... He had ambition and a spirit of adventure, generosity and courage, but he was domineering, recklessly impulsive and emotionally unstable. He played a major role and blazed a trail in the revolutionary movement of Bengal, and has left a name in the history of the movement; but he could never free himself from the tragic fate that dogged his steps up to the end of his days. To take up the thread... collaboration with her was solely in the secret revolutionary field. I was busy with my work and she with hers, and no occasion arose for consultation or decisions about the conduct of the revolutionary movement. Later on, I began to make time to go and see her occasionally at Baghbazar 24 ". 25 "Then, about my relations with Sister Nivedita, they were purely in the field of politics. Sp... politics as a part of Vivekananda's work. Her book is one of the best on Vivekananda.... She was a solid worker." 26 Sister Nivedita tried to rope in the Maharaja of Baroda into the revolutionary movement, but the response she received from the astute ruler was rather cool and non-committal. He said he would send his reply through Sri Aurobindo, but "Sayajirao (the Maharaja) was much too cunning ...
... departments of the State; (2) literary activity, reading and study – this part was partly connected with college work; (3) political activity – articles in the Induprakash and beginnings of the revolutionary movement, visits to Bengal during vacations for this purpose; (4) spiritual life; (5) family life. During this period Sri Aurobindo often stayed with Khaserao Jadhav in his house at Dandia Bazar... Aurobindo, with the help of Khaserao and Madhavrao Jadhav, got him admitted to the army for training. Jatin was declared as a U .P. man, not a Bengali. Sri Aurobindo persuaded him to join the revolutionary movement he intended to launch in Bengal. Jatin agreed. He was sent to Calcutta to get men and materials for the revolutionary work in Bengal in 1900. He met P. Mitra and Bibhuti Bhushan Bhattacharya... collaboration with her was solely in the secret revolutionary field. I was busy with my work and she with hers, and no occasion arose for consultations or decisions about the conduct of the revolutionary movement. Later on I began to make time to go and see her occasionally at Bagbazar. "In one of these visits she informed me that the Government had decided to deport me and she wanted me to go ...
... erstwhile friends have turned their backs on you or betrayed you, then this man alone will stand by you, holding his head high.' This prophecy too proved to be absolutely true. In the annals of our Revolutionary Movement Tilak's name indeed shines most brightly." The youthful audience looked at one another in silent questioning puzzlement at all these strange revelations. Sri Aurobindo continued: "Whether... Bose who instructed them in the art of making bombs. An important activity of some of the leaders was to select and recruit new members for this rebel group. Thus in quite a short while the Revolutionary Movement grew strong and became widespread." "Didn't the British authorities guess what was happening?" "No! Not at all! On the contrary, they were quite pleased that the young Indians were so... 115 "She already knew me as a revolutionary; 'a worshipper of Shakti', was the term she used. That is, perhaps, why she came to Baroda to meet me. Also, to draw the Maharaja into the Revolutionary Movement. That she was part of the Movement I knew, and therefore somewhat guessed the reason for her visit to Baroda. Anyway, a friend and I went to the station to receive her. As we drove back through ...
... its secretary. Later, in London, he joined the still-born secret society the 'Lotus and Dagger' when each member vowed to work for the liberation of India. His deep interest in the Irish revolutionary movement and his admiration for Parnell were a reflection of his increasing inner preoccupation with India's own predicament, which was indeed worse than Ireland's. His first spiritual experience... above all the religious accent to the movement by equating the whole revolutionary activity with worship of Bhavani, Bhavani Bharati - these were the essential ingredients of the secret revolutionary movement as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo. The aspiration to join the movement, the rejection and sacrifice of personal interests that the aspiration involved, the total surrender of everything (including... in international Communism and in his later life the prophet of Radical Humanism. Jatin Mukherjee met Sri Aurobindo in 1903, and thereafter he was one of his principal lieutenants in the revolutionary movement. "A wonderful man," Sri Aurobindo described him in his later years, "he was a man who would belong to the front rank of humanity anywhere. Such beauty and strength together I haven't seen ...
... prince from the State of Udaipur. Sri Aurobindo joined its Bombay branch and took the oath of the party. The Thakur was actively engaged in winning over regiments of the Indian Army to the revolutionary movement. Sri Aurobindo paid a visit to Central India and met some regimental officers. He thus forged a link between eastern and western India, with Tilak working from behind in Maharashtra. Here I... Sri Aurobindo had appreciated her book Kali, the Mother. Nivedita had an interview with the Maharaja at which Sri Aurobindo was present. She tried to persuade the Maharaja to support the revolutionary movement but he merely said he would send his reply through Mr. Ghose. Of course he had no intention of joining the movement; but he seemed a little surprised that Sri Aurobindo was taking such a keen... and not at all non-violent.' ‘What about Barin,' we interposed, 'he was also fiery?' ‘But not like Nivedita. She was fire, if you like. She did India a tremendous service.' With the revolutionary movement gathering strength, Barin hit upon the idea of giving a concrete shape to Sri Ramakrishna's words heard at the spirit sessions, Mandir gado. So he stalked far and wide in the Vindhya hills ...
... Dharma' – sanatoria dharma – given by Sri Aurobindo in his Uttarpara speech be dubbed orthodox by anyone except the purblind. The author holds religion responsible for the failure of the revolutionary movement! He even asserts that religion is of no help in the regeneration of India. If he wants to maintain thereby that politics should be secular to suit modern conditions of humanity we should all... succeed? Whereas this one lead by Barin and Sri Aurobindo was small in size; it had only fifty members. Hemchandra is not right in saying that the work of Barin constituted the whole of the revolutionary movement. In any great national movement there is certainly a chance that the leaders may so act that the movement, although having all the chances of success, might come to nothing. But there... conclusions as authentic. 8. It is strange that Mr. Hemchandra, who writes so much against religion in the book, was not averse to using religious symbols while he was actually in the revolutionary movement. The Alipore Bomb Trial ¹ says that witness No. 82, Debdas Karan, ¹ Bijoy Krishna Bose, Ed., The Alipore Bomb Trial (Calcutta: Butterworth & Co., 1922). p. 81. ...
... your letter. 1 He says there were two Page 17 wings to the Independence Movement. First, there was the external political and constitutional movement. And secondly there was the revolutionary movement which meant a preparation for an armed revolt. He considered both the movements necessary and had his share in preparing both. 19 April 1949 The Swadeshi Movement (1905-1910) and Later... let us know by your example what you mean by living dangerously. I won't. It is altogether unnecessary besides. If you don't realise that starting and carrying on for ten years and more a revolutionary movement for independence without means and in a country wholly unprepared for it meant living dangerously, no amount of puncturing of your skull with words will give you that simple perception. And... tragic dangers. So— 16 January 1935 I beg to submit my apologies. I committed this folly because of ignorance of facts. Believe me, I did not know that you were the brain behind the revolutionary movement and its real leader till I read the other day what Barinbabu has written about you. I only knew that you were an extremist Congress leader, for which the Government was shadowing and suspecting ...
... teaching; he was now at the centre of the Nationalist party, directing its policy and keeping in touch with its leaders outside Bengal. And all along he maintained his links with the underground revolutionary movement while keeping an eye on the Yugantar , the powerful organ of the revolutionaries. This aspect of his secret activities was of course not known to the public at all, indeed none but his closest... aware of his actual role in the movement, and they kept the secret. Even later, when Sri Aurobindo had withdrawn from active politics, very few people knew that he was the brain behind the revolutionary movement and its real leader. I remember that in 1935, after I had joined the Ashram and had the privilege of corresponding with him daily, there was a reference in a letter from him to the days when... people may gather some courage and knowledge.' And then he wrote: 'I won't. It is altogether unnecessary besides. If you don't realise that the starting and carrying on for ten years and more a revolutionary movement for independence without means and in a country wholly unprepared for it meant living dangerously, no amount of puncturing your skull with words will give you that simple perception.' Now ...
... of physical training. There was a wrestling pit in their compound at Jorasanko and, as a young lad, Rabindranath practised wrestling. "I was neither the founder nor the leader [of the revolutionary movement in Bengal]," Sri Aurobindo said candidly. "It was P. Mitter and Miss Ghosal who started it on the inspiration of Baron Okakura. 1 They had already started it before I went to Bengal and when... informed of their work." He was still going and coming between Bengal and Gujarat. Before openly joining politics Sri Aurobindo was pushing the movement from behind. "Okakura started the revolutionary movement at Calcutta, but there was always a quarrel going on among the members." After sending his emissaries, Sri Aurobindo went personally to Bengal to see and arrange things himself. "When I came... of the revolutionary group in Bengal and they took the oath of the Society and agreed to carry out its objects on the lines suggested by Sri Aurobindo." He revealed an unknown aspect of the revolutionary movement. "It was our men who got hold of the movement in Bengal and gave it a revolutionary character. Otherwise it would have been a 1.Purani says that a Marathi gentleman, "Mr. Mandvale ...
... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes Beginnings of the Revolutionary Movement During his stay at Baroda Sri Aurobindo got into touch with men that counted, groups that counted. He went to Bengal "to see what was the hope of revival, what was the political condition of the people, and whether there... mantra of Bande Mataram and the leap into revolutionary action that changed the people of the province. [He sent some of his friends from Baroda and Bombay to Bengal to prepare for the revolutionary movement.] It was not any of his friends at Baroda and in Bombay who went to Bengal on his behalf. His first emissary was a young Bengali who had by the help of Sri Aurobindo's friends in the Baroda ...
... Principalship, leaving myself with nothing to live on. I could not have done that if money had been an incentive ... If you don't realise that starting and carrying on, for ten years and more, a revolutionary movement for independence,... Mark you, revolutionary, not non-violent! ... without means and in a country wholly unprepared for it,... Mark every word!... my apologies. I committed this folly because of ignorance of facts. Believe me. I've become a lamb (Laughter) I did not know that you were the brain behind the revolutionary movement, and its real leader, till I read the other day what Barin babu has written about you. Now I really know what is meant by the phrase "living dangerously." Of course, I was not referring to ...
... the murder of Mr. Ashe, and a few other revolutionaries. During the proceedings five pictures were garlanded with flowers, namely those of (1) the goddessKali, the patron saint of the Bengal revolutionary movement, (2) Bharat Mata, the personification of Mother India, (3) B.G. Tilak and (4) and (5) Khudiram Bose and Profulla Chaki, the two young Bengalis who threw the bomb which killed Mrs. and Miss... and some writing in Bengali. The suspicion was supposed to be created that all these refugees were carrying on correspondence with Shyamji Krishna Varma, Madame Cama and other leaders of the revolutionary movement in Europe and were trying to hatch an Indian conspiracy with their help. The investigating magistrate who came to search Sri Aurobindo's house was one M. Nandot, who arrived with the ...
... that we poor people may gather some courage and knowledge... I won't. It is altogether unnecessary besides. If you don't realise that starting and carrying on for ten years and more a revolutionary movement for independence without means and in a country wholly unprepared for it meant living dangerously, no amount of puncturing of your skull with words will give you that simple perception. And... dangers. So— January 16, 1935 I beg to submit my apologies. I committed this folly because of ignorance of facts. Believe me, I did not know that you were the brain behind the revolutionary movement and its real leader till I read the other day what Barinbabu has written about you (that does not minimise my guilt, I know). But even then I couldn't persuade myself to believe it, though ...
... declared be non-seditious. That ban seems to be just a legend. NIRODBARAN: All over India there was the impression that a ban had been put and everybody thought you were the head of the revolutionary movement. SRI AUROBINDO: That was the idea of all Englishmen. You know Olive Maidand. She was friendly with some members of the royal family. When she went back to England from here she tried to... them to her view they began to look askance at her. Lord Minto said that he could not rest his head on his pillow until he had crushed Aurobindo Ghose. He feared that I would start the revolutionary movement again, and assassinations were going on at that time. But there was no ban. On the contrary Lord Carmichael sent somebody to persuade me to return and settle somewhere in Darjeeling and ...
... leaders told them. Even then De Valera had to accept the treaty. In India there is no such possibility of country-wide rebellion, even of unarmed rebellion. NIRODBARAN: When you started the revolutionary movement, did you think it would succeed? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, I had the idea that it would succeed but found that it was not possible. SATYENDRA (after the talk had touched on several topics)... Jatin Banerji was also at Baroda station. PURANI: Which Jatin? SRI AUROBINDO: The one who was at the head of he Baroda army and then went to Calcutta and became head of the young people's revolutionary movement and afterwards became the Sannyasi Niralamba. NIRODBARAN: You spoke to Dutt, it seems about the scheme of work for the country, that it should be a many-sided activity based on Yoga and ...
... entrusted with writing a history of the Indian National Congress which he accomplished with credit. Born twenty years after the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 he was a revolutionary at heart and joined the Revolutionary Movement. When queried, Sri Aurobindo confirmed it. "Oh yes. Everybody knew of it and so he was called by the Europeans 'Disloyal Page 217 Benoybhusan with his wife Umarani... in January 1935 that Sri Aurobindo made this reply to Nirod's ignorant remarks. "If you don't realise that starting and carrying on for Page 221 ten years and more a revolutionary movement for independence ' without means in a country wholly unprepared for it meant living dangerously, no amount of puncturing of your skull with words will give you that simple perception." ...
... high the same ‘echelon’ as Aurobindo Ghose (not as high). He passed his ICS (unlike Aurobindo Ghose who chose to fail). But even when in England (1896-1899) Charu had already a foot in the revolutionary movement. He and a group of young men had pledged themselves to work for the freedom of their country and had, for this end, contacted some Irish revolutionaries. He continued such revolutionary activities ...
... the streets and broke up any meeting or manifestation which was not to their liking. Humanity being what it is, Hitler was right in concluding from History that a revolutionary idea needs a revolutionary movement to make its physical appearance and growth possible in society. He wrote: “Any ideology, though a thousand times right and supremely beneficial to humanity, will be of no practical service ...
... mixed with active movements of ananda is the prevailing condition. Page 326 The news in the papers today seems to indicate, if entirely true, the samula vinasha of the Europeanised revolutionary movement in India. If that is a true indication, it is a step in the right direction; but appearances are so deceitful that future events must be watched before the indication can be trusted. The old ...
... collaboration with her was solely in the secret revolutionary field. I was busy with my work and she with hers, and no occasion arose for consultations or decisions about the conduct of the revolutionary movement. Later on I began to make time to go and see her occasionally at Bagbazar. In one of these visits she informed me that the Government had decided to deport me and she wanted me to go into ...
... decisive but took place behind the veil; it records the show in front of the curtain My action in giving the movement in Bengal [at the beginning of the century] its militant turn or founding the revolutionary movement is very little known. 135 In some quarters there is the idea that Sri Aurobindo's political standpoint was entirely pacifist, that he was opposed in principle and in practice to all violence ...
... achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large part and take a leading position. The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity. At one moment it almost seemed as if in the very act of liberation she would fall back into the ...
... I would be interested to see what he has written about me. DR. MANILAL: His paper stopped after a short time. NIRODBARAN: It was in this paper that he said you were the leader of the revolutionary movement. I once asked you whether it was true. SRI AUROBINDO: And what did I say? NIRODBARAN: You wrote back, showing great surprise, that I didn't know what everyone knew. SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... dreams, arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large part and take a leading position. The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity. ... the old communal division into Hindus and Muslims seems now to have hardened into a permanent ...
... Nehru and others took it as a matter of policy under the-then prevailing circumstances in the country. A school of thought right through the freedom struggle continued to hold the view that the revolutionary movement using weapons of various kinds was indispensable. After India became independent, the National Policy considered Defence Services to be indispensable as a part of support to patriotism. Sri ...
... od of the Eternal.' About this time a young patriot, Amarendra Nath Chatterjee, who had contributed generously to the Swadeshi cause, met Sri Aurobindo and was initiated by him into the revolutionary movement. Many years later Amarendra wrote about this fateful meeting and recalled Sri Aurobindo's words to him: 'If we want India's independence, we have to offer everything... we should be ready to ...
... puzzle remained. For it was based on a different reason altogether. I thought that Sri Aurobindo had already taken a vow to fight for India's freedom and had already been engaged in a secret revolutionary movement before his marriage. How, then, could he contract any marriage? Knowing very well what would be the consequence of his political struggle against a strong and powerful alien Government how ...
... it invades individuals and groups and inhibits creativity and expression. Oppression aims at preserving itself; it perpetuates the division of the oppressor and the oppressed; it resists any revolutionary movement advocating dialogue, co-operation, unity, humanization, and spiritualization. In the teaching- learning process, oppression tends to perpetuate the status quo. It advises teachers to teach ...
... one plate full of thick rotis and a big bell-metal bowl of melted ghee. He would dip the roti in the bowl of ghee and eat. That was all he ate. The Maharaja used to help the country's revolutionary movement by giving money which would be sent to my grandfather in our house. This is how the revolutionary group collected money. Page 47 It was said that the Maharaja's ancestors ...
... was away in Australia. I In those days I was not particular about telling the truth and I was a great coward. Nobody could have imagined that later on I could face the gallows or carry on a revolutionary movement. In my case I it was all human imperfection with which I had to start, feel all the difficulties before embodying the Divine Consciousness.”² ¹. See Appendix VI, Houses in England, pp ...
... birthday in Pondicherry. 1912 July 3 Letter to Motilal Roy. Through his correspondence with Motilal and others Sri Aurobindo keeps in contact with the revolutionary movement in Bengal. 1913 April Change of residence to Rue de Mission Etrangere (Mission Street). October Change of residence to Rue Francois Martin (the "Guest House") 1914 ...
... selfless, self-perfecting workers dedicated to the service of the country and the community, the Rowlatt Committee Report has recorded that the pamphlet "really contains the germs of the Hindu revolutionary movement in Bengal". Anyhow, soon after writing Bhawani Mandir, Sri Aurobindo was in the 'thick of the fight' and no wonder the bureaucracy interpreted the pamphlet in the worst possible light. There ...
... Marathi, Yogi Aurobindo Ghose, Girija Shankar Roy Chowdhury's so called life of Sri Aurobindo which appeared serially in the Bengali monthly, Udbodhan, and Hemchandra Das's story of the revolutionary movement in Bengal. I had occasion to refer to Sri Aurobindo all the doubtful points of these books for correction or corroboration. This gave me the correct ground for his biography. I had been ...
... and some writing in Bengali. The suspicion was supposed to be created that all these refugees were carrying on correspondence with Shyamji Krishna Varma, Madame Cama and other leaders of the revolutionary movement in Europe and were trying to hatch an Indian conspiracy with their help. Page 149 The investigating magistrate who came to search Sri Aurobindo's house was one M. Nandot ...
... respect them, honour them. They stood with Sri Aurobindo from the beginning, and that is why they had to bear the brunt of the struggle for Independence. They were the pioneers of Sri Aurobindo’s revolutionary movement. They lived not only as revolutionary lieutenants, but followed Sri Aurobindo to Pondicherry and remained with him until their last breath. Sudhir-da – True Bhakta of the Mother NIRODBARAN ...
... celebration of Sri Aurobindo's birthday in Pondicherry. 1912—July 3 Letter to Motilal Roy. Through his correspondence with Motilal and others Sri Aurobindo keeps in contact with the revolutionary movement in Bengal. 1913 — April Change of residence to Rue des Missions Etrangères (Mission Street). October Change of residence to Rue François Martin 9 (the "Guest House"). ' ...
... through terror. 37 Many years later, the Rowlatt Committee's Report (1917) also pointed out, as if taking its cue from Mr. Denham, that Bhawani Mandir "really contains the germs of the Hindu revolutionary movement in Bengal", and further indicted the pamphlet as "a remarkable instance of the perversion of religious ideals for political purposes". 38 On the other hand, the Marquess of Zetland writing ...
... own utter TruthConsciousness or All-Knowledge wedded to Executive Infallibility, such failures or feeble successes were bound to continue. In earlier years, when Sri Aurobindo led the revolutionary movement in Bengal from behind the scenes, for all the sterling idealism and noble courage and readiness for sacrifice on the part of the young men, there had been mistakes and defeats leading to ...
... that both extremes are exactly the same thing—at once a single and innumerable whole. 10 Over there, in Calcutta, Sri Aurobindo was discovering the same truth, while fully engaged in his revolutionary movement, and experiencing the infinitudes of the Spirit in the very midst of the most violent or most commonplace everyday actions. Most of the religions have put their curse upon Matter, He would ...
... — Talks with Sri Aurobindo by Nirodbaran. 17. "Lord Minto said that he could not rest his head on his pillow until he had crushed Aurobindo Ghose. He feared that I would start the Revolutionary Movement again, and assassinations were going on at that time." — Talks with Sri Aurobindo by Nirodbaran. Page 365 Rue Francois Martin. We too had come. Two or three of the Tamil ...
... about telling the truth and I was a great coward virtually and I was weak physically. Only my will was bright. Nobody could have imagined that [later on] I could face the gallows or carry on a revolutionary movement. In my case it was all human imperfection with which I had to start and feel all the difficulties before embodying the Divine Consciousness." 1. Elder brother (= Manmohan). ...
... Bhawani Mandir. "Couched in sparkling English, the booklet is a piece of inspired writing. These ideas seem indeed to have been the mainspring behind Sri Aurobindo's activities in support of the revolutionary movement." So that the readers may judge for themselves the truth or otherwise of the above statements, we give here a few extracts from Bhawani Mandir. OM Namas Chandikayai A temple ...
... Yugantar still exists and is as violent as ever." When the Government's own violent repression failed to suppress the paper, it enacted a new 'Act' in 1908 against the Swadeshi press. The revolutionary movement in Bengal was spearheaded by a band of young men under the leadership of Barin, who worked among schoolboys giving them religious, moral and Page 277 political education. ...
... confirms Page 587 the existence of the electron and sets forth the 'planetary model' of the atom. October — In China, formation of the Kuo-min-tang by Sun-Yat-Sen; revolutionary movement against the Manchu dynasty. December 12 -'Delhi Durbar' for the visit of King George V. December 14 — Norwegian explorer Amundsen is the first to reach the South Pole. 1912 ...
... Words of Long Ago A Leader It was in January 1907, shortly after the sanguinary crushing of the revolutionary movement in Russia. A few friends and I had assembled in a small group for philosophical studies, when we were informed of the presence of a mysterious visitor asking to be admitted. We went out to meet him, and in the anteroom we saw a man ...
... 1st of May, 1908 and detained in Alipore jail for a year. The British Government, taking its stand on his articles and the reports of his speeches, held him in fact responsible for the entire revolutionary movement. ...
... political activities.] 1 Imprisonment— Thrice prosecuted; first for sedition and acquitted then in 1908 along with his brother Barindra, (one of the chief leaders of the revolutionary movement) Page 14 on a charge of conspiracy to wage war against the established Government. Acquitted after a year's detention as an under-trial prisoner, mostly in a solitary cell ...
... le dreams, arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large part and take a leading position. The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity. At one moment it almost seemed as if in the very act of liberation she would fall back into the ...
... partly to visit some of the revolutionary centres already formed, but also to meet leading men in the districts and find out the general attitude of the country and the possibilities of the revolutionary movement. His experience in this journey persuaded him that secret action or preparation by itself was not likely to be effective if there were not also a wide public movement which would create a universal ...
... dreams, arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large part and take a leading position. The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity. At one moment it almost seemed as if in the very act of liberation she would fall back into ...
... innate powers of reasoning does not concern us at all. Everyone knows that the statement is untrue. The boycott was no doubt the final cause of the hooliganism in the East just as the Russian revolutionary movement was the final cause of the excesses of the Black Hundred, but it was in no way the immediate and efficient cause. It was the final cause in this sense that its first success compelled Sir Bampfylde ...
... denied to them before and overturned the whole social hierarchy. Hence the collapse of the old world and the birth of a new age. We have already seen the inner justification of this great revolutionary movement. The nation-unit is not formed and does not exist merely for the sake of existing; its purpose is to provide a larger mould of human aggregation in which the race, and not only classes and ...
... allure national, conservative and traditional Germany, including the idealists, who were much more influenced by all these notions than they themselves realized. Hitler masterly conducted his revolutionary movement to exploit these elements in the mentality of the German population, and few escaped the spell of the music of this Pied Piper. “Thus a generation of young men and women could be duped with ...
... or on their way to achievement.’ 2 Sri Aurobindo then sums up those five ‘dreams’ one after the other. Let us have a closer look at them. 1. India ‘The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity.’ To Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, India was not a mass of land but a being, a goddess, ‘just ...
... India may well play a large part and take a leading position.’ Then Sri Aurobindo enumerates and briefly considers these world-movements – his five ‘dreams.’ ‘The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India.’ Chapter five in this book gave us some idea of the prominent role Sri Aurobindo played in the realization of this dream, and his intervention at ...
... le dreams, arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large part and take a leading position. The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity. (...) The old communal division into Hindus and Muslims seems now to have hardened into a permanent ...
... grateful to Dada [Manmohan).... In those days I was not particular about telling the truth always and I was a bit of a coward. Nobody could imagine that I could face the gallows or carry on a revolutionary movement. In my case it was all human imperfection with which I had to start....' The three brothers were now virtually stranded: the father silent, no remittances, food scarce. In this crisis they ...
... development. I was a great coward virtually and I was weak physically and could not do anything. Only my will was bright. Nobody could have imagined that I could face the gallows or carry on a revolutionary movement. In my case it was all human imperfection with which I had to start and feel all the difficulties before embodying the divine Consciousness. Disciple : Moti Babu told us that you caught ...
... NIRODBARAN: Barin also wrote that you were the leader and brain of the movement. SRI AUROBINDO: My connection with the movement began before I openly joined politics. Okakura started the revolutionary movement at Calcutta, but there was always a quarrel going on among the members. When I came to Calcutta, I came in contact with the party. They had no organisation at all. Their main programme was ...
... comprised even the lower middle classes. NIRODBARAN: Has it diminished the spirit of revolution? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. NIRODBARAN: Was it Anderson, the Governor of Bengal, who killed the revolutionary movement? SRI AUROBINDO: Certainly not. It was the Force behind that receded and people became corrupted. No such leaders as before were forthcoming. NIRODBARAN: Is the last terrorist movement ...
... the day were his disciples—the first, I forgot his name, started the nationalist university, the second was Bipin Pal and the third Monoranjan Guha Thakurtha. It is said that the nationalist revolutionary movement was the outcome of his own movement. NIRODBARAN: How? SRI AUROBINDO: Because he used to stress work, action! NIRODBARAN: The Calcutta people, the organisers of the celebration, want ...
... adding anything of its own, calmly, dispassionately, though with the joy of the Truth and the happy power and light of its passage. 41 Need we recall that Sri Aurobindo was then leading a revolutionary movement and preparing guerrilla warfare in India? Page 44 Chapter 5 Consciousness A disciple once had to make a critical decision. He wrote to Sri Aurobindo for ...
... brief but decisive intervention in national politics during 1906-10, Sri Aurobindo awakened the slumbering soul of the nation to an appreciation of its high destiny; he also organised a secret revolutionary movement, besides participating in open political activity as a Nationalist. When the broad lines of action necessary for political liberation had been firmly laid down, Sri Aurobindo withdrew to P ...
... Gurukulas and Ashrams. When young men were first drawn to Sri Aurobindo - at Baroda, and later at Calcutta - it was because he was the apostle of Nationalism and the high-priest of the revolutionary movement. There was, of course from the first a visionary look in his eyes, which struck everyone; they could hardly help whispering, " Did you look at his eyes?" After the experience of the silent ...
... he had enlisted some high Government officials (like C.C. Dutt) to the cause, he had toured Bengal secretly, he had watched with some satisfaction the stretching out of the tentacles of the revolutionary movement to the remotest villages of Bengal, and he had even tried through Yoga to perfect the instrument that was one day to be wholly consecrated to the service of the Mother. In the meantime, he ...
... futile. When Mirra asked him how exactly her group could help him, he felt somewhat reassured, and he frankly placed his cards on the table. Page 32 At the centre of the revolutionary movement in Russia was a small group of idealists of whom he was one. In their ardour to see Justice, Liberty and Love triumph, they had decided to meet sword by sword, but for a physician and a ...
... round anybody. His idea was to become the undisputed leader of Bengal by using the nationalists for the sword and the moderates for the public face. In private he would go up to and accept the revolutionary movement. He even wanted to set up a provincial board of control of the revolutionaries! Barin once took a bomb to him and he was full of enthusiasm. He even had a letter from Suren Banerji, when he ...
... our father, Narendranath Das Gupta. It is for this occasion that I have got down to writing these reminiscences. How many memories come to my mind! Father was a distinguished worker in the revolutionary movement of that time even though his name never appeared in public. Sri Aurobindo was his guru on the path of sadhana. Bagha Jatin (Jatindranath Mukherjee) was his guide and mentor in the field of ...
... War” p. 76 Page 233 to achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large part and take a leading position. "The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity. At one moment it almost seemed as if in the very act of liberation she would fall back into ...
... politics was causing alarm to the rulers. Already, the Intelligence Bureau was categorical that Arabindo Ghose was "the chief of the Yugantar band, who has exercised a greater influence over the revolutionary movement in India than perhaps any other man." 2 1. Life-Work of Sri Aurobindo. 2.West Bengal govt.'s I. B. Records (L.N.54A). From Haridas and Uma Mukherji's Sri Aurobindo ba Banglar ...
... join the new-fangled Moderate Convention which were the two decisive happenings at Surat." He then added, "Even my action in giving the movement in Bengal its militant turn or founding the revolutionary movement is very little known." The morning of Friday, 27 December, dawned. Few had slept the two previous nights as the emissaries went back and forth. Amid uncertainty a general anticipation ...
... and old women, and were taken unawares at the rapid rise of the Nationalist Movement. "The Government," Page 454 recalled Sri Aurobindo, "were absolutely taken by surprise when our Movement was launched. They never expected that Indians could start revolutionary activities." He reflected a moment. "The Movement and the Secret Society became so formidable that in any other country with... 1908, the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, Sir Andrew Fraser, said that the public Page 456 records which he had collected, "make him the undisputed leader of the Bengal revolutionaries." The Movement must be throttled. The 'most dangerous man' must be severely dealt with. It was Judge Beachcroft who put his finger on the hub. "His ideal is independence," he wrote about Sri... met young people of the Secret Society. Barin had not told him that they were revolutionaries. Nor did he tell Lele what they were doing in the Maniktola Garden. Lele on his several visits met Upen, Prafulla Chaki, and other young men and boys. He understood. Upen says that Lele tried to wean them from their revolutionary activities. He also told them that India's independence would come inevitably ...
... upheaval in the artistic world, of which the consequences are still very much with us today, although its real scope and significance are not sufficiently realized. We are talking about the revolutionary artistic movement called Impressionism. In the early 1860s a group of painters, for reasons they were mostly still unable to formulate, started working in a way that ran counter to all the standardized... dared not go to theatres, to restaurants, to the fashionable shops in the Rue de la Paix or to ride in the Bois [de Boulogne] where anarchists were suspected behind every tree.’ 35 The Russian revolutionaries who would come to ask for Mirra’s advice a few years later, would complain that they were constantly shadowed by the police, who suspected them of being anarchists. And there was the Dreyfus... show in all history, was being prepared. And Impressionism – thanks to the passion for perceptual honesty in that group of diverse characters, who all possessed a stroke of genius – was the first movement leading to an era of profound change, the end of which is not yet in sight. The Mother said more than once that all the great cultural periods in history have been brought about by ‘families of ...
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