Srinivasa Achari : Mandāyam Srinivāsāchariyār, publisher of Tamil nationalist papers India, Vijaya, Karmayoga, & Bāla Bhārati, with his elder brother Tirumalāchariyār (see Subramania Bhārati); he settled in Pondicherry in 1908. He & his revolutionary colleagues received Sri Aurobindo on 4 April, 1910 & make arrangements for his stay in Pondicherry.
... V.V.S. Aiyar has naturally taken care to maintain good relations with the French authorities. On the evening of July 5th, 1913, a meeting was held by V.V.S. Aiyar near the house of the suspect Srinivasa Achari. About 150 people were present, including some 14 refugees from British India. Aiyar said that wherever the British went they oppressed the people, and recently the high officials, by misleading... party. But they will certainly require a longer subsidy if they are to be really active. Longden 5/8/12 D.I.G. Police, Railway & C.I.D., Madras From Reminiscences of Srinivas Achari. National Archives of India. Private Papers Collection. History of the Freedom Movement B 34/2. The next attempt was to tease us through the Pondicherry Government itself either by influencing... they were helpless. Sri Aurobindo had spoken and they could hardly act otherwise. They had no alternative but to accept the decision, though with a heavy heart. From Reminiscences of Srinivas Achari. National Archives of India. Private Papers Collection. History of the Freedom Movement B 34/2. When the Pondicherry Government and especially the ruling class were in this perturbed state ...
... content of Savitri and its literary contribution. Not that these are mutually exclusive, its mantric aesthesis an inseparable part of its spiritual "message", and several writers (Purani, Dilip Roy, Srinivasa Iyengar, Deshpande, Jyotipriya, Sisirkumar Ghosh) have been sensitive to the centrality of poetic valence to its overall meaning. A predominant number of articles provide the very valuable function... Deshpande's essay. The biographical context, equating Savitri with the Mother and Sri Aurobindo with Aswapati and in places, with Satyavan, is also addressed in several of these essays, but as Srinivasa Iyengar points out, these "parallels should not be taken all the way." Sri Aurobindo takes an ancient story as the motif of a recurrent symbol, its temporal and spatial specificity always present ...
... real and living as the individual aspect and besides make this collective reality of the Ashram embrace even those sadhaks who for whatever reason could not permanently stay at Pondicherry. Prof. Srinivasa Iyengar has expressed well the significance of Page 4 what was being done by the Mother immediately after the formal establishment of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Here are his words: ...
... know of Sri Aurobindo's plans. He extended his hospitality to the eighteen-year-old youth from Page 30 Bengal. "I passed the four and a half days before Aurobindo's arrival in Mr. Achari's house doing nothing but eating and sleeping. Every day a little before sunset I went with three or four people to the beach, and after spending an hour or two at the pier came back with them." He ...
... Book Six 24 The Tamil Bard "That very first day when I was resting after lunch, a gentleman, chewing paan [betel leaf] came to Shri Achari's house" wrote Moni in his Smritikatha. "Of an average height, around the age of thirty.... Neither fair-skinned nor black—typical 'brown race.' Beard shaven, but with an impressive moustache. Trimmed ...
... language itself would be expelled from India as it represented foreign domination and that India would assert its independence in spirit by enthroning the Hindi language in its place. Prof. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, then teaching English in Lingaraj College, Belgaum, thought about the problem and was amazed that in spite of such worries, Indians went ahead embracing the language with greater vehemence:... gift of Goddess Saraswati. For, even during these 'thirties and 'forties, Mother Saraswati's gift was giving shape to the greatest English epic of our times, Savitri. 2. Quoted in K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Indian Writing in English , New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., Third edition, 1983, p. 11. Page 168 Amal Kiran was a close observer of the growth of this literary... English literature and the love both have for William Blake. The correspondence begins with Amal Kiran's manuscript of Blake studies which had been sent to Kathleen Raine by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar spent some time cogitating upon the approaches of Amal Kiran and Kathleen Raine to Blake's poem and wrote to Amal Kiran: As in your study of Shakespeare's Sonnets, in the present ...
... more of Sri Aurobindo’s responsibilities for the spiritual guidance of the sadhaks [disciples], as if giving him the needed relief so that he might attend to his more important work,’ writes K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar in his biography of Sri Aurobindo. ‘An air of intensity began building up slowly, an air of expectancy; and the sadhaks had the feeling that they were on the threshold of new developments... Western woman’ who had come to live in India only a few years before, was still very much present in the minds of some Indian disciples. It even surfaces repeatedly in the literature, e.g. in K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar’s biography of the Mother: ‘There was no question about her managerial ability, her unfailing friendliness and her personal spiritual eminence. And yet … the ‘Mother’ of the Ashram? … With... × The Life Divine , 280 × K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo, 529 × Mother India , August 1979, 474 ...
... Refuge in Thy feet, I do not listen to anything else, I do not think of anything else, I do not remember of anything else, I do not worship anything else, I do not take refuge in anything else, O Sri Srinivasa, O the Greatest Lord, bestow on me the devotion of a servant. Pandavagita 1 वन्दे श्रीअरविन्दम् वन्दे श्रीचरणारविन्दम्। vande śrīaravindam vande śrīcaraṇāravindam. Salutations to ...
... Roy, Among the Great (Jaico Publishing House, Bombay, 1950). 3. AR: Sri Aurobindo Archives and Research, Vol. I, No. 1 (Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry, 1977). 4. B-l: K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo: A Biography and a History (Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, 1985). 5. BM: Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram: Early Political Writings (Sri ...
... ear gap between editions for Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Study of the Cosmic Epic (earlier titled A Study of Savitri)] Her grace has sustained me throughout my life. When my father, Prof K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, communicated to her that a panel of three examiners from England had recommended the award of the degree of Doctor of Letters summa cum laude for my thesis, A Study of Savitri, she gave ...
... to the Mother too is being published under the aegis of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, and, opportunely, at the time of the Mother's Birth Centenary celebrations. K. R. SRINIVASA IYENGAR 'Matri Bhavan' Mylapore, Madras February 1978 v PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION There was a time-lag of twenty-five years between the handy first edition of On... Registrar of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, for her decision to bring out this new edition of On the Mother to meet the steady demand for the book. K.R. SRINIVASA IYENGAR 6 October 1992 'Sydney House' 277-B, J.J. Road, Alwarpet, Madras - 600 018 vii ...
... Amal-Kiran - Poet and Critic K.D. Sethna's Profession of Poetry We reproduce in the following a few excerpts from K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar's writings on some of the works of K.D. Sethna.-Editors AN ACCOMPLISHED craftsman in verse, K.D. Sethna has been following the profession of poetry with a sense of dedication for nearly half... frozen lake and the imprisoned swan. Sethna's own 12-page commentary on the poem is almost the heart of his whole illuminating critical exposition of Mallarmé's symbolist poetry. K.R. SRINIVASA IYENGAR (The Obscure and the Mysterious: A research in Mallarmé's Symbolist Poetry, by K.D. Sethna — Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry; paperback - reviewed ...
... self-development through self-help—swadeshi, national education, arbitration, etc.—and passive resistance to evil in any of its forms. He did not, of course, make a fetish of the word 'passive'; as K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar points out. "Sri Aurobindo did hot rule out violence in all circumstances, but it appeared to him that the bureaucracy, not being of the ruthless Russian kind, could be effectively countered ...
... Department of English in Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, he was an internationally known figure. Savitri-A Subjective Poem (pages 257-73) is taken from Poetry of Sri Aurobindo. K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar: An eminent prose writer, critic and poet, his two monumental biographies of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother will remain for long time to come as standard reference works. A Survey of Savitri ...
... Varadarajulu Naidu and E. V.Ramasamy Naicker helped her to promote the Home Rule ideas. C. Vijayaraghavachariyar, Thiru V. Kalyana Sundaranar, Varadharajulu Naidu, E. V. Ramasamy Naickear, S. Srinivasa Iyangar, Sathyamurthy and K. Kamaraj were the agreement with this view. He deprecated the contrary separatist policy advocated by the League. leaders of the Moderates. They played a vital role in ...
... × K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, On the Mother, p. 212. × M.P. Pandit (ed.), Breath of Grace, p. 43. × K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, op. cit., p. 218. ... 8 Later, Richard went to the United States, taught there as a university professor and wrote, in August 1950, The Seven Steps to the New Age. During the 1957 visit of V.K. Gokak and K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar to Japan, Dr. Okawa showed them a letter Richard had written him the year before: ‘Dear Friend, I saw you in a dream the other day and I was thinking of you … I am glad that my dreams of a... Dorothy Hodgson’s moving in with Sri Aurobindo ‘caused, understandably enough, a certain amount of uneasiness (if not resentment) among some of the young men living with Sri Aurobindo,’ writes K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar in his biography of the Mother. ‘This sudden “invasion” by two European ladies – however unavoidable under the circumstances – was a jolt to the kind of unconventional camp life they had been ...
... consciously or unconsciously, some Philosophy of Life behind it." By 1907 he became, not only a foremost political preacher in Bengal, but swept Madras off its feet with his impassioned nationalism. Srinivasa Shastri gives a vivid description of those speeches. "Babu Bipinchandra Pal burst into full fame in Madras as a preacher of the new political creed. For several days on the sands of the beach, he ...
... Swami attained samadhi. But he was brought up in that lore. Nor did he forget to pass on the Guru's prediction to his children. He had nine. Two of his sons were K. V. Rangaswami Iyengar and K. V. Srinivasa Iyengar (K for Kodiyalam and V for Vasudeva, their father). Several months after Sri Aurobindo came to Pondicherry, when very few people knew—or were supposed to know—of his presence there, a person ...
... least delay. If not, I must ask you to procure for me by will-power or any other power in heaven or on earth Rs. 50 at least as a loan. The situation just now is that we have Rs. 1 V -i "Srinivasa is also without money. As to Bharati living on nothing means an uncertain quantity... No doubt God will provide, but He has contracted a bad habit of waiting till the last moment. I only hope He does ...
... and Pavitra had already accepted unquestioningly whatever Sri Aurobindo proposed or approved. But it was otherwise with rebellious spirits like Sri Aurobindo’s younger brother, Barin.’ 28 (K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar) Barin, after having come back from Bengal where his efforts to found centres and raise funds had borne little fruit, had been acting as a cook for Sri Aurobindo, looking after a small... × Sri Aurobindo, On Himself , SABCL 26 p. 456. × K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, On the Mother , p. 247. × Sri Aurobindo, op. cit., p. 455. ... × M.P. Pandit, Tell Us of the Mother, p. 10. × K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, op. cit., pp. 246-47. × Mritunjoy in M.P. Pandit (ed.), Breath of Grace, p. 64. ...
... reason for this creative output is not far to seek. We shall be coming to it. Well, Subramania Bharati, 'the most dangerous member' of the India group had escaped to French India. When Mandayam Srinivasa Iyengar the then editor of India, was arrested, convicted and sentenced to five years' transportation, his brother Mandayam Tirumalachari, India's proprietor—against whom also a prosecution was ...
... John. It is, accordingly, an indispensable book to all admirers of Sri Aurobindo; all students of Yoga; all lovers of poetry; and all serious practitioners of the creative art of Life. K.R. SRINIVASA IYENGAR Andhra University Waltair Page xxxv ...
... Social Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo (Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry, 1965) Gupta, Nolini Kanto The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, 12 Vols. (Ashram Press 1972) lyengar, Srinivasa K.R. Sri Aurobindo: A biography and a history, 2 Vols. (Ashram Press, 1972) Karan Singh Prophet of Indian Nationalism, a study of Political Thought of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh (1893-1910) ...
... The Mother For the next three years the Richards stayed mainly in the beautiful city of Kyoto, the former capital of Japan. Their close friends there were Dr. and Mrs. Kobayashi. When K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar and V.K. Gokak went to Japan in 1957, to participate in the International P.E.N. Congress, Dr. Kobayashi, a surgeon, was no longer alive, but his wife, Nobuko, received them with great courtesy... diary hardly tell us about it, her stay in Japan was ‘a perpetual battle with the adverse forces’ – not a battle on the human scale, but a battle of superhuman, divine and antidivine forces. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar writes in his biography of the Mother: ‘The four years Mirra spent in Japan were an oasis in time, and a singular Tea Room of reserve, contemplation and preparation for the future.’ 34 ... × Glimpses of the Mother’s Life I, p. 144. × K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, The Mother , p. 191. × Paul Richard, To the Nations , p. XV. ...
... continents of violet peace, Oceans and rivers of the mirth of God 4 The Mother . SABCL, Vol. 25, p. 10. 5 Aspects of Indian Writing in English, Essays in honour of K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Edited by M. K. Naik, Macmillan, New Delhi, 1979, p. 50. Page 480 And griefless countries under purple suns. 6 Or The darkness glimmered like a dying torch ...
... though with a poised, sanely scrutinising Page 152 attitude and a far from hysterical gesture. My remarks are provoked by a review, sent by another correspondent, of Prof. K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar's book Sri Aurobindo. The review is signed P.M. and my correspondent is much upset by what he terms its stupidity. Looking behind the stupidity I suspect an inferiority complex at work ...
... of Human Unity, The 38,293,359,459 Ilion 53-55,318,319,364,446,458 Indu Prakash 27 Inge.W.R. 331,434 IshaUpanishad 25,26,241 Iyengar, K.R. Srinivasa 29,46,415,421 Jacobi,Jolande272,273 James, William 13 Jones, Rufus M. 305,330 Joyce, James 267,428 Jung, C.G. 437 Kalidasa 46,52 ...
... himself, the interview with Sri Aurobindo in which Pondicherry had been recommended to him and the story of the letter addressed to "Parthasarathy Iyengar, c/o India, Pondicherry" and opened by Srinivasa-chari in the addressee's absence from the place, Narayana ends: "It may thus be seen that a suggestion from Sri S. Parthasarathy Iyengar lay behind Sri Aurobindo's visit to Pondicherry, which led ...
... The Crisis of the European Sciences, North Western University Press, Evanston, 1970. Inati, S.C., A study oflbn sin's Mysticism, Keganpaul International, London, 1996. lyengar, M. Srinivasa, Tamil Studies, The Guardian Press, Madras, 1914. Jayaswal, K.R, Hindu Polity, Calcutta, 1924. Jnanananda Bharati (ed.), The Essence of Yoga Vasista, Samata Books, Madras, 1986. ...
... Walker, A Study of Gurdjieff's Teaching, pp.131-2. 66. The Spectator, 28 April 1950, pp.586, 588. 67. From an unpublished letter to K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar dated 14 November 1950. 68. From a letter to K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, dated 8 September 1952. 69. The Phenomenon of Man (translated from the original French by Bernard Wall), p. 300. 70. ibid., ... Sri Aurobindo: His Life and Work 1. Translated from the original Bengali by Kshitish Chandra Sen (Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, 1944, p.2) 2. Quoted in K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo, pp. 7-8 . 3. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, p.18. 4. Quoted from Prophets of the New India in D.S. Sharma's The Renaissance of Hinduism , p... 7. See Iyengar, op. cit., p. 8. 8. Issue dated 8 July 1944. 9. I am mainly indebted, for this section. to the standard biographies by K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar and A.B. Purani. While Iyengar's Sri Aurobindo is a 'composite study', Purani's Life of Sri Aurobindo is an indispensable biographical source book. 10. See Purani, Life, p. ...
... of deathless nectar, the eyes like blue lotuses, the aureoled kiss, the real rose, the white embrace and the colour showers in the nights. During a personal conversation, the great K.R. Srinivasa lyengar once said to me: "Our talk of scholarship and knowledge seems trifle when we go near Sethna." Therefore, it is time we took notice of a Master, lying like a hidden treasure at 21 rue ...
... which I now think is the greatest—the most inspiring—that a woman, at any rate a Hindu woman, could think of or write about. Secondly, I have had constant advice and help from my father, Prof K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, who is not only the author of the standard biographical study of Sri Aurobindo but is also one of the eminent authorities on the subject. Thirdly, the UGC were good enough to award a research ...
... all the future possibilities for this marvellous tiny dot in eternity called Man. Already in the far distant was he not watching the Hunters of Joy, the 40 Ibid., p 341. 41 K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo: a bibliography and a history, p. 200. Page 202 Seekers after Knowledge, the Climbers in the quest of Power? 42 I saw the Omnipotent's flaming... momentary succour. Last to meet Savitri is the Mother of Joy and Peace. The description of the Madonna of Light reminds one of Mrinalini Devi: 50 Ibid., p. 508. 51 Translated by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar. 52 Savitri, p. 509. Page 208 Here, living centre of that vision of peace, A Woman sat in clear and crystal light: Heaven had unveiled its lustre in... and thoughts going, itself remaining as an immoveable Witness. The two become one again now: 53 Ibid., p. 514. 54 The Mother, SABCL, Vol. 25, p. 26. 55 Translated by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar. Page 209 Here in this chamber of flame and light they met; They looked upon each other, knew themselves, The secret deity and its human part, The calm immortal ...
... their not going past the usual experience of the hovering watcher. Friendship - or, for that Page 368 matter, the experience of being in love - cannot do what my fellow-scribbler Srinivasa Iyengar would neologistically dub "beyonding" unless there is an inward penetration through that watcher to a self of peace which is not linked to the general flux of our life. No doubt, it is hardly ...
... has a word which can very aptly suggest Light's being included in Laughter: the word "Delight." (15.6.1990) Page 82 SHAW AND SRI AUROBINDO A Letter from K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar to the Editor I was looking into the Mother India of October 1990, and chanced upon your remarks on Shaw and Sri Aurobindo on p. 652. On my first visit to U.K. in 1951, I visited ...
... Press, London, 1958). Inge, W.R. Christian Mysticism (Methuen, London, 6 th Edition, 1925.) Isaacs, J. The Background of Modern Poetry (Bell, London, 1951) Iyengar, K.R. Srinivasa. Sri Aurobindo (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 2 nd Edition, 1950). Sri Aurobindo: An Introduction (Rao & Raghavan, Mysore, 1961). On the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry ...
... × Sri Aurobindo, The Mother , SABCL 25 p. 78. × K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, On the Mother , p. 280. × For this and the following extracts from the Mother’s letters... × Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, SABCL 25 p. 284. × K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, On the Mother, p. 341. × Narayan Prasad, Life in Sri Aurobindo Ashram , p. 64. ... In Glimpses of the Mother’s Life II, p. 102 footnote. × K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, On the Mother, p. 283. × Nirodbaran, Correspondence With Sri Aurobindo , pp. 127, 525 ...
... Sethna for a world wallowing in self-pity. Sri Aurobindo's comments add to the value of this lyra mystica and give us a clear idea of how fine poems are shaped on a creative anvil. K.R. SRINIVASA IYENGAR (The Hindu, Tuesday, September 27,1994) (4) Karpāsa in Prehistoric India This book is a companion volume to the author's first venture ...
... Meditations on Savitri, Volume I (1962); Meditations on Savitri, Volume II (1963); Meditations on Savitri, Volume III (1965), Meditations on Savitri, Volume IV (1966) Iyengar, K. R. Srinivasa. Sri Aurobindo (1945; 1950); Sri Aurobindo: An Introduction (1961); On the Mother (1952); Indian Writing in English (1962; 1972); Mainly Academic (1968); Two Cheers for the Commonwealth ...
... quarters. She had not once come to the rescue of India during her national struggle. She had not even extended moral support or propaganda to India such as the people of other countries sometimes gave. Srinivasa Sastri observed: 'The circumstances of her (Japan's) present Page 103 approach leave no doubt in my mind as to her intentions and no intelligent person can be deceived ...
... through all his writings, acquiring even spiritual intensity in his poetry. While reviewing Amal-kiran's collected poems The Secret Splendour in The Hindu of 27 September 1994 K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar has the following to say. Amal is a "lyric genius whose sensitive responses to English and French poetry have filled his poems with honeyed delight. He can coerce us into entering the worlds ...
... several respects. Most of these are analytic, classificatory; but the labelling is done skilfully and catchingly. I can understand his dissatisfaction with the passages he has quoted from Sisir Ghose, Srinivasa Iyengar and myself. But I don't know whether it is right to pull out a passage from me like that, as if I have written nothing to explicate what I mean by "a direct poetising of the Divine". All the ...
... respects. Most of these are analytic, classificatory; but the labelling is done skilfully and catchingly. I can understand his dissatisfaction with the passages he has quoted from Sisir Ghose, Srinivasa Iyengar and myself. But I don't know whether it is right to pull out a passage from me like that, as if I have written nothing to explicate what I mean by "a direct poetising of the Divine". All ...
... pragmatism of Isha, 461; Isha and Kena.461 Iyengar, Padmanabha, 299 Iyengar, V. Ramaswami (Va. Ra.), 380,405, 525,536 Iyengar, K. V. Rangaswami, 380, 525 Iyengar, S. Srinivasa, 340fn, 527 Jadhav, Khasirao, 47,63,216,202,260,394, 507 Jadhav, Madhavrao, 47, 216 Jauhar, Surendranath, 750, 760,764 Jayaswal, K. P., 508 Jinnah,M.A.... Sanyal, P., 734, 737,739, 750 Sapru, Sir Tej Bahadur, 529 Sarada Devi, 67 Sarkar, Rajani, 306rn Sarkar, Satish, 365 Sartor Resartus, 111 Sastri, V. S. Srinivasa, 16, 529 Sastry, T. V. Kapali, 457, 459, 463fn, 547, 579,690,747 Satprem, 37 1ff Savage, D. S., 443 Savarkar, V. D., 266, 378 Savitri, 17, 20, 22, 100 ...
... the motherland. They had several such comptoirs on the Indian coasts. Pondicherry, the most important one, was a rather backward, out-of-the-way place at the time Richard arrived there. As K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar describes it, it was ‘a dead city … like a backwater of the sea, a stagnant pool by the shore … akin to a cemetery … infested by ghosts and goblins.’ 15 But it was French territory and... Sri Aurobindo Archives and Research , December 1988, p. 200. × K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, On the Mother, p. 47. × Sri Aurobindo Archives and Research , December 1988, p. 201 ...
... described Sri Aurobindo as "the completest synthesis that has been realised to this day of the genius of Asia and the genius of Europe". The English novelist Dorothy M. Richardson once wrote to K. R. Srinivasa lyengar: 1 "Has there ever existed a more synthetic consciousness than that of Sri Aurobindo ? Unifying he is to the limit of the term." S.K. Maitra 2 has demonstrated in some detail how ...
... the sooner will they be filled either by the subliminal that is our own natural background or by the suprabminal that is the Mother, the Power by whose help we hope to succeed all round in what Srinivasa Iyengar would term "beyonding ourselves". Within a short time the answer arrives. An extra aid would be to keep repeating the general context of the missing matter. This practice got -me through ...
... interested in The Life Divine , and the former would try to fish for some information regarding it. Sometimes Fate or Chance or even necessity helped us in knowing what the Master was doing. Srinivasa lyengar sent his manuscript of Sri Aurobindo's life for his perusal. Sri Aurobindo began to add to it a substantial portion about his political life of which none had any authentic knowledge. He was ...
... matters "cultural" Introduction: The following pieces have been selected from Sri Aurobindo's well-known book, The Foundations of Indian Culture, which is, in the words of Prof. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, "a richly rewarding and many-faceted study of the glory that is India's heritage from the past." This book was written as a rejoinder to the inveterate charges of an egregious critic, William ...
... a formidable power. National resentment against the alien rule had mounted a new dimension, Tagore had returned Page 526 his Knighthood in immitigable anguish, and in Madras S. Srinivasa Iyenger had resigned his Advocate-Generalship in February 1920. In the early months of 1920, Tilak began to think in terms of "responsible cooperation" (with an inbuilt provision for obstruction... tremendous popular excitement and mass involvement reminiscent of the great days of the Home Rule movement and the earlier Bande Mataram agitation. Leaders like M.A. Jinnah, Tej Bahadur Sapru and V.S. Srinivasa Sastri were now out of the Congress, but that meant no serious diminution in its strength, for it had swollen into a mighty flood for the time being Page 529 and seemed to be possessed ...
... frothy criticisms without realising how badly out of their depth they are. Thus Mr. Nissim Ezekiel, in a review published in the Sunday Standard of February 25, 1965, falls foul of Dr. K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar for devoting to Sri Aurobindo three chapters of his Indian Writing in English and indulges in a little orgy of abuse over a poem of Sri Aurobindo's praised by Iyengar, Thought the Paraclete ...
... Box 10528 Aruna Asaf Ali Marg New Delhi-110067 155.Rana, Manish Dean Emeritus Sushant School of Art and Architecture Sector 55 Gurgaon-122003 156. Rao, Srinivasa Editor, National Open School A-38, Kailash Colony New Delhi -110048 157.Rastogi, KG. E -923 Saraswati Vihar New Delhi- 110034 158.RathiRekha 29 Sadhana Enclave ...
... present one. Perseus the Deliverer, Rodogune, The Viziers of Bassora, Eric and Vasava-dutta are the five complete plays written by Sri Aurobindo. These are really, to quote the words of Prof. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, "dramas of life and love, of conflict and change: of conflict that is at the heart of life, of change that is the result of the dialectic of the conflicting opposites - of 'thesis' and ' ...
... least delay. If not, I must ask you to procure for me by willpower or any other power in heaven or on earth Rs.50 at least as a loan.... The situation just now is that we have Rs.1.50 or so in hand. Srinivasa is also without money.... No doubt, God will provide, but He has contracted a bad habit of waiting till the last moment. I only hope He does not wish us to learn how to live on a minus quantity like ...
... × L’Agenda de Mère XIII, 253 × K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar,. Sri Aurobindo, 636 × Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo (Nirodbaran), 543-44 ...
... nce Nirodbaran’s 1,200 printed pages of correspondence are only a small part of the letters Sri Aurobindo was penning in those years, ten hours a day. In his biography of Sri Aurobindo, K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar calls the years from 1933 to 38 ‘the golden years of his yogic correspondence.’ We are indebted to those years for the 4,000 letters to Dilip Kumar Roy, the three volumes of correspondence ...
... the Mahabharata, the epic of India. He has borrowed the legend from the epic of India. Before I go into the story I will give you the opinion of one of my friends, the respected writer Dr. K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, whose opinion counts in the world of letters today. He says that in its final form Savitri is a poem with hardly a parallel in the world's literature: The Mahabharata story of Savitri ...
... "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 Guru, Dayanand, Bankim Chandra, Ranade, Bal ...
... should come by the old address—you may be sure, I think, no letter will be actually intercepted, on this side. By the way, please let us know whether Mr Banomali Pal received a letter by Fr. post from Achari enclosing another to Partha Sarathi. I have not written all this time because I was not allowed to put pen to paper for some time—that is all. I send enclosed a letter to our Marathi friend. If... have anything. I was told he had Rs 300 put aside for me if I wanted it; but I did not wish to apply to him except in case of necessity. The situation just now is that we have Rs 1½ or so in hand. Srinivasa Page 175 is also without money. As to Bharati, living on nothing a month means an uncertain quantity, the only other man in Py whom I could at present ask for help absent sine die and ...
... × The Mother 106 × K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, On the Mother , 349-50 × The Mother 227 ...
... Mother, Words of Long Ago , CWM 2 pp. 12 ff. × See the chronology of the Mother’s life in K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar’s On the Mother , p. 848. × Sujata Nahar, op. cit. p. 200. ...
... come by the old address, – you may be sure, I think, no letter will be actually intercepted, on this side. By the way, please let us know whether Mr. Banomali Pal received a letter by French post from Achari Page 150 enclosing another to Parthasarathi. I have not written all this time because I was not allowed to put pen to paper for some time, – that is all. I send enclosed... have anything. I was told he had Rs.300 put aside for me if I wanted it; but I did not wish to apply to him except in case of necessity. The situation just now is that we have Rs. 1 ½ or so in hand. Srinivasa is also without money. As to Bharati living on nothing means an uncertain quantity. The only other man in Pondicherry whom I could at present ask for help is absent sine die and my messenger to ...
... 128, 200, 404, 446-59, 488, 571, 808-10, 821 see also in The Mother - (3) Indira Gandhi 596, 777-9, 808-9, 821 Indra Sen, Dr 652, 676, 691 Inge, William Ralph 62, 129 Iyengar, Dr K.R. Srinivasa 173ff Iyer, C.P. Ramaswami 715 Janina 701 Janine (Morisset) Panier 477 Janet McPheeters see Shantimayi Jatti, B.D. 817, 821 Jawaharlal Nehru 404, 457, 595-6, 624, 716 Jay ...
... × Nolini Kanta Gupta, op. cit., p. 46. × K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, On the Mother , p. 132. × SAAR , Dec. 1994, p. 237. ...
... which is now alien becomes our own, if the people have a share in it, not merely in name, not merely by the right of talk in the Legislative Council, not merely by apparent concessions, * S. Srinivasa lyengar, on 12 March 1929. Cf. Lord Minto: "The Government of India had to play a double part. With one hand to dispense measures calculated to meet novel political conditions; with the other hand ...
... then, salute the author of Savitri — as the poets salute Virgil in Dante's poem — Onorate I' altissimo poeta: Honour the Poet of Highest Eminence, honour the Ultimate Poet! 79 K.R. SRINIVASA IYENGAR 79 Cf. the American poet D.R. Cameron's tribute to Savitri: ...the mantra's bard Silvers a way over almighty abysms To epic a world behind the soul's paroxysms. ...
... better of him, because "Once you express it, it becomes an arrow loosed forth and the consequences will prove harmful to you." * After taking his law degree, Appa worked with S. Srinivasa Iyengar (later Advocate-General), and later under Sir P.S. Sivaswami Iyer. According to Sri Aurobindo, although, he began practice (around 1916-17) with only Rs.15-30 a month, his inborn gifts ...
... 1. Fundamental Unity of India, R.K. Mookerji. 2. History of Indian Literature, Vol. 1, Winternitz. 3. Rig-Veda Samhita (Translated by R.C. Dutt). 4. Life in Ancient India, P.T. Srinivasa Iyengar. 5. Vinaya Texts, Rhys Davids and Oldenberg. 6. Social Life in Ancient India, S. Chattopadhyaya. 7. Hymns of the Tamil Saivite Saints, Kingsbury and Phillips. 8. Studies ...
... realisations achieved by him. These constitute a unique record 20 Sri Aurobindo on Himself, SABCL, Vol. 26, pp. 423-24. 21 Georges Van Vrekhem, Beyond Man, p. 45. 22 K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo, p. 378. in the entire annals of spirituality. About these documents, collectively called Record of Yoga, the compiler writes as follows: "This document is ...
... 11. Ibid., p. 31 12. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 88 13. K. D. Sethna in the All India Weekly, April 1945, reviewing the first edition of Sri Aurobindo by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar. 14. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 851 15. Ibid., p. 858 16. Ibid., pp. 884-85 17. Ibid., p. 739 18. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, p. 365 ...
... discuss the notes in the approximate order in which Sri Aurobindo wrote them, treating notes occasioned by a given biography or article as a group. (1) Notes on Sri Aurobindo , by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar. In February 1943, Dr. Iyengar, then Professor of English at Basaveshvar College, Bagalkot, brought to the Ashram the 133-page manuscript of a biography of Sri Aurobindo that he had written ...
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