January 21, 2013

Hind Swaraj's children vs. Labourers in the quarries of the gods

This is the Western model that Indians currently want to emulate. Large sections of India is currently enamoured by the desire to mimic the American lifestyle. There is lot of money flowing into the country and this has boosted people’s aspirations… They take pride in being “secular” – which means they have no value system other than some minimal ethical principles.  

Tradition and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 53 - David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - Preview But, despite these circumstances, Aurobindo managed to win a scholarship to Kings College, Cambridge, where he read the Classical Tripos. While earning a "first" in the first part of the Classical Tripos, his poverty continued to haunt him.
The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page 23 - Peter Heehs - 2008 - Preview - More editions ... whole way of life, which was simple and penurious in the extreme, is against this: they were due entirely to circumstances beyond his control. Despite his heavy load and relative poverty, Aurobindo passed two happy years at Cambridge.
Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1 - Page 807 - Aurobindo Ghose - 1970 - The increasing poverty of the masses has been the subject of innumerable pamphlets, speeches and newspaper articles, but we are apt to think our duty done when we have proved that the poverty problem is there ; we leave the solution to ...
His Majesty's Opponent - Page 26 - Sugata Bose - 2012 - Preview - More editions Aurobindo had inspired Bengal's young revolutionaries of the Swadeshi era, before retiring into a life of religious ... This experience unfolded before him “a picture of real India, the India of the villages—where poverty stalks over the land, men ...
The Mother - Page 15 - Aurobindo GhoseSri Aurobindo - 1995 - Preview - More editions a certain distorting influence stamped on it ...Some even put a ban on money and riches and proclaim poverty and bareness of life as the only spiritual condition. But this is an error; it leaves the power in the ...
Poverty and Sustainable Development: Concepts and Measures - Page 72 - Indian Economic Association. Conference, N. Sreenivas Iyengar - 2010 - Preview Sri Aurobindo, however, looked at it from the point of view of an organized society. He said: "The acceptance of poverty is noble and beneficial in a class or an individual, but it becomes fatal and pauperizes the life of its richness and expansion...
Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: Integral Sociology and Dialectical ... - Page 137 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - Preview To be good he is asked tc cultivate and realise the virtues of poverty and austerity… The pro-Marxist critique of bourgeois culture is understandable and to a certain extent acceptable to Sri Aurobindo.
Sociology, Ideology and Utopia: Socio-Political Philosophy of East ... - Page 46 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1997 - Preview - More editions If one accepts Sri Aurobindo's stricture against vulgar capitalism, it is difficult to see how one can consistently dissociate oneself from the protest against inequality, poverty and hunger of the majority of the humankind spread over the globe.
Sri Aurobindo circle - Volume 54 - Page 10 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1998 - This was, of course, the message reiterated several decades later by Mahatma Gandhi. Sri Aurobindo was no armchair philosopher. He gave away with a natural ease. That is history. But his point was never poverty for the sake of poverty, but...
Readings in The Mother by Sri Aurobindo - Page 33 - Santosh Krinsky - 2012 - Preview Many religious orders enjoin a vow of poverty on those joining the monastery or convent. We find ... Sri Aurobindo's view of this matter differs from this long tradition: “...most spiritual disciplines insist on a complete self-control, detachment and ...
Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920:Resistance ... - Page 54 - Elleke Boehmer - 2005 - Preview - More editions Along with its neo-Hinduist Renaissance, the second crucial element shaping nationalist sentiment in Bengal was what Aurobindo referred to as the 'one great fact . . . the terrible poverty of India and its rapid increase under British rule', that is...
Immortal Sarvoday - Page xvii - N.hazary - 2007 - Preview Aurobindo believed that India could be rescued from the state of decline and decadence, poverty and exploitation and could usher into a better life only through Swaraj. Tilak, Aurobindo and Gandhi worked for swadeshi and national education ...
Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India - Page 353 - P. R. Bhuyan - 2003 - Preview Besides, amidst wretchedness, poverty and starvation it is too difficult to preach Advaitism and realise the grand dream of ... Such consideration made Aurobindo a critic of the modern capitalism, which is characterised by oppression and ...
Life and Times of Netaji Subhas: From Cuttack to Cambridge, 1897-1921 - Page 105 - Adwaita P. Ganguly - 2001 - Preview - More editions Reading of Sri Aurobindo thus appeared to him 'refreshing' and 'inspiring' and he wished Aurobindo would come back in ... Those of you who are poor and obscure - I should like to see their poverty and obscurity devoted to the service of the ...
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Indian Freedom Struggle (Set in 2 ... - Page 41Ratna Ghosh - 2006 - Preview - More editions Comparing Vivekananda's views on the Yogas with threat of Sri Aurobindo's conception of Yoga, Subhas Chandra wrote: ... Those of you who are poor and obscure — I should like to see your poverty and obscurity devoted to the service of the ...
Bhatkhande's Contribution to Music: A Historical Perspective - Page 26 - Nair Sobhana - 1989 - Preview - More editions At this time Aurobindo Ghosh flung himself into this movement and organised Sabhas, Samitis, Akharas and Ashrams ... a Bar-at-Law, he chose a life of self-imposed poverty, as he wanted to identify himself with the poverty-stricken masses.
Ascetic Culture: Renunciation and Wordly Engagement - Page 111 - Karigoudar Ishwaran - 1999 - Preview - More editions ... Sri Aurobindo and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Three were monastics, and Gandhi lived a life guided by the monastic vows of chastity and poverty. It could be argued that the other three, Roy, Tagore and Radhakrishnan often functioned as ...
Sri Aurobindo and Iqbal: a comparative study of their philosophy - Page 6 - M. Rafique - 1974 - Iqbal condemned the doctrine of dissolution of the human self into the featureless Absolute as an ideal of inaction and poverty of life. This point becomes ... Just like Sri Aurobindo, he also holds self-fulfilment as the highest ideal of human life.
Management principles and practices - Page 90 - Raghubir Dayal, Peter Zachariah, Kireet Rajpal - 1996 - Preview - More editions Swami Nikhilananda contends that 'Religion has never been the cause of India's poverty; it is indifference to religious ... Sri Aurobindo's observation, as the most profound scholar-mystic of modern India, and probably no less an achiever than ...
Principles Of Education - Page 261 - S.S. ChandraRajendra Kumar Sharma - 2004 - Preview - More editions For example, it is now being recognized that the excessive increase in poverty in any one part of the world is almost certain to affect the ... Sri Aurobindo was a staunch internationalist, in spite of his very emphatic expression of nationalism.
Gandhi: The Traditional Roots Of Charisma - Page 62 - Susanne Hoeber RudolphLloyd I. Rudolph - 1987 - Preview ... Vivekananda, Tagore, Aurobindo, and Gandhi himself played a significant part in shaping India's national identity and helping her to make ... Self-sufficient villages stand in the way of their quest for a release from poverty and dependence.
Makers of Modern India - Page 13 - GuhaRamachandra Guha - 2011 - Preview - More editions Both were, in their own day, quite influential; yet (as with Radhakrishnan and Aurobindo) their influence has passed. ... The book was called Poverty and Un-British Rule in India; it chastised the rulers for focusing on draining wealth out of the...
Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings - Page xxxi - Mohandas Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel - 1997 - Preview - More editions In contrast to the Moderates, no Extremist is mentioned by name in Hind Swaraj - an indication of Gandhi's distance from them. In other words, Tilak and Aurobindo Ghose, their distinguished leaders, are passed over in silence... Neither would Aurobindo Ghose's appeal to shakti - power in its creative but violent forms, mythologised by Durga, Bhavani and Kali - have been more reassuring to the Mahatma. While no work by the Extremists is included in the Appendix, two works by the Moderates, Poverty and Un-British Rule in ...
Immortal Sarvoday - Page 30 - N.hazary - 2007 - Preview Gandhiji gave serious thought to the question of Swaraj in 1908 in his book Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule. But the Swaraj of his conception was different from the concept of Swaraj of Tilak and Aurobindo.
Violence denied: violence, non-violence and the rationalization of ... - Page 329 - Jan E. M. HoubenK. R. van Kooij - Preview In rather the same vein as in the piece from 1908, Aurobindo argues here that violence basically ... In Hind Swaraj, first published in 1908 in South Africa (in Gujarati), Gandhi says about 'soul-force': "The force implied in ...
Socialism Of Jawaharlal Nehru - Page ix - Rabindra Chandra Dutt - 1981 - Preview - More editions It was this kind of sterility of public debate and discussion which led Aurobindo Ghosh to write in Arya the following ... shells and rags of the past ... he would be- amazed by the extent of mental poverty, the immobility, the static repetition, the ...
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh: National Upsurge - Page 130 - M. G. Chitkara - 2004 - Preview Sri Aurobindo was never tired of telling the people that "a great future for India could be built only on the spiritual greatness of her past". Swami ... 
In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in ... - Page 171 - Priya Joshi - 2002 - Preview - More editions The adaptations that Bankim made with such apparent ease in the Bengali novel were a lot harder in the English one, compounding Aurobindo Ghose's contention that for an Indian in the British empire "to be original in an acquired tongue is ...
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the ... - Pankaj Mishra - 2012 - As the British gunned down the last heirs to the Mughal Empire, burned down the Summer Palace in Beijing, or humiliated the bankrupt rulers of the Ottoman Empire, it was clear that for Asia to recover a vast intellectual effort would be ...
Conversations and Transformations: Toward a New Ethics of Self and ... - Ananta Kumar Giri - 2002 - Preview - More editions In this intriguing new book, Indian social theorist Ananta Kumar Giri issues a stirring call for scholars of contemporary social theory and practice to grapple with late modernity's most pressing social and political issues.
Between Jerusalem/Benare: Comparative Studies in Judaism and Hinduism - Page 265 - Hananya Goodman - 1994 - Preview - More editions ... of the poverty of the historic situation in their day, and despite the fact that full-fledged nationhood had yet to come into ... While in Kook's thinking this was deeply grounded in the messianic idea, there was nothing similar for Sri Aurobindo to ...
Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion - Page 97 - Purusottama BilimoriaAndrew B. Irvine - 2009 - Preview - More editions In this Sri Aurobindo has the support of Bal Gangadhar Tilak who said: “The point is to have the entire control in our ... a purity of intention that incarnates itself in that particular caste that symbolises renunciative will and voluntary poverty.
The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965) - Page 32 - Vinayak Krishna Gokak - 1970 - Preview - More editions ... J. Furtado's The Old Irani, Nissim Ezekiel's Night of the Scorpion and Enterprise, Karan Singh's The Seminar and Sri Aurobindo's A Dream of Surreal Science. It becomes even more bitter when the poets deal with poverty and social injustice ...
Victorian Vulgarity: Taste in Verbal and Visual Culture - Page 234 - Susan David BernsteinElsie B. Michie - 2009 - Preview For Coomaraswamy, commercialism promulgated the "increasing contrast between extremes of wealth and poverty, the ... The nationalist Aurobindo [Ghose] who led the Swadeshi national movement from 1905 to 1908 and defended the ...
Sri Aurobindo: The hour of God, and other writings - Page 103 - Aurobindo Ghose - The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening of the conscience of a robber. Valmikie, our ancient epic poet, includes among the signs of a just and ...
Sri Aurobindo Reader - Page 62 - Makarand ParanjapeMakarand - Preview ... its 'own style, just and precise and sins rather by economy of phrase than by excess, by over-pregnancy rather than by poverty of sense. ... A Retrospect of Vedic Theory Veda, then, is the creation
The Dialogue With Death (Sri Aurobindo`S Savitri, A Mystical Approach) - Page 208 - Rohit Mehta - 2003 - Preview - More editions Savitri was indeed impatient of the poverty of time and she wanted to spend in love, in one day, what would have been legitimate for a century. Such was the irresitible passion that seized Savitri. One year was too short a period, and her love ...
Rebirth & Karma - U.S. Edition - Page 22 - Sri Aurobindo, Ashram - 1992 - Preview Nature seems to start with an extraordinary poverty of original broad variative conceptions and to proceed to an extraordinary richness of her minuter consequential variations, which amounts to a forging of constant ...

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