1. Renaissance in India
• Name : Upadhyay Devangana S.
• Paper : Indian writing in English / Roll No: 07
• Semester: 1
• Department: English
• Submitted to: M. K. Bhavngar University
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2. Introduction of Aurobindo
• Sri Aurobindo ( 1872-1950) is one of the most
influential contemporary Indian philosophers
and mystics.
• According to G.H. Langley: “ Sri Aurobindo is
both a poet and speculative thinker . The
same is true of Rabindranath Tagore, but the
thought of Sri Aurobindo appears to me more
comprehensive and systematic than that of
Tagore.”

3. • Sri Aurobindo: Indian Poet, Philosopher, Mystic
( Royal India, Pakisthan, Ceylone Society, David
Marlowe Ltd).
• His original name was Arabinda Akryod Ghose
• The philosophy of Sri Aurobindo is known as
integral philosophy for it combines physical,
vital and mental elements into one single
whole.

4. • Most of his important writings appeared in his
journal The Arya between 1914-20. These
writings of Sri Aurobindo were published later
in the form of books with some revisions. They
are: The Essays on the Gita; Synthesis of Yoga;
The Human Cycle; The Ideal of Human Unity;
The Life Divine; Two Volumes of Collected
Poems: and Savitri.

5. The Renaissance in India
• An essay written in 1918
• He present Indian’s culture through the age
• “Spirituality is the master key of the Indian
mind. The sense of infinity is native to it.”
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6. Indian civilization & Culture
Spirituality
Religion
Art
Literature
Polity

7. Spiritual
aim
Effective
manner
Rhythms
of it Life
World's great civilisation

8. o “The Renaissance in India” consists of four essays that were
• first published in Arya from 1918.
o Three characteristics of ancient Indian society
o Her stupendous vitality , her inexhaustible power of life and joy
o Her almost unimaginably prolific creativeness.
o Indian spirit was a strong intellectuality

9. • Three movement of retrogression
“Shrinking of that superabundant vital energy
and fading of the joy of life and the joy of
creation”
“A rapid cessation of the old free instinctual
activity”
The diminution of the power of Indian
spirituality

10. • In second essay he present ancient India with
new idea

11. • In second essay, he present ancient India with
modern idea
• In the third essay, Sri Aurobindo offers an
• overview of some of the movement and
figures of the renaissance, all the while
pointing to what lies ahead
• The fourth essay, “the knowledge and
conscious, application of the ideal” that the
future of both India and the world lies.

12. Thank you