Synopsis "Sri Aurobindo and India's Rebirth (in English)"
Language: EnglishPages: 285 (6 B/W Illustration)About the BookRevolutionary, philosopher, litterateur, and seer, Sri Aurobindo remains oneof the brightest minds India has ever had. This book captures the evolution of his thought through excerpts from his political articles and speeches, essays, talks with and letters to disciples, and public messages- presented chronologically. It includes his views on Iawaharlal Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose; his doubts about Gandhi's method to attain freedom and insistence on Ahimsa; and his very distinctive contribution to the nascent Nationalist movement. Both prophetic of the challenges to come India's way post-Independence, and persuaded of her potential to overcome them, Sri Aurobindo's vision of a new India melds the spiritual with the political.More than sixty years after his passing, Sri Aurobindo's penetrating insights on issues such as building on India's cultural and spiritual foundations, a national agenda for education, Hindu-Muslim coexistence and the need to distinguish reason from a blind imitation of the West, continue to resonate.IntroductionSri Aurobindo has been variously hailed as a Philosopher, yogi, saint or maharishi seer) His role in India’s national awakening that followed the 1905 Partition of Bengal by the colonial powers is often cursorily mentioned in history books , but rarely given the place it deserves. Perhaps Sri Aurobindo himself is partly to blame for this eclipse: as he admitted later in letters to his disciples, he preferred to ‘remain behind the curtain, push people without their knowing it and get things done.’ Nevertheless, the bulk of his articles in Bande Mataram and Karmayog in has long been made available, but rarely mined. An exception was by t
