July 25, 2010

Sri Aurobindo turned his spiritual force against Communist Russia

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: glimpses of their experiments, ... Kireet Joshi - 1989 - 295 pages
... occult or yogic, always seemed to him something perfectly natural and credible.  It was after a long stay in
India at Baroda that Sri Aurobindo turned decisively to Yoga in 1904. He had, however, a few spiritual experiences even in his pre-yogic period. The first was in London, in 1892, the year of his departure ...
Colonialism, Tradition, and Reform: An Analysis of Gandhi's ... Bhikhu C. Parekh - 1989 - 288 pages
Ranade advocated 'Bacon's method', Gokhale thought that JS Mill's 'method of empiricism' alone was reliable, and Aurobindo turned to a combination of Darwin and Einstein. Despite the extensive references to science and scientific method ...
Nehru: the making of India M. J. Akbar - 1988 - 609 pages
CR Das spent fifteen years in poverty before his advocacy in the trial of Sri Aurobindo turned him into a star. Dr John Mathai received a bunch of bananas as payment for his first case. Motilal Nehru earned 5 rupees for his first case, ...
Indo-British review Indo-British Historical Society - 1988
Aurobindo turned this view around, seeing such acts as normative in a biting characterization of the English civil servant that reveals his penchant for wit as well as sarcasm. He said of them: / grant that they are rude and arrogant, ...
Modern Indian interpreters of the Bhagavadgita - Page 76 Robert Neil Minor - 1986 - 273 pages
THE GITA AT PONDICHERRY: ITS EARLY IMPORTANCE With the threat of another arrest and in response to another command from within, Aurobindo turned his journal responsibilities over to others and fled
British India for Chandernagore in...
Sri Aurobindo: archives and research Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust - 1986
Once the first part had been brought to a satisfactory state of fullness and perfection, Sri Aurobindo turned his attention to the cantos that eventually became Parts Two and Three. These cantos passed through fewer drafts than those of ... Sri Aurobindo: archives and research
Śri Aurobindo Ashram Trust  1985 Without hesitation Sri Aurobindo turned down the highest honour his countrymen could offer him. ...
Concise history of the Indian National Congress, 1885-1947 Nisith Ranjan Ray, Ravinder Kumar, Manmath ... - 1985 - 322 pages
Aurobindo turned his face from this Anglo-Saxon model and went back to the Aryan mores of Indian civilization. . .. Pal defined Passive Resistance as the only means and instrument for the attainment of swaraj. By passive resistance he ...
Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - 812 pages
... Cripps were to collaborate on Primavera, a collection of poems, that came out in 1890. Having first experimented on Greek and Latin verses, Sri Aurobindo turneda passage from the Greek into English verse when he was seventeen ...
Concise history of the Indian National Congress, 1885-1947 Nisith Ranjan Ray, Ravinder Kumar, Manmath ... - 1985 - 322 pages
Dr A. Tripathi observes: 'The Moderates wished India to be a prototype of England of which they had read in Hallam, Burke and Macaulay. Aurobindo turned his face 
Indian journal of history of science Indian National Science Academy, National ... - 1982
Men like Surendra Nath Bannerjee, Manmohan Ghose, Lai Mohan Ghose and Aurobindo turned— nationalist. They formed the nucleus for the newly arising political unrest and it was this section of the society which provided leadership to the ...
Sri Aurobindo, his life unique Rishabhchand - 1981 - 427 pages
... stout-hearted father had refused before him. At last a face-saving proposal came from the priests that Sri Aurobindo should shave his head. But Sri Aurobindo turned down this proposal also. Then "an obliging Brahmin priest satisfied all the requirements of the Shastra for a monetary consideration!" After his marriage Sri Aurobindo went to Deoghar, and from there, he, ...
Religion in modern India Robert D. Baird - 1981 - 497 pages
In what he calls a "failure" in his attempts at vedantic experience, and at the time of the failure of his goals at the Surat Conference, Aurobindo turned to a "temporary guru" a Maharashtrian bhakta, Vishnu Bhasker Lele. ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1979
It was only with the advent of Stalin that Sri Aurobindo turned his spiritual force against Communist Russia. Communism in its Stalinist ...
Realization of God according to Sri Aurobindo: a study of a ... George Nedumpalakunnel - 1979 - 308 pages
After his return to
India, it may be noted, Aurobindo turned his attention also to the study of Indian languages and Hinduism. In 1901 he married a young lady called Mrinalini Bose. Because of his intense political activity, however, ...
Sri Aurobindo, the perfect and the good Robert Neil Minor - 1978 - 191 pages
... and that surrender to the Divine allows that true Self to work out the good, enabled him to worry less about specific principles in spite of the fact of Ignorance on the level of mind. Aurobindo turned specifics over to the Mother. ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1978
When Sri Aurobindo said that one of them might have to go in the interests of their work, the Mother immediately offered to do so. Sri Aurobindo turned down the proposal and added that if necessary he would go. ...
The life of Sri Aurobindo Ambalal Balkrishna Purani - 1978 - 440 pages
Sri Aurobindo turned his back to him and sat quietly for a few minutes. He then turned to Bharati and said, "Mr. Bharati ! I am not going to budge an inch from
Pondicherry. I know nothing will happen to me. As for yourself you can do ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1977
Neither science nor mere logic is equal to the task; hence Sri Aurobindo turned to poetry to limn the new man, to articulate the new life. And by means of mantric poetry he has invoked the epic figures of ...
Sri Aurobindo: a centenary tribute Aurobindo Ghose, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1974 - 346 pages
It was after a long stay in India at Baroda, that Sri Aurobindo turned decisively to Yoga in 1904. He had, however, a few spiritual experiences even in his pre-yogic period. The first was in
London, in 1892, the year of his departure ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1973
Here it is only to the purpose to note that it was as a professor of English at the Maharaja's College, Baroda, that Sri Aurobindo turned from Western thought to pursue his encyclopaedic investigations into the nature of Indian ...
Contemporary relevance of Sri Aurobindo Kishor Gandhi - 1973 - 343 pages
Sri Aurobindo turned a rishi and Chittaranjan a prophet. Chittaranjan yet to be known affectionately to the people as Deshbandhu had certainly a great far sight. He could foresee the greatness and promise of the Man he was defending and ...
Sri Aurobindo Jesse Roarke - 1973 - 189 pages
More disciples came, in rather sharply increasing numbers, and to his co-worker SriAurobindo turned over her natural task of organizing an Ashram, and directing it. VII Complete Retirement Finally, after the immense and untold labors ...
Sri Aurobindo Sisirkumar Mitra - 1972 - 215 pages
idealism, Sri Aurobindo turned towards organising the party. 'He called a meeting of the forward group of young men in the Congress and they decided then to organise themselves openly as a new political party joining hands with the ...
The great patriot V. O. Chidambaram Pillai Ma. Po Civañān̲am, Soundara Mahadevan - 1972 - 80 pages
Suddenly, Aurobindo, turned round and asked, "Where is my Pillai?" The others were surprised at this question. Aurobindo, then said, "I mean the great Patriot, ...
Bengal: change and continuity Ingrid Aall - 1971 - 270 pages
As he witnessed the failing movement and the ineffectiveness of his own political work during May 1909 to February 1910, Aurobindo turned to yoga, and retired more into silence and isolation. In his account of his life, ... 
Sri Aurobindo--the poet Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1970 - 472 pages
... Plain as of old to the demigods out of their glory emerging, Heard by mortal ears and seen by the eyeballs that perish.1 This is Sri Aurobindo turned Homer — the Indian intimacy with occult presences is riding on the ...
Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: an approach and a study Ambalal Balkrishna Purani - 1970 - 397 pages
It was therefore a phenomenon of very great significance when Sri Aurobindo turned his remarkable poetical capacity to the creation of an epic in English to embody his grand vision of the Spirit. It is well-known that Sri Aurobindo had devoted himself to the pursuit of ...
Sri Aurobindo: On himself; compiled from notes and letters Aurobindo Ghose - 1970
After being disqualified for the Indian Civil Service Sri Aurobindo turned his full attention to classical studies. These studies were already finished at that time. Two years after the Indian Civil Service examination he graduated from ...
Aurobindo and Jugantar Arun Chandra Guha - 1970 - 91 pages
By an irony of fate Aurobindo turned out to be just the contrary of what his father wanted him to be. He suddenly burst upon the Indian political firmament like a brilliant meteor and as suddenly disappeared. Though he was a poet, ...
Sri Aurobindo, the hope of man Keshavmurti - 1969 - 485 pages
When Bharati approached Sri Aurobindo and asked what he would do in such a case, Sri Aurobindo turned to him and said: "Mr. Bharati, I am not going to budge an inch from
Pondicherry. I know nothing will happen to me. ...
Goody-bye Mr. Gandhi Kanwar Lal - 1969 - 273 pages
... not mix religion with politics, regarding the former as the superior, and having received a divine command to go on for greater work, Aurobindo turned away from patriotism and nationalism. ...
The extremist challenge: India between 1890 and 1910 Amales Tripathi - 1967 - 246 pages
... for
India. . . ," It was not, therefore, a sort of European ideal, political liberty for the sake of political self-assertion, which became a common feature of European history since the French Revolution. Aurobindo turned his ...
Life in Sri Aurobindo Ashram Narayan Prasad - 1965 - 319 pages
It was during his stay at
Pondicherry that Sri Aurobindo turned to the Vedas both for historical indications and for spiritual hints. He writes : "It was, therefore, with a double interest that for the first time I ...
The life of Sri Aurobindo: a source book Ambalal Balkrishna Purani - 1964 - 335 pages
Sri Aurobindo turned down his proposal, as it was illogical for a revolutionary to recognise a foreign court and its jurisdiction. 24-7-1907. Prosecution against the Bande Mataram. ...
Studies in modern Indian history: from 1707 to the present day B. L. Grover, R. R. Sethi - 1963 - 440 pages
... Manmohan Ghosh, Lal Mohan Ghosh, Aurobindo turned nationalists only after the doors of the coveted services were closed to them. These intelligent and well-informed persons formed the nucleus for the newly arising political unrest ...
Main currents of social & political thought in modern India Jyoti Prasad Suda - 1963
... his politics were the politics of a Yogi ; they were rooted in spirituality. The first thing to which Sri Aurobindo turned his attention immediately upon settling down at
Baroda was the study of Indian culture and ways of living. ...
A study of "Savitri." Prema Nandakumar - 1962 - 568 pages
... confirm Sri Aurobindo throughout'. Not satisfied with so comprehensive a statement of his philosophy, Sri Aurobindo turned to some of its applications in the fields of social and political organisation, and of art and poetry. ...
Art and letters 1955
In between was Ramanuja, who could be called a modified non-dualist. Ultimately man is a part of God, but he could never become one with God. This humility towards God Sri Aurobindo turned into a dynamic theory of conquest, ...
Social ethics in modern Hinduism: the religious quest of India Roland Waldeck Scott - 1953 - 243 pages
that the Hindu religion as identified with the national cause was now going to be spread among the nations. "I am raising up this nation," the message continued, "to send forth my word."" With this, Sri Aurobindo turned to a life of ...
The Indo-Asian culture Indian Council for Cultural Relations - 1952
After his release from the Bomb case, Sri Aurobindo turned his attention to rebuild the Nationalist party. But after working for some time, he gave up all connection with politics in response to an inner call and, going to
Pondicherry, ...
The world crisis: Sri Aurobindo's vision of the future Anilbaran Roy - 1947 - 156 pages
In our own times, was Vivekananda a man of a defeatist mentality, a specimen of human failure? When Sri Aurobindo turned to Vedanta and Yoga, he was the Vice-Principal of the
Baroda college, loved and respected by the ...
Eminent Indians Ermine A. Brown - 1946 - 214 pages
... himself passionately to the Classical Greats and writing poetry, also sailed for home and ended by becoming Professor of Literature at Presidency College, Calcutta. With his arrival at
Baroda, Aurobindo turned over a new leaf. ...
Lenin and Gandhi René Fülöp-Miller - 1930 - 343 pages
When England proved disinclined to grant this financial autonomy Aurobindo turned against the British Government altogether, but wished to avoid all use of violence in the struggle. Therefore, he asked the people to develop their own ...
Calcutta review University of Calcutta - 1921
One of the most prominent among them, Sri Aurobindo, turned a recluse in his later days. To these leaders, Hinduism and patriotism were one and the same thing. Secularism did not appeal to them as an ideal. It is an undeniable fact of ...
Love and Death - Page vii Sri Aurobindo
... Sri Aurobindo turned to the development and practice of a new spiritual path which he called the "integral yoga," the aim of which was to further the evolution of life on earth by establishing a high level of spiritual consciousness ...

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