... religion, a faith; I say that it is the Sanatan Dharma which for us is nationalism. This Hindu nation was born with the Sanatan Dharma, with it it moves and with it it grows. When the Sanatan Dharma declines, then the nation declines, and if the Sanatan Dharma were capable of perishing, with the Sanatan Dharma it would perish. The Sanatan Page 122 Dharma, that is nationalism. This is the... your nation always this word, that it is for the Sanatan Dharma that they arise, it is for the world and not for themselves that they arise. I am giving them freedom for the service of the world. When therefore it is said that India shall rise, it is the Sanatan Dharma that shall rise. When it is said that India shall be great, it is the Sanatan Dharma that shall be great. When it is said that India... yet not to do His work negligently. I realised what the Hindu religion meant. We speak often of the Hindu religion, of the Sanatan Dharma, but few of us really know what that religion is. Other religions are preponderatingly religions of faith and profession, but the Sanatan Dharma is life itself; it is a thing that has not so much to be believed as lived. This is the Dharma that for the salvation of ...
... this nation to send forth my word.... When therefore it is said that India shall rise, it is the Sanatan Dharma that shall rise. When it is said that India shall be great, it is the Sanatan Dharma that shall be great. When it is said that India shall expand and extend herself, it is the Sanatan Dharma that shall expand and extend itself over the world. It is for the Dharma and by the Dharma that India... a religion, a creed, a faith. I say it again today, but I put it in another way. I say no longer that nationalism is a creed, a religion, a faith; I say that it is the Sanatan Dharma which for us is nationalism____ The Sanatan Dharma, that is nationalism. This is the message that I have to speak to you. * * * June 19, 1909 We have said that brahmateja is the thing we need most ...
... nationalism … The Sanatan Dharma, that is nationalism. This is the message I have to speak to you.’ 54 It may be doubted whether the audience realized what Aurobindo was saying; his words were most probably understood as those of the prophet of religious nationalism. However, though paying his respects to the Hindu nation, he spoke now as the prophet of the Sanatan Dharma, of the Spirit who ...
... some extracts from that speech: "I realised what the Hindu religion meant. We speak often of the Hindu religion, of the Sanatan Dharma, but few of us really know what that religion is. Other religions are preponderatingly religions offaith and profession, but the Sanatan Dharma is life itself; it is a thing that has not so much to be believed as lived. ... This is the Dharma that for the salvation ...
... truth which is beyond opinion, the knowledge which all thought strives after— yasmin vijñāte sarvam vijñātam [which being known, all is known]. I believe that Veda to be the foundation of the Sanatan Dharma; I believe it to be the concealed divinity within Hinduism,—but a veil has to be drawn aside, a curtain has to be lifted. I believe it to be knowable and discoverable. I believe the future of India ...
... Writings from the Arya Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Occult Knowledge and the Hindu Scriptures Are any of the following queries touched in Sanatan Dharma books of philosophy? 1) The nature and formation of animal souls. 2) The shape, size, formations, nature and colour of subtle bodies. 3) The difference between the subtle bodies of saints ...
... not subject to interpolation, modification and replacement, that moth and white ant cannot destroy, that the earth cannot bury nor Time mutilate … I believe that Veda to be the foundation of the Sanatan Dharma [the eternal law]; I believe it to be the concealed divinity within Hinduism, – but a veil has to be drawn aside, a curtain has to be lifted. I believe it to be knowable and discoverable. I believe ...
... was the Light of God? He had to draw aside a veil, to lift a curtain. He was seeking the Veda, the truth about Brahman, about His manifestation. "I believe that Veda to be the foundation of the Sanatan Dharma; I believe it to be the concealed divinity within Hinduism.... I believe the future of India and the world to depend on its discovery and on its application, not to the renunciation of life, but ...
... Infinite blowing through the conch-shell of Time. Sri Aurobindo revealed here the change of tack. He used to say before that "Nationalism is a religion, a creed, a faith." Now he said, "It is the Sanatan Dharma which for us is Nationalism...." Fourteen months earlier he had written: "God has set apart India as the eternal fountainhead of holy spirituality." He said now, "This is the Dharma that for the ...
... Truth "new forms and beauty, grandeur, truth and effectiveness." He was to place the eternal Truth— the Veda—in its native light before humanity. "I believe that Veda to be the foundation of the Sanatan Dharma; 1 I believe it to be the concealed divinity within Hinduism,—but a veil has to be drawn aside, a curtain has to be lifted. I believe it to be 1 The Eternal Dharma or Law of Truth ...
... of discovering my own thoughts." Page 12 In the Mahabharata, Arjuna was the recipient and became the channel through whom the Lord poured out the essence of Upanishadic wisdom of Sanatan Dharma in the form of the Bhagavad Gita. The modern-day intellectuals and seekers will find a close parallel in these volumes of Sri Aurobindo's letters to Dilip Kumar. However it is not a mere reiteration ...
... to joy and action in the world, the truth which is beyond opinion, the knowledge which all thought strives after—yasmin vijnate sarvam vijnatam. I believe that Veda to be the foundation of the Sanatan Dharma; I believe it to be the concealed divinity within Hinduism,—but a veil has to be drawn aside, a curtain has to be lifted. I believe it to be knowable and discoverable. I believe the future of India ...
... Extract from a Letter to Parthasarathi Aiyangar Be very careful to follow my instructions in avoiding the old kind of politics. Spirituality is India's only politics, the fulfilment of the Sanatan Dharma its only Swaraj. I have no doubt we shall have to go through our Parliamentary period in order to get rid of the notion of Western democracy by seeing in practice how helpless it is to make nations ...
... al convenience the Hindi-speaking people might make a concession to the others. 1 3 September 1949 [2] K. M. MUNSHI: I would like to have your guidance as regards the future of Sanatan Dharma. Starting from your Uttarpara Page 512 Speech, which has been a sort of beacon to me for years, I have been working for the reintegration of Hindu culture ... But I am neither learned ...
... care of my children, I will take care of your children". Therefore teachers regard the students as their 'Karma-Putras'. Baba says, "My life is my Message". Baba demonstrates HIS respect for Sanatan Dharma: Ancient Indian Values and Culture, through HIS behaviour. Therefore, people at all other levels in the institute and Baba's other institutions are motivated/inspired to have similar attitude towards ...
... India by inculcating the truth of religions and spiritual experience. Mr. Hemchandra does not know any difference between orthodoxy and spirituality. To him even Sri Aurobindo is orthodox; and. Sanatan Dharma to Hemchandra means only injunctions of Brahminical Smritis which outrage his sense of social justice. Page 364 He conveniently forgets, first, that the Smritis are not ...
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