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... Muslim demands, 227 and non-cooperation, 160, 180 and non-violence, 166,168,218,219, 225,226 in South Africa, 105 , 168 and Swaraj , 173 (11) and World War II , 217 , 224, 229 -230 Gangoly, O. C., 115-116 Germans , 239 Germany, 112 in World War II , 213, 23 6, 237(fn) Ghose, Barindra Kumar , 13, 17, 47, 150 Gita , see under Bhagavat Gila Goethe , 77 , 88 Gounod ajar, 203 Go swami, Bijoy... see also peasantry, village Ahimsa , 55 , 123, ISI , 168,218,219,246 see also non-violence Ajatashatru's, 96 Alipore Bomb Ca se , 46 (fn), ISO, 159 Alipore jail, 47 , 48 , 214 Allies (in World War II ), 226, 236, 238-239 altruism, 80 , 102, 112 Ambedkar, B. R., 204,205 America , 59 , 81 , 174,237 Americans, 77 , 239 Andhra University, 247 Anushilan Samiti, 13 Arabians, 190 archaeology... 127 -128, 140, 157 ,216 Wilson, H. H., 97(fn) woman, 102, 181, 185 in ancient India , 119 in politics, 181 her status with regard to man, 90 her subjection, 138 World War I, 124, 125 ,216 World War II , 211 , 238·239 Sri Aurobindo's support o f the Allie 231 , 236, 238 Y-Z Yajnavalkya, 96 Yaska,96 Yoga, 48 ,52,69, 109, 137 , 159 , 186 national Yoga, 93 old system o f, ISO, ...

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... British Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten. What gives further suggestiveness to the choice is that Mountbatten picked out August 15 because two years earlier that date had seen the end of World War II with the surrender of Japan to him, the war which Sri Aurobindo had singled out as a crucial confrontation between forces controlled from behind the scene by preternatural anti-divine beings and... my reply to you, is the recurrence of an occasion of multiple momentousness. You should be proud and happy that I have kept you waiting! My mention of Japan's surrender, signalling the end of World War II, brings me to your reference to Churchill in Page 222 connection with the order to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima. There's a slip here on your part. The atom bomb was made by America... homes of nine million. Such devastation, including the mutilation of civilians, was in keeping with the horrific principle of "total war" which had been accepted by all the parties concerned in World War II. In the minds of Truman and company the question was of degree and not of kind: the atom bomb seemed as legitimate as any other deadly weapon of modern war. When Einstein wrote his letter to Roosevelt ...

... invasion into the IndoChina peninsula. In 1900, it finally annexed Vietnam to the Indo-China Federation of French territory along with Cambodia and Laos. With the occupation of France by Germany during World War II, Japan occupied Vietnam in 1940 and installed Baodai, the Vietnamese emperor, as the leader of a puppet government. Ho Chi Minh, leader of the communist guerrillas waged an anti-Japanese independence... factors. First, North Vietnam's persistent strategies and tactics for a communist revolution served the purpose effectively. After a long colonial rule by France, Vietnam was occupied by Japan in World War II. Against the backdrop, North Vietnam cashed in on the xenophobic sentiments of the Vietnamese. Labelling the U.S. troops in Vietnam as colonial forces, North Vietnam fanned anti-American sentiments... the U.S. dispatched its troops to Vietnam on the heels of the Korean War that claimed the lives of 54,000 young Americans including those not killed in action, in only five years from the end of World War II. Americans questioned the legitimacy of the Vietnam War, saying that it was irrational to sustain the loss of a huge amount of money and thousands of young Americans for a corrupt and dictatorial ...

... during that visit to Santa Cruz! Krishna joined the Indian army after his graduation in 1941. His two army awards consisted of the Param Vishisht Seva Medal and the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal. During World War II he was twice mentioned in despatches by the British for his services in Burma and Malaya. His wife. Dr. Kamla Tewari, joined the army after he was captured by the Chinese in the 1962 war to be... special spiritual presence in my childhood but, as I have said, we were brought up in a deeply religious atmosphere. I do not know when I started aspiring for a spiritual life. Maybe it was during World War II in Burma when I saw death and senseless destruction and experienced a number of narrow escapes personally. That obviously set me thinking of Divine protection when so many of my friends were dying ...

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... U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union partitioned Germany into four zones for occupation. In the face of the intensifying Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union after the end of World War II, the U.S., Britain and France consolidated the zones under their respective occupation, establishing the Federal Republic of Germany (commonly referred to as West Germany) on Sept. 7, 1949. On... aspiration for the West Germans' freedom and affluence. Fortunately, East and West Germany promoted economic exchange under a single economic zone despite their division by the four powers after World War II. Economic exchange by the two countries stirred up East Germans' curiosity about West Germany, fanning their dissatisfaction with the East German regime and raising their expectations of West ...

... to its fate. March 15, 1939 — German troops enter Czechoslovakia. September 1, 1939 — Invasion of Poland. September 3, 1939 — England and France declare war on Germany. Beginning of World War II. May 10, 1940 —Hitler launches its attack on the Allies. Netherlands, Belgium and France collapse. June 18, 1940 — From London, de Gaulle speaks to his countrymen and adjures them to rally... Allies' landing in North Africa. May 30, 1943 — De Gaulle's arrival in Algiers. June 6, 1944 — Allies' landing in Normandy. May 8, 1945 — Victory day in Europe. August 15, 1945—End of World War II. January 1946 — De Gaulle resigns as President of the Provisional Government. March 5, 1946 — In a speech, Churchill speaks for the first time of an "iron curtain". June 5, 1947 - George ...

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... 37 11 1936 Berlin, Germany 3738 328 49 12 1940 Tokyo, Japan, Cancelled because of World War II Helsinki, Finland Cancelled because of World War II 13 1944 London, U.K Cancelled because of World War II 14 1948 London, U.K. 3714 385 59 15 1952 Helsinki, Finland 4407 518 69 16 1956 ... Weightlifting, Wrestling, Wushu,Yatchting.) For the first time in the history of the Asian Games, an Asiad was held in non-capital city of the host country. Levelled by an atomic Bomb during World War II, the city of Hiroshima, Japan, hosted the 12th Asian Games, highlighting the themes Peace and Harmony. It also marked the second Asiad to be held in Japan since the 3rd Asian Games in Tokyo, 1958 ...

... called back. Clemenceau handed him a piece of paper: Monnet was to return at once to his post in London. It was a decree of the Cabinet. Even Monnet's enemies had been forced to sign. London, World War II, June 1940 — The French army was being routed and the British army isolated. The future looked totally uncertain. Monnet was in London again. The lessons of 1917 had been learnt and there was... the British. An Anglo-French coordinating Committee was created with Jean Monnet as its Chairman. The British had as much confidence in him as the French had. So Jean Monnet saw the beginning of World War II in London. Then on the 16th of June 1940, he made that proposal of union between England and France which we described earlier. After June 1940, de Gaulle and Monnet parted ways. For each... instance to myself. Seeking no job and no favours, I have never been embarrassed to ask other people to be a little unselfish or modest — or, more simply, to be reasonable. 25 After the end of World War II, Monnet was tempted to enter politics to express his ideas. But he did not hesitate for long. In full agreement with his wife Silvia, he decided to remain outside politics: first, he could work ...

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... and reminisced about our days together in Auroville, as he shared with me the following: Amrit was born Howard Shoji Iriyama, in an American Relocation Camp in Arizona on October 3, 1943 during World War II. All the Japanese residents, around 110,000 individuals living mainly in the U S. West Coast area, whether American citizens or not, were interned in such camps by the U.S. Government during the... are treated, and nurtured dissatisfaction within me toward the social order as it existed. Later, after discovering Sri Aurobindo, I read what he had said about the generation of souls born during World War II, that many had come into the world to counter the dark influences of that era. This generation born in the early to mid 1940s had a lot to do with the peace and civil rights movements in America ...

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... since the beginning of world War II (1939) he had been engrossed in directing all his Yogic powers against the hounds of hell which the rise of Hitler had unleashed.* __________________ *on September 3, 1943 he wrote to me a long letter which I might as well quote here in part because it is relevant. After explaining what the spiritual issue was and why the World War II should not be looked upon ...

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... serenely apart from world-issues, declared himself on the side of the Allies in World War II against Hitler and urged American participation versus Stalinism in the Korean conflict of 1950, and thus exposed himself in the one case to the charge of befriending the British who were still India's imperialist masters when World War II broke out, and in the other case to the accusation that he was hand-in-glove ...

... material? and of what use if a Hitler with his cudgel or a Mussolini with his castor oil can come and wash it out or beat it into dust in a moment? 23 March 1934 The World Situation before World War II I was discussing the Ethiopian problem with some friends. One suggested it would result in a world war. He thought such a war would clear the way for the supramental and supposes that Mussolini... has a quite different law and basis. You speak of Brahmatej being overpowered by Kshatratej, but where is that happening? None of the warring parties incarnates either. 17 February 1937 On World War II You have said that you have begun to doubt whether it was the Mother's war and ask me to make you feel again that it is. I affirm again to you most strongly that this is the Mother's war. You ...

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... Europe by broadcasting from Buckingham Palace the collapse of Britain. The fall of Britain would have signed the death-warrant of the whole world outside America. August 15 was meant to be the end of World War II, with a decisive victory of the forces intent on putting the clock back and establishing on earth the reign of the Asura, the Titan, over the evolving God in humanity. But instead of a resounding... Luftwaffe - 180 German planes shot down in British skies! We might indeed designate it the turning-point in the Battle for Britain. August 15 can also be considered the beginning of peace after World War II, though not the peace Hitler had intended to initiate on that day; for Japan surrendered on August 14, 1945. And, seeing that peace once more was broken by North Korea's invasion of the South and ...

... Monnet, The first Statesman of Interdependence (New York: W. W. Norton &. Company, 1994), pp. 96-97. 14. The General Henri Giraud fought in Morocco during World War I. In 1940 at the beginning of World War II, he was made a prisoner. He escaped in 1942 and reached Algeria. There he was made "civil and military commander in chief" by people sympathizing with the regime of Vichy with the support of the... Gasperi: 1881-1954. Alcide de Gasperi played an important role in the Italian political life until Mussolini, came to power. Then he spent sixteen months in jail for anti-fascist activities. After World War II, he found himself in the forefront of political life as the leader of the Christian Democracy. From Page 61 1945 to 1953 he led eight successive governments. A great believer in Europe ...

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... mostly attendants and physicians, met him every day. Two of them recorded the informal talks that ensued, which often touched on the Indian political scene, the rising threat of Nazism, and then World War II which Sri Aurobindo followed closely. A few excerpts from these talks are presented here.) December 23, 1938 Every time the Light has tried to descend it has met with resistance ...

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... Formation of Congress ministries in the Provinces. 1938, Nov. 24 -Sri Aurobindo breaks his leg while walking in concentration. Page 258 1939,Sept. - World War II breaks out; the Provincial ministries resign in October-November. 1940,March - The Muslim League, in session at Lahore, formally demands the creation of Pakistan. 1940 ...

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... ( Mother nods, then goes within for 20 minutes ) ( A little later, Mother listens to Satprem read various letters of Sri Aurobindo, then a letter she herself wrote in English during World War II about the attitude of the disciples toward Hitler and the Allies. ) Page 318 May 25, 1941 "The world situation is critical today. India's fate too is hanging in the balance. There ...

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... beat Nazism to its knees. And, forgetting it, we may fail to see how there can arise new threats which may really be of a piece with the terrible menace of that period. The truth about World War II will not be grasped simply by looking at the material surface or even by examining the ideological forces at work. The New Order of Hitler, in the aid of which his Panzers and Luftwaffe went ...

... self- Page 98 enclosed: the world tended to be shut out. Although this was necessary at one stage, a time had to come when the Ashram-doors would be thrown open. Especially during World War II people from all parts of India sought protection and safety in the Ashram for their families. A great influx of children took place and life in general had to be altered. We have to adjust ourselves ...

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... of course, another point to bear in mind in the speaking of English. It is something that in an exaggerated form gave to the traitor Englishman who used to broadcast over Berlin Radio during World War II the name "Lord Haw-Haw". English is to be haw-hawed to a certain extent — a bit of extra breath, a bit of special throat-work and a bit of stylishness in the enunciation add the last touch of ...

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... couldn't see a petticoat without.... Boys, girls, nothing got by him! Fantastic. 8 He wrote 'The Lord of Nations'.... And I saw him, oh! I saw this Lord of Nations. During the last war [World War II] I had some dealings with him again, but not through Richard—directly. The being who used to appear to Hitler was the Lord of Nations. An incredible story!... And I knew when they were going to ...

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... on a truly high drama and not the self-satisfying dramatic impulse which the Mother has seen in the ordinary suicide. The high drama would be born from a blend of courage and duty. Thus, during World War II, the captain of the German pocket battleship "Bismarck", after his charge had been destroyed by the British Navy in the Atlantic and he had been taken captive, took advantage of a solitary spell ...

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... its momentous opening part in relation to me - a colossal though tiny-seeming act of grace - may be quoted in extenso tor its remarks on a very promising young Englishman (soon to get killed in World War II) whose letter and picture had been sent from Cambridge by my younger brother, as well as for its sidelight on the Ashram at the rime and the slowly developing Savitri, instalments of which Sri ...

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... effect on what is labelled as "differential fertility" among populations, a peaceful working within a web of variation and mutation in the germplasm's pattern of chromosomes and genes. Besides, World War II has thrown into frightful relief an actual approximation to the Nietzschean dream in the Herrenvolk of Hitler and today other forms of that Titanism are also about us to shake our senses into ...

... Or does it keep altogether aloof just because either side has falsehood also? No—I said work — it is constantly working. (2) Do present conflicts differ radically from a conflict like World War II, in which the Grace worked definitely and decisively on one side — at least on the whole? You are mixing up two things, the working of the Grace and the result which is the inevitable consequence ...

... will be other expeditions. And soon, soon now, you will be a real Tiger...." 1947 The fourth time to Everest (For almost ten years there had been no attempts on Everest because of World War II) (...) In the spring of 1947 a mad thing happened. And it began when Mr. Earl Denman came to Darjeeling. Mr. Denman had been born in Canada, grown up in England, and Page 495 ...

... rat. The shock... caused a sort of dreaminess in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror." Livingstone's reaction was not unlike that of soldiers observed a century later in World War II. Field surgeons often marvelled at the fortitude of the many badly wounded men. At first, doctors theorized that the soldiers seemed oblivious to pain simply because they were glad to be alive. ...

... Surrounded by "laps, reports from all the war fronts, day and night Sri Aurobindo was in the thick of the battle against Nazism. And Mother, too. As she said in the Agenda: During the last war [World War II] I had some dealings with him [the Asura of Falsehood, who called himself The Lord of Nations'] again, but not through Richard—directly. The being who used to appear to Hitler was the Lord of Nations ...

... grudgingly, and always with a self-effacement, never pushing himself to the forefront in self-importance. He did everything silently, forgetting himself completely in Their service. During World War II, Pavitra-da, being a French citizen, had to join the French Army. Every morning, he used to go to the military ground for military training. One day, the order came for him to go to the front. I ...

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... Venus, 297 Vidyapati, 156-7 Virgil, 73n. –Aeneid, 73n.   WORDSWORTH, 51 –Poems if the Imagination, "To a Skylark", 51n. World War II, 13   YAJNAVALKYA, RISHI, 49-56, 58-9 Yama, 138-9 Yamuna, 148, 266, 286 Page 313 ...

... the scope for any attempt to avoid catastrophe. The very first words sound a note of alarm which has since been forgotten, now that Europe has so long been at peace. Five years after the end of World War II, however, it echoed the very real anxiety that men and women had once again come to feel: Whichever way we turn, in the present world situation we see nothing but deadlock — whether it be ...

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... cosmic work, this was the only time he had to himself. Whether to bring down the Supramental Light, or to dive deep into the nether Hell, to send his force for some world purpose, the war in Spain, World War II, helping the Allies or to solve some difficulties of the Ashram, even of individuals, must have been the nature of his special work. One day, after his concentration, I remember him saying, apropos ...

... 5 Rig-Veda , X.53 ff. × 6 Where the police held French Resistance fighters in World War II before sending them to the firing squad. × 7 Rig-Veda , I.71, V.45. ...

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... he came to Pondicherry. His work meant risk of life both to himself and his followers, as well as to those who were ranged against him. He had even in mind an armed insurrection. When World War II broke out he went out of his way to give support to the Allied Cause. This evoked a protest from orthodox spiritual thinkers: "How can a master of spirituality associate himself with a war instead ...

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... referred to it as the “Chambre de mensonges”, (Room of untruth or lies). There was then an abrupt end to our “innocence” or “ignorance” as some would term it. The world became smaller. I think World War II had much to do with such changes. We learnt a good deal about other countries. England and France were already in our knowing as our masters and despoilers. The world became smaller and darker areas ...

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... Editor of ‘Flowers and Their Messages’ ) Richard Pearson was just eleven years old when he first came to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram with his English father in 1946, after the close of World War II. He was born in the north of England on November 1, 1934 in a town called Shepley in Yorkshire. The town was thus named for its reputation of being sheep country. As a child Richard was very close ...

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... He was a strong man and loved to travel. He also took part in various maneuvers of bombing attacks and was trained for the army in Maharashtra and Jaipur. My father joined us in the Ashram after World War II was over. Jhumur in her room at Art House. Dec. 2002 Jhumur and Millie-di at Art House, 2001 What was life like in the Ashram in those early days? Well, in those days ...

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... After my grandfather died I went to church mostly alone. What were your special talents? What were your childhood ambitions? I had no special talents. My parents split up at the beginning of world war II and after many difficulties my mother remarried in order to give my sister and me a home. I did not like her husband and having developed a stammer I began writing poetry. I knew nothing about other ...

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... He wanted us to feel the emotion of the music for ourselves, to experience it on our own. I stayed with him for two years. He took us on tours all over India. We danced in so many places, then World War II broke out. As a result of the war the money he was receiving to help the company stay alive ceased. Sri A.B. Purani (Anu’s father) with Tulsi offering for Sri Aurobindo Shankar wanted ...

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... under the linden tree.” 523 That Joachim Fest, who wrote this, was not exaggerating one jot may be shown by a paragraph from the German author Ernst Wiechert, written in 1949 (four years after World War II): “It has appeared to seers and interpreters of the present time and history that Western man of the last two hundred years has been committing the most disastrous sin of them all: the sin of the ...

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... 17. A World in the Balance Hitler and his God The Beginning of the World War II (1 September 1939) *Poland* . It had been Hitler’s steadfast intention to conquer Russia since the time he wrote Mein Kampf. To get there, however, he had to close the geographical gap which separated that country from Germany, for in between lay Czechoslovakia and Poland ...

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... far back as that year. 1 Owing to 1 Life-Literature-Yoga (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1968), pp. 41-43. Page 24 several factors—the chief being the push towards World War II by Hitler and the increasing power of Stalinism and the catastrophic division of India—this divine event was delayed for eighteen years! Without Sri Aurobindo's drastic short-cut which we may call ...

... y writers to win a place in the official Nazi pantheon of required reading. Quotations from Treitschke were included in the small books of readings carried into battle by German soldiers during World War II.” 426 During the second great spasm of German nationalism and racism in the Wilhelmian period, Theodor Fritsch was another powerful figure. He also acted through politics, yet he preferred the ...

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... his retirement from active politics in 1910, Sri Aurobindo turned down all offers to rejoin the national movement or to play any other role in politics. The seriousness of the situation during World War II caused him to speak out in favour of the Cripps Proposal of 1942. Later, on request, he issued messages on two other British initiatives: the Wavell Plan and the Cabinet Mission Proposals. ...

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... does it keep altogether aloof just because either side has falsehood also? No. I said work ―it is a constant working. (2) Do the present conflicts differ radically from a conflict like World War II, in which the Grace worked definitively and decisively on one side―at least on the whole? Page 381 You are mixing up two things, the working of the Grace and the result which is the ...

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... the Chinese. The impulsion to come forward disappeared. That is receptivity. No one knew why they withdrew! On the Indian side a few were touched and they told me of terrible conditions. Since World War II, I have been keeping Kali 2 quiet, but she is restless! Times are critical, anything may happen. If people will only give up their ego! (B.) I shall suggest a simpler way—to turn to you ...

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... × Strangely, this year 1969 will be simultaneously marked by a general appeasement in international relations (few years have been so "peaceful" since World War II) and by the surfacing, around Mother, of a general wave of bad will and darkness. As though the safety valve were there. This is the year when the "haste [in the disciples] for it to be over" Mother ...

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... and they're trying to set up a provisional pseudogovernment under their control. That's what they're doing. A government of traitors, you know, like Petain [the head of the Vichy government during World War II which collaborated with the Nazis]. ( Mother goes within for a long time, then raises her hands ) ( In a sad tone: ) I don't know. ( Mother goes back within ) The truth must be something ...

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... centenary year? Sri Aurobindo was born on August 15. 1872. His 75th birthday got declared most significantly - thanks to Lord Mount-batten's blind intuition spurred by his memory of Japan's surrender in World War II - as India's Day of Independence. A seal appeared to be set on the political work, during his early career, of one who was the first to formulate total independence as the ideal of his country's ...

... Aurobindo And The Cripps Proposals The end of March and the beginning of April 1942 are memorable for one of the very few interventions of Sri Aurobindo in India's public affairs. World War II was in full swing and Japan had joined hands with Hitler and posed a threat to Burma and even India, both of which were then under British rule. There was considerable discontent in India and a ...

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... "It was Sri Krishna who sat there, it was my Lover and Friend who sat there and smiled." 11 Years later, this very Sri Aurobindo took whole-heartedly the side of the British and their allies in World War II and regarded Hitler as the instrument of a demonic force and set his own spiritual power working against him and later against Japan. Nair, unable to fathom the fact that, as a line in Sri Aurobindo's ...

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... Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy And Yoga - Some Aspects THE SECRET OF THE ALLIES' SUCCESS IN WORLD WAR II (Few realise that the age-old adage, "Man proposes and God disposes", is the quintessence of wisdom distilled by the sages. The truth of the adage can never be questioned because it bears the testimony of countless generations of men. Human will is always ...

... which he politely declined. After leaving Germany, Einstein made his permanent home at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University in the United States. It was there, during World War II, that his fellow scientists persuaded him to write to the President of the United States urging the development of the atomic bomb. There was a fear that Germany was already developing it. Einstein ...

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... to raise money for new construction projects — people donate money for each prayer stick that they write. Sakai Yusai is the most recent monk to have done the ceremony, the sixth since the end of World War II.... How do the monks train for this ultimate marathon? Young novices build their strength by doing lots of manual labour — chopping wood, carrying heavy provisions from temple to temple, doing ...

... from adolescent to adult, should cultivate and spread the true sporting spirit of spontaneous loyalty and chivalrous impartiality." The Games did continue, except for an interruption due to World War II: the Games which were to be held in Tokyo in 1940 and London in 1944 were cancelled. The last Games before the war had been held in Berlin in 1936. They are best remembered by Hitler's failed attempt ...

... Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo War and Politics: India's Independence World War II, in which India also was involved, began in 1939, a year after Sri Aurobindo's accident and ended in 1945 with the victory of the Allies. India's long struggle for liberty came to an end in 1947 when she became independent. This was one of the most exciting phases in our ...

... take up the revision of all his major works, one after another. The first to see the light of day was the first volume of his magnum opus , The Life Divine . It was the end of 1939, the year of World War II. The publication of the Arya of which the Divine Life was the basic theme, started in 1914, the year of World War I. Can we call these mere coincidences? The two other volumes came out on the ...

... Vital, 75, 82, 254-6 Vital, descent into, 82 Vital-physical, 254-5 Vivekananda, 13, 28 Worker, divine, 232 Work is done,194, 199 World War I, 63, 170 World War II, 91-2 Yoga, 2, 5, 7, 10; 14, 17, 18, 20, 68- 74, 77-81, 87-8, 144, 251-3, 255-6, 261-2, 267-71 Yogic research, 2-3, 74 Yoga, systems of, 70-1 Page 287 ...

... grandmother Bronislawa, Marie Curie's mother. Marie always encouraged her to develop her skill and she first had a career as a concert pianist. Later on she became a writer and a journalist during World War II. The biography she wrote after her mother's death was a best seller in 80 countries. She married Henri Labouisse (1904-1987), a diplomat who became President of UNICEF and was awarded the Nobel ...

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... activities. Then her physical condition became so bad that she could not see people any more and on 17th November 1973, at about 7:20 in the evening she left her body. What did she say about the World War II? About the Partition? During the Pakistan War? During the Bangladesh War? Mother has said and written many things on these topics. I do not remember them. But I remember her saying that ...

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... an extensive cut-down in military production would cause an industrial recession of unprecedented magnitude. This is debatable: a planned reconversion of industry was achieved immediately after World War II and seems equally feasible today. But one thing is certain, that modern economy is based on an increased production and, with a view to increase the industrial output, an artificial stimulation ...

... Revision and publication in book form of The Life Divine. More writing of poetry. 1940 September 19 Joint declaration by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in support of the Allies in World War II. From the time of the evacuation of Dunkirk Sri Aurobindo puts his spiritual force behind the Allied war effort. 1942 Publication of Collected Poems and Plays. March 31 Sri ...

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... not go to meet anybody at any time. Everyone was busy with his or her work. After the evening meditation at the Ashram, I used to return to this big deserted house and sit on the outer staircase. World War II was on then. There was no light anywhere in the streets. Total darkness reigned everywhere. In such an atmosphere those same questions of my childhood would overwhelm my mind. I don’t know how long ...

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... 1939-1940 — Revision and publication in book form of The Life Divine. More writing of poetry. 1940 — September 19 Joint declaration by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in support of the Allies in World War II. Prom the time of the evacuation of Dunkirk Sri Aurobindo puts his spiritual force behind the Allied war effort. 1942 — Publication of Collected Poems and Plays. March 31 Sri ...