Baptista, Joseph : (1864-1930), a barrister of Bombay & one of the leaders of Tilak’s nationalist party. In 1919, on behalf of the Socialist Democratic Party of Bombay, he invited Sri Aurobindo to accept the editorship of a paper to be started at Bombay.
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... strength to go on till it arrives, for when all is truly ready it cannot fail to come." So Sri Aurobindo quietly began to prepare the ground. Almost a decade later while declining the offer from Joseph Baptista 1 to take up the editorship of an English daily he stated, "Pondicherry is my place of retreat, my cave of tapasya, not of an ascetic kind, but a brand of my own invention." 'Not of an ascetic... When he came out of jail in 1909, the change in Sri Aurobindo was perceptible. He himself had not bargained for it, when for a whole year he had to live "beyond the pale of society, 1 Joseph Baptista was a Nationalist leader. He requested Sri Aurobindo to take up the editorship of an English daily to be brought out from Bombay as the organ of a new political party which Tilak and other like-minded ...
... Interest Letters of Historical Interest Letters on Personal, Practical and Political Matters (1890-1926) Autobiographical Notes To Joseph Baptista Pondicherry Jan. 5, 1920 Dear Baptista, Your offer is a tempting one, but I regret that I cannot answer it in the affirmative. It is due to you that I should state explicitly my reasons. In the first place ...
... Sri Aurobindo received a letter from Bombay from a well-known barrister, one of the leaders of the Nationalist Party of Tilak. His name was Joseph Baptista, a Christian. In that letter, on Tilak's advice, the party invited Sri Aurobindo, through Baptista, to accept the editorship of their paper. The idea was that this would afford to Sri Aurobindo an opportunity to return to politics, and the... about politics, how many of you will be able to understand the letter, but some will. So I'll read it. [Reading from Life of Sri Aurobindo by A. B. Purani (1960), 194-196]: Dear Baptista, Your offer is a tempting one, but I regret that I cannot answer it in the affirmative. It is due to you, that I should state explicitly my reasons. 115Francis Thompson, "The... interesting developments which are taking place with our Indira Gandhi at the helm of affairs. If I start talking politics, we shall be going off at a tangent! So I continue now with the letter to Baptista: You may ask why not come out and help ... A very logical question! _ myself, so far as I can in giving a lead? But my mind has a habit of running inconveniently ahead of ...
... parliamentary systems. 4 *** January 5, 1920 (From a letter to Joseph Baptista, a co-worker of Tilak.) 2 Archives & Research, December 1977, p. 84. 3 From Thoughts and Aphorisms. 4 The Ideal of Human Unity, 15.434. Page 221 Dear Baptista, I do not at all look down on politics or political action or consider I have ...
... the series of essays that make up The Foundations of Indian Culture) published in the Arya. December 17 Death of Mrinalini Ghose in Calcutta. 1920 January 20 Letter to Joseph Baptista. April 7 Letter to Barindra Kumar Ghose. April 24 The Mother returns to Pondicherry from Japan. August 15 First issue of the Standard Bearer, a monthly published from Ch ...
... the series of essays that make up The Foundations of Indian Culture) published in the Arya. December 17 Death of Mrinalini Ghose in Calcutta. 1920 — January 20 Letter to Joseph Baptista. April 7 Letter to Barindra Kumar Ghose. April 24 The Mother returns to Pondicherry from Japan. August 15 First issue of the Standard Bearer, a monthly published from ...
... they stave off the whirlwind? There was a feeling in Nationalist circles that somehow Sri Aurobindo should be persuaded to return to active politics. At Tilak's instance, his colleague Joseph Baptista therefore wrote in December 1919 requesting Sri Aurobindo to accept Page 521 the editorship of a paper that was to be the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Bombay. Like... political action, and it wouldn't do to jump into the fray before he was really ready "for either propaganda or action". It was not affectation or spiritual aloofness or want of sympathy with the work Baptista and others were "so admirably doing"; the causes were more fundamental and concerned, in fact, the need for the trans-valuation of the principles of Indian and world polity. In the meantime... written to Sri Aurobindo about politics as well as Yoga. On 7 April 1920, Sri Aurobindo replied in Bengali at some length, and the letter not only carried the political argument of the earlier reply to Baptista a little farther, but opened some new Yogic vistas as well. The two themes of the letter are Yoga and politics, in that order; there is so much intertwining that the two themes become one in the end ...
... Poet Tagore with his Secretary Wrote Pearson met Mother in Japan and offered her entire charge of Santiniketan. Mother's smiling 'No'. 1920 January 5: Wrote to Joseph Baptista why he could not accept the latter of editorship of his journal. April 7: Wrote to Barindra in reply to his, letter after release from the Andamans. April 24: 'Mother's return ...
... resourcefulness to throw back and immobilise the adversary. As narrated earlier, the epidemic itself was presently to subside in Japan. There was, then, the attempt by Lokamanya Tilak and Joseph Baptista to get to get Sri Aurobindo back to public life as editor of a new political paper to be lunched at Bombay. But Sri Aurobindo, writing on 5 January 1920, politely and firmly declined the invitation: ...
... the Congress. Tilak had returned to India after his long incarceration in Mandalay and was trying to revive and reorganise the Nationalist forces. Late in 1919 he asked one of his lieutenants, Joseph Baptista, to request Sri Aurobindo to accept the editorship of a paper they proposed to bring out as the authentic voice of the Nationalists. In a long reply dated January 5, 1920, Sri Aurobindo wrote:... election to the enlarged legislative councils provided under the new Government of India Act. Sri Aurobindo's reply, sent through his brother Barin in November, was on the lines of his earlier letters to Baptista and Dr. Munje. 'I have become confirmed in a perception,' he wrote, '...that the true basis of work and life is the spiritual, — that is to say a new consciousness to be developed only by Yoga. I ...
... replied to a letter of Joseph Baptista. Baptista was a well-known barrister of Bombay and one of the leaders of Tilak's nationalist party. After 1907 the nationalist party had been growing stronger every year and at the end of 1919 it was decided to bring out a paper from Bombay. Following Tilak's advice, the Socialist Democratic Party of Bombay invited Sri Aurobindo, through Baptista, to accept the editorship... Aurobindo had the same political ideology so far as the question of Indian freedom was concerned. The reply of Sri Aurobindo is reproduced here in full. Pondicherry: 1910-1926 Jan. 5, 1920 Dear Baptista, Your offer is a tempting one, but I regret that I cannot answer it in the affirmative. It is due to you that I should state Page 167 explicitly my reasons. In the first... International Centre of Education , Vol. XIV, No. 3 (August 1962), pp. ii-xxii (slightly edited). ³ Elder brother Page 173 These two letters written early in 1920 – one to Baptista and one to Barin – serve to clarify Sri Aurobindo's life-mission as it was then taking shape in his consciousness. During the year 1920 it became customary for the inmates of the house and also ...
... them was Joseph Baptista, who requested Sri Aurobindo to return to British India in order to become the editor of a new English daily paper. It would be the organ of a new political party Tilak and others were intending to form. Another was Dr. Munje, who proposed that Sri Aurobindo take up the presidency of the Indian National Congress. Sri Aurobindo declined both offers politely. To Baptista he wrote: ...
... publication in the Arya . To Joseph Baptista. 5 January 1920 . Joseph Baptista (1864 - 1930) was a barrister and nationalist politician who was associated with Bal Gangadhar Tilak. In 1919 a group of nationalists of Bombay who took their inspiration from Tilak decided to form a party and to bring out an English daily newspaper. They deputed Baptista to write to Sri Aurobindo and offer him ...
... 15. ibid., p. 396-7. 16. ibid., pp. 396-7. 17. ibid ., pp. 113-4. 18. Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother, p. 127. 19. Letter to Joseph Baptista, quoted in Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo, p. 162. 20. For example, the five-act blank verse play, The Viziers of Bassora, which was Exhibit 299/3 in the Alipur Case, was spotted... 22. The Religion of Man, pp. 81-2. 23. The Varieties of Religious Experience, p. 349. 24. Quoted in F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance, p. 488. 25. Letter to Baptista, quoted in Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo, p. 163. Page 463 26. Vide Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, First Series, Recorded ...
... obstinately Asuric humanity. The choice lies with the race itself; for as it sows, so shall it reap the fruit of its Karma. 78 * * * January 5, 1920 (From a letter to Joseph Baptista, a co-worker of Tilak who had requested Sri Aurobindo to take up the editorship of a Nationalist English paper proposed to be brought out from Bombay. Sri Aurobindo explained his reasons for turning... politics.) ________________ * Kalki: the last Avatar, who comes riding a white winged horse, armed with a sword. He will come "like a burning comet." Page 148 Dear Baptista, I do not at all look down on politics or political action or consider I have got above them. I have always laid a dominant stress and I now lay an entire stress on the spiritual life, but my ...
... Namaskar which I offered to him when he was first assailed by the trouble which ultimately made him an exile from the soil of Bengal. Yours sincerely, Rabindranath Tagore In 1920 Joseph Baptista, a barrister of Bombay, wrote to Sri Aurobindo at the instance of Tilak, requesting him to accept the editorship of a paper they wanted to bring out as a mouthpiece of the Nationalist Party which... Aurobindo sent the following reply explaining in detail the nature of the spiritual work he was engaged in and regretting his inability to accede to his request. Pondicherry, January 5, 1920 Dear Baptista, Your offer is a tempting one, but I regret that I cannot Page 415 answer it in the affirmative. It is due to you that I should state explicitly my reasons. In the first ...
... Vol. 5, p. 293 7. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 16, p. 307 8. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 61 9. The Yoga and Its Objects (1921), reprinted (1931), p. 5 10. Letter to Joseph Baptista, dated 5 January 1920. See Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 430. (Also in Purani, The Life, p. 168) 11. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 654 12. Milton, Comus, II. 73-5 ...
... people a settled will for freedom and the necessity of a struggle to achieve it, in place of the futile ambling Congress methods till then in vogue." — From Sri Aurobindo's letter to Barrister Joseph Baptista on January 5, 1920. 118. Mr. Manmohan Ghose. Page 97 power of shallow rhetoric, and deputed by the sort of men that are turned out at Trinity College, Dublin? At any rate that ...
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