... and demand, and before a new balance can be established, many disorders are introduced inimical to the harmony and to the length of maintenance of the life." 2 E. Fifth Factor: War of the Members To a superficial view of things, the individual man seems indeed to be a single whole, undivided in consciousness and integrated in will. But a deeper probe reveals the disconcerting ...
... The League of Nations started with some dim ideal of this kind; but even its first halting attempts at opposing imperial egoisms ended in secession and avoided a civil war among its members only by drawing back from its own commitments. In fact, it was never more than an instrument subservient to the policy of a few great Powers. ... sentiments and interests of a ruling oligarchy of great Powers or end in such movements of secession and civil war between the States as settled the question of slavery in America. There would be only one other possible issue,—that the liberal sentiments and principles at first aroused by the war in Europe should become settled and permanent forces of action and extend themselves to the dealings of European... succession of confused experiments, recoils and returns, resistances and persistences; it will progress in spite of human unreason in the midst of a clamour of rival ideas and interests, stumble through a war of principles, advance by a clash of vehement parties ending in more or less clumsy compromises. It may even, as we have said, be managed in the most unideal, though not the most inconvenient method ...
... and their fulfilment in human existence; and the Life too finds itself enslaved and misused and is in frequent insurrection against the ignorant, half-wise tyrant seated above it. This is the war of our members which the mind cannot satisfactorily resolve because it has to deal with a problem insoluble to it, the aspiration of an immortal being in a mortal life and body. It can only arrive at a long... law of working. The Life is at war with the body; it attempts to force it to satisfy life's desires, impulses, satisfactions and demands from its limited capacity what could only be possible to an immortal and divine body; and the body, enslaved and tyrannised over, suffers and is in constant dumb revolt against the demands made upon it by the Life. The Mind is at war with both: sometimes it helps the... acutely aware of all this discord and disparateness in his parts and he seeks to arrive at a harmony of his mind, life and body, a harmony of his knowledge and will and emotion, a harmony of all his members. Sometimes this desire stops short at the attainment of a workable compromise which will bring with it a relative peace; but compromise can only be a halt on the way, since the Deity within will not ...
... attempt raises all sorts of adverse forces.” The battlefield, however, is we ourselves, we composite, complex human beings. It is a “war of our members” in which every member, like every creature, has the right of its highest possible development. It is “a battle, a long war with ourselves and with opposing forces around us.” Without heroism, avers Sri Aurobindo, no human can grow into the Godhead.... humanity, to make a better world possible, impelled the Hostile Forces to retaliate and caused the twentieth-century wars. Actually the First and Second World War, together with the third Cold War, are closely interrelated and should be seen as one. A direct result of the Second World War was that it brought the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to a halt, and this at the moment that they expected... Civilization. The Kali Age – especially its harbinger, the Mahabharata War – may be seen as marking the end of the spiritual age of the Vedas to be replaced by the materialistic age in which we live. Its origins go back some 5 000 years. The Mahabharata War stands at the threshold of this transition.” The historic significance of this war was therefore considerable. No less is its significance in the ...
... Paris in 1923, but who has always nostalgically remembered his youth on the coast of Brittany. In the Second World War he became a member of the Resistance. He had just turned twenty when the Gestapo arrested him; he spent one and a half years in German concentration camps. After the war, and deeply branded by those experiences, he became an exponent of the problematics and the life-view of Existentialism... reminded of the Hitlerian ideal, known to very few but the true motive behind the ‘cruel and merciless’ regime of Nazism. The battle waged by her in her body continued. Those in her proximity, the members of the Ashram and all who knew of her critical health held their breath, though not many realized what it all was about, what was at stake for them then and for us now. On 13 April came the proclamation ...
... let ourselves be accused of lack of imagination". Churchill accepted to bring the proposal to the War Cabinet, whose members to his utter surprise were quite enthusiastic. The ministers would meet the following day and finalize the text. That same day General de Gaulle, the new secretary of State for war, arrived in London. Monnet explained to him the project of union. As Churchill, de Gaulle was not... between countries is not adequate for solving difficult problems — an organization in which any decision can be blocked by the veto of one of its members will always be paralyzed. — this organization can only have some power if the member states delegate to it a part of their sovereignty. All those who worked with Monnet at the time were struck by his moral influence. Louis joxe, the... can be most useful." Churchill sent him to the United States as member of the British Purchasing Commission (later to be called British Supply Council). Monnet then left London. His circle of friends in the US included many influential people, most of whom were Roosevelt's closest advisers. Justice Frankfurter, Stimson, the US War Secretary, his assistant John Mc Cloy, some journalists like Walter ...
... Bhārata war. Then, with the members of the 8 dynasties prior to the Imperial Guptas added, the total number will be (101 + 100=) 201 instead of 153. This will throw the Purānas out of tune with Megasthenes and invalidate your whole procedure and proving." Here too the main point is overlooked. We dp not affirm that no more than 46 kings existed from Vaivasvata to the Bhārata War along the... between Dionysus and Sandrocottus dividing into two parts: (1) 53 after Prithu down to Sahadeva who, according to the Purānic chronology, died in the Bhārata War of 3138 B.C., (2) 100 from the first member of the Bārhadratha dynasty after the war down to the last of the Āndhras. In dealing with the Four Yugas, the more apt division would be 54 down to the Kaliyuga of 3102 B.C. and 99 onward from it... from 3138 B.C. where the Bhārata War is placed. It counts the dynasty-lengths onward - 1000 years for the 22 Barhadrathas, 118 for the 5 Pradyotas, 362 for the 10 SlsuNāgas - and also separately mentions 1500 years, which is their exact sum-total, as the period from the birth of Parīkshit in the year of the Bhārata War to the coronation of Mahāpadma, the first member of the Nanda dynasty succeeding ...
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