Roy, Raja Rammohan : (1772-1833): son of Rāmākānta Roy, manager of some estates of the Maharaja of Burdwan: studied Persian & Arabic at Patna & Sanskrit at Benares in which he was particularly well-versed: at 15 published his first famous work on Idolatry in Bengali contending that the popular religion of the Hindus was contrary to the practice of their ancestors & the doctrine of the ancient authorities: incurred his father’s displeasure & was turned out of the house: wandered for 4 years even to Tibet: readmitted by his mother on his father’s death: at 21 he studied of English, French, Latin, Greek & Hebrew: employed in the Collectorate at Rangpur: rose to be Sarishtadār, but retired 1813: commenced a crusade against popular religion: translated Vedanta, Vedantasāra & Upanishads in Bengali & later in English: studied Koran in Arabic, Old Testament in Hebrew & New Testament in Greek: in 1820 published Precepts of Jesus, the Guide to Peace & Happiness in Sanskrit & Bengali in which he denied the Divinity of Christ. This brought him into controversy with the Serampur Missionaries & on their refusal to print his Final Appeal he established a press of his own: Dr Marshman [see Friend of India, Statesman] answered him, & the publications attracted considerable attention in England & America: Rammohan soon after founded a periodical called The Brāhmaṇical Magazine$, with the object of defending the religious books of the Hindus & formed a religious association called the Atmya Sabhā & in 1828 founded the Brahmo Samāj “for worship & adoration of the Eternal, Unsearchable, Immutable Being, who is the Author & Preserver of the Universe.” The objects of the new Church were described in the trust-deed of 1830. This new Theism aimed at “the calm worship of the Deity, the practice of virtue & charity, reverence for all that sincere & helpful in every faith, & active participation in every movement for the bettering of mankind.” He claimed to have established a pure monotheistic form of worship for the benefit of Hindus, Muhammadans & Christians. As a social reformer he preached against Sati, polygamy & Kulinism, & advocate remarriage of widows. In 1830, he received the title of Raja from the ex-Emperor of Delhi, & was deputed by him to visit England, to advocate certain claims. There, as a republican in his politics, he was well received by the reforming liberals & advanced thinkers. Max Müller, Monier Williams, the poet Campbell, Brougham & Bentham befriended him. In 1833, on the invitation of Dr. Carpenter he went to live at Bristol & while meditating a voyage to America died of fever at Stapleton Grove on Sep.27, 1833. He was the founder of the Hindu College, Calcutta, in 1817, & in 1823 addressed a letter to Lord Amherst (1773-1857) Gov.-General (1823-28) on the comparative merits of English & Sanskrit education. [Buckland]
... 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 266,372 Sarma,D.S. 33 Sartre, Jean-Paul 268 Sassoon, Siegfried 390 Savage, D.S. 34 ...
... great reformer, Raja Rammohan Roy (1772-1833). He is considered to be the inaugurator of the modern age in India. He was against all social evils and did a lot to end them. "Ram Mohan Roy arose with a new religion in his hand." In 1828 he started the Brahmo Movement, which recognized only the Formless One. He insisted that true Hinduism was and should be based on the Vedanta. The Raja went to England... Mother's Chronicles - Book Four 9 Raja Rammohan Roy As for the British and the French, our historian, Sisir Kumar Mitra, says, "The last days of the Muslim rule were marked by political and social evils of the worst type undermining the integrity and morale of the administration, laying the country open to any aggression from outside.... after some forty to fifty years. His grave is in Bristol. The edifice raised by Dwarakanath Tagore in 1843 —his grandson Rabindranath visited it in 1920 —is now crumbling. Raja Rammohan Roy never denied he was a Hindu; nor did his immediate successors. The Brahmo Movement was considered by them to be an improved, a reformed version of Hinduism. The Movement was basically a social one; the reforms ...
... policy has recently appeared in the columns of the Bengalee . The heads of the defence practically reduce themselves to two or three arguments. 1) The policy of petitioning was recommended by Raja Rammohan Roy, has been pursued consistently since then and has been eminently successful—at least whatever political gains have been ours in the last century, have been won by this policy. 2) Supposing... why should not we? We believe this is a fair summary of our contemporary's contentions. We are not concerned to deny the antiquity of the petitioning policy, nor its illustrious origin. Raja Rammohan Roy was a great man in the first rank of active genius and set flowing a stream of tendencies which have transformed our national life. But what was the only possible policy for him in his times and ...
... current trends and also bowing to the weight of authoritative opinion (Rammohan Roy on the one hand, Macaulay on the other), Lord William Bentinck's Government resolved in 1835 to give official support to "English education alone". This was the real effective beginning of the "new education". The role of Raja Rammohan Roy in this phase of India's renaissance was most important, and indeed the... for leadership as the qualities that mark "greatness" in men, and ended by saluting Rammohan Roy as a man who thus fully qualified for greatness. A Rishi, a Mahapurusha, Rammohan was — and Ranade himself has been called a modern Rishi by V.S. Srinivasa Sastri. What an inspiring calendar of modern Rishis: Rammohan, Keshab Chunder Sen, Debendranath Tagore, Vidyasagar, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Narayana... and brought to the country a new birth, a new life, a new creation. 28 A Colossus though Rammohan was, he too had his collaborators, and he .was blessed in his successors who in their own several ways continued his noble work of galvanising the Hindu fold and the Indian nation. Even a critic of Rammohan like Radhakanta Dev served only to temper the quality of the new thought and the new life ...
... long as men differ in intellect, in temperament, in spiritual development, there must be different religions and different sects of the same religion. The Brahmo Samaj was set on foot in India by Rammohan Roy with the belief that this would be the one religion of India which would replace and unite the innumerable sects now dividing our spiritual consciousness. But in a short time this uniting religion... intolerant of any centre of strength in the country other than itself as the British bureaucracy. There were three actual centres of organised strength in pre-British India,—the supreme ruler, Peshwa or Raja or Nawab reposing his strength on the Zamindars or Jagirdars; the Zamindar in his own domain reposing his strength on his retinue and tenants; and the village community independent and self-existent ...
... was extremely lean. He never sat down to write, but always did it standing." The son outdid his father. We shall see how by and by. Rajnarain writes, "He was one of the first disciples of Raja Rammohan Roy, and even worked as his secretary for some time after leaving school. My father was a believer in Vedanta; he died uttering OM, OM, OM. It was on 5 December 1845, at the age of forty-three." ...
... country and included all the fields of culture. The sole exception was in the political field; for, till the end of the nineteenth century, British rule was accepted as a beneficent development. Raja Rammohan Roy publicly thanked God for having placed India under the British rule. Prasanna Kumar Tagore declared: "If we were asked what government we would prefer, English or any other, we would one and all ...
... to Sejda. Sri Aurobindo himself practised automatic writing for a time at Calcutta and at Pondicherry. The book Yogic Sadhan was written at Pondicherry in that fashion —the 'spirit' was Raja Rammohan Roy. "The writing was done as an experiment as well as an amusement and nothing else," stated Sri Aurobindo. "I may mention here the circumstances under which it was first taken up. Barin had ...
... Konnagar is a small township, about fifteen kilometres north of Calcutta, on the west bank of the river Hooghly. Some of Bengal's remarkable leaders of religious and social movements —such as Raja Rammohan Roy —came from this fertile riverine soil, as did he in whom India's spirituality was embodied: Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa. Around the eighth or ninth century A.D., the story goes, a king named ...
... indispensable to the conception of a perfect human culture. There have been various attempts to rebuild life in India on a new basis. The powers behind a few of them may be mentioned here : (1) Raja Rammohan Roy (2) Swami Dayanand Saraswati, (3) Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, (4) The Theosophical Society, ( 5 ) Rabindranath Tagore, ( 6 ) Mahatma Gandhi, ( 7) Jawaharlal Nehru, (8) Sri Aurobindo. These... attempt has not succeeded in overcoming the stress of modern European culture on the minds of Indians even after freedom, perhaps because of its insistence on the externals of Indian Religion. Rammohan Roy may be called an imitative reformer, if Dayanand is a protestant reformist. He was among the first to oppose the blind orthodoxy of Hindu Religion and to found the Brahmo Samaj based on some ideas... Indian womanhood. one of his outstanding achievements being the abolition of the sati. " Fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of man " was the inspiring ideal of his life. More than Dayananda and Rammohan Roy, Ramakrishna Paramahansa represents the neo-spirituality of modern India and marks a stage in the evolution of Indian spirituality. Sri Aurobindo paid a tribute to Sri Ramakrishna in 1908 : ...
... have had religious reformers. Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, etc. do not care for castes. It was only under the impact of Western ideas that India began to have social reformers. From the time of Raja Rammohan Roy the Hindu society has had numerous social reformers. A few were great, many were not so great. The greater ones had to Page 375 overcome the narrow understanding of the anglicized ...
... C HAPTER 2 Childhood, Boyhood and Youth I The district of Hooghly in West Bengal — the district that has given to Bengal and to India two such world-famous figures as Raja Rammohan Roy and Ramakrishna Paramahamsa — can almost be called the cradle of the Bengali or even of the Indian renaissance.* Konnagar is a thickly populated area, almost a small town, in the Hooghly district;... from the suns, Outpoured the revelation and the flame. 11 As Dr. Kalidas Nag aptly remarks, "Sri Aurobindo... was born in 1872 to celebrate, as it were, the centenary of the birth of Rammohan Roy." At the christening ceremony. Dr. Krishnadhan gave the name "Aravinda Ackroyd Ghose' to the child. A Miss Annette Ackroyd was present at the ceremony, and Krishnadhan, with his penchant for... movement and one of the great philanthropists of Bengal and, besides, one whose munificence gave Konnagar most of its public institutions; Dr. Trailokyanath Mitra and Raja Digambar Mitra, once well-known figures in Bengal's political life; Raja Dr. Rajendralal Mitra, the famous antiquarian and author of The Aryan Vernacular of India; and Mahamahopadhyaya Dinabandhu Nyayaratna, the eminent Sanskrit scholar ...
... English. His younger brother, Barindra Kumar, became a revolutionary. Sri Aurobindo's own birth on 15 August 1872 has a double national significance: it was the centenary year of the birth of Raja Rammohan Roy, the Father of Modern India and seventy-five years later, on 15 August 1947, India became a free country. Thus Sri Aurobindo's birthday and India's Independence Day are now being celebrated together ...
... was a good deal of blind acceptance and servile imitation of western life but soon a number of powerful thinkers started examining their own ancient heritage in the light of the western impact. Raja Rammohan Roy is generally recognised to be the first of these pioneers and he was followed by many other great men such as Dwarkanath Tagore, his son Debendranath, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Dayanand Saraswati... sent a young Bengali soldier of the Baroda Army, Jatin Banerji, as his lieutenant to Bengal with a programme for preparation and action which he thought might need thirty years for fruition. Dinen Roy has given us a vivid picture of how this step was taken. He writes: 'A tall, well-built Bengali youth came to our house one day with a Iota and a long staff in his hand. The visitor told me, "Bengalis... of an experience he had in the first year of his stay in Baroda, again in a most unexpected manner. Sri Aurobindo had then a very old-fashioned horse-carriage, known as a 'Victoria' carriage. Dinen Roy wrote that the horse was a huge creature but in movement it was the cousin-brother of a donkey and whipping had no effect on it! Anyway, Sri Aurobindo was going through the city streets in this carriage ...
... 635ff Rowlatt Committee's Report, 200 Roy, Dilip Kumar, 20, 21, 67, 243, 390, 393, 399, 515, 538ff, 575, 599, 604, 607-08, 708, 730, 743 Roy, Dinendra Kumar, 50,51, 207 Roy, Dwijendralal, 76, 538 Roy, M. N., 287, 704fn Roy, Motilal, 367,370ff, 374,381,391,525, 527,540,574 Roy, Rammohan, 13ff, 16,17,19,25,336 Russell, Bertrand, 566,574-75... "all life is Yoga", 551; towards self-perfecton, 551; harmony of inner and outer activity and experience, 551; three rungs in life's ladder, 562; different Yogas & a synthetic Yoga, 552, 562; Hatha, Raja, 553ff; Kundalini Sakti, 554; samadhi, 554; Karma Yoga, 554; Jnana Yoga, 554.55; drawbacks of older Yogas, 555-56; Amitabha Buddha, 556; interdependence of Yogas, 557; Yoga of transformation, 557; ...
... Sadhana (now out of print), though an apparent product of Sri Aurobindo's pen, was supposed to have been written by Rammohan Roy, who, it seems, used Sri Aurobindo's hand in a sort of automatic writing. For, when it was being written, Sri Aurobindo saw the spirit of Rammohan Roy in the room. To return to our subject. During his visits to Bengal, Sri Aurobindo had inspired Barin with the spirit... mind turned a new eye on its past culture, re-awoke to its sense and import, but also at the same time saw it in relation to modern knowledge and ideas." 75 It was at this juncture that Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born. His birth in Bengal had an important significance, for Bengal was destined to be "the chief testing crucible or the first workshop of the Shakti of India; it is there that she has chosen... which has been unsleeping in its action, and which will not rest till it raises India to her highest, divine stature. Page 85 of the national spirit, after the spade work done by Raja Ram Mohan Roy, was inspired and initiated by Sri Aurobindo's maternal grandfather, Rishi Rajnarayan Bose. Nowhere else in India had any such definite step been taken before it for the resuscitation of the ...
... century witnessed a great awakening and a new spiritual impulse pregnant with a power to fulfill the mission of the work that had started in the third stage. Great and flaming pioneers appeared. Raja Rammohan Roy (1836-1886) and Swami Vivekananda (1862-1902) to name just two of them, and through their work the entire country was electrified not only spiritually but even socially and politically. India... and by means of controlling and purifying these workings achieved astonishing results, not only of physical health and vigor but even of preparing the individual for deeper spiritual realizations. Raja Yoga specialized in dealing with mental vibrations and discovered methods by which the stuff of consciousness can be controlled and brought to a state of complete stillness in which the Object of ...
... myself experimented with automatic writing once, in the process of which I managed to write a whole book called Yogic Sadhan. Whenever I sat down to write the book, I would see the spirit-form of Rammohan Roy Page 106 standing beside me. When I would finish for the day, it would disappear. I have called the author of the book 'Uttara Yogi' or 'Yogi from the North'. Do you know why?" "No... sometimes in Baroda and in Calcutta too. This is how you wrote the book Yogic Sadhan," said Aloka. "The book was finished in a week. On the last day I thought I saw a figure that looked like Rammohan Roy disappear into the subtle world." "How strange! What does that mean?" asked Chaitanya. "It was he who was the actual author of the book. I was only the medium. That is why the book has not... Sachet said, "The other day Nolinida told us something very interesting about his first darshan of you. He was sent by Barinda to call you to the Maniktola Garden. He was waiting in a room downstairs at Raja Subodh Mullick's house, when you came down, stood near him and gave him an inquiring look. He said in Bengali, 'Barin has sent me. Would it be possible for you to come to the Garden with me now?' You ...
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