July 23, 2010

Sri Aurobindo concluded that India has a crucial role to play in reshaping the destiny of mankind

The game of naming Express News Service 21 Jul 2010 Shiv Visvanathan
The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India - Page 321 Sumathi Ramaswamy - 2010 - 379 pages
As Aurobindo noted, “It is difficult to translate the National Anthem of Bengal into verse in another language owing ... a key figure among expatriate nationalists in London, VD Savarkar [1883–1966]) concluded: “It is my fervent prayer, ...
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Though he felt that the Bolshevik Revolution had the potential to correct some of the worse abuses of capitalism, Aurobindo concluded that socialism alone could not bring about the process of regeneration that humanity needed to escape ... Decolonization: perspectives from now and then - Page 91
Prasenjit Duara - 2004 - 312 pages
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... of supramental consciousness-force is desired. They initially tried to achieve this individually, jointly and with a small group of disciples. But it was difficult to achieve continuously. Aurobindo concluded that a larger number of ...
Humanity, truth, and freedom: essays in modern Indian Philosophy - Page 11  Raghunath Ghosh - 2008 - 164 pages
From the above discussion it can be concluded that no theory of illusion is justifiable. In the Upanisads there is a repeated mention of the four states of Self. Sri Aurobindo has given his own interpretation on these and finally ...
Bengal Through the Ages: Pathway to Swaraj and constitution  Shri Ram Bakshi, R. L. Pathak - 2008
Sri Aurobindo had thus to cross swords both with the bureaucracy and with the forces of ... came out with a slashingly sarcastic editorial which concluded with these pointed and envenomed words: He (Gokhale) publishes himself now as the ...
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But, concludes Sri Aurobindo, what Greek sculpture expressed was "fine, gracious and noble," but what it did not express was that "spiritual depth and extension which the human mind needs for its larger and deeper self-experience. ...
Human values and ethics: achieving holistic excellence - Page 94  Debangshu Chakraborty - 2006 - 504 pages
Examining the psychological underpinnings of the First World War, Sri Aurobindo had concluded that its principal motive force was the 'collective egoism' of several States, each one wanting to possess the world, or to 'dominate it and ...
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Sri Aurobindo has concluded the narration of this story with these witty remarks: "... the debt is absolved and as the last pice is expended, the reborn soul departs, for its sole object in taking birth is satisfied, accounts squared ...
The essential Aurobindo - Page 15 Aurobindo Ghose, Robert A. McDermott - 2001 - 288 pages
... four years prior to Gandhi's return from
South Africa, Aurobindo concluded that the necessity of political independence was so clearly growing in Indian consciousness that its attainment was virtually inevitable. According to his vision of historical and spiritual evolution, ...
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Through deep meditation and study, Aurobindo concluded that
India has a crucial role to play in reshaping the destiny of mankind. He said: "India must be reborn, because her rebirth is demanded by the future of the world. ...
The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2000
Summing up the work that the evolutionary power had done so far at its highest level, Sri Aurobindo concluded that what ...  In other words, Sri Aurobindo concluded that the spiritual man had evolved, but not the supramental being who ...
The Mother: the story of her life George Van Vrekhem - 2000 - 545 pages
'Such is the content which I put into this date of India's liberation; whether or how far this hope will be justified depends upon the new and free India,' concluded Sri Aurobindo. It is safe to say that at the time no one knew that All ...
One love, one life, one creation: Christian spirituality and the ... Michael Wright - 1999 - 256 pages
'Love is a great leveller,' commented SN Dasgupta, and surely easy affection was the habitual attitude of Jesus towards his heavenly Father. Out of his Hindu spirituality Sri Aurobindo concluded that, "The Divine Being ... is at once ...
Indian nationalism: study in evolution Sitanshu Das - 1999 - 232 pages
Sri Aurobindo concluded: "This conquest took place at a time when the vitality of ancient Indian life and culture after two thousand years of activity and creation was already exhausted for a time or very near exhaustion and needed a ...
Beyond man: life and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Georges van Vrekhem - 1997 - 544 pages
... the initiative can come from India and, although the scope must be universal, the central movement may be hers.' Sri Aurobindo concluded his message for All India Radio as follows: 'Such is the content which I put into this date ...
Encyclopaedia Indica: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh S. S. Shashi - 1996
And, Aurobindo concluded: "I again call on those nobler spirits among us who are working erroneously, it may be, but with incipient or growing sincerity, to divert their strenuous effort from the promotion of narrow class interests, ...
Aurobindo had concluded that independence for India was inevitable, and he then embraced the spiritual evolution of the soul with the same fervor as he had in raising the consciousness of Indians. In the year 1910, when Aurobindo was 37 ...
On the Mother: the chronicle of a manifestation and ministry K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo ... - 1994 - 924 pages
And so Sri Aurobindo concluded his letter with the forthright declaration: Those who fight for this cause are fighting for the Divine and against the threatened reign of the Asura.17 VII While the War raged with undiminished fury on the ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1990
After discussing the matter half jocularly and half seriously Sri Aurobindo concluded: "Do you think that Buddha or Confucius or myself were born with a prevision that they or I would take to the spiritual life? ...
Neo-Hindu views of Christianity - Page 208 Arvind Sharma - 1988 - 217 pages
"Plato and the Hottentot," concludes Sri Aurobindo, "the fortunate child of saints or Rishis [seers] and the born and the trained criminal plunged from beginning to end in the lowest fetid corruption of a great modern city have equally ...
Modern Indian responses to religious pluralism Harold G. Coward - 1987 - 340 pages
... must harmonize these diversities, but to abolish them is not the intention of the Spirit in Nature." Ultimately falling back upon the authority of his own religious experiences, Aurobindo concluded that the experience of the ...
Inequality, its bases and search for solutions: Dr. Alfred de ... Alfred De Souza, Walter Fernandes, Indian ... - 1986 - 381 pages
duties which are important but the selfless realisation of the divine will. Once retreated from the arena of political action into his ashram in
PondicherryAurobindo concluded that 'the Gita is not a book of practical ethics, but of spiritual life' in a traditional Indian sense. To understand this scripture ...
Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - 812 pages
But it was only a question of time, Sri Aurobindo concluded; the siege would "diminish in force and be finally dispelled". Such was the calm assurance he gave to the First of his disciples, the great Collaborator who was to become the ...
Over a decade after Sri Aurobindo had concluded his series of articles on Human Unity in the Arya, Rabindranath Tagore said in the course of his Hibbert Lectures: "On the surface of our being we have the ever-changing phases of the ...
World union World Union (Organization) - 1984
... gets manifested. lf we utterly fail in aspiration for the grace of manifestation, nature will compel us through due tragedies. To the above statement of Sri Bhattacharya it may also be added that Sri Aurobindo concluded the Chap, ...
Aspects of Indian culture Elangbam Nilakanta Singh - 1982 - 192 pages
And Sri Aurobindo concluded with a prophetic note, "a larger range of existence made more real to man's experience will be the realm of the future". To distinguish the above planes of inspiration in a concrete manner, let us take the ...
The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1981
If a third is to be avoided one recalls that Sri Aurobindo concluded his Savitri asserting that love and oneness were the key of our transformation. All this is not to denigrate the left-brain function, ...
On the Mother: the chronicle of a manifestation and ministry K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1978 - 847 pages
And so Sri Aurobindo concluded his letter with the forthright declaration: "Those who fight for this cause are fighting for the Divine and against the threatened reign of the Asura".1 VII While the war raged with undiminished fury on ...
"It is, however, only a question of time", Sri Aurobindo concluded; "the siege will diminish in force and be finally expelled". To recapitulate the argument: from an ...
Sri Aurobindo concluded by saying that he was "packing" his bag "crammed with the catch of the Infinite". But he wouldn't be coaxed to open the bag except at the appropriate time. And the "appropriate time" was not far! 1 ibid., pp. ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1977
... but a deeper brotherhood, a real and an inner sense of unity and equality and a common life. There must be the realisation by the individual that only in the life of his fellow- men is his own life complete. Sri Aurobindo concluded ...
The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1976
"They may not have yoked the lightning to their chariots, nor weighed sun and star, nor materialised all the destructive forces in Nature," concludes Sri Aurobindo, "to aid them in massacre and domination, but they had measured and ...
Sri Aurobindo: a centenary tribute Aurobindo Ghose, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1974 - 346 pages
"It was apparent, therefore," concludes Sri Aurobindo, "that the two chief fruits of the Vedic sacrifice, wealth of cows and wealth of horses, were symbolic of richness of mental illumination and abundance of vital energy". We turn, ...
The essential Aurobindo Aurobindo Ghose, Robert A. McDermott - 1973 - 258 pages
By 1910, four years prior to Gandhi's return from
South Africa, Aurobindo concluded that the necessity of political independence was so clearly growing in Indian consciousness that its attainment was virtually inevitable. ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture 1973
It is our growth towards that plan or vision which will render these higher principles into an active, material methodology. "It is not simply a better world we seek, but a new world." — Sri Aurobindo (Concluded) Robert Lawlor ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1973
Such a realisation cannot obviously come without a special discipline. And this discipline cannot at first be undertaken except by a small elite who recognise its imperative necessity. Therefore, concludes Sri Aurobindo, the hope of the race lies in the growing number of such individuals who make this realisation their primary end in life. It is only through such individuals and groups of individuals that the true ...
Prabuddha bharata: or awakened India Advaita Ashrama - 1973
'It was apparent, therefore,' concludes Sri Aurobindo, 'that the two chief fruits of the Vedic sacrifice, wealth of cows and wealth of horses, were symbolic of richness of mental illumination and abundance of vital energy. ...
Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1972
... Sri Aurobindo concluded, "I may have the pride of remembering that I did something to prepare and begin it". ...
And Sri Aurobindo concluded his letter with the sentiment that the Congress had — and should have — its own collective inspiration and momentum, and the absence or presence of any particular leader should make little difference to its ...
And Sri Aurobindo concluded this extraordinary letter with this truly extraordinary peroration: ...I too am packing my bag. Still I believe that this bundle is like the net of St. Peter, only crammed with the catch of the Infinite. ...
... Aurobindo concluded the article thus: He (Kossuth) told them, "With you, if you choose; but without you, or against you, if it must be". We also say the same to all who threaten to desert us in such a critical hour. ...
Sri Aurobindo Prema Nandakumar - 1972 - 48 pages
When Lord Curzon, then Viceroy of India, decided upon the "partition of Bengal", Sri Aurobindo concluded that the time had come for open political activity. He left
Baroda, came over to Calcutta, and joined the newly started National ...
The philosophy of man-making: a study in social and political ... Santi Lal Mukherji, Śāntilāla Mukhopādhyāa - 1971 - 468 pages
-have climbed to the rarefied atmosphere of the Legislative Council and lost all hold on the imagination of the young men. The desire for nobler and more inspiring patriotism is growing more intense."100 Aurobindo concluded by affirming ...
Indian independence in perspective Sasadhar Sinha - 1964 - 311 pages
Hence, "India must," concluded Aurobindo Ghosh, "save herself by ending the alien dominion which has not only impoverished her body, but was also strangling her soul. It was only in an independent
India, with the reins of ...
The self in Indian philosophy Troy Wilson Organ - 1964 - 184 pages
Expression in the multiplicity of individuals is a necessary means of Brahman's self-knowledge, concludes Aurobindo: "Our surface reason is prone to conclude that the diversity may be unreal, an appearance only, but if we look a little ...
Resurgent India Sisirkumar Mitra - 1963 - 432 pages
Sri Aurobindo concluded the series with these words : 'Vedantism accepts no distintion of true or false religions, but considers only what will lead more or less surely, more or less quickly to moksa, spiritual emancipation and the ...
A study of "Savitri." Prema Nandakumar - 1962 - 568 pages
... though only after a struggle. The struggle and the victory are the hard core of the drama of Savitri, the rest is epic scaffolding. The outer scaffolding being concluded, Sri Aurobindo now turns to the nearer scaffolding, that is, ...
Sri Aurobindo K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1950 - 404 pages
Sri Aurobindo then showed that if, like the British, we have laid the foundations of social collapse, we have also, like the French, laid the foundations of political incompetence. And Sri Aurobindo concluded by affirming that "our ...
The Indian contribution to English literature K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1945 - 312 pages
And Sri Aurobindo concluded his moving commemoration ode with these memorable lines : No human hands such notes ambrosial moved ; These accents are not of the imperfect earth ; Rather, ...
Sri Aurobindo K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1945 - 425 pages
Sri Aurobindo concluded this thoughtful series of articles with this prophetic declaration : " The old organizations have to be reconstituted to adapt themselves to the new surroundings. The death complained of is only a transition. ...
World union World Union (Organization)
Human Unity Sri Aurobindo concluded in The Ideal of Human Unity in 1950: "The ultimate result must be the formation of a World-State and the most desirable form of it would be a federation of free nationalities in which all subjection ...

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