Poona : Puṇe was made the capital of his kingdom by Shivaji & his son & successor Shambhāji. It was under the first three Peshwas, Bālāji Vishwanatha (1713-1720), his son Bāji Rao (1720-1740), & grandson Bālāji Bāji Rao (1740-1761) that it became the centre of the Maratha Empire that could have replaced the Moghul which began to decline with of Aurangzeb’s death in 1707. In 1817, the Octopus trapped the last Peshwa Bāji Rao II (1775-1852) in its webs of deceit & within a year dismembered the Maratha Confederacy. Poona regained its primacy in 19-20th century thanks to its stalwart reformers & politicians Ranade, Gokhale, Tilak, & many others.
... movement for the early achievement of Swaraj or independence. It was during this third and culminating period (beginning in 1906) of Tilak's career - when he was already the 'King of Poona' (Ay Poona-ke Raja) and the acknowledged leader of Maharashtra - that he was drawn into the field of all-India politics and became the principal spokesman of Nationalist India. He was, in Sri Aurobindo's... consulted, assured Sri Aurobindo that he might accept the invitations and all would be well. First Sri Aurobindo went to Poona with Lele, and met Tilak's Guru, Annasaheb Patwardhan, and also met some of the Maharashtrian revolutionaries. He gave two lectures at Poona, on the 12th January on Ramamurti whose feats of physical prowess and endurance had made him a celebrity, and on the 13th on... Loyalists that he was a power to be reckoned with and that every one of his moves was worth watching. It was easy for the Moderate leaders - the Lion of Bombay and the seagreen incorruptible of Poona, the two sonorous Pandits of Allahabad, the great lawyers and constitutionalists of Calcutta and Madras, and the clever calculators and formula-hunters everywhere - to try to dismiss the Nationalists ...
... speaker. 128 125. During his stay at Poona, he visited the Parvati hills where he had an experience in the form of a contact with the Infinite, similar to what he had before in Cashmir when he visited the Sankaracharya hills there. He had also a private interview with Tilak's Guru, Anna Saheb Patwardhan and with some of the young revolutionaries at Poona. 126. Obeisance or salutation. ... philosophic calm or the radiant placidity of a sthitaprajna. 63. Tilak's Guru, Anna Saheb Patwardhan, who was a Yogi, presided over the meeting held at Gaekwarwada (Tilak's residence) at Poona in which Sri Aurobindo was the principal speaker. It is said that Patwardhan predicted the yogic greatness of Sri Aurobindo and considered him to be the greatest of all contemporary leaders. He had... something for us to do. He has a work for His great and ancient nation.... You have been called upon to do God's work.” — Sri Aurobindo's speech in Bombay From Baroda Sri Aurobindo went to Poona. 125 Lele accompanied him at his request. When invited to deliver a speech, he asked Lele what he should do, since he was 'in that silent condition - without any thought in the mind'. "Lele told ...
... don't know what happened to me after that.' He woke up in a railway station somewhere between Bombay and Poona, and he began telling them that he was hungry (he was with those same two persons). They punched him in the stomach and put a handkerchief over his nose—he again passed out! At Poona, he woke up again (he'd lost his appetite by then!), and again they put the handkerchief over his nose. And... And it went on like that—they kept on punching him a lot. When he woke up in the country on the outskirts of Poona, four men were around him arguing in a language he didn't know (his language is Gujarati). They were probably speaking in some other language, I don't know which one—it seems they were very dark. He didn't understand, but from various signs they made he could see that they were arguing... said he ran for an hour and a half! ... A boy pummelled as he had been, who hadn't eaten for four days! I think that's a miracle. After running for an hour and a half, he found himself back at the Poona station, he doesn't know how. He caught a train back to Bombay, scarcely knowing how he managed it. When I found this out, I immediately thought, 'Good, this boy caught the formation' 2 X had ...
... Majumdar and A. S. Altekar (Motilal Banarsidass, Lahore, 1946), VI Patil, D. R., Cultural History from the Vayu Purāna (Poona, 1946) "Gupta Inscriptions and the Purānic Tradition", Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute (Poona), II, Nos. 1-2 Piggott, Stuart, Prehistoric India (Pelican, Harmondswirth, 1960) Pirenne, Jacqueline, "Un... Alexander, The Book of Indian Eras (Calcutta, 1883) Page 608 Davids, Rhys, Buddhist India (Calcutta, 1950) Dikshit, S. B., Bh ā ratiya-Jyoti-śāstra (Poona, 1931) In The Indian Antiquary, XIX In Indian Culture, VI Dikdhit, S. K., "The Problem of the Kusānas and the Origin of the Vikram Samvat" Annals of the Bhandarkar... Journal of the University of Nagpur , December 1940 Justin, Historiarum Philippicarum Kane, P. V., History of Dharmaśāstra (Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, 1946), III Kangle, R. P., The Kautilīya Arthaśāstra: A Study (The University of Bombay, 1965), Parts II & III Kathāsaritsāgara Kaye, P. V., In The Indian Antiquary ...
... more clear and readable. Our Experiences in Bengal. Speech delivered in Poona on 13 January 1908 at Gaikwad Wada, the residence of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, at whose invitation Sri Aurobindo had come to the Maharashtrian city. The text reproduced here was first printed on 19 January in the Mahratta (Poona), an English newspaper with which Tilak was connected. Another transcript, longer but... proposed this resolution at a Swadeshi meeting held in Baroda on 24 September 1905. A report of the meeting, which included Sri Aurobindo's resolution, was published in Marathi in the Kesari of Poona on 3 October 1905. It has been retranslated into English by the editors of the present volume. A Sample-Room for Swadeshi Articles. Editorial title. 1905 - 6. Sri Aurobindo wrote two drafts... appeared in the newspaper on the dates indicated. After its demise, two collections of Bande Mataram articles, some of which were written by Sri Aurobindo, were published. The Vande Mataram Press, Poona, issued three volumes entitled The Bande Mataram in 1909 (this collection was quickly proscribed by the British government). The Swaraj Publishing House, Benares, published Selections from the Bande ...
... spoilt darling of the Times of India , the trusted counsellor of John Morley and a leader of the party of Colonial self-government. For some time the victim of his own false step during the troubles in Poona he was distrusted by the people, favoured by the authorities, some of whom are said to have canvassed for him in the electoral fight between him and Mr. Tilak. The charge of cowardice which he now hurls... black looks and black words were thrown at him by those who distrusted him, but throughout the rest of India his name stood high and defied assailants. Page 116 In his recent speech at Poona the veiled prophet has unveiled himself. The leader of the people in this strange and attractive double figure is under sentence of elimination and the budding Indian Finance Minister has spoken. The... new Nationalism, an alliance prepared by the Surat sitting, cemented by subsequent events, confirmed by the Madras Convention, is now unmasked and publicly ratified. The most odious part of the Poona speech is that in which Mr. Gokhale justifies Government repression and attempts to establish by argument what Mr. Norton failed to establish by evidence, the theory that Nationalism and Terrorism are ...
... the Kena was lightly revised and published in the weekly review Karmayogin in June 1909. In 1920 the Karmayogin translation was reproduced in The Seven Upanishads , published by Ashtekar & Co., Poona. (Only three of the seven translations in this book were by Sri Aurobindo: Isha, Kena and Mundaka.) Between 1912 and 1914, Sri Aurobindo began three commentaries on and one annotated translation... of the original". The translation, slightly revised, was published in the Karmayogin in July and August 1909. The Karmayogin translation was published as The Katha Upanishad by Ashtekar & Co., Poona, in 1919. Sometime during the early part of his stay in Pondicherry (1910-20), Sri Aurobindo began a more extensive revision of TMS, but reached only the end of the First Cycle. When it was proposed... The Brihad Aranyak Upanishad . Around 1912 Sri Aurobindo translated the first two sections and part of the third section of the first chapter of this Upanishad in the margins of his copy of the text (Poona: Ananda Ashram, 1902). This marginal translation was first reproduced in the 1981 edition of The Upanishads . The Great Aranyaka. Circa 1912 . Shortly after writing the above translation ...
... cherished superstitions and face and recognise facts. The attempt at Swadeshi Education under the official Universities has been made both in Calcutta and under peculiarly favourable circumstances at Poona. At Poona an immense amount of self-sacrifice went to the making of the New English School and the Ferguson College, and some of the best intellects and noblest hearts in the Deccan devoted themselves to... from the officials, submits to their dictation and excludes politics at their bidding. Yet the proposal of the Modern Review writer is merely to concentrate the best intellects of the country in the Poona Institution in order to make it "an Indian College superior to any existing College", and he summarily dismisses the idea of a National University merely on the score of expense. We fail to see how ...
... Jullian Ries, " Immortality" in the Encyclopedia of Religion, Vol. VII, McMillan, New York, 1987. Kalyani Mallik, Siddha- siddhanta paddhati and other works of Nathayogis, Poona Oriental Book House, Poona, 1954. Kant, Immanuel, Ethical Philosophy, translated by Ellington, James W., Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1983. Karl H. Potter, (ed.), Advaita... Renoir, Louis, Religions of Ancient India, New York, 1968. Renou, Louis, Bibliographic Vedique, Adrein Maisonneure, Parise, 1931. Rigveda Samhita with Sayana Bhas.ya, Volumes 1-5, Poona, 1933 1951. Rorty, R. , Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1979. Sanyal, B.S., Ethics & Meta- Ethics, Vikas Publications, Delhi ...
... only so far as the labour of fitting the parts together is concerned. Sirdar Rajmachikar of Poona and his brother have done a service to Swadeshi by starting a factory in which all the parts except the iron ribs and stretchers are either made in the factory or, in the matter of the cloth, procured from Poona and Bombay mills. The only drawback is the high prices of these articles compared with the cheapness... cheapness of the fractionally Swadeshi umbrellas. This we believe, is largely due to the high prices of the cloth produced from the Bombay mills, but the people of Bombay and Poona are taking these umbrellas by the thousand in spite of the difference. We hope Bengal will be as patriotic in this small but important matter. The prices will come Page 164 down as soon as a sufficient market ...
... B., "The Age of the Rigveda", in The Cambridge History of India I, ed. E.J. Rapson, Vol. I (1922). "The Early History of the Indo-Irānians", in R.G. Bhandarkar Commemoration Volume (Poona, 1917). Khan, F., in Pakistan Archaeology No. 2 (1965). Konow, Sten, The Linguistic Survey of India Vol. IV. Kosambi, D.D., The Culture and Civilization of Ancient India (London,... Archaeology Today (Ajanta Publications, Delhi, 1979). Letters to K.D. Sethna, dated 1.11.1962, 21.3.1963, 16.4.1963. Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan (Deccan College, Poona, 1974). review of S.S. Sarkar's Ancient Races of the Deccan (Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, 1973) in Times of India Weekly (Bombay) (Dec. 16, 1974). "Traditional Indian Chronology... Times Literary Supplement (London) (May 5, 1969): review of Soma, the Divine Mushroom of Immortality by Gordon Wasson. Tilak, B.G., The Arctic Home in the Vedas (Tilak Bros., Poona, 1925) [reference by Sri Aurobindo]. Vats, M.S., Excavations at Harappā (Delhi, 1941). Venkataraman, Radha, "The Sunken Treasures of Dwaraka", in Indian Express Magazine ...
... Nor is he less a conqueror than Svāyambhuva. When he was born, says the Vayu Purāna, 4 he stood equipped with bow, arrows 1. Ibid., p. 271. 2. Cultural History from the Vayu Purāna (Poona, 1946), pp. 28, 163. 3. Wilson, op.cit.. XIII, p. 101. 4.Patil. op. cit.. p. 163. Page 83 and a shining armour. After his consecration he proceeded to vanquish the earth... the Āndhras 3 has No. 24a within brackets, a name mentioned in one copy (e) alone of the Vayu Purāna. 4 "A 1. The Cambridge History of India, p. 300. 2. Tribes in Ancient India (Poona, 1943), p. 95. 3. Op. cit., p. 36. 4. Ibid., p. 37. Page 92 line found in only one MS.," Pargiter 1 observes, "should not be rejected straight away (see Introduction... "The Foundation of the Gupta Empire", The Classical Age, p. 15. 2. Ibid., p. 16. 3.Patil, op. cit., pp. 198, 200, referring to Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute (Poona), 2, 163. 4. Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, III, The Gupta Inscriptions, No. 10, Plate V, pp. 44-45. 5. Aśoka and His Inscriptions (New Age Publishers, Calcutta, 1946), Part I, pp. 46-47 ...
... for Sri Aurobindo to address meetings and to meet political workers at Poona, Bombay and other places. The uncompromising stand he had taken at Surat had enhanced his reputation in the eyes of the true patriots who now looked to him for guidance in the critical situation which had arisen. So from Baroda Sri Aurobindo went to Poona. At his request, Lele accompanied him. Sri Aurobindo's mind had become... asked Lele what he should do. Lele told him 'to make namaskar to the audience and wait and speech would come to him from some other source than the mind'. And so, in fact, the speeches came. From Poona Sri Aurobindo proceeded to Bombay where also he was called upon to address large meetings. The silent condition of his mind continued and the outside world seemed to be bathed in unreality. Sri Aurobindo ...
... lest the Reforms should, after all, fail to materialise. Sri Aurobindo had thus to cross swords both with the bureaucracy and with the forces of Moderatism. Thus, when Gokhale made a speech in Poona in connection with the murders of Curzon Wylie and Lalcaca, the Karmayogin came out with a slashingly sarcastic editorial which concluded with these pointed and envenomed words: He [Gokhale]... Aurobindos to be of the tribe of Ravana". 16 Like his countrymen, Sri Aurobindo too did not fail to recognise the finer elements in Gokhale's mind and character; he actually described the Poona leader in the Kumartuli speech as "one who had served and made sacrifices for the country". 17 But when Gokhale denounced the ideals and activities of the Nationalists, when he said that "the ideal... resistance the only way in which they can satisfy their legitimate aspiration without breaking the law and without resorting to violence. 18 As for the charge of "cowardice" implied in Gokhale's Poona speech, Sri Aurobindo said that, although he was himself no model of courage, "residence for the best part of a year in a solitary cell had been an experience which took away all the terrors of ...
... 2."The Problem of Interpretation of the Purānas". Purāna (Vārānasi), January 1964, pp. 67-8. 3. Ibid., p. 68. 4. History of Dharmasāstra (Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, 1946), Vol. Ill, pp. 899-900. 5.Strictly speaking, the first part of the expression employed - paulomastu tathāndhrastu - means "the offspring of Puloma". Perhaps a Puloma founded the family... to allude to the 1.We may remark, in passing, that there is also more than one era of Vikrama: we have the Chālukya-Vikrama-kāla of 1076 A.D. 2.S. B. Dikshit, Bharatiya Jyotih-sastra (Poona, 1931), I, p. 211. Page 53 era of 57 B.C. If he died in 42 B.C., he may not have composed any work in the 15 years of his life after that era had been instituted, whereas if he lived ...
... Our Experiences in Bengal 13-January-1908 Babu Aurobindo Ghose paid a flying visit to Poona last week. On Monday evening he delivered an address in the Gaekwar's Wada, under the presidency of Mr. Annasaheb Patwardhan, and told his Poona audience how the new thought and the new movement spread all over Bengal and how the Bengalis were able to do things which were ...
... summaries or transcriptions made by the British police. There are no surviving reports of the remaining three speeches. 22 December 1907——Nagpur——Police report 12 January 1908——Poona——No known report 13 January——Poona——English report 15 January——Bombay——Marathi report 19 January——Bombay——English report 24 January——Nasik——Marathi report 25 January——Nasik——Police report 26 January ...
... bahunnam - a certain religious practice - the killing of insects, moths, snakes and worms - which we may recognize as Mazdean from passages in Mazdean books like 1. Tribes in Ancient India (Poona, 1943), p. 7. 2.Muir's Original Sanskrit Texts, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 484. 3.V. Fausboll, Jātaka (London, 1877-97), VI, 208, 27-30. Cf. Law, Tribes in Ancient India, p. 7. Page... ancient civilizations." He 4 also writes: "The red sandstone torso of a man is particularly impressive for its realism. 1. Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan (Deccan College, Poona, 1974), p. 283, col. 2. 2. Op. cit., pp. 364-65. 3. Ibid., p. 121. 4. Ibid., p. 20. Page 391 The modelling of the rather heavy abdomen seems to look forward to the ...
... became quite empty. I asked Lele, 'Here I am, with my mind completely blank, empty, free of thought. But how then am I to make the speeches that I am expected to make? On my way back to Calcutta, at Poona first, then at Bombay, there will be meetings where I must speak.' He told me not to worry. He said, 'When you stand before the audience, with folded hands invoke God and wait quietly. Page 155... out, though thinking had never been very hard for me. But this was miraculous. It was exactly as if the Goddess Saraswati put the words into my mouth! All my speeches that followed, from the one at Poona to the one I made in Calcutta, all were spoken in the same way. Not only my speeches - my writings, my conversations, everything flowed down henceforth from above the mind. I could never have undertaken ...
... classical Sanskrit literature; translating the epics, Upanishads and Sanskrit plays; writing poetry, plays and literary essays. I896-97 Elected President of the secret society at Poona, started by Thakur Saheb. Later, after the Rand and Ayerst murder, became President of the central organisation of the secret societies in the Bombay Presidency, with which he had been already connected... remained permanent. All his later writings and speeches came from a higher source above the mind; All his movements began to be guided by the Divine. On his way to Calcutta, spoke in Poona, Nasik, Dhulia, Amraoti on the inner significance of Indian Nationalism. April 3o: Unsuccessful attempt on the life of Kingsford in Muzaffarpur by Khudiram Basu and Prafulla Chaki ...
... While travelling he slept on the Sitting board and used his hand for pillow. In the second week of January Sri Aurobindo went to Poona from Baroda. Sri Aurobindo asked Lele to come with him and Lele agreed. Sri Aurobindo gave a lecture at the Gaekwad Wada, Poona, on the thirteenth. Then he went to Bombay. At Girgaum (Bombay) he delivered a lecture on the fifteenth. In Bombay the spiritual experience ...
... him! - gave Sarojini one rupee out of the alms he had assiduously collected over a period of months; an impecunious student, by denying himself his daily tiffin, gave a modest contribution; the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha bestirred itself to make collections for the Sri Aurobindo Defence Fund. 15 And numerous other institutions and individuals and agencies - spread all over the country - also interested... as yellow stuff, and again in its Virat Purusha aspect of grey eminence. But that life too was bearable, for after all God gave the sufferers the strength to bear even that life. In answer to a Poona editor trying to raise a laugh over this "excess of Godwardness in prison", Sri Aurobindo wrote: Alas for the pride and littleness of men.... The manifestation of God, should it not be in prisons ...
... Bunder, he said, "That is the atmosphere of the place. Another instance is the sense of Page 179 the Infinite I had at the Shankaracharya Hill at Kashmir and at Parvati Hill near Poona, and the reality of the image in a temple at Karnali near Chandod." In his visit to the Parvati Hill in 1908 he was accompanied by Lele. Sri Aurobindo, in a letter to Dilip, gave a comprehensive... and after a long westward flow, it meets the Bay of Cambay. The Narmada is said to have issued from the body of Rudra. She is specially Page 180 View from Parvati Hill near Poona at the beginning of the century invoked for the cure of snake bites. In 1939 Sri Aurobindo described these three experiences in sonnets: Adwaita, The Hill-Top Temple of the Parvati Hill ...
... Page 1004 to the present moment the attitude of the party has been accommodating to a fault. They allowed the Moderates to score a seeming triumph at Pabna rather than allow a second split. At Poona in their stronghold they invited the co-operation of the Moderates at Dhulia, they even consented to the question of the Boycott being allowed to stand over, unless otherwise decided by the Provincial... Conference, rather than forfeit Moderate co-operation. The public utterances of Nationalist papers and Nationalist speakers from the speech of Mr. Tilak after the fracas to the latest speeches at the Poona Conference have all been pervaded by the thought of reconciliation, the anxiety for union. The Nationalists make no stipulation except that no creed shall be imposed on the Congress from outside, no ...
... SATYENDRA: Yes, if he had led some such sort of movement with people who could strictly follow him, there would have been nothing to say. From that viewpoint, his retirement from politics after the Poona affair was the right move. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, it was the right thing. SATYENDRA: But people drag him in, foist on him the leadership of the country. NIRODBARAN: But doesn't Gandhi himself... don't they take the leadership? PURANI: I think C.R. could have done something with the Viceroy if it had been left to him. SATYENDRA: Why doesn't he do it then? He got his opportunity after the Poona affair. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, but he is not the leader and he couldn't go to see the Viceroy as the leader. SATYENDRA: He can stand against Gandhiji and lead the movement. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes ...
... unworthy of their manhood. For, against all my reasonings was brought in the personality of Tilak and his approval as the greatest argument in favour of the dacoities. So I... wended my way at once to Poona... to have a personal talk with Lokamanya Tilak and learn his views on the matter.... Tilak told me distinctly that he did not approve of the dacoities, much less authorise them, if for nothing else... oppressive methods of the British, were construed as having instigated the Chopekar brothers to murder the two plague officers who were enforcing harsh and insulting measures upon the Marathi ladies at Poona in order to check the spread of the epidemic. The charge was not proved, but Tilak was sentenced to 18 months' rigorous imprisonment in 1897. Page 146 but they did not consent 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 the view that he had kept the Ashram walls bare of... 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 to see him and then he asked me if I had visited Pondicherry. I said : ''Yes". Gandhi : Have you taken ...
... 48 A Seed-Force It was "in that condition of Nirvanic silence that I went first to Poona and then to Bombay." Lele went with him. They visited together the Parvati hill, where Sri Aurobindo had that experience at the 'Hill-Top Temple.' During his visit at Poona, supposedly a private one, "citizens thronged to see him whenever he appeared," reports the Bande Mataram. ...
... raw materials of an excellent quality to be obtained here, and that this too was quite feasible. We have already some glass-blowing factories at Kapadwanj and in the Panjab; paper mills in Bombay, Poona and Bengal; leather tanneries in Madras, Cawnpore and Bombay. It would be interesting to study the quantity and quality of these home products and to compare them with the articles imported from abroad ...
... Calcutta, to G. S. Khaparde, Amraoti:] JOIN DEMONSTRATION NINTH THROUGHOUT BERAR. HELP PURSE. WIRE AMOUNT. Page 169 [7] [Telegram from Ghose, Calcutta, to Balgangadhar Tilak, Poona:] PLEASE JOIN DEMONSTRATION NINTH THROUGHOUT MAHARASHTRA. HELP PURSE. WIRE AMOUNT. 6 March 1908 ...
... destiny. A Salutary Rejection We draw the attention of all weak-kneed Nationalists to the ban placed by the Bombay Government on the candidature of Page 342 the distinguished and able Poona Nationalist, Mr. N. C. Kelkar. Mahratta Nationalism has never been so robustly uncompromising as the Bengal school in its refusal of co-operation in the absence of control, and Mr. Kelkar, though a ...
... persecution may crush it. Let them have a robuster faith in the destinies of their race. As neither the milk of Putana nor the hoofs of the demon could destroy the infant Krishna, so neither Riponism nor Poona prosecutions could check the growth of Nationalism while yet it was an indistinct force; and as neither Kansa's wiles nor his vishakanyas nor his mad elephants nor his wrestlers could kill Krishna ...
... out of the hands of volunteers to please a District official? Or those, to take other examples, who wrote with brilliant success to Anglo-Indian papers to get Mr. Tilak prosecuted at the time of the Poona murders? Or those who pointed out Lala Lajpat Rai to the bureaucracy as the man to strike at when the Punjab was in a ferment over the Colonisation Bill? But, by the Bengalee 's reasoning, men may ...
... only conclusion is that there is nothing to be done. The only conclusion is that this country is doomed. That is the conclusion to which this intellectual process will lead you. I was speaking at Poona on this subject, and I told them of my experience in Bengal. When I went to Bengal three or four years before the Swadeshi movement was born, to see what was the hope of revival, what was the political ...
... proposal to make. I think there is only one way by which these unfortunate occurrences can be stopped. The ruler of Bengal in his speech spoke in approval of a certain speech made by Mr. Gokhale at Poona recently. In that speech Mr. Gokhale declared that the ideal of independence was an ideal which no sane man could hold. He said that it was impossible to achieve independence by peaceful means and the ...
... Sankalia's words strike us as quite pertinent when we realise the importance of Kalibangan. He 35 has observed that 34. Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan (Deccan College, Poona, 1947), p. 350. 35. Ibid. p. 361. Page 223 this site was "perhaps a third capital in Rajasthan". Furthermore, not only Kalibangan but also Rakhigarhi, a site 190 kms east of ...
... compassion's light, Thou sing'st "None but true lovers win the Star Of Love whose unique miracle alchemy Can resolve Hate's anarchy into a Harmony." Hari Krishna Mandir D.K. ROY Poona – 5 March, 1963 DESHBANDHU C. R. DAS My appeal to you is this, that long after the controversy will be hushed in silence, long after this turmoil and agitation will have ceased, ...
... they can enter in you.” I tried and did it. In three days my mind became entirely quiet and vacant, without any thoughts at all, and it was in that condition of Nirvanic Silence that I went first to Poona and then to Bombay. Everything seemed to me unreal, I was absorbed in the One Reality.’ 2 This mental silence would never leave him anymore. In three days he had a realization attempted and not always ...
... Aurobindo had his third experience here. He has stated: That is the atmosphere of the place. Another instance is the sense of the Infinite I had at the Shankaracharya Hill, and at Parvati Hill near Poona, and the reality of the image in a temple at Karnali near Chandod. In 1939 Sri Aurobindo described these three experiences in sonnets: Adwaita, The Hill-top Temple and The Stone Goddess ...
... overall duration of the Indus Valley Civilization be restored and provisions for dating it still further backwards be made" (Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan, Deccan College , Poona, 1974, p. 283. col. 2). Page 2 fight with and conquest of this civilization? We shall deal with these questions not always in the above order. Significant side-issues, which are ...
... the overall duration of the Indus Valley Civilization be restored and provisions for dating it still further backwards be made" ( Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan , Deccan College, Poona, 1974, p. 283, col. 2). Page 459 non-Aryan, anterior to the oldest Aryan document in India, the Rigveda, and given its finishing stroke by hostile Rigvedic tribes, who hailed from ...
... Oudh entered into a subordinate alliance with the British against the Marathas. The Rajput rulers wanted protection against the Marathas. Raghoba sold himself to the British to fight the Peshwa in Poona. The Nizam's forces marched against those of the British in the fight against Tipu. The British took full advantage of the divisions in India. Right from the beginning they followed ...
... the matter of extension of non-violence to the field of national self-defence, Rajaji said in Madras that there was no rupture between Gandhiji and the Congress High Command. The AICC which met at Poona from 25 to 28 July ratified the Delhi resolution of the Working Committee. Intelligent public opinion throughout India welcomed this development. Rajaji had, of course, his own doubts about the acceptance ...
... other fellow? SATYENDRA (laughing): Yes. SRI AUROBINDO: But at one time he thought of stopping an Afghan invasion by Charkha. SATYENDRA: In my opinion he should have kept aloof after that Poona affair. SRI AUROBINDO: Quite so. Gandhi's originality lies in bringing Ahimsa into politics. Otherwise non-cooperation is nothing new. EVENING NIRODBARAN: Tagore is having a relapse again and ...
... objections. (Laughter) SATYENDRA: It seems Azad, C.R. and Nehru aren't very warm towards this new stand of Gandhi. SRI AUROBINDO: That is evident from C.R.'s speech. After the rejection of the Poona offer, they didn't know what to do. So they had to take Gandhi's help. Now they are in an impossible position. It was Venkataram Shastri, I think, who has said Congress has been making mistake after ...
... 28-36] [13] V. Venkateswara Sastrulu (Proprietor, Vavila Press, Madras), The Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Lokamanya Tilak , edited & published by S.V. Bapat, Poona, 1924, pp.36-37. [14] "After Bharati escaped to Pondicherry," writes Appa’s grand-nephew, "information regarding the freedom struggle used to be sent to Appa through ...
... marriages. I don't know whether they were real marriages or spiritual ones. He had something genuine in him. Barin used to be in ecstasies over him. SATYENDRA: Another Avatar is coming out from Poona. He will declare himself in 1941. SRI AUROBINDO: Who is that? SATYENDRA: He is claimed by those people who dissociated from the Theosophists. SRI AUROBINDO: Oh, one more of their romances! ...
... they can enter into you." I tried and did it. In three days my mind became entirely quiet and vacant, without any thoughts at all, and it was in that condition of Nirvanic silence that I went first to Poona and then to Bombay. Everything seemed to me unreal; I was absorbed in the One Reality. In that state of mind I told Lele, "I have been asked to deliver a lecture. How am I going to speak? Not a single ...
... 265, 270; Nevinson on, 269; at Surat Congress, 269ff; order to break the Congress, 271; on "Death or Life", 272; with Yogi Lele at Baroda, 274ff; Nirvanic experience, 275,322,362, 371,388-9, 572; at Poona, 276; on Ramamurti's feats, 276, 300-01; speech at National Union, 277ff; Nationalism a Religion, 277; on Revolutions, 279, 301; at Nasik, Dhulia, Amraoti, Nagpur, 280; on ahimsa, 283ff, 533; two-pronged ...
... finish. And so Sri Aurobindo concludes with the magnificent peroration: As neither the milk of Putana nor the hoofs of the demon could destroy the infant Krishna, so neither Riponism nor Poona prosecutions could check the growth of Nationalism while yet it was an indistinct force; and as neither Kamsa's wiles nor his visakanyās, nor his mad elephants nor his wrestlers could kill Krishna ...
... enslaved, the nation must become strong and free: but how? The clue to the secret lay within. Sri Aurobindo had been some of Ramamurti's facts of physical endurance, and had spoken of them earlier at Poona. Now Sri Aurobindo drew a political moral from Ramamurti's spectacular display of physical strength: We have seen Ramamurti, the modem Bhimasen, lie motionless, resistant, with a superhuman force ...
... 172 Kashmir's Dal Lake early this century (from an old postcard) 178 The temple atop Shankaracharya Hill at Srinagar (courtesy Shri Seshadri Chari) 181 View from Parvati Hill near Poona at the beginning of the century (from an old postcard) 202 Mahalakshmi, Brihadeeswaran temple, Thanjavur (courtesy Michel Danino) 205 Sri Aurobindo as a professor in Baroda (from Abhay ...
... sage-like career and the exemplary character of Babu Aurobindo Ghose whose [vigorous] writings have gained him an abiding name in the journalistic literature of India." From the Sanmitra Samaj, Poona: "We regard Srijut Aurobindo Ghose as a true champion of the Nationalists, a patriot of the patriots and a worthy model of the young generation of the Motherland. His sacrifice is great, but without ...
... of the election of the President after it is seconded. I wish to move an adjournment with a constructive proposal. Please announce me. Yours sincerely, B. G. TILAK Deccan Delegate (Poona)." This note, noticed by Nevinson, was put by a volunteer into the hands of the Chairman as he was entering the pandal with the President-Elect in procession. Tilak received no reply. Even ...
... if he has Page 23 altered his views since. Formally, he is of course a Hindu." Sayajirao was a sportsman, a patron of arts and culture. He associated with some of the eminent Poona intellectuals who were critics of the Raj. The British bureaucracy, unable to swallow his great popularity among the Nationalists, came to regard him as a 'patron of sedition' and kept filing secret ...
... of small retail trades have sprung up, the balance is greatly on the side of decline. The main causes of this condition of things are I European competition and that of such towns as Ahmedabad, Poona etc. II The Introduction of machinery. III The abandonment of ancestral professions. IV The continual drain of money from the State effected by (1) Immense purchases from Europe, Bombay ...
... Three handwritten manu-scripts, the first two entitled "The Temple on the Hill-Top". This sonnet is about an experience Sri Aurobindo had at a shrine in the temple-complex on Parvati Hill, near Poona, probably in 1902. The Divine Hearing . 24 October 1939. Three handwritten manu-scripts, one of which is entitled "Sounds". Because Thou art. 25 October 1939. Three handwritten ...
... up the Congress if everything else fails." We were greatly surprised to hear that such a telegram had been received. Nationalism has no headquarters in any one town. It is neither at Calcutta nor at Poona; it is spread all over the nation. The whole nation is the seat of Nationalism. Since this is so, we have to ask the Moderates what is meant by the expression "headquarters at Calcutta". Who sent that ...
... again; but we thought it had more respect for its prestige and more common sense than to waste it on an insufficient occasion. The Natus were deported because it was suspected that they were behind the Poona assassinations and that the assassinations themselves were part of an elaborate Maratha conspiracy. In the Punjab there was nothing but a riot; for the persistent wild rumours of the disarming of regiments ...
... possible, or, if it were possible, could not be sincere and effective. Those clauses are a sign and pledge of the Mehta-Morley Page 360 alliance and ratify the policy of which Mr. Gokhale's Poona speech was the expression, the policy of rallying the Moderates to the Government's support and crushing the Nationalists. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE The National Value ...
... and the altar is nothing more elaborate than a pile of turf." Parpola 14 himself notes in one context: "Besides 12. Sankalia, H.D., Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan, Poona: Deccan College, 1974, p. 360. 13. Piggott, S., Prehistoric India , Harmondsworth: A Pelican Book, 1960, p. 283. 14. Parpola, Asko, "The Coming of the Aryans to Iran and India and Page ...
... observes, "in Mitanni script it was impossible to reproduce Rta correctly". 7 The place in question could very 7. "The Early History of the Indo-Irānians", R.G. Bhandarkar Commemoration Volume (Poona 1917), p. 90. Page 35 well be on the borders of India neighbouring Irān. Thus the Boghaz-keui documents pose no hurdle to our rejection of the invasion-theory and to our proposal ...
... Sri Aurobindo Came to Me he even deleted all references to her. After Sri Aurobindo’s passing he left the Ashram without further ado to start, together with Indira Devi, the Hari Krishna Mandir in Poona. A permanent fruit of his sadhana and of Sri Aurobindo’s inexhaustible compassion and comprehension are the four thousand highly illuminating letters Sri Aurobindo wrote to him on various topics. ...
... suddenly had the feeling that what I needed was mountain-air to set me right. But how was I to get that refreshing atmosphere which, as I remembered, had once got rid of a troublesome fever. I was in Poona (now Pune) and had planned to go to the high plateau of Panchgani. Half way up in the bus I felt the changed air sweep the fever out and I was perfectly well thenceforward. After my fracture-accident ...
... subsequently. Heraclitus The chapters of this work first appeared in the Arya between December 1916 and June 1917. It began as an examination of Herakleitos by R D Ranade (Poona: Aryabhushana Press, 1916). Sri Aurobindo's Heraclitus was published as a book in 1941 (lightly revised), 1947 and subsequently. The Problem of Rebirth These sixteen essays ...
... immediately, as he had originally intended; impelled by an inner urge, he undertook a political tour instead in the Bombay presidency and the Central Provinces. There was no tour. Sri Aurobindo went to Poona with Lele and after his return to Bombay went to Calcutta. All the speeches he made were at this time (except those at Bombay and at Baroda) at places on his way wherever he stopped for a day or two ...
... orders", I left Chandernagore and reached Pondicherry on April 4th 1910. I may add in explanation that from the time I left Lele at Bombay after the Surat Congress and my stay with him in Baroda, Poona and Bombay, I had accepted the rule of following the inner guidance implicitly and moving only as I was moved by the Divine. The spiritual development during the year in jail had turned this into an ...
... later than A.D. 500, though some place it much earlier, - even in the first century A.D.", 1. Ibid., p. 7. 2. Ibid., pp. 25-26. 3. Annals of Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, XLVIII-XLIX, Golden Jubilee Vol., pp. 17-31. 4.R. C. Majumdar, "Ceylon", The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 234. 5."Literature", The Classical Age, p. 314. Page 559 as does ...
... the Self, the Purusha. I had these experiences when I had not yet begun Yoga and knew nothing about it. I was more or less an agnostic. Then I had two experiences of contact with the Infinite-one at Poona on the Parvati hills and the other on the Shankaracharya hill in Kashmir. Again, at Karnali, where there are many temples, I went to one of them and saw in an image of Kali the living Presence. After ...
... that gives you an experience and sometimes the experience is appropriate to the place. For instance, the sense of the Infinite I had on the Sankaracharya Hill in Kashmir or on the Parvati hills at Poona, and the perception of the reality of Goddess at the Karnali temple. PURANI (after a pause) : To return to the Herberts: I asked Hubert why the Jews are so much repressed and persecuted in Germanv ...
... book. SRI AUROBINDO: I met a Muslim scholar in Calcutta who said that Islam also has ascending planes of experience of the Divine SATYENDRA: Maybe a Sufi. SRI AUROBINDO: Bhaskarananda of Poona spoke to me of the same ascending planes. (After some time) Germany is speaking of invasion of England but again says that invasion is not necessary. Their air attacks and submarine blockade will ...
... It seems C.R. would be glad to go back to office. SRI AUROBINDO: That he feels uncomfortable is quite evident. There is no strength in his speech. SATYENDRA: If Gandhi had kept out after the Poona meeting, it would have been better for everybody. SRI AUROBINDO: Oh yes, much better. PURANI: This new Madras Governor gave a hint of conceding to Congress demands for a national government at ...
... The Hill-Top Temple Read poem > One of Sri Aurobindo's experiences, of the contact with the Infinite, was on the Hill-top Temple of the Parvati Hill in Poona. After unnumbered steps of a hill-stair I saw upon earth's head brilliant with sun The immobile Goddess in her house of stone In a loneliness of meditating air. 21.10.1939 Sri ...
... Advaita Vedanta; A philosophical reconstruction, East- West Centre Press, 1969, Honolulu, Diwanji, P. C., Bhagavad Gita and Astādhyāyī, Annuls of Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1949, Poona. Flengen, Owen, Consciousness Reconsidered, MIT Press, 1992, Cambridge: Massachusetts. Goenka, Shrihari Krishnadas (ED, TR.), Śankarabhāsya on Śrīmad Bhagavad Gītā, Gita Press, 1968, ...
... Banares. Cultural Heritage of India, The Ramakrishna Mission, Institute of Culture, 1982, Calcutta, Vol. 6. Dandekar, R.N., Vedic Bibliography, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1986, Poona, 4 Vols. Das Gupta, S.N., A History of Indian Philosophy, Motilal Banarasi dass, 1988, Delhi, 5 Vols. Das Gupta, S.N., Yoga as Philosophy and Religion, Motilal Banarasi dass, 1987, Delhi ...
... Bibliography Altekar, A.S., Education in Ancient India, Banaras, 1951. Dandekar, R.N., Vedic Bibliography (4 Vols.), Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona. Dasgupta, S.N., A History of Indian Philosophy (5 Vols.),. Cambridge University Press. Hastings. ]., Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, (13 Vols.), New York. Hiriyanna, M., Outlines ...
... on to preside over the first National Assembly ever yet convened in India. Looking round he saw the representatives of all the important centres of the Bombay Presidency, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Surat, Poona, Bombay itself, and other less populous though still important, towns; almost every district in the Madras Presidency was represented, as well as the towns of Madras, Salem, Coimbatore and others. Bengal ...
... begin? Sri Aurobindo : God knows how! It began very early perhaps. When I landed on the Indian soil a great calm and quiet descended on me. There were also other characteristic experiences – at Poona on the Parvati hills and then in Kashmir on the Shankeracharya hill, – a sense of a great infinite Reality was felt. It was very real. Then at Baroda Deshpande tried to convert me to yoga; but I ...
... I believe, Sannyasi marriage – I can't say, if it was real marriage or spiritual. But he had something real in him. Page 233 Disciple : Another Avatar is coming out from Poona. He is going to declare himself in 1941. Sri Aurobindo : No objection. But there is great danger of imagination mixing up in such things. Disciple : Can such people be suspects? ...
... everywhere and I had not got it in the steamer. That is the atmosphere of the place. Another instance is the sense of the Infinite I had at the Shankeracharya Hill at Kashmir and at Parvati Hill near Poona, and the reality of the image in a temple at Karnali near Chandod. Disciple : I asked X why the Jews are so much persecuted in Germany. He said that they were a rich minority and so they were ...
... to follow them. But I myself was not much interested in administration. My interests lay outside in Sanskrit, literature, and ¹ Govind Sakharam Sardesai, Sayaji Rao Gaekwar Yancha Sahavasat (Poona: S. Jagannath and Co., 1956), pp. 20-21. ² Ibid. p. 25. E ³ Ibid. p. 31. Page 39 in the National movement. When I came to Baroda from England I found out what the Congress ...
... manuscripts. On Translating the Upanishads: from a Baroda manuscript. The Karmayogin translations of the Isha, Kena and Mundaka were reprinted in Seven Upanishads by Ashtekar & Co., Poona in 1920. SABCL: The Upanishads, Vol. 12 19 . ELEMENTS OF YOGA Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1953 Page 384 Brief answers to elementary ...
... instructions, establishes complete silence of the mind attaining to the experience of the Silent Brahman. Gives three public speeches. January 12, 13 Speeches at Poona. January 15 "National Education" speech at Girgaum, Bombay. January 19 "The Present Situation" speech before the Bombay National Union. January 24 Speech at Nasik. January ...
... afterwards. He did not have the impartial Page 366 attitude necessary to come to a correct decision. 6. Hemchandra's explanation about the working of plague regulations at Poona is very poor. It shows he does not know the real reasons behind the action of the Chapekar brothers. (Mr. Girijashanker while writing Sri Aurobindo's biography has relied on these very undependable ...
... Following Lele's instructions, establishes complete silence of the mind, attaining to the experience of the Silent Brahman. Gives three public speeches. January 12,13 Speeches at Poona. January 15 "National Education" speech at Girgaum, Bombay. January 19 "The Present Situation" speech before the Bombay National Union. January 24 Speech at Nasik. ...
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