Baroda : Ankotakka (present-day Akota), a settlement on the western bank of Vishwāmitri, burgeoned into a vital commercial centre in Vallabhipur in north-west Gujarat [see Bāppā, Harshavardhana], due to its location on the ancient trade route between Gujarat & Mālwā. In 600 AD, a flooded Vishwāmitri forced the inhabitants of Ankotakka to migrate to a village on the opposite bank. During its evolution as the Gaikwād’s capital its name changed from vaṭa-udara (trunk of a Vada, banyan tree) though Wadōdarā to Vadōdarā to Baroda. The city was built with the palace in Māndavi at its centre & on four sides the massive carved stone Darwājas, gateways, named Leheripurā, Chāmpāneri, Baranpuri, & Pāni. The region around Baroda was first taken by the Gaikwāds in 1725 & finally occupied in 1734. It became their capital in 1770s by when their territories extended from Songadh in the south to Rajpipla & Idar in the east, from Aṇhilwād-Pātan & Kadi & Pālanpur in the north to Amreli & Dwārkā in the west. But of these, those left for Sayājirao III to ‘rule’ over when the British (the Paramount Power as it called itself) ‘crowned’ him Gaikwād of Baroda on 26th Dec.1881, extended over some 300-400 miles east to west & 200 miles north to south & were grouped into five districts: Vadodara (1922 sq. miles), Kadi (3050 sq. miles), Navasāri (1811 sq. miles), & Amreli & Okhāmaṇdal: 1352 sq. miles. The population at the time was roughly two million. ― The famine that raged in most parts of the country since 1895, struck Mahārāshṭra in 1897. A new scourge followed: a ship that came to Bombay from China carried bubonic plague. It swept Bombay presidency, killing 20,000 & invaded Baroda State & relief-measures led to popular displeasure. In 1899, the monsoon failed leading to, perhaps, the severest famine of the century that the State had seen. Among the preventive schemes started was sinking wells, digging tanks, drainage construction, soft loans to farmers, & the assimilation of the State currency to the British. The Census of 1891 showed the population at 2,415,396 that of 1901 put it at 1,952,692 – the blessings of maternal Pax Britannica! The most revolutionary achievement of Sayājirao was (1) starting free compulsory primary education first in Kadi in 1883 & making it state-wide in 1906. Of the thousands of his poor subjects whose lives were transformed was Dr. Ambedkar. (2) On 31st March 1908, O’Grady, a member of the British Parliament rose in the House of Commons & asked: “Is the Secretary of State for India aware that the Maharaja of Baroda has separated the judicial from the executive functions, has restored local self-government, has instituted compulsory primary education throughout his State, & has further instituted popularly elected members in his Legislative Council? If so, will the Gov.-General’s Council of India consider the application of such reforms to other Native States & to India as a whole?” Naturally imperialist Minto-Morley “could not undertake introduction of similar measures in the whole of British India”. (3) Again, while English replaced Latin-French as judicial courts’ language in England only 1731 – 500 years after the Magna Charta, Sayājirao made the native tongues of his kingdom official court languages. Alas, this most advanced native state during British Raj was honoured by ‘our’ Socialist Secular Republic by refusing to accept any of the three of its unique achievements mentioned above, & only decades later tolerated the restoration of its capital’s original name – Vadōdarā.
... Chandidas, the reputed Bengali mystic poet whom he read along with Vidyapati and others at Baroda. Page 28 Baroda. Urvasi, a long poem, was also written at Baroda and published for private circulation. 21 But we shall not go into any more details here about his poetical work at Baroda, for we propose to devote a whole separate chapter to his poetry, and study its growth and... Hell to the poor wretch after the delicious coolness of his iceberg? I do not know for what enormous crime I have been condemned to Baroda, but my case is just parallel. Since my pleasant sojourn with you at Baidyanath (Deoghar), Baroda seems a hundred times more Baroda...." 11 Sarojini must have greatly enjoyed such an affectionate and entertaining letter from her brother. Describing her... 25 At Baroda, Sri Aurobindo stayed at first in a camp near the Bazar, and from there he moved to Khasirao Jadav's house. Khasirao, who was working as a magistrate under the Baroda State, was at that time living elsewhere with his family. His house was a beautiful, two-storeyed building, situated on a main road of the town. When Khasirao was transferred back to Baroda, Sri Aurobindo had ...
... more Hell to the poor wretch after the delicious coolness of his iceberg? I do not know for what enormous crime I have been condemned to Baroda, but my case is just parallel. Since my pleasant sojourn with you at Baidyanath, Baroda seems a hundred times more Baroda. I dare say Beno may write to you three or four days before he leaves England. But you must think yourself lucky if he does as much as... beautiful one, but not half so cold as I expected. In fact, in daytime it is only a shade less hot than Baroda except when it has been raining. The Maharaja will probably be leaving here on the 24th,– if there has been rain at Baroda, but as he will stop at Agra, Mathura and Mhow he will not reach Baroda before the beginning of July. I shall probably be going separately and may also reach on the 1st... warfare. But at the present stage of the science such things are impossible and bound to fail."¹. Points from a statement of R.N. Patkar, advocate, Baroda, are reproduced here to give an idea of Sri Aurobindo's life at Baroda: …. When I came to Baroda – I was a school-going lad hardly sixteen in age and as such I cannot be expected to give a detailed account of [Sri Aurobindo's] life during this ...
... went on in it uninterruptedly . . . until, in fact, I left Baroda Numerous documents in the Baroda State and Baroda College archives make it clear that Sri Aurobindo . ceased to teach at Baroda College in April 1901, and resumed teaching in September 1904 (see for example letter of 28 September... Navigation Company, London, and Lloyds, London). 20 1903 1893 Sri Aurobindo began his service in Baroda on 8 February 1893 (Baroda Service List, and other documents, Baroda Record Office, Vadodara; Sri Aurobindo corrected this slip himself in item [2] on p. 21 of the present volume). 20 June... Secretary. Between the end of 1903 and September 1904, he had the title assistant Huzur Kamdar. In September 1904 he rejoined Baroda College as Vice-Principal and Professor of English (Baroda State Records, multiple items; Baroda College Records, multiple items). 59 He led the party again . . . at ...
... after the delicious coolness of his iceberg? (Laughter) I told her that I did not know for what enormous crime I had been condemned to Baroda, but my case was just parallel. Since my pleasant sojourn with her at Baidyanath, Baroda seemed a hundred times more Baroda." (Loud laughter) "My God, what a lucky sister!" "On getting such a wonderful letter from her adorable Aurodada, she must have been... though you never leave your room?" "This sounds exactly like one of Dr. Manilal's questions. Have you heard of Dr. Manilal? He was the Chief Physician Page 10 of the Maharaja of Baroda. Baroda is where Champaklal comes from, where I used to live, long ago. Well, he too used to ask me childlike questions. He believed we knew everything about everything. But does that mean we have got... permanent one?" "It apparently left me by the time I reached Baroda, but it was there in the background. You see, these perceptions are not very easily mastered. They come for a special purpose, as indications of the Truth. One must really be an adept, a veritable sadhak, in order to make them well-founded and permanent." "So it was to Baroda that you went on your arrival in India, not to Bengal?" ...
... IV: Baroda (1893-1906) Sri Aurobindo for All Ages I SRI AUROBINDO reached Baroda on February 8, 1893, i.e. only two days after his arrival at Bombay. What surprises us is that instead of first visiting his relatives in Bengal, he proceeded straight to Baroda. Could he have come to know the sad news of his parents — his father's death and his mother's... Sarojini on his return to Baroda. Here are some extracts from the letter. Baroda Camp 25th August, 1894 My dear Saro, ... It will be, I fear, quite impossible to come to you again so early as the Puja, though if I only could, I should start tomorrow. Neither my affairs, nor my finances will admit of it. Indeed it was a great mistake for me to go at all; for it has made Baroda quite intolerable to... more Hell to the poor wretch after the delicious coolness of his iceberg? I do not know for what enormous crime I have been condemned to Baroda, but my case is just parallel. Since my pleasant sojourn with you at Baidyanath, Baroda seems a hundred times more Baroda.... You say in your letter 'all here are quite well'; yet in the very next sentence I read 'Bari has an attack of fever'. Do you mean ...
... 1899-1904, in Baroda; 1909-10, in Calcutta; circa 1916-20, in Pondicherry. All but two of the pieces were published shortly after they were written. Address at the Baroda College Social Gathering. Editorial title. Sri Aurobindo delivered this talk to those attending the annual social gathering of Baroda College on 22 July 1899. At that time he was working as professor of English at Baroda College... only a fraction of the written work he produced while employed in Baroda. A selection from the letters he wrote at this time is included in On Himself . Speeches Written for the Maharaja of Baroda (1901-1902) Between 1901 and 1904, Sri Aurobindo was sometimes asked to write speeches for the Maharaja of Baroda. The first piece reproduced here is a draft from one of Sri Aurobindo's... & Addresses of His Highness Sayaji Rao III, Maharaja of Baroda . Volume One, 1877-1910 (Cambridge: Privately Printed at the University Press, 1927), pp. 83-117. Report on Trade in the Baroda State (1902) Editorial title. These "General Suggestions" form the first part of a 72-page report on trade in the state of Baroda that was printed in 1902. Although unsigned, the report almost ...
... more hell to the poor wretch after the delicious coolness of his iceberg? I do not know for what enormous crime I have been condemned to Baroda, but my case is just parallel. Since my pleasant sojourn with you at Baidyanath, Baroda seems a hundred times more Baroda. 11 How prettily Sri Aurobindo laughs away his sense of exile; and how sweetly, yet indirectly, he compliments his sister! No wonder... remained for a month amidst those utterly beautiful and gorgeous Kumaon range of hills, with the Himalayas looming immense behind. The Maharaja of Baroda was at Naini Tal too, but left for Baroda earlier. By the beginning of July, Sri Aurobindo returned to Baroda with his wife and sister, and Barin also soon joined them. It is difficult, almost impossible, to reconstruct the story of Sri Aurobindo's... Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history Sri Aurobindo — Baroda —1906 C HAPTER 3 Baroda I Sri Aurobindo's arrival in India early in February 1893 was preceded by his father Dr. Krishnadhan's death in peculiarly tragic circumstances. Even as late as 2 December 1892, as may be inferred from his letter (referred to in the previous ...
... Yogi to Barin, his younger brother. Barin pro- cured the address of Yogi Vishnu Bhaskar Leie113 and wired to him at Gwalior to come to Baroda and see Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo came to Baroda from Surat. Barin says in his autobiography that the Principal of the Baroda College had asked the students not to meet Sri Aurobindo or go to listen to his lectures, as he was then a nationalist politician. But... the constant burden of his message right from the days of his Baroda life to the last day of his earthly existence. 18. We have already quoted from his confidential letters to his wife in which he speaks of his being moved and guided by the Divine. His four outstanding experiences, which came to him unexpectedly, in Bombay, Baroda and Kashmir, also confirm our standpoint. Page 176 ... Dinendra Kumar Roy, a man of letters, who had lived with Sri Aurobindo for some time at Baroda, and followed his brilliant career with growing admiration. He was also acquainted with Sri Aurobindo's thoughts and ideas through his political deputies in Bengal, particularly Barin and Jatin. And when Sri Aurobindo left Baroda and went to Bengal as the first Principal of the newly-founded National College ...
... the message of Sj. K. G. Deshpande Page 294 from Baroda. I told him that financial help could be arranged from Baroda, if necessary, to which he replied, "At present what is required comes from Bengal, especially from Chandernagore. Sothere is no need." When the talk turned to Prof. D. L. Purohit of Baroda Sri Aurobindo recounted the incident of his visit to Pondicherry where... seeking Satsang [good and holy company] at Baroda and that on his return from England he was buried in religious books like the Veda, the Upanishads and the Shastras in general. This is not true. He was reading all kinds of books at Baroda, among them books on ancient Indian culture. He was not specially seeking out good company. His circle of friends at Baroda was rather limited. He was not a man of... where he had come to inquire into the relation between the Church and the State. He had paid a courtesy call on Sri Aurobindo as he had known him at Baroda. This had resulted in his resignation from Baroda State service on account of the pressure of the British Residency. I conveyed to Sri Aurobindo the good news that after his resignation Mr. Purohit had started practice as a lawyer and had been quite ...
... University of Baroda, OpP. Fatehganj Post Of fice, Fatehganj, Baroda-390 002. Tel. No.310411 (0). Page 142 10. Dr. Padma Ramachandran (PR) Vicechancellor, M.S. University of Baroda, Baroda-390 002. Tel. No.343189 (0), 314199 (R) 11. Mr. P.K.S. Pillai (PKSP) Vice-Principal, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's School, Makarpura Road, Baroda-390 009. Tel.... 1. Dr. Aruna Khasgiwalla (AK) Reader, Faculty of Social Work, M.S. University of Baroda, Opp. Fatehganj Post Of- fice, Fatehganj, Baroda-390 002 Tel. "No.310411 (0), 310623(R) 2. Dr. Bharti Desai (BD) Reader, Deptt. of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, M.S. University of Baroda, Baroda-390 002. 3. Mr. Caeser D'Silva (CD) Headmaster, Firdaus Amrut Centre, ... Behind Overhead Water Tank, Gotri Road, Baroda-390 015. Tel. No.333950 (0), 325973 (R). 7. Dr. Kamal Pathak (KP) Head, Deptt. of Medicine, Medical College, M.S.University of Baroda, Baroda-390 001. Tel. No.311521-2577 (R). 8. Mrs. Kumkum Bhardwaj (KB) Principal, Shaishav School, Gotri Road, Behind Amravati Society, Baroda-390 015. Tel. No.310182 (0). ...
... later he returned to India, and until 1906 lived and worked in the princely state of Baroda. He began writing poetry in Manchester, and continued Page 691 in London, Cambridge and Baroda. His first collection, published in Baroda in 1898, contained poems written in England and Baroda. This collection is reproduced in the present part, along with other poems written... poems in Songs to Myrtilla were written in Baroda, except for five that were written in England, Sri Aurobindo corrected him as follows: "It is the other way round; all the poems in the book were written in England except five later ones which were written after his return to India. "The following poems certainly were written in Baroda after his return to India in 1893: "Lines... 1893–98. Subtitled in the manuscript "A Spring morning in India". The subtitle may have been deleted from the Baroda edition simply for lack of space. Envoi . Circa 1890–98, probably closer to 1898. Entitled "Vale" in the manuscript. No title was printed in the Baroda edition, perhaps for lack of space. The title "Envoi" was given when a new edition of Songs to Myrtilla ...
... he decided to try his lot with 'Sejda' at Baroda. He was a young man of valour and exceptional ability but of a volatile, somewhat unstable, temperament. He had already been initiated into a revolutionary coterie at Deoghar and proved to be an eager disciple at Baroda. He soon became friendly with Lt. Madhavrao, Khaserao Jadav's brother, who was in the Baroda Army, and took lessons from him in the use... Brahmin priest and saved the face of society and shastra! After the marriage Sri Aurobindo reached Baroda along with his wife and sister Sarojini, via Deoghar and Nainital where the Gaekwad was holidaying at the time. About this time Sri Aurobindo's youngest brother, Barin, also joined him at Baroda. Because of his mother's illness and the untimely death of Dr. K.D. Chose, Barin's education had suffered... still rings for us to respond to in our hearts, for that is where the Mandir has to be built. We have now come to the closing period of Sri Aurobindo's stay at Baroda. In March 1905 Sri Aurobindo took over as acting Principal at Baroda College and he held that position until February 1906 when he took privilege leave to go to Bengal. Meanwhile much was happening in that province. On October 16, 1905 ...
... at Darjeeling, dissolved and he began to have spiritual experiences. Two days later he joined the service of the Gaekwad in Baroda. In the Maharajah’s Service It must have been an enormous change for A.A. Ghose to find himself in princely but culturally backward Baroda of the end of the nineteenth century, after having lived for more than thirteen years in cities like Manchester, London and... all occasions, the narratives of his travels, a history of Baroda and, of course, his biography. Aurobindo was never his official secretary, but everybody was aware from where the Maharajah’s sonorous English came. Aurobindo never let himself be daunted by his royal employer. His Bengali teacher had this anecdote: ‘The Prince of Baroda was going to be married [somewhere in 1904-05]. In those days... him little opportunity to enjoy a conventional marriage.’ 26 Baroda in those years was not an easy place to live. Like so many other places in India it had been ravaged by famines in 1896 and 1899, and in the following years it was afflicted by droughts causing severe water scarcity. Another family member who appeared at Baroda was someone who would play an important role in Aurobindo’s life: ...
... A revised translation appeared in the Arya, November-December 1920. Mandukya and Prashna: from manuscripts. Taittiriya and Aitareya: from early Baroda manuscripts. On Translating the Upanishads: from a Baroda manuscript. The Karmayogin translations of the Isha, Kena and Mundaka were reprinted in Seven Upanishads by Ashtekar & Co., Poona in 1920. ... A tragedy. From Sri Aurobindo's Baroda period. SABCL: Collected Plays, Vol. 6 76 . SAVITRI — A Legend and a Symbol Part I, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1950 Parts II and III (in one volume), 1951 Complete in one volume, 1954 An epic poem. Sri Aurobindo worked on a poem entitled "Savitri" while at Baroda. The epic as it now stands took shape... Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1956 Translations from the Maithili poet, written in Baroda. SABCL: Translations, Vol. 8 81 . SONGS TO MYRTILLA First Edition [for private circulation only]: Lakshmi Vilas Printing Press, Baroda, 1895 Authorised [Trade] Edition: , Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1923 The 1923 edition contains ...
... Aurobindo going about in a shirt. The Baroda Collegians so idolized their former Professor that when he came to Baroda from Surat they unharnessed the horses from his carriage and pulled it themselves. * * * Charu Chandra Dutt had heard much about Sri Aurobindo from different sources. But it was finally in 1904 that he met him. It was at the Baroda station. Dutt was on his way to Bombay... College from Khaserao Saheb's bungalow had purple glass panes." S. B. Didmishe's remembrance of Sri Aurobindo's passage in Baroda a year later, after the Surat Congress, had remained vivid. "Then," Didmishe recalled, "after the break-up of the Congress at Surat, he came to Baroda for five or six days to speak on behalf of the Extremist party. There four lectures were delivered in the Bankaneer Theatre... Keshavrao Deshpande and Jatin Banerji were also with him." Just before the train's halt at the Baroda station the Englishman asked C. Dutt, "Do you know where Ghosh is now?" "Which Ghosh?" "That Classical scholar of Cambridge who has come away to India to waste his future." "He is at Baroda," replied Dutt. When the train stopped Hesh saw Dutt and shouted to him, "Dutt, do you know ...
... matter very much, but it will be rather a pull when Mrinalini comes back to Baroda. However even that could be managed well enough with some self-denial and an effective household management. But there is a tale of woe behind. "Sarojini suggests that I might bring her [their mother Swarnalata] or have her brought to Baroda with my wife. I should have no objection, but is that feasible? In the first... Collector of Baroda. 2.This Anandrao Jadhav seems to have been a lively young man (please read on), full of mischief like William Brown. In a letter to his wife, dated 3 October 1905, Sri Aurobindo wrote, "The other day I went to meet Khaserao. Anandrao has grown very big. He will become a big cheat." Page 136 behaviour of those trusted pillars of the Baroda Raj at Ajwa,... alluded to by the Maharaja was the preparation by 'Mr. Ghose', and completion, of a long report on trade in Baroda State. Page 139 very much, but it is better than nothing. At that rate I shall get Rs. 700 in 1912 and be drawing about Rs. 1000 when I am ready to retire from Baroda either to Bengal or a better world. Glory Halleluja! "Give my love to Sarojini and tell her I shall write ...
... an inner command, left for Chandernagore in February 1910. During the first year (1905-6), Sri Aurobindo was hardly known outside the small circle of his students at Baroda, and his friends and immediate associates in Baroda and elsewhere, but he was already a recognised power behind the scenes of political jostlings and joustings. During the second year (1906-7), he was more widely known (though... of the forest at night, but the prey had yet to assume a recognisable form and spring into view. To all outward appearances, Sri Aurobindo's life in Baroda pursued its even course. Nevertheless, some of the images of his home life at Baroda, etched from memory years later by his Bengali companion Dinendra Kumar Roy in Aurobindo Prasange, are themselves significant and bespeak a power containing... waters of discontent and revolutionary idealism. During 1905-6, Sri Aurobindo was ostensibly in the service of the Baroda College. From March 1905 to February 1906, he acted as Principal on a consolidated salary of Rs.. 710 per month. When a public meeting was held in Baroda in September to protest against the Bengal partition, Sri Aurobindo was present there - though he did not make a speech ...
... writings of the last years of the Baroda period - notably the 'Bhavani Mandir' scheme which the Government of the time thought was a veritable piece of political dynamite - will be more appropriately discussed in a later Section of the book. In this and the three subsequent chapters, we shall consider Sri Aurobindo's English poetical compositions of the Baroda period - translations, narrative poetry... imitations, transmutations and also original creations, yet only very little of this immense body of work was actually published during the Baroda period - a few pieces in Songs to Myrtilla (1895), some of Bhartrihari's 'The Century of Life' in the Baroda College Miscellany and the early narrative poem Urvasie (1896). During Sri Aurobindo's editorship of the Bande Mataram and later of the... material going back even to the early years of the Baroda period has been sorted out, deciphered, edited and given to the world posthumously, and our gratitude is not a little due to the scholarly editors who have brought so much devotion and critical ingenuity and discrimination to their task. The corpus of this literature belonging to the Baroda period, even though not all of it may have yet achieved ...
... A Baroda Savitri? We are often told that the composition of Savitri began with a version Sri Aurobindo is supposed to have written in Baroda around 1900, even before he took up Yoga. There is evidence for and against the hypothesis that such a version existed. Its basis is a passing remark by one Dinendra Kumar Roy, who stayed with Sri Aurobindo for some time in Baroda and later... written in Baroda when he began to work on the poem in Pondicherry in 1916, it should have been kept along with the other manuscripts. Since it has not been found, it is likely that any poem he might have written on this subject in Baroda did not come with him to Pondicherry. Sri Aurobindo's own references to the beginnings of Savitri do not seem to support the theory of a Baroda version. He... been confused with it. The fact that no manuscript of a Baroda Savitri survives does not, by itself, prove that there was no such version. But thousands of pages of manuscripts of Savitri, extending in a virtually unbroken series from 1916 to the 1940s, have been preserved. A number of notebooks which Sri Aurobindo used in Baroda for various writings, and later brought with him to Pondicherry ...
... service of the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. 1893 January 12 Leaves England by the S.S. Carthage. Travels via Gibraltar, Port Said and Aden. February 6 Arrives in India, landing at the Apollo Bunder, Bombay. A "vast calm" descends upon him as he sets foot on Indian soil and remains for months afterwards. February 18 Officially joins the Baroda State Service; his pay is retroactive... retroactive to February 8, probable date of his arrival in Baroda. His first work is in the Survey Settlement Department. During the first year of his stay in Baroda, has a vision of the Godhead surging up from within ' him when in danger of a carriage accident. March-April Works at translations from the Mahabharata. Juue 26 Contributes an article, "India and the British Parliament"... 1897 Begins part-time work in the Baroda College as a lecturer in French. 1898 Appointed acting Professor of English in the College. 1899 Serves as acting Professor of English and lecturer in French. June-July Writes Love and Death, a narrative poem. July 22 Lecture at the Baroda College Social Gathering. 1900 Acting Professor ...
... "That must be he. It is very characteristic of him. He was my first friend in Baroda. He took me to his house and I stayed there for some time. He was a nice man, but what people call 'volatile and mercurial.'" Sri Aurobindo had known Bapubhai Majumdar from his London days. During his thirteen years' service to the Baroda State Sri Aurobindo was to make more friends. We shall meet some of them by... English at his own request. His monthly pay was accordingly increased to Rs. 300. He became very active in the College. He was elected President of the Managing Committee of the Baroda State Library, was the Chairman of the Baroda College Union, and took charge of the Debating Society and the College Miscellany. For the work done for him by A. Ghose in his spare time, the Maharaja increased the... and efficient in work. He would have much preferred giving him two or three years' leave without pay. The then Maharaja of Baroda, Sayajirao Gaekwad (1863-1939) was born on 11 March 1863 in Kavlana village near Nasik. When he was twelve, the Dowager Maharani of Baroda State adopted him from a peasant family distantly related to the house of the Gaekwads. Thus the young Gopalrao became Page ...
... the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. 1893 — January 12 Leaves England by the S. S. Carthage. Travels via Gibraltar, Port Said and Aden. February 6 Arrives in India, landing at the Apollo Bunder, Bombay. A "vast calm" descends upon him as he sets foot on Indian soil and remains for months afterwards. February 18 Officially joins the Baroda State Service; his pay is... is retroactive to February 8, probable date of his arrival in Baroda. His first work is in the Land Settlement Department. During the first year of his stay in Baroda, has a vision of the godhead surging up from within him when in danger of a carriage accident. March-April Works at translations from the Mahabharata. June 26 Contributes an article, "India and the British... narrative poem. 1897 — Begins part-time work in the Baroda College as a lecturer in French. 1898 — Appointed acting professor of English in the College. 1899 — Serves as acting professor of English and lecturer in French. June-July Writes Love and Death, a narrative poem. July 22 Lecture at the Baroda College Social Gathering. 1900 — Acting professor ...
... other nationalist forces which came to the fore. The year 1908 was dawning as Sri Aurobindo left Surat for Baroda. This was his first visit to Baroda since his departure for Calcutta in June 1906, and what momentous changes had taken place during these eighteen months! When he left Baroda, Sri Aurobindo was hardly known outside his circle of close associates and followers. Now he was in the forefront... of this visit to Baroda, Sri Aurobindo also met the Maharaja. We do not know what transpired during the talks but the Gaekwad desired another meeting, which, however, did not take place. At Baroda, Sri Aurobindo first stayed at Khaserao Jadhav's house. Those who met him were struck by the utter simplicity of his way of life. You may recall that when he was in service at Baroda, Sri Aurobindo was... meeting but Barin remembered the occasion and now, with Sri Aurobindo's consent, he sent a telegram to Lele at Gwalior to come to Baroda. It is said that when Lele received the telegram he felt that a great soul needed his help in yoga and so he left at once for Baroda. It was at Khaserao Jadhav's house that Lele came and met Sri Aurobindo. Lele was ready to help but asked that he should suspend ...
... brother for education. This never came to anything. In fact Aurobindo had to support his sister Sarojini at Bankipore after his return to India in 1893, when he joined the Baroda state service. He used to send money regularly from Baroda to' his mother at Rohini. Later on (in 1901) Barin also came and stayed with him. But what Manmohan describes as his great loss in his own childhood must have been felt... participating in the Indian Majlis were the two activities that interested him. Study and success in examinations were necessities. Most of the poems written at Cambridge by Aurobindo were published at Baroda in 1895 in his book Songs to Myrtilla. It was Norman Ferrers, who later practised as a barrister in the Straits Settlement, who gave to Aurobindo, while at Cambridge, the clue to the discovery... Among Aurobindo's contemporaries at Cambridge may be mentioned Ferrers, Robert Pentland Mahaffy, Felix Xavier De Souza, K. G. Deshpande and Sir Harisingh Gaur. K.G. Deshpande met Sri Aurobindo again in Baroda. Being brought up in a foreign country without a background Page 23 of home life in India or, once they had left the Drewetts in Manchester, of family life in England, must have ...
... Autobiographical Notes Service in Baroda State Sri Aurobindo was first introduced to H.H. Sri Sayajirao, the great, Maharaja of Baroda by Mr. Khaserao Jadhav in England. Not true. Sri Aurobindo made the acquaintance of Khaserao two or three years after reaching Baroda. Cotton introduced him to the Gaekwar. Struck by the brilliance and the... life and the reconstruction of India. The most intimate friend at Baroda was Khaserao's brother, Page 38 Lieutenant Madhavrao Jadhav who was associated with him in his political ideas and projects and helped him whenever possible in his political work. He lived with M. in his house most of the time he was at Baroda. There was no such discussion of problems; Sri Aurobindo took no interest... from Barin and met Sri Aurobindo at the Jadhavs' house; Lele took him to Majumdar's house for meditation on the top floor. Shri Arvind Ghosh ... joined Baroda State Service in February 1893 as an extra professor of English in the Baroda College ... Incorrect. ... on a salary of Rs. 300/–a month. It was 200/ not 300/. His age as recorded in State papers on 31st July 1899 was 26 ...
... 1903-1904 (Baroda).- 1st ed. 1911 Songs of Vidyapati, 1893-1905 (Baroda).- 1st ed. 1956 Rodogune, 1893-1905 (Baroda).- 1st ed. 1958 Ilion .- 1st ed. 1957 Vasavadutta 1915-1916.- 1st ed. 1957 Urvasie, 1893-1896.- 1st ed. 1896 Ahana and Other Poems, 1895-1915 .- 1st ed. 1915 Love and Death, 1899.- 1st ed. 1921 The Viziers of Bassora, 1893-1905 (Baroda).- 1st ed.... 1st ed. 1952 Conversations of the Dead, 1909-1910.- 1st ed. 1951 The Phantom Hour (a short story), 1910-1912.- 1st ed. 1951 Kalidasa, 2 volumes, 1893-1905 (Baroda).- 1st ed. 1929 Vyasa and Valmiki, 1893-1905 (Baroda).- 1st ed. 1956 Page 322 The Future Poetry, 'Arya' Dec. 1917-July 1920.- 1st ed. 1953 Collected Poems and Plays, 2 volumes.- 1st ed. 1942 Poems... Bombay, he was overtaken by a spontaneous spiritual experience, a vast calm ; but he had more immediate concerns of food and survival. Sri Aurobindo was twenty. He found a position with the Maharaja of Baroda, as professor of French, then taught English at the state college, where he soon became vice-principal. He worked also as private secretary to the Prince. Between the court and the college he was busy ...
... translated this Upanishad in Baroda around 1902. (It does not form part of TMS.) The translation was never revised and is published here in its original form. It was first published in Eight Upanishads in 1953 and was included in The Upanishads in 1971. Page 442 Taittiriya Upanishad . Sri Aurobindo translated this Upanishad in Baroda around 1902. (It does not form... notebook and handwriting, it would appear that he did the translation during the period of his stay in Baroda; yet he is recorded as saying, "I translated the Shwetashwatara Upanishad while I was in Bengal." It is possible that he did the translation in Bengal during one of his vacations from Baroda College between 1902 and 1906. He retranslated the fourth chapter in Pondicherry several years later.... the Kena, Katha and Mundaka, and commentaries on the Kena and parts of the Taittiriya. Page 439 The Kena Upanishad . Sri Aurobindo first translated the Kena Upanishad in Baroda around 1900. (This translation forms part of a typewritten manuscript, hereafter referred to as TMS, which Sri Aurobindo entitled "The Upanishads rendered into simple and rhythmic English".) The TMS ...
... speak in his mother tongue! I lived with him day and 1. It was of recent origin. "I also had a mild attack of smallpox in Baroda," Sri Aurobindo said. "It was given to me by a Bombay judge who had come to Baroda. Nobody knew that he had smallpox and in Baroda at that time there was no such illness. The judge prepared some mango drink and asked me to take it and transferred his smallpox too... Bombay's Victoria Terminus early this century they went to the Colaba station and boarded a train of B. B. C. I. R. line (Bombay-Baroda Central India Railways). The train left the station at 10 P.M. and reached Baroda very early in the morning. Lieutenant Madhavrao Jadhav was waiting on the platform to receive them. He took them to his brother Khaserao's house. This palatial... towards the end of 1898, a few weeks after the pujas, that D. K. Roy arrived at Deoghar together with his pupil who had gone to Calcutta for a few days to be with his Na-masi. From Deoghar they went to Baroda, breaking their journey at Bankipore (near Patna) for a day or two, as Sri Aurobindo wished to meet an uncle of his there. After a few days they alighted one morning from a train at Bombay's Victoria ...
... eldest brother was a Police Commissioner somewhere in the Baroda State. The second brother, Khaserao Jadhav was about the same age as the Maharaja, and a distant relation of his. He was a graduate in agriculture from a British college. He had entered the Baroda Civil Service where he first served as a District Collector, then was posted at Baroda itself as Revenue Commissioner. He looked after the education... sprouted the moment I set foot on Apollo Bunder, touching Indian soil, flowered one day in the first year of my stay in Baroda, at the moment when there threatened to be an accident to my carriage." One day, Sri Aurobindo was driving from Camp Road Page 49 in Baroda and had just reached the side of the public gardens when his carriage was threatened with an accident. The carriage... education of the Maharaja's grandson for some time. The Gaekwad got a house built for Khaserao at Baroda: Bungalow 15 in Dandia Bazar. The two-storeyed redbrick house was completed in 1896. Among the various residences Sri Aurobindo occupied during his thirteen years' sojourn in Baroda, he spent most of his time at Khaserao's bungalow. In 1898, when he brought his Bengali teacher, Dinendra Kumar Roy ...
... it does not matter very much, but it will be rather a pull when Mrinalini comes back to Baroda. However even that could be managed well enough with some self-denial and an effective household management. But there is a tale of woe behind. Sarojini suggests that I might bring her or have her brought to Baroda with my wife. I should have no objection, but is that feasible? In the first place will... Letters on Personal, Practical and Political Matters (1890-1926) Autobiographical Notes To His Uncle c/o Rao Bahadur K.B. Jadhava Near Municipal Office Baroda 15ᵗʰ August 1902 My dear Boromama, I am sorry to hear from Sarojini that Mejdada has stopped sending mother's allowance and threatens to make the stoppage permanent unless you can improvise... remains, and in spite of considerable severity and even cruelty in collection the revenues of the last year amount simply to the tail of the dog without the dog himself. This year there was no rain in Baroda till the first crop withered; after July 5ᵗʰ about 9 inches fell, just sufficient to encourage the cultivators to sow again. Now for want of more rain the second crop is withering away into nothingness ...
... I myself have never been a sportsman or – apart from a spectator's interest in cricket in England or a non-player member of the Baroda cricket club – taken up any physical games or athletics except some exercises leamt from Madrasi wrestlers in Baroda such as dand and baithak , and those I took up only to put some strength and vigour into a frail and weak though not unhealthy body ... Indu Prakash ) and studied the conditions in the country so that he might be able to judge more maturely what could be done. Then he made his first move when he sent a young Bengali soldier of the Baroda army, Jatin Banerji, as his lieutenant to Bengal with a programme of preparation and action which he thought might occupy a period of 30 years before fruition could become possible. As a matter of... had always considered the shaking off of this economic yoke and the development of Indian trade and industry as a necessary concomitant of the revolutionary endeavour. . As long as he was in the Baroda Service, Sri Aurobindo could Page 249 not take part publicly in politics. Apart from that, he preferred to remain and act and even to lead from behind the scenes without his name ...
... s post—salary Page 753 Rs 160/–to Rs 200/–for the efficient management and discipline of the Baroda High School? (2) If so, should Mr. D. M. Patel be appointed to that post? Opinion (1) Yes. (2)Yes. Baroda 15ṭḥ September 1905 ARAVIND A. GHOSE Ag. Principal Baroda College Opinion Forwarded with the recommendation that the proposal of the Principal of the College... The reason why this Tippan is sent during the absence of K. B. Dalal on leave is because it is a matter which requires early sanction of the Huzur. Baroda 16ṭḥ September 1905 ARAVIND A. GHOSE In charge Minister of Education Baroda State Baroda Page 754 ... Opinions Written as Acting Principal, Baroda College (1905) Early Cultural Writings On a Head Assistant for the High School 13-September-1905 Concise History History in short The Baroda High School has for some time been increasing in numbers, until now it has reached the very large number of 750. It is high time therefore that in view ...
... for an explanation is the implication clearly conveyed in the letter that no efficient administration of the State is possible during the absence of H.H. from Baroda. With reference to this I beg to submit that the administration of the Baroda State has been systematically regulated by H.H. so that it can be worked by his officers even when he is not present in person at the Capital. It stands therefore... months of the year takes with him his staff & office & the supervision of administrative work goes on with the same regularity as at Baroda. Indeed it is a fact that owing to better health & greater freedom from harassment more work is done by H.H. outside than at Baroda. In the case of absences in Europe efficient control is no doubt more difficult but on such occasions H.H. has to delegate some... expresses a hope that His Highness will now withdraw his objections to the provisions of the circular. It further makes certain remarks on the delay in sending the protest, the absence of His Highness from Baroda and its results on the administration of the State. I am anxious therefore to place before the Government of India certain facts and circumstances relating to those matters and in explanation of ...
... of his mind, the sheer infinitudes of his spirit? Born in Calcutta thirty-seven years earlier, his Odyssey ad covered many places, many climes: Darjeeling, Manchester, London, Cambridge, Baroda - and with the return to Calcutta in 1906, the wheel had come full circle. Chandernagore was almost a new start, or more appropriately, the beginning of another upward swing of the spiralling ascent;... and therefore had also equally great potentialities for the future. We have seen in an earlier chapter (III.vi) how Sri Aurobindo came to be interested in Yoga during the latter part of the Baroda period. What attracted him to Yoga is however, no mystery. He had spent fourteen years in a foreign country, and he had been both warmed up and depressed by the civilisation of the West; in the end... Aurobindo in the Uttarpara speech: When I first approached Him, it was not entirely in the spirit of the Bhakta, it was not entirely in the spirit of the Jnani. I came to Him long ago in Baroda some years before the Swadeshi began and I was drawn into the public field. When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the ...
... at last made a bee-line to Baroda where he arrived one morning in 1901 "with a dirty canvas bag and very dirty clothes". After a bath, he was presentable enough, and made a fourth in the family, with Sri Aurobindo, his wife Mrinalini, and his sister Sarojini already there. 23 Barin, however, had even earlier caught the revolutionary "virus", and he reached Baroda at the time when Sri Aurobindo... Calcutta period, Sri Aurobindo was involved in - or at least deeply concerned with - the tenor and tempo of political life in the country (and the world); and whether from behind the scenes as in the Baroda period or from occult planes as in his later years, Sri Aurobindo was always a power, a guiding and activising spirit, for he was verily the true son of the Mother, the sword-arm of Bhavani Bharati... ry organisation - that was as yet "nameless". He was drawn to Yoga too, but not for the usual reasons, but with a view to success in politics. It is thus hardly surprising that the writings of the Baroda period should show up here and there the sharp edges of his current political and revolutionary preoccupations. It was seen earlier that Sri Aurobindo's Urvasie, Love and Death, Baji Prabhou ...
... (thirty-fourth to thirty-eighth nights). Sri Aurobindo owned in Baroda a multi-volume edition of Richard Burton's translation of the Arabic text (London, 1894), which he considered "as much a classic as the original". Rodogune. Two complete, independent versions of this play exist. Sri Aurobindo wrote the first one in Baroda between 31 January and 14 February 1906, on the eve of his departure... Brut. Sri Aurobindo wrote this fragment during the early part of his stay in Baroda, probably in 1899. The idea for The House of Brut seems to have come from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae or another chronicle of early Britain. The Maid in the Mill. This piece was written in Baroda, probably around 1902. The source of the plot of The Maid in the Mill... the time of Sri Aurobindo's arrest in connection with the Alipore Bomb Case in May 1908. It seems to have been written a few years before that, towards the end of the period of his employment in the Baroda State (1893 - 1906). Sri Aurobindo never saw the manuscript of The Viziers after his arrest, and he is said to have particularly regretted its loss. Once in Pondicherry he tried to reconstruct ...
... time the Gaekwar of Baroda was in London. Aurobindo saw him, obtained an appointment in the Baroda Service and left England in [January], 2 1893. Sri Aurobindo passed thirteen years, from 1893 to 1906, in the Baroda Service, first in the Revenue Department and in secretariat work for the Maharaja, afterwards as Professor of English and, finally, Vice-Principal in the Baroda College. These were... India and the East. 3 At Baroda he made up the deficiency, learned Sanskrit and several modern Indian languages, Page 5 assimilated the spirit of Indian civilisation and its forms past and present. A great part of the last years of this period was spent on leave in silent political activity, for he was debarred from public action by his position at Baroda. The outbreak of the agitation... agitation against the partition of Bengal in 1905 gave him the opportunity to give up the Baroda Service and join openly in the political movement. He left Baroda in 1906 and went to Calcutta as Principal of the newly-founded Bengal National College. The political action of Sri Aurobindo covered eight years, from 1902 to 1910. During the first half of this period he worked behind the scenes, preparing ...
... 5. Sri Aurobindo wrote this fragment in a notebook he first used in Baroda around 1901. It is impossible to determine the exact date of the piece. First published in Bande Mataram: Early Political Writings - I in 1972. Unity : An open letter to those who despair of their Country . 1901 - 3. Written in a Baroda notebook, probably after the preceding piece, and almost certainly before... jottings he wrote in a notebook under the heading "India Renascent" (page 3). Page 1147 Returning to India in February 1893, Sri Aurobindo took up work in the Princely State of Baroda. Later that same year, he began to contribute articles on the Indian National Congress to the Indu Prakash of Bombay. These proved to be too outspoken for the proprietor of this newspaper. Compelled... of which, Bhawani Mandir , survives. All available political writings from the pre-1906 period are published in Part One of these volumes. In February 1906, Sri Aurobindo left his job in Baroda and settled in Calcutta. Even before then he had made contact with the advanced nationalists of Bengal, who had begun to split off from the established group, whom they called "Moderates". The advanced ...
... without himself rejecting the Service." 12 A friend, James S. Cotton, now negotiated with the Maharaja of Baroda and secured for Sri Aurobindo a job at Rs 200 per month. This seemed to settle his future, and so he sailed by S.S.Carthage and arrived in India early in 1893 and took up his duties in Baroda on 8 February. He moved from the Land Settlement Department, where he had his first assignment, to the... India, Sri Aurobindo employed special tutors and quickly mastered his mother tongue, Bengali and Sanskrit. Page 8 As he was serving in Baroda, it was easy for him to learn Marathi and Gujarati as well. His years at Baroda were years of ceaseless striving and achievement in many fields of activity: teaching, scholarship, political journalism, poetry, Yoga. He dieted on the poets... the Stamps Office, then to the Central Revenue Office and the Secretariat, and so at last to Baroda College, first as Lecturer in French, and later as Professor of English and Vice-Principal. Fourteen years in England, especially at so impressionable a period of his life, should have completely de-nationalised Sri Aurobindo. This was not how things worked, however; he no doubt grew attached ...
... of Vishnu Bhaskar Lele was at Baroda. Barin had come to know about him and learnt that Lele was at that time in Gwalior. A wire was sent to Lele asking him to come to Baroda. So, when Sri Aurobindo went to Baroda after the breakup of the Congress, Lele had already arrived there. Lele told the author in 1916 that when he received the telegram telling him to go to Baroda he had an intuition that he would... second week of January Sri Aurobindo went to Poona from Baroda. Sri Aurobindo asked Lele to come with him and Lele agreed. Sri Aurobindo gave a lecture at the Gaekwad Wada, Poona, on the thirteenth. Then he went to Bombay. At Girgaum (Bombay) he delivered a lecture on the fifteenth. In Bombay the spiritual experience that had begun at Baroda became more intense. The vacant condition of the mind turned... political scene of which he was an important centre. Friends knew where he was but no one disturbed him. He remained with Lele for three days in the small room on the top floor of Sardar Majumdar's wada in Baroda. Lele asked him to make his mind blank – which he did. Sri Aurobindo has himself described this incident more than once. Below several accounts of his experience in his own words are reproduced. ...
... might be able to help Sri Aurobindo, and so Barindra wired to Lele to come from Gwalior (where he was staying at the time) to Baroda. Sri Aurobindo's own return after the lapse of a year and a half created a great sensation in Baroda. Although the Principal of the Baroda College had directed the students not to go out to meet Sri Aurobindo, they did just the opposite; they ran out of their classes... biography and a history C HAPTER 11 The Nation's Pace-maker I We saw that one of the developments that helped Sri Aurobindo to decide to leave the Baroda service for good and take the plunge into Bengal politics was the offer of the Principalship of the New National College at Calcutta. The college opened on 14 August 1906, and Sri Aurobindo began... to take leave from the National College again and again, and the management of the college was almost wholly relegated to Satish Mukherjee. On his return to India and during the years of his Baroda experience, Sri Aurobindo had found the British system of education disgusting: "He felt that it tended to dull and impoverish and tie up the naturally quick and brilliant and supple Indian intelligence ...
... fine sonnet on him in English. After the marriage Sri Aurobindo left for his maternal Page 4 uncle's place at Deoghar with his wife and then for Baroda via Nainital, taking his sister Sarojini with them. The Maharaja of Baroda was vacationing at Nainital, during that time. Mrinalini lived for a full first year with Sri Aurobindo. After that reports vary. Whatever the truth, I believe... of a famous college there. It was he who arranged the marriage of Mrinalini with Sri Aurobindo in a most unorthodox manner. Sri Aurobindo, as you know, had returned to India and taken up a job in Baroda. ''When, after about 7 years of service, he had become the Vice-Principal of the college in that city, he decided to marry. He was then 29 years of age. He had put an advertisement in a Calcutta paper... cherished by him. At least he must have sown the seeds which would sprout and bear rich fruit in the future. After a year Mrinalini had to go back to her father's home and could not return soon to Baroda, however much she wanted. Occasionally she revisited it. Now she was living either with her parents at Shillong or in Deoghar, the home of Sri Aurobindo's maternal uncle. Sri Aurobindo wished very ...
... clever Page 150 husband was bound to be the Diwan 220 of Baroda one day. I had always been very anxious to have a glimpse of this prodigy, but had no luck. In 1896,I went away to Europe for a few years, and it was not till my return home that I met him casually on the Baroda station platform, as I have already stated elsewhere. In the seventies of the last... not done so more than once? From Baroda to Calcutta, from Calcutta to Pondicherry, from Pondicherry to another world, as soon as he received the call from within, or from above! As long as I did not realise that he was the embodied Divine, I tried to appraise his actions by my intellect. That he was always a Yogi, a seeker, I never doubted. Towards the end of his Baroda days, he initiated Deshapande and... as yet. 220Chief Minister, principal advisor to the Maharajah. 221A great Bengali preacher. 222Magazine. Page 151 He is the vice-principal of the Baroda college." Mead said, "It is a pity that the man is an Indian and has had to come to this country. He would have been a famous professor in Cambridge. Well, Dutt, remember me to him when you meet him ...
... solved! I then conveyed to him the message of Sj. K. G. Deshpande from Baroda. I told him that financial help could be arranged from Baroda, if necessary, to which he replied, "At present what is required comes from Bengal, especially from Chandernagore. Sothere is no need." When the talk turned to Prof. D. L. Purohit of Baroda Sri Aurobindo recounted the incident of his visit to Pondicherry where... where he had come to inquire into the relation between the Church and the State. He had paid a courtesy call on Sri Aurobindo as he had known him at Baroda. This had resulted in his resignation from Baroda State service on account of the pressure of the British Residency. I conveyed to Sri Aurobindo the good news that after his resignation Mr. Purohit had started practice as a lawyer and had been... that I had known him before the appearance of the Arya . The Congress broke up at Surat in 1907. Sri Aurobindo had played a prominent part in that historical session. From Surat he came to Baroda, and at Vankaner Theatre and at Prof, Manik Rao's old gymnasium in Dandia Bazar he delivered several speeches which not only took the audience by storm but changed entirely the course of many lives ...
... more Hell to the poor wretch after the delicious coolness of his iceberg ? I do not know for what enormous crime I have been condemned to Baroda, but my case is just parallel. Since my pleasant sojourn with you at Baidyanath, Baroda seems a hundred times more Baroda. "I dare say Beno may write to you three or four days before he leaves England. But you must think yourself lucky if he does as much... Rajnarain was found asleep ... standing. What was the feeling of Sejda when he had to leave behind his new-found family and return to Baroda ? He expressed it in his inimitable way to his sister Saro in a letter dated 25 August, 1894. We quote it here in full. "Baroda Camp 25 August, 1894 "My dear Saro, "I got your letter the day before yesterday. I have been trying hard to write to... have presented some difficulties, for there is no one who knows Bengali in Baroda —no one at least whom I could get at. Fortunately the smattering I acquired in England stood me in good stead, and I was able to make out the sense of the letter, barring a word here and a word there. "If all goes well, I shall leave Baroda on the 18 th ; at any rate it will not be more than a day or two later. ...
... population must for long depend upon the gratuitous assistance which the Government has placed at their doors. In Baroda the old system prevailed almost until the year of my accession. At that time the only public provision of medical aid on modern lines was one hospital at Baroda under the Residency surgeon, two small military hospitals in Kathiawar and three dispensaries in various parts of the... Speeches Written for the Maharaja of Baroda (1901-1902) Early Cultural Writings Medical Department Introductory One of the peculiarities of administration in India is the extent to which the provision of medical aid for the people rests on the shoulders of the Government. In a healthy community the sphere of Government action outside certain... Rs 545 per month and a regular Medical Department instituted. Dr Cody, a medical officer of the British service, was appointed Chief Medical Officer and 4 hospitals and 9 dispensaries were opened in Baroda, Nowsari, Sidhpur, Kadi, Pattan and other important places in the territory. These were added to in successive years and in 1880-81 there existed 11 hospitals, 23 Dispensaries and one Veterinary Hospital ...
... test. The Gaekwar of Baroda happened to be there at that time, and Sri Aurobindo accepted the proposal to be his personal secretary, and returned to India. Soon thereafter, however, Sri Aurobindo switched over to the Baroda College as Professor of French and then of English, and when in 1905, he left for Bengal, he was the acting Principal of the College. It was during the Baroda period that he a... Indeed, his political work had already begun in Baroda, but it was behind the scenes, largely of the nature of a preparation for an armed revolution for the liberation of India. Sri Aurobindo was the first among the Indian leaders to declare and work for the aim of complete independence of India. In 1905, when Bengal was divided, he left Baroda and invited by the nationalist leaders he joined... fashionable in Europe. Abnormal, otherwise supraphysical experiences and powers, occult or yogic, always seemed to him something perfectly natural and credible. It was after a long stay in India at Baroda, that Sri Aurobindo turned decisively to Yoga in 1904. He had, however, a few spiritual experiences even in his pre-yogic period. The first was in London in 1892, the year of his departure from England ...
... stipulated that Sri Aurobindo should become the Principal of the proposed National College. So the way was now open for Sri Aurobindo to leave Baroda. As Principal of the National College Sri Aurobindo would draw a nominal pay of Rs.150 per month; when he left Baroda, his salary was more than Rs.700 per month, a handsome figure in those days. Characteristically, he accepted this considerable sacrifice without... establishing the idea of complete independence, and creating a movement for non-cooperation and passive resistance so as to paralyse the Government. Sri Aurobindo was waiting for an opportunity to leave Baroda for good. During his visits to Bengal in 1905 and 1906 he saw that the situation there had undergone a radical transformation and he knew that the time had come for concerted action on the lines he... was given as the editor in one issue but as a result of his strong protest, it did not appear again. Sri Aurobindo did not wish attention to be drawn to himself as he had still not resigned from his Baroda service; moreover, as the Principal of the National College, he wanted to avoid involving that institution in political controversies. In the day to day running of the Bande Mataram Sri Aurobindo ...
... into time. A. Ghose was known to all ranks of people at Baroda from the Maharaja to the street sweeper —and esteemed by all. The educated community of Baroda had a great respect for the young man's uncommon gifts. From February 1898, when he was first appointed Extra Professor of English, Sri Aurobindo was associated with the Baroda College until he left the State Service in 1906; at the time... later became an advocate at Baroda, called up the past in 1956, independently confirming in the process many observations made by D. K. Roy. "In these days he did not take any cooked food in the evening but used to take fruit —mostly plantains — and a cup of milk. This kind of austere life continued to the day he left Baroda." For active politics. "When I came to Baroda," ran Patkar's statement,... time he was the Acting Principal of the College. By the time Dinendra Kumar Roy came to Baroda in late 1898, A. Ghose, then twenty-six years old, was already a well-known figure at the College. D. K. Roy found that "Aurobindo was revered and adored as a god by Baroda's student community. The students were charmed by his manner of teaching.... They honoured and trusted this Bengali professor more ...
... Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes The Meeting with the Maharaja of Baroda He obtained, with the help of James Cotton, Sir Henry's son, an introduction to H.H. the late Sayaji Rao, Gaekwar of Baroda, during his visit to England. James Cotton was Sir Henry's brother not his son. Sir Henry Cotton was much connected with Maharshi... It was he who arranged the meeting. Sri Aurobindo was first introduced to H.H. Sri Sayajirao, the great, Maharaja of Baroda by Mr. Khaserao Jadhav in England. Not true. Sri Aurobindo became acquainted with Khaserao two or three years after his arrival in Baroda, through Khaserao's brother, Lieutenant Madhavrao Jadhav. [It was] 1 James Cotton, brother of Sir Henry (who was a friend of... Aurobindo who was greatly relieved and overjoyed by his release from the I.C.S) and, when that did not succeed, introduced him to the Gaekwar so that he might get an appointment in Baroda. Cotton afterwards came on a visit to Baroda and saw Sri Aurobindo in the College. × Sri Aurobindo cancelled "It was" during revision but ...
... futurity." Henry Nevinson had perception. On 31 December Sri Aurobindo left Surat for Baroda. Barin and Sakharia Baba were with him in the reserved compartment of the train. In that biting cold of Gujarat, Sri Aurobindo was going about with one shirt, and cheap canvas shoes. The Principal of Baroda College had issued orders to students that they were not to meet Sri Aurobindo nor even go... Rao's gymnasium. All the three speeches dealt with the political situation. Our A. B. Purani was present at those Page 433 lectures. He reports that during Sri Aurobindo's "stay in Baroda he met Chhotalal Purani in a private interview and explained to him the scheme of the revolutionary work by drawing a pencil sketch on a paper. He then advised him to meet Barin who met C. B. Purani... became so well known afterwards. The inspiration for it came from Sri Aurobindo." Chhotalal was A. B. 's elder brother. Purani also says, "Barin had intensity and fire at that time. Once I saw him at Baroda with my brother. They were discussing revolutionary plans. I saw that fire in his eyes." It was 8A.M. when Sri Aurobindo and Barin had reached Khaserao's house. Within the hour Sri Aurobindo had ...
... Indu Prakash ) and studied the conditions in the country so that he might be able to judge more maturely what could be done. Then he made his first move when he sent a young Bengali soldier of the Baroda army, Jatin Banerji, as his lieutenant to Bengal with a programme of preparation and action which he thought might occupy a period of 30 years before fruition could become possible. As a matter of... himself had always considered the shaking off of this economic yoke and the development of Indian trade and industry as a necessary concomitant of the revolutionary endeavour. As long as he was in the Baroda service, Sri Aurobindo could not take part publicly in politics. Apart from that, he preferred to remain and act and even to lead from behind the scenes without his name being known in public; it was... from Britain acceptance of independence for India. 3 At first Sri Aurobindo took part in Congress politics only Page 53 from behind the scenes as he had not yet decided to leave the Baroda service; but he took long leave without pay in which, besides carrying on personally the secret revolutionary work, he attended the Barisal Conference broken up by the police and toured East Bengal ...
... then Congress politics. Sent Jatindranath Bandyopadhyaya to Calcutta to organise revolutionary work, whom Sri Aurobindo had already got admitted to the Baroda State army for military training. Barindra, Sri Aurobindo's younger brother, came to Baroda. 1903 Initiated Barindra into the revolutionary cult and sent him to Calcutta to help Jatindra in revolutionary... February: Returned to India; on landing At Apollo Bunder, Bombay, had a spiritual experience of infinite calm descending upon him. This continued for weeks. 1893-1896 In Baroda State Service. First in administrative departments, then as lecturer in French, and finally as Professor of English, at the State College, of which he became Vice Principal, later on officiated as... Learning Sanskrit by himself; learnt also Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali. 1895 First literary publication. Songs to Mirtylla (poems written in England and Baroda) for primate circulation. Began studying the Indian epics and classical Sanskrit literature; translating the epics, Upanishads and Sanskrit plays; writing poetry, plays and literary essays. ...
... this time the Gaekwar of Baroda was in London. Aurobindo saw him, obtained an appointment in the Baroda Service and left England in January, 1893. Sri Aurobindo passed thirteen years, from 1893 to 1906 in the Baroda Service,first in the Revenue Department and in Secretariat work for the Maharaja, afterwards as Professor of English and, finally Vice-principal in the Baroda College. In England he... culture of India and the East. At Baroda he made up the deficiency, learned Sanskrit and several modern Indian languages, assimilated the spirit of Indian civilisation and its forms past and present. The outbreak of the agitation against the partition of Bengal in 1905 gave him the opportunity to give up the Baroda Service and join openly the political movement He left Baroda in 1906 and went to Calcutta ...
... the path of Yoga by a side door, as it were! Page 149 "Then I began to practise pranayama —in 1903. A Baroda engineer [Deodhar] who was a disciple of Brahmananda showed me how to do it and I started on my own. I practised pranayama at Khaserao Jadhav's place in Baroda. Some remarkable results came with it. "First, I felt a sort of electricity all around me. "Secondly, there... sleepless nights he kept vigil over my sickbed." He was speaking of how Sri Aurobindo took care of him in 1899, when he was stricken with high fever. They were then living at Mir Bakarali's wada, at Baroda. A military doctor treated him, and "Aurobindo nursed me." D. K. Roy said, "When day after day I lay unconscious owing to the intensity of the fever, he spent sleepless nights nursing me.... All I... his nursing care I would not have survived.... When, after a long spell, the fever left me, he said to me one day, smiling, 'Roy, this time you have scraped through by the skin of your teeth. This "Baroda fever" is a terrible sickness; it is very difficult to escape from its grip. So I thought I might not be able to save you this time.' But not the slightest hint of all that he had done to save my life ...
... of Chandod. Chandod, some forty kilometres south of Baroda, on the banks of river Narmada, is the railway station where one got down to proceed to Gangonath some three kilometres away. G. G. Mukhopadhyay said, "I heard from my father that whenever Sri Aurobindo came to Deoghar during the summer or Puja vacations' and was to return again to Baroda, Balananda Maharaj would send through him clothes or... bridge of union between Baroda and Deoghar." Only once did Brahmananda come to Deoghar. It was in 1905, to install. Lord Shiva in a temple constructed by his disciple Balananda at his newly founded ashram. Swami Brahmanda was a very simple man. The Gaekwad and his family were his great devotees. Whenever the Gaekwad sent his own carriage to bring the Yogi to Baroda, the Yogi, for whom high... more ancient times. He never spoke of his age or of his past either except for an occasional almost accidental utterance. One of these was spoken to a disciple of his well known to me, a Baroda Sardar, Mazumdar (it was on the top storey of his house by the way that I sat with Lele in Jan. 1908 and had a decisive experience of liberation and Nirvana). Mazumdar learned that he was suffering ...
... Notes To His Wife c/o K.B. Jadhav Esq Near Municipal Office Baroda 20ᵗʰ August 1902 Dearest Mrinalini, I have not written to you for a long time because I have not been in very good health and had not the energy to write. I went out of Baroda for a few days to see whether change and rest would set me up, and your telegram came when I was not here... of course go to Bengal and to Assam for a short visit. I am afraid it will be impossible for you to come to Baroda just now. There has been no rain here for a month, except a short shower early this morning. The wells are all nearly dried up; the water of the Ajwa reservoir which supplies Baroda is very low and must be quite used up by next November; the crops in the Page 145 fields are all... expecting, that there may be good rain before the end of August. But the signs are against it, and if it comes, it will only remove the water difficulty or put it off for a few months. For you to come to Baroda and endure all the troubles & sufferings of such a state of things is out of the question. You must decide for yourself whether you will stay with your father or at Deoghur. You may as well stay in ...
... then of taking up a purely academic career. 42 His friend, James Cotton, was able to arrange an interview with the Gaekwar of Baroda, the late Sayaji Rao, who was then on a visit to England. The interview was a success, and Sri Aurobindo secured appointment in the Baroda State Service. Mr. Cotton had completed the negotiations, and the Gaekwar was indeed "very pleased to have an I.C.S. man for ... 1895 at Baroda for private circulation only, and carried the inscription, "To my brother Manomohan Ghose these poems are dedicated". The authorised edition appeared in 1923 from Calcutta with the addition of Transiit, Non Periit, the commemoration piece on his grandfather, Rajnarain Bose, who died in 1899. We shall glance at some of these poems here before we follow Sri Aurobindo to Baroda. ... and — "Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new!" It is significant too that Sri Aurobindo is already talking of the Ganges and of the "regions of eternal snow" rather than of Baroda or Narmada or Mount Abu. Baroda would be a steppingstone, convenient and welcome enough, but Sri Aurobindo's real work would embrace all India; and he seems to have known it — somehow very clearly glimpsed it — ...
... Aurobindo for the most part learnt Bengali for himself afterwards in Baroda. In Baroda, Sri Aurobindo engaged Pundits and started mastering both Bengali and Sanskrit. A teacher was engaged for Bengali, a young Bengali litterateur—none for Sanskrit. [Sri Aurobindo took regular lessons in Bengali from Dinendra Kumar Roy at Baroda.] No, there were no regular lessons. Dinendra lived with... [He studied Hindi at Baroda.] Sri Aurobindo never studied Hindi; but his acquaintance with Sanskrit and other Indian languages made it easy for him to pick up Hindi without any regular study and to understand it when he read Hindi books or newspapers. He did not learn Sanskrit through Bengali, but direct in Sanskrit itself or through English. In Baroda after making a comparative study... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes Language Study at Baroda [When he arrived in India, Sri Aurobindo knew no Indian language except a smattering of Bengali, which was one of the subjects he had to study for the I.C.S. examination.] Bengali was not a subject for the competitive examination for ...
... used years earlier in Baroda as a book catalogue, and later in Pondicherry for various prose and poetic writings. 13 January-8 February 1912. The Record of 12 December 1911 to 11 January 1912, referred to in the first sentence of the entry of 13 January, has not survived. Sri Aurobindo wrote Record entries for January and February 1912 in a notebook he had used in Baroda for literary essays... pieces follow. [1] Sri Aurobindo jotted down these undated notes around 1910 in a notebook containing translations and other pieces written years earlier in Baroda and Calcutta. [2] Sri Aurobindo wrote these notes in a notebook used in Baroda for miscellaneous literary writings and in Pondicherry for philological notes. They begin with a reference to Sri Aurobindo's philological research under the... IVE . A UTOMATIC W RITING Sri Aurobindo first tried automatic writing—defined by him as writing not "dictated or guided by the writer's conscious mind"—towards the end of his stay in Baroda (that is, around 1904). He took it up "as an experiment as well as an amusement" after observing "some very extraordinary automatic writing" done by his brother Barin; "very much struck and interested" ...
... forties. The first draft perhaps belongs to the Baroda-period when Sri Aurobindo was writing poetry picking up themes from the Mahabharata. In 1936 he recalls in a letter that Savitri was "originally written many years ago before the Mother came." 62 This "many years ago" before 1914 could therefore correspond only to the period,—mostly the Baroda period,—when he was engaged in writing narrative... hectic political activities in Bengal. It was published in 1907 in the weekly Bande Mataram. After his return to India in 1893 Sri Aurobindo straightaway joined the state services of Baroda accepting the invitation of Sayajirao Gaekawar. But, more importantly, he plunged into the mainstream of Indian life and literature even as he learnt several native languages including classical... the national life. Nay, he gave to it another direction, even as he gave to his own life by plunging into the thick of the active political life. Presently he left the secure life of the princely Baroda State and went to Calcutta accepting all the hardships entailed by it. The immediate provocation was the ill-conceived partition of Bengal in 1905. There he initiated a comprehensive programme of ...
... NIRODBARAN: Charu Dutt says that the first time he met you was at the train station at Baroda. He was passing through Baroda and you had come to the station to see somebody off. You were accompanied by Hesh and Deshpande. Dutt was travelling with an Englishman, an I.C.S. man probably, and just before Baroda station the Englishman asked, "Do you know where Ghose is now?" "Which Ghose?" "That Classical... second was at his own house in Bombay, where you came with a bundle of papers containing the scheme of the Bhavani Mandir. Oh yes, Jatin Banerji was also at Baroda station. PURANI: Which Jatin? SRI AUROBINDO: The one who was at the head of he Baroda army and then went to Calcutta and became head of the young people's revolutionary movement and afterwards became the Sannyasi Niralamba. NIRODBARAN:... Classical scholar of Cambridge who has come away to India to waste his future." "Dutt told him that you were at Baroda. When the train stopped there, Hesh saw Dutt and shouted to him: "Dutt do you know Ghose?" Then he introduced you. Dutt said to the Englishman, "Here is Ghose." "That?" the Englishman exclaimed in great surprise, because you had come to the station in the Indian official dress and turban ...
... That was the speech I made from an entire silence of the mind. It was my first experience of the kind. You didn't hear me at Baroda? DR. MANILAL: Yes, Sir, once only. I was in the Matric class then. I remember only one sentence of that speech. Dr. Mullick had come to Baroda. The meeting was held in his honour. Professor Saha proposed you to the chair saying, "Dr. Mullick is a Bengali and Mr. Ghose... MANILAL: How did you get the job in Baroda? SRI AUROBINDO: I think I applied for it when the Gaekwar was in England. Sir Henry Cotton's brother asked me to do it and through his influence I came in contact with the Gaekwar. DR. MANILAL: I thought that your political career began with the Bengal Partition. SRI AUROBINDO: Oh no! It began long before in Baroda. It was our men who got hold of the... jail after some time. She is a brilliant speaker. She can do more valuable work outside the Congress. SRI AUROBINDO: Much more! She has done nothing in the Congress. DR. MANILAL: I heard her in Baroda. She has a fine voice too. The talk proceeded to B.L. Gupta, also a good speaker, a former Dewan of the late Gaekwar. Then the Gaekwar himself came into the talk, how he had been humiliated at the ...
... Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history C HAPTER 7 Musa Spiritus I During his stay in Baroda, Sri Aurobindo wrote a number of shorter poems, most of which owed their primary inspiration to his growing familiarity with India's philosophical and spiritual heritage, especially the Vedanta. The Upanishads and the Gita had swum into his... three speculative poetic exercises. The Rakshasas, Kama and The Mahatmas: Kuthumi - probably belong to the political period, though it is possible that they were conceived during the last years at Baroda. In any case, the poems go naturally with The Rishi, A Vision of Science and In the. Moonlight. Ahana received considerable revision before it was reprinted in 1942 in the collected edition; a... The language and the rhythm too show a mastery and a potency appropriate everywhere to the movement of thought or play of fancy. V The bulk of Sri Aurobindo's poetical output during the Baroda period - including some that properly belong to the years immediately following - has now been surveyed, in the present and the three previous chapters, in considerable detail. The many translations ...
... materials which are manufactured in the Raj and exported should be entirely removed. ( d ) Duties should not be levied twice on the same article i.e . on goods passing through Savli to Baroda once at Savli and again at Baroda. ( e ) Municipal taxes should only be levied on articles used in the town and not on goods which enter it only to be again exported. Where possible duties should be abolished and... Report on Trade in the Baroda State (1902) Early Cultural Writings General Suggestions Causes of decline. 1) Trade throughout the Raj is in a state of depression and decline. The great industries that once flourished, such as weaving, dyeing, sharafi &c. are entirely broken and though a number of small retail trades have sprung up, the balance is... should be taught at the Kalabhavan at State expense and Kalabhavan students who start factories should be helped by Government loans. From each mahal some boys should be taught at Government expense at Baroda or the Victoria Technical Institute, the money being recovered by instalments from their monthly earnings. 18) Students should also be sent to foreign parts for technical instruction; but their ...
... later. It must have been an enormous change for Aravinda to find himself in the princely but culturally backward Baroda of the end of the nineteenth century after having lived for more than thirteen years in places like Manchester, London and Cambridge. In due course he became at the Baroda College lecturer in French, professor of English and Vice-Principal. The prince also used him as his unofficial... was summoned three times for the horse-riding test and three times he failed to show up. He was disqualified and thereby eliminated as an ICS probationer. As luck would have it, the Maharajah of Baroda, on one of his many visits to Europe, happened to be in London. He was delighted that he could hire a trained Cambridge and ICS man, higher qualified than most, for less than a reasonable salary. Aravinda... Bengal National College was founded in Calcutta. Aravinda took leave from the Maharajah’s service and became the first principal of the College; that his payment was but a fraction of what he earned at Baroda was not an issue. A period of hectic activity followed. Not only did Aurobindo – as he now spelled his name – have a full-time job in helping the National College afloat, he also supervised a r ...
... the people of the province. [He sent some of his friends from Baroda and Bombay to Bengal to prepare for the revolutionary movement.] It was not any of his friends at Baroda and in Bombay who went to Bengal on his behalf. His first emissary was a young Bengali who had by the help of Sri Aurobindo's friends in the Baroda Army enlisted as a trooper in a cavalry regiment in spite of the prohibition... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes Beginnings of the Revolutionary Movement During his stay at Baroda Sri Aurobindo got into touch with men that counted, groups that counted. He went to Bengal "to see what was the hope of revival, what was the political condition of the people, and whether there was... branches were established); he also entered into relations with P. Mitter and other revolutionaries already at work in the province. He was joined afterwards by Barin who had in the interval come to Baroda. [Among the leading lights of the day was P. Mitter who was a positivist.] P. Mitter had a spiritual life and aspiration of his own and a strong religious feeling; he was like Bepin Pal ...
... more Hell to the poor wretch after the delicious coolness of his iceberg? I do not know for what enormous crime I have been condemned to Baroda but my case is just parallel. Since my pleasant sojourn with you at Baidyanath, Baroda seems a hundred times more Baroda. I dare say Beno may write to you three or four days before he leaves England. But you must think yourself lucky if he does as much as... Letters on Personal, Practical and Political Matters (1890-1926) Autobiographical Notes To His Sister [Baroda Camp 25 August 1894] My dear Saro, I got your letter the day before yesterday. I have been trying hard to write to you for the last three weeks, but have hitherto failed. Today I am making a huge effort and hope to put the letter in the... again so early as the Puja, though if I only could, I should start tomorrow. Neither my affairs, nor my finances will admit of it. Indeed it was a great mistake for me to go at all; for it has made Baroda quite intolerable to me. There is an old story about Judas Iscariot, which suits me down to the ground. Judas, after betraying Christ, hanged himself and went to Hell where he was honoured with the ...
... extremist lines than the Congress. We brought Jatin Banerji from Bengal and got him admitted into the Baroda army. Our idea was to drive out the Moderates from the Congress and capture it. As soon as I heard that a National College had been started in Bengal I found my opportunity and threw up the Baroda job and went to Calcutta as Principal. There I came into contact with Bipin Pal, who was editing... AUROBINDO: No. She has taken it with the right Yogic attitude - unlike many. DR. MANILAL: How is it there are no Maharashtrian sadhaks here, in spite of your contact with Tilak and your long stay in Baroda? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, it is strange. The cause may be that they are more vital in their nature. The talk then changed to the Supermind. DR. MANILAL: I hope we shall live to see the glorious... NIRODBARAN: We have heard that you and C. R. Das used to make plans, while in England, for a revolution in India. SRI AUROBINDO: Not only C. R. Das but many others. Deshpande was one. When I went to Baroda from England I found out what the Congress was like at that time and I formed a strong contempt for it. Then I came into touch with Deshpande, Tilak, Madhavrao and others. Deshpande requested me to ...
... The Gaekwar of Baroda happened to be there at that time, and Sri Aurobindo accepted the proposal to be his Personal Secretary, and returned to India. Soon thereafter, however, Sri Aurobindo switched over to the Baroda College as Professor of French and then of English, and when in 1906, he left for Bengal, he was the acting Principal of the College. It was during the Baroda period that Sri... his political work had already begun in Baroda, but it was behind the scenes, largely of the nature of a preparation for an armed revolution for the liberation of India. Sri Aurobindo was the first among the Indian leaders to declare and work for the aim of complete Independence of India. In 1905, Bengal was divided, and Sri Aurobindo left Baroda and, invited by the nationalistic leaders ...
... The Gaekwar of Baroda happened to be there at that time, and Sri Aurobindo accepted the proposal to be his Personal Secretary, and returned to India. Soon thereafter, however, Sri Aurobindo switched over to the Baroda College as Professor of French and then of English, and when in 1906, he left for Bengal, he was the acting Principal of the College. It was during the Baroda period that Sri Aurobindo... political work had already begun in Baroda, but it was behind the scenes, largely of the nature of a preparation for an armed revolution for the liberation of India. Sri Aurobindo was the first among the Indian leaders to declare and work for the aim of complete Independence of India. In 1905, Bengal was divided, and Sri Aurobindo left Page 27 Baroda and, invited by the nationalistic leaders ...
... test. The Gaekwar of Baroda happened to be there at that time, and Sri Aurobindo accepted the proposal to be his Personal Secretary, and returned to India. Soon thereafter, however, Sri Aurobindo switched over to the Baroda College as Professor of French and then of English, and when in 1906, he left for Bengal, he was the acting Principal of the College. It was during the Baroda period that Sri Aurobindo... political work had already begun in Baroda, but it was behind the scenes, largely of the nature of a preparation for an armed revolution for the liberation of India. Page 9 Sri Aurobindo was the first among the Indian leaders to declare and work for the aim of complete Independence of India. In 1905, Bengal was divided, and Sri Aurobindo left Baroda and, invited by the nationalistic leaders ...
... Carpenter. When I first got the cosmic consciousness – I call it the passive Brahman – I did not fall into unconsciousness of common things; I was fully conscious on the physical plane. It was at Baroda and it did not go away soon, it did not last only a few moments as Bucke lays down. It lasted for months... I could see the Higher Consciousness above the mind and I saw that it was that which was... with a knife and asked Barin to drink it, saying, "He won't have fever tomorrow. “And the fever left him”. “He creates an impression that I was seeking satsang, holy company, during my stay in Baroda. It is not true. It is true I was reading books, but on all subjects, not only religious books. I gave money to one Bengali Sannyasi who was quarrelling with everyone and who used to hate Brahmananda... boast was that he killed Brahmananda!" (Note : In the Introduction by Sj. K. G. Deshpande, who was Sri Aurobindo 's contemporary at Cambridge arid later on joined Sri Aurobindo in 1898 in the Baroda State service, there are some corrections to be made. He was the editor of the English section of the Induprakash and it was he who persuaded Sri Aurobindo on his return to India in 1893 to write ...
... mentalities. 19 September. A letter from Dhiren. A reply sent explaining dreams. 20 September. Talk on fitness for yoga. 25 September. An amusing reminiscence of Baroda life: "When Mr. Eliot, the Maharaja's tutor, came to Baroda from England, Mr. Parvi, a Parsi officer, could not understand anything he said because of the strangeness of his pronunciation, so Mr. Parvi went on saying Yes to everything... this edition of The Life of Sri Aurobindo by the editors] Page 184 (co-disciple) Narayan Swami and about the Duttatraya Yoga. Sri Aurobindo described his own experience at Baroda with Lele. 14 April. Suggestions about sadhana; a letter from Natwarlal Bharatia of Surat; conversation about suggestion, intuition and inspiration: the difference of the three functions. A letter... divine working. 6 March. Talk on the marriage of a sadhaka at Chandernagore. 12 March. Talk on the place of personal effort in sadhana. Speaking about subtle sight Sri Aurobindo said: "I was at Baroda . . . and my psychic sight was not yet developed. I was trying to develop it by dwelling upon the after-image and also by attending to it in the interval between wakefulness and sleep. Then I saw a ...
... withdraw from it; having risen high in the Baroda Service and become Acting Principal of the Baroda College, he withdrew from that prison of affluent security and plunged into the maelstrom of politics and revolution; at the height of his influence after Surat, he withdrew to a quietude of Nirvanic calm in Page 741 a small room in Baroda - then Narayana withdrew him to the Alipur... Empire. In the midst of depression and defeatism, listen to the Voice of Sri Aurobindo, who is the living embodiment of the creative flow of India's soul.... Almost a year later, his pupil of Baroda days, K.M. Munshi - now a Cabinet Minister at the Centre - paid a visit to the Ashram on 9 July 1950, and met Sri Aurobindo after a lapse of more than forty years, and reminisced about it later:... 1950? Or one reviewed Sri Aurobindo's divers roles on the terrestrial stage; a Kacha mastering an alien lore in England but rejecting the blandishments of Devayani; a young Augustus at Baroda, imposing his empire on the "realms of gold"; a Perseus or Prometheus of 'Bhavani Mandir'; an Arjuna surrendered to Krishna at Alipur; a Vyasa doing a neo-Mahabharata in the Arya, a neo-Vishvamitra ...
... Mother's Chronicles - Book Five 26 Planchette After the Puja holidays the family returned to Baroda. This time, apart from Didi and Sejo-Baudi, an aunt of theirs joined them. Barin had recently read some books on spiritism. So to while away the evening hours he began experimenting with planchette and table-tapping. Once begun it caught... as well as an amusement and nothing else," stated Sri Aurobindo. "I may mention here the circumstances under which it was first taken up. Barin had done some very extraordinary automatic writing at Baroda in a very brilliant and beautiful English style and remarkable for certain predictions which came true and statements of Page 247 fact which also proved to be true although unknown... again, of the first suppression of the national movement and the greatness of Tilak's attitude amidst the storm; this prediction was given in Tilak's own presence when he visited Sri Aurobindo at Baroda and happened to enter first when the writing was in progress. Sri Aurobindo was very much struck and interested and he decided to find out by practising this kind of writing himself what there was ...
... not half so cold as I expected. In fact, in daytime it is only a shade less hot than Baroda except when it has been raining. The Maharaja will probably be leaving here Page 120 on the 24 th ,—if there has been rain at Baroda, but as he will stop at Agra, Mathura and Mhow he will not reach Baroda before the beginning of July. I shall probably be going separately and may also reach... Arabindo 16 th Baisakh 1308. My sister at the time of her marriage had just completed her fourteenth year. Sister's birthday was 6 th March 1887. "6. Soon after marriage Sri Arabindo returned to Baroda with his wife via Deoghur and Nainital. The popular photograph in which Sri Arabindo is seen with his wife was taken at Nainital." From Nainital Sri Aurobindo dropped a postcard to one Bhuvan... marry her. The customary negotiations were carried on by Girish Babu on the bride's side......... Page 123 "The writer knows next to nothing about the married life of the couple at Baroda. After Sri Aurobindo came to Bengal and during the stormy years that followed, Mrinalini had little or no opportunity of living a householder's life in the quiet company of her husband. Her life during ...
... Book Five: Mirra Meets the Revolutionary Chronology 1893, February 6 — Sri Aurobindo, returning from England, lands at Apollo Bunder, Bombay. February 18 —Joins the Baroda State Service. May 31 — Swami Vivekananda sails for America to attend the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in September. August 7 — Sri Aurobindo publishes in the I... 1894, April 8 — Bankim Chandra Chatterji passes away. In July- August, Sri Aurobindo writes a series of articles on him in the Induprakash. 1897 - Sri Aurobindo begins to teach at the Baroda College, as a lecturer in French; teaches English also the following year. January 15 — Swami Vivekananda lands at Colombo, and on his way north delivers many lectures throughout India. ... theory of Relativity and postulates the existence of the photon. - Sri Aurobindo writes Bhawani Mandir. -Mother meets Max Theon. January — Sri Aurobindo becomes Vice-Principal of the Baroda College. January 22 -"Bloody Sunday" massacre in St. Petersburg: repression from the Czar against petitioners. April 4 - Severe earthquake in Kangra (India); thousands dead. Page 585 ...
... Opinions Written as Acting Principal, Baroda College (1905) Early Cultural Writings On a Proposed Examination for Teachers 09-August-1905 College Office. Baroda, 9th August 1905. To The Minister of Education BARODA. Sir, With reference to your letter No. 2047 dated the 28th May 1905 I have the honour to forward herewith my opinion... regarding the rules for the Secondary Teachers' Certificate Examinations which it is intended to be introduced in our Raj. I have the honour to be Sir Your Most Obedient Servant A A G Ag. Principal, Baroda College. OPINION. I have gone very carefully through the scheme of the proposed examination for teachers and beg to give expression to the following opinions, which have been formed after very... our Training College succeed first, and the general practical capacity of our teachers be set on a sure basis. We may go in for educational luxuries afterwards. ARAVIND A. GHOSE Ag. Principal, Baroda College Page 750 ...
... Opinions Written as Acting Principal, Baroda College (1905) Early Cultural Writings Resolving a Problem of Seniority in the High School 03-May-1905 College Office Baroda 3ṛḍ. May 05. Mr Nag was appointed in the Baroda High School by His Highness the Maharaja Sahib but being on leave has not yet joined his appointment. I believe that His Highness... any disturbance to the regular grades of the English Schools. ARAVIND. A. GHOSE Ag. Principal Baroda College Page 746 × A printed representation by the graduate teachers in the second grade of the Baroda High School, requesting "that the claims of senior men may not be passed over while making appointments ...
... The Gaekwar of Baroda happened to be there at that time, and Sri Aurobindo accepted the proposal to be his Personal Secretary, and returned to India. Soon thereafter, however, Sri Aurobindo switched over to the Baroda College as Professor of French and then of English, and when in 1906, he left for Bengal, he was the acting Principal of the College. It was during the Baroda period that Sri Aurobindo... Indeed, his political work had already begun in Baroda, but it was behind the scenes, largely of the nature of a preparation for an armed revolution for the liberation of India. Sri Aurobindo was the first among the Indian leaders to declare and work for the aim of complete Independence of India. In 1905, Bengal was divided, and Sri Aurobindo left Baroda and, invited by the nationalistic leaders, ...
... political action together. I would not take up a method that required me to give up action and life. When I came to Baroda from the Surat Congress, Barin had written to me that he knew a certain yogi to whom he would introduce me at Baroda. Barin sent a wire to Leie from Baroda and he came. At that time I was staying at Khasirao Jadhava's house. We went to Sardar Majumdar's place. On the top floor... to get tc the Truth. The general idea is that for the experiena of the Brahmic consciousness one must be always in drawn. But that is not quite true. I first had the silent Brahmic consciousness at Baroda as soon as I quieted my mind. It came, of course, to the mental being and I kept it for about a month. But I Was not unconscious, I saw people and things as Maya – all things only small and the One... like Ram Murthy. Disciple : Instead of a rheumatic Sadhaka. Page 114 Sri Aurobindo : Why, if I had followed the line of external success I would have been somewhere in Baroda ! That life was easy. Disciple : But what would have become of your energy ? Sri Aurobindo : Do you think I had then the same energy that I have got now ? Disciple : But the p ...
... immense peace and calm and joy on touching Indian soil at Apollo Bunder in Bombay instantaneously quickened his political sensibility by giving it a mystical dimension. It did not take him long at Baroda to size up India's political life, the elegant petitioning, the ceremonial mendicancy and the general futility of it all. His "New Lamps for Old" articles in the Indu Prakash were meant to bring... oath himself, and administered it to others; and, in particular, he made Bengali his main field of operation, and among his principal executants were Jatin Banerjee who had received training in the Baroda army and Barindra, Sri Aurobindo's younger brother. Page 281 In Bengal, there were already the revolutionary groups organised by Barrister P. Mitter and Sarala Ghoshal (Chaudhurani)... might give him an accession of strength to pursue his political work, not only with greater efficiency, but also with an impulsion of irresistibility. By mid-1906, Sri Aurobindo had decided to leave Baroda service and take the overt plunge into the political maelstrom. He was in Calcutta now, teaching at the National College, editing the Bande Mataram, welding the scattered Nationalists in the Congress ...
... the door of A. Ghose. He wanted to get military training in order to prepare himself for the revolutionary work. With the help of Madhavrao and Khaserao Jadhav, Sri Aurobindo got him admitted to the Baroda army as a trooper in the cavalry regiment. Under the British, Bengalis were forbidden to be Page 310 Sri Aurobindo in his revolutionary days trained in any army... with the party. They had no organization at all. Their main programme was to beat some magistrates and the quarrels were going on. So I organized them and reconciled their quarrels and went back to Baroda." He had constituted a Working Committee comprising P. Mitter, C.R. Das, Surendranath Tagore, Sister Nivedita, and himself. From the beginning, Sri Aurobindo used to contribute big sums for the work... enormously and finally contained tens of thousands of young men and the spirit of revolution spread by Barin's paper Yugantar 1 became general in the young generation ; but during my absence at Baroda the council ceased to exist as it was impossible to keep up agreement among the many groups." Although Sri Aurobindo's attempt at a close organization of the whole movement did not succeed, "the ...
... everything verbatim and mug it up____ The students at Baroda, besides taking my notes, used to get notes of other professors from Bombay, especially if they happened to be examiners. "Once I was giving a lecture on Southey's Life of Nelson, Page 204 Sri Aurobindo as a professor in Baroda and my lecture was not in agreement with the Notes in... — motionless — and the language flowed like a stream from his lips with a natural ease and melody that kept the audience spell-bound.... Though it is more than fifty years since I heard him on the Baroda College platform," wrote Patkar, "I still remember his figure and the metallic ring of his sweet melodious voice as if I heard him yesterday." Patkar deeply cherished the memory of his former... he was very happy over it, for First Class at that time was rare. As a result of getting First Class I was offered a scholarship in Elphinstone College [Bombay]. He tried to dissuade me from leaving Baroda College but due to my pecuniary 1. Lord Curzon vehemently opposed the teaching of it: "Though as a composition it is excellent, it is certainly dangerous food for Indian students." ...
... have chucked me out for laziness and arrears of work!" But the Gaekwad of Baroda with whom he took service (we first hear of it in the Minute of 14 December 1892) never even thought of "chucking him out" for anything during the thirteen years Sri Aurobindo worked for the State of Baroda. "The thought of Baroda ..." Sri Aurobindo fell silent, then continued, "brings to my mind my first connection... prepared in the office of the Secretary of State: ". . . Mr. J. S. Cotton informs me that he has ground for hoping that Mr. G. will obtain at once an appointment in the service of the Gaekwar of Baroda.... As this is the first case of a candidate rejected after passing his Periodical and Final examinations on account of failing to pass his Riding Examination it is submitted Page 227 ... my eldest brother and J. Cotton. The Gaekwad went about telling people that he had got a Civil Service man for Rs. 200! But Cotton ought to have known better." Cotton afterwards came on a visit to Baroda and saw Sri Aurobindo who was teaching in the College. However, a question persisted. What was it, I asked myself, beyond all these explanations, that made Sri Aurobindo wander in the streets ...
... Speech . Circa 1912 – 14. Sri Aurobindo began this draft on blank pages at the end of a notebook containing material he had written fifteen or twenty years earlier in Baroda. He continued it in another notebook also used previously in Baroda, then in Pondicherry for other writings including entries in the Record of Yoga for 13 January to 8 February 1912. Aryan Origins: Introductory . Circa 1913... stand for “rajasic” and “sattwic”. [2] Circa 1910 – 12. This list of consonants and vowels that occur in Sanskrit, grouped under five headings, is found in a notebook used by Sri Aurobindo first in Baroda and later in Pondicherry for what appear to be some of his earliest philological and Vedic notes. Roots in a . [1] Circa 1910 – 12. This list of the significances of a few a -roots occurs on... occurs along with several pages of rough lists of Sanskrit and Greek words belonging to the n -family. This material was written in the available space in part of a notebook previously used first in Baroda and then for material related to the Record of Yoga which can be dated January – February 1911. Roots in p . Circa 1911 – 12. This attempt to reconstruct “OS” (Old Sanskrit) forms corresponding ...
... was exactly that of the Baroda park, the Station or Racecourse Road & the Camp Road, but there was no other precise resemblance. There was even a vital difference, since I crossed a bridge before reaching the crossways, but the Baroda bridge over the Visvamitri is beyond the Park gates & not on this side. The mind, however, at once ran to the conclusion that this was Baroda. The speculation interrupted... & self-revelation as that of the God of Truth & Love, began definitely to be worked out from 18ṭḥ October, when the third & last message from Sri Ramakrishna was received. The first message was in Baroda, the "Arabindo, mandir karo, mandir karo", & the parable of the snake Pravritti devouring herself. The second was given in Shankar Chetti's house soon after the arrival in Pondicherry, & the words ...
... was a Bengali literary man and was brought to Baroda to live with Sri Aurobindo to assist him in Bengali conversation. early versions we have Cantos instead of Books. Later the Books came to contain the Cantos. Sri Aurobindo made a good number of recasts before the final form was reached. The first form was begun and completed in Baroda. Other recasts were made in Pondicherry. One... my readers would have had to remain content with just a bare outline. The apology submitted, let the rash venture begin. Savitri, according to Dinen Roy 1 was started by Sri Aurobindo in Baroda. From all the extant versions, for there are quite a number, it appears that originally, the scheme of the poem consisted of two parts: I Earth, II Beyond. Each part had four Books — rather ... Quest, is fairly revised by Sri Aurobindo. Several versions before the end of 1938 have been worked upon — these versions-are expansions of much older drafts, one of them possibly dating back to Baroda. The revised version was later corrected and amplified with my help as scribe and has been divided into four Cantos. In re-doing Book V, The Book of Love, to Sri Aurobindo took up, at a certain ...
... Chapter Two: The Most Dangerous Man in India My life has been a battle from its early years and is still a battle. 1 — Sri Aurobindo In Baroda, Aurobindo was at first given the tasks of a lowly functionary at the office of revenue stamps and other administrative agencies. After about a year the Maharaja found a way to make a better use of... appointing him as his unofficial private secretary and calling him to the palace whenever an important document had to be composed in English. Aurobindo also began to teach part-time at the University of Baroda in 1897; a year later he was nominated professor of English and lecturer of French. He would eventually become vice-principal of the College. If such had been his ambition, he would easily have been... always stood for India’s complete independence which he was the first to advocate publicly and without compromise as the only ideal worthy of a self-respecting nation.’ 5 During his last years in Baroda, his political activity grew more and more intense. He met with like-minded people and sounded out the possibility of an openly waged freedom struggle. The collaboration with his younger brother, ...
... joined L. D. Engineering College and at the end of three years he passed the last course of B.E. (Elec.) in 1968 and joined the State Government service at Baroda in the beginning, but subsequently he was transferred to Ahmedabad. When he was in Baroda some relatives of his maternal side belonging to that orthodox society who had revolted against our reformist marriage in 1940 made a move to push one... problem of her marriage and I was waiting quietly for the solution. One day a friend came and informed me that there was a boy who was a science graduate serving as a chemist in Alembic Chemicals at Baroda. Generally, I am not in the habit of attending social functions like marriages, for I am against the present structure of customs of our society. So I had very little chance of knowing many people... their village and came to pass that night in her house. She enquired and got the necessary information regarding the boy and told them all about Arvindabehn and her service. After a few days I went to Baroda and saw the boy in Alembic Chemicals and directly proposed to the boy to accompany me and have an exchange of ideas and to decide whether they could marry and be happy. This direct approach (instead ...
... realised in full two of the four great realisations on which his yoga and his spiritual philosophy are founded. The first he had gained while meditating with the Maharashtrian Yogi Vishnu Bhaskar Lele, at Baroda in January 1908; it was the realisation of the silent spaceless and timeless Brahman gained after a complete and abiding stillness of the whole consciousness and attended at first by an overwhelming... was done as an experiment as well as an amusement and nothing else. I may mention here the circumstances under which it was first taken up. Barin had done some very extraordinary automatic writing at Baroda in a very brilliant and beautiful English style and remarkable for certain predictions which came true and statements of fact which also proved to be true although unknown to the persons concerned... again, of the first suppression of the national movement and the greatness of Tilak's attitude amidst the storm; this prediction was given in Tilak's own presence when he visited Sri Aurobindo at Baroda and happened to enter just when the writing was in progress. Sri Aurobindo was very much struck and interested and he decided to find out by practising this kind of writing himself what there was behind ...
... AUROBINDO: What led me to Yoga? God knows what. It Was while at Baroda that Deshpande and others tried to convert me to Yoga. My idea about Yoga was that one had to retire into mountains and caves. I was not prepared to do that, for I was interested in working for the freedom of my country. Then I began to practise Pranayama—in 1905. A Baroda engineer who was a disciple of Brahmananda showed me how to... too when you started the Nationalist movement. SRI AUROBINDO: About thirty-three, though we were doing Swadeshi long before. SATYENDRA: Did you begin your Yoga with the experience of Nirvana at Baroda? SRI AUROBINDO: It was-somewhere about 1905. But I did have some other experiences before it. I felt an immense calm as soon as I landed in Bombay. Then there was the experience of the Self, the... get it and use it for action? I had been to Bengal twice or thrice for political work. I found the workers quarrelling among themselves and got a little disappointed. While I was residing at Baroda a Bengali Sannyasi came to see me and asked me to help him. financially. I did so. But I found that the man was extremely rajasic, jealous and boastful and could not tolerate anyone greater than himself ...
... Vinoba Bhave, a disciple of Mahatma. The topic changed to Baroda. Dr. M. mentioned that now the old race course is covered by fine buildings constructed by co-operative Societies and that doctor Balabhai was still alive staying in one of the new buildings. He is nearly eighty-five. Aurobindo : (After a pause) The mention of Baroda brought to my mind the connection with the Gaekwad. It is strange... riding lessons at Cambridge then were rather costly. The teacher was also careless; so long as he got his money he simply left me with the horse and I was not particular. I tried riding again at Baroda with Madhav Rao but it was not successful. My failure was a great disappointment to my father because he had arranged everything for me through Sir Henry Cotton. A post was kept for me in the district... would have happened to me if I had joined the civil service. I think, they would have chucked me for laziness and arrears of work! ( laughter) Disciple : Do you remember Nana Saheb Sinde of Baroda? Sri Aurobindo : Yes, Madhav Rao Jadhav, myself and Nana Saheb all of us held revolutionary ideas at that time. Disciple : He has spoken to the youth conference emphasizing the need ...
... work on more extreme lines than the Congress. We brought Jatin Banerji from Bengal and put him in the Baroda army. Our idea was to drive moderates from the Congress and capture it. As soon as I heard that National College had been started in Bengal, I found my opportunity, threw off the Baroda job and went to Calcutta as the Principal. There I came in contact with B. Pal who was editing the " Bande... yogic attitude, unlike others. Then X. went on asking how is it that there are no Maharashtrian Sadhaks here in spite of Sri Aurobindo 's being in contact with Tilak and remaining a long time in Baroda. Sri Aurobindo : Yes; it is strange. They are more vital in their nature. The Bengali, Gujarati and Tamil people are more in numbers. It is now spreading in other parts C. P. Punjab, Behar... used to indicate the lines and I used to follow them. But I myself was not much interested in administration. My interest lay outside in Sanskrit, literature, in the national movement. When I came to Baroda from England I found out what the Congress was at that time and formed a contempt for it. Then I came in touch with Deshpande, Tilak, Madhav Rao etc. There I strongly criticized the Congress for its ...
... after the killing of the approver, Narendranath - Sri Aurobindo had been once more "hurried away to the seclusion of a solitary cell". He had surprised him with more and more of His wonders. In his Baroda days he had first approached God and wanted, not mukti or personal salvation, but only strength for serving and uplifting his people. Again the cry was to be wrung from his heart: Then in the... of 19 January 1908 and the Uttarpara speech of 30 May 1909, there was much common ground - but there was some significant difference in stress as well. Sri Aurobindo had spoken at Bombay after his Baroda nirvanic experience, while at Uttarpara he spoke after the Alipur experience of Narayana darsan. Yet it was the same man, dedicated to the service of the Mother, the man self-poised and self-giving... seemed to do without rules. 7 His method in teaching a foreign language like French seems to have been to begin straightaway with a classic, for example Molière's L'Avare. Again, as earlier at Baroda, at Shyampukur too Sri Aurobindo seems to have experimented with "automatic" or mediumistic writing or speech.* The young men sitting around Sri Aurobindo in an unlighted room at eight would suddenly ...
... Sri Aurobindo wholly gave up his job at Baroda, the College students were naturally sad at losing such a teacher, but their pride in him more than offset their sadness: 'their' Professor was now a political leader of all-India stature. We may note too that many of those who served the country under B. G. Tilak's leadership were Sri Aurobindo's students from Baroda College. Just as Auro-dada had tried... meditate upon Her and worship Her in the nine-fold way of Bhakti----' "During the Partition [of Bengal] movement, Prof. Arvind Ghosh resigned his post of professor in our College. While leaving Baroda, he gave us a stirring speech, the substance of which I noted down on the spot. The summary of that speech and his messianic utterance, the Uttarpara Speech, Page 227 remained the... and more towards Sri Aurobindo. On 2 July 1950 he met Sri Aurobindo. We came across two texts 1 by Munshi where he described what he saw. "As you may know, Sri Aurobindo was my professor in the Baroda College, and his militant nationalism of 1904 moulded my early outlook. Later, I casually read some of his works. During the last few years, however, his influence has been coming over upon me int ...
... Reminiscences and Remarks on Events in His Outer Life Letters on Himself and the Ashram Life in Baroda (1893-1906) The Swaying Sensation I was standing on a scaffolding which was swinging to and fro. At one point I saw the walls nearby swinging like a pendulum. I understood the reason, but the sight of swinging walls was so vivid that I put my hand... immunise for only a few years. But if it is as you say, then there are others, I suppose. There is X among the servants for instance who nearly died of small pox. I myself had a slight attack in Baroda soon after I came from England–so you needn't try to come up and vaccinate me. 13 April 1937 The Power of Prayer As for prayer, no hard and fast rule can be laid down. Some prayers are answered... to men of more ancient times. He never spoke of his age or of his past either except for an occasional almost accidental utterance. One of these was spoken to a disciple of his well known to me, a Baroda Sardar, Mazumdar (it was on the top storey of his house by the way that I sat with Lele in Jan. 1908 and had a decisive experience of liberation and Nirvana). Mazumdar learned that he was suffering ...
... Sri Aurobindo passes the I.C.S.; he does not appear at a riding test and is disqualified. 1893,Feb. 6 - Lands at Bombay and soon joins the State service of the Maharaja Greek wad of Baroda. From August 1893 to March 1894, contributes a series of articles, "New Lamps for Old," to the Indu Prakash. 1893,May 31 - Swami Vivekananda sails for America. 1894,April... -Bankim Chandra Chatterji passes away. In July August, Sri Aurobindo writes a series of articles on him in the Indu Prakash. 1897- Sri Aurobindo teaches French, then English at the Baroda College; he will become its Vice-Principal in 1905. 1897, Jan. 15 - Swami Vivekananda lands at Colombo, and on his way north delivers many lectures throughout India. c. 1900... 1905 -Sri Aurobindo writes Bhawani Mandir, a revolutionary pamphlet. - Partition of Bengal, beginning of the Swadeshi movement. 1906, June - Sri Aurobindo leaves Baroda for good. Page 256 1906, August Bepin Chandra Pal launches the Bande Mataram (English daily); Sri Aurobindo joins it and soon becomes its editor. ...
... Workshop on "Education for Tomorrow" was organized by Sri Aurobindo Research Foundation on September 7-8, 1996 at Baroda, and it was conducted by Kireet Joshi (KJ), President, Dharam Hinduja International Centre of India Research. Ms. Kosha Shah, Director, Sri Aurobindo Research Foundation, Baroda, coordinated the workshop. List of participants is at ANNEXURE-I. At the outset, Ms. Kosha Shah... process of change. PR said that if one can go at one's pace in one's own circle, we can create a world of excellence. She referred to the problem of sex education and the experiments done by the Baroda University. She said that Snehaben (SJ) has an experimental school under the department of teachers' education which prepares teachers for B.Ed. In that school, the problem of sex education was ex... only when different bodies of the university get together and draft a plan of action that fruitful experiments can be conducted. She also referred to various innovative ideas that were put forward for Baroda Page 127 University. She said that she would like every student in the University to be computer literate. In addition, the ideal of academic excellence should be emphasised. She also ...
... assistant to Generals Botha and Delarcy." 10 II. Maharaja's character-trait: (Written as a postscript to the same letter) Page 280 "There is a wonderful story travelling about Baroda, a story straight out of Fairyland, that I have received Rs. 90 promotion. Everybody seems to know all about it except myself. The story goes that a certain officer rejoicing in the name of Damn-you-bhai... high prices at the refreshment rooms but I don't think they got much profit out of us that time. "Since then I have been once on a picnic to Ajwa with the District Magistrate and Collector of Baroda, the second Judge of the High Court and a still more important and solemn personage... "A second picnic was afterwards organized in which some dozen rowdies, not to say Hooligans, of our club... least 300 times a minute. When we got to Ajwa we had to wait an hour for dinner; as a result I was again able to eat ten times my usual allowance. As for the behaviour of those trusted pillars of the Baroda Raj at Ajwa, a veil had better be drawn over it; I believe I was the only quiet and decent person in the company. On the way home the carriage in which my part of the company installed itself, was ...
... fashionable in Europe. Abnormal, otherwise supraphysical experiences and powers, occult or yogic, always seemed to him something perfectly natural and credible. It was after a long stay in India at Baroda that Sri Aurobindo turned decisively to Yoga in 1904. He had, however, a few spiritual experiences even in his pre-yogic period. The first was in London, in 1892, the year of his departure from... Indian soil at Apollo Bunder, Bombay, on his return from England. A vast calm descended upon him and surrounded him and stayed with him for months afterwards. Then, in the first year of his stay in Baroda in 1893, an experience came to him at the moment when there threatened to be an accident to his carriage. He has described this experience later on in the poem, 'The Godhead',¹ which is reproduced... Library, Vol. 5, p.138. Page 5 The moment passed and all was as before; Only that deathless memory I bore. Here is a description of a vision that Sri Aurobindo had during his Baroda period: Once when Sri Aurobindo was on a visit to Chandod he went to one of the temples of Kali on the bank of the Narmada. He went there because of the company. He never had felt attracted ...
... movement in sleep. Between ten weeks and six, let us come to a compromise and put it at eight weeks.' Having delayed his departure as long as he could, Dr. Manilal had now left for his home town Baroda. I was reluctant to see him go as it increased my responsibilities but he gave his assurance that he would come again when the limb was released from the cast. Dr. Ayer came over from Madras at the... prescribed an excercise called 'hanging the leg'. As soon as it was time for Dr. Manilal to come, Sri Aurobindo would say, 'Oh, Manilal is coming. I must hang my leg!' Or when he would enquire from Baroda about the progress, Sri Aurobindo would say with a smile, 'It is still hanging!' Learning to walk again proved a more difficult task. At first crutches were tried but they did not suit Sri Aurobindo... serious error which would not be admissible.' On July 9, 1950, Sri Aurobindo gave an interview to K.M. Munshi, an eminent politician and interpreter of Indian culture, who had been his student at Baroda and was now a Minister in the Central Government. Recalling the meeting Munshi wrote: 'When I visited Sri Aurobindo in 1950, after a lapse of more than forty years, I saw before me a being completely ...
... assistant, my readers would have had to remain content with just a bare outline. The apology submitted, let the rash venture begin. Savitri, according to Dinen Roy, 1 was started by Sri Aurobindo in Baroda. From all the extant versions, for there are quite a number, it appears that originally the scheme of the poem consisted of two parts: I Earth, II Beyond. The first part had four Books and the second... have instead of Books, Cantos. Later the Books came to contain the Cantos. Sri Aurobindo made a good number of recasts before the final form was reached. The first form was begun and completed in Baroda. Other recasts were made in Pondicherry. One of the early ones is subtitled A Tale and a Vision. Later the subtitle was A Legend and a Symbol. It was after several recasts that the present opening... and Quest, is fairly revised by Sri Aurobindo. Several versions before the end of 1938 have been worked upon — these versions are expansions of much older drafts, one of them possibly dating back to Baroda. The revised version was later corrected and amplified with my help as scribe and has been divided into four Cantos. In re-doing Book V, The Book of Love, Sri Aurobindo took up, at a certain point ...
... contrast to Dr. Becharlal, Dr. Manilal was in every way a sound practical man. Since he spent most of his time away in Baroda, his personal service had to be limited. Both the doctors had been connected with the Ashram for a long time and Dr. Becharlal had served under Dr. Manilal in Baroda before he came here. There is no doubt that Manilal's devotion was also genuine, though of a different kind; less... Purani, Dr. Becharlal, Dr. Satyendra, Champaklal, Mulshankar and myself. Dr. Manilal was an occasional visitor; he used to come, twice or thrice a year and after some weeks' stay he would go back to Baroda. About Dr. Rao and Dr. Savoor I need not mention more than I have done in their proper context. Three of us had the opportunity to serve the Master in our medical capacity. Champaklal had been in the... interesting personality. Once in the evening the Guru and the shishya had a long talk, for more than an hour, on an old legal case (Bapat case?) that must have taken place during Sri Aurobindo's stay in Baroda, and must have been famous for Purani to remember it and discuss it with Sri Aurobindo. He was lying on one side and Purani was sitting on the floor leaning against a couch opposite. It had the air ...
... seems to have brought round his nephew to his own way of thinking. For, every morning at Baroda, Sri Aurobindo would drink a glass of cold water in which a handful of Isabgul 1 had been left soaking overnight. He never missed it, noted D. K. Roy. Reportedly there were two other objects of daily use at Baroda. One was Cuticura soap —"he did not use any other variety." The other was 'Cigars of the Pharaoh... 7 Auro-dada In Bengal, the Puja season in autumn is the time for fun, frolic and family gatherings. Whenever he could, Sri Aurobindo would take time off from his Baroda job to rejoin his family at Deoghar. He had a large family on his mother's side : uncles and aunts and cousins. One of the cousins, Basanti Chakraborty, gave reminiscences of her 'Auro-dada' in a Bengali... several other revolutionary institutions. Sukumar's eight-part article on Sri Aurobindo, published in the Bengali magazine Basumati (1951), alludes to a phonograph recording of Sri Aurobindo. He was in Baroda when their grandfather, Rajnarain Bose, died, and wrote a poem on his passing. The next time he went to Calcutta, Sri Aurobindo stayed with his cousins for a few days, and readily agreeing to their ...
... Aurobindo who was never really interested in administrative work at Baroda State, was waiting for an opportunity to join the political storm then raging in the country and more particularly in Bengal. "As soon as I heard that a National College had been started in Bengal," he explained in 1938, "I found my opportunity and threw up the Baroda job and went to Calcutta as Principal." Thus he gave up his Rs... education system. "He had been," as he himself put it, "disgusted with the education given by the British system in the schools and colleges and universities, a system of which as a professor in the Baroda College he had full experience. He felt that it tended to dull and impoverish and tie up the naturally quick and brilliant and supple Indian intelligence, to teach it bad intellectual habits and spoil... a lakh of rupees for its foundation he had stipulated that Sri Aurobindo should be given a post of professor, in the National College. In July 1906 when he took a protracted leave without pay from Baroda, and went to Calcutta, he put up at 12 Wellington Square, the residence of Raja Subodh Mullick. It was not really out of the blue that Subodh Mullick had chosen him as the first Principal of the National ...
... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes Poetry Writing at Baroda [Five of the poems in the book Songs to Myrtilla, were written in England, the rest in Baroda.] It is the other way round; all the poems in the book were written Page 44 in England except five later ones which were written after... Baji Prabhou appeared serially in the Weekly Karmayogin in 1910. It is not, however, unlikely that they had been actually written, or at least mentally sketched, during Sri Aurobindo's last years in Baroda. No, these poems were conceived and written in Bengal during the time of political activity. ...
... then is sheer romance and does not contain a particle of fact. I met Sister Nivedita first at Baroda when she came to give some lectures there. I went to receive her at the station and to take her to the house assigned to her; I also accompanied her to an interview she had sought with the Maharaja of Baroda. She had heard of me as one who "believed in strength and was a worshipper of Kali" by which... spread enormously and finally contained tens of thousands of young men and the spirit of revolution spread by Barin's paper "Yugantar" became general in the young generation; but during my absence at Baroda the council ceased to exist as it was impossible to keep up agreement among the many groups. I had no occasion to meet Nivedita after that until I settled in Bengal as principal of the National College ...
... that the Congress was at the time begging from the British rulers. Page 10 (On his return to India, Sri Aurobindo joined the Baroda State Service; from 1897 to early 1906 he taught French and English at the Baroda College, eventually becoming its principal. These years gave him a first-hand experience of the dismal condition of education in India and made him feel an... was going to take the Congress another twenty-two years to declare complete independence for its goal.) January 19, 1908 (A few days after the Surat events, Sri Aurobindo had in Baroda a first decisive experience, that of Nirvana or the Brahman consciousness. Henceforth all his activities, including his speeches and writings, flowed from an "absolute silence of the mind." ...
... through my art. Painting is at least something I know well, but I would be a very bad politician. Now Purani brought in the topic of new buildings going up at Baroda near the railway station, etc. SRI AUROBINDO: The thought of Baroda (pause for a time) brings to my mind my first connection with the Gaekwar. It. is strange how things arrange themselves at times. When I failed in the I.C.S. riding... AUROBINDO: Gandhi's demilitarisation doesn't seem to meet with much success. PURANI: Exactly. Nana Sahib also spoke against non-violence the other day while presiding over a conference of young men at Baroda. Do you know him? SRI AUROBINDO: Oh, yes, I know him very well. He, Madhavrao and I were the first revolutionary group and wanted to drive out the English. PURANI: It's good he protested against ...
... Who the devil is he? The title of the book doesn't sound encouraging; but I suppose it can't be merely Noble Rubbish. 108 * Perhaps Dayabhai, an officer of the Baroda State. **Manubhai, private secretary to the Maharaja of Baroda in 1902. Page 114 2. NB: U's neck tumour can be operated upon under local anaesthetic. Now all this question of operation is useless, because he says... forming a 'spiritual' culinary joy. If you want occultism, you shall have it with a vengeance. 103 XXIX. Names intentionally twisted: Sri Aurobindo, then a young officer in the service of the Baroda State, wrote to his uncle in 1902: "... I have received Rs. 90 promotion. The story goes that a Page 113 certain officer rejoicing in the name of Damn-you-bhai* wanted promotion ...
... his life. We see the rising curve suddenly moving downwards when he threw away a glittering career in the ICS and retired into an unpretentious State job in Baroda. Having risen high in the Baroda Service and acted as the Principal of the Baroda College, he gave up that affluent position of security and prestige. For a time he worked from behind the scene until he appeared brilliantly upon the political ...
... attachment to the past or misgivings for the future. Few friendships were made in England 7 and none very intimate; the mental atmosphere was not found congenial." The Gaekwar of the State of Baroda happened to be in England at that time. He was one of the most enlightened rulers of the Indian States of that period. James Cotton, brother of Sir Henry Cotton, who was well-acquainted with the... Ghosh brothers, had been taking interest in them. He now negotiated with the Gaekwar in behalf of Sri Aurobindo. The result of the negotiation was that Sri Aurobindo "obtained an appointment in the Baroda Service...." The Gaekwar offered to pay him Rs.200/- per month, and, a shrewd man that he was, felt glad that he had been able to engage a brilliant young man of the I.C.S. calibre for such a paltry... England in the month of January, 1893. Though his father. Dr. Ghosh, had felt disappointed at Sri Aurobindo's failure to join the I.C.S., his spirits revived when he heard of his appointment in the Baroda State Service and his immediate return to India. Dr. Ghosh was particularly fond of Sri Aurobindo, and had high hopes of his 7. Among his Indian companions in England, mention may be made ...
... were also other characteristic experiences – at Poona on the Parvati hills and then in Kashmir on the Shankeracharya hill, – a sense of a great infinite Reality was felt. It was very real. Then at Baroda Deshpande tried to convert me to yoga; but I had the usual ideas about it – that one has to go to the forest and give up everything. I was interested in the freedom of the country. But I always thought... figures of the world could not have been after a chimera and if there was such a Power Page 94 why not use it for the freedom of the country? Barin used to do automatic writing at Baroda. Once the spirit of my father appeared on being called. He gave some remarkable prophecies. When asked to give proof about his identity he mentioned the fact of having given a golden watch to Barin... hing exercises – in about 1905. Engineer Devdhar was a disciple of Brahmananda. I took instructions from him on Pranayama and started on my own. I practiced Pranayama at Khasirao Jadhav's place in Baroda. The results were remarkable : I used to see many visions, sights and figures; (2) I felt a sort of electric power round my head. (3) My powers of writing were nearly dried up, after the practice ...
... Narcissus builds his house of self-delight And love's own fairest flower blooms again; Vainly your gems, O meadows, you recall; One simple girl breathes sweeter than you all. 101 At Baroda naturally his interests first hovered round Sanskrit and Bengali poetry Renderings from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, from Chandidas, Vidyapati, Horu Thakur, Nidhu Babu and others, from Bhartrihari... I did not dream, O love, that I Would ever have thee back again. The sunflower drooping hopelessly Expects no Sun to end her pain. This is from the early Baroda period, and perhaps not revised for publication (it is from a posthumously published volume), but the touch is light, and the sentiment is sugary. Vidula (1907) from the Udyog-Parva of the Mahabharata... poetry is the native language of love. As for the narrative poems, Urvasie, Love and Death and Baji Prabhou, all belong to the pre-Pondicherry period, at least the first two to the Baroda period. Urvasie is an Aurobindonian narrative version of Kalidasa's play, Vikramorvasie. The Urvasie myth goes back to the Veda, and it has been treated variously by poets and dramatists. Tagore's ...
... classes, very quiet and still as if nothing had happened. In those days when the Indian skies were turning red and the air was becoming hot, Sri Aurobindo lived in Baroda. He wrote a letter to his younger brother Barin from distant Baroda directing him not to lose this golden opportunity. The youth became disciplined and little groups began to be formed. No town was left out. The boys started preparing... began to gather at Muraripukur Gardens. Barin Ghosh, on Sri Aurobindo’s instructions, started their training. And the matri-mantra Vande Mataram was on all their lips. Then Sri Aurobindo quit Baroda for good. Now the boys of Muraripukur followed his instructions with newfound enthusiasm and became absorbed in work for their country. As if the whole country had been waiting for him. Ceaselessly ...
... tailor wrote to Page 180 India Government about the arrears that Manmohan had not paid and to the Baroda Maharaja for my arrears. I had paid almost all except £4 5sh. which I thought I was justified in not paying as he had charged double the amount for our suits. The Baroda Maharaja said I had better pay." Oscar Wilde had taken quite a fancy to the young Indian poet, Manmohan. "Mano... the Kensington Club; but his temperament seems to have been different too, less easy-going than his brothers, for instance. "Once Manmohan told me," said Sri Aurobindo relating an anecdote from the Baroda days, " 'I hear you have been living with M. J. Rao year after year.' 'Why not?' I said. 'How could you do that?' he asked. 'I could not live for six months without quarrelling with him.'" Unlike ...
... lot every day, but most of that has gone to the Waste Paper Basket." Whatever could be salvaged went in Songs to Myrtilla, which was published in 1895 from Baroda for private circulation. Also much of what he wrote in the first years at Baroda —poetry, translations from the Sanskrit in blank verse and heroic verse —"has disappeared into the unknown in the whirlpools and turmoil of my political career... and practised in Malaya States, then served in the First World War. Page 195 But Sri Aurobindo's greatest debt was undoubtedly to his brother Manmohan. In 1899, after six years in Baroda during which he had delved deep into Sanskrit literature, he wrote his long poem Love and Death based on a theme from the Mahabharata, and dedicated it to his brother. He sent him an accompanying ...
... in order to propagate revolutionary ideas. It was during his sojourn at Baroda with Sejda that Barin had imbibed these ideas, for, he read not only novels but studied history and political literature also. In 1902 he went to Bengal and made an extensive tour all over the province. After one year, in 1903, he returned to Baroda, quite disappointed with the response to his efforts at spreading revolutionary... Mother's Chronicles - Book Five 29 "They Laugh at Death" "Barin was preparing bombs at my place at Baroda," Sri Aurobindo said with a reminiscent smile, "but I didn't know it. He got the formula from Ullaskar Dutt who was a very good chemist. He, Upen and Debabrata were very good writers too. They wrote in the Yugantar." Upen ...
... Letters on Personal, Practical and Political Matters (1890-1926) Autobiographical Notes To R. C. Dutt Baroda July 30. 1904. My dear Mr Dutt, I received your two letters this morning and they have been read by His Highness. There is no necessity to apply to the Government of India previous to engaging your services, now that you have retired. With... different, but that would have been on the general rule against engaging Europeans or Americans without the previous sanction of the Govt. The position is that of Councillor with Rs 3000 British as pay; Baroda currency is not at present in use, as we have given up the right to mint for a season. Page 161 His Highness sympathises with you entirely about your health and will give you every facility... considerable emergency or some very serious question cropping up which would necessitate your presence. But as you will very easily understand, such contingencies occur rarely enough in a state like Baroda and are not really anticipated. The details need not be discussed just now, as they will be satisfactorily arranged by personal conversation when you come. His Highness would like you to join as ...
... beautiful one, but not half so cold as I expected. In fact, in the daytime it is only a shade less hot than Baroda, except when it has been raining. The Maharaja will probably be leaving here on the 24ᵗʰ,—if there has been rain at Baroda,—but as he will stop at Agra, Mathura & Mhow, he will not reach Baroda till the beginning of July. I shall probably be going separately & may also reach on the 1ṣṭ of July ...
... phical Notes To an Officer of the Baroda State Baroda. 14ᵗʰ Feb 1903. My dear Sir, I shall be very much obliged if you can kindly arrange for the letter to the Residency 1 to be seen by His Highness and approved tomorrow, Sunday, so that I may be able to leave Baroda tomorrow night. I am sending the draft to the Naib Dewan Saheb for his perusal ...
... itself such as the reception of Dr. S. K. Mullick which had nothing to do [with] 1 politics, he spoke mainly as Chairman of the Baroda College Union, there was no objection made at any time and he continued to preside over some of these debates until he left Baroda. It was in England while at Cambridge that he made revolutionary speeches at the meetings of the Indian Majlis which were recorded as... interest and the articles were published at long intervals and finally dropped of themselves altogether. [The authorities objected to his patriotic activities.] Is the reference to the Baroda authorities? Sri Aurobindo is not aware that his utterances or writings were ever objected to by them. His articles in the Indu Prakash were anonymous, although many people in Bombay knew that he was ...
... Jitendranath, 13 Banerji, Surendranath, 17 Bangladesh, 15(fn) Bankim, see under Charleroi Baptista, Joseph, 148 barbarians. 126 barbarism, 103, 127, 175,239 Barin, see under Ghose Baroda, II, 35 Baroda College , II battle, 45 -46 ,51 , 102, 123-126, 143-144, 206,207, 238·240 beauty, 66 , 68, 103 , 127.217.218,220 Bengal, 39 , 111.112, 152, 153, 222,246 atrocities on Hindus in, 203, 241-242... spiritualization of life man, 129, 134 -135, 139 , 140 Sri Aurobindo's idea of, 149 true spirituality, 139 Sri Aurobindo (main events in his life, chronologically), return from England, 9 in Baroda service, II his revolutionary action, 13,246 editor of Bande Mataram, 17 principal of Bengal National College,27 behind the Nationalist movement, 195 -196,246 Bande Mataram sedition case, 27 ...
... a most dynamic dreamer through action. He is aware that without the plunge into politics Page 76 —and to a lesser degree the secretarial service to the Gaekwar of Baroda and the educational enterprise for a short spell—Sri Aurobindo would not cut the figure of a world-leader. The world needs guidance by a man who can lay moulding hands on whole nations. Professor... Kali in the shrine on the banks of the Narmada came upon him unawares and filled him with its stupendous majesty; and he had, on another occasion, when he was in danger of a carriage accident in Baroda in the first year of his stay there, a vision of the Godhead surging up from within him and mastering and controlling with its gaze all events and surroundings." But these and other experiences... dynamising life with spirituality. In 1905, at the age of thirty-one Sri Aurobindo took to Yogic discipline. One of his helpers in Yoga, the Mahratta Lele, relates that three days of meditation in Baroda in 1908 brought Sri Aurobindo the complete cessation of the mind's activity in a Nirvanic peace: henceforth all his movements, inward or outward, derived from some divine spaciousness above the ...
... as a candidate for the I.C.S. In 1893 he became, apparently quite by accident, a functionary in the administration of the Maharaja of Baroda. Soon he was acting as the Maharaja’s secretary and was appointed professor of English and lecturer in French at Baroda College. He was now fully involved in the study of Sanskrit, his mother tongue Bengali and other Indian languages, as well as the Indian... Indian classics. He also grew more and more involved in the freedom struggle. As soon as he was offered an opportunity Aurobindo, as he now spelled his name, left Baroda for Calcutta, the main centre of the struggle: in 1906 he was appointed Vice-Principal of the newly founded Bengal National College. The focus of his attention, however, was the daily newspaper Bande Mataram, which spread the message of ...
... crates of English books ordered from Bombay and which, wherever he settled down, occupied the main part of his living space. He learned several Indian languages: Gujarati, the local language in Baroda; Marathi, spoken in the Bombay Presidency; Hindi, a direct offspring of Sanskrit and then, as now, the main language of India except for the deep Dravidian South. He also learned Bengali, which should... was at the same time an arch-realist and a headstrong, undaunted perseverer — something one would not have expected from this apparently reticent, formally polite and almost timid man. While still in Baroda, he took up pranayama, a yogic breathing technique; daily he devoted six hours of his time to it, but the only effect was an abundant flow of poetic inspiration, resulting among others in his long... short time. But pranayama without expert guidance is dangerous, and when he stopped practising it in Calcutta, he nearly paid with his life. Shortly after the Surat conference, Aurobindo went to Baroda to meet some of his former friends and acquaintances and to reconnoitre the political lay of the land. There he met, through Barin, the tantric yogi Vishnu Bhaskar Lele, and they withdrew to the attic ...
... membership of the cricket club at Baroda 91 — and at the first riding test for the ICS he had fallen from the horse. Nevertheless, he was called three more times to prove he was an able horseman, but he preferred to roam about in the streets of London instead. Those who knew him thought his eventual rejection of the ICS a scandalous waste. But the Maharajah of Baroda, Sayaji Gaekwad, was in luck; he... after being told that this ship had perished in a storm before the coast of Portugal. Two days after his arrival on Indian soil, at the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, Aurobindo had to report for service in Baroda. × On Himself , 378 × ...
... without that. February 1937 Yes, I have read your article on Bhatkhande. Very interesting: the character came home to me as a sublimation of a type I was very familiar with when in Baroda. Very amusing his encounters with the pundits—especially the Socratic way of self-depreciation heightened almost to the Japanese pitch. His photograph you sent me shows a keen and powerful face... "How nice you are coming out on a little tour. I wish we were at Bangalore but since that can't be I hope as your Sister has proposed you will try to come to Almora from sister Raihana's place, Baroda and give us a look up. I shall be at your service. It would be so nice if you came towards May or June but possibly it would be too hot for you. Anyway whenever it is we would welcome it. We need... hope that the impression she has received will help her in her life there in Europe and be the beginning of an inner development of something that will be a constant support and refuge. As for Baroda and Raihana we will see how you feel about it when the Gramophone Co. decides the date and you are about to start. I am expecting the records to be a great success. P.S. It is sad to learn ...
... Then I gave thanks to the Lord, and thanked Sri Aurobindo in my heart.’ 4 Aurobindo had imparted his ‘nirvanic’ silence to her, his first great realization obtained when sitting with V.B. Lele in Baroda and which had never left him since. Just before sitting down on the floor, Mirra had confided to him that, try as she may to establish that silence in the mind, she was unable to do it. Aurobindo had... said to some disciples in his room: ‘If you mean thinking, I never do that. Thinking ceased a long time ago – it has stopped ever since that experience of mine with Lele, the Silence and Nirvana at Baroda. Thoughts, as I said, come to me from all sides and from above, and the transmitting mind remains quiet or it enlarges to receive them. True thoughts always come in this way. You can’t think out such... Yoga is what Sri Aurobindo called ‘surrender’ to the Divine. (We have seen that he himself practised this surrender from the moment he engaged on the path of his spiritual discovery with V.B. Lele in Baroda, and whoever reads the Mother’s Prayers and Meditations will find it on practically every page.) A total surrender by a spiritual aspirant is not without danger, for he will, because of his inner ...
... of seven. He studied and stayed there till his twenty-first year. He came to India in 1893 and joined the Baroda State Service. He served from 1898 as the acting Professor of English and lecturer in French in the Baroda College. On June 19, 1906, he took one year's leave without pay from Baroda College and returned to Bengal. He became the Principal of the Bengal National College. He plunged into political ...
... by chance. Recalling the circumstances, Sri Aurobindo told us: 'It is strange how things arrange themselves at times. When I failed in the ICS riding test and was looking for a job, the Gaekwad of Baroda happened to be in London. I don't remember whether he called us or we met him. We consulted an elderly person in authority about the pay we should propose. We had no idea of these things. He said we... which was then equivalent to El 0 and was quite a good sum. I left the negotiations to my eldest brother and James Cotton. I knew nothing about life at that time.' This is how Sri Aurobindo joined the Baroda State Service. The Gaekwad apparently was very pleased and went about telling people that he had got an ICS man for Rs.200/- per month which was much less than the Civil Service scale. Still Rs.200/-... not staring red but aesthetic, and used to visit Oscar Wilde in them. Then we came away to India but the tailor was not to be deprived of his dues. He wrote to the Government of Bengal and to the Baroda State for recovering the sum from me and Manmohan. I had paid up all my dues and kept £4 or so. I did not believe that I was bound to pay it, since he always charged me double. But as the Maharajah ...
... of the partition of Bengal was the advent of Sri Aurobindo in active politics. Sri Aurobindo was then in Baroda and he wrote about the partition: 'This measure is no mere administrative proposal but a blow straight at the heart of the nation.' Then the Vice-Principal of the College in Baroda, he left his comfortable job and moved to Calcutta and joined active politics. It was then that the Bengal... to wield lathi and sword. Sarala Ghosal was indeed the foremost organiser of physical education in Bengal. It will be of some interest to note that Sri Aurobindo first met Tilak in 1901 at Baroda. Later in 1902 at the Ahmedabad Congress, the two met again. Tilak took him out of the pandal and talked to him for an hour in the grounds expressing his contempt of the action of the Reformist movement ...
... Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history C HAPTER 6 Dramas of Conflict and Change I In his early years at Baroda, Sri Aurobindo's creative inspiration flowed easily into the moulds of translations from Sanskrit and Bengali, and lyric and narrative poetry. Urvasie and Love and Death, for example, took the romantic epic as far as it could... Act and part of the second Act of The Maid in the Mill and a scene from The House of Brut - the only parts available - were published in Sri Aurobindo Annual in 1962, and both belong to the Baroda period. Five completed plays, and a few unfinished plays; an impressive bulk surely! A prejudiced critic might dismiss it all as "sapless pseudo-Elizabethan drama"; on the other hand, an en... end, "Do all my house, my blood revolt against me?" 90 VII Sri Aurobindo's unfinished plays shouldn't long detain us.* The Maid in the Mill; Love Shuffles the Cards was written in Baroda but published in Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual in 1962; Prince of Edur was written in 1907 (as indicated in the manuscript) and The House of Brut about the same time, and both were published in ...
... Barin decided to go to Baroda, and get some money from his 'Sejda.' This was his first long train journey —almost 2,000 kilometres in B. N. R. 's Bombay Mail —which lasted for four days and four nights. The train passed through the Sal forests of Midnapore, skirted the Chilka Lake, and, oh, so many sights greeted the young man. Then after a crowded Bombay he reached Baroda early the next morning... notebooks for writing poetry, my esraj, 1 gardening tools and heaps of novels. It became the rendezvous of the family. Sejda often dropped in after lunch and at night. When Didi and Baudi were in Baroda, they too spent the afternoon in my hole, passing the time in gossip and merry chatter." He remembered the timid eyes and shy half-veiled face of Sejo-Baudi, and the 1. A stringed musical ...
... pilgrimage. From there she went to Baroda'. Sri Aurobindo and Khaserao were delegated by the Maharaja to receive the State guest. "I do not remember whether she was invited," Sri Aurobindo wrote in a note, "but I think she was there as a State guest. Khaserao and myself went to receive her at the station and to take her to the house assigned to her." While at Baroda she gave some lectures. "I do... 60 Sister Nivedita "I hear, Mr. Ghose, you are a worshipper of Shakti." That is how Sister Nivedita greeted Sri Aurobindo when they first met at Baroda in 1902. Nivedita has flitted in and out of our narrative; a longer look at her will enrich us. Sister Nivedita. Daughter-disciple of Swami Vivekananda. That is how she came to India ...
... "learning languages" for which he had a natural aptitude. He learnt German and Italian so well by himself that he could study Goethe and Dante in the original. In Baroda he picked up Gujarati "as I had to read the Maharaja's files." It was also in Baroda that Sri Aurobindo for the most part learnt Bengali for himself; before engaging a teacher he "already knew enough of the language to appreciate the novels... somebody's statement. "I think I learnt it by myself. Many languages, in fact, I learnt by myself—German and Italian, for instance. In Bengali, however, I had a teacher." That was several years later, in Baroda. The course of study provided at Cambridge was a very poor one. Poorer still was their teacher! "Of course," said Sri Aurobindo, "we started learning it in Cambridge, the judge Beachcroft was ...
... jfiana yoga —to achieve liberation, moksha. Page 338 years had made possible this 'sudden opening.' Remember how already at Baroda R.C. Dutt had admired Arabindo Babu's English rendering of some segments of the Mahabharata? It was also at Baroda that Arabindo Babu had taken up translations of some Upanishads. Let us continue with Sri Aurobindo's notations of 1912, and find out how... = supra-intellectual knowledge. 2 Isha Upanishad. First translation was published in the first issue of Karma-yogin, in June 1909, although Sri Aurobindo had already translated it in Baroda. The new translation with a new commentary was begun in the first issue of the Arya in August 1914 and continued till May 1915. Page 340 steadily pursued till it is completed in ...
... especially among college students and the youth who belonged to the akharas or physical culture clubs in which wrestling, jiujitsu and lathi-fightin were taught. In October 1904 Barin returned to Baroda for a year long stay with hi brother. During this period, probably inspired by Bankim Chandr Chatterjee's Ananda Math, he conceived the idea of an Ashram for the training of revolutionary Sannyasins... could not find one. The scheme eventually took shape in a modified form in the centre at Maniktola. Barin returned to Calcutta in the spring of 1906. Sri Aurobindo, having resigned his position in Baroda, also moved there at this time. The Partition of Bengal had awakened the people from their political slumber, and the two brothers realised that the moment had come for public work. Sri Aurobindo joined ...
... Purani became a revolutionary in 1907 under Barindra Kumar Ghose. With his brother, our Purani formed a secret revolutionary cell in Gujarat. He had seen Sri Aurobindo and heard his two lectures in Baroda in 1908. From then on he considered himself a disciple of Sri Aurobindo. When the Arya began publication in 1914, with Sri Aurobindo's permission, Puraniji began translating into Gujarati some of... Aurobindo is a priceless document. A dynamic personality, after 1950 he did a lot of research on Sri Aurobindo's life, and procured many documents. Sri Aurobindo in England, Sri Aurobindo in Baroda, The Life of Sri Aurobindo are proofs of his hard labour. He was unsparing of his energies, and his tours to the U.K., U S. A., Africa, etc. took toll of his body. His heart failed him on 11 ...
... has written relatively little on the subject, most of it in his early years, basing himself on the difference between his own education in England and his experience as a lecturer and professor at Baroda. 91 The principal aim of his writings on education was to activate the interest and innate intelligence in the Indian student, and turn him away from the imitative and deadening habit of learning... Andhra University, the National Prize for the Humanities. Another meeting was with the Maharaja of Bhavanagar, the then Governor of Madras. Still another was with K.M. Munshi, a former student of his at Baroda. 95 But the first post-war meeting, in September 1947, soon after the Indian Independence, was with Maurice Schumann. This French politician and philosopher, then thirty-five, had been the official ...
... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes Sister Nivedita [Sister Nivedita was invited to Baroda in 1904 by the Maharaja of Baroda.] I do not remember whether she was invited but I think she was there as a State guest. Khaserao and myself went to receive her at the station. [Sri Aurobindo had talks ...
... deficient nowadays, minute care and finish. It is gratifying to note that the photographers are former students of the Baroda Kalabhavan and that this institution is producing silently and unobtrusively this among other admirable results. Aravind. A. Ghose Vice Principal, Baroda College 28 Feb. 1906 Page 165 ...
... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes Beginnings of Yoga at Baroda Sri Aurobindo was preoccupied, even when he was but a conscientious teacher or an accomplished poet ... with the problem of service and of sacrifice.... From the very first the idea of personal salvation or of individual felicity was... As yet, however, Sri Aurobindo was wavering between Yoga and public life.... He established some connection with a member of the Governing Body of Naga Sannyasis.... All this was before he left Baroda, some years before he met Lele. We do not quite know what exactly happened to Sri Aurobindo during the first four years of his retirement in Pondicherry. This was a period of "silent yoga" ...
... suppose there will be no difficulty about accommodating him. I got my uncle's letter inclosing Soro's, the latter might have presented some difficulties, for there is no one who knows Bengali in Baroda—no one at least whom I could get at. Fortunately the smattering I acquired in England stood me in good stead, and I was able to make out the sense of the letter, barring a word here and a word there... defect either of perfect sanity or perfect honesty, I did not think it prudent to go farther than that, without some better credentials than a self-introduction. If all goes well, I shall leave Baroda on the 18th; at any rate Page 122 it will not be more than a day or two later. Believe me Your affectionate grandson Aravind A. Ghose ...
... programme was necessarily changed. I return to Baroda today. I have asked for leave from the 12ᵗʰ, but I do not know whether it will be sanctioned so soon. In any case I shall be back by the end of the month. If you are anxious to send Mrinalini down, I have no objection whatever. I have no doubt my aunt will gladly put her up until I can return from Baroda and make my arrangements. I am afraid I shall ...
... Letters on Personal, Practical and Political Matters (1890-1926) Autobiographical Notes To the Sar Suba, Baroda State Ootacamund. June 1. 1895 Sir I have the honour to report that I arrived at Ootacamund on Thursday the 30ᵗʰ instant & that I saw H.H. the Maharaja Saheb yesterday (Friday). It appears that His Highness wishes to keep me with him for... taking advantage of your kind permission to engage one at Bombay as far as Ootie. I beg to remain, Sir, Your most obedient servant, Aravind. A. Ghose. To Rao Bahadur the Sar Suba Saheb Baroda State. Page 152 ...
... at his leash and moaning miserably. Can't go on with that sort of thing for ever. So I had promised his outing, Bangalore and Cape Comorin. He changed it to Baroda and Almora after Bangalore. I said, All right. He gave up Almora and perhaps Baroda. I said, All right. Finally no Bangalore, but Calcutta, Almora and anywhere else and several months at least. I said, All right—Then for some reason the old ...
... 1939 Talks with Sri Aurobindo 22 NOVEMBER 1939 Dr. Manilal arrived in the afternoon from Baroda. After doing pranam to Sri Aurobindo, he spoke with him. DR. MANILAL: How are you. Sir? SRI AUROBINDO (smiling) : Status quo. DR. MANILAL: Is the leg better? SRI AUROBINDO: In some ways better, in some ways not. And how are you? DR. MANILAL: Getting... Getting on, Sir. How do you find me? SRI AUROBINDO: You look flourishing! EVENING SRI AUROBINDO (to Dr. Manilal) : What's the news? Baroda has declared war on Germany? DR. MANILAL: Seems only in writing. Even an insolvent State has offered to help the Government! PURANI: Why, it can help with other people's money! DR. MANILAL: Do you think the Government will give something? SRI ...
... dragging so many poor Nirods in my train. (Laughter) [N. 316 :] All that we know is that you did not have enough money in England - also in Pondicherry in the beginning. In Baroda, you had a handsome pay, and, in Calcutta, you were quite well off. [S. A.:] I was so astonished by this succinct, complete and impeccably accurate biography of myself that I let myself... has never had any terrors for me, nor is it an incentive. You seem to forget that I left my very safe and 'handsome'... Handsome written within quotes, if you please! ... Baroda position without any need to it, and that I gave up also the Rs. 150 of the National College Principalship, leaving myself with nothing to live on. I could not have done that if money had been an ...
... Presence. Either we had exhausted all topics and a satiation had followed and dried up all our inspiration or Sri Aurobindo had withdrawn his inner gesture of approval. Only when Dr. Manilal arrived from Baroda, the still atmosphere quickened with life for a while but he too would soon lapse into a quiescent mood. About the range and variety of the talks the readers have now got a fair idea from our books... them. Sir Edward Baker, Governor of Bengal, archenemy of Sri Aurobindo's fiery nationalism, described them as "the eyes of a madman" when he visited him in Alipore Jail. The English Principal of the Baroda College said, "...There is a mystic fire and light in them. They penetrate into the beyond. If Joan of Arc heard heavenly voices, Aurobindo probably sees heavenly visions." Upen Banerjee, a close associate ...
... facts of the case? Can one remember having seen a photograph of Sri Aurobindo, even a single one, either pertaining to his early period of sojourn in England or to his days of active youth spent in Baroda and in Calcutta or even to his last year of physical existence - the year 1950, where Sri Aurobindo is found even with the faintest trace of a smile? No, one will fail to find any. Now, contrast with... passed, the original stream of abundance began to get thinner and thinner till in the last years there was practically a silent attendance on a silent Presence.... Only when Dr. Manila! arrived from Baroda, the still atmosphere quickened with life for a while but he too would soon lapse into a quiescent mood." 27 So we are back to square one and our readers may reasonably wonder how can then one ...
... During this period the number of visitors started increasing. A Danish painter, Johannes Hohlenberg, came and did a portrait of Sri Aurobindo. In 1916 Khaserao Jadhav, Sri Aurobindo's old friend from Baroda came specially to meet him. A young but regular visitor was K. Amudan, whom Sri Aurobindo later gave the name 'Amrita', who first came in 1913 when he was still a school boy. Soon he was an ardent... biographer) came to Pondicherry for the first time. Sri Aurobindo knew about this young man through his elder brother Chhotalal, to whom Sri Aurobindo had given a revolutionary programme in 1908 at Baroda. Ambalal himself was an ardent nationalist and revolutionary but after reading the Arya he was also interested in sadhana and wrote to Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo gave Purani an interview which ...
... catch me. Now mind you, see how things happen. A conscious force had been sent. That is what surprises one. Let me allude to many similar things. All of you perhaps know about His experience in Baroda. It came without any preparation, from nowhere. We have been reading His poem "Godhead" and all of you have read it. Sri Aurobindo was going to the bazaar, you know, in a rickety horse-carriage. He... asset only as a channel for the expression of the soul's light. 180 Nirod-da is drawing a parallel between this experience of Ananda and the Godhead experience of Sri Aurobindo in Baroda. Page 124 The soul is your true person, the eternal. The person that you know as yourself, the person that thinks, feels, acts in a given manner familiar to you is only an ...
... repulsion for men. At Baroda there was an Officer's Club which was patronized by the Maharajah and though Sri Aurobindo enrolled himself as a member he hardly went to the Club even on special occasions. He rather liked a small congenial circle of friends and spent most of his evenings with them whenever he was free and not occupied with his studies of other works. After Baroda, when he went to Calcutta ...
... so! Do you know this Bapubhai – He was at Baroda. Disciple : Yes, he was seen once being stopped by police on the road for a breach of traffic rule. He gave such an eloquent lecture in English that the policeman was flabbergasted. Sri Aurobindo : (laughing) That must be he : he was my Page 258 first friend in Baroda. He took me to his house and I stayed there ...
... Do you know this Bapubhai – He was at Baroda. Disciple : Yes, he was seen once being stopped by police on the road for a breach of traffic rule. He gave such an eloquent lecture in English that the policeman was flabbergasted. Sri Aurobindo : (laughing) That must be he : he was my Page 252 first friend in Baroda. He took me to his house and I stayed ...
... Sri Aurobindo started on his translation. The Hero and the Nymph, he had been sufficiently captivated by the theme to produce a long romantic narrative on the subject. Urvasie* was published in Baroda in 1896; it thus belongs to the period of Sri Aurobindo's first years in India, on his return after a long sojourn in England. When the poem was offered to an English publisher, it was referred to... Like Vidula, Baji Prabhou also was written during the period of active political life, and first appeared, not long after, in February-March 1910 in the Karmayogin; but it was during his stay at Baroda that Sri Aurobindo first received the impact of the story, drawn from Maratha history. Baji Prabhou is a story of Maratha heroism that, in effect, must have struck its readers when it first ...
... was sitting in silence listening to their talk received a clear ādeś, or inner command 'in three words': "Go to Chandernagore." Ever since his first Nirvanic realisation with Yogi Lele in Baroda two years earlier, Sri Aurobindo had heard the Voice on crucial occasions, and had learned to obey it implicitly. This was beyond cold reason or calculation; this was a Divine Command. So he got up... Government. But was there not a deeper reason as well? That could have been provided only by the course of his sadhana in Chandernagore. What, then, was the particular Yogic realisation there? At Baroda in January 1908, the Nirvanic or Shunya realisation; at Alipur in May-June 1909 and after, the realisation of the omnipresent Divine, of Vasudeva who is everywhere and in everybody and in everything ...
... III Sri Aurobindo is supposed to have made an early draft of Savitri at Baroda, as a companion-piece to his Urvasie and Love and Death. And the fact that the Savitri legend also relates to the theme of love and separation and death as in Uloupie and Chitrangada (the other narrative poems of the Baroda days), lends credence to this belief. However, the earliest manuscript we have is ...
... Veda and throws a new light on the history of ancient Indian spiritual culture. It should be recalled that Sri Aurobindo's mind fell silent when he meditated with the Yogi Lele for three days in Baroda in December, 1907, and he ceased to think at all. All that he spoke and wrote since then came down to him from the higher planes of consciousness above the thought-mind. Under the caption, The... February 21, 1915, the Mother's birthday was celebrated. As the First World War had broken out, the Mother had to return to France, and she left on February 22, 1915. Khasirao Jadhav, an old Baroda friend of Sri Aurobindo's came down to visit him. We reproduce below the seven letters written by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to each other on the subject of their Yoga between 1915 and 1916 ...
... practising pranayama, Sri Aurobindo noticed with curiosity that he was not bitten by mosquitoes. Yogis who practise pranayama are, as a rule, not attacked with illness. "When I practised pranayama at Baroda," said Sri Aurobindo, "I had excellent health and powers. But when I came to Calcutta, and political work did not leave me any time for regular practice of pranayama, I was attacked with malarial fever... replied Sri Aurobindo patiently, "one can move in the midst of plague and cholera and never get contaminated. Plague too, rats dying all around, people passing into Hades. I have seen that myself in Baroda." Sri Aurobindo agreed that measures recommended by doctors —sanitation, hygiene, etc.—could raise the standard of health, yet all that they can "deal with is the physical circumstances of health ...
... Eden." Sri Aurobindo had gone on a tour of Kashmir as the Private Secretary of the Maharaja. From late May 1903 to September they toured the Princely State. In October Sri Aurobindo returned to Baroda. Sri Aurobindo jotted down a few things in a notebook which he had taken with him for the trip. Here are a few extracts. Page 172 "Cashmere, Srinagar. "Saturday. "In... Page 173 that no one shall receive special bhutta [allowance] at a hill-station, unless the matter is brought to his notice and he is personally satisfied that prices are higher than in Baroda. Where will all this shopkeeping unprinceliness and pettifogging injustice end?" Then he was contacted by his cousin, Dr. Ashutosh Mitra. Dr. Mitra was appointed the first Chief Medical Officer ...
... never been a sportsman or —apart from a spectator's Page 125 interest in cricket in England or a non-player member of the Baroda cricket club —taken up any physical games or athletics except some exercises learnt from Madrasi wrestlers in Baroda such as dand [push-ups] and baithak [deep knee-bending], and those I took up only to put some strength and vigour into a frail and weak ...
... penetrating eyes of Sri Aurobindo; or sparkling with humour; or with a smile of recognition, reports Sisir Mitra. Even the English Principal of the Baroda College, A. B. Clarke, said to C. R. Reddy who had succeeded Sri Aurobindo as the Vice-Principal of the Baroda College, and later to be the Vice-Chancellor of the Andhra Page 462 University: "So you met Aurobindo Ghose. Did you notice ...
... Speeches Written for the Maharaja of Baroda (1901-1902) Early Cultural Writings The Revival of Industry in India 15-December-1902 Gentlemen,—If I hesitated to accept your invitation to preside at the opening of this Exhibition, the importance of the occasion must be my excuse. You called me to step into the breach, to face publicly the most ... I contrasted those empty rooms—without even a chair or a table—with the luxury, the conveniences, which are the necessaries of a European cottage. My mind went back to the bazaar in my own city of Baroda, the craftsmen working at their old isolated trades with the methods which have sufficed them for centuries without a change, the low irregular houses, the dreamy life drifting between them, and then ...
... Letters on Personal, Practical and Political Matters (1890-1926) Autobiographical Notes To the Principal, Baroda College L. V. Palace. 18-9-04. My dear Mr Clarke, Under His Highness' directions I have written to the Chief Engineer not to build the rooms for the students' quarters as yet. His Highness wants to make some important alterations in the... that whenever it is thought desirable to build, orders can at once be given without going each time into details and estimates. Yours sincerely Aravind. A. Ghose. A. B. Clarke Esq. Principal Baroda College. ...
... mind that. I myself have never been a sportsman or, apart from a spectator's interest in cricket in England or a non-player member of the Baroda cricket club, taken up any physical games or athletics except some exercises learnt from Madrasi wrestlers in Baroda such as daṇḍ-baiṭhak , and those I took up only to put some strength and vigour into a frail and weak though not unhealthy body, but I never ...
... January 1935 You wrote the other day that you have lived dangerously. All that we know is that you were a little hard up in England and had just a little here in Pondicherry at the beginning. In Baroda we know that you had a very handsome pay and in Calcutta you were quite well off. Of course, that can be said about Mother, but we know nothing about you. I was so astonished by this succinct,... incentives? Lives of great men show that. You are writing like Samuel Smiles. Poverty has never had any terrors for me nor is it an incentive. You seem to forget that I left my very safe and "handsome" Baroda position without any need to it, and that I gave up also the Rs. 150 of the National College Principalship, leaving myself with nothing to live on. I Page 22 could not have done that if ...
... that it "will evolve itself"? Such a phrase can stretch itself out to the end of the cosmos. When the yogi Baroda Babu was asked about this, he replied "Independence? Not within 50 years!" We live in time and space and would like to hear something in terms of time. I am not a prophet like Baroda Babu. All I can say is that the coming of independence is now sure (as anyone with any political sense at ...
... Other Publications Autobiographical Notes Start of the Bande Mataram Sri Aurobindo was now in Calcutta—and he was in his element. He had given up his Baroda job, its settled salary and its seductive prospects; was he taking a blind leap into the dangerous unknown? ... Sri Aurobindo was present at the Congress in 1904 and again in 1906 and took a part... instance to give up the behind the scenes jostlings with the Moderates, and declare an open war on Moderatism and place before the country what was practically a revolutionary propaganda. He gave up his Baroda job some time after this; he had taken indefinite leave without pay; for this reason he did not take up officially and publicly the editorship of the Bande Mataram although after Bepin Pal left that ...
... mind that. I myself have never been a sportsman, apart from a spectator’s interest in cricket in England or a non-player member of the Baroda cricket club, or taken up any physical games or athletics except some exercises learnt from Madrasi wrestlers in Baroda such as dand, baithak, and those I took up only to put some strength and vigour into a frail and weak though not unhealthy body, but ...
... Songs to Myrtilla Read poem > In 1895 at Baroda Sri Aurobindo was given the work of teaching French for six hours in the week. In this year the first collection of his poems Songs to Myrtilla was published for private circulation. Most of the poems written at Cambridge by Sri Aurobindo were published at Baroda in 1895 in his book Songs to Myrtilla. The Life of Sri Aurobindo ...
... of being extravagant?" But he had no feeling of resentment or bitterness towards his father; whenever he spoke of him it was always with affection and tenderness. Then we come to the Baroda period. There again we know very little except that he knew nothing about money. He said to us: "Yes, the Maharaja offered me a job saying he would pay Rs.200. My brothers accepted, for they knew no... and yet he Page 105 could command the respect and honour of almost all the people there, high or low, with whom he came in touch or who heard his name. Even the Maharaja of Baroda held him in high esteem. But Sri Aurobindo showed his mettle once. The Maharaja issued a circular that all the officers must attend office on Sundays and even on holidays. Sri Aurobindo didn't go. ...
... London, and at King's College, Cambridge. Returning to India in 1893, he worked for the next thirteen years in the Princely State of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor in the state's college. In 1906, Sri Aurobindo quit his post in Baroda and went to Calcutta where he became one of the leaders of the Indian nationalist movement. As editor of the newspaper Bande Mataram ...
... the Savitri story, the protagonist is the heroine, not the hero, and hence among love stories it is altogether unique. It is rumoured that Sri Aurobindo started on his version of Savitri in the Baroda period, perhaps as early as the turn of the century, but presently laid it aside on account of other preoccupations. Although possibly some passages were then composed, the sole running draft in... appeared and promised a daughter to him. It is on this that Sri Aurobindo has built the whole many-chambered edifice of Aswapati's Yoga, very largely drawing upon his own experiences and realisations at Baroda, Alipur, Chandemagore and Pondicherry. The scientist with a microscope in a laboratory, the astronomer with a telescope in an observatory, these specially equipped men are able to see the infinitely ...
... the story of one of the most heroic and purest of Indian women, Damayanti. Page 76 Sri Aurobindo had first met Sister Nivedita in Baroda when she came to give some lectures there. Sri Aurobido was then the secretary of the Maharaja of Baroda. When Sri Aurobindo started his revolutionary work in Bengal, they collaborated, trying to unite all the existing underground groups under a single ...
... recognised and all these were found in the letters to my wife.' At Shankara Chettiar's house Sri Aurobindo made some further experiments with automatic writing which he had tried out occasionally at Baroda and Calcutta. He did not use a planchette but generally just held a pen and, in his own words, 'a disembodied being wrote off what he wished, using my pen and hand.' In this fashion a whole book Yogic... vital plane instead of depending on physical substance'. Perhaps you have noted that even during the fast Sri Aurobindo 'could walk eight hours a day'. Indeed this habit of walking, which started at Baroda, grew with him and became a part of his Yoga. He rarely went out for his walk; it was his practice to walk for hours together in the house so much so that in one of his residences his feet rubbed away ...
... why don't you give me some nice object on which I can concentrate more easily." This time he did not say "Not yet" to put me off summarily. But he did not give any assurance either. He went back to Baroda in a couple of days. Soon afterwards I had this peculiar experience. It was a dark, drizzly evening. I was stretched in my long chair with eyes closed. Suddenly my gaze turned inwards. I visualised... n. A direct path of Page 159 approach has been opened up by the Mother in my heart. It was at this same period that Sri Aurobindo wrote to me once from Baroda, asking me, "When you sit in silent concentration (or absent-mindedly, as you call it), do you see any colours? One colour or many colours?" I replied, "Always one colour, a beautiful rosy light, but ...
... even that inferiority from men. You wrote [on the 5th] that you had lived dangerously. All that we know is that you did not have enough money in England,—also in Pondicherry in the beginning. In Baroda you had a handsome pay, and in Calcutta you were quite well off. [Above "quite" Sri Aurobindo put!!!!]. I was so astonished by this succinct, complete and impeccably ac-, curate biography... mostly true? Not in the least. You are writing like Samuel Smiles. 28 Poverty has never had any terrors for me nor is it an incentive. You seem to forget that I left my very safe and "handsome" Baroda position without any need to it and that I gave up also the Rs. 150 of the National College Principalship, leaving myself with nothing to live on. I could not have done that, if money had been an incentive ...
... that the higher consciousness can come down. Pranayama does not bring dullness in the brain. My own experience, on the contrary, is that brain becomes illumined. When I was practising Pranayama at Baroda, I used to do it for about five hours in the day, – three hours in the morning and two in the evening. I found that the mind began to work with great illumination and power. I used to write poetry... the arts it is not like that. You listen to the lectures, take notes if you like and then make what you can of them. There was always a demand for the student's point of view. The students at Baroda, besides taking my notes, used to get notes of other professors from Bombay, specially if he was an examiner.. Once I was giving a lecture on Southey's Life of Nelson, and my lecture was not ...
... repulsion for men. At Baroda there was an Officer's Club which was patronised by the Maharajah and though Sri Aurobindo enrolled himself as a member he hardly went to the club even on special occasions. He rather liked a small congenial circle of friends and spent most of his evenings with them whenever he was free and not occupied with his studies or other works. After Baroda when he went to Calcutta ...
... There are very cheap yogis – some who used to give brahma. darsana, – vision of Brahman, for five rupees. Some press the eyeballs and make people see the "light" ! Sri Aurobindo : The Gaekwad of Baroda also used to say the same thing. He used to say; "People say that Brahman is Light but that I see when I press my eyes. What is the difference between that and the Brahman ?" I did not know anything... a manifestation of the higher. Force as anything else and I do not understand why we should not expect in it similar powers. I had myself a remarkable experience of the psychic sight. I was at Baroda and my psychic sight was not fully developed and I was trying to develop it by dwelling upon the after-image and also by attending to the interval between wakefulness and sleep. Then I saw this round ...
... inquiring from Satyendra about X's health. Then the talk proceeded to homoeopathy. The Mother came and took some part in it. After she had gone, the talk on medicine continued. SRI AUROBINDO: Once in Baroda I had a nasty abscess on the knee. Alltreatment failed. Then Madhavrao Jadhav called in a Mohammedan who pricked the knee at a particular point and brought out a big drop of black blood and the abscess... spoke about Ramakrishna's and Vivekananda's influence in your life. Was it this you meant? SRI AUROBINDO: No. I referred to the influence of their words and books when I returned from England to Baroda. Their influence was very strong all over India. But I had another direct experience of Vivekananda's presence when I was practising Hathayoga. I felt this presence standing behind and watching over ...
... India, that tailor wrote to the Indian Government about the arrears that Manmohan had not paid and to the Baroda Maharaja for my arrears. I paid everything except four pounds, five shillings, which I thought I was justified in not paying as he had charged double the amount for our suits. The Baroda Maharaja said I had better pay. Manmohan used to have poetic illness at times. Once we were walking through ...
... feel it and be influenced by it. DR. MANILAL: When I come for the Mother's interview or even stay here I feel something everywhere, while at Baroda I don't get that peace and calm. Why? SRI AUROBINDO: Surely there ought to be a difference between Baroda and here? There is no Vallabhbhai here, no office work and no family affairs. PURANI: About Nigodha, not Jiva, the Jains say there are many ...
... were starting the Bande Mataram C.R. Das insisted that Bipin Pal should be the editor, while they insisted that Sri Aurobindo should be the editor. Dutt told Das, "We have persuaded him to come from Baroda to take up the editorship of the paper." SRI AUROBINDO: What? Who persuaded me? I came on my own to start a nationalist movement. There was no C.R. Das at that time. In fact, Bipin Pal had himself... remonstrated strongly. They said they wouldn't have anything to do with the paper if Pal remained editor, and so he was pushed out. NIRODBARAN: Dutt also said to Das, "We have brought Sri Aurobindo from Baroda almost against the Maharaja's wishes. The Maharaja is coming to the Congress. What will he say? SRI AUROBINDO: Which Congress? How could he attend the Congress? PURANI: Perhaps some Industrial ...
... DR. MANILAL: Sylvan Levi is also a Sanskrit scholar. He came to Baroda. The Gaekwar used to refer to you, Sir, as "my secretary". SRI AUROBINDO: Not a troublesome one? (Laughter) DR. MANILAL: No, Sir. Vallabbhai once said that you were fined Rs. 50 by the Gaekwar in Kashmir. SRI AUROBINDO: In Kashmir? No, it was in Baroda. I refused to attend office on Sundays and holidays, so he fined ...
... parents and friends were mortified such a brilliant boy come to nought but he had pushed away the past as another vision allured him and he stuck to his decision. Next as you all know, he came to Baroda, entered the State service – as Secretary to the Maharaja and professor of the College. That life was also externally a very normal and ordinary life – an obscure life, so to say, but he preferred... Then a moment came when he changed all that. Another volte-face. If he continued he might have advanced, progressed in his career, that is to say, become Principal of the College, even the Dewan of Baroda, a very lofty position, a very lofty position indeed for an Indian, become another R. C. Dutt. But he threw all that overboard, wiped off the twelve years of his youthful life and came to Bengal as ...
... the Savitri story, the protagonist is the heroine, not the hero, and hence among love stories it is altogether unique. It is rumoured that Sri Aurobindo started on his version of Savitri in the Baroda period, perhaps as early as the turn of the century, but presently laid it aside on account of other preoccupations. Although possibly some passages were then composed, the sole running draft in... appeared and promised a daughter to him. It is on this that Sri Aurobindo has built the whole many-chambered edifice of Aswapathy's Yoga, very largely drawing upon his own experiences and realisations at Baroda, Alipur, Chandernagore and Pondicherry. The scientist with a microscope in a laboratory, the astronomer with a telescope in an observatory, these specially equipped men are able to see the infinitely ...
... in ICS examinations, 33; at King's College, 33ff; Oscar Browning on, 33-34; member of Indian Majlis and 'Lotus & Dagger', 34,37,183,281; 'Riding Test', 36ff; rejection from ICS, 37; appointment in Baroda, 37; songs to Myrtilla, 38ff, 71; on Parnell, 42; on Goethe, 42; at Apollo Bunder, 46, 64, 281, 385; at Naini Tal, 47, 66; learning Bengali & Sanskrit, 50; as Professor, 52ff; on Oxford & Cambridge... 263,267-8; on Gujarat and Gujaratis, 264; at Midnapore Conference, 265, 270; Nevinson on, 269; at Surat Congress, 269ff; order to break the Congress, 271; on "Death or Life", 272; with Yogi Lele at Baroda, 274ff; Nirvanic experience, 275,322,362, 371,388-9, 572; at Poona, 276; on Ramamurti's feats, 276, 300-01; speech at National Union, 277ff; Nationalism a Religion, 277; on Revolutions, 279, 301; at ...
... Upenda, Ullasda and others created the pandemonium at the Surat meeting and then returned to Calcutta. Upon reaching home I heard that Sri Aurobindo, along with Sudhir Sarkar, had left for Bombay, Baroda, Pune, Amravati and other places to proclaim nationalism. Later he returned to Calcutta. On the 5th or 6th December Sri Aurobindo started for Midnapore. Dada (Ashwini K. Bhattacharjee) sent Sudhir... Midnapore Sri Aurobindo would have to make arrangements for going to Surat Congress meeting. — Upendra Chandra Bhattacharjee Printing ‘No Compromise’ and ‘Bhavani Mandir’ After my return from Baroda the second time, I printed with the help of Sudhir Sarkar of Khulna and a Marathi youth known as Joshi, two booklets No Compromise and Bhavani Mandir written by Sri Aurobindo in his hand-writing ...
... gather to draw inspiration from him, to learn how to find God." 4 It was to be at once the House of the Spirit and the House of manifold but enlightened human activity. As he wrote to the Maharani of Baroda in 1930, "My aim is to create a centre of spiritual life which shall serve as a means of bringing down the higher consciousness and making it a power not merely for 'salvation' but for a divine... propitious, the instruments ready, and the twin-horses - spirit-power and economic-power - were properly yoked to the great endeavour. This needs a little explanation and recapitulation. In his Baroda days over twenty years earlier, Sri Aurobindo had thought of establishing a Bhavani Mandir for training a band of yogins to engage in national service. That didn't come about, but something ...
... and used to visit Oscar Wilde in that suit. Page 111 Then we came away to India but the tailor was not to be deprived of his dues! He wrote to the Government of Bengal and to the Baroda State for recovering the sum from me and Mono Mohan. I had paid up all my dues and kept £4/a – or so. I did not believe that I was bound to pay it, since he always charged me double. But as the... Aurobindo : He was not at all poetic or imaginative. He took after my father. He was very practical but very easy to get on with. He had fits of miserliness. The question of Barin when he came to Baroda and stayed for sometime was : How can I stay with Khaserao or Madhave Rao for months and years without quarreling? Page 112 ...
... You know Moropant afterwards turned moderate. More than one Indian army were ready to help us. I knew a Panjabi Sentinel at Alipore who spoke to me about the revolution. Once Nivedita came to Baroda to see the Gaekwad and told him that his duty was to join the revolution and she said to him : if you have anything to ask you can ask Mr. Ghose. But the Gaekwad never talked politics with me afterwards... see me she said, "I hear Mr. Ghose, you are a worshipper of Shakti?" Th”re was no non-violence about her. She had an artistic side too. Khaserao Jadhav and myself went to receive her at station at Baroda. She saw the Dharamshala on the station and exclaimed : "how“beautiful!" Lo”king at the new College buildings she uttered : “how ugly!” Khaserao said : She must be a little mad! Page ...
... triumphant, vast, that encircles me, Page 244 Rabindranath, O Aurobindo, bows to thee. 41 The students of the Baroda College - his own students of but yesterday - sent this message: "We the students, past and present, of the Baroda College, in a meeting assembled, convey our warmest sympathy to our late Vice-Principal Mr. Ghose in ,. present trouble." And a contributor ...
... administered by one the most famous and successful allopathic doctors of Calcutta." But other systems of medicines than allopathy were known in India. "Once I had a nasty abscess on the knee in Baroda," said Sri Aurobindo. "All treatment failed. Then Madhavrao Jadhav called in a Mahomedan who pricked the Page 167 knee at a particular point and brought out a big drop of black blood... Without prayer she would not have been saved." She was being treated by no less a doctor than Dr. Nil Ratan Sarkar who was the best Bengali physician of the time. Added Sri Aurobindo casually, "I was at Baroda at that time. They wired to me about her hopeless condition." Another example: Bankim Chandra's grandson was at death's door. All the best doctors gave up and left. Then Bankim sat in front of ...
... Hill near Poona at the beginning of the century (from an old postcard) 202 Mahalakshmi, Brihadeeswaran temple, Thanjavur (courtesy Michel Danino) 205 Sri Aurobindo as a professor in Baroda (from Abhay Singh's collection) 218 Benoybhusan with his wife Umarani (courtesy Smt. Lahori Chatterjee) 242 Barin's portrait of Sri Aurobindo (courtesy Smt . Lahori C... (from Abhay Singh's collection) 428 Sri Aurobindo presiding over the Nationalists' confer ence at Surat (from Abhay Singh's collection) 432 Sri Aurobindo at Manik Rae's gymnasium at Baroda (from Abhay Singh's collection) 443 Girgaum Road, Bombay early this century (from an old postcard) 458 Sri Aurobindo after his arrest (from author's collection) 465 ...
... being the President. So he called me 'the man who never laughs.'" And Sri Aurobindo laughed. Surat was then a sleepy little old town on the West coast, on the Gulf of Khambat, between Bombay and Baroda. Here the early European traders, Portuguese, Dutch, English and French —they came in that order—had set up their factories soon after Emperor Akbar's death in 1605. The Moderate Party leaders... M. Munshi; Durai-swamy Iyer, an eminent and brilliant advocate at the Madras High Court; Dr. Satyendra Thakore, the dentist who was one of the team attending on Sri Aurobindo; and Dr. Manilal from Baroda. "A procession of carriages was formed and began to advance step by step through the shouting throngs of orange, crimson, and white-clad people. All the windows and tottering balconies of the beautiful ...
... " you will perhaps ask, "or why should we trouble ourselves about it? The Government of India will in its own good time reform the whole business and of course when their new system is in force the Baroda Schools and Colleges will assimilate themselves to it. Meanwhile it is quite superfluous for us to bother our heads about the matter." Now in answer to that attitude I have to say this that the Government ...
... Early Cultural Writings Address at the Baroda College Social Gathering 22-July-1899 In addressing you on an occasion like the present, it is inevitable that the mind should dwell on one feature of this gathering above all others. Held as it is towards the close of the year, I am inevitably reminded that many of its prominent members are with ...
... 1890-1906 Bande Mataram A Sample-Room for Swadeshi Articles Objects 1) I propose that a permanent sample-room should be maintained by the Baroda Industrial Association in its own offices, fulfilling the following purposes (1) an ocular demonstration to the public and the merchants of the number and kind of goods they can have from their ...
... to me which no material science could explain. When I first approached Him, it was not entirely in the spirit of the Bhakta, it was not entirely in the spirit of the Jnani. I came to Him long ago in Baroda some years before the Swadeshi began and I was drawn into the public field. When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me ...
... be for Sri Aurobindo either a surrender to ordinary world-conditions or a flight into peace away from the world. An inviolable timeless peace he had always known ever since those three grand days in Baroda in 1908 when through a complete silencing of the mind the absolute experience of Nirvana, which has been the terminus of so many other Yogas, became his - not as a terminus but only as a base for further ...
... Aurobindo said nothing though on previous occasions he would say “Not yet.” (Sri Aurobindo knew of Charu Dutt’s faculty to look inside himself, but had never encouraged it.) He (Sri Aurobindo) left for Baroda. After that, one day he had the experience of this old faculty — but — seated inside him, he saw “a luminous, entrancing figure of a Yogi sitting in padmasan”. He found it now easy to concentrate on ...
... "they declared that they had recovered a few metacarpals of the domestic Ass". Then Dr. Alur brings to light a little-known riposte to that report: "Dr. J.C. George of the M.S. University of Baroda stated that the study of the above table of the comparative measurements shows beyond doubt that the metacarpals recorded by Prasad are definitely not of the domestic Ass and it is therefore possible ...
... 11. Op. cit. (see fn. 1), pp. 89, 124. 12."Exploration in Kutch and Excavation at Surkotada and New Light on Harappān Migration", Journal of the Oriental Institute (M.S. University of Baroda), Vol. XII, Sept-Dec. 1972, Nos. 1-2, pp. 135-138, 136. Page 9 logical evidence gives as compared to the literary one as he understands it. The latter, to his mind, depicts the Aryan ...
... about him and in this interview her remembrances are lovingly detailed. She told me that prior to his coming to the Ashram, while he was still in high school in Gujarat, he saw Sri Aurobindo in Baroda and when Sri Aurobindo gave a lecture he went to hear him. After seeing Sri Aurobindo he later told his friends that he felt Sri Krishna had again taken birth. At that time he was convinced that it ...
... waiting. Finally we were called at 5 p.m. After pranam when Sri Aurobindo started speaking, I said: “Please indulge us by speaking in Gujarati.” He laughed and said: “I knew Gujarari when I was in Baroda but now I have forgotten it.” C: “You know everything.” He laughed and laughed. C: “You can speak at least in Hindi.” Sri Aurobindo: “That too I don't know.” C: “You certainly know Hindi ...
... now he was taking her to that only country in the world that is full of harmony and peace. She would be the queen of that land! It is a simple story, written in 1906. Around this period, in Baroda, Sri Aurobindo wrote the first draft of Savitri. What is interesting here is that, similar to the story of Liane, the Mother landed in Pondicherry in 1914. She came to an alien land and the first ...
... shall say something about it which is bound to enrapture those with natures like mine. Promode Kumar was one of the famous artists of Bengal. For some years he was the principal of Kalabhavan in Baroda. He was an ardent seeker and a devotee of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. An instance of Promode Kumar's absolute faith in the Mother's grace is that he never locked his room when he went out for work ...
... exercises and study politics I went on preaching the cause of independence for nearly two years. By that time I had been through almost all the Districts of Bengal; I got tired of it and went back to Baroda and studied for one year. I then returned to Bengal convinced that a purely political propaganda would not do for the country and that people must be trained up spiritually to face dangers. I had an ...
... After the high tide of literary, philosophical and yogic creativity of the Arya period he wrote no other works, although he constantly continued rewriting and expanding his epic Savitri, begun at Baroda and finished in the last days of his life. The Mother was always present with the disciples and built up an exemplary community which was a world in miniature. During the Second World War she would ...
... what he did not do in his life, to contradict the many false rumours, is long past. We know of his fame as a classical Cambridge scholar and a master of the English language; we know of his years in Baroda and his study of the Indian culture and its classical literature; and we know of his crucial role as an Indian politician and freedom fighter. In all these years Aravinda Akroyd Ghose, who would r ...
... Munshi. Many who did not know or understand the true reason of Sri Aurobindo’s withdrawal from the freedom movement were very disillusioned and made no bones about it. Among them was the Gaekwad of Baroda, his former employer, who said: ‘Mister Ghose is now an extinct volcano: he has become a yogi!’ In 1908 Rabindranath Tagore had published in Bande Mataram his poem, still well known in India, beginning ...
... and in their youth Sri Aurobindo and the Mother themselves had been atheists (the Mother: ‘I was a convinced atheist’). The yoga of Aurobindo Ghose began with an intensive practice of pranayama in Baroda, in 1905; about the same time Mirra Alfassa stumbled upon the Revue cosmique which put her into contact with Théon’s teachings and the Divine within. After a period of spiritual stagnation and ‘inner ...
... for expanding man’s mind towards the Absolute.’ 2 With its 23,813 lines, Savitri is one of the longest poems in the English language. Its first version dates back as far as Sri Aurobindo’s Baroda period. No less than eleven and maybe twelve versions and revisions have been found. Originally a rather short narrative poem based on a story from Vyasa’s Mahabharata (one of the greatest literary ...
... compose a poem. It was a failure, I fell asleep over its first two lines.’ Sri Aurobindo: ‘You call it a failure — when you have discovered a new soporific.’) And then to think that the Gaekwad of Baroda, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and so many others were of the opinion that Aurobindo Ghose had withdrawn in a mystical cloud-world. A mystic he was, Sri Aurobindo, and one of the highest order ...
... bhakta—which I suppose you know? Surely Ramakrishna knew something about Yoga and what was possible there. You can send our blessings to Miss [Tyabji?]. I suppose she is not the one I used to see in Baroda—at a distance, for I ha no personal acquaintance with her. Her father I met often and knew very well. . I don't think the Nirvana letter will help you very much ...
... intimates of the inner circle he had always loved to indulge in banter and laughter and quips of every description. An old friend of his once gave me a sample of his pre-yogic humour. "The Prince of Baroda was going to be married," he said. "Sri Aurobindo was then the Vice-Principal of Gaekwar's College. When the distinguished guests had assembled for the wedding dinner, the royal bridegroom came ...
... poets composed hymns to Shiva. Charu Chandra Dutt (16.6.1876 - 22.1.1952) served as judge at several places in Western India. He was a revolutionary and met Sri Aurobindo in 1904 in Baroda and was then in contact with him until 1910. In 1940, Charu Dutt met again Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry and then he and his wife, Lilabati, settled in the Ashram where they spent the last years of ...
... became deeply involved in the freedom movement. When Lord Curzon implemented the controversial decision for the partition of Bengal – the Bang Bhang – Sri Aurobindo left his academic assignment in Baroda and moved to Calcutta where for five years he shone like a meteor in the darkening sky. In 1910, after an epiphany in the Alipore Jail he left for Pondicherry where he lived for the next 40 years ...
... revelling in the memory of the English countryside in an essay by him on translating Kalidasa. Throughout his life English literature - English poetry in particular - was a living presence, and a speech in Baroda evinces an appreciative recollection of the temper of "liberal education" at the great English universities. But, according to his own declaration, he had more affinity with France, which he never ...
... ridge of the Takht-i-Suleman in Kashmir, the living presence of Kali in a shrine on the banks of the Narmada, the vision of the Godhead surging up from within when in danger of a carriage accident in Baroda in the first year of his stay. But these were inner experiences coming of themselves and with a sudden unexpectedness, not part of a sadhana." The first great experience that was part of a ...
... 1980). Joshi, J.P., "Exploration in Kutch and Excavation at Surkotada and new light on Harappān Migration", in Journal of the Oriental Institute, Vol. XII, Nos. 1-2 (M.S. University, Baroda, , Sept.-Dec. 1972). Karlovsky, C.C. Lamberg, "Third millennium structure and process: from the Euphrates to the Indus and the Oxus to the Indian Ocean", in Oriens Antiquus (1986). ...
... contemporary living and thinking and this would subtly impregnate any theme he might adopt. The blank verse we shall select and scrutinise was written in his youth and in the comparative seclusion of the Baroda State Service taken up by him on return from Cambridge. Yet even here there is a puissant pulse and a vibrant complexity of perception within a chosen orbit, and while the "translunary things" without ...
... II, PIs. LXXXIII and LXXXXIV. 14.J. P. Joshi, "Exploration in Kutch and Excavation at Surkotada and New Light on Harappān Migration", Journal of the Oriental Institute (M. S. University of Baroda), Vol. XII, Sept.-Dec. 1972)., Nos. 1-2, PI. VII facing p. 121. 15. The Secret of the Veda (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1971),p. 24. 16. Ibid. Page 175 inner spiritual ...
... Purani was an intellectual and passionate freedom fighter. ‘The concentration of my whole being turns towards India’s freedom. It is difficult for me to sleep till that is secured.’ 43 He was from Baroda and had heard Sri Aurobindo give speeches there after the Surat Conference, at the time of his first meeting with Lele. ‘Ever since I had seen him I had got the constant feeling that he was known to ...
... auspicious Ekadashi day of Kartik, on a Sunday, which according to the Gregorian calendar was the 28th day of October, the month of revolutions, and the year was 1906 when Sri Aurobindo was living in Baroda and had already made some advance in his sadhana. About the time I was born, my father was frantically searching for a guru who would help him to swim across the sea of ignorance which this human ...
... but there too only as it came. At that time I had no theories, no methods or process. But Love and Death was not my first blank verse poem—I had written one before in the first years of my stay in Baroda which was privately published, but afterwards I got disgusted with it and rejected it. I made also some translations Page 223 from the Sanskrit (in blank verse and heroic verse); but I ...
... the key and use it is rare. Bhatkhande Yes, I have read your article on Bhatkhande. Very interesting: the character came home to me as a sublimation of a type I was very familiar with when in Baroda. Very amusing his encounters with the pundits—especially the Socratic way of self-depreciation heightened almost to the Japanese pitch. His photograph you sent me shows a keen and powerful face full ...
... Record - Related Notes c. 1910-1914 Notes - I [ . . . ] in Σ position VM & flash of sattwa— 1) Bidhu—present 2) Susthir—present 3) Bhadrakali—future 4) Table in Baroda—past 5) Namadrishti—letter from M. [Motilal Roy?] 6) Stars in psychic sky—paralokadrishti. 7) An urchin shaking flag—ihalokadrishti. Notes - II Bhasha.— 1) The intuition continues ...
... partially united is a great happiness. If you will let me pour out my sentiments, I can write pages.—My name is Mo—— 2 Too many people are thinking—I am the friend who died in the years when you were at Baroda—I am Nair--- 3 My soul is in the world of desires—— My idea of your position in Pondicherry is that it is not serious as you think. There are some weak points on which certain forces ...
... Central Provinces. There was no tour. Sri Aurobindo went to Poona with Lele and after his return to Bombay went to Calcutta. All the speeches he made were at this time (except those at Bombay and at Baroda) at places on his way wherever he stopped for a day or two. ...
... not fail Page 75 to recognise the finer elements in Gokhale's mind and character; ... Alter as indicated. After an hour's conversation with Gokhale in the train between Ahmedabad and Baroda it was impossible for Sri Aurobindo to retain any great respect for Gokhale as a politician, whatever his merits as a man. [In 1904 an extremist section was formed in the Congress; its members ...
... monastery must have been Page 74 simply an idea of Barin. He had travelled among the hills trying to find a suitable place but caught hill-fever and had to abandon his search and return to Baroda. Subsequently he went back to Bengal, but Sri Aurobindo did not hear of any discovery of a suitable place. Sakaria Swami was Barin's Guru: he had been a fighter in the Mutiny on the rebel side and ...
... "sailing orders", I left Chandernagore and reached Pondicherry on April 4th 1910. I may add in explanation that from the time I left Lele at Bombay after the Surat Congress and my stay with him in Baroda, Poona and Bombay, I had accepted the rule of following the inner guidance implicitly and moving only as I was moved by the Divine. The spiritual development during the year in jail had turned this ...
... be added that neither at this time nor any other did Sri Aurobindo receive any kind of initiation from Sarada Devi; neither did he ever take any formal diksha from anyone. He started his sadhana at Baroda in 1904 on his own account after learning from a friend the ordinary formula of Pranayama. Afterwards the only help he received was from the Maharashtrian Yogi, Vishnu Bhaskar Lele, who instructed ...
... Historical Interest on Yoga and Practical Life (1921-1938) Autobiographical Notes Draft of a Letter to Maharani Chimnabai II To H.H the Maharani of Baroda It is true that I have by the practice of Yoga attained to the higher spiritual consciousness which comes by Yoga, and this carries with it a certain power. Especially there is the power to communicate ...
... could be firmly grasped and written in a metaphysical jargon to which I had not the key. I tried once a translation of Kant but dropped it after the first two pages and never tried again. In India at Baroda I read a "Tractate" of Schopenhauer on the six centres and that seemed to me more interesting. In sum, my interest in metaphysics was almost null, and in general philosophy sporadic. I did not read ...
... Takht-i-[Sulaiman] 1 in Kashmir, the living presence of Kali in a shrine in Chandod on the banks of the Narmada, the vision of the Godhead surging up from within when in danger of a carriage accident in Baroda in the first year of his stay etc. But these were inner experiences coming of themselves and with a sudden unexpectedness, not part of a sadhana. He started Yoga by himself without a Guru, getting ...
... England and none very intimate; the mental atmosphere was not found congenial. There was therefore no need for any such escape. Aurobindo was going back to India to serve under the Gaekwar of Baroda; he cast one last look at his all but adopted country and thus uttered his "Envoi". No, the statement was of a transition from one culture to another. There was an attachment to English and European ...
... you to consult Mr Pherozshah Mehta very confidentially on the point, paying him his fees, as to what action he would advise the Maharaja to take. A. A. G. H.E. R. V. Dhamnaskar Dewan Saheb Baroda Re Govt answer to protest against the Circular about visits to Europe. ...
... (1890-1926) Autobiographical Notes To the Naib Dewan, on the Infant Marriage Bill Gulmarg July 8. 1903 Rao Bahadur V. Y. Bhandarkar Naib Dewan Baroda My dear Sir, Many articles have been published in the papers regarding the proposed Infant Marriage Bill and one or two private representations have reached the Maharaja Saheb and others will ...
... subconscient is exceedingly obstinate in the keeping of its old impressions. I find myself even recently having a dream of Page 380 revolutionary activities or another in which the Maharaja of Baroda butted in, people and things I have not even thought of passingly for the last twenty years almost. I suppose it is because the very business of the subconscient in the human psychology is to keep ...
... the note in question, at play amidst the pure overhead accent, is the sonnet The Godhead which faithfully records a very early experience when Sri Aurobindo was in danger of a carriage accident in Baroda in the first year of his stay there, a vision of the Godhead surging up from within him . and mastering and controlling with its gaze all events and surroundings: I sat behind the dance of Danger's ...
... experience that goes beyond all earth and all hell and even all heaven into a pure infinitude where name and form are effaced has been set artistically working by the realisation Sri Aurobindo had at Baroda in 1908. A further vivification, as it were, of the Unknowable spoken of is given us in some lines in Savitri where also the Overhead Page 261 planes function but through ...
... illumination, the intuitive Truth Consciousness beyond the intellect. Not Apollo, but Athene is the divinity of mental Wisdom. Even as far back as the drama Perseus the Delioerer 2 of Sri Aurobindo's Baroda days we have those lines on Athene: A noble centre of a people's worship, To Zeus and great Athene build a temple Between your sky-topped hills and Ocean's vasts: Her might shall ...
... 1960), p. 14 ff; T. P. Verma, The Palaeography of the Maurya Brāhmī Script in North India (Varanasi, 1971), p. 2, and "Fresh Light on the Origin of Brāhmī", Journal of the Oriental Institute, Baroda, XIII, 1964, pp. 360-71. 2."Religion and Philosophy", The Age..., p. 438. 3. Aśoka, p. 208. 4. Op. cit., II, p. 587. Page 587 runs: "(I bow) to Armalāva, to Pramīla ...
... and not the mammoth it now is of 100,000 slokas, I should like to share with you some of the conclusions at which Sri Aurobindo arrived when he made a study of the poem in the period most probably in Baroda -long before he came to Pondicherry: "All that we know of the Mahabharata at present is that it is the work of several hands and of different periods... Yet to extricate the original epic from ...
... distressed state of mind in which Sri Aurobindo found himself. Knowing that already before going to jail he had the experience of Nirvana shortly after his meeting with the Maharashtrian Yogi Lele in Baroda, one is apt to wonder how the distressed state could ever occur. The answer can be derived from a statement of Sri Aurobindo's in the course of the talks which Nirodbaran has recorded. On December ...
... flame. 8.8.1938, 22.3.1944 Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Golden Light ============= The seed of this poem was the experience recounted below: There was an incident in Baroda which is important. Once Sri Aurobindo was going in his carriage from Camp Road towards the city. Just by the side of the Public Gardens an accident was narrowly averted. As he saw the possibility ...
... Vice Chancellor University of Kalyani P.O. Kalyani -741235 Dr. Nadia, West Bengal nsaha@klyuniv.ernet.in Dr. Anil S. Kane Vice-Chancellor MS University of Baroda Shastri Bridge Road Vadodara-390002 Gujarat Vc.msu@Jwbdq.lwbbs.net Dr. A.M. Pathan Vice-Chancellor Karnataka University Pavate Nagar Dharwad-580003 Karnataka ...
... didn't you begin Yoga later on in Gujerat? Yes. But this began in London, sprouted the moment I set foot on Apollo Bunder, touching Indian soil, flowered one day in the first year of my stay in Baroda, at the moment when there threatened to be an accident to my carriage. Precise enough? By the Self, I suppose, you mean the individual Self? Good Lord, no. I mean the Self, sir, the Self, the ...
... was thinking if homoeopathy could do anything for him." A long discussion on baldness followed, with a mention of its various treatments. The example of King Edward VII came in. SRI AUROBINDO: At Baroda there came a Kaviraj who claimed to have cured his own baldness. He showed some patches which had been bald and where hair was now growing. But unkind critics said that he used to shave his head in ...
... bomb to him. The name of Surendranath Banerji was found in the bomb case. But as soon as Norton pronounced the name there was a "Hush, hush" and he shut up. Barin was preparing bombs at my place at Baroda, but I didn't know it. He got the formula from N. Dutt who was a very good chemist. He, Upen and Debabrata were very good writers too. They wrote in the jugantar. Here Purani brought in the topic ...
... man, not a Yogi, can have a change of colour. I know a dark lower-middle- class Bengali named Hesh who returned from Europe after some years. He looked almost like a European. He came to see me at Baroda but I couldn't recognise him. Then he said, "Don't you recognise me?" When I was doing Pranayama I used to feel the breath concentrated in the head. My skin began to be smooth and fair. The women ...
... disease comes from outside. It pierces what the Mother calls the nervous sheath and enters the body. If one is conscious of this subtle nervous sheath, then the disease can be thrown away, as I did at Baroda with the thoughts, before it can enter. In neurasthenic people this nervous envelope becomes damaged. DR. BECHARLAL: Does neuralgia also come in the same way? SRI AUROBINDO (laughing) : Yes, ...
... predict sporting events? SATYENDRA: I know of an astrologer who made a lot of predictions about a cousin of mine, but most of them didn't come true. SRI AUROBINDO: I had a remarkable experience at Baroda It was not of astrology, but of thought-reading. My house-manager Chhotalal took me to an astrologer. The man asked me to prepare four questions in my mind. One of the questions came and passed very ...
... MANILAL: Four boys and two girls. SRI AUROBINDO: And one in between? (Laughter) Otherwise how seven? DR. MANILAL: No, she started labour-pains while I was coming here. The next issue of the Baroda paper will bring the tidings. SRI AUROBINDO: Tidings of the next issue? (Laughter) PURANI: When I read of the Gaekwar touring Europe, I thought: how could the Rani accompany him? DR. MANILAL: ...
... I have already said, equanimity and calm right down to your body-consciousness so that nothing stirs whatever happens, then also you can be free from them. After I had the Nirvanic experience at Baroda and came to Calcutta for work, I thought I had no ambition—I mean personal ambition. But the Voice which I used to hear within would point out to me at every step how personal ambition was there in ...
... rule. He gave the police man a long lecture in English, leaving the fellow flabbergasted. SRI AUROBINDO (laughing) : That must be him. It is very characteristic of him. He was my first friend in Baroda. He took me to his house and I stayed there for some time. He was a nice man, but what people call volatile and mercurial. ...
... AUROBINDO: What's that? NIRODBARAN: Z's letter. He wants guidance. PURANI: Any more of Dutt's stories? NIRODBARAN: No more. He has stopped. SRI AUROBINDO: His story of my meeting him at Baroda Station may be true, as I used to go very often to the Station. And about his earthen tumbler incident, there may be some foundation to it, but I object to the shooting incident. Ask him the names ...
... Aurobindo had already realised in full two of the four great realisations on which his Yoga... is founded. The first he had gained while meditation with the Maharashtrian Yogi Vishnu Bhaskar Lele at Baroda in January 1908; it was the realisation of the silent, spaceless and timeless Brahman.... His second realisation which was that of the cosmic consciousness and of the Divine as all beings and all that ...
... accept them and see what they are like. But if you mean thinking, I never do that. Thinking ceased a long time ago—it has stopped ever since that experience of mine with Lele, the Silence and Nirvana at Baroda. Thoughts, as I said, come to me from all sides and from above and the receptive mind remains quiet or it enlarges itself to receive them. True thoughts always come in this way. You can't think out ...
... Aurobindo if it was true. SRI AUROBINDO: I may have, I don't remember. I wrote some articles on Madhusudan, I remember. In which year was it? PURANI: In 1894, the second year of your stay in Baroda. SRI AUROBINDO: My knowledge of Bengali was very little at that time. I couldn't have finished reading all the writings of Bankim or perhaps I wrote the articles during the first enthusiasm of my ...
... belief in these things? NIRODBARAN: He says he got two things right—one about the possibility of a sea-voyage. The spirit said "Yes" and it was correct. SRI AUROBINDO: Anyone could say that. Our Baroda instances are more striking than that. SATYENDRA: How does he know it was Vivekanand's spirit? SRI AUROBINDO: Quite so. Vivekananda's spirit must have other things to do by now. NIRODBARAN: ...
... there was an exercise called hanging the leg. Manilal's approaching visit for the Darshan would make Sri Aurobindo utter, "Oh, Manilal is coming, I must hang my leg!" or when Manilal would enquire from Baroda about it, he would reply with a smile, "It is still hanging!" The bending exercise was apparently an ineffectual one, but Sri Aurobindo persisted and we too encouraged him as if he were a little child ...
... integral, 71, 75 Ashta Siddhi, 17-8, 241-3 Dying, new way of, l68 Auroville, 3, 178-9 Bengladesh, 214 Education, revolutionary experiments in, 94 Baroda, 1, 5, 6, 9 Ego, 9,10,86,208-9,251,253,261 Bengal, 1 Equality, 269-70 Body consciousness, impersonalisation of, 160-3 Equilibrium, age of, 202 Body consciousness ...
... his early childhood and became an all-round and accomplished scholar in the sciences, humanities and classics of several European languages at the age of 21 when he came back to India and joined the Baroda State Service. Here he became extremely popular with the rising generation of students not only for. his vast erudition but also for his burning patriotism, simple and unassuming manners and above ...
... the cosmic consciousness — of the Divine as all beings and all that is, Vasudevah sarvamiti, and it was the second of the four great realisations (of the first — the experience of Brahma-Nirvana at Baroda — I have already spoken) on which his yoga and spiritual philosophy are founded. After sometime Sri Aurobindo was transferred from the solitary cell to a large hall in the jail where he lived with ...
... contrary Force is strong in the body, one can move in the midst of plague and cholera and never get contaminated. Plague too, rats dying all around, people passing into Hades. I have seen that myself in Baroda. You will say then that flies, bugs etc. that contaminate food, are sent to people by these forces and they were meant to be infected? They were open to the Forces in some way. Buddha, ...
... immunises for only a few years. But if it is as you say, then there are others, I suppose. There is A among the servants, for instance, who nearly died of small-pox. I myself had a slight attack in Baroda after I came from England—so, you needn't try to come up and vaccinate me. MYSELF: X attributes her trouble to R's insufficient or even negligent treatment. Strange! I saw that R took much ...
... immunise for only a few years. But if it is as you say, then there are others, I suppose. There is Amani 119 among the servants for instance who nearly died of smallpox. I myself had a slight attack in Baroda soon after I came from England—so you needn't try to come up and vaccinate me. You have written to Shailaja that the effect of vaccination lasts 5 years, and revaccination is not required within ...
... and quiet like Shiva, while Mother thundered at the doctor. All of us retreated into our shells, as it were, from shock. And Manilal was an experienced doctor who had attended upon the Maharaja of Baroda, but now his face became so small! (Laughter) Then Mother, with folded hands, began to pray to Sri Aurobindo. ...
... Sardar would sent for V P, H M Patel and myself. While Maniben (Patel's daughter and de facto secretary) would sit cross-legged with a Parker fountain pen taking notes, Patel would say, 'V P, I want Baroda. Take him with you.' I was the bogeyman. So I got to know the Sardar very well. At the morning meeting he handed over the (Accession) thing. Mountbatten turned around and said, ' come ...
... indignant and outraged. For them, the partition was not merely a fresh application of the British policy of divide-and-rule, but the sundering of the soul of a people. Sri Aurobindo who was then in Baroda, wrote about the partition: "This measure is no mere administrative proposal but a blow straight at the heart of the nation". This single event brought about united opposition from all groups, political ...
... this achievement. At one time when he thought of practising Yoga seriously, he was looking for someone who could give preliminary practical guidance. He was told there was such a person somewhere in Baroda. This person was not a guru in the normal sense, he looked like a householder, was not at all a sannyasi. He was employed in an office, perhaps as a clerk, still he was pursuing some practice of yogic ...
... 391 Madhusudan 40 Maeterlinck, Maurice 377 Mahabharata, 12,21,45,46,135,200,201, 209,210,242-244,252,254,256,261,279, 375-377,416,418,419,448,458,460 Maharaja of Baroda 8 Maitra, S.K.33,34 Mallarme317 Marlowe, Christopher 337 Masefieldjohn 268 Mehta, Phirozeshah 10 Meleager 45 Mickiewicz, Adam 376 Miller, ...
... Hitler is possessed by a vital force it is a statement of fact, not a moral judgment. It is clear from what he does and the way he does it. I remember a young Sanyasi with long nails came to Baroda. He used to stay under trees. Deshpande and myself went to see him. Deshpande asked him : what is the Dharma, the standard of action? He replied, "There is no such standard. It is the Dharma of ...
... brought in democracy-personal ambitions-boycott-S-he has lost his head-like Europe-part of universal movement. Disciple : D also used to have many brilliant ideas e. g. common kitchen, cleaning, Baroda city. Sri Aurobindo : Ideas are always brilliant. Co-operation is always possible, because each finds his self-interest in the interest of others. Page 260 Disciple : ...
... originally under the old insufficient inspiration ," 25 Page 382 It is almost certain it was begun, along with or not long after Urvasie and Love and Death, in the Baroda period; he might have returned to it from time to time, retouching it here and there; but the decision to transform it altogether—"recasting the whole thing"—must have been taken sometime after ...
... science could Page 120 explain. When I first approached Him, it was not entirely in the spirit of the Bhakta, it was not entirely in the spirit of the Jnani. I came to Him long ago in Baroda some years before the Swadeshi began and I was drawn into the public field. "When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me ...
... nevertheless a sensational one. Page 28 While he was getting deeper into politics, he was at the same time also being drawn more and more towards yoga. The mystic experience at Baroda in January 1908 was a turning point in his life. Henceforth he was in politics, but not quite of it. He was like a man in a trance; he seemed to work and talk as other men but he also seemed to be ...
... story. In the present version we have the bare bones of the Mahabharata story transformed into the flesh and blood of a spacious narrative poem like Urvasie and Love and Death of Sri Aurobindo's Baroda period; what is lacking in Book VIII is the epic amplitude, the luminous extravagant richness, the cosmic overtones and the more or less consistent overhead inspiration behind the rest of the poem ...
... invent one ! The press is a public institution. Formerly, it was something dignified, but now the newspapers are the correct measures of the futility of human life. Disciple : The princess of Baroda was married to the Prince of Wales of England in an American paper – with photographs and all ! Sri Aurobindo : They are a faithful mirror of the common mind. Disciple : They are moving ...
... basis of all Shankara Adwaita – monism. According to him soul also is Maya – as it has no real existence. But I found that the experience behind this idea is quite different. I had that experience at Baroda, and if I had stopped there I would have been an orthodox Vedantin.[ Shankar's followers disagree. According to Sri Aurobindo , God is one and many at the same time – they may say, "a logical co ...
... leave it off you are liable to attacks. In Raja yoga also you have to continue Pranayama Page 340 once you begin it. My own experience is that when I was practising Pranayama at Baroda I had excellent health. But when I went to Bengal and left Pranayama, I was attacked by all sorts of illnesses which nearly carried me off. 8-8-1926 Disciple : Is there life on ...
... First came the experience of utter silence and calm and void when, under Yogi Lele's guidance, Sri Aurobindo, early in January 1908, learned in a room on the top floor of Sardar Mazumdar's house in Baroda to fling his thoughts back and create the desert of silence in his mind." Writing about this, Sri Aurobindo says: "In three days —really in one—my mind became full of an eternal silence—it is still ...
... to Sri Aurobindo all the doubtful points of these books for correction or corroboration. This gave me the correct ground for his biography. I had been collecting materials myself since 1923. The Baroda State service records of Sri Aurobindo were secured Page V by me in 1944 through Shri D.B. Shukla's help and submitted to Sri Aurobindo. He corrected these in his own handwriting. ...
... The Life Divine would be to call it Sri Aurobindo's symphonic answer to the inter-linked questions pf philosophy Page 416 in the steady light of his own spiritual experiences at Baroda, Alipur, Chandernagore and Pondicherry. As he explained in one of the later issues of the Arya: The spiritual experience and the general truths on which such an attempt could be based ...
... moved, as we saw in some of the earlier chapters, from one or two unexpected experiences to the tentative period of prānāyāma and then on to the all-annihilating experience of the silent Brahman at Baroda, under Yogi Lele's guidance. At the Alipur jail, the blissful experience of Narayana Omnipresent had suddenly overwhelmed Sri Aurobindo, and he had won his way to the heart of the Gita's integral ...
... in old scripture, rather than fabricating something wholly new. Sri Aurobindo was thus merely following a practice sanctified by long usage. Sri Aurobindo had followed certain pathways at Baroda - at Alipur - at Chandernagore - and had chanced upon certain insights, and he had found his way to certain spiritual realisations. At Alipur he had grown intimate with the Gita and had explored the ...
... same evening, and found him a nice man who was quick to understand things. Next morning he had an interview with Sri Aurobindo whom he had known as a senior colleague over forty years earlier at the Baroda College. They were together for about thirty minutes, and Dr. Reddy personally offered the gold medal and cheque to Sri Aurobindo. Later, Dr. Reddy went round the Ashram, and in the evening witnessed ...
... followed the dialogue between Savitri and Death! The theme of the conquest of Love over Death seems to have drawn Sri Aurobindo very early. We have seen that at the age of twenty-seven, while at Baroda Sri Aurobindo wrote Love and Death. It is a stirring poem in blank verse; this plot also is taken from the Mahabharata. Ruru descends into Hades to bring back to Earth and life his beloved Priyumvada ...
... its liberation. He even began soon after coming to India to write on political matters — without giving his name —in the press, trying to awaken the nation to the ideas of the future. "When I came to Baroda from England," Sri Aurobindo related, "I found what the Congress was like at that time and I formed a strong contempt for it. Then I came in touch with Deshpande, Tilak, Madhavrao and others [revo ...
... stepped first on Indian soil ... in fact with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay" (6 February 1893). -The experience of the 'Godhead' when he "sat behind the dance of Danger's hooves" at Baroda. -The sense of the Infinite, 'Adwaita,' which he experienced at the Shankaracharya Hill at Kashmir, or -the invasion of the Infinite he felt when he stood atop the Parvati hill near Pune ...
... was no doubt all wit and elegance and, if we know our A. A. Ghose, wide-ranging and deep.* In October 1890 Sri Aurobindo was eighteen years old. Several years later, when he was a professor at Baroda College, 1. Friction matches. Invented in 1827 by the English chemist John Walker. In 1829, a manufacturing unit was opened in London by Samuel Jones. 'Lucifer' means light-bringer, which is Satan's ...
... They were attracted by the Principal's method of teaching, and his personality. Their love and adoration for Sri Aurobindo was not a degree less than the devotion he was accorded by his students at Baroda College. "When he would lecture in the class," wrote Rishabhchand, 1 "they would hang upon his lips —it is said even many professors came in to listen —and they found in his informal, unacademic way ...
... Boycott. And Sri Aurobindo it was who had pushed secretly for the adoption of this idea of boycott through his Nameso, K.K. Mitra —cousin Sukumar being the go-between —for Sri Aurobindo was still in Baroda service. On 13 July, a few days after the Government's final decision to partition Bengal had been announced, K.K. Mitra had in his Sanjibani called for the boycott of British goods and of government ...
... There are a few disputable points in MacDonald's assessment. For instance, years earlier, Sri Aurobindo had prepared a comprehensive plan for the Gaekwad for the administration and development of the Baroda State. The report dealt with wide-ranging subjects: different aspects of agriculture, fertilizer and crop patterns; fodder and grazing of cattle; crafts including the training of workers and inducement ...
... ty," notes the historian R. C. Majumdar. Many of the facts and figures quoted above can be found in Romesh Dutt's Economic History of India. Romesh Dutt —remember him? —met Sri Aurobindo in Baroda in 1899 and praised his translations of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. After his death in 1909, Sri Aurobindo wrote in the course of an article about him in The Karmayogin : "Without the Economic ...
... Highness will give him this start, it will be only adding one more act Page 164 of grace to the uniform kindness and indulgence which Your Highness has shown to me ever since I came to Baroda. I remain Your Highness' loyal servant Aravind. A. Ghose × MS damaged; conjectural reconstruction.—Ed. ...
... to the meeting almost in a mood of inexplicable vacancy.... Not inexplicable certainly; it was the condition of silence of the mind to which he had come by his meditation for 3 days with Lele in Baroda and which he kept for many months and indeed always thereafter, all activity proceeding on the surface; but at that time there was no activity on the surface. Lele told him to make namaskar to the ...
... Autobiographical Notes To Anandrao [June 1912] Dear Anandrao, My Bengal correspondent writes to me that you have sent me the following message, "The Baroda friend has left service and therefore there is difficulty in finding money. He asks, now you have become a Sannyasin, on what ground he can collect money. Still, if you let him know clearly your future ...
... innocent people. He has also ordered that no one shall receive special bhutta at a hill-station, unless the matter is brought to his notice and he is personally satisfied that prices are higher than in Baroda. Where will all this shopkeeping unprinceliness & petty-fogging injustice end? Ashudada sent Visvas' son Hemchandra with a note to me; the lad is a young Hercules five foot ten in height & monstrous ...
... 1922 Born 1872. Sent to England for education 1879. Studied at St Paul's School, London, and King's College, Cambridge. Returned to India. February, 1893. Life of preparation at Baroda 1893-1906 Political life—1902-1910 [The "Swadeshi" movement prepared from 1902-5 and started definitely by Sri Aurobindo, Tilak, Lajpatrai and others in 1905. A movement for Indian independence ...
... know is when did Vivekananda write that or what led him to take notice of me. I no longer remember when he left his body, but my impression is that it was when I was a blissfully obscure Professor of Baroda College and neither in politics nor Yoga had put on the tedious burden of fame. Why then should Vivekananda say anything about me at all, much Page 164 less a thing like that—unless it ...
... Didn't you begin Yoga later on in Gujarat? Yes. But this began in London, sprouted the moment I set foot on Apollo Bunder, touching Indian soil, flowered one day in the first year of my stay in Baroda, at the moment when there threatened to be an accident to my carriage. Precise enough? By the Self, I suppose, you mean the individual Self! Good Lord, no. I mean the Self, sir, the Self, the ...
... Pondicherry Letters on Himself and the Ashram Unusual Experiences and States of Consciousness Visions of Unknown People Yes, of course, I remember about Baroda Babu—I can't say I remember him because I never saw him, at least in the flesh. What he probably means by the Supramental is the Above Mind—what I now call Illumined Mind-Intuition-Overmind. I used ...
... surprising. Throughout the course of history a small minority has been carrying the torch to save humanity in spite of itself. January 16, 1939 (A disciple:) Nana Saheb Sinde of Baroda has spoken to a youth conference emphasizing the need of military training for the defence of the country. His speech was against the current vogue of non-violence. It is good that someone ...
... to what extent it is superfluous to say. The incubus of the British Resident is always there. And the results of his intervention—often disastrous to the Chiefs—were thus summed up by the Gaekwar of Baroda in the Nineteenth Century in 1901—"Uncertainty and want of confidence in the indigenous Government is promoted. The influence of the Raja, which is indispensable for the individuality of the States ...
... mind's eye. The Nawab of Dacca, the Maharaja of Darbhanga, the Maharajas of Coochbehar and Kashmir, the Raja of Nabha, Sir Harnam Singh, a few other Rajas and Maharajas ( not including the Maharaja of Baroda), Dr. Rash Behari Ghose, Mr. Justice Mukherji, a goodly number of non-official Europeans, the knight of the umbrella from Bombay, etc. etc. with Mr. Page 496 Gokhale bringing up the tail ...
... sakshi fixed by adhyaropa on the central images,—rupa & karma were correct, nama only confused,—eg the Salle de Lecture of Pondicherry adhyaropita on a small but efficient & nobly built library, the Baroda College or a place of education in the same locality, London, brother, sister etc being brought in & fixed on forms & places entirely different. There was also a tendency to run different dreams into ...
... Letters Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit মৃণালিনীদেবীকে লিখিত c/o K. B. Jadhav, Esq. Near Municipal Office Baroda 25th June 1902 প্রিয়তমা মৃণালিনী, তােমার জ্বরের কথা শুনে বড় দুঃখিত হলাম ৷ আশা করি এর পরে তুমি তােমার শরীর একটু দেখবে ৷ ঠাণ্ডা জায়গা, যাতে ঠাণ্ডা না লাগে, তাই করিবে ৷ আজ দশ টাকা পাঠালাম, ঔষধ আনিয়ে রােজ খাবে, অন্যথা করিবে না ৷ আমি ...
... contrary Force is strong in the body, one can move in the midst of plague and cholera and never get contaminated. Plague too, rats dying all around, people passing into Hades. I have seen that myself in Baroda. I have gone through the report of the Doctor and it seems to be clear from it—he says so himself—that there is nothing serious the matter and no danger. If there is some dilation of the heart ...
... the riding tests in the I.C.S. examination and thus getting disqualified for official co-operation with the British Government, the years that he spent in state service with the then Gaekwad of Baroda were used by him for literary self-development, mastery of Sanskrit as well as several modern Indian languages, and intense absorption of the culture of the Orient. A period of educationist ...
... all earth and all hell and even all heaven into a pure infinitude where name and form are effaced has been set artistically working by the realisation Page 287 Sri Aurobindo had at Baroda in 1908. A further vivification, as it were, of the Unknowable spoken of is given us in some lines in Savitri where also the Overhead planes function but through an Eye with a capital E. The Thoughtful ...
... represented Shrava notes: "Śaka-nrpa-kalatīta-samvatsara or the era which marks the expiry of the time of the Śaka king or kings." He cites a long example from Important Inscriptions from the Baroda State, A. S. Gadre, Vol. I, p. 32, of 739 Śaka. A shorter one runs: "Śaka-nrpa-kālātita sathvatsara-sateshu tri (tri) shu daśsotta-reshu." 7 Shrava adds that this way of naming the era "is used ...
... Aurobindo left Calcutta to attend the Surat session of the Indian National Congress. The next day he addressed a meeting in Nagpur. After the violent break-up of the Congress he passed a few days in Baroda, and then visited a number of cities in Maharashtra at the invitation of Nationalist colleagues. In all of these places he gave speeches, most of which have been preserved in one form or another. See ...
... Saṁskṛtaracanāḥ ( Sanskrit Writings ). Bānglā Racanā Sri Aurobindo wrote poems, essays, translations and letters in Bengali from his years as an administrative officer and professor in Baroda (1893-1906), through the period of his political activism in Calcutta, where he edited the Bengali weekly Dharma in 1909-10, to the 1930s when he corresponded in Bengali with a few members of his ...
... in Kashmir; the living presence of Kali in a shrine on the banks of the Narmada; the vision of the Godhead surging up from Page 371 within when in danger of a carriage accident in Baroda in the first year of his stay..." About the experience of Nirvana we may quote a passage from a note dictated by Sri Aurobindo for Aldous Huxley. Huxley had made a comment on a short excerpt ...
... No sooner did I commence my contact with Sri Aurobindo in 1927 than I found the air of his Ashram humming with rich rumours of the masterpiece that had been in progress ever since his days in Baroda. Having always had a passion for poetry and having myself tried to catch a spark of the celestial fire, I was extremely thrilled, and I longed to set eyes on this most significant work of his which ...
... occasion to disburden himself of the entire weight of the poetic world of the past, present and future and leave a rich heritage for posterity. Sri Aurobindo's lectures on English poetry in Baroda are reported to have had that magic, with students from other colleges flocking to hear him. Not all students could follow him, it seemed, but he did not care. There have been a few other professors ...
... "they declared that they had recovered a few metacarpals of the domestic Ass". Then Dr. Alur brings to light a little-known riposte to that report: "Dr. J.C. George of the M.S. University of Baroda stated that the study of the above table of comparative measurements shows beyond doubt that the metacarpals recorded by Prasad are definitely not of the domestic Ass and it is therefore possible to ...
... waiting. Finally we were called at 5 p.m. After pranam when Sri Aurobindo started speaking, I said: “Please indulge us by speaking in Gujarati.” He laughed and said: “I knew Gujarati when I was in Baroda but now I have forgotten it.” C: “You know everything.” He laughed and laughed. C: “You can speak at least in Hindi.” Sri Aurobindo: “That too I don't know.” C: “You certainly know Hindi ...
... Visions of Champaklal Visions of Champaklal Gift of Brilliant Beautiful Asana (At Sri Aurobindo Nivas - Baroda In the Meditation Hall) 1979-10-03 A grand luminous golden Figure was descending slowly from a great height. The golden rays emanating from Him spread everywhere. As He was alighting, His body reflected different colours. The speed of shifting ...
... This pilgrimage to the educational institutions was started in August 1972. It completes five years in August 1977. During this period I visited 1800 educational institutions of seven districts (Baroda, Kaira, Sabarkantha, Panchmahal, Mehsana, Gandhinagar and Banaskantha) of North Gujarat and distributed more than ten thousand copies of my Gujarati book on preservation of health and sight and 1200 ...
... 1918-1920 This enormous ‘mental’ activity, which we can witness for almost seven full years thanks to the Arya, used as its instruments a completely inactive brain (since the realization with Lele in Baroda) and fingers that typed directly on a prehistoric Remington what was inspired into them, including the corrections. In summer it is dreadfully warm in Pondicherry, but Sri Aurobindo, in yogic detachment ...
... Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem Savitri consists of nearly 24,000 lines – 712 printed pages in the complete works. He worked on its twelve ever-expanded drafts for half a century, from the last years in Baroda till a few weeks before his leaving the body. Sri Aurobindo called Savitri ‘a legend and a symbol.’ The legend is a story from the Mahabharata that briefly summarized goes as follows: Savitri ...
... would you say of Thursday at 4.30 pm? If you do not answer I shall understand that it is agreeable to you. With loving regards Yours André Meanwhile I wrote to Mr. Ambapremi Shah of the Baroda Sri Aurobindo Centre, to find out all about marble, because I had been given an assurance by the people concerned to clothe the existing Urn in a proper lotus shape, according to the Mother's sketch ...
... enamoured of verbal music. I can imagine Shakespeare smacking his lips when he wrote - Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang - and Sri Aurobindo must have had a delicious moment in Baroda, composing the line in Love and Death - Art thou too whelmed in this fierce wailing flood? The largest opportunity to get wonderful effects out of words and their combination was in ancient ...
... before writing to me is particularly an eye-opener in the spiritual sense. The basic experience at the back of it is even more significant than the one that came to Sri Aurobindo in that upper room at Baroda in three days' time - the experience of Nirvana. For Nirvana drew his eyes inward to the infinite silent Brahman clear of all cosmic limitation, a necessary farness and freedom for the soul. But it ...
... here. No sooner did I commence my contact with Sri Aurobindo in 1927 than I found the air of his Ashram humming with rich rumours of the masterpiece that had been in progress ever since his days in Baroda. Having always had a passion for poetry and having myself tried to catch a spark of the celestial fire, I was extremely thrilled and longed to set eyes on this most significant work of his which he ...
... the Overmind-Supermind equivalence in Sri Aurobindo's first employment of the two terms in the very early days previous to his arrival in Pondicherry.¹ He was translating the Gita during his Baroda period. Verses 49-5 T of Chapter 2 ran: "For far lower is action than the Yoga of the Supermind; in the Supermind seek thy refuge, for this is a mean and pitiful thing that a man should work for ...
... first draft. The writer of "On Editing Sri Aurobindo", (see, Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research, V. 2, p. 190, note) rejects the testimony of Dinendra Kumar Roy who lived with Sri Aurobindo in Baroda and has written that around 1900 Sri Aurobindo was composing a poem on Savitri and Satyavan. However there is a strong probability of its being true when we see in what glowing terms he writes about ...
... 12 . Op. cit. (see fn. 1), pp. 89,124. 13. "Exploration in Kutch and Excavation at Surkotada and New Light on Harappan Migration", Journal of the Oriental Institute (M.S. University of Baroda), Vol. XII, Sept-Dec. 1972, Nos. 1-2, pp. 135-38,136. Page 465 The historical implication of horse-knowledge by Indians in the Harappan age is a point we shall take up elsewhere ...
... concern for their welfare and his all-pervading compassion are evident in these letters. Sri Aurobindo first inculcated the revolutionary spirit into his younger brother when Barin visited him in Baroda. His guidance on sadhana, his insights into the work of hostile forces and his description of the vital worlds, "Rakshasi-maya", will be instructive to those who are doing yoga. Sri Aurobindo's ...
... Worlds and Beyond, PHISPC, Centre For Studies in Civilizations, New Delhi, 2006. Bhave, Shrikrishna Sakharam, The Soma hymns of the Rig Veda: A fresh interpretation. Oriental Institute, 1957-62, Baroda, 3 Vols, Bloomfield, M., The Religion of the Veda, New York, 1908. Brunton Paul and Venkataramaiah, Conscious Immortality, Sri Ramanasramam, 1984, Tiruvallamalayi. Chattopadhayaya ...
... and the supermind and to the supermind itself. The first realisation was that of the transcendental silent Brahman. He had attained to this realisation within three days of his concentration at Baroda, in 1907, when under the instruction of an adept, Lele, he could bring about utter silence of the mind. His second major realisation had come to him when he was detained in Alipore jail in 1908 ...
... how important a place Education, in the true sense of the word, occupies in the life, writings and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Sri Aurobindo was a professor and later Vice Principal at the Baroda College from 1897 to 1905. In 1906, he came to Calcutta as the Principal of the newly founded Bengal National College. At Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother laid the foundation of a new centre ...
... Karma-hypothesis. He does not say that he subscribes to this view; he has merely cited the viewpoint of some extremely orthodox Karmavadis. This he had read in the pages of a newspaper during his stay in Baroda. The story is somewhat like this: A tyrant landlord adopted some devious means to dispossess a poor peasant of his paltry landed property. After the death of this poor man, he was reborn in ...
... But this I know, and know full well, I cannot love thee, Dr. Fell." 73 ) II. From Dilip Kumar 's bag: (1) A sample of Sri Aurobindo's "pre-yogic humour": The Prince of Baroda was going to be married. In those days — late nineteenth century — monogamy was not particularly insisted on. Sri Aurobindo was then Vice-Principal of the Gaekwar's College. When the distinguished ...
... accomplished literary critic. But not many people know that he has been a great educationist as well. Even those who are aware of the fact that Sri Aurobindo was a very successful teacher, — first at the Baroda College during the years 1899 and 1906, then in the Bengal National College, Calcutta, in the years 1906 and 1907, — have not much cared to study his educational thoughts and insights or may not even ...
... Aurobindo on his biography as given by NB: NB: You wrote that you had lived dangerously. All that we know is that you did not have enough money in England, - also in Pondicherry in the beginning. In Baroda you had a handsome pay, and in Calcutta you were quite well off. [Above "quite" Sri Aurobindo put!!!!]. Sri Aurobindo: I was so astonished by this succinct, complete and impeccably accurate biography ...
... to finish it soon.'² This was rather shocking. Savitri was being composed and revised, composed and revised, over a long period of time. The first versions were written as early as 1899, in Baroda. This was his epic poem of nearly twenty-four thousands lines—all packed with mantric force brought down from higher and higher ranges of consciousness and inspiration. The ancient story of Satyavan ...
... to me which no material science could explain. When I first approached Him, it was not entirely in the spirit of the Bhakta, it was not entirely in the spirit of the Jnani. I came to Him long ago in Baroda some years before the Swadeshi began and I was drawn into the public field. ‘When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me ...
... turn of the upward spiral of his life. We see the rising curve bending down of a sudden when he threw away the I. C. S. career after a brilliant success and retired into an unpretentious State job in Baroda. There his sun was again in the ascendent, but as soon as he had captured the vision and admiration of the people, he left that peak of eminence. The sun then passed under a cloud; it worked behind ...
... incentive. He replied: 'Not in the least. You are writing like Samuel Smiles. Poverty has never had any terror for me nor is it an incentive. You seem to forget that I left my very safe and "handsome" Baroda position without any need to do it and that I gave up also the Rs.150 of National College Principalship, leaving myself with nothing to live on. I could not have done that, if money had been an incentive ...
... (Laughter) and he had the privilege of his age, the privilege of his position and the privilege of his experience. Before he came here, he was for some time the personal attendant of the Maharaja of Baroda. So he knew the ways and means of dealing with great people: his personality was not obtrusive. He did not try to push himself in front. Such an unobtrusive personality, and at the same time, a ...
... Aswins, the, 144 Ashram (Sri Aurobindo), Iin., 63, 70-1 BACH, Richard, 82n. –Jonathan Livingston Seagull, 82n. Bajula, 280 Bali , 148-9 Baroda , 10-11 Bengal , 11, 164-5, 281 Bhade,280 Bhaskara, Guru, 151 Bhasunaka, 77 Bhattacharya, Purnenduprasad, 172 Bhattacharya, Sanjoy, 175, 177 Bhattacharya ...
... they understand the language – of course, provided they take interest in the subject. Disciple : My friend Swami Adwaitananda understands it all right but when I met professors of philosophy at Baroda or Lahore I found them complaining about their inability to understand it. Perhaps, peopli connected with Pondicherry can follow the writing easily. Sri Aurobindo : Not always. But even the ...
... Prakriti, then the Purusha becomes a slave to it, Anish. Rejection, of course, is a stronger means. One has to reject these things before they enter into one, as I did with the thoughts when I was at Baroda. This method is more powerful and the results too are quicker. There is also a mental control, but there it is the mind trying to control the vital being. The control is only partial and temporary ...
... after such waiting can one complain. But you once said that you had many experiences. You have no right to complain. DR. MANILAL: True, Sir. I told you how meditation used to come spontaneously at Baroda at any time and I simply had to sit down to meditate, it used to come with such force! Occasionally it would come when I "was just about to go to the hospital, and the experiences of peace and of other ...
... 1941 + Talks with Sri Aurobindo 12 JANUARY 1941 There was a long story narrated by Purani about the ex-Maharani of Baroda, how her boxes were detained and opened by a Muslim judge in Madras and handed over to the Police. The Police also detained her valuable documents. DR. MANILAL: What type of past action makes innocent people suffer like this, Sir ...
... typhoid. Nil Ratan and everybody else gave up hope and said, "The only thing is to pray." They prayed; after the prayer they found that her consciousness had revived and she was all right. I was at Baroda at that time. They wired to me about her hopeless condition. And then there is what happened to Madhavrao's son. He was dying; the doctors had given up hope. Madhavrao wired to them to stop medicines ...
... languages, in fact, I learnt by myself—German and Italian, for instance. For Bengali, however, I had a teacher. CHAMPAKLAL: Did you learn Gujarati in Pondicherry? SRI AUROBINDO: No. I picked it up in Baroda, as I had to read the Maharajah's files. NIRODBARAN: Nishikanto was asking if you would write an appreciation of his book. SRI AUROBINDO: For publication? NIRODBARAN: Yes. I replied that you ...
... contact with the party. They had no organisation at all. Their main programme was to beat some magistrates, and quarrels were going on. So I organised them and reconciled their quarrels and went back to Baroda. Again a quarrel broke out, again I came and reconciled them; the whole thing then went into Barin's hands. Terrorism was only a subordinate movement. It could have been important if the armed revolution ...
... SRI AUROBINDO: Is that so? Dr. Kher seems to be a very able man. He appears to have escaped the Socialist trap. PURANI: Vallabhbhai Patel is terribly anti-Socialist. He crushed the Socialists at Baroda. SRI AUROBINDO: These Socialists don't know what Socialism is. PURANI: There were very humorous speeches in the Sind Assembly. The Muslim League has been exposed. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. The Sind ...
... must have been prescribed with the idea of taking up the lower forces and pulling them high up. But to go back to our original point about the law of Nature, remember a young Sannyasi who came to Baroda. He had lons nails and used to sit under the trees. Deshpande and I went to see him. I asked him, "What is the standard of action?" He replied, "There is no standard. The thief may be right in stealing ...
... on to revolution. Barin once walked into his house, gave him a long lecture on revolution and converted him in one day! PURANI: Yes, Barin had intensity and fire at that time. Once I saw him at Baroda with my brother. They were discussing revolutionary plans. I saw that fire in his eyes. I have heard that Nivedita also was some sort of a revolutionary. SRI AUROBINDO: What do you mean by "some ...
... have emanated. PURANI (after a long break in the talk) : In Gurukul they have an exercise or drill of laughter. When students are asked to laugh, they have to laugh. SRI AUROBINDO: Not cry? In Baroda the military department instituted a drill of urination. (Laughter) As soon as the order was passed, everybody would urinate together. EVENING PURANI: J has sent a letter saying that he was ...
... predict the future correctly. Many of my friends have had that experience. SRI AUROBINDO: I also had that experience with the Bhrigu Samhita people. DR. MANILAL: One Bhrigu Samhita man came to Baroda and swindled a lot of people, and many became insolvent. SRI AUROBINDO: How? DR. MANILAL: People began to speculate heavily, relying on his forecasts and they lost a lot. Even some business people ...
... that it might be small-pox. Dr. André saw the case and said it was chicken-pox. SRI AUROBINDO (after asking Dr. Manilal about the period of infectiousness): I had a mild attack of small-pox in Baroda and at that time there was no such illness there. A judge prepared some mango drink and asked me to take it and transferred his small-pox to me in the process. The Maharaja asked me to go to Mussouri ...
... but not according to the common conception of a university.... Everybody will be taught to work, not with any profit motive, but with a spirit of service. 27 Already as a Professor at the Baroda College in the eighteen-nineties, Sri Aurobindo had felt keenly the inadequacies of the ruling system of education (a half-hearted transplantation of the British system which had its detractors even ...
... Presence and the feeling of Divine Guidance and Divine Protection are, however, the indispensable élan in all Gurukulas and Ashrams. When young men were first drawn to Sri Aurobindo - at Baroda, and later at Calcutta - it was because he was the apostle of Nationalism and the high-priest of the revolutionary movement. There was, of course from the first a visionary look in his eyes, which ...
... p. 20 53. Ibid., p. 24 54. Ibid., p. 9 55. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 6 56. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 26 57. Ibid., p. 28 Chapter 3: Baroda 1. Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo (1966), p. 191 [Cf. Purani, The Life, p. 36] 2. Purani, The Life, p. 36 3. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 50 ...
... The house which was widely believed to have been Sri Aurobindo's birthplace in Calcutta 28 was secured and became "Sri Aurobindo Bhavan", the house in which Sri Aurobindo stayed longest while in Baroda during 1893-1906 was taken over for establishing a permanent memorial, and a "Sri Aurobindo Bhavan" came up at Bhubaneshwar as well. Liberal grants were also made for the construction at Auroville ...
... and culture of her people. Aban Thakur's work and influence spread all over India directly as well as through his pupils and, if we may say so, his grand-pupils. From Lahore to Madras, from Dacca to Baroda, from Karachi to Calcutta, the new movement spread and developed in a diversity of ways. As Sri Aurobindo stated, "This art is a true creation and we may expect that the artistic mind of the rest ...
... A cleansing retreat is called for, and Aswapati resolutely withdraws into a void, an absolute condition of silence of the mind. Sri Aurobindo is here evidently recalling his own experience at Baroda under Yogi Lele's guidance. It is a unique cathartic or 'beyonding' experience, 28 and Aswapati leaves "earth-nature's summits", mounts "burning like a cone of fire", and quests "for God as for ...
... × The first versions of Savitri date back to 1899, when Sri Aurobindo was working for the Maharajah of Baroda, before beginning his revolutionary activities in Bengal. ...
... VII In the course of his life, Sri Aurobindo had a series of spiritual experiences and realisations, each apparently at variance with the others. There was the experience of Nirvana in Baroda in January 1908, - that of Narayana's omnipresence in the Alipur jail later in the year, and of the levels of overhead consciousness under Vivekananda's guidance. During his first years at Pondicherry ...
... months of 1950, an awesome reticence was the law of his life, for, as he told Dr. Satyendra once, it was a serious time. 8 It was on 9 July 1950 that K.M. Munshi, once Sri Aurobindo's pupil at Baroda and now a Cabinet Minister at the Centre, had private darshan of the Master. After the passage of forty years, a very different Sri Aurobindo confronted his former pupil and sprayed on him his immaculate ...
... : I knew an astrologer who impressed my cousin very much and when he acted under his guidance his predictions did not at all come true. Sri Aurobindo : But I had a remarkable experience at Baroda, not of an astrologer but of one who knew thought-reading. His predictions as an astrologer were all wrong. The manager of my house, Chhotalal, took me to this man and asked me to have some questions ...
... doesn’t go all at once, but it can be gradually diminished and made weaker — especially as more and more the inner feeling increases, thinner and thinner becomes the small self.” Now Dr. Manilal of Baroda, Becharlal, Nirodbaran, Purani, Satyendra and Mulshankar were kept in attendance on Sri Aurobindo. Champaklal had already been in his personal service. So he was automatically there. Later on, Dr. ...
... in each field they have created forms of beauty. Perhaps it is not known to the artists and art critics that Nandlal Bose has done Buddhist paintings in Ceylon and has worked in the Kirti—Mandir at Baroda. Very few know that he decorated two pandals of the Indian National Congress with local simple colours with great success. They have not neglected the folk-arts and tempera of earth-colours. ...
... sea of silence that had lain under the surface of his consciousness and held him in its vast supernal peace since the day he had stumbled upon it in the upstairs room of Sardar Mazumdar's house at Baroda six months earlier, - it was still there. The great Bass - the immaculate śruti - of the music of his life continued as before. But, after the blissful experience of Narayana Darshan in the Alipur ...
... received from Sri Aurobindo in 1907 certain broad directions for revolutionary activity in Gujarat, and Barindra had given the formula for making bombs. As a boy, Ambalal had heard Sri Aurobindo at Baroda in 1908, just after the Surat Congress - "heard him without understanding everything that was spoken". 28 In 1914, as a student in college, he had become an advance subscriber to the Arya having ...
... R. Das, Sri Aurobindo translated his Sagar-Sangit into English verse, as Songs of the Sea and received Rs. 1000 for the service, an amount that was welcome in his "impecunious" condition. His Baroda friend, Khasirao Jadhav, paid a visit in 1916. Notable among the others who were received by him were V. Chandrasekharam and A.B. Purani; they first came in 1918, and in course of time became sadhaks ...
... a lion's roar filling the universe awoke the Mother To awaken the world." Barin, in a statement on 12 June 1943, recalled how Bhawani Mandir was printed. "I came to Calcutta from Baroda, with the ms. of Bhawani Mandir, written by Sri Aurobindo in English. It was printed secretly at night in D. Gupta's Press at Kalitola under the supervision of Sudhir Sarkar of Khulna, Joshi (a Mahratta) ...
... housed in a little shrine known as the Mahakali Mandir of Karnali. The beautiful statue of Mahakali, facing west, is about three feet high. Her mount is a tiger. It was Deshpande —he had joined the Baroda State Service in 1898 —who had taken Sri Aurobindo there from Chandod during one of their visits there, as the temple town was not so very far from Swami Brahmananda's place. Both Page 182 ...
... Purani shares with us. He says that Sri Aurobindo "had with him for many years an illustrated edition of the Arabian Nights which he had himself selected as a prize." Dinendra Kumar Roy, who was in Baroda for two years to help Sri Aurobindo improve his Bengali, recalls with enthusiasm the deluxe edition of the Arabian Nights. "Never before had I seen such a voluminous edition of the Arabian Nights, ...
... thought-reading and not astrology; he simply echoed the hopes or thoughts in my mind and his predictions did not come within one hundred miles of the truth." This remarkable experience occurred at Baroda. It was Sri Aurobindo's house-manager Chhotalal who had taken him to this thought-reader. "Other practitioners," went on Sri Aurobindo, "I have found to belong, a few plainly to the class of mere ...
... that deep trance for about half an hour I felt as if I had gone into a superior plane, wide and vast." He told of the tests he had made with other intoxicants. "I took Bhang 1 twice: once at Baroda; it had no effect. When we asked the servant who had prepared it why it failed, he said he had purposely made it weak, for if we had lost our senses due to a strong dose, he feared we would have beaten ...
... and said: 'Then it must be a freelance.'" Till the Benares session Sri Aurobindo had carefully evaded appearing in public at any political meeting, as he had still not decided to leave the Baroda Service. That did not prevent him from taking part in Congress politics from behind the scenes, and associating himself closely with the forward group in the Congress. In 1906 he founded the new ...
... things of the Higher Consciousness. I never expected him and yet he came to teach me. And he was exact and precise even in the minutest details." When Sri Aurobindo had returned from England to Baroda, he had been interested in the sayings of Sri Rama-krishna and his life, as also in the utterances and writings of Swami Vivekananda. He found their influence very strong all over India. He himself ...
... self-revelation as that of the God of Truth & Love, began definitely to be worked out from 18 th October, when the third & last message from Sri Ramakrishna was received. The first message was in Baroda, the 'Arabindo, mandir karo, mandir karo,' 2 & the parable of the snake Pravriti devouring herself. The second was given in Shanker Chetti's house soon after the arrival in Pondicherry, & the words ...
... " The third letter with uncertain date, but written from Raghavan House sometime in 1912, is addressed to Ananda Rao. Remember the boy and his mischievous tactics in the train from Deoghar to Baroda? By now, in 1912, he was a young man. Some relevant excerpts. "Dear Anandarao, "I cannot understand why on earth people should make up their minds that I have become a Sannyasin! I have even ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Short Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems To the Modern Priam Of Ilion's ashes was thy sceptre made; 'Tis meet thou lose it now in Ilion's fall. ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Short Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems Epitaph Moulded of twilight and the vesper star Midnight in her with noon made quiet war;— Moulded twixt life and death, Love came between; Then the night fell; twilight faded, the star had been. ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems The Lost Deliverer Pythian he came; repressed beneath his heel The hydra of the world with bruisèd head. Vainly, since Fate's immeasurable wheel Could parley with a straw. A weakling sped The bullet when to custom's usual night We fell because a ...
... Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Poems Past and Present Collected Poems One Day Know more > The Little More One day, and all the half-dead is done, One day, and all the unborn begun; A little path and the great goal, A touch that brings the divine whole. Hill after hill was climbed ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems A Rose of Women Now lilies blow upon the windy height, Now flowers the pansy kissed by tender rain, Narcissus builds his house of self-delight And Love's own fairest flower blooms again; Vainly your gems, O meadows, you recall; One simple girl breathes ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems On a Satyr and Sleeping Love Me whom the purple mead that Bromius owns And girdles rent of amorous girls did please, Now the inspired and curious hand decrees That waked quick life in these quiescent stones, To yield thee water pure. Thou lest the ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems Seasons Know more > Day and night begin, you tell me, When the sun may choose to set or rise. Well, it may be; but for me their changing Is determined only by her eyes. Summer, spring, the fruitless winter ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Estelle Why do thy lucid eyes survey, Estelle, their sisters in the milky way? The blue heavens cannot see Thy beauty nor the planets praise. Blindly they walk their old accustomed ways. Turn hither for felicity. My body's earth ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Goethe A perfect face amid barbarian faces, A perfect voice of sweet and serious rhyme, Traveller with calm, inimitable paces, Critic with judgment absolute to all time, A complete strength when men were maimed and weak, German obscured the spirit ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems God Know more > Thou who pervadest all the worlds below, Yet sitst above, Master of all who work and rule and know, Servant of Love! Thou who disdainest not the worm to be Nor even the clod, Therefore ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems Revelation Know more > Someone leaping from the rocks Past me ran with wind-blown locks Like a startled bright surmise Visible to mortal eyes,— Just a cheek of frightened rose That with sudden beauty glows, Just a footstep ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems The Sea at Night Know more > The grey sea creeps half-visible, half-hushed, And grasps with its innumerable hands These silent walls. I see beyond a rough Glimmering infinity, I feel the wash And hear the sibilation of ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems Miracles Know more > Snow in June may break from Nature, Ice through August last, The random rose may increase stature In December's blast; But this at least can never be, O thou mortal ecstasy, That one should ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems A Tree Know more > A tree beside the sandy river-beach Holds up its topmost boughs Like fingers towards the skies they cannot reach, Earth-bound, heaven-amorous. This is the soul of man. Body and brain Hungry ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Short Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems Epigram If thou wouldst traverse Time with vagrant feet Nor make the poles thy limit fill not then Thy wallet with the fancy's cloying sweet Which is no stay to heaven-aspiring men, But follow wisdom since alone the wise ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems Evening Know more > A golden evening, when the thoughtful sun Rejects its usual pomp in going, trees That bend down to their green companion And fruitful mother, vaguely whispering,—these And a wide silent sea ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Short Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems A Doubt Many boons the new years make us But the old world's gifts were three, Dove of Cypris, wine of Bacchus, Pan's sweet pipe in Sicily. Love, wine, song, the core of living Sweetest, oldest, musicalest. If at end ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems Life and Death Know more > Life, death,—death, life; the words have led for ages Our thought and consciousness and firmly seemed Two opposites; but now long-hidden pages Are opened, liberating truths undreamed ...
... Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Poems Past and Present Collected Poems Kamadeva Know more > When in the heart of the valleys and hid by the roses The sweet Love lies, Has he wings to rise to his heavens or in the closes Lives and dies? On the peaks of the radiant mountains if we ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Saraswati with the Lotus ( Bankim Chandra Chatterji. Obiit 1894 ) Thy tears fall fast, O mother, on its bloom, O white-armed mother, like honey fall thy tears; Yet even their sweetness can no more relume The golden light, the fragrance heaven rears ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Charles Stewart Parnell 1891 O pale and guiding light, now star unsphered, Deliverer lately hailed, since by our lords Most feared, most hated, hated because feared, Who smot'st them with an edge surpassing swords! Thou too wert then a child of ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems Reminiscence Know more > My soul arose at dawn and, listening, heard One voice abroad, a solitary bird, A song not master of its note, a cry That persevered into eternity. My soul leaned out into the dawn to hear In ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1891-1892) Collected Poems Thou Bright Choregus Thou bright choregus of the heavenly dance Who with thy lively beauty wouldst endear The alien stars and turnst thy paler glance To us thy dominating sphere Why didst thou with Erinna impart ...
... Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Poems Past and Present Collected Poems Bride of the Fire Know more > Bride of the Fire, clasp me now close,— Bride of the Fire! I have shed the bloom of the earthly rose, I have slain desire. Beauty of the Light, surround my life,— Beauty of ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems To the Cuckoo Sounds of the wakening world, the year's increase, Passage of wind and all his dewy powers With breath and laughter of new-bathed flowers And that deep light of heaven above the trees Awake mid leaves that muse in golden peace Sweet ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Short Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems The Three Cries of Deiphobus Awake, awake, O sleeping men of Troy, That sleep and know not in the grasp of Hell I perish in the treacherous lonely night To foes betrayed, environed and undone. O Trojans, will ye sleep until the ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Short Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems A Thing Seen She in her garden, near the high grey wall, Sleeping; a silver-bodied birch-tree tall That held its garments o'er her wide and green, Building a parapet of shade between, Forbade the amorous sun to look on her. No fold ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Short Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems The Nightingale An Impression Hark in the trees the low-voiced nightingale Has slain the silence with a jubilant cry; How clear in the hushed night, yet voluble And various as sweet water wavering by, That murmurs in a channel ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Short Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems Euphrosyne Child of the infant years, Euphrosyne, Bird of my boyhood, youth's blithe deity! If I have hymned thee not with lyric phrase, Preferring Eros or Aglaia's praise, Frown not, thou lovely spirit, leave me not. Man worships ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems Still there is Something Know more > Still there is something that I lack in thee And yet must find. There is a broad abyss Between possession and true sovereignty Which thou must bridge with a diviner kiss. I questioned all the ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems Rose, I have Loved Know more > Rose, I have loved thy beauty, as I love The dress that thou hast worn, the transient grass, O'er which thy happy careless footsteps move, The yet-thrilled waysides that have watched thee pass. Soul ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1891-1898) Collected Poems Phaethon Ye weeping poplars by the shelvy slope From murmurous lawns downdropping to the stream On whom the dusk air like a sombre dream Broods and a twilight ignorant of hope, Say what compulsion drear has bid you seam Your ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1906) Collected Poems On the Mountains Immense retreats of silence and of gloom, Hills of a sterile grandeur, rocks that sublime In bareness seek the blue sky's infinite room With their coeval snows untouched by Time! I seek your ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems Immortal Love Know more > If I had wooed thee for thy colour rare, Cherished the rose in thee Or wealth of Nature's brilliants in thy hair, O woman fair, My love might cease to be. Or, had I sought ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Radha's Complaint in Absence ( Imitated from the Bengali of Chundidas ) O heart, my heart, a heavy pain is thine! What land is that where none doth know Love's cruel name nor any word of sin? My heart, there let us go. Friend of my ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems I have a Hundred Lives Know more > I have a hundred lives before me yet To grasp thee in, O spirit ethereal, Be sure I will with heart insatiate Pursue thee like a hunter through them all. Thou yet shalt turn back on the eternal ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems My Life is Wasted Know more > My life is wasted like a lamp ablaze Within a solitary house unused, My life is wasted and by Love men praise For sweet and kind. How often have I mused What lovely thing were love and much repined ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems Appeal Know more > Thy youth is but a noon, of night take heed,— A noon that is a fragment of a day, And the swift eve all sweet things bears away, All sweet things and all bitter, rose and weed. For others' bliss ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems The Fear of Death Know more > Death wanders through our lives at will, sweet Death Is busy with each intake of our breath. Why do you fear her? Lo, her laughing face All rosy with the light of jocund grace! A kind and ...
... Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Poems Past and Present Collected Poems The Blue Bird Know more > I am the bird of God in His blue; Divinely high and clear I sing the notes of the sweet and the true For the god's and the seraph's ear. I rise like a fire from the mortal's earth ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Short Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems Song O lady Venus, shine on me, O rose-crowned goddess from thy seas Radiant among the Cyclades! Rose-crowned, puissant like the sea. And bring thy Graces three, The swift companions of thy mirthful mind. Bring thy sweet rogue ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems A Child's Imagination Know more > O thou golden image, Miniature of bliss, Speaking sweetly, speaking meetly! Every word deserves a kiss. Strange, remote and splendid Childhood's fancy pure Thrills to ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems To Weep because a Glorious Sun Know more > To weep because a glorious sun has set Which the next morn shall gild the east again, To mourn that mighty strengths must yield to fate Which by that fall a double force attain, To shrink ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems O Face that I have Loved Know more > O face that I have loved until no face Beneath the quiet heavens such glory wear, They say you are not beautiful,—no snare Of twilight in the changing mysticness Or deep enhaloed secrecy of hair ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems I Cannot Equal Know more > I cannot equal those most absolute eyes, Although they rule my being, with the stars, Nor floral rich comparisons devise To detail sweetness that your body wears. Nor in the heavens hints of you I find ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems What is this Talk Know more > What is this talk of slayer and of slain? Swords are not sharp to slay nor floods assuage This flaming soul. Mortality and pain Are mere conventions of a mightier stage. As when a hero by his doom pursued ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems Thou didst Mistake Know more > Thou didst mistake, thy spirit's infant flight Opening its lovely wings upon the sun Paused o'er the first strong bloom that met thy sight Thinking perhaps it was the only one. But all this fragrant ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems O Letter Dull and Cold Know more > O letter dull and cold, how can she read Gladly these lifeless lines, no fire that prove, When others even their passionate hearts exceed Caressing her sweet name with words of love? O me that I ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems Invitation Know more > With wind and the weather beating round me Up to the hill and the moorland I go. Who will come with me? Who will climb with me? Wade through the brook and tramp through the snow? Not in ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems The Island Grave Ocean is there and evening; the slow moan Of the blue waves that like a shaken robe Two heard together once, one hears alone. Now gliding white and hushed towards our globe Keen January with cold eyes and clear And ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Complete Narrative Poems Collected Poems A Note on Love and Death The story of Ruru and Pramadvura–I have substituted a name more manageable to the English tongue–her death in the forest by the snake and restoration at the price of half her husband's life is told in the Mahabharata. It is a companion ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems Because thy Flame is Spent Know more > Because thy flame is spent, shall mine grow less, O bud, O wonder of the opening rose? Why both my soul and Love it would disgrace If I could trade in love, begin and close My long account of ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1891-1892) Collected Poems Like a White Statue Like a white statue made of lilies Her eyes were hidden jewels beneath scabbards of black silk: her shoulders moonlit mountain-slopes when they are coated with new-fallen snow: her breasts two white ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems I have a Doubt Know more > I have a doubt, I have a doubt which kills. Tell me, O torturing beauty, O divine Witchcraft, O soul escaped from heaven's hills Yet fed upon strange food of utter sin. Why dost thou torture me? Hast thou ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems The Vedantin's Prayer Know more > Spirit Supreme Who musest in the silence of the heart, Eternal gleam, Thou only Art! Ah, wherefore with this darkness am I veiled, My sunlit part By clouds assailed? Why ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems The Triumph-Song of Trishuncou Know more > I shall not die. Although this body, when the spirit tires Of its cramped residence, shall feed the fires, My house consumes, not I. Leaving that case I find out ...
... Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Poems Past and Present Collected Poems Life Know more > Mystic daughter of Delight, Life, thou ecstasy, Let the radius of thy flight Be eternity. On thy wings thou bearest high Glory and disdain, Godhead and mortality, Ecstasy and pain ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Hic Jacet Glasnevin Cemetery Patriots, behold your guerdon. This man found Erin, his mother, bleeding, chastised, bound, Naked to imputation, poor, denied, While alien masters held her house of pride. And now behold her! Terrible and fair With ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems Karma Know more > ( Radha's Complaint ) Love, but my words are vain as air! In my sweet joyous youth, a heart untried, Thou tookst me in Love's sudden snare, Thou wouldst not let me in my home abide. And ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Short Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems Since I have seen your Face Since I have seen your face at the window, sweet Love, you have thrown a spell on my heart, on my feet. My heart to your face, my feet to your window still Bear me by force as if by an alien will. O witch ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Envoi Ite hinc, Camenae, vos quoque ite jam, sane Dulces Camenae, nam fatebimur verum Dulces fuistis, et tamen meas chartas Revisitote sed pudenter et raro. Pale poems, weak and few, who vainly use Your wings towards the unattainable spheres ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1906) Collected Poems Vision Who art thou that roamest Over mountains dim In the haunts of evening, Sister of the gleam! Whiter than the jasmines, Roses dream of thee; Softly with the violets How thine eyes agree! ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1891-1898) Collected Poems The Just Man Where is the man whom hope nor fear can move? Him the wise Gods approve. The man divine of motive pure and steadfast will Unbent to ill, Whose way is plain nor swerves for power or gold The high ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Short Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems The Spring Child ( On Basanti's birthday–Jyestha 1900 ) Of Spring is her name for whose bud and blooming We praise today the Giver,— Of Spring and its sweetness clings about her For her face is Spring and Spring's without her ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Madhusudan Dutt Poet, who first with skill inspired did teach Greatness to our divine Bengali speech,— Divine, but rather with delightful moan Spring's golden mother makes when twin-alone She lies with golden Love and heaven's birds Call hymeneal ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Radha's Appeal ( Imitated from the Bengali of Chundidas ) O love, what more shall I, shall Radha speak, Since mortal words are weak? In life, in death, In being and in breath No other lord but thee can Radha seek. Page 32 ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems Rebirth Know more > Not soon is God's delight in us completed, Nor with one life we end; Termlessly in us are our spirits seated, A termless joy intend. Our souls and heaven are of an equal stature And ...
... Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Poems Past and Present Collected Poems Hell and Heaven Know more > In the silence of the night-time, In the grey and formless eve, When the thought is plagued with loveless Memories that it cannot leave, When the dawn makes sudden beauty Of ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Short Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems World's Delight World's delight, spring's sweetness, music's charm Lie within my arm. Earth that is and heaven to come are here with me Mastered on my knee. Open thy red petals, shrinking rose, And thy heart disclose. Pant thy fragrance ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Short Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems So that was why So that was why I could not grasp your heart Between my hands and feel it nestle in, Contented. O you kept it in your breast Most secretly, were skilful in your sin, Farthest away, most intimately caressed. But if ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems Parabrahman Know more > These wanderings of the suns, these stars at play In the due measure that they chose of old, Nor only these, but all the immense array Of objects that long Time, far Space can hold, ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Bankim Chandra Chatterji How hast thou lost, O month of honey and flowers, The voice that was thy soul! Creative showers, The cuckoo's daylong cry and moan of bees, Zephyrs and streams and softly-blossoming trees And murmuring laughter and heart-easing ...
... Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Poems Past and Present Collected Poems Musa Spiritus Know more > O Word concealed in the upper fire, Thou who hast lingered through centuries, Descend from thy rapt white desire, Plunging through gold eternities. Into the gulfs of our nature leap ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems O Coïl, Coïl O Coïl, honied envoy of the spring, Cease thy too happy voice, grief's record, cease: For I recall that day of vernal trees, The soft asoca's bloom, the laden winds And green felicity of leaves, the hush, The sense of Nature living in ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1891-1898) Collected Poems To a Hero-Worshipper To a Hero-Worshipper - I My life is then a wasted ereme, My song but idle wind Because you merely find In all this woven wealth of rhyme Harsh figures with harsh music wound, The uncouth voice ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems Who Know more > In the blue of the sky, in the green of the forest, Whose is the hand that has painted the glow? When the winds were asleep in the womb of the ether, Who was it roused them and bade them to blow ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems To the Sea Know more > O grey wild sea, Thou hast a message, thunderer, for me. Their huge wide backs Thy monstrous billows raise, abysmal cracks Dug deep between. One ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Poems Published in 1883 Collected Poems Light From the quickened womb of the primal gloom, The sun rolled, black and bare, Till I wove him a vest for his Ethiop breast, Of the threads of my golden hair; And when the broad tent of the firmament Arose on its airy spars ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1906) Collected Poems Suddenly Out from the Wonderful East Suddenly out from the wonderful East like a woman exulting Dawn stepped forth with a smile on her lips, and the glory of morning Hovered over the hills; then sweet grew air with the ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems The Lover's Complaint O plaintive, murmuring reed, begin thy strain; Unloose that heavenly tongue, Interpreter divine of pain; Utter thy voice, the sister of my song. Thee in the silver waters growing, Arcadian Pan, strange whispers blowing ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Love in Sorrow Do you remember, Love, that sunset pale When from near meadows sad with mist the breeze Sighed like a feverous soul and with soft wail The ghostly river sobbed among the trees? I think that Nature heard our misery Weep to itself ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Short Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems Perigone Prologuises Cool may you find the youngling grass, my herd, Cool with delicious dew, while I here dream And listen to the sweet and garrulous bird That matches its cool note with Thea's stream. Boon Zephyr now with waist ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Night by the Sea Love, a moment drop thy hands; Night within my soul expands. Veil thy beauties milk-rose-fair In that dark and showering hair. Coral kisses ravish not When the soul is tinged with thought; Burning looks are then forbid. Let each ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems A Vision of Science Know more > I dreamed that in myself the world I saw, Wherein three Angels strove for mastery. Law Was one, clear vision and denial cold, Yet in her limits strong, presumptuous, bold; The second with ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1906) Collected Poems To the Ganges Hearken, Ganges, hearken, thou that sweepest golden to the sea, Hearken, Mother, to my voice. From the feet of Hari with thy waters pure thou leapest free, Waters colder-pure than ice. On Himâloy ...
... Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) Poems Past and Present Collected Poems A God's Labour Know more > I have gathered my dreams in a silver air Between the gold and the blue And wrapped them softly and left them there, My jewelled dreams of you. I had hoped to build a rainbow bridge ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Lines on Ireland 1896 After six hundred years did Fate intend Her perfect perseverance thus should end? So many years she strove, so many years, Enduring toil, enduring bitter tears, She waged religious war, with sword and song Insurgent against ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Songs to Myrtilla GLAUCUS Sweet is the night, sweet and cool As to parched lips a running pool; Sweet when the flowers have fallen asleep And only moonlit rivulets creep Like glow-worms in the dim and whispering wood, To commune with the quiet ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems In the Moonlight Know more > If now must pause the bullocks' jingling tune, Here let it be beneath the dreaming trees Supine and huge that hang upon the breeze, Here in the wide eye of the silent moon. How living ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1906) Collected Poems To the Boers ( Written during the progress of the Boer War. ) O Boers, you have dared much and much endured For freedom, your strong simple hearts inured To danger and privation nor so made As by death's daily grasp ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1891-1892) Collected Poems The Vigil of Thaliard Where Time a sleeping dervish is Or printed legend of Romance Mid lilies and mid gold roses Of mediaeval France, Where Life, a faithful servitor Mid alien faces cast, Still wears in ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Incomplete Narrative Poems (Circa 1899-1902) Collected Poems Uloupie Canto I Under the high and gloomy eastern hills The portals of Pataala are and there The Bhogavathie with her sinuous waves Rises, a river alien to the sun, And often to its strange and gleaming sands Uloupie came, weary ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems The Rishi Know more > King Manu in the former ages of the world, when the Arctic continent still subsisted, seeks knowledge from the Rishi of the Pole, who after long baffling him with conflicting side-lights of the knowledge ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Incomplete Narrative Poems (Circa 1899-1902) Collected Poems Khaled of the Sea an Arabian Romance Prologue–Alnuman and the Peri Canto I–The Story of Alnuman and the Emir's Daughter Canto II–The Companions of Alnuman 1 Canto III–The Companions of Alnuman 2 Canto IV–The Companions of ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Complete Narrative Poems Collected Poems Love and Death Know more > In woodlands of the bright and early world, When love was to himself yet new and warm And stainless, played like morning with a flower Ruru with his young bride Priyumvada. Fresh-cheeked and dew-eyed white Priyumvada Opened ...
... Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Baroda (Circa 1898-1902) Complete Narrative Poems Collected Poems Urvasie Know more > Canto I Pururavus from Titan conflict ceased Turned worldwards, through illimitable space Had travelled like a star 'twixt earth and heaven Slowly and brightly. Late our mortal air He breathed; for downward now the hooves divine ...
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