anandamath : by Bankim Chandra Chatterji (1882). “In Bengal the growth of literature made the greatest contribution to the development of national & patriotic feeling during the last quarter of the nineteenth century…. Bankim Chandra Chatterji stands foremost in this connection. His famous novel Ānandamath contains the hymn “Bande Mataram” which had been the national anthem of India up to 1947. During the long & arduous struggle for freedom from 1905 to 1947 Bande Mataram was the rallying cry of the patriotic sons of India, & thousands of them succumbed to the lāthi blow of the British police or mounted the scaffold with Bande Mataram on their lips. The main theme of the novel inspired the Bengali youths to supreme self-sacrifice during the hectic days of the Swadeshi movement. The central plot moves round a band of sannyasins, called santānas or children, who left their hearth & home & dedicated their lives to the cause of their motherland. They worshipped their motherland as the Goddess Kali – they knew no other deity save the land of their birth, & no other religion except the service of their motherland. That is why they called themselves santānas or children of the mother. In their temple they placed three images of the Goddess Kali representing the motherland, – Mother that was, great & glorious in her majestic grandeur; Mother that is, wretched & grovelling in the dust; & the Mother that will be, in her pristine glory. No other Bengali book… so profoundly moved the Bengali youths save perhaps Sarat Chandra’s Pather Dabi written half a century later.” [History of the Freedom Movement in India, R.C. Majumdar, Vol.1, Calcutta, 1963]
... "We have, we have. He wrote 'Bande Mataram', didn't he? Our band plays that song on Darshan days when the Mother takes the salute." "The very same Bankim. A great man. You ought to read his Anandamath. The Swadeshi Movement in which we all took part came much after him." "What's that?" "Haven't you heard of the non-violent rebellion of Gandhi? Ours, the Swadeshi revolt, came much earlier... the story may grip you completely. I just told you how in my youth The Revolt of Islam inspired so many dreams. The boys who joined the Indian Freedom Movement were similarly inspired by Bankim's Anandamath. Nowadays I am told .that the world is flooded with novels and short stories. Actually, you know, the secret of life is harmony. There Page 38 must be a harmony in all you do. You may... very many sadhaks, spiritually realised men, joined our Party, that many of them were actively working for the liberation of the country? The armed rebellion by Sannyasis described by Bankim in his Anandamath was not wholly imaginary." "How exactly did you meet Nivedita?" asked Pooja. Page 115 "She already knew me as a revolutionary; 'a worshipper of Shakti', was the term she used. That ...
... and politically for the delivrance of India from foreign rule. The scheme undoubtedly owed its origin to Anandamath of Bankim Chandra Chatterji." It was in 1872 that Bankim Chandra started his monthly journal Bangadarshan and, again, it was in 1872 that he started writing Anandamath beginning with the 'Bande Mataram' mantra. But it was only during the Swadeshi days that the song became the... highly earthquake-prone zone, which one day may split India into two. The basic idea of the Bhawani Mandir was in all likelihood derived from Bankim Chandra Chatterji's revolutionary novel, Anandamath. 1 Its central theme was actually based on a revolt of North Indian Sannyasins against the British rule. These Sannyasins were here, there and everywhere, like seeds sown by the wind. For several... "surprised to find there three temples honouring Jagaddhatri, Mahakali, and Dashabhuja Durga. Bankim in fact stayed on the first floor of the Mahakali temple for some time, writing major portions of Anandamath. He wore saffron like a sannyasi.... Bankim heard a centenarian tantrik chant Bande Bandini Matarang [I salute the shackled Mother]. By deleting 'Bandini' Bankim coined the immortal Bande Mataram ...
... that the literary critic of the future will reckon "Kopal Kundala", "Bishabriksha" and "Krishna Kant's Will" as his artistic masterpieces, and speak with qualified praise of "Devi Chaudhurani", "Anandamath", "Krishna Charit" or "Dharmatattwa". Yet it is the Bankim of these latter works and not the Bankim of the great creative masterpieces who will rank among the Makers of Modern India. The earlier... The Mother of his vision held trenchant steel in her twice seventy million hands and not the bowl of the mendicant. It was the stern gospel of force which he preached under a veil and in images in "Anandamath" and "Devi Chaudhurani". And he had an inspired unerring vision of the moral strength which must be at the back of the physical force. He perceived that the first element of the moral strength must... moral strength needed must be self-discipline and organisation. This truth he expressed in the elaborate training of Devi Chaudhurani for her work, in the strict rules of the Association of the "Anandamath" and in the pictures of perfect organisation which those books contain. Lastly, he perceived that the third element of moral strength must be the infusion of religious feeling into patriotic work ...
... published ih Karmayogin, November 13, 1909. In SABCL "Karma" and "Appeal" appear in Volume 8. SABCL; Collected Poems , Vol . 5 Translations , Vol . 8 4 . ANANDAMATH Basumati Sahitya Mandir, Calcutta (no date) A translation of Bankim Chandra Chatterji's Bengali novel. The prologue and the first thirteen chapters of Part I were... House, Calcutta, 1940 Contents: 1 . "Bande Mataram", a translation of the national song (in verse and prose), first appeared as part of the translation of Chapter IX of Anandamath in the Karmayogin ,November 20, 1909. 2 . "Rishi Bankim Chandra", an essay, first appeared in the Bande Mataram , April 16, 1907 and was later reprinted in Rishi Bankim Chandra... the Bhagavad Gita , Kalidasa; The Century of Life (the Nitishataka of Bhartrihari) ; etc. From Bengali: Songs of Bidyapati; Bande Mataram (Hymn to the Mother); thirteen chapters from Anandamath (Bankim Chandra Chatterji's novel); etc. From Tamil: 'opening of The Kural, etc. From Greek and Latin: opening of the Odyssey, etc. Page 413 Volume 9 ...
... the composition and publication of Vande Mataram in 1875, this mantra became known in learned circles. However, the soul of the Indian people was not yet awakened. Even after the publication of Anandamath in 1882, it did not inspire much enthusiasm. In the 1886 session of the Congress held in Calcutta Vande Mataram was sung for the first time. Two years after Bankimchandra’s passing in 1894... Sri Aurobindo called Vande Mataram “the gospel of fearless strength and force”. The Muraripukur band of boys had arrived and India began to grow conscious. Like the sannyasi-children of Anandamath , these fearless boys went up on the gallows smiling, with Vande Mataram on their lips, and sacrificed their lives for the liberation of their Motherland from the chains of servitude: Who,... breath, Thou the love divine, the awe In our hearts that conquers death.” Here, the summit we must climb is that of ‘Truth’ and so for us it is an ‘Ascent to the Truth’. Like the children of Anandamath we are the children of the Mother and on the strength of the mantra Vande Mataram , we are committed to scaling the summit of truth. And so with the cry of Vande Mataram , a wave of fire swept ...
... his speech. The song, he said, was not only a national anthem as the European nations look upon their own, but one replete with mighty power, being a sacred mantra, revealed to us by the author of Anandamath , who might be called an inspired rishi. He described the manner in which the mantra had been revealed to Bankim Chandra, probably by a sannyasi under whose teaching he was. He said that the mantra ...
... Bande Mataram Articles Published in Bande Mataram in November and December 1906 The Ideal 1) Bande Mataram - Nov 1. 1906 2) Prologue of Anandamath - do Mr John Morley & his Policy 1) The Settled Fact Again - Nov 2. 1906 Mendicancy 1) By the Way - Nov 1. 1906 2) By the Way - Nov 5. 1906 3) Mr. Gokhale's Vision - Nov 13 ...
... which they belong and the work to which they have been called. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE Kalidasa's Seasons II: The Substance of the Poem The Katha Upanishad I.3 Anandamath: Prologue Page 170 ...
... the young the work which by these celebrations God has been doing. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE Kalidasa's Seasons III: Its Poetic Value The Katha Upanishad II.1 Anandamath I Suprabhat: A Review Page 177 ...
... scholar and artist. He will be in short the summary and grand type of the future Indian nation which is rising to reshape and lead the world. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE Anandamath IV Page 249 ...
... people at large to decide between these conflicting views and determine what is best for Bengal and the nation. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE The Katha Upanishad II.3 Anandamath II, III Page 202 ...
... expression, the policy of rallying the Moderates to the Government's support and crushing the Nationalists. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE The National Value of Art V Anandamath XI (continued) Epiphany (poem) Page 361 ...
... movement all along the line, and this can only be done by the organisation and resolute activity of the Nationalist party. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE Stead and Maskelyne Anandamath XII Page 389 ...
... Education Volume 2. Collected Poems Invitation Who? An Image The Birth of Sin Epiphany Baji Purbhou Chitrangada Page 467 Volume 5. Translations Anandamath Some Aphorisms of Bhartrihari Volume 13. Essays in Philosophy and Yoga The Ideal of the Karmayogin Karmayoga Man—Slave or Free? Yoga and Human Evolution Yoga and Hypnotism ...
... (After thirteen years in England where he received a thoroughly Western education, Sri Aurobindo returned to India on February 6, 1893, at the age of twenty. Bankim Chatterji's Anandamath, which contained "Bande Mataram," the hymn to the Motherland, had been published eleven years earlier. Swami Vivekananda had just come to the end of his first pilgrimage round India, and was preparing ...
... solitude of the hills in Western India for training a band of political sannyasins who would dedicate themselves entirely to the service of Mother India. The idea was evidently derived from the book, Anandamath, by Bankim Chandra Chatterji. A pamphlet embodying the basic idea and the lines of its practical application was written by Sri Aurobindo. The Rowlatt Committee report mentions this book, and ...
... the rod back on the ground with the greatest humility. How old must she have been then? A mere girl! But so simple, natural and generous indeed! I at once remembered the character of Shanti from Anandamath . How effortlessly Shanti too had taken up the bow and the arrow. After stringing the bow she put it at the feet of Satyanand in all simplicity. Only four persons succeeded in stringing the bow and ...
... work the Divine Mother had sent us to the Earth for, why man suffered so much, where man went after death. Oh, so many questions! And they would all crop up at that time! When I grew up and read Anandamath I found almost the same questions there. Almost every human being comes face to face with the question: “What is this life for?” Right from childhood all these questions gnawed at me. There was ...
... How manysided the Mother was! When She came down the staircase you felt as if She was saying: I am Durga, goddess of the proud and strong. I remember Mohendra’s darshan of goddess Durga in Anandamath : The ascetic said “Come by this way,” and began to ascend another underground passage. Suddenly the rays of the morning sun shone in their eyes and from every side the sweet-voiced family of ...
... I carry that immortal promise in my bosom everywhere. I have just one prayer to our Lord Sri Aurobindo: “O Lord, O God, make India one again, make India one again!” In Bankim Chandra’s Anandamath , Bhavananda expresses the author’s inmost feeling, the Indians’ inmost conviction. Bhavananda sings: Bande Mataram Sujalam suphalam malayajasheetalam Shasya shyamalam mataram! ...
... Aurobindo's English translations of the Isha, Kena and Katha Upanishads. The paper also published his renderings from Kalidasa's Ritusamhara and the first thirteen chapters of Bankim Chandra's Anandamath, besides several of Sri Aurobindo's poems. Who, Baji Prabhou, Epiphany, The Birth of Sin and An Image. Among the constructive prose contributions were several series of essays like A System ...
... motive for organizing the Congress. His scheme was "to save the Indian youths from the influence of Spiritual teachers" who had been secretly working for India's freedom. The sannyasins of Bankim's Anandamath were no fiction. Lord Dufferin, who was then the Viceroy (1884-88), lent his support to the nascent organization deeming it would serve the interests of the British Empire and save it from danger ...
... struggle and desire, not the success of the departing Ministry, but victory for the destroyers of the Lords' veto. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE The Brain of India IV Anandamath VIII (continued) Who? (poem) Page 316 ...
... when they meet, will bring about far more successfully than could have been done by any Nationalist propaganda. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE The National Value of Art I Anandamath IX, X An Image (poem) Page 326 ...
... the only help India can give to her children over the seas so long as she is not master of her own destinies. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE The National Value of Art IV Anandamath XI The Birth of Sin (poem) Page 350 ...
... outside the High Court and even by certain Judges, not civilians, in other provinces. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE Stead and the Spirits The National Value of Art II Anandamath X (continued) Page 333 ...
... moral weaknesses that stain and hamper our people. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE The Three Purushas A System of National Education I Conversations of the Dead I Anandamath XIII (continued) Moondac Upanishad of the Atharvaveda I.2, II.1 Page 453 ...
... and blamelessly—for self-defence and prevention of a crime are blameless,—on every emergency great or small, will of itself be sufficient. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE Anandamath XII (continued) Page 412 ...
... collision all hope of a peaceful Nationalism will disappear, if not for ever, yet for a long, a disastrously long season. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE Fate and Free-Will Anandamath XIII Page 433 ...
... place her in the head and forefront of the new world whose birth-throes are now beginning to convulse the Earth. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE The Katha Upanishad II.2 Anandamath I (continued) Page 188 ...
... The chance now given to the Police to substantiate their case ought to have been given to the Pandit before the order was passed.—EDITOR) OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE Anandamath V Indian Art and an Old Classic Page 263 ...
... the Congress. Nor should they be drawn into experiments in England which are, at present, of doubtful value or none. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE The Brain of India I Anandamath VI Page 273 ...
... their class or condition,—Indian fraternity based on Indian liberty and Indian equality. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE The Revival of Indian Art The Brain of India II Anandamath VII, VIII Page 286 ...
... Bhawani Mandir. (‘Mandir’ means temple, and Bhawani, like Kali and Durga, is a warlike, terrible aspect of the Universal Mother.) Part of the inspiration behind this pamphlet was Bankim Chatterjee’s Anandamath (Monastery of Joy), a famous novel about an order of monks who were to undertake military operations and sacrifice their lives for the freedom of their country. Bhawani Mandir , with its veneration ...
... his poems, 'Baji Prabhou', 'The Birth of Sin', 'Epiphany' and others appeared in the paper for the first time; it also published his translation of the first thirteen chapters of Bankim Chandra's Anandamath. In the later issues can be found some remarkably constructive prose contributions such as 'A System of National Education', 'The National Value of Art', 'The Brain of India', etc. Both the Karmayogin ...
... Jail, 202, 307, 310, 330, 388, 444, 490,525 Ambedkar, B. R., 496-497 Ambirajan, S., 13fn. Amrita (Aravamudachari), 405, 525, 536, 540 Amrita Bazar Patrika, 229,309, 312 Anandamath, 76, 194, 219, 337 Andal, 497 Andre Morrisset, 726 Andromeda, 128 Anger, Roger, 775,780 Appian, 135 Arabian Nights Entertainments, The, 129, 177 Archer, William, 490 ...
... Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita, Kalidasa; The Century of Life (The Nitishataka of Bhartrihari); etc. From Bengali: Songs of Bidyapati; Bande Mataram (Hymn to the Mother); thirteen chapters from Anandamath (Bankim Chandra Chatterji's novel); etc. From Tamil: opening of The Kural, etc. From Greek and Latin: opening of the Odyssey, etc. Volume 9 — The Future Poetry AND LETTERS ON POETRY ...
... translation of Dwijendralal Roy's Mother India was published in the Modern Review. When Sri Aurobindo wrote his series of articles on Bankim in 1893-4, although he made a casual reference to Anandamath, there was no mention of the song itself which was a part of the novel. But the song leapt out of its obscurity and blazed into sudden prominence during the 'Partition of Bengal' explosive agitation ...
... freedom deserved only by the brave and heroic Oh thou Mother of strength, take away my weakness, take away my unmanlinness, and make me a man!" Vivekananda's lectures, along with the Gita and Anandamath, later became the handbooks of the Nationalists. And they did shed fear. The patriots received British bullets on their chests with 'Bande Mataram' on their lips, their last words on the gallows ...
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