July 10, 2010

Sri Aurobindo referred to the inadequacy of Vivekananda's work as compared with his enormous influence

Representing India: literatures, politics, and identities Mukesh Williams, Rohit Wanchoo - 2007 - 343 pages
Some Indian nationalists like Aurobindo Ghosh manipulated the Sanskrit genealogy of Indian literature to imagine the nation in elitist Brahminical terms. After 1947, the growth of the Hindu diaspora and the construction of Hindu temples...
Composite culture in a multicultural society - Page 202 Bipan Chandra, Sucheta Mahajan, National Book ... - 2007 - 286 pages
At a philosophical level, we find its reiteration in the writings of Sri Aurobindo who aimed at modernization of the ... The credit for formulating a systematic counter-ideology to Brahminical discourse on culture goes to BR Ambedkar. ...
Prophets Facing Backward - Page 46 Meera Nanda - 2006 - 325 pages
... Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya ( 1 838-94), Swami Vivekananda (1862- 1902),Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950), ... liberalism, and even Christian ideas of monotheism, and the high-Brahminical Vedic literature, especially the philosophy of ...
Political ideas in modern India: thematic explorations - Page 16 Vrajendra Raj Mehta, Thomas Pantham, Project ... - 2006 - 481 pages
It is thus clear that Aurobindo relied on the Hindu religious texts and supernatural characters principally to create ... Despite their occasional challenges to the hegemonic Brahminical order, the nationalist radical thinkers adopted ...
Hindu civilisation and the twenty-first century V. Ramanathan - 2004 - 746 pages
That Hinduism is brahminical or brahmin-oriented is another criticism. WritesAurobindo, who was not a brahmin, "Brahminical civilisation does not imply any domination of sacerdotalism. The priest had no hand in shaping the lines of ...
Indian giants crack AIM: Vivekananda, Ambedkar and Aurobindo : ... Parameśa Caudhurī - 2003 - 250 pages
Mahatma Phule, a low caste (Untouchable) gardener by caste was the first person to have revolted against the caste system and the Brahminical hegemony in all spheres of life as early as in 1848. Although his influence was confined to ...
Seminar 2003
Vive- kananda and Aurobindo had a love- hate relation with the Enlightened One. The centre of this discomfort is the ... his rejection of caste and privilege, his indictment of brahminical Hinduism, his distaste for rituals and, ...
Imagining hinduism: a postcolonial perspective - Page 52 Sharada Sugirtharajah - 2003 - 164 pages
In fact, as early as 1914, Sri Aurobindo rejected it, pointing out in his The Secret of the Veda that there is no reference ... Caldwell reconstructed the notion of Dravidian identity using the theme of Aryan brahminical domination of ...
Hindutva, ideology, and politics A. A. Parvathy - 2003 - 322 pages
Sri Aurobindo Ghose tried to construct the link between the past and the present. He stood for pride in the past, ... the Hindus began to lose their religion, nationality, freedom, brahminical spirit and their identity. ...
Lineages of the Present: Ideology and Politics in Contemporary ... - Page 290 Aijaz Ahmad - 2002 - 382 pages
ledge of that kind was born in something of a symbiosis with certain basic properties of the brahminical world-view. ... Neither Bankim nor Aurobindo, neither the Swadeshi Movement in
Bengal nor the Shivaji cult propagated in ...
Indeed, so powerful was the revivalist culture of the upper castes that when anti-Brahminical movements surfaced in ... The politics of hate Abhay Kumar - 2000 - 88 pages
RSS's tryst with politics: from Hedgewar to Sudarshan Pralay Kanungo - 2002 - 314 pages
... Hindutva is seen as a Brahminical effort of appropriation of non- Brahminical schools of thought, from Jainism down ... Bankim and Aurobindo showed a more nuanced understanding of the politics of culture and were sensitive to the ...
Reflections on Indian English literature - Page 113 Mukesh Ranjan Verma, Krishna Autar Agrawal - 2002 - 228 pages
... his victory is only partial because he has to give up his brahminical dharma and an assured Rishihood. It was only in Savitri that Sri Aurobindo was able to successfully resolve this conflict between Love and Death. ...
Origin of scriptures Dinesh S. Anand - 2002 - 192 pages
Brahminical system has shed those parts ... The impact of Buddhism is found on the lives of these notable individuals such as Swami Vivekananda, Mahatama Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Jawaharlal Nehru, S. Radhakrishnan,...
Journal of Dharma Dharmaram College Centre for the Study of ... - 2001
For the nationalists who headed the Independence Movement, from Roy andAurobindo to Gandhi and Nehru, ... under the banner of the Brahminical heritage, which means among other things a nation of privileged and underprivileged castes. ...
The Penguin Sri Aurobindo reader Aurobindo Ghose, Makarand R. Paranjape - 1999 - 375 pages
Politics is the field of the Kshatriya and the morality of the Kshatriya ought to govern our political actions. To impose on politics the Brahminical duty of saintly sufferance, ...
Sri Aurobindo and the new millennium: reflections and reviews R. Y. Deshpande - 1999 - 340 pages
... religion did in its long and tortuous history from Constantine to the period of Inquisition, making it serve more the political ends rather than basic values. In its dark ages what the decadent Brahminical society did in
India, ...
T.V. Kapali Sastri Prema Nandakumar - 1998 - 126 pages
The Tantra literature of
India is immense for, besides the Brahminical Tantras, there are also Buddhist and Jain ... As elsewhere, his guide for this study is also Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo gave a high place to the Tantras in the ...
Hindu nationalism in India: Ideological corollaries D. D. Pattanaik - 1998 - 196 pages
He calls it Hindu variant of separatist Nationalism.17 Sir John Seely findsBrahminical chieftaincy in Hindu ... Vivekananda and Aurobindo. He felt that a Christian or a Muslim could adapt himself to the Indian way of life and culture ...
The Book review 1998
... of the cult had a distinct Hindu orientation and also served to 'tame' the cult and incorporate it into brahminical Hinduism. .... At this time Volunteer Samitis came up in response to Aurobindo Ghosh's call for 'Shakti' ie physical ...
The renaissance in India: with a defence of Indian culture Aurobindo Ghose - 1997 - 450 pages
When it is spoken of as a Brahminical civilisation, that is the real significance of the phrase. The phrase cannot truly imply any domination of sacerdotalism, though in some lower aspects of the culture the sacerdotal mind has been ...
Sri Aurobindo on Vedic deities Ramaranjan Mukherji - 1995 - 149 pages
This influence of Buddhism on Brahminical historical and legendary works is quite plausible, but one thing is to be remembered ... of the ritual of sacrifice, it is necessary to explain the concept of Soma as floated by Sri Aurobindo. ...
Gaveshaā Sri Aurobindo International Centre of ... - 1995
It is known that Buddhism and some form of Vedism, or Brahminical religion, were much in favour in many countries ... Sri Aurobindo has observed that three or four times in history a stream of the spiritual energy of the East has poured ...
Asian thought and society 1995
... has sometimes been seen as the "genius" of Indian society by thinkers like Aurobindo, Gandhi, and the communalists. ... Brahminical society, based on caste stratification, illustrates this well. As Asghar All Engineer points out, ...
A survey of Buddhism: its doctrines and methods through the ages Sangharakshita - 1993 - 525 pages
Indeed, in India the misunderstanding (artificially aggravated, no doubt, bybrahminical hostility) persists, ... but in the more recent writings of SriAurobindo, both of whom were highly intelligent men and should have known better. ...
The Bhagavad Gītā: with Sanskrit text, translation, and a ... K. Dad Prithipaul - 1993 - 949 pages
Once again we pay homage to the brahminical acaryas for this great task of isolating and preserving the tradition in ... Ramanuja, Madhva, Aurobindo. From the tenth century onwards no Hindu or Buddhist or Jaina thinker has fallen to the ...
India's political culture: in search of a frame work Anam Jaitly - 1991 - 230 pages
Sri Aurobindo has painstakingly explained that the four orders, in their originally envisaged form and behaviour, did not exhibit, ... Though shortlived, this did help erecting an alternative non-Brahminical social order. ...
Chaos in nation formation: case of Punjab T. G. Jacob - 1990 - 218 pages
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Narayana Guru are all in this broad category. It would have been difficult to preserve Hinduism maintaining all the Brahminical values, particularly in the face of challenges from ...
Hidden eternity: a study of the poetry of Sarojini Naidu G. Nageswara Rao - 1986 - 67 pages
Tagore whose heritage, as Sarojini Naidu rightly pointed out, was of 'purely religious instinct of a Brahminical race, and of the mysticism of ... and epic heritage which vitalized the work of Sri Aurobindo made him the poet-seer, yogi. ...
India through the ages Kavalam Madhava Panikkar - 1985 - 338 pages
But the Brahminical mind which was ritualistic in regard to religion elaborated at the same time the great doctrines of ... ... anterior to the Gupta redactions but the popularity of the system as a school of religious • Among the innumerable commentators of modern times may be mentioned Tilak, 
the father of nationalism, Aurobindo, the saint of Pondicherry, Mahatma Gandhi and Mr. C. Rajagopalachari and Dr. Radhakrishnan. ...
Swami Vivekananda and Indian nationalism Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta - 1984 - 170 pages
But Europeans in general have looked upon these Brahminical ideas with amused tolerance, and scholars like Max ... It was in 1915 that Aurobindo referred to the inadequacy of Vivekananda's work as compared with his enormous influence. ...
The imprisoned mind Akhileshwar Jha - 1980 - 239 pages
From Shankaracharya in the eighth century to Aurobindo in the twentieth, it is the repetition of the same story. Max Weber alludes to this bondage of the Hindu intellect to the religious objective when, contrasting the Brahminical ...
The life of Sri Aurobindo Ambalal Balkrishna Purani - 1978 - 440 pages
In his blind anger against Barin and his prejudice against Sri Aurobindo he forgets that there were other organisations parallel to those run ... means only injunctions of Brahminical Smritis which outrage his sense of social justice. ...
Social mission of law V. R. Krishna Iyer - 1976 - 205 pages
The depth and diversity of our history reinforces its secular destiny because the Brahminical persecution of Buddhism ... Rabindranath Tagore and Narayana Guru, and the luminous Aurobindo have bequeathed a spiritual, yet humanist vision ...
Leftist movements in India, 1917-1947 Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri - 1976 - 313 pages
... the question of violence and nonviolence purely from the standpoint of political pragmatism and expediency. Sri Aurobindo, for example, never mixed up ordinary ethics with politics which, he believed, had its own ethics — the ethics of ... He pointed out that to impose in politics the Brahminical virtue of "saintly sufferance" was to preach ...
History of the freedom movement in India Tara Chand - 1965
Aurobindo points out that politics is not the function of the Brahmin or the Shudra, as it "is the ideal of the Kshatriya, and the morality of the Kshatriya ought to govern our political actions. To impose in politics the Brahminical ...
The yoga of Sri Aurobindo Nolini Kanta Gupta - 1948
This is for those who follow the Brahminical discipline. But a Kshatriya, who in his nature and consciousness is a warrior, has another dharma; he is the armed guard of knowledge and truth, he is strength and force. ...

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