Ghose, Motilal : (1847-1922), an influential journalist, neither Moderate nor Nationalist. Although educated at home & without university qualifications, he became one of the most respected writers in the Bengali press. He was for many years an editor of Amrita Bazar Patrika [s/a Tilak].
... Appendixes Bande Mataram Nationalist Party Documents - II A Council or Working Committee of 2 only from each province Bengal—Aurobindo Ghose, Motilal Ghose, Aswini Dutt Bombay Panjab U.P. A Provincial Committee of 15 only District Committees Village Panchayets. A National Fund. Bande Mataram, as party organ. Arbitration Courts ...
... disappointing reply, a certain Sishir Ghose took them to Motilal Roy. Motilal on coming to know about Sri Aurobindo's predicament readily agreed to accommodate him. Motilal went to the boat and brought it near the place where he stayed. Sri Aurobindo disembarked and was taken to the house. His request to Motilal to keep his arrival secret was complied with. Motilal made arrangements to keep him underground... anybody and was received by Motilal Roy who made secret arrangements for my stay; nobody except himself and a few friends knew where I was."¹ On the first day Motilal Roy made an arrangement in his Baithakkhana (sitting room); from there he took Sri Aurobindo to a godown where he used to keep chairs (from his furniture workshop), which was on the first floor of the house. Motilal went to bring some tiffin... was in meditation! He gave him the tiffin; Sri Aurobindo took it mechanically. In the afternoon Motilal took Sri Aurobindo to his parlour and gave him a bath. It was winter; the cold-water bath made Sri Aurobindo shiver. Motilal had to buy food from a shop to avoid suspicion. Sri Aurobindo spoke with Motilal, telling him to surrender everything to God. That night, for the sake of safety, Sri Aurobindo ...
... was a haunting fear in Motilal's mind that Sri Aurobindo was not quite safe even in the secrecy of his store-room. Those were days of searches and arrests, and the spies and secret agents had somehow acquired the ubiquity of the Brahman. So, Sri Aurobindo had to move to the 2. 3. My life's Partner by Motilal Roy. Page 344 house of a friend of Motilal's; but this house, too... Aurobindo asked Motilal to make arrangements for his departure. Motilal wrote a letter to Amar Chatterji at Uttarpara in which he informed him of Sri Aurobindo's intended departure from Chandernagore in a boat on the 31st March and asked him to make an arrangement to change the boat at Dumurtala Ghat and to ferry him from there to the steamer Dupleix. Other arrangements would be made, said Motilal, by Sukumar... and intense enjoyment...” Free rendering from an article in Sri Aurobindo's Bengali paper, Dharma. Page 343 Motilal Roy conducted Sri Aurobindo from the boat to his own house. Reclining in an easy-chair in Motilal's drawing room, Sri Aurobindo asked him to lodge him at a secret place, so that the agents of the British Government might not get the scent of his ...
... juggled within the Pandal, we did not consider the matter of supreme interest. Nevertheless, the names of a few men of advanced opinions did find their way into the Bengal list. Men like Srijuts Motilal Ghose, Bipin Chandra Pal, Aswini Kumar Dutta and A. Rasul sitting side by side with Messrs. Tilak and Khaparde would form a leaven which, however small, might easily season the mass of the Committee and... one or two questions. Is it possible that the conveners in Bombay did not know the addresses of the Nationalist members?—did not know for instance, that Mr. Rasul was a Barrister-at-law, or Sj. Motilal Ghose edited a not altogether unknown journal called the Amrita Bazar Patrika or Srijut Bipin Chandra was Page 570 connected with a weekly called New India of which also even Bombay worthies ...
... to them to find that even in this small circle a strong opposition was offered to the renewal of a petitioning policy. Babu Motilal Ghose could not be excluded and the views of this veteran leader on the question of action versus resolution are well-known. But Babu Motilal was backed up by strong voices from the Mofussil, and we understand that it was only by the old plea of its being the very last ...
... destined to be the means of uplifting the world and initiating a new age of the general evolution and it is to- wards this ideal that all his work is to be directed. AUROBINDO GHOSE 1) Letter of a disciple to Motilal Mehta based on Sri Aurobindo's oral remarks. ... Part IV: Correspondence with Early Disciples Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II Motilal Mehta About your difficulty in explaining to people what A.G. is doing — it will of course be useless to tell them in the true terms because they would not understand. But you can put it in this way which they will perhaps find intelligible. A.G. is engaged in ...
... turned to one Sisir Ghose who took them to Motilal Roy, a prominent citizen. On coming to know who had come, Motilal went to welcome Sri Aurobindo and took him home, and promised to make all necessary arrangements for his stay and also to keep his arrival secret. The young men started for Calcutta in the morning so as not to give room for suspicion.* At first, Motilal arranged for Sri Aurobindo's... month and a half, from about 15 February to 31 March 1910. The problem for Motilal Roy was to look after his unique guest with reverent care, and at the same time to keep his presence in Chandernagore a close secret. Having first conveyed Sri Aurobindo from the drawing room to the uninhabited first floor of his house, Motilal went out to get some food for his guest, and when he returned, he found that... guidance: "Surrender everything to God!" was the key instruction, and this was ultimately to lead to the establishment of the Prabartak Sangha which Motilal managed, first in affiliation to Sri Aurobindo, and after 1920 on his own. Apart from Motilal, Sri Aurobindo hardly saw anybody else while in Chandernagore. It was a period of sustained sadhana for him, and since he is said to have seen "subtle ...
... 59 April Fool! Motilal made secret arrangements for Sri Aurobindo's stay at Chandernagore. Several times the hideaway had to be changed. For had he stayed long in one place he might have been discovered. Everything was done in a cloak-and-dagger manner, so that nobody except Motilal and a few friends knew where Sri Aurobindo was. The first day Motilal hid Sri Aurobindo in his lumber-room... lumber-room. But he spent the night and next day in another house. Brought back to Motilal's in the night he spent a few days in an unused room ... where he was discovered by Motilal's wife I During the five to six weeks that Sri Aurobindo remained in Chandernagore, his hideouts consisted of a thatched hut —in the 'coolie line' —a garden-house in the middle of the town, and the last was a dilapidated shed... dried fruits and nuts ... to keep his body and soul together! During this time, Sri Aurobindo was plunged entirely in solitary meditation. He often spoke to Motilal about spiritual matters. Seeing the strangely fixed stare of the Yogi, Motilal Page 534 once asked him what he was seeing. "A multitude of letters come trooping down," he replied, "I try to decipher." That was the akasa-lipi ...
... are in entire agreement. In the opinion of Mr. Ghose, however, this programme shows an insufficiently broad view, and he holds out an ominous threat of broadening Srijut Motilal Ghose's intelligence. For the present, however, "we reserve our suggestions" Page 340 and the Amrita Bazar is spared this painful operation. In passing, Mr. Ghose informs a startled world that in regard to constructive... doubt whether our contemporary will quite relish being put on a level with Mr. N. N. Ghose and the Indian Nation . Its editor is a recognised political leader and his paper has from early days been a power in the land, read and relished in all parts of India and even in England; but Mr. N. N. Ghose is only Mr. N. N. Ghose and the circulation of his weekly is—well, let us say, confined to the elect. ... The Englishman and Mr. N. N. Ghose, faithful brothers-in-arms, were beside themselves with joy last week. What had happened? Had Nationalism by some divine miracle been suddenly blotted out of the land? Had the spirit of Nobokissen appeared to his devotee and admirer and prophesied the eternal continuance of the British domination in India? Or had Mr. N. N. Ghose been at last elected to the Legislative ...
... opinion, Page 362 neither Moderate nor Nationalist, of which Sj. Motilal Ghose, Rai Jotindranath Chaudhuri, and some of the older leaders in the Mofussil are the most influential members, which engineered a compromise in the absence of the Nationalist leaders. Sj. Tilak was a prisoner in Mandalay jail, Sj. Aurobindo Ghose under trial at Alipur, Sj. Khaparde and Sj. Bipin Chandra Pal absent in... as a price of their adherence to the Conference and Sj. Aurobindo Ghose desired to bring forward an amendment, which he would subsequently withdraw, in order to mark that the Nationalists did not accept the resolution as the opinion of the country. The Moderate leaders threatened to withdraw if this was done and Sj. Aurobindo Ghose was requested to confine himself to the precedent established by Sj ...
... careless ; so long as he got his money he simply left me with the horse and I was not particular." The final rejection of A. A. Ghose's candidature by the India Office was conveyed to him in a letter dated 7 December 1892. By the time the news reached Calcutta, Dr. K. D. Ghose was dead. The Bengalee, "We are very much concerned," it wrote, "to hear that Mr. Arabinda Ghosh, who so successfully... will on behalf of Mr. A. A. Ghose, who has been rejected by the Civil Service Commissioners as a probationary candidate for the Indian Civil Service. I went this morning to the office of the Commission, where I was confidentially informed of the circumstances of the case (which did not materially differ from the story he had already told me).... "As you know, Mr. Ghose was disqualified for failing... the better." Professor Prothero's good intentions had obviously raised the Earl's hackles. In a letter dated 7 December 1892, the India Office informed A. A. Ghose about their final decision to reject him. On 12 December, A. A. Ghose accepting the rejection — with relief and joy —applied "for the remainder of the allowance that would have been due to me as a Probationer. ..." Following ...
... Revue de Grande Synthise") Editors : SRI AUROBINDO GHOSE — PAUL St MIRRA RICHARD. 15th August 1914 4i. Rue Francois Martin, Pondicherry. INDIA. MODERN PRESS. PONDICHERRY for collecting subscribers. How far can you help us in this work?" He cautioned Motilal not to entangle the Review in Indian politics. And suggested in another letter... Vedantic Yoga and some progressing much." Always hard up for money, Sri Aurobindo had written in June that he was trying to lighten Motilal's burden, but "we do not know whether our attempt to provide otherwise will succeed." And he broke the news to Motilal about the launching of a new Review, the Arya. Sri Aurobindo's grasp of the material comes through vividly in the details given in his... society had finally been obtained. It was those students and players of the Cercle Sportif "who formed the core group of the society, L'Idee Nouvelle or 'the New Idea.' Sri Aurobindo explained to Motilal in a letter: "The second part of my work is the practical, consisting in the practice of Yoga, by an ever increasing number of young men all over the country. We have started here a society called ...
... nobody saw him off; a boat was hailed, he entered into it with two young men and proceeded straight to his destination. His residence at Chandernagore was kept quite secret; it was known only to Srijut Motilal Roy who arranged for his stay and to a few others. Sister Nivedita was confidentially informed the day after his departure and asked to conduct the Karmayogin in place of Sri Aurobindo to which she... published 24 June 1945 Page 91 × On 17 June 1945 the Sunday Times of Madras reproduced a letter written by K. Ghose to the editor of the Hindusthan Standard that had been published in that newspaper on 6 June. This reply by Sri Aurobindo was published in the Sunday Times on 24 June with an introductory note stating ...
... the first row Contemporary newspaper accounts agree that the first row of delegates at the Barisal Conference consisted of Surendranath Banerjea, Bhupendranath Bose and Motilal Ghose. These accounts, as well as official reports, note that the police allowed many delegates to pass, not just the first three, before attacking the younger men ( Bengalee , April 17 - 18; Amrita... on the river Hooghly about thirty kilometres north of Calcutta. There he was looked after by Motilal Roy (1882 - 1959), a young member of a revolutionary secret society. After leaving Chandernagore for Pondicherry in April, Sri Aurobindo kept in touch with Motilal by letter. It was primarily to Motilal that he was referring when he wrote in the "General Note on Sri Aurobindo's Political Life" (p... pages 278 - 79. [27] In 1922, Motilal's relationship with Sri Aurobindo soured. In May 1925 Motilal wrote asking for permission to visit Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry. This telegram of 13 May was Sri Aurobindo's reply. It is reproduced from a notebook in which A. B. Purani wrote down Sri Aurobindo's conversations and bits of household news. [28] 8 May 1930. When Motilal wrote to Sri Aurobindo in April ...
... spoke, including Surendranath and Motilal Nehru. "Everyone went delicately, moving on a crust of ashes," describes Nevinson picturesquely. "In inaudible words Mr. Malvi proposed that Dr. [Rash Behari] Ghose Page 419 should take the Chair as President, and amid various shouting he declared the motion carried. Heavy with years and knowledge, Dr. Ghose transferred himself to the seat,... cried Dr. Ghose. 'You have not been elected,' answered Mr. Tilak; 'I appeal to the delegates.' "Uproar drowned the rest. With folded arms Mr. Tilak faced the audience. On either side of him young Moderates sprang to their feet, wildly gesticulating vengeance. Shaking their fists and yelling to the air, they clamoured to hurl him down the steep of the platform. Behind him, Dr. Ghose mounted the ...
... Once she came to the Gaekwar and told him to join the revolution and said, "If you have anything more to ask, you can ask Mr. Ghose." But the Gaekwar never talked politics with me. By the way, he said about me, between my Swadeshi and early Pondicherry periods, "Mr. Ghose is an extinct volcano now. He has become a Yogi." One thing only about Nivedita I couldn't understand. She had an admiration... admire him. On one occasion she was much exercised over a threat to his life. She came to me and said, "Mr. Ghose, is it one of your men who is doing this?" I said, "No." She was much relieved and said, "Then it must be a free-lance." The first time she came to me she said, "I hear, Mr. Ghose, you are a worshipper of Shakti, Force." There was no non-violence about her. She had an artistic side too... possibility of any doubt or mistake Charu wanted me to go to France so that he might have no further trouble, I suppose. When I arrived at Chandernagore, he refused to receive me and threw me on to Motilal. NIRODBARAN: But why should he receive you? SRI AUROBINDO: Because as a revolutionary he was obliged to do so. NIRODBARAN: Was he a revolutionary also? SRI AUROBINDO: Good Lord, we were ...
... Vidyapith”. Then Haradhan slowly revealed to them that Aurobindo Babu had cut himself away, right from the roots, from all those Sanghas. They heard too that Sri Aurobindo had asked Motilal to stay back at Pondicherry. But Motilal went back to Chandernagore. Matters did not go so well and Charu broke off from the Sangha. A plan for Haradhan to go to Pondicherry to sort out matters also fell through. One... us as one of the Among the Not So Great ,) came over and took Charu along with some others to Chandernagore. The occasion at Chandernagore was the celebration of the 22nd birth anniversary of Sri Motilal Roy. Charu and his friends went there with an eagerness, hoping to meet Sri Aurobindo also. They were in for a great disappointment — for He was not there. After the celebration Charu and friends... in Calcutta (Kolkata). He was a student of Arts in the Intermediate course at the Ripon College. It was about this time that he came across the paper Bande Mataram — whose editor was Sri Aurobindo Ghose. One of the students of English used to read the paper aloud to the others. A spark was lit in young Charu — he did not feel its tingle yet, though he thought that this man, the author, was a very learned ...
... thought that by your recommendation and influence you may help Barin to gather them for me. May I hope that you will do this for me? One word to avoid a possible misunderstanding. Long ago I gave to Motilal Roy of Chandernagore the ideas and some principles and lines of a new social and economical organisation and education and this with my spiritual force behind him he has been trying to work out in... s about Swaraj for I have been developing my own ideas about the organisation of a true Indian Swaraj and I shall look forward to see how far yours will fall in with mine. Yours... AUROBINDO GHOSE Arya Office, Pondicherry 18 November 1922 ...
... guest from Calcutta remained so completely secluded, often changing hiding places, that even Motilal’s wife did not know for whom she was cooking extra food. Then Aurobindo once again heard the inner Voice commanding him: ‘Go to Pondicherry,’ the main French enclave on the Coromandel Coast. Through Motilal Roy he contacted his young companions in Calcutta and requested them to make the necessary ... One: Convergent Roads The Mother (biography) 5: Aurobindo Ghose In my view, a man’s value does not depend on what he learns or his position or fame or what he does, but on what he is and inwardly becomes. 1 – Sri Aurobindo Aravinda Akroyd Ghose was born on 15 August 1872 in Calcutta, at 4 Theatre Road. 91 ‘Aravinda,’ at the time an uncommon... his father who ran a Brahmo school in Bengal, and perhaps to give his name an English touch. Aravinda was the third son of Krishna Dhan Ghose, at the time the Civil Surgeon in Rangpur, a town in East Bengal, which is now Bangladesh. Medical doctor Krishna Dhan Ghose (°1844) was a popular figure in Rangpur because of the idealism he showed in the execution of his office – ‘duty is my creed’ – and his ...
... ties which alone represent in a faint degree the people are debarred from electing anyone not a member of these bodies. Thus at one blow it is rendered impossible for a popular leader like Sj. Motilal Ghose, unless the Government choose to nominate him, to be on these amazing Councils. Farther, anyone dismissed from Government service, e.g. Sj. Surendranath, sentenced at any time to imprisonment or... seem at first credible, but if our argument is carefully followed, it will establish itself. No doubt, one or two men like Mr. Gokhale, Sir Pherozshah Mehta Page 323 or Dr. Rash Behari Ghose will be admitted by permission, but that privilege we had on better terms under the old system. Let us pass to the Bengal Councils and establish our position. In East Bengal there will be twenty-two ...
... Motibabu that Sri Aurobindo Ghose appears to move very near to Shankaracharya. Sri Aurobindo Ghose told him when he (the sadhak) was at Pondicherry on 15th August 1923 that we should not accept ignorance of life and as ordinary life is full of ignorance, the only possible solution is to reject ordinary life and as this doctrine is preached by Shankaracharya, so Sri Aurobindo Ghose is near to Shankaracharya... consciousness. Difficulty is experienced by everyone in making the higher experiences normal as the lower being gets hold of them and reduces them to their own level. That is what has happened also in Motilal Roy's case. The remedy is to increase the stability and purify the being by removing all hostile forces. Calmness is the essential nature of the Purusha. It is Purusha. Every thought and action must ...
... the year 1911 Motilal Roy came to Pondicherry. He stayed for a month and a half. It was arranged that he should meet Sri Aurobindo twice a week. Sri Aurobindo asked Motilal about his sadhana. He had given Motilal a mantra which Motilal was repeating. Motilal asked Sri Aurobindo whether he should continue the Japa. Sri Aurobindo told him to stop it. In order to maintain secrecy Motilal used to come by... the knowledge-aspect and Motilal the practical or Karma-aspect. Sri Aurobindo called Motilal to Pondicherry for intense spiritual sadhana in order to bring about the transformation of his nature. Motilal seems to have stayed at 2, Line Beach; Sri Aurobindo made one of his rare visits outside his house to visit Motilal at this place. During his stay in Pondicherry Motilal was apprehensive that the... or in Chandernagore? Motilal asked Sri Aurobindo what he should do. Sri Aurobindo told him to look within himself and get the inner guidance. After a few days Motilal had an experience in which he saw a black form of himself attacking him. When he met Sri Aurobindo he asked him the significance of the experience. Sri Aurobindo told him that the significance was clear. Motilal and his wife, who had ...
... (British) government spies tried to collect information as to who came to our houses, who were the people who met us, what places we frequented and how our guests spent their time. That was why Motilal (Motilal Roy of the Pravartak group in Chandernagor) when he first came to Pondicherry had to come dressed as an Anglo-Indian, and he never entered our house, the Raghavan house of today, except by... in a state of total surrender to the Mother when he was staying at Chandernagore. On being asked by Motilal Roy, he explained and even demonstrated to him what his surrender meant. This surrender led to an identification with the Mother, which is evidenced by his signing his letters to Motilal Roy from Pondicherry as Kali. It was, in fact, a development of the Krishna-Kali experience he had in... the main building or central quarter of the Ashram. On the 15th August, 1920, the Prabartak Sangha of Chandernagore, which was founded by Motilal Roy under the inspiration of Sri Aurobindo, had brought out a weekly paper The Standard Bearer. Motilal Roy had come into close contact with Sri Aurobindo and his visits to Pondicherry helped him to avail himself of Sri Aurobindo's direct guidance ...
... Mother's Chronicles - Book Six 35 The Training His upward gaze fixed on what? Once in' Chandernagore Motilal Roy put the question to Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo replied that before his eyes "some writings come floating, I try to decipher their meanings." He called them lipi, which in Sanskrit could mean a letter, or written characters... at Chandernagore. It had already drawn the attention of no less a person than the Lt. Governor 1 of Bengal at the time of the Alipore Sedition Case. He asked Charu Dutt, "Have you seen Aurobindo Ghose's eyes?... He 1 The same Lt. Governor Andrew Fraser (attempt on his life was made on 6 Dec. 1907) who had collected details about the Extremist Party and its "able, cunning, fanatical leader ...
... House"). July 20 A letter to The Hindu. August 15 First celebration of Sri Aurobindo's birthday in Pondicherry. 1912 July 3 Letter to Motilal Roy. Through his correspondence with Motilal and others Sri Aurobindo keeps in contact with the revolutionary movement in Bengal. 1913 April Change of residence to Rue de Mission Etrangere (Mission... (first of the series of essays that make up The Foundations of Indian Culture) published in the Arya. December 17 Death of Mrinalini Ghose in Calcutta. 1920 January 20 Letter to Joseph Baptista. April 7 Letter to Barindra Kumar Ghose. April 24 The Mother returns to Pondicherry from Japan. August 15 First issue of the Standard Bearer, a monthly published from ...
... House"). July 20 A letter to The Hindu. August 15 First celebration of Sri Aurobindo's birthday in Pondicherry. 1912—July 3 Letter to Motilal Roy. Through his correspondence with Motilal and others Sri Aurobindo keeps in contact with the revolutionary movement in Bengal. 1913 — April Change of residence to Rue des Missions Etrangères (Mission... of the series of essays that make up The Foundations of Indian Culture) published in the Arya. December 17 Death of Mrinalini Ghose in Calcutta. 1920 — January 20 Letter to Joseph Baptista. April 7 Letter to Barindra Kumar Ghose. April 24 The Mother returns to Pondicherry from Japan. August 15 First issue of the Standard Bearer, a monthly published ...
... am tera baba ." 1 (Laughter) SRI AUROBINDO: He is a very humorous fellow. NIRODBARAN: Is he Bengali? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, his people have been settled in Bengal for a long time, like Motilal Roy's. PURANI: Prithwi Singh and some others are also practically Bengali. NIRODBARAN: But they don't follow Bengali customs. They speak Hindi at home. PURANI: That is not Hindi, I can tell... him. DR. BECHARLAL: Wouldn't X's review have been favourable? SRI AUROBINDO: No. He is orthodox and not open to new ideas. NIRODBARAN: A writes that K has sent you a request through Suren Ghose to save him. SRI AUROBINDO: Save him? What is the matter? NIRODBARAN: He means spiritually. Kazi Nazrul has also approached with the same request. SRI AUROBINDO (smiling): When K was here ...
... amazing excision. The mutilated copy of last year's circular which is disgraced by this act of inexplicable backsliding and timidity, comes out under the signatures of Sjts. Surendranath Banerji, Motilal Ghose and Rai Jotindranath Chaudhuri. We are certainly astonished to find Moti Babu's name under such a document and we can only assume that it was inserted without getting his consent or that consent ...
... suspects named Bejoy Kumar Nag of Khulna, and Nalini Kanta Sirkar alias Gupta. They were said to be practising yog under Arabindo Ghose and worshipping the Goddess Kali, On 15th August, 1912, a meeting was held at the house of Arabindo Ghose, in celebration, it is believed, of his 40th birthday. The meeting was attended by V. V. S. Aiyar, C. Subramania Bharati, a well-known writer... Shyamaji Krishnavarma in Paris to say that the new Governor of Pondicherry would leave Paris in October next, and he appealed to Arabindo Ghose to prepare an address of welcome. It is stated that Arabindo agreed to do this, and the report indicates that Arabindo Ghose and V.V.S. Aiyar continue to be on good terms. The interest known to be taken by the British Government in Pondicherry affairs... and no emissaries are being sent out. V. V. S. Aiyar, Arabindo Ghose and Bharathi are busy with literary work. Srinivasa Chari seldom goes out and the younger ones amuse themselves in their own way. But it is no time to give up any of our vigilance. I regard V.V.S. Aiyar as very determined character and a capable originator; Arabindo Ghose is important as he commands general respect and Srinivasa Chari ...
... Conference. But even at this closed Conference, the general opinion, if the reports that have reached us be correct, was decidedly against sending any fresh petition or memorial. It is said that Babu Motilal Ghose and others were distinctly opposed to the idea; and the words petition and memorial had to be dropped under pressure of this general opinion, especially among the mofussil delegates; all that was ...
... Meditations , CWM 1 p. 340. × This was the first time Aurobindo Akroyd Ghose took on the name ‘Sri Aurobindo,’ though still accompanied by ‘Ghose.’ From now on we will use the name ‘Sri Aurobindo,’ except in quotations which mention his name in another form. ... and speeches, for voting was to take place not only in Pondicherry, but also in Karikal (where the Richards went to canvass) and in the other French comptoirs such as Chandernagore. (A.G. wrote to Motilal Roy to try and gather votes for Richard.) One of Mirra’s diary notes is dated ‘Karikal, 13 April 1914,’ and there is no doubt that Mirra stood by the side of her husband throughout the campaign. ... theory was that a Yogi ought to be able to turn his hand to anything, I could not very well refuse.’ 7 At the time Aurobindo spoke rather highly of Richard. In a letter written in April to Motilal Roy, he says: ‘Richard is not only a personal friend of mine and a brother in the Yoga, but he wishes like myself, and in his own way works for a general renovation of the world by which the present ...
... to take up charge of the Karmayogin.' Sri Aurobindo stayed at Chandernagore for about six weeks, first at Motilal's house and then in a number of other locations to avoid attracting attention from the police or the informers. He demanded the strictest security precautions which Motilal did his best to provide. In fact, throughout Sri Aurobindo's stay at Chandernagore the Government had no scent... look-out from the adjoining road when passengers entered the ship from the jetty. On the morning of March 31, the day prior to the Dupleix's date of sailing, Motilal Roy saw Sri Aurobindo off from the Boraichanditola Ghat at Chandernagore. Motilal himself did not accompany Sri Aurobindo but deputed two of his trusted followers to be with him. In accordance with the plan, the boat moved downstream and... well-known in revolutionary circles, to ask for shelter. But he was singularly unhelpful and indeed suggested that Sri Aurobindo should leave India and go to France! However the young revolutionary, Motilal Roy, came to know of Sri Aurobindo's arrival and welcomed him in his own house. Now that a safe refuge had been found, we returned to Calcutta in the same boat.' Apropos of these events Sri Aurobindo ...
... give shelter to Sri Aurobindo. But he did give a piece of advice: Tell Aurobindo to go to France.... No, Sri Aurobindo did not follow that advice, but waited quietly in the boat. Not in vain. For Motilal Roy —who had not previously met Sri Aurobindo, but had seen him at Uttarpara on 30 Page 531 and on to his house. 1 Assured that their presence was no longer needed, the two... editor of The Statesman, who was then in England: "How I wish you could get the Karmayogin every week! In my opinion, it is a triumph 1. From clarifications given on 13.3.1990 by Renuka Ghose of Prabartak Sangha to my brother Nirmal. Page 532 of style and thought. Aravindo is magnificent." As for his Bengali weekly, "the articles published in Dharma during February ...
... Aurobindo never asked Ram Majumdar to arrange for a hiding place; there was no time for any such arrangement. He went unannounced, relying on some friends in Chandernagore to arrange for his stay. Motilal Roy received him first in his own house, then arranged in other places, allowing only a few to know. This is the true account of what happened according to Sri Aurobindo's own statement. The new... consulting anybody—even his colleagues and co-workers. Everything was done in fifteen minutes or so and in the utmost secrecy and silence. He followed Ram Majumdar to the Ghat, Suresh Chakravarty and Biren Ghose following at a little distance; a boat was hailed and the three got in and went off immediately. His stay in Chandernagore also was secret and known only to a few like his later departure to Pondicherry ...
... perfectly well that it was nothing of the kind. The Mahratta Nationalists were extremely anxious for a settlement and they approached the Bengal Moderates to that end through the mediation of Sj. Motilal Ghose. The terms arrived at were so humiliating that, although they gave way rather than imperil the success of the negotiations, it was with great difficulty they could bring themselves to consent, and ...
... 237 Ghose, Barindra Kumar, 29, 30, 62ff, 189, 192ff, 195, 208, 211, 217, 219, 229, 266m, 274, 275-76, 281, 284, 288, 289, 290, 298fn, 320, 329ff, 523, 531, 537, 574, 763 Ghose, Benoy Bhushan, 28, 29, 31, 35, 36, 45,49 Ghose, Biren, 367 Ghose, Hemendra Prasad, 222, 324, 763 Ghose, Krishnadhan, 25ff, 33,35ff, 183,192; death of, 45ff Ghose, Manomohan,... 28,29,3 1ff, 35,43,46, 49,192,223,695 Ghose, N. N., 255ff, 258-59 Ghose, Sarojini, 29, 49, 66, 192, 211, 219, 235,308,312,324,326 Ghose, Sisirkumar, 690 Ghose, Sudhir, 722 Ghose (Ghosh), Surendra Mohan, 286fn, 701-02, 71 1ff, 728, 733, 754, 762, 763 Ghose, Rash Behari, 225,226, 263-64,267, 270,292, 295 Ghoshal, Saraladevi (Chaudhurani)... 20 Narayana Guru, 16 National Value of Art, The, 337, 353, 354-55 Navajata, 775 Nava Sakti, 284, 308 Nehru, Jawaharlal, 490,728,735 Nehru, Motilal, 229, 522,531 Netter, William T., 778 Nevinson, Henry, 205,207,269 New Lamps for Old', 56ff, 184,190, 228, 281 Newsman, J. H., 490 Nietzsche, 441-42 ...
... the Prabartak Sangha [Motilal’s community] wanted them back at Chandernagore, while Motilal himself was undecided whether to go or remain with Sri Aurobindo. On receipt of a peremptory telegram from Chandernagore, Motilal and his wife left Pondicherry in August 1921 and the attempt to close the rift did not succeed. Not long after, Sri Aurobindo dissociated himself from Motilal and his Prabartak Sangha... community through Motilal Roy, the young Bengali who had taken care of him during his brief stay at Chandernagore, and who had provided him and his companions with some funds to alleviate their poverty during the first years in Pondicherry. Motilal Roy had also come a couple of times to visit Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry. About his last visit, in the company of his wife, Iyengar writes: ‘Motilal Roy and his... have sufficient funds to be able to maintain a centre here and one or two at least outside.’ 40 In this letter Sri Aurobindo distances himself from Motilal Roy. ‘One word to avoid a possible misunderstanding. Long ago I gave to Motilal Roy of Chandannagar [i.e. Chandernagore] the ideas and some principles and lines of a new social and economical organization and education and this with my spiritual ...
... Minute Mr Ghose has now appealed to the Secretary of State to give him another chance for passing his Riding Examination and Mr James Sutherland Cotton, to whom Mr Ghose refers, has written the annexed letter to Sir Arthur Macpherson. Poverty apparently has been a great misfortune to Mr Ghose. Unless the C. S. Commissioners certificate Mr Ghose as qualified for the I. C. ... asking the latter to arrange with Ghose a date for his Examination and told Ghose to lose no time in going down to Woolwich and presenting the letter in person: to go down that afternoon if he had no other engagement . . . . Colonel Brough wrote on 5th November saying Ghose had never appeared . . . . Colonel Brough added that he would prefer not to examine Ghose." (f) Colonel Brough, however... which have been sent in by these candidates, with the exception of Messrs A. A. Ghose and M. Ghose. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, B. Lockhart The Under Secretary of State India Office II 4 Nov. 1892 My dear Trevor I think Mr Ghose's case will be settled very shortly. He has passed his medical Examination and we ...
... "Fortunately," he informed Motilal Roy, "the litigation connected with the house has kept the matter hanging; but it may be demanded from us any day and we shall have to pay at once, or face the prospect of being dragged into court and losing our prestige here entirely." The deep respect Sri Aurobindo inspired was a cause for worry to the British Government: "Arabindo Ghose is important as he commands ...
... the Swadeshis I am of the opinion that we must declare the charge as dismissed, nothing being left of it. "For the Examining Magistrate" Signed: Nadau On 3 July Sri Aurobindo wrote to Motilal Roy on the above episodes. "The case brought against the Swadeshis (no one in this household was included in it although we had a very charmingly polite visit from the Parquet [Public Prosecutor's... And hadn't they declared war on the Swadeshis? Let us note that for the Anglo-Indian bureaucrats the hard core or 'the inner ring' (to use their words) of the extremists consisted of 'Arabindo Ghose' and his four or five 'satellites': Bharati, WS Aiyar, Srinivasachari, and Ramaswami. The Pondicherry administration shared the same idea. So the situation of the Swadeshis was quite critical as we ...
... Motibabu that Sri Aurobindo Ghose appears to move very near to Shankaracharya. Sri Aurobindo Ghose told him when he (the Sadhak) was at Pondicherry on 15th August, 1923 that we should not accept ignorance of life and as ordinary life is full of ignorance, the only possible solution is to reject ordinary life and as this doctrine is preached by Shankaracharya, so Sri Aurobindo Ghose is near to Shankaracharya... consciousness. Difficulty is experienced by everyone in making the higher experiences normal as the lower being gets hold of them and reduces them to their own level. That is what has happened also in Motilal Roy's case. The remedy is to increase the stability and purify the being by removing all hostile forces. Calmness is the essential nature of the Purusha. It is Purusha. Every thought and action... Aurobindo: That is the history of every religion, sect or religious institution. It begins with religion and ends in commerce, everywhere you will find the same thing. Interview with Sri Aurobindo Ghose by a Sadhak 1924-10-25 On my visit to Motibabu, Motibabu told me that Mr. C. R. Das told him that Sri Aurobindo is lost to India. REPLY: Mr. Das had come to Pondicherry after seeing Motibabu ...
... had many enemies — who had been conspiring to get him arrested. So once again Providence intervened on behalf of Sri Aurobindo. Some time after Sri Aurobindo moved into Raghava Chetty's house, Motilal Roy came over on a visit from Chandernagore but stayed in another house. He used to come and meet Sri Aurobindo regularly but, to avoid identification by the police, he never entered the house except... away from Pondicherry. He fled to the adjacent British town of Cuddalore and became, as Sri Aurobindo ironically said, a 'political refugee' ! A letter dated July 3, 1912 from Sri Aurobindo to Motilal Roy gives an indication of the financial position at the time. Sri Aurobindo wrote: '...I send enclosed a letter to our Marathi friend. If he can give you anything for me, please send it without the... a fallen earth. Escape cannot uplift the abandoned race Or bring to it victory and the reign of God. A greater power must come, a larger light. In another letter written in August 1912 to Motilal Roy, Sri Aurobindo was even more specific about his realisations and objectives. He wrote: ‘15th August is usually a turning point or a notable day for me personally either in Sadhana or life, — ...
... not worry about it any longer. (3) The 'Four Aspects' is half written and will be finished in a few days. It has been decided to publish these four writings with the February message in Calcutta. Motilal Mehta can use them instead of the August 15"' utterances. 3 October, 1927 Sri Aurobindo To Punamchand M. Shah I have received your letter and am sending this answer with Haribhai. I do... 28 July 1922 Yours, Punamchand Mohanlal Shah (Sri Aurobindo's reply through his disciple, K. Amrita) Dear Punamchand, Your small note to me and the letter addressed to Sri Aurobindo Ghose are to hand. I gave your letter personally and "hand to hand" as directed by you to A.G. A.G. says it is not possible to call and it would not be desirable for your sadhana at present. He is too... Mohanlal Shah is my disciple and is now with me practising Yoga in Pondicherry. He is trustworthy and faithful in matters and enjoys my entire confidence. Pondicherry 15 August 19 AUROBINDO GHOSE Punamchand As regards the amount of Rs. 500/- monthly from Vithaldas and your note in the account, I presume it is clearly understood that his sum has nothing to do with the account. It must be ...
... letter, also to Motilal Roy, Sri Aurobindo referred to Richard's disabilities: "He has neither agent, nor committee, nor the backing of a single influential man." On the other hand, he had the sympathy and good wishes of the Hindus and Mahomedans of Pondicherry and Karikal. Even so it was patent that Richard was fighting against odds. On 5 May Sri Aurobindo wrote to Motilal again. The election... to a firm conviction of a climactic change in her life's direction, Richard was involved in the electioneering excitement. Early in April, Sri Aurobindo sent Richard's electoral declaration to Motilal Roy of Chandernagore asking for his support. Richard, said Sri Aurobindo, was a friend and a Yogin, and a believer in the resurrection of the Asiatic races, and his success in the election would... writ and beyond recall; the pages of the future are blank but rich with promise. Four years earlier, Paul Richard had returned from a visit to India and told her of his meetings with Sri Aurobindo Ghose at Pondicherry. But between Sri Aurobindo and her there had already been established occult links of deep understanding regarding their future mission on the earth. Paul Richard had decided that he ...
... issue should come out on Sri Aurobindo's forty-second birthday, 15 August. All the three names - Sri Aurobindo Ghose, Paul and Mirra Richard - were to appear on the cover-page as Editors, and the journals were to be published from 41, Rue François Martin, Pondicherry. Writing to Motilal Roy in July, Sri Aurobindo expressed the fear that, if pronounced revolutionaries should be found among the formal... to deny even the strongly politically oriented people the enlightenment the Arya might bring them without, however, compromising the Review itself. In a subsequent letter, Sri Aurobindo asked Motilal to enlist some subscribers, and added with a touch of wry humour: "Subscribers' book is nearly as blank as it was at the time of our purchasing it."² The ground floor of Sri Aurobindo's residence... in the still waters of meditation and prayer - in the series of musings, supplications and outpourings of the soul, Sri Aurobindo's views found clear formulation in his letter of 29 August 1914 to Motilal Roy. When Britain entered the War, India was inevitably dragged into it too, and Britain wanted India's active cooperation in the war effort. There were many (including Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, ...
... But go on with the method indicated. Only take care not to surrender to any suggestions or forces coming from the lower being as that is the chief danger of the Sadhana. Aurobindo Ghose Letter to Motilal Mehta About your difficulty in explaining to people what A.G. is doing—it will of course be useless to tell them in the true terms because they would not understand. But you can put... or with my approval. It can only be done by myself aided closely by those like you who are being or will in future be trained directly under me in my spiritual discipline. Aurobindo Ghose [Script Barin Kumar Ghose.] 1 December 1922 Pondicherry, 1st December 1922. Dear Barin, I waited for your letter in order to know precisely what portions Chittaranjan wanted to publish and why... what I have written in the letter. But I hope he will understand why the publication of it does not recommend itself to me. Aurobindo Ghose 9 December 1922 Pondicherry, 9th December 1922. My dear Barin, I have read carefully Jyotish Ghose's letter and I think the best thing is first to explain his present condition as he describes it. For he does not seem to me to understand the ...
... Chandra Das 18. Arabinda Ghose 19. Abinash Chandra Bhattacharji 20. Sailendra Nath Bose 21. DindayalBose 22. Narendra Nath Gossain 23. Sudhir Kumar Sarkar 24. Krista Jiban Sanyal 25. Hrishikesh Kanjilal 26. Birendra Nath Ghose 27. Dharani Nath Gupta 28. Nogendra Nath Gupta 29. Ashoke Chandra Nandi 30. MotiLal Ghose 31. Bijoy Ratan Sen... the boat with a disappointing reply, one Sishir Ghose took them to Motilal Roy. Motilal, on coming to know about it, readily accepted to accommodate Sri Aurobindo. He went to the boat and brought it near to the place where he stayed. Sri Aurobindo disembarked and was taken to his house. His request to keep his arrival secret was complied with and Motilal Roy made arrangements to keep him underground... Kumar Ghose and Ullaskar Dutt were sentenced to be hanged under sections 121, 121A, and 122 I.P.C... The properties of all these accused were also forfeited to Government.... The rest of the accused, viz., Nalini K. Gupta160, Sachindra K. Sen, Kunjo Lal Shah, Bejoy Kumar Nag, Narendra Nath Bukshi, Puma Chandra Sen, Hemendra Nath Ghose, Aravinda Ghose, Dindayal Bose, Birendra Nath Ghose, Dharani ...
... not worry about it any longer. (3) The "Four Aspects" is half written and will be finished in a few days. It has been decided to publish these four writings with the February message in Calcutta. Motilal Mehta can use them instead of the August 15th utterances. October 3, 1927 Page 429 [4] Pondicherry 1st January 1928 To Punamchand. M. Shah. I have received your letter and... The bearer Punamchand Mohanlal Shah is my disciple and is now with me practising Yoga in Pondicherry. He is trustworthy and faithful in all matters and enjoys my entire confidence. Aurobindo Ghose Page 428 [3] Punamchand The ornaments offered by Chandulal's mother. Certainly, you can accept and send them. I do not know why you felt any scruple in this matter. Whatever is ...
... men then living with him at the time about this "French lady from Paris who was a great initiate" and "was desirous of establishing personal contact with him at Pondicherry". 9 Again, writing to Motilal Roy in April 1914, Sri Aurobindo said: Richard is not only a personal friend of mine and a brother in the Yoga, but he wishes like myself, and in his own way works for a general renovation... letter Sri Aurobindo described Richard as "practically an Indian in belief, in personal culture, in sympathies and aspirations, one of the Nivedita type". In a later letter, Sri Aurobindo authorised Motilal Roy to make it known that "Richard is a Hindu in faith, a Hindu in heart and a man whose whole life is devoted to the ideal of lifting up humanity and specially Asia and India and supporting the... die if they did not live. For they are its light, its heat, its life. It is in Asia that I found the greatest among them - the leader, the hero of tomorrow. He is a Hindu. His name is Aurobindo Ghose.6 There are no qualifications here, and many years later, when Dilip Kumar Roy met him in France and opened up a conversation on Sri Aurobindo, Richard spoke again with the same conviction and ...
... too late but, even otherwise, Pondicherry politics was so corrupt that an honest candidate had little chance of succeeding. So, not unexpectedly, the election went against Richard. In a letter to Motilal Roy at the time, Sri Aurobindo wrote that Richard's votes in some centres were got rid of 'by the simple process of reading Paul Bluysen (Richard's opponent) wherever Paul Richard was printed'! However... period of six and a half years, published all his major works, with the exception of his epic poem Savitri. In June 1914, when the decision to bring out the journal was taken, Sri Aurobindo wrote to Motilal Roy: In this Review my new theory of the Veda will appear as also translation and explanation of the Upanishads, a series of essays giving my system of Yoga and a book of Vedantic philosophy (not ... quite impossible.' One more word about the Arya. When it was being planned, Richard reckoned on getting as a start 200 subscribers in France for the French edition and Sri Aurobindo wrote to Motilal Roy about the English edition: 'Let .us try 250 subscribers to start with, with the ideal of having 800 to 1000 in the first year. If these subscribers can be got before the Review starts, we shall ...
... 38 , 110 era of, 140 -141 spiritual, 129 Rig-Veda, see under Veda Rishis, 26, 49, 89, 98({11), 116, 12 1, 158 Rolland, Roma in, 193 Rome (ancient), 80 , 119, 137 Ro th, Prof. von, 116 Roy, Motilal, 105 Rudra , 123, 144 Russel , Bertrand, 193 Russia , 193, 225 , 252 Russia ns, 176, 2 17 S samata , 206 Samurai, 29 , 44 Sanaana dharma, 49-50, 5 1, 69 , 93, 94, 145 see also Hinduism... 27,47 Banerjee, Jitendranath, 13 Banerji, Surendranath, 17 Bangladesh, 15(fn) Bankim, see under Charleroi Baptista, Joseph, 148 barbarians. 126 barbarism, 103, 127, 175,239 Barin, see under Ghose Baroda, II, 35 Baroda College , II battle, 45 -46 ,51 , 102, 123-126, 143-144, 206,207, 238·240 beauty, 66 , 68, 103 , 127.217.218,220 Bengal, 39 , 111.112, 152, 153, 222,246 atrocities on Hindus... 219, 225,226 in South Africa, 105 , 168 and Swaraj , 173 (11) and World War II , 217 , 224, 229 -230 Gangoly, O. C., 115-116 Germans , 239 Germany, 112 in World War II , 213, 23 6, 237(fn) Ghose, Barindra Kumar , 13, 17, 47, 150 Gita , see under Bhagavat Gila Goethe , 77 , 88 Gounod ajar, 203 Go swami, Bijoy, 76 government, 217, 236 controls, 213 systems of, 165, 172 , 177,178 ,214,215 ...
... made a plea for boycott in his Sanjivani; and on 17 July, a correspondent "G" had strongly advocated boycott in the columns of the Amrita Bazar Patrika. Was "G" really Aurobindo Ghose? Was it Barindra Kumar Ghose? 14 Anyhow, all climaxed in the events of 7 August, and the swadeshi-boycott offensive received the tardy imprimatur of the Congress in December 1906. Sri Aurobindo had thus reason... to our late Vice-Principal Mr. Ghose in ,. present trouble." And a contributor to the Indian Patriot, who signed himself "A.S.M.", asseverated in the course of his eulogy: "Slaves of ease and security, the butterflies of the hour look small and pitiable by his side." The prosecution against the Bande Mataram and its supposed editor, Sri Aurobindo Ghose, pursued a strange career. E... the Nationalists (or Extremists) was that the latter had no constructive ideas: that, while they demanded "independence", they had no sanctions or "practical programme" to enforce the demand. Motilal Nehru, for example, had described Extremist postures as being "evolved out of the depths of despair". In answer to this line of criticism, the Bande Mataram published from 10 April to 2 May 1907 ...
... Stalin, Joseph 395 Standard Bearer, The 79, 205 Still-sitting movement 153, 175-6, 194, 221, 302 Subbarao, G. V. 222 Subramaniam, C. 716 Sudhir Ghose 488 Sundaram (Tribhuvandas Luhar) 691 Sunil Bhattacharya 681, 700, 718, 734-5 Surendra Mohan Ghose 251, 450, 534, 571-2, 595, 686 Surendra Nath Jauhar 165, 288, 417, 507, 538, 624, 689, 709, 733, 747, 797, 817 Suvrata (Mme Yvonne Gaebele) 321... 207-8 Rikiu (Zen Master) 194 Rishabhchand 63, 255, 277-8, 498, 691 Robi Gupta 723 Roger Anger 726, 744, 756, 778, 792-3 Romen Palit 268-9, 311, 365, 708 Roy, M.N. 404 Roy, Motilal 49, 89, 100-3, 107, 118, 127, 132-3, 149ff, 203-5, 213, 241, 281 Ruud Lohman 803-4 Sahana Devi (Gupta) 255, 262ff. 281, 285, 287, 289, 296-7, 335, 349, 356, 359, 364, 371, 691 Salvador... 786 qualities needed 756, 777, 788 administration 757, 787 Matrimandir 726, 763, 791-4, 803 Baha Ullah 40-1 'Bangavani' 679 Bapat, Senapati 682 Baptista, Joseph 199 Barindra Ghose 200, 209, 215-6, 235, 241, 247, 339 Baron, C.F. 571, 662 Page 898 Becharlal Bhatt, Dr 400 Beethoven 304 Bejoy Nag 91, 131, 201, 211, 213, 217, 233 Bhakti Sutras 32 Bhagavad ...
... fell ill. The abundance of vitality and the enthusiasm and joy kept at bay all attacks of disease. It was very similar to the kind of life we lived here in Pondicherry during the first few years. Motilal when he saw us then exclaimed in utter surprise, "What! Is this the way ¹ I have been there once later. It was no longer the old Gardens but a ploughed field. There was no trace of the jungle... Aurobindo lived with Raja Subodh Mullick near Wellington Square to the South. I went by tram and it was about four in the afternoon when I reached there. I asked the doorman at the gate to send word to Mr. Ghose – this was how he used to be called in those days at the place – saying that I had come from Barin of the Manicktolla Gardens. As I sat waiting in one of the rooms downstairs, Sri Aurobindo came down ...
... fell ill. The abundance of vitality and the enthusiasm and joy kept at bay all attacks of disease. It was very similar to the kind of life we lived here in Pondicherry during the first few years. Motilal when he saw us then exclaimed in utter surprise, "What! Is this the way you live? And you keep him (Sri Aurobindo) too like this?" Perhaps some day I may give you a picture of that life of ours... Subodh Mullick near Wellington Square in the South Calcutta area. I went by tram and it was about four in the afternoon when I reached there. I asked the doorman at the gate to send word to Mr. Ghose—this was how he used to be called in those days at the place—saying that I had come from Barin of the Manicktolla Gardens. As I sat waiting in one of the rooms downstairs, Sri Aurobindo came down ...
... invited some Congress luminaries after the Bombay special session to Pune and VOC was among the invitees to discuss the future course of action. When VOC rose to spoke he was "loudly cheered". Motilal Ghose, the venerated editor of Amrita Bazar Patrika, who was present on the occasion, expressed his desire to see the hero of Swadeshi days and warmly hugged VOC. Page 131 ...
... Letters on Yoga, Vols. 22, 23, 24 50 . LIGHT TO SUPERLIGHT Prabartak Publishers, Calcutta, 1972 Twenty-six letters from Sri Aurobindo, one to Anandarao and the rest to Motilal Roy, and, as an appendix, Sapta-Chatushtaya (incomplete). In SABCL Volume 27, the letters, with editorial revisions, appear in the supplement to Volume 26 and Sapta Chatushtaya ... series: First Series from August 1916 to July 1918, and Second Series from August 1918 to July 1920. SABCL: Essays on the Gita, Vol. 13 22 . EVOLUTION Barindra Kumar Ghose, Calcutta, 1921 Three essays from the Arya: "Evolution", August 1915; "The Inconscient", September 1915; "Materialism'", October 1918. SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation... SABCL some of the articles are given in Volume 2 and some in Volume 3. SABCL: Karmayogin, Vol. 2 The Harmony of Virtue Vol. 3 32 . IDEALS AND PROGRESS Barindra Kumar Ghose, Calcutta, 1920 Revised Edition, Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1922 Five essays from the Arya: "On Ideals" (June 1916), "Yoga and Skill in Works" (July 1916), "Conservation and ...
... told about it, Sri Aurobindo queried laughingly: "Why not say that I knew Amhari and other African languages?" He also referred to the 'miracles' he was supposed to have performed, according to Motilal Mehta's biography. Once on being told that he couldn't see Sri Aurobindo, a visitor had ingenuously asked the Mother: "Does he fly away?" 10 In a similar context on a subsequent occasion, Sri Aurobindo... ex-revolutionary who also saw the issues clearly - though only from his rationalist point of view -*and openly pleaded for support to the Allies. Page 704 on 12 July 1911 - probably to Motilal Roy of Chandernagore - about his being able to put himself "into men and change them, removing the darkness and bringing light, giving them a new heart and a new mind".* During the intervening thirty... earlier work and the more brilliant, Kumarasambhava was more deep and mature. Or the conversation skirted casually around Laurence Binyon, Stephen Phillips, Robert Bridges, Oscar Wilde, Manomohan Ghose, Bharati Sarabhai, the Hexameter, and the clue to it that a Cambridge friend, Ferrar, gave. Was Blake greater than Shakespeare? After Milton, what was the scope for the epic as a literary form? Of ...
... Sangha, and even one hundred dedicated members would, he thought, be able to form the necessary nucleus for future large-scale practical work in the field of social transformation. Writing to Motilal Roy on 2 September, Sri Aurobindo had wanted to establish "our communal system on a firm spiritual, secondly on a firm economical foundation". The Ashram that took shape under the Mother's fostering... a sadhak in January 1929, "he ceases to belong to any creed or caste or race; he is one of Sri Aurobindo's disciples and nothing else. " 26 Many years later, Sri Aurobindo told Surendra Mohan Ghose that the Mother's choice of sadhaks was not exclusively governed by their spiritual advancement or intellectual brilliance: "She selects different types .... shi wants to observe how the Divine ...
... then a child shall destroy her. So long as a cause has on its side one soul that is intangible in faith, it cannot perish. 32 Page 104 August 29, 1914 (From a letter to Motilal Roy, a revolutionary from Chandernagore who later attempted to create a commune based on Sri Aurobindo's ideals.) Gandhi's loyalism* is not a pattern for India which is not South Africa, and... no greatness because it is too great for his force and courage, he is the Aryan, the divine fighter and victor, the noble man. 34 * * * September, 1914 (?) (From a letter to Motilal Roy.) You must understand that my mission is not to create Maths, ascetics and Sannyasins; but to call back the souls of the strong to the Lila of Krishna and Kali.... Every ascetic movement... of spiritual force. Our forefathers used that means, though in different forms. And it is the best means for becoming an efficient worker in the great days of the world. 36 (From a letter to Motilal Roy.) It is regrettable that Bengal should be unable to find anything in the Arya* but not surprising. The intellect of Bengal has been so much fed on chemical tablets of thought and hot-spiced ...
... letter, most probably ¹ Ibid., p. 423. ² Supplement, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, Pondicherry, 1972, Vol. 27, p. 435. Page 62 of 1913, to Motilal Roy in the course of a comment on the Ramakrishna Mission: "What you say about the Ramakrishna Mission is, I dare say, true to a certain extent. Do not oppose that movement or enter into... revealed. The letter¹ runs: "...each being in a new birth prepares a new mind, life and body — otherwise John Smith would always be John Smith and would have no chance of being Piyush Kanti Ghose. Of course inside there are old personalities contributing to the new life — but I am speaking of the new visible personality, the outer man, mental, vital, physical. It is the psychic being that ...
... he had read my writings and heard me speak at various meetings. Motilal Roy welcomed, me without hesitation into his home on condition that no one else, no second individual, should learn about my stay there. I asked the boys to request Nivedita on my behalf to take up the charge of editing the Karmayogin. They left me in Motilal's care and returned to Calcutta. Except for her and two or three of... mostly Motilal Roy who looked after me." "How did you spend your time?" "Just as I did when I was in jail. If I could stay in a cell alone for almost a year, should living by myself for a month in a room be difficult?" "But in Chandernagore, you had to stay behind closed doors night and day! Did you do a lot of reading?" "No, I just sat quietly in my room. Sometimes when Motilal came with... was Aurobindo Ghose, the revolutionary for whose capture the government had spread a net far and wide. It was ironical, wasn't it, that an Englishman should help me to escape that net just because I spoke with such a fine English accent!" (Laughter) "But didn't he recognise you by your name?" "Do you think I went up and introduced myself to him, saying - 'Here I am, Aurobindo Ghose!' Isn't such ...
... 'How Sri Aurobindo withdrew to Pondicherry', reprinted in Mother India, August 1969, pp. 487 ff. Mrs. Mukherjee arrives at the date 14th February on the basis of Motilal Roy's letter to Nagendra Kumar Guha Roy (p. 489). [Cf. Mom's article in Mother India, August 1962, p. 22. Also see Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, pp. 58 to 63.] 5. Vide P... Sri Aurobindo Annual. No. 27, pp. 14347 . , 17. Ibid., p. 149 18. Ibid., p. 151 19. Ibid., p. 127 20. Tales of Prison Life (1972). Translated by S. K. Ghose, p. 35 21. Ibid., p. 36 22. Ibid., p. 42 23. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No. 27, P. 140 24. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 3 25. Ibid. ...
... Disciple : There are people who believe that you know twenty-eight languages. Sri Aurobindo : You have not perhaps read the account of the miracles I am supposed to have worked in Motilal Mehta's book ! One of them impressed me so much that I was never able to forget it. It happened when I was staying Page 111 in Rue St. Louis. The British Government sent the police... mind. Of course, there was something behind it which I knew to be true. Even then I was not sure that it would work out successfully. Any way, I wanted to give it a trial and gave that idea to Motilal. Then he took-up the idea and, as you know, he took it up with all his vital being and in that egoistic way. So the vital forces found their chance. They tried to take possession of the work and... this yoga is new, or at any rate, different from the traditional methods. Perhaps A. was 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 ...
... us: -Pandit Madan Mohan Malavya (1861-1946).He established the Benares Hindu University (1915). An advocate, a scholar, a journalist, he was also a politician of all-India calibre. - Motilal Nehru (1861-1931), who, as one of the foremost lawyers in India, had a fabulous earning and whose luxurious life style was a byword, earned the respect of his countrymen by sacrificing everything... a fated moment.' She was a poetess and ably edited Bharati, a magazine run by the Tagores. This formidable lady had close links with India's revolutionary activities and knew well Barindra Kumar Ghose, Sri Aurobindo's brother. -Upendra Kishore Roy Chowdhuri (1863-1915) brought about a revolution in children's literature. The versatile Satyajit Ray (1921), the world-renowned film-maker, is... But affection was a general characteristic of all the teachers. I remember that Gurudev would send the theme for a new dance-drama from Calcutta or elsewhere, which would be evolved by Santideb Ghose and Pratima Debi, the Poet's daughter-in-law; they also gave preliminary training to the dancers. As a child I was greatly attracted to dance and would tag along with my friends who were all older by ...
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