Deshpande Keshavrao K.G. Deshpande : Keshavrao Ganesh (1869-1939), a close friend of Sri Aurobindo since their Cambridge days. After returning from England as a barrister, for a time he edited the English edition of the Indu Prakāsh of Bombay, & published Sri Aurobindo’s series New Lamps for Old then joined Baroda Service. The closest friends Sri Aurobindo made during his 13 years in Baroda Service were Deshpande, Madhavrao Jādhav & his elder brother Khāserao Jādhav whom he met around 1895-96 through Madhavrao & considered as his brother. Since the day one of the bombs in Bengal had managed to graze British Majesty…. In his biography of Sayājirao (1989), his grandson Fatehsingh Rao writes: “The Resident’s principal bogey man, Aurobindo Ghose…the Resident kept pestering the English Dewan to take some sort of punitive action against two men in Baroda service who were known to have been friendly with Ghose while he was there, four years earlier, Khāserao Jādhav & K.G. Deshpande.... Both held appointments as subās or District Commissioners, Deshpande at Mehsāna & Jādhav at Navasāri. The substance of the allegations against them was that they had not been sufficiently zealous in curbing anti-British activities within their districts.... It had all started two years earlier when copies of a Gujarati language translation of Aurobindo’s [
... Madhavrao Jadhav, who was associated with him in his political ideas and helped him in later years, whenever possible, in his political work. Among his other friends were Khasirao Jadhav and Keshavrao G. Deshpande, the latter of whom Sri Aurobindo had known at Cambridge. In the early years at Baroda, Sri Aurobindo often stayed either with Khasirao or his brother Madhavrao, but later he used to rent... moment he stepped on the shores of India they became more frequent and more intense. But he did not associate them with yoga about which he knew nothing at the time. Even when he was asked by Keshavrao Deshpande, himself a sadhak, to take up the practice of yoga, Sri Aurobindo declined since it seemed to him then merely a retreat from life. II Some months after reporting himself to duty... knew too that, when the preordained hour struck, he wouldn't hesitate to cut his connection with the Baroda College and plunge openly into the political fray. When he was first advised by Keshavrao Deshpande to take to Yoga, Sri Aurobindo (as mentioned earlier) had declined, viewing Yoga as a mere retreat from life. Spiritual experiences like the vast calm that descended upon him when he set foot ...
... Aurobindo had nothing to do with the Court; he does not remember to have received any such invitations. Among his brother officers the most intimate with him were Khaserao Jadhav and Barrister Keshavrao Deshpande, with whom he discussed the problems of Philosophy, Spiritual life and the reconstruction of India. The most intimate friend at Baroda was Khaserao's brother, Page 38 Lieutenant... experiences, from the time he stepped on to the shores of India, but did not associate them at that time with Yoga about which he knew nothing. Afterwards when he learned or heard something about it from Deshpande and others, he refused to take it up because it seemed to him a retreat from life. There was never any talk about the reconstruction of India, only about her liberation. He played cricket well ...
... Aurobindo returned to India in 1893. Soon after he had settled down at Baroda, Sri Aurobindo was approached by his Cambridge friend, K.G. Deshpande to contribute articles to the Indu Prakash, an English-Marathi weekly, which he was then editing from Bombay. Deshpande was aware of Sri Aurobindo's uncompromising views but he was willing to take the risk of publishing them. Accordingly, Sri Aurobindo... us many years later: When I came to Baroda from England I found out what the Congress was like at that time and I formed a strong contempt for it. Then I came into touch with Deshpande, Tilak, Madhavrao and others. Deshpande requested me to write something in the Indu Prakash. There I strongly criticised the Congress for its moderate policy. The articles were so fiery that M.G. Ranade, the great... great Maratha leader, asked the proprietor of the paper not to allow such seditious writings to appear in his columns; otherwise he might be arrested and imprisoned. Deshpande approached me with the news and requested me to write something less violent. I then began to write about the philosophy of politics, leaving aside its practical aspect. But I soon got disgusted with it.' Sri Aurobindo's first ...
... 1893 to 5 March 1894. Sri Aurobindo was pressed by K .G. Deshpande, his Cambridge friend, to write the series. K.G. Deshpande, after his return from England, settled in Bombay as a barrister and was also editor of the English section of the Induprakash. The paper had a Marathi section also. On Sri Aurobindo's joining the Baroda state, Deshpande requested him – knowing his strong nationalist views at... included Madhavrao and Khaserao Jadhav, K.G. Deshpande, Fadke, Mangesh Kolasker, etc. Mr. Fadke took a photograph of Dinendra Kumar Roy and Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo once recounted an anecdote of those days: "I remember that a young Sannyasi with long nails came to Baroda. He used to stay under trees. Deshpande and myself went to see him. Deshpande asked him what is the Dharma – the standard... in the National movement. When I came to Baroda from England I found out what the Congress was at that time and formed contempt for it. Then I came in touch with Deshpande, Tilak, Madhavrao, and others. Deshpande requested me to write something, in the Induprakash . There I strongly criticised the Congress for its moderate policy. The articles were so slashing that M .G. Ranade, the great ...
... Service and his immediate return to India. Dr. Ghosh was particularly fond of Sri Aurobindo, and had high hopes of his 7. Among his Indian companions in England, mention may be made of K.G. Deshpande, Sir Harisingh Gaur and Chittaranjan Das. Page 12 "Auro" 's brilliant future. But a cruel fate lay in wait for him. He was informed by Messrs. Grindlay & Co. that the steamer ...
... about an awakening in Maharashtra through the institution of Ganapati Festivals, that Sri Aurobindo found an unexpected ally in Sister Nivedita for his revolutionary work, and that he had (on K.G. Deshpande's advice) tried to seek through Yoga an accession of strength for political work. Yoga and rifle-practice may seem to us an odd combination, but once at least in Sri Aurobindo's life, this seems... Aurobindo is said to have laughed and said: "Your aim and ours are exactly the same. Why not look upon the ochre garb as a uniform?" 30 It was Charu Dutt too who accompanied Sri Aurobindo and K.G. Deshpande when they visited the Ashram at Page 193 Ganganath where a school called "Bharati Vidyalaya" was run by Swami Rakshananda. 31 The boys in the school received spiritual as well ...
... bang. K.G. Deshpande, who together with Aurobindo had been a member of the Indian Majlis at Cambridge, asked him to express his opinion on the current political situation in a series of articles for the Indu Prakash, the newspaper of which Deshpande was the editor. Aurobindo complied and wrote New Lamps for Old, lambasting the Indian National Congress in such hard-hitting prose that Deshpande got... yoga, he answered: ‘God knows what. It was while at Baroda that Deshpande and others tried to convert me to Yoga. My idea about Yoga was that one had to retire into mountains and caves. I was not prepared to do that, for I was interested in the work for the freedom of my country.’ 34 Nevertheless, somewhere in 1904 K.G. Deshpande taught Aurobindo the principles of pranayama , the art of breathing... that M.G. Ranade, the great Mahratta [Maratha] leader, asked the proprietor of the paper not to allow such seditious things to appear in his columns, otherwise he might be arrested and imprisoned. Deshpande approached me with this news and requested me to write something less violent. I then began to write about the philosophy of politics, leaving aside the practical side of politics. But I soon got ...
... was at the Baroda station. Dutt was on his way to Bombay, and he was with an English colleague; while Sri Aurobindo had gone to the station to see the artist Sashikumar Hesh off. "Magistrate Keshavrao Deshpande and Jatin Banerji were also with him." Just before the train's halt at the Baroda station the Englishman asked C. Dutt, "Do you know where Ghosh is now?" "Which Ghosh?" "That Classical ...
... unfailing spiritual guide to the seeker souls. We are glad to bring to you a study of Jnaneshwari, entitled The Wager of Ambrosia, by Prof. R. Y. Deshpande. It presents the Marathi Adi Kavi's work in an entirely new way. Prof. Deshpande,— a well acclaimed poet, writer, critic and scientist,—is a professor of physics at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and also the Associate... Wager of Ambrosia The Wager of Ambrosia A Study of Jnaneshwari R Y Deshpande ********************************* Publisher's Note "The first Marathi poet... at once a devotee, a Yogin and a thinker,"—this was how Sri Aurobindo spoke of Jnaneshwar in the context of Indian culture and literature. His magnum opus Bhavartha Deepika... philosophical topics and provides a distinct perspective in the light of Sri Aurobindo. Extensive use of the Marathi text as well as of the Gita adds to its value in a great way. We hope Prof. Deshpande's work will throw open the doors to fresher and rewarding studies of the Yogi-Poet's timeless creation and help our readers comprehend it in its deeper sense. ...
... instance of K. G. Deshpande, Aurobindo's Cambridge friend, who was editor of the paper, but the first two articles made a sensation and frightened Ranade and other Congress leaders. Ranade warned the proprietor of the paper that, if this went on, he would surely be prosecuted for sedition. Accordingly the original plan of the series had to be dropped at the proprietor's instance. Deshpande requested Sri... Ranade called the proprietor [saying] that these articles were revolutionary and dangerous and a case for sedition might be brought against the paper. The proprietor alarmed told the editor K. G. Deshpande that this series must be discontinued. It was finally concluded that the tone should be moderated, the substance made more academic and the thus moderated articles could then continue. Sri Aurobindo ...
... interpretative writing on the epic by what the editor of the anthology, R.Y. Deshpande, calls "the first generation authors... many of [whom] came directly in contact with Sri Aurobindo and therefore in them is the glow of intimacy providing a rarer personal feeling..." The book is divided into six sections. Deshpande points to "internal affinity" as being the principle for the grouping of... its literary contribution. Not that these are mutually exclusive, its mantric aesthesis an inseparable part of its spiritual "message", and several writers (Purani, Dilip Roy, Srinivasa Iyengar, Deshpande, Jyotipriya, Sisirkumar Ghosh) have been sensitive to the centrality of poetic valence to its overall meaning. A predominant number of articles provide the very valuable function of outlining the... quotes. The question of the original content of Vyasa's story in the Mahabharata and Sri Aurobindo's modifications thereof is dealt with in several of these approaches, but most completely in Deshpande's essay. The biographical context, equating Savitri with the Mother and Sri Aurobindo with Aswapati and in places, with Satyavan, is also addressed in several of these essays, but as Srinivasa Iyengar ...
... related, "I found what the Congress was like at that time and I formed a strong contempt for it. Then I came in touch with Deshpande, Tilak, Madhavrao and others [revolutionaries]. Deshpande requested me to write something in the Indu Prakash." We fleetingly came across Deshpande in Cambridge. Along with Sri Aurobindo, he was a member of the Indian Majlis there. In The Harmony of Virtue which he... Keshav Ganesh, after his college mate. After his return from England, Keshav Ganesh Deshpande settled in Bombay as a barrister. The Indu Prakash had two sections: Marathi and English. K. G. Deshpande was the editor of the English section. He was a Nationalist, he too. "I remember once going to a station to see Deshpande off," recalled Sri Aurobindo. "In his carriage there were many Englishmen. He told... leader, warned the proprietor of the paper that if this went on he would surely be prosecuted for sedition. Accordingly the original plan of the series had to be dropped at the proprietor's instance. Deshpande requested his Cambridge friend to continue in a modified tone and he reluctantly consented. A. Ghose then "began to write about the philosophy of politics leaving aside the practical part of politics ...
... Perspectives of Savitri : edited by R Y Deshpande (The work appears in two volumes published by Aurobharati Trust Pondicherry in 2001 and 2002; it runs into about 1400 pages and Page 94 contains more than 50 selected letters and articles written by various authors since the appearance of Savitri in 1950.) Vyasa's Savitri : R Y Deshpande (This is a verse-by-verse rendering ...
... England, for a revolution in India. SRI AUROBINDO: Not only C. R. Das but many others. Deshpande was one. When I went to Baroda from England I found out what the Congress was like at that time and I formed a strong contempt for it. Then I came into touch with Deshpande, Tilak, Madhavrao and others. Deshpande requested me to write something in the Indu Prakash. There I severely criticised the Congress... so fiery that M. G. Ranade, the great Maratha leader, asked the proprietor of the paper not to allow such seditious things to appear in his columns; otherwise he might be arrested and imprisoned. Deshpande approached me with this news and requested me to write something less violent. I then began to write about the philosophy of politics, leaving aside the practical part of politics. But I soon got... for the Maharaja but along the lines he gave me. As I said, I was not interested in administrative work and soon I got the Maharaja to transfer me to the College. Along with Tilak, Madhavrao, Deshpande and Joshi, who became a Moderate later, I was planning to work on more extremist lines than the Congress. We brought Jatin Banerji from Bengal and got him admitted into the Baroda army. Our idea was ...
... Mhow, he will not reach Baroda till the beginning of July. I shall probably be going separately & may also reach on the 1ṣṭ of July. If you like, you might go there a little before & put up with Deshpande. I have asked Madhavrao to get my new house furnished, but I don't know what he is doing in that direction. Banerji is, I believe, in Calcutta. He came up to see me at Deoghur for a day. Yours ...
... I remember a young Sanyasi with long nails came to Baroda. He used to stay under trees. Deshpande and myself went to see him. Deshpande asked him : what is the Dharma, the standard of action? He replied, "There is no such standard. It is the Dharma of the thief to steal because that is his nature. Deshpande was very angry when he heard that; I said it is only a point of view. Page 166 ...
... known as a revolutionary judge. NIRODBARAN: People say you had three very intimate friends. One of them is dead, one still alive. We don't know about the remaining one. SRI AUROBINDO: One was Deshpande who was very intimate: he is dead. Madhavrao was another: he is also dead. Who was the third? PURANI: Kasherao? SRI AUROBINDO: Kasherao was not so intimate. NIRODBARAN: Dutt speaks of going ...
... Then I came in touch with Deshpande, Tilak, Madhav Rao etc. There I strongly criticized the Congress for its moderate policy. The articles were so furious that M.G. Ranade, the great Maharashtra leader, asked the proprietor of the paper (through Deshpande) not to allow such seditious things to appear in the paper, otherwise he might be arrested and imprisoned. Deshpande approached me with Page... 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 it to the Resident personally. Sri Aurobindo : That is legend. I could ...
... advantage. NIRODBARAN: But in Bengal he would have a hard time. SATYENDRA: Why? NIRODBARAN: In Bengal Sannyasis are not held in much esteem. SRI AUROBINDO: Bengal has Deshpande's idea, I suppose. I remember when Deshpande returned from England some Sannyasis came to him. He drove them away, asking why able-bodied people should go about from door to door. SATYENDRA: But in any other part of ...
... Bengali). The present monograph, The Ascent of Sight in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, will, we hope, be able to grip the interest of the discerning readers. We are thankful to Dr. R.Y. Deshpande for his scholarly 'Foreword' which will greatly help in the proper appreciation of the content of the book. ...
... Editors' Note The present work accompanies the main festschrift volume Amal-Kiran: Poet and Critic edited by Nirodbaran and R.Y. Deshpande Foreword , The following letter of mine addressed to Sri K.D. Sethna on July 1, '94 will sufficiently explain to the readers the story behind the genesis of this ...
... large gathering in the spacious Dining Room of the Park Guest House and a wheelchaired Me being - as old-fashioned reporters would have put it - the cynosure of all eyes. My friends Nirodbaran and Deshpande had arranged the celebration. Nirod was asked to make an introductory speech and I had to follow up with one which might have gone on and on if I hadn't remembered that people might be waiting for... that a laudatory hullaballoo would be more fit for the hundredth year. But nobody seemed confident about my hitting a century. No Ashramite had done it so far by way of encouragement. So Nirod and Deshpande couldn't cross their fingers and bide time. My grandfather bade adieu at the age of 99 years and 9 months. This record could be encouraging if we forgot that my father had taken leave of us at a mere... exceeded it by 18 years. How much further is probable? A clue seems to come from a very early letter of Sri Aurobindo's whose facsimile is published in the souvenir volume presented to me by Nirod and Deshpande. The letter appears on pp. 7-8. At its end is the date in unmistakable figures: 28.2.98. Does this slip of the pen suggest that Sri Aurobindo foresaw me still alive in 1998? As the letter was written ...
... of Nature, remember a young Sannyasi who came to Baroda. He had lons nails and used to sit under the trees. Deshpande and I went to see him. I asked him, "What is the standard of action?" He replied, "There is no standard. The thief may be right in stealing because it is his dharma." Deshpande was very angry to hear that. I said, "It is only a point of view." But all this doesn't mean that there ...
... not go to see him, did not practise Pranayam till long afterwards. He met the saint Madhavadas at Malsar on the banks of the Narmada and learnt about Yoga-āsanas. Visited, probably with Deshpande, one or two places on the banks of the Narmada, but no recollection of Malsar or Madhavadas, certainly no effect of the meeting, if it happened at all. Sri Aurobindo met, one by one, Sri Hamsa ...
... Baji Prabhou Know more > Author's Note This poem is founded on the historical incident of the heroic self-sacrifice of Baji Prabhou Deshpande, who to cover Shivaji's retreat, held the pass of Rangana for two hours with a small company of men against twelve thousand Moguls. Beyond the single fact of this great exploit there has been no attempt... till the end. Even then a sword found out his shoulder, sharp A Mogul lance ran grinding through his arm. Fiercely around him gathered in a knot The mountaineers; but Baji, with a groan, "Moro Deshpande, to the other side Hasten of the black gorge and bring me word. Rides any from the West, or canst thou hear The Raigurh trumpets blow? I know my hour Is ended; let me know my work is done." He... and on his limbs The swords drank blood, a single redness grew His body, yet he fought. Then at his side Ghastly with wounds and in his fiery eyes Death and rejoicing a dire figure stood, Moro Deshpande. "Baji, I have seen The Raigurh lances; Baji, I have heard Page 306 The trumpets." Conquering with his cry the din He spoke, then dead upon a Mogul corpse Fell prone. And Baji with ...
... other characteristic experiences – at Poona on the Parvati hills and then in Kashmir on the Shankeracharya hill, – a sense of a great infinite Reality was felt. It was very real. Then at Baroda Deshpande tried to convert me to yoga; but I had the usual ideas about it – that one has to go to the forest and give up everything. I was interested in the freedom of the country. But I always thought that ...
... to Sri Aurobindo, but did not know how to do it. Among Aurobindo's contemporaries at Cambridge may be mentioned Ferrers, Robert Pentland Mahaffy, Felix Xavier De Souza, K. G. Deshpande and Sir Harisingh Gaur. K.G. Deshpande met Sri Aurobindo again in Baroda. Being brought up in a foreign country without a background Page 23 of home life in India or, once they had left the Drewetts ...
... 'The Stone Goddess' is housed in a little shrine known as the Mahakali Mandir of Karnali. The beautiful statue of Mahakali, facing west, is about three feet high. Her mount is a tiger. It was Deshpande —he had joined the Baroda State Service in 1898 —who had taken Sri Aurobindo there from Chandod during one of their visits there, as the temple town was not so very far from Swami Brahmananda's place ...
... this great Epic. I appreciated their good will towards me but did not take their request seriously. Recently, in a letter dated 2 April 2000, my friend and colleague Deshpandebhai (R. Y. Deshpande, a professor of Physics in SAICE and the associate editor of the cultural monthly Mother India) requested me to write an article on Savitri. He specified that the article could be about 10000-words ...
... in Siddhanjana should pave a new path in these studies. A Sanskrit Rendering of the Symbol Dawn (pages 507-22) is from Sanskrit Writings, Vol. 9. Page 555 R. Y. DESHPANDE: Is professor of physics in Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and associate editor of Mother India, a monthly review of culture published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry ...
... Charu Dutt says that the first time he met you was at the train station at Baroda. He was passing through Baroda and you had come to the station to see somebody off. You were accompanied by Hesh and Deshpande. Dutt was travelling with an Englishman, an I.C.S. man probably, and just before Baroda station the Englishman asked, "Do you know where Ghose is now?" "Which Ghose?" "That Classical scholar of Cambridge ...
... like Sri Aurobindo, who was a poet and a philosopher, and a 'military' man with a European soldier's temperament. Sri Aurobindo himself spoke in 1940 of his two intimate friends in Baroda. "One was Deshpande who was very intimate: he is dead. Madhavrao was another: he is also dead." Lt. M. R. Jadhav was associated with Sri Aurobindo's political projects, and was one among four or five with whom "I was ...
... Vyasa's Savitri Vyasa's Savitri R Y Deshpande ********* Publishers' Note The work being presented here had first appeared in Mother India, the monthly review of culture, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry. We are thankful to its editor for serialising it in his periodical. Our thanks are also due to M/S Amravan Group ...
... Nirodbaran, Nishikanto, Arjava, Amal Kiran, Harindranath, Behari, Jyotin, Jyotirmoyee, Sahana-devi, Tehmi, Madhav Pandit, and others, followed by Jugal Kishore, Kishor Gandhi, A. S. Dalal, Peter, Deshpande and others. It will be difficult to go into their special contributions and the merits of their works in this essay, but they should not be underrated for that reason. However, we must make ...
... is an Indian." When did you conceive of doing the Yoga, Sir? SRI AUROBINDO: Conceive of it? You mean when I started it? DR. MANILAL: All right, Sir. (Laughter) SRI AUROBINDO: It was Deshpande who wanted me to do Yoga. But when I came to know it would mean withdrawal from the world I didn't want to do it as I wanted to do political work. Then I took to Pranayama. But it didn't carry me ...
... an image of Kali the living Presence. After that, I came to believe in God. NIRODBARAN: What led you to Yoga? SRI AUROBINDO: What led me to Yoga? God knows what. It Was while at Baroda that Deshpande and others tried to convert me to Yoga. My idea about Yoga was that one had to retire into mountains and caves. I was not prepared to do that, for I was interested in working for the freedom of my ...
... Naoroji 'that black man of India.' Salisbury, an erstwhile Secretary of State, had also declared, "India must be bled." The Indian student community, including our A. A. Ghose, C. R. Das and K. G. Deshpande, reacted strongly to the public insult. In consequence Naoroji was elected and became a Member of Parliament, but in the process "I headed the list of the unsuccessful," as C. R. Das averred. C ...
... beating him. After some time the Englishman shouted, "That will do, that will do." From that time on, he was all right. SRI AUROBINDO: That is quite true. I remember once going to a station to see Deshpande off. In his carriage there were many Englishmen. He told us afterwards that as soon as he sat down, the Englishmen said, "We will beat you if you don't get out." He replied, "Come and try." And they ...
... Arvind Ghose," said N. K. Dikshit carrying his thoughts back to his college days, "used to grace the Debating Society's meetings with his presence. Once or twice he was accompanied by Mr. K. G. Deshpande, B.A., Bar-at-law Rarely they addressed the meeting but when they did it was really an intellectual feast that seemed to us. Later on Ghose was appointed Lecturer in French and English. ...
... It was that love that led Sri Aurobindo to Yoga. He wrote the pamphlet Bhawani Mandir, in 1905 I reckon. R. N. Patkar disclosed the following fact. "In the beginning of 1905 Sri Aurobindo, Deshpande and Jadhav were meeting in the evenings." We suppose it really was Khaserao, as Madhavrao had been sent to England in 1905. "One evening," Patkar called up into his narrative a scene from those bygone ...
... ghee equivalent to the water taken. These were not tricks played by Brahmananda. "They have happened," confirmed Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo was first taken to Brahmananda by his friends like Deshpande — who wanted him to take up yoga — and Deodhar, a disciple of the Yogi. Sri Aurobindo went to Chan-dod several times and saw Swami Brahmananda. It is said that he lived several hundred years. When ...
... a pleasure to send you my books. Now to the matters that most matter. It's very gallant of you to make a 22-page synopsis of my book and send it off to Deshpande. If you have a copy I should like very much to be a second Deshpande. In despair of ever getting my mammoth published, I carved out portions of it and with suitable follow-ups got together two smaller books: (1) The Problem of Aryan... pat on the back, my article didn't get published in Mi.! There is a gap in correspondence as I was transferred to Delhi where I got to know the Director General of Archaeology, Shri M.N. Deshpande, who encouraged me to submit a synopsis of Amal's research on Harappan Culture. When I informed Amal of this, he wrote heart-warmingly on 15.4.78 from 30 Rue Suffren where he had shifted, passing ...
... the secret source of its delight. It is now for us to pick up the text-book and profit from it. And the nice thing is that the text-book has also a definite literary 4 R.Y. Deshpande, Vyasa's Savitri. 5 Words of the Mother, CWM, Vol. 13, p. 24. 6 Ibid., p. 25. 7 Some Answers from the Mother, CWM, Vol. 16, p. 294. 8 Ibid., p. 395. ... had come. The gods conversed amongst themselves to find a way to awaken the supreme Power. It is in their reunion, in their coming together 32 Ibid., p. 679. 33 R.Y. Deshpande, Vyasa's Savitri, pp. 19-21. in another delight, that the lustre of Brahma will be restored to its original brightness. It may even become multiply bright. In the beginning Brahma... realise the 52 Savitri, p. 525. 53 Ibid., p. 175; p. 693. 54 The Secret of the Veda, SABCL, Vol. 10, p. 147. 55 The Future Poetry, SABCL, Vol. 9, p. 200. 56 R.Y. Deshpande, Sri Aurobindo and the New Millennium, p. 178. Divine," 57 —the Divine not only in the radiant world, divyaloka, but also in the mortal world, mrityuloka. Thus when the truest and ...
... Kulkami are due to his placing an unquestioning reliance on Mr. K. G. Deshpande's information. It is true that Sri Aurobindo knew Mr. Deshpande in England as a student, though he was not intimate with him. He subsequently met him at Baroda where both were servingv But in the details concerning Sri Aurobindo's life Mr. Deshpande Page 352 has been unconsciously inaccurate at... serious tone. My work was over – the purpose of my visit to Pondicherry was served. My personal question and the problem of our group was solved! I then conveyed to him the message of Sj. K. G. Deshpande Page 294 from Baroda. I told him that financial help could be arranged from Baroda, if necessary, to which he replied, "At present what is required comes from Bengal, especially... Pukur Lane (Karmayogin office). Page 350 Biography of Sri Aurobindo by Kulkarni – A Criticism P. B. Kulkami, Yogi Aurobindo Ghose , with a preface by K. G. Deshpande (Bombay: Kashinath Mahadev Jamhankar, Prakishya Kacheri, 1935), 225 pages. This is a biography of Sri Aurobindo, the only one of its kind, I believe, in the Marathi language. Mr. Kulkarni ...
... Savitri to her Satyavan. She is the Mediator between the light and the human consciousness bringing her Force to the disciples who could bear its Light and Power. 1. Nirodbaran and Deshpande, R.Y., Ed. Amal-Kiran : Poet and Critic, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1994, pp. 306-07. Page 62 The Mother and SriAurobindo are the guiding spirits of the Ashram. The Ashram ...
... vision. Nolinida, as Nolini Kanta Gupta was universally known in his life-time, had that rare gift of getting at the heart of a problem and of seizing immediately the truth of things. As Deshpande puts it (in his "Nolini Kanta Gupta's Perceptions of Poetry" in Tributes to Nolini Kanta Gupta, Sri Mira Trust, Pondicherry, 1988): "There is a catholicity of outlook, a way of seeing God's world ...
... But you have to understand the situation in which he got placed. Two articles which had been meant for the souvenir volume generously edited almost behind my back by Nirodbaran and R. Y. Deshpande arrived too late either to be included in it or to go with the long article by Jugal Kishor Mukherjee which came out as a booklet soon after. Where were they to appear? Persuaded by the wish of my ...
... he will not reach Baroda before the beginning of July. I shall probably be going separately and may also reach on the 1 st of July. If you like, you might go there a little before and put up with Deshpande. I have asked Madhavrao to get my new house furnished but I don't know what he is doing in that direction. Yours sincerely, Aurobindo Ghose" The Kumaon hills cradle Nainital. It is ...
... Dayanand Saraswati, 15, 16, 19, 60,452 Defence of Indian Culture, A, 404,448 de Mello, Melville, 760 Derozio, Henry, 14,25 Deshmukh, C. D., 760 Deshpande, Keshavrao G., 47,55,56,57,64, 189,193 Deuskar, Sakharam Ganesh, 190 Dev, Radhakanta, 14 Dharma, 50, 201, 335, 336, 344ff, 359,361, 368, 370, 399,449 Divina Commedia ...
... Amal-Kiran - Poet and Critic Yogi of the Modern-Age I AM asked by Mr. Deshpande to write about Amal in this volume to celebrate his coming on the verge of the 9th decade of his wonderful life. I have been fortunately given the freedom to choose the aspect on which to write. Without that I would have been unable to write about such ...
... and all those who attended on Sri Aurobindo after his accident of previous November were there. "What led me to Yoga?" Sri Aurobindo considered. "God knows what. It was while at Baroda that Deshpande and others tried to convert me to Yoga. My idea about Yoga was that one had to retire into mountains and caves ... and give up everything. I was not prepared to do that, for I was interested in the ...
... something decisive. She forgets herself. In a swift occult action she discards all the heavy sheaths, disburdens herself from what would hold her back to the gross earth. Savitri 2 R. Y. Deshpande, Vyasa's Savitri, pp. 31-32. 3 Savitri, p. 578. The Mother tells the following: In sleep you reach a stage when you are on the borders of form. There everything stops, all vibrations... action is the leader of the march through the terrestrial ways. Even as it grows it becomes more and more bright and golden: 35 Ibid., IV:32. 36 Ibid ., Iv:1. 37 Ibid .,R.Y. Deshpande , Vyasa's Savitri, pp. 58-9. Page 119 With sacrifice the Lord of creatures of old created creatures and said, By this shall you bring forth (fruits or offerings), let this... earthly existence. Such is the glory of Savitri's threefold Yajna: the Individual, the Universal, the Transcendental. This is the executive Truth we see in Savitri's House of Meditation. R.Y. DESHPANDE Page 125 ...
... that it is my destiny to be transformed,I have tasted some-thing of the Peace that belongs to the time-transcending Consciousness in which the future is no uncertain 1. Nirodbaran and Deshpande, R.Y., Ed., Amal - Kiran : Poet and Critic, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1994, pp. 7-8. Page 81 possibility but a path already traversed, a goal already attained, a truth ...
... Cambridge friend, K.G. Deshpande. "They were begun at the instance of K.G. Deshpande,... but the first two articles made a sensation and frightened Ranade and other Congress leaders. Ranade warned the proprietor of the paper that, if this went on, he would surely be prosecuted for sedition. Accordingly the original plan of the series had to be dropped at the proprietor's instance. Deshpande requested Sri... limitations and not attempt to overshoot its mark. An overweening confidence in its own competence to judge all things under the sun is fatal to its own growth. Sri Aurobindo used to go out with Deshpande and some others of his friends to the banks of the Narmada river in search of Yogis who could give him some power for his political work. On one such excursion, he visited a temple of Kali and had ...
... - because they all come from the very quality of his soul that is perfectly Aurobindonian. PR's note itself is good introduction to this little, but precious, selection: "My dear Deshpande Regarding Amal's epistolary wonder: As many of these letters have already been published in Mother India and his book Life-Poetry-Yoga , I cannot object to your compilation ...
... perfect coordination of mind, intelligence and body organs. These are considered the important symptoms of the healthy individual. _______________________________________________ From S.H. Deshpande, Physical Education in Ancient India Page 127 ...
... that nothing happened at the time a pause was there. Sri Aurobindo is ____________ 1 P. 102 of Sri Aurobindo Circle - Forty-sixth Number (1990): article A Poem of Sacred Delight' by R. Y. Deshpande. Page 353 made to imply not just that the presence of the "heavenly visitors" was felt during intensely busy cerebral processes but also that it was felt only during them and never ...
... anonymously in the Indu Prakash , a Marathi - English weekly newspaper of Bombay, in 1893 and 1894. Sri Aurobindo wrote these articles on the invitation of K. G. Page 1165 Deshpande, the editor of the English section of the journal, whom he had known at Cambridge. "The first two articles", Sri Aurobindo later noted, made a sensation and frightened [Mahadev Govind]... warned the proprietor of the paper that, if this went on, he would surely be prosecuted for sedition. Accordingly the original plan of the series had to be dropped at the proprietor's instance. Deshpande requested Sri Aurobindo to continue in a modified tone and he reluctantly consented, but felt no farther interest and the articles were published at long intervals and finally dropped of themselves... Indu Prakash on 26 June 1893. Under the heading was printed "Communicated" (i.e., from a special correspondent). In the next issue of the newspaper, 3 July 1893, the editor (presumably K. G. Deshpande) referred to the essay in the following paragraph, also headed "India and the British Parliament": Under this heading we had a communication from a very able writer in our last issue ...
... depicts functionally the merit of the path of righteousness. Although it may seem to have the colouring of an ethical illustration, the story is spiritually charged. Even in the simple 2 R.Y. Deshpande, Vyasa's Savitri, p. 55. narrative of the Mahabharata we see a purpose behind the story. In it we notice the seeds of a brighter world taking birth. This birth of a bright... therefore powers and incarnations which have been eternally here; they are not simply the time-honoured characters belonging to Vyasa's 28 For a fuller discussion of the theme, see R. Y. Deshpande, Sri Aurobindo and the New Millennium, pp. 235-61, (1999). 29 On Himself, SABCL , Vol.26,p.265. illustrative Upakhyana in the Mahabharata, where also they stand for eternal... the desirable boons of a glorious life in the splendours of the spirit. Yama shall thus fulfil himself terrestrially also. 36 For a detailed discussion of some of these aspects, see R.Y. Deshpande, Sri Aurobindo and the New Millennium, pp.201-27 . 37 Rig Veda, X.135.1. That lends another meaning to the Savitri-legend itself. Savitri's winning back the soul of Satyavan ...
... Most of all these facets have been briefly but very clearly sketched by Jugal Kishore Mukherjee in his book The Wonder that is K.D. Sethna alias Amal Kiran as well as by Nirodbaran and R.Y. Deshpande in their edited book Amal-kiran: Poet and Critic. In these works much has been written by different authors and critics about Amal Kiran's "radiant multifaceted personality and universal genius" ...
... vacant Infinite on Shankaracharya Hill. Drew up a scheme under the title 'Bhavani Mandir' on the lines of which was started Bharati Vidyalaya at the Ganganath Ashram, Sri Aurobindo helping K. G. Deshpande in maintaining it. The scheme was for a nation- wide revolutionary preparation for independence through spiritually-equipped workers. Secretly circulated. Seized and proscribed by Govt. Recovered ...
... have come. 7 4 The Harmony of Virtue, SABCL, Vol. 3, p. 155. 5 Mahabharata (Gita Press, Gorakhpur), Vana Parva, 294.27. 6 Savitri, p. 432. 7 Translation by R. Y. Deshpande, Vyasa's Savitri: A Verse-by-Verse Rendering and Some Perspectives (1996), p. 44. Page 361 Savitri replies by asserting her right to follow her husband wherever he goes. Yama ...
... him to the courtyard of the Beautiful who is also the Truthful and the Joyous. That is a great success indeed in the direction of the future poetry as envisioned by Sri Aurobindo. R.Y. DESHPANDE Page 165 ...
... could not be taken as they were, for the integral yoga needs to develop its own forms and processes; but the ascent of the consciousness through the 23 Savitri, p. 312. 24 R.Y. Deshpande, Vyasa's Savitri, p. 4. 25 Savitri, p. 313. Page 192 centres and other Tantric knowledge are there behind the process of transformation to which as much importance... watch the human and the divine as an indivisible whole. We see Savitri as one among her kind and yet, somehow, different. Her companions sense this 'difference' too, albeit dimly: 45 R.Y. Deshpande, Vyasa's Savitri, p. 8. Page 204 A key to a Light still kept in being's core, The sun-word of an ancient mystery's sense, Her name ran murmuring on the lips of men ...
... divine life in a divine body. ___________________________ This essay is based on the material contained in Physical Education in Ancient India, by S.H. Deshpande, Bharatiya Vidya Prakasan, New Delhi. Page 285 ...
... second paragraph of the letter to Motilal Roy of 3 July 1912 (but see the note to that letter). The "Baroda friend" mentioned in the first sentence of the letter to Anandrao is probably Keshavrao Ganesh Deshpande, who was a close friend of Sri Aurobindo's in England and in Baroda. To Motilal Roy. In February 1910 , Sri Aurobindo left Calcutta and took temporary refuge in Chandernagore, a ...
... reaction to it in that province. The public activity of Sri Aurobindo began with the writing of the articles in the Indu Prakash . These [nine] 2 articles written at the instance of K. G. Deshpande, editor of the paper and Sri Aurobindo's Cambridge friend, under the caption "New Lamps for Old" vehemently denounced the then congress policy of pray, petition and protest and called for a dynamic ...
... foundation of the principle of Beauty and Harmony, but I never got beyond the first three or four chapters." The name of the principal character, "Keshav Ganesh Desai", recalls that of Keshav Ganesh Deshpande, one of Sri Aurobindo's friends at Cambridge and subsequently in India. Sri Page 765 Aurobindo left alternatives to several passages in Book One. These are reproduced in the ...
... 1968, p. 422. 3 Quoted in A.B. Purani, Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: An Approach and a Study, Ashram, 3rd edition, 1970, p. 35. 4 Quoted in Perspectives of Savitri, Vol. 1, ed. R. Y. Deshpande, p. xlvii. during the first century B.C. gives poetic expression to "the first principles of the Epicurean philosophy of life summed up in the formula: God unterrifying; death unworrying; ...
... Aurobindo Purashkar for 1998 that he received from the Sri Aurobindo Samiti, Calcutta. There was also an excellent festschrift entitled Amdl-Kiran: Poet and Critic , edited by Nirodbaran and R.Y. Deshpande, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1994, on the occasion of his 90th birthday. VI The Scholar as the Visionary A discerning mind cannot help noticing that there is ...
... × Mona Sarkar, Sweet Mother, 26 × R.Y. Deshpande, The Ancient Tale of Savitri, 3 × Savitri, 22 ...
... there is no reason why he should feel hurt and that has nothing to do with the work for the country. He objects to Dr. Choithram's resolution and he is very much hurt at that shielding (Deshpande) resolution. About the Serajgunj resolution also Gandhi has felt much. 15-7-1924 The Gujarat Provincial Congress Committee passed the compulsory spinning resolution with the ...
... Secondly, it can absorb all hostile attacks and maintain a steadfastness. 101 98 Questions and Answers , CWM, Vol. 5, p. 231. 99 Savitri , p. 264. '°°Ibid., p. 474. 101 R.Y. Deshpande, Mother India , April 1987, p. 240. Page 511 Sri Aurobindo empowers the gemstone topaz in a unique manner. After she completes her Yoga and reshapes human destiny, Savitri is ...
... Way of the Truth. Sri Aurobindo has set it into motion and the auspices of eternity's Time will take it over to make dynamic divinity its executive in the endless delight of existence. R.Y. DESHPANDE Page 549 ...
... in its suggestion of strength and at the same time as brightly flexible and resonant as a Damascus blade. It is founded on the historical incident of the tremendous self-sacrifice of Baji Prabhou Deshpande, who to cover Shivaji's retreat held the fort of Rangana for over two hours with a small company of men against twelve thousand Moguls. The metre is, in the truest sense of the epithet, the heroic ...
... Indu Prakash English-Marathi Weekly Bombay Sri Aurobindo contributed two series of articles to this newspaper, which was edited by his Cambridge friend K. G. Deshpande. New Lamps for Old appeared in nine instalments from August 7, 1893 to March 5, 1894. This series was preceded by another political article, "India and the British Parliament" (June 26, 1893). ...
... × The two authors who have been most aware of the importance of the Mind of Light are K.D. Sethna, e.g. in his The Vison and Work of Sri Aurobindo, and R.Y. Deshpande, e.g. in Sri Aurobindo and the New Millennium. × Sri Aurobindo encouraged the writing of poetry ...
... to his timid as well as pretty and bright wife, bhīrū , śubhā , asking her to hasten the pace for reaching the hermitage without further delay, to join the parents and the Rishis. R.Y. DESHPANDE Page 579 ...
... trying to synthesise the Gita and The Life Divine, (laughter). 10–3–1943 Yogi Aurobindo Ghose A biography in Marathi by P. B. Kulkarni with an introduction by Mr. K. G. Deshpande. Published at Bombay 1935. Note : When Mr. Kulkarni thought of writing a biography he wrote to me asking for my help. I sought permission of Sri Aurobindo . He declined to comply with my request... I gave money to one Bengali Sannyasi who was quarrelling with everyone and who used to hate Brahmananda. His boast was that he killed Brahmananda!" (Note : In the Introduction by Sj. K. G. Deshpande, who was Sri Aurobindo 's contemporary at Cambridge arid later on joined Sri Aurobindo in 1898 in the Baroda State service, there are some corrections to be made. He was the editor of the English ...
... The public activity of Sri Aurobindo began with the writing of the articles in the Indu Prakash . These nine articles written Page 248 at the instance of K. G. Deshpande, editor of the paper and Sri Aurobindo’s Cambridge friend, under the caption "New Lamps for Old" vehemently denounced the then Congress policy of pray, petition and protest and called for a dynamic ...
... serious tone. My work was over – the purpose of my visit to Pondicherry was served. My personal question and the problem of our group was solved! I then conveyed to him the message of Sj. K. G. Deshpande from Baroda. I told him that financial help could be arranged from Baroda, if necessary, to which he replied, "At present what is required comes from Bengal, especially from Chandernagore. Sothere ...
... Disciple : A mixture of jnani and arth ā rthi . Sri Aurobindo : No. I had no knowledge. I did not know what God was. It was two years before I met Lele that I began yoga seriously. Deshpande at that time was doing Hatha Yoga, Asanas and other practices and as he had a great proselytising tendency he wanted to convert me to his view. But I thought that a yoga which requires me to give ...
... communism in Russia. 16 May. Talk about Nevinson's impression of Sri Aurobindo; letter from Robert Bridges to Sri Aurobindo, asking him to recommend the Reforms for acceptance. Talk on K. G. Deshpande's Sadhakashram at Andheri. 18 May. An article by G. V. Subha Rao in the Swaraj of Madras comparing Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. 20 May. Talk on Theosophy; a letter from Barin: meeting ...
... Aurobindo started his poem, Baji Prabhou. It was prefaced by the following note: "This poem is founded on the historical incident of the Page 338 heroic self-sacrifice of Baji Prabhou Deshpande who, to cover Shivaji's retreat, held the pass of Rangana for two hours with a small company of men against twelve thousand Moguls. Beyond the single fact of this great exploit there has been no attempt ...
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