Woodroffe, Sir John : British judge in India, a scholar of Tantric philosophy, is best known under his pen-name Arthur Avalon. He translated a number of Tantric texts & expounded & popularized the basic principles of Shaktism, dispelling many false ideas about Shakta observances. He described the Shakta doctrine as the worship of the Supreme Power in the form of the Mother.
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... History (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1957). Winternitz, M. A History of Indian Literature, Vol. I, Translated from the German by Mrs. S. Ketkar (University of Calcutta, 1927). Woodroffe, Sir John. Is India Civilized ? (Ganesh 8c Co., Madras, 1918). The World as Power (Ganesh 8c Co., Madras, 1956). Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader, First Series (The Hogarth ...
... "Is India Civilised?" The Renaissance in India "Is India Civilised?" - 1 A book under this rather startling title was published some years ago by Sir John Woodroffe, the well-known scholar and writer on Tantric philosophy, in answer to an extravagant jeu d'esprit by Mr. William Archer. That well-known dramatic critic lemankind and he believed it toaving... mass of unspeakable barbarism. It was argued by many at the time that to reply to a critic of this kind was to break a butterfly, or it might be in this instance a bumble-bee upon the wheel. But Sir John Woodroffe insisted that even an attack of this ignorant kind ought not to be neglected; he took it as a particularly useful type in the general kind, first, because it raised the question from the rat... has been or is a civilisation in India is not any longer debatable; for everyone whose opinion counts recognises the presence of a distinct and a great civilisation unique in its character. Sir John Woodroffe's purpose was to disclose the conflict of European and Asiatic culture and, in greater prominence, the distinct meaning and value of Indian civilisation, the peril it now runs and the calamity ...
... essays appeared in the Arya under this title between December 1918 and February 1919. They were written in response to a book by Sir John Woodroffe entitled Is India Civilized? Essays on Indian Culture (Madras: Ganesh & Co., foreword dated 4 October 1918). Woodroffe's book was itself a response to a book by Page 447 William Archer, India and the Future (London: Hutchinson & Co ...
... culture. There is the eye of sympathy and intuition and a close appreciative self-identification: that gives us work like Sister Nivedita's Web of Indian Life or Mr. Fielding's book on Burma or Sir John Woodroffe's studies of Tantra. These are attempts to push aside all concealing veils and reveal the soul of a people. It may well be that they do not give us all the hard outward fact, but we are enlightened... definitive view of these things, it is evident that in each field it is to men who can speak with some authority that we must turn. It matters very little to me what Mr. Archer or Dr. Gough or Sir John Woodroffe's unnamed English professor may say about Indian philosophy; it is enough for me to know what Emerson or Schopenhauer or Nietzsche, three entirely different minds of the greatest power in this ...
... and died. "You seem to have some powers already," the General could not refrain from saying. But the Sadhu simply waived the matter aside as being of no importance. This account was given by Sir John Woodroffe. The Vedas are divided into two parts: Mantra Page 240 and Brahmana. The Mantra or the metrical portion is known as Samhita. "We must recollect that in the Vedic system ...
... thinking, they appear obscure and unintelligible. But, "The incoherencies of the Vedic texts," wrote Sri Aurobindo, "exist in appearance only, 1. The Serpent Power, by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe). Page 75 because the real thread of the sense is to be found in an inner meaning." That thread found, "the expression of the hymns becomes just and precise and sins rather... Age prepares the Age of Gold," he said. His portrayal of the present and the future is both luminous and crystalline. Page 77 "It comes at last, the day foreseen of old, What John in Patmos saw, what Shelley dreamed, Vision and vain imagination deemed, The City of delight, the Age of Gold. The Iron Age is ended. Only now The last fierce spasm of the dying past ...
... of the Greater Knowledge that cross Aswapati's path are no verbal abstractions but occult realities, and Sri Aurobindo has but tried to describe what he has himself seen or experienced. As Sir John Woodroffe writes, In the sensible world are a great variety of beings who form a number of orders and grades. These grades form a series, at one extremity of which lies that order ...
... with a mellow lustre. These two aspects were fused into one in Sri Aurobindo as in the third eye of Shiva. 1. An acknowledged authority on Tantra, the Swami had collaborated with Sir John Woodroffe in his exposition on Tantric sadhana. Our text is derived from Rishabhchand. Page 334 "From among the days when I came into close contact with Sri Aurobindo, I can single out ...
... with Havel, Justice Woodroffe, Okakura, Ananda Coomaraswa-my, Nivedita and Abanindranath. Every facet of Indian life interested Nivedita. And she gave herself unstintedly to propagate Indian art, Indian culture, Indian science. She "had the eye of sympathy and intuition and a close appreciative self-identification," is how Sri Aurobindo described it. She it was who stood by Sir Jagadish Chandra... came to India on 28 January 1898. Miss Margaret Noble was born in North Ireland on 28 October 1867. Her parents were Reverend Samuel Richmond Noble and Mary Isabelle Hamilton. Samuel's father, John Noble, was by profession a Protestant priest. But he was a rebel at heart. He rebelled against the subjugation of his motherland by the British. His heart was torn to shreds at the inhuman torture inflicted ...
... the spinal column. A chakra is also called lotus (padma). "But as the subtle body penetrates and is interfused with the gross body, there is a certain 1 The Serpent Power, by Sir John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon), deals exhaustively with the Kundalini Yoga of Tantra. Here is a genuine friend of India, with his profound understanding of Indian culture. 2 Brahmarandhra, the crown ...
... with the French occultist Charles Barlet, who brought him into contact with France. After Théon had left Egypt for some obscure reason, we find him again in London, where he married Mary Christine Woodroffe Ware, alias Alma. They went to live in the outskirts of Tlemcen, an Algerian town at the foot of the Atlas Mountains. Théon was a multifaceted personality. He spoke several languages, was well... even of the Renaissance and the Middle Ages are now generally available in the bookshops — treatises by Eliphas Lévi, Stanislas de Guaita, Papus, Fulcanelli, Eugène Canseliet, Armand Barbault, or by John Dee, MacGregor Mathers, Alister Crowley (‘the wickedest man in the world’), Dion Fortune, Alice A. Bailey, Arthur Machen, etc. One of the foremost poets of the twentieth century, W.B. Yeats, was a member... it! My friend, you are a genius! This is miraculous! You must show this to the world! Just look at the richness of these shades of colour, at this inventiveness of forms! What an imagination!” “But sir,” said the poor painter, “these are the scrapings of my palette!” The dealer took hold of him: “You foolish man, don’t say that! Give these paintings to me, give me as many as you can produce, I’ll see ...
... better understanding of Indian thought and ideals. In some directions the change of attitude has gone remarkably far and seems to be constantly increasing. A Christian missionary quoted by Sir John Woodroffe is "amazed to find the extent to which Hindu Pantheism has begun to permeate the religious conceptions of Germany, of America, even of England" and he considers its cumulative effect an imminent ...
... things degrading and unspiritual and unclean that are the mark of a certain type of "Christian literature" on the subject,—for example, the superlative specimen of this noxious compound which Sir John Woodroffe has cited from the pages of Mr. Harold Begbie, "virile" perhaps if violence is virile, but certainly not sane. But still it is a mass of unsparing condemnation, exaggerated where it has any ...
... Sri Aurohindo, p. 309). 121. Richard Crashaw. 122. See The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, ed. by Cassirer, tr. by Forbes (University of Chicago Press). 123. Sir John Woodroffe, Is India Civilised?, P . 33. 124. Aurora, vii, 7 (Quoted in Stoudt, Sunrise to Eternity, p. 61). 125. The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 59-60. 126. Poetry as... Mandir Annual, 1942. 3. This is the scene visualised by Sri Aurobindo in his Savitri, Book IV, canto 3. 4. See Pratap Chandra Roy [Tr.], The Mahabharata Vol II, p. 629 fn. Also John Brough Selections From Classical Sanskrit Literature p. 148 (Notes to II. 301-8). 5. Letter dated 8 March 1899 Romesh Chunder Dutt (Quoted in J.N. Gupta's Life and Work of Romesh Chunder... exhausted. It will have to be more subjective and the element of interpretation will have to be admitted." {Evening Talks, First Series, p. 282. See also the chapter on 'Early Epic and Modern Poetry' in John Holloway's The Charted Mirror (1960). 10. The English Epic and its Background, pp. 5-12. 11. From Virgil to Milton, p. 15. 12. Ezra Pound, The Spirit of Romance ...
... fascination of her infectious spirituality. If there have been denigrators of Indian culture like Abbe Dubois, Macaulay and William Archer, there have been stout apologists too like Sir William Jones, Max Muller and Sir John Woodroffe: negative and positive responses seem to cancel one another out; but this does not absolve Indians from the duty to gauge their heritage aright, to cherish and make proper use ...
... Essays on the Gita, The Synthesis of Yoga and The Life Divine. 146. The Swamiji is an acknowledged authority on Indian philosophies, and particularly on Tantra. He collaborated with Sir John Woodroffe in his masterly exposition of the basic principles and practices of Tantric sadhana. He is equally at home in philosophy and science, and shows a true insight into the fundamental truths of... birth- right of full and unqualified independence. It was, as Lord Page 158 Ronaldsay says in his Life of Curzon, "a subtle attack upon the growing solidarity of Bengali Nationalism". John Morley, speaking as Secretary of State for India in the House of Commons in 1906, said: "I am bound to say, nothing was ever worse done in disregard to the feeling and opinion of the majority of the... devoted to the interests of the Muslims who formed the majority community there, and their condition bettered. But the very people of East Bengal for whom the change was proposed would have none of it. Sir Henry Cotton wrote in the Manchester Guardian of England on the 5th of April, 1904: "The idea of the severance of the oldest and most populous and wealthy portion of Bengal and the division of its ...
... these centers are of interest only to professional clairvoyants; we will discuss later some details of general interest. A complete study on the question can be found in the remarkable work of Sir John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon), The Serpent Power (Madras: Ganesh & Co., 1913) × 45 According to Indian... may call "God" or by any other name, and that he needs to love what he himself Page 13 understands of God at his own level and particular stage of inner development, and Peter's way is not John's. That everyone should love a crucified god, for instance, seems unnatural to the average Indian, who will bow respectfully before Christ (with as much spontaneous reverence as before his own image... religions forgot. Having lost the central secret, they fell prey to all the aberrant dualisms, substituting obscure mysteries for the great, simply Mystery. "I and my Father are one," Jesus Christ said (John 10,30); "I am He," – so'ham – the sages of India say; indeed, this is the truth all liberated men discover, whether they be from the East or the West, from the past or the present. This is the eternal ...
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