Sri Aurobindo the Critic of Poetry* Umashankar Joshi A fourth dimension of aesthetic sense Where all is in ourselves, ourselves in all, To the cosmic wideness re-aligns our souls, A kindling rapture joins the seer and the seen; The craftsman and the craft grown only one, Achieve perfection by the magic throb And passion of their close identity. Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, II. ii. SRI Aurobindo's principal mission was to practise yoga and through yoga embody the truth of life. The main bulk of his writing is on yoga, on philosophical and metaphysical subjects. He has also been a creative writer since his early yo

Sri Aurobindo's Evolutionary Concept of Man* L. G. Chincholkar '"THE problem of human destiny has been engaging the minds of the A thinkers of the world throughout the ages. A search to know the facts behind the phenomena, a probe into the unknown reality of the existence of man and the world have been the subjects of ceaseless enquiry for all those who have not been content with the first view of things. The status of a man has a direct bearing upon his destiny. Is he a product of evolution or a directly implanted Adam or Eve by God? What is he at present, what would be his future ? How has he come to be what he is now? What, in general, is the past, present and fut

  Sri Aurobindo the Critic of Poetry* Umashankar Joshi A fourth dimension of aesthetic sense Where all is in ourselves, ourselves in all, To the cosmic wideness re-aligns our souls, A kindling rapture joins the seer and the seen; The craftsman and the craft grown only one, Achieve perfection by the magic throb And passion of their close identity.                                              Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, II. ii. SRI Aurobindo's principal mission was to practise yoga and through yoga embody the truth of life. The main bulk of his writing is on yoga, on philos

  Sri Aurobindo: Prophet of Indian Nationalism* Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'   'T'HE year Sri Aurobindo was born, Rimbaud published his Illumination. But that is irrelevant. What is relevant is that the year when Sri Aurobindo returned from England was also the year when Vivekananda sailed for the United States and the day when Sri Aurobindo was born became, after 75 years of course, the day of India's Independence. And the centenary year of Sri Aurobindo's birth has coincided with the Silver Jubilee celebration of our Independence. In India, Nationalism began as a cultural movement, the first emphasis being laid on a relentless opposition to the cultural influence of

  The Problem of Human Unity* Olivier Lacombe   The problem of human unity is twofold: structural and dynamic unity of human being, and unity of mankind throughout its history and its cultural and biological differentiations. These two aspects of the problem are distinct yet interdependent: it is wise not to mix them up, nor to dissociate them.      On the other hand, man's unity is the oneness in complexity: God alone is absolutely one and simple. But complexity necessarily brings together the idea of a wealth of being and a risk of rupture.      Further, man's unity is at the same time a fundamental datum of his existence and a scheme to be developed and achi

Sri Aurobindo's Life* Suniti Kumar Chatterji I SRI Aurobindo came into the world on 15 August 1872 and passed into the Great Beyond on 5 December 1950. He had thus lived and trod upon this earth for about seventy-eight years and three months. But before he joined the majority, by the glory of both his Thought and his Action in the living world, and by his Vision of the Unseen (glimpses of which out of the abundance of the Grace he had received from the Unseen, he brought within the ken of seeking souls), he had already become one of the Immortals of history. Sri Aurobindo has been one of the great band of divine choristers in the history of man, who h

Sri Aurobindo: Prophet of Indian Nationalism* Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' 'T'HE year Sri Aurobindo was born, Rimbaud published his Illumination. But that is irrelevant. What is relevant is that the year when Sri Aurobindo returned from England was also the year when Vivekananda sailed for the United States and the day when Sri Aurobindo was born became, after 75 years of course, the day of India's Independence. And the centenary year of Sri Aurobindo's birth has coincided with the Silver Jubilee celebration of our Independence. In India, Nationalism began as a cultural movement, the first emphasis being laid on a relentless opposition to the cultural influence of

Sri Aurobindo's Impact on Hindi Literature* Narendra Sharma ONE wonders why Sri Aurobindo's impact on Indian Literature in general and on Hindi literature in particular has not been as great as it should have been. In direct proportion to the greatness of his personality and work, his impact has been less than expected. One reason for this, perhaps, is that Sri Aurobindo's personality and work are too unique and great to be comprehended by the average Indian middle-class mind. This mind, the by-product of colonial rule, is nurtured on job-orientation, professional advancement, insecurity and fear on the one hand, and on the other, on revivalism, political ambit

  Professor Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Shri V. V. Giri and Dr. Karan Singh (sitting) at the Inauguration of the National Seminar on 16 August 1972 Inauguration of the International Seminar on 5 December 1972 Left to right: Dr. Karan Singh (speaking); Prof. Nurul Hasan, Education Minister; Shrimati Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister; Prof. Arabinda Basu, Director of the Seminar At the release of Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Commemoration Stamp by Shri H. N. Bahuguna in Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch. Dr.Karan Singh examining the stamp; Sri H. N. Bahuguna and Sri Surendra Mohan Ghose looking on Sri Aurobin

  Sri Aurobindo's Evolutionary Concept of Man* L. G. Chincholkar   '"THE problem of human destiny has been engaging the minds of the A thinkers of the world throughout the ages. A search to know the facts behind the phenomena, a probe into the unknown reality of the existence of man and the world have been the subjects of ceaseless enquiry for all those who have not been content with the first view of things. The status of a man has a direct bearing upon his destiny. Is he a product of evolution or a directly implanted Adam or Eve by God? What is he at present, what would be his future ? How has he come to be what he is now? What, in general, is the past, present and f