Majumdar, Ambika Charan Mazumdar Ambica Charan : (1850-1922) His father, Radha Madhab Mazumdar, being a wealthy zamindar, Ambica graduated from the Scottish Church College of Calcutta University. A lawyer by profession, an orator & an advocate of constitutional development, he joined the Indian Association founded by Bannerjea in 1876, & thereafter the INC in 1885. In 1886, he attended the 2nd annual INC held in Calcutta presided over by Naoroji. His friendship with Gokhale & Henry Cotton & fidelity to Mehta, Gokhale, & Wacha brought him the presidentship of the 1899 Bengal Provincial Conference at Burdwan. Sir John Woodburn, Lt. Governor of Bengal, awarded him the title: ‘The Grand Old Man of Faridpur’. In 1905, Ambika joined Ashwini Kumar Datta, Bhupendra Nath Basu & S.N. Bannerjea, in organising protest meetings against the partition of Bengal. In 1908, at the Madras Session of INC, he welcomed the ‘reform’ banning Nationalists & presided over the 1910 Bengal Provincial Conference. In 1915, he published “Indian National Evolution” – a survey of the origin & progress of INC. In appreciation it appointed him president of its historic session of 1916 held at Lucknow (q.v.). [Based on Dict. of National Biography, Ed. S.P. Sen; Institute of Historical Studies, Calcutta, 1972-74]
... 1940-contd Talks with Sri Aurobindo 2 OCTOBER 1940 Somebody had sent a reply-paid wire to Sri Aurobindo asking for some message for Pratap Mazumdar's centenary, which they were celebrating. Naturally Sri Aurobindo refused. SATYENDRA: They have wasted two rupees. (Laughter) SRI AUROBINDO: I may send a message one day late. (Laughter) PURANI: ...
... occasional almost accidental utterance. One of these was spoken to a disciple of his well known to me, a Baroda Sardar, Mazumdar (it was on the top storey of his house by the way that I sat with Lele in Jan. 1908 and had a decisive experience of liberation and Nirvana). Mazumdar learned that he was suffering from a bad tooth and brought him a bottle of Floriline, a toothwash then much in vogue. The ...
... "I was in the Karmayogin office [trying some automatic writing] and we knew about the search that was going to be made with the object of arresting me. There were some people there [Ramchandra Mazumdar, Suresh Chakravarty (Moni), Biren Ghose, Bijoy Nag and Nolini Kanta Gupta]. Ramchandra was there preparing to give fight to the police and many other ideas were flying about when suddenly I heard... go to Chanderangore.” ¹ After hearing the voice, Sri Aurobindo decided to act immediately. They started from the Karmayogin office at about 8 o'clock at night, Sri Aurobindo and Ramchandra Mazumdar leading. About fifty paces behind them was Biren, and about the same distance behind Biren, Suresh followed. They went zig-zag in order to evade the surveillance of the C .I.D. men who were posted ...
... significances. First came the experience of utter silence and calm and void when, under Yogi Lele's guidance, Sri Aurobindo, early in January 1908, learned in a room on the top floor of Sardar Mazumdar's house in Baroda to fling his thoughts back and create the desert of silence in his mind." Writing about this, Sri Aurobindo says: "In three days —really in one—my mind became full of an eternal ...
... book. The incidents related there have no foundation in fact. It was not Gonen Maharaj who informed me of the impending search and arrest, but a young man on the staff of the Karmayogin, Ramchandra Mazumdar, whose father had been warned that in a day or two the Karmayogin office would be searched and myself arrested. There [have] 2 been many legends spread about on this matter and it was even said ...
... lived for more than 200 years), but who kept the same toothache till the end, without ever being able to cure it. He was Swami Brahmananda, who, one day in the 1900s, told a disciple of his (Sardar Mazumdar), "As for the tooth, I have suffered from it since the days of Bhao Girdi," that is, since 1761. ...
... indifferent to comfort but now his needs were reduced to the bare minimum. Although the winter was severe, he wore only a cotton dhoti and shirt and did not even have a wrapper. His friend Sardar Mazumdar presented him with a Pashmina shawl to keep away the cold. Sri Aurobindo carried no bedding on his railway journeys, and slept on the bare, wooden bunks of third-class compartments, using his arm... devote himself completely to yoga. So Sri Aurobindo left Khaserao's house and, keeping only his close associates informed of his whereabouts, went with Lele to the house of another old friend, Sardar Mazumdar. Here in a small room on the top floor he was closeted with Lele and what happened then is something unimaginable, incalculable and, at least to my knowledge, with no parallel in spiritual history ...
... 66, 88, 152 -"Les Fleurs", 66n Mamata, 163 Manchester Guardian, 239n Manu, 159 Miira, 5 Marcellus, 173-5 Margaret, 138 Marut, 22, 28-9 Marx, 126 Mayavada,278 Mazumdar, Dipak, 213 -"Baritone", 212 Mazzini, 253 Mephistopheles, 250 Metaphysicals, the, 57, 71,286 Michael Angelo, 170 Milton, 52-3, 85, 93, 125, 147, 163, 168,245 --Camus, ...
... His dress then was Bengali dhoti, shirt and a shawl wrapped around him, but nothing on his head." The shawl was a concession to the biting cold of January; it was a Pashmina shawl offered by Sardar Mazumdar who saw Sri Aurobindo going about in a shirt. The Baroda Collegians so idolized their former Professor that when he came to Baroda from Surat they unharnessed the horses from his carriage and ...
... shawl that Sardar Mazumdar gave him. It was at Khasirao Jadhav's house, where Sri Aurobindo was staying with Barin, that the first interview with Lele took place. As regards Yoga, Lele told Sri Aurobindo that he should completely suspend all political activity, at least for a few days. Then the two closeted themselves in a small room in the top floor of Sardar Mazumdar's house for three days... continuum f unconsciousness. Things were happening, he was apparently engaged in activ ity, but he himself didn't know how or why. Once Sri Aurobindo came out of the little room in Sardar Mazumdar's house, he couldn't withstand political or even revolutionary activity. He was going through the customary motions, like a puppet as it were. He and Barin had discussions Page 275 ... Presently, Sri Aurobindo was invited to Bombay, Poona and other places in Maharashtra to speak on the current political situation. He was in a fix because, after those incredible three days in Sardar Mazumdar's house, Sri Aurobindo's conscious mind had become a total blank How could he speak before an audience? How was he to develop a political theme? He could think nothing, and he would have nothing ...
... asked Sri Aurobindo not to meet him and so he did not. Sri Aurobindo gave three lectures at Baroda on the political situation – two at Bankaner Theatre and one at Manik Rao's gymnasium. Sardar Mazumdar presented Sri Aurobindo with a Pashmina shawl as it was severe winter then and Sri Aurobindo was going about in a shirt with no covering over it. He kept no ¹ Ibid,, p. 116. ² Ibid., pp. 83-84 ...
... (1968) Manibhai. A Practical Guide to Integral Yoga (1971) Majumdar, R.C . Studies in the Bengali Renaissance Mary, Countess of Minto. India: Minto and Morley (1934) Mazumdar, A. C. Indian National Evolution (1915) Misra, R. S. The Integral Advaitism of Sri Aurobindo (1957) Page 823 Mitra, Sisirkumar. Sri Aurobindo and Indian Freedom (1948); ...
... 288ff, 298fn, 306, 307, 309; mantra, 611,612,628ft, 635 Marlowe, Christopher, 655, 690 Marx, Karl, 447 Marxism, 446,447 Masters, John. 12 Mazumdar, Ambika Charan, 227,228 Mazumdar, Sardar, 274, 275,276, 323, 389 Mazzini, 191, 233 Measure for Measure, 132 ; Mehta, Pherozeshah, 227, 264, 267, 272, 273,295 Menezes, Armando ...
... ancient times. He never spoke of his age or of his past either except for an occasional almost accidental utterance. One of these was spoken to a disciple of his well known to me, a Baroda Sardar, Mazumdar .... [who] learned that he was suffering from a bad tooth and brought him a bottle of Floriline, a toothwash then much in vogue. The Yogi refused, saying, "I never use medicines. My one medicine is ...
... and at one stage the Extremists seem to have staged even a "walk out". A new development was that the Moderates themselves put a little more heat into their speeches than usual. As Ambika Charan Mazumdar has recorded: Moderates and Extremists alike and with equal emphasis protested against the attitude of Government, with equal firmness deprecated an ignominious Page 227 begging... the Moderates made a virtue of necessity and adopted the four resolutions, through with some modifications. The resolutions certainly bore, to quote again the Moderate leader, Ambika Charan Mazumdar, "unmistakable evidence of the spirit of the times". 12 Although Sri Aurobindo had preferred to work behind the scenes during the Congress session, his deployment of the forces and his ...
... and Uma Mukherjee's Sri Aurobindo and the New Thought in Indian Politics, p. viii 9. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, pp. 595-600 10. Purani, The Life, p. 106 11. A. C. Mazumdar, Indian National Evolution (W5), pp. 111-12 12. Ibid., p. 112' 13. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 31 14. Haridas and Uma Mukherjee, India's Fight for Freedom, ... Ibid., p. 644 38. Ibid., p . 649 39. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, pp. 352-53 40. Ibid., p. 348 41. Ibid. 42. Purani, The Life, p. 95 43. A. C. Mazumdar, Indian National Evolution. Appendix B, p. xliii 44. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, pp. 47-48 45. Ibid., p. 49 46. Ibid. 47. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 639 48. Ibid ...
... find a real Way, even though the divine help was with me all the time, and even then, it seemed to come by an accident...." 21 In those three days when he shut himself up with Lele in a room in Mazumdar's house at Baroda, Sri Aurobindo was a hijacked traveller in the worlds of vacant forms and a diver at last into the sea of Nirvanic immobility. That first realisation could have been the enduring ...
... utterance. One of these was spoken to a disciple of his, well-known to me, a Baroda Sardar, Mazumdar (it 167. Last Poems by Sri Aurobindo. Page 131 was on the top storey of Mazumdar's house by the way that I sat with Lele in 1908 and had my decisive experience of liberation and Nirvana). Mazumdar learned that he (Swami Brahmananda) was suffering from a bad tooth and brought him ...
... Bande Mataram shot into the limelight not only in Calcutta and Bengal, but across India, as the most courageous proponent of the ideals of the Nationalist Party.’ In the words of the historian R.C. Mazumdar: ‘Arabinda’s articles in the Bande Mataram put the Extremist Party on a high pedestal all over India. He expounded the high philosophy and national spirit which animated the Party, and also laid ...
... proceedings. The sea of silence that had lain under the surface of his consciousness and held him in its vast supernal peace since the day he had stumbled upon it in the upstairs room of Sardar Mazumdar's house at Baroda six months earlier, - it was still there. The great Bass - the immaculate śruti - of the music of his life continued as before. But, after the blissful experience of Narayana ...
... extremist politics. Like Tilak, he too, came under the spell of Sri Aurobindo's "magnetic personality" and imported something of his spiritual fervour into his own creed of nationalism, as Dr. R.C. Mazumdar shows: "He (Sri Aurobindo) regarded patriotism as a form of devotion and expressly said that 'to the new generations, the redemption of their motherland should be regarded as the true religion, the ...
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