... either case.... Aurobindo On Himself , XXVI.438 × C.R. Das, Sri Aurobindo's lawyer in the Alipore bomb case. There are three letters; one dated November 18, 1922, to C.R. Das, and the two others to Barin, Sri Aurobindo's younger brother, dated November 18, 1922 and December 1, 1922. The letters are included at the... spoke to her about the publication. She said it was easier for her in America than in England, but she had to see. We'll see. Page 271 ADDENDUM ( Letter from Sri Aurobindo to C.R. Das, his lawyer in the Alipore bomb case. ) 18 November 1922 Dear Chitta, It is a long time, almost two years I think, since I have written a letter to anyone. I have been so much retired and ...
... they were starting the Bande Mataram C.R. Das insisted that Bipin Pal should be the editor, while they insisted that Sri Aurobindo should be the editor. Dutt told Das, "We have persuaded him to come from Baroda to take up the editorship of the paper." SRI AUROBINDO: What? Who persuaded me? I came on my own to start a nationalist movement. There was no C.R. Das at that time. In fact, Bipin Pal had... Pal's absence. I called them and remonstrated strongly. They said they wouldn't have anything to do with the paper if Pal remained editor, and so he was pushed out. NIRODBARAN: Dutt also said to Das, "We have brought Sri Aurobindo from Baroda almost against the Maharaja's wishes. The Maharaja is coming to the Congress. What will he say? SRI AUROBINDO: Which Congress? How could he attend the Congress ...
... one year. There's British justice for you! Chittaranjan Das (1870-1925) —later known as Deshban-dhu (Friend of the Country)—was then thirty-eight years old, and a rising barrister. He was the son of Attorney Bhuban Mohan Das, who was a close friend of K. K. Mitra's. At the time there remained only Rs. 3000 in the defence Fund. C.R. Das accepted the job. With some initial hesitation though. For... colleagues. The others, however, kept their mouths shut. They made their statements through their lawyers. We are coming soon to Sri Aurobindo's own statement at the Sessions Court through his counsel C.R. Das. But let us pass a brief glance at the period before the proceedings started at Judge Beach croft's court. At the Presidency Jail Sri Aurobindo and two or three others were lodged for a month... I have already been told to take up the defence of Sri Aurobindo. Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay came three times to tell me." That was through planchette, for Upadhyay had died one year earlier. C.R. Das, who had known Ara from their Cambridge days, and who was one of his Nationalist collaborators, put aside his large practice and devoted himself for months to the defence of his friend, "who left the ...
... ges to Kalimohan Aloy, the house of Chitta-ranjan Das at Russa Road, in Bhowanipore. A quarter century later Sahana,' recounting the episode, vividly lived the scene. She was but eleven years old at the time, but she recalled the wild excitement when the news of Arabindo Babu's release was brought to the house. Had not all of them seen how C.R. Das, her mamababu, had worked day after day, night after... prisoners reached their house, what joy there was! A jubilant welcome was given to the guests. After which the ladies of the house went to the kitchen. The young men out of 1 Sahana Devi, C.R. Das' niece, was a great singer in those days. I met her first in Pondicherry in 1935. Such an affectionate nature is hard to find. Page 271 the jail took an enthusiastic bath of liberation ...
... PURANI: Abhay says this is the time to preach non-violence to people in Europe when they are down with the curse of war and violence. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, to preach but not to practise! EVENING C.R. Das has delivered a speech in answer to the Madras Governor. He says that it is easy to sneer at non-violence during war, but it was the non-violent movement that overcame the terrorist activities that... for religious and ethical matters, nothing can be said against it. But in politics even his own followers accept it with reservation. SATYENDRA: Now all are in an uncomfortable position. It seems C.R. would be glad to go back to office. SRI AUROBINDO: That he feels uncomfortable is quite evident. There is no strength in his speech. SATYENDRA: If Gandhi had kept out after the Poona meeting,... would have been better for everybody. SRI AUROBINDO: Oh yes, much better. PURANI: This new Madras Governor gave a hint of conceding to Congress demands for a national government at the Centre. So C.R. took it up. SRI AUROBINDO: In fact many Governors were in favour of it. This Governor came fresh from England and didn't know the official mind. ...
... and reconciled their quarrels and went back to Baroda." He had constituted a Working Committee comprising P. Mitter, C.R. Das, Surendranath Tagore, Sister Nivedita, and himself. From the beginning, Sri Aurobindo used to contribute big sums for the work of the secret society; C.R. Das and P. Mitter also contributed. But he got a bit disappointed at the continued quarrels among the workers. "Again a quarrel ...
... witnesses into submission and win his cases. In the early stages of the trial, a number of lawyers appeared on behalf of Sri Aurobindo and the other defendants but after it had reached the Sessions stage C.R. Das took charge of the Defence, particularly that of Sri Aurobindo. He was then a rising barrister with a growing reputation, had known Sri Aurobindo in England and was closely connected with him in the... case set the seal on his reputation and he soon became one of the greatest lawyers of his day, and later a leader of the nation in the political sphere. Indeed, it can be said that the appearance of C.R. Das changed the course of the trial so far as it affected Sri Aurobindo, and in the famous speech Sri Aurobindo delivered at Uttarpara, after his acquittal, indeed he says: 'When the trial opened in the... not been for Sri Aurobindo, the case would have been over long ago, for he was the one person, more than any other, whom the Prosecution was anxious to convict. The final speech for the Defence by C.R. Das spread over eight days. It is still recognised as a masterpiece of the art of legal advocacy and his inspired words towards the close of the speech when he addressed the Judge and Assessors have long ...
... administrative work. My interest was in poetry and literature and study of languages and patriotic action. Disciple : We heard that you and C.R. Das used to make plans of revolution in India while in England. Sri Aurobindo : Not only C.R. Das but many others. Deshpande was one. Disciple : You used to write very strong memoranda for the Gaikewad; you once asked him to go and give ...
... across distant seas and lands. Therefore I say that the man in his position is not only standing before the Bar of this Court, but before the Bar of the High Court of History” – thus said Deshbandhu C.R. Das during his peroration at the famous trial of Sri Aurobindo in Calcutta, in 1908. These prophetic words have been more than fulfilled, far beyond anybody’s ken and the process is further expanding ...
... generally had only a sightseer's interest or a prying journalistic curiosity, on important occasions he relaxed the rule of seclusion. Prominent Nationalist leaders like C.R. Das, the poet Tagore, the educationists James H. Cousins and C.R. Reddy, his former pupil K.M. Munshi, and several others met Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry and had fruitful discussions with him. After his interview, James... The Alipore Trial served in no small measure to make Sri Aurobindo's name a household word in India. Having sensationally demolished the prosecution's case against Sri Aurobindo, his counsel C.R. Das, a great name in Indian politics during the 1920s, ended his moving peroration as follows: ...Long after the controversy will be hushed in silence, long after this turmoil, this agitation... tutor, speaking of the 1898-9 period, has recorded that among the English poems on which Sri Aurobindo was then engaged there was one on Savitri also. And, referring to a later period (probably 1905), C.R. Reddy has stated that once A.B. Clark, then Principal of the Baroda College, remarked to him: "So you met Aurobindo Ghose. Did you notice his eyes? There is mystic fire and light in them. They penetrate ...
... not to build except on a perfect foundation.' In June 1923 C.R. Das, who was then on a political tour of South India, came to Pondicherry and met Sri Aurobindo. Das, Motilal Nehru and like-minded leaders had by then broken away from the Congress to found the Swaraj Party and participate in the elections to the legislative assemblies. C.R. Das requested Sri Aurobindo to give his support to the new party... party. Sri Aurobindo declined to do so openly but assured Das of his spiritual help. It seems that at this time C.R. Das also sought to be initiated into Sri Aurobindo's Yoga but Sri Aurobindo did not agree to accept him as a disciple. Commenting on this many years later Sri Aurobindo said: 'He was the last of the old group. He came here and wanted to be a disciple. I said he wouldn't be able to go through... changed circumstances after the war, to disclose his identity but refrain from revolutionary activities. The next morning 'Gabriel' left, to carry out Sri Aurobindo's instructions. During 1922 C.R. Das wrote to Sri Aurobindo urging him to reenter politics and assume the leadership of the Congress which was then in the throes of a controversy between the b'charigers' and 'non-changers' over the question ...
... the sentence of death; on a criminal. Sri Aurobindo : That was in his young age and he got over that. Disciple : In C.R. Das there were many personalities : the lawyer, the poet, the politician etc. Sri Aurobindo : In your article you have said that Das's speeches 'were not logical. But in earlier days all his speeches were logical like those of a lawyer. When he entered politics... saints have been sinners in the earlier period of their lives – like Bilwamangal. Disciple : There are exceptions. Sri Aurobindo : No, the fact is that they do not confess their sins. Das was not exactly moral, but he became great. Disciple : In his later life he controlled himself. Sri Aurobindo : Yes. He was always a very strong man. Page 144 ...
... religious books and in writing. He is said to be accessible to almost anyone known or unknown, who goes to call on him." What a far cry from present-day 'leaders'! Among the most frequent callers were C.R. Das, Sri Aurobindo's advocate during the Alipore Bomb Case, the Modern Review's editor Ramananda Chatterji, and the Sanskritist Gispati Kavyatirtha. 1 G. C. Denham was then Special Assistant ...
... attention to the proceedings in the courtroom and the goings-on in jail. His inner voice had told him that he would be acquitted for lack of evidence, and so it happened. In his peroration an inspired C.R. Das, Aurobindo’s lawyer, had spoken the following words about his client: ‘Long after this controversy is hushed in silence, long after this turmoil, this agitation ceases, long after he is dead and gone... × On Himself , 400 × Manoj Das, Sri Aurobindo in the First Decade of the Century, 1 × Talks with Sri Aurobindo (recorded by N... × P. Heehs, op. cit., 57 × Manoj Das, op. cit., 64 × P. Heehs, op. cit., 66 ...
... Subodh and Nirod Mullick as the principal financial supporters. A company was projected and formed, but the paper was financed and kept up meanwhile by Subodh. Bepin Pal who was strongly supported by C.R. Das and others remained as editor. Hemendra Prasad Ghose and Shyam Sunder joined the editorial staff but they could not get on with Bepin Babu and were supported by the Mullicks. Finally, Bepin Pal had ...
... Three times in those momentous eight years he was accused of sedition, yet never convicted: on the most famous occasion of the three, when he went through a year's undertrial detention in jail and C.R. Das, the future leader of Bengal, appeared as his counsel and, by a curious stroke of fate, the judge at his trial was one Mr. Beachcroft whom he had beaten to second place in Greek and Latin in ...
... "Aurobindo is not a man, he is a god." Next he comes to Calcutta, to the political field which, you know, is not much better today, or is perhaps worse. Sri Aurobindo said to us, quoting C.R. Das's opinion that "the political field is a rendezvous of the worst kind of criminals"; and that field, when Sri Aurobindo worked in it, he raised to a level of sincerity and integrity, at least in his ...
... with a different voice. Mr.Rajagopalacharya, the ex-Prime Minister of Madras, says that the only panacea for Hindu-Muslim unity is the joint To put before you, a letter from Lala Lajpat Rai to Mr. C.R. Das. It was written, I believe, about 12 or 15 years ago and that letter has been produced in a book recently published by one Indra Prakash and that is how this letter has come to light. This is what ...
... Mohammedan." Similarly, Lala Lajpat Rai came to the conclusion that this behaviour pattern had its primary source in the Quran and the Hadis. Lalaji wrote as follows in a confidential letter to Deshbandhu C.R. Das: "I have devoted most of my time during the last six months to the study of Muslim history and Muslim Law and I am inclined to think that Hindu-Muslim unity is neither possible nor practicable. Assuming ...
... impression Sri Aurobindo's personality had made upon the sensitive mind of C.R. Das. What was there in Sri Aurobindo in 1908-9 on the basis of which one could predict that "his words would be echoed and re-echoed not only in India but across distant seas and lands"? Subhash Chandra Bose, the chief lieutenant of C.R. Das, - C.R. Das became later in 1918 the foremost pilot of Bengal politics and one of... t C.R. Das had, when in 1909 he prophesied before the judge who was trying Sri Aurobindo in the Alipore Case on the trumped-up charge of sedition and revolutionary action: "The able and 76. The Legacy of the Lokamanya by Theodore L. Shay. 77. Quoted by T.L. Shay in his book,The Legacy of Lokamanya. Page 214 prophetic advocacy of Chittaranjan ( C.R . Das) raised... Page 296 instructions to his Counsel, but he was asked by his unfailing guide, the Divine, to leave the entire charge and responsibility to C.R. Das, who conducted the case with an inspired zeal and ability. C.R. Das's peroration was and has since remained a classic of intuitive prophecy, couched in a garb of glittering eloquence. We have already quoted some of the last lines ...
... round Sanskrit and Bengali poetry Renderings from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, from Chandidas, Vidyapati, Horu Thakur, Nidhu Babu and others, from Bhartrihari, from the Sagar-Sangit of C.R. Das, from the Vedas and the Upanishads, from Bankim Chandra and Dwijendralal Roy— all these make for both variety and volume. Sri Aurobindo was willing to turn his hand to these exercises in translation—more ...
... on. Making a reference to C.R. Das's Sagar-Sangit and to his own verse translation in English, Songs of the Sea, Sri Aurobindo wrote in 1947: The sea to the Indian imagination is a symbol of life, - one speaks of the ocean of the samsāra and Indian Yoga sees in its occult visions life in the age of a sea or different planes of being as so many oceans. Das's poem expresses his communing... and beyond them (but also comprehending them), it is something more elemental, more primordial, - the ultimate Existence itself! As the sea is to Ellidda in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea, to C.R. Das and to Sri Aurobindo too, the sea is a symbol of romance, symbol of the siege and the constitutive resolution of contraries, a museum and power-house of infinite consciousness-force. The arts of... like Vidula (from the Mahabharata) and his original play Perseus the Deliverer appeared in those papers or in the Modern Review. Songs of the Sea, Sri Aurobindo's translation of C.. R. Das's Sagar-Sangit, was published only in 1923 and hence does not strictly belong to the Baroda period, but it is conveniently discussed in this chapter along Page 68 with the other translations ...
... millenniums at least and is going to carry on much longer and has accumulated quite enough power to survive. Sri Aurobindo added that he had warned the people of Bengal almost forty years earlier, and C.R. Das too - in the early 1920's had entertained grave apprehensions, and even told Sri Aurobindo while on a visit to Pondicherry that "he would not like the British to go out until this dangerous [communal] ...
... at Nagpur in December 1920. Sri Aurobindo's friend of former days Dr. B.S. Moonje of Nagpur, made a direct approach to the recluse at Pondicherry. Leaders like Lajpat Rai, G.S. Khaparde, Baptista, C.R. Das, Moonje himself and many others felt that the Gandhian emphasis on the Punjab excesses and the Kilafat question was an indefensible narrowing down of the Nationalist demand, while the religious overtones... presided over the session, and made the demand 'for Swaraj more comprehensive than the mere redress of the Punjab and Kilafat wrongs. But the non-cooperation plank couldn't be successfully assailed, and C.R. Das himself, who came with a huge contingent of delegates from Bengal with the avowed purpose of wrecking non-cooperation, ultimately supported it instead. The Mahatma carried the day, and the Gandhian... seems to have referred to Das in an earlier (1926) conversation also: "Das asked to come here, but I refused because he would have brought a different world here and because he was not ready. His psychic being would have easily opened. But there was much vital movement in his nature. His intellect was lucid." Page 531 It is clear Sri Aurobindo advised Das to persevere in his political ...
... one hand and an unsheathed sword in the other, while pledging their lives, total dedication and secrecy to the society. P. Mitra would become president of a council of five consisting of Aurobindo, C.R. Das, whom Aurobindo had known in England, Surendranath Tagore of the famous Tagore family, and Sister Nivedita. Sister Nivedita (1867-1911) was the foremost Western disciple of Swami Vivekananda. She... he had put it all into my head … I never expected him and yet he came to teach me. And he was exact and precise even in the minutest details.’ 51 In his peroration at the end of the trial, C.R. Das, now Aurobindo’s lawyer, pronounced the following words about Aurobindo which are since then written in the pages of history: ‘Long after this controversy is hushed in silence, long after this turmoil... Nirodbaran, Talks With Sri Aurobindo I, pp. 53, 212, 323. × Manoj Das, Sri Aurobindo in the First Decade of the Century , p. 64. × Peter Heehs, op. cit., p. 173. ...
... Andamans for life, some were sentenced to transportation or rigorous imprisonment for several years; and some fifteen, including Nolini Kanta Gupta, were acquitted along with Sri Aurobindo. Presently, C.R. Das appealed to the High Court on behalf of those who had been convicted, and as a result Barindra and Ullaskar had their death sentences commuted into transportation for life. There were other reductions... ceased to be a "traveller between life and death", and he has become instead a Pilgrim of Eternity. After a whole year in prison, Sri Aurobindo came out on 6 May 1909, and went straight to C.R. Das's residence and later to his maternal uncle's house - the Sanjivani Office - at 6, College Square. One who saw him then has since recorded that Sri Aurobindo sat "outwardly unconcerned and unperturbed... soon gave up the case. It was then that Chittaranjan Das - the "Deshabandhu " of a later day - agreed to appear for Sri Aurobindo. It is said that the spirit of Brahmabandhab Upadhyaya, who had died during captivity in the Campbell Hospital, appeared in a dream to Das and told him that he should take up the defence of Sri Aurobindo. Das's mother too seems to have asked him not to hesitate, for ...
... my spiritual Force for that. He told me that he began practice with only Rs. 15-30 a month. But that is no unusual. Certainly not. It's done in America every day. It was the same with C.R. Das. Apart from legal acumen, I want more to see how far Doraiswamy's character has been changed and moulded by the Force. Lord, man, it's not for changing or moulding character that this Asram exists ...
... launched ostensibly on the twin issues of the Punjab massacre and the Khilafat Page 215 injustice, had, after the initial excitement and enthusiasm, floundered in futility. Some leaders like C.R. Das were anxious to retrieve the position and to "give a more flexible and practically effective turn to the non-cooperation movement" 39 and they also wanted to enlist Sri Aurobindo's services to encompass ...
... Subodh and Nirod Mullick as the principal financial supporters. A company was projected and formed, but the paper was financed and kept up meanwhile by Subodh. Bepin Pal who was strongly supported by C.R. Das and others remained as editor. Hemendra Prasad Ghose and Shyam Sundar joined the editorial staff but they could not get on with Bepin Babu and were supported by the Mullicks. Finally, Bepin Pal had ...
... Aurobindo's camp-cot was torn so that he used to lie down carefully on the untorn side and sleep. However, life on the whole became easier, for around this time C.R. Das sent Rs.1000 for Sri Aurobindo's translation into English verse of Das's Bengali poems, Sagar Sangeet. Towards the end of the year 1913 an incident occurred which showed how implacable the British were in their determination to ...
... Bassora, which was Exhibit 299/3 in the Alipur Case, was spotted just when the MS was about to be sold as waste paper to the Government Contractor. 21. Quoted in PC. Ray, Life and Times of C.R. Das, pp. 63-4 . 22. The Religion of Man, pp. 81-2. 23. The Varieties of Religious Experience, p. 349. 24. Quoted in F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance, p... conscious of this that it filled my whole horizon." It was evidently this experience that Fr. de Chardin later translated into the affirmations of The Phenomenon of Man. 79. Letter to C.R. Das dated 18 November 1922. 80. Translated from the original German by Medhananda {The Advent, April 1958, pp. 68,71). 81. See A.B. Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo, p. 167. ... Sacred River, p. 211. 42. The Richest Vein, p.45. 43. Humanity and Deity, p. 89. 44. Jacobi, Complex, Archetype, Symbol, p. 91. 45. Sec Abinas Chandra Das, Rig-Vedic India Vol. I, pp. 420-1. 46. Rig Veda, V, 81, 5 (Tr. by Sri Aurobindo). 47. ibid, V, 82, 4 (Tr. by Sri Aurobindo). 48. Sri Aurobindo, On the Veda, p. ...
... Jatin and Barin. Jatin, it appeared, had become too rigid a disciplinarian and was losing his hold on the youth. Sri Aurobindo formed a committee of five consisting of P. Mitter, Sister Nivedita, C.R. Das, Surendranath Tagore and Jatin to be in overall charge of the revolutionary work in Bengal. Although some differences continued, the work under P. Mitter's leadership increased enormously. Hundreds... organisation of revolutionary work and himself followed up with a visit in 1902 during the college vacation. He went to Midnapur for the first time accompanied by Jatin and Barin. There he met Hemchandra Das, the revolutionary leader. On his return to Calcutta Jatin arranged a meeting between Sri Aurobindo and Barrister P. Mitter who had started an organisation of young men for revolutionary work under the ...
... being settled. The first terms that were proposed did not meet with Sri Aurobindo 's Page 35 approval. But next day an open letter from Swami Vishwananda appeared agreeing with C.R. Das : The Mahant abdicates in favour of Prabhat Giri and the power of management of the temple rests with a committee that can, if necessary, dismiss the Mahant and the committee would appoint a separate... throw out the Mahant and settle the affair once for all; but under a foreign rule if Das can establish the authority of the committee legally, it would be the cleverest thing to do, so that in case of emergency the committee can enforce its mandate by law. As it is, the whole law is against the public. After all Das is a man who "muddles through" – he acts on his intuitions and impulses and somehow... 4-7-1924 The subject was Gandhi's article : "Defeated and humbled" – an article in which he bemoans the situation in the Congress and says that it was a clear victory for Mr. G.R. Das. Sri Aurobindo attended to the correspondence and then began : "Did you read Gandhi's article ?" Disciple : I heard about it, it is a long wail. Sri Aurobindo : "Wail" ...
... usually at nine.* He seldom moved out of his house, but on special occasions - a marriage or baptism in a friend's house, the opening of the "Aryan Stores" - he made a brief outing. On a request from C.R. Das, Sri Aurobindo translated his Sagar-Sangit into English verse, as Songs of the Sea and received Rs. 1000 for the service, an amount that was welcome in his "impecunious" condition. His Baroda ...
... had studied at Cambridge University as a candidate for the Indian Civil Service. He had, however, submitted his resignation before being enlisted and entered nationalist politics under the aegis of C.R. Das, the lawyer-turned-politician who had defended Sri Aurobindo in the Alipore Bomb Case and remained a friend ever since. The gifted and ambitious Bose rose quickly to the top and became, in 1927, Joint ...
... had studied at Cambridge University for the Indian Civil Service, but he had submitted his resignation before being enlisted. His mentor was Chittaranjan Das, the barrister who had defended Sri Aurobindo in the Alipore Bomb Affair. By now C.R. Das himself had become a nationalistic politician of prominence. He was called ‘Deshbandhu’, Friend of the Nation, and had become, at the time Bose put himself ...
... stayed with Sri Aurobindo. In October - probably towards the end - Sri Aurobindo moved from Shankar Chetty's house to Rue Suffren in the southern part of the town and lived 9. A friend of C.R. Das and a famous Tamil writer. 10. A.B. Purani: Evening Talks. Page 353 there till April, 1911. Nolini Kanta Gupta came from Bengal and joined them in November, 1910. Except... matter could be sent to the press the next morning. Sourin was in charge of the Arya office and Moni was managing the house- hold and the kitchen. At about this time Sri Aurobindo translated C.R. Das's Bengali poem, Sagar Sangeet (songs of the sea) into English. It is a beautiful poem the last stanza of which we quote below: "This shore and that shore, -1 am tired, they pall. ...
... that they should be prepared for it. At that time no one attached any value to what I said although some afterwards remembered and admitted, when the trouble first began, that I had been right; only C.R. Das had grave apprehensions and he even told me, when he came to Pondicherry, that he would not like the British to go out until this dangerous problem had been settled. But I have not been discouraged ...
... it is only by large means being placed at my disposal that I can carry on this work which is necessary as a preparation for my return to action.’ 39 On the same day Sri Aurobindo wrote to C.R. Das, the nationalist politician and barrister who had defended him so effectively in the Alipore Bomb Case, and who had remained his friend and supporter ever since: ‘I have now a sure basis, a wide knowledge ...
... The idea of this "Radha dance" was given by the Mother. 2. This was the answer to my aunt Urmila Devi's visit here. She was a great patriot and went to jail also. Urmila Devi was a sister of C.R. Das. Page 3 just of the wrong nature and most likely to come in the way and block up your sister's receptivity, it is surprising that you should accept or echo them and not react against ...
... commonplace, such as procuring some minor articles required by the Ashram Stores, or taking up a work of great importance. For instance, in June 1923, when C.R. Das was in Madras, after a visit to Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo sent word to Appa to meet Das. In his letter of introduction he referred to him as one in whom he had "implicit trust". [18] Then, soon after the August Darshan of that year... March 16-31, 2009. [18] I believe Appa arranged for the printing of "An Outline Scheme of Swaraj" (a Constitution for India), which was drawn up by Das and his colleague Bhagawan Das for that year’s Congress session at Kakinada. [19] Sri Aurobindo Ashram — The Story of the Main Building , Ed. Raman Reddy, 2008, p.25. ...
... incorporate a Bande Mataram Company to raise the necessary finance. 5 In the meantime, Subodh and Nirod Mullick offered to keep the paper going, and Bepin Pal, enjoying as he did the support of C.R. Das and others, remained editor; but differences unfortunately developed between him and two of the editorial assistants, Shyamsundar Chakravarti and Hemendra Prasad Ghose, and so Pal retired towards... Lt. Governor wrote to Minto on 12 September: "We cannot catch him [Pal] for his speech; but an Indian Magistrate has given him six months for silence!" (Quoted from the Minto Papers in M. N. Das's India under Morley and Minto, p. 135) Page 246 the first principle of politics and the necessity and national self-perseveration". But the Government had gone about witch-hunting ...
... seen in chapter 22 how, ever since Sri Aurobindo's departure from Calcutta in 1910, attempts were made from time to time to bring him back to active political life. Lajpat Rai, Baptista, Moonje, C.R. Das were among the nationalist leaders who tried, at one time or another, to persuade Sri Aurobindo to Page 727 return to India from his self-imposed exile and give a lead to the country... 40 Later in the year, on 11 December, the National Prize for Humanities was awarded in absentia to Sri Aurobindo at the Annual Convocation of the Andhra University. In his citation. Dr. C.R. Reddy the Vice-Chancellor hailed Sri Aurobindo as "the Page 715 sole sufficing genius of the age": He is more than the hero of a nation. He is amongst the Saviours of... and therefore from the outset the Ashram School gave special importance to sports, games and athletics. During his visit to the Ashram to hand over the national Prize in person to Sri Aurobindo, Dr. C.R. Reddy witnessed an exhibition of games and physical exercises by the Ashram children, and commented on it later with enthusiastic approval. ...this wonderful Ashram in which life and the ...
... nothing but the Grace could, have brought them such success. The true worker knows to what extent he himself is the author of his success and what help another Power has given him." "That last speech C.R. Das made was magnificent. It was prophetic too, since everything he said then has come true, to the smallest detail." Sri Aurobindo smiled a gentle smile. "Is it true that he came here for your... lead the country to freedom. However, to come back to our story. After one year in jail, I Page 179 found myself free, acquitted on all counts, a freedom achieved by the Divine Grace with C.R. Das as its instrument." * Sri Aurobindo, looking smilingly around the room, asked, "And what are we going to talk about today?" Sudeep said, "About the way your political career came to an end... sent Jatin Banerjee to meet Mitra. Later when I went to Calcutta, Jatin introduced Mitra to me and the latter too took the revolutionary oath. I also met Hemchandra Das who worked for a secret society, that had been formed in Midnapur. Das was wealthy and it was on his extensive property that the young men perfected their rifle-shooting skills. The idea of establishing these secret societies was not ...
... labour of love, it would bring him no returns. But the message from the spirit of Brahmabandhava helped him to decide. 181 He took up the case and conducted it with 179. Better known as C.R. Das. 180. Patriot, philosopher, theologian, mystic, politician and journalist, Brahma- bandhava was held in high esteem and considered one of the outstanding personalities of his time. Through... 58 and long, thin, wavy hair parted in the middle and reaching to the neck, clad in coarse Ahmedabad dhoti and 58. Regarding his eyes, "the English Principal of the Baroda College said to C.R. Reddy (who was later Vice-Chancellor of the Andhra University): 'So you have met Aurobindo Ghose. Did you notice his eyes? There is a mystic fire and light in them. They penetrate into the beyond... universal hobby. We know that the great poet, Yeats, took keen interest in them, and Rabindranath tells us in his autobiography that he tried these experiments for some time. Barrister Chittaranjan Das 179 , we learn from a reliable source, received in one such experiment a message from the spirit of Brahmabandhava Upadhyaya 180 , urging him to take up the defence of Sri Aurobindo in the famous ...
... within limits; if they were to allow themselves to be as clear-minded as that, their occupation would be gone. It is not everybody who can be as cynical as a Birkenhead 9 or as philosophic as a C.R. Das 10 and go on with political reason or political humbug in spite of knowing what it all comes to — from arrivisme in the one and from patriotism in the other case. Also listen, enjoy ...
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