Aurobindo Ghose
AUROBINDO GHOSE (1872–1950), yogin, nationalist, poet, critic, thinker, spiritual leader of India. Born in Calcutta (August 15, 1872), Aurobindo Ghose was educated in England fr...
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The Indian nationalist extremist spiritual leader, poet, and philosopher Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950) abandoned his radical political activities to develop a religious teaching for the spiritual benefi...
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In the following excerpt, Langley traces the development of Aurobindo's poetry.
Sri Aurobindo defines poetry as "rhythmic speech which rises at once from the heart of the seer and fro...
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In the following essay, Verma examines Aurobindo's views on a number of subjects that were integral to his political and social vision, including colonialism, nationalism, evil, freedom, equali...
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In the following essay on The Future Poetry, Ghose discusses Aurobindo's equation of poetry with mantra.
Romain Rolland described the contribution of Sri Aurobindo as the greatest synthesis ...
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In the following essay, Deutsch seeks to determine whether the three principle tenets of Aurobindo's theory of spiritual evolution—ascent, integration, and descent—can be verified...
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In the following essay, which focuses on The Human Cycle, Cairns outlines the five stages in Aurobindo 's psychological theory of the development of human civilization, citing examples from Wes...
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In the following excerpt, McDermott compares Aurobindo's career with those of Rabindranath Tagore, Mohandes Gandhi, and others in an effort to determine his place in the modern Indian philosoph...
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In the following essay, Nandakumar provides a chronological survey of Aurobindo's prose works.
During a literary career that spanned almost sixty years, Sri Aurobindo was continuously active...
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In the following essay, Iyengar summarizes Aurobindo's theory of spiritual evolution as it is presented in The Life Divine, at the same time responding to critics who charge that the work is ov...
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In the following essay, Phillips contests Aurobindo's theory that the incompatibility between evil and the Brahman in the present state of evolution proves that a higher level of evolution ...
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In the following essay, Deshpande interprets Savitri as a guide to transforming mortal nature into divine nature through Aurobindo's system of yoga.
Sri Aurobindo's Savitri is both a ...
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Aurobindo Ghose
Aurobindo Ghose
Critical Essay by G. H. Langley
