Rolland, Romain : (1866-1944), French novelist, playwright, essayist, biographer; known for his novel Jean-Christophe; awarded 1915 Nobel Prize for literature. Sri Aurobindo: I have heard about [Rolland’s book on Gandhi] & seen it. These European writers & thinkers I have found airy, wandering in their thought. I found another error in his book which is common to all European thinkers: it is about the Indian Spirit. He traces the influence of Buddha & Mahāvira to Gandhi; & for the European thinkers that is the whole of the Indian Spirit! ... Formerly, Rolland never thought about Asia; he was busy with his European unity & European culture etc. [Purani, p.308-09]
... Richards, I.A. 410 Richardson, Dorothy M. 35 Richardson, Jack 268 Rishabhchand 20 Robinson, Edwin Arlington 314 Rodogune 47-49,318,341 Rolland, Romain 4,5 Rose of God 42, US, 458 Roy, Dilip Kumar 462 Roy, Dwijendralal 45 Roy, Raja Rammohan 6 Samuel, Viscount 35 Santayana, George ...
... Vivekananda by his Eastern and Western Disciples, The. Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 5th edition, 1981. Nikhilananda, Swami. Vivekananda (A Biography). Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama. Rolland, Romain. The Life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel. Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama. Selection from Swami Vivekananda. Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 6th edition, 1975. Tapasyananda, Swami. ...
... 1919 Left for England to pursue further studies at Cambridge. Subhash Chandra Bose joined him subsequently. July, 1920 Met Romain Rolland in Switzerland and sang before him; Romain Rolland praised his music. 1920-1921 Passed Part I mathematical tripos and Part I music special in Cambridge. 1921 Extremely impressionable... one line after another, studied LLB to become a barrister, deposited fees for CA. Meanwhile, Rabindranath Tagore urged him to take up music as a career; Subhash and Rolland added their weight to this suggestion. Dilip wrote, "Rolland finally persuaded me to direct all my energies to the cultivation of a musical career." Learnt French, German, Italian and a little of Russian. 1922 ... (seated ) Dilip Kumar Roy and C. C. Desai Page 22 at an international conference at Lugano, Switzerland, attended by world celebrities like Bertrand Russell, Remain Rolland, Hermann Hesse, Georges Duhamel and others. Met President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. Toured Vienna, Prague, Buda- pest, etc. to speak on Indian music and culture, including Sanskrit. Nov ...
... philosophical discussion, mystical knowledge, socio-political analysis, marked by insight, energy and humour. Romain Rolland The order in which the interviews are arranged is not without meaning. Born a musician, Roy begins with Romain Rolland the literary artist who made musical experience his special study. And many utterances that go to the heart of music in... interesting type, many-sided, acutely modern and at the same time steeped in rich traditions, deeply Indian but no less widely international for that. While being a revelation of the core of Romain Rolland, Gandhi, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo, his book is also a subtle disclosure of his own being — a kind of indirect mental autobiography written with the aid of five... to society and to himself. Rolland says that an artist cannot be impervious to the misery and injustice around him, he should do his bit towards removing them, but never at the sacrifice of his own metier . No job can be done better than what one is fitted for: besides, to help humanity one need not always be social-reformist. "Do you think," asks Rolland, "that the creative endeavours ...
... criticism, philosophical discussion, mystical knowledge, socio-political analysis, marked by insight, energy and humour. Romain Rolland The order in which the interviews are arranged is not without meaning. Born a musician, Roy begins with Romain Rolland the literary artist who made musical experience his special study. And many utterances that go to the heart of music in particular... extremely interesting type, many-sided, acutely modern and at the same time steeped in rich traditions, deeply Indian but no less widely international for that. While being a revelation of the core of Romain Rolland, Gandhi, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo, his book is also a subtle disclosure of his own being - a kind of indirect mental autobiography written with the aid of five w... society and to himself. Rolland says that an artist cannot be impervious to the misery and injustice around him, he should do his bit towards removing them, but never at the sacrifice of his own métier. No job can be done better than what one is fitted for: besides, to help humanity one need not always be social-reformist. "Do you think," asks Page 169 Rolland, "that the creative ...
... Formerly she was Yvonne Robert Gaebele. Her husband had been the Mayor of Pondicherry and she herself had worked at the Museum and the Historical Society, etc., retiring as the Chief Librarian of the Romain Rolland Library. I had got acquainted with her in connection with some financial transaction between Sri Aurobindo Society and her, and she gladly consented to give me regular lessons. I went to her in ...
... into dust in a moment? If there are such great spiritual men in Europe [ as a book reviewer claimed ], they seem to have the gift of invisibility. Or perhaps he means intellectuals like Romain Rolland or else Roman Catholic priests and cardinals or the Reverend Holmes or pacifists like Lord Robert Cecil or in the past Tolstoy who spent his whole life trying in vain to live according to his ideals ...
... he used to say that from an intellectual standpoint Sri Aurobindo was a unique giant, but that from a spiritual standpoint he didn't have many realizations! Nonsense of that kind — similar to Romain Rolland's." Mother exchanged a glance of understanding with Satprem. "Well, you see, my relationship with Richard was on an occult plane, and it's difficult to touch upon it. You know, what happened ...
... Ibid., p. 194. 6. Ibid., pp. 195-96. 7. Ibid., pp. 197-98. 8. Ibid.. p. 198. 9. Romain Rolland, The Life of Ramakrishna (Calcutta: Advaita Ashram, 1974), pp. 220-21. 10. Sister Nivedita, The Master as I Saw Him (Calcutta: Ramakrishna Math, 1977), pp. 10-11. 11. Romain Rolland, op. cit, pp. 280-81. 12. Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (Calcutta:... Disciples, op. cit., vol. 1, pp. 97-98. 15. Ibid., p. 99. 16. S. N. Dhar, A Comprehensive Biography of Swami Vivekananda (Madras: Vivekananda Prakasha Kendra. 1975), Part 1, p. 142. 17. Romain Rolland, The Life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel (Calcutta: Advaita Ashram1975), p. 10. 18. Swami Vivekananda, op. cit., vol. 4, p. 187. Page 300 ...
... attendance, etc. But they are being done in France also. You must know that a famous fashionable aristocratic resort has now been given over to the working people in France. NIRODBARAN: Why then are Romain Rolland and others so enthusiastic about Russia? SRI AUROBINDO: That is because they are Socialists. But even they are getting disillusioned now. Plenty of French workers went to Russia but came back ...
... Jules Romain, a famous French writer, the Mother asked, "Those letters of Sri Aurobindo you once read out - were they on Jules Romain?" "Yes, Mother," I answered. "He who could see and hear without the use of eyes and ears? Not Remain Rolland?" Page 143 "No, Mother; it is Jules Romain." "I am asking because Romain might mean Romain Rolland." "Yes, but it is Jules Romain all right... The Mother, to be fully sure, wrote also the name on a piece of paper and showed it to me. "Then it is all right," she said. "When my brother was the Governor of the Sudan," she added, "he met Jules Romain and asked him to come here. But he never came." "You like his books very much, it seems?" "Yes, I had a whole collection of his works. I don’t know where they are now. Have you read them?" ... have read some. They are fine; some are about occult things." When the Mother was taking a French class in the Playground with a selected few of us, she read out a drama called Dictateur by Jules Romain. The reading was superb. I think a picture was taken of her while reading it. A disciple had sent through me a letter to the Mother saying that she had a strong double attraction, one for Sri Krishna ...
... SRI AUROBINDO: They live just as ordinary husbands and wives do. Even in the usual marriage, each sometimes has an independent life by mutual consent. NIRODBARAN: Yes, I have read of it in Romain Rolland. SRI AUROBINDO: Bertrand Russell is an advocate of this kind of companionate marriage, with freedom to do whatever one likes. NIRODBARAN: That is why he has divorced his wife and married ...
... Moreover, I think he always held this opinion, because he used to say that Sri Aurobindo was a unique intellectual giant... without many spiritual realizations! (The same type of stupidity as Romain Rolland's.) Well, my relationship with Richard was on an occult plane, you see, and it's difficult to touch upon. What happened was far more exciting than any novel imaginable. But he was a man who. ...
... central to her real fulfilment. It is significant that we have in India a most comprehensive statement of this task in the luminous writings of Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), who has been described by Romain Rolland as "the completest synthesis of the East and the West." Sri Aurobindo has declared that man is a transitional being, that his destiny is to be the spiritual superman, and that the present hour ...
... abiding source of knowledge that impressed me as admirable. If he had remained interested and in touch with these current human movements, I don't suppose he would have done better with them than Romain Rolland or another. But he has gone to the Yoga-view of them, the summit-view, and it is the readiness with which he has been able to do it that struck me. Page 200 I would explain his progressing ...
... central to her real fulfilment. It is significant that we have in India a most comprehensive statement of this task in the luminous writings of Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), who has been described by Romain Rolland as "the completest synthesis of the East and the West." Sri Aurobindo has declared that man is a transitional being, that his destiny Page 463 is to be the spiritual superman, and that ...
... Unfortunately they also told her some things about contemporary events which proved to be incorrect. Quite apart from that, however, the whole method seems to me harmful. What you quote from Romain Rolland is excellent. I entirely agree. I, at least, cannot give you the ultimate Secret. I am myself but a wayfarer. My experience is that all the great mystics have said the same thing. Only they have ...
... This World, which must have appeared to him more of a riddle than an explanation. For formerly he Page 209 wrote enthusiastically to me about you as a creator. I suspect also that Romain Rolland's retraction has something to do with Tagore's retraction. But I expect sooner or later he will write somewhere about your becoming a thorough introvert. There of course the whole Bengal intelligentsia ...
... the late Sir Francis Young-husband who said that it is the greatest contribution to contemporary philosophy after that of Henry Bergson. His master-piece, The Life Divine, was highly prized by Romain Rolland. In what consists the speciality of the contribution ? Apart from his spiritual experience what has he given to the world of philosophy ? There are more than three fundamental problems on which ...
... schoolboy totally out of touch with his contemporaries, who flees through different cities after his escape from school. World War I came as a terrific shock, and Hesse joined the pacifist Romain Rolland in antiwar activities — not only writing antiwar tracts and novels, but editing two newspapers for German prisoners of war. During this period, Hesse's first marriage broke up (reflected or discussed ...
... of others, caring little what happens to them, is no sign of courage or fellow-feeling. Thought, in order to justify itself, must lead to action. "Action is the end of thought", says our friend Romain Rolland. "All thought which does not look towards action is an abortion and a treachery. If then we are the servants of thought we must be the servants of action." People avoid action often because ...
... The same may be said of Balzac who is the greatest of French novelists but the worst of French writers. 13 June 1938 Romain Rolland Somnath was drawn to the spiritual life through reading novels like Jean Christophe. I have not read Jean Christophe , but Rolland is an idealist who takes interest in spiritual mysticism—not himself a man of spiritual experience. It is quite natural that ...
... fruitful in inventions which have profoundly modified not only the outer life of man but his thoughts and aspirations as well. Tout se tient (things lean upon one another and hold together,) Romain Rolland wrote to me once. Consequently, we do somewhat look askance at mystics and Yogis even when something within us is impressed by something about them which defies our analysis and therefore ...
... after having studied mathematics and music in Cambridge. He spoke several Indian languages besides English, French and German. Among his acquaintances were Mohandas K. Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell, Georges Duhamel and Subhas Chandra Bose. He would become the author of not less than seventy-five books in Bengali and twenty-six in English. It was Ronald Nixon, a former ...
... Moreover, I think he always held this opinion because he used to say that Sri Aurobindo was a unique intellectual giant... without many spiritual realisations! (The same type of stupidity as Romain Rolland's.) Well, my relationship with Richard was on an occult plane, you see, and it's difficult to touch upon. What happened was far more exciting than any novel imaginable.¹ From 1910 to 1920—these ...
... was the absolute integration of personality, the Central Idea in Aryan culture materialised in human shape, one of the greatest architects of creative life." 35 In his India on the March, Romain Rolland described Sri Aurobindo as "the completes! synthesis that has been realised to this day of the genius of Asia and the genius of Europe... the last of the great Rishis holds in his hand, in firm ...
... the Nobel Prize this year. Why, I think we should send your poems by next mail to Professor Gilbert Murray also. Qu’en dites-vous? You can send the Poems to the two Murrays. Romain Rolland said before the last war, “I will not rest “ – till the final recognition of Humanity. Let ours be a modester vow, “We will not rest till the Nobel committee crowns you. “ It will be a good ...
... est. Perhaps you could make a translation for me as you propose. But he starts with a queer proposition—Aurobindo Page 113 Ghose is a new Buddha! By the way he refers to Romain Rolland, but Rolland, I hear, is sadly disappointed with me! It was to be expected, after all; I rather thought it could be the result of closer acquaintance. November 4,1931 The new version is... gild the one or to buttress the other. August 29,1931 I return your correspondence. I see you threaten me with a world-wide publicity agent; I face the menace with equanimity. Remain Rolland has already done his best or his worst—Herr Miller can try his hand at doing one better— if or when he comes here. His wife's letter is interesting, because it is evidently very sincere. As for Bahadur ...
... thyself was their great precept, just as in India to know the Self, the Atman, became the great spiritual need, the highest thing for the human being.' * Years ago, when I used to write to Romain Rolland about him and sent him some of his messages of flame he was moved to his depths and felicitated me that I had been fortunate enough to be accepted by such a Guru. And he wrote subsequently: ...
... after having studied mathematics and music in Cambridge. Besides several Indian languages he spoke English, French and German. Among his acquaintances were Mohandas K. Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell, Georges Duhamel and Subhas C. Bose. He would become the author of no less than seventy-five books in Bengali and twenty-six in English. His attention had been drawn to Sri Aurobindo ...
... abiding source of knowledge that impressed me as admirable. If he had remained interested and in touch with these current human movements, I do not suppose he would have done better with them than Romain Rolland or another. "But he has got to the Yogic view of them, the summit view, and it is the readiness with which he has been able to do it that struck me as remarkable. "I would explain his ...
... impersonal statement from an anonymous "authoritative source". Among the Great consists of accounts of Dilip's meetings and excerpts from his correspondence with five eminent contemporaries — Romain Rolland, Mahatma Gandhi, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo. Dilip began working on his manuscript sometime during the late 1920s. Around September 1928, he sent portions of it, including ...
... For formerly he wrote to me about you enthusiastically as a creator— sab shrishtikartāi eklā—Sri Aurobindo o tai [All creators are lonely, so is Sri Aurobindo], etc. I suspect also that Romain Rolland's retraction has some- thing to do with Tagore's retraction—albeit private now, but I expect sooner or later he will write somewhere about your becoming a thorough introvert. There of course the... mortals. When I think on these lines (the physical mind alas!), I justify such doubts and think it legitimate to have some translation of these in the world of hard reality. But when I find Tagore and Rolland and Russell express the same kind of doubts I feel I love you very much and all that you stand for, however doubtful validity your claim of the Supramental Reality might have seemed to me, before... sadness, that others don't realise how great you are and are so impatient— even though I happen to be more impatient than they.... Russell has his doubts because he has no spiritual experience. Rolland because he takes his emotional intellectuality for spirituality; as for Tagore—if one is blind, it is quite natural for the human intelligence which is rather an imbecile thing at its best—to deny ...
... my first acquaintance with the French. But not so for Gurudev. He had visited France several times. He had also translated Moliere and Victor Hugo into Bengali. He not only knew famous men like Romain Rolland and Silvain Levy, but his family was very intimate with the Karpelés family. Rathindranath Tagore, the Poet's son, wrote about their visit there in 1920: "Andree Karpeles took us to an art dealer's ...
... of Vijay and Kiran regarding the exhibition in Indian Embassies for the Centenary was read. Mother said, "C'est bien." In reply to the specific question about quotations from C. R. Reddy, Romain Rolland and Rabindranath Tagore, Mother remarked that it should be in such a way that they are not prominent. * * * 6.5.72 "Nothing?" I nodded my head. * * * 7 ...
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