Bombay : On the morning of 6th February 1893, as soon as S.S. Carthage (that brought Sri Aurobindo back to India) entered the Aura of his motherland, the great Tamas that had had rushed into him & enveloped him all through his 14-year stay in England, fell off like a cloak. The ship cast anchor at about 4.25 p.m. IST. From the moment he stepped on Indian soil at Apollo Bunder, Sri Aurobindo stated in a letter to a disciple on 28 April 1949, “I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner & infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material space & the Immanent inhabiting material objects & bodies. At the same time I found myself entering supraphysical worlds & planes with influences & an effect from them upon the material plane, so I could make no sharp divorce or irreconcilable opposition between what I have called the two ends of existence & all that lies between them. For me all is Brahman & I find the Divine everywhere.” Sri Aurobindo was taken to Sardar Majumdar’s mansion which was situated in close proximity to the Apollo Bunder. The mansion, afterwards used as an annexe of the Esplanade, was close to the ‘Esplanade hotel’ – a ‘Watson’s hotel’, one of the principal hotels in India, while the Great Western Hotel was on Apollo Street. At the Church Gate Station (then housing the Headquarters of the Western Railways), built in 1876, he boarded the train to Baroda which deposited him at Baroda Railway Station on 8th February 1893. [For a word-sketch of that part of Bombay in 1892, see The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes by Jamyang Norbu.]
... On February 29, 1956, I left for Bombay on account of my grandfather, 98 years old, who had been threatening to expire for quite a long time. The Mother had told me that I should be back before the 29th of March. It was the year in which great things were expected. I left by the morning train, reached Madras in the evening and caught the night mail to Bombay. I went to sleep in the compartment... enjoying the best health he had known for months. But just at that time the Mother suddenly called me to say, "You must go to Bombay soon. I have a strong impression that your grandfather will pass away shortly." It was rather important that I should be in Bombay when he would die: the family situation and the financial problems demanded my presence there to take charge of everything.... to me. But I will not tell you anything. You must write on it all by yourself." I meditated with the Mother for a while and then left the same night for Bombay. All through the railway journey to Madras and the flight from there to Bombay, I kept inwardly invoking Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to make me do well the job which seemed the greatest my life could confront me with - namely, ...
... came of age, is now With pomp and noble ceremony arrived In this Calcutta to assume the charge Of her own life into her proper hands. 52 Subsequent scenes are located in Bombay, Poona, Bombay again, and finally, Surat; the principal characters are the Moderate leaders, and there are also symbolic abstractions like Democracy. Nagpur and Surat. In the end, the Mehta group are shown... been expected, the Bombay speech was widely discussed and commented upon, praised as well as criticised for the same reason - it made a religion of Nationalism! The Indian Patriot lamented Sri Aurobindo's fall from his cultural (or intellectual) eminence and his open derogation of the reasoning faculty. The Bande Mataram of 22 February made a direct reference to the Bombay speech and the furore... left Bombay, one day he saw from the balcony of a friends' house the whole busy movement of the city "as a picture in a cinema show, all unreal and shadowy". This experience he was later to recapitulate in Nirvana: The city, a shadow picture without tone, Floats, quivers unreal; forms without relief Flow, a cinema's vacant shapes... 61 While parting from Lele at Bombay, Sri ...
... 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 into the experience of the silent Brahman Consciousness. The multifarious activities of the city of Bombay, the rows of tall houses, etc. – all became as if things... things moving on the surface, mere appearances, things unreal against the background of the silent Infinite which alone seemed real. "When I was in Bombay, from the balcony of the friend's house I saw the whole busy movement of Bombay as a picture in a cinema show, all unreal and shadowy. Ever since I have maintained that poise of mind – never lost it even in the midst of difficulties."¹ This sonnet... Aurobindo Ashram, 1974), p. 62. ². Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971), P.161. Page 101 When Sri Aurobindo got an invitation from the Bombay National Union to address a meeting at the Mahajan Wadi on the nineteenth, he was in a fix. His mind had become calm, blank – how was he to deliver a speech? He could not very well decline the invitation ...
... Bhavan, Bombay, 1958) Page 615 Pusalker, A. D., "Aryan Settlements in India", "Traditional History from the Earliest Times to the Accession of Parīkshit", The Vedic Age, edited by R. C. Majumdar and A. D. Pusalker (Macmillan, London, 1953) Studies in the Epics and Purānas of India (Bhavan's Book University, Bombay, 1955) In Bhāratiya Vidyā (Bombay), January-... Journal of Indian History, VI, Supplement, Madras. Hindu India from Original Sources (Bombay 1919) The Beginnings of South Indian History (Madras, 1918) "Southern India and Ceylon", he Age of Imperial Unity, edited by R.C. Manjumdar and A.D. Pusalker (Bhāratiya Vidyā Bhavan, Bombay, 1953) Albērūnī, India, I & II, tr. by E. C. Sachau (London, 1914) Albright,... of Mādras, 1943) The Gupta Empire (Hind Kitabs, Ltd., Bombay, 1947) "Rise of Megadhan Imperialism", "Foreign Invasions", "Chandragupta and the Maurya Empire", "Aśoka the Great", "The Fall of the Magadhan Empire", The Age of Imperial Unity, edited by R. C. Majumdar and A. D. Pusalmar (Bhāratiya Vidyā Bhavan, Bombay, 1953) Aśoka (Rajkamal Publications, Ltd., Delhi, 1955) ...
... careful to resist the encroachment of the outer atmosphere when you go to Bombay." (7-2-1934) In the interview before my departure I asked the Mother how my life should run in Bombay. She said that I did not need to put special restraints on the ordinary course of things but eat, drink and live normally as a person in Bombay would do. At the end of my talk I said: "Please give me one promise... it." The Mother added under his reply: "My blessings are always with you." (17-9-1934) My second visit to Bombay happened in 1936. Before leaving, I wrote to Sri Aurobindo: "Won't you tell me something to which I can always turn for help and contact during my stay in Bombay?" The answer was: "Remember the Mother and, though physically far from her, try to feel her with you and act according... ll state. The reunion of Maman and fils was said to have been a warm one. The Ashramites were very glad to see the Mother's one and only son. I happened to be on a visit to the Ashram from Bombay in this period. André was a handsome and affable person, with a fine poise of mind. He was invited to the houses of many Ashramites and the enthusiastic welcome he received included an a ...
... getting a new contract with State Bank of India at Bombay. Other works also are likely to come. For working convenience an account is to be opened in Bombay. William Netter prefers single operation by himself. Mother does not approve. For joint operation she said, "For operation of the Bank account in Bombay there should be someone in Bombay." William suggests Behram Palkhiwala. Mother... he can live in Auroville in spite of his dishonesty. Mother said, "He is correct." In this case he is to be told that he is on trial. * * * 14.3.72 Mother approved of the Bombay trip of Vincenzo and Claire for funds for the reconstruction of the workshop after asking me, "What do you think of it ?" and getting my reply that it seems alright to me and to Nava also. * ... be cheated. It is cheating oneself." "Mother, on the one hand we are talking of the Supermind and human unity, on the other hand, among people who go outside..." "Where?" "To Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, etc... there are not even four who can work together." "Yes, they talk of human unity and act like this. It is grotesque." "People outside are intelligent, and they laugh at us ...
... Pusalker (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1954). The Vedic Age, ed. R.C. Majumdar and A.D. Pusalker (Allen & Unwin, London, 1952). Ralph, E.K., Michael, H.N. and Han, M., table in Ancient Cities of the Indus, ed. G. Possehl (New Delhi, 1979). Rao, S.R., Lothal and the Indus Civilization, with a foreword by Sir Mortimer Wheeler (Asia, Bombay, 1973). Page 440 ... Rao Bahadur Dayaram in Archaeological Survey of India Annual Report 1926-27. Sankalia, H.D., "Cultural Divisions of India", in Science Today (Times of India, Bombay, 1967). Indian Archaeology Today (Asia, Bombay, 1962). Indian Archaeology Today (Ajanta Publications, Delhi, 1979). Letters to K.D. Sethna, dated 1.11.1962, 21.3.1963, 16.4.1963. Prehistory and Pr... von Roth, Sanskrit Worterbuch (1861). Page 442 Wheeler, Mortimer, Antiquity I. Early India and Pakistan (Bombay, 1959). Foreword to S.S. Rao's Lothal and the Indus Civilization (Asia, Bombay, 1973). The Indus Civilization, 3rd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1968). The revised part dealing with prehistoric India in the 3rd ed. ...
... contented. Amal was born Kekushru (Kekoo) D. Sethna on November 25, 1904 in Bombay. The family were members of the Parsi community in Bombay; descendants of the Zoroastrian Persians who fled their homeland to India in the 7 th and 8 th centuries to escape Muslim persecution. His father was a prominent doctor in Bombay and the family adhered to the traditional Zoroastrian faith. Young Kekoo passed... to Bombay. Amal Kiran (“A clear ray”) was given his name by Sri Aurobindo in 1930. Amal’s poetic genius was recognized and nurtured under the guidance and inspiration of Sri Aurobindo and he ultimately entered into correspondence with Sri Aurobindo on Savitri. After Lalita left, Sri Aurobindo warned Amal against any serious affairs with women. However, there was a young Parsi woman in Bombay, Sehra... Sehra, who had loved him years before and had never married. When he returned to Bombay on a visit they were reunited and married. He told her he would give her ten years of married life and then he would return to Pondicherry. Mother India was launched in 1949 and he continued to edit the magazine from Bombay. He and Sehra eventually returned to the Ashram on February 12, 1954 and Sehra passed away ...
... vision. III Early Life and Influences On 25 November 1904, Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy ("Kekoo") Sethna was born in a respected Parsi family of Bombay. His father, a Specialist in Ophthalmic Surgery (M.D. Bombay, M.R.C.P from Dublin, Ireland), a highly rated and an intellectually gifted man, who cherished lofty morals and ideals in life, was an extremely loving and considerate... In the literal sense, my steps were dogged by misfortune, for a severe form of infantile paralysis attacked my legs. 4 Sethna's childhood was spent in Bombay. His family owned a house in the Hill Station of Matheran near Bombay. Sethna and his family frequently went there to spend their weekends and holidays. As a small child he had himself lifted once to the back of a "huge horse". Pastime... mystical poetry. Significantly, it was the city of Bombay that was to provide for both a catalytic experience for their growth into spiritual consciousness. Both championed atheism with a degree of youthful enthusiasm and in both the turning to spirituality was equally powerful. While Sri Aurobindo had the Nirvanic experience in Bombay, thanks to the Maharashtrian guru Vishnu Bhaskar Lele ...
... readers some explanation of the 'City', referred to in the poem, Nirvana, reproduced there. Let us now hear about it from Sri Aurobindo himself: "When I was in Bombay, from the balcony of the friend's house I saw the whole busy movement of Bombay as a picture in a cinema show, all unreal and shadowy. Ever since I have maintained that poise of mind - never lost it even in the midst of difficulties. All... left Bombay for Nasik. Before parting from Lele, he says, "I asked for his instructions. In the 131. Speeches of Sri Aurobindo. 132. "Faith in God burns with an immortal light through all the lies and corruption with which men have darkened His name." — Mazzini, The Duties of Man. 133. Source Material for a History of the Freedom Movement in India (Collected from Bombay Government... regular tour with a pre-arranged plan and programme. As Sri Aurobindo says: "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 Mopped for a day or two." — Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on The Mother. Page 261 said ...
... Aurobindo Pondicherry 14 September 1930 [11] Re Punamchand. (1) To give up his Bombay work and stay here. (2) To return to Bombay. If so, for what work and in what conditions? For (1)— I doubt whether he will be able, after the very different conditions to which he has been accustomed in Bombay, to settle down to the discipline of the Asram which itself is very different from what... received; it must on no account and in no circumstances be detained or used for any other purpose whatsoever. As to the expenses shown in the account, you asked originally for Rs 70/– a month in Bombay or Rs 30/– in Patan; but the actual expenditure has been for months above Rs 200/–. This is an enormous amount and, as I have already pointed out, it is swallowing up all you collect. I do not see... except these sums and some two or three thousand rupees at the beginning, you have, acting on these lines, been unable to send money or to do anything except to meet with the sums given to you your Bombay expenses. For the consequences of this attitude were inevitable. Circumstances shaped themselves accordingly; money came in for your personal expenditure, but for the Asram it dwindled and grew less ...
... I had passed the I.C.S. examination and that I would return to India very soon. He took a month's leave and went to Bombay to bring me home in triumph. But at that time, even the date of my departure from England had not been fixed, and so, after a long wait, he went back from Bombay. Then, a few weeks later, the Steamship Agency sent him a telegram informing him that the boat on which his son was... never easy to fathom. "No, indeed, mind cannot explain this huge universal mechanism that God has created. His workings are mysterious; of this I can give you a luminous proof. When my ship reached Bombay and I disembarked at the Apollo Bunder, and touched the Indian soil, something miraculous happened. I felt a vast silence enveloping the earth and a deep motionless calm descended into me. Behind the... trunks, they crowded round me, hoping to find all sorts of presents, but were most disappointed when they found that I had brought a veritable bookshop!" "You also ordered lots and lots of books from Bombay while you were in Baroda, didn't you?" asked Vinit. "I did order a good number of them. On seeing all my Page 84 books, my relatives decided that I was a dry-as-dust book-worm and scholar ...
... pointing to Bombay. For, impossible as it may sound, I knew when I was a boy an English child in Bombay who had been named "Togo" because he had been born in 1904, the year at whose near-end during the Russo-Japanese War Admiral Togo had started the masterly manoeuvers by which he had destroyed the whole Russian fleet off the coast of Manchuria. And I myself was also born in the same year in Bombay. Perhaps... informing me of the Mother's passing away the previous evening. Along with my wife, her sister, my sister, my niece and her husband who were all in Bombay at the time, I flew homeward the same night. Looking back at the stay in Bombay I cannot help seeing the Grace of the Mother in the series of dreams I had of her, such as had never happened to me in all the years I had known her. It was as if... puzzling period and given the "green signal" to me, opening the way at last to my cataract-operation which had been suspended even though I had been in Bombay for it from the 2nd of the month. Suddenly I remembered that a few days before starting for Bombay I had had a dream of the Mother which I had not told anybody because I had regarded it as just a projection of my own desire to get the cataract ...
... Page 485 The Ideal of Human Unity (Sri Aurobindo Library Inc., New York, 1950). Letters, First Series (Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1947). Letters, Second Series (Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1949). Letters, Third Series (Ashram, 1949). Letters, Fourth Series (Ashram, 1950). Speeches (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta... Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Man and the Poet (Oxford University Press, London, 1948). Indian Writing in English (Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1962). The Adventure of Criticism (Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1962). Jacobi, Jolande. Complex, Archetype, Symbol: in the Psychology Of C.G. Jung, translated from the German by Ralph Manheim (Roudedge... India, translated from the Bengali of Manmohan Ghosh (Luzac, London, 1935). Sethna, K.D. The Adventure of the Apocalypse (Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1949). The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo (Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1947). Smith, Jay. (Ed.) Pioneer of the Supramental Age (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch, 1958). Smith, G.C. Moore. (Ed.) Essays ...
... here for the first time in a book. National Education . Speech delivered on 15 January 1908 in Girgaum, Bombay. A translation in Marathi was published in the Kesari on 21 January. This was retranslated into English by a police agent and published in the Bombay Native Paper Report (a police intelligence report) in 1908. This English text was included in the Supplement 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 to tone them down, Sri Aurobindo soon lost interest in the project. For the next twelve years he published nothing... and the British Parliament The ten articles comprising "India and the British Parliament" and were published anonymously in the Indu Prakash , a Marathi - English weekly newspaper of Bombay, in 1893 and 1894. Sri Aurobindo wrote these articles on the invitation of K. G. Page 1165 Deshpande, the editor of the English section of the journal, whom he had known at ...
... and graduated from medical school in Ireland. Tehmi and her brother (who also became a doctor) were sent at ages 8 and 7 back to Bombay to live with their aunties as there were no good schools in Bhopal at that time. In her childhood in Bhopal and during visits from Bombay, Tehmi recalls rich stories of her parents’ home and their life there. Bhopal was a Muslim city before India’s independence and... festivals. Tehmi went to Queen Mary School in Bombay and was finely trained in the arts, academics and gymnastics by the excellent English teachers who taught there. She told me that she excelled academically achieving the highest marks as she had an innate and natural ability to concentrate. She studied English literature at Saint Xavier’s College in Bombay and was taught there by many of the Jesuit... Jesuit fathers. She obtained degrees at Bombay University. After graduation she taught literature at Sophia College in Bombay. The Parsis I have met are all highly refined people and very developed in the fields of art, music, literature, poetry, the sciences, etc. Do you attribute these special qualities as having come from the practice of the Zoroastrian faith? If so, what is it in the religion that ...
... Krishnadhan had believed that his son had been admitted into the Service and had, in fact, gone to Bombay to receive him and bring him home in triumph. Unable to get any definite news. Dr. Krishnadhan had returned to Khulna feeling depressed, and one afternoon he received a wire from his agents in Bombay that his son's name was not in the list of passengers who were travelling by the boat in which his... — but Dr. Krishnadhan's strong heroic soul had already passed away. When, after an absence of fourteen years, Sri Aurobindo set foot on the soil of India, when he touched the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, "a vast calm which descended upon him... [and] this calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards" . 3 It was as though the Mother had received her child back and enveloped him with... and my yoga have always been, since my coming to India, both this-worldly and other-worldly without any exclusiveness on either side. .. .since I set foot on the Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material space and the ...
... Pherozeshah Mehta was born on August 4, 1845. After completing his education in Bombay he went to England to study law. He was called to the bar in 1868. He is known for the reforms he brought about in the municipal government in Bombay and is known as the Father of Municipal Government in Bombay. He gave up his successful career as a lawyer to enter public life as a nationalist, and was... However, very soon the Indian National Congress was taken over by the Indians. The first meeting of the Indian National Congress was held in Bombay in 1885. We reproduce a report of the Presidential address of the First Congress in Bombay by The Hon'ble W. C. Bonnerjee: The President-elect, in rising to acknowledge the honour done him, said he might well be proud of being thus called... called on to preside over the first National Assembly ever yet convened in India. Looking round he saw the representatives of all the important centres of the Bombay Presidency, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Surat, Poona, Bombay itself, and other less populous though still important, towns; almost every district in the Madras Presidency was represented, as well as the towns of Madras, Salem, Coimbatore and others ...
... Circle, Bombay, 1949 Subsequently incorporated in On Yoga II ( See 63). SABCL: Letters on Yoga, Vols. 22, 23, 24 43. LETTERS OF SRI AUROBINDO (Third Series, On Poetry and Literature) Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1949 SABCL: The Future Poetry, Vol. 9 44 . LETTERS OF SRI AUROBINDO (Fourth Series) Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1951... are given in Part III. I PERIODICALS WITH WHICH SRI AUROBINDO WAS ASSOCIATED ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY Indu Prakash English-Marathi Weekly Bombay Sri Aurobindo contributed two series of articles to this newspaper, which was edited by his Cambridge friend K. G. Deshpande. New Lamps for Old appeared in nine instalments from August 7... since 1942 Bartika (Bengali) Quarterly, Calcutta, since 1942 The Advent Quarterly, Pondicherry (originally Madras), since 1944 Sri Aurobindo Circle Annual, Pondicherry (originally Bombay), since 1945 Bulletin of Physical Education (presently the Bulletin of S ri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) Quarterly, Pondicherry, since 1949, English-French The eight articles ...
... Now I too became Amal's friend, and soon discovered that he knew much more about medicine than an average educated Indian. This was because he was the son of a highly qualified physician in Bombay and because of his own physical defect which took him to the doctor often. As our friendship flowered what attracted me the most about him was that he was free from all sense of ... composition. Sri Aurobindo's accident dramatically cut short this development. Instead, I was called upstairs and there I was able to meet the creator of the poet in me himself; Amal had left for Bombay and I had no contact with him except when he used to visit the Ashram. Literary Association: Twelve Tears with Sri Aurobindo It was long after Sri Aurobindo left his... next meeting. Some electric current in his voice showed how much he was in love with Savitri and thrilled us with its magic effect. Letters on Savitri Amal left for Bombay in February 1938, a few months before the accident to Sri Aurobindo's right leg. He had already established a contact with Sri Aurobindo on Savitri and some correspondence had been going on ...
... report of my death which killed him.’ 17 Aravinda had not booked his passage on the ill-fated Roumania but on the Carthage. He arrived in Bombay on 6 February 1893. From the moment he set foot on Indian soil, on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, a vast calm descended upon him; the black cloud, which had been hovering over him since that day some seventeen or eighteen years before at Darjeeling... and had convinced his protégé of the same. A.A. Ghose was hired without more ado. His father knew nothing of these developments. So proud was he of his third son that he travelled all the way to Bombay to welcome him and take him back in triumph. But the ship, the steamer Roumania on which he expected Aravinda, did not arrive and the disillusioned doctor returned home. There he was informed by... through it.’ 24 Aurobindo withdrew into the routine of his assignments in Baroda, and into an inner world. He read enormously, ordering case after case of books from Calcutta and from two Bombay booksellers. We know already about his phenomenal knowledge of the main Western languages, classical and modern. As he later briefly summed up that knowledge: ‘[Aurobindo] mastered Greek and Latin ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 October 25, 1960 There is a black cloud over the ashram. It's origin is rather unique and very interesting. S has a nephew in Bombay, and one day towards the end of August or beginning September, he told me an extraordinary story about this nephew, who had disappeared (he showed me his photograph—he looks rather like a medium).... state; fortunately someone shook him and he suddenly woke up: 'Why am I here? What am I doing here?' (He had no intention of travelling, you see; he had simply left his house to visit a neighbor in Bombay.) So he returned home without knowing what had happened to him. And he was quite bizarre, really rather off. A few days later, this nephew had to go somewhere, I don't know where; he went down to... may see to it.' therefore, I concentrated a little. About two weeks later (in other words, ten days or so before September 26), some more news—the boy's older brother, who lives in Ahmedabad (not Bombay), came to visit his mother, father and grandmother (there's also a grandmother), and he asked about his brother. He had come with a friend. 'Your brother has disappeared,' they explained, 'we don't ...
... Adaivaita Siddhi & Siddhanta Bindu, Govemment Oriental Series, Bombay, 1962 . Magee, B. , Popper, Fontana,Collins, London, 1973. PAGE–147 Madhusudan Saraswati, Giidhartha-dipika (on Bhagavad Gita), Chaukhamba Sanskrit Prathishthan, Delhi, 1992. Mahadevan, T.M.R, Outlines of Hinduism, Chetana Ltd., Bombay, 1971. Mahadevan, T.M.R, Gaudapada, University of Madras, Madras... Madras, 1975. Maitra, S.K., The Ethics of the Hindus, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, 1956. Majumdar, R.C., (ed.). The VedicAge, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1965. Majumdar, R.C., Swami Vivekananda: A Historical Review, General Printers & Publishers Pvt. Ltd., Calcutta, 1942. Margolis, Joseph, Science Without Unity, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1987. Mario Bunge, ... Madras, 1958.Panali, V., Upanishads in Sankara's own words, Matribhumi Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd., Calicut, 1996. PanchadasT, with the commentary of Sri Ramakrishna, Nimaya Sagar Press, Bombay 1912. Pande, G.C., Life and Thought of Sankaracarya, Motilal Banarasi Dass, Delhi, 1994. Pannikar, Raimundo, The Vedic Experience-Mantra Mafijan, Motilal Banarasi Dass, Delhi, 2001. ...
... being Tilak, Lajpat Rai and Bepin Chandra Pal. The split at the Surat Congress (December 1907) was followed by Sri Aurobindo's first Yogic realisation at Baroda, and his "Midlothian" campaign from Bombay to Calcutta. His articles in the Bande Mataram and his public speeches made him the pace-maker and tone-setter of the movement for India's freedom. May 1908-May 1909: Sri Aurobindo's arrest... the movement. Curzon became more and more an embittered man. In Curzon's time, the seat of the Government of India was at Calcutta, and Bengal was under a Lieutenant-Governor- not, like the Bombay and Madras Presidencies, under a Governor. Bengal had always been in the vanguard .of the Indian renaissance, and some of the finest, some of the most fearless, some of the most intrepid minds of the... aggression and annexation; and the sprawling 'presidencies' were justifiable neither in terms of geography nor the imperatives of economics. They had grown, or rather fanned out, from the island of Bombay, the Fort St. George in Madras and Fort St. William in Calcutta. In the nineteenth century, the 'Bengal' administration had included present-day West Bengal and East Bengal (Bangla Desh), and Bihar ...
... hear this story and wanted to know more about his father. So I asked him, "What is the name of your father?" Balwant smiled. He said, "He is a very famous lawyer of Bombay; in fact, he is one of the leading lawyers of the Bombay High Court. I am sure you must have heard his name. And you are bound to meet him often at the Law College, since he devotes everyday one hour to teach Law at the Law College... Bhagavadgita and Contemporary Crisis Law and Life My very first encounter with Law was at once embarrassing, instructive and fruitful. I was seeking admission to the Bombay Law College and I had to pass through an interview. It was 12th June 1951, and the interview began at 10.30 a.m. "Why have you chosen to study Law ?" This was the first question that Professor... in my esteem. He acted heroically. He first met Alka, consoled her and assured her that he would stop the marriage. He found out from Alka as to with whom she was in love. "During her visits to Bombay, Alka used to meet the younger brother of a friend of my father, an eminent industrialist, who had risen from the Page 96 state of abject poverty to a high level of affluence. He used to ...
... Service, and was in fact coming out. He, in fact, took a month's leave to go and meet him in Bombay and bring him back in triumph, but he could not get any definite news as to when he was coming out and returned from Bombay in a very depressed frame of mind. At last one afternoon he got a wire from his agents in Bombay to the effect that his son's name did not appear in the list of the passengers by the steamer... severely criticised the policy of the Indian National Congress, was published in the Induprakash of Bombay from 7 August 1893 to 5 March 1894. Sri Aurobindo was pressed by K .G. Deshpande, his Cambridge friend, to write the series. K.G. Deshpande, after his return from England, settled in Bombay as a barrister and was also editor of the English section of the Induprakash. The paper had a Marathi... one of the experiences that came to him unasked. Here is what he wrote to a disciple incidentally about this experience : " . . . Since I set foot on the Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material space and the Immanent ...
... to publish. Motilal did so on 21 November 1920. The text is reproduced here as it was printed in the Standard Bearer . To the Editor of the Bombay Chronicle . June 1925 . This message was written at the request of the editor of the Bombay Chronicle a day or two after the passing of Chittaranjan Das on 16 June 1925. The message was published in the newspaper on 22 June 1925. Section... work was completed before 27 June, the date of the letter published on pages 12 - 13. Among the Great was not accepted by the New York publisher. It was first brought out in India in 1945 (Bombay: Nalanda Publications). The "Life Sketch" appeared as an appendix to this edition, below the following note by Dilip: " For the benefit of Western readers I append here a brief statement of the... 5 February January The steamship Carthage , by which Aurobindo travelled to India, left London on 12 January 1893 and arrived in Bombay on 6 February (Board of Trade Passenger Lists [BT 27/135], Public Records Office, London; personal communications from National Maritime Museum, London, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation ...
... came. From Poona Sri Aurobindo proceeded to Bombay where also he was called upon to address large meetings. The silent condition of his mind continued and the outside world seemed to be bathed in unreality. Sri Aurobindo has described how, at Bombay, when he was standing on the balcony of a friend's house, he saw 'the whole busy movement of Bombay as a picture in a cinema show, all unreal and shadowy'... realising it. This was a serious setback for the Moderates, who had strongly opposed the resolutions, and they were waiting for an opportunity to get back their hold over the organisation. Moreover, their Bombay group led by Sir Pherozeshah Mehta and Gokhale, could not stomach the resolution on Swaraj. There was talk at this time of political reforms being introduced in India. Lord Minto had replaced Lord... realisation did not at all mean that henceforward he would give up politics. All along invitations had been pouring in for Sri Aurobindo to address meetings and to meet political workers at Poona, Bombay and other places. The uncompromising stand he had taken at Surat had enhanced his reputation in the eyes of the true patriots who now looked to him for guidance in the critical situation which had ...
... suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on the Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material space and the... "I used to order many books from the Gurudas Library of Calcutta for Aurobindo. He also purchased many of the books published by the Basumati Press in Calcutta.... Two well-known booksellers of Bombay, Atmaram Radhabai Saggon and Thacker Spink & Co., were his regular suppliers of books. They sent him long lists of new publications every month, and sometimes every week. Aurobindo would make his... Six months after Sri Aurobindo's arrival at Baroda, he started contributing a series of political articles under the general title, "New Lamps for Old” to Induprakash, a weekly paper edited in Bombay by his Cambridge friend, K.G. Deshpande. "They were begun at the instance of K.G. Deshpande,... but the first two articles made a sensation and frightened Ranade and other Congress leaders. Ranade ...
... letter of Joseph Baptista. Baptista was a well-known barrister of Bombay and one of the leaders of Tilak's nationalist party. After 1907 the nationalist party had been growing stronger every year and at the end of 1919 it was decided to bring out a paper from Bombay. Following Tilak's advice, the Socialist Democratic Party of Bombay invited Sri Aurobindo, through Baptista, to accept the editorship... journals Prabartak and The Standard Bearer were being published by the Prabartak Samgha. Motilal and others had been expecting that when Sri Aurobindo ¹ Dilip Kumar Roy, Among the Great (Bombay: Jaico Publishing House, 1950), pp. 337-39: See Appendix II, pp. 306-08. Page 178 returned to British India to start his work in the external field he would make Bengal his centre... Sri Aurobindo. Talk on personal aim in works and spiritual action; comment about celebrating the fifteenth August: "It is by living the Truth that we can celebrate it." 14 August. Motilal Mehta of Bombay met Sri Aurobindo. 15 August. Barada Charan, a yogi of Bengal, had an experience involving Sri Aurobindo. Talk about celebrating the fifteenth August. The food was as usual. Remarks on the difficulty ...
... private letters from Bombay side assuming that they knew of it and would not fail to be present on the occasion. Neither Mr. Rasul nor Moti Babu nor Bipin Babu had received any notice from the proper quarters. Since then the meeting has been postponed and for the present all's well that ends well. But we should like to ask one or two questions. Is it possible that the conveners in Bombay did not know the... Khaparde would form a leaven which, however small, might easily season the mass of the Committee and would at any rate prevent it from being a mere phonograph to repeat the decisions of the Dictator of Bombay. Recently there has been much talk of a meeting of the All India Committee. Mr. Gokhale took an active interest in the idea and a sitting was actually arranged for June 30 to consider the crisis in... Motilal Ghose edited a not altogether unknown journal called the Amrita Bazar Patrika or Srijut Bipin Chandra was Page 570 connected with a weekly called New India of which also even Bombay worthies must at least have heard. Or was it merely an amiable bit of "diplomatic tactics" such as it has been our privilege to witness on occasions? We heard that Mr. Gokhale had given up the idea ...
... his Intermediate Arts examination of Bombay University the Hughling Prize in English and the Selby Scholarship in Logic. He passed his B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy and bagged the Ellis Prize in English, which a student not of philosophy but literature should have taken. While still in college, he began his literary career as a book-reviewer to the Bombay-based newspapers and magazines. At this... not spiritual. To meet this old man seemed to him just a curious thing to do. But still in order to please his girl friend he consented. They went to see the saint, who used to come to Bombay and be the guest of some rich Gujarati. There was a big hall in a posh house and the old man was sitting lost in meditation. There was a semi-circle of his disciples, all the time watching him... lived consciously. So materialism is wiped out." Sethna had been inclined to both materialism and atheism. After this experience, he started looking out for passing sannyasis or yogis in Bombay. He found one and requested him to impart something spiritual. He said: "Dig a hole in your floor and light a fire there." To Sethna, that was impossible to do. His grandfather would shout and ...
... In that year I left Pondicherry at the end of February for a short spell in Bombay. I had some work to do there, and the Mother had told me, as perhaps many of you know from some reminiscences of mine published in the past, that Sri Aurobindo and she were expecting very great things that year, and so I shouldn't stay in Bombay too long. I said: "Mother, I'll come back the very moment you want me here... I waited for nearly five months and then asked why. Sri Aurobindo replied: "A general descent of the kind you speak of is not in view at the moment." Now again in 19561 had to go to Bombay at the end of February. As 1956 was a leap year, it was actually on February 29 that I left Pondicherry. I was to catch the morning train to Madras. So I met the Mother pretty early in the day. She... happened! If I had known, I would never have gone. But I had a strange experience the same night. I need not recount it in detail, for I have told it elsewhere. At Madras I had caught the night-train to Bombay. I was alone in my compartment and I soon fell asleep. Almost at once I had a dream. I saw a huge crowd in an open place — something like the Ashram Playground — and I was on the fringe of the crowd ...
... of extreme hardships, due to failure of remittances from home as the result of father's large-hearted charities. 1893 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... French, and finally as Professor of English, at the State College, of which he became Vice Principal, later on officiated as Principal. 1893-94 Contributed to the Indu prakash of Bombay a series of articles entitled 'New Lamps for Old' exposing the hollowness of the then Congress policy; another series on Bankim Chandra Chatterji. Learning Sanskrit by himself;... Elected President of the secret society at Poona, started by Thakur Saheb. Later, after the Rand and Ayerst murder, became President of the central organisation of the secret societies in the Bombay Presidency, with which he had been already connected. Himself took the oath of the organisation. 1898-99 Learning spoken Bengali with Dinendra Kumar Roy, the well-known Bengali ...
... intellectually high and looked down with a cool superior smile at the heat and hurry of that strange thing called "God-intoxication" - I looked around hungrily in the mundane twentieth-century city of Bombay for those flitting figures out of the past, clad in ochre robes - the sadhus and sannyasis. Several of them I caught in various corners of the metropolis and questioned about the Unknown that had come... with the name "Amal Kiran" given by Sri Aurobindo and explained by him as "The Clear Ray" - is a story apart. I shall not deal with its abundance now. I pick up the thread from when I went back to Bombay for a long stay, keeping in contact inwardly, as well as by correspondence, with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother but outwardly unable to return and resume my life in the Ashram. Of course I used to make... the next room through which we had to pass out again. Such a thing he had never done with me before. Page 453 On the night of December 3,1 caught the train for Madras on way to Bombay. The Mother was to meet us before we left, but owing to a slight turn for the worse in Sri Aurobindo's condition the meeting was said to be cancelled. Then suddenly news was brought that she would ...
... do it. Then Lele said there was no need of instructions. We had then no talk till we reached our destination." The destination was Nasik. "When I was in Bombay, from the balcony of a friend's house, I saw the whole busy movements of Bombay city as a picture in a cinema show all unreal, shadowy. That was a Vedantic experience." "All that I wrote in the Bande Mataram and in the Karmayogin was... Mother's Chronicles - Book Five 48 A Seed-Force It was "in that condition of Nirvanic silence that I went first to Poona and then to Bombay." Lele went with him. They visited together the Parvati hill, where Sri Aurobindo had that experience at the 'Hill-Top Temple.' During his visit at Poona, supposedly a private one, "citizens thronged... She has a secret will power which no other nation possesses. All she needs to rouse in her that faith, that will, is an ideal which will induce her to make the effort." Girgaum Road, Bombay, early this century The next day another meeting was held at Tilak's residence, Gaekwarwada. It was at six in the evening, a good number of Poona's citizens attended it. Tilak's Guru, Anna-saheb ...
... Loyalists had made up their minds under inspiration from Bombay to prevent the holding of the Congress at Nagpur. To effect this object they were prepared to bring about a public scandal of the most shameful kind and bring discredit on the Congress if only their party might win a tactical advantage and, as the chief Moderate organ in Bombay frankly put it, keep the Congress out of the hands of the... Nagpur Loyalists would have showed this spirit of inflexibility; it was obviously not a local product but made in Bombay, and all these attempts at conciliation were simply meant to prepare the public mind for the transfer to Surat which had already been decided on by the mastermind in Bombay. Meanwhile the wires were pulled at Surat and Madras and the Surat respectables and Mr. Krishnaswamy Aiyar and... y enough not in any place of meeting suitable to its character as a public body but in "Sir Pherozshah Mehta's bungalow", has put the crown on one of the most discreditable intrigues of which even Bombay Loyalism is capable. We held our peace about the real meaning of the Nagpur affair so long as there was the remotest possibility of the sense of shame and decency reawakening among even a section of ...
... of public activity in the city of Calcutta. It is no use sheltering under the provisions of the Bombay Act. The Bombay Act has been used to paralyse public activity of a kind inconvenient to the Government in that city. What, moreover, was the necessity of suddenly resorting to the stringency of the Bombay Act at this particular juncture? It is not alleged that any of the meetings or processions recently... in the factory or, in the matter of the cloth, procured from Poona and Bombay mills. The only drawback is the high prices of these articles compared with the cheapness of the fractionally Swadeshi umbrellas. This we believe, is largely due to the high prices of the cloth produced from the Bombay mills, but the people of Bombay and Poona are taking these umbrellas by the thousand in spite of the difference... and domiciliary visit second only to the Russian. Even boardings, messes and private lodging-houses are liable to entry at any hour and on any pretext. And by an inspired improvement on the stringent Bombay Act no action of the police, however vexatious, unwarranted and malicious, can be punished unless the aggrieved party can prove bad faith, a condition which in nine cases out of ten of malicious harassment ...
... branches to be opened in Bombay. I was immediately deputed for training for six months. After completion of training I was sent to Bombay to find a suitable office and residential accommodation. I was offered a good salary, city allowance, residence, a car and car allowance. I was instructed to create a circle and to open a branch and to develop the business. When I reached Bombay, my friends told me that... came to Bombay and asked me to transfer some amount of the fixed deposits to Madras. I bluntly refused and explained how we had taken the risk of opening the branch, when there was no credit in the Bombay market. When I felt -that the intention of the Managing Director was to send me away and put a South Indian in my place, I informed my friends and resigned from the Bank. While going to Bombay from... that South Indian Banks had no creditworthiness in the Bombay market and that I had undertaken a responsibility which was almost impossible to discharge successfully. I promised them that nothing wrong would be allowed as long as I was there and they agreed to co-operate. They even co-operated with me in bringing up the Bank successfully within six months. We were able to add one more branch in the ...
... could. And on the very day of the descent — February 29, as I hear — I saw you standing in the railway compartment of the Bombay Mail in which I had left Madras." "Oh, it was the same day? It is very good that you saw me. Far back in 1938, just before I left for Bombay at the end of February, the Mother promised to call me home if the Supermind came down. She was expecting the descent some... mark the eighth anniversary of the great event which took place thirty-two years ago in a leap year, a dip into a sadhak's Diary of 1956 will be of interest.) Bombay, March 4 On December 18, last year, on a Sunday night the Divine Grace came forth to meet me and lift me up. I was feeling a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. Then, towards early morning... I shut my eyes for a moment and opened them once more. She was still there. A second time I shut my eyes. On opening them, I found her gone. May I feel her presence all the time! I shall be in Bombay for about three weeks. Before I left Pondi, I said to the Mother: "I wonder how long I'll have to be away." Without any hesitation she replied: "You must be here on the 29th of March." I said: "All ...
... forget Satprem’s mom! — one copy of the first volume. Yours affectionately Sujata February 5, 1977 Spitting blood. February 6, 1977 (Letter to N.F. Palkhivala, an eminent lawyer from Bombay, originally in English) Much esteemed Sir, I take the liberty to call for your help and advice, knowing your spirit of justice and devotion to idealistic causes, and having heard also about... only thing that is worthwhile in this Nonsense of the world. Satprem May 5, 1977 My Douce says: “As if every day after May 20 will be a danger.” We decide to leave for Paris on May 19, from Bombay. May 8, 1977 (To Micheline) ... Yes, it is very warm and impersonal at the same time, and in this very impersonality there lies a clear, quiet love, all the more vast as there is no knot... friends, Yolande and Jeh [J.R.D. Tata]. Perhaps in September? I have just phoned to Jeh. He cannot come to Delhi right now. There, too, some pretext will perhaps occur so that I can go and see him in Bombay. I feel it necessary for us to meet. Strange how all the sincerities, there and here, are at the Hour of meeting. I am always looking toward China. For the same reasons, “spiritualism” is collapsing ...
... Convention seem to be exceedingly clouded. In the matter of the Presidentship the fiat has gone forth from Bombay that Pandit Madan Mohan shall be President and, unless the dissatisfaction with the Mehta leadership has extended itself to the subservient Congress Committees, it is likely that the Bombay nomination will give the lead to the rest of the Conventionist coteries, excepting perhaps Burma and Bengal... Reforms are exasperating to Hindu sentiment, destructive to popular interests and a blow Page 351 even to the Loyalist Hindus who were loudest in acclaiming the advent of the millennium. The Bombay leaders cannot accept the Reforms without exasperating the people or refuse them with-out offending the Government. They are in that embarrassing position which is vulgarly called being in a cleft... put forward so soon after the Benares Presidentship, Mr. Madan Mohan Malaviya was evidently the man, and we find accordingly that he has been designated for the succession by the obedient coterie at Bombay. We await with interest the upshot of this very attractive entanglement and the method by which the Convention will try to wriggle out of the very difficult hole into which Lord Morley has thrust it ...
... the process. This was in February 1952. Suddenly some time in 1953 the Mother decided to shift the office from Bombay to Pondicherry and to get the monthly printed at the Ashram Press. The Editor was not himself yet ready to settle in the Ashram. So he had to do his work from Bombay, leaving the final arrangements in the hands of his editorial associate who was in Pondicherry. When, on a visit he... Sethna's stay in the Ashram, had given him, meaning "The Clear Ray") as Editor. With the Master's and the Mother's sanction he asked Amal Kiran to assume charge under the name familiar to the city of Bombay where both of them resided at the time. As the two Gurus had said "Yes", Sethna could not say "No". Forth-with, the periodical was fixed to be a fortnightly and the date Page 56 of... background fare in the commercial capital of India where the word "spirit", if it meant anything at all, might connote simply what Prohibition puts out of the way of celebrating or relaxing commercialists? Bombay was also a centre of furious political activity, with culture and idealism no more than a suggestion of infra-red and ultra-violet beyond the multi-passioned spectrum of contending or co-operating ...
... Our Light and Delight 4 The Mother and My Last Darshan of Sri Aurobindo I had come from Bombay with my wife Sehra and some friends on a visit for the Darshan of November 24 in 1950. Sri Aurobindo was reported to have been unwell. But he gave a long Darshan, with a short break after some hours. He kept himself in a tolerable condition... Sports-demonstration was over. His condition worsened on the 3rd; and when the Mother returned from the Playground she found him running a temperature. The same night I was scheduled to leave for Bombay. The Mother had previously informed me that she would see me before I started for the station. On finding Sri Aurobindo with high fever she cancelled the appointment. However, about an hour before... world troubled her. I sat on the floor, put my head on her feet and received her blessed. I spoke of the editorial I had written for the next issue of Mother India, at that time a fortnightly of Bombay: "The Chinese Dragon." She said: Don't write anything implying war for India. No such thought should be expressed. You can discuss, if you want, the possibility of war between China and America ...
... didn't understand." I replied: "Mother, I returned from Bombay as soon as I could. And on the very day of the descent—February 29—I saw you standing in the railway compartment of the Bombay Mail in which I had left Madras." "Oh it was the same day? It is very good that you saw me. I may record that in 1938, before I left for Bombay at the end of February, the Mother promised to call me back... Had an enjoyable but not quite quiet time in Sri Aurobindo's room. Knelt before his chair and offered myself, heart and soul, to him. My roots are here. May the flower and fruit be here also! Bombay has no pull for me. The only gladness I feel in going there is really because of just one heart and face. Page 95 2 March 26,1956 Yesterday morning I wrote to the Mother... result of the manifestation of the free Supermind in what I call the earth's subtle atmosphere. It is merely a matter of time." May 24,1956 I wrote to the Mother: "Ever since I came back from Bombay I have been constantly feeling supported by the New Page 99 Power that has come into the earth's subtle atmosphere. I have been feeling that all difficulties belong to an old world ...
... Washington, 28 February 1964, pp. 950-52). Sir Mortimer Wheeler has cogently argued against the lowered upper limit (Foreword to S.S. Rao's Lothal and the Indus Civilization , Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1973, pp. vi-vii), and H.D. Sankalia after a detailed review of all aspects has urged that Wheeler's "old bracket of 2500-1500 b.c. for the overall duration of the Indus Valley Civilization be restored... and arrowheads, all of bronze, of types characteristic of 'Sialk B' in Persia and attributable to 2. Scientific American , New York, May 1966, p. 95. 3. Early India and Pakistan (Bombay, 1959), p. 126. Page 460 the period before and after 1000 B.C. The association of these groups with early bearers of the Aryan tongue is without warrant. If a word of warning is... 10. "The Indus Valley Civilization", The Vedic Age, edited by R.C. Majumdar and A.D. Pusalker (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1952), p. 194. 11 . Indian Archaeology Today (Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1962), p. 61. 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 ...
... Ultimately, everything in this world is a matter of proper concentration; there is nothing that will not finally yield to a well-applied concentration. When he went ashore on the Apollo Bunder in 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... Mister Aurobindo Ghose, living treasure of French, Latin and Greek?" Actually, Sri Aurobindo was not yet through with books; the Western momentum was still there; he devoured books ordered from Bombay and Calcutta by the case. "Aurobindo would sit at his desk," his Bengali teacher continues, "and read by the light of an oil lamp till one in the morning, oblivious of the intolerable mosquito bites... human interests are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material space and the Immanent ...
... responsibility. September 1931 Sri Aurobindo Re: Punamchand (1) To give up his Bombay work and stay here. (2) To return to Bombay, If so, for what work and on what conditions ? For (l)— I doubt whether he will be able, after the very different conditions to which he has been accustomed in Bombay, to settle down to the discipline of the Ashram which itself is very different from what... precarious economic position. And so Dixit has now accepted an employment as a teacher here in Patan, so as to enable to cover his expenses. (All about Dixit is in his own words). Kantilal will go to Bombay in a few days and stay and serve there for a few months, (until his elder brother who has recently passed his final examination in Civil Engineering, gets a good service) he is forced to do so owing... is received; it must on no account and in circumstances be detained or used for any other purpose whatsoever. As to the expenses shown in the account, you asked originally for Rs. 70/- a month in Bombay or Rs. 30/- in Patan; but the actual expenditure has been for months above Rs. 200/-. This is an enormous amount and, as I have already pointed out, it is swallowing up all you collect. I do not see ...
... have authority here and not Anilbaran. It is with our full authority and approval that you went to Esha’s marriage in spite of your not being willing to go; your stay in Calcutta and your visits to Bombay and Ahmedabad had our sanction; we wished you to go. You have done good service to us by going and collecting such large contributions – not for the first time. I would ask you to go on cheerfully... fond of but I want to do it more and more in the right spirit. Do help me here, Guru. * March 13, 1944 Yes, the use to which you have turned your vital capacities in Bengal and Bombay – to turn them into instruments of service and the Divine Work, is certainly the best possible. Through such action and such use of the vital power, one can certainly progress in Yoga.... book which has made me all but famous in Bengal and Gujarat – for it has been translated into Gujarat! as you must know! I wonder how much he will send me though! Am I getting too commercial after Bombay and Ahmedabad? If you give the money to the Mother that can’t be commercial; commerce implies personal profit, and here your profit is only spiritual. You can publish the two letters; ...
... the heart also, lifting it up, though not quite deepening it into a discovery of its own inmost God-possession. Bombay drifted away like mist — only a few vivid impressions remained, a startle of faces now and then, especially one face. Except for this face, my entire life in Bombay seemed to be over. But even this face had the look of not belonging really to that city. Its future seemed merged... Our Light and Delight 3 What Came Out of an Easter Egg On a visit from Bombay in 1953 I reached Pondicherry on the 11th April. The whole journey had been a passage from state to state of aspiration — particularly aspiration in the head, a mounting movement which sought God with a passion eager to pierce through the skull — symbolising... here permanently." I answered: "Yes, of course, but what about Sehra? Is she ready to come?" "Oh, I'll write to her that I expect her to come with you," I explained to her that Sehra had her job in Bombay. "Job!" the Mother exclaimed as though she deemed it a small matter. Then she asked me: "How much does she earn?" "A hundred and fifty rupees a month plus the commission she gets on the chocolates ...
... of it marked the first spiritual fall I had, because after a year and a half my people from Bombay came on a visit and they brought the Bombay atmosphere. Although I agreed to see them only twice a week, I was afraid I might lose or spoil my Yogic halo. And those few meetings made me open myself to the Bombay atmosphere and I said: "Why should I not shave off my beard? I'll be better-looking without... the ambition in my younger days to took like Bernard Shaw whom I admired a great deal. But when I was in Bombay I could not grow a beard -beards at that time were not in fashion for people who were rather young and perhaps inclined to be romantic, ( laughter ) Even when I returned to Bombay after a six and a half years' stay here and met my future wife Sehra, whom I had known earlier, she was indignant... now I was wiser by that first abrupt change from hirsute to clean-shaven: so I began to trim my beard. Every month it became shorter and shorter, ( laughter ) Finally, on the eve of my third visit to Bombay during the first ten years of my Ashram-life, I asked the Mother: "What shall I do? Do you think I could shave off my beard?" She said: "There is hardly any beard left. You might as well shave off ...
... cannot accept responsibility. Sri Aurobindo Re: Punamchand (1) To give up his Bombay work and stay here. (2) To return to Bombay. If so, for what work and on what conditions? For (1)— I doubt whether he will be able, after the very different conditions to which he has been accustomed in Bombay, to settle down to the discipline of the Ashram which itself is very different from what... received; it must on no account and in no circumstances be detained or used for any other purpose whatsoever. As to the expenses shown in the account, you asked originally for Rs. 70/- a month in Bombay or Rs. 30/- in Patan; but the actual expenditure has been for months above Rs. 200/-. This is an enormous amount and, as I have already pointed out, it is swallowing up all you collect. I do not see... more) who will give him that sum monthly. All other amounts must be strictly sent here and on no account must his expenses exceed the sum fixed. This seems to me the only solution if he goes back to Bombay. For the work— It seems no longer possible for him to collect money in the way he and Dikshit' first did—approaching anybody and everybody for contributions. The one thing he might possibly do ...
... presence and power to her. I have the feeling that if I went to Bombay and attempted in your name to draw Mina out of her unconsciousness something in her would respond." The Mother kept silent for a few seconds and then answered: "I know that you can help. But let us wait a little longer. If no change takes place I shall send you to Bombay. But don't leave the Ashram just yet." Two days after this... was a close friend to me and whose coming to the Ashram had been linked with me intimately. Late in the evening on the Divali day of 1955 we received an extra-express telegram saying that Mina in Bombay had been flung from her running scooter and very grievously hurt in the head and lay unconscious in hospital. Although the hour was fairly advanced we ran up to the Mother. She was in an inside... constant touch with developments from day to day. Sehra worried a great deal the same night and the next Page 109 morning. Towards noon she felt that she just had to go to Bombay and be by her sister's side as well as near her niece Roshan who was naturally in extreme distress. We were told afterwards that Mina — a markedly beautiful woman — had looked horrifying when she ...
... won in his Intermediate Arts examination of Bombay University the Hughlings Prize in English and the Selby Scholarship in Logic. He passed his B.A. (Hons) in Philoso-phy and won the Ellis Prize in English, which a student not of Philosophy but Literature should have taken. While still in college, he began his literary career as a book-reviewer to the Bombay-based newspapers and magazines. At this time... originally not spiritual. To meet this old man seemed to him just a curious thing to do. Still in order to please his girlfriend he consented. They went to see the saint, who used to come to Bombay and be the guest of some rich Gujarati. There was a big hall in a posh house and the old man was sitting lost in medita-tion. There was a semi-circle of his disciples, all the time watching him. And... looked interesting and so night after night Sethna practised this exercise of lifting up his consciousness. After this experience, he started looking out for passing sannyasis or yogis in Bombay. He found one and requested the yogi to impart something spiritual. The yogi said: "Dig a hole in your floor and light a fire there." For Sethna, that was impossible to do. His grandfather would shout ...
... " WHEN we go to Pondicherry we must meet Kekoo Uncle," I told my husband who had heard about him only through me, as my distant relative whom I myself had last seen about thirty years back in Bombay, when I was about ten years old. As we were getting down from the rickshaw in Pondicherry, I once again reminded my husband and myself that we had to meet Kekoo Uncle. Lo and behold... grandfather and his grandfather were first cousins. I felt so close to him, even though I had met him after so long, that I felt as though I had met my father again, I used to write to him from Bombay and receive back his much cherished letters in reply. My husband, and my three sons too, are all extremely fond of him - but then, who is not ? I have yet not come across one person having a... made "an intense inner gesture of offering it to the Mother for its removal". After my writing the letter to him and Page 178 before getting his reply, here in Bombay, one day, all of a sudden, I felt as if an arrow which had been constantly piercing me in the chest was removed with a soothing balm put in its place. Poof it went - no pain at all! I kept wondering ...
... experience of the Silent Brahman. Gives three public speeches. January 12, 13 Speeches at Poona. January 15 "National Education" speech at Girgaum, Bombay. January 19 "The Present Situation" speech before the Bombay National Union. January 24 Speech at Nasik. January 26 Speech at Dhulia. January 28, 29 Speeches at Amravati. January 30, 31 Speeches... 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 to February... 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", to the Induprakash, Bombay. August 7 - March 5, 1894 Contributes a series of articles. New Lamps for Old, to the Induprakash. 1894 July 16 - August 27 Contributes a series of articles on Bankim Chandra ...
... of the Silent Brahman. Gives three public speeches. January 12,13 Speeches at Poona. January 15 "National Education" speech at Girgaum, Bombay. January 19 "The Present Situation" speech before the Bombay National Union. January 24 Speech at Nasik. January 26 Speech at Dhulia. January 28 , 29 Speeches at Amravati. January 30,31 ... 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 to... when in danger of a carriage accident. March-April Works at translations from the Mahabharata. June 26 Contributes an article, "India and the British Parliament", to the Indu Prakash, Bombay. August 7 — March 5, 1894 Contributes a series of articles. New Lamps/or Old, to the Indu Prakash. 1894 — July 16-August 27 Contributes a series of articles on Bankim Chandra ...
... status quo as a basis for negotiations. They recognise no obligation to conform submissively to that basis or approach the Bombay leaders as the arbiters of their destiny. A Salutary Rejection We draw the attention of all weak-kneed Nationalists to the ban placed by the Bombay Government on the candidature of Page 342 the distinguished and able Poona Nationalist, Mr. N. C. Kelkar. Mahratta... was expressed by the delegates that men should be chosen who would not repeat this Page 340 surrender. If the meeting in Bagbazar last year were an All India Conference, how is it that Bombay Moderatism refused to have anything to do with its resolutions, or that Sj. Surendranath and his following did not consider themselves bound by the decision to which they were a party and joined the... Moderates on their own terms, we shall be declaring ourselves seditionists and anarchists. That is a method of bringing about unity which we think the Bengal Moderates had better leave to their friends in Bombay and Punjab; it will not work in Bengal. If by constitutional means is meant acquiescence in the Reforms,—that is the only constitution given to us,—we decline to join in using constitutional means ...
... Zoroastrianism which is natural to every Parsi, as well as out of the Christian soul-milieu which too was natural to me in another manner because of my education at St. Xavier's School and College in Bombay under European Jesuits. Perhaps I should say I was taken out of what seem to be sister religions. Zoroastrianism is fundamentally monotheistic but pragmatically dualistic with its powers of Light fighting... Mention of the Inquisition reminds me of another saint, whom you have not mentioned but who stands high among "Christ's soldiers": Francis Xavier. I was educated at the school and college in Bombay that goes under his name. I do not question Francis Xavier 7 s religious experiences or his devotion to Jesus, but I jib at the ascription of "love" to him when I know that he urged the King of... book from America, but you might be able to get it from Asian Trading Corporation, Page 210 150 Brigade Road, Bangalore 25 or from The Examiner Press Bookshop, 35 Dalai St., Bombay 23. Thank you also for the Rs. 6/-. I thought that your story was highly dramatic, and brought out the moral dilemma very powerfully. But I am off literature in general at present. I am in ...
... light of their world-vision, based on the synthesis of spirit and matter in the mind of the world, particularly of free India. The proposal was really mooted by a young businessman from Bombay, Keshavdeo R. Poddar, named by the Mother Navajata, The New-born One, though he was not an Ashramite at that time. Sethna says, "...he conceived a paper which would busy itself with that world's... Pondicherry. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother listened carefully when Nolini-da read them out. Both approved the articles and sent words of appreciation, The Mother India's Office in Bombay was set up just six or seven weeks before the journal commenced. Veteran journalists from various parts of the city advised that material for the magazine should be collected sufficiently in advance... suggestion Mother India was converted wholly into a cultural review; from a fortnightly it became a monthly with a different format. Sometime in 1953, the Mother decided to shift the office from Bombay to Pondicherry. The editor came back to the Ashram in February 1954. Even now he is doing his editorial work as efficiently as ever, age notwithstanding. On 15 October 1991, Amal met with ...
... I may recall some words of the Mother. When, after six and a half years of Ashram life with its vegetarian regime I went to Bombay for a short stay, I asked the Mother how I should live there - what my attitude should be to food and drink. She said: "Live as people in Bombay do. Don't do anything unusual." True, the Mother enjoined vegetarianism on the Ashram, but she had no rigidity of mind. She never... him out. The two longest letters I ever got from him were discussions on poetic problems, one of twenty typed sheets and the other of twenty-four - both received during my supposedly renegade stay in Bombay. How steadily the inner contact with him and the Mother persisted may be guessed from a statement she made in one of her twice-weekly talks at the Playground to the Ashram children. On 23 December... impulse of retaliation, no shadow of frustration. But whatever degree of equanimity I may have caught from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the person who went out of the Ashram's precincts and lived in Bombay for years was exposed in the sensational part of him to life's "glamours" as much as any dweller on the Left Bank of the Seine. Yet all the time the Mother's assurance that she would ever keep her ...
... temples, or were borne by priests of the sun gods, are prototypes 1. The Hindu, Madras (Sunday edition, date not traceable). 2. Foreign Influence in Ancient India (Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1963), p. 63. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid., p. 58. Page 239 of sun wheels on pillars at the Buddhist stupas." Whether or not we agree with Jairazbhoy on the origin... them is concerned with a subject we have touched upon: 1.Mookerji, "Aśoka the Great", op. cit., p. 79. 2.Ibid., p. 90. 3. India in the Time of Patanjali (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1958), p. 10. Page 344 Bhāgavatism, the cult of Vāsudeva-Krishna. And here we have to keep in mind three things. First, none of the pre-Mauryan Buddhist books nor any inscription of... 1.Sircar, "The Kushānas", The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 150. 2. The Heritage of Persia, p. 230. 3. The Religion of Ancient Irān, translated by K. M. JamaspAsa from the French (Bombay, 1973), p. 165. 4. Ibid., p. 166. Page 445 Vincent Smith 1 cites one instance of Persia's cultural influence from Mêgasthenes's account of Sandrocottus: "We are told... that ...
... it marked the first spiritual fall I had, because after a year and a half my people from Bombay came on a visit and they brought the Bombay atmosphere. Although I agreed to see them only twice a week, I was yet afraid I might lose or spoil my Yogic halo. And those few meetings made me open myself to the Bombay atmosphere and I said: "Why should I not shave off my beard? I'll be better-looking without... now I was wiser by that first abrupt change from hirsute to clean-shaven: so I began to trim my beard. Every month it became shorter and shorter, (laughter) Finally, on the eve of my third visit to Bombay during the first ten years of my Ashram-life, I asked the Mother: "What shall I do? Do you think I could shave off my beard?" She said: "There is hardly any beard left. You might as well shave off ...
... of Yoga. After coming here it became more frequent and it was very enjoyable indeed while it lasted: I could feel free from all the cares of the world when I was out of the body. But when I went to Bombay and stayed there for several years, it became a little dangerous because the Guru's protection was not immediate. And there I found that I would loiter about in all sorts of unpleasant places. In those... perverse pleasure. And it should be so because these are not evolutionary worlds but typal ones, and God would be indeed unjust if He didn't allow them to get pleasure in whatever way is open to them. In Bombay, exploring these worlds, I fell into a company which seemed terribly hostile. Sri Aurobindo has given a hint in Savitri about such company: "their very look is a calamity." And these creatures, after... themselves meditated on us instead of our meditating on ourselves or on each other! (laughter) One of the instances was when, on a visit to the Ashram during the period I spent in Bombay between my original arrival and my second coming, I had one of my famous falls. This was a very bad toss. I was on my way to the Ashram gate. I tried to take a short cut where there was a gutter. Instead ...
... Asia. It had remarkable ancient skills in iron working. It had its own shipbuilding industry in Calcutta, Daman, Surat and Bombay. In 1802 skilled Indian workers were building British warships at Bombay. According to a historian of Indian shipping, the teak wood vessels of Bombay were greatly superior to the oaken walls of Old England. Benares was famous all over India for its brass, copper, and bell... measured without taking into account the 28 million Indians who died of starvation between 1814 and 1901. As the British gained power and exploited the country and moved from Bengal to Madras to Bombay to North India, famines followed resulting in the death of millions of Indian peasants. Romesh Diwan and Renu Kallinapur have tabulated these famines chronologically in Productivity and Technical ...
... others. When I was in Bombay, from the balcony of a friend's house, I saw the whole busy movements of Bombay city as a picture in a cinema show – all unreal, shadowy. That was a Vedantic experience. Ever since I have maintained that peace of mind, never losing it even .in the midst of difficulties. All the speeches that I delivered on my way to Calcutta from Bombay were of the same nature –... and I would receive it and also the thoughts it brought and in the morning I would put down the whole thing word by word on paper. In that very silence, in that thought-free condition, we went to Bombay. There I had to give a lecture at the National Union. So, I asked him what I should do. He asked me to pray. But I was absorbed in the silent Brahman and so I told him I was not in a mood Page ...
... the Viceroy exercises no veto. It would then practically amount to -rule. Disciple : The Viceroy's long stay in Bombay seems significant. I think, there is something behind it. He may want to settle the office-bearers for the federation. Sri Aurobindo : The Bombay Ministry seems to be working efficiently. They have escaped the socialists trap. These socialists do not know what is socialism... the Viceroy exercises no veto. It would then practically amount to -rule. Disciple : The Viceroy's long stay in Bombay seems significant. I think, there is something behind it. He may want to settle the office-bearers for the federation. Sri Aurobindo : The Bombay Ministry seems to be working efficiently. They have escaped the socialists trap. These socialists do not know what is socialism ...
... inner preoccupation with India's own predicament, which was indeed worse than Ireland's. His first spiritual experience of 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... complementary to the other and together they made a formidable combination strong enough to throw out of gear the calculations and contrivances of the phalanx of Moderate leadership from Allahabad, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras. II In this delicately poised situation, the Moderate-Extremist debate on the ends and means of Indian political activity gave the necessary handle to the Government... devastating and remorseless clarity, the real reasons for the Moderates shying away from the Nationalists: This loss of position and prestige with the bureaucracy is the ruling motive with the Bombay Moderates, the fear of being involved in the persecution to which the Nationalists willingly expose themselves, is the dominant thought among the respectabilities of Bengal. ... Whether the Nationalists ...
... month's leave to go and meet him in Bombay, and bring him back in triumph." The doctor had taken privilege leave from 4 September 1892 to 25 October. "But he could not get any definitive news," B. N. De's recital continues, "as to when he was coming out and returned from Bombay in a very depressed frame of mind. At last one afternoon he got a wire from his Agents in Bombay.... It so happened that that very... river Arelho, about eighty kilometres from Lisbon, on 27 October 1892. According to Sarojini Ghose, her father had sent a cable to Bombay's Grindlays & Co. asking when the ship was to berth at Bombay. The reply came, 'The ship has sunk.' Dr. K. D. Ghose was then in Khulna. Said Saro, "He was on the Page 13 point of getting into his tandem in the evening when the telegram arrived ...
... which the Bombay Moderate leaders desire to pilot their followers. It is the line chalked out for them by Lord Minto and other Anglo-Indian advisers. A great deal of feeling has been created against Mr. Gokhale throughout the country by his justification of the "stern and relentless" measures employed by the Government against the Nationalist party and the Boycott movement and by the Bombay Government's... prestige and personal influence of the small secret Junta of influential men who lead it, not by any settled convictions or intelligent policy. The personalities of Mr. Gokhale and Sir Pherozshah Mehta in Bombay, of Sj. Surendranath Banerji and Sj. Bhupendranath Bose in Bengal, of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya in the United Provinces, of Mr. Krishnaswamy Aiyar in Madras constitute Moderatism in their respective... of the objections to the Reform, it is silent as the grave with regard to the practical methods which the Moderate leaders propose to adopt in order to bring about real reform. Will they follow the Bombay lead? Will they strikeout a line of their own? At the close of the manifesto there is a pious expression of indomitable hope characteristic of the Moderate party, the party of obstinate illusions; ...
... Shades of the Yogic Life An elderly lady who had come to the Ashram through me and stayed here for several years went back to Bombay because of some dissatisfaction with her lodgings as well as in response to a call from her family. She must have thought Bombay-life would be a bit of a relief after the rigours of Yoga. But she was soon disillusioned. A lot of suffering had to be undergone... undergone and she was very anxious to return. The Mother, however, did not encourage her. Time and again her request went unheeded. I was again in Bombay at the time. So she visited me with a plea to recommend her to the Mother. She said she was prepared to accept any condition of life in Pondicherry. As I was shortly to make a trip to the Ashram I agreed to take up her case. I told the Mother: "X is... specifications — whether he liked a pen that was thin or substantial in body, one that wrote fine or thick. As I had expected from his usual writing, he preferred a fine point. I got my mother in Bombay to send me the best fountain-pen available with the characteristics liked by Sri Aurobindo. When it arrived I dispatched it to him with the words: "This pen is fit only for your aristocratic hand ...
... most favoured candidate in the public's eye for the preoccupation against which we are cautioned has 1. Scientific American, New York, May 1966, p. 95. 2. Early India and Pakistan (Bombay, 1959), p. 126. 3.In the revised part dealing with prehistoric India in the Third Edition (1970) of The Oxford History of India by the Late Vincent A. Smith, edited by Percival Spear. p... "The Indus Valley Civilization", The Vedic Age, edited by R.C. Majumdar and A.D. Pusalker (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1952), p. 194. 10. Indian Archaeology Today (Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1962), p. 61. 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... hailing in 1500 B.C. from beyond the Afghānistān-Punjāb complex. The complete want of any hint in the Rigveda of an Aryan 23. Ibid. 24. Hindu Civilization (Bhavan's Book University, Bombay, 1957), Part I, p. 84. Page 14 immigration or invasion cannot be evaded by an appeal to "historical geography". Neither can we plead that this want is isolated and accidental. Basham ...
... ga (Vol 3) 12 AN OLD CORRESPONDENCE ON SRI AUROBINDO BETWEEN K.M. MUNSHI AND K.D. SETHNA Hamilton Villa, Nepean Sea Road, Bombay 7 - 9-51 Dear Mr. Munshi, Thanks for sending me your speech on Sri Aurobindo. It is a good tribute, with genuine feeling and admiration behind it, and has some memorable phrases... with the higher faith of a devotee which you possess, perhaps we are destined not to agree. With kind regards, Yours sincerely, K.M. Munshi Hamilton Villa, Nepean Sea Road, Bombay 19.9.51 My dear Munshi, It was a pleasure to get your letter. Two or three points mentioned by you call for a short comment. I hope you'll forgive a little forthrightness on my... left. There never was any Avatar in the past completely supramentalised or even envisaging the supramentalisation of every nature-part. Page 137 Hamilton Villa, Nepean Sea Road, Bombay 3.10.51 My dear Munshi, You must have received my letter of 19.9.51 replying to yours of 16.9.51. In it I touched upon a few points which stood out in my mind as of immediate ...
... Mataram and the leap into revolutionary action that changed 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... not bring these things into his politics. [At this time there was at Bombay a secret society headed by a Rajput prince of Udaipur.] This Rajput leader was not a prince, that is to say a Ruling Chief but a noble of the Udaipur State with the title of Thakur. The Thakur was not a member of the council in Bombay; he stood above it as the leader of the whole movement while the council helped ...
... covers genuine ignorance on the part of the teacher. In the hands of the teacher's followers it generally becomes an irritating irrelevance and once when I had the occasion to meet some of them in Bombay years ago I found it a mockery of the deep soul's movement. There I was, all aflame with longing for the Beauty of ancient days yet ever new, and they were twitting me with little cries of "Oh you... have at the moment in my hands what is regarded by competent scholars as the best condensation running to 741 pages: Kamala Subramanian's Mahabharata, third edition, 1977 (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay). My query pertains to Draupadi's invocation of Krishna when the heinous disrobing of her in front of the gathering starts. Subramanian's account does not contain the details I remember to have come... Harmonious numbers". In regard to arithmetic what seemed the truth of the matter dawned on me when on failing miserably in the exam to qualify for the 4th standard at St. Xavier's High School at Bombay I was favoured with a special test by the Principal Father Hetting in consideration of the important historical fact that my papa had been a Xavierite. To buck me up papa accompanied me to the test ...
... Sethna's stay in the Ashram, had given him, meaning 'The Clear Ray') as Editor. With the Master's and the Mother's sanction he asked Amal Kiran to assume charge under the name familiar to the city of Bombay where both of them resided at the time. As the two Gurus had said "Yes", Sethna could not say "No". Forthwith, the periodical was fixed to be a fortnightly and the date of its publication planned... fare in the commercial capital of India where the word 'spirit', if it meant anything at all, might connote simply what Prohibition puts out of the way of celebrating or relaxing commercialists? Bombay was also a centre of furious political activity, with culture and idealism no more than a suggestion of infra-red and ultra-violet beyond the multi-passioned spectrum of contending or co-operating... and Albless - were sent to Pondicherry, not only Sri Aurobindo but also the Mother listened to Nolini's reading out of them. Both the Gurus sent words of praise and total sanction. However, in the Bombay-office where various practitioners of journalism dropped in for a close look at the experiment, a crisis arose. The office had been set up only six or seven weeks before the projected date for the ...
... Consul in Bombay? It seems that somebody painted the Croix de Lorraine on his door at night. Most Frenchmen in Bombay are for De Gaulle, while he is for Pétain. He wanted to report to Pétain against some of these sympathisers, but as he could not do it from Bombay, he went to Kabul and telegraphed from there. The reply came that the sympathisers are to be shot. Now after his return to Bombay, somebody ...
... sort out). I am engrossed in the situation of the world. The world is the only thing that interests me (well, I am in it — it is more and more suffocating), all the rest.... It is Tata Press in Bombay that will print our books, until Page 87 we print them ourselves. Impossible to import machines.... I don't want to intervene because it is not my business, truly, and I cannot look after... Pakistan and Bangladesh are delighted with this victory. What will come out of all that? It is truly the last purge of the devil. And similarly, our Agenda is discreetly about to come out in Bombay. Once again, India is at stake. Ann, scatterbrained and excited, has just brought me a telegram from Kireet: " Crucial things finalized. Final formalities likely to be completed by Monday. There... can we counteract this threat to the whole English Agenda in India? (...) I feel that there are reasons and pressures at play, other than the purely material reasons. Volume II is due to reach Bombay within two weeks. If we have to find a new distributor, then we must act very quickly. (...) July 20, 1981 I love the Lord. At Your Service. July 21, 1981 Page 233 ...
... to its fate but to endow it with opulence governed by spirituality. 16 VIII In 1953, as Dyuman recalls it, a Bombay firm which had a branch in Pondicherry wanted to close their shop here. The Mother took it with its entire stock, called Dahyabhai, a disciple in Bombay, to take charge of this shop and gave definite instructions about every detail of its working and management. That was the... efforts. The Mother was the President of the Society as well, and Navajata was the Secretary. Navajata was the name the Mother gave Keshav Dev Poddar, a prominent Bombay businessman, who had organised the "Sri Aurobindo Circle" at Bombay in 1943 and later launched the fortnightly Mother India with K.D. Sethna as editor. The Mother knew that Navajata was born for her work, and so she had permitted ...
... excellent quality to be obtained here, and that this too was quite feasible. We have already some glass-blowing factories at Kapadwanj and in the Panjab; paper mills in Bombay, Poona and Bengal; leather tanneries in Madras, Cawnpore and Bombay. It would be interesting to study the quantity and quality of these home products and to compare them with the articles imported from abroad. We may thereby learn... the material wealth of the country expand, there can be but little demand for the work which such institutes turn out. So far, the Kala-Bhavan has done but little beyond providing skilled dyers for Bombay mills; and until the people co-operate more earnestly its utility will not be recognised. Once more it is the prevailing ignorance which hampers every movement to help the people. They are sunk in ...
... Model College might avail itself of the services of Drs. Bose and Ray and Ziauddin, but they would after all have to teach on the lines and up to the standard of the Bombay University and submit entirely to the rules and orders of the Bombay Government as conveyed through an officialised Senate and Syndicate. We should still be confined within the vicious circle of which the writer complains. We should... and some of the best intellects and noblest hearts in the Deccan devoted themselves to the work. Yet the end was failure. The Ferguson College is in no way superior to any other institution in the Bombay University, although also in no way inferior. Its education is the same vicious and defective education—utterly unsuited to modern needs, academic, scrappy, unscientific, unpractical, unideal. It takes ...
... Aurobindo 28.May-22.Dec.1907 Bande Mataram Drifting Away 30-May-1907 Bombay is nearer London than Calcutta; and while Mr. Gokhale during his visit to Calcutta tried to organise a special session of the Congress at Bombay, the people of Bombay are contemplating the holding of the next session of the Congress in London. The Gujerati writes:— "The idea ...
... for your love?" Some years later a critical necessity arose for a harking-back to the interview. The sadhak wrote: "Mother, I have been feeling wretched at the thought of going from here to Bombay, even for a short time, and in spite of whatever desire I might have to go you never said 'Yes' all these years; now that you have, Yoga seems to grip me all the more. I think I must now go to the... and returned some days before August 15 the same year. In the years that followed there were other departures by him from Pondicherry and one that lasted a long time. Before this particular visit to Bombay the Mother warned, along with a reassurance of victory, that the sadhak should run no risk of any accident doing serious damage to his body. Page 102 All care was taken but he never... realism of a fatal disease (extreme uraemia, in medical parlance) in order to win by the self-sacrifice a long-awaited boon. For, the Mind of Light has been defined by the Mother in a note I got in Bombay from Nolini as "the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light". Some years later these words sparked off a poem whose two opening lines the Mother pronounced to be a sheer Mantra exactly revealing ...
... fold of the body which now calls itself the Congress. The terms of this desirable conciliation seem to us a little peculiar. The Nationalists are to give up all their contentions and in return the Bombay coterie may graciously give up their personal dislike of working with the Nationalist leaders. This is gracious but a little unconvincing. The only difficulty the mediator sees in the way is the c... passing a constitution and forcing it on the delegates without submission to freely elected delegates sitting in a session of the Congress itself. The mediator proposes to get round the objection by the Bombay coterie agreeing to pass the Constitution en bloc through the Congress provided an undertaking is given by the Nationalists that they will accept bodily the whole of the Constitution and make no opposition... refuse to regard the Madras Convention or the contemplated Lahore Convention as a sitting of the Congress or Page 132 its resolutions as the will of the country. The position taken, that the Bombay coterie are in possession of the Congress and it is theirs to admit the Nationalists or not at their pleasure is one we cannot recognise. If there is to be a united Congress it must resume its life ...
... Karmayogin Exit Bibhishan Mr. Gopal Krishna Gokhale has for long been the veiled prophet of Bombay. His course was so ambiguous, his sympathies so divided and self-contradictory that some have not hesitated to call him a masked Extremist. He has played with Boycott, "that criminal agitation"; he has gone so far in passive resistance as to advocate refusal... Moderates has now received publicly the imprimatur of the leading Moderate of western India and that which was suspected by some, prophesied by others at the time of the Surat Congress, the alliance of Bombay Moderatism with officialdom against the new Nationalism, an alliance prepared by the Surat sitting, cemented by subsequent events, confirmed by the Madras Convention, is now unmasked and publicly ratified... But was it not Mr. Gokhale who to defend mendicancy declared that the book of history was not closed and why should not a new chapter be written? But the book is only open to the sacred hands of the Bombay Moderate; to the Nationalist it seems to be closed. But according to Mr. Gokhale we ought in any case to acquiesce because England has not done so badly in India as she might have done. His argument ...
... would raise critical points and the Master consider them and give suitable answers. This practice continued in changing forms even when Amal Kiran was in Bombay in the forties. We are publishing one set of correspondence belonging to the Bombay-period... The disciple says to the editor of Sri Aurobindo Circle that, on re-reading his part of the exchange, he is surprised how Sri Aurobindo... originally dictated to Nirodbaran and not in its final farm as included in the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library Edition of Savitri.) Hamilton Villa, Nepean Sea Road , Bombay. 1.5.1946 Sri Aurobindo, Your patience with me is admirable and admirable too is the dear controlled force with which you express your views. You Page 57 ...
... wonder that Aurobindo spent a substantial part of his salary on 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... you.” I tried and did it. In three days my mind became entirely quiet and vacant, without any thoughts at all, and it was in that condition of Nirvanic Silence that I went first to Poona and then to Bombay. Everything seemed to me unreal, I was absorbed in the One Reality.’ 2 This mental silence would never leave him anymore. In three days he had a realization attempted and not always obtained by ...
... question. But, as I have said, they too live in a world of imperfection and they too are themselves imperfect in their human parts. I remember once telling the Mother during a visit to the Ashram from Bombay: "Please arrange things so that everything may go harmoniously and no obstacles come in the way of my relationship with people and of my ultimate passage to you." The Mother replied: "Do you want the... to the call of Time's heart." The experience of the sudden lifting of a Shadow reminds me of what happened 17 years ago. I have written of it to a friend and I may repeat it here. I was in Bombay and had a pecubar fever with a most unpleasant feeling in the stomach as if a little ogre were sitting there and being most capriciously choosy about nourishment. No medicine worked. Late one evening... simple. Just take your shirt off." His eyes widened as if a revelation had been made. The next day he appeared on the scene in a joyous state of shirtless spirituality. One day a lady acquaintance from Bombay came up to me and asked: "Are Page 70 you any relative of Amal Kiran?" I said: "Not at all." She looked amazed. Then I added: "I am Amal Kiran himself." Her face showed still greater ...
... The precious gift of passages continued for months. Although there were long interruptions at a later stage, it was only at the close of February 1938 that the series stopped. A visit by me to Bombay got prolonged into a stay for many years. In the meanwhile Sri Aurobindo met with an accident: he broke his right leg on the eve of the darshan of November 24, 1938. During his convalescence he turned... revision and expansion on a much grander scale than ever before. What he had already begun on the typescript much earlier is characterised in a couple of letters from him at the commencement of my Bombay-visit. "I have been too occupied with other things to make much headway with the poem - except that I have spoilt your beautiful neat copy of the 'Worlds' under the oestrus of the restless urge... ten years - that is, until 1946, when I wrote a book on Sri Aurobindo's poetry. The third section of this book, like the other sections, came out first in the annual of the Sri Aurobindo Circle of Bombay. It was thus that excerpts from Savitri were divulged to the world - with Sri Aurobindo's approval. Afterwards the Ashram published whole cantos in various journals and in a number of fascicles and ...
... is the Truth that is important. Stress on the Person seems so much to narrow it." This is what the Mother told me when I was on a visit to Pondicherry from Bombay. It referred to an article I had written on her in a Bombay newspaper. Having learned my lesson, I took the proper measures when I projected an article for her eightieth birthday in 1958. I announced my plan to her. She opened... instead of deciding to wait on her convenience. It is not in my power to guess what remained unspoken. But perhaps I may try to reflect a little on those words of hers in connection with my Bombay article: "I know where I come from and who I am." They remind me of another statement she made: " If people don't know that I have come from above, they don't know the very first thing about me ...
... editor of the journal Mother India , Monthly Review of Culture. Nirodbaran says: "Sri Aurobindo had made Amal a political thinker and a commentator as well. When Mother India was started in Bombay with Amal as its editor, he used to send his editorials for Sri Aurobindo's perusal and sanction. I used to read them to Sri Aurobindo. The Mother found one editorial too strong and brought it to his... Throughout his life K.D. Sethna has followed the method of "Remember and Offer" in editing the magazine. When Mother India was in a quandary at the time of launching it, the editors of other magazines of Bombay discouraged him from launching the magazine on the particular date as the materials for at least six months were not ready at hand. "The Editor was rather worried over that part of his job which was... and Albless -* were sent to Pondicherry, not only Sri Aurobindo but also the Mother listened to Nolini's reading out of them. Both the Gurus sent words of praise and total sanction. However, in the Bombay- 8. Sethna, K.D., The Sun and the Rainbow, Hyderabad: Institute of Human Study, 1981, p. 60. 9. Ibid , p. 61. Page 68 office where various practitioners of ...
... Amal's coming to the Ashram is quite a story. It is what I would call "The Danger of Buying Shoes". Amal at Bombay was married to a girl who was later given here the name Lalita. Before his marriage he felt he needed new shoes and so he went to a small shop in the Crawford Market of Bombay where he bought a pair of shoes. The shopkeeper put the shoes in a box and wrapped the box in an old newspaper... "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!" I FIRST came to Pondicherry in 1934 to do business in partnership with Mr. Robert Gaebele. I came from Bombay where one of my friends was Homi Sethna. When he knew that I was going to Pondicherry he told me that his cousin, Kekushru, was there at some Ashram and that I should meet him as he knew that ...
... full name has been indicated in the Reference List itself. 1. AA: K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran), The Adventure of the Apocalypse (Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1949). 2. AG: Dilip Kumar Roy, Among the Great (Jaico Publishing House, Bombay, 1950). 3. AR: Sri Aurobindo Archives and Research, Vol. I, No. 1 (Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry, 1977). 4. B-l: K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar... An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method (Allied Publishers Private Ltd., New Delhi, 1968). 26. PG: K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran), The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo (Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1947). 27. Poems: Arjava (f.A. Chadwick), Poems (John M. Watkins, London, 1939). 28. PR: Sri Aurobindo, The Problem of Rebirth (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1978). 29. SAC: ...
... capital of £70,000. In 1640, the Company acquired the site of modern Madras (Chennai), where it quickly built Fort St George. In 1668, King Charles II transferred to the East India Company the site of Bombay (Mumbai), which he had received as part of a dowry when marrying the Portuguese princess, Catherine of Braganza. In 1690, Job Charnok, at the invitation of Nawab Ibrahim Khan, laid the foundations... was a swampy land on the Bhagirath comprising the village of Sutanati, to which in 1698 were added the villages of Kolikata and Govindapur. From this time onwards the three presidencies of Bombay, Madras and Bengal were established and became for all practical purposes the centre of British India's political and military activities. Within a century Britain had acquired almost complete sovereignty... complete control of Bengal, India's most populous province. At the same time important areas of the Deccan came under the control of the East India Company. From favourable locations on coasts -Madras, Bombay and Calcutta - the East India Company started tapping the interior resources of India's well-developed manufacturing economy, vast population and solid agricultural base; also the British started limiting ...
... Though the scheme was given up, Barin and Upen were going ahead in Maniktala training boys in Yoga, Oh yes, when I told him that yesterday he said that you were at Calcutta, so how could you meet him at Bombay? He said it might have been in one of your comings and goings SRI AUROBINDO: My comings and goings? I had not much money to come and go. (Laughter) And Then? NIRODBARAN: There were two boys... everything else, the yogic force made them remarkable." It seems Barin was giving them spiritual training. SRI AUROBINDO: It was Lele who gave them the initiation into Yoga. Barin called down Lele from Bombay for that purpose. NIRODBARAN: Lele, it appears, after seeing Chaki was very much impressed and picked him out from the group. He wanted to take Chaki with him to make him a fine Yogi and consulted... organised the party again. NIRODBARAN: There is no Dutt in the picture. What part did he play then? SRI AUROBINDO: He was only in the know of the movement. Most of the time he was at his judgeship at Bombay. NIRODBARAN: As for Chaki, it seems he shot himself. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, it was in the Kingsford case, along with Khudiram. NIRODBARAN: About Prafulla Chakravarty, Dutt said he died in Deoghar ...
... . SRI AUROBINDO: Which Industrial Exhibition? DR. MANILAL: At Ahmedabad. SRI AUROBINDO: That was the speech I prepared for him. (Roar of laughter) MULSHANKAR: I heard your lecture at Bombay after the Surat Congress. You had some paper in your hand. SRI AUROBINDO: 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... you." I tried and did it. In three days my mind became entirely quiet and vacant, without any thoughts at all, and it was in that condition of Nirvanic silence that I went first to Poona and then to Bombay. Everything seemed to me unreal; I was absorbed in the One Reality. In that state of mind I told Lele, "I have been asked to deliver a lecture. How am I going to speak? Not a single thought is coming... found that the whole speech came down from above; not a single thought or expression was mine. It got hold of my organ of speech and expressed itself through it from beginning to end. In my tour from Bombay to Calcutta all the speeches I made were from that condition of silence. While I was parting from Lele I asked him what I should do, how I should be guided. He said, "Surrender yourself to the Divine ...
... the earth. 3 Again, when on 25 June 1950, communist North Korea crossed the 38th parallel and invaded South Korea, K.D. Sethna the editor of Mother India (then coming out as a fortnightly from Bombay), asked for Sri Aurobindo's guidelines for his editorial comment on the subject. Sri Aurobindo replied on 28 June in categorical terms: There is nothing to hesitate about there, the whole affair... Sri Aurobindo was going to leave his body." On the same day, she had told Sethna that Sri Aurobindo would soon read Sethna's drafts for his editorials in Mother India and had let him leave for Bombay that night, because Sri Aurobindo's "departure had not been decided yet". (Contacts: 57-58). Page 492 whole room was strewn with flowers. Presently the Mother entrusted to Udar Pinto... Light" the Mother had spoken of, the Mother placed her hand on his head, and now he could see too: "There He was - with a luminous mantle of bluish golden hue around him." Rushing to Pondicherry from Bombay, K.D. Sethna found the recumbent body "spiritually imperial", and "the atmosphere of the room was vibrant with a sacred power to cleanse and illumine". An unending mass of humanity streamed past and ...
... and others.... I and some others joined [the Society] along with some Rajput Thakurs." Thus Sri Aurobindo took the oath of the Society and was introduced to the Council in Bombay. Later he became the president of this Bombay Council. The oath-giver placed in the hands of the oath-taker an unsheathed sword and a copy of the Gita, with a pledge to the effect: "As long as there is life in me and as... leader of the Secret Society's movement was one of the Thakurs. He was not a Ruling Chief, "but a noble of the Udaipur State with the title of Thakur. The Thakur was not a member of the Council in Bombay; he stood above it as the leader of the whole movement while the Council helped him to organise Maharashtra and the Mahratta States. He himself worked principally upon the army of which he had already ...
... was surprising to me was that students used to take down 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 ... the Intermediate Examination in First Class, 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... Bande Mataram used to inspire me greatly. I still remember one of his articles which appeared in this paper under the caption, 'The Wheat and the Chaff.' "A couple of years later he came to Bombay and gave a series of lectures. I enthusiastically took the opportunity to attend them. "One day we invited him to tea among my Sindhi friends. He climbed up the three storeys to have tea with ...
... meet the intelligent and promising young critic. An interview was arranged that very year, and they met at Bombay. "I remember," wrote Sri Aurobindo in Karakahini {Tales of Prison Life), "when, back home from England fifteen years ago, I started writing articles in the Indu Prakash of Bombay, strongly protesting against the Congress policy of prayers and petition, the late Mahadeo Govind Ranade,... reform. I was surprised and displeased at this unexpected demand and turned it down." Commented Dinendra K. Roy, "Justice Ranade failed to refute Sri Aurobindo's arguments." M. G. Ranade, a judge of the Bombay High Court, was also an erudite scholar, and a reformist. Sri Aurobindo continued ruefully: "I did not then know Page 37 Bankim Chandra Chatterji Page 38 ...
... seen such a sunset: the sky took on successively all hues, from purple to orange. "In the distance, a blurred and misty line announces Bombay." * * * No, Bharatidi did not go to Luck now, although she toured North India extensively: Bombay was her first impact with the country; Ahmedabad was the next stop. It was followed by a tour of Rajputana. Her first visit was to Mount Abu:... water. "The young Muslim woman is interesting; she tells us that she and her sisters are the first women from the Muslim society to have gone to study in London. They were the talk of the whole of Bombay, censured by newspapers, and for some time scorned by their friends and relatives. She has been engaged since the age of thirteen, she knows her future husband and has often talked with him. When she ...
... Aden,1 February Bombay,6 February 1893, 10:55 A.M. * * * After fourteen years Sri Aurobindo set foot again on Indian soil. The darkness which had enveloped him in Darjeel-ing and was always hanging on to him all along his stay in England "left me only when I was coming back to India." A curious thing happened as soon as Ara landed at Bombay. He began to get the experience... experience of' the Self. "A vast calm descended upon him at the moment when he stepped first on Indian soil after his long absence, in fact with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay (this calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards)." Sri Aurobindo explained, "I did not know, of course, that it was an experience. It was a sense of calm and vastness pervading everywhere, and ...
... then, driven rather by some adventurous strain in his blood than any necessity, sought his fortune abroad. He went first to Bombay, but did little there beyond some curious investigations which interested his keen, sceptical and inquiring mind, but did not help his purse. At Bombay, he met John Lancaster, Richard's brother, and was induced by him to try his fortune in the English county town aided by... othing more, I tell you, nothing more." For about half an hour he kept his vigil. As he sat his mind left its present surroundings and turned to the experiments in occultism he had conducted in Bombay. From his childhood he had been a highly imaginative lad with a nervous system almost as sensitive as an animal's. But if Armand Sieurcaye had the nervous temperament of the Asiatic mystic, his brain ...
... by an imposing show of ex-Presidents on the platform, by the reverence due to the age and services of Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji, by the dominant personality of the lion of the Bombay Corporation, by the strong contingents from Bombay city, Gujarat and other Page 205 provinces still unswept by new brooms, by the use of tactics and straining in their favour all the advantages of an indefinite... year's Congress. It was due to this growth of deep feeling and of the spirit of independence that the spells on which the Moderate leaders had depended, failed of their power to charm. The lion of the Bombay Corporation found that a mightier lion than himself had been aroused in Bengal,—the people. For ourselves, what have we to reckon as lost or gained? No strongly worded resolutions have been pressed ...
... has attracted great attention in Bombay and a meeting was held in Mr. D. E. Watcha's office yesterday to consider and give effect to it. Sir Pherozshah Mehta, resplendent with eternal youth, took the chair. After some discussion the proposal was passed and declared, on the spot, a fundamental law of the Congress constitution. It was decided, however, that the Bombay Committee alone should enjoy the... the power, Sir Pherozshah pointing out that Bombay was the only safe, loyal and moderate city in India and would remain so as long as he (Sir Pherozshah) was its uncrowned King. It was suggested, but timidly and in an awestruck whisper, that even Sir Pherozshah might not live for ever but the great man answered, " L'état? c'est moi " and " après moi le déluge " (The State? I am the State, and after me ...
... Suggested Rules of Business for the Congress SUBJECTS COMMITTEE: — 1) Each of the six Provinces, namely, Bengal, Bombay, Madras, United Provinces, The Punjab and the Central Provinces shall return Members to the Subjects Committee as follows:— Bengal & Assam - 20. Bombay - 15. Madras - 15. United Provinces - 15. Punjab - 10. Central Provinces - 10. 2) No subject shall be brought... of voting on any proposition that is brought before the Congress, the delegates of each Province shall elect 170 Representatives distributed among the six Provinces as follows:— Bengal - 40. Bombay - 30. Madras - 30. United Provinces - 30. Punjab - 20. Central Provinces - 20. The method of election shall be the same as in the case of the Members of the Subjects Committee. 4) ...
... Polio deformed one leg and here too he is a living example that a physical incapability need not hamper the growth of intellect and spirit. A Stephen Hawkins of our Ashram, he spent his early life in Bombay. Tall, slim, fair, with attractive features, he would be noticeable, in any case, among many others but his deformed leg would make one look at him with sympathy. Not in the least! His sense of humour... his alertness of mind, quick thinking and stuttering while speaking enhanced his charm and drew many towards him, especially his charming smile attracted the ladies. Page 73 In Bombay, one day, he went to a shop to buy shoes. Back home he opened the newspaper covering that was wrapped around the shoes. His life took a sudden turn. An article on Sri Aurobindo had appeared in that... interest of his wife Lalita. They went to Calcutta, then came to Pondicherry. The "Bananas" carried him to his final destination They settled down in Pondicherry but after a few years went back to Bombay. But the "Bahanas", the magic shoes knew of his inner urge and Amal came back to Pondicherry and settled down here permanently. In our school days in the Ashram we were in awe of and respeced ...
... 2. 1941 The Secret Splendour , Bombay: Published by K.D. Sethna. 3. 1947 Evolving India : Essays on Cultural Iissues, Bombay: Hind Kitabs Limited. 4. 1947 The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo , Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2nd ed. 1974. 5. 1949 The Adventure of the Apocalypse , Bombay; Sri Aurobindo Circle. 6. 1951 ...
... mentioned that the very first appearance of anything from Savitri in public was in the form of passages quoted in the essay Sri Aurobindo: A New Age of Mystical Poetry by Amal, published in The Bombay Circle and later included as Part III in Amal's book: The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo. So far the account of the procedure which was followed for working on the three Books seems ... those who want to serve the Divine must have no ties or strings of the past. During this period Amal, on perusal of some texts that had been sent to him at his request, began to send from Bombay criticisms, objections to some lines or words in Savitri and even alternative suggestions. A long communication that had passed between him and a friend of his on Savitri was also sent to Sri... epic for this miracle. Sri Aurobindo, quoting in The Future Poetry these lines of an Elizabethan poet, 13 Savitri, pp. 727-28. 14 Eternity in Words: Chetna Prakashan, Bombay (1969). Page 84 Or who can tell for what great work in hand The greatness of our style is now ordained? What powers it shall bring in, what spirits command? ...
... His address in the telegram is 'Aurobindo, Bombay' just as mine might be 'Aurobindo, Pondicherry'. In his previous letter he wrote that he was going to Bombay and would waltz from _____________________ * From Sanskrit, meaning literally: "wolf-belly of dreadful deeds." Page 179 there straight to Pondicherry. He may have given his Bombay address but I don't think so. Nolini who has ...
... prominent Bombay daily, The Times of India (p. 5) of October 11, 1958, carried a report from New Delhi: "Senator Fulbright, known for the fellowships named after him, said here today that the large U.S. military aid to Pakistan was a 'mistake' and events had proved that it was a case of 'misjudgment' by American leaders who are new to business." Two days earlier the same Bombay paper had... 11, The Times of India (p.1) again quoted President Mirza's "own reluctant conviction over the past year that the country was headed for disaster through a 'bloody revolution from below.'" The Bombay paper went on to report General Ayub Khan, who was then the Chief Martial Law Administrator: "Talking about the take-over, he reiterated that the alternative to it was disintegration of the country ...
... Nothing has changed." Her words put some heart into me, but my mind was still vague. Two or three days later I had a special interview with her, Page 96 I was to fly back to Bombay where I was living at that time. Mother India was being edited and published from there every fortnight as a cultural newspaper covering all fields, even politics, from the Aurobindonian viewpoint... not help this gesture of love as of a son for his cherished mother. I am sure all of us would have been ready to save her, if we could, in this way. Now back to my subject. After I reached Bombay I spent several days without writing a line. But an appeal was there to Sri Aurobindo: "If I cannot write something adequate to what has happened, all that I have written so far in my life means nothing... I am extremely satisfied." The next evening she said to Yogendra: "It's quite the best thing Amal has written. I would like fifteen thousand copies of it to be printed. He can get this done in Bombay. Otherwise I'll have the printing ' done here." My article first appeared in Mother India. Then it was made into a booklet, fifteen thousand copies as the Mother had wanted. What do you ...
... illuminating of the critics of Sri Aurobindo's poetry. (Sri Aurobindo: a biography anda history, 4th Revised Edition, 1985.) 3 A graduate in Philosophy of Bombay University, young K.D. Sethna read quite by accident a newspaper article on Sri Aurobindo and his Ashram at Pondicherry where the aim was "a new life not rejecting but transforming the main ... and world-transformation. He acquired a new name 'Amal Kiran' (‘The Clear Ray’), and his sadhana took within its scope the literature of Power as well as Knowledge. Although Sethna returned to Bombay in 1938, he paid periodical visits to the Ashram and was in constant communication with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. When Independence (saddled with the ruinous Partition) came on 15... (which was also Sri Aurobindo's 75th birth anniversary), it was felt a new journal taking a spiritual look at Page 418 Indian and world problems was desirable. The young Bombay businessman, Keshavdeo Poddar (later known as Navajata), accordingly helped to launch Mother India as a fortnightly with K.D. Sethna as editor, and he was promised ready guidance from Sri ...
... originally intended; impelled by an inner urge, he undertook a political tour instead in the Bombay presidency and the 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. ...
... towards his recovery. Blessings. July 1966 Z has been informed by his daughter that she is marrying some man in Bombay of whom Z does not know anything. Without his knowledge the girl and her mother have sent Rs.18,000 to that man for arranging a flat in Bombay. Z prays to Mother for help to avert what he anticipates—a tragedy. Each one must be free to decide about his or her own life... What has he done for the Divine's Work that he asks for help? September 1964 The parents of Z (of Children's Home) have written asking if Mother would approve of the girl's going to Bombay for the school holidays. The girl herself would like to go. Generally when children go outside for holidays they come back quite spoilt—but if the girl wants really to go, she can go. October ...
... Notes and References 1."Science Today and the New Creation", The Examiner (Bombay), February 27, 1982, p. 138 2.The Jerusalem Bible (Longman, Darton and Todd, London, 1966), p. 326 of the New Testament. 3. Pathway to God trod by Ramalingam Swamikal (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1976). 4. Ibid., p. xviii. 5. Ibid., p. 677. 6. Ibid., p. 659. 7.... already been transformed, so as to become a spiritual body, which is the medium of the divine life..." {Ibid.) In the address delivered at the International Transper-sonal Conference held in Bombay from the 14th till the 20th February this year, Griffiths touches on the theme again and, Page 42 referring to Sri Aurobindo, says: "He conceived that...the Supermind descends ...
... he had a friend in Madras - a bone specialist, Dr. Rao by name, who should be called. Incidentally, I might mention a very curious astrological prediction. A friend of mine in Bombay went to consult a Bombay astrologer on some private matters of his own concern. He was on the way to Pondicherry for Darshan, and he casually mentioned it to this Page 216 astrologer. The ... I would advise you the same (Laughter), but remember, my friends, before He became a yogi, what a tremendous lot He had read. Books used to come by trunk-loads Page 220 from Bombay. So before you become yogis and yoginis, don't take up this practice of non-reading! ( Laughter) You'll be a headache to your teachers and a problem to your parents! However, I can do that! So that ...
... October 1954 The days went by with their ups and downs until at last I travelled from Africa to India, in October 1954. My husband was in Bombay. According to our narrow Indian custom, I had been compelled to get married. So I had been married in Bombay in December 1953, without any feeling or enthusiasm—marriage held no meaning for me. I shall say no more about it. There is really nothing to... to say except that I have not led a married life at all. There was a marriage reception at Madhav-Baug . The first greetings I received were from Dayabhai Patel of Bombay and Shivabhai Amin of Africa. Both gave me blessing-packets from the Mother, for which I was joyously grateful. I also remember receiving a telegram from the Mother in answer to one from my family. Quite a number of notables ...
... Kashibhai used to place an order with Page ix Maheshbhai (Kamala's brother) every week for a basket of fruits from Bombay for Sri Aurobindo and Mother. Maheshbhai sent oranges, chikoos, grapes, almonds, pistachios, etc. from Bombay. When he left Bombay for Broach, this arrangement was made from Madras. Someone might want to know what was done with these baskets which came so regularly ...
... "His address? How in the name of the wonderful I am to know? His address in the telegram is 'Aurobindo, Bombay' just as mine might be 'Aurobindo, Pondicherry'. In his previous letter he wrote that he was going to Bombay and would waltz from there straight to Pondicherry. He may have given his Bombay address but I don't think so. Nolini who has his letter can perhaps enlighten you. "I do not know ...
... his own comment of both agreement and disagreement: ‘Be clear. Be not too clear.’ “. Example 4 : “[My book Sri Aurobindo on Shakespeare ] has been rather popular. I remember that on a visit to Bombay many years ago I had called at a bookshop to inquire how the sale of my productions stood. The owner told me: ‘One of your books is creating a lot of interest.’ I asked: ‘Which one?’ He answered: ... somewhere that Sri Aurobindo was a great philosopher and linguist and poet on top of having Yogic attainments. But somehow he had not come alive to my soul. Then, one day, I went to the Crawford Market of Bombay to buy a pair of shoes. The shopkeeper put my purchase in a cardboard box and wrapped the box in a big newspaper sheet and tied it up. When, on reaching home, I untied the box and unwrapped it, the... It used to play temporary hide-and-seek but never more was there a wall between me and this delegate of the Divine." Page 35 Here is another experience of Amal-da during a stay in Bombay, away from the Ashram - the experience of pavakāgni, the 'purifying Fire' blazing forth in the heart: "I was lying in bed at night and telling myself how vain were all things of the ordinary ...
... settled down at Baroda, Sri Aurobindo was approached by his Cambridge friend, K.G. Deshpande to contribute articles to the Indu Prakash, an English-Marathi weekly, which he was then editing from Bombay. Deshpande was aware of Sri Aurobindo's uncompromising views but he was willing to take the risk of publishing them. Accordingly, Sri Aurobindo wrote a series of nine articles over the period August... India. There was an interesting sequel to these articles. Justice Ranade was so disturbed at what had appeared in the Indu Prakash that he wanted to meet the author and a meeting did take place at Bombay. This is what Sri Aurobindo wrote about it in his reminiscences of prison life, Karakahini written in Bengali, from which I give a translation. 'I remembered that fifteen years earlier after returning... . Earlier Sri Aurobindo had learnt of a secret revolutionary society in Maharashtra under the leadership of Thakur Ram Singh, a Rajput prince from the State of Udaipur. Sri Aurobindo joined its Bombay branch and took the oath of the party. The Thakur was actively engaged in winning over regiments of the Indian Army to the revolutionary movement. Sri Aurobindo paid a visit to Central India and ...
... canvassed the senior leader C Vijayaraghavachari's support for the Bombay special Congress session (August 1919), he specifically stated: "I have fully explained my position to Mr Rajagopalachary and Mr Chidambaram Pillai and they will be able to give you further explanations..." Tilak invited some Congress luminaries after the Bombay special session to Pune and VOC was among the invitees to discuss... to his later association with Virakesari. By then he was closely aligned to the Extremist faction of the Congress led by Tilak. VOC's efforts to buy two steamships took him frequently to Bombay. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, a visit to Pune, Tilak's hometown, never materialised. The Moderates' attempt to sideline the Extremist was increasingly getting desperate. And the stage was set ...
... week and thus be under our constant watch and guidance. But I wanted my brilliant son to grow wider wings and to fly farther and farther to ever- widening horizons. I had pleaded that you must go to Bombay or to Ahmedabad, even though it was so difficult for us to afford the needed expenses. But you won't understand. The ghost of obscurity has seized you and you are no less obstinate than your father... hard I studied to get admission to the Medical College. I secured 80 % marks at the Board Examination, and yet failed to secure admission to the Medical College. You were so keen that I should go to Bombay or Ahmedabad for my College studies, and I was deeply happy that you thought of this. Page 199 Ultimately, I got admission to the Gujarat College and I proceeded from here to Ahmedabad.... I was eager to talk and to learn. Naveen Chandra broke the silence in which we were entranced for more than ten minutes. He told me, "It is curious but true that when I was in the college in Bombay, I had the same question as you have now regarding the existence of God. It was the question of life and death for me, and I met a number of professors in my search of a satisfactory answer. I read ...
... embodiment of the Supreme Consciousness. I mentally began to search for the exact time-moment when I had come to know him. Travelling far into the past I found it was in 1914 when I read a notice in the Bombay Chronicle about the publication of a monthly magazine – the Arya – from Pondicherry by Sri Aurobindo. I hastened to register my name in advance. In those days of political storms, to avoid the... occult working and the material working can and do join and the occult power gives to the material working its utmost efficacy . ... " ¹. Condensed from Dilip Kumar Roy, Among the Great (Bombay: Jaico Publishing House, 1950), pp. 320-59. Page 299 Now for the personal experience: ... (Karmayogin office). Page 350 Biography of Sri Aurobindo by Kulkarni – A Criticism P. B. Kulkami, Yogi Aurobindo Ghose , with a preface by K. G. Deshpande (Bombay: Kashinath Mahadev Jamhankar, Prakishya Kacheri, 1935), 225 pages. This is a biography of Sri Aurobindo, the only one of its kind, I believe, in the Marathi language. Mr. Kulkarni has done ...
... the right to call themselves true children of the Mother. It would be seen that between the Bombay National Union speech 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... spoken - to an under-trial prisoner? Impossible and altogether improbable! The fourth issue of the Karmayogin gave a balanced and detailed rejoinder to these immaculate rationalists of Calcutta and Bombay. Again, when Baikunthanath Sen, President of the Hooghly Conference (5th and 6th September 1909), described Sri Aurobindo as an 'impatient idealist', the Karmayogin commented: The reproach ...
... could it have been except Nolini Kanta Gupta, one of Sri Aurobindo's closest associates? It was also possible, ran bureaucratic speculation, that Sri Aurobindo had originally intended to embark at Bombay for Germany, but had actually left for Pondicherry instead, presumably because there had been some last minute "difficulty about money". Then came the welcome news to Calcutta that Sri Aurobindo had... referred to already. These had begun, in fact, since the very moment he touched Indian soil on his return from England. A vast calm had descended upon him with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, his first recontact with the body and spirit of India; and this calm surrounded him and remained with him for many months afterwards. Again, while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-Suleman in Kashmir... already explained in an earlier chapter (XI.v) the nature of the advice tendered by Lele and the first astonishing results of Sri Aurobindo's putting it into practice. When Sri Aurobindo was leaving Bombay for Calcutta, he asked Lele how he was to get further instructions for his sadhana. Lele after a little thought asked Sri Aurobindo whether he could surrender himself entirely to the Guide within ...
... y, if not wholly, engage our attention. In April 1945, the first number of Sri Aurobindo Circle came out from Bombay, rather on the lines of the Calcutta Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual. A bolder step was the launching of Mother India, a fortnightly from Bombay, edited by K.D. Sethna. It had a wider coverage in theme and aimed at a more popular presentation of views than the Advent... "the greatest Bengali Seer and savant of recent times", and as a mark of respect to him all Government offices, courts and educational institutions were ordered to remain closed for a day. In Bombay, the share market, the bullion market, and other markets and many institutions were closed on the fifth, and in Kanpur, Banaras, and many other centres too there were similar closures as a mark ...
... information that Arabinda had decided to proceed to Berlin to throw in his lot with the Indian Revolutionary party there - the party which publishes and sends out the Talwar. He intended to start from Bombay in the Austrian Lloyds steamer leaving on the 1st of April, but finding that he could not catch that steamer, he decided to leave Calcutta for Pondicherry in the M.M. boat. "Some rumours state... getting no further than Pondicherry, it looks to me rather as though there had been some difficulty about money. * "The Commissioner of Police is applying for warrants to be sent to Bombay, Madras and Colombo". Telegram from D.S.P. to Director C.I.D. : 12. Nolini Kanta was in Calcutta at that time. It was Bejoy who accompanied Sri Aurobindo to Pondicherry. Nolini Kanta... when he was first assailed by the trouble which ultimately made him an exile from the soil of Bengal. Yours sincerely, Rabindranath Tagore In 1920 Joseph Baptista, a barrister of Bombay, wrote to Sri Aurobindo at the instance of Tilak, requesting him to accept the editorship of a paper they wanted to bring out as a mouthpiece of the Nationalist Party which had gained considerable ...
... they find it humanly possible, go to Surat to support the Nationalist cause. ... If Bengal goes there in force it will, we believe, set flowing such a tide of Nationalism as neither bureaucrats nor Bombay Loyalists are prepared to believe possible." That was a reference to the followers of Pherozeshah Mehta. "When Sir Pherozshah Mehta juggled the Congress into Surat, he thought he was preparing a death-blow... of the house we are building for our - Mother's dwelling in the future, the house of her salvation, the house of Swaraj." On 21 December a whole contingent of Bengal Nationalists boarded the Bombay Mail from Howrah station. Among the leaders were Sri Aurobindo, Shyam Sundar, Suresh Chandra 1. Railways had four classes of bogies: first, second, intermediate, and third. Page 402... too a big reception party led by him waited with garlands in hand and cries of 'Bande Mataram' on its lips. Here again Sri Aurobindo made a speech. On the 23 rd the train reached Bombay. This was the terminus. Everyone got down. Another train would take the party to Surat. On Bombay's beach, lapped by the Arabian sea, a meeting was arranged to be addressed by Sri Aurobindo. "We could ...
... Europe at great expense in order to acquire higher qualifications and a wider culture and experience, and to expect that he would be willing or ought to be asked to serve on Rs 65 in the last place of a Bombay graduate in this Department and with the prospects of a teacher of the second grade in the High School is to lose all sense of proportion. The precedent of Mr Manishanker Bhat does not apply to such... other hand there are strong grounds for the rest of the representation; the work of the High School staff has been admirable and judged by examination results compares well with any other school in the Bombay Presidency, while the prospects are very poor and limited, and the introduction of a well paid outsider stops promotion far more effectually than can be the case in larger and more highly paid Departments ...
... words. But its more noteworthy feature is the idea implied that because the Congress professes to discharge this duty, it may justly call itself national. Nor is this all; Calcutta comes to the help of Bombay in the person of Mr. Manmohan Ghose, who repeats and elucidates Mr. Mehta's idea. The Congress, he says, asserting the rights of that body to speak for the masses, represents the thinking portion of... will be too strong in the end for the fetish-worshipper. Partisans on either side can in no way alter the clear and immutable truth—these words were put on paper long before the recent disturbances in Bombay and certainly without any suspicion that the prophecy I then hazarded would be fortified by so apt and striking a comment. Facts are already beginning to speak in a very clear and unambiguous voice ...
... [The Aurovilian:] You mean, to forget yourself completely? To be entirely transparent. But that's all the way up there! (Mother laughs) (to the disciple:) He's leaving for Bombay to do some good work. [The Aurovilian:] I hope so. It's very interesting (Mother points to her note): there was the experience of the Consciousness, the light of the Consciousness... personality. It seems he met [the director of education] and he was captivated by her "ideas." And [the architect] was very worried. So I told him, "It doesn't matter!" That's why I encouraged him to go to Bombay, so he could free himself from that [director of education]. He was forever talking about Equals One... =1 [the magazine put out by the director of education]. They are mentally helpless. ...
... for a few hours in another man's house, she is impure...." Oh! it is terrible... So, it was because she was impure that she was swallowed up.... I remember, he was quite short. He was from a Bombay family—not Bombay proper but from that side. He was a Gujarati. I believe he spoke Gujarati. Page 328 And then the other version, I heard that from... that man was called Shastri. He was another ...
... condition, but how can it "atone" for the doings of others or change their nature? 12 July 1934 In a recent statement, Gandhi criticises the attitude taken by Dr. Ambedkar and his followers at the Bombay Presidency Depressed Classes Conference. They passed a resolution recommending the "complete severance of the Depressed Classes from the Hindu fold and their embracing any other religion which guaranteed... ( London: George Allen & Unwin, 1935 ), pp. 35-36. × The Subhash I Knew, by Dilip Kumar Roy ( Bombay, Nalanda Publications, 1946 ). ...
... in 1890. 1885,Dec -First session of the Indian National Congress at Bombay. 1886,Aug. 16 -Sri Ramakrishna passes away. 1892,August - 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 ...
... nation, and to leave them without sympathy or support to the tender mercies of the Foreign Office. Nor was it his turning the Conference into a tool for ventilating his personal grievances against Bombay officialdom. It was his action with regard to the question of National Education. Let us consider one by one the pleas by which he managed to exclude this all-important Resolution from the deliberations... broadcloth, if it were passed! The nation was not to resolve on helping forward its commercial independence, because Sir Pherozshah Mehta preferred broadcloth to any other wear. And now the people of Bombay are not to educate themselves on national lines because Sir Pherozshah Mehta does not know what a nation means nor what nationalism means nor, in fact, anything except what Sir Pherozshah Mehta means ...
... Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 24.Oct.1906 - 27.May.1907 Bande Mataram A Vilifier on Vilification 17-April-1907 Our Bombay contemporary the Indu Prakash is very wroth with the Nationalist party for their want of sweet reasonableness. He accuses them of rowdyism "which would put the East End rowdy to shame," and adds, "Their forte... wardness and courage. The Indu thinks that personal attacks and violent outbreaks of temper have no part in English politics. This is indeed a holy simplicity; and it is not for nothing that the Bombay journal calls itself Indu Prakash , "moonshine". It is true, of course, that English politicians do not carry their political wranglings and Page 320 acerbities into social life to anything ...
... received from the Mofussil repudiating the surrender on the question of the creed. How is it that the Bengalee persists in ignoring these facts? The compromise was rejected by the Moderates themselves, Bombay refusing utterly to recognise the four Calcutta resolutions as a possible part of any treaty, and this was recognised by the Moderates this year; for at the first meeting of the United Congress Committee... they must be made equally binding on the Moderates and we call on them to sign a declaration of acceptance of the Boycott as a condition of entry into a United Congress. Just as the Moderates from Bombay accepted the Boycott resolution at Calcutta in deference to the weight of public opinion, so we accepted the Colonial self-government resolution as the opinion of the majority and are no more bound ...
... Sundar Chukrabarti shall be appointed travelling Agent for the collection of shares, subscriptions etc. and asked to complete his Bombay tour as soon as possible so as to proceed to East Bengal for shares. Other agents shall be appointed on the commission system in Madras, Bombay and C. P. and Berar. Notes and Memos - II Budget 1) Money to be immediately paid for the scheme to be possible ...
... action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things is the condition for being a flawless servant. Yes, the use to which you have turned your vital capacities in Bengal and Bombay,—to turn them into instruments of service and the Divine Work, is certainly the best possible. Through such action and such use of the vital power, one can certainly progress in Yoga. Vital power is... something evil or tainted, any more than it was so regarded in ancient spiritual India. If I did, I would not be able to receive money Page 248 from X or from those of our disciples who in Bombay trade with East Africa; nor could we then encourage them to go on with their work but would have to tell them to throw it up and attend to their spiritual progress alone. How are we to reconcile X ...
... not resumed for almost a decade. (During the interval Sri Aurobindo was busy with the revision of his major works: The Life Divine , The Synthesis of Yoga , etc.) In 1947, the Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, published a collection of Sri Aurobindo's letters on yoga under the title Letters of Sri Aurobindo: First Series . Around this time, Kishor Gandhi, the editor of the Circle's publications, began... of the Letters The third series of Sri Aurobindo's correspondence, Letters of Sri Aurobindo: Third Series (On Poetry and Literature) , was published in 1949 by the Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay. It consisted of 162 items. Most of these were preceded by headings, which, with one or two exceptions, were provided by the editor. The manuscript of the book had been typed from various sources. ...
... 100 1.Pargiter, op. cit., p. 58. 2. Ibid. 3."The Sātavāhanas and the Chedis", The Age of Imperial Unity, edited by R.C. Majumdar and A. D. Pusalker (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1951), fn. continued to p. 196 from p. 195. Page 6 years in each of the 27 Nakshatras or lunar asterisms of the ecliptic. 75 years before the Kaliyuga - that is to say, in (3102+75... he" says: "this is not in conflict with the fact that he was a contemporary of Samudragupta, as we learn from the Chinese writer Wang-Hiuen-t'se." But 1. The Gupta Empire (Hind Kitabs Ltd., Bombay, 1947), p. 15, 2."The Foundation of the Gupta Empire", A New History..., p. 137. 3."The Rise of the Guptas", ibid., p. 132; "The Foundation of the Gupta Empire", ibid., p. 159. ...
... in replying to my previous letter with such an elaborate dissertation. With cordial greetings Sincerely yours, Dr. I. OLSVANGER Page 85 Hamilton Villa, Nepean Sea Road, Bombay, 16-5-52 Dear Dr. Olsvanger, I am glad you liked my article — but I am deeply disappointed with the reason for which you liked it. I don't at all mind your writing to me frankly. What depresses... we call the Mother is with us and she knows best what we should do. You can order your Savitri (both volumes) from the Sri Aurobindo Books Distribution Agency, Limited, 32 Rampart Row, Fort, Bombay.* You may order also the book called Sri Aurobindo's Letters on "Savitri", a compilation made by me from my private correspondence with Sri Aurobindo: it is designed to serve as a substitute for ...
... stubbornly for their principles both outside and inside the Congress, yet the National Assembly itself is not the monopoly of either. A great deal of clamour has been raised by the Moderates of Nagpur and Bombay over the outbursts of excited popular feeling in which a few Loyalists were roughly handled, and use has been freely made of them to obscure the real issue. It is well therefore that this incident... contains a minority of the wealthier men. The lines of divergence are therefore somewhat different from those in Bengal and the gulf between the two parties wider both in opinion and in spirit. In Bombay or Nagpur it would be perfectly impossible for a man like Sj. Surendranath Banerji to be a leader of the Moderates; he would be looked on with suspicion, continually checked, snubbed, thrust into the ...
... s at first, but when I started thinking about it I understood its importance. The difficulties about the concept of National Education that are encountered here do not exist in Bengal. Here in the Bombay Province, the meaning of the term "National Education" is not clear to many. National Education, with its specific connotation, is suspect and men of wisdom dismiss it. In Bengal, on the other hand... is something taken by them as a given fact, as something they have experienced. There is no need in Bengal to explain or discuss it in order to convince people about the sense it carries. But in the Bombay Province, it has only a verbal implication at the moment; it has not yet gone beyond mere talk, and that may be the reason why people are suspicious of it. Someone here told me that he does not ...
... it at cost price without taking any profit from the villagers in the mofussil. If at that time the Bombay merchants and mill-owners and the Marwaris of Calcutta had co-operated with us sincerely, the Swadeshi and boycott movements would have been in a different condition today. The mill-owners of Bombay took advantage of the Swadeshi movement and enhanced their rates, thus putting impediments in our ...
... reports of the remaining three speeches. 22 December 1907——Nagpur——Police report 12 January 1908——Poona——No known report 13 January——Poona——English report 15 January——Bombay——Marathi report 19 January——Bombay——English report 24 January——Nasik——Marathi report 25 January——Nasik——Police report 26 January——Dhulia——Police report 27 January——Akola——No known report 28 January ...
... the lessons of past experience and weighed the probabilities of the future and the possibilities of the present, we take the step which seems most prudent and likely to bring about sure results. The Bombay mill owners deliberated maturely when they said, "This movement born of a moment's indignation will pass like the rest; go to, let us raise our prices and make hay while the sun shines." The leaders... destruction of private institutions and the payment of a double tax for education." So they stopped the students' strike, withheld their moral support and by this mature deliberation put, like the Bombay mill-owners, almost insuperable obstacles in the way of the movement. It was the unconsciously prepared forces in the country that made their way in spite of and not because of the mature deliberation ...
... from her lotus throne Saraswati 1 This quotation as well as the full text of Virgil's lines and Warren's translation I owe to Frederick Mendonca, Professor of English, St. Xavier's College, Bombay. Page 337 Has called to regions of eternal snow And Ganges pacing to the southern sea, Ganges upon whose shores the flowers of Eden blow The great and high work is... Yoga or even what Yoga was,— e.g., a vast calm which descended upon him at the moment when he stepped first on Indian soil after his long absence, in fact with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay (this calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards); the realisation of the vacant Infinite while walking on the ridge of the Takhti-Suleman [Seat of Solomon] in Kashmir; the living ...
... develop into a world war. Even lately I have done that. Sehra: I am asking you about the astrologers' predictions because it is said that half of Bombay will be submerged in water. I feel very worried; my people are staying just opposite the beach in Bombay. Will the predictions come true? Page 198 Mother: Well, if anything bad threatens to happen, we'll see about it and prevent that ...
... text as the Śatapatha Brāhmana (V>4,1,2) we have three classes: ayas, lohāyasa, 70. P. 212, fn. 141. 71. P. 225. 72. The Prehistoric Background of Indian Culture (Tripathi Ltd. Bombay. 1959). P. 153. Page 235 hiranya (='gold'). Its ay as is depicted (VI, 1,3,5) as resembling gold; so it would be 'brass', an alloy of copper and zinc; while lohāyasa or 'red... report on the Sakas and of the archaeological finds about them, this component cannot imply the Avestan haoma. 277. Religion of Ancient Iran, translated by K.S. JamaspAsa from the French (Bombay, 1973), p. 107. 278. Op. cit.. p. 66. Page 318 Polyaenus's "Amorges or Omarges" appears to be the right original word, which Herodotus echoed as "Amyrgioi". The tribe of Sakas ...
... have Rs. 500?" I gave a big serious nod and she smiled. I went back to Bombay and fixed the time of my permanent return a few months ahead. Weeks rolled by but there was no prospect of those Rs. 500 materialising in a lump sum. In December of the previous year, an American journalist, Harvey Breit, had come to Bombay with a scheme of the Ford Foundation for a special India-Supplement to the ...
... aristocratic distinction. Born on 25 November 1904, he was educated at St. Xavier's School and College, Bombay. In Inter Arts he took both the Selby Scholarship for Logic and the Hughling Prize for English - a combination not achieved by anyone else yet. Passing the B.A. examination of the Bombay University with Honours in Philosophy, he again put up a performance not parallelled so far - namely ...
... 1992 "When did you start hearing the cosmic rhythm?" I asked. Amal answered: It happened when I was in Bombay. During my Pondy days a steady rhythmic sound used to come from somewhere near and localised. The sense of a universal sound began to be established when I was in Bombay. What it was like has been indicated in a part of my 'Personal Preface' and poetised in one of the pieces ...
... Somehow he did not do that. At last we came to Bilimora from where three of us, myself, Kanti and Natwar, were to be sent by train to Bombay. I learnt that Champaben's ornaments were mortgaged in the town and tickets were purchased for us with that money. At Bombay we went to the bungalow of a disciple of Dikshitbhai, a businessman of Ghatkopar. Dikshitbhai had given us a letter of introduction to ...
... Lele said,”Lakshmi, Champaklal's sister's child, will say something.” Immediately, Lakshmi gave a short but powerful and impressive speech. It reminded me of the speech that Sri Aurobindo had given in Bombay following Lele's instructions. After her speech Lakshmi burst out in tears pleading loudly, “Give me the complete darshan! Show me the face! show me the face!” Lele commanded, “Take her outside.” One... everyone started weeping. Before he left our ashram in Patan Lele instructed us to dissolve it. He asked Dikshitbhai to leave without telling anyone where he was going and Punamchandbhai to proceed to Bombay where Lele would arrange for his stay. To me, he gave two alternatives: go out of our neighbourhood and help anyone in need, or take up work as a blacksmith in a nearby factory. I knew that my mother ...
... undergone such strain that the eyes rushed out of their sockets. She was treated for six months by the V. S. Hospital without any result. Her husband was a science teacher who took her to Calcutta, Bombay and Nagpur for treatment, but when there was no sign of cure, the teacher who had no faith in naturopathy came to me as a last resort after wandering for twenty months and spending ten thousand rupees... interest in developing their health and sight. This shield was handed over to the Gymnastic Association of Gujarat by Sri B. K. Thakor, a prominent poet and critic of Gujarati language who came to me from Bombay for the treatment of his eyes and was cured by one month's treatment and training. When the Gymnastic Association of Gujarat could not organize the competitions they returned the shield to me after ...
... day while they were meditating together my mother had an extraordinary experience, which Purani related to the Mother and many other people when he returned to the Ashram. At that time I was in Bombay with my brother Maganbhai and his wife, after our return from Europe. My mother joined us there on May 23rd. My eldest brother Laljibhai wrote to us from Africa that we must all visit the Ashram... Ashram. So my mother, my brother and his wife left for Pondicherry on Saturday June 13th, leaving me behind to take care of my brother's children, in a big apartment on Marine Drive—the necklace of Bombay. I was not happy about the arrangement, but could not help it. They stayed in the Ashram three days, and then went on a tour of South India. The time passed slowly for me. At last they came back, early ...
... 1960 My Savitri work with the Mother 01 August 1960 On 1st August 1960 I left Miwani at night by train to catch a plane from Nairobi for Bombay. My father, who came along with others to see me off at Miwani station, whispered privately: "Please don't go anywhere—stay at Pondicherry." I was perplexed, but assured him: "Father. I promise you. I will respect... again—to the small paradise. For now, unfortunately, our beautiful place does not exist—the Government of Kenya took it over in 1988. The following morning we arrived at Nairobi. In the evening I flew to Bombay. The time was anxiously awaited to unfold the next phase of my life. These words of Sri Aurobindo were really encouraging: So the Light grows always. As for the shadow, it is only a shadow and ...
... what it replied. (F.B.:) That is, forgetting oneself completely? (Satprem:) Being totally transparent. But that's all the way up! ( Mother laughs ) ( To Satprem: ) He's leaving for Bombay to do some good work. (F.B.:) I hope so. It's very interesting ( Mother points to her note ): there was the experience of the Consciousness, the light of the Consciousness.... Very well... consciousness. This boy is nice, he has stuff. It seems he met Y and was captivated by her "ideas" (!) R. was alarmed. So I told him, "It doesn't matter!" That's why I've encouraged him to go to Bombay, so he would free himself from that [i.e., from YJ. He was constantly talking about Equals One, Equals One ... 1 Mentally, they're defenseless. Yes, there are many like that, who are "captivated" ...
... except with Dilip Kumar Roy, all correspondence had stopped. During those years I Page 232 was away from the Ashram but Sri Aurobindo overlooked the whole distance from Pondicherry to Bombay and sent me some of the most personally warm as well as some of the longest letters (twice covering more than 20 typed sheets). Now I understood that the prolonged smile set an explicit seal on this... to your wrongly supposed demoniac lusting. I can assure you that fruitful Yoga can be done even by a householder outside the Ashram. I have lived as a married man outside the Ashram for ten years in Bombay: 1944-1954. So what 1 am telling you is from direct personal experience. Sincerity and a quietly burning aspiration and devotion will carry you through, step by step," towards your goal of brahmacharya ...
... with Sri Aurobindo was very deep and intimate it was not always steady and secure with the Mother. After Sri Aurobindo's departure he was often uneasy in the Ashram and once, when I happened to be in Bombay, wrote to me about feeling like leaving it. I earnestly advised him not to decide anything before having an interview with the Mother. He asked for an interview. During it, amidst other matters,... and reported to the Mother, as he admiringly told me afterwards: "Amal took the change like a real Yogi." I think Amal took another incident too in a similar way. I had brought with me from Bombay a fine hunting-knife, whose length just fell short of a dagger which would require a Government licence. At one period of my stay in Pondy I hung it on the wall touching the inner side of my bed. Amrita ...
... matters. I well remember how once I, kneeling before her, reported the latest news I had heard from "home". Sharply the Mother said: "I have caught you out. Where is what you call 'home'? Is it still in Bombay or is it here?" I was shamefaced and blurted out: "I am sorry, Mother. Of course my home is with you." She made a glad forgiving gesture with her eyes and lips. As now I looked around, the... to keep working outside and help the Ashram in any capacity open to them. So there can very well be a class of authentic aspirants who carry on their Yoga with the Mother's own approval in Madras or Bombay or Calcutta or even in England, France, Switzerland or the USA. With the Mother quitting her body, this line of Yoga approved by her does not cease to be eligible. Whether it is meant for one or not ...
... on a Sunday. We chose Friday rather than Saturday as the most opportune starting-point. Just three weeks were there to go. Various experienced journalists dropped in at our office, which was then in Bombay. They kept asking me how many months' matter we had in stock to accompany whatever had to be penned freshly in view of current occasions. They said that we should have matter for at least six months... heart still misses beats but I have not a care in the world about it. There is neither physical discomfort nor psychological reaction of any kind. In a way I am reminded of the time 17 years back in Bombay when I had a peculiar fever with a most unpleasant sensation in the stomach. No medicine worked. After a week during which there was just a passive waiting on the Mother, all of a sudden I inwardly ...
... which, one after the other, Sehra and I had were also fortunate to be in contact with the Mother. Bingo was already famous with her because it had figured in all the letters we had written from Bombay prior to Sehra's first visit with me to the Holy Land. When on the day of our arrival we went to the Playground, the Mother was standing in the midst of some boys and girls. She put up her right... her and, smiling, asked: "I afraid?" She fed the groundnuts to Bingo. The English expression "Lucky dog!" could not have been more literally true. Bingo died in the Ashram while I was in Bombay to see my grandfather pass away. The Mother was kept in touch with its condition from day to day. Our next dog was Épave, meaning "Waif". It was a street pup, a bag of bones, with severe diarrhoea ...
... When I arrived, 1 I first went to Purani's room because I had written to Sri Aurobindo for permission to come and Purani had replied to me on his behalf. His field was Gujarat and I was from Bombay. Now he had sent somebody to receive me at the station: it was Pujalal. He came and met me and took me to Purani. At that time the Mother used to take a walk early in the morning on ... how long I would be staying at the Ashram. Every minute seemed precious. Some circumstance might cut across my stay. Page 11 I had come here without telling anybody in Bombay that my destination was Pondicherry. Else I would have been hindered. I shall now make a little digression. I am all the time digressing, but this is a bigger version. I had gone to Calcutta before ...
... in my younger days to look like Bernard Shaw whom I admired a great deal. But when I was in Bombay I could not grow a beard — beards at that time were Page 45 not in fashion for people who were rather young and perhaps inclined to be romantic, {laughter) Even when I returned to Bombay after a six and a half years' stay here and met my future wife Sehra, whom I had known earlier ...
... being from above which can incarnate in it. So this being from above which descends into a psychic being is an involutionary being - a being of the Overmind plane or from elsewhere." When in Bombay during 1953 I was writing my article on "the Mind of Light", which the Mother had realised on 5 December 1950, she let me know through Nolini that this Mind, which was constituted by the supramental... descent, no matter how intermittently, into Sri Aurobindo's physical substance took place only in that year in which the Mother had told me, when I left Pondicherry at February's end for a visit to Bombay, that something great and definite was expected to occur in the course of the year and that she would inform me of it as soon as it happened, so that I might hurry back. No call came for me ...
... The Secret Splendour SOME MATTERS OF FACT When I joined the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry instead of completing my studies for the M.A. degree from Bombay University, I had already dabbled in verse-making. An earnest self-dedication to poetry came only under the guiding eye of the Master of the Integral Yoga and the benedictory hand of his spiritual... Aurobindo Ashram Trust was responsible for the first appearance of " Overhead Poetry " is a research-project of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, and the Sri Aurobindo Circle of Bombay for that of The Adventure. Altar and Flame owes its debut to "Aspiration", Charlotteville, Virginia. My cordial thanks are due to all these publishers for granting me permission to reproduce my ...
... money is bound to come; as for who will have the privilege of giving it, that remains to be seen." (24-4-1938) * * * (My heart is pulled towards you and I want to come back from Bombay. But certain- things are keeping me here and I feel that they will keep drawing me even if I return at present. What should I do? But please know that whether 1 So much the worse for them (K... been in the habit of leaving my physical body and making exploratory tours in my subtle body. I leave the physical from the region of the waist. Slipping out into the other planes while I am living in Bombay, I find that I mostly get into planes that are not of a very high nature. Sometimes I pass through attractive scenery. Once Page 76 to the earth-consciousness in an attempt to force ...
... I — Recollections and Diary Notes Champaklal Speaks Magnificent Height A calendar with a picture of the Himalayan ranges was sent by V's brother from Bombay. Mother gave the calendar to me. The picture was beautiful but in the foreground there was a man sitting on a boulder. I felt that if the man's figure was covered up with a photograph of the Mother... as if I am in the Himalayas—as if I have manifested there.” Sehra got two copies made here by our Ashram photographer; Chiman.. But since the result was not satisfactory the picture was sent to Bombay with Sehra's sister Minna. She got copies made there by V. Two copies were in colour and two black and white. Mother gave me one saying, “Your photo.” Then she asked me if I had any more calendars ...
... after another. Offering fruits . In those days, Kashibhai had asked his son Maheshbhai, who was living in Bombay, to send a basket of fruifs and nuts (oranges, chikoos, grapes, almonds, pistachios, etc.) every week from there for Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. After Maheshbhai left Bombay to live in Bharooch, Kashibhai arranged to get these fruits from Madras. You might ask what was done with these ...
... built for its approach is another matter. September 26,1936 I enclose Harm's letter from Bombay in which he writes: "Our Abu Hussain this month at the Capitol was a tremendous success and I believe we can say without exaggeration that we were able to revolutionise Bombay audiences...” etc. etc. O Lord of Bombast, thou hast perched on poets' tongue! Not only that, he actually ...
... the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes. St Matthew 5:1 to 7:29, from The Holy Gospel, Revised Standard Version (Bombay; St Paul Publications, 1975) pp. 21-30 Page 131 The Baptism of the Neophytes, (detail) fresco by the Italian painter Masaccio(1401-1428)Neophytes were new converts to Christianity... The Story of Civilization: P. Ill, Caesar and Christ. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972. Grant, Robert. A Historical Introduction to the New Testament. Fontana, 1971. Holy Gospel, The. Bombay: St. Paul Publications, Revised Standard Version, 1975. Reick, Bo. The New Testament Era. London: A & C Black, 1964. Schweitzer, Albert. The Quest of the Historical Jesus. London: A & C ...
... can send to Bombay. Jagadish will send the silk threads. I have got fifteen rupees which Jagadish has sent (with food expense) for buying silk threads for the sari. Mother will see the samples of colour and send them to you - she will ask Amal for the design. 18.3.32 Sri Aurobindo Page 36 Mother, Silk threads been received today from Bombay: Please, ...
... 1967) Maitra, S.K. The Meeting of East and West in Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy (Ashram Press,1956) Mitra, S.K. The Liberator (Jaico, Bombay, 1954) India-Vision and Fulfilment (Taraporevala Sons & Co., Bombay, 1972) Narayan Prasad Life in Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Ashram Press, 1968) Nirodbaran Talks with Sri Aurobindo, 2 Vols. (Ashram Press ...
... short, I am thinking of going out somewhere for a month. I can only think of A at Bombay who may be willing to keep me. Sri Aurobindo: That is D's proposition all over again! I have to spend a large part of the night writing letters to him so that he may not start for Cape Comorin and the Himalayas -now if you pile Bombay and A on these two ends of India, I for my part shall have to head for the Pacific ...
... tragedy marred his homecoming. You can imagine with what eagerness Dr. Krishna Dhan Ghose was waiting for his son to come back to India after all these years. It seems that Krishna Dhan even went to Bombay to receive Sri Aurobindo but, in the absence of any exact information about the ship by which he was coming, he returned to Khulna. Later his bankers, Grindlay & Co. informed him that Sri Aurobindo... survivors. This was a tremendous shock to Dr. Ghose, too severe for his weak heart to bear, and he died with his son's name on his lips. The S.S. Carthage, with Sri Aurobindo on board, duly arrived at Bombay on February 6, 1893, and you will recall the wonderful experience he had as soon as his feet touched the soil of India. ...
... that house I did my physical exercises in the afternoons along with a few youngsters. Page 49 I needed a heavy barbell for my exercises. How strange! Just then a gentleman from Bombay arrived with a barbell saying that he wanted to offer it to Mother. I was very happy to see that iron barbell and thought that now I'd be able to exercise well. Every day at the bottom... look at them. Young boys and girls used to come and gather there - some grown ups were there too. It was a happy moment with Mother. It was named the 'Vegetable Darshan'. This gentleman from Bombay came and placed the barbell there. Mother asked: "What's this?" "Mother, it's a barbell. I'll exercise with it." Mother said: "No, no, you mustn't. All those who exercise with heavy ...
... amount of time but we must come to an agreement with the minorities. Is he a Scotsman? PURANI: Yes, why? SATYENDRA: He has donated Rs. 200 in Bombay. (Laughter) PURANI: He is said to be a very good man, very polite, etc. Lalji met him in Bombay; he said that our Indian Princes are not like the old English aristocrats. SRI AUROBINDO: The Princes are given a very bad education. PURANI: ...
... Calcutta he addressed a large gathering. SRI AUROBINDO: Who says "large"? NIRODBARAN: The Amrita Bazar reported it. SRI AUROBINDO: In places like Calcutta and Bombay the Leftists seem to be large in number but even around Bombay they were badly defeated in the elections. If the Congress can get Dominion Status without any fighting or struggle, I don't see why it shouldn't accept it. It can ...
... mentioned that the very first appearance of anything from Savitri in public was in the form of passages quoted in the essay "Sri Aurobindo: A New Age of Mystical Poetry" by Amal, published in the Bombay Circle and later included as Part III in Amal's book: The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo . So far the account of the procedure which was followed for working on the three Books seems approximately... Archives and Research has done the needed classification. × Eternity in Words (Chetna Prakashan, Bombay). ...
... Barinda, 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... and refused food. The authorities used to tie us up and force feed us with egg-flip (a mixture of milk and eggs) by means of a rubber pipe passed through our nose. A sergeant general was brought from Bombay to enforce strict discipline; for a while inside the jail we were fighting for our rights as political prisoners, those of us who were kept outside were trying to escape from the Andamans. The usual ...
... status but three-fourths of their talent and energy are wasted, while the English boys use their talent ten times better than the Indian because of the training and equipment. Disciple : The Bombay Premier has approached the merchants for donation to the Government, as there is going to be substantial loss due to prohibition. The government will have to levy new taxes if they don't get money... more. They expect a crowd of demagogues shouting together in Assembly, not people capable of governing. But if socialism comes that might frighten them. Disciple : The present governor of Bombay seems to be sympathetic to his cabinet. Sri Aurobindo : The English people have constitutional temperament, except of course, a few autocrats like Curzon. They will be violently opposed to ...
... the Inauguration of the Exhibition of Paintings and Photographs of the artists belonging to Sri Aurobindo's Ashram and the International University Centre, Pondicherry at the Jehhangir Art Gallery, Bombay, on 2nd May 1955. Presided by Sir. C. V. Mehba. Page 72 It gives me great pleasure to invite you to open this small exhibition of paintings and photographs of the artists of... Baran Roy Chowdhury in a news paper intended for foreign circulation actually gave out, sometime back, that India never had any art of her own! He also asserted that "so far as modern art is concerned Bombay and Calcutta are as good as suburbs of Paris". He might be glad about his unique discovery and may feel proud of India being a suburb of Paris in her modern art. * "all expression is not art" ...
... colleague Joseph Baptista therefore wrote in December 1919 requesting Sri Aurobindo to accept Page 521 the editorship of a paper that was to be the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Bombay. Like the Bande Mataram thirteen years earlier, this new paper was to give Sri Aurobindo an opportunity to spread the message of patriotism and educate the nation in the tasks of political debate... 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 seen an advertisement in the Bombay Chronicle. By 1916 Ambalal had started corresponding with Sri Aurobindo and translating portions into Gujarati. When the war ended, Purani thought that he should meet Sri Aurobindo first before putting ...
... * * * 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, and he was with an English colleague; while Sri Aurobindo had gone to the station to see the artist Sashikumar Hesh off. "Magistrate Keshavrao Deshpande and Jatin Banerji were also with him." Just... so well acquainted with Benoybhusan, and heard from him many stories about his younger brother. C.C. Dutt too was an I.C.S. and served as judge at several places in western India, such as Thane and Bombay. After his retirement he authored several Bengali storybooks; and in 1928 he was entrusted with writing a history of the Indian National Congress which he accomplished with credit. Born twenty years ...
... 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. He took a rickshaw at the railway station. "Aurobindo ...
... European hotel. At nightfall Page 85 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... he was to 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 ...
... couldn't laugh, 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... ate together with a wonderful feeling of brotherhood. We slept on the ground, ate the normal fare, made of rice-pulse-curd, in every way it was superlatively swadesi. The 'foreign-returned' from Bombay and Calcutta and the Madrasi Brahmin with his tilak 1 had become one body." To put the matter cogently we quote Sri Aurobindo's statement which neatly covers the facts. "The session of the Congress ...
... error of our system comes in here. While we insist on passing our students through a rigid & cast-iron course of knowledge in everything, we give them real knowledge in nothing. [What does an average Bombay graduate who has taken English Literature for Page 361 his optional subject, know of that literature? He has read a novel of Jane Austen or the Vicar of Wakefield, a poem of Tennyson or... demand so much & such various powers of original thought & appreciation as literature & history; yet it is the invariable experience of the most brilliant mathematical students who go from Calcutta or Bombay to Cambridge that after the first year they have exhausted all they have already learned and have to enter on entirely new & unfamiliar result. It is surely a deplorable thing that it should be impossible ...
... LITERATURE (BARODA 1893-1906) Bankim Chandra Chatterji This series of essays was published in seven instalments in as many issues of the Indu Prakash , a weekly Marathi-English newspaper of Bombay: 16 July 1894, 23 July 1894, 30 July 1894, 6 August 1894, 13 August 1894, 20 August 1894, 27 August 1894. The pieces were not signed: the phrase "By a Bengali" was printed above the texts and the word... written by Sri Aurobindo while he was working as a professor of English literature at Baroda College between 1898 and 1901. The authors and periods covered by the two lectures were those assigned by the Bombay University for the "voluntary" section of the English B. A. examination in 1898 and 1899. Sri Aurobindo wrote additional passages for this lecture on blank pages of the manuscript. These passages have ...
... Urvasie . Circa 1898. This poem first appeared in a small book printed for private circulation by the Vani Vilas Press, Baroda. (A deluxe edition was printed later by the Caxton Works, Bombay.) In 1942, Sri Aurobindo informed the editors of Collected Poems and Plays that Urvasie was printed "sometime before I wrote Love and Death'", that is, before 1899. He also indicated that... Three Sonnets One of these sonnets was written around 1934, the other two in 1939.Sri Aurobindo selected them from among his completed sonnets for publication in the Sri Aurobindo Circle , Bombay, in 1948. They were published under the heading "Three Sonnets". Man the Enigma. 17 September 1939. Three handwritten and two typed manuscripts precede the Circle publication in 1948 ...
... who dare not look Truth in the face and speak out boldly what he thinks. It is not the one man whom the whole Hindu community in Western India delights to honour, from Peshawar to Kolhapur and from Bombay to our own borders; it is one who will not talk about Shivaji and Bhavani—only about Mahatmas. It is not the man who has suffered and denied Page 116 himself for his country's sake and... the Mirror . Whether loyalism likes it or not, Mr. Tilak is now the leader of the Deccan, a man whom twenty millions look up to as their chief and head. If Mr. Mehta is the "uncrowned King" of Bombay City, Mr. Tilak is the uncrowned King of all Maharashtra. The attempt to exclude such a man from his rightful place and influence in the counsels of the nation, can only recoil on its authors. ...
... Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 24.Oct.1906 - 27.May.1907 Bande Mataram Moonshine for Bombay Consumption 01-May-1907 The Calcutta correspondent of the Indu Prakash seems to be an adept in fitting his news to the likings of his clientele. He has discovered that the old party and the new are united not against the Government but... looking to the Government with a reverent expectation of justice from that immaculate source. We do not know who this antiMahomedan and pro-Government Calcutta correspondent may be; but we hope the Bombay public will not be deceived by his inventions. If there is one overmastering feeling in Bengal it is indignation with the Government for allowing or countenancing the outrages in the Eastern districts ...
... having got rid of his Nationalist adversaries, now rules the Convention with as absolute a sway as he ruled the Corporation before the European element combined against him and showed that, servile as Bombay respectability might be to the Corporation lion, it was still more servile to the ruling class. Indirectly, however, the election is of some importance to Bengal owing to the desire of the people of... leaders do go to Lahore, they are certain to obey meekly the dictates of Sir Pherozshah Mehta; for there is not one of them who has sufficient strength of character to stand up to the roarings of the Bombay lion. They were in the habit of obeying him even when he had no official authority, and it can well be imagined how the strong, arrogant and overbearing man will demean himself as President, and how ...
... animates the idea of the Convention. Perhaps if the Convention becomes a living fact, it may, who knows, be accepted by Mr. Morley as the basis for his Council of Notables? But if the Moderates of Bombay would welcome such a consummation, the Bengal leaders ought to know that the attempt to separate the Congress from the life of the people will be disastrous to the future of the movement for which... may remain Notables, they will cease to be popular leaders. The resolution of the Pabna Conference which was accepted by them leaves them no ground to stand upon if they associate themselves with the Bombay attempt to turn back the wheels of time and put an end to the natural evolution of the Congress. The Convention was the creation of Sir Pherozshah Mehta who will leave no stone unturned to save his ...
... Provinces sent so Page 377 few that the reporters are ashamed to mention the number. The United Provinces sent, according to the Amrita Bazar Patrika 's correspondent, about thirty; the Bombay number is not mentioned, but even the Statesman does not go beyond eighty; the rest came from the Punjab. Even the Anglo-Indian champion of Conventionism, estimating largely and on the basis of hopes... Maharashtra are barred to it; and if the attendance from Madrasis any sign, it will not be easy for it to command a following or an audience again in the Southern Presidency. What remains to Conventionism? Bombay city, Gujerat and the United Provinces are still open to them for a season. The abstention of a disgusted nation has passed sentence of death on this parody of the Indian National Congress. The ...
... the entry dated 5-11-1944: "While going back from Sri Aurobindo's room Mother said: 'Amal's article on sex is good, but it cannot be published in the ADVENT.'" The note which came to the author in Bombay from Sri Aurobindo through Nirodbaran was to the same effect: "Sri Aurobindo sends congratulations but finds the article unsuitable for the ADVENT." A bit of a riddle faces us in these pronouncements... Ashram, especially one like the ADVENT which had a sustained serious tone. Even elsewhere in India the article needed a little editing. With those expressions partly smoothed down, it appeared in the Bombay Weekly, THE SOCJAL WELFARE, October 4, 1946, pp. 9-10. It is now reproduced with some further touches here and there. It has become fairly "respectable", but has done so without losing the essential ...
... seems worth recounting to you for an explanation. She writes, in effect: “I left Pondi in very good condition, except for a little pain in the tail bone. But, while getting into the train for Bombay from Madras, all of a sudden I felt unbearable pain and could not move my limbs because of it. I took some drugs during the journey, but to no avail. Day and night I suffered. When half a day’s journey... heard a voice: ‘Eat this. Mother has sent this for you after tasting it.’ I looked at my watch. It was Balcony time. I knew in my heart that the pain would diminish, and it did. When I got down at Bombay I was almost normal. “What do you think of it? Should you inform Mother?” One small physico-vital force of mischief and some vital entity, both responsible for the pain. The dish is the symbol ...
... all a joke, and he should revert to his old diet. There was this strange happening (to Manibhai, M1) back in 1942 or 43 (War Time). He got into his head to go out. He told the Mother and went to Bombay. There he met another Manibhai (M2 for our reference — he was Kumud’s, Chandrakant’s father). He asked M2 for some money, which was given. He went and bought himself a big basket, filled it with mangoes... doctor examined and to his amazement found no cause for an operation. Gone was the pain too. Manibhai was all smiles. All’s well that ends well. There is an an interesting story about Manibhai-2 (of Bombay). He was a businessman and was still “busy” there though his three daughters and a son (Kusum, Kumud, Mridula and Navin) were in the Ashram. The others of the family settled later on. Manibhai came ...
... last century, was a bit funny though. I went to Bombay a few times in those years in connection with a litigation between my father and Raja Narayanlal Bansilal Pittic and once I wanted to consult a specialist in company law there. My friend and well-wisher Keshavdeo R. Poddar (later named Navajata by the Mother), who was still in Bombay involved in business, advised me to see one Mr. Sethna ...
... culturally similar people from Palestine. Both these peoples, besides 9.Review of Sarkar's Ancient Races of the Deccan (Munshiram Manoharlal,New Delhi, 1973) in the Times of India Weekly (Bombay, December16, 1974). 10. Ibid. Page 22 using microliths, wore ornaments of dentalium shell beads. While noting these affinities, one must remember the difference in dates as well... Secret of the Veda, pp. 551-81. 16. Op. cit., pp. 35-36. 17. The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects (John Murray & Co.,London, 1912), I, pp. 347,356-7. 18. Bh ā ratiya Vidy ā Bhavan, Bombay, January-June 1950, p. 114. Page 26 Speaking of Dravidians, we may dwell a little on Sri Aurobindo's impression of a common source of the so-called Aryan and Dravidian tongues. 19 ...
... cautious final stand vis-à-vis a thesis like mine. Logically, the Harappā Culture could be aligned to Vedism; 17. Ibid. 142 18. The Prehistoric Background of Indian Culture (Tripathi Ltd. Bombay, 1958), p. 59. 19.'tradition al Indian Chronology and C-14 Dates of Excavated Sites", Indian Prehistory, 1964, p. 222. Page 61 archaeologically, an Aryan background to it could... plough" and "sowing two types of grain" in the same field, 23 "wheeled transport (as documented by cart frames and 20."Cultural Divisions of India", Science Today (A Times of India Publication; Bombay, 1967), pp. 11-12. 21. Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan (1974), p. 33l. 22. Ibid., p. 345. 23. Ibid., p. 347. Page 62 wheels)", 24 "long distant trade ...
... travelled with them to India by ship. We arrived in India on February 21, 1946. My father came to receive me at the port in Bombay. It was toward the end of the British rule and there was a “Quit India” movement at that time to get all the British out of India. We had to leave Bombay very quickly. We travelled two days together by train destined for Madras. We took another train for Pondicherry. On the ...
... the verandah. It was a happy feeling. Will you speak about your uncle, Sunil Bhattacharya and his music? He taught himself to play sitar. Although he studied science at St. Xavier’s College in Bombay, he was an excellent football player, botanist and mathematician who taught in the Ashram school and he loved music. From 1945 he began composing musical pieces as accompaniments to dance performances... with Mother’s presence there was a deeper development. The values of today’s children are colored by what they see, read, feel. There is so much exposure to outside media and then they go home to Bombay and elsewhere for holidays. I am very grateful that my roots are based in the Ashram. Today most of the students leave the Ashram, whereas in past years they stayed on and became Ashramites. But mentally ...
... responsible for making me write it; I look at it again in sheer amazement. In connection with Supramental Manifestation I recollect Amal's story. It was on 29th February 1956 that he had to go to Bombay for some work; but he was hesitant to do so as it was expected that something important would take place during that year. He asked the Mother; as she thought that it would be towards the end of March... March she allowed him to go; it was expected that by then he would come back. She also told him that in case it Page 58 happened, she would inform him about it. He was on his way to Bombay, traveling by train on 29th February—the most memorable Day in human history. He had retired early in his compartment, but then he saw in his sleep a big crowd. He noticed that they, standing in a ...
... trained Cambridge and ICS man, higher qualified than most, for less than a reasonable salary. Aravinda sailed for India in February 1903. He set foot ashore in his motherland on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay and entered the service of Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III (1863-1939) two days later. It must have been an enormous change for Aravinda to find himself in the princely but culturally backward Baroda of the... “apathy and despair” and absolute independence was still held to be “an insane chimera”. For a time Aravinda preferred to act behind the scenes. He was initiated in the Western Secret Society in Bombay, and administered in his turn the oath of secrecy and unconditional service of the Motherland to the Anushilan Samiti , “India’s first true revolutionary society”, in Calcutta. By now he had married ...
... Madras. There she joined a group from Bengal, in which was Moni. Strangely enough, Dilip had an experience in Lucknow on November 15, 1928, which decided him to take the plunge; he reached Madras (via Bombay) on the same day as the others. All of them reached Pondicherry on November 22. Sahana never left, and breathed there her last on April 6,1990. She was such a wonderful person! Full of affection for... butter is not bad or old or rancid as bazaarbought butter so often is! If you require it for yourself alone, then instead of buying it, you could have some from the butter the Mother receives from the Bombay Dairy. You can bring your sister and brother-in-law 2 for the flower-distribution tomorrow as you propose, if they want to come. August 7, 1931 It is not your sister and brother-in-law ...
... recall anything. A complete blank has come over it as a result of Yoga." I was set wondering how such a thing could happen. But I understood it some years later during a visit to the Ashram from Bombay. My sadhana was passing through a phase in which the psyche had suddenly burst to the surface and covered the whole consciousness for days on end, a great warmth of aspiration and love for the Divine... felt cut off from all that had been connected with my ordinary life. The most astonishing result was that, try as I might, I could not visualise in the least the face of my wife Sehra who was in Bombay! After a week or so, the memory came back in a tentative fashion, but I had caught a glimpse of the tremendous life-revolutionising power possessed by the psychic being. Apropos of Westerners ...
... to the Mother's intervention on its behalf. I have spoken of "life in the Mother" with regard to my deep-down relation with her whether near her in the Ashram or at a distance from her in Bombay. The phrase has for me a special connotation. I shall elucidate it by recalling a brief talk with the Mother about the way I felt Sri Aurobindo's presence. Whenever I have been at his Samadhi I... into the desert of the Thebaid to escape the world, the flesh and the devil, was more apt. In the course of time the beard and the hair grew more and more short until, when in 1938 I paid Bombay my third Page 101 visit, the hair became normal and the chin had no hirsute appendage at all. But some fundamental affinity with the Early Christians and with Augustine among ...
... when the typed copy had been compared with the original manuscript. So the Mother cancelled her order but left, of course, the final decision in the hands of Nolini and Nirod. In fact, I, being in Bombay at that period, had no power over what the press would print since whatever I might propose would have to pass under their eyes. The press was not dealing directly with me. When the pro... already written elsewhere of how on the night of the Supramental Manifestation on February 29,1956 the Mother appeared to me in the railway compartment in which I was travelling from Madras to Bombay after leaving Pondicherry the same morning. She told me afterwards Page 26 that she had come to intimate to me the Great Event in fulfilment of a promise given eighteen years ...
... a visit of mine to Bombay. I took forty-eight times the normal dose and was about to die. Nirod, after meeting me on 21 March 1940 in Pondicherry, informed Sri Aurobindo of my conviction that I had been saved by a special divine intervention. Sri Aurobindo emphatically said: "Yes." The same point is made in a letter by him on 1st August 1938 when I wrote from Bombay after my accident that ...
... its Page 370 being "a slow poison". I first came to Sri Aurobindo's Ashram on December 16,1927, spent nine and a half years at a stretch except for two short visits to Bombay. Later I was in Bombay for a number of years, but finally came to settle down here and have been in the Ashram for the last 41 years. Surely something of the normal ego has dropped off? Would you believe the ...
... the France of his day. At your mention of "the learned Parsi Behramji Pitha-walla" I could not help smiling. Where has this person picked up something from the Parsi scriptures relating to Bombay? These scriptures date from the B,C-period and can have no reference to any modern city unless fanciful conversions are made, as in Nostradamus's text, of old terms into new significances. Even the... "da". Don't let my ripe old age misguide you into making me ridiculously venerable. Rather than be considered venerable with "ji" or "da", I wouldn't mind the invariable malapropism of my erstwhile Bombay landlord, the late Ardaser Dubash - as when with a spontaneous consistency of verbal misapplication he referred to an honoured guest at one of his parties - Father Sola, the St. Xavier's College's ...
... and this must have helped them. One of Sri Aurobindo's favourite poets, Amal Kiran was born K.D. Sethna, a member of the Parsi community in Bombay. He was a brilliant student of literature and philosophy in St. Xavier's College, Bombay. He arrived at the Pondicherry Ashram while studying for his M.A. in philosophy. Joining the Ashram and becoming involved in its life, he discontinued ...
... antiquity. Winternitz warns us only 4. Religion of Ancient Iran, English tr. by K.M. JamaspAsa (Bombay,1973), p. 100. 5.Cited by B.C. Law in "North India in the Sixth Century B.C.", The Age of Imperial Unity, edited by R.C. Majumdar and A.D. Pusalker (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1954), p. 2. 6. Lost Languages, p. 158. 7. History of Indian Literature, English tr. by Mrs ...
... Mother's Light and Force, then only can you grow into the divine Truth." 10.9.1931 Won't you tell me something to which I can always turn for help and contact during my stay in Bombay? "Remember the Mother and, though physically far from her, try to feel her with you and act according to what your inner being tells you would be her Will. Then you will be best... and if you are not, then even its descending would not be of so urgent an importance, since it would take you time to become aware of it or receive it. So there 2. Before he left for Bombay in February 1938, Amal had an interview with the Mother in which she had warned him against any accident happening to him and doing serious damage to his body. - Editors Page 31 ...
... under the same "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 ...
... make out the sense of the letter, barring a word here and a word there. Do you happen to know a certain Akshaya Kumara Ghosha, resident in Bombay who claims to be a friend of the family? He has opened a correspondence with me—I have also seen him once at Bombay—& wants me to join him in some very laudable enterprises which he has on hand. I have given him that sort of double-edged encouragement which ...
... Mahatma Gandhi's entry on the political scene in 1918. Sri Aurobindo was twenty-one when he wrote a series of nine articles, "New Lamps for Old," in the Indu Prakash, a Marathi-English Bombay daily; in these articles, which had to be stopped following pressures on the newspaper's editor, Sri Aurobindo took stock of the prevailing situation and launched into a detailed and forceful criticism... "absolute silence of the mind." On his way back to Calcutta, Sri Aurobindo was asked to speak at many places. A few excerpts from a speech he gave before a large gathering at the Mahajan Wadi in Bombay:) Belief is not a merely intellectual process, belief is not a mere persuasion of the mind, belief is something that is in our heart, and what you believe, you must do, because belief is ...
... opinion. According to J. B. Fleet, 3 originally the year started at the winter solstice, with Śiśira as the first season beginning then. P. C. Sengupta 4 assures us 1.B. G. Tilak, Orion (Bombay, 1893), p. 41. 2. Ibid., p. 30. 3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (13th Ed), Vol. XIII, p. 493. 4."Hindu Astronomy", The Cultural Heritage of India (Sri Ramkrishna Mission... phrase of Diodorus's (II.37) 5 does not mention Xandrames but surely implies him when, after mention- 1. The Gupta Empire, p. 8. 2. Hindu Civilisation (Bhavan's Book University, Bombay, 1957), 11, p. 240. 3.For a full treatment of the identity of Xandrames see Supplement Two at the end of this Part. 4. The Classical Accounts..., p. 172. 5. Ibid., p. 234. ...
... is mistaken in using the name "Kautilya": this name does not figure in Dandin's account. See p. 60 of the book cited in the next fn. 2. The Kautilīya Arthaśāstra: A Study (the University of Bombay, 1965), Part III, p. 61 and fn. 7. 3. Op. cit., p. 24. 4.B. C. Law Volume, I, p. 494. 5.Goyal, op. cit., p. 24. Page 562 2 A small initial hurdle is... but to collateral ones ruling at the same time in different parts of the Deccan. Kuntala Sātakarni he assigns to a branch ruling in the Kuntala country comprising the North Kanara District of the Bombay State and parts of Mysore, Belgaum and Dharwar." Sircar 3 continues: "The Purānic lists make him a predecessor of Gautamīputra Sātakarni, and a commentator of the Kāmasūtra explains the name as ...
... already been transformed, so as to become a spiritual body, which is the medium of the divine life..." {Ibid.) In the address delivered at the International Transpersonal Conference held in Bombay from the 14th till the 20th February this year, Griffiths touches on the theme again and, referring to Sri Aurobindo, says: "He conceived that...the Supermind descends not only into the soul... Library, Vol. 26, p. 449. 2. The Jerusalem Bible (Longman, Darton and Todd, London, 1966), p. 326 of the New Testament. 3. Pathway to God trod by Ramalingam Swamikal (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1976). 4. Ibid., p. xviii. 5. Ibid., p. 677. 6. Ibid., p.659. 7. Ibid., p. 728. 8. Ibid., p. 730. 9. Ibid., p. 46. 10. Ibid. 11. Ibid., p. 710 ...
... AMUCK? ( This article, which is a rejoinder by the editor of Mother India to an attack published in the Bombay bi-monthly Quest, was originally offered to that very periodical. Professor A. B. Shah, co-editor of Quest, had been eager from the beginning to have a counter-attack... Page 272 Notes and References 1."Sri Aurobindo: Superman or Supertalk", Quest 93, January-February 1975 (Bombay), pp. 9-23. 2."Aurobindo and Science", Quest 96, July-August 1975, p. 71, col. 2 3.P. 17, col. 2 4.P. 20, col. 1 ...
... In short, I am thinking of going out somewhere for a month. I can only think of A at Bombay who may be willing to keep me. That is 'D's proposition all over again! I have to spend a large part of the night writing letters to him so that he may not start for Cape Comorin and the Himalayas—now if you pile Bombay and A on these two ends of India, I for my part shall have to head for the Pacific Ocean ...
... married. NIRODBARAN: How can he write about it? It will bring denunciation on him. PURANI: He is going to marry in his caste. SRI AUROBINDO: Communists have castes? PURANI: He has seen in Bombay, perhaps, that educated girls are more forward and won't tolerate any subjection. NIRODBARAN: Has his health improved? PURANI: Yes. He says he is much better now. He wrote to the Mother about... comrades don't understand how he, being a communist, praises you. They think, "Is he a black sheep in the fold or what?" SRI AUROBINDO: A bi-striped animal. (Laughter) PURANI: The socialists in Bombay are not in the forefront now. SRI AUROBINDO: Why? PURANI: After the seceding of Masani, they have lost ground. SRI AUROBINDO: Why has Masani seceded? PURANI: He does not seem to have found ...
... Rāmānuja, Brahmasūtras: Śri Bhāsya, Advaita Ashram, Calcutta, 1978. Śankaracharya, Vīvekcūdāmani, Gita Press, Gorakhpur, 1932. Śankaracharya, Brahmasūtra Bhāsyam, Nimaysagar Press, Bombay. Śankarā, Drg-drsya-viveka, Sri Ramakrishna Ashram, Mysore, 1970. Śankarā, Mahendra Nath, The Bhagwad Gitā: Its Early Commentaries, in Cultural History of India, Ramakrishna Mission institute... Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 1990. Zimmer, H., Philosophies of India, Keghpaul, 1952, London. Page 110 Kireet Joshi (b. 1931) studied philosophy and law at the Bombay University. He was selected for the I.A.S. in 1955 but in 1956, he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother ...
... Sastry, TV., Collected-works, Dipti Publishers, 1971, Pondicherry, 13 Vols. Kunhan Raja, C., The Vedas: A Cultural Study. Majumdar, R.C., The Vedic Age, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1951, Bombay. Mookerji, Radha Kumud, Ancient Indian Education, Motilal Banarasidass, 1989, Delhi . Mother, The, Mother's Agenda, Mira Aditi Centre, 1951-1973, Mysore, 13 Vols. Radhakrishnan, S... an, S. Tr. & Ed., The Principal Upanishads, Oxford University Press, 1989, Delhi. Page 74 Ranade, R.D., Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1986, Bombay. Renou, Louis, Bibliographic Vedique, 1931, Paris. Rig Veda Samhita, Chaukhamba Vidya Bhavan, 1991,Varanasi, 9 Vols. Satprem, La Revoke de la Terre, Robert Laftent, 1990, Paris. ...
... to the Mother for having lost his control as far as to speak violently to Benjamin!! July 23, 1938 There is some trouble now about Benoy's glass eye that we ordered from the Company in Bombay. It does not suit him; he says we should return this one and he will ask friends in Calcutta to send one. I don't think the Company will return us the money. We can only place an order for something... something else equivalent to its price—1/8. If you need things from the Company, there is no objection. Our stock of Sudarshan is nearly over. Punamchand said it is ready, he would send it from Bombay, but no news from him. Many people are taking it now. So shall we get some from Madras for the present? Can wait and see. The other day I gave S a new drug, Incretone, as Haemogen was not giving ...
... harmful, but for eyes?—If you want I can send you a bottle— June 11, 1938 T says the oranges are very sour. [ Mother :] No good oranges can be found and we are receiving no more from Bombay. Please send us one bottle of rose water. We can try it. [ Mother :] I am sending one bottle. June 12, 1938 Guru, I am not lucky enough to be able to follow your method [6.5.38]... Benoy to go to Madras as each specimen varies from person to person, though we mentioned about sending our sample. Our oculist says that the Madras firms are no good. We should send a sample to Bombay and ask from there. So it's better to enquire there, isn't it? [ Mother :] Yes. The same process [in writing poetry] gives wonderful results sometimes and foolish ones at others! It depends ...
... 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... readily succumb. In this book Roy also gives us a graphic description of Sri Aurobindo's immense powers of concentration and his deep absorption in books and studies: 'Two well-known booksellers of Bombay were his regular suppliers of books.... They used to supply his selected books on deposit account. He seldom received books by post; they came by railway parcels, packed in huge cases. Sometimes small ...
... assembled at Bombay to bid farewell to Viceroy Ripon in October 1884. Even if that was so, there was every possibility of the idea being seriously followed up at the Madras meeting two months later in December 1884 when it took a concrete shape. The Indian National Congress was formally born on 28 December 1885 in the hall of the Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay, with W. ...
... Congress mainstream, he set about building a strong political base. His programme consisted of four planks: National Education, Swadeshi, Boycott and Swaraj. Tilak was warmly acclaimed by the Bombay Provincial Conference in 1915 and electrified politics by his proposal of Home Rule. He set up a Home Rule League for the purpose of propagating the idea. At the same time Annie Besant... in its constitution for organising branches of the League were not stringent. Hence branches were quickly found at Adyar, Kumbakonam, Madanapalli, Madurai, Calicut, Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Benares, Bombay and Kanpur. Soon, there were as many as 200 branches, all enjoying virtual autonomy. Communications with the headquarters were carried on either through individuals who were active or through New ...
... archaeologist, our scientist, and he had many other feathers in his cap, like being the editor of Mother India. 82 I shall tell you what he did to almost cut short his life. He had gone over to Bombay from here, for a short while. He wrote to Sri Aurobindo in 1938, towards the end of July 83 : I am all agog... Agog' is a very colloquial expression, some of you may be conversant... His habit, said with a smile that was almost a non-smile, "I shall miss it!" (Laughter) I was expecting a wire from the Mother in May; Mother had told Amal before he went to Bombay that She would let him know about the descent of the Supermind! He had extracted a Page 46 promise from the Mother - he knows how to do all that. It's almost the end of ...
... Thiruvananthapuram After Velu Thampi became Dalawa of Travancore he faced serious opposition from two relatives of the late Raja Kesavadas who applied for help from their associates at Bombay to get rid of Velu Thampi. These letters were intercepted and presented to the Maharajah in a negative light, who ordered the immediate execution of the two men, Chempakaraman Kumaran Pillai and... his position under subordination of the British. Govindan Menon, the then Paliath Achan was first deported to Madras, where he was kept prisoner at Fort St. George for 12 years. He was then taken to Bombay and remained a prisoner there for 13 years, finally passing away at Benares.7 Kandukuri Veeresalingam also known as Kandukuri Veeresalingham Pantulu (16 April 1848-27 May 1919) was a social ...
... fanaticism and vehemently advocated Hindu-Muslim unity. His fame began to spread far and wide. He was invited to write scenarios for a film company in Bombay, and went to that city in 1934. However, he became totally disillusioned with the film world and left Bombay to become very active on the problem of a national language. He felt that India would never be free as long as the English language dominated, ...
... is a place where people often come as a refuge—because there can be no personal warrant for debts against them here. I knew a Parsi from Bombay loaded with debts who was here for three or four years and only went back when his affairs were settled by others in Bombay itself. April 12, 1933 Whenever I receive letters from friends I go into ecstasies, and constantly I'm thinking of what I ...
... cassette containing a song written and composed by Dada had just come out and he wanted them to hear it. Two of his songs Pledge Renewed and Comradeship had been recorded by professional artists in Bombay and sent to him. Chinmoy too had got these two songs sung by his disciples in America and sent the cassette to Dada. Seventy-two singers from seventeen different Page 49 countries... I've seen you grow up before me. You got married. You had a girl. And now you are even retired? Good God! How time flies! But see that you put on years but don't become old." * A girl from Bombay has come to look after a relative here who is unwell. This relative does not have anybody in the Ashram of her own. The girl said: ' I've attended on her single-mindedly. I could not go anywhere ...
... On Art - Addresses and Writings I * Address to Sir J. J. School of Arts, Bombay I HAVE been overcome these two days by the world of art rushing upon me here from all sides. My visit to your school and to Art Exhibition that is now on at the Jehangir Art Gallery has let loose forms of beauty from all over the world—not only from the present, but from... a very intensive cultural life,—they created philosophy, sciences and arts. They had their own conception of perfection which * An address to the students and staff of J. J School of Arts, Bombay. Mr. Gondhlekar, Dean, presided. January 8, 1954. Page 1 found expression in their arts. Their idea of perfection was that of a human perfection in which the intellect, the aesthetic ...
... On Art - Addresses and Writings v * Address to Art Students - Bombay I HAVE undertaken this task not because I want you to accept my ideas but because I have a liking and respect for some of our young artists and art students. I admire their earnestness and I want to be of some service to them in clarifying some of the fundamentals of art.... cultures in Asia and has given rise to renaissance in their literature and life generally. But together with much good this domination has also given * A Lecture at the J J. School of Art, Bombay 1-2-1954. Page 46 rise to a general inferiority complex and in the field of arts particularly this has resulted in lifeless imitation of European art and soulless attempts by Indian ...
... taking things for granted, but ever with her eyes on the Vision yonder, ready and eager always to fare forward towards the Goal. VI Almost a year earlier, K. D. Sethna had come from Bombay. A brilliant Philosophy graduate, he had done desultory Yoga, and was researching on "The Philosophy of Art" for his M.A. In the meantime, having bought a new pair of shoes wrapped in an old newspaper... going to spend the next fifteen days in the Ashram with (as she imagined) "people meditating with closed eyes and grim faces and nobody smiling, nobody laughing and talking". Could she not leave for Bombay (where she was schooling) Immediately after the twenty- first? In the evening of the 19th, she went in her brother's company, each carrying a rose garland, to see the Mother: ...
... annual publication, first came out from Bombay on 24 April 1945, and later shifted to Pondicherry, and has been appearing every year. And 1949 was to see the publication of two more journals: Bulletin of Physical Education, a quarterly, whose first issue appeared on 21 February, and Mother India, a cultural fortnightly, whose inaugural number came out from Bombay, also on the Mother's birthday. All ...
... what happened and proceeded to Bombay for my second assignment, viz, to meet G.D. Birla. He was known to be antagonistic to the Mother and the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. So much so that he was refusing to see people coming from there. Navajata was anxious to have his financial support and told me that although Mother had been showing little interest in the Birlas, my Bombay visit was approved by her. At ...
... put a force so that his will might not yield to people around him. It was a simple and natural death." Page 79 (2) My elder sister's husband Vindeshwari Prasad Gupta died at Bombay on 23 July 1969. Next morning he came to me and said that he was very happy. I thought of speaking of it to Mother but didn't. On 25th morning when I went to Mother she wrote something on a piece of... on their body to be conscious lose consciousness when the body dies. Those who have a consciousness independent of their body, continue to live consciously." After the arrival of my sister from Bombay we, the family members, had gone to Mother. Mother asked, turning towards my mother, whether she was interested to know about the departed one. Of course we all were. Mother said, "Tell her, his soul ...
... wrote while at Page 25 Cambridge, Sri Aurobindo named his chief character, Keshav Ganesh, after his college mate. After his return from England, Keshav Ganesh Deshpande settled in Bombay as a barrister. The Indu Prakash had two sections: Marathi and English. K. G. Deshpande was the editor of the English section. He was a Nationalist, he too. "I remember once going to a station to... was then the Viceroy (1884-88), lent his support to the nascent organization deeming it would serve the interests of the British Empire and save it from danger. The Congress held its first session in Bombay with Woomesh Chandra Bonnerjee, an eminent Barrister of the Calcutta High Court, as its president. A.O. Hume was one, of the conveners of the first session. He was also general secretary of the Indian ...
... Mother's Chronicles 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... Japanese sink the Russian fleet at Port Arthur (now Lüshun). August 3 — British forces under Younghusband, sent by Lord Curzon, reach Lhasa in Tibet. December - Sri Aurobindo attends the Bombay session of the Con- gress. 1905 - Einstein sets forth the special theory of Relativity and postulates the existence of the photon. - Sri Aurobindo writes Bhawani Mandir. -Mother meets ...
... and efficiency of hospitals in Europe. The State has made some attempt to supply the need of nurses for women in sickness by Page 691 sending four female students to the Cama Hospital in Bombay to learn midwifery and nursing; two of these returned after passing their final examination in 1887-8 and were appointed to the State Hospital and the Jumnabai Hospital. The other two also were entertained ...
... the purposes of education Page 747 as given in this country. I do not myself think very highly either of the principles or methods or results of that education but, being subject to the Bombay University, we have to take things as they are and cannot attempt anything ideal. Whatever defects still exist are inseparable from the low pay and qualifications required in the lower rank of teachers ...
... New Lamps for Old with India and the British Parliament - Notes The nine articles comprising New Lamps for Old were published in the Indu Prakash of Bombay from 7 August 1893 to 6 March 1894. A preliminary article, "India and the British Parliament", was published in the same newspaper on 26 June 1893. Page 5 ...
... the guardians insisted on their boys vindicating their natural rights, whereupon the head master promptly suspended them. The guardians, following strict constitutionalist principles, appealed to the Bombay Government; but as was to be expected the Government upheld the head master's decision. In the course of its judgment the Government lays down the principle that in all Government and Government-aided ...
... pass. 28 March 1936 I will be seeing the Mother tomorrow, but I would also like some message from you. Please tell me something which I can always turn to for help and contact during my stay in Bombay. I pray that I may feel the presence of the Mother and yourself throughout my days far away and come back safely to my home here at your feet. Remember the Mother and, though physically far from ...
... less aspiration? Page 493 It depends on the person. Some profit, some do not. No general statement can be made. Is it possible to receive the Mother's help at a great distance—say Bombay or Calcutta—almost in the same way as here in the Asram? One can receive everywhere, and if there is a strong spiritual consciousness one can make great progress. But experience does not support ...
... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes Sadhana 1908-1909 Under the auspices of the Bombay National Union, Sri Aurobindo addressed a large gathering on the 19th January 1908. Page 110 He went to the meeting almost in a mood of inexplicable vacancy.... Not inexplicable certainly; ...
... regard business as some thing evil or tainted, any more than it was so regarded in ancient spiritual India. If I did, I would not be able to receive money from A or from those of our disciples who in Bombay trade with East Africa; nor could we then encourage them to go on with their work but would have to tell them to throw it up and attend to their spiritual progress alone. How are we to reconcile A ...
... were here. You have only to keep yourself open to them and live inwardly seeking Page 811 to become more and more conscious so that you may feel the Divine Presence and Power. As to the Bombay atmosphere, keep inwardly separate from it, even while mixing with others. See it as a thing outside and not belonging to the inner world in which you yourself live. If you can achieve this inward ...
... rapidly became many. Meanwhile Sri Aurobindo had met a member of the Secret Society in Western India, and taken the oath of the Society and had been introduced Page 49 to the Council in Bombay. His future action was not pursued under any directions by this Council, but he took up on his own responsibility the task of generalising support for its objects in Bengal where as yet it had no ...
... 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 the writer. Otherwise, except for a few speeches at functions in the Palace itself such as the reception of Dr. S. K. Mullick which had nothing to do [with] 1 politics, he spoke ...
... Meeting the Mother The Mother with Letters on the Mother Making Pranam at a Distance I am trying to sit in concentration [in Bombay], but I am unable to do anything except offering pranams to the Mother. Page 566 Am I proceeding correctly? Write to him that what he is doing is quite right. While making the Pranam he should aspire to be ...
... are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and intimate bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material space and the Immanent ...
... 149(fn) -Luc know (1916),195 -Nagpur ( 19 20), I 49(fn), 155 -Surat (1907), 35 and World War 11,227,231 Indo-Afghan race , 96, 107 Indo-Saracenic architecture, 168 Indra , 116,117 Indu Prakash (Bombay daily), 9 Indus-Saraswati civilization, 1oo(fn) industry, 14,43,78, 127, 154 ,216,221 institutions, 9,7,72 , 136 , 141,219 intolerance, 147, 167 Islam, 32 , 44, 53, 129, 143, 158, 167, 170, 217 ...
... 23 August 1965 * X has asked Your guidance in a difficulty concerning the education of his two young sons. He has put one of them in an Italian missionary school in Bombay where the medium of instruction is English and he also intends to put the other one in the same school shortly. But now, because of the current controversy about the language problem in India, he is ...
... January 5, 1920 (From a letter to Joseph Baptista, a co-worker of Tilak who had requested Sri Aurobindo to take up the editorship of a Nationalist English paper proposed to be brought out from Bombay. Sri Aurobindo explained his reasons for turning down this request, through which the Nationalists were hoping to give him an opportunity to return to politics.) ________________ * Kalki: ...
... itself demand such serious powers of original thought and appreciation as literature and history; yet it is the invariable experience of the most brilliant mathematical students who go from Calcutta or Bombay to Cambridge that after the first year they have exhausted all they have already learned and have to enter on entirely new and unfamiliar result. It is surely a deplorable thing that it should be ...
... best way to learn a language. 2 May 1946 X has asked Your guidance in a difficulty concerning the education of his two young sons. He has put one of them in an Italian missionary school in Bombay where the medium of instruction is English and he also intends to put the other one in the same school shortly. But now, because of the current controversy about the language problem in India, he is ...
... 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 as the least dangerous of those whom Mr. Morley felt that he must reluctantly call "our enemies". And what will the business of ...
... instance, is practically unanimous for Boycott. If the majority of votes went against Boycott, would Bengal accept the decision and tamely submit to repression? Or if the majority were for Boycott, would Bombay City agree to carry out the decision? We sympathise with the hankering for united action but united action is only possible in so much of the programme as all are agreed upon; it is Page 514 ...
... Calcutta resolutions as an indispensable condition of union. The Moderate proposal was that the Nationalists should sign the creed unconditionally and accept the Conventionist constitution, but that the Bombay leaders should be asked to consent to the formation of a Committee this year at Lahore to revise the Constitution and pass it as revised at the next session. The terms of the revision would naturally ...
... of Lord Morley's personal friend, Mr. Gokhale. Was it to stop these that the proclamation of all India became necessary? It has been freely alleged that the prevalence of bombs and Terrorism in Bombay, Punjab and Bengal is the justification of the measure, on the ground that open sedition leads to secret assassination, Nationalism to Terrorism. It is obvious that to attempt to meet secret conspiracy ...
... us up, and the Andamans or twenty years' hard labour with handcuffs and fetters loom before our uneasy apprehensions. We do not know whether, considering how the Sedition law is being interpreted in Bombay, Nagpur and the Punjab, even mentioning this incident may not bring us within its provisions. It is impossible, however, to pass it over in silence, and we proceed, therefore, to Page 410 ...
... singing hymns of loyalty and descanting on the blessings of British rule, Nationalism was already born and a slowly-growing force. It was not born and did not grow in the Congress Pandal, nor in the Bombay Presidency Association, nor in the councils of the wise economists and learned reformers, nor in the brains of the Mehtas and Gokhales, nor in the tongues of the Surendranaths and Lalmohans, nor under ...
... self-government in the future; but this the bureaucracy are not prepared to concede. Yet the Loyalists are precisely those whose support is least worth having. Really strong in commercial centres like Bombay and Surat, wearing an appearance only of strength, in other parts where Nationalism has not yet put forth a strength, it is a waning force constitutionally prone to inertia and incapable of exciting ...
... which he has suffered, and the people of Gujerat are waiting eagerly for our advent. If Bengal goes there in force it will, we believe, set flowing such a tide of Nationalism as neither bureaucrats nor Bombay Loyalists are prepared to believe possible. The Christmas concessions given by the Railway companies reduce the expense to a minimum and for those who travel by the intermediate, Rs. 75 at the outside ...
... instruments. Whatever the brain may plan, the heart knows first and whoever can go beyond the brain to the heart, will hear the voice of the Eternal. This is what Srijut Aurobindo Ghose said in his Bombay speech. But our contemporary, the Indian Patriot , has lamented his downfall from the high pedestal of culture he once occupied. Our contemporary has forgotten the teachings of Vivekananda which were ...
... separate the Bengal Moderate leaders from the ranks of pure Moderatism in this crucial matter. It is curious that while trying to throw the whole blame of the Surat fiasco on the Nationalists, the Bombay Moderates have never concealed the fact that it was their intention to jockey the Nationalists out of the Congress. Their chief organ openly declared that it had been the Moderate plan to get rid of ...
... the dictates of prudence or diplomacy, but the fiat of their environment. When the inevitable happens and the Chinese armies knock at the Himalayan gates of India and Japanese fleets appear before Bombay harbour, by what strength will England oppose this gigantic combination? Her armies which took two years to overcome the opposition of forty thousand untrained farmers in the Transvaal? Her fleets ...
... the recent acts of the bureaucracy, such as the separation of Judicial and Executive of which Sir Harvey Adamson has given the details in his speech in Council. The policy of Sir Sydenham Clarke in Bombay is of the same type, and from the Mofussil we hear of politician Magistrates who are busy re-establishing the use of foreign articles by skilful exhibitions of sympathy attended with intimidating of ...
... Nationalist Party Documents - II A Council or Working Committee of 2 only from each province Bengal—Aurobindo Ghose, Motilal Ghose, Aswini Dutt Bombay Panjab U.P. A Provincial Committee of 15 only District Committees Village Panchayets. A National Fund. Bande Mataram, as party organ. Arbitration Courts National Schools ...
... child were afraid. Page 325 × In particular Mothers attendant, Vasudha, who was operated on for cancer in Bombay (and is still there). Unfortunately, she will never resume her work near Mother. × Mother may mean: ...
... ends which they considered most worthy, but what is generally attributed to them is a sheer travesty of the motto 1 used to find on the labels stuck by the European Fathers of St. Xavier's School in Bombay to the prize books I would earn year after year in English Composition or History or Latin. The motto ran: "In omnibus respice finem" The translation simply is: "In everything look at the end." I ...
... There was the shock of Page 79 an inner immensity once in England. "A vast calm", writes Professor Iyengar, "descended upon him with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, his first contact with the soil and spirit of India; and this calm surrounded him and remained with him for long months afterwards. Again, while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-SuIeman in Kashmir ...
... etherized patient's brain must be similarly dry. Actually, I should be able to decide the point. For, I have been on two occasions an etherized patient. It all happened in London where my father, a Bombay doctor, took me when I was about six years old. I had suffered an attack of infantile paralysis — present pet-name "polio" — and in those days India held out no hopes for a polio-victim. The heel of ...
... views is certainly perplexing — Buddha referred to the saint as "liberated from the jungle of views, the tangle of views, the labyrinth of views". Yet, after all, each man on his own house-top in Bombay would give a different description of what he saw. Ignore everyone who you think has used words unscrupulously for some end of his own. But, if you think him sincere, then try and understand why he ...
... The Mother refused to take it off until her 3 days would be over. Udar was prominently involved, by the Mother's own orders, in organising the Ashram defence. I was on a visit to the Ashram from Bombay on this occasion. The Mother's flag was the centre of the whole conflict. At that time Golconde too was in great danger of attack: the Mother's flag was flying there also. It still flies and is meant ...
... Ganpat-ram, a Monsieur Gannepatramme, a Herr Gaunpautraum, a Sig-nor Ganpatramo. From the very top floor I could see taxicabs looking as small as beetles. I have been on top of the Rajabai Tower of Bombay and the Kutub Minar of Delhi. This was long after I had stood at the Eiffel Tower's height of 1000 feet. When people were exclaiming at the sight they caught from the highest gallery of the Kutub Minar ...
... "low conversation" signifies talk which is coarse Or vulgar, the likely conversation of a loose dog! We Indians have to be wary of the traps of English idiom. Thus, outside a chemist's shop in Bombay, you will read: "We dispense with accuracy." "To dispense" means "to make up and give out medicines," but "to dispense with" means "to do without". A chemist whose job it is to provide you with medicines ...
... I needed no swear-words any more. When-ever worked up and irritated I would explode into "Salvador de Madariaga" and get complete relief and satisfaction. Some time after my discovery I attended at Bombay a Congress for Cultural Freedom to which several eminent men of letters from England and elsewhere had been invited. During a preliminary discussion I got riled and burst into my "Salvador de Madariaga" ...
... and the contemporary Abbe Breuil who has made his name as an anthropologist. Bremond is not easy to come by in even our libraries and bookshops. I remember inquiring about him at a bookseller's in Bombay. The chap had a fondness for both French literature and Persian — possibly because the Persian language is considered the French of Asia. I asked him, "Have you heard of the Abbe Bremond?" he at once ...
... long, in the Ashram in order to have the Mother's direct contact and get into the luminous atmosphere of the life there. However, a genuine contact with the Mother is quite possible while staying in Bombay. And the best way of doing Yoga is to have this contact. Think of her and feel her to be your Guru. Inwardly open your heart to her. Keep remembering her always and dedicate your actions to her. Aspire ...
... discord at Nagpur. We regard this issue as one of immense importance and shall today try to make clear our position in the matter and the reasons why we attach such a supreme importance to it. The Bombay Moderates with their usual skill in the use of their one strong weapon, misrepresentation, have been writing and speaking as if the question of Mr. Tilak's election to the President's chair were a ...
... beginning and send the same stream of life beating through the atrophied veins of all India, till one unanimous voice, one tremendous impulse works from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, from Assam to Bombay and the whole country, molten into a burning mass of enthusiasm, is finally fused in one and ready to be hardened into steel of perfect temper, beaten into shape and fined to perfect sharpness by the ...
... the cession of control. It would be the height of political folly to give away our only asset for nothing. A False Step Sj. Surendranath's maladroit reference to the outrages when speaking at Bombay was a false step which he has since made some attempt to recover. However it be put, it was maladroit and unnecessary. Any promise of co-operation in this respect implies an admission that we have ...
... Government scheme which Hindu sentiment has almost unanimously condemned as unfair and partial. The only section of Hindus in its favour is the dwindling minority which follows the great Twin Brethren of Bombay; and the support given by Mr. Gokhale and Sir Pherozshah to the separate representation idea is likely to cost them their influence with the moderate Hindu community everywhere outside the narrow radius ...
... intensity of a Mahomedan self-assertion supported by official patronage and Anglo-Indian favour. Alarm and resentment at the pro-Mahomedan policy underlying the Reform Scheme and dissatisfaction with the Bombay conventionists for their suicidal support of the Government policy entered largely into the universal support given by Punjab Hindus to the new body and its great initial success. Mortification at ...
... Karmayogin College Square Speech - II Delivered at College Square, Calcutta, on 10 October 1909. Text published in the Times of India (Bombay) on 11 October. Mr. Aurobindo Ghose next rose amid loud cheers and cries of "Bande Mataram". He said that the meeting was the last they could hold before the Partition Day, which was approaching, and ...
... as fresh as a daisy. Oh, but he's first-rate! I was quite fresh, as I am not after resting.... But Id like to mention one thing: I saw him BEFORE he came to Pondicherry. The day he reached Bombay, I had a sort of vision I didn't understand: I saw an enormous white horse, huge, but massive, like an enormous plough horse: not beautiful, but with an awesome massive power. A huge white horse. And ...
... bearing on his shoulders arrows and doubly pent-in quiver, and there arose the clang of his silver bow as he moved, 1 P. 48, 49. 2 P. 121. 3 Letters of Sri Aurobindo: Third Series (Bombay, Page 123 and he came made like unto the night.' His words too are quite simple but the vowellation and the rhythm make the clang of the silver bow go smashing through the world into ...
... higher ascension of his own consciousness in Yoga. But Sri Aurobindo was in no hurry to * Written in 1951 to introduce the serialisation of the Letters in Mother India, then a fortnightly from Bombay instead of a monthly review from Pondicherry as at present. Page 170 show it before it reached the intensest spiritual perfection. It was I, on the contrary, who kept showing him my ...
... a cordial personal relationship. You may publish this letter if you like. Very sincerely, P. Lal Here was evidendy a call for a second rejoinder, which did make its way from Bombay to its target, though a trifle belatedly (December 20, 1951): Dear Mr. Lal, I received your letter on the eve of my departure to Pondi-cherry. Once there, I did not feel like entering ...
... 11. Ibid., p. 84. 12. Ibid., p. 30. 13. svadharme nidhanam sreyah para-dharmo-bhayavahah, Bhagavadgita, 3.35, 14. K.D. Sethna, The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo, Bombay, 1947, p. 86. 15. Ibid., pp. 86-87. 16. Here it seems to me that the word "rhythm" is used in the sense of metrical or prosodic rhythm, which is only the surface structure, something ...
... Sen, Sisir Mitra and many more were all so palpably present. However, in 1946 Arjava was no more, Harindranath had left the Ashram and Amal Kiran was a star that dwelt apart in faraway Bombay preparing to shed his immaculate rays on the pages of Mother India, and my only contact with these poets was through a few of their poems which we studied later in our English class. The one ...
... that if he had remained there he would have graduated, gotten a good job and settled down to a “humdrum” life. After he was thrown out he attended another school in Belgaum and from there went on to Bombay to the Royal Institute of Science for a degree in engineering. He was then sent to England in 1929 where he spent four years and earned a degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the London University ...
... of which are borne out by his correspondence with his Guru. How did Dara come here and why? Let us go back two generations. His grandfather hailed from Lucknow. He had a fortuitous misadventure in Bombay — he missed a ship — and had to wait for 15 days for the next one. (Something to do with the Haj pilgrimage.) So, for some reason or other he drifted to Hyderabad. There he had a fortuitous adventure ...
... magic blood, For I looked above at the measureless dome And knew the crown of the year that had come Was old but ah so quenchlessly old— The infinity-haunted starry gold. Bombay, 1.1.44 Page 538 ...
... The Sun and The Rainbow The Two Smiles A LETTER TO A WESTERN VISITOR TO INDIA Bombay, May 11,1952 1 think that during those few hours we met I smiled at you sufficiently to make up for all the unsmiling faces you have encountered in Delhi! And I assure you that you will find many smiling ones in various parts of India ...
... The Secret Splendour (These lines were written in Bombay on 31 March 1956, when nobody yet knew of the Supramental Manifestation in the earth's subtle-physical layer, that had taken place in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram on February 29, 1956 in the late evening. The first stanza intuits what took place. The second goes beyond to a final stage still secret in the ...
... rare depth and magnificence of this poem of Sri Aurobindo's I have already dealt in a special essay in the Second Annual (recently reviewed in the All-India Weekly) of the Sri Aurobindo Circle of Bombay. Savitri marks a new age of mystical poetry, and all lovers of literature as well as mysticism will await with wonder-lit eyes further instalments of it. The first canto is accompanied by a ...
... even to occupy my mind. I feel as if 1 were being broken to pieces. And I get ideas which are not healthy. This condition is there not only in Pondicherry but more or less in Page 206 Bombay too. The general feeling is as if you were breaking me in order to make from me something that you wish. Is that true? And what about that band of light on the horizon? Is it something meant to ...
... persistent low fever accompanied by a constant unease in the stomach. For more than two days the stomach refused to let any food in. I was reminded of the time -seventeen years earlier - when I had gone to Bombay for my first cataract removal. Some time after the operation I contracted a fever and a great malaise in the stomach as if an ogre were sitting there and refusing all nourishment. My nephew who was ...
... Unfortunately, from then on Maxwell had to suffer a lot and Raine laid the blame on herself. Such was her entunement with her vocation. Though she did 3. The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo, Bombay: Sri Aurobindo Circle, 1947, p. 121. Page 170 feel she was not writing as much as she should, she managed to publish more than a dozen books of poetry in the six decades of her ...
... Problems of Ancient India was published in 2000. Much earlier, in 1963, he had published a paper, "The Aryans, the Domesticated Horse and the Spoked Chariot-Wheel" in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay. Amal Kiran has not conducted fieldwork that produces primary physical evidence. Such work is hardly a requirement of every researcher in this domain, or indeed in any scientific pursuit. ...
... commented: “This is correct. On December 3rd [Sri Aurobindo passed away on the 5th] the Mother told me that Sri Aurobindo would soon read my articles. Later, when I asked her why she had let me go to Bombay on December 3rd, she said that Sri Aurobindo’s going had not been decided yet.” 8 Initially, except for some minor symptoms of kidney trouble, there were no signs of serious health problems ...
... Nirodbaran wrote about a serious crisis in 1970: ‘The Mother had been suffering from cough and other ailments. The symptoms took a bad turn when Vasudha [the Mother’s personal assistant] left for Bombay before the August Darshan. The heart was irregular; some beats were missing, a usual feature with her whenever she fell ill. There were other complications. She had been uttering piercing cries of ...
... in my heart unbearable, something happened. I cannot explain what it was but I felt that this time it was he who came to me. I got up and took the next available train — in twenty minutes — to Bombay en route for Pondicherry after despatching him a telegram. The Mother told me, on November 22nd, that I had had a sudden psychic opening and, so heard his call. But I have done it — a dramatic ...
... expected him on the SS Roumania and died of grief 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 ...
... the Supramental in Himself! Duly I sent that letter up to Gurudev who wrote back to me (10.12.44): "I am puzzled and perplexed by this affair of Krishna and the supermind. A.B.C.D.E.F. etc., of Bombay, Nagpur, and Delhi and P.Q.R. up to X.Y.Z. of Calcutta and Pondicherry will all be able to catch hold of the supermind by the hair of the head or "te end of its tail and 'include' it in themselves ...
... sustained abundance of first-rate quality. Add to living lengths of blank verse a _____________________ ' Quoted from his book. The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo — (Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay). Page 292 large number of sublime or delicate shorter pieces, mostly in rhyme, and we have a further testimony of Sri Aurobindo's creativeness. But what is of extraordinary import is ...
... are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and intimate bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material space and the ...
... Volume One (1954-1955) The Story of a Soul Undated? From Bombay I went to Calcutta, where my husband was managing a branch of a cotton firm. His family were rolling in wealth. I was loaded with diamonds and pearls, which seemed to burn me alive. I found Calcutta a gloomy and depressing city. My husband went to his work every morning and came back at ...
... rupees pocket-money each month, and that makes a minimum of 1500 rupees ( one thousand five hundred rupees per month ). No further comment is needed. June 1948 I would like to go to Bombay. It is not that I am unhappy here; on the contrary, I live too easy a life. I feel an imperative need to compare the life here with life outside. I need a change, and for this change to take place ...
... cyclone went up the wrong side!—for according to X's predictions, it was Karachi that should have disappeared. He said only in 1962 or 1963 would Karachi totally disappear. And three-fourths of Bombay underwater! And just a while ago some volcanoes erupted, so the sea rose and swept away all kinds of things in Japan and all along its path, but it didn't come all the way to India. When I was ...
... starting-point of the conflict would be situated in India due to the aggression of Pakistan, then of China. The earthquake he mentioned promises to be a kind of 'pralaya' (as X put it), for not only Bombay will be touched. This is what he said: 'America supports Pakistan, but the gods do not support Pakistan, and Pakistan will be punished by the gods. HALF of western Pakistan, including Karachi, will ...
... the earthquake?... It was in the morning of the day before yesterday, at 4:30. I didn't feel anything. But some people felt it and told me. Over there it was quite bad. 1 My mother reached Bombay on that day and felt it. All the dogs were howling; for three seconds the houses were shaken. A small town has completely disappeared. 2 But it's strange.... I wasn't asleep but was out ...
... It is in fact the start of a long story with the Vatican and the Church's reforms (or rather the continuation, after Mother's "meeting" with the Pope before his 1964 visit to Bombay). ...
... all-powerful in its execution. The impression that ... with life's every pulsation, the universe chooses ... what it is. ( silence ) It was followed by another peculiar experience.... Some people in Bombay have taken it into their heads to prepare a big event for 1968, when I turn ninety (supposedly ninety!). So they have prepared Page 91 brochures which they are going to distribute to lots ...
... myself from Rome, keeping out of the limelight, and then disappearing? Or should I directly speak to the Pope and tell him clearly all that's going on?..." Because you know that when the Pope came to Bombay, P.L. was with him in the plane.... I prefer the solution of speaking to the Pope. ( Mother goes into a long concentration ) Page 86 Is he the one who fainted here during a meditation ...
... touch out of our own present preoccupation. I am referring to a recent feeling of mine in the midst of our faltering attempts at "the Life Divine". In a letter written two days back to a friend in Bombay I had occasion to allude to the same spiritual Page 126 perception. It is a sort of variation on the life-theme couched in that song of Tagore's and at greater application in my own ...
... On palmistry I have nothing to say except to recount one incident of a long time back. I had gone to see a Maharash- Page 252 trian Yogi - Devji by name - who had come to Bombay and about whose powers an article had come my way. This was before my visit to Sri Aurobindo's Ashram and before even the article on it which decided my spiritual future. The man in whose flat Devji ...
... plexus and this sensitive mass of nerves is all the time resonating to thoughts, feelings, sensations. Give it the grand rhythms of Sri Aurobindo's "overhead" inspiration to resonate to. When I was in Bombay years ago and was continuing my out-of-body experiences which had developed in Pondicherry after one pre-Pondi surprise, once I was very badly attacked from behind by hostile forces of an occult plane ...
... critical questions, requests for elucidation. Even when Savitri became public property originally by being quoted in my essay "A New Age of Spiritual Inspiration" in the annual "Sri Aurobindo Bombay Circle" of 1948, edited by my friend and fellow-sadhak Kishor Gandhi - even when certain parts of the poem came out in fascicles from the Ashram Press, new matter was sent to me beforehand. One of ...
... persistent low fever accompanied by a constant unease in the stomach. For more than two days the stomach refused to let any food in. I was reminded of the time - 17 years earlier - when I had gone to Bombay for my first cataract-removal. Some time after the operation I contracted a fever and a great malaise in the stomach as if an ogre had been sitting there and refusing all nourishment. My nephew who ...
... on Shakespeare. The last one has gone in for a second edition, with an added appendix giving two references I had somehow missed.* This book has been rather popular. I remember that on a visit to Bombay many years ago I called at a bookshop to inquire how the sale of my productions stood. The owner "Editor's Note: The new edition was out in the middle of last April. Page 170 ...
... stream ¹ Mother India, February 21,1978, pp. 134-79. Page 2 of Savitri ceased like the fabled river Sarasvati of the Rigvedic symbolism. I went on a visit to Bombay. Sri Aurobindo still wrote to me about the poem, mentioning its progress, but no passages were sent. Not long afterwards, he suffered an accident to his right leg and his old routine of sitting ...
... emanate from a consciousness that has explicitly strayed away from the Master's and the Mother's light. I realised this issue in connection with my editorship of Mother India. A man in Bombay who had been once a devotee had become sceptical and sarcastic. He was contributing a series of commentaries on an Upanishad to Mother India. The articles were appreciated very much. I had kept ...
... which the Mother had sanctioned was tackled. What I have to say further will show another aspect of the Grace the Mother could pour on a young soul. Both Jean and her two brothers had been born in Bombay under the Mother's creative eye, as it were: her help had been received all during the prenatal months and they grew up in the atmosphere of deep devotion which my sister had always carried about ...
... Supermind. (laughter) O how many times I have tried to walk in his footsteps, (laughter) trying again and again to get some illumination! But I have a very sad fact to record: when I went back to Bombay the third time in the 10 years of my early stay here, and returned to this room, some fellow had got it into his head to renovate it and make it up-to-date. He had redone the whole floor, and Sri ...
... and consults the central Presence. Often we ourselves get into touch with this Presence. That is when we most intensely call her to our aid or desire to have her decision for us. Thus, when I was in Bombay in 1939 she wrote to me on April 24: "Just received your letter of 21st, it came to me directly (without the written words) three days ago, probably when you were writing it, and my silent answer was ...
... been repeating it for years and in that way I can certainly claim to be still a young man. Before I committed it I had the desire to go to Oxford for advanced studies after my B.A. in Bombay. My grandfather, on whom I was dependent, turned down my proposal. He said: "If you go to England you'll bring back an English wife. And I will never stand for that." I assured him that I would not ...
... rare depth and magnificence of this poem of Sri Aurobindo's I have already dealt in a special essay in the Second Annual (recently reviewed in the All-India Weekly) of the Sri Aurobindo Circle of Bombay. 1 Savitri marks a new age of mystical poetry, and all lovers of literature as well as mysticism will await with wonder-lit eyes further instalments of it. The first canto is accompanied ...
... this date in 1928 when she was exactly at her half-century. And my last well-remembered darshan of her was also on 21 February in 1973. The April darshan is vague in my mind and on 2 May I left for Bombay for a cataract operation. Owing to unavoidable circumstances the operation was long delayed. I had to miss the darshan of 15 August when the Mother was seen as an embodied divinity for the last ...
... will be there as they were here. You have to keep yourself open to them and live inwardly seeking to become more and more conscious so that you may feel the Divine Presence and Power. As to the Bombay atmosphere, keep inwardly separate from it, even while mixing with others, see it as a thing outside and not belonging to the inner world in which you yourself live. If you can achieve this inward ...
... criticisms that were levelled on certain aspects of his poetry, particularly his magnum opus. During this period some texts were sent to Amal Kiran at his request when, at that time, he was staying in Bombay. He used to raise several literary or technical points and seek elucidation from the Master. About this correspondence between them Nirodbaran writes as follows: Sri Aurobindo's "long answers and ...
... apropos of a book* by him on Sri Aurobindo's poetry. He had asked Sri Aurobindo's permission to show this letter to his friend Frederick Mendonca, professor of English at St Xavier's College in Bombay; but in a second letter dated 7 July 1947 Sri Aurobindo had explained the reasons why he did not favour the idea of making it public. Since, however, any possibility of the first long letter being ...
... write on the Rig-veda's use of the crucial word ayas which, in one of the later 1."The Aryans, the Domesticated Horse and the Spoked Chariot-wheel", Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay, Bhau Daji Special Volume, Vol. 38, pp. 44-68. 2."New Light on Harappāns", The Sunday Standard (Madras), August 25, 1974, Magazine Section, p. 1, col. 2. 3.The Pre-historic Period" ...
... Washington, 28 February 1964, pp. 950-52). Sir Mortimer Wheeler has cogently argued against the lowered upper limit (Foreword to S.S. Rao's Lothal and the Indus Civilization, Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1973, pp. vi-vii), and H.D. Sankalia after a detailed review of all aspects has urged that Wheeler's "old bracket of 2500-1500 B .C. for the overall duration of the Indus Valley Civilization be ...
... believed to be good. At the same time a native official must keep his own master's favour. This was a difficult game, but the quiet, close-mouthed young Brahmin, helped by a good English education at a Bombay university, played it coolly, and rose, step by step, to be Prime Minister of the kingdom. That is to say, he held more real power than his master, the Maharajah. When the old king - who was ...
... hypothesis of the Rigvedics coming from outside India into the Indo-Gangetic plain in the middle of the second millennium B.C. 9. "Observations on Ancient Iranian tradition", Jam-e-Jamshed (Bombay daily), June 12 and 26, 1978. Page 83 ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 9 April 1934 ( After nearly seven years in the Ashram, Amal went to Bombay for a five-month visit. During this period the Mother sent him the two letters below. ) Amal, Happy to learn that you are all right now. I’m feeling somewhat astonished that my “line” did not ...
... for a fortnight? It is because I will be coming there for the Asram and if I am not permitted to stay there it would not be much good.” She is the head-mistress of a well-known school for girls in Bombay. I suppose she wants to come during a vacation. May I give her hope that you will permit her to stay in the Asram? Truly I have no room. 15 November 1937 ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 15 February 1938 Mother, I hear there is an epidemic of small-pox in Bombay. Should I get myself vaccinated before I go there? It might be better. 15 February 1938 ...
... with The Mother 2 April 1940 Mother, Of late the idea has been occurring to me that I should make a book of some of my poems and have it printed in Bombay. But my own resources are extremely limited. I want to persuade my grandfather to help me with at least part of the money needed. I don’t know whether I will succeed in persuading him nor whether my ...
... Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 4 October 1964 Dearest Mother, The Trustees and the solicitor managing grandpa’s estate in Bombay want me to go there — as I am also a Trustee — and settle the matter of dissolving the Trusteeship and making all of us direct owners of our shares in the big building, of which we are co-owners with ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 21 July 1967 Dearest Mother, Two years ago an eye doctor in Bombay found an incipient cataract in my right eye. Lately I had a talk with our Dr. Agarwal and he told me that such a cataract could be cured by the Bates system. 19 On examining my eyes he felt sure. I am ...
... with Sri Aurobindo was very deep and intimate it was not always steady and secure with the Mother. After Sri Aurobindo's departure he was often uneasy in the Ashram and once, when I happened to be in Bombay, wrote to me about feeling like leaving it. I earnestly advised him not to decide anything before having an interview with the Mother. He asked for an interview. During it, amidst other matters, the ...
... 11 .Bk. III, 80-134. 12 .Bailey, op. cit., pp. 145-46. 13 .J.H. Hanford, A Milton Handbook (1946). 14 . Letters of Sri Aurobindo, Third Series (Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1949), p. 18. 15 . Ibid., p. 17. 16 . Ibid., pp. 19-20. 17 . Ibid., p. 28. Page 78 ...
... also was known as the Mother's magazine. In the beginning, it was published from Madras according to her instructions. Mother India was known as Sri Aurobindo's paper; it was at first published from Bombay and later from Pondicherry. Sri Aurobindo used to give instructions and guidance to Amal Kiran, its editor. After Sri Aurobindo's Mahasamadhi, the Mother told Amal that from then on she would give ...
... Part I — Recollections and Diary Notes Champaklal Speaks Solicitude for Devotees 1944-04-20 News came of a big explosion and havoc in Bombay. Mother informed Sri Aurobindo about it and said: “There is no news from Gunvant and it seems his building is in the same locality where the disaster has taken place. Manibhai's news has come; Raojibhai's also ...
... Love"; 3) "Sri Aurobindo, Minstrel of Harmony and Immortality"; 4) "Sri Aurobindo, Minstrel of Vision and Intuition." 1979 On 1st October he had a vision of Maa Radha Rani at Bombay. He became unwell from 11 November. On 23 November he wrote his last poem Antim Prarthana in his own hand. One day he wrote in his diary, "Namah Sri Aurobindaya— Sarvadevoh mayah guru." Till the ...
... (English tr.), 3 Vols., Calcutta University Press, 1959. Zimmer, H., Philosophies of India, Keghpaul, 1952, London. Page 78 Kireet Joshi (b.1931) studied philosophy and law at the Bombay University. He was selected for the I.A.S. in 1955 but in 1956, he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother ...
... pp.889-90. 11 Ibid., Vol. 18, p.10. 12 Ibid.,pp.3-4. 13 Ibid., Vol. 19, pp.1067-68. 14 Ibid., p.823. Page 57 Kireet Joshi (b. 1931) studied philosophy and law at the Bombay University. He was selected for the I.A.S. in 1955 but in 1956, he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother ...
... and watch, — we have every reason to take the staff in our hand and set out for the journey. Page 502 About the Author Kireet Joshi (b. 1931) studied philosophy and law at the Bombay University. He was selected for I.A.S. in 1955 but in 1956 he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. He ...
... spiritual experiences even in his pre-yogic period. The first was in London in 1892, the year of his departure from England. The next experience was when he set foot on 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 ...
... Works of Swami Vivekananda, Advaita Ashram, 1958, Almora, Vol. I, IXth Edition. 41 Vide., Bhagwan Das, Essential unity of religions, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Atui Bordia Bhavana Printer, 1932, Bombay, 1st Edition. 42 Vide., Swami Vivekananda, Address at the World Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 11 ""September 1893, Advaita Ashram, 1958 ' Almora, Vol. I. 43 Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and ...
... most intimate truth of your real, your spiritual existence." — Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita. pp. 572-594. Page 102 Kireet Joshi (b. 1931) studied philosophy and law at the Bombay University. He was selected for the I. A. S. in 1955 but in 1956, he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother ...
... processes and methods of the triple transformation which are essentials of the integral yoga will remain inevitable. Page 98 Kireet Joshi (b. 1931) studied philosophy and law at the Bombay University. He was selected for the I.A.S. in 1955 but in 1956, he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother ...
... the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, the Archives, the Art Gallery and the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press for the cooperation extended by them. R OSHAN 9, Cosmos, 54 A, S.V. Road, Andheri (W) Bombay - 400 058 References 1. Collected Works of the Mother. Vol. 2, p. 30 2. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library: Vol. 23, pp. 1023-24 Page v ...
... by day. It is not that in the magistrate's court we Page 289 did not have, once or twice, occasions for scepticism. When I found in the written evidence that Sisir Ghose had been in Bombay in the month of April, yet a few police chaps had seen him precisely during that period in Scott's Lane and Harrison Road, one could not but feel a little uneasy. And when Birendrachandra Sen, of Sylhet ...
... even in his pre-yogic period. The first was in London, in 1892, the year of his departure from England. The next experience was when Sri Aurobindo set foot on the 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 ...
... Our patient left and I have again more time. We have finished the big cleaning of the house with streams of water, which in this heat was quite pleasant. Tomorrow X will give me a mango from Bombay. They are the best mangoes in the world, introduced there some centuries ago by Portuguese from Goa. She gets parcels from her husband. What a pity that I do not have a husband! Oh, my felicity ...
... interest in the subject of what true education should connote and imply. Although Sri Aurobindo had contributed his first thoughts on education as far back as 1894 to the Journal Indu Prakash of Bombay and expressed his views on the same subject for the last time in 1949 in the quarterly Bulletin of Physical Education published from his Ashram, it came as a pleasant surprise to many of his admirers ...
... 243, p. 244, p. 244, p. 250, pp. 250-1, p. 251. The Life Divine — p. 1062. The Human Cycle — p. 251. Kireet Joshi (b. 1931) studied philosophy and law at the Bombay University. He was selected for the I.A.S. in 1955 but in 1956, he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother ...
... (R-Ahemdabad), 426452 OR 311463 (R-Baroda) 2. Ms. Yasmeen Maqbool Indian Express,Ahmedabad. Page 146 Kireet Joshi (b.1931) studied Philosophy and Law at the Bombay University. He was awarded Gold Medal "and Vedanta Prize when he stood first class first in the M.A. Examination. He was selected for I.A.S. in 1955 but resigned in 1956 in order to devote his life ...
... a beginner should be lured by more glimpses than has been done in my case. System of lollipops? You won't travel to London unless you are given frequent glimpses of London before even you reach Bombay? Otherwise you will say Oh what a bother and give up? Look at D—you yourself admitted that he had a very easy flow as soon as he started writing. [Sri Aurobindo underlined 'You yourself admitted" ...
... tone of high idealism, its spiritual elevation, which distinguished it from other newspapers and political journals of its day as also of the past. Early in 1908 Sri Aurobindo delivered a speech in Bombay which was later reproduced in the Bande Mataram. In it he said: 'Nationalism cannot die; because it is no human thing, it is God who is working in Bengal. God cannot be killed, God cannot be sent ...
... through a very anxious time. Here is what I noted: 1970 The Mother’s Illness The Mother had been suffering from cough and other ailments. The symptoms took a bad turn when Vasudha left for Bombay before the August Darshan. The heart was irregular; some beats were missing, a usual feature with her whenever she fell ill. There were other complications. Page 125 She had been uttering ...
... spiritual, is all the greater. On February 21, 1949, the Mother's 71st birthday, two new journals were started. A cultural and semi-political fortnightly, Mother India, commenced publication from Bombay. It was edited by K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran), a close disciple of Sri Aurobindo and a poet of distinction as well as a brilliant writer with wide intellectual interests. In writing the editorials Sethna ...
... School of Art, came to Pondicherry and met Sri Aurobindo. 116 He took sittings for four days in order to draw a portrait of Sri Aurobindo. Now, in 1920, Sri Aurobindo received a letter from Bombay from a well-known barrister, one of the leaders of the Nationalist Party of Tilak. His name was Joseph Baptista, a Christian. In that letter, on Tilak's advice, the party invited Sri Aurobindo, through ...
... she took medicines from you for eight long days without any change; when she told you, you said "It's the only medicine I have", so she dropped treatment. On my telling her that she may have to go to Bombay side for treatment, she says she will prefer to die near to the Mother—not a comfortable prospect for the Mother, but she may live if we give her one cup more milk a day and butter—which have been ...
... healthy colour, has she? Neither good nor very bad. February 8, 1938 L—The bad effects of enema are weakness, windiness and loss of appetite. Dr. B asked her if she would like to go to Bombay. She is very willing and says she will come back after some time. So shall we ask her to arrange for it? Yes, certainly. P has come with a doubtful skin disease—It is better to take him to the ...
... him, dropping his formidable personality and becoming one with another family, in love and affection! In the Calcutta house, Aurobindo became, to my wife, even more of a brother then he had been in Bombay. Ordinarily he was averse to accepting personal service. But it was by no means an uncommon sight to see Lilavati wiping the sweat and combing his hair tenderly after his return from work, and he ...
... arrival of M.P. Tirumala Chari, lately in Constantinople. I have already reported this to the Director of Criminal Intelligence in my D.O. letter No. 706 dated 20th July 1912. I have informed Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Rangoon and Colombo and all these ports have his photograph and description. The Page 73 Commissioner of Police has a case against him absolutely ready if he does fall ...
... National Congress The Indian National Congress was founded in 1885. With its formation the Freedom Movement gained momentum in Tamil Nadu. The first conference of the congress was held at Bombay under the presidentship of W. C. Bonnerji. C. Vijayaraghavachariyar of Salem, a close associate of A. O. Hume, was one of the members of the committee which drafted the constitution of Indian National ...
... India The Background For more than 150 years the East India Company (John Company) had raised its own armed forces. The three administrative areas of India, the Presidencies of Bombay, Madras and Bengal, each maintained their own army with its own commander-in-chief. The commander-in-Chief of Bengal was regarded as the senior officer of the three. These armies were paid for entirely ...
... for the British to swallow. They brought in bigger armies from Mysore and Sholapur and surrounded Kittur. Chennamma tried her best to avoid war; she negotiated with Chaplin and Governor of Bombay Presidency, under whose regime Kittur had fallen. It had no effect. Chennamma was compelled to declare war. For 12 days the valiant queen and her soldiers defended their fort; but as is common, traitors ...
... involved himself in political activities aimed at giving Indians a more democratic, representational government and was one of the conveners of the first session of the Indian National Congress, held at Bombay in 1885. This event heralded the beginning of a political awakening. The demand for political freedom, however half-hearted and halting, began to find expression in the collective life of political ...
... social equality, she was the first Indian woman to stand for open political election in the mid-twenties. She was the 'supreme romantic heroine' of the Satyagraha Movement, and was the first woman in Bombay Presidency to be arrested for breaking the salt laws. She was the recipient of many national and international awards, including the prestigious Magsaysay Award, and Vishwa Bharati and Deshikotamma ...
... pleaded that India be recognised as a nation and be given self-government. She started two papers: Page 89 the weekly Commonwealth and the daily New India. In 1915, at Bombay she enunciated her plan to organise a Home Rule League. This was established in September 1916 after she failed to persuade Tilak to allow her to combine the League he had already established. Tilak ...
... published in the Hindusthan Quarterly Calcutta. (1945 ), .'The Basis of Unity' in the Prabuddha Bharata (1943, May), the papers 'On Social Reconstruction' in the Sri Aurobindo Circle Annual, Bombay, (1945), and 'The Three Degrees of SociaI Organisation; in the Aryan Path (1943, August) ...
... 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 in agreement with the notes. So the students remarked that it was not at all ...
... speech slow DR. MANILAL: Why did you choose Pondicherry as the place for your sadhana? SRI AUROBINDO: Because of an Adesh, a Command. I was ordered by a Voice to come here. When I was leaving Bombay for Calcutta, I asked Lele what I should do about my sadhana. He kept silent for a while, probably waiting to hear a voice from within, and then replied, "Meditate at a fixed time and hear the voice ...
... what you liked and then made what you wanted of it. There was always a demand for the student's point of view. In India the students, besides taking down my notes, used to get notes of professors from Bombay, especially if they happened to be examiners. Once I was giving a lecture on Southey's Life of Nelson . And my lecture was not in agreement with the notes in the book. So the students remarked ...
... may take time. PURANI: Even the Congress Ministers are not keeping to the policy of non-violence. They are planning and enforcing military training in the United Provinces, the Central Provinces, Bombay and Madras. PURANI: Sir Sikandar Hussain has tried to make a division of India into martial races, like those of the Punjab, and non-martial races. SRI AUROBINDO: That division was made by the ...
... government-aided paper. Most of the French papers are aided. During the Abyssinian campaign Italy bought up almost all the papers in her favour. SATYENDRA: After a long time the judgment on the Bombay prohibition case has come out. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, the judges seem to be fond of drink. Are they going by the amendment of the Abkari law? It seems clear that if the Congress Government came back ...
... 1940-contd Talks with Sri Aurobindo 12 OCTOBER 1940 The Czech national committee of Bombay published a pamphlet on the oppressive rules instituted by Germany in Czechoslovakia against university education. The Mother brought a copy of it to Sri Aurobindo in the morning SRI AUROBINDO (after breakfast): Those who think that Hitler's rule in India won't ...
... to play the part of Ignorance? SRI AUROBINDO: Why would I know? It is not my work. It is the concern of the police. You are asking like those who ask me about the share-market or horse-racing in Bombay. CHAMPAKLAL: The Mother said she is much bothered by these thefts. She wants to know— SRI AUROBINDO: Does she? CHAMPAKLAL: She sees and knows many things— SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, she sees many ...
... the interview, while he was coming, he said, "My father has asked me to offer his thanks to you," to which Fraser laughed aloud. SRI AUROBINDO: What has Fraser got to do with his job? He was at Bombay. PURANI: Perhaps Fraser could cast some influence. SRI AUROBINDO: You don't know Dutt's other story? What Fraser said about me? PURANI: No. SRI AUROBINDO: Fraser, after seeing me in jail ...
... consider you omniscient. SRI AUROBINDO: You don't expect me, surely, to know how many fishes the fishermen of Pondicherry have caught or how much money they have made out of the catch. People from Bombay used to ask me if the price of cotton would go up, if this or that horse would win a race and if the child they had lost would be found again. What's the use of knowing all these things? You must have ...
... all right to me. If the States people are given seats in the Centre and if the Government exercises no veto in the provinces, then it is practically Home Rule. PURANI: The Viceroy's long stay at Bombay seems significant. I think there is something behind it. He perhaps wants to make Dr. Kher or Rajagopalachari head of the Central Assembly in a Federation. SRI AUROBINDO: Is that so? Dr. Kher seems ...
... 1939 Talks with Sri Aurobindo 24-25 DECEMBER 1939 PURANI: Sir Sikandar has gone to Bombay to see Jinnah, perhaps for some compromise between Congress and the League, and the Aga Khan also is starting for India. He too may try for some rapprochment. SRI AUROBINDO: It is no use unless they can get rid of Jinnah from the League. SATYENDRA: The Sindh ...
... inspiration. SATYENDRA: The idea of starting Yoga courses is rather funny. SRI AUROBINDO: They have started a school on Rajayoga in America. But it has nothing of Rajayoga. NIRODBARAN: In Bombay also there are schools. SATYENDRA: They are for Hathayoga. SRI AUROBINDO: It was in connection with Hathayoga that I was at first puzzled. A Hathayogi was going about, lecturing that all moderns ...
... injured? CHAMPAKLAL: Yes. NIRODBARAN: We have heard that there is a protective aura up to a certain limit. Beyond that one is not always safe. SATYENDRA: Does it mean that people living in Bombay or Calcutta don't get help? SRI AUROBINDO: It is not like that. An aura is something that projects itself from the vital and physical being; those who are open can feel it and be influenced by it ...
... AUROBINDO: But the official dress also? I don't remember. It is true that at times I used to put on Marathi dress. Then? NIRODBARAN: That was the first meeting. The 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 ...
... coming superman. (Laughter) Somebody brought in the question of astrologers again and said that what Naik had learned about an astrologer regarding the Darshan was not correct. It first seemed some Bombay astrologer had said before the accident to Sri Aurobindo's right leg that there would be no Darshan in November 1938 the month of the accident. Now it was disclosed that the astrologers had said it ...
... PURANI: He is trying to start a school there for training young people and wants to give it the name of this dancing girl. SRI AUROBINDO: Training in mutual borrowing? (Laughter) PURANI: In Bombay also he got some money from the public for such a national school. When they came to know him they feared all the money— SRI AUROBINDO: Would be nationalised? (Laughter) EVENING Purani was ...
... 1940-contd Talks with Sri Aurobindo 2 SEPTEMBER 1940 PURANI: I read Gandhi's queer argument about non-violence with Kher and others. Kher said that during the Bombay riot even the non-violent leaders refused to risk and sacrifice their lives to stop the riot. Gandhi says, "That supports my argument." (Laughter) I am simply at a loss to understand how it supports ...
... with George Nakashima's talk on Nishtha—Margaret Wilson, daughter of the former President of the U.S.A. SRI AUROBINDO: So I am called a savant (British radio), a Brahrno leader and an ascetic (Bombay Times) ! Some Egyptian prince had come to India, visited Hyderabad and called it "marvellous". PURANI: If he finds Hyderabad marvellous then one wonders what Egypt may be like. SRI AUROBINDO ...
... be disturbed. NIRODBARAN: Hiren Dutt finds The Life Divine obscure and loose. SRI AUROBINDO: Obscure to himself? PURANI: I haven't much regard for his opinion and learning. I met him in Bombay. SRI AUROBINDO: He has an ordinary mind and it runs in the traditional groove. When the Arya was being published, I think he said that he couldn't understand it. NIRODBARAN: Yet he has made ...
... What do you think we are here for? Only to please Sri Aurobindo." He told me, "You don't know, Nirod, what I have lost." Amal Kiran too was not there. He had just left on the night of 3rd December for Bombay after meeting the Mother. He flew back as soon as he got the news. He was in the Ashram on the morning of the 6th. He has written in his reminiscences entitled The Grace of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother ...
... their separate right to a self-governing existence; Maharashtra expects a similar concession and this would mean a similar development in Gujarat and then the British-made Presidencies of Madras and Bombay would have disappeared. The old Bengal Presidency had already been split up and Orissa, Bihar and Assam are now, self-governing regional peoples. A merger of the Hindi-speaking part of the Central ...
... Besides, there was the Sri Aurobindo Pathmandir at Calcutta, with its continuing record of meritorious work; there was the Sri Aurobindo Library at Madras and there was the Sri Aurobindo Circle at Bombay; and by 1956, there were about 150 Sri Aurobindo Study Centres in Page 759 India and some fifteen abroad. The desire for Light was growing, indeed, and in response the Light too ...
... well, this is the bare, rocky, direct poetry? God help us! This is the sort of thing to which theories lead even a man of genius. 91 On one occasion, somebody who signed himself 'Aurobindo, Bombay' wired for permission to attend a darśan and gave Dilip's name for reference. Dilip promptly wrote a Bengali poem describing four possible identities, and this at once elicited a marvellous reply ...
... presently to subside in Japan. There was, then, the attempt by Lokamanya Tilak and Joseph Baptista to get to get Sri Aurobindo back to public life as editor of a new political paper to be lunched at Bombay. But Sri Aurobindo, writing on 5 January 1920, politely and firmly declined the invitation: Pondicherry is my place of retreat, my cave of tapasya, not of the ascetic kind, but of a brand of ...
... on account of some untoward results it produced. In the meantime there had been fresh accessions to the Ashram community: Vaun and Janet McPheeters from the U.S., Daulat and K. D. Sethna from Bombay, Sahana Devi and Dilip Kumar Roy from Bengal, Miss Maitland from the U.K. and others. Among the old-timers, Nolini was Secretary of the Ashram, silent and efficient as ever, and Amrita was its manager ...
... organised lines; the few rapidly became many. Meanwhile Sri Aurobindo had met a member of the Secret Society in Western India, and taken the oath of the Society and had been introduced to the Council in Bombay. His future action was not pursued under any directions by this Council, but he took up on his own responsibility the task of generalising Page 247 support for its objects in Bengal ...
... thrown out of employment. In the Savanne Mills they burnt the machinery and then were thrown out of employment. Similar was the case in Madras Match Factory. If you do not have bill like the one Bombay Trade Disputes Bill, the industries will go to the pot. Page 221 ...
... self-sufficient? Sri Aurobindo : Self-sufficient in what way? Disciple : In meeting the needs of the daily life, say for instance, preparing our own cloth here; my friend who has come from Bombay wants that we should introduce spindles and looms to prepare our clothes. Whether and how far such self-sufficiency is desirable in Ashram like ours? Sri Aurobindo : It is not a question of ...
... have seen Hidayatullah has become a Minister of Sindh? Disciple : Has he? Allah Bux has won him over, it means. He earned a lot of money from the Sukkur Barrage Scheme during his ministry in Bombay, before the congress government. Sri Aurobindo : How? Disciple : He used to sell plots of land to customers through Page 207 his agents and he kept some of the best ...
... written later, have also been incorporated. RISHABHCHAND PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION Most of these essays were originally published in the Mother India of Bombay, one in Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual , and one in the Advent , all organs devoted to the exposition of Sri Aurobindo’s vision of the future. Here they are reproduced with slight revisions by the ...
... evidently, but a very strange way of writing. And what is this new paper, the Voice of India ? Disciple : It is edited by Natarajan who is also conducting the Social Reformer in Bombay. Page 19 Disciple : When he first started the Social Reformer he was called Nitrogen and therefore an inert, odourless and colourless gas ! Sri Aurobindo : Perhaps a very ...
... in case of failure in getting them through, to resort to civil disobedience. Sri Aurobindo : But in that case again there may be another Chauri Chora ! Disciple : He also spoke at Bombay on the Anniversary of Gautama Buddha and said Buddhism was not given sufficient trial. Sri Aurobindo : Christianity and Buddhism, I am afraid, will ever remain without being given a trial ...
... Disciple : You don't know? We consider you as Omniscient. Sri Aurobindo : You don't expect me to know how many fish the fishermen have caught. How much they have made out of it? People from Bombay used to ask me if the price of cotton would go up, about race horses and about their lost children. What is the use of knowing all that? You know Ramakrishna's story of the Sanyasi's crossing the river ...
... me" . . . . "Years ago I saw Aurobindo in the atmosphere of his earlier heroic youth and I sang to him, ¹ The Advent was first brought out from Madras and Sri Aurobindo Circle from Bombay. At present both are being published from Pondicherry. Page 238 ‘Aurobindo, accept the salutation from Rabindranath.’¹ "Today I saw him in a deeper atmosphere of a reticent ...
... to be captured if one did not want to fall, like Spartacus, in a thousandth futile revolt. Again, I went back to see the Sphinx. I was on my way to Port Said to catch a British ship bound for Bombay. To tell the truth. I did not give a damn about much of anything; I was like a suicide in reprieve. And there was that amazing Sphinx, as if some Titan had gathered up the Question of the Earth ...
... rushing up, ran into Mother's room and pushed the unwanted visitor out. I confessed my role in it and Vasudha was naturally irritated and surprised over my error. We missed Vasudha when she went to Bombay in August 1970 for treatment of cancer. On return, due to her sickness she gradually faded out of Mother's company and was replaced by Kumud, but she continued to go to Mother to comb her hair. ...
... also a fragment from The Tale of Nala and two different versions of the Chitrangada story (one of which had appeared in the Karmayogin and later in the Annual of the Sri Aurobindo. Circle, 1949, Bombay), both from the Mahabharata. All these are in blank verse, which probably implies that they were written some time after the Sabha Parva fragments. From the beginning, Sri Aurobindo was attracted ...
... of smoking, and he had become a heavy smoker. Always to be found on his table was a box of Egyptian cigars. If that brand was not available in the local market, the special cigars were brought from Bombay, as Sri Aurobindo did not then smoke any other make. At Pondicherry it was 'Flor' of Spencer's that he smoked. 1, Plantago ovata (or Plantago psyllium). The fibrous husk, separated ...
... 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 Sri Aurobindo's cell at Alipore (from author's collection) ...
... and became a leading champion of Indian nationalism. He is the author of a book, New India. India. He was elected to be the President of the 20th session of the Indian National Congress held in Bombay in 1904. It was in his Presidential address delivered at this session of the Congress that he visualized for the first time the ideal of "a Federation of free and separate states, the United States ...
... Tilak had taken him out of the pavilion and talked with him for an hour expressing his contempt for the Moderates' bankrupt policy of prayer and protest. Sri Aurobindo had also attended the 1904 Bombay Congress. It was at this 20 th session of the Congress that Sir Henry Cotton in his Presidential address mooted for the first time the ideal of 'a Federation of free and separate states, the United ...
... Aurobindo was trying to escape from India to avoid arrest. The administration took immediate steps to prevent him escaping once again. It sent warrants of arrest from Calcutta to Colombo, Madras and Bombay. As the French law did not permit the serving of a British warrant on a French ship, Ceylon police officials were briefed in detail on how to carry out the arrest of Sri Aurobindo. Ultimately ...
... some M. R — what do you know about this?) "Probably Dadabhai Naoroji." Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917), 'the grand old man of India,' belonged to the Parsi community and was a rich businessman of Bombay. Liberal in his outlook, he took great interest in the public affairs of India and was elected President of the Indian National Congress at its second session held in Calcutta in 1886. He became ...
... with the necessary corrections and the omission of a few passages which offend modern ideas of decorum. Besides, the book is liberally illustrated with reproductions of recent pictures by artists of Bombay and Calcutta on subjects chosen from the Ramayan. The place of Krittibas in our literature is well established. He is one of the most considerable of our old classics and one of the writers who ...
... after his death Page 114 Madhu Sudan's evil star followed him. Though a great poet among the greatest, he is read nowhere outside Bengal and the Panjab; and his name is not heard even in Bombay and Madras, provinces of his own native land. How different was it with Bankim, the genius of prose. His nature, with plenty of strength in it, was yet mild, calm and equable, clear and joyous, but ...
... Poona etc. II The Introduction of machinery. III The abandonment of ancestral professions. IV The continual drain of money from the State effected by (1) Immense purchases from Europe, Bombay etc, (2) Employment of officials from outside the Raj, (3) Preference of foreign to local contractors, and other similar causes. Necessary measures. 2) To combat these evils there ...
... Editor of the paper has been riding the two horses simultaneously? Let the future historian of our own times note that it was he who accompanied, though suffering from high fever, Sir Andrew Fraser to Bombay when the latter went to England on leave; and it was he again who fell ill when accompanying Page 690 Sir Lancelot Hare to Shillong. He should further note that this amiable Editor is now ...
... seems, "turgid accusations which are made to sell and do not influence sober-minded men". So Mr. R. C. Dutt is not a sober-minded man, nor Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji, nor Mr. Gokhale, nor even the knighted Bombay Lion. They are all turgid seditionists whose utterances are "made to sell". One wonders who and where the devil are these sober-minded men of Sir Harvey's whom he warrants immune from turgidity, and ...
... an objection from the Nationalists was anticipated, or whether the subjects which were thus mutilated and with the names suppressed were put in from the beginning. But on the list which was sent to Bombay on the 25th December 1907, but which was given to us on the 26th, that is, after the opening of the Congress, we found the subjects greatly mutilated. Mr. Gokhale states that the changes they introduced ...
... upstarts who delight in wrecking and breaking for its own sake. The Bengalee calls upon the people to repudiate these traitors, and the Tribune of Lahore, the Indu Prakash and Social Reformer of Bombay, the Indian People of Allahabad have by this time swelled that cry. The principle that underlay our attempt to get Lajpat elected to the Presidential chair has not been appreciated by the Punjabee ...
... lamentations with an imaginative reference to people's tongues being cut out for speaking against Brahmins some short period before this particular Heaven-born's sacred boot soles hallowed the streets of Bombay! Evidently, Sir Frederick is brooding regretfully on the impossibility of adorning Belvedere with the tongues of Babu Surendranath Banerji and Babu Bipin Chandra Pal, red sacrifices to the stability ...
... party is agreed on a policy of self-help and the organisation at least of passive resistance. The old party is agreed upon nothing except the sacred right of petitioning. Sir Pherozshah Mehta and the Bombay Moderates would confine our politics within those holy limits. Pundit Madan Mohan and the United Provinces Moderates are willing to add a moderate and inoffensive spice of self-help, Babu Surendranath ...
... arguments of fire and sword. When they cannot coax us into acquiescing in servitude, they want to argue us into it and failing that too, they brandish the sword. The London Times , its namesake in Bombay, the Pioneer , the Englishman , all tried to win over the Congress suddenly changing their attitude of supreme contempt towards the National Assembly of a quarter of a century's standing. But as ...
... and proved. From whom do we make this demand? In the case of the Natu brothers it was just possible that pressure in Parliament might induce the Government in England to undo what the Government in Bombay had done in a moment of panic. Here there is no such possibility. Mr. Morley has publicly identified himself with this act of arbitrary oppression and his mind is too stiff and rigid with age to change ...
... speeches and interviews. Somehow the information has leaked out that the Hon'ble Mr. Gokhale's recent visit to England has not been much of a success. Now Sir William Wedderburn comes to the rescue of the Bombay patriot and says that the Hon'ble gentleman had a series of interviews with eminent British politicians from the Prime Minister down to 150 pro-Indian MPs. Achievement indeed! "Star to star ...
... By the Way 11-October-1906 Emerson and original sin have never as yet gone together. But Principal Herambachandra Moitra has achieved the impossible. Lecturing to a Bombay congregation on a Wednesday he solemnly declared that "even children themselves are not free from sin," and on the following Sunday discoursed on "Emerson". Poor sage of Concord! Calcutta is ...
... Assistant, Mr. Cavasjee. No sooner was the fact revealed that the work was done by an Indian than the Statesman recognised that the design was a replica which had for its original the Crawford Market in Bombay. This startling revelation has consoled our sympathetic contemporary and repaired the wounded vanity of Anglo-India. We cannot sufficiently admire the connoisseurs who delight in the peculiar flavour ...
... morally, mentally and physically fit for self-government. If this is the loyalist test, we answer sorrowfully, "No." Political discoverers are not confined to this side of India. The Indu of Bombay is full of impotent wrath against Mr. Morley for prolonging Lord Kitchener's term and gives him a severe journalistic whipping for his misconduct. The Indu is extremely anxious, as a good moderate ...
... delegates to consider the crisis has not been arranged. There is a talk, we learn from the Friend of India, of an extraordinary All-India Congress at which Mr. Gokhale and some other delegates will meet in Bombay under the aegis of Sir Pherozshah Mehta to protest against these new settled facts. All this will not help us and we must find out our own salvation. We shall devote the next few days to expressing ...
... possible, was not worth having by the sacrifice of the movement which Bengal had initiated. That such an unthinkable repudiation would have been the first result of surrender to the Convention leaders of Bombay and Madras, has been sufficiently proved by the determined rejection of the Boycott resolution at the meeting of the Convention last December. The Pabna resolution for a United Congress was therefore ...
... use of every legitimate means of protest, but not secession on account of opinions. The Moderate party outside Bengal is, at present, keen for separation. It holds the view, loudly preached by the Bombay papers, that if certain resolutions are passed, if a certain colour is given to the proceedings of the body or to agitation carried on by any section of its members in the country, they are not only ...
... petitions and co-operate with them in the work of prolonging the subjection of their countrymen to foreign absolutism. This loss of position and prestige with the bureaucracy is the ruling motive with the Bombay Moderates, the fear of being involved in the persecution to which the Nationalists willingly expose themselves, is the dominant thought among the respectabilities of Bengal. Another powerful incentive ...
... certain and it seems that after a brief struggle Sir Pherozshah has prevailed. We have done much for reunion, and have striven in vain. The personality of Sir Pherozshah Mehta and the votes of his Bombay henchmen have overborne the feeble patriotism and wavering will of the Bengal Moderates and their Punjab supporters. The Convention has thrown in its lot with Minto and Morley and sacrificed the country ...
... Page 1072 legend of this stout fight over a shadow has little verisimilitude. About the question of the subscription to the creed the only difference between the Bengal-Punjab party and the Bombay-United Provinces party was whether it should be obligatory to sign the creed or sufficient to swear verbally to it. That the clause should be binding and express acceptance obligatory as a condition ...
... with their moral influence and loudly Page 280 applauded his sentiments. Surely this was a yet greater compliment to Mr. Gokhale,—the greatest he could receive. And if we suppose, with the Bombay Judge, that the condemnation of his countrymen is an honour for which the erstwhile popular leader eagerly pants, surely the support and loud applause of the two highest police officials in the land ...
... Defence of Indian Culture was not revised. Separate booklets . In February 1947 the four instalments on Indian art from A Defence of Indian Culture were published by Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, under the title The Significance of Indian Art . New editions of this booklet were published in 1953 and 1964. In 1947, sometime after February, the four instalments on Indian polity were published ...
... last in 1923, eight years before he died, and won sufficient international fame. My idols in violin-performance were Kubelik, Kreisler and more directly Heifetz whom I, along with Lalita, heard in Bombay and even met offstage where Lalita out of enthusiasm took off a gold-chain from her wrist and presented it to him. I also knew of the almost legendary Paganini who had lived from 1782 to 1840. ...
... on the Law of Contradiction. The Absolute and the relative are irreconcilable opposites. Oneness with God is incompatible 14. Brahma-Sutra Sankara-Bhasya , Eng. Trans. V.M. Apte, Bombay: 'opular Book Depot. 15. Ibid. , III. ii. 11. 16. Ibid ., III. ii. 21. Page 387 with the idea of having relations with Him. In Oneness the One is Himself the enjoyer and ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 29 April 1938 ( After eleven years in the Ashram, Amal moved back to Bombay in February 1938. He remained there for sixteen years, from 1938 to 1954. The following two dozen letters were written during this period. ) Mother, A friend wishes to collect money for you ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother December 1954 ( In February 1954, after sixteen years in Bombay, Amal returned to Pondicherry. He lived in the Ashram for the remaining fifty-seven years of his life. Many of his letters to the Mother during this period deal with his work as editor of the monthly journal Mother ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 17 September 1934 ( After his visit to Bombay, Amal returned to Pondicherry. ) Mother, Pardon my writing to you without any specific reason; but I felt like telling you that you are extremely dear to me. In spite of my thousand and three imperfections, this one sense ...
... help you have given. I have been puzzled by the utter lack of reply from you to so many letters of mine. You did not even let me know anything when I wrote about SD. Eventually he could not leave Bombay because he had been empanelled on a jury and his application for being exempted was not granted. But you gave no answer at all. I am sure you must be having some reason for no answer here as well as ...
... special thanks to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust and the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry, for the cooperation extended by them. ROSHAN APURVA 9, 'Cosmos' 54-A, S.V. Road Andheri (W) Bombay - 400 058 ...
... Arya-Samaj dominated the North and part of the West. Swami Dayanand Saraswati is another example of a person whose inner life reflected nation-building activity. In 1875 he established the Arya Samaj in Bombay and the Samaj spread to other parts of the country. His Satyarth Prakash is a defence of Vedic religion and is based on his philosophic interpretation of the Vedas. Dayanand accepted caste but ...
... and the Master's Grace that on the evening of the Supramental Manifestation upon earth in 1956 during the Playground meditation, he saw The Mother in his train compartment while he was travelling to Bombay. She had come there to inform him about the great descent in order to fulfil her promise to him years back. In spite of all these divine boons, he is so humble and gentle that nobody ever ...
... one And it is he who By the breath of Her Grace Scaled new heights Into the ethereal region, And stole in on the Golden Day Page 96 A Parsi Family in Bombay -1905 From left to right: Little Amal ne Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna, also called Cooverji for official documents and, to suit the needs of day-to-day life, "Kekoo". Kaikhushru is the Persian ...
... Nirod or his helpers, who have been coming to talk poetry with me every Wednesday. But not all of it is in final shape. I have to do the editing - but where the hell is the time for it? When I was in Bombay I wrote out some observations on the first five lines of the poem. The observations ran to twenty pages or so in typescript. One day I'll publish them in Mother India. But where is the space for them ...
... Correspondence with The Mother 17 June 1932 ( Amrita sent a note to the House Maintenance Service asking for a carpenter boy to open a bale of cloth from Bombay. The note was shown to the Mother, who wrote on the back: ) I am wondering why you disturbed a carpenter boy for opening a bale of cloth? Usually Purani was doing it all right with the help of one ...
... whole issue a masterly examination of it by Paul Thieme. 6 His article helps to link the son of 3.Selected from R.A. Jairazbhoy, Foreign Influence in Ancient India (Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1963), pp. 14-15. 4."Cultural Interrelation between India and the Outside World before Asoka", The Cultural Heritage of India, I, p. 148. 5. The Aryans (London, 1926), p. 19. 6."The ...
... from being dashed on the rocks below. So I left Yokohama by ship for India in October, 1966, a journey that took one month, throughout which I remained terribly ill. On November 5, 1966, I arrived in Bombay. I met Tim in Delhi, from where we travelled together to the Ashram in Rishikesh. [At this point Amrit told me that when he was a child of twelve years old, a Force would come into his body during ...
... don't know.” Sri Aurobindo: “Do you read the Standard Bearer ?” C: “At times. When I find there something that ought to be practised I note it down.” Sri Aurobindo: “How long did you stay in Bombay?” C: “Four days.” Sri Aurobindo: “Where did you stay?” C: “Near Motilal Mehta's bungalow.” Sri Aurobindo: “Now what are you going to do at your place?” C: “We have not decided yet. We ...
... as the field of Yoga, and hence as providing fit subjects for the shilpa-yogin' s contemplation and 25 Abanindranath Tagore, Bageshwari Shilpa Prabandhābali, Calcutta, Allahabad, Bombay, 1969, p.1. (Author's translation). 26 Questions and Answers, CWM, Vol. 3, p. 105. 27 Ibid., Vol. 6, p. 83. Page 251 representation in the new spiritual Age ...
... be there as they were here. You have only to keep yourself open to them and live inwardly seeking to become more and more conscious so that you may feel the Divine Presence and Power. As to the Bombay atmosphere, keep inwardly separate from it, even while mixing with others, see it as a thing outside and not belonging to the inner world in which you yourself live. If you can achieve this inward ...
... will be there as they were here. You have to keep yourself open to them and live inwardly seeking to become more and more conscious so that you may feel the Divine Presence and Power. As to the Bombay atmosphere, keep inwardly separate from it even while mixing with others, see it as a thing outside and not belonging to the inner world in which you yourself live. If you can achieve this inward ...
... and Amal Kiran, but by Nolini Kanta Gupta. Perhaps what can be said is that the final proofs passed through them. It should also be distinctly remembered that Amal Kiran in those days was staying in Bombay and not in Pondicherry where the book was processed, in the Ashram press. How could then the first edition of Savitri , the 1950-51 publication, have been edited by Nirodbaran and Amal Kiran? This ...
... starting to correct it I had to give up the attempt in despair. It is chock full of errors and inaccuracies: this cannot be published. As for the account of my spiritual experience, I mean of the Bombay affair, somebody must have inflicted on you a humorous caricature of it. This too cannot "go." The best will be to omit all account or narrative and say—at not too much length, I would suggest—what ...
... I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but, at the same time, since I set foot on the Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material space and the Immanent ...
... most silent men I have known, he was of the stuff that dreamers are made of, but dreamers who will act their dreams, indifferent to the means. 'Nationalism', he said in a brief address delivered in Bombay, early in 1908, 'is a religion that comes from God'. One of the reasons why I quote at some length this passage is that I know it for a fact that many an admirer of his, somewhat overawed by this ...
... testifies, writing about himself in the third person: ‘[The Mother] had told him that she was expecting something great and decisive in the course of the year [^1938] and that he should be back from Bombay, where he had to go for family matters, before the event. The sadhak’s reference [in his diary] ran: “This is the year in which, I believe, the Truth-Consciousness may make up its mind, or rather its ...
... Sethna, who has related his experience to students and teachers of the Ashram school. In the evening of that 29 February he had seen the Mother in his compartment of the night train from Madras to Bombay, with his eyes wide open. ‘On my return to the Ashram she explained what had occurred … She said: “There were only five people who knew about the Supramental Manifestation — two in the Ashram and three ...
... leave his body.’ And he gives Sethna’s comment in a footnote: ‘This is correct. On Dec. 3 she told me that Sri Aurobindo would soon read my articles. Later, when I asked her why she had let me go to Bombay on Dec. 3 she said that Sri Aurobindo’s going had not been decided yet.’ 28 Two days beforehand! From what precedes we can conclude, firstly, that Sri Aurobindo was fully knowledgeable of the ...
... for the time being. Those articles are unmistakable proof of the early maturity of his political thought, of which the main elements must already have been present at the time he stepped ashore in Bombay. When he entered politics, the idea of an independent India ‘was regarded … by the vast majority of Indians as unpractical and impossible, an almost insane chimera,’ 4 wrote Sri Aurobindo later; ...
... not include the Supramental in Himself! Duly I sent that letter up to Gurudev who wrote back to me: "I am puzzled and perplexed by this affair of Krishna and the Supermind. A.B.C.D.E.F.etc., of Bombay, Nagpur and Delhi and P.Q.R.up to X.Y.Z.of Calcutta and Pondicherry will all be able to catch hold of its tail and 'include' it in themselves, only poor Krishna can't do it? He can only be himself ...
... business as something evil or tainted, any more than it is so regarded in ancient spiritual India. If I did, I would not be able to receive money from Ambalal or from those of our disciples who in Bombay trade with East Africa; nor could we then encourage them to go on with their work but would have to tell them to throw it up and attend to their spiritual progress alone. How are we to reconcile ...
... Shropshire Lad, etc. Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (1860-1936): Most important Hindustani musicologist and composer of the 20th Century. Born into a cultured Maharastrian family in Balukeshwar, Bombay, Bhatkhande acquired his sweet voice and initial training from his mother. He learnt the flute, sitar and vocal music from some very eminent gurus. Along with his academic studies, he devoted nearly ...
... just a few days before his death. Here the parallel ends. Sri Aurobindo's Savitri is 1 [This is the last part of an essay which appeared in the 1946 issue of Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay and was then published in the book The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo in 1947. In this part of the essay Savitri was introduced to the public for the first time] 2 [from Descent , SABCL 5:563] ...
... flat in which we had once stayed and whose landlord later came to offer it to me. In the list of his failures the lack of success in getting this flat was the most prominent. When our exodus from Bombay was postponed but its ultimate occurrence was certain at the beginning of the following year, the Mother kept Amrita on the alert for a suitable flat. At one point Nolini wrote to me that Amrita ...
... immediately to her door and to see that it got into her hands as soon as possible. Shortly after this the pain was completely gone. A still more serious occasion was when, during a long visit to Bombay, I developed myocardial weakness and passed through an initial phase of severe collapse on the 8th of May 1948. I have told elsewhere the story of what followed. Here I may touch on a few points ...
... when I had been about three years old, riding has been a passion with me. I gave rein (literally) to this passion up to the time I came to the Ashram at the age of 23. It was on a "hill-station" near Bombay, where my grandmother had a cottage and where she and the family went during the hot months of May and October and in the Christmas season. In Pondicherry there was no chance for riding. But once after ...
... strong affinity with ancient Greece. Even in my school-days 1 delved with intense joy into the Socratic dialogues of Plato - the shorter ones: Crito, Phaedo, Apologia and Symposium. In the B.A. of Bombay University 1 had the pleasure of taking Philosophy Honours with Plato's Republic for special study. When I came to the Ashram, the Mother once told me that in a past life I had been an ancient Athenian ...
... doubt and diffidence with the words: "I have not withdrawn my assurance. You are perfectly capable of participating in the realisation and will participate in it." Some years earlier, when I was in Bombay and reported from there an extremely vivid experience of all of me giving itself up to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother she replied (19.5.1944) that the experience seemed to her "a valid promise" that ...
... that by walking bent all the time I would develop permanent spinal curvature. He was resolved to save me from it and let me have a fair deal in life. First he tried out the two treatments available in Bombay - massage and electric shocks. He realised they were inadequate and as nothing else was possible he took me, along with my mother, to London when I was almost six years old - which means the middle ...
... any such superlative estimate. He once visited India. A very pushy Muslim lady, with a very obedient painter husband who let her claim that she inspired all his work, boarded the ship as it lay in Bombay harbour in the morning and pinned Shaw down to a visit to her place where she would be inviting notable people, Shaw went there and was "lionised" - but after half an hour he was suddenly found missing ...
... ordinary life though still without a snap of the inner link between our Gurus and me, my second home-coming was of Page 16 a different nature. Even when it admitted a few visits to Bombay, it was always for work connected with the family there or, on the last occasion, for a cataract-operation, and never was there the idea to start again a non-Ashram life. So in that sense the poem ...
... Rarely do specially gifted people act like Sri Aurobindo and the Mother who always tried to keep themselves in the background. Once the Mother, after reading an article of mine on her, published in the Bombay paper The Sunday Standard of February 17, 1952, told me: "When I read anything written on me in public, all my hair stands up! Speak about the aim of the Integral Yoga, the method of doing it, ...
... my left. I opened my eyes and saw a stranger standing and smiling in a very friendly way. He asked me where I had originally come from and how long I had been here. I told him I had come from Bombay long ago. He asked: "Did you come in search of peace?" I answered: Page 242 "No, I came searching for God." He inquired: "Have you found Him?" I simply said: "Yes." He was silent for ...
... cordial personal relationship. You may publish this letter if you like. Very sincerely, P. Lal Here was evidently a call for a second rejoinder, which did make its way from Bombay to its target, though a trifle belatedly (December 20,1951): Dear Mr. Lal, I received your letter on the eve of my departure to Pondicherry. Once there, I did not feel like entering ...
... Generally it's the only outing I have and even the walk from the Ashram gate to the chair under the clock and the return "Marathon" plod gateward are trying. It is so fine of you to ask me to consider your Bombay flat my home, and to tell me that 1 should come there if ever I need to visit my native city. But my legs refuse to get along with that kind of feat. They have become noticeably unsteady, which is ...
... somewhere that Sri Aurobindo was a great philosopher and linguist and poet on top of having Yogic attainments. But somehow he had not come alive to my soul. Then, one day, I went to the Crawford Market of Bombay to buy a pair of shoes. The shopkeeper put my purchase in a cardboard box and wrapped the box in a big newspaper sheet and tied it up with a string. When, on reaching home, I untied the box and unwrapped ...
... Supreme Light and Love, the Omnipotence of the Truth-Consciousness which is not only world-formative but also world-transformative. I remember what the Mother told me when, before going on a visit to Bombay for the first time after six and a half years, I said to her: "I have only one prayer - 'Never let go your hold on me' ". She answered, "I am like a fairy godmother. I can grant whatever you want. ...
... energy to go through a car-journey and, instead of resting, sitting down to type out a scientific passage and interspersing it with mystic hints and glints. I used to be like that once - coming to Bombay by train from Pondy after two and a half days' run and immediately getting busy penning a long letter to my associate editor and fellow sadhak in Pondy on the philosophical implications of modern physics ...
... this more subtle and 42.Richard Falckenberg, History of Modern Philosophy (Calcutta, 1953), pp. 471-72. 43.The Dictionary of Philosophy, edited by Dagobert D. Runes (]aico Books, Bombay, 1957), p. 223, "Panentheism". 44.Ibid. 45.The Life Divine (New York, 1949), p. 671, fn, 6. Page 68 complex thought has been suggested - as Louis Renou 46 reminds ...
... be so regarded: the * Mother India, September 1974. 1 Mother India, June-July 1974, pp. 438-39. 2 Ibid., March 1974, p. 167. 3 Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (Bombay, 1971), p. 854, col. 1. Page 41 Mother, whether physically present or not, is constantly at work on her followers as well as, in a lesser degree, on the rest of mankind, and the ...
... Past-Present-Future An Interview with the Mother about the Return of Sri Aurobindo* At the beginning of May 1952, during one of my visits to the Ashram from Bombay, I met the Mother in her room at the Playground. It was on the eve of my departure. What she had said at the end of 1950 about Sri Aurobindo coming back in a supramental body had been in my mind pretty ...
... 12 The general time-bracket Mr. de Sa himself gives for the Indus Civilization is: 2400-1700 B.C. This puts Harappā too 10. Lothal and the Indus Civilization (Asia Publishing House, Bombay,1973), p. 124. 11.T. Burrow in "The Early Aryans", A Cultural History of India, 20. 12. Ancient Cities of the Indus, Page 174 out of court. Thus everywhere the "enemy" ...
... Kafir 3. Chandragupta Maury a and His Times (University of Madras, 1943), p. 314. 4.R.K. Mookerji, Ancient India (Allahabad, 1956), p. 247. 5.R.K. Mookerji, The Gupta Empire (Bombay, 1947), p. 137. Page 86 tribes who had been compelled to embrace Islam, they had gods "linked to the old Indian pantheon". 6 Under the one supreme Creator the local deities - "dewalog" ...
... in the Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society (Patna), March 1928, pp. 129-130; H.C. Raychaudhuri in An Advanced History of India (London, 1946), p. 26; D.D. Kosambi in Journal, Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, XXVI (1950), p. 56 as well as in The Culture and Civilization of Ancient India (London, 1965), p. 79. 2. Op. cit., p. 27. Page 125 renders ...
... own being — a kind of indirect mental autobiography written with the aid of five world figures. 1. Revised and enlarged Popular American Edition - Jaico Publishing House (New York, Bombay, Calcutta). Page 97 I said "five", but though that is the number of great ones conversed with, there are in fact six notable personalities represented. For, the author ...
... to keep in mind this quest for purification. The rhetoric of love and beauty indicates the great process going on inside the poet. Sri Aurobindo was not wrong when he named the young Parsi from Bombay Amal Kiran. Who is Sethna's dream lady? It cannot be an Urvasie or a Priyamvada. It must be the daughter of Savitr (Savitr means the Creator). A woman, white-veiled, crowned with ...
... Amal-Kiran - Poet and Critic Preface Kekoo D. Sethna was born in a Parsi family of Bombay on 25 November 1904 and in the Pondicherry Ashram as Sri Aurobindo's Amal-Kiran on 3 September 1930. By either reckoning we are late in honouring him today. He has seen a thousand Full Moons long ago and, even as Amal-Kiran, has crossed four years back the ...
... from people who knew him or were his disciples. Together with eleven others he decided to walk to Pondicherry all the way from Gujarat, crossing the Indian subcontinent from the west coast north of Bombay to the east coast south of Madras! Soon most of them dropped out, but then a well-wisher sold his wife’s gold ornaments to buy train tickets for Champaklal and two companions. The trio arrived in ...
... Truth . The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Aims and Principles During this time Auroville Designs got a new contract through Mr. Talwar the then Chairman of the State Bank of India in Bombay. Later I came to know that Auroville Designs took assignments from various places in India specially in Punjab through Mr. Prem Malik. Shyamsunder asked me whether the Mother had told me ...
... matter. I am quite in the dark about it. With affection and good wishes Nolinida I too was in the dark! I returned 3 gold bangles to Kokilaben and the gold wrist-band to Sharda Vaid of Bombay. I went to Nolini-da and informed him about this. He said nothing about money, or his communication with Shyamsunder. ...
... brother, Maganbhai, who had gone to London, came to the Ashram. The Mother gave him an interview and told him about my going with him to Africa. He was glad and said to her that since he had some work in Bombay I could join him there, then we would fly to Africa. So this was arranged. Meanwhile, on 21st April 1958 the Mother wrote a letter to Laljibhai: To Laljibhai with blessings. As you must know ...
... - I: Aims and Principles " The city at the service of the Truth ." We will now very soon have the cement, after one year, and we will do concreting again in Matrimandir. Is your work in Bombay going on well? Your encouragement to have an unshakable faith in Mother's Victory has helped us very much to bear many difficulties. Now her Victory is becoming a reality. In Mother's Light. ...
... The Spirit of Auroville The year 1977 began. In the beginning of January Bhakti Shah of Bombay was in Pondicherry. She was inspired to do drawings and paintings of the Matrimandir gardens. Time and again she came to seek information from me in this regard, because the Mother had disclosed to me her wish to create the most beautiful gardens in the world ...
... 1959 My Savitri work with the Mother 21 September 1959 In my spontaneous letter dated 21st September 1959 I wrote to Mrs. Sarala Shah of Bombay: "...During the summer I could not paint, although I have all the painting materials. As a matter of fact, this work needs a lot of time and concentration. But in my heart of hearts I know very well and feel ...
... and when she expressed her desire not to study further but to take up some work, I asked her to select any work which she liked. At that time there was a strong movement to separate Gujarat from the Bombay State and many young students had sacrificed their lives in that movement. Finally, it was decided to make a separate State of Gujarat and applications were invited from those who wanted to join the ...
... During this time Shyamsunder sent me a note: Dear Huta, One copy of Some Paintings has gone to the Mother's room. One is sent to the U.S.A. with a friend going there; two with another friend to Bombay, one for Dhan Palkhiwala and one for Sarala Shah who can, if she so likes, place order for more copies as presentation articles. After that I lost track of the so-called 'presentations'. I only ...
... could never be sincere, one-pointed, true and pure. That very night I wrote a letter to the Mother regarding the proposal and my refusal. I also wrote a letter to my friend Mrs. Saralaben Shah of Bombay: “Never do I want to get married, never do I want to fall into that delusion. The Divine Mother wrote to me in 1956: "You are born for the Divine and you will find the Divine." This was true and ...
... 1960 My Savitri work with the Mother 03 August 1960 On 3rd August 1960 the aircraft touched down, after some terrible bumps, at Bombay airport. I had a splitting headache which became sharper as each moment passed. It had been impossible for me to sleep in the plane. There was nothing glaring to declare at the customs. Two Officers after checking my British ...
... failure. Or else they think of things which they call superhuman like the people who expected me not to eat food at all or wanted me to know and tell them what will be the value of the cotton shares in Bombay from day to day, or like those who think great Yogis are those who sleep on nails or eat them. All that has nothing to do with manifesting the Divine. At that rate Rama would be undivine because ...
... in your mind and vital eager to go. It is from within yourself that there must come the clear will on one side or the other. 24 February 1932 My family would like me to go back with them to Bombay Page 366 and stay there for some time. I don't find myself bound by any sense of obligation, but there is a dull yet persistent desire in me to go. But as I am not a frigid mental machine ...
... 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 were waiting for the December 1904 session in Bombay in order to make themselves felt.] It is not clear to what this refers. In 1904 the Extremist party had not been publicly formed, although there was an advanced section in the Congress, strong ...
... their separate right to a self-governing existence; Maharashtra expects a similar concession and this would mean a similar development in Gujarat and then the British-made Presidencies of Madras and Bombay would have disappeared. The old Bengal Presidency had already been split up and Orissa, Page 501 Bihar and Assam are now self-governing regional peoples. A merger of the Hindi-speaking ...
... said that you can send your poems and write too when you feel any urgent need—I had no feeling to the contrary at all. 17 February 1934 Page 30 I do not know that your going later to Bombay is at all necessary—since it is decided, it may be better to get it over quickly. It is too early to say whether the menace to the Asram is conquered or still hangs over it. 19 February 1934 ...
... Yoga or even what Yoga was,—e.g. a vast calm which descended upon him at the moment when he stepped first on Indian soil after his long absence, in fact with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay; (this calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards,) the realisation of the vacant Infinite while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-[Sulaiman] 1 in Kashmir, the living presence ...
... Letters on Personal, Practical and Political Matters (1890-1926) Autobiographical Notes To the Editor of the Bombay Chronicle Chittaranjan's death is a supreme loss. Consummately endowed with political intelligence, constructive imagination, magnetism, driving force combining a strong will and an uncommon plasticity of mind for vision and tact of the hour ...
... Settlements. The one good thing is that the Railway people here have withdrawn their statement that our books were prohibited and have begun to send by Railway large parcels of our magazines (Advent, Bombay Annual, Path Mandir Annual, Page 494 Aditi etc.), so that there is no fear of loss or stoppage there. I may add that we can no longer get our full supply of milk here as the milkmen have ...
... after starting to correct it I had to give up the attempt in despair. It is chock-full of errors and inaccuracies: this cannot be published. As for the account of my spiritual experience, I mean of the Bombay affair, somebody must have inflicted on you a humorous caricature of it. This too cannot go. The best will be to omit all account or narrative and say—at not too much length, I would suggest—what you ...
... finally came to nothing. Later on there was a revolutionary spirit in Maharashtra and a secret society was started in Western India with a Rajput noble as the head and this had a Council of Five in Bombay with several prominent Mahratta politicians as its members. This society was contacted and joined by Sri Aurobindo somewhere in 1902-3, sometime after he had already started secret revolutionary work ...
... that as I desired a peon rather at Ootie than on the journey & even so it was not absolutely necessary, I did not think myself justified in 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 ...
... after-effects of what happened in the rest of the world, above all in Europe. Only those parts of India which are a little too anglicised have lost the sense of beauty. There are certain schools in Bombay, schools of artists, which are frightful. And then, there was that attempt of the Calcutta School to revive Indian art, but that was only on a very small scale. From the point of view of Page 340 ...
... their separate right to a self-governing existence; Maharashtra expects a similar concession and this would mean a similar development in Gujarat and then the British-made Presidencies of Madras and Bombay would have disappeared. The old Bengal Presidency had already been Split up and Orissa, Bihar and Assam are now self-governing regional peoples. A merger of the Hindi-speaking part of the Central Provinces ...
... to call for the Divine Presence of Truth and Harmony, to replace the vibrations of disorder and confusion. Blessings. 25 March 1964 Mother, Y's brother wants to start a business in Bombay. He wants to use Sri Aurobindo's name in the name of the firm. I have told him that it is not desirable to use this name. He cannot use Sri Aurobindo's name. 5 May 1964 Mother, ...
... 116 That's the one. He's a tough little fellow, dear me! They have a hard time with him. I didn't tell his mother. When they are here, everything is fine. But as soon as they go to Bombay, where the husband's family is, he falls ill, he becomes absolutely unbearable, he is impossible—here, he is controlled. And strangely enough, they put in his bedroom friezes of simplified animals ...
... Page 304 relatively quickly. That's what generally takes the greatest time. A little later: Have you seen the latest Illustrated Weekly ? You know that the Pope is here, in Bombay, for the "Eucharistic Congress"—but what's the Eucharist, mon petit? It's the Communion. Ah, that's just what I thought!... There is in the Illustrated Weekly the history of those Eucharistic ...
... Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian (Calcutta, 1920), pp. 137-38. 2. Op. cit., p. 350, note 8. 3. Op. cit., p. 138. 4. Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Bombay, 1947, pp. 91-8. 5. Op. cit., p. 135, fn. contd. from p. 134. Page 165 of the Kalinga people. In the time of Megasthenes the Vangas may have been deemed a part of the ...
... knowing it. That's why I have kept this lady's letter. To come back to her Catholic preoccupation, there have been some really interesting things.... You know that the Pope, when he came here to Bombay, said things that I had told him like this ( gesture of inner communication ) when we had that conversation 2 (he certainly does not know with whom he had that conversation, but I think he is conscious ...
... the last before a serious ordeal which once again took the form of a month-long "illness." Let us note that on August 6, as if coincidentally, Mother's faithful attendant, Vasudha, was to leave for Bombay to be operated on for cancer. She was the last element Mother could rely on among those physically close to her. Henceforth, Mother would be alone with her "bodyguard" and her doctor. On the same August ...
... interest in your great nation, but even more so after I visited it. It was thus with a very special pleasure that I accompanied His Holiness Pope Paul VI to the International Eucharistic Congress in Bombay. On that occasion, the Holy Father expressed the wish to come in contact with representatives of your country's main religious movements, and I know, Excellency, that he was given a biography ...
... envelope that came in the mail with stamps and postmark from Geneva): a letter abusing the Ashram for the way she was treated here. At the same time (that letter came yesterday), this morning, a wire from Bombay thanking me for her stay! I mean, a telegram full of gratitude, saying, "I am leaving on Saturday for Geneva" (that is, today). And the letter from Geneva came earlier—yesterday—while the telegram ...
... question. In the majority of cases he would show me where and how I had misjudged the "overhead" inspiration. Here and there he would modify a word or a phrase or else add a line. Years later I left for Bombay and our exchanges stopped. But when I visited Pondicherry for a few days he sent me again his writings through his attendant and scribe Nirodbaran. On getting back the recently composed matter from ...
... Evolving India PUBLISHERS' NOTE The Publishers acknowledge their indebtedness to the Editors of The Bombay Chronicle Weekly, The All India Weekly and The Advent in whose pages the essays included in this volume have already appeared—mostly .in a shorter form. ...
... poetic inspiration has been as unsurpassed * This article—except for one additional passage helping the ends of poetic comparison—was first printed in 1929 in the cultural monthly, Orient, of Bombay. It is also the first lengthy and comprehensive study written of Sri Aurobindo's published poetry up to that year—barring translated work and his earliest blank-verse narrative, Urvasie, which was ...
... Albless, Associate Editor of 'Mother India': "I have read Amal's article. It is excellent. Tell him I am extremely satisfied. I would like to have it printed in booklet form. He can get it printed in Bombay. If not, I'll print it here. " (28.12.1950) 3.The Mother's words again passed by Yogendra to Soli Albless: "It is quite the best thing Amal has written. I would like to print 15,000 copies ...
... a nine-paged introduction which gives us a general survey of the field of character ____________________ 1. Revised and enlarged Popular American Edition - Jaico Publishing House (New York, Bombay, Calcutta) - Price: Rs. 1-12. Page 168 and thought covered by the book as well as a glimpse of his own attitude and position. Except for two or three phrases in the third paragraph ...
... sense India once had of man's origin from the Eternal, his oneness with the Infinite and his destiny of a Life Divine. After reading this article Dilip Kumar Roy came to my place in Bombay and, as soon as I opened the door, surprised me by bending down to my feet! Of course I caught him halfways. [See Page 168: Note on Dilip Kumar Roy] Page 102 ...
... has been half-fulfilled, for Bangladesh (East Pakistan) is now entirely independent..." We may conclude our account with a significant letter written by M. C. Desai, on September 29,1942 to the Bombay Daily, The Times of India. It is entitled "Complex of Dependency" and runs: "It is amusing to find such Congress and liberal stalwarts as Mr. Rajagopalachari and Sir Chimanlal Setalvad openly ...
... detective searching for the criminal and the other half I sojourned in unknown worlds. Sometimes I painted certain "studies" as the inner feeling guided me. The Mother and I were anxious to get from Bombay the prints of my pictures along with my original paintings. Meanwhile one picture went to Germany for a colour block and prints to be made. ...
... to me, O Lord." After I had passed my matriculation examinations I returned to East Africa. I wanted to study philosophy and art, and filled in the application form for St. Xavier's College, Bombay. But this plan was turned down—my people wished me to get married. I was adamant that I did not want that kind of life, which I believed was hopeless and in vain. But they insisted, against my ideals ...
... root cause of their problems. 'Research' is initiated to formalize the field experience, which can be used by others—government organizations, NGOs, etc. DRAG, which was registered in 1988 in Bombay, first began working among the Katkari and Thakkar adivasis in Pen tahsil, Maharashtra. The objective was to enable the adivasis to have greater control over their lives. In 1992, DRAG established ...
... mission of this man of destiny — namely, the quest for God and service to mankind — was to crystalize into a progressive action. On May 31, 1893, with the new name of Swami Vivekananda, he sailed from Bombay for the first World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, USA. He was 30 years old and an unaccredited delegate among the many religious leaders from numerous faiths and sects from all parts of the world ...
... Company, 1984. ' Kapoor, 0. B. L. The Philosophy and Religion of Sri Chaitanya. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1977. Majumdar, A. K. Chaitanya — His Life and Doctrine. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1969. Mukherjee, Prabhat. History of the Chaitanya faith in Orissa. New Delhi: Manohar, 1979. Page 221 ...
... Raghuvamśam of Kālidāsa, Motilal Banarsidass (MLBD), Delhi, 2005, p iv. 2.Cf. P.S. Sane, G.H. Godbole and H.S. Ursekar (eds), Mālavikāgnimitra of Kalidasa, Booksellers' publishing Co., Bombay, 1950, p.12. 3.Cf. M.R. Kale (ed), Abhijñãnasakuntalam of Kālidāsa, MLBD, Delhi, 1969, p.ll. 4.Sri Aurobindo, The Harmony of Virtue, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL) Vol ...
... (11 events). Swimming (34 events), Table Tennis (7 events) Tennis (7 events) Volley ball (2 events) Weightlifting (10 categories), Wrestling (10 categories), Yachting (4 events in the Arabian Sea and Bombay) 10th Asian Games: 1986 Seoul (South Korea) 1st Asian Winter Games: 1986 Sapporo (Japan) As the Asiad gained recognition as the Olympic of Asia, the desire to develop a winter ...
... him up to get right form. I had to send back his poems many times, suggesting corrections and alterations here and there till he got the right thing Now? he has fallen back to his post-Victorian in Bombay. He sent me a poem from there the other day. The trouble in general with Indian poets writing in English that they may be successful poets but it is not as if the very man spoke. Their work gives ...
... far is it desirable for the Ashram to be selfsufficient? SRI AUROBINDO: Self-sufficient in what way? PURANI: In meeting the needs of daily life: say, the clothes, here. Virji who has come from Bombay wants us to introduce the spinning loom to make our own clothes. How far is such self- sufficiency desirable in an Ashram like ours? SRI AUROBINDO: The question is not whether it is desirable but ...
... elected again as a Congress member by Vallabhai Patel. He had been punished for betrayal of Congress in the election campaign. SRI AUROBINDO: That is not betrayal but indiscipline. Dr. Kher, the Bombay Premier, seems to be a solid man. PURANI: The Congress ministry appears to be fairly successful everywhere except in C. P. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, that is the weak point. Yet Nagpur was a very good ...
... Satyendra, he related what Amal had written about his health. When, after his heart-trouble, Amal had got back on his feet, he went to watch the international wrestling tournaments going on at that time in Bombay. He got so caught up in the bouts that his heart began beating faster and faster and when the foreign wrestlers started playing foul his excitement was at such a pitch that he felt as if his heart ...
... 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 Purusha. I had these experiences when I had not yet begun Yoga and knew nothing about it. I was more or less an agnostic. Then I had two experiences ...
... than in Europe. In Europe also their numbers are increasing now. NIRODBARAN: But America is much taken up by the Ramakrishna Mission. One Bengali too has been a success. Somebody else from near Bombay made at one time a great name in Europe by his prophecies, but afterwards plenty of people started calling him a swindler. SRI AUROBINDO: Why swindler? Did he take money for his prophecies? Swindling ...
... thought of going personally and persuading Sri Aurobindo but thought better of it and wired back and sent Barin with instructions. SRI AUROBINDO: Where was Dutt at that time? I thought he was in Bombay. It was the editorial staff of the Bande Mataram who arranged for the defence and gave evidence, which was rather made-up. (Laughter) NIRODBARAN: Dutt said there was no evidence that you were ...
... It expected a crowd of demagogues shouting together in the Assembly, not people capable of governing. But if Socialism came, it might frighten the British. PURANI: The present British Governor of Bombay seems sympathetic to his Cabinet. SRI AUROBINDO: The English people, except for a few autocrats like Curzon, have a constitutional temperament. They will violently oppose their being kicked out ...
... explain this? You can't say it was the atmosphere of the place. It was in the blood or perhaps carried over from a past life. And the curious thing is that as soon as I set my foot on Apollo Bunder in Bombay the experience of the Self began in me—it was a sense of calm and vastness pervading everywhere. There is a contact with a place that gives you an experience and sometimes the experience is appropriate ...
... way of cure. NIRODBARAN: Now L eats and digests anything. SRI AUROBINDO: She used to write to us, "I am going to eat, You please digest for me." (Laughter) PURANI: The Gaekwar is still in Bombay, he seems to have been suffering for a long time. SRI AUROBINDO: What is the disease? DR. BECHARLAL: Thrombus in the brain. PURANI: He is seventy-six now—rather old. SRI AUROBINDO: Not ...
... is the physical consciousness ascending. NIRODBARAN: It would be nice to have this experience of ascent and descent. SRI AUROBINDO: Remove that "cornice"! PURANI: One Pradhan, an M.L.C. of Bombay, has written a letter asking for darshan and wanting to meet you. He says he had the privilege of translating your speech at the Surat Congress and that you may know him. SRI AUROBINDO: How can ...
... weighed on him. SRI AUROBINDO: Who is this new Dewan of Rajkot? I seem to have heard his name. Was he in any legislature? PURANI: He is a Parsi, one of the Anklesarias. He is a barrister from Bombay. ...
... 1940 Talks with Sri Aurobindo 22 JANUARY 1940 Purani showed Sri Aurobindo four pictures of Buddha's life by Nandalal Bose published in the Bombay Times . SRI AUROBINDO (after seeing them) : They are not realistic pictures. Buddha remains young till the end. His Nirvana doesn't look like Nirvana but like going to sleep, nor does it show that he had ...
... 1940-contd Talks with Sri Aurobindo 9 APRIL 1940 SATYENDRA: Senapati Bapat has been arrested. He was asked not to enter Bombay. SRI AUROBINDO: No, he was asked to "remove himself". SATYENDRA: Not only did he not do so but he addressed a meeting. SRI AUROBINDO: That's all very well, but why on earth is he called Senapati? PURANI: Because he ...
... behind it. C. R. has done the same. The Muslim League is exasperated with the Congress not because of any oppression by the Congress but because they are nowhere in the Government. SATYENDRA: The Bombay Congress Committee observed silence on the arrest of Bose. SRI AUROBINDO: In honour of his arrest? EVENING SATYENDRA: Just now, is the stress of the Yoga laid mostly on Karma, Sir? SRI ...
... Oh yes, he is a great stylist. (After a pause) He is a great drunkard, too. PURANI: I thought he had given up drink. DR. MANILAL: Oh no, he can't do without it. He used to go every day to a Bombay station and drink heavily in the station restaurant. Of course he didn't get tipsy. SRI AUROBINDO: If not tipsy, how is he a drunkard? DR. MANILAL: He drinks so heavily - SRI AUROBINDO: But ...
... 1941 + Talks with Sri Aurobindo 9 JANUARY 1941 Somebody from Bombay has written that in the old files of lndu Prakash he has found a series of six articles on Bankim written by Sri Aurobindo. Purani asked Sri 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 ...
... almost miraculously through a ring of submarines, warships, etc.? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. That's the true Pole—you can't subjugate the race. By the way, have you marked the "damages and casualties" in Bombay from the cyclone? PURANI: Yes. SRI AUROBINDO: They are all speaking about it in terms of war as if there had been some air raid. (Laughter) ...
... PURANI: Vinoba has made five speeches. NIRODBARAN: Has there been any effect? SATYENDRA: There is some effect among the masses. On the news of his arrest there was a partial hartal in Bombay. It seems the speeches are censored. The papers mention: "Two or three sentences are censored here." The Indian Express wanted to bring out a special number on this rumoured arrest but couldn't because ...
... suffered a lot. After some time, Sri Aurobindo made an exception and maintained correspondence with him almost until his withdrawal from his body. He even granted him an interview. Amal who was living in Bombay at the time was also an exception. Particularly important were the long answers (sometimes 24 typed sheets) Sri Aurobindo dictated to his questions on topics like "Greatness and Beauty in Poetry" as ...
... the prophecy that France will become communist! SRI AUROBINDO: All the prophecies have proved wrong. Those from Pondicherry said that from the 23rd June Hitler's fall will begin, and those from Bombay chose the 20th. Prophecies can't be relied on. A French astrologer says that as regards world events European prophecies have always proved wrong while Hindu astrologers were right. Who are these Hindu ...
... about the Congress decision or is Gandhi going to ponder for another two years till the war is over and the Satyayuga comes in? (Laughter) PURANI: Azad has said that there is no going back on the Bombay decision. SRI AUROBINDO: That is all right, but what are they going to do? PURANI: It seems Gandhi has prepared a scheme which he is going to submit to the Working Committee. It may be something ...
... immensely interested in them. The journal Mother India which was a semi-political fortnightly, and came out two years after India's Independence, was edited by one of the sadhaks who was living in Bombay and the editorials were sent to Sri Aurobindo for approval before publication. Sri Aurobindo gave many long and regular interviews to a political leader of Bengal and gave him advice and directions ...
... ns left by the specialist. But I was not free from anxiety. Meanwhile, I wrote to Dr. Manilal about the complication, asking him to come down and bring with him two or three pairs of crutches from Bombay. Then there was the right foot that drew our attention. It had shrunk and shrivelled up, due to impeded circulation and inactivity, to almost half its size. The skin of the sole had become dry like ...
... 77-81, 87-8, 144, 251-3, 255-6, 261-2, 267-71 Yogic research, 2-3, 74 Yoga, systems of, 70-1 Page 287 Kireet joshi (b, 1931) studied philosophy and law at the Bombay University. He was selected for the I.A.S. in 1955 but in 1956 he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. ...
... alone." I could have given her many explanations, but remained silent. During the distribution she wept before the Mother, who consoled her with compassion. The next morning all of them left for Bombay, except Laljibhai, who remained thirteen days longer. During that time Dyuman took us both on an outing to see some of the fields and gardens of the Ashram. When Laljibhai left on March 16th I felt ...
... ready for the future. I laid my hand on my neck, and felt the sacred chain. Sweet memories of her made me shut my eyes with content when at last I went to bed. The next morning, before I left for Bombay with my husband, the Mother sent to me through Dyuman her book Prayers and Meditations, along with her blessings. I opened it and read her introductory words, which appealed to me enormously: ...
... Volume One (1954-1955) The Story of a Soul October 1954 In October 1954 I was in Bombay with my husband and his family. Each second was like a living death to me. I was in a golden cage, pining for escape: my soul fluttered, tormented, afflicted. At that time Dyuman sent me three messages, together with the Mother's blessing-packets. All of them were ...
... Anyway there is no doubt in me and for this Truth I am continuously giving thanks. I arrived in Pondicherry yesterday, 17.12, early in the morning. The brother of the sadhak who met me in the port of Bombay came to the train - another brother for me. The Radiation works through them. He brought me with all my luggage (which has during all the journey never been opened by the customs!) to a house which ...
... Aurobindo, Translations, vol. 8, (Original in Sanskrit by Vyasa) Centenary edition, Pondicherry, 1972, pp. 78-80 Page 195 Kireet Joshi (b. 1931) studied philosophy and law at the Bombay University. He was selected for the I.A.S. in 1955 but in 1956, he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother ...
... the most precious of all gifts, with an almost divine offering, the aptitude for happiness. _______________________________ From Alexis Carrel, Man the Unknown, Wilco Publishing House, Bombay, 1959 Page 66 ...
... Synthesis of Yoga, Vol.21, pp. 647-63. 69 Ibid., pp. 662-3. 70 Ibid., pp. 669-70. 71Ibid., Vol. 20, p.44. Page 120 Kireet Joshi (b. 1931) studied philosophy and law at the Bombay University. He was selected for the I.A.S. in 1955 but in 1956, he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother ...
... nothing and grieves for nothing, and he who is equal to all beings, — he attains to supreme devotion for Me. 18.54 Page 317 Kireet Joshi, (b.1931), studied Philosophy and Law at the Bombay University. He was awarded Gold Medal and Vedanta Prize when he stood first class first in the M.A. Examination. He was selected for I.A.S. in 1955 but resigned in 1956 in order to devote his life ...
... Its success on these three lines will be the measure of its help to the future of humanity. 2 Page 75 Kireet Joshi Kireet Joshi (b. 1931) studied Philosophy and Law at the Bombay University. He was selected for the I.A.S in 1955, but in 1956 he resigned in order to devote himself to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother at Pondicherry. ...
... with a cloth. For them there is no danger, for they are trained but if it is done by a self-sufficient ass or even by an untrained amateur simply there may be danger in these things. Mudgaokar the Bombay judge (known to me) tried the cleaning of the nose with water, a simple Hathayoga process, and had trouble with his proboscis in consequence. It did not approve of his way of dealing with it. Really ...
... the cure de lit , but it is not likely to be enthusiastic. For the support she is willing. Mother wants you to make a sketch showing the places, measurements to be entered and the whole sent to the Bombay firm (address will be given) asking them if they can provide. What do you say? In your letter of yesterday, on the "glandular explosives", what's this, Sir—"Based on the idea that some gland (They— ...
... a darkness which had entered his being when he was a small boy in India and had hung on to him alt through his stay in England, fell off him like a cloak. And when the ship touched Apollo Bunder, Bombay, and he stepped at last on Indian soil, he had a strange experience. A vast cairn and quiet descended on him and remained with him for months thereafter. This young man was Aurobindo Ghose and he ...
... murder, and sabotage, most of them being directed against the railways, telegraphs and against the police. These outbreaks occurred simultaneously in widely separated areas in the provinces of Madras, Bombay and Bihar. So serious was the situation that parts of the country were completely cut off and British rule virtually ceased to exist. The cult of non-violence had come to an end once for all, never ...
... × Amal comments; "This is correct. On Dec. 3 she told me that Sri Aurobindo would soon read my articles. Later, when I asked her why she had let-me go to Bombay on Dee. 3 she said that Sri Aurobindo’s departure had not been decided yet." ...
... above all, the never-failing humanity with which the poet made his forceful impact on all levels of awareness. Based on Bhabani Bhattacharya, Introduction, in Rabindranath Tagore, The Golden Boat (Bombay: Jaico, 1985), pp. vi-ix. Page 311 ...
... Hinduism against militant Islam. Later, the Hindu Mela organization was formed to revive the pride in Hindu civilization. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar founded the Mitra Mela in 1899 in Bombay. It was later known as the Abhinava Bharat Society (Young India Society). It advocated armed struggle to throw off the shackles of foreign rule. But the most famous of these organizations was the Arya ...
... 841-7. 38 Vide., Ibid., pp. 841-7. 39 Ibid., pp. 846-7. 40 Ibid., The Synthesis of Yoga, Vol. 20, p. 66. Page 57 Kireet Joshi (b. 1931) studied philosophy and law at the Bombay University. He was selected for the I.A.S. in 1955 but in 1956, he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother ...
... Vide., Mother's Agenda, Institut de Recherches Evolutives (I.R.E), Paris, Vol. 11, Conversation of 14.3.1970. Page 87 Kireet Joshi (b. 1931) studied philosophy and law at the Bombay University. He was selected for the I.A.S. in 1955 but in 1956, he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother ...
... Aurobindo, The Foundations of Indian Culture, Vol.14, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, Pondicherry, 1971,p.409 Page 108 Kireetjoshi (b. 1931) studied philosophy and law at the Bombay University. He was selected for the I.A.S. in 1955 but in 1956, he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother ...
... terminated. He thought Dada to be the new police-officer on duty and he was pleading with him to give him his job! * We were talking when something about Motakaka came up. Ramraj from Bombay was here. He said that Motakaka wasan extremely witty person. He enjoyed a good laugh and he was a very frank sort of man. Sometimes he would come up with very profound things as well. Although he ...
... wonder with wide-open eyes at these lines. They will want to know why of all places the railway station at Pondicherry and at dead of night? They are familiar with the story of Bengalis going to Bombay or Burma, Madras or the Malay Archipelago. Sons of the soil of Bengal have even been visiting the island of Ceylon since the days of Vijayasinha. But what is this strange thing now? To make that ...
... give correct guidance, especially in moments of individual or national crisis. Something else. some other power in man alone can give the Light. The stalwarts like Sir P. M. Mehta, the lion of Bombay, G. K. Gokhale of the Servants of India Society, the disciple of M. G. Ranade, and others, men who certainly were patriots, were moderates. Their logic was indubitable, their premises were not mistaken; ...
... 140 SRI AUROBINDO : SOME ASPECTS OF HIS VISION BY A. B. PURANI GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE THE Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan—that Institute of Indian Culture in Bombay—needed a Book University, a series of books which, if read, would serve the purpose of providing higher education. Particular emphasis, however, was to be put on such literature as revealed the deeper ...
... Sri Aurobindo - some aspects of His Vision THE AUTHOR Born at Surat in 1893, 'Sri Ambubhai Purani had his early education in Bombay, from where he graduated on 1913. Together with his illustrious brother Sri Chhotubhai Purani, he pioneered the gymnastic movement in Gujarat. It was at this time that he came under the spell of Sri Aurobindo and yearned ...
... information was wrong, but it struck his father a fatal blow, and he succumbed to it with his beloved son's name on his lips. Sri Aurobindo, however, reached India safe by another steamer, and landed in Bombay in February, 1893. Page 13 ...
... easy. Naval equipment is not enough; without a strong army it is very difficult to conquer India. Disciple : Congress ministers are trying to introduce military training in U.P., C.P., and Bombay. But Sir Sikander Page 116 Hayat in the Panjab is counting the distinction between martial and non-martial races. Sri Aurobindo : That was introduced by the British to keep ...
... embodiment of the Supreme Consciousness. I began to search mentally for the exact time-moment when I had come to know him. Travelling far into the past I found it was in 1914 when I read a notice in the Bombay Chronicle about the publication of a monthly magazine – the Arya – from Pondicherry by Sri Aurobindo . I hastened to register my name in advance. In those days of political storms, to avoid the ...
... Subhas's statement? Sri Aurobindo : "The Hindu" has given a fitting reply; either he meant something or meant nothing by his declaration. Disciple : The Socialists in a recent meeting at Bombay began to shout and continued shouting. Shouting is quite constitutional with them ( laughter ). Page 211 ...
... p. 59. 92. Medieval Panorama (Quoted in Sansom, The World of Poetry, p.121). 93. I am indebted to K.R.Srinivasa Iyengar's essay on Wordsworth (Journal of the University of Bombay, May 1937, p.41) for this and the following quotation. See also 'Q' Art of Writing (Guild Books), p. 33. 94. Selected Essays., pp. 258,271. Writing of Lucretius' De Return Natura and ...
... Aspiring Swan 9 "Cosmos", 54-A, S. V. Road Andheri (W), Bombay - 400 058 Roshan Apurva ...
... Disciple : Why did you choose Pondicherry as the place for your Sadhana? Sri Aurobindo : Because it was by an Adesh – command from Above – I was asked to come here. When I was leaving Bombay for Calcutta I asked Lele what I should do regarding my Sadhana. He kept silent for some time [probably waiting to hear a voice from the heart] and replied, "Meditate at a fixed time and hear the voice ...
... Sri Aurobindo referred to Sir Moropant Joshi of Nagpur. He asked a Disciple : "Do you remember him ?" Disciple : I have forgotten him altogether. Sri Aurobindo : I met him in Bombay when we took the vow with Dr. Deshmukh to secure the independence of India. He was also one of those who took the oath and soon afterwards turned round. When I was going to Surat to attend the Congress ...
... the Gita and The Life Divine, (laughter). 10–3–1943 Yogi Aurobindo Ghose A biography in Marathi by P. B. Kulkarni with an introduction by Mr. K. G. Deshpande. Published at Bombay 1935. Note : When Mr. Kulkarni thought of writing a biography he wrote to me asking for my help. I sought permission of Sri Aurobindo . He declined to comply with my request, writing : "I don't ...
... institution of his own, Harekrishna Mandir- at Pune, where Indiraji accompanied him. Mother continued to keep his house at Pondicherry vacant for him. Since Dilip's passing away in the year 1980 at Bombay at the age of 83, Indiraji has been the Head of the Mandir. I don't remember having any contact with Indiraji after the first introduction of a moment in 1949, but in 1983 she remembered me when ...
... the saints" as was dreamt of by Christianity, Islam and Puranic Hinduism. 92 That would be the divinised society of the future, and that would also be the true communistic society.* * At the Bombay Seminar on 'Sri Aurobindo and Indian Literature' (14 May 1972), more than one Urdu scholar (K.A. Faruqi, Malik Ram, Waheed Akhtar) referred to the similarities between Sir Mohammad Iqbal and Sri Aurobindo ...
... service, I surrendered myself voluntarily. There were about ninety of us lodged in Alipore Jail, all arrested in connection with the Alipore Bomb case. Besides us there were some others brought from Bombay and Madras. The jail became a veritable den of high spirits and amusement. Sri Aurobindo went into meditation in the evening and in the early hours before dawn. On days when there was no court to attend ...
... Maharashtra". 17 Tilak seemed to Sri Aurobindo "the one possible leader for a revolutionary party", an impression that was only to be confirmed by future developments. Sri Aurobindo also attended the Bombay Congress (1904) and the Benares (Varanasi) Congress (1905), and tried to bring together the few like-minded leaders who were prepared to fight for nothing less than swaraj or complete independence ...
... Hicky's Bengal Gazette (1780) had been followed by other papers, and Indian journalism was born. Private English schools were established as early as 1717 at Cuddalore (near Pondicherry), in 1718 at Bombay and in 1720 at Calcutta. The East India Company having assumed, after 1813, educative and cultural (and not alone police) functions, and having shed its commercial monopoly, attempts were made to ...
... the facts and not into philosophy. There was a man of flesh and blood, a revolutionary who fought the British tyranny in India. In the middle of action and not in some ascetic retreat, one day in Bombay, that city of every foulness and misery, as he was walking in a verandah, this perfectly solid man, endowed with all our Western reason, was seized, snatched upward and engulfed in Nirvana – like Buddha ...
... which he was my contact person with the Mother. After my two week stay at the Ashram, I returned to the Calcutta routine. The next Darshan date was April 24. In the middle of April I had to go to Bombay for some work. The work was over earlier than expected and I felt the urge to go for the Darshan. I was aware of the need of prior permission from Mother and also of the fact that for the 24th April ...
... wind-vexed mariner at last. And other experiences too crowded upon Sethna day after day, and the Mother told him one day that she wished to shift the journal, Mother India, to Pondicherry from Bombay, to be printed at the Ashram Press - and this of course meant that he should permanently shift his residence too. Attending the Mother's class in the evening, he heard her discourse on the various ...
... and Other Kulapati's Letters (1954), published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. Page 228 "The other day I had the rare privilege of meeting Sri Aurobindo. I had seen him last in 1908 at Bombay. Now, however, I saw something different; the most beautiful old age imaginable in an atmosphere of inspiring serenity. He sat enthroned on an upholstered chair with a quiet, unaggressive dignity. ...
... Indian culture. So he skipped the riding test of I.C.S. -"Avast calm descended upon him at the moment when he 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 ...
... whole year he had to live "beyond the pale of society, 1 Joseph Baptista was a Nationalist leader. He requested Sri Aurobindo to take up the editorship of an English daily to be brought out from Bombay as the organ of a new political party which Tilak and other like-minded people intended to form at the time. But Tilak passed away a few months later, in August, leaving free the political field to ...
... In the same letter dated 10 th January 1912, the governor added that the secret police were to leave the French territory any day now, because "the British monarchs have today sailed to Europe from Bombay." Well, King George V and Queen Mary left the shores of India after announcing that the Partition of Bengal—the settled and irrevocable fact—was now revoked, and that Bengal was again one, undivided ...
... call, And reckon mother-land and tongue as gall." Rajnarain Bose was a nationalist to the core; and he was disappointed in the young Bengalis who returned from England —or even from Bombay! —fully anglicized. He was in for a rude shock. Page 98 Krishna Dhan took his degree of Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) with honours from the Aberdeen University, Scotland. He returned ...
... Satish Chandra Mukherji, the founder of the Dawn Society, it will be unpardonable. He was the Superintendent of the Bengal National College. Sri Aurobindo said about him in a speech he delivered at Bombay in 1908: "I spoke to you the other day about National Education and I spoke of a man who had given his life to that work, the man who really organised the National College in Calcutta, and that man ...
... the Congress. "Forgive me," he wrote on 26 May 1941 from Nainital, "if I cannot reconcile myself to these injunctions. Since [the movement for] Pakistan has been in action in Dacca, Ahmedabad, Bombay and other places, it is clear that such riots are going Page 231 to be a normal feature of our life for some years." He feared that the riots "will perhaps grow more frequent and ...
... necessity of giving some representation to Indians and, for the first time, agreed to the appointment of an Indian to the Viceroy's Executive Council; one each to the Executive Councils of Bengal, Bombay and Madras; and two Indians to the Council of the Secretary of State for India. This was part of the Morley-Minto Reforms Act of 1909. John Morley was the Secretary of State for India (1905-1910), ...
... Calcutta. Mid-February 1910. Halley's Comet had begun to be visible in 'the Indian sky. Reports of sightings had come from different parts of the country, from Karachi and Dumka, from Bombay and Nasik____ It was 8 o'clock. Dusk had given way to night. Night had come swiftly, as it does in those climes. N°4 Shyampukur Lane, Shyambazar. A young man is seen—only there was no one to see ...
... colonies. In consequence, the Indian farmer was forced to pay in full even if the crop failed. Inhuman torture was his lot if he could not. A government report of 1818 describes the state of affairs in Bombay. "Every effort was made, — lawful and unlawful,—to get the utmost out of the wretched peasantry, who Page 288 were subjected to tortures — in some instances cruel and revolting beyond ...
... me somewhere. Since Pondicherry was French territory, one would need a passport to enter it. But getting a passport seemed an impossibility to me right then. That night I boarded a train - "Bombay Mail". In the morning I reached Madras. The journey was uneventful. Yet an apprehension kept nagging me. If I was not accepted at Pondicherry, I had no other alternative to fall back upon. I invoked ...
... hill-station of Mather an in Bombay's vicinity. My grandmother had a cottage there, almost on the verge of a precipice, and day in day out I had before me the spectacle of Matheran's sister hill - Purbal - with the valley stretching for miles and miles beyond with little villages dotting it and rivulets crossing it. At night, at the farthest end, I could see the lights of Bombay's suburb Punvale twinkling ...
... I still did not realise the exact nature of the spiritual life which he represented. The basic meaning of his Yoga had not yet gone home to me. Then a most amazing coincidence happened. I went to Bombay's well-known Crawford Market to buy a pair of shoes. I took my purchase away in a box wrapped by the shopkeeper in a sheet of newspaper. Onuncovering the box the news-sheet fell back disclosing a ...
... often, but she went on and on. Gradually, she was able to increase the number of hours of daily practice. On April 20 1975, nine months after her accident, she gave her first performance in Bombay's Rang Bhavan. There was an atmosphere of great anticipation as everyone present in the Page 401 audience knew what had happened. According to eyewitnesses, it was perhaps her greatest ...
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