Upanishadic Influence on Educational Thoughts of Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 146-147
Author(s):  
Dr. Sanjiban Sengupta ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Sri Aurobindo ◽  
Swami Vivekananda

scholarly journals MAHATMA GANDHI’S EDUCATION POLICY IN PRE AND POST COLONIAL INDIA

2018 ◽  
pp. 91-104
Author(s):  
Rina Avinash ◽  
Pitale Puradkar
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Material ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Basic Material ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
National Education ◽  
Sri Aurobindo ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Swami Vivekananda

The greatest educationalist, who played important roles in fashioning education systems have, in their quest to develop ideal processes and structure of eduation. The pioneering educational philosophers like Rousseau, Montessori, Pestalozzi, Bertrand Russell, Paulo Freire, and Piaget, it is now being increasingly recognised that education must be based on the psychology of the child-nature. Each human being is a self-developing soul and that the business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material. This new pedagogy impels a further realization of the potentialities of the child and its soul, a realisation that was explicitly stated in the writings of the nationalist leaders who inspired and led the movement of national education in India, such as those of Dayananda Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo. Their writings gave a clear expression of the deeper self and the real psychic entity within. In this paper I have tried to revisit the philosophy of education of M.K. Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda who tried to provide solution to the problem generated by Macaulayan education system in India. The basic material is to refer to their views from various authors’ books and articles.

Conclusion

Keshab ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 202-225
Author(s):  
John A. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Religious Difference ◽  
Swami Vivekananda

This chapter begins by discussing representations of Keshab Chandra Sen at the time of his death in 1884. It argues that Keshab became symbolic, for British audiences, of the limits imposed by racial and religious difference on the ability of imperialism to bring civilization to colonial subjects. It explores the ways in which Keshab’s colonial subjectivity was limited fundamentally by structures of power immanent in imperialism. It argues that Keshab’s influence in Bengali intellectual history has been underestimated, and explores his connections to figures including Swami Vivekananda, Brahmobandhab Upadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore. The chapter concludes that the universalism Keshab propounded was impossible to realize in an imperial world.

scholarly journals A Contemporary Interpretation of Mayavada: Advaita Vedanta and the Affirmation of the Material Universe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Nicholas Parkin
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Entanglement ◽  
Advaita Vedānta ◽  
Advaita Vedanta ◽  
Material World ◽  
Sri Aurobindo ◽  
Contemporary Interpretation ◽  
Metaphysical Position ◽  
Swami Vivekananda

<p>Mayavada (the doctrine of maya) is the Advaitin explanation of how the infinite Brahman is manifested as the finite material world. Brahman is unchanging and perfect; the locus of the changing and imperfect world. This paper has two aims. The first is to show that mayavada affirms the reality of the material world, despite the claims of Paul Deussen and Prabhu Dutt Sharstri to the contrary. To achieve this end a world-affirming mayavada is formulated based on the metaphysics of Swami Vivekananda, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and Sri Aurobindo. The second aim is to show that world-affirming mayavada is a plausible metaphysical position which should be taken seriously in contemporary metaphysical debate. To achieve this some pluralist arguments against nondualism are rejected, and it is explained how world-affirming mayavada is preferable to pluralism when accounting for the ontological problems that arise from limitless decomposition and emergence due to quantum entanglement. Hence the conclusion of this paper will be that mayavada is a plausible metaphysical position which affirms the reality of the material world.</p>

scholarly journals A Contemporary Interpretation of Mayavada: Advaita Vedanta and the Affirmation of the Material Universe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Nicholas Parkin
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Entanglement ◽  
Advaita Vedānta ◽  
Advaita Vedanta ◽  
Material World ◽  
Sri Aurobindo ◽  
Contemporary Interpretation ◽  
Metaphysical Position ◽  
Swami Vivekananda

<p>Mayavada (the doctrine of maya) is the Advaitin explanation of how the infinite Brahman is manifested as the finite material world. Brahman is unchanging and perfect; the locus of the changing and imperfect world. This paper has two aims. The first is to show that mayavada affirms the reality of the material world, despite the claims of Paul Deussen and Prabhu Dutt Sharstri to the contrary. To achieve this end a world-affirming mayavada is formulated based on the metaphysics of Swami Vivekananda, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and Sri Aurobindo. The second aim is to show that world-affirming mayavada is a plausible metaphysical position which should be taken seriously in contemporary metaphysical debate. To achieve this some pluralist arguments against nondualism are rejected, and it is explained how world-affirming mayavada is preferable to pluralism when accounting for the ontological problems that arise from limitless decomposition and emergence due to quantum entanglement. Hence the conclusion of this paper will be that mayavada is a plausible metaphysical position which affirms the reality of the material world.</p>

scholarly journals Cosmic Mysticism: Quest for the Absolute in the Works of Tagore and Sri Aurobindo

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 298
Author(s):  
Swati Samantaray
Keyword(s):  
Central Theme ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Sri Aurobindo ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Immediate Experience

Cosmic mysticism is an immediate experience of oneness with God by means of ecstatic and wordless contemplation. The Indian Renaissance poets Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo are spiritual humanists who believe that the entire creation is pervaded by the presence of God. Their exceptional minds have an instinctive urge to synthesize and transform, transmute and transcend  the aspects of reality. They regard humans as a replica of the Divine Spirit and hence they value man's  ideals and aspirations. Their ways of depicting this is very different, albeit their works bear an analogous thematic purpose, which is cosmic mysticism. This paper  delineates the perception of cosmic mysticism in the works of Tagore and Aurobindo. The central theme of their writings – the spiritualization of earthly life – rests on their beliefs that God exists in all of Nature and that spiritual intuition makes it possible for every individual to become conscious of their own divinity. The poets display the cosmic trinity of mind, body and soul in their works and are committed to achieving cosmic consciousness and social amelioration.Keywords: Mysticism,  Divine, spirituality, nature, love, philosophy, inspiration, humanism

scholarly journals Role of Philosophy of Education in India

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Kiran Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Educational Philosophy ◽  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Everyday Functioning ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Sri Aurobindo ◽  
Education In India

One of the important aspects of educational philosophy is that it helps to construct a comprehensive system of education. During different periods, India has witnessed various stages of development. New priorities have emerged in education with the influences of monastic scholastic, realistic, idealistic and pragmatic trends. While education institutions have evolved, there remain several gaps between the philosophical ideals proposed by educational institutions and their everyday functioning. The paper brings forth the urgent need to bridge the gaps in order to attain a comprehensive philosophy of education, in principle and in action. The authors posit that the Indian philosophy of education, normatively speaking, could extend the culture and tradition of the philosophical positions of Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda. Such an approach could help in developing an integrated approach of teachers towards education and assist in strengthening their role in shaping the inner potential of a learner in a constructive manner.

Betrayal of betrothed in Sunetra Gupta’s Memories of rain

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. RUBY VANEESA ◽  
Dr. S. AYYAPPA RAJA
Keyword(s):  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
The University

Sunetra Gupta was born in Calcutta in 1965 and is an established translator of the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore. She is a well known novelist, essayist and scientist. She is working as Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at Oxford University in the Department of Zoology. From Princeton University she got graduation in 1987 and from the University of London she received Ph.D. in 1992. Her father, Dhruba Gupta had a profound influence on every view of her thinking

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