Wilson, President : Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), President of the USA (1913-21), noted for his high-minded & sometimes inflexible idealism.
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... disciples gathered in the courtyard of the Ashram in great anxiety and then departed with a fervent prayer for Sri Aurobindo's speedy recovery. One of the visitors for the darshan was Miss Wilson, President Woodrow Wilson's daughter who had come all the way from America. She accepted Fate's decree with a calm submission. The Mother, out of compassion for the disappointed devotees, gave darshan ...
... Saint 551-2 Virgil 485, 633 Visvamitra, Rishi 92 Vivekananda, Swami 15 Werner Haubrich (Saumitra) 674 ,. The Wherefore of the Worlds 110, 120, 127 Wilson, Margaret see Nishtha Wilson, President Woodrow 398 Wordsworth, William 5-6, 111, 484, 514 World Union 573, 685-6, 755 Wretched of the Earth, The 773 Yogic Sadhan 91 Yoga Sutras 192 Younghusband, Sir Francis 409 Zen ...
... Nominated Democratic Presidential Candidate 1932 (Nov. 9) Elected President of the United States. Beginning of a reform program known as the "New Deal" 1936 (Nov.) Re-election by the largest electoral margin in recent American history, 523 to 8. 1939 (Sept. 1) Germany invades Poland 1940 (Nov.) Re-elected President of the United States 1941 (Dec.7) Japanese attack on the American... Marriage with Eleanor, a distant cousin, niece of Theodore Roosevelt 1910 Enter into the political arena. Elected as a Democrat to the New York State Senate 1912 Re-election. Appointed by Wilson as Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1920 Chosen as the running mate of presidential candidate James M.Cox. Defeat of their team 1921 Stricken by poliomyelitis 1924 Resumes his political... American Naval base of Pearl Harbour. America enters the war 1944 (Nov.) Fourth re-election (1s1 American President ever to be elected four times) 1945 (Apr. 12) Death at Warm Springs from a massive cerebral haemorrhage Page 469 ...
... article about the necessity of force for maintaining a state. Disciple : Blunchli in his book called "The State" puts it down as a fundamental principle. Every state is founded on force and President Wilson in his book also maintains, a little apologetically, that all human states are founded on force. Sri Aurobindo : Of course, so long as man is not too much cowed down or has not evolved ...
... whether Italy would have waited such a long time. Sri Aurobindo had been styled a Brahmo leader by some American paper in connection with George Nakashima's talk on Nishtha—Margaret Wilson, daughter of the former President of the U.S.A. SRI AUROBINDO: So I am called a savant (British radio), a Brahrno leader and an ascetic (Bombay Times) ! Some Egyptian prince had come to India, visited Hyderabad ...
... terrorist organization and placed it on America's terrorist watch list. 40 Ashok Krishna, op. cit., pp. 2-3. 41 John Daily Wilson, op. cit., p. 2. 42 Ashok Krishna, op. cit., p. 3. 43 Benazir Bhutto is the daughter of the slain former Pakistani President Zul.kar Ali Bhutto. 44 Intelligence Resource Program, p. 3. 45 Indranil Banerjie, op. cit., p. 5;Douglas Jehl, op. cit... Cutting Its Spy Units Ties to Some Militants,'' The New York Times, 20 February 2002, p. 1. Tim McGirk, ''Has Pakistan Tamed Its Spies?,'' Time, 6 May 2002, p. 34; John Daily Wilson, op. cit., p. 2. 31 John Daily Wilson, op. cit., p. 2. 32 Ibid. 33 Ibid. 34 General Zia met an untimely end on 19 April 1988 when the Air Force plane in which he was flying exploded mysteriously... Bangladesh, or the Bengali state.16 Following Pakistan's defeat and the independence of Bangladesh, Yahya Khan was forced to step down and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was elected President of Pakistan. THE ISI IN A DEMOCRACY President Bhutto tried to bring the ISI under control by appointing Lieutenant General Gulam Gilani Khan as its director. At Khan's behest, Bhutto promoted Lieutenant General Zia ...
... Roosevelt was to back for President has given a hint that Roosevelt will stand. Absence of precedence is no reason, he says. Some American admiral has said that instead of waiting to deliver four thousand airplanes after some years, America should send one thousand planes straightaway to the Allies. SRI AUROBINDO: Roosevelt would have done that except for this election affair. Wilson took his stand because... because he had already been elected. PURANI: The President has unlimited powers. SRI AUROBINDO: Oh yes, he can do practically anything except get money from the Congress. EVENING SRI AUROBINDO (starting the talk): The French are not clever at retreat. The Germans seem to have separated the French army from the B.E.F., the main part of which is now evacuating. The French were covering the ...
... have something to do with Henry Ford." Years afterwards, Margaret Wilson, the daughter of the one-time President Woodrow Wilson, came to stay in the Ashram and she got in touch with Ford. Ford replied that, as he believed in reincarnation, he would be interested to meet somebody who could throw light on his past births. Miss Wilson spoke with the Mother. The Mother said she could certainly throw some ...
... day, the first of all eighteen still ruling German princes to do so. (Kaiser Wilhelm II would follow suit on 9 November. It had been one of the peace conditions formulated by the American President Woodrow Wilson that all authoritarian and military structures and institutions in Germany should be abolished.) Eisner, a bearded intellectual who did not look the part of a revolutionary, was not a fanatic; ...
... thought of the chance to work through it. NIRODBARAN: We hear that once the Maharaja of Baroda asked you to write a memorandum to the President about some financial trouble. But you refused to do it unless the Maharaja himself would hand it over to the President: the Dewan was a timid man and suppressed the memoranda written by you. SRI AUROBINDO: That's a legend. Of course, I wrote many memoranda... Aurobindo on himself and his Yoga. It was written by Swami Nikhilananda. NIRODBARAN: It is surprising that a Ramakrishna Mission Yogi should write on you. SRI AUROBINDO: It is, Nishtha (Miss Margaret Wilson) who arranged for its publication. He was a friend of hers before she came here. It is peculiar how they give an American turn to everything. NIRODBARAN: The Americans seem to be more open than... Oh yes. She was in touch with us for three or four years. She has very clear ideas about Yoga and she was practising it there. At this point Dr.Manilal arrived. He heard the reference to Woodrow Wilson's daughter. DR. MANILAL: She must be disappointed because there was no Darshan in November. SRI AUROBINDO: No. She has taken it with the right Yogic attitude - unlike many. DR. MANILAL: How ...
... attempt was to capture the Congress. The Home Rulers argued that India's contribution to the World War should be rewarded with some political progress. At the same time the Russian Revolution and President Wilson's suggestion for the formation of the League of Nations gave added momentum to the demand for Home Rule. The British Government reacted in typical fashion - stern handling and Page... basis of equality and rallied to the League. Besant started the Home Rule League as an independent organisation. The first meeting of the League was held on 3 September 1916. Besant was made its president; G. S. Arundale, its organising secretary; C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer one of the General Secretaries; and B. P. Wadia, the Treasurer. The rules prescribed in its constitution for organising branches of ...
... 1928: "the name means one-pointed and steady concentration, devotion and faith in the single aim — the Divine and the Divine Realisation." Nishtha was the daughter of the one-time President of the U.S.A., Woodrow Wilson. She lived for several years in the Ashram and died amongst us. Few can show the strength of character which came so easily to her. The Mother had most considerately made her as... practising it there. At this point Dr. M arrived. He heard the reference to Woodrow Wilson's daughter. Dr. M: She must be disappointed because there was no darshan in November. Sri Aurobindo: No, She has taken it with the right Yogic attitude — unlike many. It was Margaret Wilson who interested Henry Ford in the Ashram. A believer in reincarnation, he asked her whether... may bring out a fact which may make an appropriate conclusion to this article on Western aspirants. The fact is an extraordinary one and I derive it from Nirodbaran. He has told me that margaret Wilson had an extreme devotion for Sri Aurobindo and that the Master responded to it in an unusual way when she died. At the moment her demise was reported to him, Nirodbaran saw a soft shine in the Master's ...
... don't know if some of you were here in 1938. Perhaps you were dreaming in some higher sphere, of coming down and taking birth! One of the distinguished visitors that year was Miss Wilson, the daughter of President Wilson of America. She had come all the way from America to have her first Darshan of Sri Aurobindo. Darshan then was something of which you have no idea today. You Page... one silent prayer that rose unanimously from the heart of the devotees was for the well-being of their Lord and Master, not perhaps regretting so much the Darshan that they had missed. Even Miss Wilson, who had come all the way from America, accepted it with submission. From that single gesture, you can see what a great soul she was. She didn't rage, cry, lament, or regret. Her reaction was a calm ...
... American policy and the use of American economic aid leverage to push Musharraf towards civilian rule as condition for US aid. However, I don't see that happening," added Harrison, senior scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Centre. He was addressing a conference demanding human rights protection and a fair share of resources for Sindhi people here on Saturday. "I don't think the armed forces want a war.... Here is another example of how the Army is looting the people of Pakistan. A first hand list of Army land lords Special SAT Report BAHAWALPUR, Pakistan: Pakistani Army Generals, including President Pervez Musharraf and his top colleagues, have found an innovative way to defend the land of their country — by grabbing it. SA Tribune has got a list of over 100 armed forces men who allotted ...
... Margaret Wilson, daughter of the American President Woodrow Wilson. She had read books by Sri Aurobindo in the New York Library and had started corresponding with him and the Mother. Sri Aurobindo, at her request, had given her a Sanskrit name, as always significant of the spiritual possibilities he saw in the person rather than an indication of already acquired capacities. Margaret Wilson was now called ...
... Fifty Poems of Nirodbaran , p. 98. × The daughter of President Woodrow Wilson of the U.S.A. × mahājano gato yena panthā : the path followed by great men. ... on Mohanlal's foot. It's swollen considerably, and there is a wound too. Purani says that fomentation will cure the swelling. [ Mother :] The wound will never close if it is fomented. Miss Wilson 232 is to come for treatment tomorrow. Should we postpone it as Dr. Becharlal is not well and neither am I? [ Mother :] Yes, it is better to postpone . Dr. Becharlal was proposing today ...
... with its own history and interesting stories. The building housed, let us say, “Royalty”. In the past an American daughter of the Mother, Nishtha, lived (and died) here. She was the daughter of President Wilson of the U.S.A. A remarkable lady she was. When terminally ill and suffering, she could have received the best of treatment anywhere she chose. But, she remained here saying: “They will take care ...
... Lloyd George, declared on Jan. 5, 1918 that the Allies were "not fighting to deprive Turkey of the rich and renowned lands of Asia Minor and Thrace, which are predominantly Turkish in race". And President Wilson too endorsed this view in his message to the American Congress. These specific assurances by leading statesmen of Allied countries led the Indian Muslims to believe that whatever happened in the ...
... and was enthusiastic in appreciation. PURANI: Indian music, especially South Indian, has been preserved by the temples; expert musicians come there on occasions and play and sing. Nishtha (Miss Wilson) is all praise for many Indian things she sees here. For example, she finds great beauty in the way Indian women walk. She said to me, "You won't understand it, but I can because I have seen our European... they have to stand at a distance, make pranam, have darshan and go away. Special consideration is shown in a few cases. SRI AUROBINDO: If all were allowed to touch him, he might feel like the President of America who recently had to shake hands with thousands of people and got an ache in the hand! I have heard that Maharshi complained of stomach trouble from eating the prasad of various people and ...
... after all, plenty of victims of infantile paralysis who never become great men. Once a friend asked Mrs. Roosevelt if she thought he would have been President if he-had not been ill. Her answer was, "He would certainly have been President, but a president of a different kind." ________________ From John Gunthere, Roosevelt in Retrospect, A Profile in History, Harper Collins Publishers... son James closed in around him to keep the mishap from the eyes of the crowd. But there was a good deal of confusion and the President was badly shaken; his words to Reilly were a curt snap, "Clean me up!" But the worst agony lay in subtler fields. For instance the President could never, except when he slept, be left alone; once he told Ambassador Winant that his utter lack of privacy was the hardest... when I lived in Europe I repeatedly met men in important positions of state who had no idea that the President was disabled. Nobody but the most crassly callow visitors to Roosevelt ever made reference to his handicap. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, however, once committed the gaffe of telling the President, when she was about to leave the room, not to bother to get up. He "thanked her for the compliment ...
... - exactly what, they didn't as yet know. And they just wondered, in their humility and awe. Among those who had come for the first time was Miss Margaret Wilson, the eldest daughter of President Woodrow Wilson. Having learnt about Sri Aurobindo in the late twenties, she started corresponding with him, read some of his seminal writings, and began doing his Yoga. But it was only... And braggart dogmas shouted in the night ... 2 Mussolini's Italy was behind Hitler, and so was Japan. The Western powers - Britain, France - were tense with anxiety and apprehension. President Roosevelt of U.S.A. felt deeply concerned, but could do little. Stalin's Russia was enigmatic, impassive, apparently neutral. Was it going to be war or peace? Neville Chamberlain was only too agonisingly ...
... growing part of an enormous ancient whole.” “It may already be too late to avert the looming climate catastrophe that Lovelock warns about,” opines John Gribbin. And the senior biologist Edward Wilson, one of the most respected living scientists, concludes his analysis of the Gaia situation with this paragraph: “The juggernaut of technology-based capitalism will not be stopped. Its momentum is ... people by 2020 and perhaps 11 billion by 2050 to 2100.” 15 If the evolution has an aim, it cannot be to provide standing place only for the humans on our globe. Once again we turn to Edward Wilson: “The problem before us is how to feed billions of new mouths over the next several decades and save the rest of life at the same time, without being wrapped in a Faustian bargain that threatens freedom... × Id. , pp. 139-140. × Edward Wilson: The Future of Life , pp. 156 and 43. × The quotations in this section are from the following books ...
... difficult to know what exactly this idea would mean in practice. The utterances of its original spokesman, President Wilson, were marked by a magnificent nebulous idealism full of inspiring ideas and phrases, but not attended by a clear and specific application. For the idea behind the head of the President we must look for light to the past history and the traditional temperament of the American people. The ...
... him to survey the progress we have made after the last one and to give us a fresh push towards a further advance. Visitors had swollen the even flow of our life; among them, Miss Wilson, daughter of President Wilson, had come from far-off America for the Master's Darshan. His book Essays on the Gita had cast an unearthly spell upon her. That there could be someone who could write such a wonderful... this single blow. They gathered in the courtyard of the Ashram to know the truth and went back sullen-hearted with a fervent prayer addressed to the Mother and the Lord for his speedy recovery. Miss Wilson accepted Fate's decree with a calm submission. The Mother, out of compassion for the disappointed devotees, gave darshan to all in the evening. Thus she wiped away their gloom with the sunshine of ...
... of a revolutionary proposal, "a radical blow stricken at the heart of States' sovereignty": a total fusion between England and France — one flag, one parliament^ one people. Monnet convinced Horace Wilson, who in turn persuaded Chamberlain to speak to Churchill. The British Prime Minister was startled and not really convinced. But, as he later said, "in this crisis we must not let ourselves be accused... against what they saw as an injustice done to French industry, etc. Bullit, the American ambassador in Paris, a great friend of Monnet, proposed that Monnet be sent to directly meet the American president. This would be the first meeting between Monnet and Roosevelt, a man whom he admired all his life. In spite of the openness of Roosevelt, things stagnated. Then there was the crisis of Munich... This was a difficult topic that poisoned the relation between France and America. Jean Monnet was sent back to Washington in order to negotiate. A passage of a letter from Bullit to the American President is quite revealing of Monnet's reputation "I hope you can meet him alone at the White House this evening. You can invite him for dinner or after dinner, it does not matter as this is a man without ...
... that, leaving my true home and my divine Mother? 6 Page 588 And Jay Holmes Smith, who had first come upon Sri Aurobindo's writings in the New York Public Library - even as Miss Margaret Wilson had earlier read there his Essays on the Gita - also found his true home in Pondicherry, and spoke thus for himself and others like him: Hundreds of us in the Ashram are far from home, ten thousand... then Chief Minister of Madras. Although Nehru himself could afford only a few minutes, his daughter spent a longer time with the Mother and the Ashramites. 22 Early in November that year, the President of India, Rajendra Prasad, also visited the Ashram and was with the Mother a long time. Among other things, they discussed the disturbed international situation, and the Mother said: "India must rise... atmosphere of the place and by the Mother's radiant personality and poise of spiritual power. A group of children from the University Centre representing many nationalities were introduced to the President, and he was happy to meet them and posed for photographs with them. Among other visitors during the year were R.R. Diwakar, Sri Prakasa and Dr. Karan Singh, all of whom felt a spiritual rapport ...
... Aurobindo called the Supramental.’ 2 In those November days of 1938, the focus of all attention in the Ashram was the newly arrived person who was also American: Margaret Wilson, the daughter of former President Woodrow Wilson. She had read books by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and started corresponding with them. Sri Aurobindo had duly warned her before she undertook the long journey from the United... doubtful about the advisability of your coming here next winter. Your illness [she had arthritis and other complaints] and the fact that you suffer from the heat stand in the way.’ 3 Nonetheless, Miss Wilson had persisted in her intentions and had recently arrived. Sri Aurobindo, at her request, had given her the Sanskrit name Nishta. During the night before the darshan of 24 November all was quiet... 1927, Joint General Secretary of the Congress with Jawaharlal Nehru. Bose became fascinated by the Fascist dictators and went to Europe to meet them personally. In 1938 he was elected national president of the Congress. He clashed, inevitably, with Mohandas K. Gandhi and founded within the Congress his Forward Bloc. In 1941 he escaped the watchful eye of the British and reached Germany after an ...
... waifs, sadhus, ecstatics, romantics, idealists, capitalists, labourers—who came to see the Master (or the Mother) and remained as permanent sadhaks (practitioners of Yoga) there was no end. President Woodrow Wilson's daughter became a permanent inmate of the ashram. The community grew month by month, and although variety seemed to be the key-note—variety in colour, creed, community, language ...
... down on the floor and drifted off to sleep. The love and devotion that he shared on those evenings still lives in my being in a very tangible way. At that time Nishtha, the daughter of President Woodrow Wilson, lived in the Ashram and as a friend of my father’s she offered, very simply, and with great love, to have my brother and me share long afternoons with her in her apartment so that she could... through the fifties. In 1954, Pondicherry, which had so far been part of the French regime in India, was reunited with the country at large, with the French leaving. At this time Mother addressed the President of India expressing her long cherished wish to become an Indian citizen since this was the land of her soul and of her conscious choice. She said she would like to keep her French citizenship because ...
... down upon as of little importance. This made Watson and Crick’s discovery of the double helix all the more sensational. “For those not studying biology at the time in the early 1950s,” said Edward Wilson, “it is hard to imagine the impact the discovery of the structure of DNA had on our perception of how the world works.” 3 Heredity, and consequently evolution, were no longer a matter of fictitious... . It did not take long, after all the festivities and media hype around the completion of the sequencing of the human genome, for the volume of the claims to die down. Who remembers the words of President Nixon when he declared the first landing of a human being on the Moon as important as the creation of the universe? Now the Holy Grail of biology would give humankind the power over life (and the ...
... Museum The Srismriti Museum is located in the large building across from the Ashram playground. It is quartered in the flat that was once occupied by Nishtha (Margaret Woodrow Wilson), the daughter of the 28 th President of the United States. She had lived there in the late 1930s. Krishnalal, Sunanda and Jayantilal named the museum “Srismriti” which means “Sacred Remembrance” in Sanskrit. Sunanda’s ...
... succumbing to the death-trap of total collectivism. This was the crux of the problem for the "Big Four" of the Peace Conference at Versailles; but none of them - not even the idealistic President Woodrow Wilson - could effectively rise to the occasion. They were tired old men, either without vision or without vitality; and the world watched and waited - "humped in silence" - for the results of the ...
... Page 330 rejected on account of the Riding Examination. It may be well to enquire of Mr William Chawner, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, (who in June last succeeded Sir Roland Wilson as Secretary to the Board of Indian Civil Service Studies at Cambridge) how Mr Ghose conducted himself at the University previous to his Final Examination. This suggestion is made because Mr... for 1865. St. Stephen's Avenue seems to have been built after 1866. yours faithfully, sd.T Darlington, Archivist and Librarian. Page 348 3. H. J. W. Wilson, A. L. A. Metropolitan Borough of Paddington, Central Public Library, Porchester Road, W. 2 29th December, 1955. In reply to your letter to the Town Clerk, of 19th December... Lloyd Ellis, but we have no further information about it. Buses 7, 7A, 28, 31 and 46 pass along Chepstow Road, W. 2, which is crossed by St. Stephen's Gardens. Yours sincerely, sd. H.J.W. Wilson, Librarian. 4. The Royal Borough of Kensington, Public Libraries and Leighton House, Chief Librarian H. G. Massey, A.L.A,, A.M.A., 17th January, 1956. Cromwell ...
... his memory, and for almost forty years he lived in the Ashram as the embodiment of surrender to the Divine. From beyond the shores of India came Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter of the wartime American President. She had read Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita in the New York Public Library in the late nineteen twenties, and that effected the "decisive turn" in her life. She first acquired ...
... ________________ * "What can be more tedious than the Veda?" he also asked. Most other nineteenth-century European scholars agreed: "The verses of the Veda appear singularly prosaic," says Wilson, "and at any rate their chief value lies not in their fancy [sic] but in their facts, social and religious." Monier-Williams finds them "to abound more in puerile ideas than in striking thoughts... long talks with him; he later became a leader of the Hindu Mahasabha. Page 155 India, but I should be unable to identify myself with the programme of any of the parties. The President of the Congress is really a mouthpiece of the Congress and to make from the presidential chair a purely personal pronouncement miles away from what the Congress is thinking and doing would be grotesquely ...
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