July 25, 2010

Sri Aurobindo has turned the whole corpus of prevailing motivational theories upside down

The Rose and the Lotus, Partnership Studies in the Works of Raja Rao. - Page li Stefano Mercanti - 2010 - 280 pages
... 110 Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry and Letters on Poetry, Literature and Art (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972). As Ganesh Devy points out, “the essays were written when the First World War was just about coming to an end, ...
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism - Page 745 Peter Marshall - 2010 - 800 pages
30 24 Dalton Dennis, 'The Theory of Anarchism in Modem India - an analysis of die political thought of Vivekananda, Aurobindo and Gandhi', Tradition and Politics in South Asia, ed. RJ Moore (New Delhi: Vikas, 1979), pp. ...
Transcendent in America: Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as ... - Page 229 Lola Williamson - 2010 - 272 pages
It is interesting to note that the HIMM associated with Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) and the Mother (1878–1973; a French woman who joined Sri Aurobindo and became a leader after his death) is as strong in term of numbers today as it was ...
Jesus Beyond Christianity: The Classic Texts - Page 287 Gregory A. Barker, Stephen E. Gregg - 2010 - 256 pages
12 Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo.
Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, 1997, CD ROM Edition. (See pp. 75–6. ... And Sri Aurobindo. Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol: Vols. 33 & 34 Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. ...
Heaven Is Not the Last Stop: Exploring A New Revelation - Page 257 Sheila Keene-Lund - 2010 - 485 pages
The teachings of the Indian philosophers Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo advanced the view of God as an impersonal force and the self as divine. Both paved the way for an influx of original Indian mysticism that turned to a flood in ...
The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India - Page 344 Sumathi Ramaswamy - 2010 - 379 pages
Indeed, it was in this context that she developed a complex “cross-border” collaboration with Aurobindo as well as other influential ideologues of the time. See also Roy 1999, 120–27, for insights on how Nivedita subjected herself to “a ... Page 346 The earlier Bande Mataram, associated with such important figures as Bipan Chandra Pal and Aurobindo, ... A series of male mentors played critical roles in her life, and her poetic turn to patriotic politics was inspired by the Maha- ...
Making a World After Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political ... - Page 87 Christopher Lee - 2010 - 280 pages
... Rabindranath Tagore and Aurobindo Ghose, who, like Vivekananda, were both Bengalis that had been extensively exposed to Western ... and some—albeit a small but influential minority—turned to Indian thinkers like Tagore for tutelage. ...
A History of India - Page 277 Burton Stein, David Arnold - 2010 - 472 pages
In Bengal, the Punjab and Madras, the Congress was riven by factions which frequently turned on personalities, as usual in politics, but also on differences of emphasis and interest.
Madras presents an interesting and complex example. ...
Sri Chaitanyadev and Sri Gadadhar - Page 187 Rādhu Gosvāmī - 2010 - 203 pages
He was a famous Bar-at-Law and out of many important cases he pleaded for SriAurobindo Ghosh against the
British Empire. ... divine appearance turned my lifestyle.... Sri Krishna Chaitanya's beauty beyond imagination, His solemn divine ...
Frithjof Schuon and the Perennial Philosophy - Page 257 Harry Oldmeadow, William Stoddart - 2010 - 346 pages
... a proliferation of movements which turn “toward the religions of the East and toward the mystical core of all ... 6 On the “new religions” see also a later collection edited by Jacob Needleman et al., Understanding the New Religions ...
Applied Ethics and Human Rights: Conceptual Analysis and ... - Page 97 Shashi Motilal - 2010 - 372 pages
(Sri Aurobindo, 1959: 105) There are different dharmas for different individuals andalso for the same individual ... the call of the spirit within is not the same for everyone: the degree and the turn of development and the capacity, ...
SPIRITUALITY MANAGEMENT: Improving Leadership and Management Practices - Page 62 L. S. PAL - 2009 - 298 pages
As we briefly engage with such definitions we must also carefully remember that spirit/ spirituality, ... Now, for a definition of spirituality we shall turn to Sri Aurobindo In a letter to a seeker he had once written this: 'It is ... Page 70 So, if we can succeed in fostering a sober and sincere mentality then we shall perceive straightaway that Aurobindo has turned the whole corpus of prevailing motivational theories upside down. Are we ready for it? ...
Spirituality and Business: Exploring Possibilities for a New ... - Page 133 Sharda Shirley Nandram, Margot Esther Borden - 2009 - 263 pages
This thinking hails from the work of Sri Aurobindo (1970). In line with this, ITC focuses on behavior, thinking, ... in this coaching approach is the key; it involves raising the client's mental health or mental fitness. In turn, mental ...
The Physics of Miracles: Tapping in to the Field of Consciousness ... - Page 132 Richard Bartlett - 2009 - 271 pages
Tesla then turned on his electrical device and the object moved back in time to its original position. Teleportation? ... That there are no physical laws is essentially what yogi and spiritual philosopher Sri Aurobindo taught. ...
The global and regional in China's nation-formation - Page 182 Prasenjit Duara - 2009 - 253 pages
... EM Forster and CF Andrews on the one side, and westernized Indians such asAurobindo Ghosh on the other. ... But the absence of institutionalized colonialism in most parts of
China also meant that colonial ideology was not ...
In the Light of Deconstruction - Page 34 J. David Spencer - 2008 - 411 pages
He turned his attention to the computer once again, scanning the words Kerry had sent, wondering who Sri Aurobindo was. He'd never heard of the man before but had always been curious about the philosophies of
India. ...
A frank friendship: Gandhi and Bengal: a descriptive chronology Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Amartya Sen - 2008 - 616 pages
Arvind Ghosh (1872-1950): popularly known as Sri Aurobindo; mystic, poet and philosopher. After a short political career, in which he became one of the leaders of the early movement for the freedom of
India from British rule, turned ...
Sri Aurobindo - A Contemporary Reader Sachidananda Mohanty, Aurobindo Ghose - 2008 - 180 pages
This is a very crucial point Sri Aurobindo is making. It is central to our discussion, and therefore deserves to be quoted in full: The Indian system took ... Elsewhere, that evolution turned in the direction of a secular organisation ...
... and so generally misconducted themselves in this matter that philosophy and science had in self-defence to turn ... charity, gentleness, tolerance, kindliness arealso and even more divine, and they forgot or never knew that God is ...
The strides of Vishnu: Hindu culture in historical perspective - Page 215 Ariel Glucklich - 2008 - 241 pages
But Chaitanya, Tulsidas, and Aurobindo were not historians or professional philosophers either, and they refused ... DC The difference is that nationalism and resistance have turned into matters of suburban prestige. ...
The philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the twenty-first century Douglas Allen - 2008 - 263 pages
For Aurobindo, Gandhi's ethical reflections belonged to a low stage of the development of mind and even at that low level was partial and exaggerated.16 Such sharp differences were due not only to differences in personality but also to...
Humanity, truth, and freedom: essays in modern Indian Philosophy - Page 18 Raghunath Ghosh - 2008 - 164 pages
Sri Aurobindo thinks that an individual can turn into Divinity through transformation of his mind and body. Swami Vivekananda's philosophy is called practical ...Rabindranath has also tried to bring harmony between the universality ...
Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur ... - 2007 - 317 pages
Sri Aurobindo voices the renascent approach in a radical manner in looking upon Sruti as poetry. ... Expression and experience coalesce in breath-taking metaphors and turns of phrases. They record experiences of and encounters with ...
Education in the Emerging India - Page 8 R.P. Pathak - 2007 - 192 pages
Like Gandhiji Sri Aurobindo also stated that the main aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in ... The aims of education, in turn are derived from the general aim of life which is determined by philosophy. ...
The Spirtual Roots of National Intergration - Page 22 Moazziz Ali Beg - 2007 - 208 pages
... is now giving way to real psychology precisely in the manner in which Sri Aurobindo had predicted it. ... formula and in relation to which the mental being becomes in its turn as superficial as is our waking to our subliminal mind. ...
Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 95 Hugh B. Urban - 2007 - 372 pages
Aurobindo even identifies Sakti as the underlying force beneath the power, wealth, expansion, and industrialization — including the growing military power of the West — that characterizes the modern world: Wherever we turn our ...
Soulfully gay: how Harvard, sex, drugs, and integral philosophy ... - Page 253 Joe Perez - 2007 - 328 pages
Aurobindo is a Hindu philosopher credited with introducing the concept of spiritual evolution into Vedantic thought. ... when faith will be turned into knowledge and perfect experience and Wisdom will be justified of her works. ...
Emerson and the light of India: an intellectual history Robert Cartwright Gordon - 2007 - 255 pages
Rūmī and the hermeneutics of eroticism - Page 36 Mahdi Tourage - 2007 - 260 pages
A useful definition of the erotic is offered by Jeffrey Kripal as: “. . .that specifically dialectical ... 3 Jeffrey J. Kripal, Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism (Chicago: University ...
Sex from Plato to Paglia: a philosophical encyclopedia - Page 1044 Alan Soble - 2006 - 1176 pages
... and Jeffrey J. Kripal, eds., The Unknown, Remembered Gate: Religious Experience and Hermeneutical Reflection.
New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2004....
Freud Along the Ganges: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the People ... Salman Akhtar - 2005 - 451 pages
... Eve of an Eclipse of the Moon, a view of Varanasi in 1825 (Mahajan 1984). An anonymous crowd mills before the viewer, the faces far less distinct than the details of the surrounding buildings, which seem to herd them together. ...
Dante and the Orient - Page 100 Brenda Deen Schildgen - 2002 - 160 pages
Associating the nativity of St. Francis with the daily birth of the sun over the
GangesDante gives the Indian river an almost sacred status. The Scriptures called the Ganges "Phison" and declared that this river had its source in the ...
Destiny and human initiative in the Mahābhārata - Page 242 Julian F. Woods - 2001 - 237 pages
Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna "Woods takes a question that is not traditionally Indian and uses it successfully to tell the stories of the Mahabharata to ...
East Asian philosophy encountered Western philosophy seriously in the nineteenth century through the allures of ... No Western philosopher has to remain only a Western philosopher after coming to terms with philosophies from other ...
Under western eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay Balachandra Rajan - 1999 - 267 pages
In any case, figural readings are not to be expected from philosophers, although Sri Aurobindo points us in the right direction by endeavoring to read the Gita as a philosophical allegory of the soul. My endeavor is to site Indian ...
Between Jerusalem and Benares: comparative studies in Judaism and ... Hananya Goodman - 1994 - 344 pages
Sakti for Aurobindo would then remain the effulgence that was beyond good and evil. ...
Kṛṣṇa and Christ: in the light of some of the fundamental concepts ... Ishanand Vempeny - 1988 - 498 pages
And Aurobindo would say in the same vein that "the Krsna who matters to us is the eternal incarnation of the Divine and not the historical teacher and leader of men". For a
Western NT scholar this attitude is very difficult to grasp. ...
Mazzini and his impact on the Indian national movement Gita Srivastava - 1982 - 312 pages
... the brother of Aurobindo, testified that Aurobindo was the leader of the revolutionary society in Gujrat. ...
Maha yogi Walt Whitman: new light on yoga Odayamadath Kunjappa Nambiar - 1978 - 258 pages
Visions and symbols, as Sri Aurobindo cautions us, have no place in true spiritual experience. At best they represent en route experiences of the soul's journey to its goal. For the true and only vision that can arise in a pure ...
Divine justice according to Kambar and Luther Ci. Vi Cavarimuttu - 1978 - 110 pages
The modern mind, as typified by the late Rt. Hon. VS Srinivasa Sastri, would adopt the latter view. ... According to Aurobindo, "Valmiki was the father of our secular poetry. He brought the human world and the non-human world into ...
Modern Indian political thought: Ram Mohan Roy to present day Mitra Nandan Jha - 1975 - 348 pages
Aurobindo maintained that the Vedic civilization, with its joint family system, the corporate caste system, ... The latter typified rationalist framework of the culture of man. It conceived of man as an individual and emphasised the ...

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