Burma : now Myanmar. By 2nd century Bhāratavarsha had developed important trading relations with the Far East which they called Suvarṇa-bhūmi. Hindu colonists established great kingdoms some of which lasted for thousands of years & continued to flourish even long after the end of Hindu rule in India. On the mainland were the two powerful kingdoms: Champā & Kambōja. The latter rose to far greater power than Champā & in its hay days covered the whole of present Cambodia, Cochin-China, Laos, Siam, parts of Myanmar, & the Malay Peninsula. In 13th century, Ahoms (a people of Mongoloid origin) settled in Upper Burma & occupied a part of the Brahmaputra valley & were gradually Hinduised. A Tibeto-Burman-speaking people who established the Pyu city-states ranged as far south as Pyay & adopted Theravada Buddhism. Another group, the Bamar people, entered the upper Irrawaddy valley in the early 9th century. They went on to establish the Bagan Kingdom in 1044, the first-ever unification of the Irrawaddy valley & its periphery. Between 1750 & 1823, Myanmar conquered Arākān, Pegu in the Irrāwaddy valley, Tenāserim situated south of the Chittāgong, Manipur, Assam, & an island near Chittāgong. The last was then occupied by the white Octopus which between 1795-1811, first incited revolts in Manipur & cross-border raids into Myanmar & dragooned her into treaties loaded in its favour, then cooked up an excuse to invade in 1824 – its costliest exploit. Myanmar’s skills in building stockades surpassed those of the most ingenious European sappers & its exceptional courage to fight in the most hopeless conditions failed, only because Brit standbys poured in at the critical moment. Though crushed for years by repaying an indemnity of one million pounds (then US5 million), she refused to be tyrannised by the British profiteers thrust on her & that provided fodder for another invasion which came in 1885, when a Brit trader-raider was not kowtowed as Brit Law demanded. When the King’s appeals to the French imperialists (warned off by their Brit brothers) were refused, the Octopus gobbled up Myanmar & renamed her ‘Burma’ (Bamar-land?). “The case of Burma affords an interesting parallel to that of Afghanistan on the opposite frontier. In both, British policy was dictated by the fear that another first-class European power, Russia or France, would establish political influence in an Asiatic State bordering on British territories. The rulers of these States defied the English in the hope of obtaining aid from rival European power, & in both cases they were disappointed at the critical moment. Only the geographical & ethnical factors made the sequel different.” [An Advanced History of India$, R.C. Majumdar, H.C. Raychaudhuri, Kalikinkar Datta, 1973, 1974]
... in 1941. His two army awards consisted of the Param Vishisht Seva Medal and the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal. During World War II he was twice mentioned in despatches by the British for his services in Burma and Malaya. His wife. Dr. Kamla Tewari, joined the army after he was captured by the Chinese in the 1962 war to be able to support the education of their three children. At that time the Government... spiritual presence in my childhood but, as I have said, we were brought up in a deeply religious atmosphere. I do not know when I started aspiring for a spiritual life. Maybe it was during World War II in Burma when I saw death and senseless destruction and experienced a number of narrow escapes personally. That obviously set me thinking of Divine protection when so many of my friends were dying in battle... Army. The biggest regret in my life has been that I never went to Pondicherry to see Sri Aurobindo during the intensive training we did in South India. It was 1943 before we were sent to war in Burma. We were involved in exercises within close proximity to Pondicherry but I never even thought of going there to receive Sri Aurobindo’s darshan. Perhaps I was just too involved in the preparation for ...
... linked in his memory to the most triumphant hours of his own existence, the day on which his long crusade through the jungles of Burma had ended with the unconditional surrender of the Japanese Empire … His voice constricted with sudden emotion, the victor of the jungles of Burma about to become the liberator of India announced: “The final transfer of power to Indian hands will take place on 15 August 1947... Later the Mother would draw her map of India, which is still there on a wall in the playground. It includes Pakistan (then West Pakistan), Sikkim, Bhutan, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), part of Burma, and Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). As the Mother put it: ‘The map was made after the partition. It is the map of the true India in spite of all passing appearances, and it will always remain the map of the ...
... and subtle-physical. Your final question is on quite a different plane: "In the spiritual map of India Burma is included. When and how long was Burma a part of ancient India?" I have the impression that in the times of Asoka and of the Gupta emperors India had suzerainty over Burma just as over Ceylon, at least Samudragupta speaks of all the islands acknowledging his authority. In any case ...
... the single other country than Lankā, which is taken to be foreign: Suvarnabhūmi, generally identified with Burma. Suvarnabhūmi belongs to a group of countries where the missions went a year before Mahendra went to Lankā. There is some incongruity here. How does a foreign country like Burma get dissociated from Ceylon and assembled with those that are clearly called "adjacent"? Barua 2 balances against... What makes Barua's substitution extremely plausible is a fact which he 3 mentions as having been noted by Vincent Smith apropos of the Buddhist missions in Aśoka's time: "... the propaganda in Lower Burma seems to have had little effect. The earliest form of Buddhism in that country, so far as definite evidence goes, was of the Mahāyana kind." 1. Dīpavamsa, VIII, 1 f, XII, 16 f; Mahāvamsa, ...
... rejected in November). Page 257 1914, March 29 - First meeting with Mother. 1914, June - Tilak is released from a six-year-long deportation to Burma. 1914, Aug. 15 -First issue of the Arya (English monthly), which will appear until January, 1921. 1916, Dec - "Lucknow Pact" between the Congress and the Muslim League... Rabindranath Tagore passes away. 1942,March 31 - Sri Aurobindo publicly supports Cripps' proposals; the Congress turns them down. 1942, April - The Japanese overrun Burma and bomb cities on India's east coast. 1942, Aug. 9 - Start of the "Quit India" movement; Mahatma Gandhi and other leaders are arrested soon afterwards. 1944, July -Sub ...
... consciousness did not know it, but His Divine Consciousness was acting everywhere and this is how even today He is pulling people here. "Go to Pondicherry," He said to a doctor who was practising in Burma. The man was surprised for he had never even heard of Pondicherry. "What is Pondicherry?" he wondered. 288 Then I'll tell you another instance where my 'I-ness' will flourish a little, please... ly. He acknowledged this fact in the book that he later wrote, but, not knowing who Sri Aurobindo was, referred to Him as 'Aurobin Dogos'. 288This is the case of Dr. Sircar, who came from Burma to Pondicherry in the 1960s along with his sisters. 289Lalji Hindocha, a wealthy Gujarati from Africa, who was advised by the Mother to leave Africa and come to India, because She foresaw the ...
... It was also on 1 November 1954 that the Mother distributed the "Spiritual Flag of India", projecting the vision of a "free and united India" - including all the India of the pre-partition days, and Burma and Ceylon besides. This flag had been originally designed for the J.S.A.S.A. (Jeunesse Sportive de 1'Ashram de Sri Aurobindo) with the Master's approval, but was found to express equally the spiritual... Page 773 what a wonderful place of green and gold and life and variety and infinite possibility the earth was, and it was even reported that Conrad saw on 26 November to the south of Burma and towards East India "a steady light".* Certainly the world was ready for a change. But neither Sri Aurobindo nor the Mother had ever thought of a flight to another world or another planet ...
... friend and helper of all the peoples. 22 Also, in the morning the Mother hoisted her - flag which was to be called "the Spiritual Flag of India" - blazoning forth India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and Ceylon all together, with her own symbol at the centre, over the main Ashram building. There was a record number of visitors to the Ashram, and over two thousand had Darshan in the afternoon. Presently... been flying high and serene in the minds and sensibilities of countless numbers of Indians. The blue flag figuring the great Indian subcontinent stretching from Kashmir to Sri Lanka, from Sind to Burma, environed by the Himalaya in the North, the Indian ocean in the South, the Arabian sea on the West and the Bay of Bengal in the East, and with the Mother's symbol of her Shakti, her four powers and ...
... served the Allied cause in different theatres of the War. VI The collapse of the sudden expectations raised by the Cripps Mission coupled with the advance of Japanese forces through Burma towards Calcutta created a climate of uncertainty and apprehension all over India. Disciples wrote frantic letters to the Mother seeking her advice as to what they should do. Was it wise to stay... generation. On the divers fronts the run of Allied successes continued throughout the year. There was a Russian breakthrough in Poland on a 40-mile front, there was vigorous anti-Japanese action in Burma, and on 5 June the longawaited - and, by the Nazis, much dreaded - Allied invasion of Normandy began, and on 15 August, the Allies invaded Southern France. Hence forth. the Axis powers were to ...
... measure he poured his grace. Now I cannot but repent for the unnecessary trouble people like me gave him just to get some selfish satisfaction. In September 1930 my eldest sister Amiya came from Burma to visit the Ashram with her two sons Bula and Kunal. A house was hired for them for three months on the sea-shore. I recollect the Mother’s going to see the house, walking by the sea-shore from Dilip’s... we heard that during that fierce upheaval Sri Aurobindo’s windows were all open and he was absorbed in doing his own work. Not a drop of rain had come inside! Amiya and her children returned to Burma after receiving the Mother’s blessings on 18th January, as had been suggested by her. They came back the next January along with my second sister Nolina. This time to the Mother accommodated them in ...
... widely that Lala Lajpat Rai was going to be taken to the Page 417 Andamans. But instead of being sent to that penal settlement, he has been conveyed as a State prisoner to Mandalay in Upper Burma where there is a large fort. Mandalay is certainly a far better place than the Andamans." To those like us outside the esoteric circle—and they by no means form a microscopic minority—the distinction... requirements of the Government? It was not the intention of the Government to remove Lajpat Rai to a particular place with a view to subject him to a particular kind of climate. In Mandalay in Upper Burma "where there is a large fort", the Punjab leader will not be allowed to do as he likes. The object of the Government in deporting him was to remove him from the scene of his labours and thus attempt ...
... to C. Rajagopalachari, in which he said : " .. . Appeal to you to save India. Formidable danger new foreign domination when old on way to self-elimination." (Japan was then threatening to invade Burma and India; a few days earlier, it had also become known that Sub has Bose was in Germany and, confident of Germany's victory, was trying to organize with its help an anti-British front.) Sri Aurobindo's... telegram to C. Raja-gopalachari, in which he said: "... Appeal to you to save India. Formidable danger new foreign domination when old on way to self-elimination." (Japan was then threatening to invade Burma and India; a few days earlier, it had also become known that Sub has Bose was in Germany and, confident of Germany's victory, was trying to organize with its help an anti-British front.) Sri ...
... Asian Games Federation flag — a blazing sun and eleven interlinked blue rings against a white background — was unfurled. The 600 competitors from the eleven contesting countries, namely, Afghanistan, Burma, Ceylon, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaya, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and host India, dressed in their national sports dress, then marched round the stadium and saluted the President as they... from 20 countries 5th Asian Games: 1966 Bangkok (Thailand) 1945 participants from 18 countries 6th Asian Games: 1970 Bangkok (Thailand) 2000 participants from 18 countries (Burma, Kampuchea, Ceylon, Honking, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Vietnam and Thailand) 7th Asian Games: 1974 ...
... in his memory to the most triumphant hours of his own existence, the day in which his long crusade through the jungles of Burma had ended with the unconditional surrender of the Japanese Empire.... "His voice constricted with sudden emotion, the victor of the jungles of Burma about to become the liberator of India announced: "'The final Transfer of Power to Indian hands will take place on August ...
... Government post had fallen vacant and I was sure to get it, if I applied for it. I was in a fix, for I had told the Mother that I would practise in my home town. Fate now decided otherwise and I sailed for Burma. That post was, however, not available, but in its stead another job offered itself almost unasked for and unexpectedly. I had gone to pay a courtesy-call to a Professor in the Rangoon Medical College... authorities with his letters of recommendation and himself came to look for me at my address. The upshot of it all was that the job came "walking into my parlour", and I was comfortably settled. Though the Burma National Ministry tried to unsettle me, my patron defended his choice saying that he was fortunate in getting a foreign-qualified man for the post. I could not but be struck by the swift turn of events ...
... the work was over, the Mother’s car arrived in front of the Playground door. The Mother noticed the map of India as soon as She entered and She looked delighted. This map of India did not include Burma. Then on everyone’s request the Mother agreed to make this map a permanent feature of the Playground. In order to make it permanent She herself drew the map of undivided India before Monoranjan-da had... the southern wall of the Playground to our heart’s content. Besides, it was drawn by the Mother herself. On the Mother’s map, we see not only Pakistan and Bangladesh but also Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Burma and Sri Lanka as part of undivided India. The Mother drew India as She saw the nation in Her divine vision. India was no longer divided. Mother India herself, the World-Mother revealed herself. And ...
... the nationalists, the drastic change in the political climate: .. .now that I [have] come out I find all changed. One who always sat by my side and was associated in my work is a prisoner in Burma;* ... I looked round when I came out, I looked round for those to whom I had been accustomed to look for counsel and inspiration. I did not find them. There was more than that. When I went to jail... and * Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who had been sentenced to six years' imprisonment for his articles in the Kesari commenting on the Muzzaferpore bomb-outrage, was then a prisoner at Mandalay in Burma. * On 11 December 1908, Minto had issued orders for the arrest and deportation of Subodh Mullick, Krishna Kumar Mitra, Manoranjan Guhathakurta, Shyamsundar Chakravarti, Aswini Kumar Dutta and ...
... social opinions can join is to confuse issues hopelessly. It is not true that by removing the defects of our social structure we shall automatically become a nation and fit for freedom. If it were so, Burma would be a free nation at present. Nor can we believe that the present system is favourable to social reconstruction or that self-government would be fatal to it. The reverse is the case. Of course ...
... 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. The Convention is now at a critical stage of its destinies. Disowned by the Punjab, troubled by strained relations between Bombay and Bengal, it has received the crowning blow from the ...
... face of the Dictator by representing in the Lahore cables that the nomination of Sj. Surendranath by the Bengal Convention Committee was only a suggestion in a private letter. But even then, what of Burma? What of this remarkable division in the toy committee itself at Lahore? We imagine that the Lion will put his dignity in his pocket or in his mane or any other hiding place that may be handy and accept ...
... There are trays holding the earliest teacups that Mother used when she brought tea to Sri Aurobindo in the afternoons. There are dhotis, kurtas, shawls, bed covers (painted by sadhaks), screens from Burma and India. In this room there is also a steel trunk with brass fittings that Sri Aurobindo used when he sailed to Pondicherry after his acquittal in Calcutta. (Sri Aurobindo’s acquittal took place in ...
... Spanish, oranges Maltese and dates Arabian. Even more so — since it is a stauncher nationalist than any of them inasmuch as it has refused to thrive to any marked degree in a non-Indian soil, although Burma, Ceylon, Egypt, Brazil and the U.S.A. have done their best to plant mango groves. It is also as old as Indian history: .the specimens Nehru put into Shaw's hands are known by botanists to have had ...
... wall of the playground of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram still hangs the map of what, according to the Mother, is the true material body of India — inclusive of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and part of Burma. It was in front of that map that she stood when she took the salute of the Ashram youth marching past her on certain festive days, and she sat in front of it when teaching her ‘evening classes’. ‘The ...
... considering himself an empiricist and very suspicious of spiritual hocus-pocus, was on his guard, but he was all the same touched by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. After some disastrous experiences in Burma, Nirodbaran returned to Pondicherry and was accepted as a member of the Ashram. First he did some work in the building department; then he supervised the house painting department; after which he was ...
... prediction for 1967. He did not give me any further details about this war, except to say that the countries which will suffer the most will be the countries of the North and the East, and he cited Burma, Japan, China and Russia. He said rather categorically that Russia would be swept away and that America would triumph. 2) X gave me certain details about his powers of prediction, but perhaps it ...
... × In April 1942, when England was struggling against the Nazis and Japan, which was threatening to invade Burma and India, Churchill sent an emissary, Sir Stafford Cripps, to New Delhi with a very generous proposal which he hoped would rally India's goodwill and cooperation in the fight against the worldwide ...
... changed person. But the situation outside had also changed radically. The Bande Mataram had come to a stop during his absence. Tilak had been sentenced to six years' imprisonment and banished to Burma. The Government had clamped down on the Nationalists and the revolutionaries with ruthless force. There was simmering discontent below the. surface but it could not find expression except in stray acts ...
... and the ideals that I had cherished had withdrawn behind a veil. Suddenly, one day, arrived a printed copy of Conversations with the Mother with the Mother's blessings written on it. I was then in Burma [now renamed as Myanmar]. See how the "hound of heaven" 238 pursues! I was exceedingly surprised. A revelation! "She remembers me!" was my delightful surprise. But nothing more; for, even then, I was ...
... domination. Sometimes by design, at other times almost by accident the area controlled by the British increased, until by 1857 everything from the borders of Afghanistan in the west to the jungles of Burma in the east, from the Himalayas of Nepal to the beaches of Ceylon were, if not directly under the Company's rule, very definitely in its pocket. While the British were consolidating their position ...
... Page 5 Tipu Sultan in 1792; the Marathas were convincingly defeated in 1819. Further, the company expanded its rule by defeating Nepal in 1814-16, Sind in 1843, Punjab in 1848-49 and Burma in 1886. In the wars against Mysore the British fought Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan, who proved to be formidable foes; it was only after four wars that they took complete control of the areas ruled by ...
... 1955. It must be noted that Sri Lanka had a long historic connection with India from the very earliest times and was bound to it by the religions of Hinduism and Buddhism. Similarly, Burma (now called Myanmar) was first united into a single kingdom in 1044 under the ruler Anawrahta, who made it the centre of Theravada Buddhism. In the 19th century the country came under British control ...
... Biruba, 257 Brahma, 154,212 Brahman, 17,49-51,57,85, 136, 159 Brahmanas, the, 152 Britain , 11 Buddha, the, 148, 208, 223,234, 236, 245,247-8,265,268 Burma , 12 CALCUTTA , 57 Capella, 297 Chandidas, 158 Chakrabarty, Nabendra, 178 Chakrabarty, Nirendralal, 173-4 Chakrabarty, Parimal, 169 Chatila, ...
... now is realising the danger. PURANI: The next step of Hitler after England will be America. SRI AUROBINDO: Not quite the next, because he may have to square with Russia first. NIRODBARAN: Burma has given unconditional help to Britain while the English response to it is that they "will be very willing to discuss". SRI AUROBINDO: Burma's policy is comprehensible while I don't understand the ...
... professed? NIRODBARAN: Southern. THE MOTHER: In China and Japan too no real Buddhism is found—only ceremonies. In Ceylon, they say, there is still some authentic Buddhism. NIRODBARAN: Also in Burma nothing authentic remains, I am told, but the Burmese people show a great respect for their Bhikshus. DR. MANILAL : Yes, respect for the appearance and not for the reality. SRI AUROBINDO: Lele ...
... which long spires of smoke rose into the sky was a new and not a very pleasant experience. Do you know Tagore's vivid simile about London — as if the city were lying flat on its back and smoking a huge Burma-cheroot, (loud laughter) while its smoke blackened with annoyance the face of its sky, just as your faces darken with anger when your teachers scold you!" "No, no, no one scolds us. The Mother does ...
... knew here was the man, the source of all mischief. They did not know how to control and get at him. So they thought of arresting him again and deport him, send him out of bounds – outside India, to Burma or some such far off place. In the meanwhile he continued to do his work as usual, editing two papers, seeing and advising people, going out on lecturing tours etc. But it was time for the next break ...
... Bourdelle; let us recall that the Belgian was a student of Rodin's. In 1927 was invited Nara Singhlal Mistri, a Jaipuri mural technician. In the meantime, in the Poet's company, Nandalal had visited Burma, China, Japan, Java, Bali, etc. During his travels, he picked up, among other things, the art of batik. Not only did he indianize it but he greatly simplified the traditional onerous process. During ...
... escape from the Andamans. The usual practice was to build secretly a wooden raft, pile it with coconuts for provision and then set out for the open sea with the help of the tide. Some tried to reach Burma while others made for the coast of Africa. British patrol boats used to be sent out looking for them and almost all were recaptured. They would be tried again for this new offence and punished, with ...
... recorded how the Mother came one day to visit a house on the sea-front in Pondicherry where Sahana's sister Amiya and her two sons were staying. On learning that they intended to sail shortly for Burma, the Mother looked at the disturbed sea from a window and suddenly said: "It is better not to be on the sea now." The voyage was postponed accordingly, and on the very day they were to have started ...
... bas-relief in green on the wall of the Playground, with the Mother's symbol at the centre. Transcending the political divisions, the geographical contours of the map - comprising undivided India, Nepal, Burma and Ceylon - boldly projected the spiritual entity that was - and is - and will always be the real India with her divine role. As the Mother sat with this map for a backdrop, her very presence was ...
... Disciple : Something. Mother : In China and Japan also no Buddhism is left. Only ceremonies remain. In Ceylon they say there is still some authentic Buddhism. Disciple : In Burma also the same is the case. There, people put on ochre clothes at day and throw them away at night. But the Burmese people show a great respect for their Bikshus. Disciple : Yes. Respect to dress ...
... aggression until it became evident that Japan intended to attack and even invade and conquer India."5 "Impregnable" Singapore fell on 15 February 1942 and the Japanese quickly overran Malaya and Burma. On 11 ¹ Purani, Evening Talks, Second Series, p. 13. ² Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, pp. 38-39. ³ Ibid., p. 197 4 Ibid., p. 196. 5 Ibid., p, 39 . Page 230 March ...
... danger. She went her way calmly; and, on reaching camp, told them, 'Here I am.'" Mme David-Neel set out in August 1911 for the Far East. This time her journeys covered not only India, Ceylon, Burma, Indo-China, but also China, Japan, Mongolia and Korea. On her way to Lhasa during the journey from China to India, which she made entirely on foot, she explored vast tracts of Tibetan territory which ...
... reading," which was an image and prophecy of the rest; he was, together with another, the first B. A. of the Calcutta University which had come into being in 1857. Its jurisdiction then extended to Burma and Ceylon till 1904 when its territory was curtailed by Lord Curzon's decree. Bankim, with his usual distinguished success appeared for the B. L. His official appointment followed close on his degree ...
... in South India forms a very visible fold. This 'Birman Kovil' or 'Burmese Pagoda,' asserts Jouveau-Dubreuil, "was assuredly extremely ancient; it was founded and maintained by Buddhists from Burma, Siam, and Sumatra." In those bygone days Pondicherry covered a vaster area than the present town. Archaeological excavations carried out at Arikamedu, at the mouth of the Ariankuppam river, which ...
... scattered them far and wide. It is I this time who have spent one year in seclusion, and now that I come out I find all changed. One who always sat by my side and was associated in my work is a prisoner in Burma; another is in the north rotting in detention. I looked round when I came out, I looked round for those to whom I had been accustomed to look for counsel and inspiration. I did not find them. There ...
... civilisation and culture. There is the eye of sympathy and intuition and a close appreciative self-identification: that gives us work like Sister Nivedita's Web of Indian Life or Mr. Fielding's book on Burma or Sir John Woodroffe's studies of Tantra. These are attempts to push aside all concealing veils and reveal the soul of a people. It may well be that they do not give us all the hard outward fact, but ...
... whether they ate at all. They put up where they could — under a tree, a verandah or a shed. Thus did Poornananda travel, from the Himalayas of Kashmir to Kanyakumari, and from the eastern border with Burma to Kabul in Afghanistan. It’s a pity that none of us were thoughtful or curious enough to know more about his travels — Grand Padayatras. They must have been very eventful, beyond our modern conception ...
... of all passing appearances, and it will always remain the map of the true India, whatever people may think of it.” 37 It includes the present India, Pakistan, Sikkim, Bhutan, Bangladesh, part of Burma and Sri Lanka. 38 Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s extreme stand on India was not the result of irrational patriotic fervour and certainly not a pose. Several selections of their positive statements ...
... of the Asura, who knew best of all what India stood for. This explains the simultaneous pincer movement of the Axis Powers (through southern Russia, Africa and the Middle East) and Japan (through Burma) towards the Indian subcontinent. That such was in fact Hitler’s intention has been documented in my book Beyond Man. But there were other diabolic forces incarnated on the Earth and, as they ...
... Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in a meeting with Dilip Kumar Roy in Paris. He visited Pondicherry in 1930 and had an interview with the Mother. After two or three disappointing years as a physician in Burma, he was accepted as a member of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. He became the Ashram doctor, as abundantly illustrated in his Correspondence With Sri Aurobindo ; in this correspondence, Sri Aurobindo, generally ...
... Subhash Bose, reached Japan, then Singapore, and developed the "Indian National Army," which was to join Japan in its campaign against British India. In 1944, the I.N.A. launched its offensive from Burma, but could not proceed beyond Assam as the Japanese forces became increasingly engaged elsewhere. Subhash Bose disappeared in a plane accident in 1945. Page 211 mean some quarter inch ...
... a practising lawyer, art was his first love. As the general secretary of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, the Rupam magazine stands testimony to his brilliance. In countries like China and Burma (Myanmar), he gave lectures on Indian Art. Among the many books he wrote on art, are: Vedic Painting, South Indian Bronze, Masterpiece of Rajput Paintings, and his research work on music, Ragas and ...
... 'Bande Mataram' movement forty years earlier; and in the Ashram at Pondicherry, the Mother unfurled 'The Spiritual Map of India' comprising, not only the undivided India before the partition, but Burma and Sri Lanka as well. This vision of the spiritual reality that is 'Mother India' has been figuring on the cover of the Review all these years. And under Sethna's missionary editorship, Mother ...
... create a deep change in the hearts and minds of the people and the whole nation would swing over to nationalism and the ideal of independence. This actually happened and when Tilak returned from jail in Burma after 6 years he was able in conjunction with Mrs Besant not only to revive the Congress but to make it representative of a nation pledged to the nationalist cause. The Moderate party shrank into a ...
... Just as the rain penetrates through the thatch of a leaking roof, so the passions penetrate an unbalanced mind. There are innumerable small Buddhist sects of all kinds, in China, in Japan, in Burma, and each one follows its own methods; but the most widespread among them are those whose sole practice is to make the mind quiet. Page 194 They sit down for a few hours in the day and even ...
... his body but his soul is one with the Soul of India that lives for Eternity. 27 May 1964 ( About "the Mother's map of India", which includes Pakistan, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Burma and Sri Lanka. The "partition" mentioned in the first sentence below is that of Pakistan and India. ) The map was made after the partition. It is the map of the true India in spite of all passing ...
... Federation" which would have the power to counterbalance Red China and its movement. It was a federation which needed precisely the return of Pakistan and all those regions, including Nepal, Tibet, then Burma and further down, Ceylon. A great federation in which each one would have its free and autonomous development, but which would be united in one, general aspiration for peace and struggle against the ...
... was never ardent about fame even in my political days; I preferred to remain behind the curtain, push people _______________ * Tilak, released in 1914 from a six-year-long deportation to Burma, launched in 1916 the Home Rule agitation and led a few months later the reentry of the Nationalists into the Congress at its Luck now session. The Muslim League also met at Luck now at the same time ...
... the way down. But very often, the memory has gone, but an image remains. I very often have an image of Pandit Nehru, an image of Khrushchev, an image of a congress in Africa, recently an image in Burma, an image of the Court of England.... That's it! It doesn't mean anything, it's just an image—what it does, I haven't the faintest idea. But that's it! It must mean that you go to that ...
... with the power to counterbalance Red China and its movement. It was a federation that, as a matter of fact, needed the return of Pakistan and all those regions, and which includes Nepal, Tibet, also Burma, and in the south, Ceylon. A great federation with each country having its autonomous development, perfectly free, but which would be united in a common single aspiration for peace and fight against ...
... Ancient India, p. 162)" 2 and not to "the small state of Ch'in which later gave its name to the whole of China" nor to "early representatives of modern hill tribes (Shinas of the Himalaya or Chins of Burma)". 3 But "the name 'China' applied to the famous land can hardly be anterior to the first emperor of the Ch'in Dynasty (249-210 B.C.)". 4 A post-Megasthenes date is also suggested by "the reference ...
... April 1942 are memorable for one of the very few interventions of Sri Aurobindo in India's public affairs. World War II was in full swing and Japan had joined hands with Hitler and posed a threat to Burma and even India, both of which were then under British rule. There was considerable discontent in India and a great reluctance to join the war effort of the British Commonwealth. India could not see ...
... from abroad were absorbed by their fighters, they were changed, and the changes resulted in a trans formation of the indigenous systems into true martial arts. The existing martial arts systems of Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Indochina and Korea are all clearly related to forms of Chinese boxing. However, it is the intellectual content that distinguishes a martial art from a fighting art ...
... Sakai to do his initial training under one of his disciples, Odera Bunei, head priest of Reizan-in. Odera, seven years Sakai's junior, was a dedicated scholar-priest. As a young monk he had studied in Burma for two years, following the Theravadin rule, the only priest from Hiei to finish the two-year term. The one-time dunce Sakai was inspired by the example of Odera, a recognized expert in Tendai thought ...
... 1940 Talks with Sri Aurobindo 29 FEBRUARY 1940 NIRODBARAN: While talking of the Burma rebellion and the Chittagong Armoury raid, Dutt came out with the belief that by such uprisings India can get independence. SRI AUROBINDO: How will India do it? NIRODBARAN: D asked Dutt what Surya Sen would have done if the British army had attacked. Dutt replied ...
... a small cut on his finger which made him so nervous that he postponed going back to Bengal by one day. PURANI: What will he do if war breaks out in India? SRI AUROBINDO: Perhaps he will go to Burma! EVENING NIRODBARAN (when Sri Aurobindo laid down after walking) : Dakshinapada had a vision: he saw you sitting high up radiating great power and light, as if by a slight movement of your body ...
... by plunder. SATYENDRA: Yes. All the money and jewels in the banks. Investments are prohibited without permission. NIRODBARAN: England has made a three-month agreement with Japan regarding the Burma route. But China may not be affected much. SRI AUROBINDO: It will be affected considerably. SATYENDRA: The Japanese radio has been declaring that England must concede the demands. Otherwise they ...
... Aurobindo 9 OCTOBER 1940 PURANI: It seems America's war with Japan is inevitable. SRI AUROBINDO: Why? PURANI: As a consequence of the opening of the Burma Road by the British. SRI AUROBINDO: Not likely. PURANI; And Prussia also will have two ports—the Balkans and Japan. SATYENDRA: Japan won't go to war. SRI AUROBINDO: None of them is willing ...
... in fact, by July 1908 Tilak was charged with 'exciting disloyalty and bringing feelings of enmity towards the Government'. He was sentenced to six years of imprisonment and sent to Mandalay jail in Burma. And then the Government focussed their entire attention on Sri Aurobindo. But Sri Aurobindo also knew that repression would not extinguish the flame of independence which had now been lit and that ...
... attack on Pearl Harbour, joined the Axis powers against Britain. Very soon they overran Singapore, which had been considered impregnable; next came the turn of Malaysia and soon after they entered Burma, thus coming to the doorstep of India. The impending threat of a Japanese invasion of India loomed large. The Viceroy made a public appeal for a united national front, but it fell on deaf ears. At the ...
... sentence was imposed on VOC in July 1907, Tilak himself was jailed. While VOC languished in prison for the next four and a half years (on a reduced sentence on appeal) Tilak was transported to Mandalay (Burma). Not surprisingly, the two lost touch during their imprisonment. Barely a few days after Tilak's release, VOC wrote from his Mylapore home on 19 June 1914. Addressing Tilak as 'Respected Brother' ...
... the attack on Pearl Harbor, joined the Axis powers against Britain. Very soon they overran Singapore, which had been considered impregnable; next came the turn of Malaysia and soon after they entered Burma, thus coming to the doorstep of India. The impending threat of a Japanese invasion of India loomed large. The Viceroy made a public appeal for a united national front, but it fell on deaf ears. At the ...
... and was not able to return till after the end, six years later.. The Japanese were now coming close upon us. The Andamans were already in their hands, and Madras was not so far away. They had overrun Burma and were at the gates of East Bengal on the north-eastern front, with the Indian National Army of Subhash Chandra Bose. Our Doctor Jyotish, who was then serving as a medical officer in the Indian Army ...
... 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 clear ...
... expulsed from the Congress, Tata from Air India , and myself as you know. Just a fortnight ago, our last set of tapes left Bombay. Mother, always just in time. Mr Teng [Deng Xiaoping] has just toured Burma and Malaysia. He is in Nepal at the moment. He is the hero of the building of the big Chinese roads all around India and through the Himalayas, “in anticipation of the day when Tibet will be open ...
... Ghose brothers; especially the "founder of the violence section of the Bengali revolutionary party," Babu Arabindo Ghose. Bal Gangadhar Tilak, after a summary trial, was deported in July to Mandalay in Burma to suffer a prolonged solitary confinement. He was released only in June 1914. Bengal, Maharashtra, Punjab, no corner of the country was spared the panic reaction of the government against Swaraj. ...
... under what conditions Sri Aurobindo was producing those weekly articles for the Karmayogin and the Dharma? B. G. Tilak was writing his Gita-Rahasya in the undisturbed quiet of Mandalayjail in Burma. But Sri Aurobindo was living with his aunt and family, amidst constant comings and goings. Here is Sukumar Mitra to tell us. "In deep absorption he wrote or typed articles for the weeklies in the ...
... things, and, it may be the will of Providence that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free." He was given a sentence of six years' transportation to Mandalay in Burma, and a fine of Rs. 1000. In 1916 he was prosecuted once again for sedition, but was acquitted. Tilak had accepted the leadership of the Nationalists. After the debacle of the Congress on 27 December ...
... " When the British saw the fire of Nationalism taking hold of Punjab they hastened to stamp it out. On 9 May 1907, Lala Lajpat Rai, the Lion of Punjab, was arrested and deported to Mandalay in Burma, along with Ajit Singh. The news reached Calcutta at about midnight. In a couple of hours the Bande Mataram was to go to press. Sri Aurobindo was roused from his sleep and given the news. Instantly ...
... other hand, press reports make it evident that he was still in Calcutta on the 15 th when he went to Chandpal Ghat to welcome back Shyam sundar Chakrabarty, released after fourteen months' exile in Burma. We have therefore the choice between 16-17-18 February 1910 Page 530 —the 7 th - 8 th - 9 th day of the moon's bright half—for the day Sri Aurobindo left Calcutta on the spur of ...
... Chittaranjan Das. June 30 — A large area at Tunguska in Siberia is devastated, supposedly by the falling piece of a comet. July 22 — Tilak is sentenced to six years' transportation to Burma for alleged seditious writings in the Kesari. December 16 - Deportation of Ashwini Kumar Dutt, Krishna Kumar Mitra, Satish Chatterjee, Subodh Mullick, Monoranjan Guha Thakurta, and four ...
... 'terrorists' like Barin, Upen, Ullaskar etc., had been banished for life to the Andamans. Other 'troublemakers' had been safely put behind bars. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was rotting in a jail in Mandalay (Burma). Bepin Pal had left India. As 'leaders' only men like G. K. Gokhale and Pherozshah Mehta were acting out like puppets the part assigned to them by the wily British. India was more or less manageable ...
... that this is the result of the action of the Force is also without a shadow of doubt. There are other, very interesting examples. There's a Burmese (you may have heard of this) who has just received a "peace prize." He has written an article (he is Burmese, I don't know which language he wrote it in, but it has been published in French in a Swiss newspaper), in which he says what everybody knows ...
... Page 111 she may be right to a certain extent, it's possible. But anyway, it's a very small detail, it's nothing. I expected a lot and have been somewhat disappointed. But what this Burmese man has said is fine—that's much more interesting: this idea that it's high time human nature changed. That's good. Because in ordinary life, ordinary people tell you, "I can't help it, that's the ...
... movement Page 187 towards creating a confederation. This confederation of India will include all the States within SAARC and at a later stage could even include Afghanistan and Myanmar. However, certain conditions have to be kept in mind and scrupulously fulfilled. The first condition is that the Indian government must scrupulously respect the free internal life and will, the social ...
... fat person, butt end of some of our pranks and remarks. She didn’t always take them lying down. She often took a swing at us. One of her favourite targets was Runu Ganguly. She would call him, “Hey, Burmese” (such were the features he bore). He got pricked and would shout back, “Kumdo” (pumpkin). (To call someone Mridu-di was to condemn him/her to ‘Fatdom’.) But, if anyone went too far, she could always ...
... Mystery and Excellence of the Human Body Ram Gopal's Training Ram Gopal was born in Bangalore early in this century, from an Indian father and a Burmese mother. He received a complete training in Kathakali dance with his gurus Meenakshisundaram Pillai and Kujun Kurup but he was also interested in other forms of folk and temple dancing. He went ...
... their own hands. In South-East Asia Bose formed his Indian National Army (INA) again with Indian prisoners of war and also with expatriate Indians who were living in what are now Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar and Singapore. The peak of this effort was the Imphal campaign in March 1944, when a Japanese army, including 3000 troops of Bose’s INA, crossed the Indian border in the North-Western hills. That Imphal ...
... (JSASA) with Sri Aurobindo's approval, it had been first unfurled on 15 August 1947 and had since then been saluted as the symbol of the undivided eternal Bharat, the Greater India that includes Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka as well as Pakistan and Bangladesh. There is a Truth, Power, Knowledge, Love that sustains the unity of this real Bharat that transcends the truncated political India, and the Spiritual ...
... enough is known about what secrets of their trade were discussed by Pakistani nuclear scientists with Bin Laden. Furthermore, Pakistan has been selling its nuclear weapons technology to North Korea, Myanmar, and Saudi Arabia. There are questions about whether Musharraf has full control over his military and intelligence apparatus as well as his nuclear arsenal. U.S. policy toward Pakistan has failed to ...
... set in plaster, in bas relief, and painted in green with her symbol in brass fixed in the centre. 22 This Spiritual Map of India includes the present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Again, in 1948, the Mother had a dance-drama in three scenes presented in the Ashram. The first scene recalled the India of the recent past, India in slavery and bondage, but at ...
... audience cheered the more. He toured the prisoner-of-war camps and won two thousand volunteers, he spoke to Indian meetings everywhere, he conferred constantly with the Japanese. In August he was at the Burmese Independence celebrations in Rangoon. There followed visits to Bangkok and Saigon. There were more speeches, interviews without number and long meetings with Japanese commanders and government officials ...
... dominant combination of one or more straight lines with one or more curves and to obviate monotony letters purely composed of straight lines are set off by others purely composed of curves. In the Burmese and other dialects, I believe but from hearsay only, no line but the curve is admitted and I am told that the effect is undeniably pretty but a trifle monotonous. Here then we have a clue. If we consider ...
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