Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji university,Bhavanagar
Name :Pandya Mehal Jitendrabhai
Roll no. :19
Semester :sem -1
Enrollment no. :2069108420200029
Batch :2019-2021
Paper : Indian writing in English
Assignment -Topic:Indian Reanissa and Aurobindo
English Department -Bhavanagar
Indian Reanissa and Aurobindo.
In the 19th century and 20th century, India was caught in the grip of black magic, blind faith and caste system. People are religious so they didn't apply logic and accept everything which is related especially with religious.They are narrow minded people and also highly orthodox.They can not accept new things easliy.In these time we found the evil customs and they all mostly for female not for male because India has male dominated society.Evil custom like sati ban the widow remarriage,Padada pray hard, limitation to go outside the house.
But the result of Education and English education ,it's brought Change In society. New Consciousness and awareness about education and idea was born,to remove and abolishment of these kind of evil custom.the movement of social and religious reform were started.
The period of 1835 to 1855 is considered as the period during that time Britishers made their grip more tightly on the indian people. This period and Elizabean period in england were compared because of the new literature was born. Indian learn to read and speak comprehend English and they started writing als. Bengal leads the ways but others were not graduating to follow and Anglo -Indian literature had the same origin as the other modern indian literature.
The new Education took long and fast progress and take a place in western and southern india.For the missionaries this is a favourable climate for proselytization.The missionaries and the new Christian convert now made new path on a ceaseless war against Hinduism and took change became westernized in each and every way, despising everything Indian. Christianity made inroads into the former preserves of Hinduism,especially had the conversation of high caste Hindus they both were a bright feather in the missionaries's cap and a shock to Indian complacency.
* Shri Aurobindo:
There are people who read about Aurobindo finding on answer to the seeming riddle of his extraordinary career. People and reader who see in him the promise of the Superman, the propounder of Integral Yoga ,the prophet of the Life Divine and spirituality.There are others who feel attracted to the fiery evangelist of nationalism and to the patriot.Other are drawn picture as a teacher,the scholar, interpreter of the Veda.also him as a critic of life and literature;and there are many more for them he is a man of letters in excelsis a master of prose art and dramatist and poet of great power and versatility.
Without question Aurobindo is the one encounter stability outstanding figure in India Anglian literature Tagore no doubt holds a comparable position in Bengali literature in Indo Anglian literature also can claim him is one of its own unique represent Glory but Arvind also insofar as he was of writer was not merely a writer but really an English writer.
Sri Aurobindo was born on 15 August 1872 in Kolkata his father name shri Krishnadhan Ghosh,he was popular as civil surgeon while his Swarnalata Devi was a daughter of Rishi Rajnarayan Bose. His father was influenced by the culture of Western. He took his education in medical stream in abroad,he also wished the same for his children and he wished that his children stay away from the Indian way.
At Manchester Sri Aurobindo was taught privately by the Rev. William H.Drewett and Mrs Drewett who grounded him well English language , Letin language French language and history.The high master of him named Dr. Walker took interest him and his education so he forced him to Greek studies.This time was very lucky for him he got Butterworth prize for his literature and Bedford prize in History.
He back India at last in February 1893,having received the appointment in the service of the king of Baroda. Sri Aurobindo passed thirteen years in Baroda. He has been employed in many department.then finally he gravitated to the Baroda college.He thought French then he became Professor of English and after some time he got the responsibility of Vice - principal. Aurobindo gained interest in Sanskrit and Bengali, and cultivated besides Gujarati and Marathi.Apart from these phenomenon the political circumstances depressed him so he started writing on that and give his contribution to write on it.A series of trenchant articles to Columns of !INDU PRAKASH'
with the caption 'NEW LAMPS FOR OLD '.
The period of Baroda was significant seed time for Aurobindo's Life. He had an Interest to teach poetry and even politics- simultaneously.In 1895,SONG TO MYRYILLA was appeared.and also followed next year by the narrative poem, URVASIE. He also competed another long poem named LOVE AND DEATH, besides the first draft of SAVITRI. He also wrote plays in blank verse and his remarkable play is 'PERSEUS THE DELIVERER',this play gives the representation of those times. Then the revolutionary politics in Bengal,he wrote 'BHAVANI MANDIR' in 1905.Now he joined politics and time to leaving Baroda college, this time was1906.He wrote :
Political freedom is the life-breath of a nation; to attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming first and foremost at political freedom, is the very height of ignorance and futility. Such attempts are foredoomed to disappointment and failure; yet when the disappointment and failure come, we choose to attribute them to some radical defect in the national character, as if the nation were at fault and not its wise men who would not or could not understand the first elementary conditions of success.
. Aurobindo was one of the most creative a significant person in the history of India and Indian literature also Indian nationalism he was Nationalist,philosopher, scholar, poet and yogi. he also showed his interest in political field and become a leader of the movement for the freedom of India under the British rule after that he evaluate the spirituality and introduce vision on human progress and evolution and analysis of spirituality.
He joined the freedom movement he also prisoned because he was writing on British rule but there were no any kind of evidence so he released .It was the time about Sri Aurobindo came under the influence of yogi Lele and had his first realisation of the Vedantic-Advaitic experience of utter silence of the mind for three whole day.Meanwhile the four months in 1908 he managed to engage himself in Yoga as well as politics. Then he again arrested in connection with the bomb outrage that had been taken place a few days ago. when he was in a prison he felt mystical and spiritual experience of 'NARAYAN DARSHAN' that brought a huge change in him and present him with new outlook. His heart was not in that .he gained a deeper insight into spiritual life. Then he left politics and went to Pondicherry for doing spiritual work now he started yoga and he developed method of the spirituality and its practice. In 1914 madam Mirra richard who was herself on a spiritual quest,met Sri Aurobindo. Madam mirra and Sri Aurobindo launched on 15 August 1942 monthly philosophical journal devoted to the exposition of an integral view of life and existence.
He gave the concept of integral yoga and describe it in his book
+The sentences of yoga
+The life divine.
After the Richard left for France soon afterword on Sri Aurobindo fell burden to running the journal and it was his contribution that mainly field its pages its discontinuance in 1921.Most of this periodical contribution had since been revised and issued in book form and work like:
1 The foundations of Indian cultural
2 Renaissance in India
3 Heraclitius
These works have already taken their place in general and philosophical literature.
Aurobindo developed a theory in poetry of overhead and in the poem by him it was a great period he tried to conquer human difficulties of the task also he make a body shape of metric poetry that sustained and inspiring career of his as a poet in a literature in English language.
The central theme of Aurobindo Ghosh's work is the evolution and analysis of human nature and human life into divine and spirituality. man is a traditional being is not final, something is beyond it the step from man to Superman is the next approaching achievement or success in the world evolution. it is inevitable because it is at once the intention or ambition of the inner spirit and the logic of nature's process.
The final contribution of Aurobindo was his vision of the high role That India Was this time did to play in world affairs and his ideal of human Unity at a time during British rule in India was family and security established he has the breed of vision two forces India as a free Nation and he is contribution to the world community he felt that India have a spiritual message which was urgently needed by the people of the world get a free India was the unity in the international community he advocated the concept of human Unity replied it for independence for India in the wider interest of the unity is said our ideal of Patriotism proceeded on the basis of love and brotherhood and it looks beyond the unity of the nation and investigation the ultimate unity of mankind.. . He talk about unity of brothers equally and free made that we seek not the unity of master and servant of devoured.
The contribution of Aurobindo is his idea and view of complete freedom,he was the first indian political and volunteer, freedom fighter,and leader who use the word independence instead of 'Swaraj' He has belief that without political freedom there will be no real development and progress possible in india.
The darkness and distressed in the midst of the 9 days in the world Aurobindo provides a ray of hope to the mankin.He envisaged a new human or man, a new civilisation and new society.Dr.Radhakrishnan" Aurobindo was the greatest intellectual of our age and major Force for the life of the spirit India will not forget his service to politics and philosophy and the world will remember with gratitude his invaluable work in the real name of philosophy and religion".
Conclusion:
In the 18th -19th century brought so many changes in India and the world. During this time so many freedom fighters were making an effort to free india that time Aurobindo gave his priceless contribution to the india. He is a diamond of India and he gave the spiritual thinking and it's important.
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