General B.C. Joshi’s address in the Hall of Harmony on 3-2-94   COAS Address at Pondicherry February 3, 1994   General Tiwari: Respected Nirodda, trustees and friends, I have been asked to introduce the Chief of the Army Staff, I don’t know why I should have been picked out, one of the ashram people should have done this, but I welcomed it for another reason and I might tell you that when I joined the army more than half a century ago, the very name of the chief could produce a tremendous awe. Of course, we never saw him. And today I have been asked to introduce the Chief of the Army Staff of

Introduction   In this booklet we are introducing certain concepts which are basic to Motivation, Leadership and the Indian nation. 1. The total interdependence of human behaviour, motivation and leadership with human psychology. The state of the inner being or the state of consciousness of the human being determines his behaviour and motivation. There follows the necessity of knowing oneself, that is to say of understanding one's psychology with the ultimate aim of mastering one's own psychology.   2. A brief description of the psychological structure of the human being; the physical, the vital, the mental, the p

Talk at Jadavpur University on 26th March 2005 Relevance of Sri Aurobindo in Modern India I consider it a great honour to have been invited to speak at this hallowed centre of learning in Calcutta. As you are all aware, the forerunner of this University was the Bengal National College and Sri Aurobindo was its first principal. In addition to Sri Aurobindo, there were other eminent personalities on the teaching staff of the College such as Raja Subodh Chandra Mallik, Brajendra Kishore Roychowdhury, Rash Behari Ghosh, and Rabindranath Tagore to name just a few. Sri Aurobindo who was the first principal

Mother’s Role in the 1971 War   Sri Aurobindo retired from active political life in 1910. But this did not mean, as it was then supposed, that he had retired into some height of spiritual experience devoid of any further interest in the world or in the fate of India. It could not mean that, for the very principle of his Yoga was not only to realise the Divine and attain to a complete spiritual consciousness, but also to take all life and all world activity into the scope of this spiritual consciousness and action and to base life on the Spirit and give it a spiritual meaning.   Consequently even in his retirement, Sri Aurobindo k

 A Note on Education for Indian schools Any system of education, whether it is national or regional, has first to decide on the goals, the aim and purpose of education. It is indispensable to have an absolute clarity on this level for all that follows will depend on this first foundation. It will be therefore proper to first decide on the goals and the aim of education from the Indian perspective. There are three things, which have to be taken into account in a true and living education: first, man as an individual in his commonness with others as well as his uniqueness, second, the Indian nation, and la

Impact of Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo on Indian Freedom Movement     KITTU REDDY   If you look at the freedom movement, even before the Sepoy Mutiny, there is a very strong evidence of sannyasins having played a very important role in the freedom movement. During the Sepoy Mutiny, it has been recorded that the sannyasins played a very active role. Shivaji is not complete without Rāmdas. The Brahmin power and the Kshatriya power have to go together.   The second point I would like to remind you is that ancient Indian polity was highly developed. Since the very beginning of Indian history, religion played a very important part and

Chapter 8   The Second World War   Then, there came the Second World War. The Congress party had to take a decision as to whether it should support the Allies, remain neutral, or oppose them. The Congress party dithered for some time but finally decided to first remain uninvolved and finally, to even oppose the British. This step proved to be disastrous for India. From the occult point of view, it was a very serious mistake that resulted in opening the doors to hostile forces.   The Mother said in May 1941: "The world situation is critical today. India's fate too hangs in the balance. There was a time when India was absolutely secure; there was no danger o

Chapter 4   India under the British   The British came to India originally as traders through the East India Company during the rule of Jehangir in the 16th century. The chief aim of the British at that time was to make an impact on the Dutch hold on the spice trade and to establish a lasting outpost. But the company soon established its military and political dominance in India. By 1834, the East India Company was no more a trading company; it became the official ruler of India. Eventually, the company assumed complete domination of India and encroached on each and every aspect of her life. The company was very successful till the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. The mutiny ended a

Chapter 4   A Brief History of the unification of Vietnam   Vietnam was reunified on Apr. 30, 1975, with democratic South Vietnam absorbed by communist North Vietnam by force. The reunification is a typical example where one people divided by ideological confrontation of democracy on one side, and communism on the other, was unified by force under socialist revolutionary strategies and tactics. In Chinese, Vietnam means going over to the South. This indicates that people in Vietnam were driven away to the South by outside powers in the North. The name of the country attests to its historical hardship of having been subject to numerous foreign invasions. Historic

Address by Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah At Lahore Session of Muslim League March, 1940   Ladies and Gentlemen:   We are meeting today in our session after fifteen months. The last session of the All-India Muslim League took place at Patna in December 1938. Since then many developments have taken place. I shall first shortly tell you what the All-India Muslim League had to face after the Patna session of 1938. You remember that one of the tasks, which was imposed on us and which is far from completed yet, was to organise Muslim Leagues all over India. We have made enormous progress during the last fifteen months in this direction. I am glad