September 24, 2010

No evidence to indicate that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were sexual partners

Widening Horizons: For Educating the Gifted and General Education - Page 285 - Sujatha A. Krishna Rao - 2010 - 308 pages - Preview
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, 1972, pp. 110-3. 13. Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantam Books, 1995, p. 301. 14. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: A new education for a new consciousness, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo ...
Transcendent in America: Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as ... - Page 229 - Lola Williamson - 2010 - 272 pages - Preview
There is today no central authority or organization, although there are many “centers” and study groups around the world that offer followers of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother a place to gather. There is also no clear articulation of the ...
Integral Education: New Directions for Higher Learning - Page 47 - Sean Esbj'orn-Hargens, Sean Esbjrn-Hargens, Jonathan Reams - 2010 - 416 pages- Preview
I will not dwell here on certain of the basic and unique philosophical assumptions that Sri Aurobindo and The Mother made. I will touch on them only later, in order to put them in proper context. For now let me summarize the notion ...
The Way Home: Making Heaven on Earth - Page 167 - Madis Senner - 2009 - 260 pages - Preview
27 Both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were contemporaries of Gandhi and spent a lot of time in spiritual efforts to win freedom for India, end to WWII and bring about world peace. Sri Aurobindo was a nationally known political activist ...
Science, Spirituality and the Modernization of India - Page 164 Makarand Paranjape - 2009 - 296 pages - Preview
Sri Aurobindo was the first modern rishi to expound the existence of the supramental that modern science is now ... We will restrict our discussion to the psychic mind that the Mother (Collected Works of The Mother, pp.16, 247–8; ...
Another Canon: Indian Texts and Traditions in English - Page 126 - Makarand Paranjape - 2009 - 293 pages - Preview
Page 124 This brings us to a question which has been raised again and again: how closely does Desai's character resemble the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, ...
Page 125 However, I do admit that I am a student of modern Indian spiritual traditions and also of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. So I had a special interest in ...
Page 126 There is no evidence to indicate that the Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were sexual partners. ... The case of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, they were always surrounded by disciples and attendants, so there was never any question about ...
In contrast to this fictional prudishness, there is no squeamishness in the Ashram circles about the relationship between Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. ...
The Rationality Illusion - Page 88 Falk Quest - 2010 - 212 pages
The theory of rebirth coupled to the concept of karma offers, as Sri Aurobindo put it, “a simple, symmetrical, convincing explanation of things”. To live to see a mass murderer escaping conviction and relishing a long sane life, ...
Leading Lights, The - Page 99 Dr. George Kaitholil - 2007 - 203 pages
Sri Aurobindo later said that while imprisoned he saw the convicts, jailers, policemen, the prison bars, the trees, the judge and the lawyers as different forms of Vasudeva or Krishna. As Aurobindo put it, "The only result of the wrath ...
Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 91 Hugh B. Urban - 2007 - 372 pages
... founded by Aurobindo and others in 1902 — and a looser group later known as Jugan- tar (the New Age).57 As Aurobindo put it in a letter of 19 11, his aim was to instigate "a secret revolutionary propaganda and organization. ...
Jouissance as Ananda: Indian Philosophy, Feminist Theory, and ... - Page 158 Ashmita Khasnabish - 2006 - 239 pages
Both Tagore and Sri Aurobindo put forth the message that the darkness has great potential, because darkness is unavoidable. Sri Aurobindo reiterates the truth that many times one falls back into inconscience — but, eventually one has to ...
Stories told by the Mother Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2006 - 123 pages
Nothing but that, not her moral or spiritual freedom, I did not speak of that at all. I simply said she was free from foreign domination, because, even to a question Sri Aurobindo put to me, I answered from ...
Process and the authentic life: toward a psychology of value - Page 622 Jason W. Brown - 2005 - 699 pages
Aurobindo put it nicely: “knowing too much they missed the whole to be known,” reminiscent of the lines of Goldsmith: And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. ...
Sri Aurobindo - Page 26 Purnima Majumdar - 2005 - 122 pages
Marriage Aurobindo put in his advertisement in the matrimonial column in 1901. He received a number of responses, but he married Mrinalini, the 14-year-old daughter of Bhopal Chandra Bose, who was a friend of Principal Girish Chandra ...
The universe of Acharya Sushil Muni: the philosophy of World religion Sādhanā (Sādhvī.) - 2005 - 502 pages
... experienced the same in the world religions and tried his level best to establish the same. For self-realization of the same higher religion Sri Aurobindo put the ideal of creating supramental ...
The Roots of Modern Magick: An Anthology - Page 54 A H Greenfield, A. H. Greenfield - 2004 - 260 pages
“As for certain occult practices, he told me that they were fully Tantric" (that is Sexual Yoga) as Sri Aurobindo put it to her. The respected though `eccentric' Freemasonic Leader John Yarker is known to have reviewed Davidson's work, and both worked closely with Papus and the Martinist Order, ...
Secrets of Happiness - Page 162 Tanushree Podder - 2004 - 187 pages
As Sri Aurobindo put it: "It is a mistake to think that by fearing or being unhappy you can progress. Fear is always a feeling to be rejected, because what you fear is just the thing that is likely to come to you: fear attracts the ...
Mira to Mother - Page 105 Udhaya Kumar - 2004 - 164 pages
Without the slightest hesitation Sri Aurobindo put aside his cigar. There was an end to an inveterate habit without the least fuss. When everything had settled down and our work had fallen into a regular ...
Vande mataram, the biography of a song Sabyasachi Bhattacharya - 2003 - 136 pages
The idea that it was a mantra as Aurobindo put it, the practices of the militant nationalist societies who adopted it as a vow and a battle cry, and finally the use of the two words in processions as a slogan to rally the populace — all ...
The deeper dimension of Yoga: theory and practice Georg Feuerstein - 2003 - 415 pages
Sri Aurobindo put it this way: The chief processes of Hathayoga are asana and pranayama. By its numerous Asanas or fixed postures it first cures the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working ...
Kr̥ṣṇayajurvedīya Taittirīya-saṃhitā Rangasami Laksminarayana Kashyap - 2003 - 766 pages
And Agni is, as Sri Aurobindo put it, the mystic fire that is valid equally on earth and in the high heavens. This especial message of the Veda becomes clear and comprehensive in this work on Taittiriya Samhita, undertaken by Dr. ...
Nirodbaran, divinity's comrade  Hemant Kapoor - 2003 - 639 pages
Previously the Moderates would draw up beautifully drafted resolutions requesting the British government to give them dominion status. As Sri Aurobindo put it, to give them the loaf of freedom crumb by crumb. ...
The conspiracy of life: meditations on Schelling and his time - Page 225  Jason M. Wirth - 2003 - 290 pages
As Aurobindo put it: "God is there not only in the silence, but in the action" (EG, 135). Without responsibility, with the implication of evil with the Good, how is one to understand Krsna's counsel? ...
Patterns of the present: from the perspective of Sri Aurobindo and ...  Georges van Vrekhem - 2002 - 238 pages
"To humanise Europe", as Sri Aurobindo put it, Christianity and the then still living force of its founder used the apparatus of the Roman Empire, which itself had absorbed the civilisation of the Greeks. Thus Greece, Rome, Judaism and ...
Secularisation of Indian mind: a study of political ideas in India ... V. Indira Devi - 2002 - 314 pages
... like Vivekananda and Aurobindo put forward the view that if man is to achieve liberation and perfection, the only means of achieving it is to become increasingly impersonal. Their belief was based on the view that down the ages it ...
The complete idiot's guide to Hinduism - Page 51 Linda Johnsen - 2002 - 408 pages
As the late sage Sri Aurobindo put it, it is the "one central idea of the Vedic religion, the idea of the One Being with the [gods] expressing in numerous names and forms the many-sidedness of His unity." This is why Al Biruni, ...
Sri Aurobindo Ghose: the dweller in the lands of silence  William Kluback, Michael Finkenthal - 2001 - 167 pages
With these remarks, Sri Aurobindo put aside every philosophy and religious belief that assumed that spiritual life without physical love was an adequate expression of man's existence. In fact, it was the expression of spiritual death, ...
GOD SHALL GROW UP Body, Soul,& Earth Evolving Together - Page 213 Wayne Bloomquist - 2001 - 351 pages
As Sri Aurobindo put it: By departing from the physical life, one does not disappear out of the Movement, but only passes into some other general state of consciousness than the material universe. These states are either obscure or ...
Science and technology in East Asia: the legacy of Joseph Needham Joseph Needham, Alain Arrault - 2001 - 152 pages
... metaphysical pragmatism bears much in common with seventeenth and eighteenth century naturphilosophie — the investigation of nature, as an Indian sage Aurobindo put it, was a preparatory stage to learning of the higher spiritual ...
Literature and culture Sachidananda Mohanty - 2001 - 232 pages
As Sri Aurobindo put it vividly: "Recover the source of all strength in yourselves and all else would be added to you — social soundness, intellectual preeminence, political freedom, the mastery of human thought. ...
Records of Yoga Aurobindo Ghose - 2001 - 1515 pages
Sri Aurobindo put a question-mark after the date "April 22d". The year of these entries is nowhere written, but the dates and days of the week correspond to those of 1915. After the entry of 26 August ... Letters on Savitri
Sri Aurobindo - 2000 – 113 pages 4 Aeneid, 1.462. In 1946 Sri Aurobindo put the source of this line's inspiration much higher than he does here. See below, p. 95. ...
The deciphered Indus script: methodology, readings, interpretations N. Jha, Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram - 2000 - 269 pages
It has no foundation to speak of, other than "conjectures supported only by wilder conjectures" — as Sri Aurobindo put it. A serious, even fatal flaw in these efforts is a complete failure to relate them to any existing historical, ...
Gurus and their followers: new religious reform movements in ... Antony R. H. Copley - 2000 - 235 pages
Aurobindo put this well: Certain men were born, men whom the educated world would not have recognized if that belief, if that God within them had not been there to open their eyes, men whose lives were very different from what our ...
Experiences of a pilgrim soul  Cuttān̲anta Pāratiyār - 2000 - 556 pages
Pal was an original thinker and speaker but not a dynamic actor. Sri Aurobindo put forth a bold policy of Self-Government without British control and he sought to destroy the shibboleths of the moderate, ...
The Mother: the story of her life  George Van Vrekhem - 2000 - 545 pages
Even to a question Sri Aurobindo put to me, I answered from the same [occult] place: "There will be no violence of any kind. It will come about without a revolution. It will be the English who will decide to go away because they will ...
Indian political thinkers: modern indian political thought - Page 153 N. Jayapalan - 2000 - 370 pages
Aurobindo put it that the idea of freedom now to be got was from the West. But it was not new to India as past cultural heritage put it. He wanted that the individual should be loyal to the Truth, the Self, the Spirit and the Divine. ...
Advaita Vedānta R. Balasubramanian, Project of History of ... - 2000 - 696 pages
The intellectual map of reality Sri Aurobindo put forward is holistic: nothing escapes from it as unexplained or unexplainable, as unreal, illusory, or fake. It is the design of his map to integrate all forms of existence — matter, ...
Sri Aurobindo Prithwindra Mukherjee - 2000 - 235 pages
... poisson pour la kyrielle des chats de gouttière qui avaient trouvé la maison convenable. C'est à Pondichéry, durant les quatre premières années, que SriAurobindo put se pencher sur une ascèse silencieuse accompagnée de l'étude du...
Asian agri-history Asian Agri-History Foundation - 2000
The whole enterprise, as the article amply demonstrates, is built up of 'conjectures supported by more conjectures' as Sri Aurobindo put it. Now that we have a firm basis that links archaeology to ancient literature, it is time for ...
Perspectives of Savitri R. Y. Deshpande - 2000
One fact alone makes me dumb with a reverent awe and exalted admiration: the colossal labour Sri Aurobindo put forth to build this unique structure. It reminds me of one of those majestic ancient temples like Konarak or of a Gothic ...
Colonialism, tradition, and reform: an analysis of Gandhi's ... - Page 45 Bhikhu C. Parekh - 1999 - 359 pages
They were in 'thralldom to outworn and stale ideas', lacked initiative, energy, enthusiasm, perseverance and a sense of commitment, and had become deeply fearful of anything new. Aurobindo put the point well: ...
The Penguin Sri Aurobindo reader Aurobindo Ghose, Makarand R. Paranjape - 1999 - 375 pages
As Sri Aurobindo put it, 'It is a step for which the whole of evolution has been a preparation.' Or in the Mother's words: 'Humanity has been waiting for centuries for this moment. It has come.' In this new age, all the old religions ...
Divine messengers of our time Susunaga Weeraperuma - 1999 - 166 pages
Sri Aurobindo put an end to speculation about his intentions by issuing a statement, which was published in ...
Tradition and the rhetoric of right: popular political argument in ... - Page 106 David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - 339 pages
The result is the seemingly arbitrary advance and retreat of history. This is best reflected in the view of world history Aurobindo put forward in The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity, and is summarized in figure 6. ...
Thinkers Of Indian Renaissance - Page 212 S A Abbasi - 1998 - 476 pages
As Aurobindo put it: .... If we look at World-Existence rather in its relation to the self delight of eternally existent being, we may regard, describe and realize it as Lila, the play, the child's joy, the poet's joy, the actor's joy, ...

September 08, 2010

Sri Aurobindo opposed the hegemony of any one single ideology

Today we are celebrating the 63rd anniversary of India's Independence, but also Sri Aurobindo's birthday.
It was perhaps a coincidence or my good ‘karma’, but when I came as a backpacker traveling from France to India in 1972, I carried a book for the travel. This French translation of The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo’s magnum opus was to greatly influence my life and answer a vital question for me: should the ‘outside world’ be transformed in something beautiful ‘which works’ or should the material world be abandoned and all life devoted to reaching ‘higher’ realms?
Frankly, I had some reservations. Traveling for a couple of months in India in the early seventies was a shock for a foreigner. The dirt, the chaos in the big cities, the lack of ‘modern’ facilities, the blaring of loud speakers, the crowds, all these were a constant reminder that things were not so bad in Europe where trains ran on time, towns were clean, information was easily available to the public, hygiene a way of life. […]
Today, we hear that India is shining as never before. But on the streets of any metropolis or in the villages of rural India, one still sees the same ‘misery’ which I saw more 30 years ago (with louder noise, more chaos, pollution and garbage). It is true that in the past two or three decades the Spirit of India appears to have woven new garbs. However is it not symptomatic that a great deal of the ‘shine’ has come from the Indian Diaspora in the West which did not reject the world ‘outside’ while retaining some inner Indian values? Sri Aurobindo, in a chapter of his Foundations of Indian Culture envisioned a three-point program for the ‘renaissance in India’: 
  • The recovery of the old spiritual knowledge and experience in all its splendour, depth and fullness is its first, most essential work.
  • The flowing of this spirituality into new forms of philosophy, literature, art, science and critical knowledge is the second.
  • An original dealing with modern problems in the light of Indian spirit and the endeavour to formulate a greater synthesis of a spiritualised society is the third and most difficult.
This message is more than relevant today as these tasks written nearly a century ago remain unfulfilled. ‘Synthesis’ is a key word in Sri Aurobindo’s vision. Recently, this ‘Indian renaissance’ has been equated to economic growth, a Chinese-model development with an 8 or 9% growth of the GNP (to ‘become rich is glorious’ à la Deng Xiaoping), but it is certainly not the sort of renaissance Sri Aurobindo envisaged (though he excluded nothing).
But ‘synthesis’ does not mean aping the West! India has to rediscover her past, not for the sake of the past, but because “Spirituality is the master-key of the Indian mind.” The ancient seekers had found that “the physical does not get its full sense until it stands in right relation to the supra-physical; [Ancient India] saw that the complexity of the universe could not be explained in the present terms of man or seen by his superficial sight, that there were other powers behind, other powers within man himself of which he is normally unaware.”
This knowledge is the key to the true transformation the bodily mansion of Mother India. Only then will India be able to play her rightful role in the world and truly shine. […]
How can we deal with this crisis? Sri Aurobindo’s answer is by a change in consciousness; not only an individual one, but a revolutionary transformation of the entire race. […] Sixty years after Sri Aurobindo’s departure, can his message help us to deal better with this troubled world?
Though for the sake of his sadhana, he lived a secluded life, Sri Aurobindo never retired into some sort of Nirvana or beatific splendour. He remained well acquainted with the politics of the sub-continent and the world situation. […] Sri Aurobindo opposed the hegemony of any one single ideology. For the planet to survive, every nation, every culture or individual has to find its rightful place according to its own genius. […]
Sri Aurobindo has described this quest as ‘the Adventure of Consciousness and Joy’. It seems to be the most urgent task at hand for humanity. If enough individuals would aspire for this higher consciousness, undoubtedly the process could be hastened and the world around us would begin to change. The Mother once told the Ashram children: “I invite you to a Great Adventure”. It is perhaps the only relevant adventure in the world today. Posted by Claude Arpi at 6:48 AM

September 04, 2010

The integrative theme is central for Sri Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan

Frithjof Schuon and the Perennial Philosophy - Page 268 - Harry Oldmeadow, William Stoddart - 2010 - 346 pages - Preview
... but also of the application of evolutionism to the spiritual domain itself—evident in varying degree in such disparate figures as Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Radhakrishnan, and Mahesh Yogi as well as in many Western Vedanta enthusiasts. ...
Role of Dr. Radhakrishnan in Indian politics - Page 48 - Radhey Shyam - 1998 - 153 pages - Preview
RADHAKRISHNAN By any measure Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is one of the rarest and most forceful combinations of the ... such as Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda and Shri Aurobindo. At the young age of twenty, Radhakrishnan wrote ... [Gandhi Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan on Bhagavadgita 
A.N. Mishra and Geeta Satpathy Susmit Pani - Jan 1, 2008, Law of karma: As perceived by Mahatma Gandhi, Aurobindo, Swami Vivekanand, Radha Krishnan Nirmala Jha, Social and political orientations of Neo-Vedantism: Study of the social philosophy of Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Bipin Chandra Pal, Tagore, Gandhi, Vinoba and Radhakrishnan S. L Malhotra]
World Cultures and World Religions - Page 310 - Hendrik Kraemer - 2002 - 388 pages - Preview
The Neo-Vedantist version of Hinduism, whether it is that of Radhakrishnan, Aurobindo Ghose or others, clearly expresses the new self-consciousness of Hinduism as a universal and not as an ethnic philosophy of religion and way of life,...
Christianity And Culture - Page 277 - Santosh Thomas - 2005 - 333 pages - Preview
of Hinduism, whether it is that of Radhakrishnan, Aurobindo Ghose or others, clearly expresses the new self-consciousness of Hinduism as a universal and not as an ethnic philosophy of religion and way of life, and nourishes all the ...
Sociology of religions: perspectives of Ali Shariati - Page 266 - Mir Mohammed Ibrahim - 2008 - 277 pages - Preview
In this respect we can compare Shariati with Jean Paul Sartre, William James and CD Joad in Western context, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Aurobindo Ghosh and Swami Vivekananda in the Indian context and to Dr. Sir Mohammad Iqbal, ...
Hinterlands and horizons: excursions in search of amity - Page 37 - Margaret Chatterjee - 2002 - 139 pages - Preview
The integrative theme which is central for Sri Aurobindo is also to be found in Radhakrishnan, likewise the sense of a future world or dawn, which is yet to come into existence. In addition, Radhakrishnan learned much from the life and ...
Philosophical questions: East and West - Page xvi - Bina Gupta, Jitendranath Mohanty - 2000 - 464 pages - Preview
... Martin Luther King Jr., and de Beauvoir from the Western tradition: Radhakrishnan, Aurobindo, Gandhi, Tagore. and Nishida from the Eastern tradition). It is now necessary that we place these selections in their proper contexts. ...
Altered Destinations: Self, Society, and Nation in India - Page 188 - Makarand Paranjape - 2009 - 214 pages - Preview
Chetan Bhatt's Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies, and Myths contains a very brief section on Aurobindo (Bhatt 2001, ... which has been more or less 'standard' in India from Vinoba Bhave to S. Radhakrishnan to Ashis Nandy. ...
Science, Spirituality and the Modernization of India - Page 96 - Makarand Paranjape - 2009 - 296 pages - Preview
Chapter 5 Sri Aurobindo and ... Chattopadhyaya to Swami Vivekananda, SriAurobindo and S Radhakrishnan attempted to make some significant changes though working within the Oriental categories rightly explicated by Edward Said. ...
The religious, the spiritual, and the secular: Auroville and ... - Page 79 - Robert Neil Minor - 1999 - 208 pages - Preview
Radhakrishnan also was committed to the exaltation of Aurobindo as a representative of India's ideals as he conceived them. As president and vice president, Radhakrishnan spoke of Aurobindo as a "freedom fighter" ...
Modern Indian interpreters of the Bhagavadgita - Page 278 - Robert Neil Minor - 1986 - 273 pages - Preview
Experts on modern Indian religious thought show how Ghandi, Vivekananda,Radhakrishnan, Bhaktivedanta, Aurobindo, Tilak, Bhave, Sivananda, the Theosophists, ...
like Radhakrishnan and Aurobindo. Radhakrishnan for example, argues for Vedanta as the ultimate expression of Hinduism, relegating other forms of experience to a lower but still valid level. The worship of God as personal and the ...
Radhakrishnan: his life and ideas - Page 112 - K. Satchidananda Murty, Ashok Vohra - 1990 - 239 pages - Preview
From this it is clear that beginning with his early exposition to the influence of Vivekananda ending with his later absorption of the ideas of Gandhi, Tagore andAurobindo, Radhakrishnan had become an ardent nationalist. ...
The essential Aurobindo - Page 36 - Aurobindo Ghose, Robert A. McDermott - 2001 - 288 pages - Preview
Sri Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan share many of the same philosophical sources and concerns, but the prominence of yoga ...
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Pali Literature - Page 143 Nagendra Kr Singh, B Barauh - 2003 - 677 pages - Preview
by almost all the important thinkers from Shankara and Ramanuja upto MK Gandhi, Radhakrishnan, Aurobindo and Vinoba Bhave. But more than a formulation of philosophical ideas about the ultimate reality, it is a song par excellence. ... The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature (Volume One (A To Devo): Volume 1 - Page 422 Amaresh Datta - 2006 - 988 pages - Preview
The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 171 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - 494 pages - Preview
But by whatever means, in whatever way, the division must go; unity must and will be achieved, for it is necessary for the greatness of India's future." Messages of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, pp. 6-7.
 Quoted in S. Radhakrishnan ...
Karma and rebirth: post classical developments - Page 112 - Ronald Wesley Neufeldt - 1986 - 357 pages - Preview
But the conclusions that Vivek- ananda, Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan draw from these premises are antithetical to the CKTI in several specific ways. First, in a passage Minor quotes on p. 25, Aurobindo downplays the the individual's ...
Contemporary Indian idealism (with special reference to Swami ... - Ripusudan Prasad Srivastava - 1973 - 212 pages - Snippet view
This is why we find the- distinction of the apparent and the real man in Swami Vivekananda, of the ego and psychic being in Sri Aurobindo and the self as an organised whole and the self as a subject in Dr. Radhakrishnan. ...
Knowledge and Freedom in Indian Philosophy - Page 122 - Tara Chatterjea - 2003 - 178 pages - Preview
Sri Aurobindo began as a freedom fighter and became a yogin and a vedic scholar in his later life. Radhakrishnan was a professor of philosophy who went on to become the president of India. ...
Indian Political Thought - Page 392 - Urmila Sharma, S.K. Sharma - 2001 - 416 pages - Preview
Thus, Tagore, Gandhi and Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan stood for a synthesis of East and West, spirituality and science, peace and activity. FORMS OF GOVERNMENT As these thinkers were very much concerned with the...
Philosophy of Education - Page 243 - S.S. Chandra, S.S. Chandra & Rajendra Kumar Sharma - 2006 - 256 pages -Preview
They emphasise the spiritual aspect of man as an integrating principle which alone can boost his future evolution. It is because of an eclectic theory of human nature that Sri Aurobindo, Radhakrishnan ...
South India handbook: the travel guide - Page 551 - Robert Bradnock, Roma Bradnock - 2000 - 608 pages - Preview
the two leading figures in India's Independence movement, but S Radhakrishnan, Aurobindo Ghose and Sarojini Naidu who all added to the depth of Indian literature in English. Some suggestions for reading are listed in Essentials. ...
The story of English in India - Page 103 - N. Krishnaswamy, Lalitha Krishnaswamy - 2006 - 226 pages - Preview
Sri Aurobindo projected Indian spirituality in English; Radhakrishnan presented Indian philosophy in English; Mahatma Gandhi explained his philosophy of non-violence in English; ... Raj orators: speeches of eminent Indians during the Raj - B. G. Tandon - 2006 - 482 pages, Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language (Translation/Transnation) 
Beyond orientalism: essays on cross-cultural encounter - Page 238 - Fred Reinhard Dallmayr - 1996 - 277 pages - Preview
According to Wilhelm Halbfass, Sri Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan are "the two most representative neo-Hindu thinkers of the twentieth century" who, in different ways, "exemplify the potential and the problems of neo-Hinduism"; ...
Sri Aurobindo came to me: reminiscences - Dilip Kumar Roy - 1964 - 237 pages - Snippet view
SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN : Aurobindo was the greatest intellectual of our age and a major force of the life of the spirit. India will not forget his services to politics and philosophy and the world will remember with gratitude his ...
One thousand years of philosophy: from Rāmānuja to Wittgenstein - Page 73 - Rom Harré - 2000 - 362 pages - Preview
A Touch of Absolute Idealism Unlike Aurobindo Ghose, Radhakrishnan was educated in India, but he found a second home in Oxford as Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions. Widely regarded as India's foremost philosopher, ...
Modern Indian literature, an anthology: Volume 2 - Page 111 1992 - Preview
M. Hiriyanna, Radhakrishnan and Sri Aurobindo who forged English into a vehicle of Indian philosophical thought, Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) combined the interpretation of art with the interpretation of the spirit ...
Hartshorne, process philosophy, and theology - Page 131 - Robert Kane, Stephen H. Phillips - 1989 - 198 pages - Preview
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan claims that ... SK Maitra and Haridas Chaudhuri may be counted as the foremost of the academic followers of Aurobindo. 19. Singh, op. cit. 20. ... The Life Divine (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, ...
The quest for music divine - Page 52 - Suresh Chandra Dey - 1990 - 307 pages - Preview
It is the "honeyed banquet of stillness" in the poetic expression of Sri Aurobindo. It is the Eternal Music of Silence .... the all-pervading, ... 'Soma-Stava-Raja' (Verse 40), quoted by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan in Indian Religions. 3. ...
Space-Time Continuum - Page 65 - K. Pramila Sastry - 2006 - 308 pages - Preview
Here it appears that Aurobindo is speaking the language of scientists in describing Hadron Theory, discussed in the ... Quoted by S. Radhakrishnan, Eastern Religion and Western Thought (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 132. ...
Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Social Development - Page 123 - Preview
Individuality of Different Cultures Sri Aurobindo agrees with Spengler, so far as he believes in the individuality of ... but all individuals are aspects of one universal or asRadhakrishnan puts it, "Civilizations of man are rich and ...
The white umbrella - Page 124 - Donald Mackenzie Brown - 1953 - 205 pages - Preview
The most eloquent tribute to Aurobindo's work is perhaps that paid by India's vice-president, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who states: "Aurobindo was the greatest intellectual of our age and a major force for the life of the spirit. ...
Economic and political weekly: Volume 25 1990 - Snippet view
Here again, Mohanty provides a flash of light by recounting an experience when he met Radhakrishnan. "He was very gracious. I was full of questions. 1 remember I told him he was not fair to Sri Aurobindo in the way he had dismissed in ...
Approaches to the study of religion - Page 252 - Peter Connolly - 1999 - 286 pages - Preview
... Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, Gandhi and Aurobindo. Undoubtedly Christians have deepened their own theology in dialogue with others. This is especially true of the Christian dialogue with other religions in non- Western countries ...
A critique of postcolonial reason: toward a history of the ... - Page 62 - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - 1999 - 449 pages - Preview
Here is Sri Aurobindo: No doubt, [in our attempt at reading the Gita] we may mix a good deal of error born of our own ... Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972); Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, The Hindu View; and SG Sardesai and Dilip Bose, ...
Indian Society, Institutions and Change - Page 330 - Rajendra K. Sharma - 2004 - 384 pages - Preview
While it is true that the thinkers like Aurobindo, Radhakrishnan, Gandhi and Bhagwandas have clearly recognized the value of science and attempted to integrate with the ancient values, but the general outlook is by and large ...
Psychology in India Volume 2: Social and Organizational Processes(HB) - Page 250 Misra - 2009 - Preview
Emphasizing the non-materialistic bent of India, Aurobindo (1953) writes, The fact behind is that Indian culture has been from the beginning and ... Radhakrishnan(1948, 1993) also states, 'Philosophy in India is essentially spiritual. ...
The fuzzy logic of encounter: new perspectives on cultural contact - Page 155 Sünne Juterczenka, Gesa Mackenthun - 2009 - 232 pages - Preview
Itself a monument of universal truth for Aurobindo, ... so that the people of India are sunk in complete immorality” (Radhakrishnan 467). By taking Hegel seriously, Radhakrishnan generates an apologetic argument that the ...
Modernity and the Problem of Cultural Identity - Page 101 - Dr. A.P. Dubey - 2008 - 260 pages - Preview
... Radhakrishnan, Tagore, Gandhi and Aurobindo all spoke of regeneration and undogmatic seeking for a culture where regional and the local is repected and there is a great family of nations created living together in Peace. ...
India : History, Religion, Vision And Contribution To The World - Page 107 Alexander P. Varghese - 2008 - 472 pages - Preview
We can feel the flavour of monotheism here. The manner of presentation of this hymn is religious and idealist. Prof. Max Mueller, Aurobindo Ghose, S. Das Gupta, Dr. Radhakrishnan and many others share this view. ...
The Spirtual Roots of National Intergration - Page 60 - Moazziz Ali Beg - 2007 - 208 pages - Preview
Radhakrishnan, S., The Hindu View of Life, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1949. Sen, Indra, Integra! Psychology, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, 1986. Sorokin, PA, The Reconstruction of Humanity, Bombay: Bharatiya ...
A vision for Hinduism: beyond Hindu nationalism - Page 173 - Jeffery D. Long - 2007 - 224 pages - Preview
Vedanta is not, for Radhakrishnan, merely a type of Indian philosophy, but the basis of all human religious experience. ... Sri Aurobindo, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Paramahamsa Yoga- nanda, Ramana Maharshi, andRadhakrishnan. ...
On the theories of secularism and modernization - A. K. Saran, Kendrīya-Tibbatī-Ucca-Śikṣā-Saṃsthānam - 2007 - 296 pages -Snippet view
From Tilak, Ranade, Dayananda, Annie Besant, Vivekananda through Aurobindo, Tagore to Gandhi, Vinoba and Radhakrishnan, it is an unbroken line of those who have glorified religion and Hinduism, however radically they may have sought to ...
Encyclopaedia of Historiography - Page 380 - M.M. Rahman - 2006 - 2056 pages - Preview
Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) was like an ancient Rishi, imbued in peaceful meditation, his spiritual experiences finding ample expression ... Radhakrishnan (1888-1978), scholar, brilliant speaker, voluminous writer, and keen philosopher. ...
Jouissance as Ananda: Indian Philosophy, Feminist Theory, and ... - Page 233 - Ashmita Khasnabish - 2006 - 239 pages - Preview
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli, and Charles A. Moore, ed. A Source Book in Indian Philosophy. ... Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual No. 54 (1995): 92-99. Satprem. SriAurobindo or The Adventure of Consciousness. Trans. ...
To name only the two most famous of these, we had the Radhakrishnan Commission and then the Kothari Commission. But long before them. Sri Aurobindo had made several pertinent observations about the system of higher education in India. ...