Uttarpara : a suburban town near Calcutta, where Sri Aurobindo delivered his famous speech on 30 May 1909, three & a half weeks after his acquittal & release in the Alipore Bomb Case. An extract from that speech quoting Sri Krishna’s Adesh to him: “When you go forth, speak to your nation always this word, that it is for the Sanātana Dharma that they arise, it is for the world & not for themselves that they arise. I am giving them freedom for the service of the world. When therefore it is said that India shall rise, it is the Sanātana Dharma that shall rise. When it is said that India shall be great, it is the Sanātana Dharma that shall be great. When it is said that India shall expand & extend herself, it is the Sanātana Dharma that shall expand & extend itself over the world. It is for the Dharma & by the Dharma that India exists.” [SABCL 2:8] An account of the effect of this speech on those in the audience who were open to what he conveyed: “The Uttarpāra speech is a public document of Sri Aurobindo’s spiritual life & contains in seed form some of the basic principles of the yoga he evolved. The human in him yet spoke of the Divine & then the human was completely transformed into the Divine. The Light that he shed was the Light Divine & it is for humanity to follow & profit by it…. The long garland prepared by Michhari Babu (q.v.) was taken by somebody… [&] he was very angry…. The next morning he got the garland back. By now he had grown quiet. He only told the man who had taken it, ‘Go & beg pardon from God, I have pardoned you already.’ The thief fell at his feet…. Amarendranath Chatterji commented that if he had been caught the day before, he would have got a big thrashing, but that today the iron hand had turned to gold! Michhari Babu agreed with him, saying, ‘Yes, you are right. Sri Aurobindo’s speech has produced an immediate result.’” [Purani’s Life of Sri Aurobindo]
... it could not find expression except in stray acts of violence and terrorism. On May 30, 1909, Sri Aurobindo delivered his historic speech at Uttarpara, from which I have already given you extracts relating to his spiritual experiences in jail. At Uttarpara ten thousand people listened to him in pin-drop silence in a spiritually surcharged atmosphere. He began by contrasting the situation before his... Amar Chatterjee would hire a boat at Uttarpara, situated on the western bank, cross the river and pick up Sri Aurobindo from Agarpara. However, they would still not proceed direct from Agarpara to Calcutta. Instead, Amar and Sri Aurobindo would again cross the river and take up position at another ghat on the western side of the river, a few miles below Uttarpara. In the meantime Nagen and Suren, a... religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.' These wonderful words from the Uttarpara Speech help us to understand the inspiration behind Sri Aurobindo's activities at this time and his perceptions regarding the true meaning of nationalism and religion. From now on he relied increasingly ...
... Amarendranath Chatterji who had gone to Calcutta from Uttarpara to fetch Sri Aurobindo, on behalf of the organizers 1 of the 'Society for the Protection of Religion.' "I went to the Sanjibani office to fetch Sri Aurobindo," writes Amar. "I saw him there absolutely quiet, as if he were in 1. Piyarimohan Mukherji, the zamindar of Uttarpara and his eldest son, Rajendranath, generally called... shape of official wrath seems to have stilled the powerful waves of feeling, which at one time, surging through the Bengali community, purified and purged it." Sri Aurobindo told his audience at Uttarpara more or less the same thing. "When I went to jail," he said, "the whole country was alive with the cry of Bande Mataram, alive with the hope of a nation, the hope of millions of men who had newly... called Michhari Babu. Michhari Babu was a generous donor to the cause of the revolutionaries. Page 508 meditation." So Amar too did not talk long with him. They went by train to Uttarpara. Many of the audience took the same train. The time for the meeting was fixed for 5: 30 P. M. and Sri Aurobindo was the only speaker. "The meeting was fixed at the open courtyard of the Library on the ...
... And Sri Aurobindo stood alone to revive the patriotic fire and direct it through effective channels. He was invited to Uttarpara, a small town some miles from Calcutta, to speak at the annual meeting of the Dharma Rakshini Sabha. He delivered there his famous Uttarpara Speech, from which we have quoted some lines above, which was a revelation of some of the spiritual experiences he had in... Amarendra Chatterji, who had gone Page 303 from Uttarpara to fetch Sri Aurobindo for speaking to the Sanatana Dharma Rakshini Sabha, writes, "I went to the Sanjivani office to fetch Sri Aurobindo. I saw him there absolutely quiet, as if he was in meditation. So I did not talk long with him. We went by train to Uttarpara. Many of the audience also came there by the same train. The... rising to shed the eternal light entrusted to her over the world. India has always existed for humanity and not for herself and it is for humanity and not for herself that she must be great." — Uttarpara Speech by Sri Aurobindo. Page 186 was only an indispensable prelude to the integral freedom, perfection and fulfilment of humanity? Who, among them, remaining absolutely faithful ...
... Aurobindo. He found him absolutely quiet, as if in meditation, so he did not speak long with him. They went by train to Uttarpara. Many of the audience also went by the same train. They arrived at Uttarpara at three o'clock. The meeting was to be held at five. The zamindar of Uttarpara, Raja Piyari Mohan, and his son Michhari Babu came to the station to receive Sri Aurobindo. After taking a little rest... him his sandals that she took them away – that he had to wait – nothing of this has made him angry. "² On 30 May 1909 Sri Aurobindo delivered the historic Uttarpara speech. It was Amarendranath Chatterji who went to Calcutta from Uttarpara to fetch Sri Aurobindo to speak to the Dharma Rakshini Sabha. He knew Sri Aurobindo through the secret society organisation and because of his previous initiation... metals and clay. As I did this, I would get into a state in which the prison no longer appeared as a prison at all."¹ Sri Aurobindo spoke about this experience subsequently in his epoch-making Uttarpara speech. Some other reminiscences of jail life are given here: "This reminds me of a compliment given to my eyes by Sir Edward Baker, Governor of Bengal. He visited us in Alipore Jail and told ...
... avis -"rare" because you are not always in sight of Amal's opening eyes but more because you are a special species, one with eyes extraordinarily open to the secret Sun of Truth and Beauty. The Uttarpara Speech of Sri Aurobindo which you have just finished reading before writing to me is particularly an eye-opener in the spiritual sense. The basic experience at the back of it is even more significant... Brahman clear of all cosmic limitation, a necessary farness and freedom for the soul. But it made the cosmos appear a colossal illusion. On the other hand, the experience of which we hear in the Uttarpara Speech was an inner illumination which yet drew the eyes outward to the cosmos to reveal there the creative and transformative presence of the plenary Person who is birth-less and deathless and still... the document from which we learn of Sri Krishna Vasudeva appearing to Sri Aurobindo in Alipore Jail and taking charge of his life is symbolic of the new expe-rience: it is a Speech - delivered at Uttarpara. The Nirvanic realisation was, as I have said, of a Supreme Silence. The realisation figured now was of a Supreme Speech: the Transcendent self-expressed and become not only the universe and its ...
... with leaders, he waited for the inner call. Then, suddenly, something - something quite extraordinary - happened. He was invited to Uttarpara, not far from Calcutta, to speak under the auspices of the Dharma Rakshini Sabha. On 30 May he went by train to Uttarpara, where he was received by the local Zemindar; and in the evening, Sri Aurobindo was taken in a procession to the place of the meeting... It would be seen that between the Bombay National Union speech of 19 January 1908 and the Uttarpara speech of 30 May 1909, there was much common ground - but there was some significant difference in stress as well. Sri Aurobindo had spoken at Bombay after his Baroda nirvanic experience, while at Uttarpara he spoke after the Alipur experience of Narayana darsan. Yet it was the same man, dedicated... But the "men on the spot" - the bureaucracy in India - had had their way, and the lights had gone out, and a pall and a silence had descended on the people. When Sri Aurobindo had last come to Uttarpara - that was over a year ago - Bepin Pal had made a memorable speech. He had then come out of the Buxar jail, and he had given the word that had come to him in jail from God. Sri Aurobindo too had ...
... We come now to the overwhelming spiritual experience Sri Aurobindo had in jail. He spoke of it in his Uttarpara Speech, to which I have referred earlier, and I shall be quoting from it extensively. But this experience did not come to him without a period of intense inner struggle. At Uttarpara he said: 'When I was arrested and hurried to the Lal Bazar Hajat I was shaken in faith for a while, for... the political sphere. Indeed, it can be said that the appearance of C.R. Das changed the course of the trial so far as it affected Sri Aurobindo, and in the famous speech Sri Aurobindo delivered at Uttarpara, after his acquittal, indeed he says: 'When the trial opened in the Sessions Court, I began to write many instructions for my counsel as to what was false in the evidence against me and on what points... before. Of them he writes in Karakahini: 'Looking at these lads, one felt as if the large-hearted, daring, puissant men of an earlier age with a different training had come back to India.' In his Uttarpara speech also he spoke of them as 'young men of mighty courage'. After the assassination of Naren Gossain, the authorities tightened up the security regulations in the Jail and Sri Aurobindo again ...
... some revisions, in Collected Poems and Plays (See 13). SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5 Page 409 94. UTTARPARA SPEECH Prabartak Publishing House, Chandemagore, 1919 Speech delivered at Uttarpara on May 30, 1909. Published in the Karmayogin, June 19 and 26, 1909. Included in Speeches (See 82). SABCL: Karmayogin, Vol. 2 ... (See 92), "Bande Mataram", "United Congress", "Baruipur Speech", "Palli Samiti"; the first, third and fifth of these had been published in the Bande Mataram during 1908. Part II: "Uttarpara Speech", first published in the Karmayogin, June 19 and 26, 1909, issued separately in brochure form since 1919 (See 94); "Beadon Square Speech", "Jhalakati-Speech", "The Right of Association"... Doctrine of Passive Resistance; editorials and comments from the Bande Mataram; Speeches. Volume 2 Karmayogin, EARLY POLITICAL WRITINGS — II (1909-1910): Uttarpara Speech,-'The Ideal of the Karmayogin; An Open Letter to My Countrymen ; other essays, notes and comments from the Karmayogin ; Speeches. Page 412 ...
... Kumar Guha Roy. It has been approved by Sukumar Mitra. The facts are as follows: Sri Aurobindo asked Motilal Roy to make arrangements for his departure. Motilal wrote a letter to Amar Chatterji at Uttarpara, in which he informed him of Sri Aurobindo's intended departure from Chandernagore in a boat on 31 March and asked him to make arrangements to change the boat at Dumur Tala Ghat and to ferry Sri Aurobindo... said: “Somehow I felt it." "It is true," said Sukumar, "but take care no one else should find out." As previously arranged Amar Chatterji, along with his co-worker Manmatha Biswas hired a boat at Uttarpara on the thirty-first of March and met Sri Aurobindo at the Dumur Tala Ghat. They ferried him to the Calcutta-side of the river. To their disappointment Page 136 they found that neither... began to prepare the bedding for Sri Aurobindo. Amar and Nagen stood before Sri Aurobindo with joined hands and did namaskār . Amar gave Sri Aurobindo money given by Zamindar Rajendra Mukherji of Uttarpara. Then he and Nagen took their leave. Nagen bowed and both went down the gangway. The only people who knew about Sri Aurobindo's departure were: Motilal Roy, Suresh Chakravarty or Moni, who was ...
... accompanied by Bejoy Nag, should board the steamer Dupleix on the night of 31 March 1910. Motilal wrote to Sukumar Mitra (Krishna Kumar Mitra's son, and Sri Aurobindo's cousin) and Amar Chatterji of Uttarpara asking them to make the necessary arrangements. Everything had to be done in secret, for there was an oppressive air of suspicion everywhere, and police spies were posted at even the unlikeliest places... Chakravarty were instructed to convey the trunks to the steamer and put them in the reserved cabin well in time. Also, it was arranged that Amar Chatterji and Manmatha Biswas should hire a boat at Uttarpara on the appointed date and meet Sri Aurobindo at the Dumur Tala Ghat and bring him to the Calcutta side of the river, where they would be met by the others and taken to the steamer. Unfortunately... any ado. A divinity shapes our ends, indeed, rough hew them how we will! Once in their cabin, Amar gave Sri Aurobindo the money that had been sent by Rajendranath Mukherji, Zamindar of Uttarpara. Amar and Nagen respectfully took leave of Sri Aurobindo and Bejoy, and the steamer sailed out of Calcutta well past midnight. In the meantime, Suresh Chakravarti (Moni) - who had been asked ...
... formerly thousands full of enthusiasm was now only of hundreds and had no longer the same force and life. He also went to places in the districts to speak and at one of these delivered his speech at Uttarpara in which for the first time he spoke publicly of his Yoga and his spiritual experiences. He started also two weeklies, one in English and one in Bengali, the Karmayogin and Dharma , which had a... At Chandernagore he plunged entirely into solitary meditation and ceased all other activity. Then there came to him a call to proceed to Pondicherry. A boat manned by some young revolutionaries of Uttarpara took him to Calcutta; there he boarded the Dupleix and reached Pondicherry on April 4, 1910. At Pondicherry, from this time onwards Sri Aurobindo's practice of Yoga became more and more absorbing ...
... experience. But can you not tell us what the experience was like? Was it by any chance like the one you speak of in your Uttarpara Page 232 Speech—Vasudeva everywhere? Great Jumble-Mumble! What has Vasudeva to do with it? Vasudeva is a name of Krishna, and in the Uttarpara Speech I was speaking of Krishna, if you please. But how can that be? Didn't you begin Yoga later on in Gujarat ...
... of my realisation, a first step towards the complete thing, not the sole true attainment possible or even a culminating finale.'¹¹ Of the next major realisation we learn from Sri Aurobindo's Uttarpara Speech in which he has given a soul-stirring description of the experiences he had in the Alipore jail in which he was detained in May 1908 under a charge of sedition until May 1909 when he was... conscious mind and sense and a falsifying misuse of manifested existence.' (Sri Aurobindo's note). Page 18 11. Sri Aurobindo on Himself, Centenary Library, Vol. 26, pp. 101-2. 12. Uttarpara Speech, Centenary Library, Vol. 2, pp. 4-5. 13. Sri Aurobindo on Himself, Centenary Library, Vol. 26, pp. 226-27. 14. Reported by A.B. Purani in The Life of Sri Aurobindo ( 1964) ...
... my realisation, a first step towards the complete thing, not the sole true attainment possible or even a culminating finale....² Of the next major realisation we learn from Sri Aurobindo's Uttarpara Speech in which he has given a soul-stirring description of the experiences he had in the Alipore jail in which he was detained in May 1908 under a charge of sedition until May 1909 when he was... in me opened and I knew all about painting except of course the more material side of the technique. I don't always _____________________________________ ¹ . Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin, Uttarpara Speech, Centenary Library, Vol.2, pp. 4-5. Page 12 know how to express though, because I lack the knowledge of the proper expressions, but that does not stand in the way of a keen and ...
... Aurobindo had his great mystic experience —Narayana darshan —which he was later to describe in his Uttarpara speech. The prosecution failed once again, and Sri Aurobindo was acquitted and released on 6 May 1909. 30 May 1909 Sri Aurobindo made his celebrated speech at Uttarpara. His new sense of spiritual direction was revealed, not merely by this speech, but also by the two ...
... thousands full of enthusiasm, was now only of hundreds and had no longer the same force and life. He also went to places in the districts to speak and at one of these delivered his speech at Uttarpara in which for the first time he spoke publicly of his Yoga and his spiritual experiences. He started also two weeklies, one in English and one in Bengali, the Karmayogin and Dharma which ... Chandemagore he plunged entirely into solitary meditation and ceased all other activity. Then there came to him a call to proceed to Pondicherry. A boat manned by some young revolutionaries of Uttarpara took him to Calcutta; there he boarded the Dupleix and reached Pondicherry on April 4, 1910. At Pondicherry, from this time onwards Sri Aurobindo’s practice of Yoga became more and more ...
... the seventh heaven of radiant ecstasy and hope incommensurable. His Bengali work of reminiscences. Kara-Kahini, has been referred to already; and there is also his English Messianic speech at Uttarpara, and both belong to the period immediately after his release from prison a year later. In the early days of his life in the gloomy cell, he had indeed been subjected to a refinement of torture;... basic truth of the immanent Godhead, All this is Brahman. But already an inner change was taking place, and it had its effects on his outer experiences as well. We cannot do better than read the Uttarpara speech of over a year later when he took a backward glance at his prison days and reviewed the changes in his mental climate from "dark, dark... irrecoverably dark, total eclipse of day" through ...
... troubled no more about it; for he had been assured from within and knew that he would be acquitted," wrote Sri Aurobindo. When he spoke at Uttarpara just after his release from Alipore jail, Sri Aurobindo was more explicit. It is a very important document, this Uttarpara speech, for here he speaks for the first time about his spiritual experiences in the Alipore Jail. He says, "When the trial opened in ...
... Karmayogin Uttarpara Speech Delivered at Uttarpara, Bengal, on 30 May 1909. Text published in the Bengalee, an English-language newspaper of Calcutta, on 1 June; thoroughly revised by Sri Aurobindo and republished in the Karmayogin on 19 and 26 June. When I was asked to speak to you at the annual meeting of your sabha , it was my intention... speeches also he spoke of a greater than ordinary force in the movement and a greater than ordinary purpose before it. Now I also meet you again, I also come out of jail, and again it is you of Uttarpara who are the first to welcome me, not at a political meeting but at a meeting of a society for the protection of our religion. That message which Bipin Chandra Pal received in Buxar jail, God gave ...
... experience. But can you not tell us what the experience was like? Was it by any chance like the one you speak of in your Uttarpara Speech 128 —the Vasudeva experience? Great Jumble-Mumble! What has Vasudeva to do with it? Vasudeva is a name of Krishna, and in the Uttarpara I was speaking of Krishna, if you please. But didn't you begin Yoga later on in Gujerat? Yes. But this began in London... × In 1908. in the Alipore Jail, Sri Aurobindo had the vision of Krishna in everything, which he described later in his famous "Uttarpara Speech" (30th May 1909). ...
... Calcutta, which was, at that time, the best college under the greatest University in India. A few words about the brothers and sister of Sri Aurobindo will not be out of place here. 3. Uttarpara Speech by Sri Aurobindo. 4. Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on The Mother. Page 16 Benoy Bhusan, the eldest, was of a practical but generous nature. In order to relieve... militant nationalism, there was the blazing fire of a spiritual aim. In the light of this secret communication to his wife, we seem to understand something of what he meant when, later, in his Uttarpara Speech, he said: "I came to Him long ago in Baroda, some years before the Swadeshi began and I was drawn into the public field"; and again when he said in the same Speech: "The Sanatana Dharma,... and here they are, a priceless treasure for Sri Aurobindo's biographers. They mirror Sri Aurobindo's heart and soul as nothing else of that period does. His next self-revelation was in his famous Uttarpara Speech. But of that later. Page 43 "... You want me to live as an ordinary householder and, I suppose, practise some kind of meditation or sadhana in the time I can spare from my ...
... For the two passengers —Bejoy was to accompany Sri Aurobindo —he chose two names from Sanjibants list of subscribers. Then there was Amar of Uttarpara. Motilal from Chandernagore sent him word to pick up Sejda from Agarpara, upriver from Uttarpara, on the 31 st . Amar informed Michhari Babu, who would have loved to go to meet Sri Aurobindo. But Amar persuaded him not to, given the risk entailed... his namaskar, and bade him farewell. Nagen, in his turn, put his forehead on Sri Aurobindo's feet. Amar, Nagen and Manmatha went down with a heavy heart from the ship, and returned to Calcutta and Uttarpara respectively. The next morning, 1 st April, as the black shaded Page 540 imperceptibly into grey, S.S. Dupleix, the French liner of the Messageries Maritimes, began to move ...
... speech he delivers and never has it been delivered with such beauty of expression, such a passion of earnestness and pathos, such a sublimity of feeling as at Uttarpara on Sunday when he addressed a meeting of the people in the compound of the Uttarpara Library. The ideal is that of humanity in God, of God in humanity, the ancient ideal of the sanatana dharma but applied as it has never been applied before ...
... 212 1907 (Realisation of undefinable reality beyond space and time), 9 Pondicherry, 14-5, 17, 23, 39, 49 1908 (Alipore Jail experiences), 2, 11-3 Prakriti, 73 1909 (Uttarpara speech), 11 Prayanama, 7-8, 50, 70 1910 (To Chandernagore), 13-4 Prayers and Meditations, 40, 42-5, 49, 51-6 1910 (To Pondicherry), 14 Page 285 1910 (Touched... 260-1, 268 Transformation of the mind, 81 Union with the Divine, 28 Universal divine, 12 . University centre, 2, 110 Upanishad, 11 Uttarpara speech, 11 Veda, 14-5, 30, 41, 136 Page 286 Vision, premonitory, 30 Vital, 75, 82, 254-6 Vital, descent into, 82 Vital-physical, 254-5 Vivekananda ...
... Abinash Bhattacharya, Sri Aurobindo's co-worker during the Bande Mataram days, who also had been convicted at Alipore, came and stayed for a month or more. Finally, Amarendranath Chatterji of Uttarpara, who had been initiated into the revolutionary organisation by Sri Aurobindo, came in the summer of 1920 or 1921. Amar was now a wanted man. For some time he had been travelling incognito all... had remained in Chandernagore after taking his spiritual initiation from Sri Aurobindo there in 1910. Between 1910 and 1916 he rendered financial assistance to Sri Aurobindo. People from Calcutta, Uttarpara, Falta and East Bengal who were sympathetic to revolutionary nationalism or who had a regard for Sri .Aurobindo found it easy to render economic help through Motilal. They contacted him and he remitted ...
... because Sri Aurobindo wrote Gitar Bhumika in the Dharma , it shows that he was under the influence of the Gita. Equally it can be even maintained that since he spoke about Sri Krishna in the Uttarpara Speech he was very much influenced by Sri Krishna. He translated the Kena and the Katha Upanishads at this time, therefore he was greatly influenced by these Upanishads. Well, this is a wrong way... lead ultimately to the same experience. This is not "Hindu Godami", by any stretch of imagination. Nor can the definition of Eternal Dharma' – sanatoria dharma – given by Sri Aurobindo in his Uttarpara speech be dubbed orthodox by anyone except the purblind. The author holds religion responsible for the failure of the revolutionary movement! He even asserts that religion is of no help in the ...
... boat. Not in vain. For Motilal Roy —who had not previously met Sri Aurobindo, but had seen him at Uttarpara on 30 Page 531 and on to his house. 1 Assured that their presence was no longer needed, the two young men sailed back for Calcutta. They, however, stopped at Uttarpara Ghat, not only to give rest to the boatmen, but because they suddenly realised how very hungry they ...
... 171, 184 , 196,200-201,241 spiritual truth, 202 supreme Truth, 254 Tukaram, 146 Turkey, 169 U unity, 31 , 167 see also Indian Upanishads, 69, 97, IOS, 110, 137, 171 , 194,201 Uttarpara Speech, 48·49 V Vaishyas, 29, 120-121 Vander Mataram, see under Bande Mataram Veda, Vedas, 48,69,94,99, 105- 109 , 116·118,170,190 date of. 101(fn) and India 's future, 94 lost ...
... spends a year in jail and is acquitted on May 6, 1909. 1909 he Morley-Minto reforms provide separate electorates for Indian Muslims. 1909, May30 Sri Aurobindo's famous Uttarpara speech. 1909,June 19 First issue of the Karmayogin (English weekly). 1909, Aug. 23 First issue of the Dharma (Bengali weekly). 1910, February Sri ...
... numbers. We shall be glad to know the issue or issues each subscriber would want. We would take this opportunity of saying that we have no connection with the Bengali Karmayogin to be published from Uttarpara. It is an independent paper with which we have no connection. The conductors of the paper have only our permission to publish Bengali translations of articles appearing in the Karmayogin . Page ...
... in certain eternal and universal laws and has no other connection with the universe. This was the attitude definitely taken by the Indian Social Reformer when it ridiculed Sj. Aurobindo Ghose's Uttarpara speech. God does not speak to men through their inner selves in Yoga or otherwise, there is no way of communion between Him and humanity, there is no special action of His power or grace anywhere ...
... Narayan who was guarding and standing sentry over me. Or I lay on the coarse blankets that were given me for a couch and felt the arm of Sri Krishna around me — the arms of my Friend and Lover." (Uttarpara Speech) And the Friend and Lover said to Him: " I have given you a work and it is to help and uplift this nation...... lam raising up this nation to send forth My word. This is the Sanatana ...
... of sight of the “enemy.”’ Thus wrote none less than Sir Andrew Fraser, the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. 53 On 30 May a transformed Aurobindo gave his first speech after his liberation at Uttarpara, a small town on the banks of the Ganges north of Calcutta. It is one of the key texts in his life. He concluded that speech, spoken in Bengali, as follows: ‘It is only the word that is put into me ...
... of all human knowledge.’ This is equivalent to what Sri Aurobindo too considered an essential part of his mission, ‘the intellectual side of my work for the world.’ As he had said in his speech at Uttarpara: ‘He [the Divine] has given me a word to speak and a work to do.’ 11 ‘The eternal word,’ the sanatana dharma he and Mirra had already discovered in the respective traditions assimilated by them; ...
... the previous issues. We may say that this marks the completion of Sri Aurobindo's Jivan Yoga. After his acquittal on 6 May 1909 Sri Aurobindo addressed a large gathering at Uttarpara: "When I went to jail the whole country was alive with the cry of Bande Mataram, alive with the hope of a nation, the hope of a million men who had newly risen out of degradation. When I came out ...
... December 1912. After His Release The huge crowds present during his arrest were obviously absent, reminding him of Aurobindo's similar fate upon his release from Uttarpara in 1909 and his famous remark: 'When I went to jail the whole country was alive with the cry of Bande Mataram... when I came out of jail I listened for that cry, but there was instead a silence ...
... have done so. That is certain." "Then it must have been preordained that she would come here and that we too should follow suit?" * Sri Aurobindo asked, "Have you read the speech I made at Uttarpara?" "Yes, we have." "Then you should have known what was the real reason behind my imprisonment. It was the Divine who drew me away from the political field to keep me secluded in a prison cell ...
... at the Alipur jail, as we saw earlier, was really a session of sadhana and when, after his acquittal in May 1909, he launched the Karmayogin and the Dharma and made his astonishing speech at Uttarpara, it was clear to all that Sri Aurobindo was now a man of God and only incidentally a political leader. He had not forgotten the continuing fact of India's political subjection, but he felt he shouldn't ...
... , 325; C. R. Das as Defence Counsel, 326ff; his peroration, 328; acquittal and release, 328; The Mother of Dreams, 330; at his uncle's place, 331; C. R. Das on, 331; letter to Bengalee, 332; Uttarpara Speech, 333ff, 385; Divine odes in jail, 334; Karmayogin and Dharma, 335, 343ff; automatic writing, 336; on spirituality, 337; 'Conversations of the Dead', 338; on ideals & idealism, 338; the ...
... for Old; Bhawani Mandir; The Doctrine of Passive Resistance; editorials and comments from the Bande Mataram; Speeches. Volume 2 — Karmayogin, EARLY POLITICAL WRITINGS —11(1909-1910): Uttarpara Speech; The Ideal of the Karmayogin; An Open Letter to My Countrymen; other essays, notes and comments from the Karmayogin; Speeches. Volume 3 — The Harmony of Virtue, EARLY CULTURAL ...
... cheerfulness of mind, absence of despair, or grief, all this was a symptom not of the inert Indians of those days, but of a new age, a new race and a new stir. ( Original text in Bengali ) From “Uttarpara Speech” Meanwhile He had brought me out of solitude and placed me among those who had been accused along with me…. I found myself among these young men and in many of them I discovered a mighty ...
... Bhawani Bharati, Mother of India.” * Come then, hearken to the call of the Mother. She is already in our hearts waiting to manifest Herself, waiting to be worshipped…. Sri Aurobindo at Uttarpara * You who feel Her stirring within you, fling off the black veil of self, break down the imprisoning wall of indolence, help her each as you feel impelled, with your bodies or with your intellect ...
... bomb. C. R. Das's magnificent defence oration. 1909 May 5 : Sri Aurobindo was acquitted and released. May 30 : His historic speech at Uttarpara, describing his visions and experiences in jail. June 19 : Started the English weekly Karma yogin. Long patriotic poem Baji Prabhou and several long ...
... A Defence of Indian Culture - and, all by himself, publishing them serially, and more or less simultaneously, in the pages of the Arya . When the War came to an end at last, his apocalyptical "Uttarpara Speech" of 1909 and The Ideal of Human Unity were issued as books in 1919. Sri Aurobindo also commented with guarded enthusiasm on the success of the Russian Revolution. In fact, in one of his later ...
... early days, Abinash Bhattacharya, who had kept house for Sri Aurobindo and had also been a revolutionary, was in Pondicherry for a while. Yet another associate of the political period, Amarendra of Uttarpara, who used to be known as "Gabriel" to the revolutionary group, now appeared in Pondicherry as Swami Kevalananda, complete with matted hair, as head of a group of Sadhus! Many came and went like sea-waves ...
... I looked at the Prosecuting Counsel and it was not the Counsel for the prosecution that I saw; it was Sri Krishna who sat there ... and smiled." Sri Aurobindo disclosed all this in his speech at Uttarpara on 30 May 1909. These and other experiences proved to him the truths of Hindu dharma. "They became living experiences to me Page 485 and things were opened to me which no material ...
... unreal means. The Page 1036 voice is yet weak but it is growing. The might of God is already revealed among us, its work is spreading over the country. Even in West Bengal it is working in Uttarpara and Baruipur. It is not our work but that of something mightier that compels us to go on until all bondage is swept away and India stands free before the world. Page 1037 ...
... institutions will not come into the new system, the Page 1024 country must be covered with a network of new primary schools on national lines, such as the one which is now being projected at Uttarpara,—schools giving a primary literary education along with such technical instruction as will enable the students to earn a livelihood as small artisans. If this is done, the public will flock into the ...
... the SI and sent up a silent prayer to his Guru. Those were troubled times. Charu tried to put into practice Sri Aurobindo’s ideas of Education. Charu introduced new books like Brain of India , Uttarpara Speech , etc. as text books. New concepts such as not to impose a mass of books on the students were tried out. Some of the teachers asked: “What — no books?” “Why is religion being introduced?” Those ...
... together and a rope around his waist. He now saw his political work and the liberation of India as part of a spiritual tide which would carry the world into a new era. Nationalism, he said in his Uttarpara speech, had to be seen as part of the sanatana dharma , the eternal law. But the British authorities did not forget Aurobindo Ghose; on the contrary, even the highest-placed among them, the L ...
... “cave of tapasya ,” and when, after one year, he came out of it he was no longer the agnostic. His political work for Bharat Mata had turned into a spiritual Work for humanity. As he said in his Uttarpara speech soon after his release: “There is a word to speak and a work to do,” but nobody understood him at the time. From the time of his imprisonment in Alipore Jail, Sri Aurobindo was constantly ...
... s only from 1904 onwards. But in his outer aspects, it would not be right to say that he had developed that 'wide calm' which later on became the principal characteristic of his personality. His Uttarpara speech, which, for many years, became my annual swadhyaya, also gave me the same impression. Anyway, we need not measure the measureless, as I said before. He had, as I have said of late ...
... ১৯৮৫, শ্রীঅরবিন্দ আশ্রম, শ্রীঅরবিন্দ আশ্রম প্রেস, পণ্ডিচেরী ৭ম সংস্করণ: ১৯৯২, শ্রীঅরবিন্দ আশ্রম, শ্রীঅরবিন্দ আশ্রম প্রেস, পণ্ডিচেরী ৷ এই সংস্করণে শ্রীঅরবিন্দ প্রদত্ত ইংরাজী বক্তৃতা (৩০ মে, ১৯০৯) Uttarpara Speech'-এর বঙ্গানুবাদ ‘উত্তরপাড়া অভিভাষণ’ যুক্ত হয় ৷ বলাবাহুল্য, বাংলা রচনা’য় অভিভাষণটি গৃহীত হয়নি ৷ পুনর্মুদ্রণ: ১৯৯৬ পৃঃ ৭ কারাকাহিনী: ১৩১৪ সালে প্রবর্তিত কুমুদিনী বসুর সম্পাদনায় ...
... after his second realisation which was that of the cosmic consciousness and of the Divine as all beings and all that is, which happened in the Alipore jail and of which he has spoken in his speech at Uttarpara. To the other two realisations, that of the supreme Reality with the static and dynamic Brahman as its two aspects and that of the higher planes of consciousness leading to the Supermind, he was already ...
... been personal and apart; those around me knew I was a sadhak but they knew little more as I kept all that went on in me to myself. It was only after my release that for the first time I spoke at Uttarpara publicly about my spiritual experiences. Until I went to Pondicherry I took no disciples; with those who accompanied me or joined me in Pondicherry I had at first the relation of friends and companions ...
... people might make a concession to the others. 1 3 September 1949 [2] K. M. MUNSHI: I would like to have your guidance as regards the future of Sanatan Dharma. Starting from your Uttarpara Page 512 Speech, which has been a sort of beacon to me for years, I have been working for the reintegration of Hindu culture ... But I am neither learned nor a profound thinker. I can ...
... doctrines to him personally in a greater degree than to any other single individual in Bengal, or possibly in India." 10 Page 47 May 30, 1909 (Extracts from the famous Uttarpara speech.) When I approached God at that time [after Sri Aurobindo's return from England], I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptics was ...
... Techniques I. Humorous rhyming (with or without alliteration): 1. NB: But can you tell us what the experience of Self was like? Was it by any chance like the one you speak of in your Uttarpara Speech — the Vasudeva experience? Page 91 Sri Aurobindo: Great jumble-Mumble! What has Vasu-deva to do with it? 8 2.NB: As poetry also has come, I wouldn't like to give it up ...
... had to be spread throughout the world. Sri Aurobindo reiterated this in all his political writings in the Bandemataram. On his release from the Alipore jail, Sri Aurobindo made his famous Uttarpara speech. Here are some extracts from that speech: "I realised what the Hindu religion meant. We speak often of the Hindu religion, of the Sanatan Dharma, but few of us really know what that religion ...
... that he got the second crucial experience of Yoga which became the turning point of his life. In a certain sense it was an epoch-making experience and he gave expression to it at a meeting in Uttarpara, in 1909. This spiritual experience in jail turned his mind to a problem of far greater magnitude than the winning of the freedom of the country. Subsequently, though invited several times to lead ...
... May 6 Acquitted and released. After his release and until February 1910, Sri Aurobindo stays at 6, College Square, Calcutta. May 14 Letter to the Bengalee, Calcutta. May 30 Speech at Uttarpara. June 13 Speech at Beadon Square, Calcutta. June 19 First issue of the Karmayogin, a weekly review directed and mostly written by Sri Aurobindo. June 19 Speech at Jhalakati, Barisal District ...
... afterwards in his solitary cell in the Alipore Jail, his experience of the omnipresent Deity in the form of Narayana, Vasudeva. As he described his experience later in the course of the celebrated Uttarpara Speech delivered on 30 May 1909: I looked at the jail that secluded me from men and it was no longer by its high walls that I was imprisoned; no, it was Vasudeva who surrounded ...
... that he got the second crucial experience of yoga that became the turning point of his life. In a certain sense, it was an epoch-making experience and he gave expression to it at a meeting in Uttarpara in 1909.S This spiritual experience in jail turned his mind to a problem; of far greater magnitude than winning the freedom of the I country. Subsequently invited several times to lead the¦ political ...
... "Himalayas of the Soul" by entering into the spirit of the Upanishads. It was natural that, after his acquittal and release, he should carry these lights to the new spheres of his activity. He spoke at Uttarpara like one whom prison-life had renewed and transfigured. He preached Sanatana Dharma in the accents of a prophet. He published his translations of the Isha, Kena and other Upanishads in the Karmayogin ...
... Acquitted and released. After his release and until February 1910, Sri Aurobindo stays at 6 College Square, Calcutta. May 14 Letter to the Bengalee, Calcutta. May 30 Speech at Uttarpara. June 13 Speech at Beadon Square, Calcutta. June 19 First issue of the Karmayogin, a weekly review directed and mostly written by Sri Aurobindo. Speech at Jhalakati, Barisal ...
... wasn't surprising, therefore, that Government's uneasiness mounted week by week, day by day. Of course, there was of late a new accent in his speeches and writings - what might be called the Uttarpara accent. God, God - Sanatana Dharma, Eternal Religion! What did he mean? Did he expect people to take him seriously? But when Sri Aurobindo spoke against the Reforms, when he fulminated against the ...
... Japanese street is paralleled by Sri Aurobindo's Narayana Darshan in 1908 in the Alipur Jail during the early weeks of his ash ram vas within its precincts. Recalling that experience he said later at Uttarpara: I looked at the jail that secluded me from men and it was no longer by its high walls that I was imprisoned; no, it was Vasudeva who surrounded me .... I looked at the bars of my cell, the ...
... Isha Upanishad 101, 110 The Secret of the Veda 101, 110, 119 The Human Cycle 182, 198, 548 The Ideal of Human Unity 182, 198, 385, 487, 548, 573, 685 The Future Poetry 182, 198, 203, 491 Uttarpara Speech 198 A Defence of Indian Culture 198, 203 Essays on the Gita 197-8, 324, 326, 385, 398, 589 Bhavani Mandir 216, 241, 706 The Mother 255, 292ff, 337, 345, 375, 385, 525, 529, 600 Yoga ...
... light on Sri Aurobindo's departure from Calcutta and his arrival at Pondicherry: "Sri Aurobindo asked Motilal to make arrangements for his departure. Motilal wrote a letter to Amar Chatterji at Uttarpara in which he informed him of Sri Aurobindo's intended departure from Chandernagore in a boat on the 31st March and asked him to make an arrangement to change the boat at Dumurtala Ghat and to ferry ...
... post of professor in our College. While leaving Baroda, he gave us a stirring speech, the substance of which I noted down on the spot. The summary of that speech and his messianic utterance, the Uttarpara Speech, Page 227 remained the source of inspiration for me for years." Decades passed. Many changes had taken place in the schoolboy's life; the most important of which was ...
... in our political bewilderment." Page 500 But every Bengali was not so familiar with the English tongue. A demand grew up for its Bengali version. Amarendra Nath Chattopadhyya of Uttarpara —a revolutionary initiated by Sri Aurobindo himself—broached the matter to him. He at once got Sri Aurobindo's consent. Thus the Bengali Karmayogin was begun. That was a Friday weekly. It came out ...
... Reforms. April 7 - American explorer Peary reaches the North Pole in his sixth attempt. May 6 - Sri Aurobindo is acquitted in the Alipore Bomb Case. May 30 — Gives his famous speech at Uttarpara. June 19 — First issue of The Karmayogin (English weekly). July 25 — French aviation pioneer Bleriot flies over the English Channel. August 23 - First issue of the Dharma (Bengali ...
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