July 24, 2010

Sri Aurobindo always had an intimate concern for the suffering and distress of the common people

Issues of identity in Indian English fiction: a close reading of ... - Page 54 H. S. Komalesha - 2008 - 195 pages
... boys many of whom could not speak a word of English, but all could work and dare and sacrifice for the Mother.50 Being a severe critic of Congress, Aurobindo always repudiated the elitist stands of the Congress in all its meetings. ...
Lead, Kindly Light: Gandhi and the Way to Peace - Page 274 Vincent Sheean - 2005 - 384 pages
Through all this expanse of time, Shri Aurobindo always refused to "come out," as they say, although great inducements were offered. More than once he refused the presidency of the Indian National Congress. His hermitage is accessible 
only to those chosen by his ...
Reflections From Shillong: Speeches Of M.M. Jacob - Page 83 David R. Syiemlieh - 2005 - 258 pages
It is a formidable corpus of work which covers every aspect of life, because SriAurobindo always used to say, all life is yoga; there is no aspect of life which is not included in yoga because his yoga was an integral yoga covering all ...
Global Peace And Anti-Nuclear Movements - Page 232 Badruddin - 2003 - 273 pages
... Gandhi and Aurobindo always dreamed of a society based on freedom, human equality and social justice. ...
Holy war: violence and the Bhagavad Gita Steven Rosen - 2002 - 229 pages
And this was no mere intellectual or philosophical inquiry, for, in the true tradition of yoga, Sri Aurobindo always was an experimenter before anything else — he even rejected the label of "philosopher": "[Modern] philosophy," he Holy ...
Indian Political Thought - Page 226 Urmila Sharma, S.K. Sharma - 2001 - 416 pages
Spiritual Quest : Three Insanities As a professor of English and French in Baroda State Service and as the Principal of the
National College at Calcutta, SriAurobindo always felt an urge to do something more effective and lasting for ...
Spiritual Titanism: Indian, Chinese, and Western perspectives - Page 149 Nicholas F. Gier - 2000 - 302 pages
stopped] short of the supreme effort to turn the body into a perfect image of the Divine. . . ,"42 Aurobindo always speaks of the descent of the divine not humans ascending to Godhood, but it is still not clear where he stands on ...
Religion and public culture: encounters and identities in modern ... - Page 132 John Jeya Paul, Keith E. Yandell - 2000 - 260 pages
Some followers questioned the Mother's authority, but Aurobindo alwaysanswered that their consciousness were harmonious and even identical.5 The mantras he prescribed for their inquirers were either a combination of their names or the ...
Spectrum history of Indian literature in English - Page 233 Ram Sewak Singh, Charu Sheel Singh - 1997 - 273 pages
Moreover, in order to delineate the Indian tradition, Aurobindo always followed a comparative method bred and brought up as he was on more than one language and one culture. Aurobindo visualised the play of consciousness as basic to the ...
Political thinkers of modern India - Page 99 Adi Hormusji Doctor - 1997 - 141 pages
THE IDEAL OF HUMAN UNITY One of the significant contributions, Sri Aurobindo makes to the theory of nationalism is his attempt to reconcile nationalism with the ideal of human unity. Aurobindo always considered nationalism as a stage ...
India, the dawn of a new era: an autobiography Radhakamal Mukerjee - 1997 - 240 pages
Yet Aurobindo always stresses the composite texture of world civilization to which India contributes a single but most significant thread — the sense of the super-sensuous and the transcendent, which, according to him, ...
Beyond man: life and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Georges van Vrekhem - 1997 - 544 pages
To the relation between science and spirituality we will come back later, and in the next chapter we will take a look at the apparent lack of concreteness of things 'spiritual'. Sri Aurobindo always kept 'a healthy grip on the facts' ...
East-West evaluation of Man Vedre Narayan Karan Reddy - 1996 - 390 pages
Sri Aurobindo always differentiated between the outer and the inner man. The outer man is endowed with outer consciousness whereas the inner man is always guided by his natural aspirations. Sometimes the outer man tends to plunge into ... Adi Sankara and Aurobindo
V. Narayan Karan Reddy - 1992 - 85 pages
Encyclopaedia Indica: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh S. S. Shashi - 1996
Sri Aurobindo's consciousness was in a constant state of development and there was a radical change in his views particularly after 1910. The careful student of SriAurobindo always takes this development into consideration when ...
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Gariepy - 1996 - 483 pages
Some of the disciples wrote to him also on problems of poetic composition and interpretation, some on world problems, some on the supramental manifestation. Sri Aurobindo always answered with a divine patience and a divine solicitude ...
Down memory lane Shyam Sunder Jhunjhunwala - 1996 - 289 pages
That's what Sri Aurobindo always said. If men only knew this: if in all sincerity — in all sincerity — they give themselves to the Divine and side with the divine, they become all they should be. It may take time, there may be turmoil ...
Raja Subodh Chandra Mallik and his times Amalendu De, National Council of Education, Bengal - 1996 - 237 pages
... of the meeting of May 5, at
Beadon Square "insinuating that arrests might be made."434 The police surveillance on the nationalists was greatly intensified.435 But Aurobindo always took care "to give no handle in the editorial ...
Sri Aurobindo's plays: a thematic study Sheo Jaiswal - 1993 - 260 pages
Sn Aurobindo always held and repeatedly and categorically declared that he was first and foremost a poet. His poetic talent flowed copiously through a long career of over six decades, achieving its full fruition in Savitri, ...
The Educational doctrines of Plato and Sri Aurobindo: a ... Satya Prakash Singh - 1992 - 186 pages
the spiritual man out of the mental half animal."1" It is the source of all the higher and divine things in life. Sri Aurobindo always refers to the double aspects— the surface and inner, in his discussions. The five sheaths are outer ...
Vedanta & Christian faith Bede Griffiths - 1991 - 232 pages
In the Vedas themselves, as Sri Aurobindo always insisted, there is a firm basis of realism, and this remains in both the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. In the Vedanta there have been three main schools — Advaita, ...
Mother's Agenda, 1965 Mother - 1990 - 384 pages
It's the trigger of faith that's not there, that famous faith Sri Aurobindo always mentions. When people write me long letters (what letters I receive ! laments all the time: my health is going wrong, my work is going wrong, ...
The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 253 V. P. Varma - 1990 - 494 pages
Aurobindo always advocated a "national religion which we also believe to be universal".1 He never considers ... 4 Aurobindo always insisted upon the purification of the national movement by concentrating upon positive national ...
Indian and Muslim philosophy: a comparative study M. Rafique - 1988 - 76 pages
Sri Aurobindo always stood for vigorous and all-round development of life. His definition of Yoga not only excludes asceticism but also regards it (asceticism) as 'an offence to the reason, almost a crime.' As a matter of fact, ...
Modern Indian responses to religious pluralism Harold G. Coward - 1987 - 340 pages
... who held allegiance to Aurobindo questioned the Mother's authority and the nature of the Mother's consciousness, but Aurobindo always answered that their consciousnesses were harmonious. For example, in a 1934 letter he responded: ...
Inequality, its bases and search for solutions: Dr. Alfred de ... Alfred De Souza, Walter Fernandes, Indian ... - 1986 - 381 pages
... is a modern one, closely related to the interaction between
India and Europe. It is well known that Gandhi, unlike Aurobindo, always maintained the view of karmayoga being the central message of the Bhagavad-Gita. Gandhi read the scripture for the first time in England in 1888-89 but his own commentary on it, ...
Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - 812 pages
Sri Aurobindo always saw this spiritual reality of the Mother behind the physical body of the Indian sub-continent. One of his distinguished pupils, KM Munshi, has recorded how Sri Aurobindo once pointed to a wall-map of
India and ...
Modern Indian thought: (Rammohun Roy to Jayaprakash Narayan) Dev Raj Bali - 1984 - 262 pages
As a professor of English and French in Baroda State Service and as the Principal of the
National College at Calcutta, Sri Aurobindo always felt an urge to do something more effective and lasting for the good of mankind. ...
Modern Indian political thought Sankar Ghose - 1984 - 509 pages
... but he maintained that the people of the East would not believe that their rulers had power unless they used that power autocratically in critical situations. Aurobindo always remained in close touch with the secret revolutionary ...
Perspectives on Indian poetry in English - Page 96 M. K. Naik - 1984 - 251 pages
Sri Aurobindo always answered with a divine patience and a divine solicitude and a divine omniscience, and these letters to his disciples were presently to pile up to thousands, if not tens of thousands. There is a major difference ...
Commentaries on the Mother's ministry Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1983
Sri Aurobindo always discouraged prospective biographers wanting to write about him. He said categorically that his life was not on the surface for man to see. On another occasion he said, with biting humour, that he did not want to be ...
Six illuminates of modern India Dilip Kumar Roy - 1982 - 200 pages
... Sri Aurobindo always cherished Tilak as a great soul. In a tribute he wrote: "Neither Mr. Tilak nor his speeches really require any presentation or foreword... He could not but stand in the end where he stands today, ...
Indian idea of freedom: political thought of Swami Vivekananda, ... Dennis Dalton - 1982 - 227 pages
... as Aurobindo always was, throughout his life, with a pride of Indian civilisation, he wrote in exuberant tones of "the Indian Renaissance" which had begun with Vivekananda : It was in religion first that the soul of India awoke and ...
Sri Aurobindo, his life unique Rishabhchand - 1981 - 427 pages
However, Sri Aurobindo always cherished a respectful sense of gratitude for Lele, but their spiritual relation was now broken. Lele went back. On
the 23rd February, 1908, Sri Aurobindo wrote in the Bande Mataram: "Swaraj is the ...
Sri Aurobindo's integral approach to political thought Shiva Kumar Mital - 1981 - 268 pages
Sri Aurobindo always makes his stand on the firm foundation of Spirit, the metaphysical truth of Reality. And this is the secret of the Real-idealism of his moral philosophy. In fact Sri Aurobindo emphasises that ethics is not in its ...
The social philosophy of Sri Aurobindo Ram Nath Sharma - 1980 - 230 pages
Sri Aurobindo always keeps his stand on the firm foundation of Spirit, the metaphysical truth of Reality. And this is the secret of the Real-idealism of his moral philosophy. 24. Sri Aurobindo, The Ideal of ...
Contemporary Indian English verse: an evaluation Chirantan Kulshrestha - 1980 - 314 pages
Balanced tensions, etc., are again based on Anglo-American critical theories then on the ascendant. The questions Lal did not ask were: (a) What about the large reading public that Sri Aurobindo always enjoyed in
India? One could sneer at his reading public as full of non-literary uncritical bhaktas of Aurobindo, which is not a fact. ... The Indo-Anglian creed and allied essays Shankar Mokashi-Punekar - 1972 - 72 pages
Mother, or, The divine materialism
Satprem - 1977 - 446 pages
Sri Aurobindo always did things unobtrusively ; even during the revolution He preferred to remain in the background, and it required "the bomb case" and his final arrest for Him to become known as "the brains behind ". ...
Guidance from Sri Aurobindo: letters to a young disciple Nagin Doshi - 1976
KNOWLEDGE Preface to Knowledge Sri Aurobindo always discouraged in me the ordinary way of developing the mind. Whenever I asked him intellectual or philosophical questions he would reply that I should not go after intellectual knowledge ...
Here lies the heart Mercedes de Acosta - 1975 - 372 pages
Oddly enough, we arrived in
Pondicherry on November 21 not knowing that Aurobindo always held darshan on the 22. This word, in a sense, means what Christians would call a blessing or benediction. It is derived from the Sanscrit darshana ...
All India Conference on the Relevance of Sri Aurobindo Today, ... Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo Samiti - 1975 - 106 pages
Sri Aurobindo always had an intimate concern for the suffering and distress of the common people. He had given a call to the people "to gather the village life of its rural population into a mighty single and compact democratic ...
Essays on Indian writing in English C. Paul Verghese - 1975 - 151 pages
4 All this, however, does not mean that Aurobindo always writes an abstract prose. Going through his less philosophical writings such as The Foundations of Indian Culture and the letters to his disciples, his speeches and critical ...
Sri Aurobindo Jesse Roarke - 1973 - 189 pages
He is tentative and "poetic" where Sri Aurobindo is full and sure: at his best he imagines what may be ; but Sri Aurobindo always knows what is. And part of what is, part of the divine truth, is beauty, coherence, articulation: this in ...
Philosophy, history, and the image of man Narayanrao Appurao Nikam - 1973 - 160 pages
Chapter 7 APPEARANCE AND MANIFESTATION 1. Dr. Indra Sen observes that Sankara and Shri Aurobindo are both monists but Sankara "constantly dichotomizes" and Shri Aurobindo "always reconciles". ...
Questions and answers, 1957 & 1958 Mother - 1973 - 392 pages
Naturally, there is the same idea in India, that idea of the complete renunciation of all physical reality, the profound contempt for the material world which is considered an illusion and a falsehood, leaving, as Sri Aurobindo always ...
Twelve years with Sri Aurobindo Nirodbaran - 1973 - 306 pages
Her activities were a thousand and one; yet she always found time to think of his needs, even as Sri Aurobindo always kept in mind hers. The two consciousnesses were one so that when Sri Aurobindo met with the accident, the Mother felt ...
Contemporary relevance of Sri Aurobindo Kishor Gandhi - 1973 - 343 pages
Chittaranjan raised some fundamental questions from the point of common family relationship in a Bengali house. Why should Barin address Sri Aurobindo as Dear Dada? Sri Aurobindo always was addressed as ...
The liberator Sri Aurobindo, India, and the world Sisirkumar Mitra - 1970 - 307 pages
Sri Aurobindo always stood for India's integrity, her oneness and indivisibility 'built on the common home, the common interest and the common love', the three principal factors in an Indian's love and adoration of his country as the ...
Sri Aurobindo--the poet Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1970 - 472 pages
'Surprised' suggests the 'Hound of Heaven': Sri Aurobindo always uses 'surprised' in its original sense 'to be caught from behind'. At the stage of philosophical and spiritual development, when he wrote the poem, he could not have said ...
Sri Aurobindo: or, The adventure of consciousness Satprem - 1968 - 381 pages
The ordinary external life (which is ordinary only to those who live ordinarily) becomes a vast field of experience and of the manipulation of vibrations ; this is why Sri Aurobindo always wanted to extend his yoga there. ...
The extremist challenge: India between 1890 and 1910 Amales Tripathi - 1967 - 246 pages
... get out by the penal code, enter into the extremely high atmosphere of Srimat Bhagvad Gita and then consider the actions of great men".80 But Tilak had become more cautious with age and Aurobindo, always romantic and messianic, ...
Studies in modern Indian political thought: the moderates and the ... O. P. Goyal - 1964 - 113 pages
You will then realize that it is something immortal that the idea for which you are working is something immortal and that it is an Immortal Power that is working in you".19 However, Aurobindo always explained that "our ideal of ...
Patna University journal 1958
But Aurobindo always conceived of nationalism as a stage, although a very necessary one in the social and political evolution of man. Hence besides being a prophet of the full and complete independence for
India, he also simultaneously ...
The Indian journal of political science Indian Political Science Association - 1957
In Gandhi the stress was at most on a mental culture and discipline, Aurobindo always referred to inward contemplation. Hence we have to distinguish two levels of thought in Aurobindo with reference to the relationship between ...
Asia: Asian quarterly of culture and synthesis René de Berval - 1951
By that last term, I mean that Sri Aurobindo always offers a highly synthetic picture where every object, fact, or opinion has its appropriate place, into which it can fit to the satisfaction of the most exacting critic and the most ...
Man the Divine Being : Aurobindo always considered man as a divine being, a self or soul with body, life and mind as its sheaths and instruments of evolutionary growth. This is the Upanishad view-point. Aurobindo writes. ...

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