Is Sri Aurobindo a Mystic?

The Meeting of the East and the West in Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy
by S.K. Maitra Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publications Department (1988)

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My respectful gratitude to Dr Maitra, October 4, 2005

Reviewer:savitriera - See all my reviews

This is, by far, the most outstanding primer to introduce the intricacies of Sri Aurobindo's insights to mainstream academicians in their language. Lucidity and brevity are the hallmarks of this philosophical commentary. Many find it easy to nurse the notion that western philosophy doesn't hold much value before the Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo. On the contrary, Dr Maitra delineates the elements of the western thought precisely to emphasize how essential it is, in order to decipher the voluminous writings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.

Contents:

1. The Meeting of the East and the West in Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy

2. Sri Aurobindo and Bergson

3. Sri Aurobindo and the Problem of Evil

4. Is Sri Aurobindo a Mystic?

5. Sri Aurobindo and Plotinus

6. Sri Aurobindo and Nicolai Hartmann

7. Sri Aurobindo and Hegel

8. Sri Aurobindo and Plato

9. Sri Aurobindo's Vision of the Future

10. Sri Aurobindo and Goethe

11. Sri Aurobindo and Whitehead

Other essays by the author:

1. Sri Aurobindo and Spengler

2. Thought in Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy

3. Emergent theory of Values

4. Grace and Self-effort