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SRI AUROBINDO A YOGI REVOLUTIONARY
A Research Monograph
Beloo Mehra
Puducherry, 2019
a matriwords offering
matriwords 2019
Offered at the Lotus Feet of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
No work is the creation of a single author. There are many who contributed in significant ways to the present work.
First and foremost are the great scholar-sadhaks from whose works on Sri Aurobindo I have learned tremendously and from where I have quoted amply in these pages. They have been my teachers and guides as I worked on this monograph K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, A. B. Purani, Rishabhchand, Prema Nandkumar, to name the key ones.
I owe a great debt to my online friend Mohit Bansal, a fellow devotee and student of Sri Aurobindo. Mohit had first shared some of his research on the political work of Sri Aurobindo as a series of tweets on Twitter a few years back. I am grateful to him for generously allowing me to use selections from that tweet-thread as a starting point for this work. The original tweets were first compiled by another young friend Tuhina Roy from Mumbai; and was later carefully verified and cross-checked by me for correct citations and references. Several of the passages, quotes and pictures included in the present work also appeared in that original twitter thread, but here they are contextualised and re-organised in a new narrative form.
Before writing this monograph, I had carefully verified, referenced, and compiled selections from Mohits twitter thread in the form of a 40-poster exhibition designed under the auspices of Sri Aurobindo Foundation for Indian Culture, Sri Aurobindo Society, Puducherry. The exhibition titled Sri Aurobindo and Indias Freedom was first displayed at Pondicherry Central University and later at the Raj Nivas, the official residence of the Lieutenant-Governor of Puducherry.
As part of the Raj Nivas Lecture Series, I was invited to deliver a brief lecture on the topic - Sri Aurobindo a Yogi Revolutionary on the occasion of the inauguration ceremony of the Exhibition on September 6, 2019 at Raj Nivas, Puducherry. The present work retains the same title but is a much detailed and expanded version of that brief lecture. I have added many relevant passages and quotes from Sri Aurobindos own writings as well as writings of others to substantiate the brief points made in that earlier lecture. More importantly, this monograph examines deeply the continuing significance of Sri Aurobindos vision of Indian nation and nationalism in the light of her true role and purpose for the world and humanity.
I am thankful to Suhas Mehra, my husband, for his input on the organisation of the present work as well as for designing the cover page.
My humble pranams to Mother India, the Mother of our nation, who untiringly continues to awaken in the hearts of each of her children all those who care to listen even once to her call a flame of love for the truth of their motherland.
Beloo Mehra
December 2019
neither you nor anyone else knows anything at all of my life; it has not been on the surface for men to see.
Sri Aurobindo wrote the above as a part of his reply to someone who had expressed an interest in writing the Masters biography.
Indeed, how does one speak of the outer life of Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950)? How does one write about someone who has been spoken of and regarded as a modern Rishi, a maha-yogi, a sage-philosopher, a seer-poet, a political revolutionary, a visionary intellectual, an explorer and adventurer in consciousness, even an Avatar?
Selected aspects of Sri Aurobindos revolutionary work are presented in the context of Sri Aurobindos deeper, spiritual vision of nation, nationalism and Indias true role in the future destiny of humanity. The continued relevance of this vision and this truth of Indias soul is explored in the concluding chapter. Readers are also asked to reflect on the question whether we, the citizens of a politically independent India, are conscious of and prepared to take up the work for a regeneration of India in the light of her true spirit. Finally, we ask the question if the view of spiritual nationalism given to us by Sri Aurobindo also opens a path toward a greater unity.
In his message to India, written on the request of All India Radio, Tiruchirappalli, on August 15, 1947, Sri Aurobindo wrote:
I have always held and said that India was arising, not to serve her own material interests only, to achieve expansion, greatness, power, and prosperity though these too she must not neglect, and certainly not like others to acquire domination of other peoples, but to live also for God and the world as a helper and leader of the whole human race.
This is how Sri Aurobindo looked at the role and mission of India. India must rise, must discover or re-discover its greatness and power and must be prosperous, not only materially but in all ways intellectually, vitally, and most importantly spiritually but this rise is for a larger role that She, our Mother India, the Leader of Human Race, has to perform for the world and humanity.
These days, the term often used for this role is Vishwaguru .
Sri Aurobindos revolutionary work in the Indian freedom struggle is to be understood in the light of this deeper mission of India. He saw India as having the potential to fulfil the role of being a spiritual leader of the world. But first India had to be free, politically independent to shape her own future. The struggle for freedom asked for many sacrifices, many sufferings, much bloodshed, but it primarily asked for faith and shakti . Sri Aurobindo once wrote:
nations had been made free not by a scrupulous pursuit of unanimity or of unity in action but by faith, energy and courage in a number of its more energetic sons carrying away the bulk of the nation into a strenuous effort to reach a great ideal.
Stories of such sons and daughters of India must be told again and again. These stories of courage and faith awaken and shape the minds of the younger generations, which connect them with their glorious past and inspire them to walk courageously toward a better future.
This research monograph on the topic Sri Aurobindo, a Yogi-Revolutionary is an attempt to recount one such very significant story. This is the story of one whom the British colonialists for decades considered the most dangerous man. This was said by Lord Minto, the Viceroy of India. Similar idea was expressed by the Governor of Bengal in early 1900s. The Lt-Gov of Bengal in 1908 called Sri Aurobindo as the the undisputed leader of Bengal revolutionaries.
But why was Sri Aurobindo the most dangerous man? Maybe because he was able to inspire so many young minds to give their all to the fight for Indias Independence? Maybe because his pen, which was his real weapon, was able to ignite the fire of freedom in many hearts? Maybe because he also worked behind the scenes to bring together many revolutionaries from various parts of the country? All probable and perfectly valid reasons.
But perhaps there was something more. Something deeper.
When people saw Sri Aurobindo, on the outside they saw a seemingly quiet, young Bengali man of gentle disposition, with deep-set eyes which seemed to gaze at something beyond, and having a soft voice, dressed in simple clothes with no airs or pretence of any sort of being an extraordinary intellectual giant, England-educated with great honours and accomplishments (which was a big deal back in those days). But expressed through this outer self was the soul of a yogi, the mind of a yogi and the heart of a yogi. It was the yogi in Sri Aurobindo which made his political work, his revolutionary work distinctly visionary and futuristic, one can say.
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