... temperament. At the other end, forming the ascetic and purely spiritual extreme of the Indian life-mind, we find the religious community Page 420 and, again, this too takes a communal shape. The original Vedic society had no place for any Church or religious community or ecclesiastical order, for in its system the body of the people formed a single socio-religious whole with no separation... time to distinguish the religious from the mundane life and tended to create the separate religious community, was confirmed by the rise of the creeds and disciplines of the Buddhists and the Jains. The Buddhist monastic order was the first development of the complete figure of the organised religious community. Here we find that Buddha simply applied the known principles of the Indian society and polity ...
... underlying principle of the Indian politico-social system was a synthesis of communal autonomies, the autonomy of the village, of the town and capital city, of the caste, guild, family, kula , religious community, regional unit. The state or kingdom or confederated republic was a means of holding together and synthetising in a free and living organic system these autonomies. The imperial problem was to ...
... that for which they stand, that which they try blindly to express. This has been the rule not only with the nation, but with Page 37 all communities. A Church is an organised religious community and religion, if anything in the world, ought to be subjective; for its very reason for existence—where it is not merely an ethical creed with a supernatural authority—is to find and realise ...
... regarded as a perpetual virgin in spite of all the Gospels clearly speaking of the brothers and sisters of Jesus. No doubt, the terms "brothers" and "sisters" are applicable to members of a religious community, but where family relationships are concerned the New Testament is quite explicit in distinguishing brothers and sisters from cousins. The Church has been dishonest to argue the contrary. When ...
... order, without reality, and which is held together by only illusory ties. Here, these ties were symbolized by the hotel's walls, while actually in ordinary human constructions (if we take a religious community, for example), they are symbolized by the building of a monastery, an identity of clothing, an identity of activities, an identity even of movement—or to put it more precisely: everyone wears ...
... against the German way of life … Emperor Frederick would restore Germany to the position of supremacy which God intended for her … The future Empire was indeed to be nothing less than a quasi-religious community of the German spirit. This is what the Revolutionary had in mind when he cried, jubilantly: ‘The Germans once held the whole world in their hands and they will do so again, and with more power ...
... centrifugal tendency of an extraordinary number and variety of disparate elements, the family, the commune, the clan, the caste, the small regional state or people, the large linguistic unit, the religious community, the nation within the nation. We may perhaps say that here Nature tried an experiment of unparalleled complexity and potential richness, accumulating all possible difficulties in order to arrive ...
... of the transformation began, a phase that has expanded today to a world scale. Page 297 Third Phase – The Ashram 374 In India an "ashram" is traditionally a spiritual or religious community whose members are gathered around a Master and who have renounced the world to devote themselves to meditation, concentration, and yogic practices in order to attain "liberation." As we might ...
... result of his administration the express or tacit will of the people. The religious liberties of the commons were assured and could not normally be infringed by any secular authority; each religious community, each new or long-standing religion could shape its own way of life and institutions and had its own Page 392 authorities or governing bodies exercising in their proper field an entire ...
... political authority, the sovereign in his Council aided by the public assemblies. It was not the business of the state authority to interfere with or encroach upon the free functioning of the caste, religious community, guild, village, township or the organic custom of the region or province or to abrogate their rights, for these were inherent because necessary to the sound exercise of the social Dharma. All ...
... his real “granite foundation”, till the last day of his life. There is the foreignness and the danger represented by the Jewish people; there is the affirmation that the Jews are a race, not a religious community; and there is the statement that the ultimate aim of the struggle against the Jews must be, “unshakeably”, their elimination – whatever this word my have meant to Hitler in 1919. 23 Mayr has ...
... intimidated. Now his zealous Christian side, the complement of his hatred of the Jews, came to the fore. He founded the Geistchristliche Religionsgemeinschaft, which may be translated as “Religious Community of Christian Intellectuals”. In 1930 he called Hitler “a sentimental dreamer and babbler”. The future of the nationalist-völkisch movement was not “in the hands of Hitler or of para-military ...
... the law of his needs and desires, between the moral law proposed to society and the physical and vital needs, desires, customs, prejudices, interests and passions of the caste, the clan, the religious community, the society, the nation. The moralist erects in vain his absolute ethical standard and calls upon all to be faithful to it without regard to consequences. To him the needs and desires of the ...
... the whole thing is held together only by illusory links, which were symbolised here by the walls of the hotel, and which, in fact, in ordinary human constructions—if we take as an example a religious community—are symbolised by the monastery building, identical clothes, identical activities, even identical movements—I'll make it more clear: everybody wears the same uniform, everybody rises at the same ...
... from the scene; far from it. It is quite on the cards that the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry will over the years develop into a thriving cultural institution; or, perhaps, into a vibrant religious community whose members will be bound by "a credal adherence, a formal acceptance of its ethical standards and a conformity to institution, ceremony and ritual." (The Life Divine, p. 1058). But what ...
... the underlying principle of the Indian politico-social system was a synthesis of communal autonomies, the autonomy of the village, of the town and capital city, of the caste, guild, family, religious community, regional unit. The state or kingdom or confederated republic was a means of holding together and synthesizing in a free and living organic system these autonomies. The imperial problem was to ...
... towns of the Presidencies and formed as teaching and examining bodies with purely academic aims: Benares and Aligarh had a different origin but were all-India institutions serving the two chief religious communities of the country. Andhra University has been created by a patriotic Andhra initiative, situated not in a Presidency capital but in an Andhra town and serving consciously the life of a regional ...
... towns of the Presidencies and formed as teaching and examining bodies with purely academic aims: Benaras and Aligarh had a different origin but were all-India institutions serving the two chief religious communities of the country. Andhra University has been created by a patriotic Andhra initiative, situated not in a Presidency capital but in an Andhra town and serving consciously the life of a regional ...
... of the Sangha. Otherwise, your success will be your failure. But he does not seem to have listened to it. Page 146 (After a pause) There were other religious communities of this sort before. The Dukhobar Community in Russia was very powerful and well organized, strong in its faith. They held together in spite of all persecution. At last they had to emigrate to Canada. One of their... by numbers, not by their names – it was inconvenient to remember their names. There was another community in America which did not allow marriage among its members. Disciple : Do you know if any communities are there in India? Sri Aurobindo : The Sikhs are the only community organized on a religion. Thakur Dayananda established or tried to establish an order of married Sannyasins... Sri Aurobindo : That was my idea when I proposed to Motilal to have a spiritual commune. – I don't call it Commune but a Sangha – a Community based on spirituality and living its own economic life; it would have its own agriculture, and a net work of such communities spread all over the country would interchange its products among themselves. Disciple : You gave him the idea of the paper also ...
... Europe, i.e., each community was not fighting for its own interest; but there was the idea of Dharma, the function which the individual and the community has to fulfil in the larger national life. There were caste organizations not based upon a religio-social basis as we find nowadays; they were more or less guilds, groups organized for a communal life. There were also religious communities like the Buddhists... of individual liberty in the present sense of the term, but there was absolute communal liberty. Every community was completely free to develop its own religion—the law of its being. Even the selection of the line was a matter of free choice for the individual.... In ancient times each community had its own Dharma and within itself it was independent; every village, every city had its own organization... But all this was not put into a definite political unit. There were, of course, attempts at that kind of expression of life but they were only partially successful. The whole community in India was a very big one and the community culture based on Dharma was not thrown into a kind of [political or national] organization which would resist external aggression. April 18, 1923 (The short-lived ...
... each community was not fighting for its own interest; but there was the idea of Dharma, the function which the individual and the community has to fulfil in the larger nation.al life, There, were Page 45 caste organisations not based upon a religio-social basis as we find nowadays; they were more or less groups organised for a communal life. There were also religious communities... European idea that makes you think that the parliamentary form or constitution is the best. We had great communal liberty and the communities were the centres of power and of national life. The king could not infringe the right of the commune. Disciple : The communities must be strong and living enough not to allow their rights to be snatched away. Sri Aurobindo : It was so; the king... all. Disciple : Was there no such thing in ancient India ? Sri Aurobindo : There was; you need not have the same thing to-day. In India the communal freedom was very great. The communities had great powers and the State had no autocratic authority. The State was a kind of general supervising agency of all the communities. What these modern princes can do is to create great centres ...
... have limited their exploration to the more accessible regions of the soul and the mind. Practitioners of the individual inner exploration are not welcome in the body of the established religious communities, ruled by dogma and authority. In the West, where they are called ‘mystics’, hardly a single one has escaped persecution by the Church, and many have paid with their life for the truthful confession... about the philosophical and political manias of Russian communism, Nazism or Maoism, or of the general aggressive egoistic attitude of individual versus individual, community versus community, caste versus caste, nation versus nation, culture versus culture. The egocentric, sectarian functioning of the mind is part of our evolutionary condition, as is its fear and insecurity. Education, inculcation... passages from Deuteronomy and other books constituting the Bible are ready ammunition for use by the anti-religious, not entirely without justification, for the Bible has provided, in the West, the religious and moral inspiration for centuries. Another easily accessible provision of anti-religious ammunition is the history of Christianity. As soon as Catholicism was recognized as the official church ...
... and various charters of world bodies like the United Nations such as Charter of Human Rights to which almost all nations are signatories. * In countries, like India, where various religious groups, communities, linguistic groups, tribes, geographical variations abound, values are varied and at times conflicting. The resolution of such conflicts is a matter of concern to the country at large. The... religion. At the same time, common teachings of all religions can be used to reinforce values and also teach religious tolerance and understanding to children. *It should be an important objective of value education to make children aware of the fact that the whole world is now a community of interdependent nations and survival and well-being of the people of the world depends on mutual co-operation... lurking suspicion that value education might be used for religious education. *India is multi-religious country and comprises of multicultural societies. The constitution of the Republic of India is based on the concept Page 662 of secularism. Therefore, it is imperative to distinguish value education from religious education or even education about religions. * If ...
... during holidays outside school hours. *community singing programmes, National Integration Camps, the National Social Service, National Cadet Corps, Scouts, and guides programme. *cultural activities, play, debates etc. on appropriate themes. School may organize joint celebrations of the important occasions and festivals of major religious and cultural groups. Page 322 ... violence, dishonesty, drug abuse and sexual promiscuity arise from a common core— the absence of good character. *People do not automatically develop good character. Families, schools, religious communities, youth organisation, Government and media must make intentional, collaborative and focused efforts to foster good values. *Good character consists of moral knowing, moral feeling and moral... for children of classes VI-VII based on the stories and parables drawn from Sikhism (in Press). These stories and parables are powerful pedagogical tools for inter-religious dialogue. NCERT has produced recorded cassettes of fifteen community songs in twelve different languages to instil in children the spirit of unity and love for the country. NCERT has produced films, video and audio cassettes highlighting ...
... general, in the Achaemenid inscriptions starting from the one of c. 520-518 B.C. at Behistun. Aśoka had a community of Yonas as his subjects, and in some versions of R.E. XIII he tells us that there is no country in his empire except that of the Yonas where are not found those two religious orders, the Brāhmanas and the Śrāmanas. This exclusive distinction is precisely what we should expect if the... Inscriptions..., p. 159, PI. II. 2. Le Journal Asiatique, CCL II, Année 1966, Fascicule No. 2, Paris, "Edits d'Aśoka en Traduction Grecque", p. 156. Page 356 these religious communities are found among all the peoples "except among the Yonas". Benveniste 1 comments that this restriction does not appear at Shāhbāzgarhī and he would like to know how the phrase was conceived... have no relation with Buddhism. If they are at all derived and not independently developed, they may well reflect Assyrian religious symbolism. All in all, there are no positives to go by. Not that the ancient Western world was quite unaffected by Buddhism. The Jewish religious body known as the Essenes, as early as the middle of the 2nd century B.C., seems to have been affected in subtle ways by ...
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