(By K.D.Sethna; Published by The Integral Life Foundation, U.S.A.; Price: Rs. 85.00, pp.92)
Even the smallest meanest work became A sweet or glad and glorious sacrament.
September 30, 2007
By a familiar mythopoeic process
(By K.D.Sethna; Published by The Integral Life Foundation, U.S.A.; Price: Rs. 85.00, pp.92)
Chesterton, Josef Pieper, and T.S. Eliot
Supersensible essences, governed by invisible laws, to things and to people
Note that this post might not make sense unless you’ve read at least the post immediately prior, on Value and Abstract Labour as Real Abstractions. The previous posts in this series are: Fragment on Textual Strategy in Capital Reflections on the “Greatest Difficulty” Nature and Society Value and Abstract Labour as Real Abstractions
September 29, 2007
The New Veda of Divine Life
Sri Aurobindo and the new age (1940) by Anilbaran Roy
“As there has been established on earth a mental Consciousness and Power which shapes a race of mental beings and takes up into itself all of earthly nature that is ready for the change, so now there will be established on earth a gnostic Consciousness and Power which will shape a race of gnostic spiritual beings and take up into itself all of earth-nature that is ready for this new transformation.”
It is this great truth of life, unknown before that Sri Aurobindo has revealed in his latest book, his magnum opus, called The Life Divine. Full of literary sublimities of classical excellence, this book will verily be the New Veda of Divine Life, which is Sri Aurobindo’s message to humanity. It indicates how conditions in Life and Nature are now not only favourable to, but are pressing for, the inevitable fulfillment of the highest spiritual aspirations of man through the emergence of divinised supermen and a life of integral harmony, of which Sri Aurobindo is the path-finder. He has spoken the Supreme Word, the Word that creates worlds. What is needed is readiness of man to accept it, and follow it to its consummate end.
It is not intended here, neither is it possible, to acquaint the reader of this little book with the vast and luminous structure of Sri Aurobindo’s thought as presented in The Life Divine. We however give below just a few extracts which may help as glimpses of that magnificent work...
Meghnad Saha’s debate with Anilbaran Roy
Saha’s debate with Anilbaran Roy has been reprinted in Santimay ... ried on a long and acrimonious debate in 1938/9 with a certain Anilbaran Roy on ...
September 28, 2007
The Mother’s mission is so definitely outlined in the Prayers of between 1912 and 1914
But in order that this emergence may be complete and securely established on earth, it is essential, as a pre-condition, that Matter should be transmuted into the luminous substance of the divine existence from which it is derived…
Physical transformation by means of the authentic supramental force is, therefore, the crux of the mission of Sri Aurobindo’s life…
But it is very interesting that the same ideal had been the shaping truth and realizing force in the Mother’s life even when she was in France and knew absolutely nothing of Sri Aurobindo and his thoughts…
Her Prayers & Meditations, in which she has transcribed some of her experiences, bear surprising testimony to the essential identity which had existed between her ideal and that of Sri Aurobindo even before she met him in person on the 29th March, 1914. We cannot account for this identity by deriving it from the mystical traditions of the West…
Anthropomorphism and mechanism have their elements of truth
The absolute need to have a God, realisable only by Absolute Surrender
The question of meaning is sadly neglected in this postmodern era
Heidegger's conception of the world stems out of the teaching (not publications) of Husserl
Science constitutes a method, historically derived and epistemologically restricted
September 27, 2007
All His Wisdom and Knowledge Sri Aurobindo reached directly by Identification
And all that appears to us as Intuition is not intuition. There are many false signals also. And the old earth-Nature, in its animal kingdom, worked with instincts. And often the humans work with impulses. All these have to be searched and scrutinized, for they appear to many people as Intuitions. And there are the Anti-Divine Forces, who intimations and we may often think that they are Intuitions. The Mother has many times cautioned us against all these.
These clarifications are added here, in order to ensure that those who read about Sri Aurobindo in my Blog or anywhere else are not misled by the words for their various meanings and usages.
Barin
20-09-2007
Sri Aurobindo 8 Confusions and Explanations II
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Much of the considerable delight I get from Bloch comes from his digressions, his encyclopedic wanderings
To rim the lesson, as it were, with honey
September 26, 2007
Sri Aurobindo’s stories are far more dramatic than M. R. James’
Western scholars have yet to come out of the ‘Jones syndrome’ (that is pursuing Vedic research with language and linguistic tools)
A Report on the Fourth International Vedic Workshop on Vedas in Culture and History
South Asia Institute, University of Texas, Austin (24-27 May 2007)
Sarve janah sujano bhavantu
Sarves sujanah sukhino bhavantu,
Professor of History (Rtd)
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Ph 972 831 9696 Posted by Y. Sudershan Rao at 2:19 PM
Animal sacrifice not seen as literal slaughtering, but as transcendental processes
It would be quite useful if he were to honestly share with us his experiences (and frustrations) of dealing with Auroville's intricate politics
September 25, 2007
Philosophers critical of superstition such as Socrates in the Euthyphro, Epicurus, Lucretius, Hume, etc.
Even though I’m an atheist, I will never ridicule Kierkegaard’s faith or philosophy, especially in front of my students. Methinks Bitterman should take some kind of counter legal action.
Chesterton in effect made the same reply as Horace
September 24, 2007
Eliot faced a similar dilemma as Emerson
September 23, 2007
Emerson's Evolution
Posted 6/24/03 infinityfoundation.com
What should occupy us are the issues, and not groups or individuals
September 21, 2007
Pure creative genius is not common; but in Europe they are, with a single modern exception, non-existent
Savitri is the Epic of Triumph—of the Conquest of Death
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