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The Genius
of India
AN EXTRACT FROM "THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA"
BY
SRI AUROBINDO
ISBN : 81-900584-6-0
This text was first published in the English monthly Arya (1918).
Introduction by Christine Devin @ 1998,Editions Auroville Press International
Photographs by Olivier Barot @ 1998, Editions Auroville Press International
Published by Edit ion s Auroville Press International,
Auroville, 60 5 101, Tamil Nadu - INDIA .
Pr in ted at the Auroville Press , 1998.
Vande Mataram Series
Volume 4
This book is the fourth in a series entitled "Vande Mataram" which has as its goal to make known a
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
The text presented here is taken from a series of essays written by Sri Aurobindo in 1918 and published in the Arya, an English monthly, under the title The Renaissance in India. Our aim in publishing this short extract is to trigger a reflection on what constitutes the specific genius of this country and what it is that Sri Aurobindo meant by a rebirth or a resurgence of India.
THE
GENIUS OF
INDIA
Contents
Pre-Content
Publishers Note
Introduction
The Genius India
THE GENIUS OF INDIA*
What was this ancient spirit and characteristic soul of India? European writers, struck by the general metaphysical bent of the Indian mind, by its strong religious instincts and religious idealism, by its other-worldliness, are inclined to write as if this were all the Indian spirit. An abstract, metaphysical, religious mind overpowered by the sense of the infinite, not apt for life, dreamy, unpractical, turning away from life and action as Maya, this, they said, is
* The title is ours (the Editor)
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India; and for a time Indians in this, as in other matters, submissively echoed their new Western teachers and masters. They le
THE
GENIUS OF
INDIA
Contents
Pre-Content
Publishers Note
Introduction
The Genius India
The Genius
of India
AN EXTRACT FROM "THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA"
BY
SRI AUROBINDO
ISBN : 81-900584-6-0
This text was first published in the English monthly Arya (1918).
Introduction by Christine Devin @ 1998,Editions Auroville Press International
Photographs by Olivier Barot @ 1998, Editions Auroville Press International
Published by Edit ion s Auroville Press International,
Auroville, 60 5 101, Tamil Nadu - INDIA .
Pr in ted at the Auroville Press , 1998.
Vande Mataram Series
Volume 4
This book is the fourth in a series entitled "Vande Mataram" which has as its