Sri Aurobindo stuck to the Elizabethan tradition having Greek touches

Correspondences, Interviews and Conversations with Sri Aurobindo ... - Avadhani, Bhanabhai G. Patel, Compiled by Avadhani - 2002 - This compilation offers a wide choice of extracts from some of the correspondences, interviews, and conversations that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had with various sadhaks.

The Perennial Quest for a Psychology with a Soul: An Inquiry Into ... - Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - Preview The subject matter of this book is so vast that it would be presumptuous to attempt to deal with comprehensively and it would be pre-posterous to pretend to a final solution to a set of ideasas comprehensive as these worldviews.

In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in ... - Page 168 - Priya Joshi - 2002 - Preview - More editions Written at the height of the anticolonial movement, Aurobindo's homage further notes Bankim's real gift to Bengal: "he gave us a means by which the soul of Bengal could express itself to itself (10). That this new self should find itself in and ...

History Of Modern India1707 A.d. To 2000 A.d. - Page 348 - Radhey Shyam Chaurasia - 2002 - Preview In Bengal Barindra Kumar Ghose the younger brother of Sir Aurobindo Ghose and Bupendra Nath Dutta brother of Swami Vivekananda were the prominent leaders of the Terrorist Movement, B.K. Ghose started newspapers entitled "Yugantar" ...

Habitations Of Modernity - Page 23 - Dipesh Chakrabarty - 2002 - Preview - More editions The process of inversion is reflected clearly in Aurobindo's [a nationalist leader] famous Uttarpara speech ... "I spoke once before with this force in me and I said then that this movement is not a political movement and that nationalism is not ...

Spiritual Revolution - Premananda Deva, Lakshmi Devi - 2002 - Preview - More editions The truths in this book are discourses between the highest consciousness and the mental plane. they discuss methods for purification, for examination, and for elimination of the present problems on Earth, for a master plan.

Organisation Behaviour - Page 281 - S. Shajahan - 2007 - Preview - More editions Organizations are free to hire and fire employees based on the behaviour of the market and technological change. ... leaders like Swmai Vivenkananda, Rabindranath Tagore and Rishi Aurobindo, we may heading for the doomsdays in distant ...

Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation - Page 153 - G. N. Devy - 2002 - Preview - More editions Poet, philosopher, mystic, political activist and nationalist, Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) is quite an enigmatic and ... In no time, however, Aurobindo had acquired mastery over Bengali, Sanskrit, Gujarati as he had done with respect to English, ...

Studies In Indian Poetry In English - Page 56 - U. S. Rukhaiyar, Amar Nath Prasad - 2002 - Full view - More editions This particular extract authenticates Sri Aurobindo's views of poetry as mantra.. No classical literary critic had ever defined poetry as incantation. He points out that his long epic 'Savitri' is mantric in sound and effect. he attributes its versification ...

Indian English Literature - Page 4 2002 - Preview In Hindu consciousness death has been a perpetual theme with the Indian poets in English: from Derozio to Dutts, from Tagore to Aurobindo, from Ezekiel to Mahapatra, from Daruwalla to Bhatnagar but with Ramanujan it is transformed into a...

Hinterlands and Horizons: Excursions in Search of Amity - Margaret Chatterjee - 2002 - Preview - More editions The work starts with the Enlightenment's idea of fraternity and its destruction during the fratricide of the French Terror.

Conversations and Transformations: Toward a New Ethics of Self and ... - Ananta Kumar Giri - 2002 - Preview - More editions In this intriguing new book, Indian social theorist Ananta Kumar Giri issues a stirring call for scholars of contemporary social theory and practice to grapple with late modernity's most pressing social and political issues.

Building in the Margins of Shacks: The Vision and Projects of ... - Ananta Kumar Giri - 2002 - Preview This Book Is A Significant Contribution To The Study Of Religion, Social Movements And Globalization.

Social relevance of philosophy: essays on applied philosophy - P. George Victor - 2002 - The Essays Study The Relevance Of Philosophy At The Social Level, Examining Various Philosophical Systems.

Patterns of the present: from the perspective of Sri Aurobindo and ... - Georges van Vrekhem - 2002 - A companion volume to Overman: The Intermediary between the Human and the Supramental Being by the same author, Patterns of the Present is a profound, enjoyable read on the present situation of mankind and the world it lives in.

The Spectrum Of Consciousness - Page 140 - Ken Wilber - 2002 - Preview - More editions Further, the ways in which these changes affect our "breakthroughs to cosmic consciousness" have been elaborated by such renowned explorers as Teilhard de Chardin, Bucke, Sri Aurobindo, Jean Gebser, William I. Thompson, Rozak, von Weizacher, and others.

Gospel of Thomas Annotated & Explained - Page xix - Stevan L. Davies, Andrew Harvey - 2002 - Preview ... increasingly transfigured by the living light? The greatest of all modern philosophers—Sri Aurobindo—saw that only an “integral” transformation could provide the force and inspiration to change that must occur if humanity Foreword xix.

Postmodernism and Public Policy: Reframing Religion, Culture, ... - Page 45 - John B. Cobb - 2002 - Preview - More editions ... this book, but it is present already in Hindu literature. A fascinating example can be found in the writings of Sri Aurobindo, who had a series of quite varied mystical experiences, one of which Religious Pluralism and Truth 45.

Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought - Page 76 - R. Baine Harris - 2002 - Preview - More editions Here we find the influence of Plato, Jean Gebser and Sri Aurobindo prominent in Wilber's reformulation of the significance of spiritual development. This distinction better enables Wilber to criticize those theories that declare, for example, that ...

A Passage to Shiv K. Kumar: From Agony to Ecstasy - Page 195 - Prabhat K. Singh - 2002 - Full view - More editions ... the early plays of Michael Madhusudan Dutt and Rabindranath Tagore who adhered to the native folk tradition in the background of Bengali theatre, or the plays of Sri Aurobindo who stuck to the Elizabethan tradition having Greek touches.

The Language of Post-Colonial Literatures: An Introduction - Page 149 - Ismail S. Talib - 2002 - Preview - More editions For example, Aurobindo Ghose tries to 'catch something of the Upanishadic movement so far as it is possible in English' in his lengthy poem Savitri (1950), although his effort has not met with aesthetic success (Parthasarathy 1976: 2).

Between two worlds: East and West : an autobiography - Jitendranath Mohanty - 2002 - This Book Is A Fascinating Memoir By One Of The Most Distinguished Philosophers From India In Recent Years.

Secularisation of Indian mind: a study of political ideas in India ... - V. Indira Devi - 2002 - The main objective will be accomplished only if the present generation after going through this book will start taking pride in the rich cultural heritage that our country possesses.

Critical Response To Indian English Literature - N. K. Mishra, Sabita Tripathy - 2002 - Preview These Articles Have Been Written To Stimulate A Genuine Desire In The Readers For Deeper Studies In Indian English Literature. This Book Is Expected To Be Of Considerable Interest And Use To The Students As Well As The Teachers As The ...

Absolutism: east and west : (a comparative study of Sri Aurobindo ... - Vijai Kant Dubey - 2002 - Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Banaras Hindu University.

Sri Aurobindo'S Savitri - Asoka K. Ganguli - 2002 The book has been mainly prepared in view of the need of students and of common readers of poetry, specially of Sri Aurobindo's poetry.

Sri Aurobindo: critical considerations Om Prakash Mathur - 2002 - Contributed articles on the poetry of Aurobindo Ghose, 1872-1950.

Sri Aurobindo The Spiritual Revo. - Atulindra Nath Chaturvedi - 2002 - These biographies have been written for the reader who is curious about the life, achievements and character of these legends.

Indian Religions: A Historical Reader of Spiritual Expression and ... - Peter Heehs - 2002 - Preview - More editions All the major traditions Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism and new Indian religions are included.

Kashmir Shaivism: Under Siege - Page 84 - M. G. Chitkara - 2002 - Preview They attained enlightenment by themselves without any substantial help from an external guru. Buddha, Christ, Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Ramana Maharshi, SriAurobindo - all attained enlightenment by themselves. In Tantrism, the guru is ...

Poetry Of Nissim Ezekiel - Page 27 - A. Raghu - 2002 - Preview The poets before him, some of whom like Sri Aurobindo were extremely prolific, had a limited stock of themes beyond the matrices of which they seldom ventured. In general, they mostly preferred to write on themes which were considered ...

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

The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial ... - Page 121 - Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin - 2002 - Preview - More editions ... only a few), let alone the large body of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century writing, which includes such monumental figures as Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo, has already established itself as well worth critical attention.

The Himalayan Masters: A Living Tradition - Page 139 - Rajmani Tigunait - 2002 - Preview ... of Karvirpitham and was then known by the name of Sadashiva Bharati. Swami Rama did not know what he was stepping into. Before becoming Shankaracharya, he had lived with Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, and Sri Aurobindo, ...

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Symbolism In The Poetry Of Sri Aurobindo - Page 19 - Syamala Kallury - 1989 - Preview - More editions Dawn is the predominant symbol in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo. Dawn for him stands for the reawakening of knowledge in man and it also stands for incessant human desire for spiritual awakening. It signifies the craving of man for an Eternal ...

The Dialogue With Death (Sri Aurobindo`S Savitri, A Mystical Approach) - Page 3 - Rohit Mehta - 2003 - Preview - More editions It speaks of man's journey through the Night and of the promise concerning the arrival of the New Dawn. The subject of Dawn is indeed the under-current of the whole epic poem of Sri Aurobindo. He begins it with a reference to the Dawn, ...

Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's Poetry, Plays, and Criticism - Page 44 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - Full view - More editions The night of inconscience precedes the dawn of illumination which gives a message that the invisible sun of knowledge ... eye They shone like images thrown from a far scene Too 44 Perspectives on Sri Anrobindo's Poetry, Plays and Criticism.

Pandit N.R. Bhatt: Felicitation Volume - Page 45 - Pierre Sylvain Filliozat, Satya Pal Narang, C. Panduranga Bhatta - 1994 - Preview -More editions Ratri in Veda and the Concept of Night in Sri Aurobindo - P.K. Mishra

Very objectively Sri Aurobindo draws the symbol of dawn and dusk with the revelation of light and darkness of human heart. Along with this, cosmic light is also drawn to the picture where night and dawn are concerned. The Night that wombs ...

The Secret Of The Veda - Page 131 - Sri Aurobindo - 1998 - Preview - More editions Chapter XIII. Dawn and the Truth. USHA IS described repeatedly as the Mother of the Cows. If then the cow is a Vedic symbol for the physical light or for spiritual illumination the phrase must either bear this sense that she is the ...

Poetic Plays of Sri Aurobindo - Page 23 - Bimal Narayan Thakur - 2004 - Preview - More editions The description of Dawn with which the poem opens is among the finest things in Sri Aurobindo, surpassed only by the evocation of 'The symbol Dawn' in Savitri. To read the poem at a stretch is to participate in the movement and majesty of an ...

Sri Aurobindo And The Poets Of The Dawn - D. Venkateswara Rao - 1996 - "Attempt to substantiate Sri Aurobindo's views on the Romantic poets, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley and Keats."--Preface. Dawn to greater dawn: six lectures on Sri Aurobindo's Savitri - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1975

An Integral View Of Poetry: An India Perspective - Page 212 - Vinayak Krishna Gokak - 1975 - Preview - More editions Usha, the Goddess of Dawn, is a form of the Supreme Light. ... Sri Aurobindo who, in his The Secret of the Veda, has spoken of these six goddesses as the rays of the inner sun, Surya Savitri, also refers to the five suns of poetry in his The ...

Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre (Ambikatanayadatta) - Page 29 - G. S. Amur - 1995 - Preview - More editions 'Belagu' (Dawn), published in 1926 but written as early as 1919, occupies a special position not only among Bendre's poetic creations but in the ... The second was a statement from Sri Aurobindo's Future Poetry, The Dawn: Early Poems 29.

Selected Works of M.P. Pandit: Sri Aurobindo - Page 393 - Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Rand Hicks - 1993 - Snippet view - More editions DAWN. (Canto. I). Before we commence our study of Savitri, let us be clear to ourselves that we are not reading it as a poem, even as a literary masterpiece, noting the diction, the similies and metaphors and other details. Our purpose in ...

Towards eternity; Sri Aurobindo birth centenary volume, 15th ... - Page 487 - Aurobindo Ghose, V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1973 - Aurobindo Ghose, V. Madhusudan Reddy. This divine and blissful Dawn is the leader of endless felicity and mistress of plenty leading to a succession of dawns. To rise into the Light of this supreme Dawn brought ahout by the human and ...

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: Glimpses of Their Experiments, ... - Page 201 - Kireet Joshi - 1989 - Preview - More editions ... ugly — so low — and that there would be a dawn . . . isn't it, something which rises at the horizon: a new Consciousness. Something truer and more luminous. What Sri Aurobindo says here, — regarding illnesses, — is exactly that: the power ...

Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader Sachidananda Mohanty - 2012 - Preview - More editions The problem arises, according to Sri Aurobindo, because of our limited understanding of the notion of the 'self'. ... unknown to fame ... face beaming with the lights of the new dawn and his voice vibrating with the message of new life, and I felt ...

Sri Aurobindo - Page 135 - Jesse Roarke - 1973 - The opening lines of the poem sufficiently demonstrate that Sri Aurobindo has mastered the hexameter, and succeeded in adapting it to English. Thus: Dawn in her journey eternal compelling the labour of mortals, Dawn the beginner of things ...

Sri Aurobindo - Page 70 - Purnima Majumdar - 2005 - Preview This was made possible with the help of Sri Naidu and he met him for 2-3 hrs. for two days. Later, probably in 1918, he wrote a book entitled “The Dawn Over Asia", in which he called Aurobindo the future leader of Asia. After reaching ...

The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 132 - V.P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions Aurobindo's philosophy of history has a note of chiliasm and futurism in it. The profundity of his faith and conviction in the inevitable dawn of the spiritualized society is demonstrated in the exalted passion and enthusiasm revealed in his writings... This chiliasm puts Aurobindo's philosophy of history in line with the Biblical philosophy of history with its faith in the coming of David or Christ and the inevitable ...

Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: Integral Sociology and Dialectical ... - Page 148 -Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - Preview Beyond it, however, the dawn of a new great Ideational culture is probably waiting to greet the men of the future.25 Sorokin's description of the ... He refers approvingly to Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo in his book Reconstruction of Man.

The Integral Advaitism of Sri Aurobindo - Page 254 - Rāmacandra Miśra - 1998 - Preview The dawn of knowledge will mean the complete cancellation of ignorance along with its products. ... 57) AK» two principles, that is, knowledge and ignorance cannot be reconciled

Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Social Development - Page 89 - Preview The Value of the Individual This higher principle will dawn on human life only through the individuals. The individual, in the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, is continuous with the community and humanity and yet he transcends these also, as he ...

Indian Political Thought - Page 233 - Urmila Sharma, S.K. Sharma - 2001 - Preview This is the dawn of what Sri Aurobindo calls the 'Subjective Age' which opens a new chapter in man's history. After the discovery of the physical, economic and the sociological laws, it becomes clear to man that this knowledge is a mere part of ...

Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind - Page 194 - Christopher Martin Bache - 2000 - Preview - More editions He later continues this line of thought: Sri Aurobindo verified, not individually this time but collectively, that pulling down too strong a light causes all the darkness below to groan and to feel violated. It should be noted that each time Sri ...

Inspiration Divine: Your Purpose and Path to Health, Happiness and ... - Page 317 - Darwin Stephenson - 2009 - Full view This message has been broadcast since the dawn of time for all life forms to hear.... Sri Aurobindo. After the editing was nearly complete, I began searching for related bodies of work that proposed the same conclusions as the message that I...

Sri Aurobindo and the new thought in Indian politics: Being a ... - Page xxi - Aurobindo Ghose, Haridāsa Mukhopādhyāẏa, Uma Mukherjee - 1964 - A sedate scholar like Satis Chandra Mukherjee of the Dawn and the Dawn Society observed in 1905 : "Bande Mataram, Hail, Mother ! — What ... Sri Aurobindo also may be cited as another corroborative authority on the point. A devoted ... 

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 14 - Page 44 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1962 - These technical faults are the only flaws in an immensely valuable introduction to Sri Aurobindo's writings. ... He seems to unite in his poetry something of the legacy of French Unanimism with the recent trend towards Chiliastic subjectivism.

The Journal of the Bihar Research Society - Volume 42 - Page 230 - Bihar Research Society - 1956 - It is the firm faith of Aurobindo that divinely appointed strength in the individual and nations grows by suffering. Without suffering and without the ... The concept of suffering contains a millenialistic and a chiliastic element. The rigor of present ...

Gandhi marg - Volume 26 - Page 428 - Gandhi Peace Foundation (New Delhi, India), Gandhi Smarak Nidhi - 2004 - It makes sense to see Gandhi as himself in a line of great Hindu religious reformers from Vivekananda to Aurobindo. ... have found equally distasteful all those trappings of modernity that have led fundamentalism towards chiliastic violence.

Aurobindo « The Gandhi Foundation on the will—Nietzche a critical influence here—the essential character of these modern chiliastic movements.

Georges Van Vrekhem. Hitler and his God SITE OF SRI AUROBINDO'S & MOTHER'S YOGA ...... for the failure of the recent past [the defeat in 1918], van den Bruck declared, was a chiliastic ideal.

Theories of nationalism: Anthony D. Smith - Page 295 -  Anthony D. Smith - 1983 - ... the exploitation of chiliastic hopes generated by the impact of a levelling European administration and market economy. ... Aflaq and Zurayk see in Islam merely a buttress for Arabism; and Tilak and Aurobindo were using elements of ...

South Asia bulletin - Volumes 12-13 - Page 20 - South Asia Association (University of California, Los Angeles), State University of New York - 1992 - It is dangerous to see the Hindu fundamentalist movement as the chiliasm of despair from among those battered by an ... Not to be left behind, the CPM in Bengal is incorporating Sri Aurobindo and Vivekananda into their curriculum and is ...

Ecstatic Archaisms of Aurobindo Ghose – Prasanta Chakravarty ... kafila.org – Nov 23, 2008 

In order to get rid of the torpor and inertia that one associates with the guna of tamas, political hatred must be brought into the fore as a necessary form of vitalist rajas. It is a deeply awe-inspiring trope in the revolutionary armory that justifies an actual, physical, political action. Aurobindo Ghose was not exempt from joyously celebrating such a moment… It is worth noting that, as befits a chiliast, Ghose never denies action. Indeed, a political Vedantist, much like the godly Puritan, detests a fugitive and cloistered virtue…

Among the foreign influences both historical and philosophical ones stand out. The secret societies are modeled on the Carbonari and Mazzini’s Young Italy Society. Indeed the Risorgimento and Irish Home Rule prove to be important social models for tackling the British actively in India. But philosophically, social Darwinism, Bergsonian vitalism, Nietzsche’s will-to-power and eternal return, Russian nihilism and varieties of anarchism prove to be remarkably influential, even if sometimes the ideas do not fully trickle down to individual nationalists.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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