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... has concentrated all her forces in England itself. PURANI: Yes, the French collapse may have changed this plan. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. Have you read about America's army strength in New Statesman and Nation? It is lamentable. SATYENDRA: Yes, what has she been doing all these years? SRI AUROBINDO: No wonder she is against sending any expeditionary force to Europe. SATYENDRA: Now Japan ...
... 17 DECEMBER 1939 Satyendra drew Nirodbaran 's attention to a single thin thread hung by a spider from the ceiling. Nirodbaran was reminded of a story in the New Statesman and Nation of a spider listening to Paderewsky's music. Sri Aurobindo was asked whether he had read it. SRI AUROBINDO: No, what is it? NIRODBARAN: Paderewsky says that while he was playing a ...
... 1939 Talks with Sri Aurobindo 2 DECEMBER 1939 Purani brought a copy of The New Statesman and Nation in which there was a review by Joad of a book of Gerald Heard. PURANI: Nolini says that this author seems to have got some of your ideas. SRI AUROBINDO: What does he say? I think he contributes to The Aryan Path also. PURANI: I have gone carefully... is needed to reach it. And then? PURANI: This evolution is to take place by a change of consciousness. SRI AUROBINDO: What sort of change? Moral or spiritual? If it is moral, there is nothing new. Plenty of people have said that. However, you can send him a complimentary copy of The life Divine when the second volume is out. EVENING NIRODBARAN (while sponging Sri Aurobindo) : It seems ...
... come up to much. Only Foch and Petain stood out. Napolean had against him all the technician generals of Europe. That is why he could defeat them. NIRODBARAN: Have you seen the latest New Statesman and Nation ? John Mair condemns Huxley's After many a Summer as a witty parody thrown into the philosophical form. SRI AUROBINDO: Then the criticism is no worse than Anthony West's. He doesn't admit ...
... first time the French Government is yielding like that—so flat and miserable. It must be very decadent SATYENDRA: Malaviya is doing Shanti Swastyana now. NIRODBARAN: There was in the New Statesman and Nation controversy over the efficacy of prayer. A taxi-driver said that the Belgian defection was the result of prayer. SRI AUROBINDO: A humorous taxi-driver! SATYENDRA: And another person ...
... inwardly he was liable to make many mistakes. SATYENDRA: It is lucky that England has got a leader now. Nobody knows what the old Government would have done by now. The back numbers of the New Statesman and Nation make a very interesting study. They are still discussing the defection of Belgium. One doesn't know what they will do when they hear of Paris' fall and the Vichy Government. When one reads... and fight from there. That didn't break their morale. SATYENDRA: And his appeal to America was to avert the armistice move in the cabinet. PURANI: He says it is a mystery that when the whole nation was against it, a small number of people could make them accept the armistice. SRI AUROBINDO: When a small number of persons is determined to do a thing, they can do it. It has been done any number ...
... AUROBINDO: I see. PURANI: And it is the Conservatives who will lead the attack, it seems. SRI AUROBINDO: Of course they made a tremendous blunder. NIRODBARAN: Tom Paine says in the New Statesman and Nation that Chamberlain wanted to make an alliance with Germany. SRI AUROBINDO: Not so far as that but it was Baldwin and Chamberlain's policy to make a four Power alliance: Italy, Germany, England ...
... lie down) : Reviewers seem to be a funny race. One praises a book and another condemns it. SRI AUROBINDO: I find nothing extraordinary in that. NIRODBARAN: In the New Statesman and Nation Anthony West runs down Priestley's new book while the Manchester Guardian praises it. So also with Huxley's After Many a Summer . Anthony West calls it a spiritual failure. SRI AUROBINDO: West is a rationalist... 1940 Talks with Sri Aurobindo 4 JANUARY 1940 PURANI: X has replied to the review by the Vedanta Kesari of his new book. The editor has also put in some footnotes. SRI AUROBINDO: What does X say? PURANI: He seems to say that the physical light and the inner light of the Yogi are the same light. SRI AUROBINDO: Is he speaking from his own experience ...
... is in a Buddhistic phase now. NIRODBARAN: Sisir says that the reviewers should give quotations from the writers. That is the modern trend now. SRI AUROBINDO: I don't find that in the New Statesman and Nation. On the other hand, sometimes their quotations are irritating, especially in poetry. But they should give quotations in poetry. EVENING The newspaper and radio said that the British... but later on they became respectable. The communists are more idealistic than the socialists. They have to live and work in obloquy and that requires sincerity. It is like religion. When a religion is new and fresh, plenty of people come in, but as it gets older it is no longer so; people become respectable and it becomes a church. (After a pause) Why does J say that the French are killing the communists ...
... talking. NIRODBARAN: That is the type and character of the intellectual novel, they say, which is not only story. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, that is the Western influence, probably, In the New Statesman and Nation I read somebody who said that now the novel has been made a vehicle for everything: business, politics, religion, etc. NIRODBARAN: Ajit found a mistake in a poem of mine where I had written... instance, when Buddhism came in as a shock, it pervaded the whole of life and brought in a new current everywhere. The saints and Bhaktas can't exert that kind of influence because their urge doesn't pervade the whole of life. It is confined to religion and hence degeneration may come in the life of a nation in spite of its saints and Bhaktas. Anilbaran's point about Russian religion being mere... ) If you say you can't have pure music without words, you can also say you can't paint a subject which is not literary. NIRODBARAN: Tagore places a great value on words and he has developed his new Bengali music with importance given to katha and his own particular sur which nobody is allowed to vary. SRI AUROBINDO: Is Tagore a musician? NIRODBARAN: If I am right, Dilip also agrees with ...
... week's notice. You will present him my excuses in your best and most tactful manner. 27 August 1931 The answer to Woolf was written long ago at the time Woolf's article appeared in the New Statesman and Nation —a London weekly. It was X who drew my notice to it and asked for an answer. Y this time wanted something of mine for the Onward August 15th number and chose this one. 24 August 1934... to time are old writings of his not yet published in book form and sent to the papers at their request with his sanction. He is not writing any new things nowadays, as his time is entirely occupied with his work. This is simply to prevent demands on me for new contributions which I cannot satisfy. 2 July 1936 As to the Foreword, I had made a strict rule not to publish anything of the kind or anything... have clean forgotten my rule of not writing any article for an outside paper, magazine or journal—I mean other than those conducted from the Asram and by the Asram—and even for these I write nothing new except for the Bulletin at the Mother's request,—also my reasons for this fixed rule? If I started doing that kind of thing, my freedom would be gone; I would have to write at everybody's command, ...
... in themselves these phrases. 15 September 1932 Page 435 Stephen Spender Here is a poem by Stephen Spender, one of the most promising of the young modernist poets, in The New Statesman and Nation of November 4, 1933: Perhaps the explosion of a bomb the submarine—a burst bubble filled with water— the chancellor clutching his shot arm (and that was Perhaps a put-up job... —Williams Plomer Through the mixed tunnels of whose angry brain Creeps the slow scolopendra of the Train! —Roy Campbell Have you seen the "Golden Cowboy and Others" in the New Statesman ? Gives a good idea of modernist poetry, I think. Frost is a rather elaborate frost. Plomer is a "terrible" contortionist, but Roy Campbell is really amusing—I like his "slow scolopendra" immensely... watching landscape attack him "is it rushing? (I cannot grasp it) or is it at rest with its own silence I cannot touch?" Was that final when they shot him? did that war lop our dead branches? are my new leaves splendid? is it leviathan, that revolution hugely nosing at edge of antarctic? only Perhaps. Can be that we grow smaller donnish and bony shut in our racing prison: headlines are walls ...
... Leonard Woolf, "Quack, Quack! or Having it Both Ways" [ a review of C. E. M. Joad , Counterattack from the East: The Philosophy of Radhakrishnan ( London: Allen and Unwin, 1932 )]. "New Statesman and Nation", vol. 6, no. 145 (2 December 1933): pp. 702-4. × See the letters on pages 357-68 .—Ed... surface—of the spiritual Reality behind things and I need not elaborate it. More important is the prognostic of a greater danger coming in the new attack by the adversary, the sceptics, against the validity of spiritual and supraphysical experience, their new strategy of destruction by admitting and explaining it in their own sense. There may well be a strong ground for the apprehension; but I doubt... deep peace and abiding joy, a great light of vision and knowledge, a possibility of the overcoming of the lower animal nature, vistas of a spiritual self-development which without them do not exist. A new outlook on things arises which brings with it, if fully pursued into its consequences, a great liberation, inner harmony, unification—many other possibilities besides. These things have been experienced ...
... other paper that caught his fancy was The Daily Mail for its Curly Wee cartoon. He kept his interest in it till the end though he found it getting stale and dry. In the evening, the Weekly New Statesman and Nation , sometimes the Manchester Guardian , used to be read by Purani; later on it came to be my job, but it stopped after a while. It was probably through these media that he maintained his contact... attendant, now had to admit others into his sanctum. Circumstances broke down the barriers of solitude and forced upon him a new pattern of life. Little by little the air of unfamiliarity gave way as Sri Aurobindo began to take cognizance of the new situation and the new conditions that were around him. Our awe also diminished gradually; Dr. Manilal was helpful in this matter because he had attended ...
... poetry from the cultured striving mind, not from the elemental soul-power within. Not a principle to accept or a method to imitate! June 1931 The things you will see him [a critic in the New Statesman and Nation] assuming ... may be more widely prevalent, to the exclusion of more catholic tastes and liberal views, than I have hitherto believed. In which case there perhaps could be no sort of public... But there seems to be no other door of progress than to make the endeavour. 10 October 1932 Housman, Watson, Hardy, Bridges I hear from Nolini that you want two books (reviewed in the New Statesman) representing the achievement of the seventeenth-century "Metaphysicals", in order to add some thing about them to your Future Poetry.... There is another gap also, perhaps as serious: there is... × When Caesar's sun fell out of the sky And whoso hearkened right Could only hear the plunging Of the nations in the night. × Sri Aurobindo wrote this letter a day after one published on pages 561 under ...
... intelligent and cultured people to whom a scientific explanation of even so patent and common a fact as electricity and electric light (this is a reminiscence of an article by Y. Y. in the New Statesman and Nation ) seems equally difficult to seize by the mind or to fix either in the memory or the intelligence. And yet the distinction between positive and negative electricity, both necessary for the... misleading or not descriptively accurate, it is because the writer has a paucity, looseness or vagueness of language inadequate to the intensity of his experience. Apart from that, all new phenomenon, new discovery, new creation calls for the aid of metaphor and image. The scientist speaks of light waves or of sound waves and in doing so he uses a metaphor, but one which corresponds to the physical fact... reason founds itself are exceeded, there is even another law and canon of perception and knowledge. His entire business is to break out or upward or widen into a new consciousness which looks at things in a very different way, and if this new consciousness may include, though viewed with quite another vision, the data of the ordinary external intelligence, yet it cannot be limited by them, cannot bind ...
... intelligent and cultured people to whom a scientific explanation of even so patent and common a fact as electricity and electric light (this is a reminiscence of an article by Y. Y. in the New Statesman and Nation ) seems equally difficult to seize by the mind or to fix either in the memory or the intelligence. And yet the distinction between positive and negative electricity, both necessary for the... a whole. If it is to be published, it should be in England and the time is not ready for that. 26 January 1932 There is a review of the Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse in the New Statesman . It might be noted as worth getting when you have the money—unless you have already something of the kind. Have you Donne and Blake in the Library?—not that I want them just now, but I shall some... the Gita twice or thrice before. But when I started reading it again, I found that there were many ideas in it which I had missed before. I think if I read it over and over again I would find newer and newer ideas each time. That is a common experience—most books with any profundity of knowledge in them have that effect. Almost all spiritual problems have been briefly but deeply dealt with in the ...
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