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Aurobindo Ghosh Publication Details ´ • Frequency of publication : Quarterly. Published on 15 August, 24 November, 21 February, S raddha 24 April. A Quarterly devoted to an exposition of the teachings of Annual Subscription : Rs 150.00 Single copy : Rs. 50.00 Those wishing to have the journal The Mother and Sri Aurobindo mailed to them may please send an additional Rs. 100.00. Annual Subscription for soft copy of the journal : Rs.150.00 Vol.3 No. 1 For overseas readers : Annual subscription :US$ 45 inclusive of postal and bank charges for hard copy; US$ 20 for soft copy Special issue All payments to be made in favour of Sri Aurobindo Centre for Research in Social on Sciences. All Rights Reserved The Political and Social writings of Sri Aurobindo No matter appearing in this journal or part thereof may be reproduced or translated, in any form, without the written permission of the publishers except for short extracts as quotations. The views expressed by the authors are not necessarily those of the journal. All correspondence may be addressed to S´raddha• Sri Aurobindo Bhavan 8 Shakespeare Sarani 15 August, 2011 Kolkata 700 071 Editor: Arup Basu Phone: 98302 58723 E-mail : [email protected] , [email protected] Published by Sri Aurobindo Centre for Research in Social Sciences Sri Aurobindo Bhavan 8 Shakespeare Sarani Kolkata700071 Phone : 2282 3057, 2282 2162, 2282 1819 Printed by Basab Chattopadhyaya Shilalipi 16 A Tamer Lane Sri Aurobindo Bhavan Kolkata 700 009 8 Shakespeare Sarani • Kolkata 700 071 Phone 22414580 Contents Our Ideal Sri Aurobindo 7 Aurobindo Ghosh Paul Richard 12 Prophet Of Nationalism And His Call Dasharathi Sengupta 15 Identity And Difference:Some Reflections On Sri Aurobindo’s Socio-Political Views Aparna Banerjee 27 The Dynamics Of India’s Culture Radharaman Chakrabarti 34 ¶õtJât¨C;uÒttlkk “Is India Civilised?” By Sri Aurobindo Makarand Paranjape 42 S´raddha•va•m·l labhate jñanam· Indian Democracy – Part 1 Kittu Reddy 50 Humanity At The Crossroads : Does Who has faith. .........he attains knowledge Sri Aurobindo Offer An Alternative? Shakuntala A and Ajai R Singh 62 —Gita IV. 39 The Foundations Of Social Sustainability M. S. Srinivasan 77 Emerging Concerns And Procedures Related To Education Of Values : The Vision Of Sri Aurobindo Neeltje Huppes 92 Realising Sri Aurobindo’s Ideal Law Of Social Development : Possibilities And Challenges For Psychology As a Discipline Of Study Monica Gupta 104 Spirituality And Prison Life Sri Aurobindo And Barindra Kumar Ghose Sachidananda Mohanty 110 Veda Vyasa’s Mahabharata In Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri Prema NandaKumar 122 The Development Of Sri Aurobindo’s Thought Georges van Vrekhem 131 Notes On Authors 141 Index To Authors And Articles In Sraddha, August 2010 – April 2011 142 Cover : Krishnalal’s painting Towards Inner Light learning and a man of admirable human qualities, Ranajit-da was most humble, modest and self-effacing. Amal Kiran, born in Nov 1904, passed away peacefully in the Ashram Nursing Home on 29 June at the ripe old age of 106. He lived a long and full life. He joined the Ashram in 1927 at the young age of 23 and was christened ‘Amal Kiran’ or the ‘Clear Ray’ by Sri Aurobindo himself. One of the foremost sadhaks, a literary stal- Editorial wart and a multi-faceted genius, his publications covered more than 50 books spread over a variety of subjects, notably literature and literary criticism. His voluminous correspondence with Sri Aurobindo on Savitri can be rated as the high-water mark of Mother once said ‘Sri Aurobindo does not belong to the past nor to history. Sri what true literary analysis ought to be. Like his Guru, Amal Kiran, too, possessed a keen Aurobindo is the Future advancing towards its realisation’. What is this Future that and a wonderful sense of humour. ‘Age could not wither him nor custom stale his beckons us? Sri Aurobindo’s message is very simple and clear. He says that man is a infinite variety’. transitional being, a growing organism, that he is not the last term or the end product in We are grateful to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry, for its permission the evolutionary process. He has to grow further and expand in consciousness till he to reproduce the excerpt ‘Our Ideal’ from the Arya, vol.2, pp.1-9, the photograph of Sri reaches the perfect and complete consciousness. And what is that state of perfect Aurobindo taken from the Ashram catalogue of photos and the painting ‘Towards consciousness? Sri Aurobindo says that just as life has evolved out of matter and mind Inner Light’ by Krishnalal for the cover of the journal. We owe special thanks to Samata out of life, so there rise beyond mind other statuses of consciousness, tier upon tier, in the Studio for spending time to identify this painting and to Chaitanya in the Sri where man can go, live and even bring down their powers into his normal life and Aurobindo Archives for making available in the shortest possible time its high resolu- transform it into their pattern. And the highest of these planes is what Sri Aurobindo tion image. Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations are reproduced here with ac- calls Supermind or Truth-Consciousness. Its original stuff is made not of ignorance, knowledgements and thanks to the Trustees of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. but of truth. Unlike in the mental ranges, where there is always an element of doubt, uncertainty, groping and partial perception and realisation, where one moves from greater darkness to a shade of lesser hue, here in the Truth-Consciousness one lives always in full daylight and in the plenitude of consciousness and delight and ‘fulfilled harmony’ and the only progress is from light to a greater light, from knowledge to a superior knowledge. Such was the life mission of Sri Aurobindo, ‘the builder of the Life Divine’ – to build a new foundation for a new world. To follow Sri Aurobindo in this great adventure one has to be a warrior and a heroic soul. On this hallowed day of his 139th birth anniversary, let us once again rededicate ourselves unreservedly with a total submission and complete surrender of all the parts and planes of our being to his ideal and lay ourselves open to the dynamic or the supramental Divine which he calls the incarnate Divine Mother. We have chosen to name this anniversary number a special issue on the Social and Political Writings of Sri Aurobindo as the bulk of the papers, with a few exceptions, concentrates on this theme. Readers will find special interest in the article by Paul Richard on Sri Aurobindo, taken from his book The Dawn of Asia published by Ganesh & Co. of Madras in 1919. The article has been translated by Sri Aurobindo himself. In the intervening period since our last publication in April, we have witnessed the passing away of two of Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s dear children – Ranajit Sarkar in far away Amsterdam and KD Sethna, better known to all as Amal Kiran. Ranajit Sarkar, too, was a product of the Ashram and was its inmate for a long time before he moved and settled in the Netherlands. Readers may remember the excellent series on the Urvashi theme he penned for Sraddha, in which he compared the works of Madhusudan Dutt, Tagore and Sri Aurobindo on that particular subject. A person of great erudition and The progress of humanity has therefore been a constant revolution with its rhythm of alternative darkness and light, but both the day and the night have helped to foster that which is evolving. The periods have not been the same for all parts of the globe. In the historic ages of the present cycle of civilisation the movement has been almost entirely centred in the twin continents of Asia and Europe. And there it has been often seen that when Asia was moving through the light, Europe was passing through one of her Our Ideal epochs of obscurity and on the other hand the nights of Asia’s repose or stagnation have corresponded with the days of Europe’s mental vigour and vital activity. Sri Aurobindo But the fundamental difference has been that Asia has served predominantly (not exclusively) as a field for man’s spiritual experience and progression, Europe has been rather a workshop for his mental and vital activities. As the cycle progressed, the Eastern The aim which it (The “Arya”) holds before it has been conceived neither as a mirror of continent has more and more converted itself into a storehouse of spiritual energy the fleeting interests and surface thoughts of the period we live in, nor as the mouthpiece sometimes active and reaching forward to new development, sometimes conservative of a sect, school or already organised way of thinking. Its object is to feel out for the thought of the future, to help in shaping its foundations and to link it to the best and and quiescent. Three or four times in history a stream of this energy has poured out upon most vital thought of the past. Europe, but each time Europe has rejected wholly or partially the spiritual substance of We believe in the constant progression of humanity and we hold that that progres- the afflatus and used it rather as an impulse to fresh intellectual and material activity sion is the working out of a Thought in Life which sometimes manifests itself on the and progress. surface and sometimes sinks below and works behind the mask of external forces and The first attempt was the filtering of Eygptian, Chaldean and Indian wisdom through interests. When there is this lapse below the surface, humanity has its periods of apparent the thought of the Greek philosophers from Pythagoras to Plato and the neo-Platonists; retrogression or tardy evolution, its long hours of darkness or twilight during which the the result was the brilliantly intellectual and unspiritual civilisation of Greece and Rome.
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