Though born in Kolkata on August 15, 1872, Sri Aurobindo attended school and college in England from 1879 to 1893. Had no attraction for ICS. Sri Aurobindo launched a frontal attack on the senior Congress leaders in 1893 for their weak-kneed policies. Wrote admiring Bankim Chandra. Sri Aurobindo became the first Principal of Bengal National College, Kolkata in 1906 before which he taught at Baroda. Resigned a year later. In 1907 Sri Aurobindo was instrumental in engineering a split in the Congress in association with Lal-Bal-Pal and gave voice to radical view. Sri Aurobindo had to suffer jail for one year from 1908 to 1909 as an undertrial for alleged violence against the British but was acquitted. In 1910, Sri Aurobindo turned over a new leaf by migrating to Puducherry where he established his Ashram and wrote extensively till 1950. Instead of wasting time and energy with Sanskrit texts, it's definitely more profitable to read Sri Aurobindo's translations & poetic works. Not as part of Perennial philosophy, Sri Aurobindo's own innovations & synthesis need to be presented with precision http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2016/03/satprem-mangesh-v-nadkarni-and-georges.html …
When the elders ignore an intellectual giant like Sri Aurobindo, young people are forced into friendship-oriented Marxist or Hindutva camps. It's a matter of manipulating thought and Sri Aurobindo's philosophy has power to convince and convert any brand of violence espousing cult. Most people push their party line and hence real intellectual quest is absent here. The vision of Sri Aurobindo holds the key to the future. Escape from the orbit of Gandhi and Nehru, Vivekananda and Tagore, Radhakrishnan and Coomaraswamy, Subhas and Savarkar, Ambedkar and Periyar. Sri Aurobindo is to be studied not to cater one's personal or political preference but for satisfying the demands of intellectual excellence. It was a moment of pride when I could manage a copy of "Sri Aurobindo: A Descriptive Bibliography" by H.K. Kaul (1972) twenty years back. http:// savitriera.blogspot.in/2016/03/jnu-and-pollock-episodes-have-raised.html …
Just read diatribes against Ananya Vajpeyi and Swara Bhaskar. It's pathetic and pathological on the part of Hindutva supporters to attack so. Ideologies are intellectual constructs and they are to be confronted and vanquished in that realm. Hatred for the person and family, absurd. Weaning away students from Leftist ideology is an intellectual exercise and only Sri Aurobindo holds the key to such an eventuality; not RSS. For understanding the true significance of the cow vs. horse debate, one has to read The Secret of the Veda by Sri Aurobindo and his Savitri. Election is like a game; one may win or lose. But if politics is hinged to religion, then religion suffers setback like multi-product brand.
Failure to offer anything modern or innovative as ideology is a cause for frustration for Hindutva enthusiasts and so, surrender to Sri Sri! Let not quacks & impostors in impeccable costume steal the limelight while sincere seekers go unnoticed & die unsung http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2016/03/m-alan-kazlev-levi-r-bryant-and-elisa.html …
@TheJaggi This shows the scant weightage Yoga and Self-culture command in the scheme of things of modern Indians. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2016/03/m-alan-kazlev-levi-r-bryant-and-elisa.html …
@maidros78 I don't think you have written any 3-4 part article by examining the whole issue enumerating evidences that have surfaced so far.
@shaviro But, you think and write in the same language unlike we in India who have to juggle between three or four languages, all the time.
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