June 09, 2010

Sri Aurobindo refuses to identify his position with that of Bradley

Humanity, truth, and freedom: essays in modern Indian Philosophy - Page 94, Raghunath Ghosh - 2008 - 164 pages
The poetic feelings of Sri Aurobindo refused to be rendered in a language of prose. The reason for this- is found in ...
Though this is a serious objection, Sri Aurobindo refuses to accept it. His first point is that material world is not absolute. Secondly, it is not complete. And, therefore, it is quite conceivable that evolution of the material world ...  History, society, and polity: integral sociology of Sri Aurobindo, Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya – 1976 Annual Sri Aurobindo Mandir, Calcutta – 1972
Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page 139, Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - 336 pages
a larger and richer world than he is ordinarily conscious of. Sri Aurobindo refuses to accept the dualism between fact and value. He rejects utilitarianism in its classical form, but is quite persuaded of its relevance in life. Utility is a fundamental principle of existence and all fundamental ... History and society: essays in honour of Professor Niharranjan Ray Niharranjan Ray, Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya - 1978 History, society, and polity: integral sociology of Sri Aurobindo Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya – 1976
Love, Life and Death - Page 180 Chattopadhyaya D. P., D.P. Chattopadhyaya
Aurobindo refuses to accept the so-called law of karma as a mechanical change because it appears to him that unless the whole cosmos is deemed to be mechanical the law of karma cannot be logically taken to be mechanical. ...
Indian literature in English: critical views - Page 19 Satish Barbuddhe - 2007 - 419 pages
As Sri Aurobindo had been to England, the question of expiation was raised by the orthodox section of the community, but Sri Aurobindo refused to do any expiation, even as his stout-hearted father had refused before him. ...
Globalization, language, culture, and media B. N. Patnaik, S. Imtiaz Hasnain - 2006 - 310 pages
Instead, Sri Aurobindo refused to equate Hindu spirituality with a 'tired quietism' or ‘conventional monasticism'. He argued that this spirituality, far from denying life, accepted the reality of karma and artha and reconciled these ... Indian podium for the next generation: new approach Sekhar Basu Roy - 2004 
Nationalism: Theory And Principles - Page 140, Abdul Mannan Bagulia - 2006 - 298 pages
Tilak and Aurobindo refused to accept them and decided to stick to the
Calcutta programme. For the next nine years, the extremists were excluded from the national body. Deprived of the vitality of the younger men, Congress grew lifeless ..
Sri Aurobindo - Page 55, Purnima Majumdar - 2005 - 122 pages
Aurobindo refused this. Aurobindo wanted that any settlement could be made only after amendment in the Congress Constitution. Therefore, the talks were unsuccessful. In such conditions, Aurobindo decided to retire from his manner. ...
Understanding philosophy, Eastern and Western perspectives: ... Manjulika Ghosh - 2005 - 428 pages
Sri Aurobindo refuses to accept such an account of Brahman. According to him, this world is the expression of the Ultimate Reality, and has been created by a descent of consciousness. Not only that, when we proceed through yogic path ...
Indian critiques of Gandhi Harold G. Coward - 2003 - 287 pages
Aurobindo refused repeated requests to lead Congress. Also in 1910 Savarkar was arrested in
London and imprisoned in Bombay for participating in revolutionary activities. In 1914 World War I began and Besant launched her movement for ...
Life and works of Sri Aurobindo Sita Ram Sharma - 2003 - 271 pages
Others suggested that he should take over the editorship of the Bengalee which was a going concern. Sri Aurobindo refused both. He wanted to break fresh ground by conducting journals entirely his own. Accordingly, he started two ...
Decolonizing the Hindu mind: ideological development of Hindu ..., Koenraad Elst - 2001 - 657 pages
Likewise, while Aurobindo refuses to identify the Hindu-Muslim antagonism as a problem of "national" versus "foreign" (the RSS approach), he does acknowledge this antagonism and puts it in civilizational terms (like his disciple ...
Sri Aurobindo Ghose: the dweller in the lands of silence William Kluback, Michael Finkenthal - 2001 - 167 pages ... Aurobindo refused ...
Gurus and their followers: new religious reform movements in ... Antony R. H. Copley - 2000 - 235 pages
Even in his retirement Aurobindo refused the role of a guru. In 1911 he published a letter informing the 'pilgrims' who were flocking to see him that he would meet no unknown admirers but only a few local friends and selected visitors. ...
New perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's plays, Saryug Yadav - 2000 - 190 pages
As Sri Aurobindo had been to
England, the question of expiation was raised by the orthodox section of the community, but Sri Aurobindo refused to do any expiation, even as his stout-hearted father had refused before him. ...
The Mother: the story of her life, Georges Van Vrekhem - 2000 - 545 pages
bridegroom and bride were supposed to undergo a ceremony of purification because the former had crossed the 'black waters' and the latter had been educated at the Brahmo Girl's School in
Calcutta. Aurobindo refused ...
Tradition and the rhetoric of right: popular political argument in ... - Page 141 David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - 339 pages
But each time
Roy applied to leave, citing his doubts, disappointments, and weakness, Aurobindo refused to allow him to go, and he stayed. He was not forcibly restrained. Rather, Aurobindo persuaded him to stay in the course of ...
The Essential Mystics: The Soul's Journey Into Truth Andrew Harvey - 1998 - 236 pages
Educated at
Cambridge, where he was a brilliant classics scholar, Aurobindo refused a career in the civil service and returned to India to become an extremist nationalist. He was jailed, escaped to Pondicherry in French India, ...
Encyclopaedia of eminent thinkers - Page 20 Vol. 7 K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - 82 pages
because Aurobindo refused to leave Pondicherry and rejoin agitational politics after renouncing it.'1 And then came the historic Nagpur session of Congress held in the last week of December 1 920. It was attended by over 3000 ...
Judgements on minority rights 1997 VOLUME 1:SUPREME COURT OF INDIA 1951-95
The question is not whether Sri Aurobindo refused to claim or denied that he was founding a new religion or a new school or religious thought but whether his disciples and the community thought so. There is no doubt that they did, ...
V.N. Shukla's Constitution of India, Vijaya Narain Shukla, Mahendra Pal Singh - 1990 - 896 pages
Dissenting from this approach Chinnappa Reddy, J. held that "The question is not whether Sri Aurobindo refused to claim or denied that he was founding a new religion or a new school of religious thought but whether his disciples and ...
Judgements by O. Chinnappa Reddy, a humanist, R. Venkataramani - 1989 - 316 pages
The question is not whether Sri Aurobindo refused to claim or denied that he was founding a new religion or a new school of religious thought but whether his disciples and the community thought so. There is no doubt that they did, ...
Upanishads in Sankara's own words: Isa, Kena, Katha, and Mandukya ... Śakarācārya, V. Panoli, Gauapāda Ācārya - 1994
Sri Aurobindo refuses to accept this theory of Sri Sankara and goes to say that the only aim of the Upanishad is to bring about a reconciliation of the two uncompromising extremes. As for Sri Sankara, he has set an illustrious example ...
The vision and work of Sri Aurobindo, Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1992 - 238 pages
or persuade myself to pit against the Truth imposed on me from above the logic of Shankara ? "Sri Aurobindo refuses to accept Shankara's philosophy as "the sole possible, satisfying and all-comprehensive explanation of things." He observes: "It is not that at all. There are many other possible explanations; it is not at all ... The vision and work of Sri Aurobindo Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1968 Annual Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta – 1956
Consciousness and Creativity: a case study of Sri Aurobindo, T.S. Eliot and Aldous Huxley Sumita Roy - 1991 - 200 pages
Sri Aurobindo refuses to believe that Man is the last word about the process of terrestrial evolution. He is firm in his conviction that the final fruition of all human progress would consist in a unique form of self-exceeding and self- ... [Aldous Huxley and Indian Thought]
Sri Aurobindo, a brief biography Peter Heehs - 1989 - 172 pages
Aurobindo refused to do so. As a politician he could be extremely obstinate. At one point in the negotiations Surendranath Banerjea, the Moderate leader, suggested that Aurobindo and others attend an important conference as Moderates,...
The concept of man in Sri Aurobindo and other themes, Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1987 - 439 pages
In keeping with the old Vedic vision of a certain community of interest between earth and heaven, Sri Aurobindo refuses to admit any gulf between there and here. He admits it is easy to achieve success in the Beyond but to establish heaven on earth is ... The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1983
Spiritual masters from India, Shashi Ahluwalia - 1987 - 453 pages
and the reducing of the world to a mere materialised shadow which is at the base of the philosophy of an ineffable Permanent Reality or that of the static Self and the doctrine that the world is an illusion, Sri Aurobindo refuses ...
Karma and rebirth: post classical developments - Page 30, Ronald Wesley Neufeldt - 1986 - 357 pages
Aurobindo refuses to deny dogmatically that the soul which has arrived at humanity can return to lower forms of life. It seems impossible, he says, but Nature's movement is too complex to be certain. To the question, why a succession of ...
Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - 812 pages
My wife proposed that Aurobindo should be given the rifle so that he might also have a try, but Aurobindo refused, saying that he had never handled a rifle. But because we insisted, he agreed. We had only to show him how to hold the ...
Modern Indian thought: (Rammohun Roy to Jayaprakash Narayan) Dev Raj Bali - 1984 - 262 pages
Thus in his spiritual interpretation of evolution Sri Aurobindo held out new hope to man. With his unorthodox mind Sri Aurobindo refused to believe that the world of matter is an illusion, a dream or maya. ...
Sri Aurobindo's treatment of Hindu myth, Jan Feys - 1983 - 59 pages
supporting spiritual seekers in their struggle against demons. And thus Aurobindo extrapolates the symbolism of these two core legends to the entire Veda. We may still note an important point. Aurobindo refuses to call the Angirasa ...
If Aurobindo refuses to dispense with the gods it is because he recognises in them realities of a psychological order. The ancient Indian religious mentality "was aware of other psychological planes of consciousness and experience and ...
The Rationalization of terrorism, David C. Rapoport, Yonah Alexander, University ... - 1982 - 233 pages
The destruction of British rule was inevitable because it was the will of God; God had decreed the destruction of the British in India and his will will be carried out even if men like Aurobindo refused to be his instrument.24 He thus ...
Sri Aurobindo, his life unique Rishabhchand - 1981 - 427 pages
As Sri Aurobindo had been to
England, the question of expiation was raised by the orthodox section of the community, but Sri Aurobindo refused to do any expiation, even as his stout-hearted father had refused before him. ...
Dr. Hedgewar, the epoch-maker: a biography, B. V. Deshpande, S. R. Ramaswamy - 1981 - 212 pages
But to their great disappointment Aurobindo refused to leave
Pondicherry. At a mammoth meeting, the students of Nagpur decided to organize an all-India convention of college students, synchronous with the Congress session. ...
Neo-Hegelian and neo-Advaitic monism: a study in converging ..., Lakshmī Saksenā - 1980 - 198 pages
All this is distinctively reminiscent of the Absolute of Bradley (although as we shall subsequently see that Aurobindo refuses to identify his position with that of Bradley2 where every 'appearance' somehow finds its place in the ...
Aurobindo refuses to pin himself down to an exclusive concentration on the negative statements of the Upanisads as is done by Sankaracarya according to him. He takes into account both the 'fundamental negating positives' as also the ...
Nolini: Arjuna of our age Nolini Kanta Gupta, V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1979 - 239 pages
They did not hesitate to use tempting methods in addition to force and fraud to lure him out of the French Territory. A quiet and safe retreat was offered to him and his disciples in Algeria. Sri Aurobindo refused this offer. ...
Sri Aurobindo, the perfect and the good, Robert Neil Minor - 1978 - 191 pages
While a Nationalist leader and while at Pondicherry Aurobindo refused to see these as rights which humanity was to demand but as spontaneous results of the jhana he espoused. True liberty, as pointed out before, is a liberty in the ...
The life of Sri Aurobindo Ambalal Balkrishna Purani - 1978 - 440 pages
Sri Aurobindo refused to accept those terms as it would amount to compromise on essentials. He did not want to maintain unity that way. He proposed a change in the constitution of the Congress and pleaded for the freedom of the new ...
Collected works of Nolini Kanta Gupta, Nolini Kanta Gupta - 1978
Needless to add, this was an ointment spread out to catch a fly and Sri Aurobindo refused the invitation with a "No, thank you." Afterwards came a more serious attack, perhaps the one most fraught with danger. The First World War was on ...
Mother, or, The divine materialism, Satprem - 1977 - 446 pages
They cannot refrain from torturing you medically in the name of the false life, they will not let your body leave in peace. “We insisted on dangerous remedies . . .” one of them confessed. Mother refused, Sri Aurobindo refused — once. Then He said nothing more, He did not interfere, for the peace of "heart" of the disciples — right to the end He carried the burden, honestly. A faithful disciple, a surgeon from
Calcutta, ...
The yogi and the mystic: a study in the spirituality of Sri ..., Jan Feys - 1977 - 371 pages
to something behind itself, goes back to a saving power of spirit in which it can find its own true being and redemption" (EG p 499). Accordingly, Sri Aurobindo refuses "to throw the responsibility on man and his sins" (EG p. 517). Teilhard considers man to be free, hence responsible for his own choice: man either opts for God or disowns Him. ...
Studies in modern Indian aesthetics, Sudhīrakumāra Nandī - 1975
As per the distinction of idealism and realism in art, Aurobindo refused to accept this distinction. "The cut and dried distinction between idealism and realism in literature" had always seemed to him to be "a little arbitrary and ...
The philosophy of evolution in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin, Jan Feys - 1973 - 276 pages
The curve of evolution is therefore an ascending one. Moreover, Aurobindo refusesto seek the state of unitive consciousness at the subconscient level, which shows that the latter is in any case inferior to the ...
Modern Indian political thought: Ram Mohan Roy to present day, Mitra Nandan Jha - 1975 - 348 pages
concerned Aurobindo, primarily, was not the structure of the government so much as its ideology.254 While appreciating the anti- autocratic motivations of democracy.255 Aurobindo refused to admit 'the sufficiency whether as instruments ...
Sri Aurobindo: the prophet of life divine, Haridas Chaudhuri - 1973 - 224 pages
Sri Aurobindo refuses to believe that Man is the last word about the process of terrestrial evolution. He is firm in his conviction that the final fruition of all human progress would consist in a unique form of self-exceeding and ...
Mahatma Gandhi: political saint and unarmed prophet, Dhananjay Keer - 1973 - 819 pages
Aurobindo refuses ...
Sri Aurobindo, the hope of man, Keshavmurti - 1969 - 485 pages
Others suggested that he should take over the editorship of the Bengalee which was a going concern. Sri Aurobindo refused both. He wanted to break fresh ground by conducting journals entirely his own. Accordingly, he started two ...
Main currents of social & political thought in modern India, Jyoti Prasad Suda - 1963
Sri Aurobindo refused to be drawn out of his seclusion by repeated requests to re-enter political life. He said that he could not leave unfinished the great work in which he was engaged. That was the development of the instrument by ...
Bhagat Singh, the man and his ideas, Gopal Thakur - 1962 - 47 pages
'Matter is the eternal, for from Matter all beings are born and by Matter all beings exist, and to Matter all beings depart and return', then no further questioning would be possible" (Ibid., p. 662) . But Sri Aurobindo refuses to ...
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother on education, Mother - 1960 - 130 pages
Sri Aurobindo refuses to believe that Man is the last word about the process of terrestrial evolution. He is firm in his conviction that the final fruition of all human progress would consist in a unique form of self- ...
Founding the life divine: an introduction to the integral yoga of ..., Morwenna Donnelly - 1956 - 246 pages
12a Sri Aurobindo refuses to accept this fulfillment of the Yoga of Knowledge as its only result. Not only transcendence by rejection of the cosmic existence, but its conquest for the Divine can also be the aim. ...
Modern Indian thought - Vishwanath S. Varavane, Vishwanath S. Naravane - 300 pages
Sri Aurobindo refuses to get involved in controversies about the 'real' metaphysical theory in the Gita. To him the 'living truth' of the Gita is contained in its teaching about the steps by which our actions can rise from the human to ...
The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1984
Sri Aurobindo refuses to agree with them that the Veda is a 'half superstitious, half poetic allegory of Nature'. He finds that the whole western interpretation is based on the assumption that the Aryans came to
India from outside and ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture 1980
As a matter of fact, this is partly due to the negative attitude of some of the Upanishads themselves towards the ultimate value of the body. Sri Aurobindo refused to accept the lead given by the later Vedantins in this regard. ...
Social science review T. K. Chakrabarti - 1975
Aurobindo refuses to regard the world as apart from Brahman and hence rejects
Journal of Sri Aurobindo Study Society 1972
Since culture in its true sense is a characteristic of the developed idealistic mind, Sri Aurobindo refuses to apply that term to individuals and communities which develop merely the external paraphernalia of civilised life but in their inner consciousness remain still at the level of barbarian mentality and are ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1967
If the external nature of man remains unchanged, if the spiritual realisation remains confined to the inner consciousness, then it only means repeating the old failure. But Sri Aurobindo refuses to repeat it; He categorically insists ...
New age Communist Party of India - 1955
'Matter is the Eternal for from Matter all beings are born and by Matter all beings exist, and to Matter all beings depart and return', then no further questioning would be possible". (Ibid., p. 662) But Sri Aurobindo refuses to ...
The Modern review Ramananda Chatterjee - 1955
Yoga Ashram in
Pondicherry, and convinced of the inevitability of the grant of independence to India by Britain due to insistence of demand and pressure of international events, Sri Aurobindo refused to return to practical politics. ...

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