Tagore, Debendranath : (1817-1905) eldest son of Dwārkā Nath Tagore & father of Rabindranath. In 1839, he founded the Tattwabodhini Sabhā & joined Rammohan Roy’s Brahma Sabhā or Samāj in 1843. He framed a covenant & introduced a formal ceremony of initiation based on Mahānirvāṇa Tantra, & propagated the new doctrine through his journal Tattwabodhini Patrikā which openly declared the Vedas as a divine revelation & the sole foundation of the new Church. The younger section among the followers of this new movement showed a critical attitude towards the doctrine of the infallibility of the Vedas & started their own offshoots. Among them the best known are those of Akshaykumar Dutta & Keshab Chandra Sen (q.v.). [R.C. Dutta et al’s Advanced History of India, pp.872-73]
... surrender, 568; aspiration and Grace, 569; Sakti and Supermind, 569; supramental change & transformation, 570; an Earthly Paradise, 570,659 System of National Education, A, 337, 353 Tagore, Debendranath, 16, 26 Tagore, Rabindranath, 15, 16-17, 62, 147, 220,244,247,273,550,571, 615 Tandon, Purushottamdas, 534 Tegart, Sir Charles, 287 Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 442 ...
... slowed down. It was Debendranath Tagore (1817-1905), the Poet Rabindranath's father, who infused a new life into it when he took up its reins in 1843. His spiritual vision and generous character made his countrymen refer to him fondly as the Great Sage, Maharshi. Page 68 Indeed, by his erudition, bearing, character and contribution to culture, he made the Tagore family a centre of... uncommonly honest. His father, Dwarakanath Tagore (1794-1846), died in England. When alive, he had earned for himself the title of 'Prince' by his luxurious way of living. His lavish spending —offering costly presents and necklaces of rare jewels to Queen Victoria, who received him in audience — left the Tagores with more debts than assets. Then it was that Debendranath showed his mettle. He called all the... the creditors together and promised to repay all debt. He kept his promise. Incidentally, when the news of his father's death reached him, Debendranath was away from Calcutta; he was on a pleasure trip in a pinnace, a two-masted vessel, with his family and his friend, Rajnarain Bose. There was a sudden storm that evening, and an accident caused Maharshi's nose to bleed. Rajnarain Bose was ...
... the book I was then reading. At the age of nineteen, I met the greatly revered Babu Debendranath Tagore, and became a Brahmo, which I still am [in 1889]." Sri Aurobindo remembered, "My grandfather started being a Brahmo and ended by writing a book on Hinduism and proclaiming it the best religion. Debendranath Tagore became rather anxious and feared he might run into excess of zeal." Then Rajnarain... Poems, essays, articles flowed freely from his pen. And he gave lectures. His words —from his pen or his tongue — always stirred up a hornet's nest, however innocent the subject might be. Complained Debendranath, "Whatever you say or write always generates much debate, even controversy." But Rajnarain was not one to be cowed down by his critics, of whom he had many to be sure. Not only did he speak or write... Brahmoism, but he lauded Hinduism ! The day at the end of 1872 when he gave a 1, Karmayogin, N°7, August 1909. Page 75 lecture on the 'Superiority of Hinduism,' with Maharshi Tagore in the Chair, the hall was packed to capacity and overflowed across the street. Because, "people thought, what can anybody say in favour of this rotten Hinduism? It is our duty to hear him." It ...
... first ceremony he performed according to Brahmo rites in Midnapore was when he married his eldest daughter Swarnalata to Krishna Dhan. "The function was a grandiose affair," he notes. "Both Debendranath Tagore and Keshab Chandra Sen 1 came to Midnapore. A harmonium, just as it was becoming popular in Calcutta, was brought from there and was played during the musical interlude. The marriage ceremonies... Indian Mirror Street that most of my brothers and sisters (including me!) were born. 2.It was the prevailing custom to marry very young. Rabindranath Tagore was twenty-two years old and his wife Mrinalini was eleven when they married ; Debendranath was twelve to fourteen while his wife was six years old; Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's age was eleven to his bride's five. And, it was around the age of ...
... men of an almost gigantic originality. Rammohan Ray arose with a new religion in his hand, which was developed on original lines by men almost greater one thinks than he, by Rajnarain Bose and Debendranath Tagore. The two Dutts, Okhay Kumar and Michael Madhu Sudan, began a new Prose and a new Poetry. Vidyasagara, scholar, sage and intellectual dictator, laboured hugely like the Titan he was, to create... culture, but of original culture. Of these perhaps the most finished patterns were Madhu Sudan's friends, Page 94 Gourdas Byshak, and that scholarly patron of letters, Rajah Jyotindra Mohun Tagore. At the same time there arose, as in other parts of India, a new social spirit and a new political spirit, but these on a somewhat servilely English model. Of all its channels the released energies... the last of the original geniuses. Since then the great impulse towards originality has gone backward like a receding wave. After Bankim came the Epigoni, Hemchandra Banerji, Nobin Sen, Robindranath Tagore, men of surprising talent, nay, of unmistakable genius, but too obviously influenced by Shelley and the English poets. And last of all came the generation formed in the schools of Keshab Chandra Sen ...
... [in 1915] to persuade me to return and settle somewhere in Darjeeling and discuss philosophy with him. I refused the offer." Vivekananda had once taken Nivedita to Jorasanko to meet Maharshi Debendranath. She came to hear about his youngest son, Rabi. One day she went to meet him. The young poet too had heard about the disciple of Vivekananda. From the first meeting they were drawn to each other... happy and full of praise when she went there herself and saw the two Indian artists' work of copying the murals of Ajanta. These two boys were students of Abanin-dranath Tagore, whom she knew so well. Artist Abanindranath Tagore and his students owe her a lot. Her critical articles in Indian magazines and periodicals contributed in a great measure to the understanding of Indian art by the then... critic, besides being a revolutionary who dreamed of One Asia, a dream he set forth in his book Ideals of the East. So between Okakura and Nivedita and Page 550 Sarala Ghosal and the Tagores, Jorasanko became a lively centre for revolutionary activity; just as it had become a cultural centre with Havel, Justice Woodroffe, Okakura, Ananda Coomaraswa-my, Nivedita and Abanindranath. ...
... young man? Who can say? Who could answer his question? He had but to see a sadhu or a sannyasin, and he would rush to him with his question. "Have you seen God?" He rushed to Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, "Have you seen God?" The Maharshi did not give him a plain answer. Nobody, really, ever gave him a plain answer. But it is a law of Nature that when a question burns within, a response is bound ...
... recognised to be the first of these pioneers and he was followed by many other great men such as Dwarkanath Tagore, his son Debendranath, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Dayanand Saraswati, Sri Ramakrishna, Keshav Chandra Sen, Bankim Chandra Chatterji, Swami Vivekananda, Balgangadhar Tilak , Rabindranath Tagore, and others. The list is by no means exhaustive and I have given the names of only those who were Sri... Jatin, it appeared, had become too rigid a disciplinarian and was losing his hold on the youth. Sri Aurobindo formed a committee of five consisting of P. Mitter, Sister Nivedita, C.R. Das, Surendranath Tagore and Jatin to be in overall charge of the revolutionary work in Bengal. Although some differences continued, the work under P. Mitter's leadership increased enormously. Hundreds of young people joined ...
... and father during this period of mental and moral experimentation cast Rajnarain into anguished introspection. He found support in the Vedanta philosophy, and, after coming into contact with Debendranath Tagore, became a member of the revived Brahmo Samaj.’ 3 It was the time of the Bengal Renaissance. The whole of India was dominated by the colonial masters, the British, under Queen Victoria, Empress... sati ), prohibition for widows of the right to remarry, child marriages, and of course the omnipresent stratification of the Hindu society in castes. Some great names like Keshub Chander Sen, Debendranath Tagore and Rajnarain Bose were connected with the Brahmo Samaj and its various branches. In 1875 Dayanand Saraswati founded in Gujarat the much more nationalistic Arya Samaj. Dissatisfied with the ... lives, total dedication and secrecy to the society. P. Mitra would become president of a council of five consisting of Aurobindo, C.R. Das, whom Aurobindo had known in England, Surendranath Tagore of the famous Tagore family, and Sister Nivedita. Sister Nivedita (1867-1911) was the foremost Western disciple of Swami Vivekananda. She was born Margaret Noble in northern Ireland. In 1895 she met the Swami ...
... lines" by Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, father of Rabindranath Tagore, and by Sri Aurobindo's maternal grandfather, Rishi Rajnarayan Bose. Debendranath went closer to the heart of the spirituality of the land, and Rajnarayan, discarding the eclecticism of Ram Mohan, upheld the cause of the pure essence of ancient Hinduism. Keshav Chandra Sen, upon whom had fallen the mantle of Debendranath, but who later... life. It was, certainly, no accident - we speak 78. The Renaissance in India by Sri Aurobindo. Page 72 here of Bengal only - that Ram Mohan Roy was followed by Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, Rishi Rajnarayan Bose, Pandit Shivnath Shastri, Akshaya Kumar Dutt, Keshav Chandra Sen, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, poet Madhusudan Dutt, Bankim Chandra Chatterji, the inspired seer of the National... potentialities." We find in this intrepid nationalist venture of Rajnarayan Bose the seed of the nationalism preached and practised by Sri Aurobindo about half a century later. 97. Debendranath Tagore's Tattva-bodhini Sabha, founded in 1839, was a religious and literary organisation. Prarthana Samaj, founded in Maharashtra in 1867 was a reformist social movement. 98. R. C. Majumdar in ...
... 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 Gangadhar Tilak, Subramania Bharati, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo: these are among the more well-known names of the last one hundred ...
... incarnated as Savitri; my point is that even the apparently 'rhetorical' lines sound right and are properly evocative in the given context. 181. See The Autobiography of Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, p. 150. 182. Essays and Studies (1959), p. 1. 183. Savitri, p.32. 184. ibid ., p. 110. 185. ibid.,p.804. 186. ibid.,p.276. ... of Eric is largely based on my review of the play in The Aryan Path. 113. Prime of Edur,p.91. 114. ibid., p. 18. 115. Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore, pp. 409-10. See Iyengar, Urvasi (Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, 1949). 116. Collected Poems and Plays, Vol. I, p. 42. 117. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, VIII, p. 123. ... Letters of Sri Aurobindo Second Series, pp. 68-9. 139. Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No.7 (1948), pp. 191-2. 140. Introduction to One Hundred Poem-ofKabir, ed. by Rabindranath Tagore, p.xix. 141. Savitri, p. 829. 142. ibid., p. 831. 143. ibid., p. 852. 144 See Sri Aurobindo, On Yoga, II, Tome Two, Section on 'Visions and Symbols', pp ...
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