Sunday, July 04, 2010

Nehru ended up on the same wavelength as Sri Aurobindo

Mira to Mother - Page 53 Udhaya Kumar - 2004 - 164 pages
Richard knew perfectly well who Mira was, but he demanded that she would not take Sri Aurobindo as her Lord, that she would take himself instead. His outbursts of frustration and anger became so violent that at times he threw the ...
Between heaven and hell: travels through Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, ... Akhil Bakshi - 2004 - 556 pages
Mirra was given the title of The Mother, and was accepted by Sri Aurobindo as his equal. Aurobindo was the spiritual heavyweight. The Mother had the political and administrative clout. And together they built their heaven in
Pondicherry. ...
Philosophy and religion: essays in interpretation Jarava Lal Mehta - 2004 - 292 pages
Aurobindo's house was gradually changing into an ashrama and when the Mother took charge of the management the number of inmates was about six, withAurobindo as the Master of Yoga and Guru. Early in 1926, he entrusted the ashrama to ...
Tagores Chitra And Aurobindos Savitri : A Comparative Study - Page 30 Ketki N. Pandya - 2004 - 176 pages
Even if we consider Aurobindo as a poet and a critic of poetry, he would still rank among the Supreme masters of our time. Savitri makes man's life intelligible in the cosmos, shows Love as Power wedded to Grace, demonstrates the ...
Poetic plays of Sri Aurobindo - Page 180 Bimal Narayan Thakur - 2004 - 199 pages
The greatness of Sri Aurobindo as an artist lies in the fact that they are also artistically significant. We know the circumstances under which it was not possible to stage the plays. There was not only the absence of a proper stage and ...
Feminism, censorship and other essays - Page 30 Kaushal Kishore Sharma - 2003 - 138 pages
A poet of soul is the creator of spiritual joy, "Ananda", and not mere sensuous, intellectual or imaginative delight. True to his belief and theory, Sri Aurobindo as a poet gets poetic inspiration mainly from above his head. ...
Indian critiques of Gandhi Harold G. Coward - 2003 - 287 pages
Though others might prefer to picture Aurobindo as a devotee of nonviolence and might want to turn him into a Gandhian, he would have to correct their misunderstanding throughout his life. For example: There seems to be put forth here ...
The flight and the glide Ghunsiam Jhuboo - 2003 - 121 pages
The "Arya" magazine catapulted Sri Aurobindo as one of the greatest sages of
India of all times. There was no subject which did not interest him and the world at large must have looked with awe and wonder at the extraordinary, ...
Quest for self-fulfilment in the novels of Anita Desai Neeru Chakravertty - 2003 - 249 pages
Interestingly, Mira Alfassa who became the Mother at Sri Aurobindo ashram at
Pondicherry in 1926, identified the Divine Consciousness as Krishna since her childhood in Paris and identified Sri Aurobindo as Krishna in her first meeting ...
Patterns of the present: from the perspective of Sri Aurobindo and ... Georges van Vrekhem - 2002 - 238 pages
That the Second World War was intended to countermand the mission of the Avatar has been stated explicitly by Sri Aurobindo as well as by the Mother. "I affirm again to you most strongly that this is the Mother's war", ...
The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 488 Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - 568 pages
... you must know the highest before you can truly understand the lowest."27 Jeffrey Kripal meaningfully comments upon this quotation of Sri Aurobindo as follows: "Little better is Aurobindo's comment that psychoanalysis is ...
Indian religions: the spiritual traditions of South Asia : an ... - Page 456 Peter Heehs - 2002 - 620 pages
Sri Aurobindo (as he was called after 1926) spent the last years of his life working on a symbolic epic poem, Savitri. He died of kidney failure in 1950. The writings of Sri Aurobindo are extensive and diverse. His Life Divine presents ...
Analecta Husserliana Anna Teresa Tymeiniecka - 2002
This process is described by Wilber following philosophers such as Teilhard de Chardin, Jan Smuts, Jean Gebser, Arthur Koestler and Sri Aurobindo as a process unfolding hierarchically ever-higher wholes, inclusive, ...
Bengalis: The People, Their History and Culture - Page 274 S.N. Das - 2002 - 284 pages
Like Agastya, Sri Aurobindo, as if to perpetuate the tradition and link the present and the future with the past, did not go back. Another great common point between the two was their acceptance of Matter for its ultimate divinisation. ...
Sri Aurobindo, thinker and the yogi of the future M. G. Umar - 2001 - 284 pages
The Mother recognised Sri Aurobindo as the same person who used to meet her in her dreams and whom she called
Krishna. After meeting Sri Aurobindo she wrote in her diary, It matters little that there are thousands of beings plunged in ...
Literature and culture Sachidananda Mohanty - 2001 - 232 pages
Both the groups, however, see Sri Aurobindo as conveniently closeted within the domain of the "spiritual. ... Thus, we think of Sri Aurobindo -as we think of the Buddha, Mahavira, Adi Shankara, Vivekananda, Ramakrishna and Ramana ...
The saffron swastika: the notion of "Hindu fascism" Koenraad Elst - 2001 - 1070 pages
... Jawaharlal Nehru remarked that Aurobindo had no business in politics anymore; but in a sense he ended up on the same wavelength as Aurobindo. As an outspoken admirer of the
Soviet Union, Nehru (along with the Communists) did support ...
Papers On Indian Writing In English : Poetry - Page 56 A.N. Dwivedi - 2001 - 264 pages
Eyebrows have been raised against Sri Aurobindo as a poet. It is asked whether he is a poet or yogi primarily, ... This famous English weekly praised Sri Aurobindo as the prose-writer; but criticized him as a poet, saying, "It cannot be ...
Indian English literature: a new perspective - Page 171 Gajendra Kumar - 2001 - 172 pages
critically examines the objective facts of Sri Aurobindo and suggests: "Sri Aurobindo as a colonial critic, an enterprising intellectual belonging to a demoralized, amnesiac society desperately trying to revive a culture almost gone to...
Ways of understanding the human past: mythic, epic, scientific, ... Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya, Project of History ... - 2001 - 164 pages
... philosophical technicalities are, at best, a means to an end, namely, the liberation of a man's mind, so that he can face the truly profound and significant issues dealt with by writers like Tolstoy and Tagore.16 Sri Aurobindo, as I ...
On "Savitri" Nolini Kanta Gupta - 2001 - 38 pages
"God's Debt" is a most lucid exposition of a concept repeatedly made use of in the poem by Sri Aurobindo, as for example in the line: "A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme". (Savitri, p. 67) "The Human Divine" elucidates another ...
Indian Political Thought - Page 274 Urmila Sharma, S.K. Sharma - 2001 - 416 pages
Sri Aurobindo, as we have already shown, neglects the discussion of social, economic and industrial institutions. This makes his social philosophy less thorough and practical and more one-sided and inadequate from the academic point of ...
The other perennial philosophy: a metaphysical dialectic Alan M. Laibelman - 2000 - 431 pages
... to whether the avenue of approach is necessarily collective or individual. The dispute here is between the assertion of Satprem, a doctrinal disciple of Sri Aurobindo, as stated at the end of chapter two, that "the progress of the ...
A critical survey of Indian philosophy - Page 383 Chandradhar Sharma - 2000 - 415 pages
2 Evolution according to S'ri Aurobindo, as Dr. SK Maitra explains, 'is a widening, a heightening and an integration.' 'Evolution is an ascent from a less manifest condition of the Consciousness-Force to a more manifest condition. ...
The Indian imagination: critical essays on Indian writing in English - Page 71 K. D. Verma - 2000 - 268 pages
Evidently, Aurobindo as a theorist of literature has firmly and clearly laid down the criteria for future poetry: the deepest, the most intense "vision of truth" remains the only justifiable criterion of ascertaining the quality of ...
Contemporary religious movement in India: vis-a-vis Ramakrishna ... Ananda - 2000 - 349 pages
In the same manner, Sri Aurobindo as well as the origin of the Aurobindo Movement can be traced back to the Brahmo background. Sri Aurobindo came from a family where Brahmo atmosphere prevailed: the families of both his parents were...
Arise again, ô India! François Gautier - 2000 - 184 pages
But if the Moderates dismissed Sri Aurobindo as a "mystic," Lord Minto, then Viceroy of India, made no such mistake, calling him, "the most dangerous man we have to deal with at present." Thus Sri Aurobindo was arrested on
May 2nd 1908, ...
Students' Britannica India - Page 129 Britannica, Dale Hoiberg, Indu Ramchandani - 2000
The years from 1902 to 1910 were stormy ones for Aurobindo as he embarked on a course of action to free
India from the British Raj (rule). As a result of his political activities and revolutionary literary efforts, he was imprisoned in ...
Integral health: a consciousness approach to health & healing Soumitra Basu, Sri Aurobindo International ... - 2000 - 147 pages
In spite of his scientific acumen, man is subject to his interests, needs, instincts, passions, desires, prejudices, superstitions, taboos, traditional ideas and opinions — a condition described by Sri Aurobindo as the irrationality of ...
How I became a Hindu: my discovery of Vedic dharma David Frawley - 2000 - 208 pages
He has continued to pass on special teachings over the years, not only from Ganapati but also from Ramana and from Sri Aurobindo, as he remains in contact with both ashrams. Ganapati came to me through Natesan and became a personal...

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