Cripps, Stafford : Sir (Richard) Stafford Cripps (1889-1952), like Nehru, a socialist democrat to the core whom, in 1940 Churchill appointed him ambassador to the USSR where he concluded the Anglo-Soviet Pact. In 1942, he was appointed Lord Privy Seal, leader of the House of Commons & a member of the War Cabinet. He was known to be liberal in his views regarding the constitutional changes to be introduced in India. On 11th March 1942, not long after the Japanese entered Singapore & Rangoon had fallen, Churchill announced that the War Cabinet was sending out Sir Stafford with a set of proposals that constituted a far-reaching advance towards satisfying Indian aspirations. However, the proposals were “to be accepted as a whole or rejected as a whole”. Arriving on 22nd Cripps announced his proposals on 29th at a press conference. Its long-term plan postulated the setting up, immediately after the war, a constitution-making body to frame the constitution of a new Indian Union which would have the full status of a Dominion with the power to secede from the Commonwealth. An Indian Dominion may have been ushered in 1925 by Birkenhead had C.R. Das not died & Gandhi not scuttled it. Another form of it may have happened had Indian & British participants in the three Round Table Conferences (1930-34) of Ramsay Macdonald, worked it out without cavil, prejudices, & deceit. For it forced Macdonald to inflict the Govt. of India Act 1936. Cripps’s Indian Dominion was to be elected by a college consisting of members of the provincial legislatures for which fresh elections would be held. The British Govt. would accept & implement that constitution on two conditions: provinces were free to frame by a similar process their own constitution giving them the same status as the new Indian Union, & a treaty should be negotiated between the British Govt. & the Indian constituent assembly covering all matters arising out of the transfer of responsibility, particularly the protection of racial & religious minorities. Britain, meanwhile, was to retain control & direction of the defence of India as part of their world war effort “but the task of organising the full military, moral & material resources of India” was to be “the responsibility of the Govt. of India with the co-operation of the people of India”. Sri Aurobindo sent S. Doraiswamy to Rajagopalachari (close friends since their college days) to convey his advice to the Congress leadership to accept the proposals. He was to explain to them that the world atmosphere was so grave that to safeguard the established intellectual & spiritual values was of supreme importance against the diabolical forces working behind Hitler & the rising Japanese imperialism; hence it was indispensable to fully support the Allied Cause first. Anticipating their inability to see beyond their petty personal interests, Sri Aurobindo had provided five solid reasons: (1) Japan’s imperialism being young & based on industrial & military power & moving westward, was a greater menace to India than the British imperialism which was old, which the country had learnt to deal with & which was on the way to elimination. (2) It would be better to get into the saddle & not be particular about the legal basis of the power. Once the power came into our hands & we occupied the seats of power, we could establish our positions & assert ourselves. (3) The proposed Cabinet would provide opportunities for the Congress & the Muslims to understand each other & pull together for the country’s good, especially at that time of the crisis. (4) The Hindu Mahāsabhā also being represented, the Hindus, as such would have a chance of proving their capacity to govern India not only for the benefit of the Hindus but for the whole country. (5) The main problem was to organise the strength of India in order to repel the threatened aggression. Cripps expected his personal relations with Nehru (both being socialists) would help him win the approval of the Congress Working Committee. But Gandhi rejected his Proposals under the ludicrous pretext that it did not immediately grant of full Dominion Status! To Sri Aurobindo, the Mahātmā sent a saintly advice: Leave India to me; mind your Bengal. When informed of Gandhi’s reaction, Sri Aurobindo merely commented had done his duty. The Mother, who had hoped India would not make the same mistake France had made (rejected England’s offer of alliance to oppose Hitler & paid heavily) remarked in private, “Now calamity will befall India.” While Congress’s rejection must have shocked Cripps, what must not have shocked him was Churchill retracting his assurance to Maulana Azad that the Viceroy’s Executive Council would function as a Cabinet with an Indian as defence secretary. Cripps also knew that it was the Britons & Anglo-Indians who represented the British Press gave their reports an anti-Congress, anti-Hindu, pro-Muslim, pro-League slant had successfully poisoned Indo-British relations. In July 1942, after a luncheon with Churchill, with whose stand he fully agreed with, King George noted in his diary: “Cripps, the Press & the US public opinion have all contributed to make their minds up that our rule in India is wrong, & has always been wrong for India. I disagree & have always said India has got to be governed, & this will have to be our policy.” Only in October 1943 did Rajagopalachari finally dare express his support to Sri Aurobindo’s advice in an article he published in the Amrita Bazar Patrika suggesting Congress re-consider & revive the Cripps’ Proposals. Sri Aurobindo’s only comment on this article, in private on 4th October, was that Wavell will be defeated by the same three-cornered ordeal as had Cripps, namely, the British Civil Servants vs. Gandhi’s Congress vs. Jinnah’s League. He was proved right: Wavell as well as the Cabinet Mission failed as had Cripps. In 1946, Cripps, now a member of the Cabinet Mission was responsible for its proposals which suggested the creation of a Federal Union of the British Indian provinces controlling the defence, foreign affairs & communications. The States might join after the negotiations. The individual provinces were to be at liberty to form subordinate unions of their own. Details were to be settled by a constituent assembly & pending the completion of the new changes there was to be an interim National Government of all the parties at the centre. But the hostility between the Congress & the League proved insurmountable. The proposals were rejected & the last effort to arrive at a solution of the Indian problem by peaceful means failed. Cripps lived long enough to see Indian win independence through a blood-bath & a grievous partition. While India remembers Sir Stafford with gratitude for putting into practice the true socialist philosophy against all odds, England judges him chiefly by the austerity programme he imposed on it as Chancellor of Exchequer (1947-50). [Durga Das, India – From Curzon to Nehru & After, London, 1969; S. Bhattacharya; “Escape from Empire – The Atlee Govt. & the Indian Problem” by R.J. Moore, London, 1983]
... "Your message to Sir Stafford Cripps inaugurates the new era. Nothing can prevent it. I am glad that my eyes have seen this salvation coming." (April 1, 1942) By now negotiations had started between Cripps and the Congress leaders. Arthur Moore the very next day sent to his paper an editorial comment on Sri Aurobindo's message: "We have not doubted that Sir Stafford Cripps's mission will succeed... The well-known liberal thinker, Sir Stafford Cripps, was prominent as a spokesman of this advice. Churchill chose him to carry to India certain proposals meant to meet her basic demands and Page 144 induce her to join the united front of Britain and her allies against Hitler and his associates. In connection with what came to be known as the Cripps Proposals it may be interesting to... On hearing this declaration on the radio, Sri Aurobindo had the insight that the offer sent by Churchill through Sir Stafford Cripps had come on the wave of a divine inspiration and that it gave India the substance of independence. At once he sent a telegram to Sir Stafford: "I have heard your broadcast. As one who has been a nationalist leader and worker for India's independence, though now my ...
... Events (1940-1950) Public Statements, Messages, Letters and Telegrams on Indian and World Events (1940-1950) Autobiographical Notes On the Cripps Proposal [1] Sir Stafford Cripps New Delhi I have heard your broadcast. As one who has been a nationalist leader and worker for India's independence though now my activity is no longer in the political but... Sir Stafford Cripps's telegram in reply, dated 1 April 1942: I AM MOST TOUCHED AND GRATIFIED BY YOUR KIND MESSAGE ALLOWING ME TO INFORM INDIA THAT YOU WHO OCCUPY UNIQUE POSITION IN IMAGINATION OF INDIAN YOUTH ARE CONVINCED THAT DECLARATION OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT SUBSTANTIALLY CONFERS THAT FREEDOM FOR WHICH INDIAN NATIONALISM HAS SO LONG STRUGGLED. STAFFORD CRIPPS ... Sri Aurobindo gave this note to his disciple Duraiswami Iyer, an advocate of Madras, whom he sent to Delhi to speak with members of the Congress Working Committee about the Cripps Proposal.—Ed. ...
... work. 8 Stafford's response to this unexpected but authoritative support was he was "most touched and gratified" by the kind message from one who occupied a "unique position in [the] imagination of Indian youth". IV While such was Sri Aurobindo's reaction - which was also the Mother's to the Cripps Mission, some of the sadhaks were critical. The day after Cripps' broadcast, there... framed by India's own representatives after the War. In the meantime, the Indian leaders were invited to join a responsible Central Government and help the allied war effort. When presently Sir Stafford Cripps arrived in India to work out the details of an Indo-British concord, Sri Aurobindo extended an open welcome to him on 31 March 1942: I have beard your broadcast. As one who has been... unerring eye who said that the triumph of England and France was the triumph of the divine forces over the demonic forces. We were very angry, but it was a fact .... He spoke again when Sir Stafford Cripps came with his first proposal .. We rejected the advice ... but today we realise that if the first proposal had Page 426 been accepted, there would have been no partition, no refugees ...
... independence and partly under American pressure to secure her support during the war, sent Sir Stafford Cripps to India in March 1942, with a proposal for Dominion Status after the war, as a first step towards full independence. The Cripps Mission The proposals that Sir Stafford Cripps brought with him may be summarised as follows: In order to achieve the earliest possible... moral and material resources would be the responsibility of the Government of India in co-operation with the peoples of India. Here is an extract from the speech given by Sir Stafford Cripps on Mar. 30, 1942: First of all you will want to know what object we had in view. Well, we wanted to make it quite clear and beyond any possibility of doubt or question that the... possibility of the creation of more than one Union. The Cripps Mission thus ended in failure. Page 102 Rajaji and the Cripps Proposal In 1942, at the time of the Cripps mission from the British Parliament to India, Rajagopalachari was among the minority of top Congress leaders who favoured acceptance of the offer made by Cripps in an effort to end the political deadlock. Efforts ...
... political development should be made without the full consent of the minorities. Nehru and Sir Stafford Cripps say that the British Government is not trying for democracy. SRI AUROBINDO: Then for what? PURANI: For its own self-interest. SRI AUROBINDO: That is ancient history. NIRODBARAN: Cripps seems to justify Russia's claim on Finland because Finland once belonged to Russia, though he ...
... was a wave of indignation, also among Aurobindonians within and outside the Ashram. The indignation would turn into a conflagration when Sri Aurobindo sent a message of support to Stafford Cripps on 31 March 1942. Cripps, former Ambassador to Moscow and at present member of Churchill’s War Cabinet, was sent on a mission to India by the British Government, with a proposal for India’s self-determination... once that this would be equivalent to dominion status, which in turn would quasi automatically lead to complete self-determination and independence. He therefore sent the following message to Stafford Cripps: “… As one who has been a nationalist leader and worker for India’s independence, though now my activity is no longer in the political but in the spiritual field, I wish to express my appreciation... they accept the Cripps proposal. The reaction was one of disdain, questioning the advice of a man who had withdrawn from politics and chosen to live in seclusion many years ago. None of those politicians, prejudiced by the common notions about religion, yoga and spirituality, had an idea of what Sri Aurobindo was really doing. The Working Committee of the Congress Party rejected the Cripps Offer by 7 voices ...
... sending Sir Stafford Cripps to India as his personal envoy to negotiate with the Congress and Muslim leaders so that a responsible Central Government could be formed to mobilise Indian resources for fighting the Japanese. He also offered to create a new Indian Union with Dominion Status and with a constitution to be framed by India's own representatives after the War. When Sir Stafford Cripps came to India... of any help in your work.' Sir Stafford Cripps replied: 'I am most touched and gratified by your kind message allowing me to inform India that you who occupy a unique position in the imagination of Indian youth, are convinced that the declaration of His Majesty's Government substantially confers that freedom for which Indian Nationalism has so long struggled.' Cripps now entered into long discussions... was made in Calcutta when he was interviewed by the correspondent of the Tamil Nationalist Weekly. India, and it was then published in that journal. The British Cabinet Mission included Sir Stafford Cripps, who came to India for the second time, but in the intervening years the Muslim League position had hardened considerably and they were now adamant in their demand for a separate Muslim state. ...
... partly under American pressure to secure her support during the war, sent Sir Stafford Cripps to Page 51 India in March 1942, with a proposal for Dominion Status after the war, as a first step towards full independence. The Cripps Mission The proposals that Sir Stafford Cripps brought with him may be summarised as follows: In order to achieve the earliest... be the ruler and you our servants. Our harf [word] will be law; you will have to obey. " 17 The Cripps Proposal and the Quit India Movement The next important event that hastened the creation of Pakistan was the rejection of the Cripps Proposals. What exactly were the Cripps proposals? The war, which had started in 1939, was now continuing in full rage. By the summer of... military, moral and material resources would be the responsibility of the Government of India in cooperation with the peoples of India. Here is an extract from the speech given by Sir Stafford Cripps on Mar. 30, 1942: "First of all you will want to know what object we had in view. Well, we wanted to make it quite clear and beyond any possibility of doubt or question that the British Government ...
... English people are a practical people. They don't understand the principles the Congress stands for. And for them to agree to whatever the Constituent Assembly decides is out of the question. Stafford Cripps may do that but he is not the Premier. About Lady Hydari who died one or two days ago, Sri Aurobindo said that she would not have lasted long, but her death was hastened. Doctors said that she ...
... of India's future independence and partly under American pressure to secure her support during the war, sent Sir Stafford Cripps to India in March, 1942, with a proposal for dominion status after the war, as a first step towards full independence. Sri Aurobindo sent Cripps the following message.) As one who has been a nationalist leader and worker for India's independence, though... inevitability of India's future independence and partly under American pressure to secure her support during the war, sent Sir Stafford Cripps to India in March, 1942, with a proposal for dominion status after the war, as a first step towards full independence. Sri Aurobindo sent Cripps the following message.) As one who has been a nationalist leader and worker for India's independence, though now... themselves on _______________ messenger. Although Nehru and Rajagopalachari favoured acceptance of Cripps' offer, Gandhi found it unacceptable "because of his opposition to war." Maulana Azad, President of the Congress, also opposed it, and the Congress finally turned it down. Had Cripps' proposal been accepted, the Partition and the blood bath that followed might have been averted, as also the ...
... liquidation of that division. 4 Let me again draw upon the fellow-sadhak from whom I have already quoted. He brings out the Mother's stand on the Cripps-question: "Then came the famous Cripps' Proposals. In the evening Sir Stafford Cripps broadcast his Proposals to the Indian people, from Delhi; they were discussed everywhere. In P's room the radio was installed and a connection made to Sri... intricate problems and her ultimate liberation. We may note that the proposals envisaged a single, free, undivided India setting up a united front against the enemy. He promptly sent a message to Sir Stafford Cripps welcoming the Proposals and recommended their acceptance to the Indian leaders. The message was as follows: "I have heard your broadcast. As one who has been a nationalist leader and worker for... as a free nation, her spiritual force will contribute to build for mankind a better and happier life. In this light, I offer public adhesion, in case it can be of any help to your work." Sir Stafford Cripps replied, "I am most touched and gratified by your kind message allowing me to inform India that you, who occupy a unique position in the imagination of Indian youth, were convinced that the declaration ...
... Sri Aurobindo in 1942, the division of India would most probably never have happened. In March of that year Sir Stafford Cripps, the British Lord Privy Seal and as such a member of Churchill’s war cabinet, came to India to offer the country ‘dominion status’ in what is known as ‘the Cripps-offer’. This meant ‘the creation of a new Indian union which shall constitute a dominion, associated with the United... night. He came for Sri Aurobindo’s blessings, lay prostrate before him, got up and stood looking at the Master with folded hands and then departed.’ 17 Sri Aurobindo also sent a message to Stafford Cripps personally: ‘I have heard your broadcast. As one who has been a nationalist leader and worker for India’s independence, though now my activity is no longer in the political but in the spiritual... karmayoga. But historical events, like everything else in the universe, are always complex. In a well-documented article about the Cripps-offer by Divakar and Sucharu in Mother India , from which some material is borrowed here, we read: ‘It was generally believed that if Cripps brought off the settlement, he would replace Churchill.’ 19 We know, however, that Churchill was an irreplaceable instrument ...
... would cloud the one all-important tragic issue before us. Sri Aurobindo 3. 9. 1943 THE CRIPPS STORY The Mother's remarks on the Cripps Proposal "What is it all about?" P said that one person argued that Cripps' offer would not be accepted by the Indian leaders. The Mother felt amused and inquired, "Why?" By then She had sat on the... April 1942 The Working Committee have given full and earnest consideration to the proposals made by the British War Cabinet with regard to India and the elucidation of them by Sir Stafford Cripps. These proposals, which have been made at the very last hour because of the compulsion of events, have to be considered not only in relation to India's demand for independence but more... look at anybody. Later, on the same day, the first of April, 1942, when She returned from the Prosperity after the distribution, She disclosed that Sri Aurobindo had already sent a telegram to Sir Stafford, and the latter had reciprocated very heartily, and both the telegrams were being put on the notice board by Nolini. We then read the messages and were very much encouraged. But the next day or ...
... 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 threat. In this proposal, Great Britain offered India Dominion status, as a first step towards an independent government. Sri Aurobindo at once came out of retirement to wire his adhesion to Cripps; he wired all of India's... organized; so they sent somebody (unofficially, of course) to ask India to reestablish union on certain bases—but they refused, the Indians refused. It was a repetition of the same stupidity as when Cripps came to make his proposal, when Sri Aurobindo sent a message saying, "Accept, whatever the conditions, otherwise it will be worse later on." That's what Sri Aurobindo told them. Gandhi was there and... accept this unhoped for proposal without delay. One of Sri Aurobindo's telegrams to Rajagopalachari (the future President of India) spoke of the grave danger, which no one seemed to see, of rejecting Cripps' proposal: "... Some immediate solution urgent face grave peril. Appeal to you to save India formidable danger new foreign domination when old on way to self-elimination." No one understood: "Why is ...
... und der deutsche Antimodernismus Brissaud, André: Hitler et l’Ordre noir Bronder, Dietrich: Bevor Hitler kam Bullock, Alan: Hitler and Stalin – Parallel Lives Burgess, Simon: Stafford Cripps – A Political Life Burleigh, Michael: The Third Reich – A New History Cannadine, David (ed.): The Speeches of Winston Churchill, p 134. Chamberlain, Lesley: Nietzsche in Turin – ...
... the Cripps Offer, also called the Cripps Proposals. Great Britain, fully engaged in its life-or-death struggle with the Powers of the Axis, wanted to make sure that India, its ‘Jewel in the Crown,’ would be unreservedly on its side. Therefore on 11 March 1941 Winston Churchill announced that the War Cabinet had agreed upon some proposals which would solve the crisis in India. Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord... success were washed away,’ writes Hugh Toye. ‘It became a military catastrophe of the first magnitude.’ 58 Sri Aurobindo writes about himself in the third person: ‘When negotiations [with Stafford Cripps] failed, Sri Aurobindo returned to his reliance on the use of spiritual force alone against the aggressor and had the satisfaction of seeing the tide of Japanese victory, which had till then swept... the members [of the Congress leadership] individually and the sense of the reactions was more or less to this effect: Sri Aurobindo has created difficulties for us by his message to Cripps.’ Sri Aurobindo had sent Cripps a telegram in appreciation of his proposals. ‘He doesn’t know the actual situation, we are in it, we know better, and so on.’ 40 However, had they listened to that ‘unknowledgeable’ ...
... 54, 57, 58, 68, 124, 148, 154 Cowell, E . B., 97(11) creation (new), 21 , 23, 32, 57 , 91 , 128, 154 , 193 ,200.201,241,244,247 criminals. Indian, 214 in politics , 221 Cripps, Sir Stafford, 237 Cripps' proposal, 224(11), 237 culture. see under Indian culture Curzon, 17 Czechoslovakia , 23 I D Danton, 24 Das, Chillaranjan, 13,47, 159, 185,216, 221,223,242 Dayananda... Mahatma , 9,1 51 ,170, 180, 191 -192,202-203, 206,226,230 and birth control, 186 and castes, 207,208 and Charkha, 2 15 -2 16, 2 19, 225 a Christian, 175 -17 6 and Congress, 20 9, 215, 21 9 and Cripps' proposal, 237-238(fn) a European, 175 and hunger-strike, 145, 168, 17 1 and Khilafat movement, 173 and Muslim demands, 227 and non-cooperation, 160, 180 and non-violence, 166,168,218,219, 225... meeting with Mother, 113 calls for his return to politics, 148-149, 155-156 hi s withdrawal in 1926, 187 accident to his le g. 211 his support for the Allies, 231 , 236, 238 his public support for. Cripps' proposal. 224(fn), 237 his message for India's Independence, 244-245 his passing, 255 see also Chronology, p. 257 ff Srinivas Iyengar, 215 Stalin, 215, 225 strength, 14-15, 16, 18,21,32,36 ...
... When the world war came in 1939 it was he of the unerring eye who said that the triumph of England and France was he triumph of the divine forces over the demoniac forces. He spoke again when Sir Stafford Cripps came with his first proposal. He said, 'India should accept it.' We rejected the advice... but today we realise that if the first proposal had been accepted, there would have been no partition... rift and the disintegration of China one day". We ridicule the idea of Yogis having any knowledge of affairs outside their own "limited" spiritual field. Sri Aurobindo's intervention during the Cripps' Proposals was stigmatised as such an ignorant and illegitimate interference. More than once he demonstrated how false this notion is. Not only are Yogis aware of world-affairs, but those who ordinarily ...
... p, 39 . Page 230 March, three days after the fall of Rangoon, the British government announced that they were sending Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the War Cabinet, to India. In a Draft Declaration, issued shortly after Cripps' arrival in Delhi on 27 March 1943, the government offered to take steps "for the earliest possible realisation of self-government in India"... racial and religious groups. Finally, the British invited Indian cooperation in the war effort.¹ Sri Aurobindo "supported the Cripps' offer because by its acceptance India and Britain could stand united against the Asuric forces and the solution of Cripps could be used as a step towards independence."² On 31 March 1942 he sent the British diplomat the following message: "I have... force will contribute to build for mankind a better and happier life. In this light, I offer my public adhesion, in case it can be of any help in your work."³ ¹ Draft Declaration of the Cripps' Mission, summarised in R. C. Majumdar, History of the Freedom Movement in India, Vol. Ill (Calcutta: Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1963), p. 622. ² Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, p. 39. ³ Ibid ...
... difficult to understand. Page 32 × In 1942, at the time of the proposals offered by the British through Sir Stafford Cripps, not yet granting independence to India but leading towards it, Sri Aurobindo took the trouble of sending a special messenger to Delhi to convince certain responsible persons that the proposals ...
... Sri Aurobindo puts his spiritual force behind the Allied war effort. 1942 Publication of Collected Poems and Plays. March 31 Sri Aurobindo's support of the Proposals of Sir Stafford Cripps, emissary of the British government, which offered to India selfgovernment after the war and invited her assistance in the war effort. 1943 December 2 The Ashram school started. ...
... Sri Aurobindo puts his spiritual force behind the Allied war effort. 1942 — Publication of Collected Poems and Plays. March 31 Sri Aurobindo's support of the Proposals of Sir Stafford Cripps, emissary of the British government, which offered to India self-government after the war and invited her assistance in the war effort. 1943 — December 2 The Ashram school started. ...
... would crush all the forces opposed to him and Nazism dominate ^.he world, he began to intervene." 2 |- Sri Aurobindo and his Ashram ^ Ibid p. The second was with regard to Sir Stafford Cripps" proposal for the transfer of power to India. Over and above Sadhana, writing-work and rendering spiritual help to the world during his apparent retirement, there were plenty of other activities ...
... farms. All these happened despite various acute hardships due to the war. 1942 March 31 : British Government's offer to congress leaders through Sir Stafford Cripps. Sri Aurobindo's Public declaration of support to it. Sent his personal envoy to the Congress Working Committee giving his reasons for and requesting acceptance of the offer ...
... the forces opposed to him and Nazism dominate ^.he world, he began to intervene." 2 |- Sri Aurobindo and his Ashram ^ Ibid p. Page 3 The second was with regard to Sir Stafford Cripps" proposal for the transfer of power to India. Over and above Sadhana, writing-work and rendering spiritual help to the world during his apparent retirement, there were plenty of other activities ...
... battle between virtue and wickedness or between good and evil men or intended to equate the British with the Pandavas, nations with individuals or even individuals with individuals,—shall we say, Stafford Cripps with Yudhisthir, Churchill with Bhima and General Montgomery with Arjuna! After all, were even the Pandavas virtuous without defect, calm and holy and quite unselfish and without passions? There ...
... concern himself with it, but when it appeared as if Hitler would crush all the forces opposed to him and Nazism dominates the world, he began to intervene."1 The second was with regard to Sir Stafford Cripps' proposal for the transfer of power to India. Over and above Sadhana, writing – work and rendering spiritual help to the world during his apparent retirement, there were plenty of other activities ...
... Shah 255, 265-6, 280, 328-9 Cheddi Lal 821 Chidanandam, V. 231, 765 Chinmayi (Mehdi Begum) 321, 325, 674 Churchill, Winston 410, 416, 423, 425 Coleridge, S.T. 61 Counouma, P. 691, 816 Cripps, Sir Stafford 425ff, 447, 571 Page 900 Dahyabhai Patel 683 Daladier, Edouard 395ff, 403 Daniel, Samuel 38 Dante 111,315,471,633 Dara (Aga Syed Ibrahim) 328 Das, Deshbandhu... War 404ff to pro-Nazi sadhaks 414, 423 avowal of the Allied cause 415-7 wartime prayers arid messages 422-41 Page 906 vision of its extension 424 as Mona Lisa 420 supports Cripps' Mission 425-6, 571 calls on her time 460-1, 489 self-portrait and portrait of Sri Aurobindo 465, 700, 734 paints 'Emerging Godhead' or Golden Purusha 694 decline in Sri Aurobindo's health 490-1... 739) how to find her in this life 377 Suicide: sheer stupidity 377, 642, 713 Page 913 jealousy and vanity 378, 652 justice and evil-doers 401 Ahimsa 401 hypnotism 402 Churchill 416 Cripps' mission 425-6 War and her disciples 428 need for malleability 432 women's care of their body 438-9 New Woman's ideal of Beauty 440 Atomic bomb 442 sports and yoga 469 'modern' art 473 yogic ...
... after the war. In the meantime, Indian leaders were invited to participate in a responsible Central Government and help the Allies to prosecute the war to the point of victory. Presently, Sir Stafford Cripps came to India to work out the details, and on 31 March 1942, Sri Aurobindo openly welcomed his mission in forthright terms: I have heard your broadcast. As one who has been a nationalist... was he of Page 706 the unerring eye who said that the triumph of England and France was the triumph of the divine forces over the demoniac forces.... He spoke again when Sir Stafford Cripps came with his first proposal. He said, 'India should accept it.' We rejected the advice... but today we realise that if the first proposal had been accepted, there would have been no partition... of India's recent history, Nirodbaran has said that Sri Aurobindo sent his personal emissary to Delhi because he saw that Cripps had come "on the wave of a great inspiration" and it was incumbent on the Congress to make the right response. But his mission failed, and Cripp's mission failed: There is such a thing as fate. When this Mission failed we told Him; "You see, your mission has failed ...
... Congress in December 1907 where he had gone as a volunteer from South India. Later, in March 1942, Sri Aurobindo sent him as his personal envoy to the Congress leaders to urge them to accept Sir Stafford Cripps proposal. 99. Suchi and Sarala were a French couple. Sarala was a good tailoress. 100. "Urvasie": one of Sri Aurobindo's narrative poems. The theme, love of King Pururavas of the lunar ...
... The seriousness of the situation during World War II caused him to speak out in favour of the Cripps Proposal of 1942. Later, on request, he issued messages on two other British initiatives: the Wavell Plan and the Cabinet Mission Proposals. On the Cripps Proposal. In March 1942 , Sir Stafford Cripps (1889 - 1952), a Labour member of the War Cabinet, came to India with a proposal from the British... and were promised a constitution-making assembly after the cessation of hostilities. Cripps announced the details of the proposal in a radio talk of 30 March 1942. Sri Aurobindo responded in several ways. [1] On 31 March, he sent a telegram to Cripps endorsing the proposal and offering his "public adhesion". Cripps replied to Sri Aurobindo in a telegram of 1 April 1942. Sri Aurobindo's telegram was... Section One) were his last public statements on political topics for more than twenty years. He first broke his silence in 1940 in connection with the Second World War. Later he spoke in support of the Cripps Proposal and other British offers to the leaders of the Indian national movement. Still later he provided, on invitation, messages when India achieved independence and on other occasions. ...
... Cotton, Sir Henry, 36-7, 204, 206 Cotton, James S., 31, 33,37, 38 Cousins, James H., 610ff Craegan, Superintendent, 308 Crew, Lord, 369-70 Cripps, Arthur, 32 Cripps, Sir Stafford, 706ff, 710, 754,782 Curzon, Lord, 202ff, 204ff, 224, 268, 294, 304 Daly, Dr., 317, 321 Dante, 92, 619, 636 Das, C. R., 64, 68, 77, 79, 282, 326ff... 699ff, 707; on Nazi rule, 700, 707; on the resignation of the Congress ministries, 701; on ashramites' pro-Hitler feelings, 702; on Hitler as the Asura, 702-3; support to allied cause, 704; support to Cripps' Proposals, 706, 728; allied war as dharma yuddha, 708H; message to Congress leaders, 711; Independence Day message, 7128"; birthplace as 'Mujib Nagar', 713; on Gandhiji's martyrdom, 714-5; C. R ...
... a later time all side-issues and minor issues or hypothetical problems that would cloud. the one all-important tragic issue before us. 3-9-1943 * MESSAGE TO SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS I have heard your broadcast. As one who has been a nationalist leader and worker for India's independence, though now my activity is no longer in the political but in the spiritual ...
... aggravated by the disease from which he was soon to die. It so happened that he was alone in London when the shock came: the Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, and his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, were both on holiday at different places in France. In the confusion, the young Minister of State at the Foreign Office, Kenneth Younger, was inclined to recommend that Britain accept the French... Massigli after the dinner, I said: 'The British will not find their future role by themselves. Only outside pressure will induce them to accept change.' It was better to speak plainly. Sir Stafford Cripps asked me to come to his office before leaving London. 'Would you go ahead with Germany and without us ?' he inquired. 'My dear friend,' I answered, 'you know how I have felt about Britain ...
... × Sri Aurobindo sent a special messenger to Delhi advising Indian leaders to accept, as a first step towards independence, Sir Stafford Cripps' proposal of Dominion status for India. Sri Aurobindo held that this proposal conferred essential independence on India by putting her on a par with the various Dominions already associated with... pitiful condition and reaffirm her greatness? When she renounces falsehood and lives in the Truth. 28 April 1965 Sweet Mother, Why did Sri Aurobindo advise India's leaders to accept the Cripps Proposal in 1942, when He knew fully well that they would not? 21 The Divine often advises or tries to guide man, knowing very well that His help will be refused. Why then does He do it? ...
... 142, 852. 1169 Id., p. 810. 1170 Hugh Toye: The Springing Tiger Subhash Chandra Bose, p. 39. 1171 Sri Aurobindo: On Himself, p. 393. 1172 Id., p. 399. 1173 Simon Burgess: Stafford Cripps – A Political Life, p. 168. 1174 Nirodbaran: Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo, p. 229. 1175 L’Agenda de Mère II, p. 410. 1176 Nirodbaran, op. cit., p. 228. 1177 Sri Aurobindo: ...
... him but he was gracious enough to remember me, during Sir Stafford Cripps' wartime mission to India in 1942. I was surprised one morning when the negotiations were Page 411 threatening to reach a deadlock (on the transitional arrangements in regard to defence) to receive a message from him for Gandhiji and Sri Nehru: the Cripps' offer, it was his deliberate view, should be accepted ...
... to remember me, during Sir Stafford Cripps, wartime mission to India in 1942. I was surprised one morning when the negotiations were threatening to reach a deadlock (on the transitional arrangements in ¹ Sri Aurobindo, On Himself , pp. 425-28. Page 165 regard to defence) to receive a message from him for Gandhiji and Sri Nehru : the Cripps' offer, it was his deliberate ...
... between virtue and wickedness or between good and evil men or intended to equate the British with the Pandavas, nations with individuals or even individuals with individuals, or shall we say, Stafford Cripps with Yudhishtir, Churchill with Bhima and General Montgomery with Arjuna? After all, were even the Pandavas virtuous without defect, calm and holy and quite unselfish and without passions? There ...
... received a Mantra from the Master. A nationalist and a leading advocate by profession, he was Sri Aurobindo's emissary who carried his message to the Congress Working Committee when, in 1942, Sir Stafford Cripps's proposal to create a new Indian Union with a Dominion Status was being discussed in New Delhi. Unfortunately Sri Aurobindo's recommendation to accept the proposal was rejected. ...
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