October 08, 2010

Sri Aurobindo is like a mighty river

Sri Aurobindo and Freedom Movement Savita Ahuja, Lecturer in English, PMN College, Rajpura, India
Research paper presented in partial fulfilment of condition for submission of Doctoral thesis to Singhania University. International Journal of Educational Administration. ISSN 0976-5883 Volume 2, Number 2, (2010), pp. 191-193 © Research India Publications http://www.ripublication.com/ijea.htm
Sri Aurobindo is like a mighty river. His vision and genius have left indelible imprint on millions of Indians ... Sri Aurobindo moved in and out of Baroda frequently to organize political activities and resistance movement against the British. ...

From World Religions, Vol. 2 The Avatar: Hinduism's Christ By Dr. Young Oon Kim Those who criticize Hinduism for being other-worldly, life- negating and blind to the need for social reconstruction probably have never read the books of Aurobindo, one of modern India's two most celebrated philosophers of religion. …
Aurobindo sees man approaching a third stage of his evolutionary development. We have moved beyond the instinctive to the rational, but must now step higher to the "supermental." Man is at present ready to develop a spiritual, supra-intellectual, intuitive outlook - "a gnostic consciousness." He must exceed himself, divinize his whole being, become a superman.
Only a spiritualised society can bring about the crucial harmony between individual and communal happiness. Using familiar Christian language, Aurobindo calls for "a new kind of theoc- racy, the kingdom of God upon earth, a theocracy which shall be the government of mankind by the Divine in the hearts and minds of men. For such a new age the superman must live in the free light of the intellect, and breathe the fresh air of higher ideals. The age to come requires wide intellectual curiosity, a cultivated aesthetic taste and an enlightened will. Aurobindo carefully distinguished between what he hoped for and the ordinary Christian hope for the coming kingdom.

Sri Aurobindo describes the flow of conscious awareness and the role of memory as follows: “There is then in me this flowing stream of the world-sea, and anger or grief or any other inner movement can occur as a long-continued wave of ...

In 1914, she met Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry and recognized him as the guide she had seen in her visions ten years ago. She was already an advanced spiritual practitioner at the time and naturally assumed that she would stay in ...

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