Aristotle, Nietzsche, Iqbal, and Sri Aurobindo

Annual - Issues 5-8 - Page 85 - Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1946 - detached from the environment, but in unity with the sky and the landscape, low-lying or hilly. Thus regarded, these man-made structures will appear as one in motive with their setting. Sri Aurobindo describes the two structures in these lucid words: One of these buildings climbs up — bold, massive in projection, up-piled in the ... Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 171 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007

The Literary endeavour - Volume 4 - Page 46 1982 - ... portray the world as mythical; see man, nature and God as an integrated whole, intimately engaged in a natural-supernatural setting. Sri Aurobindo's use of archetypal symbology, like Shelley's, marks an evolution of the natural to spiritual. Indian writings in English - Volume 1 - Page 20 - Manmohan Krishna Bhatnagar – 1996 The Advent - Volume 39 - Page 21 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram – 1982

The yogi and the mystic: a study in the spirituality of Sri ... - Page 5 Jan Feys - 1977 - This historical setting, Sri Aurobindo comments, must be transposed to its symbolical level (EG chs. 5 and 6). The Gita next exposes its Sankhya theory in chapter II. 1-38 ; in Aurobindo's commentary this is interpreted as a justification of the ...

Light to superlight: unpublished letters of Sri Aurobindo - Page viii - Aurobindo Ghose, Arun Chandra Dutt - 1972 - She had put the Ashram in its right evolutionary setting. Sri Aurobindo now could devote himself more intensely to his Yoga. The Master was full of tenderness for his pupil — solicitous for his spiritual well-being, affectionate; the disciple, ...

Towards supermanhood: the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 1 - Pritibhushan Chatterjee - 1977 - His ideal is in tune with man's bio-psychological nature and his social setting. Sri Aurobindo sets before man the ideal of the Superman. It is the duty of every man to realise this ideal of Supermanhood. Hence Sri Aurobindo shows in the first ...

Gandhi marg - Volume 18 - Page 266 - Gandhi Peace Foundation (New Delhi, India), Gandhi Smarak Nidhi - 1974 - An embodiment of the synthesis of eastern and western cultures and a vehicle for accumulated knowledge since time immemorial in a modern setting, Sri Aurobindo is universally acknowledged as a philosopher-poet and a humanist of a high ...

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page xii - Peter Heehs - 2008 - Preview - More editions The problem is not whether the disputed statement is true, but whether anyone has the right to question an account that flatters a group identity. Aurobindo has been better served by his biographers than most of his contemporaries have.

Life and Times of Netaji Subhas: Yogi Sri Aurobindo's "terrorism", ... - Page 35 - Adwaita P. Ganguly - 2003 - Preview In fact he was seeking his real identity. Aurobindo started working at translations from the Mahabharata, the Indian epic; and simultaneously wrote articles on political matters for the magazine Indu Prakash, published from Bombay. His article...

Indian Literature in English: Critical Assessments - Volume 1 - Page 25 - Amar Nath Prasad, Ajay Kumar Srivastava - 2007 - Full view In Aurobindo all things seem to open their secret core, their secret meaning and secret identity. Aurobindo's vision sees all and feels all as an integral part of his consciousness. Yet all seems … Aurobindo and Rabindra: The Angel Eyes 25.

The oneness/otherness mystery: the synthesis of science and mysticism - Page 472 - Sutapas Bhattacharya - 1999 - Preview All knowledge is in fact knowledge by identity, Aurobindo asserted, restating the traditional wisdom that knowledge is being as I have stressed above with the term realization. This identity is with the object of consciousness which is in itself a ...

Sri Aurobindo: a centenary tribute - Page 141 - Aurobindo Ghose, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1974 - The comparative study of Iqbal and Sri Aurobindo can reveal not only certain similarities but also their identity. Sri Aurobindo reinterpreted Vedantic philosophy in modern terms. He stands in strong opposition to Shankara's negativis- tic ...

Evolutionary, Spiritual Conceptions of Life - Sri Aurobindo, ... - Page 33 - Michael Leicht - 2008 - Preview It seems to me that as Nietzsche shifts the stress form Apollonian harmony and reason to Dionysian ecstasy and disorder Aurobindo has made a similar shift by worshipping the destructive Shiva instead of the creative Brahman! Madhusudan ...

Malayalam literary survey - Volume 13 - Page 243 - Kēraḷa Sāhitya Akkādami - 1991 - And the man of today is an 'Incomplete Man' for he has lost his identity. Sri Aurobindo and Nietzsche would turn in their grave for the expected man to evolve himself into a Divine Being and Superman respectively. Nothing can be done about it...

Studies in Indian aesthetics and criticism - Page 45 - K. Krishnamoorthy - 1979 - ... growing into one Achieve perfection by the magic throb And passion of their close identity. Sri Aurobindo interprets even the Aristotelian idea of catharsis as involving purification and transmuting the soul's memory into a spiritual experience...

Individuals and worlds: essays in anthropological rationalism - Page 110 - Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya - 1976 - tion of fallibility does not arise in the case of knowledge by identity. Sri Aurobindo thinks that man's true identity, although in essence unchanging and eternal, is disclosed in time; man's essential eternity and temporal individuality are two ...

The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 50 - Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - Preview What is dissolved is not the seeker's individuality but the ignorance of the essence of reality. Once this ignorance is removed he or she will "find either his transcendent Self or his true Person", the true individual. Sri Aurobindo does not deny ...

Religions in four dimensions: existential and aesthetic, ... - Page 348 - Walter Arnold Kaufmann - 1976 - ... but even hideous and repellent." In response, Aurobindo called himself "only a poor coarse-minded Oriental." He also explained that he himself was offering in translation only those passages of the Upanishads that Western readers could ...

The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 139 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions ... perhaps because of his (Lamprecht's) being influenced by the school of historical materialism. Aurobindo thinks that the Vedic Age represented the symbolic phase of Indian history, with intuition, mystic vision and imagination predominating.

The philosophy of integralism, or, The metaphysical synthesis ... - Page 222 - Haridas Chaudhuri - 1954 - Einstein is perfectly right when he says that space-time is not itself the basic stuff but rather a form of some more ultimate stuff or substance the precise nature of which is more than science can determine. Sri Aurobindo is definite on this point... The philosophy of integralism: the metaphysical synthesis in Sri ... - Page 101 Haridas Chaudhuri - 1967 - Sri Aurobindo maintains that space...

Nationalism, terrorism, communalism: essays in modern Indian history - Page 56 - Peter Heehs - 1998 - Aurobindo and the Muzaffarpur Incident The third task we set ourselves was to determine Aurobindo's connection if any with the attempted assassination of Douglas Kingsford, District Judge of Muzaffarpur. According to a widely reported story, ...

The bomb in Bengal: the rise of revolutionary terrorism in India, ... - Page 143 - Peter Heehs - 1993 - ... Alexander II to death. Whether the rest of the story is fictitious is more difficult to determine. Aurobindo, as we have seen, denied playing an active part in the terrorists' affairs, although he did admit that Barin sometimes came To Kill Kingsford.

Life and Times of Netaji Subhas: Yogi Sri Aurobindo's "terrorism", ... - Page 23 - Adwaita P. Ganguly - 2003 - Preview Both Aurobindo and E.M. Forster were at the King's; Nehru at the Trinity; and Subhas was at the Fitzwilliam Hall. Is it just a coincidence that the above four did play the most significant role in the dissolution of the British Empire, the discussion ...

World union - Volume 20 - Page 24 - World Union (Organization) - 1980 - Sri Aurobindo Poverty is no more a necessity of social life than disease of the natural body; false habits of life and an ignorance of our true organisation are in both cases the peccant causes of an avoidable disorder. — Sri Aurobindo ...

Janu's death: and other Kulapati's letters (first series) - Page 79 Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi - As a result, the Congress held at Surat broke up in disorder, Sri. Aurobindo was the greatest dynamic factor in the Extremist party. I was a sort of valunteer in this camp. Rumours were afloat at the time about some arrangement made by the ...

Sri Aurobindo's view of life is coherent

Integral Advaitism Of Sri Aurobindo - Page 292 - Rāmacandra Miśra - 1998 - Preview It is the principle that makes a synthesis of all experience and makes it a coherent whole. As Sri Aurobindo puts it, "Mind-sense is the basis, memory the thread on which experiences are strung by the self-experiencing mind: but it is the ...

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page x - Peter Heehs - 2008 - Preview - More editions But if they do not form part of a coherent view of life, they remain empty verbiage. Aurobindo's view of life seemed to me to be coherent, though not always easy to grasp. His prose was good, if rather old fashioned, and he had a wry sense of ...

Sri Aurobindo Ghose - Page 478 - Verinder Grover - 1993 - Preview But, actually there is no scepticism in Sri Aurobindo, partial knowledge there is, but it must be seen against the background of his Integral Knowledge. There is no mysticism too in Sri Aurobindo. He offers a coherent intelligible account of the ...

Tradition and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 142 - David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - Preview Aurobindo was able to meet the challenges of such rationalists as Bertrand Russell (an acquaintance and personal favorite ... being no more than a gifted rationalist, can and must be judged for consistency and coherence according to rational, ...

Sri Aurobindo and Vedānta Philosophy - Page 39 - Sheojee Pandey - 1987 - Preview - More editions Sri Aurobindo says, "But the second reason for refusing credit to our sleep experience is that a dream is something evanescent without antecedents and without a sequel; ordinarily, too, it is without any sufficient coherence or any significance ...

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, ...

Hinduism: New Essays in the History of Religions - Page 96 - Bardwell L. Smith - 1976 - Preview - More editions Only in the thought of Sri Aurobindo do we find an open and self-conscious recognition of a tantric world-view as the essential basis for a coherent synthesis of the diverse Hindu traditions. It is significant that Sri Aurobindo's attempt at a ...

Indian English literature: a new perspective - Page 127 - Gajendra Kumar - 2001 - Full view The Poetic Horizon of Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo himself once said that he had been first and foremost a poet and a politician, only later he became a yogi. Like Rabindranath Tagore, we find the organic coherence of a poet and a seer in Sri ...

Indian Literature in English: Critical Views - Page 41 - Satish Barbuddhe - 2007 - Full view He was an intellectual interested in yogic practice. His yoga was based on a firm and coherent theoretic basis. He was a freedom fighter and a political worker with a vision for the future.51 As a matter of fact, Sri Aurobindo is not an armchair ...

Sri Aurobindo: a centenary tribute - Page 61 - Aurobindo Ghose, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1974 - They could not be regarded as a 'mystic' or 'poetic' vision because Sri Aurobindo tries to build a coherent system on their basis and does not merely express them in an aphoristic manner. In the light of these presuppositions an attempt will be ...

Foundations of Indian Psychology Volume 1: Theories and Concepts - Page 336 - Cornelissen R. M. Matthijs - 2011 - Preview Knowledge by identity is for Sri Aurobindo the first and most important of these four types of knowledge. ... to Sri Aurobindo, the information the senses provide is far too incomplete and disjointed to create the wonderfully precise and coherent ...

Reflections From Shillong: Speeches Of M.M. Jacob - Page 81 - David R. Syiemlieh - 2005 - Preview - More editions Among all the Congress leaders Sri Aurobindo was special and singular, because he was the supra-conscient intellectual, the yogi, prophet of defied nationalism. During the five years 1905-1910, he articulated a coherent and powerful theory ...

Vedanta: Heart of Hinduism - Page 188 - Hans Torwestern, Loly Rosset - 1994 - Preview - More editions But what surfaced only sporadically with Vivekananda became with Aurobindo the very heart of an extensive and coherent system. He saw Brahman's manifest Creation not as an illusion or empty play, but as the gradual ascent of the divine ...

Foundations of Indian Psychology Volume 1: Theories and Concepts - Page 336 - Cornelissen R. M. Matthijs - 2011 - Preview According to Sri Aurobindo, the information the senses provide is far too incomplete and disjointed to create the wonderfully precise and coherent image that we make of the world. He holds that there must be some inner knowledge, some ...

Hartshorne, Process Philosophy, and Theology - Page 125 - Robert Kane, Robert Kane Stephen H. Phillips - 1989 - Preview - More editions To have (and one may only think one has) special, mystic reasons for a position does not exempt it from requirements of overall coherence. Aurobindo's theory that God is necessarily, and is necessarily aware of, a power to create, to "loose ...

Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's poetry, plays, and criticism - Page 102 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - Full view - More editions All of Sri Aurobindo's plays have five acts and plots that possess organic wholeness. They are complete, complex, coherent and of certain magnitude. They have conflict at the centre of their structural arrangement. Unlike the ancient classical dramas, his plays have sub-plots also.

The Political Thought of Aurobindo (Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers) - Page 98 - K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - Preview A theory of imperialism which does not take into consideration the political aggressions and conquering designs of peoples and empires in ancient and medieval periods cannot be an adequate explanation of the phenomenon. Aurobindo approaches the problem ...

Tradition and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 143 - David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - Preview ... a priori idea out of his own mind and plastering it as a label on the unexplained phenomena. Rather than an unexplainable phenomenon, Aurobindo claimed that "inner sight" was explicable as part of the unseen universe illuminated by his ...

The philosophy of evolution in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin - Page 222 Jan Feys - 1973 - When confining the evolutionary significance of the 'struggle for life' to a transitional phenomenon Aurobindo finds himself in perfect agreement with Teilhard, who admits that: " 'Survival of the fittest by natural selection' is not a meaningless ...

The Advent - Volumes 15-16 - Page 70 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1958 - On a central religious field he breaks the spiritual limits of 'medieval5 India more radically than anyone before him. Therefore the traditional piety of India stands frightened and confused before the phenomenon — Aurobindo." World affirmation...

Yoga, mathematics, and computer sciences: in change confronting ... - Page 94 1997 - The 'synthesis or integrality' of the consequent processes of movement in any dimensional direction, is a continuous phenomenon. Aurobindo, in Chapter V, pp. 36-37, of The Synthesis of Yoga clearly points out that an undiscriminating ...

Secularisation of Indian mind: a study of political ideas in India ... - Page 83 - V. Indira Devi - 2002 - ... phenomenon, Aurobindo opined: "...our ideal... is an Indian nationalism, largely Hindu in its spirit and traditions because the Hindu made the land and the people and priests, by the greatness of his past, his civilisation and his culture and his ...

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 ...

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...

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...

The search of the cradle of civilization: new light on ancient India - Page 216 - Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, David Frawley - 2005 - Preview - More editions 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 ...

Sanskrit and the evolution of human speech: based on Sri ... - Page 68 - Sampadananda Mishra - 2005 - 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 ...

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 ...

This worldliness was undermined until Sri Aurobindo

How Quantum Activism Can Save Civilization: A Few People Can ... - Page 221 - Amit Goswami - 2011 - Preview In Hinduism also, until Aurobindo, this worldliness was undermined as the pursuit of illusion, maya. But this kind of thinking must give way to new evolutionary thinking, per Aurobindo. This worldliness is not meaningless as the materialists ...

Mysticism and the new physics - Page 175 - Michael Talbot - 1981 - Preview - More editions (5) Evan Harris Walker echoes Aurobindo's sentiments when he notes that the behavior of elementary particles appears to be governed by some sort of conscious force. As Walker sees it, "Consciousness may be associated with all quantum ...

Quest for truth: a felicitation volume in honour of Prof. S. P. Kanal - Page 450 - Satewan Parsram Kanal, Kewal Krishan Mittal - 1976 - 11 So reminiscent were Aurobindo's words of the passion, the intensity, the flow that had characterised Vivekananda, that one almost wondered if it was not the latter's voice which had sounded to him in prison that spoke now through him.

The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-1908 - Page 470 - Sumit Sarkar - 1973 - A special feature here was the absence of the usual religious trappings, till Aurobindo introduced the vow on the sword and Gita in course of a second visit— and as we shall see, a secularist outlook characterised the leading Midnapur ...

Muscular Nationalism: Gender, Violence, and Empire in India and ... - Page 108 - Sikata Banerjee - 2012 - Preview - More editions ... based, motherhood and the asexual female body are centered in the narrative of a political movement marked by ideas of violence and blood sacrifice that are remarkably reminiscent of Aurobindo Ghose's concepts of muscular nationalism.

Surviving colonialism: a study of R.K. Narayan, Anita Desai, V.S. ... - Page 20 - Chandra Chatterjee, Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen - 2000 - This echoes Aurobindo's statement of 1907 that "to think that a foreign rule would deliberately train us for independence or allow us to train ourselves is to suppose a miracle in nature."30 In "The Ideal of Human Unity" which appeared serially ...

Modern Indian Interpreters of the Bhagavad Gita - Page 66 - Robert Neil Minor - 1986 - Preview - You are merely instruments of God for the work of the Almighty." The theme of surrender to the divine work continues throughout the Bombay speech and recurs in subsequent articles of Bande Mataram until Aurobindo's arrest on May 5, ...

Sri Aurobindo, the perfect and the good - Page 168 - Robert Neil Minor - 1978 - Good action was that which promoted the strength of the individual, the nation, and the race.25 The use of sakti as the energy of the Divine at work in all does not begin until Aurobindo's Nationalist period. From the Nationalist period on, the ...

Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: Resistance ... - Page 57 - Elleke Boehmer - 2005 - Preview - More editions

Swadeshi, boycott, national education, local justice—these were Aurobindo's watchwords of the time. For over two years Swadeshi nationalism defined itself in open opposition to the moderate politics of so-called prayer and petition of the ...

Gandhi or Aurobindo? and An appeal to Mr. Gandhi - Page v - Bhim Chandra Chatterjee - 1921 - Young India which set out on its political journey in the mood of the Bande Mataram and was flinging out phrases and sentiments strongly reminiscent of Aurobindo Ghose, has since deliberately and definitely cried a halt, and retraced its steps ...

Sri Aurobindo circle - Issues 46-47 - Page 92 - Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Sri Aurobindo Society - 1990 - 18 The "still 'higher' psychology" envisaged by Maslow strikingly echoes Sri Aurobindo's prevision of "the greater psychology awaiting its hour". In the late 1960s, Maslow, Sutich and other prominent humanistic psychologists founded an...

On the edge of the future: Esalen and the evolution of American ... - Page 72 - Jeffrey John Kripal, Glenn W. Shuck - 2005 - Preview - And for devotees, here embodying that exalted Self and self were Aurobindo and the Mother — twin avatars to bring in the Kingdom of God, "making possible the appearance of a new species on our planet" and playing an "active and even ...

Tradition and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 171 - David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - Preview ... albeit symbolically loaded and highly laudatory descriptions of the ways Aurobindo and the Mother structured Ashram life and divided authority between them until Aurobindo's death. These depictions show them in two important roles as the ...

The saffron swastika: the notion of "Hindu fascism" - Volume 2 - Page 643 - Koenraad Elst - 2001 - 178 This echoes Sri Aurobindo's Uttarpara Speech (1909): "The Sanatana Dharma, that is nationalism." There is no denying that on this question, Savitri Devi was entirely on the wavelength of the whole Hindu nationalist movement.

The meeting of the East and the West in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy - Page 166 – S.K. Maitra - 1956 - That birth, far from indicating any fall from Divinity, is, on the contrary, the highest form of Divine existence, is also the central idea of that famous verse of the Isopanisad the meaning of which had been a puzzle until Sri Aurobindo discovered it ...

Journal of religious studies - Volume 7 - Page 76 - Punjabi University. Dept. of Religious Studies - 1979 - This cannot be proved either way until Aurobindo's work on the Veda receives the attention that it deserves. More work needs to be done to investigate Aurobindo's use of Vedic Sanskrit and to take seriously his claim that "Under pressure of ...

The Advent - Volume 54 - Page 13 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1997 - With the rise of asceticism which denies life and birth it became a forgotten way and remained so for a long stretch of time till Sri Aurobindo retrieved it from obscurity in his monumental commentaries on the Veda and the Vedanta. There is ...

History Of Science And Philosophy Of Science: A Historical ... - Page 496 - Sengupta Pradip Kumar - 2010 - Preview - More editions

Besides, in India, since the time of Upanisads till Sri Aurobindo and Akhandamandaleshwar Sri Sri Swami Swarupananda Paramahansa Dev, one sees the supremacy offered to the might and strength of different ideas influencing the...

The Vedanta kesari - Volume 54 - Page 127 - Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras - 1968 - In fact, none at all knew of it till Sri Aurobindo himself revealed this part and its significance in a biographical note written during the later years and in his talks with the disciples ". An absorbing book portraying the multicolours of spiritual ...

Godly men and their golden works - Page 26 - Maharajapuram Natarajan Krishnamani - 1998 - Physical immortality was never considered as achievable by man till Sri Aurobindo emerged. Efforts were made here and there, by man to attain physical immortality. But ultimately, every man including even those who advocated for physical ...

The Rainbow bridge: a comparative study of Tagore and Sri Aurobindo - Page 196 - Goutam Ghosal - 2007 - However, Tagore echoes Sri Aurobindo's idea of man's awareness of his parts and there is a deliberate effort in him to arrive at a harmony of his mind, life and body. Sri Aurobindo sees it as a harmony of man's knowledge and will ...

The swan and the eagle: essays on Indian English literature - Page 29 - C. D. Narasimhaiah - 1987 - Toru Dutt left behind novels too, one in French and one in English though they come nowhere near Bronte's in quality. But she is important as originating in poetry a tradition which had to wait till Sri Aurobindo for mature handling; ...

Calcutta review - Page 168 - University of Calcutta, University of Calcutta. Dept. of English - 1959 - 'Man to become man-divine' echoes Aurobindo whose poetry, however, reaches an ecstatic level of spiritual realization and achieves radiant, vibrant expression. 

Thematic dichotomy of writings in Indian English, Indology, and ... - Page 53 - Satya Deo Sharma - 1985 - 3 Shaw's Superman echoes Aurobindo's spiritual divinity and in cenain respects his entire concept of Superamentalism was superior to even Shaw's and Tennyson's. In his magnum opus In Memoriam, Tennyson spoke of his theory of spiritual ...

Anthropology of the self: the individual in cultural perspective - Page 66 - Brian Morris - 1994 - As all aspects of the world are seen as simply manifestations of 'spirit', Wilber's analysis collapses into a puerile idealism reminiscent of Aurobindo, and gravely distorts the meaning of many Buddhist concepts. To equate Sunyata with ...

Gandhi and his Jewish friends - Page 5 - Margaret Chatterjee - 1992 - But she reflects this in a manner more reminiscent of Sri Aurobindo than of Darwin. She writes: 'The Secret Doctrine teaches the progressive development of everything, worlds as well as atoms; and this stupendous development has neither... The concept of spirituality - Page 15 - Margaret Chatterjee - 1989 - ... for Eucken, however, could only be made by "coming to terms with the existing condition of the world" and one's "own soul".11 Eucken's envisaging of what he calls an upsurge to the supra-vital is strongly reminiscent of Sri Aurobindo.

Sri Aurobindo has been gently set aside when country’s history is discussed

[The other jarring point in the book is the short shrift that Mishra gives to ‘radical’ freedom-fighter Aurobindo Ghose, who later metamorphosed into a spiritual leader and came to be known as Sri Aurobindo. He does acknowledge Aurobindo’s eminence, but only just, picking some of his sundry quotes like, “Bengalis were drunk with the wine of European civilisation”. It is not a remark that must have made him popular in his home State, and perhaps explains why he has been gently set aside when the country’s history is discussed. Apparently, for the author — like for the British — Sri Aurobindo was a mere footnote in the pages of history, while the likes of Rabindranath Tagore were the central figures.

It is true that Tagore influenced the country’s political philosophy immensely, but he had one ‘advantage’ which Sri Aurobindo lacked: A greater acceptability in the West following the Nobel Prize for literature that he won. Suddenly, he was an international figure and had a global platform to propagate his views. Still, it cannot be forgotten — and Mishra ought to have taken it into account — that Aurobindo’s contribution was not merely restricted to political awakening; he showed the path to ‘intellectual spiritualism’. That legacy still lives on in the Auroville Ashram in Puducherry. RAJESH SINGH  The alternative truth PIONEER Sunday Edition  Agenda  BOOKS  SATURDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2012]

[Autobiographical Notes_Vol-36 VOLUME 36: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO NOTE ON THE TEXTS PART TWO: LETTERS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST […] Most of the letters included in Part Two of the present volume were written before 1927. Those that were written after that date are parts of sequences that began earlier, or deal with special subjects, such as Indian politics. […]

Letters and Telegrams to Political and Professional Associates, 1906 ­ 1926. In August 1906 Sri Aurobindo began work as principal of the Bengal National College and as an editorial writer for the daily newspaper Bande Mataram. In May 1908 he was arrested in connection with the Alipore Bomb Case. A year later he was released. In 1910 he settled in Pondicherry and cut off all direct connection with the freedom movement, though he continued to be regarded by the British government as a dangerous revolutionary. For a while he remained in indirect contact with the movement through Motilal Roy of Chandernagore.

To Bipin Chandra Pal. 1906. Bipin (also spelled "Bepin") Chandra Pal (1858 ­ 1932) was a nationalist speaker and writer. Sri Aurobindo apparently wrote this note to him in September or October 1906. At this time, Pal was editor-in-chief of the nationalist newspaper Bande Mataram and Sri Aurobindo was its chief writer. This note was put in as evidence in the Alipore Bomb Trial (1908 ­ 9). The original has been lost. The text is reproduced here from a "paperbook" or printed transcript of the documentary evidence. […]Page – 574

To K. R. Appadurai. 13 April 1916. Appadurai was the brother-in-law of the poet Subramania Bharati. Bharati was living as a refugee in French Pondicherry at the time this letter was written. The "Mr. K. V. R" to whom Sri Aurobindo refers was K. V. Rangaswami Iyengar, who sometimes helped him out financially. […] Page – 580

To Joseph Baptista. 5 January 1920. Joseph Baptista (1864 ­ 1930) was a barrister and nationalist politician who was associated with Bal Gangadhar Tilak. In 1919 a group of nationalists of Bombay who took their inspiration from Tilak decided to form a party and to bring out an English daily newspaper. They deputed Baptista to write to Sri Aurobindo and offer him the editorship of the paper. Sri Aurobindo wrote this letter in reply.

To Balkrishna Shivaram Moonje. B. S. Moonje (1872 ­ 1948) was a medical practitioner and political activist of Nagpur. When Sri Aurobindo knew him in 1907 ­ 8, Moonje was one of the leaders of the Nationalist or Extremist Party. (Later he helped to found the Hindu Mahasabha; see Sri Aurobindo's telegram to Moonje in Part Three, under "On the Cripps Proposal".) Sri Aurobindo stayed with Moonje when he visited Nagpur in January 1908. Twelve years later, Moonje and others invited Sri Aurobindo to preside over the forthcoming Nagpur session of the Indian National Congress. In letter [1] , dated 30 August 1920, Sri Aurobindo set forth his reasons for declining this honour. [2] In this telegram, date-stamped on arrival 19 September 1920, he reiterated his decision.

To Chittaranjan Das. 18 November 1922. A barrister of Calcutta who became famous for successfully defending Sri Aurobindo in the Alipore Bomb Case (1908 ­ 9), Chittaranjan Das (1870 ­ 1925) later entered politics and became the leader of the Swarajya Party, which advocated entering the government's legislative assemblies in order to "wreck them from within". Sri Aurobindo wrote this letter to Das on the same day that he wrote another to his brother Barin (see the first letter under "To Barindra Kumar Ghose and Others" in Section Two below).

To Shyamsundar Chakravarty. 12 March 1926. Shyamsundar Chakravarty (sometimes spelled Chakrabarti or Chakraborty) (1869 ­ 1932) was a nationalist writer and orator. When Sri Aurobindo was editor-in-chief of the nationalist newspaper Bande Mataram, Chakravarty was one of its main writers. Eighteen years later he became editor of the Bengalee, a moderate nationalist newspaper of Calcutta. At that time he wrote to Sri Aurobindo inviting him to send contributions. This letter is Sri Aurobindo's reply. The original manuscript is not available. The text is reproduced from an old typed copy.]