July 25, 2010

Sri Aurobindo saw the awakening of India as part of a divine plan

The common vision: parenting and educating for wholeness David Marshak - 1997 - 246 pages
... emptiness and creativity, infinite and yet composed of manifold forms. In this vision Aurobindo saw the Divine as both immanent in all things of the world and simultaneously transcendent to the world that humans know. ...
Indian wisdom, Christianity, and modern psychology Jacques Vigne - 1997 - 229 pages
Externally he has no powers, but, in fact, the entire household is at his service. Until quite an advanced age, Ma Anandamayi, could say to visitors, often married people, "I am your small daughter." Sri Aurobindo saw this spiritual childhood even in God when he said, "God is the eternal child playing an eternal game ...
The Sikh unrest and the Indian state: politics, personalities, and ... Ram Narayan Kumar - 1997 - 445 pages
Aurobindo saw no contradiction in combining constitutional and violent means in furtherance of his goal; rather, he saw the two being complementary: "Diplomacy succeeds only when it is backed by force..." The most popular and extreme ...
Political thinkers of modern India - Page 97 Adi Hormusji Doctor - 1997 - 141 pages
In other words, Aurobindo saw 
India's liberation from political enslavement as something entailing the good of all mankind. Aurobindo rejected the thesis of Western superiority. He refused to believe that the Western triumph was due to ...
The Ramakrishna-Vivekananda movement impact on Indian society and ... Jayasree Mukherjee - 1997 - 338 pages
In an article entitled 'Spirituality And Nationalism' published in the Bande Mataram (March 28, 1908) Aurobindo saw the ushering of a new age with the advent of Ramakrishna. He wrote, 'In him the spiritual experiences ...
Beyond man: life and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Georges van Vrekhem - 1997 - 544 pages... others that we have to come back hundreds or thousands of times. Whatever the truth, the escapist solution is the same for most religions. But that is not how Sri Aurobindo saw things. He did not avoid the logical conclusions from ...
The book of enlightened masters: western teachers in eastern ... Andrew Rawlinson - 1997 - 650 pages
This transformation that Aurobindo refers to is the aim of his Integral Yoga and also the basis of the ashram, the reason for its existence. Aurobindo saw the ashram as a microcosm of the whole planet and he referred to the people in it ...
Social work treatment: interlocking theoretical approaches - Page 669 Francis Joseph Turner - 1996 - 738 pages
... or movement to point omega; Sri Aurobindo saw it as a journey toward perfection. This quest to grow beyond ego by transcending the personal has been described variously through time as: enlightenment, salvation, individuation, ...
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Gariepy - 1996 - 483 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw that, notwithstanding the world-conflict, the trend of the times was clearly in the direction of internationalism: Even cosmopolitan habits of life are now not uncommon and there are a fair number of persons who are as ...
The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1996
Sri Aurobindo saw that Sayana in his commentary had attached different meanings to the same word at different places. To Sayana the word 'Dhi' means 'thought', 'Prayer', 'action', 'food', etc.; the word 'Rtam', means 'truth', ...
India, challenge and response: unity in variety : Bengal, India & ... Bimal C. Ray - 1996
The Bande Mataram hymn included in this book provided them with a war-cry; to them Bankim became a rishi who revealed the Bande Mataram mantra. AsAurobindo saw it, "The religion of patriotism - this is the master idea of ...
Raja Subodh Chandra Mallik and his times Amalendu De, National Council of Education, Bengal - 1996 - 237 pages
Aurobindo saw, in his vision, that "the real strength of National Congress lay in the masses- the proletariat".195 He wrote: "... the proletariat is as I have striven to show, the real key of the situation. Torpid he is and immobile; ...
Encyclopaedia Indica: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh S. S. Shashi - 1996
Sri Aurobindo saw at this point that the transformation of the earth presupposed one other condition. When he left the blue light of the overmind, he envisioned the Golden Light of the supramental world. If the Golden Light were to ...
Page 627 But whenever there came a conflict with any un-Aryan race these came together to thwart the outer assault. Why? because they were held together as one, by one Dharma and one culture. Sri Aurobindo saw and noted the clash of two powers...
The politics of history: Aryan invasion theory and the subversion ... Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram - 1995 - 244 pages
Again Sri Aurobindo saw the problem with his usual clarity, though in the different context of the Mahabharata: No foreigner can for a moment be trusted to apply the literary test to a poem in our language ...
History of Indian Literature: .1911-1956, struggle for freedom : ... - Page 184 Sisir Kumar Das - 1995 - 908 pages
Sri Aurobindo on the other hand, thought and wrote extensively on poetry.3 In his essays on poetry intimately connected with his philosophical insights and Indian consciousness Sri Aurobindo saw very clearly the relationship between ...
Selected Works of M.P. Pandit: Yoga Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1995 - 640 pages
Such an opportunity did come or appear to come when there was the physical advent of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. They had reason to believe that the time was then, but at some stage Sri Aurobindo saw that ...
On the Mother: the chronicle of a manifestation and ministry K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo ... - 1994 - 924 pages
The "states of being" and "fountains of universal force", so far foreign to the earth or human consciousness, are what Sri Aurobindo saw in general, when he was an ...
Sri Aurobindo in Baroda Roshan - 1993 - 181 pages
Within a few years of his return, then, Sri Aurobindo saw very clearly that salvation could come to India, then fallen upon evil days, not through dialectical skill and intellectual subtlety, but through renewed faith and stern ...
Undying courage, the story of Bagha Jatin Pruthvīndranātha Mukhopādhyāa - 1992 - 188 pages
Moreover, Sri Aurobindo saw in his action the constant presence of a generous heart, a far-sighted intuition, a respectful tolerance for other people's ideas and ways and a reconciling enthusiasm capable of uniting the narrowest of the ...
The lore of Mahabharata Amaleśa Bhaṭṭācārya - 1992 - 436 pages
But whenever there came a conflict with any un- Aryan race these came together to thwart the outer assault. Why? because they were held together as one, by one Dharma and one culture. Sri Aurobindo saw and noted the clash of two powers ...
Political protest in Bengal: boycott and terrorism 1905-18 Hiren Chakrabarti - 1992 - 269 pages
... young men are the means.2-'6 Aurobindo saw in Mazzini 'the prophet ... the citizen of Eternity'. 'Italia fara da se' no doubt appealed to him: '
India ... must work out her salvation for herself and the less she trusts to foreign ...
The vision and work of Sri Aurobindo Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1992 - 238 pages
The Mother saw the all-consummating Avatar in Sri Aurobindo, and Sri Aurobindo saw in her the Shakti that would make his Yoga an organised starting-point of a new chapter of earth's history. In the meeting on
March 29, 1914, ...
Aspects of Indian History: Professor Ram Mohan Sinha commemoration ... 1991 - 367 pages Aurobindo saw in Tilak "the one possible leader for a revolutionary party. ... The social role of the Gītā: how and why Satya P. Agarwal - 1993 - 475 pages In the Alipur jail, Aurobindo saw "in ... Basic constitutional values Subhash C. Kashyap, Foundation for Amity and ... - 1994 - 202 pages ... Aurobindo saw ... India's foreign policy as an exercise in non-alignment: ... Dinesh Chandra Pande - 1988 - 488 pages
... was characteristically confounded by his own perplexities". Sri Aurobindo saw the North Korean aggression over the ... The States of South Asia: problems of national integration : ... Wyndraeth Humphreys Morris-Jones, A ... - 1982  343 pages ... mass over its constituent groups and units' ,38 usually orchestrated by a small elite of demagogic politicians. Aurobindo saw this in 'Fascist Italy and Soviet Russia' ...

Sri Aurobindo, the poet Radhey L. Varshney, Shashi Prabha - 1991 - 144 pages
"Joan of Arc heard heavenly voice, Aurobindo saw heavenly visions." Even when he was in the jail, in 1908, he had ineffable mystic experiences of 'Narayan Darshan'. He himself says: / looked at the jail that secluded me from men and it ...
Consciousness and creativity: a case study of Sri Aurobindo, T.S. ... Sumita Roy - 1991 - 200 pages
But, in harmony with his cosmic views of human evolution, Sri Aurobindo saw the Indian freedom struggle in its wider, transcending significance. He saw it as instinct with several seminal issues relating to ends and means and the ...
Lord of the Air: Tales of a Modern Antichrist Tal Brooke - 1990 - 381 pages
Aurobindo saw it as "the
ocean of Being" willing itself into birth, coming as an avatar. Aurobindo was the perfect herald for this cosmic event for he was universally accepted across India as having reached cosmic consciousness, ...
How they came to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: twenty-nine true ... Shyam Kumari - 1990 - 257 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw a divine inspiration behind the move and, with his inner gaze which could penetrate the future, found that from both the international and national angles the proposals were advantageous and should be accepted by India ...
Hinduism with a human face Madhuri Sondhi - 1990 - 199 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw in his Yoga the justification of the "cosmic labour towards love and joy in our humanity." A genuine dialogue is taking shape between various Hindu denominations and between Hinduism and other Indie religions which ...
Indian theories of language, a literary approach Rama Nair - 1990 - 188 pages
The nature of this seed is described as the "Divine Word", the process by which God gives life and identity to each object by naming it. The language of the Vedas is as Aurobindo saw it, "rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, ...
Philosophy and religion: essays in interpretation Jarava Lal Mehta, Indian Council of ... - 1990 - 292 pages
We need not question that claim, but it is important to note that Aurobindo saw himself as satisfying in and to see its 'theological' implications. As the editors note, 'he never wrote any comprehensive or systematic account of his life ...
Builders of the dawn: community lifestyles in a changing world Corinne McLaughlin, Gordon Davidson - 1990 - 372 pages
Aurobindo saw the community as a laboratory where each member must confront the "impossible point" in himself, the major problem in life which he has in common with a particular segment of the population (for example, arrogance or fear) ...
Gandhian Utopia: experiments with culture Richard Gabriel Fox - 1989 - 330 pages
As Aurobindo saw it, Kali was to serve as a symbol of the motherland and as a model for Bengali youth — and she did. By 1908, a terrorist campaign had started to protest the partition, ...
Yoga in Hindu scriptures H. Kumar Kaul - 1989 - 133 pages
He who through yoga becomes free from passion delights endlessly in yoga. The Yoga in Man In recent times, Sri Aurobindo saw a new vision and possibility of advance in spiritual life. He realised that it should and could be possible ...
The spirit of one earth: reflections on Teilhard de Chardin and ... Ursula King - 1989 - 198 pages
It is with this stress on the individual that Aurobindo saw the transformation of the future as the work of a few especially endowed individuals, the "gnostic beings," the supermen, who contribute to and bring about the descent of the ...
Love and death in Indian poetry in English S. N. A. Rizvi - 1989 - 190 pages
A thinker on the global and cosmic planes, Sri Aurobindo saw the human predicament all too clearly. Evolving towards something glorious, man has reached an impasse: all his efforts at self-betterment, to reaching the higher stages of ...
Sri Aurobindo, a brief biography Peter Heehs - 1989 - 172 pages
When the War broke out, Sri Aurobindo saw it as a reflection on the physical plane of the struggle between the forces of light and darkness that he and the Mother were engaged in on the spiritual level. Hitler's
Germany, he said, ...
The awakening earth: the global brain Peter Russell - 1988 - 228 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw evolution as the 'Divine Reality' expressing itself in ever higher forms of existence. Having passed from energy through matter and life to consciousness, evolution was now passing through the transformation from ...
Sri Aurobindo, a critical introduction Prema Nandakumar - 1988 - 116 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw that, notwithstanding the world-conflict, the trend of the times was clearly in the direction of internationalism: Even cosmopolitan habits of life are now not uncommon and there are a fair number of persons who are as ...
The Indian National Congress: centenary hindsights Donald Anthony Low - 1988 - 275 pages
Aurobindo saw India as having some exemplary role to play in spreading to the world the cult of the Mother goddess; ... Aurobindo saw in nationalism a new religion which would transcend social divisions; this is strikingly similar to ...
Understanding Indian history 1988 - 210 pages
"In the dark, naked, awesome figure of Kali, Aurobindo saw written the sad history of a century of exploitation."27 This was exactly what Bankim had taught the Bengalees to think — "Kali, smeared with darkness and gloom, robbed of all ...
The Indian National Congress and Indian society, 1885-1985: ... Paul R. Brass, Francis Robinson, Association ... - 1987 - 480 pages
Aurobindo saw the awakening of India as part of a divine plan and said that God was calling him to help liberate his country. He also believed as the earlier nativists had that
India had a special spiritual mission to fulfill in the ...
Universe: God, Science and the Human Person Adam Ford - 1987 - 228 pages
But whereas Teilhard imagined the further course of evolution to run through Christ and to follow an axis that lies through Rome and the sacramental system of Catholic Christianity, Aurobindo saw it emerging in communities of 'Knowing ...
Modern Indian responses to religious pluralism Harold G. Coward - 1987 - 340 pages
... in his letters he criticizes Vivekananda too for making seva, or service itself, into a universal requirement. No matter how essential it was to Vivekananda, Aurobindo saw this as making one relative side of truth absolute. ...
Aurobindo's philosophy of Brahman Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - 200 pages
... which was coming to a close in at once a more rational and a more "rule-bound" intelligence.92 Furthermore, it does not appear far-fetched to speculate thatAurobindo saw himself as a latter-day Vedic kavi, "seer-poet. ...
Political thought in modern India Thomas Pantham, Kenneth L. Deutsch - 1986 - 362 pages
Aurobindo saw this in 'Fascist Italy and Soviet Russia' alike,39 and in those states (like Britain and America) who claim to enjoy representative government 'legislators and administrators do not really represent their electors. ...
Perspectives on Indian poetry in English - Page 94 M. K. Naik - 1984 - 251 pages
Finally, the question of Internationalism, Sri Aurobindo saw that, notwithstanding the world-conflict, the trend of the times was clearly in the direction of internationalism: Even cosmopolitan habits of life are now not uncommon and ...
Savitri: a spiritual epic R. K. Singh - 1984 - 164 pages
... Sri Aurobindo saw the necessity of assimilation and acceptance of all those Western ideas, knowledge, powers and other influences that were assimilable or acceptable so that a new enriched India could rise, expressing itself from ...
Sri Aurobindo: archives and research Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust - 1983
Sri Aurobindo saw Ranade at this time, his only contact; Ranade advised him to take some special subject and write about [it], he recommended Jail Reform, perhaps thinking that this writer would soon have personal experience of jails ...
Buddhiyoga of the Gītā and other essays Anirvan - 1983 - 192 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw this and launched into the bold adventure of tackling the cosmic forces. He has been ridiculed and abused for this and often branded as a heretic. 'It is against God's plan' they said. 'No it is just making way for the ...
The Indian way John M. Koller - 1982 - 406 pages
In a similar way, both Gandhi and Aurobindo saw that merely changing the institutions of society does not go far enough. A transformation of human existence itself is required. Aurobindo put it this way: We do not believe that by ...
Indian idea of freedom: political thought of Swami Vivekananda, ... Dennis Dalton - 1982 - 227 pages
Aurobindo insisted, like Vivekananda, and unlike Tilak, that freedom or swaraj represented much more than a change in political systems;44 but unlike Vivekananda, Aurobindo saw in the Nation an entity that possessed its own divinity ...
Religion and the One: philosophies East and West Frederick Charles Copleston - 1982 - 281 pages
Thus Sri Aurobindo saw the world as the self-expression of infinite Spirit, as though Brahman or the Absolute descended, as it were, into matter. In the process of evolution, however, the world ascends in the direction of spirit, ...
Introducing Savitri Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1982 - 79 pages
This, in short, is the legend of Savitri narrated in the mythology of
India, in a number of versions with minor variations, to emphasise the power of chastity. Sri Aurobindo saw something more in the legend. ...
Sri Aurobindo, his life unique Rishabhchand - 1981 - 427 pages
... of Sri Aurobindo's pen, was supposed to have been written by Rammohan Roy, who, it seems, used Sri Aurobindo's hand in a sort of automatic writing. For, when it was being written, Sri Aurobindo saw the spirit of Rammohan Roy in the room. To return to our subject. During his visits to
Bengal, Sri Aurobindo had inspired Barin with the spirit of patriotism, and the latter's stay at ...
The spirituality of the future: a search apropos of R. C. ... - Page 278 Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1981 - 314 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw it coming, as he kept holding out always to his fellow men "the hope of the kingdom of heaven within us and the city of
God upon earth."17 Zaehner, in his study in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard, returns again and again ...
Dante and Sri Aurobindo: a comparative study of The divine comedy ... Prema Nandakumar - 1981 - 160 pages
... unifying Love, Sri Aurobindo saw in the Mother Savitri with her sovereign redeeming Power of Love. It is a subject that we cannot pursue closely as yet, for the full facts are not known about the spiritual collaboration between the ...
Savitri unveiled: a selection Aurobindo Ghose, Syed Mehdi Imam - 1980 - 144 pages
In the realisation of the Yoga Sri Aurobindo saw that the main constituents of our being, our Body, our Mind, our Life were asleep in a world of nescience. He also discovered in the depths of our being that the Light of God was secretly ...
Arut perum jothi and deathless body: a comparative study of Swami ... T. R. Thulasiram - 1980
... who have reached a certain realisation here in the physical world that world give them the power of materialising a supramental being. ..he (Sri Aurobindo) saw the thing as I did, that is to say, there is a power which one has not, the power to fix the form here on the earth. ...
Toward wholeness: Rudolf Steiner education in America - Page 37 Mary Caroline Richards - 1980 - 210 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw it. The American Indians saw it. The African Bushmen saw it. Rudolf Steiner was personally called to a perspective that lives in the tradition of concern for the physical world as the fabric of soul and spirit. ...
Realization of God according to Sri Aurobindo: a study of a ... George Nedumpalakunnel - 1979 - 308 pages
... incident: "In his further development in yoga Sri Aurobindo saw that all the OH., pp. 101-102. The last bracketed sentence in the quotation is my insertion of Aurobindo's own foot-note to the terra illusion. Cf. Ibid., pp., 101; ...
Nolini: Arjuna of our age Nolini Kanta Gupta, V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1979 - 239 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw that "ignorance transmuted becomes Light that leaps beyond wisdom and knowledge ".i4 The Omnipresent Reality has provided avenues of escape from the prison of ego-consciousness, from this ignorance in man. ...
The future of man according to Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo Ghose J. Chetany - 1978 - 500 pages
... handle and perceive, cannot just grasp such a vision of reality. For only certain intuition can give such a vision. And Aurobindo was in fact blessed with such a mystic and cosmic vision. In his mystical vision, Aurobindo saw the ...
c : Evolution According to Teilhard and Aurobindo Both Teilhard and Aurobindo 'saw' that the entire cosmos is in the process of evolution. This macrocosmic process is well reflected in the microcosmic man. They were wonderstruck at this...
Sri Aurobindo, the perfect and the good Robert Neil Minor - 1978 - 191 pages
Thus Aurobindo saw 
India as an avatara or "descent," of the Divine for the purpose of the salvation of mankind.72 The concept of the avatara is an ancient one in the religions of India. It is most commonly associated with the god Vishnu ...
Eastern definitions: a short encyclopedia of religions of the Orient Edward Rice - 1978 - 433 pages
In return, Aurobindo saw his partner in a similar light. "The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Consciousness Force that dominates all existence. . . . The Mother comes to bring down the Supramental and it is the descent ...
Science and society: a perspective on the frontiers of science policy John K. Pulparampil - 1978 - 209 pages
... Christianity are "the only possible alternatives, before mankind— the three religions of modern man". But they disagreed too. While Aurobindo saw the salvation of the world in the marriage between Marxism and Vedanta, Teilhard saw it in the marriage between Marxism and Christianity. But here too they ultimately agreed in that each envisaged the salvation of ...
Vande Mataram: the song perennial Amarendra Laxman Gadgil - 1978 - 180 pages
... in the form of Motherland (
India) and Aurobindo saw Motherland as Kali (Durga) through the song Vande Mataram. Rabindranath Tagore, while assessing the work of ...
Triveni 1978
But scholars like Dayananda Saraswati and Sri Aurobindo saw light and realisation in the hymns of the Veda. At all such attempts, need of the times and the society warranted convenient interpretation of the Vedic texts. ...
Mother, or, The divine materialism Satprem - 1977 - 446 pages
But Sri Aurobindo saw so much farther, deeper, beyond his person: this Supramental had to be established: The descent of the supra- mental means only that the Power will be there in the earth- consciousness as a living force just as the
The quest for political and spiritual liberation: a study in the ... June O'Connor - 1977 - 153 pages
Though Aurobindo saw the tax boycott to be the strongest form of passive resistance, he felt that unlike political boycott it would be impractical, due to the legal reprisals it necessarily precipitates. See "Doctrine of Passive ...
Sri Aurobindo's world-vision K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1976 - 34 pages
During his first years of intense Yoga at Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo saw with lucid clarity and certainty the evolutionary movement from Mind to Supermind — " a step in evolution ",. as he called it in his Independence Day message, ...
The Hindu personality in education: Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo William Cenkner - 1976 - 230 pages
From his Calcutta days Aurobindo saw the necessity for a new spiritual centre : "It is necessary to create a centre of thought and knowledge which will revolutionize the brain of the nation to as great an extent as its character and ...
When two great hearts meet Edward De Meulder - 1976 - 246 pages
As he looked at this, Sri Aurobindo saw: distinctly, unmistakably, familiar, the face, arms, figure of Lord Krisna. 'I looked at the jail that secluded me from men and it was no longer by its high walls that I was imprisoned; no, ...
India rediscovered Giriraj Shah - 1975 - 153 pages
Aurobindo saw in this awakening the message of a new dawn. The early harbingers of this dawn were Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Maharshi Debendranath Tagore. ...
Dawn to greater dawn: six lectures on Sri Aurobindo's Savitri K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1975 - 126 pages
But true Love is the Rose of God — for it involves also Bliss, Light, Power and Life — and Sri Aurobindo saw Savitri as "the image of the whole", the embodiment of total love and the wielder of the total power of such love ("Love in her ...
Tryst with the divine K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1974 - 48 pages
... Sri Aurobindo saw in her an emanation of the Divine Mother he had worshipped since his
Baroda days. Their parallel spiritual quests were to join forces now, and it was, ...
Sarojini, the poetess Rameshwar Gupta - 1975 - 142 pages
As if, if 'roses' brought one back to life, it was hallucination, and if any Wordsworth or Blake or Whitman or Aurobindo saw anything beyond intellect, it was 'dishonourable'. One should know that roses renovate, and most times ... Osmania journal of English studies
Osmania University. Dept. of English - 1980
The extremist movement in India J. N. Vajpeyi - 1974 - 378 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw the germs of passive resistance in it. Thus the boycott came to be used as a political weapon. Tilak asked the people, "If you have not the power of active resistance, have you not the power of self-denial and ...
The religious roots of Indian nationalism: Aurobindo's early ... David L. Johnson - 1974 - 128 pages
The clearest expression of political vedanta Aurobindo saw to be boycott — the "assertion of our independence." Boycott as an act of passive resistance was initiated first on
August 7, 1905, as a protest against the partitioning of ...
Repentant revolutionary: autobiography of Nagendranath Sen Gupta Nagendranath Sen Gupta - 1974 - 196 pages
The time was ripe or very nearly so in 1942, and those who had the right spiritual vision, most notably Sri Aurobindo, saw this clearly. Our political leaders of different camps acted with the greatest caution, but all played into the ...

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