Sri Aurobindo is treading the domain of the superhuman

Memory played an important part in Locke’s philosophy of money. Keith Hart

Money in the making of world society 2  - 20 October 2007 9:04 am

For him a person, by performing labour on the things given to us in common by nature, made them his own. But, to sustain a claim on his property through time, that person has to remain the same; and personal identity depends on consciousness. Property must endure in order to be property and that depends on memory. Money thus expands the capacity of individuals to stabilize their own personal identity by holding something durable that embodies the desires and wealth of all the other members of society. Money is a ‘memory bank’, a store allowing individuals to keep track of those exchanges they wish to calculate and, beyond that, a source of economic memory for the community. One of money’s chief functions is remembering.

The Present State of Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Baikunth

Coming back to Ashram life, this slow process of deterioration over the last three decades is essentially due to the physical withdrawal of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother along with the gradual disappearance of the first generation of disciples that came to the Ashram leaving everything behind – family, friends, property. The present inmates (especially the ex-students of the Ashram School) do the reverse – they gather family, friends and fortune, and establish themselves firmly as well-settled citizens of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry, with no intention whatsoever to consecrate themselves to Yoga. What can you expect therefore from the collective life of the Ashram? Only a good life of leisure, sports, art, drama, talks and other programmes reminding us of the great teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother without being able to do any justice to them… In the meanwhile, their long-standing policy of deliberate neglect of the problems of Ashram life has brought the community to the brink. 

Overcoming the Reward and Punishment View of the Law of Karma ...

We focus generally on the law of Karma in the light of our nature of desire. We seek pleasure and try to avoid pain. We want to be rewarded and we want to avoid punishment. This is the nature of the desire-soul in man that is based on the vital principles of attraction and repulsion, with an underlying principle of desire. We therefore tend to see the law of Karma as an external representation of this desire-soul’s focus, and thus, overlay our all-too-human tendencies on the universal Spirit.

While it may seem to operate this way for some time in our development, eventually we begin to recognize that the Spirit is beyond the limitations imposed by our vital seekings. The higher aspirations and deeper meaning of our lives can at that point no longer be held hostage to the desire-soul’s limited view.

Savitri and The Yoga of the Cells by Sri Aurobindo, The Mother and RY Deshpande (Jan 20, 2013) $0.99 Kindle Edition

The Mother’s Yoga of Cellular Transformation begins in it. In the present work we have excerpted broadly passages from the revelations made by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother about their attempts and realisations. These accounts roughly corresponds to the period 1940 to 1973 when the Mother withdrew from her physical body—the three decades in which intense yoga-tapasya was done in the physical for the Divine’s physical. We are extremely fortunate that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have left some of these details as a part of their consciousness for us to enter in, grow in it, the new Consciousness the Mother spoke of on 1 January 1969.

Savitri Foundation is glad to bring out this work in two volumes. While Savitri and the Yoga of the Cells forms the first textual presentation, the second will deal with the Overman or Surhomme stage forming a precursor, a bridge between the sentient Man and the Supramental or Gnostic Being, Towards the Intermediate Race.

Rodogune from Auroville Radio by contact@aurovilleradio.org  (Fabienne)

This play in 5 Acts is located in Syria of the playwright’s imagination. Rodogune, the Parthian Princess captured by Syria and made attendant of queen Cleopatra. Antiochus and Timocles, the sons of Cleopatra by her first husband, have been brought up in Egypt. At the death of Cleopatra’s second husband, they return to Syria. The selfish queen mistakes fulsome flattery for real love and rejects Antiochus. He revolts to claim the throne of Syria; and both Rodogune and Antiochus who are mutually attracted by love, join together in this venture. 

Rooting for the revival of a grand tree - The Hindu

The tree is an 82-year-old Peltophorum pterocarpum that stands next to Sri Aurobindo's Samadi, which was named 'Service Tree' by the Mother. Through the ..

Swami Vivekananda: A Hindu Supremacist? from Centre Right India - Jan 22, 2013 by Aravindan Neelakandan - Outlook is at it again. It has unleashed a camapign of calumny against India’s most venerated spirtual icon…

David L Gosling, a Cambridge scholar and author of the seminal work ‘Religion and Ecology in South East Asia’ states that Vivekananda’s interpretation of karma-yoga as the basis for this-worldly action which was central to his teaching paved the way for Gandhian ethics.

Frontline, Volume 30 - Issue 02 :: Jan. 26-Feb. 08, 2013 Attempts at appropriation PRALAY KANUNGO Swami Vivekananda never entertained violent identity politics. But his “missionary Hinduism” offered potential for the development of a militant Hindu nation, allowing Hindutva to make selective readings and interpretations of his texts and speeches…

Vivekananda’s engagement with Hindu identity has evoked contesting responses. While one view portrays him as a proponent of a strong and virile Hindu nation and interprets his ideas of tolerance and unity of all faiths as fragile, another view contests the “stereotyping” of Vivekananda as a militant Hindu, arguing that Vivekananda’s personal quest for ultimate realisation sets limits to identity politics, thereby making his agenda of national revival not particularly Hindu. Both the versions seem to be partly true. Vivekananda’s views were quite complex and frequently ambiguous. But he surely operated within the paradigm of religious enlightenment: though he stressed the self-assertion of Hindus, he never entertained violent identity politics. However, it is clear that his “missionary Hinduism” offered potential and possibilities for the development of a militant Hindu nation, allowing Hindutva to make selective readings and interpretations of his texts and speeches. Moreover, Vivekananda’s approach to philanthropy and accommodation of the marginalised has also been found handy for Hindutva leaders to construct an inclusive pan-Indian Hindu identity by expanding Hindu ecumeny. Hence, Hindutva’s claim on Vivekananda’s legacy may not be completely misplaced! Pralay Kanungo is Professor and Chairperson, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Remembering Vivekananda

Unlike Sri Ramakrishna, Vivekananda was not a sadhaka, nor did he possess the philosophical depth or originality of Sri Aurobindo. His most precious ...

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The Influence Of Swami Vivekananda And Sri Aurobindo By Argha Banerjee. How shall I express in language my indebtedness to Sri Ramakrishna and Swami ...

Es - Volumes 27-29 - Page 155 - Universidad de Valladolid. Departamento de Inglés - 2006 - What Sri Aurobindo did was to conceptualise and problematise certain issues with relation to the human being's changing encounters with consciousness and the world. He occurred at a crucial point in the formation of a nationalistic ...

Immortal Sarvoday - Page 30 - N. hazary - 2007 - Preview Gandhiji gave serious thought to the question of Swaraj in 1908 in his book Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule. But the Swaraj of his conception was different from the concept of Swaraj of Tilak and Aurobindo.

Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings - Page xxx - Mohandas Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel - 1997 - Preview - More editions In contrast to the Moderates, no Extremist is mentioned by name in Hind Swaraj - an indication of Gandhi's distance from them. In other words, Tilak and Aurobindo Ghose, their distinguished leaders, are passed over in silence. Gandhi was ... Page xxxi Neither would Aurobindo Ghose's appeal to shakti - power in its creative but violent forms, mythologised by Durga, Bhavani and Kali - have been more reassuring to the Mahatma. While no work by the Extremists is included in the Appendix, ...

Gandhi marg - Volume 21 - Page 314 - Gandhi Peace Foundation (New Delhi, India), Gandhi Smarak Nidhi - 1999 - It was conceptualised by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in his novel Ananda Math. Its practical applications could be found in several persons like Sri Aurobindo, Swami Shraddhananda, and even in Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Gandhi's ...

Social action - Volume 44 - Page 89 - Indian Social Institute, Indian Institute of Social Order - 1994 - Another thinker and a practising nationalist Sri Aurobindo conceptualised the politics, and political action in a similar vein. ... It is not surprising, therefore, that in Aurobindo's opinion, "Nationalism is not a mere political programme, nationalism ...

Secularism and liberation: perspectives and strategies for India today - Page 111 - Rudolf C. Heredia, Edward Mathias, Indian Social Institute - 1995 - Another thinker and a practising nationalist, Sri Aurobindo, conceptualized politics and political action similarly. He considered India as his motherland, which to him symbolised a spiritual as well as a geographical entity. During the British rule, ...

India's Freedom Movement: Legacy of Bipin Chandra Pal - Page 104 - Binay Bhattacharya - 2007 - Preview - More editions ... advocated by Bipin Chandra Pal, Aurobindo Ghose and in the vision of Hindu rashtra viewed by M.S. Golwalker and his followers. Serving ... In post-colonial India it is difficult to conceptualise nation state in terms of religious particularism.

Colonialism, Tradition, and Reform: An Analysis of Gandhi's ... - Page 57 - Bhikhu C. Parekh - 1999 - Preview - More editions Lala Lajpat Rai, Aurobindo, the later Narmada Shankar, Tilak, Motilal Nehru and the early Gandhi, thought that British ... an opportunity to turn the corner. Like their rulers, they too conceptualised the colonial encounter in pedagogical terms.

World Government and Thakur Sen Negi - Page 201 - M. G. Chitkara - 1999 - Preview - More editions old escatology but grouped together under the name of "Integral Humanism" by Sri Aurobindo. ... Nation is conceptualised as having : (a) geographical territory and its inhabitants as its body, (b) the sense of belonging to the nation creates a ...

Evolutionary, Spiritual Conceptions of Life - Sri Aurobindo, ... - Page 36 - Michael Leicht - 2008 - Preview The idea of involution-evolution is something new for the Western setting of the debate. But we must ask, whether the spirit has really reached its zenith in Aurobindo in its process of increased self-awareness? - Aurobindo has conceptualised his ...

Transaction - Indian Institute of World Culture - Issue 97 - Page 17 - Indian Institute of World Culture - 1996 - Through their mystical and transcendental experience, Hindus conceptualized many subtle issues, such as: mind is ... as has been testified by many saints and sages throughout the ages and by Ramakrishna and Aurobindo in recent times.

Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research - Volume 16 - Page 105 - Indian Council of Philosophical Research - 1998 - Dharmakirti explains that person's success by saying that his/her conceptualized cognition of the jewel, although erroneous, ... V. Kapali Sastri, Dipti Publications, Sri Aurobindo Does Dharmakirti Embrace a Pragmatic Theory of Truth?

Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: Integral Sociology and Dialectical ... - Page 21 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - Preview It is a materialistic way of putting what Sri Aurobindo means by saying that it is in the human mind that Nature ... To bring Nature into an organic unity with man it has first to be grasped, then controlled, and finally socialised and humanised.

Indian Wisdom and International Peace: From the Vedas & Lord ... - Page 35 - R N. Vyas, Vyas R N - 1987 - Preview Aurobindo is full of praise for this religion of humanity. This religion has great utility. It has 'humanised society, humanised law and punishment, humanized the outlook of man on man, abolished legalised torture and the cruder forms of ...

Soul And Structure Of Governance In India - Page 307 - Jagmohan - 2005 - Preview - More editions What did Sri Aurobindo mean when he talked of India's destiny and India's religion?... had innate faith in the inherent strength of Indian culture, and interpreted Hinduism as a positive and elevating force for ennobling and humanising society.

Philosophy Of Education - Page 222 - S.S. Chandra, S.S. Chandra & Rajendra Kumar Sharma - 2006 - Preview - More editions This perfectionism is the strength and this again is the weakness of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy of education. In tune with ... In other words this requires divine perfection. 

Sri Aurobindo's treatment of Hindu myth - Page 11 - Jan Feys - 1983 - Sri Aurobindo is conscious of the transposition the myth has thus been subjected to, whether by Kalidasa or by himself matters little, for Aurobindo in any case subscribes to the humanising interpretation. "It is therefore", he says, "one of the...

Contemporary Indian Writing in English: Critical Perceptions - Part 2 - Page 319 - N. D. R. Chandra - 2005 - Full view - More editions ... English and American poetry, and constantly exposing himself also to the humanising influence of Sanskrit classics. He is a ... However by 1961 Lal had tailored his position and stated "Sri Aurobindo happens to be our Milton, and Toru Dutt, ...

Towards eternity; Sri Aurobindo birth centenary volume, 15th ... - Page 73 - Aurobindo Ghose, V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1973 - But to appreciate the revelation, one must keep in mind that Sri Aurobindo is treading the domain of the superhuman, the ultra-natural, and his aim is not to humanise and naturalise them altogether. Indeed poetry of a fine order is possible to a completely humanised and naturalised mysticism as in the lyrics of the ... Sri Aurobindo--the poet - Volume 2, Part 4 - Page 47 - Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna – 1999 The poetry of Sri Aurobindo: a journey from ego to self - Page 130 - Kishor Gandhi - 2001

Sri Aurobindo: The foundations on Indian culture and the ... - Page 290 - Aurobindo Ghose - 1970 -  admitted as is sufficient to humanise the appeal and the significance. The poet makes us conscious of the immense forces that are behind our life and sets his action in a magnificent epic scenery, the great imperial city, the ...

Encyclopaedia Eminent Thinkers (vol. : 17 The Political Thought Of ... - Page 46 - Jai Narain Sharma - 2008 - Preview - More editions One speaks of Iqbal and Sri Aurobindo as cures for the contemporary dehumanisation caused by the scientific culture, ... of dehumanised culture might produce some sort of neo-primitivism. which instead of humanising our behaviour makes it ...

A century's salutation to Sri Aurobindo - Page 62 - Nolini Kanta Gupta - 1972 - Thus the Vedic Rishis sought not to humanise the Divine, their purpose was rather to divinise the human. And their allegorical language, although rich in terrestrial figures, does not carry the impress and atmosphere of mere humanity and ...

Dharma of the twenty-first century: theological-ethical paradigm shift - Page 118 - Somen Das - 1996 - Even, Malhotra had noted that Aurobindo denied reality to the world apart from Brahman But according to Malhotra, all the ... Reinterpretation of the Absolute It is significant to note that in modern time there is a concerted effort to humanise the...

Indian journal of social science - Volume 7 - Page 152 Indian Council of Social Science Research - 1994 - But from Sri Aurobindo we learn of the urgent need to spiritualise our humanity as we are beginning our work of humanising our modernity. Ananta Giri Ravi Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation Indian Institute of Management ...

Sri Aurobindo's messianism was based on his teleological concept of spiritual evolution

South-Zone Tibetan Parliamentary Delegation called upon Speaker ...  by jamphel

The members of the Auroville unanimously raised their concern and solidarity over Tibet and pledge to write articles and books on the current crisis in Tibet. The talk was later aired in the Auroville Community Radio. The following day, the delegates called upon, Sri Manoj Das Gupta, International Head and the Managing Trustee of Sri Aurobindo Ashram and apprised him of the Tibet situation.

Sri Manoj warmly received the delegates at his office and discussed the issue of Tibet in depth with them. He also reminded the delegates that the great late Mother of Sri Aurobindo supported the Tibetan people and their struggle. And that during a meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in January 1973, the Mother told the Dalai Lama that Tibet will be free one day.

Sri Manoj further assured the delegates that Tibet has the truth and the spiritual power and will definitely succeed in the end. ‘Of course China will definitely change and Tibet will regain its freedom’, he stressed. Sri Manoj however stated that though he did appreciate and understand their sentiments of the Tibetan self-immolators but he does not approve their action. ‘Self immolation is not a correct way. We need these young Tibetans for Tibet’. Bidding the delegation’s success, Mr. Das offered gifts produced by the Ashram inmates and raised his fist calling, ‘Victory’ ala Bod Gyalo.

IGNOU 2012-2013: IGNOU MPHILAU IGNOU Admission, Courses ...

Either successful completion of the SACAR Certificate Programme in Introduction to Sri Aurobindo Studies, or passing a SACAR entrance test that covers the ...

10m - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty - @TheRajarshi [Sri Aurobindo found the clue in the Vedic conception of ‘Vya̅hṛti’, the seven worlds. -C. Krishnamurthy] The Foundations of Psychological Theory in the Veda from Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore - C. Krishnamurthy (chamathu2003@yahoo.co.uk)

Sri Aurobindo was convinced that the Vedantic and Puranic systems are identical and depend on the same idea of seven principles of subjective consciousness formulating themselves in seven objective worlds, thus giving him a total clarity on the symbolism.

Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore: Light Flames Up

Mr. Jared Quek will continue with his series of talks based on three ofSri Aurobindo's seminal works - 'The Synthesis of Yoga', 'The Secret of the Veda' and 'The ...

SATTWA: the Principle of Knowledge and Harmony By: Ramesh Bijlani on Jan 17, 2013 2 responses Sattwic action is free from egoism, is not motivated by profit, and is yet enthusiastic. The sattwic person is attached neither to the work nor to its outcome, and yet puts his heart and soul into the work. When it comes to food, the sattwic person goes for what is good for the body, in just the right quantity – neither too much nor too little.

Sattwa does not come naturally to most of us. Either the rajas (the principle of dynamism and desires) in us tries to dominate it by introducing the desire for wealth, power, prestige or sensory pleasure; or the tamas (the principle of laziness) in us tempts us towards inactivity. Therefore, sattwa has to be cultivated by self-discipline – both inner and outer. At first it means voluntarily giving up several pleasures to which we have got accustomed. The process involves much suffering and struggle – a process that has been described by Sri Aurobindo as churning of our nature yielding at first bitter poison. But eventually the churning yields sweet nectar of enduring happiness. 

Karma Is a Complex Interaction, Not a Mechanical Law « Sri ...

Our surface nature, impelled by the force of desire, wants to believe that the law of karma operates in such a way as to provide material prosperity and well-being in return for our good acts in the realm of moral and ethical conduct; and similarly ...

Eco-Doom or Redemption: The Mad Movement and the Sixties ... by Seth Farber

Sri Aurobindo was the first great Eastern mystic to blend mysticism with messianism. Aurobindo and Mira Richard -- "the Mother"-- were themselves a mature manifestation of the same trend as the 1960s counter-culture.  It was no surprise that in the 1960s the Mother (then in her 80s) hailed the counter-culture as a spiritual breakthrough. Aurobindo who lived from 1872 to 1950  presaged the 1960s counter-culture: he fused the mystical and the messianic and his work provides the strongest refutation to all those who denigrate the  messianic Imaginary. From Aurobindo's perspective the messianic perspective completes the mystical experience -- the mystical experience is a portent of the messianic future.

The only other option is to reduce mysticism either to a consolation ("the opium of the people"), or to construe it as a Gnostic-type revelation revealing the lack of goodness of worldly existence. This is in fact the position of the Therevadan Buddhist -- once one is freed from ignorance and karma one will choose to forgo incarnations and to merge with non-being. 

Aurobindo revered the Hindu scriptures but he disagreed with the philosophers' interpretations. He eviscerated for example the interpretations of Sankara, India's most venerated philosopher, who claimed the world was an illusion and that only the Godhead (Brahman) was real. Aurobindo argued that it was this philosophical tendency that fostered and reflected the world-contempt and torpor of the East. The West on the other hand went to the other extreme in its embrace of materialism and its claim that mysticism was illusory. Aurobindo's acceptance of worldly existence was compatible with his devotion to changing the world. He had spent years as a revolutionary nationalist -- he was as well known in India as Gandhi. When he first returned to India after his education in Britain, he made it known that he was not interested in a mysticism that entailed renunciation of the world.  

His love of the world was reflected also in his full acceptance of the Feminine which found expression in his love for his spiritual partner, Mira Richard, known as the Mother -- they were a dual-power of God. "The Mother and I are one in two bodies." His life story assumed the mythic dimension of a man on the hinge of the messianic age -- so his profound Avataric witness and astute teleological perspective ought to have provided a basis for a spiritually informed political activism, but few people familiarized themselves with his work. (Ken Wilber often cited him.) Aurobindo's messianism was based on his teleological concept of spiritual evolution… Like Aurobindo Pinchbeck posits an evolutionary teleology: Despite the imminent chaos humanity is undergoing a "a natural process accompanying an evolutionary advance in human consciousness" (330). Like Aurobindo and Buber, Pinchbeck does not counsel either despair or complacency but a redemptive praxis. Like Aurobindo Pinchbeck realized that those who are aware have a great responsibility since "a desirable outcome can be realized if an elite vanguard overcomes all obstacles and prior conditioning to attain an intensified awareness of the situation, and then works efficiently and collaboratively to propagate this new paradigm across the earth" (331). 

The yogi and the mystic: a study in the spirituality of Sri ... - Page 19 - Jan Feys - 1977 - In jail Sri Aurobindo evolves from political to religious nationalism, and indeed to a universal Messianism. Even so, the Voice seems to enjoin something different still. The speech ends on the somewhat ambiguous note, casting a certain doubt ...

The life of a yogi - Page 38 - Jan Feys - 1976 - During his jail-term then Sri Aurobindo evolves from political nationalism to a universal Messianism. But not all is clear. Towards the end of his term in jail, he still struggles with the uncertainty as to what his mission is : "I do not know what work ...

Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Volume 29 - Page 605 - Nagendra Kr Singh - 1997 - Tilak and Aurobindo entered the national scene with great goals for the country. They even displayed an element of messianism in their utterances. Aurobindo, for example, declares the mission of India in the following words: . . . Because God ...

Modern Indian political thought - Page 191 - Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1971 - Aurobindo's leadership was recognized by the nationalists and he was made the president of the various nationalist conferences held at ... The notion of Messianism, the conception that India was rising Cf. Zacharias, Renascent India, p. 151 ...

The Indian journal of political science - Volume 19 - Page 20 - Indian Political Science Association - 1958 - But Aurobindo said that the political salvation of India was essential for the spiritual redemption of mankind. The notion of messianism, the conception that India was rising for shedding the glories of Sanatan Dharma in the world is very strong ... Political Thought and Leadership of Lokmanya Tilak - Page 15 - N. R. Inamdar - 1983 - Preview - The life and philosophy of Lokamanya Tilak: with excerpts from ... - Page 446 - Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1978

Writing cultural history in colonial and postcolonial India - Page 69 - Henry Schwarz - 1997 - Leonard Gordon offers a more sympathetic view: Aurobindo's messianism is attributable to "birth, training, political role, martyrdom by imprisonment and especially the fact that he was chosen by God for glorious and important work."

Bengal: change and continuity - Issues 16-18 - Page 41 Robert Paul Beech, Mary Jane Beech, Ingrid Aall - 1971 - Aurobindo, demonstrating what Bolle calls "the urge to incorporate everything," has syncretically fused religious elements and national messianism. Aurobindo gives fallen India a mission to "aryanise the world.” in designing a world ...

Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 95 - Hugh B. Urban - 2007 - Preview - More editions Aurobindo . . . syncretized religious elements and national messianism. Aurobindo gives fellow Indians a mission to Aryanize' the world." The central figure of Bhawani Mandir is the goddess Sakti, who is nothing other than "pure power.

Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers: The political thought of Aurobindo - Page 90 - K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - Preview The Indian people were facing a dangerous threat to their sense of self-esteem and their residues of personal, social and national integrity. Messianism developed as a necessary counterpoise to political and economic subjection. Aurobindo ...

Political Thinkers of Modern India - Page 98 - Adi Hormusji Doctor - 1997 - Preview This belief explains why Aurobindo, although he spoke as if appealing to the Hindus alone, was very keen to carry all ... and, finally, revivalism and the kindred concepts of messianism can encourage the belief of being a "chosen people" and ...

The Calcutta historical journal - Volumes 19-20 - Page 4 - University of Calcutta - 1998 - Whatever the so called 'progressives' might say, Bankim Chandra, Tilak and Bepin Pal do not possess the same ideological wavelength of Dayananda or Aurobindo.... A hard headed bania realism overcame a past-looking messianism.

The Spiritual Tourist - Mick Brown - 2010 - Preview - More editions Her vision and determination had fostered the growth not only of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, but also – and this was ... But alongside her idealism, her unquenchable faith in the innate divinity of man, lay a clear streak of Messianism, and an ...

Sri Aurobindo's integral approach to political thought - Page 184 - Shiva Kumar Mital - 1981 - Secondly, it is strongly suffused with elements of messianism. As a revivalist, Sn Aurobindo looked to the ancient heroic periods of India's splendour and not to the revival of the decadent and moribund India of the eighteenth century, which by ...

Patna University journal - Volume 12 - Page 70 1958 - At such an hour Aurobindo's gospel and plan of human unity and a religion of humanity represent his great ... Revivalism and the kindred concept of messianism generate an attitude of racial pride and superiority and that can be a danger to ...

Ariel - Issues 56-62 - Page 35 - Israel. Miśrad ha-ḥuts - 1984 - Professor Bergman in his Jerusalem study, 1961 Aurobindo's "conversion" occurred in 1908 when an informer caused him to be imprisoned ... he asserted that, "This Indian visionary comes closest of all to the Jewish concept ofmessianism .

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 34 - Page 339 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1982 - make the magazine a unique cultural event. The aim ... It was a period of Messianism and of intense striving for a synthesis of art and religion. Various influences produced this new orientation of...

Ethical ideas in the world outlook of Swami Vivekananda, Lokamanya ... - Page 97 - Irina Pavlovna Chelysheva - 1989 - ... or his religious Messianism as expressed in his endeavour to present Vedanta (namely, its mystical elements) as a doctrine in which answers to all actual and global problems were to be found. It is, naturally, the first period of Sri Aurobindo's...

Political protest in Bengal: boycott and terrorism 1905-18 - Page 74 - Hiren Chakrabarti - 1992 - It may also be supposed, though we cannot prove it, that Aurobindo had some acquaintance with the Hebraic ideas of the chosen people, the Covenant and messianism and also the ideas of Herder and Hegel that the nation and the state ...

International relations - Volume 28 - Page 41 - Israel Institute of International Affairs - 1989 - Has the historian the right, the philosopher would ask, to bury the messianism which a Jehuda Halevi, a Nietzsche, a Soloviev or Aurobindo represented?" The question can be referred to the political pessimism of either Donoso Cortes or to ...

Journal of Research: Letters - Volumes 1-5 - Page 130 - Agra University - 1952 - In the interest of a more vigorous phase of human life than any that we have witnessed hitherto, Sri Aurobindo would, ... derived from his studies in human history and in cosmic and biological evolution and from the doctrine of Messianism.

The extremist challenge: India between 1890 and 1910 - Page 115 - Amales Tripathi - 1967 - 20 Aurobindo was already possessed of a messianism that saw in terms of a battle royal between devas and asuras, the forces of good and light and the forces of evil and darkness. "Politics is especially the business of the Kshatriya."

The Journal of the Bihar Research Society - Volumes 43-44 - Page 81 - Bihar Research Society - 1957 - ... obtained any great importance. Among some leaders of Indian nationalism the notion of spiritual messianism has been strong. Dayananda, Vivekananda, Gandhi and Aurobindo believed that India has a religious mission and message ...

The Library journal book review - Page 438 - R.R. Bowker Company - 1974 - REL Selections from the essential writings of Sri Aurobindo concerning his philosophy, his spiritual insights, and his vision of ... sources, but shows considerable originality in the basic themes, especially marked in his treatment of messianism.

Religion and society - Volume 23 - Page 60 - Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, Bangalore - 1976 - of unitive vision is the only thing worth the name of ' religion ', and therefore to consider the messianic type of religion as a ... Vivekananda, through Radhakrishnan and Aurobindo Ghosh to Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave whom I have mentioned.

Ideological struggle in modern India, implications of Hinduism - Page 141 - Olʹga Vasilʹevna Mezent︠s︡eva - 1988 - But in Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghose, Ramkrishna, Mahatma Gandhi and others the apologetics of their religion ... It seems that in the system of Golwalkar's views the idea of India's spiritual messianism performed varying functions.

Asian Englishes - Volume 4 - Page 335 - Kingsley Bolton, Braj B. Kachru - 2006 - Christianity and social messianism in the nineteenth century sought to destroy the Orientalists' glorification of the Asian ... Among them Sri Aurobindo is one who is distinguished for being an ardent nationalist who also thought and spoke in ...

The Indo-Asian culture - Volumes 15-16 - Page 23 - Indian Council for Cultural Relations - 1966 - ... the idea of a chosen people, (ii) the emphasis on common historical experience and (iii) National Messianism, similarly in India from ... asks Sri Aurobindo and answers, "It is not a piece of land, nor a figure of speech, nor a fiction of the mind.

The philosophy of Martin Buber - Page 305 - Paul Arthur Schilpp, Maurice S. Friedman, Martin Buber - 1967 - When Sri Aurobindo calls upon us to "offer every action to the Divine and do it as the work given," the agreement with Buber is ... The second question that we must put concerns the redemption of the world, and the Messianic final goal, in the ...

Partners in dialogue: Christianity and other world religions - Page 78 - Arnulf Camps - 1983 - Sri Aurobindo, one of India's greatest thinkers, views humanity in the process of cosmic evolution and regards humanity as the goal of that process. One can go further ... In Buddhism there is now talk of some sort of messianism. Some thinkers...

British Book News - Page 17 -British Council, National Book Council (Great Britain), National Book League (Great Britain) - 1981 - ... its hold not only on the masses but also on intellectuals like Aurobindo in India and on middle-class Western youths in ... who was opposed to the persecution of religion and who might have seen in the Soviets a 'Russian Messianism' with a ...

The Spiritual Gift of Madness: The Failure of Psychiatry and the ... - Seth Farber, Kate Millett - 2012 - "A bold call for the 'insane' to reclaim their rightful role as prophets of spritual and cultural transformation"--

Importance of English in rekindling India

Tweets 13h - Rajarshi ‏@TheRajarshi Till date, the only one who has mentioned these sub-layers of the Vigyanmaya kosha in writing, in details, is Sri Aurobindo.

53s - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty [Sri Aurobindo’s own concept of spiritual evolution, a central part of his philosophy, cannot be traced to any Indian source.] –Peter Heehs

21s - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty [Shankara’s views on dreams resemble ideas popular in modern Western psychology but they differ greatly from that of Sri Aurobindo] –Sandeep

Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India’s Geography › Sanjeev Sanyal

The history of any country begins with its geography. With sparkling wit and intelligence, Sanjeev Sanyal sets off to explore India and look at how the country's history was shaped by, among other things, its rivers, mountains and cities. Traversing remote mountain passes, visiting ancient archaeological sites, crossing rivers in shaky boats and immersing himself in old records and manuscripts, he considers questions about Indian history that we rarely ask: His last book was The Indian Rennaissance: India's Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline published by Penguin in 2008.

The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise AF - Page 29 - Sanjeev Sanyal - 2008 - Preview introducing India to modern institutions, science and the English language. Most importantly ... By this time, the glories of ancient India were mostly forgotten. ... The importance of the English language in rekindling India cannot be understated.

Vande Mataram And Islam - Page 3 - Aurobindo Mazumdar - 2007 - Preview - More editions Bankim Chandra had rekindled the dormant spirit of love for the motherland through his epic — making song. The history of the Vande Mataram is the history of the life of the nation during the freedom movement and even after. lt is the history ...

Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism - Page 61 - Jyotirmaya Sharma - 2011 - Preview - More editions All that happens in the world, holds Aurobindo, is the work of the Divine through his Shakti, who is the Divine Mother. ... To appropriate the Shakti of Science was to rekindle in ourselves the Arya Shaktis that were in our blood and were part of ...

Soul And Structure Of Governance In India - Page 307 - Jagmohan - 2005 - Preview - More editions What did Sri Aurobindo mean when he talked of India's destiny and India's religion?. He himself provided ... humanising society. His basic ideas of truth, non-violence and welfare of the deprived and Rekindling the Power of the Indian Mind.

The Essential Frithjof Schuon - Page 50 - Frithjof Schuon, Dr Seyyed Hossein Nasr - 2005 - Preview ... into the domain of religion itself in the writings of such figures as Sri Aurobindo and especially Teilhard de Chardin. ... and religious ground clean and to break the idols of modernism in order to present that teaching which can rekindle the ...

Sri Aurobindo, his life unique - Page 123 - Rishabhchand - 1981 - But Sri Aurobindo knew well enough that that was the price the nation had to pay for wresting freedom from unwilling hands, for rekindling the Kshatriya spirit in itself, and for rising from the tamasic numbness into the swirl of rajasic passions on...

The New Educational Phiosophy - Page 214 - Bhagirathi Sahu - 2004 - Full view Conclusion Thus, Sri Aurobindo's integral education aims at harmonious or integral development of the learner. ... Guru Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, revived the study of Vedanta, rekindled the pride and redeemed the self-esteem of India, ...

Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history - Page 93 - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - O fairest, Thy face, suffused with crimson from this gem Above thee pouring wide its fire and splendour, Has all the beauty of a lotus reddening In early sunlight. At Sri Aurobindo's magic touch, Kalidasa's superb figures are rekindled into a ...

Sri Aurobindo - Page 40 -Sisirkumar Mitra - 1972 - In Sri Aurobindo's translation of Kalidasa's Vikramorvasie as 'The Hero and the Nymph,' the superb figures of the original are by the translator's 'magic touch rekindled into a flame of beauty and in consequence the immortal play has acquired ...

Sri Aurobindo: Letters on yoga - Page 1512 - Aurobindo Ghose - 1970 - This process continues until even the subconscient can no longer rouse it up in dream and no further movement comes from the outer Nature-force to rekindle this lower fire. This is the course when the sex-propensity sticks obstinately; but ...

Sri Aurobindo and his contemporary thinkers - Page 13 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University - 2007 - We hope this would once again rekindle interest among us for newer analyses, interpretations, debates and discussions centring around Sri Aurobindo, his contemporary thinkers and renaissance in India. This academic pursuit surely would...

2012: Crossing the Bridge to the Future - Page 50 - Mark Borax - 2008 - Preview - More editions fronted oak cabinet showcasing hardcover classics of metaphysics: Rudolf Steiner, Yogananda, Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, Sri Aurobindo, Madame ... It looked as if this offhand gesture might just as well extinguish the flame as rekindle it.

The Martyr: Bhagat Singh Experiments in Revolution - Page 49 - Kuldip Nayar - 2000 - Preview - More editions Despite the immense popularity of revolutionaries like Aurobindo (Ghosh and Barindra Kumar, the Bengali youth had ... the Bengal revolutionaries, when he met them, thought that the youthful Bhagat Singh was the person who could rekindle tlu ...

Raj to Swaraj: A Textbook on Colonialism and Nationalism in India - Page 318 - Rāmacandra Pradhāna - 2008 - Preview But revolutionary fire persisted in Maharashtra and was rekindled by the Chapekar brothers - Damodar and Balkrishna. In 1898 they ... He was inspired by Aurobindo and at his behest, joined the Baroda army under a disguised name. But his ...

The Bengalis: The People, Their History, and Culture. Introduction ... - Page 282 S. N. Das - 2002 - Preview - More editions ... Sri Aurobindo, is inherently spiritual, intuitive and psychic. ... and their stress on the Indian mind turned its look towrd the country's past and made it seek to interpret its truths by the test of reason a love of which was rekindled by the West.

Reflections and Mobilizations: Dialogues With Movements and ... - Page 300 - Ananta Kumar Giri - 2005 - Preview - More editions But when she was observing the students and teachers of the school, her desire for learning got rekindled. ... I first met Malati Apa when we had assembled for the first summer camp of interested readers of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother in ...

Sri Aurobindo, the divine master - Page 27 - Shuddhananda Bharati - 1948 - That wonderful booklet, "The Ideal of the Karma login", was the veritable Gospel of Sri Aurobindo's Nationalism. And that was delivered through the ... self-help, and self-reliance. He rekindled the Nationalist zeal in the THE KARMAYOGIN 27.

The political philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 149 - Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1960 - He had hoped that contact with the West would rekindle the decaying lamp of Indian knowledge but later on he was ... But while Gandhi was primarily critical of the industrialism and imperialism of the West, Aurobindo refers more to the ...

Sri Aurobindo and Indian freedom - Page 27 - Sisirkumar Mitra - 1948 - In India their impact created conditions that helped to rekindle the lamp of her soul, to resuscitate the collective fife of her people. The inward bent of their mind opened the eyes of the inaugurators of this movement not only to the puissance ...

Seven studies in Sri Aurobindo - Page 81 - V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1989 - There is an epic purpose behind the immortal classic; it is to rekindle the flame of aspiration in the heart of humanity, to nourish and strengthen it, to arm and protect it against the enemies of Life and ... Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book I, Canto 1.

Sri Aurobindo and the new millennium: reflections and reviews - Page 37 - R. Y. Deshpande - 1999 - Now the hour of God has come again and in it the spiritual soul must get rekindled. It is in that hour that special beings ... "Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind," wrote Sri Aurobindo long ago. "The sense of the infinite is native ...

The Educational doctrines of Plato and Sri Aurobindo: a ... - Page 96 - Satya Prakash Singh - 1992 - It is used for the ultimate principle the good "to purge and rekindle the mental vision" of the persons. Since reasoning is not enough, ... (b) imitation, (c) practice. At first the guidance...

Bulletin - Volume 23 - Page 8 - Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India) - 1971 - ... can only have it b] refraining from all action ; even, if allowed to persist, it will rekindle the pranic or other desires or at least throw a reminiscent shadow of them or the being. 

Rekindling the spirit in work: how to be your self on the job - Page 26 - Howard Schechter - 1995 - Integralism is a term borrowed from the work of Sri Aurobindo, an Indian Teacher, whose approach was termed Integral Yoga. ... Integral Model Body, of course, represents the physical component of...

On women: compiled from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - Page 69 - Aurobindo Ghose, Mother - 1978 - compiled from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Aurobindo Ghose, Mother ... until even the subconscient can no longer rouse it up in dream and no further movement comes from the outer Nature-force to rekindle this lower fire.

The heritage - Volume 1 - Page 133 1985 - Now, released from prison, Aurobindo Ghose found his party discouraged and downcast. With a mere handful of supporters — Nivedita among them — he launched an appeal and tried to rekindle the patriotic spark in a weakening society.

Memorable contacts with the Mother - Page 49 - Nirodbaran - 1991 - It was long afterwards and in a different situation that the flame was rekindled and I obtained the Mother's permission. The story will be told in its proper place. I had also written a long article in French on Sri Aurobindo as Guru, at the request of ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 43 - Page 25 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1990 - ... were like a slap for R. Here kindled his faith and the disease vanished, never to recur. In 1952 R told the Mother that he wanted to live in the Ashram and educate his children in the Ashram...

The spirit of Indian and western philosophy: science, society, and ... - Page 140 - Indian Philosophical Congress, R. Murali - 2006 - In view of this situation it may not be out of place to rekindle the thoughts of Sri Aurobindo, that he wrote on individual and community. In his magnum opus The Life Divine and other writings like The Foundation of Indian Culture, The Ideal of ...

India: vision and fulfilment - Page 207 - Sisirkumar Mitra - 1972 - But they must not rule out any attempt to find out the methods by which to rekindle the soul of India so that a resurgence of her civilisation may be possible out of all the achievements of her great past. Sri Aurobindo's message has a significant ...

India's evolution, its meaning - Page 128 - Sisirkumar Mitra - 1968 - ... the marntra of whose worship was given by Bankim. and rekindled into a divine dynamism by the fiery words of Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo. In 1901 the lion-hearted Vedantin uttered the very keyword of Indian Nationalism when he said ...

Organiser - Volume 43 - 1991 - 'Sanatana Dharma is Indian Nationalism,' cried out the prophet of patriotism, Mahayogi Sri Aurobindo, in the modern period ... especially the adoration of the Motherland as the Divine Mother, to rekindle the spirit of patriotism and nationalism ...