Karmayogi : a Tamil cultural monthly published from Pondicherry & edited by Subramania Bharati for about two years. Later, Govindarājulu was registered as editor. It was allowed free circulation in British India
... Will blazes forth to fulfil itself in the world. The soul of the liberated Karmayogi becomes a foothold of Eternity, that is to say. Eternity takes its stand upon this soul for an undisguised self-manifestation, and all that the Karmayogi does is done by Eternity itself in Its all achieving omniscience. The perfected Karmayogi commands a light of knowledge which is "refused to the earthward sight"... Divine Consciousness and Will, the Karmayogi, freed from all personal duties and responsibilities, lives in the absolute equality and oneness of the divine Being, and works in the world out of His inexhaustible power and plenitude. This equality is the supreme equality of the Infinite and Eternal, which nothing in the universe can shake or ruffle. The Karmayogi has now become a divine child, liberated... envisaged by the Vedânta, is not the same as that portrayed here in Sri Aurobindo's poem. Sri Aurobindo has given it a more dynamic and comprehensive content. It represents his ideal of the perfect Karmayogi, who is also at once a perfect Jnânayogi and a Bhaktiyogi. There is a silence greater than any known To earth's dumb spirit, motionless in the soul That has become Eternity's foothold ...
... love and devotion of the Karmayogi,— Purusottama, who is at once transcendent and immanent, one and many, the eternal Formless and the assumer of all cosmic forms. He is the Absolute, the Indefinable and the Unknowable, of whom the Upanishads speak as "ātmapratyayasāram, ś ā ntam, śivam, adwaitam” ² , and at the same time "vi ś warūpam, bhavabhūtam” ³ The Karmayogi bases his life and all... makes the Divine the very reason of his existence, the source and support of all his striving, and the eternal repose of his consciousness and being. This offering of the becoming marks the real Karmayogi, for he is a seeker not only of liberation, but of perfection and fulfilment—a manifold, full-orbed, rainbow-rich splendour of perfection and fulfilment here, in his earthly life. He does not regard... harvesting of the highest beatitudes of the divine union and the sublimest glories of the divine manifestation. It is true that life wears at first the aspect of a battlefield; but it does not daunt the Karmayogi; on the contrary, it affords him an occasion for adventure, for staking his all for God's victory in the world of division and darkness. He is born as God's warrior to fight God's battle and establish ...
... ambition was to follow them and to become a "literary gent". But suddenly there was a change in my attitude — a psychological jolt lighted the Agni in the heart and instead of a litterateur, I became a Karmayogi overnight. It happened in this way: One day in our daily report to the Mother, I wrote, "Can reading be done during the working hours?" or something to that effect. Sri Aurobindo wrote back, "I don’t... ashamed of myself. I thought, "If Sri Aurobindo doesn’t know what is my work, then what kind of work am I doing?" Thus a simple sentence brought about my conversion. And, as I said, I blossomed into a Karmayogi, for which the Guru awarded me a grand certificate in these terms: "The timber godown made you make a great progress and you made the timber godown make a great Page 20 progress too." ...
... devotion begins to flow in our entire being. The third question that my mother had asked was : "What is the difference between the actions of the Karmayogi and the actions of the Bhakta, devotee? And Naveen Chandra had answered : "The actions of Karmayogi are, for a long time in the course of Karmayoga, of the nature or spirit of duties; but the actions of the Bhakta are spontaneous flowers of love... and said, "Before you join, I will join." And Mira, although she said nothing, looked at Naveen Chandra with sharp eyes emitting the force of the Aryan Fighter. The bhakta in her had become a Karmayogi! VI How difficult it is to change! How difficult it is to change even when you want to change, — even when you have begun to change! I had expected rather naively that father would be ...
... French India. The paper India was discontinued in April, 1910, and has never been issued since. Page 267 The only periodicals published from Pondicherry are the Tamil Dharma and Karmayogi which, I am informed, do not touch politics; in any case, the harmless nature of their contents, is proved by the free circulation allowed to them in British India even under the rigours of the Press ...
... is no precedent for progress during work or for such a method, nor have people in the past been able to do it, it amounts to a statement that there has never been any such thing as Karmayoga or a Karmayogi, that the Gita was never written or was not founded on any truth of experience and that no Yogi ever did works as part of his sadhana. There seems to be some exaggeration in these statements from ...
... Charu Dutt, "Have you seen Aurobindo Ghose's eyes?" "Yes, what about them?" asked Charu. "He has the eyes of a madman!" Charu took great pains to convince him that I was not at all mad but a Karmayogi! PURANI: Nevinson, the correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, said that you never laughed. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. I met him twice, once in Bengal at Subodh Mullick's place. I was very serious ...
... What Fraser said about me? PURANI: No. SRI AUROBINDO: Fraser, after seeing me in jail, said to Dutt, "I have seen him. He has the eyes of a madman." Dutt replied, "No, he has the eyes of a Karmayogi." ( Laughter ) NIRODBARAN: Dutt wanted to write to Mother, but it seems he has a false idea that Mother has told him not to write anything. SRI AUROBINDO: Mother told him it was not necessary ...
... Bengal, visited us in the jail and told Charu Dutt, 'Have you seen Aurobindo Ghose's eyes? He has the eyes of a mad man!' Charu Dutt took great pains to convince him that I was not at all mad, but a Karmayogi." "And you stayed there for long?" asked Chaitanya. "Yes, for a month. There were also very many other 'inconveniences', but I shall not go into them here. Let me only tell you that it was inhuman ...
... retiring nature and more intent on personal realisation through Bhakti. Karmayoga did not suit his temperament very well. Whatever might be his particular bent, we saw that he did his own work like a karmayogi, in a genuine spirit of service to the Master whom he always addressed as Sir. His talks with Sri Aurobindo showed his sense of humour, his insight into philosophy, politics and mysticism. Sri Aurobindo ...
... or that high experience. A pressure is put to grow on every side and dare fresh flights into the Unknown. In other spiritual paths one is content to be a Jnani (Knower), a Bhakta (Devotee) or a Karmayogi (Doer of Divine Works). Here one is called upon to be all of them together — and something enormously extra. No wonder Sri Aurobindo once said that where the other Yogas terminate we make our ...
... repose. But as soon as his mortal remains were placed on the pyre for the purpose of fiery cremation, his vital being shuddered and vanished. (3)'C', a very senior Ashramite, was a perfect Karmayogi, totally dedicated to the Mother's service. One evening, while sitting in his easy chair, he suddenly passed away due to cardiac arrest. The Mother revealed to his sister, another Ashramite, that ...
... actions or karmas done by us. If such is the comprehensive definition of the 1 term 'karma', it follows that everybody is a karma or worker at all times but for that matter is not surely a karmayogi from the spiritual point of view. For it is not action as action which determines whether someone is doing Karma-sadhana or not: it is the spirit behind the action and the motive behind it ...
... cleared and tempered for its direct, uninterrupted self-fulfilment. The self-expression of the supreme Will, which is the sole end of Yogic action, depends upon a variety of factors which a Karmayogi has to tackle with an intent, receptive flexibility and a subtle, discerning tact. It depends not only upon the completeness and constancy of his identification with the supreme Consciousness, but ...
... knowledge, a man of unfahtomable love and devotion, a man of undeviating will and power, and, as the world knows only too well, a creator of probably the greatest paradoxical personality—a Jnânayogi-cum-Karmayogi— of modern times. He was an Adwaitin, a Vishishtâ dwaitin, even a Dwaitin, a Christian of Christians, and a devout Moslem—all these and many things more rolled into one. His successive practice of ...
... off by Sukumar Mitra and Saurin Bose (Mrinalini's cousin). He carried with him a letter of introduction to Mandayam Srinivasachariar, a sterling Nationalist, who was bringing out India, Vijaya, Karmayogi and Bala Bharata with the help of his brother Tirumalachariar and other Nationalists like Subramania Bharati. Since Bharati's flight from Madras to Pondicherry, that obscure French town had begun ...
... their work is an index to their spiritual progress. This is a misconception of the very nature Page 304 and object of yoga. It is not by the compelling goad of nature that the true Karmayogi acts, as a puppet or a bondslave, he acts for yoga, for union with the Divine, and for serving His Will in the world. His first concern, therefore, is with the right poise, the right attitude, and ...
... the desire for the fruit of one's actions, and all actions are done as a conscious and living offering to the Divine, the knots of the ego are gradually loosened, and the consciousness of the Karmayogi rises into the limpid skies of Spirit, beyond the habitual insistences of the passing moments. Dwelling upon the conditions of this effort and the ideal to which they point, Sri Aurobindo says in ...
... soon after their coming, a difficult task which she executes to this day with meticulous perfection. There were others too, more and more of them with the steady march of the years: some were Karmayogis whose task it was to set the complicated wheels of the Ashram moving, at once infallibly and noiselessly. Others were darlings of the Muses, and cultivated poetry, philosophy, painting, music ...
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