July 18, 2010

Sri Aurobindo saw no contradiction between revolution and spiritual practice

Heart Yoga: The Sacred Marriage of Yoga and Mysticism - Page 29 Andrew Harvey, Karuna Erickson - 2010 - 288 pages
The Vedic Rishis and Aurobindo saw that this solar energy of the Day and sun-world is the fundamental energy of evolution. When we work with it consciously, as Heart Yoga supports, we co-create with the Divine the new level of strength, ...
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism - Page 529 Peter Marshall - 2010 - 800 pages
Although Aurobindo saw the Nation-State as a progressive stage in human history after the collapse of empires, in his study The Ideal of Human Unity (1918) he described that entity as a mechanical, constricting and uniform structure ...
Victorian vulgarity: taste in verbal and visual culture - Page 235 Susan David Bernstein, Elsie Browning Michie - 2009 - 259 pages
Industry can only become again beautiful if poverty and the struggle for life are eliminated from society....29 Aurobindo saw commerce as providing an economic base necessary to sustain the arts and envisioned a unity of economics, ...
Thoughts from the Cosmic Field in the Life of a Thinking Insect [A ... - Page 167 Haresh Patel - 2009 - 396 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw to it that by reciting that passage she would spiritually benefit. The passage which I had asked her to recite was a record of the way in which her noble father, Maulana Saheb, was led spiritually for his mission in ...
Humanitarian identity and the political sublime: intervention of a ... Ashmita Khasnabish - 2009 - 167 pages - The lives of Sri Aurobindo Peter Heehs - 2008  496 pages The Rainbow bridge: a comparative study of Tagore and Sri Aurobindo Goutam Ghosal - 2007 - 235 pages - A Walk With Four Spiritual Guides: Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, And ... Andrew Harvey - 2005 - 168 pages - The splendours and dimensions of yoga R. S. Bajpai - 2002 - 743 pages
Ontology of consciousness: percipient action Helmut Wautischer - 2008 - 638 pages
In chapter 13, Matthijs Cornelissen reminds his readers that Sri Aurobindo sawevolution primarily as an ongoing evolution of consciousness, holding that the human mind represents much too imperfect a type of consciousness to be the ...
The Russo-Japanese war in global perspective: World War Zero - Page 397 David Wolff, Steven G. Marks, John W ... - 2007 - 583 pages
This is what we have to do with the modern ideal of patriotism in India. Aurobindo saw a relationship between the traditions of self-denial and self-discipline in both Indian and Japanese cultures, and placed India with its Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic heritage at the center of the anti-colonial Pan-Asian ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2007
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India was denied India's nationhood. This was unfortunate, if not calamitous. Today to speak of it is blasphemy. Sri Aurobindo saw the necessity of the freedom of India differently. For him India was not an inert piece of matter. ...
Encyclopaedia of Indian literature Ravi Narayan Pandey - 2007
It was there Sri Aurobindo saw the convicts, jailers, policemen, the prison bars, the trees, the judge, the lawyer, etc., in the experience and realisation of Vasudeva, a form of Vishnu. Sri Aurobindo was even able to see compassion, ...
India's freedom movement: legacy of Bipin Chandra Pal Binay Bhattacharya, Bipin Chandra Pal Memorial ... - 2007 - 271 pages
He asked Sir Aurobindo to join him in this venture to which a ready consent was given, for now Sri Aurobindo saw his opportunity for starting the public propaganda necessary for ...
The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature (Volume Two) (Devraj To Jyoti) - Page 1333 Amaresh Datta - 2006 - 914 pages
'Aesthesis', as Sri Aurobindo saw it, comprises the rasa or quintessential taste of an experience, its enjoyment or bhoga, the arising from there to a sheer ananda or delight of existence. A pure spiritual ease and acceptance, ...
Four Faces of the Universe: An Integrated View of the Cosmos - Page 273 Robert Kleinman - 2006 - 334 pages
... came to claim the soul of her husband, her courage and devotion compelled him to release it. Sri Aurobindo saw in this legend a symbol of divine involvement in the process of world evolution. ...
Yoga and the Sacred Fire: Self-Realization and Planetary ... - Page 236 David Frawley - 2006 - 291 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw in her the advent of the Divine will-power or Shakti necessary for such a Planetary Yoga to occur. The Mother's presence, which I have also felt on many occasions, remains in the world to facilitate this process, ...
The footfalls on time Sivanandini Duraiswamy - 2006 - 261 pages
... mantram leading them nearer God and guiding us on the same path. They are indeed the pioneers marching along the vanguard of human progress with a cheer in their hearts and a joy in their eyes. Sri Aurobindo saw these mystics as ...
Decolonizing international relations - Page 198 Branwen Gruffydd Jones - 2006 - 275 pages
His preference was for a loose confederation of humankind that preserved the diversity of peoples and nations as against a centralized world state that would encourage uniformity. From this standpoint, Sri Aurobindo saw the League of ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2006
If we suppose the energies of the Vijnana to be still besieging the mind of the world, as Sri Aurobindo saw early in the last century, we may assume that they are working for this "greater plan". Sri Aurobindo expressed a qualified ...
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Indian Freedom Struggle: Subhas ... Ratna Ghosh - 2006
Sri Aurobindo saw that "Cripps had come 'on the wave of a great inspiration' and it was incumbent on the Congress to make the right response." But the Congress leaders 'rejected the advice.' A section of the Congress leaders could ...
Nationalism, religion, and beyond: writings on politics, society, ... Aurobindo Ghose, Peter Heehs - 2005 - 364 pages
In some of these works Aurobindo reconsidered the idea of the nation-soul. He took it as a rule that a sense of group- distinctiveness was bound to emerge during a certain phase of social evolution, which he (following the German ...
This was, as Aurobindo saw it, the main cultural issue in the second decade of the century (selection 67). If Indians stopped defending their culture, it might be swept away. But for the defence to be effective, it had to be active, ...
Sri Aurobindo - Page 38 Purnima Majumdar - 2005 - 122 pages
That time, Aurobindo saw himself, the miracle and felt the usefulness of Yoga. ...
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Reflections From Shillong: Speeches Of M.M. Jacob - Page 84 David R. Syiemlieh - 2005 - 258 pages
... in the coming of the superman and the supramental human society on global scale, and this would unfold as realization (yoga) of a vast global or cosmic dream which Sri Aurobindo saw as consisting of five stages: 1. ...
Musings on Indian Writing in English: Poetry - Page 86 Natesan Sharda Iyer - 2005 - 286 pages
A thinker on the global and cosmic planes Aurobindo saw the human predicament all too clearly. Evolving towards something glorious man has reached an impasse, all his efforts at self betterment in reaching the higher stages of evolution ...
The Gospel of Thomas - Page xxv Stevan L. Davies - 2004 - 118 pages
... transform this world by a group of seekers who allowed their whole beings—psychological, spiritual, and physical—to become increasingly transfigured by the living light? The greatest of all modern philosophers—Sri Aurobindo—saw that ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2004
Sri Aurobindo saw that the challenges of the present evolutionary crisis can be met only by an integral Yoga encompassing the totality of our complex nature. He found the various traditional methods too specialised for this purpose. ...
Philosophy and religion: essays in interpretation Jarava Lal Mehta - 2004 - 292 pages
We need not question that claim, but it is important to note that Aurobindo sawhimself as satisfying in and to see its 'theological' implications. As the editors note, 'he never wrote any comprehensive or systematic account of his life ...
The deeper dimension of Yoga: theory and practice Georg Feuerstein - 2003 - 415 pages
He combined in himself the rare qualities of an original philosopher and those of a mystic and sage. Aurobindo saw in all past forms of Yoga an attempt to transcend the ordinary person's enmeshment in the external world by means of ...
Glory Of Indian Culture - Page 39 Giriraj Shah Satya Pal Ruhela - 2003 - 152 pages
Aurobindo saw in this awakening the message of a new dawn. The early harbingers of this dawn were Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Maharishi Debendranath Tagore. They founded Brahmo Samaj which spearheaded the process of religious ...
The Indian historical review Indian Council of Historical Research - 2003
He asked Sri Aurobindo to join him in this venture to which a ready consent was given, for now Sri Aurobindo saw his opportunity for starting the public propaganda necessary for his revolutionary purpose. He called a meeting of the ...
Indian critiques of Gandhi - Page 101 Harold G. Coward - 2003 - 287 pages
... to be approached only afterwards, when particularization is complete, and through the sum of particulars.
This exclusiveness is the very soul of Ignorance. (18:487) Hence, positions that did not recognize what Aurobindo saw, were limited, one-sided, egoistic. They were effectively hindering the Divine plan of the universe. ...
Knowledge, consciousness and religious conversion in Lonergan and ... - Page 299 Michael T. McLaughlin - 2003 - 318 pages
There is no eschatological finality; there are merely cycles of the Divine activity. Psychoanalysis and Religious Conversion Aurobindo saw psychoanalysis as focusing only on the "vital" plane of our being and believed his yoga opened us ...
Netaji Subhas confronted the Indian ethos, 1900-1921: Yogi Sri ... - Page 174 Adwaita P. Ganguly - 2003 - 224 pages
He asked Sri Aurobindo to join him in this venture to which a ready consent given, for now Sri Aurobindo saw his opportunity for starting the public propaganda necessary for his revolutionary purpose. He called a meeting of the forward ...
Hindutva: exploring the idea of Hindu nationalism Jyotirmaya Sharma - 2003 - 205 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw him as someone who had 'the daring conception to build on what his penetrating glance perceived in it a whole education of youth, a whole manhood and a whole nationhood'. What did ...
Awakening: an introduction to the history of Eastern thought Patrick Bresnan - 2003 - 422 pages
Aurobindo saw evolution as proceeding through stages. Humankind is a stage that is advanced over what came before, but it is the destiny of humanity (or at least some part of it) to ascend to the next stage of perfection, ...
The Indian historical review Indian Council of Historical Research - 2003
He asked Sri Aurobindo to join him in this venture to which a ready consent was given, for now Sri Aurobindo saw his opportunity for starting the public propaganda necessary for his revolutionary purpose. He called a meeting of the ...
Swami Vivekananda: messiah of resurgent India - Page 321 P. R. Bhuyan - 2003 - 389 pages
Like Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo wanted Indian freedom from British imperialism and like him also in the freedom of India Aurobindo saw the hopes of freedom of the entire world. As he said, "
India awakes not for herself but for the ...
The flight and the glide Ghunsiam Jhuboo - 2003 - 121 pages
Munshi made the following remarks in 1951: Sri Aurobindo " saw into the heart of things ... His perception of the political situation in India was always unerring ... to-day we realise that if the first proposal had been accepted, ...
Religion and the One: philosophies East and West - Page 236 Frederick Charles Copleston - 2002 - 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, ...
Patterns of the present: from the perspective of Sri Aurobindo and ... Georges van Vrekhem - 2002 - 238 pages
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother knew that the Mind could not remain the dominant principle of humanity and that it would be surpassed. Sri Aurobindo saw the first signs of this at the time he was writing the Arya, ie during and just ...
Gospel of Thomas annotated and explained - Page xix Stevan L. Davies, Andrew Harvey - 2002 - 141 pages
... their whole beings— psychological, spiritual, and physical—to become increasingly transfigured by the living light? The greatest of all modern philosophers—Sri Aurobindo—saw that only an “integral” transformation could provide the ...
Encyclopaedia of Sociology of Politics - Page 301 K. Motwani, R.D. Saksena - 2002 - 1100 pages
Aurobindo saw this in 'Fascist Italy and Soviet Russia' alike, and in those states (like Britain and America) who claim to enjoy representative government 'legislators and administrators do not really represent their electors. ...
The Sociology of Indian Politics - Page 301 R. Motwani, R.D. Sakxena - 2002 - 320 pages
The Splendours And Dimensions Of Yoga 2 Vols. Set - Page 102 R.S. Bajpai - 2002 - 756 pages
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 for the human race as such to rise to a new and a higher status of living, a supramental ...
Mirapuri - Page 49 Michel Montecrossa - 2002 - 425 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw this identity and established Mira Alfassa according to her spiritual stature in the realisation of the Integral Yoga as The Mother. It is the almost superhuman self-sacrifice of The Mother that made it possible for ...
Immortal Paradigms: Sri Aurbindo Home-Coming Centenary Volume - Page 68 Charu Sheel Singh - 2002 - 264 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw a symbol of new values in the ancient story of Satyavan-Savitri. When many of his contemporaries were disgusted with the systems of their time and turning to various schools of religion, philosophy, and politics, ...
The Journal of transpersonal psychology 2002
Likewise for certain philosophers: Plato, of course, saw us living in the darkness of a cave; Hegel and Schelling described our usual condition as alienated; the Indian sage Aurobindo saw us constricted to the level of the concrete and ...
The Indian encyclopaedia: biographical, historical, religious, ... - Page 499 Subodh Kapoor - 2002 - 320 pages
Aurobindo saw him, obtained an appointment in the Baroda Service and left
England for India, arriving there in February, 1893. Sri Aurobindo passed thirteen years, from 1893 to 1906, in the Baroda Service, first in the Revenue ...
Srīla Prabhupāda-līlāmrta: a biography of His Divine Grace A.C. ... Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī - 2002 - 48 pages
He mentioned that Aurobindo saw visitors only once a year on his birthday. Although Prabhupada deemed this is not possible now, I asked him where he would like to go for some time to translate. He said New Vrindaban, and he said he ...
Healing the subcontinent: an indepth psychoanalysis of partition & ... M. L. Sondhi - 2002 - 322 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 ...
Literature and culture Sachidananda Mohanty - 2001 - 232 pages
Much before ethnicity became a watchword, Sri Aurobindo saw the crucial role that language, culture and ideology played in the collective domain. In his message to the And-
hra University in 1948, for instance, Sri Aurobindo spoke of ...
Subhas, a political biography Sitanshu Das - 2001 - 634 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw Indian society subsisting on an admirable scheme of decentralization. "It has been seen that the underlying principle of the Indian politico-social system was a synthesis of communal autonomies, the autonomy of the ...
A commentary on Sri Aurobindo's poem Ilion V. Murugesu - 2001 - 344 pages
Although the poem to all appearances seems unfinished the view can be taken that Sri Aurobindo saw nothing to add further to it. These thoughts will be elaborated later in the course of the study of the poem, in an Appendix. ...
Selected essays and talks of Nirodbaran Nirodbaran, Supriyo Bhattacharya - 2001 - 271 pages
1928 — Mother said this afternoon: When you were coming with the tray of fruit juice, Sri Aurobindo saw you coming through the shutters of the Meditation Hall and said, ...
Toward a global civilization?: the contribution of religions Patricia M. Mische, Melissa Merkling - 2001 - 427 pages
Aurobindo saw political unification as an essential middle step that could not be separated from, or skipped over in, the spiritual journey.16 Whether or not the different authors in this volume would identify with Maslow or Aurobindo, ...
The pearl beyond price: integration of personality into being : an ... A. H. Almaas - 2000 - 506 pages
Another Indian teacher and voluminous writer, Sri Aurobindo, saw the reality and value of the personal element. His universal, impersonal realization came first, but he was left with the feeling that "this cannot be it," that if oneness ...
Your Seven Energy Centers: A Holistic Approach to Physical, ... - Page 27 Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Patricia R. Spadaro - 2000 - 228 pages
The twentieth-century Indian spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo saw money as a resource that should be used to reconnect us with our Divine Source. He taught that it is not necessary to completely renounce all money, just as it is unhealthy ...
Journal of mental imagery 2000
Aurobindo saw the original sound in creation as generating the words of the Vedas, a vision which was still valid in the modern world because The word for the Vedic Rishi is still a living thing, a thing of power, creative, formative. ...
Kundalini for beginners - Page 163 Ravindra Kumar - 2000 - 329 pages
Thus, I saw It in the form of Devi (Mother Goddess); Swami Yogananda and Sri Aurobindo saw It as Lord Krishna; Dr. BS Goel saw it as Sai Baba.17 Saint Teresa of Avila saw It as Lord Jesus Christ.18 There are several other real life ...
Gurus and their followers: new religious reform movements in ... Antony R. H. Copley - 2000 - 235 pages
... led now by Aurobindo's brother, to attract men willing to engage in covert revolutionary activity. Aurobindo saw no contradiction between revolution and spiritual practice. Part of his reason for taking up yoga ...
The Mother: the story of her life George Van Vrekhem - 2000 - 545 pages
(Sri Aurobindo) The danger associated with the Indian National Congress, as Aurobindo saw it, was that it would perpetuate that situation and postpone any hope of self-rule and national dignity for decades to come, if not for ever. ...
Experiences of a pilgrim soul Cuttān̲anta Pāratiyār - 2000 - 556 pages
Sri Aurobindo saw his former student and impressed him with his message of "Spiritual Communion and Inner Transformation. ...
The emergence of Hindu nationalism in India John Zavos - 2000 - 245 pages
It sought to transform the 'mental frameworks' which middle class nationalists like Tilak and Aurobindo saw as holding key social classes in thrall to the enduring image of the colonial imperative. Boycott and swadeshi may be defined as ...
Surviving colonialism: a study of R.K. Narayan, Anita Desai, V.S. ... Chandra Chatterjee, Universitaire Instelling ... - 2000 - 215 pages
Jawaharlal Nehru was to later criticise middle class values; he said they infused decadent ideas into nationalism. But Aurobindo saw it as a reactionary force. He said that in the old stable Hindu society those ...
Makers of Indian English literature C. D. Narasimhaiah - 2000 - 292 pages
35 This is the kind of the rhythmic and creative self-expression the growing possibility of which Sri Aurobindo saw in the contemporary English poetry of his day. Most of his own later poetic outbursts constantly breathe of a 'Mantric' ...
The Vedanta kesari Sri Ramakrishna Math (Madras, India) - 2000
Sri Aurobindo saw him as having rare intuition, but who never entirely understood his own message.6 Taking the hypothesis a step further, if evolution was the momentum pushing mankind towards a betterment of its faculties, ...
The religious, the spiritual, and the secular: Auroville and ... - Page 28 Robert Neil Minor - 1999 - 208 pages
As integral, it must integrate everything and, therefore, could not be relegated merely to one portion of what Aurobindo saw as real. This is the closest Aurobindo came in his writings to a discussion of what might be conceived of as ...
Violence denied: violence, non-violence and the rationalization of ... - Page 329 Jan E. M. Houben, K. R. van Kooij - 1999 - 384 pages
Unlike many other modern interpreters of the Gita, Aurobindo saw no gross incongruity between the lofty philosophical and ethical doctrines of the Gita and its exhortation to perform the duty of a warrior and do battle with the enemy. ...
Indian modernity: contradictions, paradoxes and possibilities - Page 162 Avijit Pathak - 1998 - 243 pages
... let us see how Sri Aurobindo saw the presence of this spiritual ideal in Indian art. An Indian artist, according to Sri Aurobindo, is not bound to an imitation of nature; his goal is -to portray a spiritual and a psychic beauty. ...
A Hindu view of the world: essays in the intellectual kshatriya ... Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram - 1998 - 250 pages
Where Gandhi was prepared to compromise with his religious beliefs in order to meet political needs (like allowing cow-slaughter by Muslims though he wanted them protected) Sri Aurobindo saw spirituality as the foundation of India. ...
Glimpses of Vedantism in Sri Aurobindo's political thought Samar Basu, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1998 - 73 pages
He asked Sri Aurobindo to join him in this venture to which a ready consent was given; for now Sri Aurobindo saw his opportunity for starting the public propaganda necessary for his revolutionary purpose. He called a meeting of the ...
The quest for political and spiritual liberation: a study in the ... June O'Connor - 1977 - 153 pages
This became impossible and Aurobindo reconsidered the possibility of a home-rule movement that the government could not repress. Such a movement would clearly be a compromise to leaders such as Aurobindo, for whom the slogan "no ...

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