Monday, June 04, 2012

Sri Aurobindo described Madhusudan as high-spirited

Science, Spirituality And The Modernization Of India - Page 247 Makarand Paranjape - 2009 - 271 pages - from the entrenched culture of dynastic succession in Indian religions and politics. The integral education movement in Orissa embodies aspirations of a practical spirituality as it works with children, parent and society for a more ...
Reflections and mobilizations: dialogues with movements and ... - Page 310 Ananta Kumar Giri - 2005 - 436 pages - Integral Education Movement in Orissa and the Wider Environment of Influence and Interaction The actors of integral education movement of Orissa have a vibrant and emotionally inspiring link with Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry.
Conversations and transformations: toward a new ethics of self and ... - Page 74 Ananta Kumar Giri - 2002 - 347 pages - Perpetual wanderer that he is, Chittaranjan left Agra in the mid-70s and came back to Orissa to devote full time to the emergent movement of integral education in Orissa, inspired by the vision of Sri Aurobindo.
Early women's writings in Orissa, 1898-1950: a lost tradition - Page 127 Sachidananda Mohanty - 2005 - 241 pages - Seven crore cry out Our country in a chorus was the refrain on the tip of our tongue. The activity of Aurobindo came very much into discussion and inspired me. I began to have deep regard for him and tried to know more about him.
Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader Sachidananda Mohanty - 2012 - 180 pages - The old Bengal Presidency had already been split up and Orissa, Bihar and Assam are now self-governing regional peoples. A merger of the Hindi-speaking part of the Central Provinces and the UP would complete the process.
The Religious, the Spiritual, and the Secular: Auroville and ... - Page 80 Robert Neil Minor - 1999 - 208 pages - and his later "spiritual work" ("Fate had cut out Sri Aurobindo for a very different type of leadership. ... Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, the chief minister of the state of Orissa, and the chairman of the Sri Aurobindo Society, Navajata.
Encyclopaedia of Literature in English - Page 45 M K Bhatnagar - 2001 - Aurobindo, Sri — The Seer Poet (1872-1950) NK MISHRA Sri Aurobindo was born on August 15, 1872 in a highly cultured family in ... Panchayat College, Bargarh, Orissa.
Integral Education:thought & Practical - Page 623 R.N. Pani - Auro Mira School, Gangadhar Chetty Road, Ulsoor, Bangalore - 560 005. 27. Sri Aurobindo Integral School, At/PO : Addada, Via. Pedamaddali, Dist. Krishna, ANDHRA PRADESH - 521 390. B. LIST OF INTEGRAL SCHOOLS IN ORISSA 1
Sri Aurobindo and the new thought in Indian politics: Being a ... Aurobindo Ghose, Haridāsa Mukhopādhyāa, Uma Mukherjee - 1964 - 393 pages - Behar, Orissa, the Central Provinces, Gujerat, Sindh must take their place in the advancing surge ... It is for instance a cause for gratification that Orissa is beginning to feel its separate consciousness, and to attempt to grow into ...
If you really want to hear about it: writers on J.D. Salinger and ... - Page 216 Catherine Crawford - 2006 - 338 pages - Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa and Dr. BK Nanda, Department of English, Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, Orissa, India while revising the essay. Works Cited Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library Popular Edition, Vol.
The quest for music divine - Page xiii Suresh Chandra Dey - 1990 - 307 pages - Aurobindo Centre, New Delhi for inspiring me and helping me in various ways from time to time. ... music director Sri Radhakrishna Bhanja of Orissa, the famous vocal classical musician Smt. Sunanda Patnaik of Orissa, classical and ...
The dynamics of yoga: third series Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1978 - 164 pages - INTEGRAL EDUCATION SCHOOLS IN ORISSA Till the advent of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, you know, spiritual life was a very specialised department of life, and yoga was the technical part of it. This was generally open to those who ...
All India Conference on the Relevance of Sri Aurobindo Today, ... Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo Samiti, Aurobindo Ghose - 1975 - 106 pages - APPENDIX Sri Aurobindo Samiti The Nation celebrated the Birth Centenary of Sri Aurobindo in the year 1972. ... MEMBERS Sri AL Dias, Governor of West Bengal, Sm. Nandini Satpathy, Chief Minister, Chairman Orissa Sri Siddhartha Shankar ...
Sri Aurobindo Sisirkumar Mitra, Sisirkumar Mitra - 1972 - 215 pages - His generous character, sober devotion and loving heart charmed everyone,' said Sri Aurobindo. ... Jatin with four members of his party had gone to Balasore in Orissa to receive the cargo of arms and ammunition.
Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - 812 pages - In the nineteenth century, the 'Bengal' administration had included present-day West Bengal and East Bengal (Bangla Desh), and Bihar (including Chota Nagpur), Assam and Orissa. Even when Assam was formed (along with some Bengali border ...
Human rights and the law: universal and Indian - Page 338    Paras Diwan, Peeyushi Diwan - 1996 - 730 pages - It was asserted that Shri Aurobindo laid the foundation of a new religions and the Aurobindo Society represented a ... State of Orissa, AIR 1959 On 6; In Birakishoredev v. State of Orissa, AIR 1963 SC 1501, the question was left open.
Mother India: Volumes 37-38 Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1985 - While addressing a mammoth public meeting in Orissa just the day before, she in an emotional tone said: "Even if I die in the service of the ... In one of his aphorisms Sri Aurobindo says: "...Christ from his cross humanised Europe"1.
Tāntric art of Orissa - Page 214 Jitāmitra Prasāda Sihadeba - 2001 - 238 pages - Sri Aurobindo calls it Supermind or Supra- mental Consciousness. There is direct perception of Truth (Pratyakasa) or immediate knowledge through Samadhi. You know things by a flash. Professor Bergson preached about Intuition in France ...
Indian History - Page C-236 - Satish Chandra Bose and Pramathanath Mitra played a leading role in founding this society; Aurobindo Ghosh and Sister ... by the police in Balasore (Orissa) on September 9, 1915 put up a most heroic resistance before courting death.
The liberator Sri Aurobindo, India, and the world Sisirkumar Mitra - 1970 - 307 pages - We have it from Hemchandra that according to Sri Aurobindo's plan Bengal was to be divided into six centres each with sub-centres, ... Ganeshchandra worked among the Indian army personnel as well as among the princely order of Orissa.
Epic and purāic bibliography: up to 1985 - Page 379 Heinrich von Stietencron, P. Flamm - 1992 - 2116 pages - Aurobindo's philosophy is held to be characterized by a continuously running hidden dialogue« with Christianity; ... from Orissa [Engl.]. In: AA 47, 1 , 1 986, pp. 5 1 -66, 34 fig. ' Iconographic and archaeological study of Orissan ...
Life in Sri Aurobindo Ashram Narayan Prasad, Narayan Prasad - 1965 - 319 pages - It is a dynamic phase of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. All the sadhakas are one in the Mother; all meditate in the ... shall visit the Ashram again for a longer period after I settle down in Orissa. I shall be writing to you now and then.
The white woman's other burden: Western women and South Asia ... - Page 285 Kumari Jayawardena - 1995 - 310 pages - Mira Behn argued that "If things go on as they are going, the peasants of Orissa will garland the Japanese when they ... It marked, as Sarkar says, the beginning of "the metamorphosis of Aurobindo from revolutionary leader into mystic ...
Dharma and development: the future of survival Makarand R. Paranjape, Samvad India, Makarand R. Paranjape - 2005 - 329 pages - The first effort in integral education in Orissa began with the establishment of the Institute of Integral Education in the state capital of Bhubaneswar in 1970. This had the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education of the Sri ...
Outlook: Volume 49, Issues 8-16 2009 - Many of today's disciples of Sri Aurobindo and his companion, the Mother, would rather sweep this aspect of his life under the carpet. Thus, someone has slapped a court case against Heehs in Orissa, thereby stopping the book from being ...
Monthly public opinion surveys: Volume 17 Indian Institute of Public Opinion - 1971 - Later she became the Secretary of the Orissa Women's Relief Committee. In 1958, Mrs. Satpathy organised the Orissa ... And Mrs. Satpathy also believes is Sri Aurobindo's philosophy. In fact on the gate of her official residence hangs a ...
Indian Political Thought - Page 257 K.S. Padhy - Popularly known as 'Madhu Babu' or 'Madhu Barrister', he is rightly regarded as the 'pride of Orissa' and ... Aurobindo described Madhusudan as a high-spirited and very capable person who roused political consciousness in certain ...
Introduction to the Constitution of India - Page 105 Sharma, Sharma B.k. - 2007 - 436 pages - The Act taking over the management of Aurobindo Society was held valid because the Society and Auroville were not ... I51. Aziz Basha v. Union of India, AlR I968 SC 662. I52. Biro Kishore Deb v. State of Orissa, AlR 1964 SC l501.
Development and faith: where mind, heart, and soul work together: Part 489 - Page 254 Katherine Marshall, Marisa Bronwyn Van Saanen, World Bank - 2007 - 329 pages - not quantity,” Sai Baba says.15 The final case study explores the Integral Education movement in Orissa, India. ... The movement follows principles enunciated by Sri Aurobindo, who founded the first Integral Education center in 1970 ...
A window lived in a wall - Page 59 Vinoda Kumāra Śukla, Satti Khanna - 2006 - 231 pages - in Colonial Orissa The Legacy of Sailabala Das 1875-1968 Edited by Sachidananda Mohanty In this pioneering volume, ... and the first chapter of Anandamath by Sri Aurobindo, and excerpts from the authors ideas and speculations.
Guru English: South Asian Religion In A Cosmopolitan Language - Page 69 Srinivas Aravamudan - 2006 - 330 pages - In Khulna, he successfully tackled “the smallpox of piracy and the greater pox of Indigoism,” according to Aurobindo, but ultimately fell afoul of two English superiors, who had him transferred to Jajpur in Orissa, from where he was ...
  • Saturday, May 19, 2012

    Sri Aurobindo views the adventure of Consciousness as a threefold movement

    Metaphysical Realities in Psychology and Management: A Sacred Path ... - Page 44 Mithila Bihari Sharan - 2011 - 126 pages - This is the reason why Sri Aurobindo says to learn about Know Thyself first before knowing about others. The second important thing is: Do Karmas. For many of the Western researchers, human action is just a behaviour.
    Contemporary Indian philosophy - Page 202 Basant Kumar Lal - 2010 - 346 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo goes to the extent of saying that in a sense the stage of overmind is also a stage of Ignorance. Speaking in terms of evolution, this is the last stage in the lower hemisphere that mind can attain before taking ...
    Quantum Integral Medicine: Towards a New Science of Healing and ... - Page 128 Michael Wayne - 2005 - 230 pages - Preview Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2000: 79-80. 23. Kimura, Yasuhiko. "A philosopher of change." An interview by Carter Phipps. What is Enlightenment? No. 22 (Fall/Winter 2002): 28. 24. Hamilton, Craig. "Why Sri Aurobindo is cool.
    A critical response to Indian English literature - Page 49 N.K. Mishra, Sabita Tripathy - 2002 - 198 pages - Preview ... normally precipitates tragic conflict. It is the playwright's intention to draw the character of these people on a grand scale to suit the poetic mode. This could be a strong reason why Sri Aurobindo chooses to recast Corneille's ...
    The Bengalis: the people, their history, and culture. Bengali ... - Page 88 S.N.. Das - 2002 - 319 pages - Preview This is why Sri Aurobindo demanded complete political independence for India. He would not pitch his ideal "one inch lower than absolute Swaraj"5 because he believed that "to strive for anything less than a strong and glorious freedom ...
    Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's poetry, plays, and criticism - Page 4 Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - 147 pages - Full view That is why Sri Aurobindo says 'the small self is dead' and continues T am immortal'. It is also significant his saying I 'have grown nameless and immeasurable'. When this happens in spiritual sadhana, the mind is transcended and this ...
    Life Before Death - Page 158 Lawrence Meredith - 2000 - 272 pages - In one of the longer books ever written to tell us why, Sri Aurobindo articulates a winsome denial.382 It seems that the lust of the embodied self (in every individual creature) seeks to realize itself first by increasing growth and ...
    Powers Within - Page 47 Sri Aurobindo, the Mother - 1999 - 196 pages - Preview And that is why Sri Aurobindo says here that the true power for action cannot come until one has gone beyond the stage of willings, that is, until the motive of action is the result not of a mere mental activity but of true knowledge.
    Martin Heidegger: Critical Assessments - Page 7 Christopher E. Macann - 1992 - 1472 pages - a specifically spiritual experience recuperated and prompted by way of a specifically spiritual practice. This is why Sri Aurobindo had to write his philosophy twice, the first time as a philosophical theology (The Life Divine), ...
    Psychic Being (Soul: Its Nature, Mission, Evolution) - Page ii Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose, Mother - 1990 - 223 pages - The reason why Sri Aurobindo adopted the term "psychic being" has been stated by him as follows: "The word soul is very vaguely used in English — as it often refers to the whole non-physical consciousness including even the vital with ...
    Sri Aurobindo and Vedānta philosophy - Page 44 Sheojee Pandey - 1987 - 150 pages - Preview That is why Sri Aurobindo wants to give vision to the masses of the world so that everybody may realise the purpose. The untimate goal of life, mind and body, of all the existent beings and things of the world, is to achieve a cosmic ...
    The Yoga of Knowledge - Page 151 M. P. Pandit - 1986 - 280 pages - Preview That is why Sri Aurobindo insists that simultaneously, or perhaps even before this step of extending and widening yourself horizontally is undertaken, you awake to the Divinity in you, link yourself with it, throw a hook to the Divine ...
    The Yoga of Works - Page 111 M. P. Pandit - 1985 - 186 pages - Preview It is very easy for the lower elements of the nature to infest this emergent vital being, the true being of life-force, and deflect its purpose. That is why Sri Aurobindo and the Mother insist upon merciless purification of motive — an ...
    The Yoga of Self Perfection - Page 71 Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Aurobindo Ghose - 1983 - 308 pages - This is why Sri Aurobindo and Mother vehemently object to gossip. We know how when each item of gossip is taken up for scrutiny and we trace it to its source we find there is a big zero. Things develop, they gather volume from mouth to ...
    The Yoga of Love: Volume 3 - Page 43 M. P. Pandit - 1982 - 104 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo observes somewhere else : "Heaven's wiser Love rejects the mortal's prayer..." Prayer is a powerful means of linking the human consciousness with the Divine Consciousness. We have had hundreds of occasions ...
    Mother India: monthly review of culture: Volume 59 Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2006 - So far, we have been discussing the concept of national education and why Sri Aurobindo gave it such importance. Now let us quickly review the observations he made on some of the other aspects of higher education in India.
    Ma Anandamayee: embodiment of India's spiritual and cultural heritage Shree Shree Anandamaye Sangha - 2005 - 179 pages - She lived, moved and had Her being in this Sacchidananda alone and that is why Sri Aurobindo on seeing Her photograph had commented: "She lives in the Sacchidananda Consciousness." She wanted everyone to live as such and that is why she ...
    Triveni: journal of Indian renaissance: Volume 74 2005 - After the Western impact, the Indians were also infected with this philistinism, and that is why Sri Aurobindo laments, "We in India have become so barbarous that we send our children to school with the grossest utilitarian motive ...
    On "Savitri" Nolini Kanta Gupta - 2001 - 38 pages - Comprised of six of the author's essays in English on Sri Aurobindo's epic Savitri, this book introduces the reader to the thematic richness and complexity of the poem.
    Vedic symbolism Satya Prakash Singh - 2001 - 614 pages - This is why Sri Aurobindo considers him as symbolic of the Illumined Mind lying intermediate to the Mind and the Supermind. It is in this capacity that he comes in the way of Agastya who is in a hurry to reach the Absolute by ...
    Art and aesthetics of Rabindra Nath Tagore Sudhīrakumāra Nandī - 1999 - 151 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo called poetry, "the poetry of the soul". Rabindranath and Sri Aurobindo, both believed in this spiritual goal. Abanindranath and Brajendranath did not lag behind although their kinship in this regard was not ...
    Festival 1999 - But if his mind is capable of opening to what exceeds it, then there is no reason why Sri Aurobindo: "There is indeed a future for man" man himself should not arrive at super- mind and supermanhood or at least lend his mentality, ...
    Selected writings Nani Ardeshir Palkhivala, Laxmi Mall Singhvi, M. R. Pai - 1999 - 330 pages - When you read Dr Raynor Johnson's The Imprisoned Splendour and Fritjof Capra's The Too of Physics, you understand why Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore were convinced that India is destined to be the teacher of all lands.
    Beyond man: life and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Georges van Vrekhem - 1997 - 544 pages - This is why Sri Aurobindo called man 'the mental being', halfway on the ascending ladder of evolution, between the dark abyss of the Inconscient and the radiant summit of the all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful Being.
    Bharātīya vidyā: Volume 54 Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan - 1996 - ... and end all of Sadhana and still he has composed several Bhaktistotras13 and has given due concession to Karman and Yoga.14 Perhaps that is the reason why Sri Aurobindo finds trinity of the paths - Jnana, Bhaktiand Karman in Gita15; ...
    Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research: Volume 13 Indian Council of Philosophical Research - 1995 - Snippet view This perhaps is the reason why Sri Aurobindo himself gave up the physical sense of dtmahanah in his final commentary on the Isdvdsya Upanisad (written in 1914-15). Two Western Interpretations: P. Thieme P. Thieme has written a ...
    Sevartham: Volume 20 St. Albert's College (Rānchī, India). - 1995 - But why, Sri Aurobindo further asks, should there be a repeated birth at the level of human life ? Why this apparent stagnation ? To this the answer is that not all possibilities of humanity are exhausted in its present representatives. lf this is ...
    On the Mother: the chronicle of a manifestation and ministry K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India) - 1994 - 924 pages - it has a collective soul which cannot afford to be in some parts either raw or rotten.41 It should be clear from all this why Sri Aurobindo gave primacy to the promulgation of his comprehensive supramental manifesto in the various ...
    Myth in Indian drama R. G. Joshi - 1994 - 170 pages - It is difficult to say why Sri Aurobindo chose to dramatise a Greek myth in this play. It is true that Sri Aurobindo's creative genius, right from the beginning, has been myth-haunted. Not only his creative writings but also his ...
    Darshana international: Volume 34 1994 - Ethics in this wider sense does only help us towards godhood, that is why Sri Aurobindo writet "morality is in the ordinary view a well.regulated individual and social conduct which keeps society going and leads toward a better, ...
    Literary spectrum: essays in homage to Prof. N. Krishna Rao D. J. P. N. Reddy, Nyapati Krishna Rao - 1994 - 224 pages - As for poetic 'style', when Nirod asks why Sri Aurobindo prefers 'mirroring a strange Beauty' to 'And mirror a strange Beauty', the answer is magnificent: "these are matters of poetic style, to be felt — can't explain them ...
    The vision and work of Sri Aurobindo Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1992 - 238 pages - The whole truth is compassed only when we realise why Sri Aurobindo himself, who had a wide Western education in England and wrote creatively in English and could have easily made his mark in Europe in whose culture he had been steeped, ...
    The lore of Mahabharata Amaleśa Bhaṭṭācārya - 1992 - 436 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo has said that the poetical genius of Valmiki is that of a painter, in comparison the genius of Veda Vyasa was the skilful and powerful sculpture of a strong chiseller. Veda Vyasa was bringing into focus the ...
    Graeco-Indica, India's cultural contects [sic] with the Greek ... Demetrius Galanos, Udai Prakash Arora - 1991 - 295 pages - That is why, Sri Aurobindo, who was a great classical scholar, declared that the predominant mood of the Mahabharata is intellectual. It is given to debating everything.18 Again, although both the Mahabharata and the Iliad are ...
    Sri Aurobindo, the poet Radhey L. Varshney, Shashi Prabha - 1991 - 144 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo's poetry required to be read, enjoyed and appreciated not according to the ordinary conventional standards of poetry, but differently— aesthetically, intuitively, spiritually. His poetic style and metrical ...
    Contemporary Indian English poetry: a revaluation D. S. Mishra - 1990 - 71 pages - Have we ever questioned why Sri Aurobindo or Tagore wrote in English? True, a large number of Indian English poets do not have adequate knowledge of English. But it is equally true that a dozen Indian poets have emarged successful and ...
    In honour of Dr. Annie Besant Annie Wood Besant, Theosophical Society (Madras, India) Indian Section - 1990 - 339 pages - That is the reason why Sri Aurobindo defines yoga as 'a methodized effort towards self-perfection by the expression of potentialities latent in the being and union with the universal and transcendent existence we see partially expressed ...
    Talks with Sri Aurobindo: Volume 4 Nirodbaran, Aurobindo Ghose - 1989 - A has told me that he came to realise why Sri Aurobindo did not ask him to do anything. If he had and if A could not have fulfilled it, it would have been a failure to carry out the Guru's adesh which might mean spiritual disaster.
    Tributes to Nolini Kanta Gupta: pilgrim of the supermind Nirodbaran, Nolini Kanta Gupta - 1988 - 118 pages - This is why Sri Aurobindo insists that a new level of consciousness must evolve in spiritual seekers which will enable them to have the integral knowledge of the Divine. But before this new level of consciousness can be evolved, ...
    Traditions in mysticism Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1987 - 417 pages - Unless there is the sanction of the Grace you never remember God, you never think of God, you never think of taking the path to God. That is why Sri Aurobindo has said that he who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite.
    The Yoga of Patanjali and the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo G. M. L. Shrivastava - 1987 - 194 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo writes, "A greater perfection can only be arrived at by a higher power entering in and taking up the whole action of the being. The second stage of this yoga will therefore be a persistent giving up of all the ...
    Critical approaches to literature & research methodology: a miscellany Bommatapalli Ramachandra Rao, Rawindara Sighā Rawī, Hukam Chand Rajpal - 1986 - 344 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo demands that art must inseminate us with the vital power of creative beauty. The artist is not just a copier, is just not an impressionist or for that matter an expressionist; he is a creator, not in the sense ...
    Spiritual communion: based upon the Mother's prayers and meditations Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Mother - 1986 - 455 pages - That is why, Sri Aurobindo says in Savitri : Pain is the hammer of the gods to break A dead resistence in the mortal's heart. (VI. 2) June 27, 1913 Thy voice is so modest, impartial, so sublime in its patience and mercy that it does not ...
    The Literary criterion: Volume 20 1985 - This, one fears, is the bane of the historical method, the reason why Sri Aurobindo decried its use in matters of literary assessment. When all is said and done, here is a curious book which evokes a mixed reaction : Admiration on the ...
    Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - 812 pages - This is why Sri Aurobindo views the adventure of Consciousness as a threefold movement: an upward movement - the evolution or the ascent or the emergence; a downward movement - the involution or the descent or the immersion; ...
    The heritage: Volume 1 - 1985 - Spirituality in the right spirit does not mean withdrawal from life, rejection of life and going to the forest or hermitages. True yoga, true spirituality, is in the midst of life. That is why Sri Aurobindo says, 'All life is yoga'.
    Modern Indian thought: (Rammohun Roy to Jayaprakash Narayan) Dev Raj Bali - 1984 - 262 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo said that the real business of man in the wold and the justification of his existence was in taking of the journey of ascent towards divine life. Without such attempt man would be no better than an insect ...
    On thoughts and aphorisms Aurobindo Ghose, Mother - 1984 - 394 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo tells us in his aphorism that logic is the worst enemy of Truth, just as the feeling of virtuous superiority is the worst enemy of virtue. 24 August 1960 46 — When I was asleep in the Ignorance, ...
    The Advent: Volume 41, Issues 1-4 Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1984 - Why Sri Aurobindo Lived in Retirement? One of his very first queries was to know why Sri Aurobindo lived in retirement? Why did he not see people? Could greater good not have been done if he had talked to people and explained his high ...
    Yeats and Eliot: perspectives on India Ramesh Chandra Shah - 1983 - 174 pages - This is not entirely unjustified, because Samkaric monism does tend to world-negation in a way that the original Vedanta doesn't. That is why Sri Aurobindo ...
    Commentaries on the Mother's ministry: Volume 1 Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1983 - That is why Sri Aurobindo asks us to leave visions and sounds to themselves and to concentrate more on experiences of quietude, calm, peace, cheerfulness. For they lay the necessary foundations of spiritual life and for change in ...
    The rounding off Dilip Kumar Roy - 1983 - 136 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo gave unstinted praise to Krishnaprem's genius of self-giving. I find the same astonishing power in the gifted youth, Ekanta of whose capacity we have a very high opinion indeed, the more so as he could accept ...
    Art and aesthetics of Abanindranath Tagore Sudhīrakumāra Nandī - 1983 - 207 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo called poetry, "the poetry of the soul". Rabindra- nath and Sri Aurobindo, both believed in this spiritual goal. Abanindranath and Brajendranath did not lag behind although their kinship in this regard, ...
    Indian poetry in English Hari Mohan Prasad - 1983 - 254 pages - And this no doubt is the reason why Sri Aurobindo is first and foremast a poet. Thanks to poets like him we see the secret face that is our own, know man for the first time. If Existence-clarification is the mark of the poet, ...
    Politics & society: Ram Mohan Roy to Nehru Gollapalli Nagabhushana Sarma, Moin Shakir - 1983 - 392 pages - With this preface we can understand why Sri Aurobindo was an unsparing critic of the time honoured methods of the Indian National Congress. In his New Lamps for the old he declares, " I say, of the Congress, then, this-that its aims ...
    Modern Indian mysticism Kamakhya Prasad Singh Choudhary - 1981 - 302 pages - Another reason why Sri Aurobindo's mysticism is regarded as integral is that the practical aspect of his teaching finds its fulfilment in what he calls integral yoga, which has been left for later discussion.
    Sri Aurobindo's integral approach to political thought Shiva Kumar Mital - 1981 - 268 pages - It is why, Sri Aurobindo emphasises that the attempts of the reason to account for and regulate its principle and phenomena are equally false and impracticable. Both the hedonistic theory which refers all virtue to pleasure and ...
    Selections from Vinoba - Vinobā - 1981 - 356 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo spoke of the supramental state. He thinks of the mind as rising above itself to taste the immortal bliss of the vision and touch of God, and then returning to the earthly plane as what he calls an avatar.
    Nolini: Arjuna of our age Nolini Kanta Gupta, V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1979 - 239 pages - That was the main reason, Nolinida says, why Sri Aurobindo started Bandemataram, " which was the first to declare in clear language that what we wanted was the freedom of India, a total freedom, a freedom untrammelled by any kind ...
    The concept of Indian literature Vinayak Krishna Gokak - 1979 - 275 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo specially complimented English literature for having preserved in the course of its evolution, the general steps in the evolution of the human consciousness itself, with remarkable fidelity.
    Yoga and depth psychology: with special reference to the ... I. P. Sachdeva - 1978 - 271 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo asserts : •'Whatever you do, whatever your occupation and activity, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be living, always present, behind all that you do, all that you experience, ...
    Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta: Sweet mother Nolini Kanta Gupta - 1978 - That is why Sri Aurobindo started his daily newspaper, Bandemataram, which was the first to declare in clear language that what we wanted was the freedom of India, a total freedom, a freedom untrammelled by any kind of domination by the ...
    The yogi and the mystic: a study in the spirituality of Sri ... Jan Feys - 1977 - 371 pages - But even this provisional teaching cannot be understood properly without taking the Gita's over-all view into account, and this is why Sri Aurobindo feels compelled to anticipate more than once. This is particularly true with regard to ...
    Indo-English literature: a collection of critical essays Kaushal Kishore Sharma - 1977 - 273 pages - And this no doubt is the reason why Sri Aurobindo is first and foremost a poet. Thanks to poets like him we see the secret face that is our own, know man for the first time. If Existence-clarification is the mark of the poet, ...
    The life of a yogi Jan Feys - 1976 - 54 pages - 79-80) explain why Sri Aurobindo should question that the experience was gained 'by the grace of a Guru', and is forced to ascribe it to the Divine himself. Hence his theorising on the function of the guru in general : "The Guru is the ...
    Education for a new life Narayan Prasad - 1976 - 179 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have dealt with the subject in great detail and in a methodical and scientific way. The experiences of those who are trying to build their future on higher principles have an educational value.
    The Modern review: Volume 139 Ramananda Chatterjee - 1976 - That is why Sri Aurobindo's course of Sadhana is also a vary typical one. The Sadhana of this yoga does not proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation, mantras or others, but aspiration by a ...
    Dawn to greater dawn: six lectures on Sri Aurobindo's Savitri K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1975 - 126 pages - The Savitri Legend I devoted part of my first lecture to probe the ambiguous realm of causation as to why Sri Aurobindo, with apparently so much on hand — the Ashram and the disciples and the Yoga — nevertheless thought it necessary, ...
    Champaklal speaks Champaklal - 1975 - 274 pages - At that time it intrigued me why Sri Aurobindo had to come to take that cup of soup for Mother, particularly when she was to pass in my direction immediately afterwards. Later I realised the deeper significance.
    Studies in modern Indian aesthetics S. K. Nandi - 1975 - 307 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo called poetry, "the poetry of the soul". Rabindranath and Sri Aurobindo, both believed in this spiritual goal. Abanindranath and Brajendranath did not lag behind although their kinship in this regard, ...
    All India Conference on the Relevance of Sri Aurobindo Today, ... Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo Samiti - 1975 - 106 pages - This is why Sri Aurobindo demanded complete political independence for India. He would not pitch his ideal "one inch lower than absolute Swaraj"5 because he believed that "to strive for anything less than a strong and glorious freedom ...
    Dialogues and perspectives Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1975 - 219 pages - just yesterday I received a letter from a correspondent asking why Sri Aurobindo had chosen the Savitri story from the Epic and not Draupadi's or Damayanti's, and wanting me to tell him everything about Savitri in a few words.

    Sunday, February 19, 2012

    Biographical and historical source materials that Sri Aurobindo wrote


    The thousands of letters written by Sri Aurobindo to his disciples were replies to questions on a wide variety of subjects: their sadhana and the practice of the Integral Yoga, Sri Aurobindo’s life and his sadhana, life in the Ashram, the situation in India and the world, poetry, literature, history, philosophy, art, science—all aspects of life. Each letter was written to a particular person in response to a particular question, and yet taken as a whole they represent a remarkable canon of spiritual insight and knowledge and provide a glimpse of Sri Aurobindo’s personality as he addresses the unique needs of each correspondent.
    Letters on Himself and the Ashram, the most recently published volume of The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo, is now also available as an independent book. It contains letters in which Sri Aurobindo referred to his life and works, his sadhana or practice of yoga, and the sadhana of members of his ashram. The letters included in this volume have been selected from Sri Aurobindo’s extensive correspondence with members of the Ashram and disciples living outside the Ashram between November 1926 and November 1950. The editors have arranged the letters in five parts, and those parts have been further demarcated into sections, so that the reader has a detailed map for making his way through this wealth of correspondence. For example, in Part Two, which contains letters on Sri Aurobindo’s sadhana or practice of yoga, the second section is titled “Sadhana in Pondicherry, 1910–1950”, with additional subsections on the early years from 1910–26, the realisation of 24 November 1926, the sadhana of 1927–29, general remarks on the sadhana of the 1930s, the Supramental Yoga and other spiritual paths, and remarks on the state of the sadhana, 1931–47.
    Part One of the volume contains remarks written by him on his life and works, his contemporaries and contemporary events. Many of these letters on himself were in reply to specific questions or in rectification of misconceptions about his life, his yoga, or his writings. For example, on 4 November 1936 we see the following letter from a disciple and Sri Aurobindo’s reply:
    You wrote to X that though people call you a philosopher you have never learnt philosophy. Well, what you have written in the Arya is so philosophical that the greatest philosopher of the world can never expect to write it. I don’t mean here the bringing down of the new Truth, but the power of expression, the art of reasoning and arguing with intellect and logic.

    There is very little argument in my philosophy—the elaborate metaphysical reasoning full of abstract words with which the metaphysician tries to establish his conclusions is not there. What is there is a harmonising of the different parts of a many-sided knowledge so that all unites logically together. But it is not by force of logical argument that it is done, but by a clear vision of the relations and sequences of the knowledge.
    There is one section devoted to the terminology of his writings which offers succinct explanations for his use of terms such as supermind, overmind, psychic being, and transformation. At the end of that section, there is also an interesting letter from 1947 discussing the use of the word “global”:
    “To contact” is a phrase that has established itself and it is futile to try to keep America at arm’s length any longer; “global” also has established itself and it is too useful and indeed indispensable to reject; there is no other word that can express exactly the same shade of meaning. I heard it first from Arjava [J. A. Chadwick] who described the language of Arya as expressing a global thinking and I at once caught it up as the right and only word for certain things, for instance, the thinking in masses which is a frequent characteristic of the Overmind.
    Part Three includes letters on his role as a spiritual leader and guide and Part Four on his ashram and the sadhana practiced there, which concludes with a short section on the Ashram and the outside world. Part Five comprises mantras and messages written by Sri Aurobindo for the benefit of his disciples. Many of the letters in this volume appeared earlier in Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother (1953) and On Himself: Compiled from Notes and Letters (1972). The volume also contains a fairly large number of letters formerly included in Letters on Yoga (1970), a few letters from Letters on the Mother, and many newly selected items from the 1926–1950 corpus of letters. Together with the documents published in Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest, these letters constitute nearly all the surviving biographical and historical source materials that Sri Aurobindo wrote.
    The next book introduced below is Seven Quartets of Becoming, an analysis of the diaries which Sri Aurobindo maintained for some years after he arrived in Pondicherry in 1910 and which were published much later in two volumes as Record of Yoga. The book outlines the system of experimental yogic practice that Sri Aurobindo followed and recorded in his diary notes. The notes form a type of scientist’s log tracing a complex psychological experiment carried out with himself as the subject. Sri Aurobindo called this schema of seven lines of practice the sapta chatushtaya, which the author has translated as the Seven Quartets. These seven aspects of yogic practice are peace, power, knowledge, body, being, action, and integration. The author begins his study with the last of these, the quartet of integration or integral perfection, the siddhi chatushtaya, which takes up the general elements of perfection:
    Emphasising the overarching nature of this quartet, Sri Aurobindo alternately named it yoga chatushtaya or the quartet of yoga. We see that he enumerated the goals of this quartet as shuddhi, mukti, bhukti andsiddhi. These terms Sri Aurobindo himself translated broadly as: purification, liberation, enjoyment and perfection, respectively. Of these, we may say that the core, the meaning of the quartet of perfection, and of what Sri Aurobindo considered the goal of his own yoga, is to be found in the two central elements: mukti and bhukti (liberation and enjoyment).
    The chapter continues by stressing that the primary pre-requisite for a perfect liberation and a perfect enjoyment is purification, and by drawing out the different elements of the yogic psychology which need to be purified. The elements of the nervous being, the will, the emotional being, and the various aspects of the mind are to be subjected to the purifying power of equality. The importance of equality is underlined by Sri Aurobindo by his turning this discipline into the first of the specific yogic practices, the shanti chatushtaya, the quartet of peace, or the perfection of equality.
    While the author's primary objective throughout the book is to understand the processes and goals of the integral transformation of being and nature in Sri Aurobindo’s Record of Yoga, he also seeks to understand its place in relation to traditional systems of yoga. In addition, he is looking for an approach that will interpret this field of yoga, a psychology of process aimed at integral transformation, in the context of the ongoing progress of contemporary psychology and philosophy. Finally, he states that part of his objective “is to gain a key, an opening, to understanding the inner life of Sri Aurobindo through the Record of Yoga, seen as a lived example, that we can learn from, and derive inspiration from, for success in experimental practice”.
    Other new books include Deliberations on The Life Divine, Volumes II and III, whose approach is to explain the main philosophical arguments presented by Sri Aurobindo, using simple language and illustrative instances, and Journey to Oneness, a work which introduces the concept of Oneness in Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy and describes how the unification of the being around the psychic leads to a growing sense of oneness with the Divine.  
    New releases: http://www.sabda.in/new.php 

    Sunday, January 22, 2012

    Authentic, verifiable, balanced and truthful


    We are a group of individuals who have come together to initiate a service of providing information that is as authentic, verifiable, balanced  and as truthful as possible.
    We prefer not to be named and identified, not because of a lack of courage or straightforwardness, but because we believe that this website belongs to all those who want to make the effort to find and get closer to the Truth.  This website is therefore an open source and belongs to all those to participate in this effort.
    Moreover, we believe that the moment identities are revealed people look for motives and agendas and one gets stereotyped. We may get categorised as pro-establishment or anti-rebels or seekers of favours or whatever. Somebody will dismiss our work based on our identity, or we will create enemies. Instead we want people to focus on the information and the work and not the people doing it.
    Lastly, we do not claim to posses the Truth, but we believe that we can help remove those obstacles that come in the way of or obfuscate Truth - especially those obstacles that are in the form of deliberate misrepresentation and distortion of facts or the creation of myths – by providing more reliable, accurate and  complete information.

    Introduction: Introduction to Dubious Websites:
    As the internet is becoming increasingly accessible to a larger number of people, a plethora of websites, blogs, internet discussion groups, etc., related to Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and the larger Aurobindonian collective are also ever-increasingly springing up. As a result of that a large amount of information on these subjects and related matters is being propagated through cyberspace.
    While many benefit from the availability of such information, there is however a flip-side to the ease with which information, especially inaccurate, erroneous and even deliberately misleading information can be created and diffused on the internet.
    Because like in everything else, there are a few individuals or small groups of like-minded people who are more interested and keen to promote their personal ideas, views and opinions as well as their personal agendas and interests, which more often than not go contrary to the ideology that they claim to espouse.  In fact, such individuals land up using an ideology – to which they may have an affinity or dedication – also as a prop to promote themselves. While lip-service is given to the ideology, it is in reality given a back seat as their personal preferences take over, determine and drive all their actions.
    The evident and inevitable outcome of the mixing of ideologies with personal preferences is: confusion. This is made worse with the deliberate creation and diffusion of misinformation with the intent to confuse and muddle issues. Thus unfortunately in recent times, the names of Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, The Sri Aurobindo Ashram as well as the Aurobindonian collective have found themselves surrounded by rumours, myths, even blatant lies all designed to promote an individual’s or a small group’s personal preferences.
    As the internet has provided a convenient platform for the diffusion of all kinds of information, this blog attempts to verify, analyze, demystify and critique some of the information, especially that which is dubious, inaccurate, misleading, biased, etc., that is being propagated on some of the websites and blogs that associate themselves to Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and the Aurobindonian collective.

    Sunday, January 15, 2012

    Nama-Japa in the Yoga of Transformation by Ramkrishna Das

    Nama-Japa in the Yoga of Transformation by Ramkrishna Das at Vedic Books: 'via Blog this'
    Translated and revised from the original Odia text, this book is a passionate argument for the effectiveness of nama-japa in Sri Aurobindo’s yoga. The author’s premise is that through all the difficulties and arduous trials of the yoga of transformation, the safest and least difficult path is that of complete surrender to the Mother, and that the most direct way to achieve such a surrender is by the constant repetition of the Mother’s name. In concise and affirming language, he describes how to use nama-japa in work, in worldly life, to overcome obstacles from within and attacks from adverse forces, and how to make its practice natural, spontaneous, and effective.