Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Dr. V.M. Madge came down heavily upon unjust criticism of Sri Aurobindo

The Literary criterion 2002
Speaking on "Contemporary Indian Poetry" Dr. VM Madge not only came down heavily upon some contemporary poets like Ezekiel, Parthasarathy and others for their unjust criticism of Aurobindo but also felt that our contemporary poetry can...
The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 337 Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - 568 pages
Actually, Ken Wilber's criticism of Sri Aurobindo is not a repudiation of Sri Aurobindo's vision but a refinement. Ken Wilber states that Sri Aurobindo's 'individual' integral Yoga and practice is "especially focused on integrating the ...
Sri Aurobindo Ghose: the dweller in the lands of silence William Kluback, Michael Finkenthal - 2001 - 167 pages
I wonder if this awakening spirit is anything more than a child of goodness and beauty. It does not create them. It is a child of their nurture, of their power over chaos. I saw in my words a potential criticism of Sri Aurobindo. ...
Tradition and the rhetoric of right: popular political argument in ... - Page 85 David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - 339 pages
... the Ashram's program was the abolition of religious, caste, and gender disabilities, achievements for which traditional Hindus and even some conservative members of the movement criticized Aurobindo and the Mother.66 The structured...
Continuities in Indian English poetry: nation language form G. J. V. Prasad - 1999 - 198 pages
... poetry echoes the post-Independence criticism of Aurobindo-like mystical poetry! Sarang praises Daruwalla for precisely these qualities. Daruwalla stands out amongst Indian English poets for bringing to poetry a range of experience ...
Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research Indian Council of Philosophical Research - 1995
Though he rejects root-based study as unsound on page 9, he very quickly reverses his position on page 15, while criticizing Sri Aurobindo, and speaks as if that study is a sound method of interpreting the Vedic terms. ...
Mao Zedong and the Communist Policies 1927-1978 - Page 137 B.E. Shinde - 1993 - 183 pages
Man has always oscillated between the extremes, the fabric of the mind itself is of such peculiar composition. The Gita does not merely deal with the mind as thecriticism of Aurobindo Ghosh would suggest. It is as well not wholly the ...
Nissim Ezekiel, poet of human balance Harish Raizada - 1992 - 196 pages
He is highly critical of Sri Aurobindo both as a poet and critic. He dislikes his "Asiatic vague immensities" or mighty abstractions and finds his magnum opus Savitri "embarrassingly bad." He criticizes Sri Aurobindo's The Future of ...
The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 323 V. P. Varma - 1990 - 494 pages
This second criticism of Aurobindo reminds us of the attacks made by TH Green on utilitarianism. Green led the idealist attack against the ethics of utilitarianism. He candidly admitted that the utilitarian creed aims to improve the ...
Modern Indian political thought Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1971 - 640 pages
In 1928, however, while criticizing the political ideas and technics of Gandhi (the thought of the Ashram of Sabarmati), Bose also criticized Aurobindo (the thought of the Pondi- cherry Ashram). 4 Subhas Chandra Bose, Tarun ke Swapna ...
Seven studies in Sri Aurobindo V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1989 - 239 pages
... in the study of the creative and multi-dimensional use of language and its mystical and metaphysical implications one aspect of the literary criticism of Sri Aurobindo which has a direct bearing on their concerns and conclusions. ...
The politics of philosophy: a Marxian analysis A. Pampapathy Rao - 1983 - 118 pages
... Marxist criticism of Sri Aurobindo? "The conceptual affinity between Hegel and Sri Aurobindo is much closer than that between Marx and any one of them", p. 208. One of whom? "Of all forms of justice perhaps the most important one is ...
The Heritage of India: L. N. Mishra commemoration volume 1978 - 616 pages
Yoga and Literary Criticism Dr. S. K. Prasad Department of English, Magadh University On the publication of my book on the literary criticism of Sri Aurobindosome months back, a quite pertinent question was raised by a distinguished ...
Indian literature Sāhitya Akademi - 1977
SK Prasad's The Literary Criticism of Sri Aurobindo (Bharati Bhavan,
Patna) is an exhaustive study of Sri Aurobindo the literary critic, and there are comparative glances at Western critics like TS Eliot, Middleton Murry and Herbert ...
The Journal of Asian studies Far Eastern Association (U.S.), Association ... - 1976
The essayists in this volume are not judgmental or critical of Aurobindo from an out-of-context perspective. But this is not to suggest that they avoid questions of comparison or relevance in Aurobindo's writings. ...
The quest for political and spiritual liberation: a study in the ... June O'Connor - 1977 - 153 pages
... criticizes Aurobindo on this issue, naming the problem of evil to be "the most questionable element" in his system (World, pp. 270-71). In The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo (New York: Asia Publishing House, 1960), p. ...
The literary criticism of Sri Aurobindo, with special reference to ... Shree Krishna Prasad, Aurobindo Ghose - 1974 - 487 pages
Hazlitt, it appears, only echoes them when he calls poetry "the language of the imagination and the passions".1 The typical Romantic critical standard for poets is well expressed by Leigh Hunt, who, like Shelley, calls poetry ...
age. of. the soul of man in Odysseus".1 The. same is true of the Iliad. It is "not merely the action and stir of battle" in it which explains its greatness but "the clash of great and strong spirits with the gods leaning down to 
falls are,— when the needed energy is within, — an obscure condition for unprecedented elevations".1 "In the recoil", continues Sri Aurobindo, "....some discovery is made which would otherwise have been long postponed or not at all have ...
Nissim Ezekiel Chetan Karnani, Nissim Ezekiel - 1974 - 192 pages
Ezekiel has courageously exposed the pretensions in poetry and criticism of Aurobindo Ghosh. It is curious that Ezekiel himself did not escape the stranglehold of this tradition. He has too often lapsed into ...
Contemporary relevance of Sri Aurobindo Kishor Gandhi - 1973 - 343 pages
It was with thoughts and feelings of this sort that I came to read the literarycriticism of Sri Aurobindo. That criticism is to be found for the most part in The Future Poetry, (published originally as a series of articles in the Arya, ...
Literature east & west Modern Language Association of America ... - 1969
... the Age," helped to demonstrate the close relationships which even the writer in English has with the old and meaningful traditions. Professor S. Nagarajan, of
Poona University, in discussing the literary criticism of Sri Aurobindo, ...
Contemporary Indian literature: a symposium Sahitya Akademi - 1968 - 338 pages
The literary criticism of Sri Aurobindo (The Future Poetry) and the art criticism of Ananda Coomaraswamy (History of Indian and Indonesian Art, The Dance of Shiva and An Introduction to Indian Art) are in a category apart. ...
Main currents of social & political thought in modern India Jyoti Prasad Suda - 1963
The criticism of Sri Aurobindo •was motivated by two considerations. Firstly, he wanted to undermine the faith of the Indians in the superiority of the British political organisation. ...

Sunday, July 04, 2010

Sri Aurobindo succeeds in showing the logical necessity of supramental or integral consciousness


  1. Amar Nath Prasad - 2005 - 327 pages
    If through his characters 'Kalidasa excels in depicting the emotions of love, from the first suggestion in an innocent mind to the perfection of passion'.27 Sri 
    Aurobindo succeeds in catching 'the whole of love's inner heart — the ...
  2. Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2004
    and he concluded by affirming, "My quantitative system... is based on the natural movement of the English tongue, the same in prose and poetry, not on any artificial theory."3 It is not in the hexameter alone that Sri 
    Aurobindo succeeds ...

    Michael T. McLaughlin - 2003 - 318 pages
    ... movement of 61 After repeated readings, I am not convinced that Aurobindo succeeds in reconciling all of these models. It seems to be more a question of attacking the same problems from different standpoints in different chapters. ...
  3. Ramesh Chandra Sinha - 1981 - 234 pages
    Sri 
    Aurobindo succeeds in showing the logical necessity of supramental or integral consciousness by his analysis and criticism of the other sources of knowledge. Reason and intuition, according to him, find their fulfilment in the ...
  4. Punjabi University. Dept. of Religious Studies - 1979
    Aurobindo succeeds Ram Mohan Roy, Debendranath Tagore, Keshab Chandra Sen, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda as a Bengali leader in the Hindu reformation sequence. But he does it with a difference. For he is in a sense the climax of ...
  5. Avanindra Kumar Sinha - 1979 - 227 pages
    If through his characters 'Kalidasa excels in depicting the emotions of love, from the first suggestion in an innocent mind to the perfection of passion'," Sri 
    Aurobindo succeeds in catching 'the whole of love's inner heart — the ...
  6. Jan Feys - 1977 - 371 pages
    Yet, while thus respecting the Gita's general line of development, Sri 
    Aurobindo succeeds in orderly grouping its sections into a sequence of some three or four ...
  7. Jan Feys - 1977 - 371 pages
    Thus Sri 
    Aurobindo succeeds in giving a new impetus to a movement which seemed to have reached a dead end. Krishna, the prototype of yogic siddhi, is asked to reveal the secret of the universal unity he has attained : "this Yoga by ...
  8. Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1974 - 141 pages
    ... breath of inspiration with a wide-eyed artistry that is attuned to the soul both of classical and English poetics. It is not in the hexameter alone that Sri Aurobindo succeeds. Many kinds of quantitative verse he has revived in ...
  9. Shree Krishna Prasad, Aurobindo Ghose - 1974 - 487 pages
    The two works are like the legislative and executive aspects of the same living body politic, as it were; the soul and body of a single, though highly complex, creative activity or genius. And thus Sri 
    Aurobindo succeeds in demonstrating without any shadow of a doubt that his theories of poetry are not just theories, ie, mere ideas and visions in an unrealisable, insubstantial form, but living practical idealities ...
  10. Aurobindo Ghose - 1970

  11. Kaikhushru Dḥunjibhoy Sethna - 1968 - 217 pages
    Sri 
    Aurobindo succeeds everywhere because he not only is familiar both as mystic and artist with the magnitudes and intensities of our subliminal and supraliminal being, but has also endeavoured to lay on the poor dust of the outer self ...
  12. Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1968
    The two works are like the legislative and executive aspects of the same living body politic, as it were; the soul and body of a single, though highly complex creative activity or genius. And thus, Sri 
    Aurobindo succeeds in ...
  13. Haridas Chaudhuri, Frederic Spiegelberg - 1960 - 350 pages
    Sri 
    Aurobindo succeeds everywhere because he not only is familiar both as mystic and artist with ...
  14. Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1947 - 156 pages
    ... with a wide-eyed artistry that is attuned to the soul both of classical and English poetics. It is not in the hexameter alone that Sri Aurobindo succeeds. Many kinds of quantitative verse he has revived in forms natural to English. ...