Like Conrad Sri Aurobindo broadened the range of English language

India gains new respect in Muslim world By Sultan Shahin Nov 25, 2003

Almost 90 years before Samuel Huntington wrote his famous essay on the impending clash of civilizations and later developed it into a book with the same title, and decades before even the RSS was formally organized in 1925, Bipin Chandra Pal, a Hindu nationalist leader of India's freedom movement, had foreseen this clash among various civilizations and predicted that Hindu civilization will side with the Judeo-Christian West in its war against Islamic and Chinese civilizations. 

Pal's essays and articles written almost a century ago make fascinating reading. A genuine thinker and visionary, Pal propounded his theories despite the fact that he considered the West as the greatest danger to humanity and was a great admirer of Islam's spiritual values. He thought that Islam was going to conquer large parts of the world, through its power of propaganda and not through war. He considered this inevitable. He was, however, scared of Islam's political manipulation. He foresaw the dangers of political Islam, which he considered an aberration. For, in his view, Islam is not only "extra-territorial" in its ideology, but also "extra-political". 

In order to appreciate better the mindset and intellectual training the BJP leaders have received, we can do nothing better than read brief excerpts from some of Pal's original writings. Despite the archaic early 20th century prose style, these passages are quite exciting. In a collection of his essays entitled "Nationality and Empire", Pal writes under the sub-head Pan-Islamism and Pan-Mongolianism: (Copyright 2003 Asia Times Online Co, Ltd. All rights reserved.)

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

Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader - Sachidananda Mohanty - 2012 - Preview - More editions showed the President the last testament of Sri Aurobindo dated 11 November 1950 (the latter passed away on ... to facilitate an American intervention in our favor and, what is of still greater moment, an American prevention of Mao's evil ...

Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page 181 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - Preview In this connection Sri Aurobindo refers to the idea of a League of Nations as advanced by President Wilson and also to the changing patterns of the Commonwealth. But unfortunately when the League of Nations was actually formed. America ...

Tradition and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 327 - David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - Preview

Thus, for Aurobindo, accurate historical descriptions, correct ethics, and higher consciousness coincide. ... been recycled in a celebration of one of the Ashram's more famous inmates in a movement publication put out by American followers.

Sri Aurobindo Ghose - Page 429 - Verinder Grover - 1993 - Preview Aurobindo's efforts to maintain contacts with the Second International and other Labour Parties vindicated his position as a thoroughgoing anti-colonialist though he looked at the national and colonial issue from a non-proletarian standpoint.

Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of ... - Page 234 - Makarand R. Paranjape - 2012 - Preview - More editions When Jones died, the challenge before India was nothing short of saving herself from cultural death or subjection, such was the pressure of the material and mental subordination under colonialism. But by the time Sri Aurobindo left his body in ...

Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's poetry, plays, and criticism - Page 142 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - Full view - More editions In case of Sri Aurobindo, his critical output may not be systematic but is vivifying with verve and vitality almost startling…

He is not a pedagogue or an academic, but essentially a poet and prophet above all a critic of new social and intellectual order which came in the wake of colonialism and the Renaissance. Quite natural to Sri Aurobindo he has recorded visions and insights rather than built intellectual systems. Page 143 In his thoughtful essay "The Aryan Ideal and the Three Gunas" Sri Aurobindo expresses a similar view 'Sattwa can never be the cause of downfall, indeed a nation which is predominantly Sattwic cannot remain bound in chains of slavery'.

Essays On The Gita - Page 469 - Sri Aurobindo - 2000 - Preview - More editions Sri Aurobindo. the necessity of the intervention of sattwa.

The sattwic quality is a first mediator between the higher and the lower nature. It must indeed at a certain point transform or escape from itself and break up and dissolve into its source; ...

Realization of God according to Sri Aurobindo: a study of a ... - Page 62 - George Nedumpalakunnel - 1979 - to the dominant guna in a man, he may be called either sattwic, or rajasic or tamasic.3 The spiritual discipline of Aurobindo, we shall see afterwards, in fact takes full acoqnt of this existential situation of man in the lower nature. He visualizes...

Aurobindo's Philosophy of Brahman - Page 132 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - Preview - While mystic experience does stand out not only justificationally but in his idea of the nature of divine life, Aurobindo's stress is on a continuity, mutual value, and mutual reality obtaining between the mystical and and our more ordinary ... Page 133 (… But note that it is the Romantic poet John Keats who puts forth the idea of the world as "the vale of soul-making.") Furthermore, these ideas connect with his yogic teaching that a worldly (as opposed to an ascetic) life is indispensable to ...

Poetic plays of Sri Aurobindo - Page 13 - Bimal Narayan Thakur - 2004 - Preview - More editions Sri Aurobindo had succeeded in conveying much though saying little, he had made Bhawani Mandir both the Virgin and the dynamo, both a manifesto for change and transformation and an ultimatum to the colonial power". And Bhawani ...

Critical essays on post-colonial literature - Page 19 - Bijay Kumar Das - 2007 - Preview - More editions of telling that English language has gained from Sri Aurobindo. He comes to this conclusion by comparing Sri Aurobindo with Joseph Conrad. Thus, he observes: Like Conrad who broadened the descriptive range of the English language, ...

New perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's plays - Page 25 - Saryug Yadav - 2000 - S.K. Nandi rightly evaluates the critical contribution of Sri Aurobindo in the perspective of colonialism and modernity. He remarks: "Thus the philosophies of art and beauty as found in the two Tagores (Rabindranath and Abanindrananath) and ...

Neo-Hindu views of Christianity - Page 212 - Arvind Sharma - 1988 - Preview - More editions Sattwa when predominant can make intelligence transparent, calm, poised and thus render it capable of reflecting the Light ... Sri Aurobindo says that evolution is now ready to take a further step in its work of releasing a level of consciousness ...

Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation - Page 157 - G. N. Devy - 2002 - Preview - More editions The perfect inspiration in the intuitive intellect is the sattwic or luminous inspiration, which is disinterested, self-contained, yet at will noble, ... Sri Aurobindo, The Harmony of Virtue The Essence of Poetry In order to get a firm SRIAUROBINDO 157.

Female gurus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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