Sri Aurobindo classifies eleven poets for the utter first class

Understanding Sarkar: the Indian episteme, macrohistory, and ... - Page 111 - Sohail Inayatullah - 2002 - In this theory, Aurobindo does not directly follow the classic end of Kali and return to Krta. Rather, culture can fall into disintegration and collapse. The highest possible integration is where the nation follows the Spirit. But there need not be only...

Asian thought & society - Issues 40-42 - Page 41 1989 - EVOLUTIONARY MYSTICISM OF AUROBINDO (1872 - 1950) Aurobindo, the great mystic philosopher of the 20th century, offers a wonderful synthesis of Hindu spirituality and Western evolutionary theory. Aurobindo finds present day man ...

Indian philosophy, a study on Hindutva - Page 104 - Soorian K. Pandian - 1991 - Referring to this theory, Aurobindo observes, "It divided man in society into the fourfold order — an at once spiritual, psychic, ethical and economic order of Brahmin Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra - practically, the spiritual and intellectual man, ...

Colonialism, modernity, and religious identities: religious reform ... - Page 254 - Gwilym Beckerlegge - 2008 - The Aryan Invasion Theory Aurobindo never referred to the Harappan Civilization, which was excavated after he wrote his major works. He did sometimes speak of an issue related to the Harappan puzzle: the question of the Aryans' homeland ...

Tradition and modernity in contemporary religio-philosophic movements - Page 150 - A. R. Anasuya Devi - 1990 - ... subjective and universal meaning, a spiritual sense and direction. According to Sri Aurobindo spiritualism besides material management is the distinct and unique quality that provides an eternal value to the Hindu theory. Aurobindo points ...

Secularisation of Indian mind: a study of political ideas in India ... - Page 61 - V. Indira Devi - 2002 - Elaborating on his views on science, specially on Einstein's relativity theory, Aurobindo explained that a theory, confined to the domain of physics or at most to the general domain of science, cannot be generalised to cover the metaphysical ...

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 ...

The seeker's handbook: the complete guide to spiritual pathfinding - Page 231 - John Lash - 1991 - See FOUR-BODY THEORY. AUrOBIndO, Sri (Shri Or-oh-BIN-doe) Indian philosopher, poet, and social reformer (1872- 1950), an early theorist of the New Age concept of uniting with the higher self by coevolution of consciousness and body.

Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the God-man - Page 85 - Daniel E. Bassuk - 1987 - An Avatar, or God-man, is one who does not pass through those processes but is born as a man who knows himself to be God'. According to this theory, Aurobindo is a Perfect Master and not an Avatar. And Baba indicated that the Avatar ...

The vision of self in early Vedānta - Page 188 - William Beidler - 1975 - This is a most difficult question, and does not seem immediately answerable by the Gita, and perhaps may be a defect in the whole avatara theory. Aurobindo who carefully distinguishes between the Vibhuti and the avatara gives the example ...

The Essential Aurobindo: Writings of Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo Ghose, Robert A. McDermott - 2001 - Preview - More editions Here is an invaluable resource for understanding the underlying connections and common ground between Eastern and Western teachings and traditions for modern thinkers and spiritual seekers.

Worthy is the world: the Hindu philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 267 - Beatrice Bruteau - 1972 - THE MARKS OF A SOUND THEORY Aurobindo may not be a professional philosopher, but he has undertaken to construct a metaphysical system, and it is therefore appropriate to examine it as to its consistency, elegance, verifiability, and...

The future of man according to Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo Ghose - Page 117 J. Chetany - 1978 - With apparent reference to Arrheneus' theory Aurobindo also says: "The curious speculation is now current that Life entered earth not from another world, but from another planet. To the thinker that would explain nothing.

The Colonial and the neo-colonial encounters in Commonwealth ... - Page 140 - H. H. Anniah Gowda, University of Mysore. Post-graduate Dept. of English,University of Mysore. Centre for Commonwealth Literature and Research - 1983 - In order to highlight the emphasis on the spiritual aspect of his theory, Aurobindo tends to twist certain Indian critical terms that he employes in The Future Poetry. Perhaps, the most interesting example of his twisted usage is the term rasa, ...

Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's poetry, plays, and criticism - Page 145 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - Full view - More editions ... he brought four criteria 'imaginative originality, expressive poer, creative genius, scope of subject-matter, the last criterion implying also scale of work'. By applying his own critical theory Sri Aurobindo classifies eleven poets 'for the utter first class but into three rows."20 In the top row he considers no more than four on an equal basis of essential excellence: Valmiki, Vyasa, Homer and ... Indian English literature: a new perspective - Page 169 - Gajendra Kumar - 2001 - Full view

Poetic plays of Sri Aurobindo - Page 27 - Bimal Narayan Thakur - 2004 - Preview - More editions All these sequences bespeak Sri Aurobindo's constant preoccupation with the problems of right education in the context resurgence". In his theory, Sri Aurobindo distinguished intellect into two of the national contemporary groups of ...

The Political Thought of Aurobindo (Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers) - Page 23 - K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - Preview K. S. Bharathi. consciousness. On April 24, 1951, the mother of the Ashram said, "Sri Aurobindo is present in our midst, and with all the power of his creative genius he presides over the formation of the University Centre which for years he ...

Readings in Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine Volume 3 - Page 163 - Santosh Krinsky - Preview Of course, there are inexplicable facts and circumstances that actually cannot be explained by this theory. Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Book 2, Part 2, Chapter 20, The Philosophy of Rebirth, pg. 748 Beyond the Limitations of the Physical ...

Indian Poetry in English: Critical Essays - Page 139 - ZINIA MITRA - 2012 - Preview Difficult though it is to arrive at an answer, I will make an attempt to do that because in the answer lies the key to some vital aspects of Indian literary theory. Sri Aurobindo happens to be the Indian in whom there was the desire, and its ...

Humanity, truth, and freedom: essays in modern Indian Philosophy - Page 85 - Raghunath Ghosh - 2008 - Preview - More editions ... the collective freedom or salvation can be attained. In social theory Sri Aurobindo has shown that each and every man can possess infinite power by awakening Caitya purusa existing in him, which provides honour and respect to mankind.

Jouissance As Ananda: Indian Philosophy, Feminist Theory, And ... - Page 135 - Ashmita Khasnabish - 2006 - Preview - More editions It is quite intriguing to see the spiritual essence of the future poetry as defined by Sri Aurobindo being manifest in Joyce's concept of aesthetic theory. Sri Aurobindo predicted the future of poetry in his The Future Poetry and it was first published ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 43 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007 - Without denying the importance of the mechanistic theory, Sri Aurobindo wants to give us his "conscious, supple, flexible, intensely surprising and constantly dramatic evolution by a 7. Sri Aurobindo, "Heraclitus" in The Supramental ...

Feminism Censorship And Other - Page 30 - Kaushal Kishore Sharma - 2003 - Full view A poet of soul is the creator of spiritual joy, "Ananda", and not mere sensuous, intellectual or imaginative delight. True to his belief and theory, Sri Aurobindo as a poet gets poetic inspiration mainly from above his head. He would make himself ...

The White Heart: A Process of Creative Incubation - Page 155 - Shirley Lyons - 2011 - Preview - More editions This resonated, as I read it, to the story of the Hundredth Monkey and the Morphogenetic Fields Theory. Sri Aurobindo left His body on December 5, 1950. For five days His body lay in His room, on His bed, from the morning of December 5th, ...

Sri Aurobindo: a centenary tribute - Page 213 - Aurobindo Ghose, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1974 - ... to find the path through certain disciplines to attain the highest condition of human consciousness and existence according to their own theory. Sri Aurobindo never wrote his autobiography, and made fun of those who wrote his biographies.

Studies In Comparative Literature - Mohit Kumar Ray - 2002 - Preview Mohit Kumar Ray. rv Starting with Sri Aurobindo's conceptualisation of poetry as "mantra of the real" R.K. Mishra traces its support in the writings of Plato, Shelley, Abercrombie and others. Asha Choubey offers a fascinating reading of ...

Sri Aurobindo, the poet - Page 11 - Radhey L. Varshney, Shashi Prabha - 1991 - Aurobindo's Poetic Theory Sri Aurobindo, besides being a yogi and a poet, a philosopher and a saint, was also a great literary critic. The Future Poetry is the Magna Charta of literary criticism. This work is the new Poetics by the Aristotle of our ...

Talks with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 2 - Page 48 - Nirodbaran, Aurobindo Ghose - 1971 - Snippet view - More editions N: He was one of the three most brilliant students of his year, the first being Satyen Bose. He says there are only two people who understand Einstein's Relativity Theory. SRI AUROBINDO: In India or the world? I thought there were five or six in...

Like Mazzini Sri Aurobindo prized the moral re-awakening

Sri Aurobindo's political thought, 1893-1908 - Page 43 - Aurobindo Ghose, Haridāsa Mukhopādhyāẏa, Haridas Mukherjee - 1958 - Like Mazzini of the 19th century, Aurobindo prized above everything else the value of the moral re-awakening of the nation before it could seriously aspire after political freedom; but at the same time he also valued at its proper worth the ...

Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture - Volume 18 - Page 39 - Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 1967 - It drew inspiration from the blazing account of Garibaldi and Mazzini. The agitation ultimately produced two groups of leaders: moderates and the extremists, in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Aurobindo and B. G. Tilak eventually ...

United Asia - Volume 10 - Page 379 - 1958 - This ideology was subsequently adopted by a group of nationalist leaders in the beginning of the present century — Aurobindo Ghose, Bipinchandra Pal, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Lala Lajpat Rai being the outstanding among these leaders.

Economic and political weekly - Volume 12, Part 4 - Page 2047  - 1977 - The reactionary nationalism of the extremist group at the beginning of this century — Aurobindo, Tilak and Pal — who aimed at building the nationalist movement on the basis of ancient Hindu religions and supernatural credulities, was not ...

Secular democracy - Volume 4 - Page 39 - 1971 - From being an ardent spokesman of rising Indian nationalism in the nineties of the nineteenth century Aurobindo had become a mystic recluse by the middle of the twentieth century. It was on 24 April 1949 that Aurobindo allowed himself to be ...

Subhas Bose and India Today: A New Tryst with Destiny ? - Page 77 - Pradip Bose - 1999 - Preview So widespread and deep was its impact that the British Government annulled the partition of Bengal in 1911 and this was the first victory of India's nationalist struggle at the beginning of the 20th century. Aurobindo withdrew from politics in ...

Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism - Page 67 - Jyotirmaya Sharma - 2011 - Preview - More editions III As a revolutionary nationalist writing in the first decade of the twentieth century, Aurobindo welcomed Pan-Islamism and the rise of a separate Muslim Self-consciousness. He saw it as a sign of the vitality of nationalism and as part of the ...

Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 96 - Hugh B. Urban - 2007 - Preview - More editions Like Vivekananda and other spiritual leaders of the early twentieth century, Aurobindo is painfully aware of the figure of the "effete babu" in the colonial imagination, the fawning, submissive, emasculated servant of British administration.

Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy - Page 56 - Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal - 1998 - Preview - More editions In what was an early revisionist piece on the eighteenth century Aurobindo Ghose argued just after the end of World War I that 'a new life' which 'seemed about to rise in the regional peoples' was 'cut short by the intrusion of European nations'.

Yoga psychology and the transformation of consciousness: seeing ... - Page xxi - Don Salmon, Jan Maslow - 2007 - Their innovative and transformative narrative builds on the great advances in Yoga Philosophy developed by the eminent Indian sage Sri Aurobindo in the 20^th Century. Aurobindo brings this amazing and evolving classical tradition of Yoga...

Four religions of Asia: a primer - Page 53 - Herbert Hewitt Stroup - 1968 - Indicative of the importance of the work is the fact that many noted leaders of Indian life during the last half-century — Aurobindo, Tilak, Nehru, Gandhi, and Radhakrishnan among others — all have written commentaries on the Gita.

The Sangh Parivar: a reader - Page 24 - Christophe Jaffrelot - 2005 - In the early part of the twentieth century, Aurobindo Ghose stated the case in terms that the RSS was later to emphasize: If you try other and foreign methods we shall either gain our end of national awakening with tedious slowness, painfully ...

Nationalism, terrorism, communalism: essays in modern Indian history - Page 62 - Peter Heehs - 1998 – Conclusions: At the turn of the century Aurobindo Ghose believed that violent revolution was the best way for India to achieve freedom. He thought that other, non-violent methods might also be used, but 'the action with which he started' was 'a ...

Modern India: 1885-1947 - Page 98 - Sumit Sarkar - 1989 - ... in the 1894 essays on Bankimchandra, in the end eluded the Extremists. By the turn of the century, Aurobindo was trying to organize secret societies, and sending Jatindranath Banerji and Barindrakumar Ghosh to Bengal as emissaries.

The making of India's foreign policy: determinants, institutions, ... - Page 70 - Jayantanuja Bandyopadhyaya - 1980 - The same line of thinking is found in Sri Aurobindo, perhaps the leading philosopher and abstract political thinker of modern India, who profoundly influenced the course of Indian political thinking in the first half of this century. Aurobindo ...

The renaissance to militant nationalism in India - Page 245 - Sankar Ghose - 1969 -  ... who was considerably influenced by the teachings of Vivekananda, actively participated in political work in the first decade of the twentieth century. Aurobindo, one of the leaders of the extremists, desired to found the nationalist movement ...

Writer in freedom struggle, India & Bulgaria - Page 54 Kartar Singh Duggal - 1988 - ... forward and conquer the whole world by the strength of India's spirituality. And at the end of the century, Aurobindo Ghosh gave voice to "the aspirations of young India a divining intention of the spirit of liberty, the beating of whose wings was ...

Creative India: from Mohenjo Daro to the age of Rāmakṛṣṇa-Vivekānanda - Page 607 - Benoy Kumár Sarkar - 1937 - This is perhaps the first specimen of creative India enthusing over a Greek theme. Students of world-literature will not fail to find in it the assimilation of the Aeschylean spirit by a Bengali poet of the twentieth century. Aurobindo's hand is equally ...

The Encyclopedia of religion - Volume 11 - Page 321 - Mircea Eliade, Charles J. Adams - 1987 - In this century, Aurobindo Ghose in India and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in Europe have made the most outstanding philosophical efforts to reconcile the two opposed cosmological tendencies: that of the traditional religions, in which the ... Science and spirit - Page 28 - Ravi Ravindra - 1991

Integral Advaitism Of Sri Aurobindo - Page 394 - Rāmacandra Miśra - 1998 - Preview We regard this as a major contribution of Sri Aurobindo to the theory of Reality or the Absolute. And the merit of this integral view of the Absolute is enhanced by the fact that it is strongly supported by our higher reason or the logic of the Infinite.

Mirapuri – the City of Peace and Future Man in Europe, Italy and ... - Volume 1 - Page 46  - Michel Montecrossa - Preview Sri Aurobindo and Mira Alfassa joined their forces and in powerful teamwork could enhance the realisation of the Integral Yoga to the degree where it was accepted by the human consciousness and since then is moving further and unfolding ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 24 - Page 246 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1972 - Here we have to hazard a guess. Sri Aurobindo must have been impressed and enthused by the sudden birth of the Indian National Congress in 1885. He was then only thirteen and many older than he had been swept off their feet by "the ...

Savitri: talks in Germany - Page 99 - Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1987 - Similarly what Buddha taught, we can only guess. Sri Aurobindo observes that Buddha came to establish the truth of the Divine without form. Each incarnation spoke of the Divine having one form or another. Buddha spoke of nirakara, without ...

Sri Aurobindo and the new age: essays in memory of Kishor Gandhi - Page 21

Sachidananda Mohanty, Nirodbaran, Maurice Shukla - 1997 - During the first decade of this century, Sri Aurobindo made a detailed study to find out the conditions required for the reawakening of India, and during his explorations, which were not confined to the domains of scholarship and political action, ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 255 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007 - In the early decades of the twentieth century, Sri Aurobindo wrote extensively about the renaissance taking place in India; he noted that it was particularly strong and vibrant in most of the fields of culture. The only exception was in the political ...

Sri Aurobindo--the poet - Volume 2, Part 4 - Page 408 - Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1999 - In the early years of our century Sri Aurobindo had already written A Vision of Science, in which the poet dreams of three Angels striving within him for mastery. Towards the end of it the second Angel, Science, is asked by the departing Angel ...

Care of the Unborn Child with Yoga - Page 73 - Jaypee Brothers, Medical Publishers, Narendran - 2006 - Preview A great Indian teacher of this century, Sri Aurobindo, regarded yoga as a methodical effort toward self-perfection through developing our latent potential on the physical, vital, mental, intellectual and spiritual levels. And the most fundamental ...

How they came to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: twenty-nine true ... - Page 180 - Shyam Kumari - 1990 - In the early decades of this century Sri Aurobindo had realised what he had seen and he launched upon the tremendous task of bringing it down on the earth. The country at the same time was aflame with the zeal to free itself from foreign rule.

Sri Aurobindo circle - Issue 41 - Page 130 - Aurobindo Ghose - 1985 - At the beginning of the present century Sri Aurobindo wondered whether the country would, after all, have to rattle on from bad to worse on the existing rails. Presently he entered the world of Vyasa and found that a polity suited to the Indian...

Towards eternity; Sri Aurobindo birth centenary volume, 15th ... - Page 310 - Aurobindo Ghose, V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1973 - When in the early years of this century Sri Aurobindo was not only making a public declaration - and he was the first to do it — of his vision of complete Independence for India but also was actively working for its attainment, he knew and ...

Sri Aurobindo's plays: a thematic study - Page 161 - Sheo Jaiswal - 1993 - At the time of writing Perseus the Deliverer or poems like 'Baji Prabhu', in the first decade of this century, Sri Aurobindo preached fiery nationalism, and favoured the use even of the sword when necessary. His nationalist politics was not very ...

Sri Aurobindo looks beyond the State

Radhikaranjan Das Wins Court Case – by Sridharan from Critique of The Lives Dec 11, 2012

On the 5^th of December, 2012 the Puducherry Court granted relief to Radhikaranjan Das who was abruptly deprived of his Sanskrit classes in the middle of the last academic year by Manoj Das Gupta, Registrar of the Ashram School cum Managing Trustee of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. The Court granted an injunction restraining the Registrar and the Ashram Trustees from disturbing or depriving Radhikaranjan of his classes in the Ashram School. 

Amateurs capture India's diversity Deccan Herald Tuesday 11 December 2012 Neha Das, Dec 11, 2012, DHNS: Visual TREAT Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication (SACAC). The college’s photography department has organised ‘Graduate Photography Exhibition’ … 

Shikha Mahipal, who is one of the 12 students exhibiting their photographs, says her conceptual works are based on Arana, a Sanskrit word meaning ‘depth’. According to Shikha, her work reflects human desire and the journey of life and death. “We as humans have so many desires. Some get fulfilled while others remain unfulfilled until death. That is why the egg used in my pictures signifies birth and simultaneously death - as an egg also denotes that the evolution of the individual did not take place, hence leaving a lot of desires unfulfilled.” Mumbai: TISS organises students' film festival IBNLive ... Jamia Millia Islamia and Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication, New Delhi; Film and Television Institute of India, Pune; Sophia Polytechnic, ...

Cutting class The Asian Age Tuesday Dec 11, 2012 Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

One immediately thinks of Jawaharlal Nehru in this connection because everyone makes heavy weather of his time at Harrow. But Sri Aurobindo did his entire schooling at London’s elite St. Paul’s School. 

Awaken Bharata: a call for India's rebirth - Page 243 - David Frawley - 1998 - in Korea against the communists. Aurobindo possessed a great historical vision. He saw the importance of the Vedas and their great antiquity in India. Aurobindo — like Dayananda, Vivekananda and Tilak before him — rejected the idea that ... The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 339 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions old Semitic belief in the eventual millennium and the return of the messiah. This hypothesis of Becker and Berdyaev involves a great amount of imaginative romanticism, but it does represent a great truth. Society does not radically ...

Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader Sachidananda Mohanty - 2012 - Preview - More editions Early in 1950, he gave a message regarding the Korean War where he spoke against the threat of Bolshevik communism. Sri Aurobindo passed away on 5 December 1950. The Sri Aurobindo Ashram continued with the Mother at the helm of ... Sri Aurobindo's integral approach to political thought - Page 159 - Shiva Kumar Mital - 1981 - ... a feeble grasp of the rights of man the danger of a featureless collectivism.50 The Ideological ard Tussle between Capitalism and Communism Sri Aurobindo thought that a possible tussle between capitalism and communism might occur.51...

Talks with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 4 - Page 241 - Nirodbaran, Aurobindo Ghose - 1989 - P: Shaw goes a step further — he wants communism. Sri Aurobindo: Communism exists nowhere, not even in Russia. Evening P: Sarat Bose is also expelled from the Congress. Sri Aurobindo (laughing): Yes, two great Bose brothers are gone ... Nirodbaran, divinity's comrade - Page 170 - Hemant Kapoor - 2003 - The only way, I told him, is to propagate Sri Aurobindo's ideas and, leaving Gandhi's constructive programme, take up the old village communism. " Sri Aurobindo: Communism? All that is an old formula. It won't do at all. How is he going to link ... Talks with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 4 - Page 129 - Nirodbaran, Aurobindo Ghose - 1989 - He says that all Europe will turn communist. Sri Aurobindo: Every communist says that. If Hitler is defeated, Germany may turn communist. In that case the whole of Europe will be communist. And after Hitler's death there may be dissensions in ...

Prajña - Volume 18 - Page 119 - Banaras Hindu University - 1972 - Snippet view - More editions He believed in the socialistic ideal of Society.7 Denouncing Communism, Sri Aurobindo remarked, "the actual danger presents itself rather as a clash between two opposing idealogies, one led by Russia and Red China and the other side a ... Manthan - Volume 11 - Page 17 - Deendayal Research Institute - 1990 - The nemesis of Hegelianism, which finds in the state the march of God on earth, has fallen upon the modern totalitarian theories like fascism, nazism and communism. Sri Aurobindo looks beyond the State. He is anti-State if it does not Swami Vivekananda and the Indian quest for socialism - Page 152 - Arun Kumar Biswas - 1986 - The presently existing rigid State socialism does not represent the essence of communism. Aurobindo did not believe that the principle of communism, necessarily leads to a 'termite civilisation or the suppression of the individual'. "It could well ...

The political philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 133 - Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1976 - Even according to the materialist Marx there is a goal in history — the attainment of freedom through a classless communism. Aurobindo is confident that the aspirations of mankind for freedom, light, peace and immortality are going to be ... Teilhard and Aurobindo: a study in religious complementarity - Page 83 - David M. Brookman - 1988 - While both Teilhard and Aurobindo were sympathetic to the humanistic elements in communism, Aurobindo did not accept its denial of spirit.36 The imposition of socialism by force does not offer a solution, for without inner transformation of the ...

ON HUMAN DANGERS Prosperity and austerity in contemporary philosophy December 10, 2012 Ian Bogost

OOO holds as a premise that philosophy, theory, and culture in general has been too content in putting human affairs at the center of being and therefore discourse, and that instead we should allow all things(including people) to be of potentially equal impact and concern. So, in that respect, OOO does ask us to expand our attention. And it makes this request on ontological grounds, because it holds metaphysics to be an additive rather than a subtractive philosophical medium. What does baffle me is the assumption that taking the OOO position entails a turning away from human beings and human suffering in particular. 

The terror and the tears

Anticipating Buber, he (Vyasa) saw history as the encounter of the temporal and the eternal, the empirical and the transcendental; and anticipating Berdyaev, he saw in history a divine programme for divinising human existence.

I hero worshipped [Sri] Aurobindo in my college days; but now half a century later, I am terribly disappointed. His discussion of time and eternity is wholly derived from that of Boethius; page after page in [The] Life Divine is watered down Plotinus. His vision of History has the bookishness of Hegel’s tidy schema, Spirit fulfilling its schedule of progress with no problem whatever. But history is fatefully open ended, for man can abuse his freedom to become an Asura and wreck himself too thereby. Man can regress to a cannibal, Bhima drinking Duhsasana’s blood. Man may commit race-suicide, as nearly happened in Kurukshetra where only 9 men survived out of 18 vast armies.

I am afraid [Sri] Aurobindo’s inflated rhetoric does not see the terror and the tears at the heart of things. I must confess your casual rating of Vyasa and Berdyaev vis-a-vis [Sri] Aurobindo shocked me. [Krishna Chaitanya (Dr. K.K. Nair)] 12:55 AM

Sri Aurobindo tends to twist certain Indian critical terms

The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 51 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - Thus Aurobindo's theory is different from Carlyle's hero theory. Aurobindo believes that the hero derives his heroism from the strength and energy of God. Hence "the greatness of individuals is the greatness of the eternal Energy within".

Indian Ethics: Classical traditions and contemporary challenges - Page 411 - Puruṣottama Bilimoria, Joseph Prabhu, Renuka M. Sharma - 2007 - Preview - ... all action - his hedonism is strictly a psychological thesis, not an ethical theory. Aurobindo expressly denies an ethics of general utility, despite his psychological hedonism. He argues that pleasure, to include the bliss of mystical experience, ...

Indian Philosophy in English:From Renaissance to Independence - Page xx - Nalini Bhushan, Jay L. Garfield - 2011 - Preview - ... arguing that Indian aesthetics is not only a better theory for understanding Indian art, but that in global philosophical and aesthetic discussion, rasa theory belongs in the same conversation with Western aesthetic theory (Aurobindo, 2000).

Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers - Page 110 Prof. Mahendra Prasad Singh - 2011 - Preview - Several reformists of the 19th century as well as the moderates within the Congress had fallen victim to it and had interiorized this theory. Aurobindo rejected this line of argument and condemned the moderates for misleading the nation.

India's True Voice - Page 290 - Alvin Boyd Kuhn - 1992 - Preview - Yielding to the omnipresent pressure of general pessimistic theory, Aurobindo faces squarely the great problem of the existence of ignorance, evil and wrong in our world. Yet he holds faithfully to a positive explanation and redeems the utility...

Ortho Para V - Page 177 - Wallace Salzman - 2007 - Preview ... I am probably as close to an understanding of its message as anyone can be because of Ortho-Para theory. Aurobindo carefully pointed out that there are two approaches to the interpretation of the messages defined in the text. The older ...

A critical study of Aurobindo: with special reference to his ... - Page 4 - Laxman Ganpatrao Chincholkar - 1966 - Spiritual experience is the basis of the theory. Aurobindo's theory does not tend towards individual salvation. The descent would dispel the ignorance for ever and establish a divine race upon the earth. This would end, for ever, the anomalies ...

Mastering Western texts: essays on literature and society for A.N. ... - Page 24 - A. N. Kaul, Sambudha Sen, A. N. Sen - 2003 - Preview - The 'Indian point of view' critic was recognizable by his trademark bag of tricks, ever ready to unleash the unfailing formulae of rasa theory, Aurobindo mysticism, or some overwrought mishmash of Indo-mythological allusions and occultisms ...

Papers in language and linguistics - Volume 3 - Page 65 Ujjal Singh Bahri - 1997 - ... in contemporary literary theory has been expressed as intertext on which Harold Bloom has developed his anxiety of influence theory. Aurobindo's aesthetic theory grows out of body-plexus symbolism where he has a perfect scheme of eight ...

Understanding Sarkar: the Indian episteme, macrohistory, and ... - Page 111 - Sohail Inayatullah - 2002 - In this theory, Aurobindo does not directly follow the classic end of Kali and return to Krta. Rather, culture can fall into disintegration and collapse. The highest possible integration is where the nation follows the Spirit. But there need not be only...

Asian thought & society - Issues 40-42 - Page 41 1989 - EVOLUTIONARY MYSTICISM OF AUROBINDO (1872 - 1950) Aurobindo, the great mystic philosopher of the 20th century, offers a wonderful synthesis of Hindu spirituality and Western evolutionary theory. Aurobindo finds present day man ...

Indian philosophy, a study on Hindutva - Page 104 - Soorian K. Pandian - 1991 - Referring to this theory, Aurobindo observes, "It divided man in society into the fourfold order — an at once spiritual, psychic, ethical and economic order of Brahmin Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra - practically, the spiritual and intellectual man, ...

Colonialism, modernity, and religious identities: religious reform ... - Page 254 - Gwilym Beckerlegge - 2008 - The Aryan Invasion Theory Aurobindo never referred to the Harappan Civilization, which was excavated after he wrote his major works. He did sometimes speak of an issue related to the Harappan puzzle: the question of the Aryans' homeland ...

Tradition and modernity in contemporary religio-philosophic movements - Page 150 - A. R. Anasuya Devi - 1990 - ... subjective and universal meaning, a spiritual sense and direction.9 According to Sri Aurobindo spiritualism besides material management is the distinct and unique quality that provides an eternal value to the Hindu theory. Aurobindo points ...

Secularisation of Indian mind: a study of political ideas in India ... - Page 61 - V. Indira Devi - 2002 - Elaborating on his views on science, specially on Einstein's relativity theory, Aurobindo explained that a theory, confined to the domain of physics or at most to the general domain of science, cannot be generalised to cover the metaphysical ...

The seeker's handbook: the complete guide to spiritual pathfinding - Page 231 - John Lash - 1991 - See FOUR-BODY THEORY. AUrOBIndO, Sri (Shri Or-oh-BIN-doe) Indian philosopher, poet, and social reformer ( 1872- 1950), an early theorist of the New Age concept of uniting with the higher self by coevolution of consciousness and body.

Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the God-man - Page 85 - Daniel E. Bassuk - 1987 - An Avatar, or God-man, is one who does not pass through those processes but is born as a man who knows himself to be God'.69 According to this theory, Aurobindo is a Perfect Master and not an Avatar. And Baba indicated that the Avatar ...

The vision of self in early Vedānta - Page 188 - William Beidler - 1975 - This is a most difficult question, and does not seem immediately answerable by the Gita, and perhaps may be a defect in the whole avatara theory. Aurobindo who carefully distinguishes between the Vibhuti and the avatara gives the example ...

Worthy is the world: the Hindu philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 267 - Beatrice Bruteau - 1972 - THE MARKS OF A SOUND THEORY Aurobindo may not be a professional philosopher, but he has undertaken to construct a metaphysical system, and it is therefore appropriate to examine it as to its consistency, elegance, verifiability, and...

The future of man according to Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo Ghose - Page 117 - J. Chetany - 1978 - With apparent reference to Arrheneus' theory Aurobindo also says: "The curious speculation is now current that Life entered earth not from another world, but from another planet. To the thinker that would explain nothing.

The Colonial and the neo-colonial encounters in Commonwealth ... - Page 140 - H. H. Anniah Gowda, University of Mysore. Post-graduate Dept. of English,University of Mysore. Centre for Commonwealth Literature and Research - 1983 - In order to highlight the emphasis on the spiritual aspect of his theory, Aurobindo tends to twist certain Indian critical terms that he employes in The Future Poetry. Perhaps, the most interesting example of his twisted usage is the term rasa, ...

Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's poetry, plays, and criticism - Page 145 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - Full view - ... he brought four criteria 'imaginative originality, expressive poet,  creative genius, scope of subject-matter, the last criterion implying also scale of work'.19 By applying his own critical theory Sri Aurobindo classifies eleven poets 'for the utter first class but into three rows."20 In the top row he considers no more than four on an equal basis of essential excellence: Valmiki, Vyasa, Homer and ... Indian English literature: a new perspective - Page 169 - Gajendra Kumar - 2001 - Full view 

Poetic plays of Sri Aurobindo - Page 27 - Bimal Narayan Thakur - 2004 - Preview - All these sequences bespeak Sri Aurobindo's constant preoccupation with the problems of right education in the context resurgence".94 In his theory, Sri Aurobindo distinguished intellect into two of the national contemporary groups of ...

Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers: The political thought of Aurobindo - Page 23 - K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - Preview K. S. Bharathi. consciousness. On April 24, 1951, the mother of the Ashram said, "Sri Aurobindo is present in our midst, and with all the power of his creative genius he presides over the formation of the University Centre which for years he ...

Readings in Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine Volume 3 - Page 163 - Santosh Krinsky - Preview Of course, there are inexplicable facts and circumstances that actually cannot be explained by this theory. Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Book 2, Part 2, Chapter 20, The Philosophy of Rebirth, pg. 748 Beyond the Limitations of the Physical ...

Indian Poetry in English: Critical Essays - Page 139 - Zina Mitra - Preview - Difficult though it is to arrive at an answer, I will make an attempt to do that because in the answer lies the key to some vital aspects of Indian literary theory. Sri Aurobindo happens to be the Indian in whom there was the desire, and its ...

Humanity, truth, and freedom: essays in modern Indian Philosophy - Page 85 - Raghunath Ghosh - 2008 - Preview - ... the collective freedom or salvation can be attained. In social theory Sri Aurobindo has shown that each and every man can possess infinite power by awakening Caitya purusa existing in him, which provides honour and respect to mankind.

Jouissance as Ānanda: Indian Philosophy, Feminist Theory, and ... - Page 135 -Ashmita Khasnabish - 2006 - Preview - It is quite intriguing to see the spiritual essence of the future poetry as defined by Sri Aurobindo being manifest in Joyce's concept of aesthetic theory. Sri Aurobindo predicted the future of poetry in his The Future Poetry and it was first published ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 43 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007 - Without denying the importance of the mechanistic theory, Sri Aurobindo wants to give us his "conscious, supple, flexible, intensely surprising and constantly dramatic evolution by a 7. Sri Aurobindo, "Heraclitus" in The Supramental ...

Feminism, censorship and other essays - Page 30 - Kaushal Kishore Sharma - 2003 - Full view A poet of soul is the creator of spiritual joy, "Ananda", and not mere sensuous, intellectual or imaginative delight. True to his belief and theory, Sri Aurobindo as a poet gets poetic inspiration mainly from above his head. He would make himself ...

The White Heart: A Process of Creative Incubation - Page 155 - Shirley Lyons - 2011 - Preview - This resonated, as I read it, to the story of the Hundredth Monkey and the Morphogenetic Fields Theory. Sri Aurobindo left His body on December 5, 1950. For five days His body lay in His room, on His bed, from the morning of December 5th, ...

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1 - Page 37 - Nirodbaran, Aurobindo Ghose - 1969 - MYSELF (continuing): About your changing 'cowards into heroes', they put forward the same 'latency theory'. Sri Aurobindo's comment: How do they prove their theory — when they don't know what is or is not latent? In such conditions the the theory can neither be proved nor refuted. To say 'O, it was ...

Sri Aurobindo: a centenary tribute - Page 213 - Aurobindo Ghose, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1974 - ... to find the path through certain disciplines to attain the highest condition of human consciousness and existence according to their own theory. Sri Aurobindo never wrote his autobiography, and made fun of those who wrote his biographies.

Studies in comparative literature - Ed. Mohit K. Ray - 2002 - Preview Ed. Mohit K. Ray. rv Starting with Sri Aurobindo's conceptualisation of poetry as "mantra of the real" R.K. Mishra traces its support in the writings of Plato, Shelley, Abercrombie and others. Asha Choubey offers a fascinating reading of ...

Sri Aurobindo, the poet - Page 11 - Radhey L. Varshney, Shashi Prabha - 1991 - Aurobindo's Poetic Theory Sri Aurobindo, besides being a yogi and a poet, a philosopher and a saint, was also a great literary critic. The Future Poetry is the Magna Charta of literary criticism. This work is the new Poetics by the Aristotle of our ...

Talks with Sri Aurobindo - Volume 2 - Page 48 - Nirodbaran, Aurobindo Ghose - 1971 - N: He was one of the three most brilliant students of his year, the first being Satyen Bose. He says there are only two people who understand Einstein's Relativity Theory. SRI AUROBINDO: In India or the world? I thought there were five or six in...

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 ...

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...

Sanskrit and the evolution of human speech: based on Sri ... - Page 68 - Sampadananda Mishra - 2005 - 82 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 ...

Annual - Issues 5-8 - Page 56 - Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1946 - Coming to the actual arguments for the Illusionist theory, Sri Aurobindo makes a close examination of the applicability of the analogy of dream and hallucination to the world-experience and his main conclusion is that the analogies are utterly ...

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 ...

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.

Muslim separatism: causes and consequences - Page 107 - Sita Ram Goel - 1995 - 1 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 ...

Rewriting Indian history - Page 15 - François Gautier - 1996 - Can one accept such a theory? Sri Aurobindo, while praising the original caste system, does not spare it in its later stages: "it is the nature of human institutions to degenerate; there is no doubt that the institution of caste degenerated. It ceased ...

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...

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