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1 Vol 4 Issue 3 April 2014 ISSN No : ORIGINAL ARTICLE International Multidisciplinary Research Journal Indian Streams Research Journal Executive Editor Ashok Yakkaldevi Editor-in-Chief H.N.Jagtap

2 Welcome to ISRJ RNI MAHMUL/2011/38595 ISSN No Indian Streams Research Journal is a multidisciplinary research journal, published monthly in English, Hindi & Marathi Language. All research papers submitted to the journal will be double - blind peer reviewed referred by members of the editorial board.readers will include investigator in universities, research institutes government and industry with research interest in the general subjects. International Advisory Board Flávio de São Pedro Filho Federal University of Rondonia, Brazil Kamani Perera Regional Center For Strategic Studies, Sri Lanka Janaki Sinnasamy Librarian, University of Malaya Romona Mihaila Spiru Haret University, Romania Delia Serbescu Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania Anurag Misra DBS College, Kanpur Titus PopPhD, Partium Christian University, Oradea,Romania Mohammad Hailat Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of South Carolina Aiken Abdullah Sabbagh Engineering Studies, Sydney Catalina Neculai University of Coventry, UK Ecaterina Patrascu Spiru Haret University, Bucharest Loredana Bosca Spiru Haret University, Romania Fabricio Moraes de Almeida Federal University of Rondonia, Brazil George - Calin SERITAN Faculty of Philosophy and Socio-Political Sciences Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi Editorial Board Hasan Baktir English Language and Literature Department, Kayseri Ghayoor Abbas Chotana Dept of Chemistry, Lahore University of Management Sciences[PK] Anna Maria Constantinovici AL. I. Cuza University, Romania Horia Patrascu Spiru Haret University, Bucharest,Romania Ilie Pintea, Spiru Haret University, Romania Xiaohua Yang PhD, USA...More Pratap Vyamktrao Naikwade Iresh Swami ASP College Devrukh,Ratnagiri,MS India Ex - VC. Solapur University, Solapur R. R. Patil Head Geology Department Solapur University,Solapur Rama Bhosale Prin. and Jt. Director Higher Education, Panvel Salve R. N. Department of Sociology, Shivaji University,Kolhapur N.S. Dhaygude Ex. Prin. Dayanand College, Solapur Narendra Kadu Jt. Director Higher Education, Pune K. M. Bhandarkar Praful Patel College of Education, Gondia Sonal Singh Vikram University, Ujjain Rajendra Shendge Director, B.C.U.D. Solapur University, Solapur R. R. Yalikar Director Managment Institute, Solapur Umesh Rajderkar Head Humanities & Social Science YCMOU,Nashik S. R. Pandya Head Education Dept. Mumbai University, Mumbai Govind P. Shinde Bharati Vidyapeeth School of Distance Education Center, Navi Mumbai Chakane Sanjay Dnyaneshwar Arts, Science & Commerce College, Indapur, Pune Awadhesh Kumar Shirotriya Secretary,Play India Play,Meerut(U.P.) G. P. Patankar Alka Darshan Shrivastava S. D. M. Degree College, Honavar, Karnataka Shaskiya Snatkottar Mahavidyalaya, Dhar Maj. S. Bakhtiar Choudhary Director,Hyderabad AP India. S.Parvathi Devi Ph.D.-University of Allahabad Sonal Singh, Vikram University, Ujjain Rahul Shriram Sudke Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore S.KANNAN Annamalai University,TN Satish Kumar Kalhotra Maulana Azad National Urdu University Address:-Ashok Yakkaldevi 258/34, Raviwar Peth, Solapur Maharashtra, India Cell : , Ph No: ayisrj@yahoo.in Website:

3 Indian Streams Research Journal ISSN Volume-4 Issue-3 April-2014 Available online at THE RELEVANCE OF SRI AUROBINDO'S PHILOSOPHY TODAY Rajurvar N. M. M.S.Kakade, Someshwarnagar, Department of Political Science. Abstract:- August 15 is the birthday of free India. It is also the birthday of Sri Aurobindo, one of the greatest men that ever lived. He combined an intellect of the highest order with a rarely equaled spiritual force and a vision that transcended the limits of time and space. Keywords:Sri Aurobindo's philosophy, fundamental importance, human unity. INTRODUCTION: He had an unshakable faith in the future of this great country. Having predicted the eventual independence of India three decades before the event, He wrote a declaration on August 15, 1947, which is of momentous significance. After stating that the coincidence between the birthday of free India and his own was not a fortuitous accident but represented the sanction and seal of the divine force that guided his steps in on his life-work, He dealt with the evolution of mankind and India's role in the unfolding future. World moment had begun in which free India might well play a large part and take a leading position. Deploring the fact that the old communal division into hindu's and Muslim's seemed to have a hardened, he predicted that in the years ahead, India and Pakistan would ultimately come closer together and stand united. In his own words, Unity may finally come about under whatever from the exact from may have a pragmatic but not a fundamental importance. But by whatever means, in whatever way, the division must go; unity must and will be achieved, for it is necessary for the greatness of India's future. The ideal of human unity Sri Aurobindo in the same declaration on Independence Day gave expression to his vision of the ideal of human unity. Nature is slow and patient in her methods. She takes up ideas and half carries them out, and then drops them by the waysides to resume them in some future era with a better combination. She tempts humanity, her thinking instrument, and tests how far it is ready for the harmony she has imagined; she allows and incites man to attempt and fail, so that he may learn and succeed better another time. He foresaw a world union providing a fairer, brighter and nobler life for all mankind. That unification of the human world is under way; the momentum is there and it must inevitably increase and conquer. A catastrophe may intervene, and interrupt a destroy what is being done, but even then the final result is sure. For unification is necessity of Nature, an inevitable movement. It necessity for the Nation is also clear, for without it the freedom of the small nations may be at any moment in peril and the life even of the large and powerful nation insecure. He wanted developments such as dual or multilateral citizenship, interchange or fusion of cultures. Nationalism having fulfilled itself must lose its militancy and should no longer find the international outlook incompatible with selfpresentation. The European Common Market today seems to be a partial fulfillment of Sri Aurobindo's prediction. Message to Student Sri Aurobindo's philosophy was expressed in words which are within the comprehension of any thinking man. His message to student was memorable: There are times in a nation's history then providences places before it one work, one aim, to which everything else, however high and noble in itself, has to be sacrificed. Such a time has now arrived for our motherland when nothing is dearer than her service, when everything else is to be directed to that end. If you will study, study for her sake; train yourselves, body and mind and soul, for her service. You will earn your living that you may live for her sake. You will go Rajurvar N.M., THE RELEVANCE OF SRI AUROBINDO'S PHILOSOPHY TODAY Indian Streams Research Journal Volume 4 Issue 3 April 2014 Online & Print 1

4 . The Relevance Of Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy Today abroad to foreign lands that you may bring back knowledge with which you may do service to her. Work that she may prosper. Suffer that she may rejoice. All is contains in that one single advice. According to Sri Aurobindo, the task free India has set The relevance of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy today Before herself is moral and spiritual. He believed in dharma* as a mighty law of life, a great principle of human evolution, a body of spiritual knowledge and experience of which India has to be guardian, exemplar and missionary. He wanted the spirit of dharma to enter into and mould our society, our politics our literature, our science, our individual character and aspirations. As the same time, He wanted India to benefit from the developments in the west. India can best develop herself and serve humanity by being herself and following the law of her own nature. This does not mean, as some narrowly and blindly suppose, the rejection of everything new that comes to us in the stream of Time or happens to have been first developed our powerfully expressed by the west. Such an attitude would be intellectually absurd, physically impossible and, above all, unspiritual; true spirituality rejects no new light, no added means or materials of our human self-development. The role of the state The core of Sri Aurobindo's political philosophy is that the State exists for the individual for the State. Sri Aurobindo expressed his views about the ideal form of government in the following words; The Government is for the people. It must provide for stability as well as progress. Stability may be achieved by unity and co-operative action, and progress by free individual growth. The Government should be run by people who are selfless, unigoistic, scrupulously honest and capable their allegiance should be to the whole country and not of any party. If the present constitution does not permit such men, irrespective of parties, to be in the Government, then the constitution should be changed. He further observed that it is the energy of the individual which is the really effective agent of collective progress. The falsehood of modern political life Sri Aurobindo believed that the state failed in its duties because the ruling class did not represent the best mind of the nation or its noblest aims or its highest instincts. His portrait of the average politician is incisive and devastating: The modern politician in any part of the world does not represent the soul of a people or its aspiration. What he does usually represent is all the average pettiness, selfishness, egoism, self-deception that is about him and these he represents well enough as well as a great deal of mental incompetence and moral conventionality, timidity and pretense. Great issues often come to him for decision, but he does not deal with them greatly; high words and noble ideas are on his lips, but they become rapidly the claptrap of a party. The disease and falsehood of modern political life is patent in every country of the world and only the hypnotized acquiescence of all, even of the intellectual classes, in the great organized sham, cloaks and prolongs the malady, the acquiescence that men yield to everything that is habitual and makes the atmosphere of their lives. Yet is by such mind that the good of all has to be decided, to such hands that it has to be entrusted, to such an agency calling itself the state that the individual is being more and more called upon to give up the government of his activities. As a matter of fact, it is in no way the largest good of all that is thus secured, but a great deal of organized blundering and evil with a certain amount of good which make for real progress, because nature moves forward always in the midst of all stumbling and secures her aims in the end more often in spite of man's imperfect mentality than by its means. National education His philosophy regarding the ideal system of education may be summed up in his own words as follows. First, it is essential that society should refuse to give exclusive importance to success, carrier and money, and that it should be insist instead on the paramount need of the full and real development of the student by contact with the spirit and the growth and manifestation of the Truth of the being in the body, life and mind. Secondly, the country must give top priority to the needs of education, and organize the whole life of the nation as a perpetual process of education. The relevance of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy today Thirdly, the country must make full and wise use of all the modern techniques of communication, such as, cinema, television, books, pictures and magazines, for spreading the ideal of perfection. Fourthly, permanent exhibitions and museums should be planned all over the country, even in villages, which could be the centers of stimulating knowledge, including the inner significance and goal of evolution. Fifthly, teachers must grow into real examples of the perfection that is aimed at. Indian Streams Research Journal Volume 4 Issue 3 April

5 . The Relevance Of Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy Today Finally, the country as a should engage itself in the Activity of the discovery and realization of its true mission. Above all, Sri Aurobindo believed that if India is to survive and do her appointed work in the world, the first necessity is that the youth of India should learn to think,-to think on all subjects, to think independently, fruitfully, going to the heart of things, not and prejudice asunder as with a sharp sword, smiting down obscurantism of all kinds as with the mace of Bhima*. The Supramental The greatest contribution of Sri Aurobindo to philosophy is the vast body of his writing which deals with the adventure of consciousness, man's striving to reach the Supramental. He believed that the next step in evolution would raise man to a higher and larger consciousness which would offer the solution for the problems which have perplexed and vexed him since he first began to think and to dream of individual perfection and a perfect society. Sri Aurobindo knew that the difficulties in the way of attaining the Super mind are more formidable than in any other field of endeavor; but difficulties were made to be overcome, and if the Super mind will is there, they will be overcome. He further believed that this evolution must proceed through a growth of the spirit and the inner consciousness. The initiative here can come from India and, although the scope must be universal, the central movement would have to be in our country. Sri Aurobindo said that this transformation of the human race would come about in an iridescent moment which will look like a miracle. Even when the first decisive change is reached. It is certain that all humanity will not be able to rise to that level. This Endeavour to be in the supramental sphere will be a supreme and difficult labour even for the individual, but much more for the human race generally. Nevertheless, it would be a transformation and a beginning far beyond anything yet attained. It is a measure of the distressing apathy of our nation that the works of Sri Aurobindo are not studied throughout the length and breadth of India. The words of wisdom from the writings of this Great Spirit deserve to be taught in every school and college. No other thinker of modern times has seen so vividly the pattern of the human cycle down the ages and in the aeons of existence those lie ahead. His life-work will always remain a feasting presence, full of light. REFERENCE BOOKS. 1.Iyengar, K.R.S: Sri Aurobindo = Calcutta, Arya publishing house, Mathur D. B.:- Godhale = Apolitical biography: Bombay, Manaktals, Dr. Bohle B.L. :- Modern political thoughts 4.Gangadharrao K.K. :- Indian national consciousness :- Grown & development, New Delhi Kalamkar, 1972 Indian Streams Research Journal Volume 4 Issue 3 April

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