The Life Divine

…After returning to India, he was devoted to Ramakrishna and others, studied Sanskrit, and began to read the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. He threw himself into the all-India nationalist movement against Governor Curzon's Bengal Partition Bill (1906), led the radical wing of the Congress Party together with his brother Ramgopal Ghosh and Tilak, and published the newspaper Yugantar. He was arrested in 1908, and after being released the following year, he distanced himself from politics. At the age of 38, he abandoned his wife and retired to Pondicherry in southern India, where he built a monastery and taught yoga. He wrote a large number of books, including his major work, The Life Divine. He was a sharp critic of Western thought, but did not simply follow Indian tradition. …

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…帰国後，ラーマクリシュナなどに傾倒，サンスクリット語を学び，ウパニシャッドや《バガバッドギーター》を読むようになった。カーゾン総督のベンガル分割法案に反対する全インド的な民族運動に身を投じ(1906)，兄ラームゴーパール･ゴーシュやティラクらとともに国民会議派の過激派を指導，《ユガンタルYugantar》紙を主宰，1908年に逮捕され，翌年出獄してからは政治から遠ざかり，38歳で妻を捨て，南インドのポンディシェリーに隠棲，修道院を建設し，ヨーガの実習，指導を行うかたわら，主著《神的生活The Life Divine》をはじめとする膨大な著作を残した。　彼は西洋思想を鋭く批判したが，インドの伝統をそのまま踏襲したわけではない。…

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