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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 ...

October 03, 2012

Indian history mauled by Marxists

Vacancy Upstairs? from Centre Right India by Jaideep Prabhu
In India, at least when it comes to policy-making, it is not only reforms that is needed but intellectual capital, and that is a decades-long project… Not only does the country lack in erudite statesmen, but it also has no concept of an open society… Due to poor funding and frustrating regulations in India’s educations sector, there is not a single Indian university that stands out for an exceptional humanities programme. The average Indian’s aversion to the humanities has also hurt recruitment to the arts, but with poor faculty, atrocious library collections, a pervasive Marxist bias, and non-existent little opportunity in government or business, there is little to motivate young students to opt for the humanities over professional schools which will in all likelihood result in better-paying jobs. India lacks not only a talent pool of young and budding humanities scholars but also the mindset to develop such a workforce.

Bereft of all frills, Gandhi’s actual legacy is just twofold. One, he killed the spirit of free, fearless and robust intellectual discourse, which was thriving until the time of Balagangadhar Tilak and later, briefly, Aurobindo Ghosh. It is worth recalling what D.V. Gundappa wrote (which I’ve translated earlier) in this connection as early as 1928. “Thus the national atmosphere of discourse quickly became one where nobody could ever think of something different from what Gandhi thought. The minds of the general public—both literate and otherwise—soon became habituated to conformity, which then turned to blind loyalty towards a partisan idea.”

MK Gandhi was an opponent of the socialist ideology Arvind Kumar DNA Monday, October 1, 2012
Socialists around the world never fail to use the name of Mohandas Gandhi to push their agenda. However, Gandhi was far from being a leftist, and his political positions were in direct opposition to the left…
India’s history books in the past sixty years have been written by Marxists, and Gandhi’s views have been distorted to fit in with the Marxist agenda. These books suppress Gandhi’s views on Marxism and socialism and instead present a sanitized version of history with Gandhi merely as a hero to be worshiped before invoking the doctrine of socialism. Instead of deifying Gandhi as a Mahatma and blindly worshiping him, Indians would do well to objectively examine his works and understand his political views. The author can be reached at arvind@classical-liberal.net

If yoga’s Hindu roots create such anxiety by challenging Western religious pre-eminence, then how might Gandhi, who successfully challenged Western Universalism, leading and winning India’s fight for independence non-violently, fare in the West? Already we see attempts to co-opt Gandhi. A recent bizarre incident uncovering Gandhi’s posthumous baptism by the Mormon Church is an example of one such attempt of laying claim to him. (Gandhi himself deplored the practice of conversion by Christian missionaries in India).
Most Western authors on Gandhi will emphasise the influence of the New Testament on Gandhi. Indeed Gandhi spoke favourably of many passages in the New Testament and of Jesus, but never as passionately or as extensively as he did of the faith to which he belonged. In fact, Gandhi was being entirely true to his pluralistic Hindu beliefs in his respect for all faiths and not just his own.
In Peace Education studies in American universities, Gandhi’s success is attributed largely to the “context” – the apparent benevolence of British colonists in providing the fertile field on which he could exercise his non-violent agitation. (Gandhi himself had said that non-violent resistance could work in most situations, albeit with great sacrifice). Gandhi is routinely discussed in virtual isolation from his followers, the large and diverse group of eminent thinkers, and the Indian masses who very early embraced Gandhi’s non-violent practices spontaneously.
If Gandhi led, then millions of Indians, similarly inspired, agreed wholeheartedly and followed. Keeping Gandhi, but dumping his Hindu influences is already being attempted in Western scholarship. Fortunately, Gandhi, a prolific writer documented his own life and struggles quite extensively. Moreover, as his writings record, he dove deep into Indian culture, drawing upon it to frame the Indian independence struggle in terms that would resonate with his countrymen. His autobiography reveals that his moral life was anchored in his Hindu faith. In my view, Gandhi (and his ideas) resisted digestion because, quite cannily, he used Sanskrit words to give voice to India’s struggle and demands. Words like satyagrahaswadeshi,swarajahimsasva-dharma became an integral part of the lexicon of the Indian freedom struggle. By using these words and not their English equivalents, Gandhi preserved the complete range of their complex meanings, their dharmic origins and their cultural context.

A Must Read for Students of Indian HIstory May 25, 2011 By V. Lakshminarayanan The crux of the message of the book was saved for the last two chapters, 'Epilogue' and 'Hindsight-Foresight'. The two chapters provide a revealing commentary on the discourse of Indian history in our own time:
First, it is the story of the politicians of the Indian National Congress hijacking history and claiming exclusive credit for the departure of British from India… Second is the tragedy of the Indian history being held hostage by the Marxists and the Indian academics who are under the intellectual slavery of the Macaulay influenced English education. Unfortunately this hijacked history has been accepted by the mainstream population which is an even greater tragedy. A nation which does not know where it came from and how it got there will not know where it is going, and will not get where it wants to. "Tatya Topé's Operation Red Lotus" is a must reading all students of Indian history, for it logically resolves many of the puzzling events of 1857 war and provides the total picture in a clearer perspective.
Based in USA, Parag Topé is the founder and part owner of Vistarus. A relentless passion for history, combined with a master's degree in engineering and an MBA in strategy, makes Parag the chief architect of the book.