Karmayogin : a Bengali paper organized by Amar Chatterjee & published from Uttarpāra, a suburban town near Calcutta.
... Thought, Vol. 15 31 . THE IDEAL OF THE KARMAYOGIN Sadhana Press, Chandemagore, 1918 Second Edition, 1919 Revised Edition, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1937 Articles from the Karmayogin. The First Edition contained only "The Ideal of the Karmayogin" and "Karmayoga", both from the Karmayogin of June 19, 1909. The Second Edition... House, Chandemagore, 1922 First appeared in the Karmayogin, November 20 to December 25, 1909, SABCL: The Hour of God, Vol. 17 58. THE NEED IN NATIONALISM and Other Essays S. Ganesan, Triplicane, Madras, 1923 Five essays from the Karmayogin: "The Need in Nationalism" (published in the Karmayogin as "Ourselves"), "The Power that Uplifts", "The Principle... editorials and comments from the Bande Mataram; Speeches. Volume 2 Karmayogin, EARLY POLITICAL WRITINGS — II (1909-1910): Uttarpara Speech,-'The Ideal of the Karmayogin; An Open Letter to My Countrymen ; other essays, notes and comments from the Karmayogin ; Speeches. Page 412 Volume 3 The Harmony of ...
... essential inheritance from the past, to dare and fare forward: that was to be the national programme of action, and the Karmayogin would spell it out in detail and help to engineer the nation's movement towards a bright and purposive future. The early issues of the Karmayogin carried Sri Aurobindo's English translations of the Isha, Kena and Katha Upanishads. The paper also published his... Impossible and altogether improbable! The fourth issue of the Karmayogin gave a balanced and detailed rejoinder to these immaculate rationalists of Calcutta and Bombay. Again, when Baikunthanath Sen, President of the Hooghly Conference (5th and 6th September 1909), described Sri Aurobindo as an 'impatient idealist', the Karmayogin commented: The reproach of idealism has always been brought... meant specially for those who couldn't read the Karmayogin, but the change of medium, the shift to a concentrated regional audience with its own ethos and slant of sensibility, and the resulting larger freedom and intensity of expression must have given to the Dharma a fierce urgency and directness of appeal that perhaps even the Karmayogin lacked. While it is beyond the scope of this ...
... freshness, force, and piquancy of its reviews endeared the Karmayogin to its readers, and its popularity increased to such an extent that a cheaper edition was urgently called for. On the 1st January, 1910, the Karmayogin came out with the following notice: "The difficulty felt by many students and educated men of small means in buying the Karmayogin at its ordinary price of two annas, has been so much... birth." The naming of the English paper as Karmayogin and the Bengali paper as Dharma, the picture of Sri Krishna, the charioteer of Arjuna, 172. 7th August was the birth anniversary of the Boycott and 16th October that of the Partition. Page 323 driving him to the battle of Kurukshetra, printed on the cover of the Karmayogin, and the quotation from the Gita in the Dharma... life.... The nation or society, like the individual, has a body, an organic 26. "The world waits for the rising of India to receive the divine flood in its fullness." The Ideal of the Karmayogin by Sri Aurobindo. 27. Italics are ours. Page 183 life, a moral and aesthetic temperament, a developing mind, and a soul behind all these signs and powers for the sake of ...
... of the Individual . Published in the Karmayogin , 24 July 1909, and later in The Ideal of the Karmayogin. The Process of Evolution . Published in the Karmayogin , 18 September 1909, and later in The Ideal of the Karmayogin. Stead and the Spirits . Published in the Karmayogin , 27 November 1909. Stead and Maskelyne . Published in the Karmayogin , 1 January 1910. Fate and Free-Will... issue of the Karmayogin , 19 June 1909, and later in The Ideal of the Karmayogin. Man — Slave or Free? Published in the Karmayogin , 26 June 1909, and later in Man — Slave or Free? and The Need in Nationalism. Yoga and Human Evolution . Published in the Karmayogin , 3 July 1909, and later in Man — Slave or Free? Yoga and Hypnotism . Published in the Karmayogin , 17 July 1909... Free-Will . Published in the Karmayogin , 29 January 1910, and later in Man — Slave or Free? and The Need in Nationalism. The Three Purushas . Published in the Karmayogin , 12 February 1910, and later in The Ideal of the Karmayogin. The Strength of Stillness . Published in the Karmayogin , 19 February 1910, and later in The Ideal of the Karmayogin. The Principle of Evil . Published ...
... all but one of them in his journal, the Karmayogin . The National Value of Art. This series of essays was published in the Karmayogin in six instalments between 20 November and 25 December 1909. The essays were republished as a booklet in 1922, 1936 (revised), 1946 and subsequently. Two Pictures. This essay was published in the Karmayogin on 17 July 1909. Indian Art... Art and an Old Classic. This essay was published in the Karmayogin on 2 October 1909. The Revival of Indian Art. This essay was published in the Karmayogin on 16 October 1909. An Answer to a Critic. Editorial title. This incomplete essay was written shortly after August 1910, when the article it refers to, "Comment and Criticism. The Indian Fine Arts Critics", was published in... Sister Nivedita. PART FIVE: CONVERSATIONS DEAD OF THE (1910) The first two of these dialogues were published in the Karmayogin , appearing in the last issues known to have been edited by Sri Aurobindo. (Two other dialogues published in later issues of the Karmayogin under the heading "Conversations of the Dead" were written by Sister Nivedita.) Drafts of the last three pieces form part of ...
... Published in the Karmayogin on 18 December1909. Around 1913, Sri Aurobindo copied the Karmayogin text into a notebook, making a few deliberate changes as he did so. Later he revised the opening and close of this version. Three decades later, when Collected Poems and Plays was being compiled, the editors, not knowing about the 1913 version, sent the Karmayogin text to Sri Aurobindo... these years.) Baji Prabhou was published for the first time in three issues of the Karmayogin : 19February, 26 February and 5 March 1910. At some point he revised the first instalment of the Karmayogin text, but did not make use of this revision subsequently. In 1922 he published the Karmayogin text (with new, very light, revision) at the Modern Press, Pondicherry. This text became... Invitation . 1908–9. This poem was published in Sri Aurobindo's weekly newspaper Karmayogin on 6 November 1909, under the inscription: "(Composed in the Alipur Jail)". Sri Aurobindo was a prisoner in Alipore Jail between 5 May 1908 and 6 May 1909.Who. Circa 1908–9. Published in the Karmayogin on 13 November1909. Page 699 Miracles . Circa 1900–1906. ...
... form appeals most to the spiritual emotions of His devotee. But the Karmayogin should devote himself to those forms of the Supreme Lord in which His mighty Shakti, His Will to live and create has expressed itself in its highest, purest and most inspiring and energetic virility; for Karma is merely Shakti in motion and the Karmayogin must be a pure conductor of divine energy, a selfless hero and creator... discipline for the Karmayogin. But let us go down many steps lower. I have not yet ascended the ladder, but am still climbing. I have not yet acquired the habitual consciousness of the presence of the Lord surrounding all things as the only reality for whose sake alone transitory phenomena are precious or desirable. How in this imperfect stage of development can the Karmayogin escape from covetousness... been the chosen way of innumerable saintly sages. But the Karmayogin may enjoy them, not for his personal pleasure certainly, not for his false self, since that sort of enjoyment he has abandoned in his heart, but God in them and them for God. As a king merely touching the nazzerana passes it on to the public treasury, so shall the Karmayogin, merely touching the wealth that comes to him, pour it out ...
... of the signed letter in the Karmayogin of 25 December? The law officers of the Government thought that the letter was seditious, and it was decided therefore to issue a warrant for the arrest of Sri Aurobindo under Section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code. One night in February - Probably on the 14th - when Sri Aurobindo was sitting with his assistants in the Karmayogin office at 4 Shyampukur Lane... quietly, "Come, let us move out just now!" Surprisingly enough, there were no C.I.D. men outside the Karmayogin office that night, though that was almost the routine till then. He sent one of the young men to Sister Nivedita, requesting her in a note to take up the editorship of the Karmayogin in his absence. Preceded by Ramachandra, and followed at some discreet distance by Biren Ghose and Suresh... , Sri Aurobindo was an unrepentant seditionist and revolutionary, only a diabolically clever one since it was so very difficult to bring him to book. So soon after acquittal, he had started the Karmayogin and then the Dharma, and both were financial successes. He was constantly on his feet, and his speeches were widely reported and discussed. He still seemed to exert an unparalleled influence on ...
... mountains for a while, if the din of life deafens you & you wish to seek solitude to meditate; for to the Karmayogin also Jnana is necessary and solitude is the nurse of knowledge. You may sit by the Ganges or the Narmada near some quiet temple or in some sacred asram to adore the Lord; for to the Karmayogin also bhakti is necessary, and places like these which are saturated with the bhakti of great saints... indeed he becomes the Karmayogin who lives ever close to the eternal & almighty Presence, moving freely in the courts of God, admitted hourly to His presence and growing always liker & liker in his spiritual image to the purity, majesty, might and beauty of the Lord. To love God in His world Page 216 and approach God in himself is the discipline of the Karmayogin; to embrace all created... The Karmayogin: A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad Isha Upanishad Chapter II Salvation through Works I The law of spiritual abandonment in preference to mere physical abandonment, is the solution enounced by Srikrishna, the greatest of all teachers, for a deep and vexed problem which has troubled the Hindu consciousness from ancient times. There are ...
... to sit idle. Oh, no I Barely a month after his release from jail he began a new English weekly, the Karmayogin. He was not inclined to revive the defunct Bande Mataram as asked by many. The Karma yogin's first number hit the stands on 19 June 1909, and every Saturday thereafter. The Karmayogin (Registered N°C. 532) was: "A weekly Review of National Religion, Literature, Science, Philosophy,... 1909, which was commonly known as the 'Karmayogin Office.' The weekly, which filled the gap left by the closure of the Bande Mataram, knew an instant success and, unlike its predecessor, was easily self-supporting. Priced at 2 annas (i.e., one eighth of a rupee), it had a very large circulation and brought a rich and varied fare to its readers. "The Karmayogin and Dharma, the two weeklies preaching... people with a becoming spirit of humanity." He then goes on to say, "The Karmayogin and the Dharma gave us intimations, faint and obscure of the 'human dream of perfectibility,' of 'aspiration to a heaven on earth common to several religious and spiritual seers and thinkers.' ... The majority of us looked to the Karmayogin and the Dharma to give us a new lead in our political bewilderment." ...
... which Sri Aurobindo entitled "The Upanishads rendered into simple and rhythmic English".) The TMS translation of the Kena was lightly revised and published in the weekly review Karmayogin in June 1909. In 1920 the Karmayogin translation was reproduced in The Seven Upanishads , published by Ashtekar & Co., Poona. (Only three of the seven translations in this book were by Sri Aurobindo: Isha, Kena... Baroda around 1900; it forms part of TMS. He later said that he had tried "to convey the literary merit of the original". The translation, slightly revised, was published in the Karmayogin in July and August 1909. The Karmayogin translation was published as The Katha Upanishad by Ashtekar & Co., Poona, in 1919. Sometime during the early part of his stay in Pondicherry (1910-20), Sri Aurobindo began... (1971), the partially revised TMS version was used as text, with some editorial modernisation of the language. The Karmayogin version, containing the last revision of the Second Cycle, was disregarded. In the present volume, the revised TMS is followed for the First Cycle, and the Karmayogin text for the Second. Mundaka Upanishad . Sri Aurobindo first translated this Upanishad in Baroda ...
... be immediately arrested. The warrant Page 64 was held back, and the search of the Karmayogin Simultaneously, the police swooped down on his papers Dharma and the Karmayogin. The next day, Tuesday 5 April 1910, Amrita Bazar Patrika published the news. "The Karmayogin office was searched by the police last evening from 5 p.m. to about 8 p.m. Superintendent Creagan,... This was the third sedition case against Sri Aurobindo instituted by the British-India government. The Karmayogin, like its predecessor Bande Mataram, folded up in a rather dramatic fashion. Its last issue is dated 2nd April 1910. The police did not stop with the raid to the Karmayogin office. The next day, 5 April that is, Calcutta Police searched the Sanjivani Office at 6 College Square... just now agitating the educated community in town very much. The object, it now appears, was this: the police wanted to get hold of a copy of the Karmayogin of the 25th December last and all papers and documents connected with it. Now. the Karmayogin is not printed or published at the Sanjibani office. it having a separate office of its own. It is true that Babu Aurobindo, the alleged writer of ...
... written by Sri Aurobindo for publication in newspapers, with the exception of the two open letters he published in his own journal Karmayogin in 1909 and 1910, and his reply to the writer of a review of his Secret of the Veda . (These letters are reproduced in Karmayogin: Political Writings and Speeches 1909 - 1910 and The Secret of the Veda , volumes 8 and 15 of T HE C OMPLETE W ORKS OF ... newspaper Karmayogin on 25 December 1909. Sri Aurobindo remained incognito in Pondicherry until 7 November 1910, when he wrote this letter announcing his presence in the French enclave and his retirement from politics. He deferred "all explanation or justification of [his] action" until the Calcutta High Court had ruled on the appeal of the conviction of the printer in the Karmayogin sedition... Page 565 61 Barisal Hooghly For the Hooghly Conference, see Sri Aurobindo: Karmayogin: Political Writings and Speeches 1909 - 1910 , pp. 209 - 35. See also p. 59 of the present volume, where the events of the Hooghly Conference (September 1909) are discussed between events of late ...
... in the Karmayogin. October 10 Speech at College Square, Calcutta. October 13 "Swadeshi in Calcutta" speech. October 18 Durga Stotra published in the Dharma. November 20 - December 25 The National Value of Art in the Karmayogin. December 25 "To My Countrymen" in the Karmayogin. ... February 12 - April 2 A System of National Education in the Karmayogin. February 19 - March 5 Baji Prabhu in the Karmayogin. March 26 - April 2 "Chitrangada" in the Karmayogin. March 31 Leaves Chandernagore for Calcutta. ... Aurobindo stays at 6, College Square, Calcutta. May 14 Letter to the Bengalee, Calcutta. May 30 Speech at Uttarpara. June 13 Speech at Beadon Square, Calcutta. June 19 First issue of the Karmayogin, a weekly review directed and mostly written by Sri Aurobindo. June 19 Speech at Jhalakati, Barisal District. June 23 Speech at Bakergunj, Barisal District. June 26 Speech at Khulna. ...
... 9-November 13 The Brain of India in the Karmayogin. October 10 Speech at College Square, Calcutta. October 13 "Swadeshi in Calcutta" speech. October 18 Durga Stotra published in the Dharma. November 20-December 25 The National Value of Art in the Karmayogin. December 25 "To My Countrymen" in the Karmayogin. 1910 — February Leaves Calcutta... Calcutta for Chandernagore in French India. February 12-April 2 A System of National Education in the Karmayogin. February 19-March 5 Baji Prabhu in the Karmayogin. March 26-April 2 "Chitrangada" in the Karmayogin. March 31 Leaves Chandernagore for Calcutta. April 1 Embarks for Pondicherry in French India by the S.S. Dupleix. April... College Square, Calcutta. May 14 Letter to the Bengalee, Calcutta. May 30 Speech at Uttarpara. June 13 Speech at Beadon Square, Calcutta. June 19 First issue of the Karmayogin, a weekly review directed and mostly written by Sri Aurobindo. Speech at Jhalakati, Barisal District. June 23 Speech at Bakerjung, Barisal District. June 26 Speech at Khulna ...
... to combat the gloom and despondency in the air Sri Aurobindo launched the publication of two weekly journals, the Karmayogin in English and the Dharma in Bengali. The first issue of the Karmayogin came out on June 19, 1909, and that of the Dharma on August 23. The Karmayogin described itself as 'a weekly review of National Religion, Literature, Science, Philosophy etc.' The cover illustration... s such as 'A System of National Education', 'The National Value of Art', 'The Brain of India', etc. Both the Karmayogin and Dharma soon acquired a wide readership and, unlike the Bande Mataram, were financially self-supporting. It must not be thought, however, that the Karmayogin refrained from political writings. As in the Bande Mataram, there were trenchant comments on political developments... Government continued to keep a close watch on the writings in the Karmayogin so as not to miss any opportunity of convicting Sri Aurobindo on a charge of sedition. Meanwhile the political atmosphere remained murky and sullen. On December 25, 1909, Sri Aurobindo wrote another open letter, 'To My Countrymen', which appeared in the Karmayogin. In it he reviewed the political situation, referred to the ...
... suddenly as I had gone there. I had barely ten minutes to spare, and so there was no question of letting anyone know. I think I have told you that the Karmayogin and the Dharma, the two papers I was editing, were widely circulated, particularly the Karmayogin, so much so that the subscription rate for it had to be reduced by half for more people to be able to buy it. I am not sure whether it was this... speaking too!" "Who has told you that?" "We learned from Nolinida's Reminiscences," answered Sachet. "What does he say?" "It took place somewhere in 1908 or 1909, in Shyampukur, at the Karmayogin office. He says that at about eight o'clock in the evening they would take their seats around you. The lights were put out and all was silent. They kept still for a while. Then slowly there came... didn't dare touch her. All the same, there seems to have been some talk of her arrest and those same friends sent her to England for a while. When I came out of prison and resumed publication of the Karmayogin, she began contributing articles to that paper. Some time later, she heard that I might be rearrested and immediately advised me to write 'An Open Letter to My Countrymen'. When Ramchandra Majumdar ...
... Ideal of the Karmayogin, 'Karmayogin' 1909-10 .- 1st ed. 1918 A System of National Education, 'Karmayogin' 1910.- 1st ed. 1921 The National Value of Art, 'Karmayogin' 1909.- 1st ed. 1922 The Speeches, 1908-1909.- 1st ed. 1922 The Doctrine of Passive Resistance, 1907.- 1st ed. 1948 Bankim-Tilak-Dayananda, 1907-1916-1918.- 1st ed. 1940 The Brain of India, 'Karmayogin' 1909 .-... Aurobindo found the political scene purged by the executions and mass deportations of the British government. He resumed his work, however, starting a Benagli weekly and another in English, the Karmayogin , with the Gita's very symbolic motto: "Yoga is skill in works." At the risk of a new imprisonment, Sri Aurobindo affirmed once again the ideal of complete independence from and noncooperation with... the gods and the religions, on which the very future of our evolution depends. One evening in February 1910, less than a year after his release from Alipore, someone came to the office of the Karmayogin to warn Sri Aurobindo that he was to be arrested again and deported to the Andaman Islands. Suddenly, he heard the Voice speak three distinct words: Go to Chandernagore. Ten minutes later, Sri Aurobindo ...
... Nationalist movement was at a low ebb. Sri Aurobindo set about pouring fresh life into it, giving many speeches and starting a new English weekly, the Karmayogin, as well as a Bengali weekly, the Dharma. The following excerpts are from the Karmayogin. ________________ * Thus wrote Lord Min to, the then Viceroy of India, on Sri Aurobindo. 9 Sir Edward Baker, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal... government had finally decided to arrest Sri Aurobindo again, deport him under its draconian laws, and silence the Karmayogin. In mid-February, following news of an impending arrest, Sri Aurobindo received an Adesh to go to Chandemagore, then under French government. Leaving the Karmayogin office at once, he reached Chandemagore the next morning, where he remained for a month and a half, immersed in... the following extracts are from articles he had written before leaving, or perhaps sent from Chandemagore to the Karmayogin, which he had left in the charge of Sister Nivedita. At the end of March, he received a second Adesh to go to Pondicherry. The last issue of the Karmayogin came out on April 2, 1910.) February 19, 1910 Life creates institutions; institutions do not create ...
... even at the risk of repetition: "It was not Gonen Maharaj who informed me of the impending search and arrest, but a young man on the staff of the Karmayogin , Ramchandra Majumdar, whose father had been warned that in a day or two the Karmayogin Office would be searched and myself arrested. There have been many legends spread about on this matter and it was even said that I was to be prosecuted... her and to ask her to take up editing of the Karmayogin in my absence. She consented and in fact from this time onward until the suspension of the paper she had the whole conduct of it; I was absorbed in my Sadhana and sent no contributions nor were there any articles over my signature. There was never my signature to any articles in the Karmayogin except twice only, the last being the occasion... VII Chandernagore From May 1909 to February 1910 Sri Aurobindo stayed at the house of his uncle Krishna Kumar Mitra at 6, College Square, Calcutta. He used to go to the office of the Karmayogin and the Dharma at 4, Shyam Pukur Lane every day at four o'clock in the afternoon. It was winter and Sri Aurobindo came wrapped in his shawl. There was not much work to do in the office; often ...
... Uttarpara to fetch Sri Aurobindo to speak to the Dharma Rakshini Sabha. He knew Sri Aurobindo through the secret society organisation and because of his previous initiation by ¹ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972), before text. ² Basanti Chakravarty, "Amader Aurodada", Galpa Bharati , Vol. VI, No. 7 (Paush 1357), p. 783. Page 116 him. Amar... speak about his spiritual experiences. Panch Koti quoted a line of scripture to support his view. Amar replied to him, "My Guru creates Shastra, he does not follow it." ³ ¹ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin , pp. 3-10. ² Amarendranath Chatterji, "Sri Aurobinder Sange Sakshatkar", Galpa Bharati , Vol. VI, No. 7 (Paush 1357), pp. 825-26. ³ Amarendranath Chatterji, "Sri Aurobindo Mahaprayane"... about a hundred persons, that too mostly passers-by. And I had the honour to preside over several such meetings!"¹ It was after his release that Sri Aurobindo started the journals Dharma and Karmayogin , one in Bengali, the other in English. These had a very wide circulation and had no financial difficulties like the Bande Mataram. Sri Aurobindo addressed the Jhalakati Conference on 19 June ...
... any articles in the Karmayogin except twice only, the last being the occasion for the prosecution which failed." The Karmayogin ceased with its last issue dated 2 April 1910. On January 20, just a month before taking charge of the paper, Nivedita had written to S. K. Ratcliffe, the editor of The Statesman, who was then in England: "How I wish you could get the Karmayogin every week! In my opinion... related to Sri Aurobindo. The day had been quite normal for Sri Aurobindo. After his morning work he had taken as usual his midday meal, then worked on his articles for the two weeklies, the Karmayogin and Dharma. After that he had set out from N°6 College Square —never again to return as it turned out—to come to Shyampukur office and had done the office work. The day's work done, he had joined... after his retirement. 2.In regard to Sri Aurobindo's sudden departure from Calcutta Moni's narrative in his Bengali book, Smriti Hatha, Page 527 was decided to search the Karmayogin office and arrest him. He added in anguish that the arrest of Sri Aurobindo was imminent, quite possibly that very night or the next day. A warrant had been issued in his name. Ramchandra Majumdar's ...
... “So do you become Me,”—tells the Teacher of the Gita to Arjuna. Does not in every respect an ornament enjoy the gold from which it is made? So should he live in Him. Such indeed is the perfection a karmayogin gets by following the Path of Action. When you happen to be in such a state you discover that, really, you do not possess words to speak; you become mute, fall speechless. You further recognise... blameless I-ness; even as do you attend with proper care the green healthy creeper of Karma Yoga, so does it come to you with its fruit. “O Arjuna,” assuringly reveals the Teacher, “just as this karmayogin sets Me like a jewel of senscience in his diadem so do I, in an intimate manner of household exchange of gifts, put this mighty emperor in My crown.” Imagine an immense and spread-out temple, or... g tower; above it stretches only the skylike expanse of this remarkable doer of works. Such is the oneness reached. ( Jnaneshwari : 18.1214-20) Thus in this karmayogin the stream of knowledge and the stream of devotion have joined the stream of work. It will now be soon that the swift triple stream will reach the ocean of the blissful One. Page 91 ...
... Karmayogin Karmayogin Writings in Other Volumes of the Complete Works Non-political writings from the Karmayogin are published in other volumes of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO. In the table below, the items included in each volume are listed in the order of their appearance in the Karmayogin . The original titles are given. Some of these writings... Baji Purbhou Chitrangada Page 467 Volume 5. Translations Anandamath Some Aphorisms of Bhartrihari Volume 13. Essays in Philosophy and Yoga The Ideal of the Karmayogin Karmayoga Man—Slave or Free? Yoga and Human Evolution Yoga and Hypnotism The Greatness of the Individual The Process of Evolution Stead and the Spirits Stead and Maskelyne ...
... related there have no foundation in fact. It was not Gonen Maharaj who informed me of the impending search and arrest, but a young man on the staff of the Karmayogin, Ramchandra Mazumdar, whose father had been warned that in a day or two the Karmayogin office would be searched and myself arrested. There [have] 2 been many legends spread about on this matter and it was even said that I was to be prosecuted... inform her and to ask her to take up editing of the Karmayogin in my absence. She consented and in fact from this time onward until the suspension of the paper she had the whole conduct of it; I was absorbed in my sadhana and sent no contributions nor were there any articles over my signature. There was never my signature to any articles in the Karmayogin except twice only, the last being the occasion for... friendly relations with high Government officials and there was no question of her arrest. I told her that I did not think it necessary to accept her suggestion; I would write an open letter in the Karmayogin which, I thought, would prevent this action by the Government. This was done and on my next visit to her she told me that my move had been entirely successful and the idea of deportation had been ...
... address of your publisher. Refer him to A.P.H. Tell him that my political writings appeared in the daily Bande Mataram and the weekly Karmayogin and have for the most part not been separately published. You can mention however The Ideal of the Karmayogin, The Renaissance in India, The Ideal of Human Unity, War and Self-Determination as books that may be useful for his subject, as the two former... But who will decide what may come under the Press Act? It is a legal point and the law of sedition is exceedingly elastic. September 1935 The Ideal of the Karmayogin Have you seen my review of The Ideal of the Karmayogin? Yes, I have seen it, but I don't think it can be published in its present form as it prolongs the political Aurobindo of that time into the Sri Aurobindo of the... the contrary I have been careful to pronounce nothing—no views whatever on political questions for the last I don't know how many years. 21 April 1937 In the new edition of The Ideal of the Karmayogin there is this announcement:— Fourth Edition—January, 1937 (Thoroughly Revised by the Author) Radhakanta is repeating the above formula in all your old books which are really reprints ...
... inherent spiritual potentiality and a sustained endeavour to recover its rightful place in the world. Dwelling upon the aims and bearings of his politics, Sri Aurobindo says in his The Ideal of the Karmayogin: "A nation is building in India today before the eyes of the world so swiftly, so palpably, that all can watch the process and those who have sympathy and intuition distinguish the forces... Aurobindo's politics and militant nationalism were nothing but a seething focus of a world-transforming spirituality is amply attested even by his very early writings. In his The Ideal of the Karmayogin he says: "There is a mighty law of life, a great principle of human evolution, a body of spiritual knowledge and experience of which India has always been destined to be guardian, exemplar... power of love, by the extension of inborn spirituality into various experience and by the spontaneous play of an intuitive knowledge." And on Vivekananda he says in his book, The Ideal of the Karmayogin: "The going forth of Vivekananda, marked out by the Master as the heroic soul destined to take the world between his two hands and change it, was the first visible sign to the world that India ...
... better arrangements for printing the paper. The next issue of Karmayogin will be published on Saturday the 17th instant instead of on Saturday the 10th." The publication of the next issue was, consequently, delayed. We are glad to be in a position to inform our readers that better arrangements have been made, and henceforth the Karmayogin will be regularly published, and our readers will be able to... We would take this opportunity of saying that we have no connection with the Bengali Karmayogin to be published from Uttarpara. It is an independent paper with which we have no connection. The conductors of the paper have only our permission to publish Bengali translations of articles appearing in the Karmayogin . Page 136 ... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The Indiscretions of Sir Edward The speech of Sir Edward Baker in the Bengal Council last week was one of those indiscretions which statesmen occasionally commit and invariably repent, but which live in their results long after the immediate occasion has been forgotten. The speech is a mass of indiscretions from beginning ...
... prominent Nationalist leader was still free – had their intended demoralizing effect. Nevertheless Aurobindo, no longer capable of discouragement, did not give up. He started another English weekly, Karmayogin, on 19 June, and on 23 August a weekly in Bengali, called Dharma. Some of his writers were the young men who had belonged to the Maniktola Garden community. Their chhota karta , Barin, was no... Sister Nivedita that the government intended to deport him or to appeal Judge Beachcroft’s verdict. To remain a step ahead of the British and prevent himself from being deported, he published in the Karmayogin ‘An Open Letter to My Countrymen,’ informing the public at large of the government’s intentions and writing out his political testament. The ploy worked and the British reconsidered, but not for... February 1910 Aurobindo went to his office as usual and, at the request of his young companions, did some automatic writing. ‘The atmosphere was filled with fun and laughter’ when a staff member of the Karmayogin suddenly entered and informed Aurobindo that he had come to know from a high police official that a warrant of arrest had been issued against him. ‘There was a tense moment of silence as we sat ...
... dramatic romance), 1912 or 1913 1960 V. NATIONALISM The Ideal of the Karmayogin, 'The Karmayogin', 1909-1910 1918 A System of National Education, 'The Karmayogin', 1910 1924 The National Value of Art, 'The Karmayogin',1909 1922 Speeches, 1908-1909 1922 The Doctrine of Passive Resistance, 1907 1948 ... 1949 The Ideal of Human Unity, 'Arya', September 1915 -July 1918 1950 On the War, 1914 - 1918 1944 War and Self-Determination, 1916 - 1920 1920 Man-Slave or Free? 'Karmayogin', 1909 - 1910 1966 III. YOGA Elements of Yoga, 1933 -1936 1953 Lights on Yoga 1935 More Lights on Yoga 1948 Sri... commemorate Sri Aurobindo's Birth Centenary in 1972 the Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo have been issued in 30 volumes. They are as follows: Volume 1 Bande Mataram Volume 2 Karmayogin Volume 3 The Harmonie of Virtue Page 275 Volume 4 Writings in Bengali Volume 5 Collected Poems Volume 6 Collected Plays ...
... these delivered his speech at Uttarpara in which for the first time he spoke publicly of his Yoga and his spiritual experiences. He started also two weeklies, one in English and one in Bengali, the Karmayogin and Dharma , which had a fairly large circulation and were, unlike the Bande Mataram , easily self-supporting. He attended and spoke at the Provincial Conference at [Hooghly] 7 in 1909: for... sham Reforms which were all the Government at that period cared to offer. He held up always the slogan of "no compromise" or, as he now put it in his Open Letter to his countrymen published in the Karmayogin , "no co-operation without control". It was only if real political, administrative and financial control were given to popular ministers in an elected Assembly that he would have anything to do with... informed Sri Aurobindo and asked him to leave British India and work from outside so that his work would not be stopped or totally interrupted. Sri Aurobindo contented himself with publishing in the Karmayogin a signed article in which he spoke of the project of deportation and left the country what he called his last will and testament; he felt sure that this would kill the idea of deportation and in ...
... Karmayogin Ourselves The Karmayogin comes into the field to fulfil a function which an increasing tendency in the country demands. The life of the nation which once flowed in a broad and single stream has long been severed into a number of separate meagre and shallow channels. The two main floods have followed the paths of religion and politics, but... grandiose flood. To assist that tendency, to give Page 18 voice and definiteness to the deeper aspirations now forming obscurely within the national consciousness is the chosen work of the Karmayogin . There is no national life perfect or sound without the chatur-varnya . The life of the nation must contain within itself the life of the Brahmin,—spirituality, knowledge, learning, high and... ourselves, what we were, are and may be; what we did in the past and what we are capable of doing in the future; our history and our mission. This is the first and most important work which the Karmayogin sets for itself, to popularise this knowledge. The Vedanta or Sufism, the temple Page 20 or the mosque, Nanak and Kabir and Ramdas, Chaitanya or Guru Govind, Brahmin and Kayastha and ...
... The Karmayogin: A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad Isha Upanishad Chapter IV The Eternal in His Universe [word] - word(s) omitted by the author or lost through damage to the manuscript that are required by grammar or sense, and that could be supplied by the editors I. ETERNAL TRUTH THE BASIS OF ETHICS अनेजदेकं मनसो जवीयो नैनद्देवा आप्नुवन्पूर्वमर्षत्... directing them to Him. With the declaration of the Eternal as the Universal and Omnipresent Lord the Upanishad must, therefore, begin. Now it is about to take a step farther & set forth the ideal of the Karmayogin and the consummation of his yoga. It preludes the new train of thought by identifying Isha the Lord with Parabrahman the Eternal and Transcendent Reality. Not only does He surround and sustain as... weakness, pure in our virtues, unstained by our sins, no less omniscient and omnipotent than Isha, no less calm, immutable and ineffable than the Supreme Being,—this our Self too is Brahman. The Karmayogin who has realised it, must hold all existence divine, all life a sacrament, all thought and action a self-dedication to the Eternal. It is within all this, It too is without all. Brahman is within ...
... of Passive Resistance; editorials and comments from the Bande Mataram; Speeches. Volume 2 — Karmayogin, EARLY POLITICAL WRITINGS —11(1909-1910): Uttarpara Speech; The Ideal of the Karmayogin; An Open Letter to My Countrymen; other essays, notes and comments from the Karmayogin; Speeches. Volume 3 — The Harmony of Virtue, EARLY CULTURAL WRITINGS: The Harmony of Virtue; ... Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history Bibliography Sri Aurobindo's writings have appeared in journals (notably Indu Prakash, Bande Mataram, Yugantar, Karmayogin, Dharma, Standard-Bearer, Arya and Bulletin of Physical Education), as also in book form in successive editions and impressions. For this edition the references to Sri Aurobindo's writings are... Bankim Chandra Chatterjee; The Sources of Poetry and Other Essays; Valmiki and Vyasa; Kalidasa; The Brain of India; Essays from the Karmayogin; Art and Literature; Passing Thoughts; Conversations of the Dead. Volume 4 — Writings in Bengali: Hymns to Durga; Poems, Stories; The Veda; The Upanishads; The Purana; The Gita; Dharma; Nationalism; Editorials from Dharma; Stories of Jail ...
... delivered his speech at Uttarpara in which for the first time he spoke publicly of his Yoga and his spiritual experiences. He started also two weeklies, one in English and one in Bengali, the Karmayogin and Dharma which had a fairly large circulation and were, unlike the Bande Mataram , easily self-supporting. He attended and spoke at the Provincial Conference at Barisal in 1909 ¹ : ... Reforms which were all the Government at that period cared to offer. He held up always the slogan of ‘no compromise’ or, as he now put it in his Open Letter to his countrymen published in the Karmayogin, 'no co-operation without control'. It was only if real political, administrative and financial control were given to popular ministers in an elected Assembly that he would have anything to... Sri Aurobindo and asked him to leave British India and work from outside so that his work would not be stopped or totally interrupted. Sri Aurobindo contented himself with publishing in the Karmayogin a signed article in which he spoke of the project of deportation and left the country what he called his last will and testament; he felt sure that this would kill the idea of deportation and ...
... warpath. His Majesty's Government was ready to pounce on him at the flimsiest excuse. The Detective Department of the Police set a round-the-clock watch at N°6 College Square, as well as at the Karmayogin Office at Shyampukur. Letters to Arabindo Babu were regularly intercepted and often the Post Office neglected to deliver them to him. But no. No evidence worth the name could the police turn up... were made by small groups driven underground by the repressive policies of the Government. "They are the rank and noxious Page 520 fruit of a rank and noxious policy" wrote the Karmayogin on 31 July 1909, "and until the authors of that policy turn from their errors, no human power can prevent the poison-tree from bearing according to its kind." Other poison-seeds planted by... asked him to go into secrecy or to leave British India and work from outside so that his work would not be stopped or totally interrupted. Sri Aurobindo contented himself with publishing in the Karmayogin a signed article in which he spoke of the project of deportation: 'An Open Letter to My Countrymen' was dated 31 July 1909. He called it his 'Last Will and Testament.' He felt sure that this would ...
... Karmayogin The Ideal of the Karmayogin A nation is building in India today before the eyes of the world so swiftly, so palpably that all can watch the process and those who have sympathy and intuition distinguish the forces at work, the materials in use, the lines of the divine architecture. This nation is not a new race raw from the workshop of Nature... of being removed. But we go farther and believe that it is sure to succeed because the freedom, unity and greatness of India have now become necessary to the world. This is the faith in which the Karmayogin puts its hand to the work and will persist in it, refusing to be discouraged by difficulties however immense and apparently insuperable. We believe that God is with us and in that faith we shall... recover it for the purposes of our future. Our business is to realise ourselves first and to mould everything to the law of India's eternal life and nature. It will therefore be the object of the Karmayogin to read the heart of our religion, our society, our philosophy, politics, literature, art, jurisprudence, science, thought, everything that was and is ours, so that we may be able to say to ourselves ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The Perishing Convention The Convention has met at Lahore and the fact that it could meet at all, has been hailed as a great triumph by the Anglo-Indian Press. But the success of this misbegotten body in avoiding immediate extinction has only served to show the marks of decay in every part of its being, and the loud chorus... composition of the non-official majority. If there is any meaning in language, the second part of the resolution gives the lie direct to the first. The language used is far stronger than any the Karmayogin has ever permitted itself to employ in its condemnation of the Reforms and, if the condemnation is at all justified by facts, the Reforms area reactionary and not a progressive piece of legislation... which has disowned and dishonoured Bengal and which Bengal has disowned. Page 383 Our Cheap Edition The difficulty felt by many students and educated men of small means in buying the Karmayogin at its ordinary price of two annas, has been so much pressed on our attention that we have found it necessary to bring out a cheaper edition at one anna a copy. It is not an easy thing in this country ...
... full force his work for the country and began publishing two weekly journals, Karmayogin in English and Dharma in Bengali. But now it seemed a change had come in his manner of writing. Formerly, what he used to write for the daily English paper, Bandemataram was primarily of a political nature. But in the Karmayogin and Dharma articles one felt a deeper strain. It was as if he was now preparing... of one's country. Page 132 Especially is this an essential need in India today, not for India alone but for the whole of humanity... In this Shyampukur house was situated the Karmayogin and Dharma office... Those of us who lived here as permanent residents used to cook our own food. It was all vegetarian food, not because that was part of our ideal but because it was the easier... forehead, perhaps a relic of his docile childhood. Rambabu was a man of Calcutta and belonged to that particular area where we lived. His house was in a lane off Grey Street. He was on the staff of Karmayogin and Dharma. As he entered the room, he informed Sri Aurobindo in a rather anxious voice that they had again issued a fresh warrant against him. The information was from a reliable source ...
... by Sri Aurobindo, came out in the 19th March issue of the Karmayogin, and the first two installments of "Chitrangada", a poem by Sri Aurobindo, were also published in the same paper on the 26th march and 2nd April 1910, respectively. Karmayogin was now being edited by Sister Nivedita. In the issue of 26th March 1910, Karmayogin published the following: "We are greatly astonished to... his removal... I was charged to escort him over the town to the southern outskirts in the darkness of night in a carriage. His disappearance had been reported in the two magazines, 'Dharma' and 'Karmayogin'. People knew that he had gone away among the Himalayas for sadhana in response to a call from the Tibetan saint Kuthumi. Nonetheless, the police were more in the know than our countrymen; they were ...
... criticism is entirely directed towards the Anglo-Indian government, never to Englishmen as such. Page 69 Security under new press act Notice on publisher of "dharma" "Karmayogin" sedition case—trial of the printer etc. etc. Another highlighted news item was the issuing of warrant of arrest against Sri Aurobindo. The Indian News Agency promptly spread the news... newspapers on the morning of 7 lh April, read—some with shock, some with glee: "A warrant for the arrest of Mr. Arabindo Chose has been issued because of an article published in his newspaper, the Karmayogin, on December 25......." Armed with the morning's Times, the Labour members of Parliament right away queried the Government. They were led by Ramsay MacDonald in the House of Commons. He asked... India, Edwin Montagu, whether he could confirm or deny 'the report in this morning's Times' that a warrant of arrest has been issued against Mr. Arabindo Ghose for an article that appeared in the Karmayogin of 25 th December, and whether a copy of the said article could be placed in the Library for the information of Members? The Under Secretary could not deny having seen the Page 70 ...
... Open Letter to My Countrymen ", Karmayogin, 31 July 1909; reproduced in Karmayogin: Political Writings and Speeches 1909-1910, Volume 8 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO, pp. 150-60 . × " To My Countrymen ", Karmayogin, 25 December 1909; reproduced in Karmayogin: Political Writings and Speeches ...
... pp -xxxviii p 56 in the manuscript No 2. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library Vol 2 Karmayogin pp 245-246 p 59 in the manuscript No 3. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library Vol 2 Karmayogin pp -262 p 59 in the manuscript No4. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library Vol 2 Karmayogin pp- 24 p 60 in the manuscript No 5. From an unpublished letter of Sri Aurobindo p 63... 63 in the manuscript No 6. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library Vol 2 Karmayogin pp 3 onwards p 66 in the manuscript Chapter 6 No1. India's Rebirth pp -161 p 72 in the manuscript No 2. India's Rebirth pp175 p72 in the manuscript No 3. India's Rebirth pp -160 p72 in the manuscript No 4. India's Rebirth pp - 167 p73 in the ...
... Terrorism, 3623, 366; the Nationalist demand, 364; rumour of deportation, 365; decision to go to Chandernagore, 367; speculation about his disappearance, 367ff; Morley on the Karmayogin articles, 368; judgement in the Karmayogin case, 369, 376; at Chandernagore, 367, 370ff; spiritual experience at Chandernagore, 362, 371ff; decision to go to Pondicherry, 373; departure, 374ff; arrival, 375; letter... 328; acquittal and release, 328; The Mother of Dreams, 330; at his uncle's place, 331; C. R. Das on, 331; letter to Bengalee, 332; Uttarpara Speech, 333ff, 385; Divine odes in jail, 334; Karmayogin and Dharma, 335, 343ff; automatic writing, 336; on spirituality, 337; 'Conversations of the Dead', 338; on ideals & idealism, 338; the marvellous "change", 339; on right of association, 339; on... Kalidasa. 10,50, 69ff, 90H, 337, 695 Kama, 169, 172 Kanungo, Hemachandra, 216, 326 Kant, Immanuel, 416 Kara-Kahini, 307fn, 308ff, 314H, 318, 320 Karmayogin, The, 201,250, 335,336ff, 345, 346ff, 359ff, 362H, 370, 375, 376, 390, 399, 449, 514, 531 Kathasaritsagara, 147 Katha Upanishad, 337 Kazantzakis, Nikos, 649 ...
... British India until the High Court in Calcutta shall have pronounced on the culpability or innocence of the writing in the Karmayogin on which I am indicted." 'Innocent.' The Calcutta High Court pronounced its verdict on the same 7 November. This was the case of the Karmayogin. On 25 December 1909, Sri Aurobindo had written an article, 'To my Countrymen,' under his own signature. Briefly... how the case had evolved. On 18 June 1910, the Chief Presidency Magistrate of Calcutta had pronounced the article 'To My Countrymen' as seditious. He sentenced Manmohan Ghose, the printer of the Karmayogin, to six months' rigorous imprisonment. Two weeks later, the Magistrate directed that Babu Arabindo Ghose "should be proclaimed an absconder Page 171 and that his property should... "A dangerous character," opined the Lt-Governor of East Bengal and Assam, "more especially dangerous in that he is preaching a religious patriotism." This was in reaction to the article in the Karmayogin of 31 July 1909, where Sri Aurobindo had written, "Our ideal is that of Swaraj or absolute autonomy free from foreign control. We claim the right of every nation to live its own life by its own ...
... nothing whatever of his departure for Chandernagore until afterwards when he sent her a message asking her to take up the editing of the Karmayogin in his absence. Everything happened very suddenly. Sri Aurobindo, as he has himself related, while at the Karmayogin Office, heard of an approaching search and his intended arrest: he suddenly received an adesh to go to Chandernagore and carried it out... outside; Sri Aurobindo did not accept the advice. He Page 92 said that he would write an "Open Letter" which he thought would make the Government give up its idea; this appeared in the Karmayogin under the title "My Last Will and Testament". Afterwards Sister Nivedita told him that it had had the desired effect and there was no more question of deportation. Sri Aurobindo did not see Sister ...
... action in leaving British India until the High Court in Calcutta shall have pronounced on the culpability or innocence of the writing in the Karmayogin on which I am indicted." ¹ On 7 November judgment was delivered at the Calcutta High Court on the Karmayogin and Manmohan Ghose, the printer of the journal, was acquitted. (He had been convicted by the Chief Presidency Magistrate.) The article... been in charge, was sold to Partha Sarathy Chetty. (He wound up the business in 1932.) . ¹ B. Shiva Rao, "Early Days of Journalis m ", The Hindu , 10 May 1959. . ² Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972), P. 433. . Page 166 Sometimes during 1919 and 1920 Sri Aurobindo used to get an irritation in the right ...
... . Through purification or the renunciation of egoistic self-indulgence and total indifference to the "fruits" of action and through concentration or complete absorption in the action itself, the Karmayogin makes himself the vehicle of the universal energy, and achieves release and fulfilment in the completion of the work; in the result, he has become a willing tool in whom the Lord of that energy... the flowing of the wine of the ecstasy, amrta. Love and Ananda are the last word of being, the secret of secrets, the mystery of mysteries. 15 God is the invoked charioteer guiding the Karmayogin through the embattled field of Kurukshetra: God is the transcendent experience of Sachchidananda: and God is the beloved Lord and Lover who responds utterly to the heart's longing for delight. And... Jivanmuktas, the Prahladas, and the Ramanujas who are eager to share the burden of everyday human care, these are the type that the mass of men need as helpers, guides, friends, consolers, redeemers. The Karmayogin could be an active helper of his fellow-men, healing their hurts and fighting their battles. The Bhakti-yogin, although he is generally lost in the ecstasy of divine love, has Page 556 ...
... and the continued mystery regarding his whereabouts and intentions were a constant irritant to the bureaucracy. Page 375 The institution of proceedings against the printer of the Karmayogin was poor consolation at best; having let the big whale escape, of what use was the attempt to net the small fry? The Government, however, must have got wind of the departure of the two late passengers... why he should emerge from his retirement simply to please his correspondent! The police took the bait, issued a warrant against Sri Aurobindo, and started proceedings against the printer of the Karmayogin for publishing in the paper the second open letter in the issue of 25 December 1909. As we saw in the preceding chapter (XV. iv), the case went against the printer in the lower court, but on an... I turned to Yoga in the beginning, and I came to Pondicherry because I had been directed by the Voice to pursue my Yoga here. 26 Between Alipur and Pondicherry, there had intervened the Karmayogin phase when an attempt was made to transform politics into Sanatana Dharma, the marching orders to go to Chandernagore, the startlingly unexpected experience of a fission and a fusion of consciousness ...
... us digress for a moment in order to peep into the flurried mind of the almighty British bureaucracy in India. Sri Aurobindo's second "An open letter to my country- men", published in the Karmayogin on the 25th December, 1909, was considered seditious, and a warrant was issued against him. But as the Police failed to trace him, the printer was convicted, sentenced to six months' imprisonment... Sundar Chakravarty, former manager of this paper. It is believed that if, by any chance, Manmohan Ghose should be acquitted, it would mean the triumphant return of Arabindo Ghose to Calcutta...." {Karmayogin Sedition case - Extract from C.I.D. Weekly Report dated 6th September, 1910). But the appellant printer was subsequently acquitted by Justices Fletcher J. and Holmwood who delivered two... subjects. I defer all explanation or justification of my action in leaving British India until the High Court in Calcutta shall have pronouced on the culpability or innocence of the writing in the Karmayogin on which I am indicted." Page 360 III As he mounts from peak to peak... Indra brings consciousness of That as the goal. Rig Veda, 1.10.2 For the first ...
... reported to have gone nobody knows where."—I.D. News Page 52 Rumours abounded. To stem that wild flow Sri Aurobindo sent a text from Chandernagore, published unsigned in the Karmayogin on 26 March 1910. "We are greatly astonished to learn from the local Press that Sj. Aurobindo Ghose has disappeared from Calcutta and is now interviewing the Mahatmas 1 in Tibet. We are ourselves... was pleased with Nolini's first Bengali article. Well, then, after Sri Aurobindo went to Chandernagore, those who remained back in Calcutta continued to run the two papers, Dharma and the Karmayogin (left in Sister Nivedita's charge), for some time. For some time. "But afterwards," says Nolini, "we too found it impossible to carry on and our pleasant home had to be broken up. For... hanging over his head like the sword of Damocles. But Arabindo Babu's sense of humour was irrepressible. The Pallivarta of 25 January 1910 wrote a longish article, quoting extensively from the Karmayogin. We give a few points. "Mr. Aravinda Ghose has recently received an anonymous letter. This letter informs him that an officer of the Detective Department named Gopal Chandra Ray, along with ...
... The Karmayogin: A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad Isha Upanishad Book III Chapter I. "But he who sees all creatures in his very Self and the Self in all creatures, thereafter shrinketh not away in loathing. He who discerneth, in whom all creatures have become Himself, how shall he be deluded, whence shall he have sorrow in whose eyes all are one?"... " In these two stanzas the Upanishad formulates the ethical ideal of the Karmayogin. It has set forth as its interpretation of life the universality of the Brahman as the sole reality and true self of things; all things exist only in Him and He abides in all as the Self. Every creature is His eidolon or manifestation and every body His temple and dwelling-place. From Him all things began, in Him... Supreme Will is his own Will. Whatever happens to me, it is I that am its cause and true doer and not my friend or enemy who is merely the agent of my own Karma. But the faith and resignation of the Karmayogin will not be a passive and weak submission. If he sees God in his sufferings and overthrow, he will also see God in his resistance to injustice and evil, a resistance dictated not by selfishness and ...
... Essays in Philosophy and Yoga The Ideal of the Karmayogin 19-June-1909 A nation is building in India today before the eyes of the world so swiftly, so palpably that all can watch the process and those who have sympathy and intuition distinguish the forces at work, the materials in use, the lines of the divine architecture. This nation is not... of being removed. But we go farther and believe that it is sure to succeed because the freedom, unity and greatness of India have now become necessary to the world. This is the faith in which the Karmayogin puts its hand to the work and will persist in it, refusing to be discouraged by difficulties however immense and apparently insuperable. We believe that God is with us and in that faith we shall... recover it for the purposes of our future. Our business is to realise ourselves first and to mould everything to the law of India's eternal life and nature. It will therefore be the object of the Karmayogin to read the heart of our religion, our society, our philosophy, politics, literature, art, jurisprudence, science, thought, everything that was and is ours, so that we may be able to say to ourselves ...
... Aurobindo. There was much speculation about his whereabouts and, to add to the confusion, Sri Aurobindo himself had sent a little note from his hide-out at Chandernagore. It was published in the Karmayogin on March 26, 1910, just a few days before he left for Pondicherry and it read: 'We are greatly astonished to learn from the local Press that Sj. Aurobindo Ghose has disappeared from Calcutta and... read this. At last they decided on taking legal action in order to force Sri Aurobindo's hands. You will remember that in July and December 1909 Sri Aurobindo had written two 'Open Letters' in the Karmayogin. After taking legal opinion, the Government came to the conclusion that the second letter, 'To My Countrymen', was seditious. In 1907 the charge against Sri Aurobindo in the Bande Mataram case... success, the Government launched a prosecution and on April 4, 1910, warrants of arrest were issued against Sri Aurobindo, writer of 'To My Countrymen' and Manmohan Ghosh, publisher and printer of the Karmayogin. Once again, it is a remarkable coincidence that the warrant against Sri Aurobindo should be issued on the very day he landed safely in Pondicherry, out of the clutches of British authority. ...
... 2. Ibid. 3. Chinmoy in Mother India, Dec. 1961 4. Ibid. 5. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 123 6. Purani, The Life, p. 1 7. Ibid. 8. Karmayogin, No. 7, Nov. 1909 9. Ibid. 10. Purani, The Life, pp. 3 & 319 11. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 28, pp. 1,3 12. Purani, The Life, p; 7. 13. Ibid., p. 3 ... pp. 55, 59-60 4. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 481 5. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, pp. 28,59 6. Purani, The Life, p. 90 7. From an article in Swaraj, reproduced in Karmayogin, and later included in Character Sketches, pp. 94-95 8. Foreword to Haridas and Uma Mukherjee's Sri Aurobindo and the New Thought in Indian Politics, p. viii... Mother India, January Page 797 1959, p. 51. [Cf. Collected Works of N. K. Gupta, Vol. 7 (1978), p. 391] 55. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 28, p. 44 Chapter 14: Karmayogin 1. Based on Sri Aurobindo's ''Kara Kahini, Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No.27,p. 120 2. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, pp. 1-2 3. P. C. Roy, Life & Times of ...
... merely by this speech, but also by the two weekly newspapers that he now launched, the Karmayogin (in English) and Dharma (in Bengali). 25 December 1909 Sri Aurobindo published his 'Open Letter to My Countrymen, which was to be his "last political will and testament", in the Karmayogin in case he was deported by the Government. February 1910 Sri... poetry and translations were published—the five-act blank verse drama, Perseus the Deliverer, Vidula or "The Mother to her Son' (from the Mahabharata) in Bande Mataram, and Baji Prabhou in Karmayogin. At the time of publication, all these had a pointed political appeal. In the play the stress was on the word 'deliverer'; Vidula exhorts her son to fight while Baji lays down his life in defence ...
... Bhartrihari's 'The Century of Life' in the Baroda College Miscellany and the early narrative poem Urvasie (1896). During Sri Aurobindo's editorship of the Bande Mataram and later of the Karmayogin, some of his poems including Baji Prabhou and translations like Vidula (from the Mahabharata) and his original play Perseus the Deliverer appeared in those papers or in the Modern Review... its benign or in its awesome aspects - dawn, moonlight, mountain-range, the starlit sky, the sea. It was in 1909 that Sri Aurobindo's translation of Bankim's song, Bande Mataram, appeared in Karmayogin; and years later, in 1941, his translation of Dwijendralal Roy's Mother India was published in the Modern Review. When Sri Aurobindo wrote his series of articles on Bankim in 1893-4, although... Bharat? A later edition of Vyasa and Valmiki (1964) included also a fragment from The Tale of Nala and two different versions of the Chitrangada story (one of which had appeared in the Karmayogin and later in the Annual of the Sri Aurobindo. Circle, 1949, Bombay), both from the Mahabharata. All these are in blank verse, which probably implies that they were written some time after the ...
... Karmayogin Jhalakati Speech Delivered at Jhalakati, Bakarganj District, Eastern Bengal and Assam, on 19 June 1909. Text published in the Bengalee on 27 June and reproduced in the Karmayogin on 3 July. Another version, taken down by police agents and reproduced in a Government of Bengal confidential file, appears in the last volume of THE ...
... Karmayogin A Task Unaccomplished There is no question so vital to the future of this nation as the spirit in which we are to set about the regeneration of our national life. Either India is rising again to fulfil the function for which her past national life and development seem to have prepared her, a leader of thought and faith, a defender of spiritual... still lingering in the land and we cannot allow it to take shelter under the cry of expediency and rationality and seek to kill the faith and force that has been born in the hearts of the young. The Karmayogin has taken its stand on the rock of religion and its first object will be to combat these reactionary tendencies and lead the nation forward into the fuller light for which the Bande Mataram and ...
... Karmayogin The Past and the Future Our contemporary, the Statesman , notices in an unusually self-restrained article the recent brochure republished by Dr. A. K. Coomaraswamy from the Modern Review under the title, "The Message of the East". We have not the work before us but, from our memory of the articles and our knowledge of our distinguished ... ancient religion, philosophy, art and literature and pour the revivifying influences of our immemorial Aryan spirit and ideals into our political and economic development. This is the ideal the Karmayogin holds before it, and our outlook and Dr. Coomaraswamy's do not substantially differ. But in judging our present activities we cannot look, as he does, from a purely artistic and idealistic standpoint ...
... Karmayogin Uttarpara Speech Delivered at Uttarpara, Bengal, on 30 May 1909. Text published in the Bengalee, an English-language newspaper of Calcutta, on 1 June; thoroughly revised by Sri Aurobindo and republished in the Karmayogin on 19 and 26 June. When I was asked to speak to you at the annual meeting of your sabha , it was my intention ...
... Karmayogin Beadon Square Speech - I Delivered at Beadon Square, Calcutta, on 13 June 1909. Text published in the Bengalee on 15 June and reproduced in the Karmayogin on 19 June. In spite of the foul weather a large number of people assembled on Sunday afternoon at Beadon Square where a big Swadeshi meeting was held under the presidency ...
... Karmayogin In Either Case There are two movements of humanity, upward and downward, and both are irresistible. It may seem for a moment that the downward movement is arrested and an upward lift may for a while rejoice the hearts that are attached to a cause forsaken by God and Destiny. The majestic or impetuous rise of a religion, an idea, a nation may... hid within himself, has not yet been revealed utterly to his disciples. A less discreet revelation prepares, a more concrete force manifests, but where it comes, when it comes, none knoweth. Karmayogin no. 38, 26 March 1910 OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN ISSUES 37 - 39 A System of National Education VI - VIII Some Aphorisms of Bhartrihari Chitrangada (poem) Page 465 ...
... the external reasons. Some inner chords were plucked and his soul was set astir, the flame was catching. Now Charu’s heart was moving on a new and different path. Charu subscribed to the magazines Karmayogin , Bande Mataram , Dharma — and he was fully convinced that Sri Aurobindo was the man to follow, that he was the Future of the Nation. Charu even went to an astrologer to find out if Sri Aurobindo... Aurobindo in the meditation room. The SI looked and shrugged it off saying, “Oh! That has no great bearing on our search. These photos are sold in the open market.” The SI also noticed some copies of Karmayogin and Dharma . He later took Charu aside and told him to remove them. Charu thanked the SI and sent up a silent prayer to his Guru. Those were troubled times. Charu tried to put into practice ...
... elsewhere, is the true skill in works, yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam . But all this is done impersonally by the action of a great universal light and power operating through the individual nature. The Karmayogin knows that the power given to him will be adapted to the fruit decreed, the divine thought behind the work equated with the work he has to do, the will in him,—which will not be wish or desire, but... executes the divine movement. Such only are the works of the liberated soul, muktasya karma , !4.23! for in nothing does he act from a personal inception; such are the actions of the accomplished Karmayogin. They rise from a free spirit and disappear without modifying it, like waves that rise and disappear on the surface of conscious, immutable depths. !4.23! Gata-saṅgasya muktasya jñānāvasthita-cetasaḥ ...
... Neither Ganen Maharaj nor Nivedita saw me off at the ghat. Neither of them knew anything about my going; Nivedita learned of it only afterwards when I sent a message to her asking her to conduct the Karmayogin in my absence. She consented Page 88 and from that time to its cessation of publication was in control of the paper; the editorials during that period were hers. (5) I did not take... at all likely that I would have followed it: she knew nothing beforehand of the circumstances that led to my departure to Chandernagore. (7) These are the facts of that departure. I was in the Karmayogin office when I received word, on information given by a high-placed police official, that the office would be searched the next day and myself arrested. (The office was in fact searched but no warrant ...
... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes The Karmayogin Case [The police, unable to serve their warrant against Sri Aurobindo in the Karmayogin case, arrested the printer, a simple artisan.] The printer was in fact only someone who took that title in order to meet the demand of the law for someone ...
... half-yearly series published from Pondicherry. The reader wishing to know more about Sri Aurobindo's immense contribution to India is invited to study the following titles: Bande Mataram, The Karmayogin, The Secret of the Veda, Essays on the Gila, The Foundations of Indian Culture, On Himself, as well as Sri Aurobindo's talks with disciples: Evening Talks (noted by A. B. Purani) and Talks with... 1996). I Nearly all the texts in this section are from the Bande Mataram for the years 1893 to 1908 (vol. 1 in Cent. Ed., also with articles in vol. 17 and vol. 27), and from the Karmayogin for the years 1909-1910 (vol. 2, also with articles in vol. 3 and 17). Exceptions are: 1.3 .125-127 9. Sri Aurobindo in the First Decade of the Century by Manoj Das, p . 137 ...
... he offered this token payment and I should accept it as part of my pocket-expenses. This was the first time I was going to earn any money. So we came to stay at Shyampukur, on the Dharma and Karmayogin premises. There were two flats or sections. In the front part were set up the press and the office, and at the back, in the inner appartments, so to say, we set up our household. There were three... still posses that volume with the marginal notes in his handwriting. Sri Aurobindo himself began about this time his study of the Tamil language, with a Tamil gentleman who used to come to the Karmayogin office. A rather amusing incident has been narrated in this connection by Suresh Chakravarti. You should read Suresh Chakravarti's account along with mine in order to get a more complete picture ...
... he offered this token payment and I should accept it as part of my pocket-expenses. This was the first time I was going to earn any money. So we came to stay at Shyampukur, on the Dharma and Karmayogin premises. There were two flats or sections. In the front part were set up the press and the office, and at Page 34 the back, in the inner appartments, so to say, we set up our household... possess that volume with the marginal notes in his handwriting. Sri Aurobindo himself began about this time his study of the Tamil language, with a Tamil gentleman who used to come to the Karmayogin office. A rather amusing incident has been narrated in this connection by Suresh Chakravarti. You should read Suresh Chakravarti's account along with mine in order to get a more complete picture ...
... he was nineteen years old and still studying in the Medical College, he married Srimati Swarnalata Devi, the eldest daughter of Page 2 Rishi Rajnarayan Bose who, to quote the Karmayogin, ¹ "represented the high water-mark of the composite culture of the country - Vedantic, Islamic and European." He was a saintly man of high attainments, synthesising in himself the cultures of... prayaschitta, and, selling away his property at a nominal price, left his native village for good and all. He was posted as a Civil Surgeon successively at Bhagalpur, Rangpur and 1. The Karmayogin - 7th and a few subsequent issues of the paper. 2. "Aurobindo’s maternal grandfather, Rajnarayan Bose, formed once a secret society of which Tagore, then a very young man, became a member ...
... friend's house, I saw the whole busy movements of Bombay city as a picture in a cinema show all unreal, shadowy. That was a Vedantic experience." "All that I wrote in the Bande Mataram and in the Karmayogin was from that state. It used to run down to my pen while I sat down to write." Page 447 In a letter to Dilip, written in May 1932, Sri Aurobindo summed it all up, and went beyond... or rather through a silent mind and not only a silent mind but a silent consciousness." Out of an absolute silence of the mind Sri Aurobindo, edited the Bande Mataram for three months, the Karmayogin for eight months, the Dharma for six months, and wrote seven volumes of the Arya, "not to speak of all the letters and messages etc., etc. I have written since." Whew! Page 450 ...
... reaches the North Pole in his sixth attempt. May 6 - Sri Aurobindo is acquitted in the Alipore Bomb Case. May 30 — Gives his famous speech at Uttarpara. June 19 — First issue of The Karmayogin (English weekly). July 25 — French aviation pioneer Bleriot flies over the English Channel. August 23 - First issue of the Dharma (Bengali weekly). September - Sri Aurobindo is... ore. April 1 - Leaves for Pondicherry on board S.S. Dupleix. April 4 - Sri Aurobindo arrives at Pondicherry. — Charged in Calcutta with sedition for an article published in The Karmayogin ; acquitted by the Calcutta High Court in November. May 6 -Death of King Edward VII and accession of King George V. 1911 - British physicist Rutherford experimentally confirms Page ...
... Prince of Mathura , must date from the same period, that is, 1909 - 10. In December 1909 a related piece, also entitle The Birth of Sin , was published in the Karmayogin , a weekly newspaper edited by Sri Aurobindo. The Karmayogin piece is more in the nature of a poem, and was published as such in Collected Poems and Plays (1942). (It is included in Collected Poems , volume 2 of THE COMPLETE ...
... For almost a year he strove single-handed as the sole remaining leader of the Nationalists in India to revive the movement. He published at this time to aid his effort a weekly English paper, the Karmayogin , and a Bengali weekly, the Dharma . But at last he was compelled to recognise that the nation was not yet sufficiently trained to carry out his policy and programme. For a time he thought that... a secret retirement at Chandernagore and in the beginning of April sailed for Pondicherry in French India. A third prosecution was launched against him at this moment for a signed article in the Karmayogin ; in his absence it was pressed against the printer of the paper who was convicted, but the conviction was quashed on appeal in the High Court of Calcutta. For the third time a prosecution against ...
... First issue of the Karmayogin (English weekly). 1909, Aug. 23 First issue of the Dharma (Bengali weekly). 1910, February Sri Aurobindo abruptly leaves Calcutta for Chan-dernagore; on March 31, he will leave for Pondicherry. 1910, April 4 Sri Aurobindo reaches Pondicherry. Charged with sedition for an article in the Karmayogin (the charge will be ...
... Karmayogin A Thing that Happened It is not the policy of the Karmayogin to dwell on incidents whether of the present administration of the country or of the relations between the ruling caste and the people. To criticise persistently the frequent instances of highhandedness and maladministration inevitable under a regime like the present does not lead ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The Party of Revolution Be the fault whose you will, ours or the Government's, the existence of an organised party of armed Revolution in Indian politics is now a recognised factor of the situation. The enormous strides with which events have advanced and a sky full of trouble but also of hope been overcast and grown full... Indian conditions in modern times and the historical precedents on which the revolutionists rely,—for which we had not sufficient space in this issue. With this exception the rest is silence. The Karmayogin was originally started as a weekly review intended to encourage the habit of deep and close thinking on all subjects and widen the intellectual range of the people, giving an especial importance ...
... Karmayogin Sj. Aurobindo Ghose We are greatly astonished to learn from the local Press that Sj. Aurobindo Ghose has disappeared from Calcutta and is now interviewing the Mahatmas in Tibet. We are ourselves unaware of this mysterious disappearance. As a matter of fact Sj. Aurobindo is in our midst and, if he is doing any astral business with Kuthumi... rumour which the vigorous imagination of a local contemporary has set floating. For similar reasons he is unable to engage in journalistic works, and Dharma has been entrusted to other hands. Karmayogin no. 37, 19 March 1910 Page 461 ...
... Sri Aurobindo's surviving political writings and speeches from the years before his arrest in May 1908. Political writings and speeches from the period after his imprisonment are published in Karmayogin: Political Writings and Speeches 1909 - 1910 , volume 8 of T HE C OMPLETE W ORKS OF S RI A UROBINDO . The bulk of the present volumes consists of articles published in the newspaper... other speeches were subsequently reproduced in various collections in English and in Marathi and Gujarati translation. In 1922 six speeches from the Bande Mataram period, along with six from the Karmayogin period (1909 - 10) and "An Open Letter to My Countrymen" (1909), were published by the Prabartak Publishing House, Chandernagore, as Speeches of Aurobindo Ghose. This book was reproduced by the ...
... Inside the back cover, facing the last page of text, Sri Aurobindo wrote the following: "Hunger is in its nature cannibal, you eat protoplasm & nothing else because you are protoplasm". The Karmayogin: A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad. Circa 1905-6. This lengthy but still incomplete commentary was written sometime after Sri Aurobindo took up the practice of yoga in 1905, and no later than May... Upanishad (see Part One above) appeared in the same issue. PUBLISHING HISTORY Sri Aurobindo published a translation of the Isha Upanishad on 19 June 1909 in the first issue of the Karmayogin , a weekly review of politics and culture. This was a revised version of a translation he had completed and typed around 1900. He published his final translation and analysis in the Arya between ...
... presence but as power, force, energy,—and therefore a divine work in the world is possible. Page 267 There is no narrow principle, no field of cabined action that can be imposed on the Karmayogin as his rule or his province. This much is true that every kind of works, whether small to man's imagination or great, petty in scope or wide, can be equally used in the progress towards liberation... nothing ungained that he has yet to win, then a deep and true sense will appear for this great injunction. To participate in that divine work, to live for God in the world will be the rule of the Karmayogin; to live for God in the world and therefore so to act that the Divine may more and more manifest himself and the world go forward by whatever way of its obscure pilgrimage and move nearer to the ...
... Karmayogin The Right of Association: Speech Speech delivered at Howrah, Bengal, on 27 June 1909. Text published in the Bengalee on 29 June; thoroughly revised by Sri Aurobindo and republished in three issues of the Karmayogin in July and August. My friend Pandit Gispati Kavyatirtha has somewhat shirked today his duty as it was set down ...
... Karmayogin Kumartuli Speech Delivered at Kumartuli Park, Calcutta, on 11 July 1909. Text published in the Bengalee on 13 July and reproduced in the Karmayogin on 14 August. Babu Aurobindo Ghose rose amidst loud cheers and said that when he consented to attend the meeting, he never thought that he would make any speech. In fact, he was ...
... Karmayogin College Square Speech - I Delivered at College Square, Calcutta, on 18 July 1909. Text published in the Bengalee on 20 July and reproduced in the Karmayogin on 24 July. I thank you for the kindly welcome that you have accorded to me. The time fixed by the law for the breaking up of the meeting is also at hand, and I am afraid ...
... time when Sri Aurobindo on coming out of jail had taken up his work again and started the two weeklies, the English Karmayogin and the Bengali Dharma. At that time, Nivedita maintained rather close contacts with Sri Aurobindo and ourselves. She used to write for the Karmayogin, and when Sri Aurobindo went into retirement, it was she who edited the last few issues of the paper almost single-handed ...
... Eternal, lifted above the seekings of thought into identity with a supreme Light, the rapture of the saint made one by love in the pure heart with the transcendent and universal Love, the will of the Karmayogin raised above egoistic desire and passion into the impersonality of the divine and universal Will, these things on which India has set the highest value and which have been the supreme endeavour of... ceaseless literary activity. The "New Lamps for Old" and Bankim Chandra articles in the Indu Prakash in the early eighteen-nineties; the editorial and other contributions to the Bande Mataram, the Karmayogin and the Arya: the letters - thousands of them - to the disciples: one who views all this variegated opulence of writing can have little doubt that one is confronting a born lord of language, for ...
... , in Yoga, from samadhi. Page 459 × See "The Awakening Soul of India", published on pages 61-66 of Karmayogin: Political Writings and Speeches 1909-1910, volume 8 of The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo.—Ed. ...
... Karmayogin An Open Letter to My Countrymen The position of a public man who does his duty in India today, is too precarious to permit of his being sure of the morrow. I have recently come out of a year's seclusion from work for my country on a charge which there was not a scrap of reliable evidence to support, but my acquittal is no security either against ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The Spirit in Asia A spirit moves abroad in the world today upsetting kingdoms and raising up new principalities and powers the workings of which are marked by a swiftness and ubiquity new in history. In place of the slow developments and uncertain results of the past we have a quickness and thoroughness which destroy ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The Message of India The ground gained by the Vedantic propaganda in the West, may be measured by the growing insight in the occasional utterances of well-informed and intellectual Europeans on the subject. A certain Mrs. Leighton Cleather speaking to the Oriental circle of the Lyceum Club in London on the message of India ...
... Karmayogin Youth and the Bureaucracy Sir Edward Baker is usually a polite and careful man and a diplomatic official. It is not his fault if the policy he is called upon to carry through is one void of statesmanship and contradictory of all the experience of history. Neither is it his fault if he lacks the necessary weight in the counsels of the Government ...
... Karmayogin The Doctrine of Sacrifice The genius of self-sacrifice is not common to all nations and to all individuals; it is rare and precious, it is the flowering of mankind's ethical growth, the evidence of our gradual rise from the self-regarding animal to the selfless divinity. A man capable of self-sacrifice, whatever his other sins, has left the ...
... Karmayogin The Boycott Celebration A national festival is the symbol of the national vitality. All outward action depends eventually on the accepted ideas and imaginations of the doer. As these are, so is his aspiration; and although it is not true that as is his aspiration, so is his action, yet it is true that as is his aspiration, so will his action ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The Police Bill The Police Bill has passed the Committee and next week, it is rumoured, will be made law. It is a provision for giving absolute power to the Police Commissioner and his underlings. It is true that the power is limited in time in certain respects, but so long as it lasts it is arbitrary, absolute, without ...
... Karmayogin Nationalist Organisation The time has now come when it is imperative in the interests of the Nationalist party that its forces should be organised for united deliberation and effective work. A great deal depends on the care and foresight with which the character and methods of the organisation are elaborated at the beginning, for any mistake ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Comments The Kaul Judgment The Kaul Boycott case which has attracted some comment in the Press is one which ought to be drawn more prominently into public notice. The Settlement Patwary of Kaul together with four leading Banias, two Zamindars and a Brahmin of the place were charged by the police with having held a Boycott meeting ...
... Karmayogin Bengal and the Congress The dissensions in the Congress have been a severe test of the capacity of the Indian people to act politically under modern conditions. The first necessary element of democratic politics is difference of opinion, robust, frank, avowed, firmly and passionately held, and the first test of political capacity in a democratic ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions Impatient Idealists The President of the Hughly Conference, in reference to the formal statement by Sj. Aurobindo Ghose of the adherence of the Nationalist party to the policy of self-help and passive resistance in spite of their concessions to the Moderate minority, advised the party of the future under the name of impatient ...
... Karmayogin The Hughly Conference The chances of politics are in reality the hidden guidance of a Power whose workings do not reveal themselves easily even to the most practised eye. It is difficult therefore to say whether the successful conclusion of the Provincial Conference at Hughly without the often threatened breach between the parties, will really ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The Convention President The nomination of Sir Pherozshah Mehta as the President of the three men's Convention at Lahore is not an event that is of any direct interest to Nationalists. Just as the three tailors of Tooley Street represented themselves as the British public, so the three egregious mediocrities of the Punjab ...
... Karmayogin Speech at the Hughly Conference Delivered at the Bengal Provincial Conference, held at Hughly, Bengal, on 6 September 1909. Report published in the Bengalee on 7 September and reproduced in a Government of India Home Department file. Aurobindo Ghose spoke to Resolution No. IV—"that this conference urges the people to continue ...
... Karmayogin A Birthday Talk Delivered at Sri Aurobindo's residence in Calcutta on 15 August 1909, his thirty-seventh birthday. Text in Bengali published in Bharat Mitra on 21 August; subsequently translated into English and published in a police intelligence report. In my childhood before the full development of my faculties, I became conscious ...
... Karmayogin A Practicable Boycott Boycott is an ideal, like freedom; it means independence in industry and commerce, as freedom means independence in administration, legislation and finance. But it is not always possible to accomplish the whole of the ideal by the first effort towards it. So long as we cherish the ideal whole and unbroken, we are at liberty ...
... Karmayogin The Moderate Manifesto The practical exclusion of the educated classes, other than Mahomedans, landholders and titled grandees, from the new Councils and the preference of Mahomedans to Hindus has rung the death-knell of the old Moderate politics in India. If the Moderate party is to survive, it has to shift its base and alter its tactics. ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The Lieutenant-Governor's Mercy The outcry of the Moderates against the exclusion of their best men has led to certain concessions by which apparently the Government hope to minimise or obviate the formidable opposition that is slowly gathering head against the new Councils. These concessions remove not a single objectionable ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions Gokhale's Apologia We do not think we need waste much space on the arguments of the recent speech in which Mr. Gokhale has attempted to reconcile the contradictory utterances in which his speeches have lately abounded. Vibhishan's utterances are of little importance nowadays to anyone except the Government and Anglo-India ...
... Karmayogin To My Countrymen Two decisive incidents have happened which make it compulsory on the Nationalist party to abandon their attitude of reserve and expectancy and once more assume their legitimate place in the struggle for Indian liberties. The Reforms, so long trumpeted as the beginning of a new era of constitutional progress in India, have been ...
... Karmayogin National Education From the beginning of the national movement, in spite of its enthusiasm, force, innate greatness, a defect has made itself apparent, a fatality of insufficient effectiveness has pursued it, which showed that there was a serious flaw somewhere in this brilliant opening of a new era. The nature of that flaw has been made manifest ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The Bomb Case and Anglo-India The comments of the Anglo-Indian papers on the result of the appeal in the Alipur case are neither particularly edifying nor do they tend to remove the impression shared by us with many thoughtful Englishmen that the imperial race is being seriously demoralised by empire. From the Englishman ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions Lajpat Rai's Letters The case of Parmanand, the Arya Samaj teacher, whom with a singular pusillanimity the D.A.V. College authorities have dismissed before anything was proved against him, has been of more than usual interest because of the parade with which Lajpat Rai's letters to him were brought forward. The letters ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The High Court Assassination The startling assassination of Deputy Superintendent Shams-ul-Alam on Monday in the precincts of the High Court, publicly, in daylight, under the eyes of many and in a crowded building, breaks the silence which had settled on the country, in a fashion which all will deplore. The deceased officer ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The Patiala Case The Patiala case has developed a real objective, which is the destruction of the Arya Samaj, the men arrested being merely pawns in the game. The speech of the Counsel for the prosecution, Mr. Grey, in no way sets out an ordinary case against individuals, nor is there any passage in it which gives any ...
... Karmayogin The Assassination of Prince Ito A great man has fallen, perhaps the greatest force in the field of political action that the nineteenth century produced, the maker of Japan, the conqueror of Russia, the mighty one who first asserted Asia's superiority over Europe in Europe's own field of glory and changed in a few years the world's future. ...
... Karmayogin The Elections The great election is over, the first in England which has been fought on constitutional issues since the passing of the Reform Bill in the earlier part of the nineteenth century. The forces of reaction have put forth their utmost strength and, in the result, have only succeeded in just equalising their own numbers with those ...
... Nature, without which the existence of the phenomenal world and consciousness in matter would not be intelligible or conceivable? To whom does the Bhakti of the Bhakta, to whom do the works of the Karmayogin direct themselves? Why and Whom do men worship? What is it to which the human self rises in Yoga? The answer is that this also is Brahman,—Brahman not in His absolute Self but in relation to the ...
... Eternal, lifted above the seekings of thought into identity with a supreme light, the rapture of the saint made one by love in the pure heart with the transcendent and universal Love, the will of the Karmayogin raised above egoistic desire and passion into the impersonality of the divine and universal will, these things on which India has set the highest value and which have been the supreme endeavour of ...
... had the darshan of Sri Aurobindo in the Guest House. A short conversation followed during which Sri Aurobindo asked him what he had been doing. Rajangam replied that he was reading the Ideal of Karmayogin and practising it, taking his body as the chariot and Sri Krishna as the charioteer. Sri Aurobindo replied “Alright, continue.” Rajangam went home in an elated mood, and he had an experience. He ...
... culture is evident throughout his work, specifically in writings like The Renaissance of India, The Secret of the Veda, Essays on the Gita, Writings in Bengali, articles from Bande Mataram and the Karmayogin, etc. The Mother said that India was “the country of her soul”. About Asia, Sri Aurobindo wrote: “We have then to return to the pursuit of the ancient secret which man, as a race, has seen only ...
... sprung at any moment. It was time for him to leave the scene. As a farewell he penned an article in which he expressed his ideals openly. This article, his political testament, he published in the Karmayogin — the weekly he had started after being acquitted and which after his departure was kept going for a while by Sister Nivedita, who was a nationalistic activist. His inner Voice gave him his ‘marching ...
... Gupta (13 January 1889 - 7 February 1984), a revolutionary. He was arrested and tried in the Alipore Bomb Case, and freed after one year. He worked with Sri Aurobindo for the magazines Dharma and Karmayogin. Six months after Sri Aurobindo's arrival at Pondicherry, Nolini joined him. From Sri Aurobindo he learned Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, French, etc. Apart from articles in magazines, he published books ...
... That is my private opinion—but, of course, all do not need to see alike in these matters. 10 February 1932 Chitrangada Months ago I typed out, from the last two numbers (I think) of The Karmayogin, part of a poem by you called Chitrangada. Is it possible to get the whole of it from you, so that I could type it for you as well as for the library and myself? The publication of Chitrangada ...
... soul, there there is deviation from knowledge, loss of steadfast abiding in the all-embracing and all-reconciling Page 189 oneness of the Brahman and unity of things. By his equality the Karmayogin knows in the midst of his action that he is free. It is the spiritual nature of the equality enjoined, high and universal in its character and comprehension, which gives its distinctive note to ...
... days and not enough on Sunday either. In these circumstances to produce a page on such a subject would be a feat of acrobacy not easily performable. As for the subject, well in the days of the Karmayogin or of the Defence of Indian Culture I could have served you freely. Now I feel as if I have said all I could say on these things—they have gone back into the far recess of my mind and to pull ...
... except five later ones which were written after his return to India. Vidula ... originally appeared in the Weekly Bandemataram of June 9, 1907; Baji Prabhou appeared serially in the Weekly Karmayogin in 1910. It is not, however, unlikely that they had been actually written, or at least mentally sketched, during Sri Aurobindo's last years in Baroda. No, these poems were conceived and written ...
... case you must write to me what you propose to do, before you act. By the way, there was a very shocking and অশ্লীল word in your last letter to me with regard to my past activities, Bande Mataram, Karmayogin etc. I do not wish to repeat it here. Please do not use such an indecorous expression in writing in future. In personal talk it does not matter; but not, if you please, in correspondence. As to ...
... 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 consented. In his passage from Chandernagore to Pondicherry Sri Aurobindo stopped only for two minutes outside College Square to take his trunk from his cousin ...
... ftrst published in 1921 in an unauthorised edition. The authorised edition was issued in 1924 with the following note: These essays were first published in the Karmayogin in the year 1910. They are, however, incomplete and the subject of national education proper has not been touched except in certain allusions. It was not the author's intention to have them reprinted ...
... into laughter ). × 'Whom God protects who shall slay? Whom God has slain who shall protect?' The Ideal of the Karmayogin , Cent. Ed., Vol. III p. 354 × Satprem had assumed that this state of consciousness was accessible ...
... a great politician and had still his finger on the nation's pulse. And sometimes he let his disciple-editor be as audacious as he had himself been in the famous old days of Bandemataram and Karmayogin. Once, in the period when it was a vital issue whether or not to recognise Red China, an editorial came out in strong criticism of the current national policy . The Mother looked at the opening ...
... in his meeting with Sri Aurobindo, was Chander-nagore in French India and not Pondicherry? In a letter of 15 December 1944 which the Archives quotes, Sri Aurobindo recalls the situation in the Karmayogin office in Calcutta where a search by the police was expected: "While listening to animated comments from those around on the approaching event, I suddenly received a command from above in a Voice ...
... Organizational Behavior. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1994. 13Ganguly, KM. The Mahabharata New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1981, p. 202. 14Sri Aurobindo; The Ideal of the Karmayogin. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1974, p.60. 15.Swami Vivekananda; The Complete Works. Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1959, Vol. VI, p. 268 16. Taittiriya Upanishad. Calcutta: Advaita ...
... time and detained in Alipore Jail, the Bande Mataram was up against disastrous financial difficulties. Hence the editors wrote something very strong and the paper got suppressed. I started the Karmayogin some time after my second acquittal. Once I heard from Sister Nivedita that the Government wanted to prosecute and deport me. I wrote an article, "An Open Letter to My Countrymen". It prevented the ...
... teach neglect in the performance of work that aims at the results of work. Sri Krishna defines Karma Yoga as skill in works (yogah karmasu kauśalam), 5 and thus he lays down a principle that a karmayogin does every work with every due care and with such efficiency that the work shoots like an arrow so as to reach the precise point of the target. What the Gita teaches, however, is that even when ...
... Writings 2 Collected Poems 3 Collected Plays and Stories -I 4 Collected Plays and Stories-I I 5 Translations 6 Bande Mataram -1 7 Bande Mataram - II 8 Karmayogin 9 Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit 10 Record of Yoga-I 11 Record of Yoga-II 12 Essays Divine and Human 13 Essays in Philosophy and Yoga 14 Vedic Studies ...
... through him and was the source of his thoughts, words and action. And we must remember that not only the speeches he then gave or his writings in the Bande Mataram but his later writings in the Karmayogin, and the Arya, his correspondence etc. as well as Savitri and the poems he wrote in Pondicherry all arose out of this mental silence. He told us once: 'You just become an instrument, you have ...
... mood. Things appeared to change for the better and my sister found peace after long days of trial and tribulation, but for one year only." After his release, Sri Aurobindo started the journals Karmayogin and Dharma. Mrinalini was living with him for some time. They also passed short periods together at Deoghar with Sri Aurobindo's maternal uncle's family. The episode I am going to relate took place ...
... Here is an extract from the writings of Sri Aurobindo on these reforms. This was in stark contrast to the view of the Moderate wing of the Congress party. Sri Aurobindo wrote in the Karmayogin on the Nov. 11, 1909. Page 33 "The question of separate representation for the Mohammedan community is one of those momentous issues raised in haste by a statesman unable ...
... hours of the morning. We toured the country for about ten or twelve days and then we came back. On our return, Sri Aurobindo made us an offer: we were to have a home at the Shyampukur premises of Karmayogin and Dharma. I have already told you about that. The story of my third and last attempt at sannyasa can be briefly told. The scene was here in Pondicherry and the time immediately before the ...
... group, and in May 1908 was arrested for conspiracy. Along with Sri Aurobindo and others he spent one year in jail as an undertrial prisoner. After his acquittal he joined the staffs of Dharma and Karmayogin, two newspapers founded and edited by Sri Aurobindo. In November 1910, six months after Sri Aurobindo left Kolkata for Pondicherry in South India, Nolini went to join him. From time to time ...
... National Education, first published in Arya in 1920-21, and currently in SABCL vol. 17, pp. 199-200. 6. Sri Aurobindo, A System of National Education, first published in the journal Karmayogin in 1910, when Sri Aurobindo was a member of the Nationalist Movement in Bengal. It is currently published in SABCL vol. 17, p. 204. 7. Ibid., p. 204. 8. The Mother, MCW vol. 12, p ...
... Jacobi,Jolande272,273 James, William 13 Jones, Rufus M. 305,330 Joyce, James 267,428 Jung, C.G. 437 Kalidasa 46,52,340,341,374,376 Karmayogin 11-12 Kazantzakis, Nikos 330,377,398-408,436, 441,460,461 Keats, John 174,313,315,365 Kenner, Hugh 391-393 Knight, G. Wilson 33,410,458 Krishnaprem, Sri ...
... Government officials and there was no question Page 54 of her arrest. I told her that I did not think it necessary to accept her suggestion; I would write an open letter in the Karmayogin which, I thought, would prevent this action by the Government. This was done and on my next visit to her she told me that my move had been entirely successful and the idea of deportation had ...
... one single individual. Whenever something was found objectionable by the Government someone ¹. The Manchester Guardian , Weekly Edition, 26 December 1950. ². Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972), p. 62. Page 90 could come forward to accept the responsibility and go to jail if necessary. The brain of the movement could thus escape ...
... could be proved I was acquitted. But in my absence as they were disastrously up against finance they wrote something very strong and the paper was suppressed. After another arrest I published the " Karmayogin ". There I wrote an article "Open letter to my countrymen." for which the Government wanted to prosecute me. While the prosecution was pending I went secretly to Chandranagore and there some friends ...
... burst out like a volcano in the placid, flat ground of Indian politics. The voice of awakened India was first heard week by week and day by day in the fiery columns of the Bande Mataram and the Karmayogin. These papers breathed the lofty air of freedom charged with an ideal ism that raised politics to the heights of religious fervour and Page VI spirituality. It converted hundreds ...
... Lane. 4. 48, Grey Street (1st floor). 5. Alipore jail. 6. 6, College Square (Krishna K-umar Mitra's house and office of the Sanjivani). 7. 4, Shyam 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 ...
... Uttarpara like one whom prison-life had renewed and transfigured. He preached Sanatana Dharma in the accents of a prophet. He published his translations of the Isha, Kena and other Upanishads in the Karmayogin. He wrote on India's great scriptures in the Dharma. The Vedas are "the basis of the Hindu dharma, but very few know the real form and the fundamental truth of that basis" 2 ; and although the ...
... instead, set up spy-nets around Sri Aurobindo, as Bengal then was surging in waves of fire because of her amputation by the British. Sri Aurobindo continued to publish the two papers — Dharma and Karmayogin upto 1910. At repeated insistence from certain quarters, the Government decided to lock up Sri Aurobindo charging him for seditious writing. But they swooped down on his residence a bit too late ...
... had a noble and lovable countenance too, and on one occasion a Christian missionary spoke * The quotation is taken from an article on the life of Sri Aurobindo in Swaraj, republished in Karmayogin, from the seventh issue onwards. †At one stage of his life, Rajnarain seems to have "remorsefully declared that it would have been much better if they had not at all learnt English" (Arabinda ...
... Prabhou is quite obvious a heroic poem. Like Vidula, Baji Prabhou also was written during the period of active political life, and first appeared, not long after, in February-March 1910 in the Karmayogin; but it was during his stay at Baroda that Sri Aurobindo first received the impact of the story, drawn from Maratha history. Baji Prabhou is a story of Maratha heroism that, in effect, must ...
... 201, 203, 212, 215, 281, 324, 370, 376, 385, 408-9, 615, 654, 657, 685, 830 synthesis of all knowledge 107 its intrinsic meaning 108-9 Revue de la Grande Synthèse 101, 108, 109, 127 Karmayogin 102, 508 Dharma 102 Books: The Synthesis of Yoga 14-5, 101, 110, 119,182, 198, 214, 305, 324-5, 327, 370, 389, 468, 548, 613-4, 621, 629, 696, 793, 842 The Life Divine 39, 101, 103,110 ...
... one to be cowed down by his critics, of whom he had many to be sure. Not only did he speak or write on Brahmoism, but he lauded Hinduism ! The day at the end of 1872 when he gave a 1, Karmayogin, N°7, August 1909. Page 75 lecture on the 'Superiority of Hinduism,' with Maharshi Tagore in the Chair, the hall was packed to capacity and overflowed across the street. Because ...
... a new character, new intellect, life, mind, embarking upon a new course of action" who reentered the world of action. Changed was the tenor of his writings from the Bande Malaram to the Karmayogin. Not that he did not write on politics, he did. Nor did he immediately give up all his political activities, or retire into solitude after his Vasudeva experience at Alipore Jail. No, quite the ...
... being published from French India. The paper India was discontinued in April, 1910, and has never been issued since. The only periodicals published from Pondicherry are the Tamil Dharma and Karmayogin 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 ...
... The poor of the town, where he served and lived, had in him a true friend and a ready help. In fact, his regard for the poor frequently led him to sacrifice to their 1. Reprinted in The Karmayogin (7 and 14 August 1909, N°7 & 8) from Swaraj. Page 101 present needs the future prospects of his own family and children. . . . Keen of intellect, tender of heart, impulsive and ...
... a helper and a guide." Sri Aurobindo had written a series of introductory essays on a sound system of teaching applicable to national education in any country; they were published in the weekly Karmayogin between February and April 1910. The National College was first located at 191/1 Bow-bazar Street. Students came—not only those rusticated from Government Colleges. They were attracted by the ...
... volunteers. He also revised the Draft Resolutions of the Reception Committee, printed his own counter resolutions against each of them and circulated it to the Nationalists through the columns of the Karmayogin. Thus organised, he went to attend the conference." The Risley Circular was a more comprehensive and carefully studied edition of the Carlyle Circular. It was "a desperate attempt of the b ...
... 248 a few others besides. He says that Sri Aurobindo made them hear specimens of automatic speech. "At about eight in the evening, we used to sit around him in a room." That was the Karmayogin office. "The lights would be turned off. A sudden hush would fall, and all of us kept silence for a while. Then slowly a voice would come from Sri Aurobindo. Evidently it was not his own voice. ...
... ironically, "What is this article about which so much has been said? My Hon. Friend has not been able to furnish me with a copy, I have it myself." With a flourish he brought out the article from the Karmayogin of 25 December 1909. A good deal of prayer must have gone up to God from the bureaucrats of the Colonial government; He took pity on them. The Eternal sent an intimation to the ardent ...
... come to Ramakrishna. In April 1885, the first signs of throat cancer appeared. On 16 August 1886, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa left the earthly body. But not the Earth. It was in the Karmayogin In a word, "A Power worked, but none knew whence it came." Another had started his walk through Time. His walk outstripped the human stride. A radical change in the earth-consciousness ...
... Chronicles - Book Five 56 Divorce from the Past Sri Aurobindo determined to continue the struggle. Through his articles in the Karmayogin and Dharma he tried to dispel the confusion and show a path which the nation could tread. He toured the country, especially East Bengal, and he spoke in many towns and districts — Jhalakati (Barisal) ...
... —met Sri Aurobindo in Baroda in 1899 and praised his translations of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. After his death in 1909, Sri Aurobindo wrote in the course of an article about him in The Karmayogin : "Without the Economic History and its damning story of England's commercial and fiscal dealings with India we doubt whether the public mind would have been ready for the Boycott [movement]. In ...
... acquaintance with Gujarati, Marathi and Hindusthan (Urdu). Who then better qualified than he to take up such lexicological work? He now turned his attention to Tamil, which he had begun at the Karmayogin Office in Calcutta. All that I knew. Page 366 Yet, as I was turning the pages of his personal 'Records,' I was in for a surprise. So will you. His note of 22 January 1913 reads ...
... between the ever immobile quietism of the timeless self and the eternal play of the pragmatic energy of Nature. But Page 281 the Gita now lays down another and greater necessity for the Karmayogin who has unified his Yoga of works with the Yoga of knowledge. Not knowledge and works alone are demanded of him now, bhakti also, devotion to the Divine, love and adoration and the soul's desire ...
... subjects. I defer all explanation or justification of my action in leaving British India until the High Court in Calcutta shall have pronounced on the culpability or innocence of the writing in the KARMAYOGIN on which I am indicted. published 8 November 1910 Page 264 [2] Babu Aurobindo Ghose. Babu Aurobindo Ghose writes from 42, Rue de Pavillon, Pondicherry, under date the 23rd ...
... (fn) Japanese, 216, 218 jat, 90 Jews, 190, 242 Jinnah, 223, 224, 230, 241, 245 Judaism, 129 Judea, 137 K Kabir, 146 Kala Purusha , 91 Kali Yuga, 91 KaJi,44, 106, 124 Kalki,148 Karmayogin (English weekly) , 47, 71, 77,83 Kashmir, 228, 245(/n} Kemal , Mustapha , 169(fn), 192 Khaddar, 170 Khilafat movement, 149(fn), 156(fn), 165 , 169 , 173 , 195 Koran, 170, 190 Korea, ...
... Essays, Letters and Articles (On April 4, 1910, Sri Aurobindo, still wanted by the British, reached Pondicherry clandestinely. A third charge of sedition against him, for an article in the Karmayogin, failed in his absence. For several years he was going to live in this French colony as a fugitive, with spies and rumours hovering about him and his small group of companions. For some time ...
... writings, talks and speeches on India. Available in English, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Oriya, French. (Mira Aditi Centre, Mysore) * BANDE MATARAM THE KARMAYOGIN THE SECRET OF THE VEDA ESSAYS ON THE GITA THE FOUNDATIONS OF INDIAN CULTURE (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) SELECTED BIOGRAPHIES (Mira Aditi Centre, Mysore) ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The United Congress The controversy which has arisen between the Bengalee and the Amrita Bazar Patrika on the subject of a united Congress does not strike us as likely to help towards the solution of this difficult question. We should ourselves have preferred to hold silence until the negotiations now proceeding between ...
... Karmayogin The Great Election It is not often that we care to dwell at length on the incidents of English politics in which, as a rule, India is not concerned nor affected by the results. A Brodrick to a Hamilton, a Morley to a Brodrick succeeds, and the sublime continuity of British policy, continuous in nothing else but this one determination to maintain ...
... Karmayogin The Reformed Councils The great measure which is to carry down the name of Lord Morley to distant ages as the inaugurator of a new age in India,—so at least all the Anglo-Indian papers and not a few of the Moderates tell us,—is now before us in all its details. The mountains have again been in labour, and the mouse they have produced this time ...
... Karmayogin Creed and Constitution The attempt to bring about the unity of the two parties in Bengal as a preliminary to the holding of a United Congress has split on the twin rocks of creed and constitution. We will place before the country as succinctly as possible the issues which were posited during the negotiations and state clearly the Nationalist ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions A Hint of Change The end of our long waiting for the advent of strength into the hearts and minds of the people may yet be distant, but one sign of an approaching change is growing more and more manifest, the intense yearning for a field, an outlet, a path open to the pent-up activities of an awakened nation. Arising from ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions Sir Pherozshah's Resignation The resignation of Sir Pherozshah Mehta took all India by surprise. It was as much a cause of astonishment to his faithful friends and henchmen as to the outside world. The speculation and bewilderment have been increased by the solemn mystery in which the Dictator of the Convention has shrouded ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The United Congress Negotiations The persistence of the Bengalee in shielding Moderate obstinacy under cover of an appeal to the wholly inconclusive proceedings of the private Conference in the Amrita Bazar Office last year shows both the paucity of possible arguments for the Moderate position and the readiness of ...
... Karmayogin The Transvaal Indians The visit of Mr. Polak has excited once more a closer interest in the Transvaal question and associations are being formed for the agitation of the question. It will therefore be opportune to consider the practical aspect of the struggle in the Transvaal and the possibility of help from India. There can be no two opinions ...
... Karmayogin The Alipur Judgment The Judgment of the Appeal Court in the Alipur Case has resulted in the reduction of sentences to a greater or less extent in all but two notable instances, and on the other hand, the maintenance of the finding of the Lower Court in all but six cases, on five of which there is a difference of opinion between the Chief Justice ...
... Karmayogin Beadon Square Speech - II Delivered at Beadon Square, Calcutta, on 16 October 1909, the fourth anniversary of the effectuation of the Partition of Bengal. Report published in the Bengalee on 17 October. Then amidst fresh cheers and renewed and prolonged shouts of "Bande Mataram" in came Babu Aurobindo Ghose and the inevitable ...
... Karmayogin The Necessity of the Situation A very serious crisis has been induced in Indian politics by the revival of Terrorist outrages and the increasing evidences of the existence of an armed and militant revolutionary party determined to fight force by force. The effect on the Government seems to have been of a character very little complimentary ...
... Karmayogin The New Policy A policy of conciliation, a policy of trust in the people, a policy liberal, progressive, sure if slow,—that was the forecast made by the Moderate astrologers when the Reform comet sailed into our startled heavens. The prophets and augurs of the Anglo-Indian Press friendly to Moderate India—friendly on condition of our giving ...
... Karmayogin Passing Thoughts Vedantic Art The progress a new tendency or a new movement is making can be measured by the amount of opposition it meets, and it is encouraging to note that the revival of Indian Art is exciting intellectual opponents to adverse criticism. Mr. Vincent Smith, a solid and well-equipped scholar and historian but not hitherto ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions Sir Edward Baker's Admissions Of all the present rulers of India Sir Edward Baker is the only one who really puts any value on public opinion. He has committed indiscretions of a startling character, he has loyally carried out a policy with which he can have no heartfelt sympathy, but his anxiety to conciliate public opinion ...
... Karmayogin Passing Thoughts The Bhagalpur Literary Conference The prevalence of annual conferences in the semi-Europeanised life of Bengal is a curious phenomenon eloquent of the unreality of our present culture and the inefficiency of our modernised existence. Our old life was well, even minutely organised on an intelligent and consistent Oriental ...
... Karmayogin The Viceroy's Speech The Speech of Lord Minto on the occasion of the first meeting of the Viceroy's Council under the new regime is a very important pronouncement; and the most momentous of the passages in the pronouncement are two, the one in which he disposes finally of any lingering hopes in the minds of the Moderates, the other in which ...
... Karmayogin Bakarganj Speech Delivered at Bakarganj, Eastern Bengal and Assam, on 23 June 1909. Text noted down by police agents and reproduced in a Government of Bengal confidential file. I have spent the earlier part of my life in a foreign country from my very childhood, and even of the time which I have spent in India, the greater part ...
... Karmayogin "Swaraj" and the Musulmans We extract in our columns this week the comments of Srijut Bipin Chandra Pal's organ, Swaraj , on the Government's pro-Mahomedan policy and its possible effects in the future. We are glad to see this great Nationalist again expressing his views with his usual originality and fine political insight. We do not ourselves ...
... manifestation of the Spirit, first apparently bound in the Ignorance, then free in the power and wisdom of the Infinite, we can better understand the great and crowning injunction of the Gita to the Karmayogin, "Abandoning all dharmas, all principles and laws and rules of conduct, take refuge in me alone." All standards and rules are temporary constructions founded upon the needs of the ego in its transition ...
... scorn and repulsion, clinging and attachment and preference are natural, necessary, inevitable at a certain stage: they attend upon or they help to make and maintain Nature's choice in us. But to the Karmayogin they are a survival, a stumbling-block, a process of the Ignorance and, as he progresses, they fall away from his nature. The child-soul needs them for its growth; but they drop from an adult in ...
... October 1929 Sri Aurobindo On Himself , XXVI.482 ( In another letter, Sri Aurobindo replies to a journalist who wanted to bring out, 27 years later, an article on "The Ideal of the Karmayogin." This book is made up of a series of political articles written by Sri Aurobindo between 1909 and 1910 when he was leading the struggle against the British. ) "Yes, I have seen it, but I don't ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions An Unequal Fight Our controversy with the Bengalee is like a conflict between denizens of two different elements. Not only has our contemporary the advantage of prompt reply, but he has such a giant's gulp for formulas, such a magnificent and victorious method of dealing with great fundamental questions in a few sentences ...
... Karmayogin Opinion and Comments The Highest Synthesis In the Bengalee 's issue of the 29th June there is a very interesting article on Nationalism and Expediency, which seems to us to call for some comment. The object of the article is to modify or water the strong wine of Nationalism by a dash of expediency. Nationalism is a faith, the writer admits; ...
... Karmayogin Exit Bibhishan Mr. Gopal Krishna Gokhale has for long been the veiled prophet of Bombay. His course was so ambiguous, his sympathies so divided and self-contradictory that some have not hesitated to call him a masked Extremist. He has played with Boycott, "that criminal agitation"; he has gone so far in passive resistance as to advocate refusal ...
... Karmayogin The Awakening Soul of India No national awakening is really vital and enduring which confines itself to a single field. It is when the soul awakens that a nation is really alive, and the life will then manifest itself in all the manifold forms of activity in which man seeks to express the strength and the delight of the expansive spirit within ...
... Karmayogin Khulna Speech Delivered at Khulna, Bengal, on 25 June 1909. Noted down by police agents and reproduced in a Government of Bengal confidential file. A note preceding the report of the speech says that "about three-fourths of it have been taken down". The text needed emendation in many places. Gentlemen, today I will speak a few words ...
... Karmayogin Mr. Mackarness' Bill We find in India to hand by mail last week the full text of Mr. Mackarness' speech in introducing the Bill by which he proposes to amend the Regulation of 1818 and safeguard the liberties of the subject in India. We are by no means enamoured of the step which Mr. Mackarness has taken. We could have understood a proposal ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Comments The Cretan Difficulty Foreign affairs are as a rule lightly and unsubstantially dealt with by Indian journals. This is partly due to want of the necessary information, partly to the parochial habit of mind encouraged by a cabined and subject national life which cannot enlarge its imagination outside the sphere of those ...
... Karmayogin Appendix: Bengal Provincial Conference Hughly - 1909 The draft resolutions in the left column were written by the Moderate Congress leaders. The Nationalist draft resolutions were written by Sri Aurobindo. DRAFT RESOLUTIONS I. That this Conference places on record its profound feelings of regret and sorrow at the death of Lord ...
... Karmayogin The Hughly Resolutions We publish in this issue the draft resolutions of the Hughly Reception Committee which have reached our hands in a printed form. Formerly our information had been that the Committee had based its resolutions on the Pabna Conference resolutions and preserved them in the spirit if not in the letter. We regret to find that ...
... Karmayogin The Power that Uplifts Of all the great actors who were in the forefront of the Italian Revolution, Mazzini and Cavour were the most essential to Italian regeneration. Of the two Mazzini was undoubtedly the greater. Cavour was the statesman and organiser, Mazzini the prophet and creator. Mazzini was busy with the great and eternal ideas which ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The Two Programmes There could hardly be a more striking contrast than the pronounced dissimilarity between the resolutions passed at the Hughly Provincial Conference under the pressure of the Moderate leaders' threat to dissociate themselves from the proceedings if the Pabna resolutions were reaffirmed and the resolutions ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions Srijut Surendranath Banerji's Return The veteran leader of Moderate Bengal has returned from his oratorical triumphs in the land of our rulers. The ovations of praise and applause which appreciative audiences and news-paper critics of all shades of opinion have heaped upon him, were thoroughly deserved. Never has the great ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The Rump Presidential Election The Lahore Special Correspondent of the Rashtra Mat telegraphs to his paper a story of the proceedings at the Presidential election for the Rump Congress at Lahore, which, if correct, sheds a singular light on the proceedings of the valiant Three who are defending the bridge of conciliation ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The Englishman on Boycott The speech of Sj. Bhupendranath Bose at the boycott celebration and the Open Letter of Sj. Aurobindo Ghose have put the Englishman in a difficulty. It has been the habit of this paper to lay stress on any facts or suggestions real or imaginary which it could interpret as pointing to violence ...
... Karmayogin An Extraordinary Prohibition Pandit Bhoje Dutt of Agra has been in our midst for some time, and none had hitherto imagined that he was a political agitator or his preachings dangerous to the public peace. We all knew him as secretary of the Suddhi Samaj, a religious body having for its object the re-admission of converts from Hinduism into ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions Mahomedan Representation The question of separate representation for the Mahomedan community is one of those momentous issues raised in haste by a statesman unable to appreciate the forces with which he is dealing, which bear fruit no man expected and least of all the ill-advised Frankenstein who was first responsible ...
... Karmayogin Nationalist Work in England We publish in this issue an article by Sj. Bipin Chandra Pal in which he suggests the necessity of a Nationalist agency or bureau in England, and states the reasoning which has led him to modify the views formerly held by the whole party on the inutility of work in England under the present political conditions. ...
... Karmayogin The Hindu Sabha An indication of the immense changes which are coming over our country, is the sudden leaping into being of new movements and organisations which are, by their very existence, evidence of revolutions in public feeling and omens of the future. The dead bones live indeed and the long sleep of the ages is broken. The Moslem League ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions House Searches One wonders what would happen in any European country if the police as a recompense for their utter inefficiency and detective incapacity were armed with the power, and allowed to use it freely, of raiding the houses of respectable citizens, ransacking the property of absent occupants and leaving it unsafe ...
... Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The Apostasy of the National Council We have received an open letter from some teachers of the Rangpur National school in which they warn the President of the National Council of Education of the evil effects likely to ensue from the recent National Risley Circular and protest strongly against the policy underlying it ...
... Karmayogin Bhawanipur Speech Delivered at Bhawanipur, Calcutta, on 13 October 1909. Text published in the Bengalee on 15 October. Gentlemen,—The time before us is extremely short. There are other speakers who will address you and the sun is now hastening down to its set. Therefore I hope you will excuse me if what I have to say to you is ...
... Karmayogin Union Day The 16th of October is generally known as the Partition Day, and it is inevitable that, so long as the administrative division stands, this feature should be emphasised. Especially now that the Reforms threaten to make the division in our administrative lives permanent and real, a mournful significance attaches to the celebration ...
... Karmayogin College Square Speech - II Delivered at College Square, Calcutta, on 10 October 1909. Text published in the Times of India (Bombay) on 11 October. Mr. Aurobindo Ghose next rose amid loud cheers and cries of "Bande Mataram". He said that the meeting was the last they could hold before the Partition Day, which was approaching, and ...
... session of the Bengal Provincial Conference of the Indian National Congress. The principal event of the tour was the speech he delivered in Jhalakati on 19 June 1909 (reproduced on pages 33-42 of Karmayogin , volume 8 of THE C OMPLETE WORKS OF SRI A UROBINDO ). 28 January-17 February 1911. During this period Sri Aurobindo wrote dated Record entries under the following six headings: ...
... else to another kind of freedom when the soul knows that it is God's līlā and leaves it to Him whether He shall throw out the tendency or use it for His own purposes. This is the attitude of the Karmayogin who puts himself in God's hands and does work for His sake only, knowing that it is God's force that works in him. The result of that attitude of self-surrender is that the Lord of all takes charge ...
... everything possible to avert the calamity, helped its coming by their action or inaction; those who had a glimpse of it strove in vain to stop the wheels of Fate; Sri Krishna himself as the niṣkāma karmayogin who does his duty without regard to results, went on that hopeless embassy to Hastinapura; but the Zeitgeist overbore all. It was only afterwards that men saw how like rivers speeding towards the ...
... an early composition of which more than one fragmentary version exists, was touched up here Page 347 and there when republished in the 'forties from the files of the periodical Karmayogin edited by Sri Aurobindo in the first decade of the century. But the line, I praise my father's prescient love, seems to have escaped notice, for it remains a tetrameter. The ...
... great politician and had still his finger on the nation's pulse. And sometimes he let his disciple-editor be as audacious as he had himself been in the famous old days of Bande Mataram and and Karmayogin. Once, in the period when it was a vital issue whether or not to recognise Red China, an editorial came out in strong criticism of the current national policy. The Mother looked at the opening sentence ...
... Obviously I had to come to Pondicherry. The Grace works in many ways. × Manilal Dave was a well-known educationist, a karmayogin who devoted himself to social service. He was so popular that after his passing, his students published a book of reminiscences about him. Entitled Patan-na muka sevaka: Swargiya Manibhai Dave ...
... Egypt? Is Mother India merely a poetic symbol or an Entity? Long ago when I came into spiritual contact with Sri Aurobindo I was almost swept off my feet spiritually by the power of his paper, the Karmayogin. / almost believed that Mother India was more than a symbol, that there was an Entity as real as my own being. I feel tempted to ask: are these Devas or Devis creations of the Cosmic Mind, having ...
... Ibid em × Centenary Edition of Sri Aurobindo’s Collected Works, volume 2, Karmayogin, 4-5 × P. Heehs, op. cit., 70 ...
... × Id., p. 99. × Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin, SABCL 2 p. 2. × SAAR, April 1989, p. 119. ...
... Mohandas K. Gandhi; with the latter he went on corresponding till 1947. In the Ashram, Dyuman was looked up to because of his reliability and steadfastness, and became the exemplar of ‘the worker,’ the karmayogin . The Mother put him in charge of the dining room and of everything in connection with the feeding of the Ashram population; she also made him one of the Ashram trustees. Chandulal Shah and his ...
... of my experience... My third madness is that other people look upon the country as an inert piece of matter, a stretch of fields and meadows, forests and rivers. To me She is the 13 Karmayogin, SABCL, Vol. 2, p. 10. Mother. I adore Her, worship Her. What will the son do when he sees a Rakshasa sitting on the breast of his mother and sucking her blood? Will he quietly have ...
... issue. Note THE LEGEND OF ORIGINAL SIN AND ADAM'S FALL ( These pages are from a chapter in a series of articles written by Sri Aurobindo for his journal The Karmayogin in the first decade of the twentieth century. The chapter is entitled "The Place of Religion in Ethics" and is preceded by the exposition of a view of human development which Sri Aurobindo calls ...
... and not enough on Sunday either. In these circum- stances to produce a page on such a subject would be a feat of acrobacy not easily performable. As for the subject, well in the days of the Karmayogin or of the Defence of Indian Culture I could have served you freely. Page 168 Now I feel as if I have said all I could say on these things— they have gone back into the far rear ...
... existing underground groups under a single organisation. When in 1910 Sri Aurobindo left Calcutta guided by an inner voice, he asked Sister Nivedita to take up the editing of the English weekly the Karmayogin in his absence. She consented and from that time onward she had the whole conduct of the paper till its closure. She had known for some time that she was not to remain very long on this earth ...
... Eternal, lifted above the seekings of thought into identity with a supreme Light, the rapture of the saint made one by love in the pure heart with the transcendent and universal Love, the will of the Karmayogin raised above egoistic desire and passion into the impersonality of the divine and universal Will, these things on which India has set the highest value and which have been the supreme endeavour of ...
... artistic eye in me opened and I knew all about painting except of course the more material side of the technique. I don't always _____________________________________ ¹ . Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin, Uttarpara Speech, Centenary Library, Vol.2, pp. 4-5. Page 12 know how to express though, because I lack the knowledge of the proper expressions, but that does not stand in the way of ...
... impoverish and tie up the naturally quick and brilliant and supple Indian intelligence'. During 1909-10 Sri Aurobindo wrote a series of articles on 'A System of National Education' which appeared in the Karmayogin and this seems a suitable opportunity for me to tell you briefly what his views on education were — they were indeed far in advance of the conventional ideas on the subject. According to Sri ...
... important and prominent features of the Ashram. Sri Aurobindo had a deep and abiding interest in education. As a teacher, he had seen the weaknesses of our system and the poverty of its ideals. In the Karmayogin and later in the Arya he wrote a series of articles giving his views on education which were altogether different from the conventional ideas on the subject. The Mother too had a new and innovative ...
... was not necessary for me. As to dhyāna – meditation – I was not prepared to tell him that I was practically meditating the whole day. : All that wrote in the Bande Mataram and in the Karmayogin was from that state. I have since trusted the inner guidance even when I thought it was leading me astray. The Arya and the subsequent writings did not come from the brain. It was, of course ...
... time. Disciple : Is it a fact that you came away straight to Chandernagore from the Dharma office ? And that the C.I.D. by God's grace were not there ? Sri Aurobindo : I was at the Karmayogin office and we came to know about the search that was going to be made evidently with the object of arresting me. There were some people there and Ramchandra Majumdar was there – preparing to give ...
... some Indian Christians. It means he also can become dynamic. The only Ashram I have heard of in which there was great unity was Thakur Dayanand's. Once I wrote an article on the Avatar in the Karmayogin. Mahendra Day, one of Dayanand's disciples, seeing the article wrote to me: "Here is the Avatar." He was very enthusiastic about it. NIRODBARAN: Why are Gurus obliged to work with imperfect and ...
... when it was discussed in England I remember rightly. SRI AUROBINDO: How could that be? I never knew that there was such a ban. The last prosecution against me was for two signed letters in the Karmayogin, and they were declared be non-seditious. That ban seems to be just a legend. NIRODBARAN: All over India there was the impression that a ban had been put and everybody thought you were the head ...
... leaving the inner calm wholly unruffled. The year of incarceration at the Alipur jail, as we saw earlier, was really a session of sadhana and when, after his acquittal in May 1909, he launched the Karmayogin and the Dharma and made his astonishing speech at Uttarpara, it was clear to all that Sri Aurobindo was now a man of God and only incidentally a political leader. He had not forgotten the continuing ...
... prolonged trial, and the honourable acquittal. May 1909-February 1910: Sri Aurobindo emerged from prison a changed man with an accession of spiritual strength and a new serenity, edited the Karmayogin and the Dharma, and in response to an adesh, an inner command, left for Chandernagore in February 1910. During the first year (1905-6), Sri Aurobindo was hardly known outside the small ...
... much the better for them. They don't appreciate, it doesn't matter. It's their own look-out. We do things not to please them, we do things because we feel that that is to be done. 18 For the Karmayogin, the cardinal need is perfect equanimity and the ability to rise above disappointments and sufferings. This was the way to the true and total liberation. And this could be the beginning of a new ...
... June 19 : Started the English weekly Karma yogin. Long patriotic poem Baji Prabhou and several long and short poems some of which written in jail were published in the Karmayogin. August : Started the Bengali weekly Dharma, himself writing most of the articles. Besides discussing day-to-day political problems Sri Aurobindo interpreted ...
... "overhead" or above-mind states of consciousness), Sri Aurobindo had done some rethinking about the ends and means of his political work. There was the brief but glorious period of editorship of the Karmayogin and the Dharma during 1909-10, but he had withdrawn deliberately, in obedience to an inner command, from Calcutta, his scene of action, first to Chandernagore in mid-February 1910 and in April ...
... Bulletin in November 1950, and the sixth and last in February 1952. The essays were collected as On Education and came out as a little book the same year. Like Sri Aurobindo's series in the Karmayogin during 1909-10, - "The Brain of India", "A System of National Education" and "The National Value of Art", - the Mother's essays on education too are packed with rare insights and illuminations that ...
... my self-offering and deliver me from my desires and attachments ?" "What kind of service will be acceptable to the Divine ?" These are some of the problems which often besiege and perplex the Karmayogin at the outset of his spiritual career. There is an aspiration in him, a sincerity, a faith, a fervid, if somewhat flurried, will to self- surrender, what is lacking is knowledge,—knowledge not ...
... means he also can become dynamic. The only Ashram in which there was great unity, I heard, was Thakur Dayanand's. There was a strong sense of unity among them. I wrote an article on the "Avatar" in Karmayogin . Mahendra Dey, Dayanand's disciple, seeing the article wrote to me "he is the Avatar". He was very enthusiastic about it. And when there was police firing and arrests, Mahendra Dey after his im ...
... For almost a year he strove single-handed as the sole remaining leader of the Nationalists in India to revive the movement. He published at this time to aid his effort a weekly English paper, the Karmayogin, and a Bengali weekly, the Dharma. But at last he was compelled to recognise that the nation was not yet sufficiently trained to carry out his policy and programme. Moreover, as his twelve month's ...
... Parts Two and Three (Pondicherry : Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1970), p. 728 . ³ Ibid., pp.727-28. Page 236 Before 1938 many of Sri Aurobindo's writings from the Arya and the Karmayogin had been brought out in book-form, some after being revised to a greater or lesser degree. But the book-publication of his philosophical magnum opus, The Life Divine, which had first appeared ...
... × Ibid, p. 3 × The Ideal of the Karmayogin, p. 347 × The Hour of God, p. 7 ...
... and impartial education in the place of the loyalty-ridden instruction with the motto of status quo fastened round its neck". In a series of articles contributed two years later to the Karmayogin, Sri Aurobindo discussed the problem of education in rather greater detail and almost outlined a philosophy of National education for India. Modem Indian education, being an absurd copy and even ...
... to Pondicherry that "he [Das] would not like the British to go out until this dangerous problem had been settled". 16 Sri Aurobindo's own view of the matter changed little since he wrote in the Karmayogin in May 1909: ...Hindu-Mahomedan unity cannot be effected by political adjustments or Congress flatteries. It must be sought deeper down, in the heart and in the mind, for where the causes ...
... facto editor of the Bande Mataram in 1906, and he was also the directing force behind its revolutionary Bengali counterpart, Yugantar. After his acquittal in 1909, he had started on his own the Karmayogin and the Dharma, with a marked shift in emphasis from politics to politics cum Sanatana Dharma. And now, five years after, he was to launch the Arya and the Revue, philosophical journals ...
... two years later, it was at Kumudini's request that Sri Aurobindo began to contribute in Suprabhat articles on his experiences in prison: Karakahini. A review of the magazine published in the Karmayogin in August 1909 is very interesting. We quote a good part of it, "The paper Suprabhat, a Bengali monthly edited by Kumari Kumudini Mitra, daughter of Sj. Krishna Kumar Mitra, enters this month ...
... saw before him a great Indian nationality, young, vigorous, fully the equal of any nationality on the face of the earth." When, at Sri Aurobindo's request, she took up the editing of the Karmayogin, she wrote the editorials. On 12 March 1910, we find this 'Daily Aspiration for the Nationalist': 1. The Master as I Saw Him. Page 545 "I believe that India is one ...
... collection) 465 Sri Aurobindo's cell at Alipore (from author's collection) 493 Sri Aurobindo after his release from Alipore (from Abhay Singh's collection) 498 Front page of the Karmayogin (from the journal's microfilms, courtesy Nehru Memorial Museum & Library) 529 A ghat in Calcutta in the 1900s (from an old postcard) 548 Sister Nivedita (courtesy Ramakrishna Mission) ...
... rise in the mind. "After such instructions our conversation would turn on general subjects, on one of those occasions I asked him what he meant by Akasic records about which he used to write in his Karmayogin. He said that he himself cannot say much about them, he felt some scribbled scrolls were unfurling before his eyes with some 1 Published in Sri Aurobindo Archives and Research (December ...
... him. "The work that was begun at Dakshineshwara is far from finished, it is not even understood. That which Vivekananda received and strove to develop, has not yet materialised," he wrote in the Karmayogin, after his experience in the prison. Sri Aurobindo was a born Pioneer. Always farther. "From the beginning I didn't feel Nirvana to be the highest spiritual achievement. Something in me always ...
... in the Home University Library and the World Classic editions," Nolini specified to me. Sri Aurobindo took up the young men's education from where he had left off at Shyam Pukur Lane, at the Karmayogin office at Calcutta. Remember how he taught Nolini French beginning with Moliere's L'Avare? Nolini had studied only Bengali and English in his school and college days. Here he continued to learn ...
... Upanishad and the Gita were not final though everything may be there in seed. In this development the recent spiritual history of India is a very important stage." Decades earlier, in an article in the Karmayogin (26 March 1910), Sri Aurobindo had given three names—Rama-krishna Paramahansa, Swami Vivekananda, and Bijoy Goswami —as examples. They had then indicated to him "the lines from which the future ...
... Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays in Philosophy and Yoga The Strength of Stillness 19-February-1910 There are two great forces in the universe, silence and speech. Silence prepares, speech creates. Silence acts, speech gives the impulse to action. Silence compels, speech persuades. The immense ...
... Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Stead and Maskelyne 01-January-1910 The vexed question of spirit communication has become a subject of permanent public controversy in England. So much that is of the utmost importance to our views of the world, religion, science, life ...
... Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays in Philosophy and Yoga The Stress of the Hidden Spirit 26-February-1910 The world is a great game of hide and seek in which the real hides behind the apparent, spirit behind matter. The apparent masquerades as real, the real is seen dimly as if it were an un ...
... Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays in Philosophy and Yoga The Principle of Evil 26-February-1910 The problem of evil is one that has taxed human thought and evolved various and conflicting solutions. To the rationalist who does not believe in anything not material, the problem does not exist. ...
... Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Karmayoga 19-June-1909 We have spoken of Karmayoga as the application of Vedanta and Yoga to life. To many who take their knowledge of Hinduism second-hand this may seem a doubtful definition. It is ordinarily supposed by "practical" minds ...
... Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Fate and Free-Will 29-January-1910 A question which has hitherto divided human thought and received no final solution, is the freedom of the human being in his relation to the Power intelligent or unintelligent that rules the world. We ...
... Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Yoga and Human Evolution 03-July-1909 The whole burden of our human progress has been an attempt to escape from the bondage to the body and the vital impulses. According to the scientific theory, the human being began as the animal, developed ...
... Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Man - Slave or Free? 26-June-1909 The exclusive pursuit of Yoga by men who seclude themselves either physically or mentally from the contact of the world has led to an erroneous view of this science as something mystic, far-off and unreal ...
... Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Stead and the Spirits 27-November-1909 Considerable attention has been attracted and excitement created by the latest development of Mr. W. T. Stead's agency for communicant spirits which he calls Julia's Bureau. The supposed communications ...
... Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays in Philosophy and Yoga The Three Purushas 12-February-1910 The Greatness of all the philosophical problems which human thought has struggled to solve, is the exact nature and relation to us of the conscious Intelligence in the phenomenal existence around. The ...
... Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays from the Karmayogin (1909-1910) Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Yoga and Hypnotism 17-July-1909 When the mind is entirely passive, then the force of Nature which works in the whole of animate and inanimate creation, has free play; for it is in reality this force which works in man as well as in the ...
... becomes svarāṭ, samrāṭ , self-ruler and emperor. The works of sacrifice are thus vindicated as a means of liberation and absolute spiritual perfection, saṁsiddhi . So Janaka and other great Karmayogins of the mighty ancient Yoga attained to perfection, by equal and desireless works done as a sacrifice, without the least egoistic aim or attachment— karmaṇaiva hi saṁsiddhim āsthitā janakādayaḥ . ...
... indispensable, but only useful & permissible? What we need is experience. If once it is established by the experience of the Jivanmuktas that works & salvation are compatible, by the experience of the Karmayogins that works also lead to freedom in the Infinite & Divine Existence,—although they need not be the only path, nor the only requisite, Page 583 although, even, it may be difficult to harmonise ...
... wartime France and among Japan's lights and silences and humane graces - and after her second coming to Pondicherry, Mirra the Mother in the role of Aditi, perfect in her ministry and the builder of Karmayogins - this multi-faceted Mirra was at once the Transcendent Infinite, the universal Shakti, and the finite divine-human being who had her birth on 21 February 1878 and withdrew on 17 November 1973. The ...
... highest status of yoga by Karma Yoga is greater than the doers of askesis, greater than the men of knowledge, greater than the men of works; become then the Yogin of Works, O Arjuna. Of all the Karmayogins, one who has with all his inner self given up to Me, one who has for Me love and faith, him I hold to be the most united with Me in yoga." 98 Vision of the Vibhutis While the synthesis ...
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