Mahatmas : in Theosophy, the Masters who live chiefly in Tibet; they are perfected men whose task it is to watch over humanity & guide it on the path of evolution. Two most concerned with Theosophical Society are Moryā & Koot Hoomi (see Kuthumi).
... in the road; we have to choose each moment. Most people act only for self and hence their lives can be largely foretold by palmistry, astrology, etc. It is well known that such sciences fail with Mahatmas, i.e., those who serve Sri Krishna. As for the foreseeing by "supermind" — if it were intelligible to the mind it would not be supramental. I don't think I can have said, "Mind, evolution... about mind, etc., are not important." If you surrender to God you will come to Page 152 know about the realities that are referred to by all such descriptions. Because certain Mahatmas do not use the word "supermind" proves nothing about the thing. All the great seers have taught that there are divine levels of being 'lower' than the Ultimate Transcendent Reality but beyond or above... of the truths implicit in the Transcendent for world-play. I agree with you that in the Aurobindonian scheme it points to Yogic obligations which are not present in the schemes of other Masters or Mahatmas. I am afraid Krishna Prem has somehow missed these obligations in his reading of Sri Aurobindo — and the central obligation is the integral transformation of human nature. All Yogis talk of ...
... DR. MANILAL: Meditation can't be spoiled. We shall meditate when the Mother comes. (Laughter) DR. MANILAL: The Theosophists speak of Mahatmas from whom they receive messages. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, Morya and Koothoomi are two of their Mahatmas. The Mahatmas are said to be living some-where in Bhutan among Rishis who are thousands of years old, I hear. DR. MANILAL: Not true? You wrote, a long ...
... IV Some of the pieces included in Sri Aurobindo's Collected Poems — the dialogue, The Birth of Sin, and the three speculative poetic exercises. The Rakshasas, Kama and The Mahatmas: Kuthumi - probably belong to the political period, though it is possible that they were conceived during the last years at Baroda. In any case, the poems go naturally with The Rishi, A Vision... conceal myself from their desire And make this rule of the eternal chase, "They who abandon Me, shall to all time Clasp and possess; they who pursue, shall lose." 43 The Mahatmas: Kuthumi is described by Sri Aurobindo as "a play of the imaginative, a poetic reconstruction of the central idea only of Mahatmahood". Kuthumi, the Kshatriya Yogin, having steadily risen in con... the grim debates die out And atheism perish from the Earth, Blasted with knowledge; love and brotherhood And wisdom repossess Sri Krishna's world. 44 It is clearly the Mahatmas' destiny - as seen by Kuthumi, one of them - to preserve and activise the Truth age after age till the Truth can possess and transform humanity altogether and make earth an extension of Heaven. ...
... outsider but as an earnest and careful inquirer and practical experimentalist in those fields which Theosophy seeks to make her own. Theosophy was not born with Madame Blavatsky, nor invented by the Mahatmas in the latter end of the nineteenth century. It is an ancient and venerable branch of knowledge, which unfortunately has never, in historical times, been brought out into the open and subjected to... sources of error must be weeded out before the good corn of truth can grow. They have fallen into the snare of Gnostic jargon and Rosicrucian mummery and have been busy with a nebulous chase after Mahatmas, White Lodges and Lords of the Flame when they should have been experimenting earnestly and patiently, testing their results severely and arriving at sound and incontestable conclusions which they... as manifestation, whether as Maya or as Lila. Does Theosophy answer to this description? Everyone knows that it does not and cannot. The modern Theosophist tells us Page 73 much about Mahatmas, Kamaloka, Devachan, people on Mars, people on the Moon, astral bodies, precipitated letters, Akashic records and a deal of other matters, of high value if true and of great interest whether true ...
... for the remarkable rumour which the vigorous 1 Mahātmā: mahat + atma: great soul. Mahatmas: Kuthumi is the chief of the Mahatmas, who are central to Theosophical teachings. They are stationed "beyond the spheres, above the mighty Gods," as Sri Aurobindo wrote in his poem "The Mahatmas," where he developed the central idea of Mahatma hood. These "souls to death denied" preserve the knowledge... 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 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 or any of the other great ...
... mystic secrecy, a continual reference to the infallible knowledge of the male & female Popes of Theosophy or, when that seems to need bolstering, to the divine authority of invisible and inaccessible Mahatmas. We in India admit the Guru and accept the Avatar. But still the Guru is only a vessel of the infinite Knowledge, the Avatar is only a particular manifestation of the Divine Personality. It is shocking... those who decline the experiment, agree with the general experience of Yogins; there are other statements which our experience appears to contradict or to which it gives a different interpretation. Mahatmas exist, but they are not omnipotent or infallible. Rebirth is a fact and the memory of our past lives is possible; but the rigid rules of time and of Karmic reaction laid down dogmatically by the ... mental rectitude to which it is now a stranger and improve its moral basis. It must become clear, straightforward, rigidly self-searching, sceptical in the nobler sense of the word. It must keep the Mahatmas in the background and put God and Truth in the front. Its Popes must dethrone themselves and enthrone the intellectual conscience of mankind. If they wish to be mystic and secret like our Yogins, ...
... al worlds and spirits and miraculous powers and Mahatmas. You are quite right. She was an occultist, not a spiritual personality. What spiritual teachings she gave, seemed to be based on intellectual knowledge, not on realisation. Her attitude was Tibetan Buddhistic. She did not believe in God, but in Nirvana, miraculous powers and the Mahatmas. 31 March 1936 Alexandra David-Neel Recently ...
... Death so managed it that he could not get the medicine in time! Disciple : Has anyone conquered death before in the past ? Sri Aurobindo : We have to find out, – we don't know. The Mahatmas are said to have conquered death. Disciple : They can be seen in Vaishakha Valley according to a recent publication of the Theosophists. Page 179 Disciple : Ashwatthama... Once there was an idea that civilisation is only three or four thousand years old. Now people are forced to change their ideas. Disciple : But the details about the last civilisation and the Mahatmas – are they all true ? Sri Aurobindo : What do you mean by "true”? On the vital plane there is nothing that you cannot see : you can recast Page 180 the whole history ...
... Surreal Science, 160; Who, 161, 337; Invitation, 161; The Fear of Death, 162; Life and Death, 163; Rebirth, 163; In the Moonlight, 146-5; The Rishi, 166-7; The Birth of Sin, 169-73, 337; Kama, 172; The Mahatmas: Kuthumi, 173; A Child's Imagination, 175; To R., 175; To the Sea, 176; The Sea at Night, 176; on length in a poem, 176; "most Miltonic", 179; poems and plays with a purpose, 185-6; aim of political... Macaulay, Lord, 13, 42-3, 491 Macdonald, Ramsay, 205,216, 369 Madgaokar, G. D., 208 Mahabharata, The, 5, 50, 63, 68, 69, 80ff, 88, 108,147, 250, 646, 661ff, 664, 666 Mahatmas: Kuthumi, 169, 173 Maid in the Mill, The, 119, 120,152, 153 Maitra, S. K., 20 Majumdar, R. C., 235 Majumdar, Ramachandra, 366,367 Malaviya, Madan Mohan ...
... 1942. The present version is based on the original manuscript. Page 706 The Mahatmas. 1910. This poem was intended for the third issue of the Karmayogin to be printed from the manuscript described in the above note. In the manuscript, the poem is entitled "The Mahatmas: Kutthumi". A corrupt version was printed under the title "The Mahatma Kuthumi" in the Standard ...
... therefore logically an atheist, Alexandra was also interested in occultism. Putting some of her reading and travelling experiences together, she had by mental formation tried to create a ‘mahatma’ – mahatmas 91 were ‘in’ at the time – and succeeded in doing so. But then her mahatma never left her alone and became such a botheration to Alexandra that she tried to get rid of him by all possible means... The Mother, Prayers and Meditations , CWM 1 p. 124. × ‘Mahatma’ means ‘great soul.’ In theosophy mahatmas are invisible sages who direct the course of history or exert an occult influence on the activities of humanity. × ...
... Poems Written in 1910 and Published in 1920-1921 Collected Poems The Mahatmas Know more > Kuthumi (This poem is purely a play of the imagination, a poetic reconstruction of the central idea only of Mahatmahood.) The seven mountains and the seven seas Surround me. Over me the eightfold sun Blazing with various colours—green and blue ...
... the Nasik case that I was "maintained" by the Mitra Mela. I need hardly tell my countrymen that I have never been a paid agitator, still less a "maintained" revolutionist, but one whom even hostile Mahatmas admit to be without any pecuniary or other axe to grind. Nor have I ever received any payment for any political work except occasional payments for contributions to the Calcutta Bande Mataram while ...
... our ears that Mr. Hare intends to visit the scenes of disturbance. Yet he has not left Shillong as yet, and disturbances are as rife as ever. What does Mr. Hare mean?" Even Homer nods; and even Mahatmas are at times slow to understand the significance of events. Our contemporary declines to accept the Jamalpur affairs as a link in a chain that has been forged by people interested in the suppression ...
... 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 or any of the other great ...
... gratitude are, one would imagine, so many pillars of British rule. What about Romesh Chandra's letters to Lord Curzon, Surendranath's boycott or Narendranath's secret hopes of Theosophical rule of Mahatmas? Whoever says one thing with his lips and another in his heart, can never hope to help his country. Truth and Falsehood When we are on the subject, let us be frank. Truth is the rock on which ...
... appears as that of an Angel of God, controlling, but aware of the derivative nature of the control & allowing the vak to flow through her. The derivative control of the world by Angels, Powers, Gods, Mahatmas announced by this Vani preceded by a blowing of trumpets in the Anandaloka. [Written] Next day. 10.20 The afternoon was begun with a suspension of definite progress in the siddhi and, afterwards ...
... 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 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 or any of the other great ...
... full of facts and based on a study of historical data. In it he tries to show that human destiny has always a cycle of five hundred years. And do you know his conclusion? He believes that there are Mahatmas who manage the world! Besides, the extension of mathematical numbers to infinity was well known in India long ago; and I don't understand why the classification of historical epochs into Primitive ...
... Lorsque rien n'existait 686 The Lost Boat 579 The Lost Deliverer 16 Love and Death 111 Love in Sorrow 28 The Lover's Complaint 26 Madhusudan Dutt 35 The Mahatmas 325 Man, the Despot of Contraries 626 Man the Enigma 589 Man the Mediator 596 Man the Thinking Animal 593 The Meditations of Mandavya 509 The Miracle of Birth ...
... man whom the whole Hindu community in Western India delights to honour, from Peshawar to Kolhapur and from Bombay to our own borders; it is one who will not talk about Shivaji and Bhavani—only about Mahatmas. It is not the man who has suffered and denied Page 116 himself for his country's sake and never abased his courage nor bowed his head under the most crushing persecution; it is one who ...
... killed, has been scotched; its lease of life is not for long. Page 236 Another delusion of which Babu Narendranath Sen of the Indian Mirror , and the cultured and eloquent lady whom the Mahatmas have placed at the head of the new Theosophist Church, are the principal exponents, asks us to seek our regeneration through religion; only when we have become religiously and morally fit, can we ...
... well-justified incredulity and suspicion. I admit the truths that Theosophy seeks to unveil; but I do not think they can be reached if we fall into bondage even to the most inspiring table talk of Mahatmas or to the confused anathemas and vaticinations hurled from their platform tripods by modern Pythonesses of the type of Mṛṣ Annie Besant, that great, capacious but bewildered and darkened intellect ...
... by spirituality. SRI AUROBINDO: These Europeans either believe everything or nothing. If you tell them there are Yogis in Tibet and Mahabhutan who are two thousand years old and that crores of Mahatmas are living there, they may go to visit the place. You must have heard of wonderful yogic novels written by someone dealing with Tibet and its occult things. I read one of them but found nothing of ...
... the British in the back. SRI AUROBINDO: Non-violently! SATYENDRA: Violent or non-violent, the result is the same. NIRODBARAN: Sikandar says he can't understand Gandhi's logic. The logic of Mahatmas is different from that of ordinary mortals like him. Otherwise what could be meant by non-embarrassing the British Government and at the same time preaching India's non-participation? SATYENDRA: ...
... to be victorious over this life and the suffering and pain and disease and death of this life, how to suffuse this life with ananda and beauty. How many unknown anonymous great beings, yogis, mahatmas have come, experimented with life and disappeared. They have performed tapasya and the fruits of their Page 134 tapasya have been left with the collectivity. We hardly know anything ...
... "Epiphany", first published in the Karmayogin, November 20, December 11 and 18, 1909 respectively; "To R", first published in the Modern Review , April 1910; "The Rakshasas", "Kama", "The Mahatmas", first published in the Standard Bearer, November 14 and 28 and December 12, 1920; "Ahana" (revised and enlarged version of 520 lines; See 3). Translations: The Century of Life (See 11) ...
... Savitri III Yoga There have been great fighters in modern India like Tilak, philosophers like Vivekananda, poets like Tagore, and 'mahatmas' like Gandhi. But Sri Aurobindo was all these, and a yogi as well. To the question, what is yoga, it is not possible to return an easy or facile answer, and unfortunately the word 'yoga' is being bandied ...
... Morris has written an article full of study of facts and historical data in which he tries to show that human history has always run in a cycle of five hundred years. He even believes that there are Mahatmas who manage this world. I believe the extension of mathematical numbers to infinity was well known in India long long ago. (After a long pause) No ! In a philosopher it is not Page 98 ...
... a note sent by Sri Aurobindo from Chandernagore: 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 Sri Aurobindo is in our midst, and if he is doing any astral business with Kuthumi or any other of the great ...
... 26th March 1910, Karmayogin published the following: "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, Sri Aurobindo is in our midst and, if he is doing any astral business with Kuthumi or any other of the great ...
... illustrated in this story. Yusuf Hussein wanted to be initiated by Mahatma Junun, and indeed, he had shown his sincerity and patience by his four-year wait at the teacher's door. But the teacher knew that Yusuf was not ripe yet, and, like a good teacher, he wanted his pupil to realize for himself his unpreparedness. Hence, Mahatma Junun designed a special, real-life situation through which Yusuf could... there was a Mahatma who was a great ascetic and a great pandit. He was honoured by all, full of years and wisdom. His name was Junun. Many young boys, many young men used to come to him to receive initiation. They stayed in his hermitage, became pandits themselves, then returned home after a long and studious retreat. One day a young man came to him. His name was Yusuf Hussein. The Mahatma agreed to... placed the box before the Mahatma. He took it and gave it to Yusuf: "I have a friend who lives there on the banks of the river Neela. Go and take this box to him from me. But take good care, brother, don't make any mistake on the way. Keep this box carefully with you and give it to the man whom it is for. When you come back I shall give you initiation." Once again the Mahatma repeated his advice and ...
... there was a Mahatma who was a great ascetic and a great pandit. He was honoured by all, full of years and wisdom. His name was Junun. Many young boys, many young men used to come to him to receive initiation. They stayed in his hermitage, became pandits themselves, then returned home after a long and studious retreat. One day a young man came to him. His name was Yusuf Hussein. The Mahatma agreed to... placed the box before the Mahatma. He took it and gave it to Yusuf: "I have a friend who lives there on the banks of the river Neela. Go and take this box to him from me. But take good care, brother, don't make any mistake on the way. Keep this box carefully with you and give it to the man whom it is for. When you come back I shall give you initiation." Once again the Mahatma repeated his advice and... Neela and the house of his Master's friend, Yusuf handed the Mahatma's present to him and waited silently in a corner because of the fault he had committed. This man was a great saint. He opened the box and immediately understood what had happened. "Well, Yusuf," he said, turning to the young aspirant, "so you have lost that mouse.... Mahatma Junun won't give you initiation, I am afraid, for in order ...
... Mahatma Gandhi My Pilgrimage to the Spirit January 1934 [Mahatma Gandhi wrote to Sri Aurobindo directly again if he could see him if his retirement was not a vow. When I enquired, Sri Aurobindo wrote to me as follows:] In the letter he simply expressed the desire he had for a long time to meet me and asked me to see him if my retirement was ...
... Mahatma Gandhi My Pilgrimage to the Spirit December 25, 1933 *[Mahatma Gandhi wrote to me as follows: After receiving your letter, I enquired and came to know that there was an invitation from Pondicherry and most probably I shall have to go there. If I come, I would very much wish to see Sri Aurobindo . So, see if you can arrange for an interview ...
... created something like a Mahatma. He knew and it is a proved fact that these mental formations after a time begin to have a personal life, independently of the author,—although they may be connected with him, yet they are quite independent, in the sense that they have a will of their own. But now he was facing a formidable difficulty. He said: "Do you know I have formed my Mahatma so well that he has become... and that, advises me in this matter and that and wants to control my life altogether. I am unable to get rid of him. I find it extremely difficult and do not know how to go about it. As I say, my Mahatma has become extremely troublesome. He does not leave me to be at rest. He interferes in all my activities, prevents me from doing my work and yet I know it is my own creation and I am unable to do away ...
... like a Mahatma. He knew and it is a proved fact that these mental formations after a time begin to have a personal life, independently of the author,-although they may be connected with him, yet they are quite independent, in the Page 34 sense that they have a will of their own. But now he was facing a formidable difficulty. He said: "Do you know I have formed my Mahatma so well... and that, advises me in this matter and that and wants to control my life altogether. I am unable to get rid of him. I find it extremely difficult and do not know how to go about it. As I say, my Mahatma has become extremely troublesome. He does not leave me to be at rest. He interferes in all my activities, prevents me from doing my work and yet I know it is my own creation and I am unable to do away ...
... faith in words and think that with them they can sweep back the realities of life and embody effectively the realities of spirit. 9 July 1936 Mahatma Gandhi As for Gandhi, why should you suppose that I am so tender for the faith of the Mahatma? I do not call it faith at all, but a rigid mental belief, and what he terms soul-force is only a strong vital will which has taken a religious turn... order of human society? The view taken by the Mahatma in these matters is Christian rather than Hindu—for the Christian self-abasement, humility, the acceptance of a low status to serve humanity or the Divine are things which are highly spiritual and the noblest privilege of the soul. This view does not admit any hierarchy of castes; the Mahatma accepts castes but on the basis that all are equal... to the Press" (15 October 1935), in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 62 ( New Delhi: The Publications Division, 1975 ), p. 37. × M. K. Gandhi, "Where Is the Living God?" (13 June 1936), in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 63 ( New Delhi: The Publications Division, 1976 ...
... followers of the school of non- violence in Indian politics who want to prove that the Gita preaches non-violence. They depend on the Mahatma's interpretation of the Gita. Sri Aurobindo : Non-violence is not in the Gita. If, as some people, including- the Mahatma, say, the Gita signifies a spiritual war or battle only, then what of Apariharyerthe and Hanyamane same – "inevitable circumstance"... Gita to my friends of the Sabarmati Ashram Page 55 at Ahmedabad and I found they could not reply to it. Sri Aurobindo : I am not sure, but the Mahatma's son – Devadas – who came here sent it to the Mahatma who said he was unable to reply to it intellectually. Perhaps he could not make up his mind to accept the principle that an evil cannot be destroyed unless much that lives... whole thing resulted in tearing out the entrails of his father. ( Laughter) Disciple : Sri Krishna and Arjuna can serve as examples of men who resorted to what the Mahatma calls "violence". Disciple : But Mahatma says "I am not Krishna". Sri Aurobindo : Any man can say, "I am not Prahlad". 23-7-1923 Disciple : I had a long discussion with X on vegetarian and ...
... Mahatma Gandhi My Pilgrimage to the Spirit January 15, 1934 [Mahatma Gandhi wrote to me that he had not yet received any answer from Sri Aurobindo . This was his second letter enquiring about the answer to his long letter to Sri Aurobindo . When I informed Sri Aurobindo of this enquiry, he sent me the following reply:] I wrote to him a short letter ...
... impartial estimate of the greatness of Mahatma Gandhi, done more than forty years ago by Amal Kiran in his book The Indian Spirit and the World's Future, has not received its due recognition. While an average Indian immediately links up Swaraj with Gandhi, the author of this exegesis wonders if the elements of Indian mysticism in the Mahatma's socio-political approach really draw n ...
... the predatory instincts of the goon das in a community," to put it in Munshi's words. He also felt that "cowards will always create bullies." So what did the Mahatma teach? Non-violence or cowardice? As a matter of fact, the Mahatma's 'non-violence' had become the excuse of the coward, the opportunity for the ruffian. Not to speak of the humiliation of a whole society. When M. K. Gandhi captured... other things, and what pleases me more than anything else is that his heroes are no weaklings. A man of integrity, he had the moral courage to act on what he perceived as right and truth. To him the Mahatma, M. K. Gandhi, was his 'master,' but it did not prevent him from revolting to Gandhi's advice to Congressmen. Mr. M. K. Gandhi advised Hindus not to resist Muslim goon das, not to stand up to Muslim... evil were quite incalculable." There was an ominous trait in Gandhi's nature which Munshi had missed. So had II It was reading a narrative 1 of my uncle's that suddenly opened my eyes. The Mahatma was famous for his fasts. But when communal riots broke out a subtle pattern emerged: So long as Muslim hoodlums held the upper hand, Gandhi held his peace, or, at best, verbally expressed his dismay ...
... 1916, Dec - "Lucknow Pact" between the Congress and the Muslim League. 1919-1920 -Beginning of the Khilafat and non-cooperation movements under the growing leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. 1920 - Sri Aurobindo turns down several offers to return to British India and to active politics. 1920, April 24 - Mother returns to Pondicherry from Japan... proposals; the Congress turns them down. 1942, April - The Japanese overrun Burma and bomb cities on India's east coast. 1942, Aug. 9 - Start of the "Quit India" movement; Mahatma Gandhi and other leaders are arrested soon afterwards. 1944, July -Sub has Bose's Indian National Army and the Japanese are repulsed in Manipur. 1946, Aug. 16 -The Muslim... October - Pakistan attacks Kashmir; the Indian army repels Pakistani troops, but Nehru calls a halt to the fighting and takes the dispute to the United Nations. 1948,Jan. 30 - Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated. 1950, October -China invades Tibet; India remains a silent spectator. 1950, Dec. 5 - Sri Aurobindo leaves his body. Mother continues his work ...
... and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit. The outer social structure which it built for its approach is another matter. If it is meant by the statement [ of Mahatma Gandhi ] 1 that the Page 412 form of religion is something permanent and unchangeable, then that cannot be accepted. But if religion here means one's way of communion with the Divine... statement drives at. Preference for a different approach to the Truth or the desire of inner spiritual self-expression are not the motives of the recommendation of change to which objection is made by the Mahatma here; the object proposed is an enhancement of social status and consideration which is no more a spiritual motive than conversion for the sake of money or marriage. If a man has no religion in himself... one's Creator and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death." M. K. Gandhi, on a statement by B. R. Ambedkar concerning change of religion, in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 62 (New Delhi: The Publications Division, 1975), p. 37.—Ed. × The correspondent said ...
... She said: "I formed a mahatma ; with my thought I formed Page 277 a mahatma " And she knew (this has been proved) that at a given moment mental formations acquire a personal life independent of the fashioner—though they are linked with him—but independent, in the sense that they can have their own will. And so she told me: "Just imagine, I had made my mahatma so well that he became... and I could not succeed in getting rid of him. It was extremely difficult, and I didn't know what to do!" So I asked her how she had tried. She told me how. She said, "He troubles me a lot, my mahatma is very troublesome. He does not leave me in peace. He disturbs my meditation, he hinders me from working; and yet I know quite well that it is I who created him, and I can't get rid of him!" Then... ( Mother laughs ) And I explained to her what she should do. And the next day—I used to see her almost every day in those days, you see—the next day she came and told me, "Ah, I am freed from my mahatma !" ( Laughter ) She had not cut the connection because that's of no use. One must know how to re-absorb one's creation, that is the only way. To swallow up again one's formations. But, you see ...
... December 24, 1936 The view taken by the Mahatma in these matters is Christian rather than Hindu—for the Christian, self-abasement, humility, the acceptance of a low status to serve humanity or the Divine are things which are highly spiritual and the noblest privilege of the soul. This view does not admit any hierarchy of castes; the Mahatma accepts castes but on the basis that all are equal... and not a flight to distant summits. 92 * * * July 31, 1932 (From an unpublished letter.) As for Gandhi, why should you suppose that I am so tender for the faith of the Mahatma ? I do not call it faith at all, but a rigid mental belief and what he calls soul-force is only a strong vital will which has taken a religious turn. That, of course, can be a tremendous force for... themselves—unless human nature changes no amount of moralizing will prevent it. 111 September 10, 1935 There is no connection between the spiritual truth and knowledge in which I live and Mahatma Gandhi's ideals and ways of life. If it were so, then I would have to live like him— for surely you do not suppose that my truth and knowledge are only in the mind and are not intended to have a practical ...
... Mahatma Gandhi My Pilgrimage to the Spirit December 28, 1933 [The following reply was sent throught me:] … I am unable to see him because for a long time past I have made it an absolute rule not to have any interview with anyone. I do not even speak with my disciples and only give a silent blessing to them three times a year. All requests for an interview ...
... mills, factories and Swadeshi business concerns under Indian management and with Indian capital,) boycott of British goods, British law-courts, and all Government institutions, offices, honours etc. Mahatma Gandhi's noncooperation movement was a repetition of the "Swadeshi", but with an exclusive emphasis on the spinning-wheel and the transformation of passive resistance, ("Satyagraha") from a political ...
... Page 133 Sri Aurobindo : Oh, I see. Disciple : But Gandhi's Ashram is not a spiritual institution. It is a group of people gathered to be trained to do some work on Mahatma's principles and methods. One can say that service to the public is one of their aims. But Subhas wrote against the Ashram recently on the ground that it was attracting away some of the... man of ascetic temperament. There was an enthusiast who even wrote an article showing that the Chakra referred to in the Gita was the Charkha! Disciple : It was Vinoba Bhave, a disciple of Mahatma. The topic changed to Baroda. Dr. M. mentioned that now the old race course is covered by fine buildings constructed by co-operative Societies and that doctor Balabhai was still alive staying in... life seems too much. Such an application ignores the great principle of Adhikar, – qualification even as the Europeans do. Also it makes no provision for difference of situations. Disciple : Mahatma's point is that in either case, whether with arms or without, you are prepared to die. Then, why not try to die without arms, since armaments are piling up in all nations and there is no end to where ...
... Montagu Chelmsford Reforms and the present situation rests entirely with the signatories to the manifesto. The summary of my opinions in the Janmabhumi , representing me as an enthusiastic follower of Mahatma Gandhi, of which I only came to know the other day, is wholly unauthorised and does NOT "render justice to my views" either Page 278 in form or in substance. Things are attributed to me ...
... the same power and centres and supports of his action. When he goes out into British India he intends to create a large centre for this spiritual training where his ideal will be embodied just as Mahatma Gandhi has done at Sabarmati for his own ideal, and with that as his basis undertake a work which will be for the world in general and specially for India. This work will embrace and will mean the ...
... Events (1940-1950) Public Statements, Messages, Letters and Telegrams on Indian and World Events (1940-1950) Autobiographical Notes On the Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi [1] REMAIN FIRM THROUGH THE DARKNESS THE LIGHT IS THERE AND 1 WILL CONQUER. 1 4 February 1948 [2] I would have preferred silence in the face of these circumstances ...
... in practice to all violence and that he denounced terrorism, insurrection etc. as entirely forbidden by the spirit and letter of the Hindu religion. It is even suggested that he was a forerunner of Mahatma Gandhi and his gospel of Ahimsa. This is quite [incorrect] 1 and, if left, would give a wrong idea about Sri Aurobindo. He has given his ideas on the subject, generally, in the Essays on the Gita ...
... of view. 20 March 1935 Page 31 X has passed along these two pieces of news about the Asram: (1) During his tour Mahatma Gandhi went to Pondicherry and with a view to meet Sri Aurobindo wrote a letter to him. In reply Sri Aurobindo wrote a letter to the Mahatma, which the local authorities withheld. It was after this that Sri Aurobindo published his statements about the Asram and his teaching ...
... advocated complete non-cooperation with the British authorities in all matters - social, economic, judicial, educational, etc. -by being self-reliant. The reference here is to the movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi, which advocated breaking laws peacefully and filling the jails willingly. Page 136 Before their publication, we had decided not to budge, but now I changed my mind. Also because... British government is arresting our men, we must stop them. So one after another, leaders from the hostel came forward and batches were formed. The Prince of Wales was to visit India soon, and Mahatma Gandhi said he must be boycotted. The spinning of charkha and wearing of 194C. R. Das was the lawyer who defended Sri Aurobindo in the Alipur Bomb Case and got him released from prison. His... want anything much, but give us dhotis and a few cakes of soap." We had no soap there. So they brought them very gladly and we too received them very gladly. There was also, along with us, Mahatma Gandhi's eldest son who was a very nice fellow. He used to receive, from time to time, parcels from the big shots, and he would share the contents with all of us. Poor fellow! We were so many that ...
... Objectives of Children's University 1.Objectives of the university would be formulated in the light of the guidance that we can derive from Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, and Sri Aurobindo and also many other pioneering educationists of Gujarat, India and the other parts of the world. 2.Ideal of nationalism which is in harmony with the ideal ...
... Moderates. And later on __________________ ² The Foundations of Indian Culture, P. 5 Page 33 the same movement broadened out by emphasising, through the great personality of Mahatma Gandhi, some salient ethical elements of our spiritual culture and applying them to political and social problems led India to freedom and gave a new ethical weapon to the world for the solution... powers behind a few of them may be mentioned here : (1) Raja Rammohan Roy (2) Swami Dayanand Saraswati, (3) Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, (4) The Theosophical Society, ( 5 ) Rabindranath Tagore, ( 6 ) Mahatma Gandhi, ( 7) Jawaharlal Nehru, (8) Sri Aurobindo. These great men have tried to live, according to their faith, the aspect of Indian culture which appeared to them the most important. An outline... , the collective man, a conception of growing perfection of the human being through collective effort. His influence has largely been active in the field of creative literature and fine arts. Mahatma Gandhi through his long and active life tried what might be called, an ethico-politico-economic integration of Indian culture. Ethics is the basis of his outlook. His book ' Hind-Swaraj' gives most ...
... right Sri Aurobindo decided on a further intervention. This took two forms. On the one hand he sent messages to some important figures in Indian politics. Through Mr. Shiva Rao he communicated to Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru that Cripps's offer should be accepted unconditionally. He also sent a couple of telegrams. One was to "Raja-gopalachari, Birla House, New Delhi": "Is not compromise defense... of Pondicherry — Shri Aurobindo Ghose. The belated wisdom of our leaders emphasises the truth of the ancient Sanskrit proverb: 'The Brahmin always thinks too late.' "Instead of harping on the Mahatma's admittedly 'un-practical idealism', let our leaders organise a countrywide educative propaganda to convince the wide mass of the people of the wisdom of accepting a compromise solution like the Cripps ...
... Interest Letters of Historical Interest Other Letters of Historical Interest on Yoga and Practical Life (1921-1938) Autobiographical Notes On a Proposed Visit by Mahatma Gandhi [1] GOVINDBHAI PATEL: Here is a postcard from Gandhi. If you think he can receive something from you, please grant him permission to meet you. You will have to write that I ...
... of the English language and the essential truths behind Hinduism. We are still confused about revivalism and secularism, the spiritual life and world crisis, the legacy of Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi for nation building. Indeed, if one was unaware of the date of its publication, the earlier edition might well be mistaken as a current imprint. Such is the power contained ...
... work. The view taken by the Mahatma in these matters [ of caste ] is Christian rather than Hindu—for the Christian, self-abasement, humility, the acceptance of a low status to serve humanity or the Divine are things which are highly spiritual and the noblest Page 429 privilege of the soul. This view does not admit any hierarchy of castes; the Mahatma accepts castes but on the basis... but that development is not equal in all is another. The idea that it needs special punya to be born as a Bhangi is of course one of those forceful exaggerations of an idea which are common with the Mahatma and impress greatly the mind of his hearers. The idea behind is that his function is an indispensable service to the society, quite as much as the Brahmin's, but that being disagreeable it would need... condition and that development can even lead to the minimising and perhaps the eventual disappearance by scientific inventions of the need for the functions of the scavenger. But that I suppose the Mahatma would not approve of as it is machinery and a departure from the simple life. In any case it is not true that the Bhangi life is superior to the Brahmin life and the reward of especial righteousness ...
... valuable results of pioneering experiments which have been carried out by five leading educationists of the country: Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo The results of the experiments conducted by them remain as yet to be pooled together and the conceptions behind their experiments need to be developed further; they also ...
... was at that time that people began to get the sense of discipline and of obeying the leader's orders. They were violent, but at the word of the command they used to obey. That paved the way for the Mahatma. Ashwini Kumar Dutt used to jump and say : "This is life". Suren Banerji had a personal magnetism and he was sweet-spoken, he could get round anybody. His idea was to become the undisputed ...
... present. In Madras I had the opportunity of contacting a number of big persons, some of whom were really great, and had talks with them. I met and talked with Annie Besant several times. I approached Mahatma Gandhi through Va Ra on Bharati’s behalf. But none of them could appeal to my heart, which the Master had captured, whole and entire. I felt it had become indissolubly one with him. My Master — how... could I then be drawn to others? My friends urged me to join the Theosophical Society and, later on, some of them pressed me passionately and untiringly to join the Non-cooperation Movement of Mahatma Gandhi. My mind gave no response to such talks. How could it respond, when the Master’s command had been otherwise, even if he had expressly told me nothing? Many great movements were, of course ...
... in Bhind and been dazzled by the heartfelt tales of a venerable freedom-fighter. I watched the delighted look on the faces of Gandhian workers as I spoke of meditation and highest awareness at the Mahatma's ashram in Wardha. I have had similar experiences when speaking to the senior officers at the Sarder Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad, science students at the Gargi College in Delhi, gathered ...
... 24th January, 1939. Sri Aurobindo : turning to X : "Any news?" Usually the news of local politics and other subjects used to come through X, Disciple : No news except that Mahatma Gandhi advises the Japanese visitor Kagawa to include Shanti Niketan and Pondicherry in his itinerary, without seeing which his visit to India would be incomplete. Sri Aurobindo : O that! I ...
... 1926, an overmental consciousness. Mere words could be misleading, yet the point might be made (hazardous though all such generalisations must be) that the two great creative spirits of modern India—Mahatma Gandhi used moral force in politics while Sri Aurobindo used a spiritual force, and both sought, in their different ways, to purge politics of its asuric and egoistic evils. Page ...
... "wheel" in your writings in the Arya ? We may send the cutting to the Mahatma ! Sri Aurobindo . I may have used "Brahman's wheel" or some such expression. Disciple : Does it not turn ? Sri Aurobindo : It turns out men and also Gandhis. 23-10-1925 There was a report in the press about Mahatma Gandhi's going to Cutch. He seemed to believe that he was approaching his... a Disciple ) Did you read Motilal's letter asking for contribution to his paper ? Disciple . Yes, I did. Sri Aurobindo : Evidently the Swarajists are very much afraid of the Mahatma. Disciple : But they have "love and esteem" ! Sri Aurobindo : It is also dread and fear – more than anything else. Page 35 Disciple : Who will... a Disciple ) Did you read Motilal's letter asking for contribution to his paper ? Disciple . Yes, I did. Sri Aurobindo : Evidently the Swarajists are very much afraid of the Mahatma. Disciple : But they have "love and esteem" ! Sri Aurobindo : It is also dread and fear – more than anything else. 12-9-1924 The Tarakeshwar affair was being ...
... weak in the Punjab? Disciple : Because of the Socialists and the old Congress people fighting each other. The Jayapur affair is starting again. Bajaj is going to offer Satyagraha. It seems, Mahatma has given his approval. Sri Aurobindo : Since he is a congressman I suppose the Congress will have to back him. If the State people get power the princes will have no work but to sign papers... weak in the Punjab? Disciple : Because of the Socialists and the old Congress people fighting each other. The Jayapur affair is starting again. Bajaj is going to offer Satyagraha. It seems, Mahatma has given his approval. Sri Aurobindo : Since he is a congressman I suppose the Congress will have to back him. If the State people get power the princes will have no work but to sign papers ...
... Patel goes to East or South Africa the Indians there would be shot. Sri Aurobindo : Instead of Patel going there to Africa it is better that Gandhi should go to Hitler. Hitler will say to Mahatma : You follow your inner voice Mr. Gandhi, I my own. There is no reason to say that he would be wrong, for my inner voice may be good and necessary for me, while it may not be so for another man ...
... with students or with Ashram artistes. Let me give you an example of one such programme: Theme: Rabindra-sangeet; Voices: Manoj Dasgupta, Arup Tagore, Malay Bhattacharya, Smriti Ghosh, Sujata Mahatma, Shobha Mitra. Accompaniment: Romen Palit - sitar, Debi- prasad - sarod, Tublu - flute, Ramesh Rawal - tabla. Date and time of broadcast - 8.5.1970 at 8.00 pm. Honorarium - 40 rupees. While ...
... family lived in Africa, I felt a strong pull towards India. In my early teens I took a vow not to eat sweets until India became Independent. I was in Rajkot in India on January 30th 1948, when Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead at Birla House in Delhi. His untimely demise shook the whole nation. Gandhi's relics were taken all over India. Some were brought to Rajkot also and placed at Rashtriashala ...
... life. I refer to autobiographies by Yogananda Page 325 Paramahamsa, Swarrti Rarndas, Purohit Swami and Gandhiji, not to speak of the deeply subjective writings of Sri Aurobindo. Mahatma Gandhi in The Story of My Experiments with Truth points out how Indians are not accustomed to write autobiographies which are Western in origin. He opts to speak of his life as a series of experiments... upon but I wish to point to its twin features of intense personal feeling and intense community feeling, both of which exercised an important influence on Tagore. Tagore's example complements the Mahatma's. Both had a deeply felt inner life and in both, this inwardness co-existed with a deep concern for the people at large.Jn Gandhiji it took the form of an austere sense of Duty. In Tagore it took an... unimportant for our public life by taking our inspiration from the profoundly humanistic aspect of our spiritual traditions advanced by figures like Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and, of course, Mahatma Gandhi, all of whom focussed on the individual and promoted the quest for self-perfection. In such a discourse who cares if you are man or woman, Brahmin or Dalit? The subtle spiritual unity of individuals ...
... time we gave forms and ideals which have since degenerated. Those forms have now been taken up and distorted. Mahatma Gandhi has a sort of force—by exerting it he advances to a certain extent but in reaction he goes back much farther.... The Satyagraha movement is only meant for Mahatma Gandhi and a few men like him—it ought not to be thrust upon a whole people. People talk of village org... Otherwise, we are lulled into a false sense of satisfaction that we have solved a difficult problem, when in fact we have only shelved it. * * * July 23, 1923 (A disciple:) The Mahatma believes that non-violence purifies the man who practises it. I believe Gandhi does not know what actually happens to the man's nature when he takes to Satyagraha or non-violence. He thinks ...
... let loose a mad elephant when Buddha was coming with his disciples. Buddha was unperturbed, the elephant rushed towards him, but he remained calm and quiet, and the mad elephant became calm. Mahatma Gandhi was a great advocate of non-violence in all circumstances and there was a great difference of opinion between our Lord and him. You know - those who are acquainted with politics -that Gandhi ...
... would lead, I think, to a complete misunderstanding Page 273 of my real position. Some would take it to mean that I accept the Gandhi programme.... As you know, I do not believe that the Mahatma's principle can be the true foundation or his programme the true means of bringing out the genuine freedom and greatness of India.... My own policy, if I were in the field, would be radically different ...
... patient returning to a healthy state of loyalty and contented servitude. The epoch-making pronouncement of the Indian Mirror is the chief source of joy and comfort to these allied powers. The Mahatma of Mott's Lane has waved his wonder-working wand and Nationalism is no more. Narendranath has spoken; the British Empire is saved. It is not surprising that the discoveries made by the Indian Mirror ...
... Gandhi fosters Revolution. 'Nor heat nor cold affects the soul, Nor weakness nor rebuff the fighter: Always wage the dharmic fight!' Thus exhorts Mahatma Gandhi. Bharati was confident of the Indians - comprising as they did the freedom-loving Rajputs, Mahrattas, Bengalis, Andhras, Tamils, Kannadigas and the rest - rising successfully to expel... structured learning but also discipline of a high order at the Christian Mission School where she studied. Her home environment shaped her outlook and endowed her with a liberal attitude. She was Mahatma Gandhi's choice, along with Sarojini Naidu, to participate in the novel Salt Satyagraha in 1930 to make the British Page 83 Government responsive ...
... non-violence of the weak? Is it not a futile experiment I am conducting? What if, when the fury bursts, not a man, woman or child is safe and every man's hand is raised against his neighbour? The Mahatma had been prophetic indeed, and on 15 August and the days following "not a man, woman or child" was safe and every man's hand was raised against his brother and his neighbour. Also, it meant a colossal... win at last! The Partition hadn't brought peace into the subcontinent, nor amity between the Governments of India and Pakistan. While the Punjab was all ablaze in the weeks after Independence, Mahatma Gandhi was able to bring peace in Calcutta and Bengal, as if indeed he were an effective one-man boundary force in the East. But the exodus continued, and the invasion of Kashmir by Pakistan, Kashmir's ...
... supermen and it is for this purpose that the Indian nation must keep up its individuality and recover her soul. At the same time I do not want India to imitate Europe nor to remain in the present mud. Mahatma Gandhi has introduced Tolstoyan Christianity in India and has given a setback to Indian culture. I do not believe also that Councils will be very useful as the vision of the men there is limited. My ...
... considered Mahatma Gandhi's heir, this brilliant lawyer from Salem in Tamil Nadu was regarded in pre-Independence years as one of the top five leaders of the Congress along with Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. So close was he to Gandhi that later his daughter married into Gandhi's family. Rajagopalchari was thus related to Mahatma Gandhi - Rajmohan ...
... European force here. Sri Aurobindo : May not be incarnations, but may be strongly influenced by European thought. For instance Mahatma is a European, – truly, a Russian Christian in India, and there are some Indians in European bodies ! Disciple : Mahatma a European ! Sri Aurobindo : Yes ; when the Europeans say that he is more Christian than many Christians and that he is "Christ... may happen the inner detachment and equality cannot be broken. + + + 30-8-1925 Sri Aurobindo : There is one Major Hill who is fit to be an inmate of a lunatic asylum. He has invited Mahatma Gandhi to the Society of Psycho-Analysts and explained to him how the Hindu-Muslim problem is merely a problem of a complex. It is due to cow-complex. – ( Laughter ). The Major said further : "If... because he loved his mother and Queen Elizabeth had a masculine complex but those who came in contact with her had not the feminine complex in them strong enough to keep her to them. He even says that Mahatma Gandhi has a complex ! One never can know what is this complex business ! Sri Aurobindo : All that I know about it is that when you repress something in your nature it goes down into the su ...
... miraculous, who will recognise a truth only if it has come to them clothed in the mystery of a supramundane revelation, in dream or trance. For them the master must be their God, an angel or a Mahatma, and give them his precious teachings during their contemplation or their sleep. Needless to say, this method is still more unreliable than the others. That a thought should reach us by extraordinary ...
... policy and programme. For a time he thought that the necessary training must first be given through a less advanced Home Rule movement or an agitation of passive resistance of the kind created by Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa. But he saw that the hour of these movements had not come and that he himself was not their destined leader. Moreover, since his twelve months' detention in the Alipur Jail, ...
... prepared to sacrifice even fundamental national interests; the concept of the divinity of the nation seemed to be completely missing from his vocabulary. Here is an illustration: On Aug. 4, 1920, Mahatma Gandhi had written in Young India: "My advice to my Hindu brethren is: Simply help the Mussalmans in their sorrow in a generous and self-sacrificing spirit without counting the cost and you will a ...
... r Tilak. A third type is an ethical Nationalism in which certain moral doctrines are set up for the patriot 's guidance, chiefly the doctrines of non-violence and ingenuousness. Its fosterer is Mahatma Gandhi. Patriotism which, for the second type, stands in need of no defence and aims first and foremost at the country 's freedom and the expression of the country 's historic nature and does not ...
... Gandhi travelled was often converted to one with the comforts of a first -class. As Sarojini Naidu commented wryly, "It costs the people of India a lot of money to maintain the poverty of the Mahatma." In the event, this was a real third-class, and the Bengali Nationalist leaders were travelling in it. Barin says in his autobiography that he found the compartment almost like a bedlam! A deafening ...
... thing resulted in tearing out the entrails of his father. (Laughter) Disciple: Sri Krishna and Arjuna can serve as examples of men who resorted to what the Mahatma calls "violence". Another Disciple: But the Mahatma says, "I am not Krishna". Page 533 Sri Aurobindo: Any man can say, "I am not Prahlad". 22 * The interviews, on the other hand, were rather... 1914, the return of Tilak from Mandalay, the launching of the Home Rule Movement by Besant and Tilak, the "great shadow" of the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms, the rising new tempo of repression and the Mahatma's unruffled defiance of the bureaucracy! It now became his openly avowed object to preach disaffection against the "satanic" Government and to organise non-violent opposition to it. The bureaucracy... couldn't be successfully assailed, and C.R. Das himself, who came with a huge contingent of delegates from Bengal with the avowed purpose of wrecking non-cooperation, ultimately supported it instead. The Mahatma carried the day, and the Gandhian Congress heaved forward on the crest of tremendous popular excitement and mass involvement reminiscent of the great days of the Home Rule movement and the earlier ...
... who can get or procure the sum needed so that we may not lose the opportunity for this purchase. 3.3.33 Sri Aurobindo Page 535 [6] In view of the approaching intended visit of Mahatma Gandhi the sadhaks are reminded that it is contrary to the rule of the Asram to join in any public demonstration such as meetings, lectures, receptions or departures. It is expected that they will ...
... Talks by Nirodbaran 14 May 1969 Last week I had read to you the life story of a remarkable yogi, which all of you had enjoyed and cherished. [Mahatma Krishnashram's story]. It seems that our photographer, Vidyavrata, 1 has met this yogi and that much of the story is true. He doesn't talk with visitors, and to the chagrin of Vidyavrata, he doesn't allow himself ...
... purpose, whether it is worthy of a great people struggling to be, whether it is educative of national strength and activity. It is true that philosophy of ahimsa which came to be advocated by Mahatma Gandhi later was not part of Indian nationalism as understood by the nationalist leaders like Tilak, Sri Aurobindo and others. On the subject of non-violence, there has remained a diversion of opinion... battlefield of Kurukshetra was to be carried out in consciousness of non-attachment and not in that of anger or hatred. As this mater is very important, it will be useful to point out that while Mahatma Gandhi looked upon ahimsa as a matter of creed and a large number of his followers in the country also took it as such, many other leaders including Page 84 Jawahar Lal Nehru and others ...
... slavery tortured him more than anything else. The ugliness of poverty was more unbearable to him than the actual physical destitution. If he could have viewed the wants of life at their own value like Mahatma Gandhi then he would have at least once plied the spinning wheel. But to him ease or affluence by itself has no importance. Affluence would have its real value if it contributed to the rhythm of life ...
... my pilgrimage started from the east end to the west end to attend the eye clinic from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., the rest of my time being given to my general practice. After I left my study and joined Mahatma Gandhi I had continued at home the comparative. study of allopathy, ayurveda, homeopathy! and naturopathy and that was continued at Pondicherry. During my stay at Pondicherry I had come across a book ...
... ’ 15 Each time Doordarshan, the Indian national television, reports the daily parliamentary proceedings in New Delhi, it shows first a picture of the parliament building, then a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, then a statue of Dr Ambedkar, a defender of the backward classes, and then a bust of Sri Aurobindo. × ...
... like the sea to mirror them instead of reaching out towards them for actual possession as mountains appear to do. Gandhian Satyagraha Confucius was a man both of virtue and learning. Our Mahatma Gandhi is mainly the former. But, of course, all that is done by a virtue-seeking man need not be right. Sometimes, virtue can be mountainish in the sense of what Gandhi himself calls "a Himalayan ...
... though the essential divinity is the same in the Saint and the Sinner, still the Saint- Sadhu has to be protected and saved and the wicked destroyed. The distinction between ' Sadhu '-the Saint, the Mahatma, the great Soul, or the Sreshta and the ordinary man is due to what they express in their Nature, in their Prakriti. That may be regarded as the first step of the movement of Prakriti towards freedom... second step in nature's ascent to freedom and perfection. In the Vibhuti nature rises to far greater heights' than even the highest attainment reached by man. For example, the non-violence practised by Mahatma Gandhi far surpasses the ordinary practice of it by man. In that sense he can be called the Vibhuti of Ahimsa. In the Avatar, the incarnation, nature attains its highest Page 195 ...
... firm will to achieve, the Divine has to manifest in conditions which are the most adverse to that manifestation. It can be done, but you cannot expect it to be easily done. I do not know what Mahatma Gandhi means by complete realisation. 1 If he means a realisation with nothing more to realise, no farther development possible, then I agree—I have myself spoken of farther divine progression,... itself that can choose and determine. Page 284 × These observations were made with regard to a statement by Mahatma Gandhi: "I hold that complete realisation is impossible in this embodied life. Nor is it necessary. A living immovable faith is all that is required for reaching the full spiritual height attainable ...
... then protein injection. [ No reply. ] Mahatma Gandhi says in an article: "... I hold that complete realisation is impossible in this embodied life. Nor is it necessary. A living immovable faith is all that is required for reaching the full spiritual height attainable by human beings..." Your opinion on the matter? I do not know what Mahatma Gandhi means by complete realisation. If he means ...
... admirers containing articles, poems Page 26 and letters appraising his literary, musical and spiritual attainments by men of eminence including such contributors as Mahatma Gandhi, Romain Holland, Rabindranath Tagore, Aldous Huxley, Pandit Nehru, S. Radhakrishnan, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and others. Papa Ramdas and Mother Krishnabai visited Dilip's ashram, ...
... of Yoga, he opened the gates of the future before the youths, filling them with a new spirit of inspiration, heroism and dynamic action. Another line of educational experiment was initiated by Mahatma Gandhi, who emphasised the training of the Hand, Heart and Head, overarched by the values of Truth, Non-Violence, Self-Control, Non Covetousness and Renunciation, as also equal respect towards all ...
... frail yet unconquerable, ascetic yet compassionate figure who will have a deserved place in his countrymen's memory but to whom it was a mistake to give the mysticism-charged Upanishadic title of '"Mahatma". Page 94 ...
... from a dry sense of duty or from stern discipline. There is hardly any place for austerities in the temperament of the Bengalis. They cannot accept from the bottom of their hearts the stoic ideal of Mahatma Gandhi. Rabindranath is the model of a Bengali. The Deccan has produced Shankara; Nanak and Surdas appeared in the North; but in the fertile soil of Bengal were born Sri Chaitanya, Chandidas and Ramprasad ...
... Dharma which for us is nationalism. This Hindu nation was born with the Sanatana Dharma, with it it moves and with it it grows. ______________________________ * Vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhah (The Gita, 7.19). ** Na jatu kaman na bhayan na lobhat Dharmam tyajet jeevitasyapi hetoh Nityo dharmah sukha-duhkhe anitye Page 275 When the Sanatoria ...
... unity and Khilafat. Discussion about the poetry of Tagore and of Harin Chattopadhyaya and about a letter of Mahatma Gandhi to Mahomed Ali. 8 March. A letter from Kesarlal Dixit about coming to the Ashram; another from Rajani Kanta Palit about the illness of his wife. 9 March, Talk on Mahatma Gandhi's ideas on art. Page 192 12 March. In the Delhi Assembly Sir Harisingh Gaur... to Sri Aurobindo, asking him to recommend the Reforms for acceptance. Talk on K. G. Deshpande's Sadhakashram at Andheri. 18 May. An article by G. V. Subha Rao in the Swaraj of Madras comparing Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. 20 May. Talk on Theosophy; a letter from Barin: meeting of Barin and Motilal. 26 May. Suggestions about sadhana; reading of the photographs of prospective sadhaks; talk... June. Talk on the Maruts, the storm-gods of the Veda, and on Agni, the divine Flame. Sri Aurobindo read some riks. 13 June. Talk on the Duttatreya Yoga, a system current in Maharashtra, and on Mahatma Gandhi. 18 and 19 June. Talks on Jain philosophy and the physical sciences. 20 June. Sri Aurobindo spoke about some of his own spiritual experiences and about some of the Mother's experiences ...
... this fellow. But I suppose in worldly life such things are necessary? Not in the worldly life, but perhaps in the Corporation life. All this promises a bad look out when India gets purna Swaraj. Mahatma Gandhi is having bad qualms about Congress corruption already. What will it be when purna Satyagraha reigns all over India? November 17, 1938 [A note from the Mother :] 18-11-38. ...
... village I was anxious to find out a suitable work which could support me financially and help me to maintain my contact with the Divine Mother. When I had joined the national movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi, I was a medical student. Though I left the medical school to take part in the movement for the freedom of the country, I could not give up the comparative study of all the branches of medi ...
... potent drug was one-twelfth of a grain. Under a misconception I had taken four grains, a dose forty-eight times the normal quantity! According to the heart-specialist Dr. Gilder, onetime attendant of Mahatma Gandhi, this was four times the dose prescribed to stimulate a horse. The Mother has referred to the consciousness being awake and surely the sense of her presence has to be there for extraordinary ...
... present. In Madras I had the opportunity of contacting a number of big persons, some of whom were really great, and had talks with them. I met and talked with Annie Besant several times. I approached Mahatma Gandhi through Va Ra on Bharati's behalf. But none of them Page 44 could appeal to my heart, which the Master had captured, whole and entire. I felt it had become indissolubly... could I then be drawn to others? My friends urged me to join the Theosophical Society and, later on, some of them pressed me passionately and untiringly to join the Non-cooperation Movement of Mahatma Gandhi. My mind gave no response to such talks. How could it respond, when the Master's command had been otherwise, even if he had expressly told me nothing? Many great movements were, of course ...
... best." All of us, including the Mother, burst out laughing. Another interview with Sri Aurobindo, which Surendra Mohan almost succeeded in bringing about, but which did not materialise, was with Mahatma Gandhi, in spite of both the parties' willingness to meet. Sri Aurobindo said, "He can come now. You may tell him this." Fate stepped in and foiled what could have been a momentous meeting! Apart ...
... perfection inherent in every individual, strove to give to the youth of modern India the lessons of man-making education so as to cast them in the image of heroic builders of new India and new world. Mahatma Gandhi conceived, even when he was in South Africa, a scheme of ashram education and developed it further in India at Sabarmati Ashram and at Wardha into what came to be called "Nai Talim" that would ...
... possession of your beautiful island with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these but not your souls nor your minds____" (Amrita Bazar Patrika, July 4, 1940, "Method of Non-violence —Mahatma Gandhi's appeal to every Briton.") Page 229 July 7, 1940 With [Sub has] Bose on one side and Gandhi on the other, future unity will be difficult. If Hindus and Muslims had ...
... solutions are offered they are dubbed Utopian. This wrong attitude prevents a proper approach and retards the solutions of important problems. An illustration might make the point clear. If Mahatma Gandhi had consulted the statesmen and political leaders of his time to advise him about his contemplated resort to Satyagraha to secure independence for India, what do you think would have been... him against any such Utopian method that would surely invite failure, if not political disaster. Granting that India does not owe its freedom entirely to Satyagraha, still it is clear that the Mahatma did right in trying his novel experiment for which he consulted only his own conscience: the world has a new weapon for setting right some of its political wrongs. What is or seems impossible at ...
... messages on invitation. The other three were private letters (in one case, an extract from a private letter) that were released for publication after being sent. On the Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi . Mahatma Gandhi was murdered on 30 January 1948. [1] On 4 February a certain Mr. Kumbi of Gadag, Karnataka, telegraphed to Sri Aurobindo: "Darkness sorrow spreads fast India Bapuji death children... statement from an anonymous "authoritative source". Among the Great consists of accounts of Dilip's meetings and excerpts from his correspondence with five eminent contemporaries — Romain Rolland, Mahatma Gandhi, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo. Dilip began working on his manuscript sometime during the late 1920s. Around September 1928, he sent portions of it, including a life... wrote to him about her personal life. In replying, Sri Aurobindo used, out of courtesy, the form of address required by official protocol in writing to Indian royalty. On a Proposed Visit by Mahatma Gandhi. 1934 . Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 - 1948) visited Pondicherry on 17 February 1934. At that time he was temporarily retired from politics. As he related in his letter to Sri Aurobindo ...
... and when the seventh decade was running fast and was nearing its completion, I gave away the rights of publication of the third edition of my Gujarati book on Preservation of Health and Sight to Mahatma Gandhi's Navajivan Trust, Ahmedabad, as I was seriously planning to go to the Ashram and settle there for the rest of my life to complete my ascent to the spirit. The stream of my life was flowing ...
... Tamil weekly. His fiery articles espousing the cause of India were read widely. He continued to edit the India from Pondicherry during his exile there. Years later, when he came under the spell of Mahatma Gandhi he was welcomed back to Swadesamitran. After the extinction of the Madras Native Association, Madras was again bereft of an organisation to ventilate public grievances. However, there ...
... immutable Oneness of all creation. Page 83 You know very well, perhaps, that He had been invited more than once to take over the Presidency of the Congress. This was even during Mahatma Gandhi's time. His reply was a 'No'. We told him, "If you go there, people will follow you, take your lead." Then He said, "I am not so sure that they will follow me, you people will follow me because ...
... human perfection; for, after all, freedom is not the ultimate goal but a condition for the expression of the cultural Spirit of India. In Swami Shraddhananda, Pandit Madanmohan Malavia, Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi – to name Page 15 some leaders – we see the double aspect of the inspiration. Among all the visions of perfection of the human Spirit on earth, I found the synthetic and integral... (Laughter) Disciple : He will have to come back to take Taggart with him to heaven. Sri Aurobindo : By that time Taggart may go even otherwise. Page 56 9–2–1924 Mahatma Gandhi had an interview with Dilip Kumar Roy at Poona. The main subject discussed was "art". During the talk Mahatmaji said he was himself an artist, that "asceticism was the highest art". He expressed... secure so that whatever may happen the inner detachment and equality cannot be broken. 17–8–1924 Haribhai Amin was asked by me about, his conversation Page 59 with Mahatma Gandtii concerning Sri Aurobindo and the pondicherry Ashram. Haribhai : I went to see him at Poona but I did not talk to him then about Pondicherry. But when he was staying at Juhu I went ...
... ng the truth of every religion and a synthesis of yoga, he opened the gates of the future before the youths, filling them with a new spirit of inspiration, heroism and dynamic action. -Mahatma Gandhi emphasized the training of the Hand, Heart and Head, overarched by the values of Truth, Non-Violence, Self-Control, Non-Covetousness and Renunciation, as also equal respect towards all... Value-Oriented Education for students, teachers and teacher educators, curriculum planners and textbooks writers. Some of publications are biographies of national leaders like Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose and Govind Ballabh Pant. Supplementary reading materials for school children titled Nai Nai Kahaniyan contains value-based stories. The NCERT... provide standards of judgment. There is a need to bridge gap between what one professes and how he/she acts. *The educational philosophies of Maharishi Dayananda Saraswati, SwamiVivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, GurudevRabindraNathTagore Page 692 and Sri Aurobindo influenced greatly the education system of India. Besides these stalwarts of the Renascent India, certain other great ...
... life such things are necessary?" Sri Aurobindo replied: "Not in the worldly life, but perhaps in the Corporation life. AH this promises a bad look-out when India gets Purna Swaraj. Mahatma Gandhi is having bad qualms about Congress corruption already. What will it be when Puma Satyagraha reigns all over India?" Page 125 In another letter written in 1935, ...
... civilisation even there. Nowadays the saying is notoriously out of date; it only means that with honesty you have less chances of going to jail—provided you are lucky and also provided you have not met Mahatma Gandhi. But Rockefellers and the rest of the commercial aristocracy were not born for jail but for palaces with marble water closets and the immortality of Rockefeller institutes and honour in the ...
... the worldly life such things are necessary?" Sri Aurobindo replied: "Not in the worldly life, but perhaps in the Corporation life. All this promises a bad look-out when India gets Puma Swaraj. Mahatma Gandhi is having bad qualms about Congress corruption already. What will it be when Puma Satyagraha reigns all over India?" In another letter written in 1935, I brought up a topic of great importance ...
... clue about what he'd meant. Four or five of us were there; we looked at Him, a little puzzled. "Oh, you don't know the story?" He asked. Then He told us. During the Boer War in South Africa (where Mahatma Gandhi was at that time), the Boers were on one side and the British on the other. Two Boers were escaping on horseback after some fighting. One of them was short and stumpy. They were running for ...
... section work (especially as so many students were enrolling for these classes) and my urgent need for help. I began talking to people about my problem and about the possibility of getting help. Sujata Mahatma was the first one to come forward to lend me a hand. We were now two to do the work. After quite some time, a few more people offered to assist and share the workload. I don't recollect clearly, today ...
... to Dilip with his addiction to the old Vaishnava tradition of Bhakti. Accordingly, he was occasionally subject to fits of doubt, restiveness and even rebellion. In March 1930, for example, when Mahatma Gandhi started his March to Dandi to launch his Salt Satyagraha, Dilip felt that Ashram life was a poor thing, and that he should escape its enervation and jump into the political fray. The Mother... restful and as beneficent and as perfectly secure as the Mother's love? XIII Rishabhchand was one of the tens of thousands of young men who suspended their college studies in response to Mahatma Gandhi's call for Page 277 non-cooperation in the early nineteen-twenties. Subsequently he established his own firm, "The Indian Silk House", at Calcutta and prospered as businessman ...
... 80 Freud, Sigmund, 218 future, 25,26, 57, 60 , 65, 72, 74, 76 , 92, 94 ,99,101 , 110, 112, 118-119, 129, 141, 142,201,236, 241 ,247, G Gandhi, Deva das , 170 Gandhi, M. K., Mahatma , 9,1 51 ,170, 180, 191 -192,202-203, 206,226,230 and birth control, 186 and castes, 207,208 and Charkha, 2 15 -2 16, 2 19, 225 a Christian, 175 -17 6 and Congress, 20 9, 215, 21 9 and Cripps' ...
... supermen and it is for this purpose that the Indian nation must keep up its individuality and recover her soul. At the same time I do not want India to imitate Europe nor to remain in the present mud. Mahatma Gandhi has introduced Tolstoyan Christianity in India and has given a set-back to Indian culture. I do not believe also that Councils will be very useful as the vision of the men there is limited. ...
... not as a religious principle but because he regarded nonviolence as a useful political weapon and the right policy for India under the prevailing conditions. He deprecated the inordinate value the Mahatma attached to austerity and asceticism and questioned his idealisation of poverty. The non-cooperation movement launched by the Indian National Congress was a threat to the British government ...
... an instant! This incident recalls another which took place many years earlier. It concerns his early habit of smoking cigars. A cigar was almost always between his lips. Once Devdas Gandhi, son of Mahatma Gandhi, visited him and saw the inevitable cigar. He shot the question, "Why are you attached to smoking?" At once came the retort, "Why are you so attached to nonsmoking?" This gives us a hint that ...
... . In this letter, Sri Aurobindo chalked out item by item a plan of the political work he had intended to carry out during his leadership, some of which he had already accomplished. It showed that Mahatma Gandhi had proceeded exactly on the lines envisaged by Sri Aurobindo, except that he made a fetish of passive resistance and non-violence. About this time, an idea flashed through my mind that I ...
... Shangri-la, it cannot be carried out in life." This wrong attitude prevents a proper approach and retards the solution of important problems. An illustration can make the point clear. If Mahatma Gandhi had consulted the political leaders and statesman of his time to advise him about his contemplated resort to Satya-graha, Non-violence, to secure independence for India, what do you think ...
... change, became the vessel of an Asuric Power which ultimately led him to his nemesis. Along with the European war, India's political problem naturally played a prominent part in our discussion, Mahatma Gandhi's attitude, the Congress policy, the Hindu-Muslim problem, Jinnah's intransigence and the Viceroy's role as the peace-maker, all this complicated politics and our Himalayan blunders leading... that the declaration of His Majesty's Government substantially confers that freedom for which Indian Nationalism has so long struggled." Sri Aurobindo also sent messages through Mr. Shiva Rao to Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru that Cripps' offer should be accepted unconditionally. Lastly, he sent his envoy to Delhi to appeal to the Congress leaders for its acceptance, for sanity and wisdom to prevail ...
... Aurobindo ; There is no need to be puzzled. Simply Page 79 look at them, watch them, see what they are and what is behind them. For instance, I can laugh at Shankara's Mayavad or Mahatma's views; but I can see the truth that ii behind them both. I know the place they occupy ii the play of world-forces; for, it really comes to that Disciple : Can want of balance be overcome ?... hesitate to turn round and adopt another course. Look at Indian politicians : all ideas, ideas – they are busy with ideas. Take the Hindu-Moslim problem. I don't know why our politicians accepted Mahatma's Khilafat agitation. With the mentality of the ordinary Madan it was bound to produce the reaction it has produced : you fed the force, it gathered power and began to make demands which the Hindu... its own fulfilment. In these practical works there are not merely forces that help but also those that oppose. I don't want them to know beforehand what I am going to do. I don't believe, like Mahatma Gandhi, that secrecy in these matters is a sin. You must find out what role you have to play. Disciple : We must have knowledge of it. Sri Aurobindo : The higher Truth brings its own ...
... The above extracts forcibly recall the manifestos of Mahatma Gandhi in 1920-21 and 1930-32 - so lucid, so convincing, so objective and practical they are! "No control, no assistance" is nothing but a firm and definite policy of non- cooperation, preached almost in the very beginning of the national agitation. One of the manifestos of Mahatma Gandhi issued in 1930 reads as follows: "...We recognise... solidly by Bengal on her hour of the gravest trial, for, they knew, the trial of Bengal was the travail of India's political salvation. Perhaps it was something more, which time alone will reveal. Mahatma Gandhi paid a perceptive tribute to the heroic struggle of Bengal in the following words: "The real awakening (of India) took place after the Partition of Bengal.... That day may be considered to... politics.45 Tilak had raised his voice against the policy of mendicancy followed by the Congress, but it was reserved for Aravinda to hit upon a positive approach to the problem. He anticipated Mahatma Gandhi by preaching the cult of passive resistance and non-cooperation as far back as 1906. " 46 "But however much opinions might differ on these points, one must recognise that apart from the ...
... the minds of many people during the twenties and thirties Gandhi was a symbol of India, and our author's sympathy with him came all the easier for the latter's keen enjoyment of music. The "Mahatma" is shown as holding that India's music is of her very essence, and it is frequently that he asks Roy to sing to him. About painting, however, he is quite cold - and on all art that strikes him ...
... odyssey. In the minds of many people during the twenties and thirties Gandhi was a symbol of India, and our author's sympathy with him came all the easier for the latter's keen enjoyment of music. The "Mahatma" is shown as holding that India's music is of her very essence, and it is frequently that he asks Roy to sing to him. About painting, however, he is quite cold - and on all art that strikes him as ...
... (7) Traditional View: A man has to perforce suffer the consequences of those karmas which belong to the class of "pr ā rabdha" or the "sprouted ones". Be he a Mahayogi or a great Mahatma, nobody can escape the clutch of a "prarabdha" karma: he has to annul it by actually undergoing in his personal experiences the consequences of the said deed. But before we can meaningfully ...
... suppose in worldly life such things are necessary? SRI AUROBINDO: Not in the worldly life, but perhaps in the Corporation life. All this promises a bad look out when India gets Purna Swaraj. Mahatma Gandhi is having bad qualms about Congress corruption already. What will it be when Puma Satyagraha reigns all over India? DILIP 'S TELEGRAM: Nirod Ashram, arriving tomorrow evening train ...
... repeats itself. Twenty years later, the issue of Independence versus Dominion Status was to be fought at the Madras, Calcutta and Lahore Congresses (1927-9) respectively. Once again - this time Mahatma Gandhi - tried to hedge, by avoiding both Independence and Dominion Status but reviving the familiar Swaraj and further qualifying it as Puma Swaraj! Of the four planks (chatus-sūtri)... swadeshi and boycott, they were meant to be at once economic and political weapons, the same weapon in fact though double-edged. Even charkha (that was to be flourished as a talismanic cure-all by Mahatma Gandhi in the twenties and after) was advocated by Hironmoyee Devi, as reported in the Bande Mataram of 30 December 1906, for a sound reason: * According to the Israeli scholar, Daniel Argov ...
... immersed in the inner, spiritual life and my aunt performed routine Hindu religious ceremonies in her little temple. Before moving to Africa both of my parents had worked for the freedom movement with Mahatma Gandhi at the grass-roots level in the villages of Gujarat. They dispensed medicines where there had been floods and other problems such as epidemics, etc. They had both become devotees of Mother and ...
... compelled...passive resistance may be the final method of salvation in our case or it may be only the preparation for the final sadhana.' Many of these ideas and programmes were later incorporated in Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement. However, Sri Aurobindo did not place reliance exclusively on non-violence nor did he preach a gospel of Ahimsa. He wrote: 'Under certain circumstances a civil struggle ...
... of the human ego. During the latter part of his life, the great Tolstoy, who had been a soldier himself when young and was the author of the epic novel, War and Peace, became (like Thoreau and Mahatma Gandhi) a pacifist, an apologist of non-violence, and an advocate of civil disobedience. Evidently his son had inherited this passion for human unity, and the First World War had only deepened his ...
... India when I go there, already exists at Pondicherry .... The second I am founding through you in Bengal. I hope to establish another in Gujarat during the ensuing year. 38 XI In the meantime, Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement, launched ostensibly on the twin issues of the Punjab massacre and the Khilafat Page 215 injustice, had, after the initial excitement and enthusiasm, floundered ...
... human material of her northern and southern hills, are so many elements of strength which Nationalism must seize and weld into a great national force. As future events showed - the return of Mahatma Gandhi to India from South Page 264 Sri Aurobindo - Calcutta - 1907 Nationalist Conference at Surat-1907 Africa, the founding of the Sabarmati Ashram, the launching... fight for independence became a mass movement the women could hardly keep (or be kept) out. In South Africa as later in India, Kasturba Gandhi had to bear the cross in her own way as much as the Mahatma. After 1920, it became natural for the sahadharminis of the leaders to take some part in public life, and many went to jail. In 1930 and in 1942, the trend was more marked still. But in 1907, ...
... delirium — the British Raj was too powerful. Thirdly, to prepare the common people's mind for non-cooperation and passive resistance by which the government machinery could be paralysed. This anticipated Mahatma Gandhi's movement on similar lines in later years. When we asked him once how he could even conceive of an armed insurrection against the vast well-equipped British garrisons, he answered: 'At that ...
... realisation that was explicitly stated in the writings of the nationalist leaders who inspired and led the movement of national education in India, such as those of Dayananda Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo. These writings gave a clear expression of the deeper self and the real psychic entity within. They pointed out that, if we ever give it a chance to come ...
... in the context of the great experiments which came to be initiated and developed under the inspiration of leaders like Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. As a result, methods of lecturing and the use of blackboard have remained the only methods of education in our country. If the same old system and old methodologies are allowed ...
... the Mother will gather around her her sons and _____________________________ 1 Given in answer to a request from the All India Radio, Trichinopoly, on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's death. Page 35 weld them into a single national strength in the life of a great and united people. 5-2-1948 * MESSAGE TO THE ANDHRA ...
... In Madras I had the opportunity of contacting a number of big persons, some of whom were really great, and had talks with them. I met and talked with Annie Besant several times. I approached Mahatma Gandhi through Va Ra on Bharati's behalf. But none of them could appeal to my heart, which the Master had captured, whole and entire. I felt it had become indissolubly one with him. My Master— how... could I then be drawn to others ? My friends urged me to join the Theosophical Society and, later on, some of them pressed me passionately and untiringly to join the Non-cooperation Movement of Mahatma Gandhi. My mind gave no response to such talks. Page 186 How could it respond, when the Master's command had been otherwise, even if he had expressly told me nothing? Many great ...
... Rammohan, Keshab Chunder Sen, Debendranath Tagore, Vidyasagar, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Narayana Guru, Dayanand, Bankim Chandra, Ranade, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Subramania Bharati, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo: these are among the more well-known names of the last one hundred and fifty years, men of light who had striven to throw back the recurring invasions of darkness ...
... existence. 31 The coming of such a spiritual age cannot, of course, be taken for granted, or prepared for institutionally. Much would depend upon those - not just an isolated Gnostic Being or Mahatma or Mahayogi, but a number of them - who by their self-evolution or self-transcendence into a higher mould have qualified to be leaders of the spiritual march. But although these first few may by ...
... old truth expressing itself through ever new forms. Sri Aurobindo : Sometimes poets themselves get into a groove and are unable to appreciate anything new. 7-1-1940 Disciple : Mahatma Gandhi at one of the literary conferences in Gujarat, 1920, asked the writers : “What have you done for the man who is drawing water from the well?” Sri Aurobindo : What has he done for himself ...
... broke the fast, then also I did not observe the usual rule of people, who go on long fasts, of beginning with little food and so on. I began again with the same quantity as I used to take before. Mahatma's method of fasting seems to me to be the most unsuitable, of announcing beforehand and allowing all sorts of people to put in their counter-suggestions to him. I tried fasting once in jail, but that ...
... has been stretched on many a doctrinal Procrustes' bed, and trimmed or extended to fit its exacting dimensions. In modern times, Lokamanya Tilak has expounded the Gita as a Gospel of Karma Yoga, and Mahatma Gandhi has been able to read into it his own Ahimsa Yoga. Sri Aurobindo's aim in his Essays on the Gita was not to add one more scholastic study or doctrinal tract to the existing Himalayan heap ...
... Archduke Ferdinand 109 Francis, Saint 485 French Institute, The 571, 603 Gaebelé, Mme see Suvrata Ganapati Muni, Vasishta (Nayana) 257-8, 339, 600 Ganapatram Gupta 278 Gandhi, Mahatma 118, 186, 215, 261, 277, 404, 426, 446, 451, 457-8, 485, 810 Gin, V.V. and Mrs Saraswati 778, 821 Gokak,V.K. 173ff Gould, F.G. 480 Guru Nanak 123, 180, 317 Heilbroner, R.L. 732 ...
... peaceful or a violent method was to be pursued would depend on what, in the given circumstances, was the best policy and not on purely ethical considerations like those that were put forward later by Mahatma Gandhi. Thus an article on 'The Realism of Indian Nationalist Policy' in the Bande Mataram of 24 April 1908: The old politicians failed to recognise that what they called constitutional agitation ...
... complete misunderstanding of my real position. Some would take it to mean that I accept the Gandhi programme subject to modifications proposed by the committee. As you know, I do not believe that Mahatma's principle can be the true foundation or his programme the true means of bringing genuine freedom and greatness of India, her Swarajya and Samrajya. On the other hand others would think that I was... the same power and centres and supports of his action. When he goes out into British India he intends to create a large centre for this spiritual training where his ideal will be embodied just as Mahatma Gandhi has done at Sabarmati for his own ideal, and with that as his basis undertake a work which will be for the world in general and specially for India. This work will embrace and will mean the ...
... misunderstanding of my real position. Some would take it to mean that I accept the Gandhi programme subject to the modifications proposed by the Committee. As you know, I do not believe that the Mahatma's principle can be the true foundation or his programme the true means of bringing about the genuine freedom and greatness of India, her Swarajya and Samrajya. On the other hand others would think that ...
... human perfection; for, after all, freedom is not the ultimate goal but a condition for the expression of the cultural Spirit of India. In Swami Shraddhananda, Pandit Madanmohan Malavia, Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi – to name some leaders – we see the double aspect of the inspiration. Among all the visions of perfection of the human Spirit on earth, I found the synthetic and integral vision of Sri Aurobindo... followed today in practice, secondly, that Brahmo Samaj, Arya Samaj, and the Congress and many other all-India organisations have been trying to carry into practice many social reforms, and thirdly, that Mahatma Gandhi has done more as a single leader than many organisations for the uplift of the untouchables. But there is a saying, "none so blind as those that will not see." To call Sri Ramakrishna orthodox ...
... complete misunderstanding of my real position. Some would take it to mean that I accept the Gandhi programme subject to modifications proposed by the committee. As you know, I do not believe that Mahatma's principle can be the true foundation or his programme the true means of bringing genuine freedom and greatness of India, her Swarajya and Samarajya. On the other hand others would think that I was ...
... by Dilip." I remember, in particular, how much Page 256 of his time he had spent to save a beloved pupil of mine, Srimati Uma Bose (given the title of "the Nightingale of Bengal" by Mahatma Gandhi) who died at twenty-one and, when I felt bereaved, how tenderly he consoled me! I asked him (8.2.42): "But why did such a lovely flower have to fade away prematurely before blossoming — ...
... him by; but some call him by a name that means he who cannot be obstructed.. A time will come when I must descend on earth, but not in the present humanity. One who passed the threshold. I am not a Mahatma. No. A man, a seeker who heard and saw, if you like to so call it, a Rishi.. What does the name matter? It would not help you to know anything. It is a strange and a vague question. Put these questions ...
... its spirit? He is a good translator as a rule but to do justice to spiritual writings one has to catch their inner afflatus and empathise with their supra-intellectual vision. You have referred to Mahatma Gandhi in the Lai-context. His doctrine of Non-violence is a commendable one, but in certain circumstances it has no validity. Thus Gandhi, during the Battle for Britain when the Luftwaffe was pounding ...
... synthesis of Yoga, he opened the gates of the future before the youths, filling them with a new spirit of inspiration, heroism and dynamic action. Another line of educational experiment was initiated by Mahatma Gandhi, who emphasised the training of the Hand, Heart and Head, overarched by the values of Truth, Non-Violence, Self-Control, Non-Covetousness and Renunciation, as also equal respect towards all ...
... submitting petitions which were simply ignored by the Colonial rulers. There was another twelve years to go before the start of the open struggle for freedom in 1905, and twenty-five years before Mahatma Gandhi's entry on the political scene in 1918. Sri Aurobindo was twenty-one when he wrote a series of nine articles, "New Lamps for Old," in the Indu Prakash, a Marathi-English Bombay ...
... and he thinks Arjuna was quite right not to want to slay the heroes of both sides, to see all his family wiped out in a war. I was interested to read that point of view from an Indian scholar; but Mahatma Gandhi might arguably be seen as an avatar of a new age? His nonviolence won the respect of the whole world and even though wars go on no one now glories in them (as in 1914-18 I remember it was). ...
... a wide knowledge and some mastery of the secret____ 86 Page 159 December 1, 1922 (From a letter to Barin.) Dear Barin, As you know, I do not believe that the Mahatma's principle [of non-cooperation] can be the true foundation or his programme the true means of bringing out the genuine freedom and greatness of India, her Swarajya and Samrajya.* On the other hand ...
... removes all weariness Without truth it is impossible to observe any principles or rules in life. There must be truth in thought. Truth in speech and Truth in action. —Mahatma Gandhi The Kothari Commission (1964-66) had observed that "A new pride and a deeper faith expressed in living for the noble ideals of peace and freedom, truth and compassion are... Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning , Prasanthinilayam, Andhra Pradesh, 1999, p.266. 9.Swami Prabhavananda, Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras, 1985,pp.89-92. 10.Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth, Navajivan Publishing House, Abmedabad, 1956. 11.Yassin Shankar, Education, Human Values and Ethics: Imperatives for the Information Society, Canadian Scholars'... materials in the area of value-oriented education for students, teachers, teacher educators, curriculum planners and text book writers. It has developed biographies of national leaders like Dr. Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, Pt. Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose and Pt. G.B. Pant. The supplementary reading materials for school children entitled 'Nai Nai Kahaniya' contains value based stories—highlighting values like ...
... all parts of our small world. We are all in the same mess now and must surely pool our resources. In which we can but look to you for wisdom, which we lack as you lack technology. Yet I feel that Mahatma Gandhiji's vision of India is far from what has happened and is happening. I send you a recent issue of Temenos which has Indian contributions you may find interesting. T.8 is now in proof - we hope ...
... Anilbaran Roy (3 July 1890 - 3 November 1974), a professor of Philosophy. At the call of Deshbandhu C. R. Das he joined politics and became one of the leaders of the Freedom Struggle as waged by Mahatma Gandhi, and went to jail. Later on he gave up Gandhi's ideal and turned to Sri Aurobindo. He joined Sri Aurobindo on May 24 1926. Page 140 m ā tr ā vrtta 1 as a separate principle... a method or at least a meaning in his flight, and what matters is the future and not the difficulties of the present. As for Gandhi, why should you suppose that I am so tender for the faith of the Mahatma? I do not call it faith at all, but a rigid mental belief, and what he terms soul-force is only a strong vital will which has taken a religious turn. That, of course, can have tremendous force for ...
... Overmind—are not responsible for what any sadhak may do in that line. It is their own method or fancy or whatever you like Lo call it—any more than I am responsible for Meher Baba´s 88 state or Mahatma Gandhi's Monday silence. These are aids to silence which I do not use myself—if anybody wants to use them, why not, let him do so! Nobody is obliged to imitate. It is no result of the Overmind. The... civilisation even there. Nowadays the saying is notoriously out of date; it only means that with honesty you have less chances of going to jail—provided you are lucky and also provided you have not met Mahatma Gandhi. But Rockefellers and the rest of the commercial aristocracy were not born for Page 343 jail but for palaces with marble water closets and the immortality of Rockefeller institutes ...
... how the psychic leading always works in one way or another to transform the movements of the other parts of the nature. Page 334 May 5, 1933 [...] This second fast of Mahatma Gandhi of three weeks has disquieted me a little.' 1 There seems to be no way out, for Gandhi asserts that he can break his irrevocable fast only if he is persuaded that the inner voice which ...
... Montagu Chelmsford Reforms and the present situation rests entirely with the signatories to the manifesto. The summary of my opinions in the Janmabhumi , representing me as an enthusiastic follower of Mahatma Gandhi, of which I only came to know the other day, is wholly unauthorised and does not "render justice to my views" either in form or in substance. Things are attributed to me in it which I would ...
... person of your calibre can surrender his reasoning in this way, I feel like despairing of my country. Everywhere we find the same thing. You regard Sri Aurobindo as God incarnate. So many regard Mahatma Gandhi in the same light. My own mother — whose sincerity I cannot doubt — has a guru whom she regards as God incarnate. I am sorry you did not get my book. It was sent as early as February... to your proposal, especially as you propose not to overdo it. I would only begin to be alarmed if I saw you casting longing glances at groundnuts and goat's milk and turning into a rival of Mahatma Gandhi. But that I do not apprehend—so I remain tranquil. July 13,1936 The woman of the photograph is certainly genuine, that is to say she is sincere and her trances are genuine ...
... followed, chairs were hurled all about. "This is how our Nationalist Party was formed. You will find that the aims we set before us and the means we decided upon were very much like those which Mahatma Gandhi much later followed. His ideas about boycotting law courts, schools and foreign goods, of passive resistance or non-violence were all part of our programme. Gandhi's most famous weapon - a revolt... not that, but - " "Is it because you yourselves don't drink it? Why does it bother you? Do you know that I used to smoke too?" Page 230 "Really?" "Isn't it awful? You know, once Mahatma Gandhi's son, Devdas Gandhi, came to see me. When he found me smoking a cigar, he asked me in a choked voice, 'Why are you attached to smoking?' I answered him straightaway, 'Why are you attached to ...
... received orders from the trustees. There is nothing to do in India, everything is rotten — yes, the Veda has been driven out of India. The Prime Minister glorifies in drinking his urine and in Mahatma Gandhi. That is what reigns. And the police are everywhere, special courts and rigged trials. India is rapidly heading toward a serious state of things.... I don’t believe in any solution, except... was he going to do? As for the rest of men, well, they understood nothing at all: it was a Sage after many others — perhaps even after Christ (the ultimate summit of the anthropoids), or after Mahatma Gandhi — and an “exceptional woman” who had left behind them some new Gospel or some philosophy for those who had the time. Go try and make the general Anthropoids understand that Einstein or Mrs ...
... embracing, it is still incapable of implementation. Ultimately, if collective evolution had nothing better to offer than a pleasant mixture of human and social "greatness," Saint Vincent de Paul and Mahatma Gandhi with a dash of Marxism-Leninism and paid vacations thrown in, then we could not help concluding that such a goal would be even more insipid than the millions of "golden birds" or the string ...
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