Name: Savani Manisha R,
Paper: 104 Indian Writing English
Topic: Sri Aurobindo view in Indian culture by Michel
Diano,
Roll no: 15
M.A: 2
Year -2012-13
Submitted To,
Dr, Dilip Barad.
English department,
M.K Bhavnagar University
Sir Aurobindo view in Indian culture by
Michel Diano
Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on is
August 1872. At the age of seven he was taken to England for education and in
1890 went up to king’s college Cambridge and here he stood in the first class
and also passed the final examination for the Indian civil service. Returning
to India in 1893, he walked for the next thirteen years in the princely state
of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor in Baroda College. During
this period he also joined a revolutionary society and took a leading role in
secret preparation for an uprising against the British government in India.
After the partition of Bengal in 1905. Sri
Aurobindo quit his post in Baroda
and went to Calcutta, where he soon becomes one of the leaders of the e
nationalist movement. He was the first political leader of India to openly put forward,
in his journal Banda mat ram, the aid of complete independence for the country.
Prosecuted twice for sedition and once for conspiracy, he was released each
time for lake of evidence.
Sri Aurobindo had begun the practice of yoga
in1905 in Bengal. In 1908he had the first of several fundamental spiritual
realization in 1910 he withdraw from politics and went to Pondicherry in order
to devote himself entirely to his inner spiritual life and work. During his
forty years in Pondicherry, he evolved a new method of spiritual realization
that not only liberates his man’s consciousness but also transforms his nature.
In 1920 with the help of his spiritual
collaboration, the mother he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Among his many writings
are the lives divine. The synthesis of yoga and savitri Sri Aurobindo left his
body on 5 Des 1950.
Indian life was always so trivial,
always so vulgar so loveless, poll and awakened as the Europeans have made it.
This well appointed comfort oppress me, this perfection of machinery will not
allow the soul to remember that it is not itself a machine. Is this then the
end of the long march of human civilization this spirit all suicide, this quite
petrifaction of the soul into matter. Europe boasts of her science and its marvels.
But to the bragger intellect of Europe he Indian is bound to reply. I am not
interested in what you are with all your discoveries and inventions, what have
you become? Your enlighten is great but what are these strange creatures that
more about in the electric light you have installed and imagine that they are
human?
In an essay in 1948and
entitled The Renaissance in India, Sri Aurobindo presents us with a masterly
view of India’s culture through the ages her essential spirit and her
characteristic soul., her unique genius and power which gave her remarkably
long periods of greatness and an unusually prolific creativity that which
allowed her to survive for so long which other ancient civilizations faded away.
He explains the basis of her strength that which enabled her to resist so
many attempts at crushing her culture.
‘’spirituality is the
matter key of the mind. The sense of infinity is native to it’’ It is a defense
of Indian civilization and culture with essay an Indian spirituality, religion,
art, literature, and polity. Sri Aurobindo began the ‘foundations’’ series as a
review of Sri John wudruff’s back is India civilized? Continued it with a
rebuttal of the hostile criticism of William Archer I ‘India and its future and
concluded it with his own estimation of India‘s civilization and culture.
In Sri Aurobindo ‘s India is
one of the greatest of world ‘s civilization because of its high spiritual aim
and the effective manner in which it has impressed force of this culture ‘’he
wrote’’ its care of thought it ruling passion not only did it make spirituality
the highest aim of life ,but it even tried.. To turn the whole of life make
towards spirituality. ‘’Sri Aurobindo held that an aggressive defense of India
culture was necessary to counter the invasion of the predominantly materialistic
modern western culture. His foundation is precisely such a defense.
The Renaissance in India consists
of four essays that were first published in Aryan from August to November 1918.
In the first and the essay, Sri Aurobindo discusses the appropriateness or lack
there of the term ‘Renaissance ‘’ for what happened in India. He refutes some common
European misconceptions and the nature of India civilization, misconceptions
that have been echoed by westernized Indians too. In order to do so he outlines
three characteristics of ancient Indian society .He says that spirituality is
indeed the master key of the Indian mind that ancient India I smacked by .
1)
‘’Her stupendous vitality her inexhaustible
power of life and joy of life.
2)
Her almost unimaginably profit
creativeness and finally
3)
That the third power of the ancient
Indian spirit was a strong intellectuality.
He then cultures ‘’three movement of retrogression’’
1) ’shrinking of that superabundant vital emerge
and a fading of the joy of life and the joy of creation.
2)
Secondly rapid cessation an old intellectual activity’ and finally.
3)
The diminution of the power of Indian spirituality.
Sri
Aurobindo then identifies three impulses that arise from the ‘impact of
European life and culture.
In the second essay he rephrases then the
western impact reawakened ‘’agree activity of the intellect’’ it threw
definitely into ferment of modern ideas into the old culture ‘’ and ‘’it made
us turn are look upon all that our past contains with new eyes . These are a
revival of the dormant intellectual and critical impulse the rehabilitation of
life and an awakened desire for new creation and a revival of the national
spirit by the turning of the national mind its past. It is this ‘’awaking
vision impulse’ that Sri Aurobindo feels is the Indian renaissance such a
renaissance would have light of Indian spirit , the endeavor to formulate to
greater synthesis of a spiritualized society is one of the most difficult.
This great and ancient was once the fountain
of human light. The appeal of human civilization the exemplar of courage and
humanity the perfection of good government and settled society the matter of
all religious the teacher of all wisdom and philosophy. It has suffered much at
the hand of inferior civilizations and more savage peoples; it has gone down
into the shadow of night and tasted after of the bitterness of death. It pride
and its glory has departed. Hunger and misery and despair have become the
masters of this fair sail these noble hills, these ancient reveres, these
cities whose life story goes back into prehistoric night, all or calamities
have been but a discipline of suffering because for the great mission before s property
was not sufficient, adversity had also its training to taste glory of power and
beneficence and joy was not sufficient the knowledge of weakness and torture
and humiliation was also needed
Aurobindo tells about the national
education that Indian student is very strong and capacity for good education
but that the good system of education in India
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