under Dayananda's ...

Sri Aurobindo's theses on biology, psychology, and sociology

India's True Voice - Page 67 - Alvin Boyd Kuhn - 1992 - Preview - More editions So it must study the cosmos that is, observe its modes, habits, laws, catch its spirit and thus reproduce itself in its likeness. In somewhat more technical language Aurobindo asserts this same positive fact. If, he says, we strive to lift ourselves out ...

Derrida and Ind Philosop - Page 112 - Harold G. Coward - 1990 - Preview - More editions This clue, with its emphasis on the double sense of poetic words, also provided the basis for Aurobindo's analysis of language. Aurobindo maintained that the ancient mystics discovered the true knowledge and sacredness of life. This wisdom ...

Aurobindo's philosophy of Brahman - Page 29 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - Preview - More editions As for mystics' paradoxical language, Aurobindo suggests that it is often resolvable by better articulation and perspicuity. He claims that Brahman is "infinite" such that some predicates which would be contradictory when attributed to finite ...

The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 217 - Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - Preview It is not possible for the untransformed mind to translate the radically different height of the supramental Consciousness-Force into human language. Sri Aurobindo does not ask everybody to become supramental; in the first step of ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 145 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007 - In his study of the Vedic language, Sri Aurobindo has dwelt at length on this issue. Studied intellectually, we may not find any natural or inherent equivalent between any sound and its sense. There must have been an indefinable quality in the ...

Knowledge, freedom, and language: an interwoven fabrics of man, ... - Page 189 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1989 - While Wittgenstein was deeply persuaded of the necessity of picturesqueness and the clarity of logical language, Aurobindo takes these traits as indicative of the poverty of the same. Secondly, the former's mysticism is primarily an admission ...

Environment Evolution & Values - Page 71 - D.P. Chattopadhyaya - 2007 - Preview - More editions Sri Aurobindo's theses on biology, psychology and sociology are all integrally related by his main evolutionary metaphysical theory. Compared to Pierre Teilhard's language, Sri Aurobindo sounds more metaphysical. But in fairness to both it ...

Report, with accompanying papers - Issue 120 - Page 88 - Dante Society of America - 2004 - ... Aurobindo shares with Dante the same philosophical/theological quest expressed in symbolic and metaphoric language. Aurobindo and Savitri The child of a Bengali Anglophile, Aurobindo had been raised speaking English and educated ...

Papers in language and linguistics - Volume 3 - Page 72 - Ujjal Singh Bahri - 1997 - Poetic language, Aurobindo feels, ought to mediate between God and man. The instinct to create language lies in the creative intensity of the poet : "Something of the language may be supplied by the mind or vital something may break ...

Dynamic Facets of Indian Thought: Western impact on Indian thought - Page 107 - Anil Kumar Sarkar - 1988 - Savitri was written in blank verse to catch something of the Upanisadic and Kalidasian movement, so far as that is a possibility in English language. Aurobindo used Savitri as a means of ascension, from a certain mental level to reach a higher ...

Selected Works of M.P. Pandit: Sri Aurobindo - Page 380  - Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Rand Hicks - 1993 - Someone had commented that nobody would understand Savitri with all its mystical turns and abstruse language. Sri Aurobindo replied that he had not written Savitri for anybody but for himself. That is the perspective in which you have to ...

Sri Aurobindo's prose style (with a foreword by V.K. Gokak) - Page 82 - Goutam Ghosal - 1991 - Here again in this casual narrative exercises, we stand before a lord of language. Sri Aurobindo knows how to combine poetry and irony in his narrative. "Who the devil are you?" cried the young man again, marvelling. As if to answer the moon ...

World Religions: India's religious quest - Page 68 - Young Oon Kim - 1976 - Using familiar Christian language, Aurobindo calls for "a new kind of theocracy, the kingdom of God upon earth, a theocracy which shall be the government of mankind by the Divine in the hearts and minds of men. " 16 For such a new age the...

Knowledge, Consciousness and Religious Conversion in Lonergan and ... - Page 14 - Michael T. McLaughlin - 2003 - Preview Aurobindo lacks Lonergan's complex theory of meaning and value and the role of language. Aurobindo's strength is his phenomenology of meditation practice. This final chapter will try to show the strength and weaknesses of each approach...

Papers On Indian Writing In English : Poetry - Page 5 - A.N. Dwivedi - 2001 - Preview - More editions ... "Thought the Paraclete" and "The Rose of God" are among the finest mystical poems in the English language. Sri Aurobindo has also successfully employed classical quantitative meters to his own purpose and accomplished new harmonies...

Homer and the Iliad, Sri Aurobindo and the Ilion: illumination, ... - Page 53 - Kireet Joshi, Indian Council of Philosophical Research - 2004 - Let us also mention here that this great poem comes to us in the royal garment of hexameter in the contemporary English language. Sri Aurobindo had suggested in his essay On Quantitative Metre that "The Hexameter, half a dozen of the ...

Between Jerusalem and Benares: Comparative Studies in Judaism and ... - Page 256 Hananya Goodman - 1994 - Preview - More editions The style of the two poets is very different, even allowing for the difference in language. Sri Aurobindo, as was seen earlier, owes a lot to Vedic hymns and to Romantic poetry. At times he seeks to attain the conciseness of mantra. But, on the ...

Sri Aurobindo Ghose: the dweller in the lands of silence - Page 114 - William Kluback, Michael Finkenthal - 2001 - This divine yearning belonged to an age when man believed himself to be close to divinity, when the separations were not abysmal and unbridgeable. Today, we mock language. Sri Aurobindo observed that "no thinking age has been so far ...

Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history - Page 348 - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - Behind the guarded language, Sri Aurobindo had made his second open letter both an ultimatum to the Government and a mobilisation order to the Nationalist party. Ill It was perhaps expected that, as after the publication of the first letter in ...

Education In Emerging Indian Society - Page 357 - Y.K. Singh - Preview - More editions Training of Language Explaining his principle for training of language, Sri Aurobindo finds out that first the child should know the things and then the ideas. He laments that most of the dealings with language show an absence of fine sense of ...

Gandhi-Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan on Bhagavadgita - Page 46 - Susmit Prasad Pani, Geeta Satpathy - 2009 - They had the natural barrier of language. Sri Aurobindo couldn't communicate fluently in Bengali and Mrinalini in English. They seemed to have drifted apart gradually and the marriage was not a landmark in the life of Sri Auronindo.

Sri Aurobindo is neglected as a literary critic

Sri Aurobindo Ashram - E-Library - Works Of Sri Aurobindo - CWSA - 28 Letters On Yoga-I Page – 272 … it is not our hope to transform suddenly the whole human race. Your object is precisely to lead a higher life away from the ordinary world, only it is not solitary; there is a collective side to it and a side, not only of meditation, but of work, action and creation. There is nothing in this that is impossible.

Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page xx - -Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - Here the student of the history of sociology can hardly fail to note that the Marx-Aurobindo controversy is a creative extension of a very old and interesting intellectual battle which has been going on for centuries and drawing into its arena distinguished thinkers like Hobbes, Rousseau, Vico, Hegel, Comte, Mill, and Morgan. 6:46 PM

Aurobindo, the first Indian English critic of poetry – Dr. Sandipan Vitthal Wanve, Maharashtra

Sri Aurobindo is neglected as a literary critic. Because people considered him as a saint, a yogi and even a philosopher but not as a literary critic and poet of eminence. But actually he was a man with a keen sense of critical perception…

Aurobindo has an encyclopaedic range. Not only English authors but European writers all come under the critical purview of Aurobindo. Ancient Indian works like Vedas and Upanishads are also studied by him. Aurobindo has used Eliot’s observation ‘Comparison and Analysis’ in his criticism. He has studied Milton beside Dante, Homer beside Valmiki and so on. His theory of translation of poetry is very fascinating. He think that there are two ways of rendering a poem from one language into another- one is to keep strictly to the manner and turn of the original, the other to take its spirit, sense and imagery and reproduce them freely so as to suit the new language.

Aurobindo’s observations about the poet and poetry create special place in Indian criticism. He is the first Indian English critic of poetry with a theory of his own. His assessment of English authors remains as a gift for the readers.

Sri Aurobindo - the vocal opponent of socialism - Sanjeev Sabhlok's revolutionary blog sabhlokcity.com

Most people think of Sri Aurobindo as a great spiritual and literary master. Few realise that he was, in line with Vivekananda and most Indian philosophers, a great proponent of liberty and – in Sri Aurobindo's case – a direct opponent of socialism… The more I think about it, it becomes clear that I am speaking from the ANCIENT INDIAN TRADITION. It is an instinctive expression of critical thinking, tolerance, and liberty that ancient India so deeply understood… a deep instinctive tolerance and insistence on liberty. It was an instinctive expression of Indian-ness, the true Hindutva… It is time to reclaim Hindu Capitalism (also known as Hindu Dharma) and bring tolerance and liberty back to India. This includes economic freedom and incentive-based governance outlined in Arthashastra.

A Philosopher Defends Favoritism BY CARL L. BANKSTON III Steven T. Asma has an interesting article on fairness versus favoritism...

I have consistently found that the actions of parents undermine programs aimed at redistributing resources and opportunities to achieve uniform “fairness” in American schools. Even when parents sincerely believe that every student should have exactly the same benefits and opportunities, they do everything they can to maximize the opportunities of their own children. Since some families are better able to realize their goals than others, families promote inequality of opportunity. They are, Asma might say, devoted to favoritism. This, I think, is as it should be. Parents who do don’t want to promote the best interests of their own children over goals of abstract equality are, to put it bluntly, bad parents.

The Soul, Karma and the Evolutionary Progression « Sri Aurobindo Studies

The law of karma as part of a process of soul evolution and development can only have meaning if it is continuous and follows the line of development.

Message on Mother's Mahasamadhi 17th Nov Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles.

Devotees throng Aurobindo ashram Webindia123 - Thousands of devotees from all over the country and abroad thronged the Sri Aurobindo Ashram here today to pay tributes to the Mother, a leading disciple of Sri...

Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Delhi Branch. Saturday 17 November 2012 The Mother’s Mahasamadhi Day will be observed in the Ashram as a day of SILENCE

6.45 p.m. - Offering of Lights of Aspiration

7.00 p.m. - Silent Meditation

On 17th November 1973, the Mother left her body. She was ninety-five. Many among her children were deeply shaken for the time being. But they realise now that she is always present amidst them.

Both at home and abroad, the devotees see the Mother in their dreams. They feel her presence, listen to her message and get inspiration and instruction in their work. They firmly believe that the Mother will return in a new form. Meanwhile her mission is getting quietly fulfilled more and more. When Sri Aurobindo left his body the Mother said, "Nothing has changed. All that Sri Aurobindo has said is true, time will prove it." On the Mother's withdrawal, her children are carrying on her work repeating the same dictum "Nothing has changed."

It is upon you, the young, that her hope rests.

Home > Sri Aurobindo> Memorial Plaques In Calcutta

"Sri Aurobindo and Calcutta Memorial Committee" identified places in Calcutta where Sri Aurobindo had stayed at or worked from. In co-operation with the Calcutta Municipal Corporation, Memorial Plaques were erected at these identified sites - a consummation of Joya di's long and laborious endeavour.

Guidance for the seeker

This message is generated randomly from a collection of short written statements taken from the notes, letters, and messages of The Mother. The process of generating the guidance is the electronic equivalent of randomly looking up a book to receive an indication or answer.