Saturday, February 16, 2013

On Dyuman's idea Ajit Bose made the film Sri Aurobindo Ashram — Four Chapters

Mahabiplabi Arabindo: Bengali movie on Sri Aurobindo’s early life  from Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother - Feb 13, 2013 ...a 1971 Bengali film (don't worry, it has English subtitles) which covers the life of Sri Aurobindo from his return to India in 1892 to his retirement to Pondicherry in 1910. Someone has posted the movie on youtube in 13 parts. The duration of this movie is about two hours. I have added brief descriptions of the content before each clip below.
In the Afternoon of Time: An Autobiography - Page 502 - Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Rupert Snell - 2001 - Preview - More editions I could not think why Amit would want to throw up a good job to try his luck in cinema; but I didn't want to discourage Bunty, nor, for that matter, was there anything I could do to stop him anyway. While in Madras I visited the Shree Aurobindo Ashram ... Pantji had been a great devotee and had inspired me to read Aurobindo's Savitri and The Life Divine; the poetic quality of Savitri had made an ...
How they came to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: twenty-nine true ... - Page 26 - Shyam Kumari - 1990 - I asked a friend, "Do you know anyone who can make a movie?" "Yes, your friend, Ajit Bose of Calcutta, is there," he replied. We invited Ajit Bose to make a film about the Ashram. He made the film, "Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Four Chapters. 
Sri Aurobindo Ashram - -09 E-Library - -03 Disciples - Dyuman - Index It was his idea to make the documentary film "Sri Aurobindo Ashram — Four Chapters." It was filmed by Ajit Bose and was displayed in many centres of the ...
How to Become a Hindu: A Guide for Seekers and Born Hindus - Page 86 - Sivaya Subramuniyaswami - 2002 - Preview - More editions Sri Aurobindo's message, he told me, was in essence the same old Vedic message, namely, that we are gods in our innermost ... But Sri Aurobindo was not an exponent of Vedic spirituality alone. ... I had also seen a Bengali film on his life.
Mira to Mother - Udhaya Kumar - 2004 - Preview Mira Alfassa (Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India) was not just a spiritual teacher who lived with us. ... told by Mother and her acquaintances, with full of her thoughts and feelings, presented visually to give it a film like quality.
Eng Promised Hand - Page 39 - Prakash Chandra Gupta - 1998 - Preview - More editions What Manmohan Ghose thought of the new spiritual emphasis in Aurobindo's political thinking is not known but ... called Philosopher's Cot neighbouring what was then the Rink, a hall used for skating, which later became a Cinema and then ...
Narratives Of Indian Cinema - Page 26 - Manju Jain - 2009 - Preview impress upon filmmakers the need to make films with powerful social and educational themes. even critics of this time like aurobindo ghosh and ananda Coomarswamy, who wrote extensively about art and culture, made little attempt either to treat cinema as a rich and varied register of popular culture or to understand the new regime of aesthetics that it had inaugurated.
Cultural History of Modern India - Page 89 - Dilip M. Menon - 2006 - Preview Made at the height of the freedom movement, the film makes obvious use of symbols such as the national anthem, the Bengali literary and social reform tradition (photographs of Sri Aurobindo, Tagore, Vivekananda), as well as references to ...
Colonial Displacements: Nationalist Longing and Identity Among ... - Page 191 - Paromita Biswas - 2008 - Preview As scholars such as Peter van der Veer and others have argued, this investment by male nationalists of the figure of the woman with superior strength, for instance Aurobindo or Bankim's portrayal of the nation as the mother goddess, was a ...
'Photos of the Gods': The Printed Image and Political Struggle in ... - Page 100 - Chris Pinney - 2004 - Preview - More editions A key element in Peter van der Veer's study of what he calls 'religious nationalism', is the claim that it is the result of the ... reference for religious nationalists today: the translation above, by Shri Aurobindo, is taken from the Bharatiya Janata ... Beyond appearances?: visual practices and ideologies in modern India - Page 142  - Sumathi Ramaswamy - 2003
Lala Lajpat Rai in retrospect: political, economic, social, and ... - Page 106 J. S. Grewal, Indu Banga, Panjab University. Publication Bureau - 2000 - ... the twentieth century. As discussed earlier, Peter van der Veer treats the two as the two extreme sides of the same phenomenon, thus making it a somewhat unilinear movement on the scale. Vivekanand and Sri Aurobindo can safely be put...
Sri Aurobindo for all ages: a biography - Page 83 - Nirodbaran - 1990 - Sri Aurobindo has described how, at Bombay, when he was standing on the balcony of a friend's house, he saw 'the whole busy movement of Bombay as a picture in a cinema show, all unreal and shadowy'. And yet he continued with his ...
Page 120 - Aurobindo too smiled gently. The scene comes alive in my mind like a film even today. 'Hardly a moment later, the servant came and told us, "Sahib salaam diya" (the master bids you enter). Aurobindo and Bijoy Nag were led into the doctor's ...
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: Glimpses of Their Experiments, ... - Page 10 - Kireet Joshi - 1989 - Preview - More editions The city, a shadow picture without tone, Floats, quivers unreal; forms without relief Flow, a cinema's vacant shapes; like a reef ... For Sri Aurobindo, however, this turned out to be only one of the foundational experiences, and a series of spiritual...
Readings in Sri Aurobindo's the Life Divine: Covering Book Two, ... - Page 286 - Santosh Krinsky - 2012 - Preview - More editions A creation of this kind could only be the outcome of an inconscient energy or an illusion-cinema, a shadow-play or puppet play of forms ... Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Book 2, Part 2, Chapter 24, “The evolution of the Spiritual Man”, pg.
Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader Sachidananda Mohanty - 2012 - Preview - More editions He is the great reading public; the newspapers and weekly and month reviews are his; fiction and poetry and art are his mental caterers, the theatre and the cinema and the radio exist for him: Science hastens to bring her knowledge and ...
Psychic Being (Soul: Its Nature, Mission, Evolution) - Page 149 - Sri AurobindoAurobindo GhoseMother - 1990 - Preview - More editions Its Nature, Mission, Evolution) Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose, Mother ... it is in direct contact with material circumstances, with forms and words and sounds, etc., for a very short time; so it records all that like a photograph or a cinema, but it ...
Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology - Page 205 - Sri AurobindoAurobindo GhoseMother - 2003 - Preview Practical Yogic Psychology Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose, Mother A. S. Dalal. some goodwill and which precisely is in love with progress. Place that before you and first, pass across it as in a cinema all that you have done, all that you have ...
Religious Freedom in India: Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion - Page 105 - Goldie Osuri - 2012 - Preview - More editions open reading that Vasudevan calls for (which redirects Phalke's cinema towards a Gandhian desire for the ... ... framework of Hindu nationalism” through the institution of canonical texts such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata in print literature as discussed by Peter van der Veer (2001). van der Veer argues, for example, that “it was Aurobindo's idea, in his Foundations of Indian Culture, that the Mahabharata and the Ramayana constitute the essence of...
Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia - Page 84 Peter Van Der Veer, Hartmut Lehmann - 1999 - Preview - More editions Perspectives on Europe and Asia Peter Van Der Veer, Hartmut Lehmann ... notion of primordial Indian racial qualities, and also in the thought of Gandhi's precursors, notably Aurobindo, who conceived of nationality as a more spiritual force but ...
The Guru in South Asia: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives - Page 209 Jacob Copeman, Aya Ikegame - 2012 - Preview - More editions Cosmopolitan spirituality in Rishikesh Aravamudan identifies Guru English as the most recognizable form of South Asian cosmopolitanism and Aurobindo as not only the first modern guru but one who ... 2002:10, see also van der Veer 2002b).
Perspectives On Sri Aurobindos Poetry Plays & Crit. - Page 17 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - Full view - More editions The city, a shadow picture without tone, Floats, quivers unreal; forms without relief Flow, a cinema's vacant shapes; like a reef ... About the Mystics of ancient India Sri Aurobindo writes: "The doctrine of the Mystics recognizes an Unknowable, ...
Indian Revolutionaries: A Comprehensive Study, 1757-1961 - Volume 1 - Śrīkr̥sha Sarala - 1999 - Preview - More editions When he was declared innocent and set free by the court Aurobindo Ghosh became lost in the contemplation of his past and all the events of his life began to pass before his eyes like a film being screened. His ambitious father Dr. Krishna ...
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol - Page 546 - Aurobindo GhoseSri Aurobindo - 1995 - Preview - More editions A Legend and a Symbol Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo ... All seemed a brilliant shadow of itself, A cosmic film of scenes and images: The enduring mass and outline of the hills Was a design sketched on a silent mind And held to a ...
Sri Aurobindo and the new age: essays in memory of Kishor Gandhi - Page 101 Sachidananda Mohanty, Nirodbaran, Maurice Shukla - 1997 - West based on alternative yardsticks of the kind Sri Aurobindo suggests are simply not available. Of course, every now and then you find an auto-critique which comes from the West. There are films like A Clockwork Orange which is based on...