Reaction against the West was an integral part of Sri Aurobindo's outlook

The Secret Of The Veda - Page 37  Sri Aurobindo - 1998 - 604 pages - Preview It was my stay in Southern India which first seriously turned my thoughts to the Veda. Two observations that were forced on my mind, gave a serious shock to my second-hand belief in the racial division between Northern Aryans and ...

Spirituality And Ethics In Management - Page 38 - László Zsolnai - 2004 - 220 pages - Preview So, if we can succeed in fostering a sober and sincere mentality then we shall perceive straightaway that Aurobindo has turned the whole corpus of prevailing motivational theories upside down. Are we ready for it?

Communication for development in the Third World: theory and ... - Page 182 - Srinivas R. Melkote, H. Leslie Steeves - 2001 - 422 pages - Preview ... Aurobindo, turned to the Gita to justify their involvement in political and social action. It is difficult to understand why Weber failed to see that the Gita was a major scriptural source for a "work ethic" and for political and ...

Colonialism, tradition, and reform: an analysis of Gandhi's ... - Page 52 - Bhikhu C. Parekh - 1999 - 359 pages - Preview Ranade advocated 'Bacon's method', Gokhale thought that JS Mill's 'method of empiricism' alone research in thed Aurobindo turned to a combination of Darwin and Einstein. Despite the extensive references to science and scientific method, ...

Tradition and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 108 - David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - 339 pages - Preview To answer these questions on a cosmic scale, Aurobindo turned to two models — the spiritual cosmology of the East, and the evolutionary/idealist philosophy of the West — that he combined in a cosmology structured as a myth of return.

Aurobindo's philosophy of Brahman - Page 4 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - 200 pages - Preview Are we really to believe that Aurobindo is a sort of mystic scientist turned philosopher? Why then does he espouse such typically Hindu ideas as that Brahman (or God) is the Creator of the universe and that Brahman's nature is ...

Sri Aurobindo Ghose: the dweller in the lands of silence - William Kluback, Michael Finkenthal - 2001 - 167 pages - Suddenly, Sri Aurobindo turned to me and said that at times he felt my silence was a criticism of the way he expresses his thoughts, that they are repetitious and employ too many words. I felt surprised. I said to the philosopher that ...

Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913: A Critical Anthology - Page 13 - Mary Ellis Gibson - 2011 - 360 pages - Preview Aurobindo turned from the “hellenic” muses to the Indian goddess of poetry and learning, sarasvat ̄ı, thus cementing his nationalist loyalties, but he clearly bid a reluctant (and temporary) farewell to the classical European languages ...

J.L. Mehta on Heidegger, hermeneutics, and Indian tradition - Page 138 - Jarava Lal Mehta, William J. Jackson - 1992 - 309 pages - Preview ... disciples as well as mere readers, who will bring to bear upon their reading the wholly different background of a culture, both secular and religious, Biblical and Greek, from which Aurobindo turned away resolutely, early in life.

The philosophy of Sri Aurobindo: his idea of evolution - Joseph Veliyathil - 1972 - 97 pages - Thus for example Lamark and Darwin took this general notion of evolution to explain the problem of biology and thinkers like Aurobindo and Bergson turned to it to explain their respective philosophical view-points.

Sri Aurobindo and Bergson: a synthetic study Abhoy Chandra Bhattacharya - 1972 - 282 pages - Again, just as the process of evolution in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy starts from matter that is impregnated with spirit, similarly, Bergson's original creative urge, in spite of its being turned into matter, never loses itself totally ...

Realization of God according to Sri Aurobindo: a study of a ... - George Nedumpalakunnel - 1979 - 308 pages - After his return to India, it may be noted, Aurobindo turned his attention also to the study of Indian languages and Hinduism. In 1901 he married a young lady called Mrinalini Bose. Because of his intense political activity, however, ...

Science and the Indian tradition: when Einstein met Tagore - Page 23 - David L. Gosling - 2007 - 186 pages - Preview Four years prior to this he had turned his back upon active politics and taken up a contemplative life at an ashram in Pondicherry. The biographical details of Aurobindo's life are important because reaction against the West was an integral part of his outlook.

The life of Sri Aurobindo - Ambalal Balkrishna Purani - 1978 - 440 pages - Sri Aurobindo turned his back to him and sat quietly for a few minutes. He then turned to Bharati and said, "Mr. Bharati! I am not going to budge an inch from Pondicherry. I know nothing will happen to me. As for yourself you can do ...

Indian literature in English: critical views - Page 19 - Satish Barbuddhe - 2007 - 419 pages - Full view At last a face-saving proposal came from the priests that Sri Aurobindo should shave his head, But Sri Aurobindo turned down this proposal also, Then "an obliging Brahmin priest satisfied all the requirements of the Shastra for a ...

The Religious, the Spiritual, and the Secular: Auroville and ... - Page 82 - Robert Neil Minor - 1999 - 208 pages - Preview Likewise, Siddhartha Shankar Ray, the chief minister of West Bengal, who warned that Sri Aurobindo must not be turned into "an object of worship," spoke of the dissemination of Sri Aurobindo's thought "among the masses and the ...