... underwent for nearly half a century: what he strove after is all there in Vaishnava or Tantric or Sufi mysticism or has been enshrined in the Christian religion ever since St. Paul spoke of a "new creation". Mention of St. Paul brings me to the topic of the Virgin Birth. The idea of the Virgin Birth or, more accurately as Father Raymond Brown insists, the idea of the Virginal Conception is one... idea is part of the earliest original Christianity and reflects an actual physical historical event has, first of all, to face the totally negative evidence of St. Paul whose epistles are the most early documents of the Christian religion. St. Paul precedes both Matthew and Luke and his epistles are wholly devoid of any notion that the mother of Jesus bore her child in any way different from other women... realise that the understanding of the Resurrection in St. Paul and in all subsequent Christian thought is that the body of Christ in the resurrection was 'divinised'. It was a radical transformation of the whole being, physical, vital and mental, so that body and soul participated in the Divine mode of existence and consciousness. In him, says St. Paul, 'dwelt the fullness (the pleroma) or the Godhead ...
... of the historical Jesus. If Teilhard can convincingly put his contention across instead of repeating what St. Paul appears to have preached, our interpretation of him will suffer a setback. Does he do so? Mooney 8 reports, without any endorsement, Teilhard's attempt to render St. Paul intelligible: "Teilhard's own theory is that 'every cosmic particle, even the tiniest electron, is rigorously... "Ineffable union compared by St. Paul to the grafting, which intimately mingles two lives even to the point of blending them, and absorbs into the life of the trunk the life of the grafted branch; a marvellous operation which makes both Christ and ourselves symphytoi (animated by the same vital principle), symmorphoi (animated by the same active principle), or as St. Paul says elsewhere, clothes us... concern is with the first of what he has dubbed "two loopholes". He 5 remarks: "As regards the first subterfuge, all I need to do is to refer to the context, which is categorical: even in Col. 1: 15ff. St. Paul quite obviously has in mind the theandric Christ; it was in the incarnate Christ that the universe was pre-formed." A further gloss on this subtlety occurs in a passage where Teilhard 6 ...
... Teilhard appeals to St. John and St. Paul, The footnote goes: "St. Paul himself in the Epistle to the Romans (9:5) speaks of Adam as essentially related to Christ. This point of view must dominate all theological treatment of the nature of original sin." This point of view is precisely what Teilhard brushes aside. In passing, we may remember that St. Paul takes Adam to be "one man" - a single... chief authority, the Pauline Epistles? Rideau writes: "Not being really familiar with the whole of St, Paul, he paid too little attention to his description of man's fundamental cleavage and the deviation of his impulses." 6 - "It is interesting that Teilhard's quotations from St. Paul are chiefly taken from humanist or cosmic passages...rather than from the dialectic of the first chapter of... and which, in his eyes, would be fulfilled by the Pleromatic Divinity visioned by St. Paul as the Christ of the Parousia. But his mind was concentrated on that Pleromatic Divinity rather than on Jesus of Nazareth. According to him, without the latter serving as a point de depart, the former could not be what St. Paul had visioned: besides, the former, without the latter's humanity, would lack for ...
... reference to the Virgin Mary's body in the Gospels or in the Epistles of St. Paul. Indeed, St. Paul does not refer even to the virginity of Mary which one or two verses in the infancy accounts in a couple of books (Matthew and Luke) out of the twenty-seven or more comprising the New Testament state or suggest. Actually, St. Paul, whose Epistles are the earliest Christian documents, simply speaks of Jesus... e life-force but also after a body of radiant health, free from the encroachment of tempus edax, "time the de-vourer". The Resurrection implies no practice of sustained mysticism: it is said by St. Paul to happen "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye" (1 Corinthians 15:52) — a sheer sudden miracle with merely a faith in Jesus and an ordinary religious piety as its antecedent or its conditio sine... than John the Baptist..." Matthew (11:11) has, almost verbatim, an identical report of Jesus's pronouncement. Paul's two expressions are invariably associated in the Bible with natural humanity. To St. Paul the birth of Jesus was like that of any other man. But, even granting that there is scriptural authority for something extraordinary happening to Mary's body, how can it be compared to that of the ...
... reference to the Virgin Mary's body in the Gospels or in the Epistles of St. Paul. Indeed, St. Paul does not refer even to the virginal conception of Jesus by Mary, which one or two verses in the infancy accounts in a couple of books (Matthew and Luke) out of the twenty-seven comprising the New Testament state or suggest. Actually, St. Paul, whose Epistles are the earliest Christian documents, simply speaks... an ultra-capable life-force but also after a body of radiant health, free from the encroachment of tempus edax, "time the devourer". The resurrection implies no practice of sustained mysticism: St. Paul tells the Christians of his day that it would happen to them and to him "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye" (I Corinthians 15:52) - a sheer sudden miracle with merely a faith in Jesus and an... comment 4 on Ramalingam's spirituality runs: "This idea of an immortal body is found in Taoist mysticism and in the concept of a 'diamond body' in Tibetan mysticism as also in the 'spiritual body' of St. Paul and Christian tradition. Mr. Vanmikanathan seems to diminish the significance of this state of deathlessness by reducing it to the state of the delivered soul freed from the body in videha mukti." ...
... passage in St. Paul "the full, organic meaning it requires". The question implies that so far this meaning has never been given by theologians. It also suggests that St. Paul had this meaning in mind. But, if Teilhard is right here, St. Paul would run quite counter to Christianity as hitherto interpreted: he would have a genuine streak of pantheism a la Teilhard. And then both St. Paul and Teilhard... -lacking the decisive experimental verification by which to impose itself on our minds, and without the moral directives to assimilate our lives into it... The mystical Christ, the universal Christ of St. Paul, has neither meaning nor value in our eyes except as an expansion of the Christ who was born of Mary and who died on the Cross, The former essentially draws His fundamental quality of undeniability... his system to be a logical working out of St. Paul's mighty experiential utterance, "In Him we live, and move, and have our being" (Acts XVII28), an utterance much favoured by Teilhard but linked by St. Paul with an assertion which he declares to be a quotation from an earlier non-Christian Greek poet (Ibid.) . The first utterance is itself one among several recognised by every exegete as borrowing ...
... "Christ on the scale of and at the head of creation". 1 According to Teilhard, such an exclusive regard is "the most essential aim and criterion of Christian orthodoxy" 2 and, "since St. John and St. Paul, the fundamental rule of theology". 3 The divine power so figured is the Cosmic or Universal Christ and, naturally, his central function is related to the cosmos with whose space-time he is coextensive... scientific view of the world as evolutionary. The concepts of evolution are all in all to Teilhard and apart from them Christianity must fail and even "the most magnificent cosmic attributes lavished by St. Paul on the risen Christ" 15 be inexplicable and unconvincing: "Christianity takes on its full value when extended (as I find it rewarding to do) to cosmic dimensions." 16 The only nexus with orthodoxy... oriental 'pantheism'" as the factors introducing the universal aspect of his religion. The Christian contribution is restricted to "personalism". Teilhard is often disposed to talk of the Christianity of St. Paul and St. John as supplying the universe-ingredient to make up his Universal Christ. Why has he not talked here of Pauline or Johannine "totality" plus the usual personalism of the Christ preached in ...
... two restrictive connections he gave to it. First, the conventional notion of cosmi-cality which goes with all ideas of Godhead and with which Teilhard often tried to identify it in order to link to St. Paul and St. John the " 'new' Christianity" 3 he was fighting for. Secondly, the irrational idea that the cosmic Christ was necessarily a consequence and extension of the historic Jesus rather than the... Christ over the whole of Page 27 creation, hitherto thought of in an exclusively juridical and extrinsic fashion, can only become reality in an evolutionist notion of the world. As if St. Paul and the Fathers of the Church and indeed even the numerous contemporary theologians who highlight the cosmic role of Christ, had need of the evolutionist thesis!" This surprised exclamation from a... thinker past or present. If, according to Teilhard, Christ's cosmicality can become a reality only when modern evolutionism is accepted, it is impossible for his cosmic Christ to figure in whatever St. Paul or contemporary religion posits in non-scientific terms. By insisting on evolutionism, Teilhard makes himself irrevocably unorthodox. As for the historic Jesus in this context, his being subsequent ...
... glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." We hear practically the same from St. Paul 2 who calls Christ "the first-born of every creature" and "...by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth..." Both St. Paul and St. John may be cited also for a hint on 1.I: 1, 2, 10, 14. 2. Colossians I: 15, 16. Page 43 ... down: "No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." St. Paul 4 has the phrase about Christ: "the image of the invisible God." In passing, we may note that the sentences from St. John as well as St. Paul have the small h about Christ and God. In fact, the whole Bible has no capital H for either. Blake's non-capitalization ...
... the faith; test yourselves. Do you acknowledge that Jesus Christ is really in you?" (13:5) 45 Paul's being a true mystic is undeniable. Sri Aurobindo 46 has written in a letter: "... St. Paul had remarkable mystic experiences and, certainly, much profound spiritual knowledge (profound rather than wide, I think)..." He 47 has also commented on a passage in the Epistles - not exactly i... Ramsey, op. cit. p. 110, fn. 1, after drawing attention to the opinion of "many scholars" that in the text concerned Paul favours the doctrine of the soul's immortality, writes: "F. W. L. Knox in St. Paul and the Church of the Gentiles, pp. 135-145, argues that 2 Cor. v. 1-10 marks a change in Paul's belief under the influence of Hellenistic thought. But the similarity of belief in 1 Cor. xv and 2 ...
... written: "...timid minds...may maintain that the cosmic attributes of the Pauline Christ to the Godhead alone; ...all I need to do is to refer to the context, which is categorical: even in Col. l:15ff, St. Paul quite obviously has in mind the theandric Christ; it was in the Incarnate Christ that the universe was pre-formed." Christopher Mooney 13 comments in relation to the text in the Colos-sians: "Paul... spiritually converging world this 'Christie' energy acquires an urgency and intensity of another order altogether. If the world is convergent and if Christ occupies its centre, then the Christogenesis of St. Paul and St. John is nothing else and nothing less than the extension, both awaited and unhoped for, of that noogenesis in which cosmogenesis - as regards our 23.Ibid., p. 296. 24 ...
... The people, however, defied the order and protested, 'You better kill us all." The background to this act can be traced to the fact that the Jesuit missionaries had built in 1728 the Ghurch of St. Paul adjoining the Vedapuriswar temple. Those Jesuits were, so to say, all-powerful. During the reign of Louis XIV who had ascended the throne of France in 1643, they had had Governor Hebert recalled... 17 March had died down, they repeated the same tactics on 31 December. Emboldened by the support of Governor Dupleix and his wife, they did their vile deed from within the grounds of the Church of St. Paul. Months went by. The political situation was in a flux. In September 1748 the British laid siege to Pondicherry. Taking advantage of the situation, Dupleix allowed the departure of Hindus, so ...
... criticise the historical religion which takes his name, and criticise its pretensions, persecutions and political manoeuvres. But you are mistaken in thinking that it started with a backing of force. St. Paul, whose epistles are our earliest Christian documents, was not the initiator of any "jihad". The backing of force came only with the arrival of Constantine, the first Roman emperor to be converted... or two of the crucifixion. Jesus announced that some of those present before him would be there to see his return at the world's end. He never thought of a long-lasting Church on earth. St. Paul is very clear in his early epistles (Thessatonians, Corinthians I) that he is living in the end of time and will be there when the angel Gabriel blows his announcing trumpet. Later, when his health ...
... , sees our own epoch as heading towards the apocalyptic event. According to the present writer, the dice is loaded definitely in favour of a Schweitzerian standpoint. Let us begin with St. Paul, whose epistles are the earliest Christian documents* In 1 Thessalonians 4:5 he has the phrase: "... we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord." A little later, in the same epistle... A startling corollary ensues: Christian history after c. 100 A.D. is a phenomenon not envisaged or intended by Christ. References 1. William Barclay, The Mind of St. Paul (London: Collins, Fontana Books, 1972), p. 105. 2. Ibid., p. 169. 3. Raymond E. Brown, The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in Matthew and Luke (New York: ...
... and nothing else is signified by "all the world". Places like India are out of the question. The limitation under which the missions of Jesus worked is borne out even by the travels of St. Paul who made himself the champion of preaching to the Gentiles. As the Bible testifies, he preached to the Thessalonians, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Romans - all strictly... the exact hour and day are known only to God and the Kingdom may arrive like a thief in the night, but the sense of its imminence and of its certainty in the very near future is everywhere obvious. St. Paul first believed it would occur within his own lifetime. When his health began to fail, he wasn't so sure. But there is no sign that he believed it to be at all far. It is unthinkable in the context ...
... something of the experience. In his Problems of Early Christianity, Amal Kiran quotes from St. Paul and shows how there is such an anticipation. To the extent there is, it becomes relevant to our brief study of the relationship between the Bible and Savitri. After quoting from the Epistles of St. Paul about the Last Day of Judgement, Amal Kiran remarks: ...the consummation for Paul is ...
... crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes. St Matthew 5:1 to 7:29, from The Holy Gospel, Revised Standard Version (Bombay; St Paul Publications, 1975) pp. 21-30 Page 131 The Baptism of the Neophytes, (detail) fresco by the Italian painter Masaccio(1401-1428)Neophytes were new converts to Christianity. Page... Story of Civilization: P. Ill, Caesar and Christ. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972. Grant, Robert. A Historical Introduction to the New Testament. Fontana, 1971. Holy Gospel, The. Bombay: St. Paul Publications, Revised Standard Version, 1975. Reick, Bo. The New Testament Era. London: A & C Black, 1964. Schweitzer, Albert. The Quest of the Historical Jesus. London: A & C Black, 3rd ...
... greatest blow from untransmitted instantaneous action at a distance, and the blow was given not by modem but by classical physics. Surely Einstein has not played more strikingly than Newton a new St. Paul, crying: "Behold, I tell you a mystery!" Page 8 Absolute Space and Time In connection with the physics of Einstein and the Newtonian physics by which the nineteenth century ...
... The Gospel of Mark (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1956), p. 150. 33. Ibid., pp. 150-51. 34. Ibid., p. 150. 35. Liddell and Scott, op. cit., p. 45, col. 1. 36. St. Paul (London: The Home University Library, Thornton Butter-worth Ltd., 1938), p. 90. 37. Liddell and Scott, op. cit., p. 61. col. 1. 38. Ibid., p. 657, col. 1. 39. The Jerusalem ...
... the most part women and slaves.) Nowadays it is generally known that Christ and the religions which claim descendence from him are two different things. Christianity was much more the creation of St. Paul and the Church Fathers than of Christ himself, although the shining core of Christ’s mission has remained present on the Earth for a long time to contact with the soul and follow its true spiritual ...
... unknown man) leave me cold. Let them read the Gita, or, if they have a taste for these things in letter form, the 'Friendly Epistle' of Nagarjuna, thie letters of Plato, or even the Epistles of St. Paul which should afforad sufficient variety. The semi-private-wholly- public letter is a form that does not suit me. It resembles too much those cinema-cameras in front of which you not only have to stand ...
... probably due to the Christian missionaries' influence. "Penance" goes with a strong sense of "sin", especially the so-called "original sin" which is typically a Christian notion. According to St. Paul, God's sinless son Jesus came to suffer crucifixion as a sacrifice to cleanse men of the taint of the sin of disobedience which Adam had committed and which one who inherited its taint and went on ...
... unmistakable history. Don't you know that the "resurrection" of Jesus is still a controversial topic among biblical scholars? We need not dispute what are called his "appearances" after death, but St. Paul, the earliest writer in the New Testament and the only writer affirming first-hand experience of the "raised" or "risen" Jesus, has drawn so sharp a contrast between what he terms the "physical body" ...
... orthodoxy and oppose to a straightforward pantheistic turn like "God is all"? Do we not have also the phrase in Colossians 3:11: " Ta panta kai en passi Christos ", "Christ is all and in all"? If St. Paul is to be used in a discussion of pantheism, surely a Christo-logy with a pantheistic background or basis may be deduced here, and then Teilhard's favourite phrase merely promises in an overt realisation ...
... Page 307 thought-substance, in spite of the vividness of the expression, and that makes it very difficult to be sure about these things. This passage about the body, for instance—although St. Paul had remarkable mystic experiences and, certainly, much pro found spiritual knowledge (profound rather than wide, I think)—I would not swear to it that he is referring to the supramentalised body ( ...
... have not the least intention of doing that at present or for another year at the earliest. When I do go, this or that circumstance will make no difference. Mr.. Gandhi, like the man in Macedonia with St Paul, sent me a message to "come over and help", but I had to say that I was not ready to join in the old politics and had no Page 234 new programme formed for a more spiritual line of work ...
... Notes on the Way 30 September 1966 This talk begins with Mother's comments on the following letter of Sri Aurobindo. "... although St. Paul had remarkable mystic experiences and, certainly, much profound spiritual knowledge (profound rather than wide, I think)—I would not swear to it that he is referring to the supramentalised body (physical ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1966 September 30, 1966 After reading a hitherto unpublished letter of Sri Aurobindo's: "...Although St. Paul had remarkable mystic experiences and, certainly, much profound spiritual knowledge (profound rather than wide, I think)—I would not swear to it that he is referring 1 to the supramentalised body ...
... states. And if you hold that man can do what Jesus asked them to, without man's making any move towards higher states of consciousness, all history contradicts you. The true "charity" (agape) which St. Paul praises is impos- Page 87 sible to practise unless the Divine within awakens. Perhaps you may not have noticed that in the great passage in 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13 he has the curious ...
... are some people who have no faith in you or the Mother. Even then they receive something from a flower sent to them. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, even if there is no faith, Grace can act. You know about St. Paul. He used to persecute the Christians. Once in the midst of his persecution he suddenly got a vision and was converted. Sarat Chatterji had no faith; yet he was saved twice by a flower and he came ...
... overwhelm him with their black wings of despair, nothing can, if he truly loves the Divine, create even the smallest chink in the impenetrable armour of his love and faith in the Divine. Did not St. Paul throw the confident challenge "What shall separate me from the love of God?" And can we forget the unshakable resolve of Job in the midst of the greatest calamities of his life: "Though He [the ...
... 179 -The Future Poetry, 227 -The Life Divine, 126n., 248 -The Secret of the Veda, 42n St. Augustine, 115n -Confessions, ll5n St. Francis, 83, 240 St. Jacques, 107 St. Paul, 9-10, 108 Stalin, 267 Stalinism, 262 Stendha1, 88 Supervielle, Jules, 198 -"Alter Ego", 199-200 -"Lui Seul", 201 -"Saisir", 201 Surya,166 Syria, 284 TAG ORE, R ...
... 199,421 Rudra, 160, 163, 208 Russell, Bertrand, 56 Russo-Japanese War, 213 SAHARA,324 St. Augustine, 73 St. Francis of Assisi, 243 St. (}enevieve, 199 St. Matthew, 186 St. Paul, 73 St. Vincent de Paul, 411 Sankhya,45,85 Satan, 46 Savitri, 163, 165 Second Empire, the, 418 Shakespeare, 79, 116n., 406 -Julius Caesar, 116n. -Hamlet, 72n. ...
... configuration, and regard that alone as one's nation is to miss the truth of its inner and inmost existence. The acorn gives no hint of the oak, or the caterpillar of the butterfly. Saul keeps St. Paul cocooned in himself. We have to see - and how can we, unless we develop the inner sight and the intuitive vision? - also its sūksma or subtle body, and the kārana or causal. It goes without ...
... In reply to the charge that his disciples were not fasting, but feasting and enjoying themselves, he said, "Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them ?" St. Paul, regarded as second only to the Christ in spiritual stature and transparent purity, exerted his powerful influence to check the spread of extreme asceticism, and exhorted men to revert to the inner ...
... increasing complexity-consciousness, and the next evolutionary jump may very well mean the convergence of humanity upon itself and the universal reign of something akin to cosmic consciousness. Hasn't St. Paul said that, in the fullness of time, all things might be gathered in Christ, "both which are in heaven and which are on the earth"? 86 The "fall", then, interpreted in a cosmic sense, would only ...
... 1879 — Taken to England. 1879-1884 — In Manchester (84, Shakespeare Street) in the charge of the Drewett family. Tutored at home by the Drewetts. 1884 — September Admitted to St. Paul School, London. Takes lodgings at 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's Bush, London. 1886 — August Vacation in Keswick. 1887 — August Vacation in Hastings. After returning from ...
... veritable universal congress of the world's seers, saints and savants like Asoka, Carlyle, Porphyry, Seneca, Emerson, Socrates, Plato, Heraclitus, Voltaire, Tseu-Tse, Confucius, Minamoto Sanetomo, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Epictetus, Lao-Tse, Leibnitz, Hermes, Schopenhauer, Sadi, Asvaghosha, Rumi, Spinoza, Bahaaullah, Omar Khayyam, Pythagoras, Kant, Firdausi, Ramakrishna, Vivek ananda , Pasteur, Giordano ...
... penetrating verdict of Lao Tzu, and Whitehead chimes with him when he says, "The insistence upon the rules of conduct marks the ebb Page 465 of religious fervour". He reminds us that St. Paul denounced the Law and Puritan divines, and contemptuously spoke of the rags of righteousness. Is it not time the ardent advocates of moral reform took this truth to heart and turned their benevolent ...
... before "Solomon", as a very perfect and harmonious stanza of free quantitative verse. Or again, let us take the opening verses of the Sermon on the Mount, Page 342 Or from St. Paul,— If we take Shakespeare's prose in a well-known passage, we shall find the same law of quantitative rhythm automatically arranging his word-movement— Page 343 The measures ...
... Research, Neo-Hinduism, Neo-Buddhism, Page 81 Neo-Mahomedanism, Neo-Christianity. The priests of Isis, the adepts & illuminati of Gnosticism, denied their triumph by the intervention of St Paul & the Pope, reborn into this latter age, claim now their satisfaction. Already some outworks of materialism are giving way, the attack grows more insistent, the defence more uncertain, less proudly ...
... Augustine, 73 St. Bonaventure, 48 fn. 17 St. Francis, 48 St. Francis of Assisi: Writings and Early Biographies, 48 fn. 17 St. John, 43 St. John's Gospel, 43,231 St. Paul, 43,44,102,230 "stars", 15,20-26,29,30,31,32, 36,37, 39, 58, 59,162,163,164,173-75, 180-81, 185 Page 274 Stukely, 225 Summer, 239 Sun,115,118 ...
... Assisi: Writings and Early Biographies - English Omnibus of the Sources for the Life of St. Francis, translated by several hands and edited by Marion A. Habig (Franciscan Herald Press, Chicago). St. Paul Colossians, I. Sampson, John Blake's Poetical Works (Oxford), 1904. Seturaman, V. (Editor) Critical Essays on English Literature (Orient Longman, Madras), 1965. ...
... ourselves with the pill. But are we also preoccupied with the TRUTH?... Yet we should read our holy books again, but read them without passion, without egoistic interest; almost two thousand years ago, St. Paul said, "Multifariam, multisque modis olim Deus loquens in prophetis, novissime diebus istis locutus est nobis in Filio" (several times and in several ways God has spoken through the prophets, but now ...
... equanimity. In the early days there was a good deal of talk about past births. The being who had been behind Jesus, Chaitanya and, most recently, Ramakrishna was said to be behind Pavitra now. St. Paul and Vivekananda were seen in the background of Anilbaran. In connection with Nolini we heard of Roman Virgil and the late-renaissance French poet Ronsard as well as the French-revolution poet Andre ...
... book but out of my own life which has realised on its pulses that All can be done if the God-touch is there. Page 209 Now a side-glance at your missionary friend Poh San, St. Paul and the question of translating him. I don't see how she can escape the literal rendering of Galatians 2:19: "Through the Law I die to the Law..." What she has to do is to make a comment on the ...
... divinity as makes the down-thrust. The Integral Yoga in its fullness is meant to concentrate the evolutionary process into an accelerated revolutionary move-ment. It is not something achieved, as St. Paul says, "in the twinkling of an eye" during the hoped-for Second Coming of Christ at the world's end and taken up into the Beyond. A new gradually divinised life upon the earth and not a sudden ...
... of attraction at the same time that it is in a phenomenal process of formation: it is an eternal Prime Mover from in-front, an Omega who is also an Alpha. Now, Teilhard, basing himself on St. Paul and St. John, stresses the cosmic function of Christ. This function starts with the Incarnation which joins Christ to the material universe. It passes through his Resurrection from the dead by which ...
... co-operation. In the early days there was a good deal of talk about past births. The being who had been behind Jesus, Chaitanya and, most recently, Ramakrishna was said to be behind Pavitra now. St. Paul and Vivekananda were seen in the background of Anilbaran. In connection with Nolini we heard of Roman Virgil and the late-renaissance French poet Ronsard as well as the French-revolution poet Andre ...
... stops to reflect now feels that the attitude of his God to the rebel angels and to man is hard and unforgiving, below the standard of any decent human morality, far below the Christian charity of St. Paul. The atmosphere of the poem when it deals with these matters is suggestive of a tyrant's attorney-general whose business is to find plausible excuses for an arbitrary despot." 10 Waldock traces ...
... mind may weave a tissue of partial untruths about the vision just as the same mind may weave a tissue of falsehood around the bare datum of a sense perception, e.g., mistaking a post for a man. St. Paul called faith "the evidence of things unseen". Evidence, not mere mental belief. As a man gradually purifies his nature so his faith will shine more clearly, free from the misunderstandings of the ...
... You have repeated "earth". I should have thought it clear that the repetition is intentional. Earth does that crucifixion in the earth-bound—once the earth-binding ceases, the soul is free. Cf. St. Paul, "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" I am much delighted and relieved to .find that you have not lost your sense of humour by your Supramental transformation, Sir! ...
... virtues acquired in your past lives? Or that you have no Grace of God? Who says that you .are only sand? So I tell you, first try to know yourself. And before trying to do so bear in mind the words of St. Paul: "I know not what I am". Start life with this approach. 'I know nothing about myself. I do not know whether I am an ordinary or extraordinary personality. I will come to know of it at long last.' ...
... world had given him no rest or relaxation, it served only to fill his cup of misery to the brim. But the hour of final relief was not long postponed: the Grace came to him, even as it came to Moses or St. Paul as a sudden flare of fire which burnt up the Dark Night and opened out the portals of Morning Glory. Pascal's place in the evolution of European culture and consciousness is of considerable s ...
... 21 Sorokin, Pitrim A., 751 Spiegelberg, Frederic, 17,20,751 Spinoza, 418 Srinivasachariar, Mandayam, 375ff, 391, 405,525 Standard-Bearer, The, 527 St. Paul, 445 Statesman, The, 222-23, 237, 247 Strachey, Lytton, 177,241 Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, The, also Mind of Light, 438-39, 718 Swarnalata Devi ...
... change; our thoughts, ideas and opinions begin to assume a different complexion and run on different lines. This is a common enough experience, illustrated in the lives of many great men, such as St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Francis of Assisi, Luther, and Kant (among the Westerners); and Valmiki, Tulsidas, Vivekananda, to name only a few, among the Indians. This proves that there is nothing permanent ...
... forbearance, patience and endurance, equality and selflessness which nothing else in life can inspire and induce to an equal extent No materialist creed can ever hope to make out of common clay a St. Paul or a St. Francis, a Tulsidas, a Mirabai, or a Suso. The power that produces this miracle is no illusion or fiction; rather it is a pitiable self-delusion in modern man, enclosed in the dim cell of ...
... curiosity." Manmohan was already well versed in Greek and English literature when he joined St. Paul's School, London. Aravinda A. Ghose and Manmohan Ghose were both admitted to St. Paul's School in September 1884. The original site of the school, which was founded in 1509, was near St. Paul's Cathedral. But as the original building was burned down, the school was moved to South Kensington... left on young Ara by the proud city. However, the question remains as to who took the two boys to St. Paul's School in London? It is not known. But may I proffer my own conjecture ? The High Master, Dr. F. W. Walker, about whom Binyon speaks so glowingly, was elected to take charge of St. Paul's in 1876; at the time the school was not flourishing. The choice of the school's governing body fell on... Australia, Rev. Drewett wanted to leave his wards in good hands, and had arranged for their admission to St. Paul's? And, again, he must have spoken of the brilliance of his youngest ward, Aravinda Akroyd Ghose? Under the able stewardship of Dr. Frederick William Walker (1830-1910), St. Paul's School began to thrive. His brain, his toil and his devotion made the school an educational institution ...
... therefore influenced by two Englishmen — Reverend W. H. Drewett and Dr. R W. Walker. When he left St. Paul's, Sri Aurobindo was a young man of seventeen. During those six years at St. Paul's how was A. A. Ghose faring ? "Up to the age of fifteen I was known as a very promising scholar at St. Paul's. After fifteen I lost this reputation. The teachers used to say that I had become lazy and was d... St. Paul's School The three terms at St. Paul's School begin in January, April and September; the largest number of entrants being in September. Both M. M. Ghose and A. A. Ghose entered the School in the Autumn term of 1884. While Mano's guardian was named as 'W. H. Drewett,' Sri Aurobindo's was listed as 'Mr. Ackroyd': GHOSE, ARAVINDA ACKROYD. A. A. Ghose was elected to St. Paul's... accurately yet, is work- English often extraordi- narily good. Improving. That Sri Aurobindo gave his attention to the classics at Manchester and at St. Paul's, we now know. But "even at St Paul's in the last three years he simply went through his school course and spent most of his spare time in general reading, especially English poetry, literature and fiction, French ...
... Drewett was an accomplished Latin scholar; he did not teach him Greek, but grounded him so well in Latin that the headmaster of St. Paul's school took up Aurobindo himself to ground him in Greek and then pushed him rapidly into the higher classes of the school. [At St. Paul's Aurobindo made the discovery of Homer.] The Head Master only taught him the elements of Greek grammar and then pushed... me that language (but not Greek, which I began at Saint Paul's, London), and English History etc.; Mṛṣ Drewett taught me French, Geography and Arithmetic. No Science; it was not in fashion at that time. Page 26 Aurobindo studied in the Manchester Grammar School for a period of about five years.... The Head Master of St. Paul's from the first entertained a very high opinion of Aurobindo's... brothers who went there. He himself studied privately with Mr and Mrs Drewett. Mr Drewett was a very fine classical scholar and taught him Latin and grounded him so firmly that the Head Master of St. Paul's after teaching him personally the elements of Greek which he had not yet begun to learn, put him at once from the lower into the higher school. There was no admiration expressed about his character ...
... he was five years of age. Thereafter till twenty-one he spoke only English. In my father's house only English and Hindustani were spoken. I knew no Bengali. Quite early he was sent to St. Paul's School at Darjeeling, and then, when he showed unusual promise, to King's College, Cambridge.... ... His chosen medium of expression is English. Another error is worth correcting. The reviewer... speaking English and thinking in English and no other tongue. He was educated in French and Latin and other subjects under private tuition in Manchester from seven to eleven and studied afterwards in St Paul's School London for about seven years. From there he went to King's College. He had never to study English at all as a subject; though it was not his native language, it had become by force of circumstances ...
... rare in a boy of that age. In September 1884 Manmohan and Sri Aurobindo were admitted to St. Paul's School, London, as day scholars. This was Sri Aurobindo's first experience of school life in England and it must have opened up new vistas for him, after his secluded life at Manchester. Fortunately, St Paul's was then one of the best schools in England and the Head Master, Mr. Walker, a great educationist... Sri Aurobindo for All Ages II: Manchester and St. Paul’s School, London (1879-1890) AT MANCHESTER, the boys were readily given shelter by the Drewett family: Rev. Drewett, his wife and his elderly mother. Before he left, Dr. Ghose gave strict instructions that his sons should not be allowed to make the acquaintance of any Indians or to undergo any Indian... Aurobindo's name came prominently before the British public in connection with the Alipore Bomb Trials, the old Head Master is reported to have said that of all the boys who passed through his hands at St. Paul's, Aurobindo was by far the most richly endowed in intellectual capacity. You may think that since Dr. Ghose was very well placed in life and had himself taken his sons to England for their education ...
... residence at Cambridge. Aurobindo now turned the full fury of his attention to classical studies ... Aurobindo gave his attention to the classics at Manchester and at Saint Paul's; but even at St Paul's in the last three years he simply went through his school course and spent most of his spare time in general reading, especially English poetry, literature and fiction, French literature... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes In London [He was sent to boarding school in London.] St. Paul's was a day school. The three brothers lived in London for some time with the mother of Mr. Drewett but she left them after a quarrel between her and Manmohan about religion. The old Mrs. Drewett was ...
... but a kind of inner feeling was growing within him that he had some great work to do, a mission to fulfil. Sri Aurobindo "gave his attention to the classics at Manchester and at St. Paul's; but even at St. Paul's in the last three years he simply went through his school course and 3. The whole family went to England - Dr. Ghosh, Mrs. Ghosh, and their three sons and daughter Sarojini... father's wish, Sri Aurobindo got admitted as a candidate for the I.C.S. even while he was at St. Paul's. He took up the Classics and some Page 9 other subjects, and prepared for the competitive examination without the help of a tutor. This simultaneous study of a double course, one at St. Paul's and, later, at Cambridge, and the other for the I.C.S., must have proved a strain on him;... and French. Besides these subjects, Sri Aurobindo read himself the Bible, Shakespeare, Shelley, Keats, etc. Mr. Drewett grounded Sri Aurobindo so well in Latin that when Sri Aurobindo went to St. Paul's School in London, the headmaster of that school "took him up to ground him in Greek and then pushed him rapidly into the higher classes of the school." When Sri Aurobindo was eleven years ...
... Michaelmas 1890 . . ." The feast of St. Michael, one of the archangels, is known as Michaelmas and falls on 29 September. Oxford, Cambridge and other universities in England have a Michaelmas term. Dr. K. D. Ghose wanted his son to go in for the Indian Civil Service. So, while waiting to go up to Cambridge, Ara joined the I.C.S. Class organized by St. Paul's School —which had no official recognition... read, and left it to my mind to absorb what it could. That's why I could never become a scholar." But what a mind I and what a power of absorption!! There is no examination for passing out of St. Paul's School other than the Public examinations —at least it was so in the last century. Thus it was in December 1889 that A. A. Ghose took the Examination for Scholarships, Exhibitions and Admissions... I.C.S. recruited its new members by public competition administered by the Civil Service Commission — out of all the candidates, A. A. Ghose ranked eleventh. In his I.C.S. Class Report from St. Paul's School, for the half-year ending July 1890, we note that the teachers commented on his 'lack of energy,' although they found the young man's work 'good.' This was the period when the adolescent was ...
... and Manmohan to St. Paul's School in London, but in the register Manmohan, who was admitted in the same month as Aurobindo, September 1884, is listed as a "Ward of W.H. Drewett". The address given is 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush. Sri Aurobindo later said that Mrs. Drewett, the mother of W.H. Drewett, had taken lodgings for them in London. St. Paul's School, West Kensington... except this, that I had a thought that I would dedicate my life to a similar world change and take part in it." ¹ Both at Manchester and at St. Paul's Aurobindo gave his attention to the study of classics, but even at St. Paul's in the last three years he simply went through his school course without labouring over it and spent most of his time in general reading, especially of English... last year of study at St. Paul's, Aurobindo was a member of the "I. C .S. Class". This was a group of senior boys who were working for the Indian Civil Service examination. He passed the I. C .S. test, obtaining eleventh place and securing very high marks in classics. It may be noted that Benoybhushan also took the test but did not pass. Towards the end of his career at St. Paul's Aurobindo won an open ...
... Note on Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on August 15, 1872. At the age of seven he was taken to England for his education. There, he studied at St. Paul's School, London, and at King's College, Cambridge. Returning to India in 1893, he worked for the next thirteen years in the Princely State of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor ...
... to learn things. He was calculating where he could be at the time. Then suddenly he told the pilot: "Take off your hat". "Why?" asked the pilot. He replied: "Don't you see we are under the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral?" ...
... made good use of the review Archives and Research which has published many biographical documents, in particular with regard to Annette Akroyd's diary, Sri Aurobindo's school days, his reports at St. Paul's, etc.* The research on Dr. K. D. Ghose was done by Nirmal Nahar, who found much information in the Bengal Civil List and the Calcutta Gazette, thanks to the kind help of Sri Biswanath Chakrabarty ...
... hical Notes Autobiographical Notes Incomplete Life Sketch in Outline Form, c. 1922 Born 1872. Sent to England for education 1879. Studied at St Paul's School, London, and King's College, Cambridge. Returned to India. February, 1893. Life of preparation at Baroda 1893-1906 Political life—1902-1910 [The "Swadeshi" movement prepared from ...
... life of aspiration to 'the divine vision' cannot but bring its reward, not in the poems only but in other ways — all ways — and setting your heart and mind on 'whatsoever things are lovely' (in St. Paul's words) you must have experienced many times a great joy. I shall not, as you may imagine, read the poems through from beginning to end, but I look forward to dipping in and finding always something ...
... years to go before he too would complete his studies at St. Paul's School. But the hols were here! Mano's letter is again from St. Stephen's Avenue, and dated July 1. "Thank you very much for your note and the addresses you recommend. Since you say Littlehampton is so expensive (with bad drains too) we have adopted your suggestion of St. .Leonard's. I believe my brother has already written; but... relief. The first letter, dated August 10, 1886, Tuesday, is from Keswick (c/o Miss Scott, Ambleside Road) where the brothers were holidaying that summer. The two friends were still students at St. Paul's. "I am sorry you cannot come to the Lake District —but I quite understand your difficulties in the way of expense and luggage, for we have been feeling the same. And Derbyshire, I can tell you... ." The next letter is also from Keswick, dated "Friday, Aug. 13 th . . . . We are only thinking of staying here till next Page 146 Tuesday and then going off to the seaside to St. Bees, where we went last year; for we have had great trouble in getting lodgings in Keswick. "We have been having very rainy and unsettled weather of late ... a little while ago I and my younger ...
... September Admitted to St. Paul's School, London . Takes lodgings at 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's Bush, London. 1886 August Vacation in Keswick. 1887 August Vacation in Hastings. After returning from Hastings takes lodgings at 128, Cromwell Road, London. 1889 December Passes Matriculation from St. Paul's. 1890 July Admitted... a letter to The Hindu, Madras (published in the November 13 issue), announcing his presence in Pondicherry and his retirement from active politics. 1911 April New lodgings taken on Rue St. Louis ("Raghavan House"). July 20 A letter to The Hindu. August 15 First celebration of Sri Aurobindo's birthday in Pondicherry. 1912 July 3 Letter to Motilal ...
... Australia with his wife, leaving the three boys in charge of his mother. Presently old Mrs. Drewett took lodgings for the Ghose brothers in London at 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush. Sri Aurobindo was admitted to St. Paul's School in September 1884 and remained there till December 1889. At the time of admission, the Head Master, Dr. Walker, was impressed by Sri Aurobindo's... Page 30 Sri Aurobindo — Manchester —1883 classes of the school. At first Mrs. Drewett, who had taken lodgings for them, was with the boys in London, for St. Paul's was but a day school. At the St. Stephen's Avenue house, the old lady, who was pious Christian, used to have passages from the Bible read at prayer time. The boys were expected to participate in all this, and... Cromwell Road residence, and then went to stay at 28, Kempsford Gardens, Earl's Court, South Kensington, and remained there till almost the end of the year. 19 Sri Aurobindo's five years at St. Paul's were a period when — albeit desultorily — he garnered extensively from classical and modern European literature. Strictly in academic terms, his school record speaks for itself. He won the B ...
... 1878,Feb. 21 - Mother is born in Paris. 1879,June -Sri Aurobindo leaves India for England with his parents and his two elder brothers. He spends 5 years in Manchester, enters St. Paul's School, London, in 1884, and King's College, Cambridge, in 1890. 1885,Dec -First session of the Indian National Congress at Bombay. 1886,Aug. 16 -Sri Ramakrishna passes ...
... secret basic rhythm to the life of the boy from Bengal who had been taken out of India in 1881 when seven years old, tutored privately at first in an English family at Manchester, sent later to St. Paul's School in London and finally to King's College at Cambridge. The slowly unfolding answer to this query is the tale Professor K.R.Srinivasa Iyengar has to tell in the neatly got-up and... s mastery of its turns and nuances. But English is not the only tongue he knows nor the literature of England the only "monument of the mind's magnificence" he is familiar with. From St. Paul's School, London, he went with a senior classical scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he took away in one year all the prizes for Greek and Latin verse. In the open I.C.S. examination ...
... found; it was written inspired by Shelley’s ‘ The Cloud’, and published in a local magazine when he was ten years old. He was so advanced in Latin that he was allowed to skip the first class at St Paul’s secondary school in London. Along with the normal curriculum, by following which he made rapid progress in Latin, Greek and French, he also taught himself Italian, German and Spanish to read Dante ...
... who studied there. I was taught privately by the Drewetts. Mr. Drewett who was a scholar in Latin (he had been a Senior Classic at Oxford) taught me that language (but not Greek, which I began at St. Paul's, London) and English, History, etc. Mrs. Drewett taught me French, Geography and Arithmetic. No Science; it was not in fashion at that time." As he was studying at home the little boy got plenty... the Fox Family Magazine, to which his younger brother was also a contributor. It was therefore after the Midsummer term of 1884 that old mother Drewett took lodgings for them in London, at 49 St. Stephen's Avenue, Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush. Now, pious Christian that the old lady was, every day in London she held family prayers in the chapel and passages from the Bible were read. The ...
... incomplete, and have been published. Page 191 One of his main occupations at Cambridge was writing English poetry to' which he had devoted much of his time the last two years he was at St. Paul's School. Sri Aurobindo's lifelong poetical career, let us recollect, began in Manchester when he wrote for the Fox Family Magazine — "an awful imitation of somebody I don't remember." Brother Mano ...
... proceeded to St Paul's School, London, in 1884 and remained there for another six years. He was an apt pupil in every way and secured the Butterworth Prize for Literature and the Bedford Prize for History. Dr Walker took personal interest in Sri Aurobindo, impressed by his character and abilities, taught him Greek, and pushed him rapidly into the higher forms. Did the Head Master of St Paul's already see... 15 August 1914 Arya, a monthly journal devoted to "a systematic study of the highest problems of existence", was launched on Sri Aurobindo's forty-third birthday. Madame Richard and Paul Richard collaborated in the venture till they were obliged, owing to the exigencies of the war, to leave for France. The main burden of running the journal fell upon Sri Aurobindo, who wrote most of ...
... go into the minute details. I read and left it to my mind to absorb what it could. That's why I could never become a scholar. Up to the age of fifteen I was known as a very promising scholar at St. Paul's. After fifteen I lost this reputation. The teachers used to say that I had become lazy and was deteriorating. DR. BECHARLAL: How was that? SRI AUROBINDO: Because I was reading novels and poetry ...
... acquired at home, for which he was admitted P a higher class in the school. 1882 Had an intimation of his part in great upheavals of the future. 1884-90 At St. Paul's School in London. Learnt Greek. In I886, started writing English poetry Wrote also Latin and Greek poetry. Learnt European languages to study their lite-ratures. Made a thorough... 1885-86 Then in his fourteenth year, had another and clearer intimation of his destined part in coming great world movements. 1890 With a scholarship from St. Paul's, left for Cambridge. Passed the Indian Civil Service Examination, but after the probationary period, did not turn up for the final riding test; for this and for anti-government... came the reply. This was just two months before the outbreak of the First World War. August I5: Started the monthly philosophical review Arya in joint editorship with Mother and Paul Richard. 1915 February 2I: Celebration of Mother' s birthday for the first time in Pondicherry. February 22: Mother left Pondicherry for France. ...
... 1879, at the age of seven, he was taken with his two elder brothers to England for education and lived there for fourteen years. Brought up at first in an English family at Manchester, he joined St. Paul's School in London in [1884] 1 and in 1890 went from it with a senior classical scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he studied for two years. In 1890 he passed also the open competition ...
... everything. Evidently it appealed to some part of the being … I had a thought that I would dedicate my life to a similar world-change and take part in it.” 948 In 1885 Aravinda went to the esteemed St Paul’s School in London. He became proficient in Greek and Latin, and in English literature. He also studied “divinity” (the Bible), French and mathematics. His reports show that these subjects provided ...
... was a 'Guy Fawkes Day.' Everything was blown up, but everything French. The white town with its fortifications, its fort, Dupleix's palace, convents, public buildings ... and churches. Including St-Paul's Church which in its turn was razed to the ground. Lord Pigot walked among the rubble, to check that his orders were carried out. When in 1769 the French wanted to rebuild Pondicherry's fortifications... a couple of centuries has passed since those times and those deeds, history gives us a few answers. And provides us with a few meanders of destiny reserved for some of the above actors. Saint-Paul's Church. After leaving in 1748, the English regrouped themselves, and returned to the attack. On 16 January 1761, British troop entered the town. Lord Pigot, then governor of Madras, gave three months'... the First Empire in 1804. He conquered large parts of Europe, then after several meanders of destiny, was finally defeated at Waterloo, a village in Belgium, on 18 June 1815. Exiled to the island of St. Helena, in the South Atlantic, he died there six years later. A victim of stomach cancer officially, though arsenic poisoning has often been alleged. Page 167 After several pendulum ...
... second picture. Instead of a young Englishman going to India, we have a younger Indian at Cambridge, the University of both Macaulay and Milton. This Indian undergraduate has lately come up from St. Paul's School of London, the very school which Milton had attended. Now the year is 1890. On the second of December the student, aged 18, pens a letter to his father across the seas. The subject is an ...
... and to him they are not only inseparable but also constitute the whole of reality. There is nothing beyond the cosmos for Spinoza but the cosmos is God, and Spinoza compares his feeling of it to St, Paul's spiritual sense when he told the Athenians: "In Him we live and move and have our being." Even if no recognisable Transcendent is granted by Spinozism, the pantheist in Spinoza takes at the same ...
... intended for ages to come, with a Church meant to last even when, in Macaulay's famous fantasy, a native traveller from Newzealand stands on a broken arch of London Bridge to contemplate the ruins of St. Paul's. Page 39 ... doctrine - you can read Paul from top to bottom and learn almost nothing about the material contained in the gospels. Strange. Paul may not be the best witness to all the things early Christians believed, say in Egypt or Mesopotamia which he never visited - or even in Palestine, which he only visited briefly." True, early Christianity was not single-strained. From Paul's own Letters we know... believed in the virginal conception Paul could have been unaware of the doctrine. The doctrine simply could not have been there in those early days. As to what early Christians believed in Egypt or Mesopotamia, not only Paul but nobody on earth can say anything. They are a total blank for all time, for no records exist. All we can learn about early Christianity is from Paul, since his are the first documents ...
... pastor in Manchester, with the strict instruction that the boys should be shielded from any contact with their motherland, its culture and its religions. Later Aravinda would study at the renowned St. Paul’s School in London and at King’s College in Cambridge. While still a student, and throughout his life, he was recognised for his mastery of the English language. Also, Cambridge made him into a classical... Mirra Richard and she had arrived with her husband, Paul, in the sleepy colonial port that very morning. The Richards had boarded the Japanese ship Kagu Maru in Marseilles three weeks earlier, sailed through the Suez Canal up to Colombo, crossed the Palk Strait, boarded the Boat Mail at Danushkodi and arrived safely at their exotic destination. Paul Richard was a philosopher and a politician. He had... first visit to Pondicherry, Paul Richard had brought back a photograph of Aurobindo Ghose and she, despite her advanced occult capacities, had seen only the politician in him. Therefore, while walking the mile or so from her hotel to the house where Ghose was living with a few companions, all of them Bengali revolutionaries, Madame Richard perhaps had mixed expectations. Paul had already gone out to ...
... natural sites or constructions erected by human hands, were to be destroyed and Christian churches built in their stead. (The cathedral of Chartres, the Notre-Dame in Paris, the Dom in Cologne and St Paul’s Cathedral in London were constructed on former sites of pagan temples.) The gods of the pagans were all declared to be demons. “The demons also persuaded men to build their temples, to place there... Jewish swindle. It is all the same and it does not set us free. A German Church, a German Christianity is rubbish. One is either Christian or German. One cannot be both. You may eliminate the epileptic Paul from Christianity. Others have done so before us. You may turn Jesus into a noble human being and deny his divinity and his role as an intermediary. Some people have done so in former and more recent ...
... nature or help the spiritual growth, are another matter. Page 95 Well, it is difficult to explain [ what kind of visions help one's spiritual growth ]. I might give the example of St. Paul's vision on the way to Damascus as an example of a vision which really meant business. You have yourself given the Kurukshetra example. But all visions need not be so stupendous as that—small ones ...
... taken hold of the German people.” 927 These words were spoken by the Indian philosopher and yogi Sri Aurobindo in the course of a conversation on the last day of 1938. Sri Aurobindo was educated at St Paul’s School in London and at Cambridge University; he was an accomplished classical scholar who remembered his Greek and Latin perfectly even in South India and at an advanced age; he had been one of the ...
... 1: E.C. Bentley made an "estimate of the mighty dead" in these four lines: Sir Christopher Wren Said, "I'm going to dine with some men. If anybody calls, Say I am designing St. Paul's." 4 Readers will surely appreciate with pleasure how the real dig is here conveyed with surprising and ingenious brevity. Ex. 2: Here is the epitaph of the poet Gay as inscribed on... rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold Path all right. A brain by a disordered stomach driven Thundered through Europe, conquered, ruled and fell, From St. Helena went, perhaps, to Heaven. Thus wagged on the surreal world, until Page 235 A scientist played with atoms and blew out The universe before God had time to shout. 18 ...
... association with Him is something unique, something unparalleled, rarely to be found in spiritual history. Perhaps you have some idea of Arjuna's association with Sri Krishna, Ananda's with Buddha, St. Paul's with Jesus Christ, and similar ones of others; in our modern days, associations of Vivekananda, particularly, and of his friends with Ramakrishna, and lastly, in our present time, here, of Pranab-da ...
... that, there is a very perceptible quarter vowel sound or one-eighth vowel sound between "th" and "m"—if it were not so the plural "rhythms" would be unpronounceable. I remember in my French class at St. Paul's our teacher (a French man) insisted on our pronouncing ordre in the French way—in his mouth "orrdrr"; I was the only one who succeeded, the others all made it auder, orrder, audrer , or some such ...
... who seemed to hold in himself, like a greater Leonardo da Vinci, the seeds of a new age. A Bengali by birth, he was yet educated from his seventh to his twenty-first year in England, first at St. Paul's School, London, and then at King's College, Cambridge. Over and above using the English language as if it were his mother-tongue, he was a brilliant classical scholar who made his mark not ...
... their meeting may be read on the cultural plane. Sri Aurobindo, hailing from India, was educated in England from his seventh to his twenty-first year — at the start privately in Manchester, later at St. Paul's School in London and finally at King's College, Cambridge. He became not only a master of English but also an extraordinary scholar of Greek and Latin. He grew perfectly familiar with French and... had been practising spirituality first in France and then in Algeria, got also into touch with Pondicherry — initially through one who came there in connection with French politics. A little before Paul Richard arrived in the capital of French India, Sri Aurobindo had already made his home there. Richard spoke to him of Mirra, as the Mother's name then was. Sri Aurobindo is reported to have said that ...
... side of the "high and mighty". Here is E.C. Bentley's 'estimate' of Christopher Wren, the celebrated designer of St. Paul's Cathedral. "Sir Christopher Wren Said, 'I'm going to dine with some men. Page 53 If anybody calls Say I am designing St. Paul's.' " 74 4. Sudden revelation of unexpected 'truth': Example: "How shall I express my point? You... would never do if said outright. ... Pun is a form of polite satire where direct attack would be uncivil and displeasing." 54 Example: The Rev. Sydney Smith said to his fellow-canons of St. Paul's Cathedral who were animatedly discussing the question of a wooden side-walk round the edifice: "Come, gentlemen, lay your heads together and the thing is done." Please note how the pun... is a palindrome of seven words supposed to have been uttered by Napoleon. He was, as we know, first exiled to the isle of Elba before he was finally banished to the island of St. Helena. During his reminiscent spells at St. Helena, Napoleon is supposed to have said to his British attendant there: "Able was I ere I saw Elba." 32 14.Ingenuity: The appreciation of ingenuity and the sense ...
... writer. 50. See Letters on Yoga, Cent. Ed., p. 770. 51. 4 Arts Annual 1935, printed and published by Haren Ghosh. 52. The Mother, Chapter 2. 53. Donne, John (1572 - 1631). Dean of St. Paul's; preacher and metaphysical poet; author of satires, epistles and elegies. Vaughan, Henry (1622 - 1695). A Welsh metaphysical poet and mystic. Crashaw, Richard (1613 -1649). English poet... ), Dilip ("Trance"), Moni ("The Life Heavens"), Nolini ("The Bird of Fire") and Sahana ("In Horis Aeternum"). 26. Dilip had sent to Sri Aurobindo a, passage (in French) from The Confessions of St. Augustine. 27. Nag Mahashoy: a householder disciple of Sri Ramakrishna's. 28. Mayavadin: one for whom the world is an illusion. 29. The following passages within brackets have been omitted ...
... documents consulted) 5 1885 1884 Sri Aurobindo entered St. Paul's School in September 1884 (Gardiner, ed., Admissions Registers , p. 121; personal communication from the Librarian, St. Paul's School, London). 5 February January The steamship Carthage... Indological Book House, 1971. "Burton on Trent Grammar School", http://www.burton-on-trent.org/1-History/ School%20History/History.htm Gardiner, Robert Barlow, ed., Admissions Registers of St. Paul's School from 1876 - 1905 . London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. Ghosh, Pansy Chhaya, "Cotton, Henry (Sir)". In Dictionary of National Biography , vol. 1. Calcutta: Institute of Historical... 1915, when Paul was ordered to join his regiment. The Richards remained in France until March 1916, when they departed for Japan. After a four-year stay in that country, they returned to Pondicherry in April 1920. To Paul Richard . Sri Aurobindo wrote these letters to Richard after their meeting in 1910 and before Richard returned to India in 1914. To the Mother and Paul Richard . ...
... for the boarding, lodging and education of his sons. The three brothers, under the tutelage of grandmother Drewett, moved to London. There, in September 1884, Manmohan and Aravinda were admitted to St Paul’s School, one of the best schools of its time. ‘Impressed by Aurobindo’s proficiency in Latin, [Headmaster] Walker awarded him a Foundation Scholarship and placed him directly in the upper fifth form... passages marked relating maltreatment of Indians by Englishmen and he denounced in his letters the British Government in India as a heartless Government.’ 13 In the last year of his studies at St Paul’s, Aravinda joined the I.C.S. class, consisting of students who were preparing for the I.C.S. entrance examination. From that time onward he took on a double load of work, on the one hand the study... Calcutta an arrest warrant was issued against Aurobindo Ghose and the publisher and printer of the Karmayogin, but Aurobindo would have to be tried in absentia. We have seen how Aurobindo met Paul Richard shortly after his arrival. Pondicherry was a haven for many Nationalists, especially from the south, and they had their own paper in the Tamil language, India. When he felt somewhat safer ...
... tongue can't do that, there is a perceptible quarter vowel or one-eighth vowel sound between th and m - if it were not so the plural rhythms would be unpronounceable. I remember in my French class at St. Paul's our teacher (a Frenchman) insisted on our pronouncing ordre in the French way - in his mouth orrdrr; I was the only one who succeeded, the others all made it auder, orrder, audrer, or some such ...
... al world of existence and experience at the fall of the present physical 'sheath'. In this connection we may recall, for comparison, the Christian doctrine of the body — in particular, St. Paul's gospel of a 'glorious body'. In the Pauline anthropology, it is not the deliverance from the body as a body that the apostle longs for, but the deliverance from the natural body of corruption ...
... words; they were pointers to action, a call to realisation; and the words went home. But of course Sri Aurobindo could not help contrasting Indian educational conditions with conditions at St. Paul's or King's. The puny stature of the typical Indian undergraduate must have sorely pained Sri Aurobindo. How true was it of the Indian scholar, as it was true (though the context is different) of... about Aurobindo. But, then, does not the lighting's blinding flash, which lasts but a moment, leap forth from the dark black bosom of the cloud?* The reference to Joan of Arc was prophetic: if St. Joan was ultimately to redeem France, wasn't Sri Aurobindo destined likewise to be the redeemer of India? IV Soon after his arrival in India, Sri Aurobindo was invited by his Cambridge ...
... high ideas and as connected and logical a way of expressing themselves—allowing for the succinctness of poetical forms—as is found in other religious poetry, say the Psalms or the Book of Job or St Paul’s Epistles. But there is a better psychological test than any mere hypothesis. If it be found, as I hold it will be found, that a scientific & rational philological dealing with the text reveals to ...
... O NE : E NGLAND AND B ARODA , 1883–1898 Sri Aurobindo went to England as a child of seven in 1879. He lived in Manchester until 1884, when he went to London to study at St. Paul's School. From there he went to Cambridge in 1890. Three years later he returned to India, and until 1906 lived and worked in the princely state of Baroda. He began writing poetry in Manchester... 1910 he went from Calcutta to Chandernagore, and six weeks later to Pondicherry, where he spent the rest of his life. Satirical Poem Published in 1907 Reflections of Srinath Paul, Rai Bahadoor, on the Present Discontents. This poem was published on 5 April 1907 in the daily Bande Mataram . This political newspaper, edited by Sri Aurobindo and others, carried a number... In his report on the session of the Bengal Provincial Conference held in Behrampore in 1907, Hemendra Prasad wrote that the chairman of the Reception Committee, a loyalist named Srinath Paul (who bore the honourary British title Rai Bahadoor), finished his address "perspiring and short of breath" ( Bande Mataram , 2 April1907). This phrase moved Sri Aurobindo to write this amusing ...
... helping and teaching enthusiastic students. I think he was largely responsible for the good name acquired by St. Paul's School. His coaching Page 30 helped me beyond all expectations. Earlier it had been Mr. Drewett who had taught me personally, now it was the headmaster of St. Paul's who took me in hand. This, I have noticed, is one of the finer traits in the English character. If an Englishman... Shelleyan effusion the praises of London and the Houses of Parliament, of the river Thames spanned by the famed London Bridge. And then, it is always a matter of pride to think one is going to study at St. Paul's School." "Why?" "Because it is the finest school in London. It has the finest students from all over England. But I did not know then that happy days would soon be over to be replaced by misery... go to her. You will understand all these complex truths better when you grow up. In the meantime, shall we resume our story, then?" "Oh yes! You had told us that you went to London, to join St. Paul's School," said Gita. "Now began a new chapter in our lives. In me, the child was giving place to the boy and, though I had not yet quite learned how to fly freely, my wings had begun to show. I ...
... could never go into minute details. I read and left my mind to do what it could. That is why I could never become a scholar. Up to the age of fifteen I was known as a very promising scholar at St. Paul's. After fifteen I lost that reputation. The teachers used to say that I was lazy and was deteriorating. Disciple : How was that? Sri Aurobindo : Because I was reading novels and... body : He holds that the world has to become fit to receive the truth. Sri Aurobindo : That is true. His autobiography will be a classical book in a line with the confessions of Rousseau and St. Augustine. But the question is whether his ideal is the Truth. That is to say, we must know whether we are on the right path when we advocate an ethical solution as final. Page 195 ... superlative terms, e.g., "upright", "honest", "at great friend of the poor" etc., hearing which Sri Aurobindo exclaimed, "Good Lord"!" and burst into laughter and remarked : "X ought to be canonized : St. X . One can generalise the statement that all men are liars. Such is public life. When Y died, D and others who were life-long against him did the same thing." (Then we began talking about opathy ...
... 1879, at the age of seven he, along with his brothers, was taken to England where he mostly stayed for the next fourteen years with an English family. In September 1884 Auro was admitted to St Paul's School in London and had his education there until July 1890. Later in the same year, in October, he joined King's College at Cambridge. Never during the entire period did young Sri ...
... far off from our present general evolution and attained so rarely that dogmatism or even definite statement appears almost unpardonable. Nevertheless with the use of metaphorical language, or, in St Paul's words, speaking as a fool, one may venture to outline what there is at all to be said on the subject. The truth then seems to be that there are even in this last or fourth state of the Self, stages... very strong in religions based largely on the sentiment of Love and Faith. I and my Father are One, cried the Founder of Christianity; I and my brother man & my brother beast are One, says Buddhism; St Francis spoke of Air as his brother and Water as his sister; and the Hindu devotee when he sees a bullock lashed falls down in pain with the mark of the whip on his own body. But the feeling of Oneness... beware of identifying our Self with a mere mass of primitive animal forms associated together by an aggregating nucleus of vital impulses; this surely is not the reality of Shakespeare & Newton, Buddha & St Francis! Then in those vital impulses we seek the bedrock of our being. But these too Science resolves into a delusion or image created by Nescience; for in reality these vital impulses have no existence ...
... could never go to the minute details. I read and left my mind to do what it could. That is why I could never become a scholar. Up to the age of fifteen I was known as a very promising scholar in St. Paul's. After fifteen I lost that reputation. The teachers used to say that I had become lazy and was deteriorating – because I was reading novels and poetry only; at examination time I used to prepare ...
... a la Arius. Apropos of the last of them, which has occurred in one of our own quotations, he writes: "The expression 'of all Creation first' applied to the Son in III, 383, is a translation of St. Paul's 163 (Col. I,15). A writer anxious to avoid the Arian heresy might indeed have avoided Milton's translation; but we should not from this passage, nor from any passage in the whole poem, have... Blake more than any other writing, the Bible included. Page 72 (b) According to a critic, Francis Thompson's Hound of Heaven must have been born from a phrase flashed out by St. Augustine nearly fifteen centuries earlier in his Confessions: 65 " Et ecce tu, imminens dorso fugitivorum, Deus ultionis et fons misericordium simul, qui convertis nos ad te variis modis" -"And lo ...
... tradition expressed in the lines of Milton just following the above - In whose conspicuous count'nance without cloud Made visible, the Almighty Father shines - and derived from St. Paul's phrase about Christ: "the image of 303. Ibid . , p. 648 ( Jerusalem I , 25. 11 .8-9 ) . 304. Ibid . . p. 374 ( Vala, o r The Four Zoas , Night the Ninth. 1 . 642 ) . 305. Ibid... 307. Ibid . , p. 664 ( Jerusalem 2 . 38, 1 . II ) . 308. Paradise Lost . Bk . II . 1 . 383. Page 230 the invisible God" 309 - as well as from the saying in The Gospel of St. John: "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." 310 So, taking a comprehensive view, we need not be surprised at tracing ...
... and not the kingdom of a Pope, a priesthood or a sacerdotal class. 7 When he began his life in London, at the age of twelve, Sri Aurobindo knew Latin and French thoroughly. The headmaster of St. Paul's School, where he had enrolled, was so surprised at the aptitude of his young student that he personally coached him in Greek. Three years later, Sri Aurobindo could skip half his classes and spend... ourselves where we are ever a king. Indeed, perhaps this is the true meaning of Sri Aurobindo's humor: a refusal to see things tragically, and, even more so, a sense of inalienable royalty. Whether St. Paul's School appreciated his sense of humor we do not know, but it certainly appreciated his astonishing culture; Page 9 he was awarded a scholarship to attend Cambridge (just in time; the family... those of the prehistoric shepherds. First, he was to devote a great deal of time to writing, which for the moment, is probably the most visible sign of his collective action. In 1910, a French writer, Paul Richard, came to Pondicherry, met Sri Aurobindo, and was so impressed by the breadth of his views that he made a second trip to see him in 1914, this time urging him to put his thoughts into written ...
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