June 25, 2010

Spread Sri Aurobindo's teachings in the language the people understood

Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion - Page 739 David A. Leeming, Kathryn Madden, Stanton Marlan - 2009 - 1000 pages
An influential example of this is integral psychology, a synthesis of the Indian mystic Sri Aurobindo's teachings with the findings of depth psychology as developed by his disciple, Haridas Chaudhuri (Cortright, 2007). ...
Ninian Smart on World Religions: Traditions and the Challenges of ... - Page 67 Ninian Smart, John J. Shepherd - 2009 - 406 pages
... a new spiritual movement, needs not merely ideas to express it, but a saint to give it power and legitimacy. Even those who do not adhere to Sri Aurobindo's teachings must surely ask — though without the irony of the original: ...
Spirituality and Business: Exploring Possibilities for a New ... - Page 186 Sharda Shirley Nandram, Margot Esther Borden - 2009 - 263 pages
The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice. (1993).
Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram. 396–397. ...
Matrix Meditations: A 16-Week Program for Developing the ... - Page 380 Victor Daniels, Kooch N. Daniels - 2009 - 416 pages
Aurobindo, Sri. A Greater Psychology: An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Psychological Thought.
Ed. AS Dalal. New York: Tarcher Penguin/Putnam, 2001. Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching & Method of Practice. ...
Journey to Self - Page 289 Margaret Dempsey - 2009 - 309 pages
Sri Aurobindo in his book 'The Integral Yoga' – Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice (page 160) says 'It is surely the seeker who must seek and love first, follow the quest, become impassioned for the Sought – then only does ...
Faith & philosophy of Hinduism - Page 166 Rajeev Verma - 2009 - 333 pages
Sri Aurobindo's teachings have influenced not just Indian thought, but also is founded throughout the West, thanks to books and regional centers. It is also a contributing element in Integral philosophy. Brahmo Samaj Brahmo Samaj is the 
Teachings: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases - Page 507 Inc Icon Group International - 2008 - 647 pages
subjective consciousness -- the third state of consciousness -- there being four states of consciousness in total. [WP] Integral yoga or purna yoga (Full or complete yoga) refers in Sri Aurobindo's teachings to the union of all the parts of one's being with the Divine, and the transmutation of all of their jarring elements into a harmonious state of ...
Dreaming in the world's religions: a comparative history - Page 48 Kelly Bulkeley - 2008 - 331 pages
Aurobindo's teachings carried into modern times the sleep-transforming goals of the Upanishads. In this ancient Hindu tradition, sleep and dreams are valued not simply as sources of revelation but, more important, as opportunities for ...
Encyclopaedia Eminent Thinkers (vol. : 20 The Political Thought Of ... - Page 131 Jai Narain Sharma - 2008
it would not be bothered if the Government did not finance; the soul of Aurobindo's teachings could not be changed. This is how the Government with its various pulls, frowns and favours tries to subvert the word "Hindu". ...
Management With A Difference Dr G. P. Gupta - 2008 - 71 pages
A collection of articles expounding a new approach to the field of management, based on Sri Aurobindo's teachings: "Management by Consciousness," "Changing Values in Business," "Emerging Dimensions in Business" & "The Mother's Ministry ...
Plant lives: borderline beings in Indian traditions, Ellison Banks Findly - 2008 - 617 pages
Aurobindo's teachings in a journal called "Arya," published in both French and English. Increasingly, the Mother took charge over all the disciples and over the details of the growth of the ashram, while Aurobindo retreated into ...
Yoga: an annotated bibliography of works in English, 1981-2005 Daren Callahan - 2007 - 353 pages
Contents: The Mother: some reminiscences— A divine life in a divine body — The sadhana of Sri Aurobindo's yoga — Half an hour with the Divine — The importance of Sri Aurobindo's teaching and work — How to meditate — How to do japa — Who ...
Indian Ethics: Classical traditions and contemporary challenges - Page 413 Puruottama Bilimoria, Joseph Prabhu, Renuka M ... - 2007 - 431 pages
That is, they are to be assimilated by, or integrated into, not a mental but a spiritual element in our psychology. Aurobindo's teaching is world-affirmative, that is to say, life-affirmative, though not by a moral standard. ...
Esalen: America and the religion of no religion - Page 67 Jeffrey John Kripal - 2007 - 575 pages
Murphy has never abandoned Aurobindo's teaching that physical, cultural, and religious change are real, that the body's energies are involved as much as the spirit's grace in these natural and occult processes, and that this is ...
Russia between East and West: scholarly debates on Eurasianism - Page 180 Dmitry Shlapentokh - 2007 - 198 pages
Auroville is a large religious city in
India growing out of Sri Aurobindo's teaching. Henri Bergson is mentioned in this context because his theory of spiritual evolution and the concept of élan vital influenced many occultist movements ...
Integral consciousness and the future of evolution: how the ... Steve McIntosh - 2007 - 371 pages
... to the rise of the integral worldview, and this can be seen in the fact that many of the integral movement's most prominent leaders follow spiritual paths that are rooted in Hinduism and inspired by Aurobindo's teachings. ...
Indian English poetry and fiction: critical elucidations - Page 40, A.N. Prasad Rajiv K.Malik, Amar Nath Prasad - 2007 - 290 pages
Here, however, this part of the struggle has been altered to exemplify SriAurobindo's teachings. Ascending through several levels, Savitri meet the supreme Deity and rejects Nirvana in favour of coming back to earth to serve humanity ...
Sai Baba, My Self - Page 151 Geesje Lunshof - 2007 - 328 pages
How wonderful that I find this connection in Sri Aurobindo's teachings as well. It seems a confirmation of the lessons I've been given in
India. B: It is. Q: So everything comes to life by the energy-fountain from ...
Arunachala's Ramana: boundless ocean of grace 2007
One evening I said to Bhagavan that the major attraction of Aurobindo's teachings was that it professed that immortality of the body could be achieved. Bhagavan made no comment. The next day, as soon as I walked into the hall and sat ...
In Aurobindo's teaching, it is the problem of man in his total being and the meaning of his existence on the earth that is sought to be discovered and worked out. The problems are different and so are the solutions. ...
Idealistic Thought of India - Page 300 P. T. Raju - 2006 - 452 pages
... with the Absolute, then he must be able to use the Sakti or the power of the Absolute- We are not here concerned with the actual practices prescribed or the religious side of Sri Aurobindo's teaching but only with his metaphysics. ...
The after-death room: journey into spiritual activism - Page 91 Michael McColly - 2006 - 262 pages
... the world through the practice of karmayoga.12 Those who follow Aurobindo's teachings, a pragmatic synthesis of both Tantric and Vedantic yoga called Integral Yoga, believe that Auroville is the manifestation of the “New Age. ...
India the Elephants Blessing - Page 69 Aline Dobbie - 2006 - 253 pages
But in accordance with the comprehensive goal of Sri Aurobindo's teaching, members of his Ashram, “are not sannyasis... It is an inner freedom and equanimity and not an outward renunciation that is required...What is being done here is ...
Murshid: A Personal Memoir of Life with American Sufi Samuel L. Lewis Mansur Johnson - 2006 - 520 pages
It will be a test how much Sri Aurobindo's teachings really touch the hearts and minds of those who claim to be his followers.
January 7, 1969, Tuesday I met good natured Bill Hathaway once when he came to ...
Journal of religious studies Punjabi University. Dept. of Religious Studies - 2006
Aurobindo's teachings offer a way for the person to achieve her destiny through mastering her own response to her contact with world.17 The state of freedom which makes this possible and which is a result of this achievement, ...
Paradise poisoned: learning about conflict, terrorism, and ... John Richardson - 2005 - 764 pages
Community members aim to become 'the first realisation of human unity,' based on Aurobindo's teachings ...
Nationalism, religion, and beyond: writings on politics, society, ... Aurobindo Ghose, Peter Heehs - 2005 - 364 pages
Instead there were Sri Aurobindo's teachings, which were based on his spiritual experiences, and "certain psychological practices" by which others might eventually achieve the same experiences, and through them make "the discovery of ...
The other side of belief: interpreting U.G. Krishnamurti Mukunda Rao - 2005 - 350 pages
... transform the very human creature into a Supramental Being and thus create a new world! In the light of Aurobindo's teachings, Indian spirituality was at best a great spiritual romance, not deep love, not good enough to bring ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Bhagavadgitā - Page 43 Bimal Narayan Thakur - 2004 - 326 pages
The Yoga of Shakespeare in the black lady sonnets, hymns to the revealed truth of the Supreme Nature as it is revealed in the Yogic life of Sri Aurobindo's teaching: "If we dwell in the phenomenal nature only and see things only by the ...
The Mind of Light Sri Aurobindo - 2004 - 112 pages
This is an excellent short introduction to the teaching and spiritual philosophy of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo's teaching is founded on an evolution of consciousness as the hidden inner meaning and secret purpose of life on earth. ...
The Upstart Spring: Esalen and the Human Potential Movement: The ... - Page 31 Walter Truett Anderson - 2004 - 356 pages
Although life centered on Aurobindo's teachings, the place had no fixed daily routine, and residents were free to arrange their own programs of work and study. Murphy resumed his eight-hours-a-day meditation and took part in the ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2004
I know that as a young adult of 20 years, I became enamoured by Sri Aurobindo's teachings in large part because they put forth the highest, greatest ideal of any spiritual or other philosophy or psychology I had found. ...
Encyclopedia of new religions: new religious movements, sects and ... Christopher Hugh Partridge - 2004 - 446 pages
Alfassa became the primary interpreter of Aurobindo's teaching after his death in 1950. The Mother and Aurobindo aimed to bring down upon the earth a new spiritual consciousness they called the Supramental. This is partly reflected in ...
Modern Vedanta P. K. Das - 2004 - 396 pages
... the knowledge of sacred fire leading to paradise Nachiketa shows the next feature of Indian Humanism is that it does not teach to renounce ordinary and moral joys of life. It is in a way, the source of Aurobindo's teaching absolute ...
125th birth anniversary of The Mother, 21st February, 2003 2003 - 73 pages
Sri Aurobindo's teaching states that this One Being and Consciousness is involved here in Matter. Evolution is the method by which it liberates itself ; consciousness appears in what seems to be inconscient, ...
Business, religion, & spirituality: a new synthesis Oliver F. Williams - 2003 - 323 pages
Sri Aurobindo, The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice (Twin Lakes, Wis.: Lotus Light Publications, 1993), 352-53. 11. Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Heart ...
Awakening: an introduction to the history of Eastern thought Patrick Bresnan - 2003 - 422 pages
Aurobindo's teaching was to find its physical and spiritual center in the world-famous model ashram, Auroville, located near Pondicherry, not far from Chenai (formerly known as Madras) in southern India. ...
The maker's hand: American studio furniture, 1940-1990 Edward S. Cooke, Gerald W. R. Ward, Kelly H. L ... - 2003 - 168 pages
Following a 1937 commission to design a dormitory for an Indian spiritual community led by Sri Aurobindo, Nakashima remained as a disciple until 1939. He later traced his philosophy of craft to Aurobindo's teachings. ...
Immortal Paradigms: Sri Aurbindo Home-Coming Centenary Volume Charu Sheel Singh - 2002 - 264 pages
And she answered, and I quote: "by following Sri Aurobindo's teachings. His Independence Day message on
August 15, 1947, needs to be read and re-read and its significance explained to millions of his compatriots. ...
The guru of joy: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar & the art of living François Gautier - 2002 - 269 pages
it, I thus came into contact with Sri Aurobindo's teachings. It was an unforgettable experience and it marked me for the rest of my life. I saw Guru// for the first time in 1985, when I attended a Basic Course. ...
Punjab History Conference, thirty-third session, March 16-18, ... Parm Bakhshish Singh, Punjabi University. Dept ... - 2002 - 310 pages
He pointed out the flaws of the capitalist system of economy and severely criticised authoritarianism of power and increasing control of bureaucracy. However, he accepted the egalitarian philosophy of socialism. Aurobindo's teachings ...
Religion, conflict and reconciliation: multifaith ideals and realities - Page 47 Jerald D. Gort, Henry Jansen, H. M. Vroom - 2002 - 405 pages
... nation- building formed an important part of both Vivekananda's and Aurobindo's teaching. This included the acceptance of Islam in
India. Let us first look at Swami Vivekananda. In a lecture delivered in Boston, Swami Vivekananda ...
Neoplatonism and Indian philosophy - Page 168 Paulos Gregorios, International Society for ... - 2002 - 275 pages
Here Aurobindo's teaching seems to coincide with that of Hegel. Hegel suggests that the dialectical process initiates itself by the Absolute as pure abstract Spirit, othering itself from itself into its opposite, concrete, ...
Mirapuri - Page 79 Michel Montecrossa - 2002 - 425 pages
Sri Aurobindo's teaching states that this One Being and Consciousness is involved here in matter. Evolution is the method by which it liberates itself; consciousness appears in what seems to be inconscient, and once having appeared is ...
Philosophy of value-oriented education: theory and practice : ... Kireet Joshi, Indian Council of Philosophical ... - 2002 - 768 pages
It is from this golden seed-time, that in 1951, the idea of creating an International University Centre based upon Sri Aurobindo's teaching was born. The Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, has today completed more than ...
Indian religions: a historical reader of spiritual expression and ... - Page 465 Peter Heehs - 2002 - 620 pages
[162] Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Sadhana Sri Aurobindo wrote this essay in August 1934 to explain his philosophy and yoga ... Sri Aurobindo's teaching states that this One Being and Consciousness is involved here in Matter....
The essential Aurobindo - Page 25 Aurobindo Ghose, Robert A. McDermott - 2001 - 288 pages
... stumbling block for most Westerners, even those who are sympathetic to Sri Aurobindo's teachings. Apparently, it was also a stumbling block for some of the original disciples, for Sri Aurobindo recalled in a letter of l934 that ...
Page 272 The first obvious difference between Aurobindo's teaching and standard Christianity would focus on the absence in Christianity of the double concept of karma and rebirth — specifically on the possibility of the soul's progress in ...
Sri Aurobindo Ghose: the dweller in the lands of silence William Kluback, Michael Finkenthal - 2001 - 167 pages
The poem approached me to tell me how much it appreciated Sri Aurobindo's teaching about the body. It reminded me that we must pay great attention to the descent of the spirit into existence. We need to think of the consequences of the...
A companion to the philosophers - Page 624 Robert L. Arrington - 2001 - 720 pages
This idea of collective liberation of the human race is something new and revolutionary in Sri Aurobindo's teaching. The "rising out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into divine consciousness" and consequently "bringing the ...
Subhas, a political biography Sitanshu Das - 2001 - 634 pages
Subhas was drawn to him in his student days by his own estimate ofAurobindo's teachings — spiritual enlightenment necessary for national service; synthesis of yoga leading to higher planes of human perceptions. ...
GOD SHALL GROW UP Body, Soul,& Earth Evolving Together - Page 237 Wayne Bloomquist - 2001 - 351 pages
He constantly interrupted, even monopolized, the conversation in a small circle of people studying Sri Aurobindo's teachings. When he finally became quiet, I discovered the beauty of his soul that had been waiting to emerge. ...
That is the very essence of Sri Aurobindo's teaching, the aim of the group he has allowed to form around him, the purpose of his Ashram.15 Notes ^ri Aurobindo, Birth Centenary Library, vol. 19: The Life Divine (Pondicherry, ...
Being consciousness bliss: a seeker's guide - Page 376 Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 383 pages
Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching & Method of Practice.
Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, 1993. — . Savitri: A Legend and Symbol. Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, 1995. — . The Upanishads. ...
Undefended love Jett Psaris, Marlena S. Lyons, Kathlyn Hendricks - 2000 - 196 pages
Satprem (1993), chronicler of Sri Aurobindo's teachings, describes it this way: "The seeker will feel this wall slowly losing its consistency; he will experience a kind of change in the texture of his being, as if he were becoming ...
Integral health: a consciousness approach to health & healing Soumitra Basu, Sri Aurobindo International ... - 2000 - 147 pages
... concept of 'personal growth' acquires a different dimension in the light of SriAurobindo's teachings. The Western world measures personal growth in relation to the development of the ego and individuality. ...
The Mother: the story of her life George Van Vrekhem - 2000 - 545 pages
... wants to be the symbol of the Universal Mother according to Sri Aurobindo's teachings,'23 the Mother wrote. 'It will be the "Pavilion of the Mother" — but not this [the Mother points to herself]: the Mother, the true Mother, ...
But everybody must know that it is not true, it is not Sri Aurobindo's teaching, not the truth of his teaching. The truth of Sri Aurobindo is a truth of love and light and mercy. He is good and great and compassionate and divine. ...
Education, life & yoga: a concise encyclopedia of the mother's ... Mother, Sita Ram Jayaswal, Phoebe Garfield ... - 2000 - 851 pages
Taking support from Sri Aurobindo's teaching that the body is an indispensable basis for the yoga, that it should not be neglected and that, on the contrary, great care should be given to it, the physical consciousness concentrates ...
Death must die: a western woman's life-long spiritual quest in ... Atmananda, Ram Alexander - 2000 - 570 pages
I remember Sri Aurobindo's teaching: "Open yourself all the time to the Mother". Solan,
20th June, 1946 Yesterday went to see Kitty for a few hours 20. We got on very well. She asked about Mother and I told her. ...
Gandhi's body: sex, diet, and the politics of nationalism - Page 67 Joseph S. Alter - 2000 - 207 pages
Desai was an idealist as well as a spiritualist and was influenced by Sri Aurobindo's teachings. Consequently he took a vow of celibacy and also, drawing on the terminology of yoga philosophy, adopted the title of Swami Kuvalyananda...
Complementary and alternative medicine and psychiatry Philip R. Muskin - 2000 - 277 pages
BMJ 284:1523-1526, 1982 Aurobindo S: The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice.
Twin Lakes, WI, Lotus Light Publications, 1993, pp 264- 267 Aurobindo S: Sri Aurobindo or The Adventure of Consciousness. ...
The lab, the temple, and the market: reflections at the ... Sharon Harper - 2000 - 251 pages
3–4) The integral truth of Sri Aurobindo's teachings is corroborated by the hymns of Veda, the Upanishads, and the Gita. The basic aim of the Sri Aurobindo Society is to work toward “individual perfection, social transformation, ...
Sri Aurobindo Society The life, message, and teachings of Sri Aurobindo inspired the creation of the Sri Aurobindo Society: Sri Aurobindo's teaching starts with the ancient perception of the seers of the Vedanta that there is a supreme ...
Religion and public culture: encounters and identities in modern ... - Page 137 John Jeya Paul, Keith E. Yandell - 2000 - 260 pages
She called it ". . . the symbol of the Divine's answer to man's aspiration for perfection . . ., the symbol of the Universal Mother according to Sri Aurobindo's teaching . . ., the living symbol of ...
Philosophers and religious leaders - Page 17 Christian D. Von Dehsen - 1999 - 246 pages
His last days were spent revising his epic poem on evolution, Savitri LegacyAurobindo's teachings about ... To bring Aurobindo's teachings to others throughout the world, Mother founded Auroville on February 28, 1968, near Pondicherry. ...
Wheels of life: a user's guide to the Chakra system - Page 432 Anodea Judith - 1999 - 502 pages
An excellent book encapsulating Aurobindo's teachings. Scott, Mary. Kundalini in the Physical World.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. A well-written and researched book on kundalini as an earth force. Selby, John. ...
The Light of Superconsciousness: How to Benefit from Emerging ... J. Donald Walters, Devi Novak - 1999 - 227 pages
He said, "There are no ashrams of Yogananda in
New Delhi, so where should I go?" I said, "There's an Aurobindo ashram here. Why not try that?" Then rather surprised, he said, "How did you know that I'ma student of Aurobindo's teachings? ...
From here to nirvana: the essential guide to the yogis and gurus, ... Anne Cushman, Jerry Jones - 1999 - 399 pages
Foreign guests who want to immerse themselves long-term in the practice ofAurobindo's teachings are encouraged to do so at the nearby community of Auroville (p. 276). However, guests are welcome to stay up to two weeks at one of the ...
A good introduction is Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice (Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press). In the United States, books can be ordered from Auromere Ayurvedic Imports, 2621 West Highway ...
The Story of a Soul: 1954-1955 Huta - 1999 - 103 pages
She answered: By following Sri Aurobindo's teachings. His Independence Day message on
August 15, 1947 needs to be read and reread and its significance explained to millions of his compatriots. India needs the conviction and faith of Sri...
Tradition and the rhetoric of right: popular political argument in ... - Page 227 David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - 339 pages
... in a continuation of their earlier inability to comprehend Aurobindo's teachings, he was the one she trusted and "took along in that exploration" that she began in 1962, ...
David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - 339 pages
This development was textually explicable by reference to Aurobindo's teachingthat all systems, spiritual and political, are prone to institutionalization, much the same as Trotsky said revolutions are prone. ...
The religious, the spiritual, and the secular: Auroville and ... - Page 80 Robert Neil Minor - 1999 - 208 pages
... and to solve their social, economic, cultural and spiritual problems in the light of such teachings."8 Not only was the state of
West Bengal thereby to be involved in the "propagation" of Aurobindo's teachings to "the masses," but ...
It teaches us to enter into direct relation with the Divine.28 By this definition, Aurobindo's teaching is "spiritual," and "religions" are merely "religious," that is, exclusivistic and partial in understanding. ...
The Spectrum: festschrift, essays in honour of Dr. K. ... 1999 - 447 pages
Sri Aurobindo's Message The Fifteenth of August 1947 The much needed cohesion and faith can be brought about in the country by following Sri Aurobindo's teachings. His Independence Day Message needs to be read and reread and its ...
Sri Aurobindo Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1998 - 118 pages
a special feature of Sri Aurobindo's teaching that nothing that has been achieved is left out; everything is taken up, assimilated and a further movement starts. Sri Aurobindo was concerned to examine these two aspects of the life of ...
Selected Works of M.P. Pandit: The world Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1998 - 522 pages
When some of our people went out to propagate Sri Aurobindo's teaching and message, I would ask myself, 'Is that really necessary?' But then I answered the question to myself that each one had a different role to play in life. ...
Mountain path Sri Ramanasramam Charities - 1998
It is only fair to say that Sri Aurobindo's teaching differs from Sri Ramana Maharshi's in many details, emphases and approach although the general thought is Vedantic. When asked about this Sri Bhagavan stated: " When people from Sri...
Godly men and their golden works, Maharajapuram Natarajan Krishnamani - 1998 - 841 pages
Suppose Sri Aurobindo's teachings do not constitute a religion in the constitutional sense, but Sri Aurobindo had erroneously claimed that he was founding a religion, can that be binding on the Supreme Court? The approach of the Indian ...
Sri Aurobindo's Teachings and following did constitute a religion, unfortunately the other four learned judges, held that since Sri Aurobindo himself claimed that he was not founding a new religion and that since on the other hand he ...
Judgements on minority rights 1997
We do not desire to enter into any polemics over Sri Aurobindo's teachings as it is not within the judicial province to do so except to the limited extent of finding out whether his teachings have the necessary spiritual content to ...
Religion and law in independent India Robert D. Baird - 1993 - 401 pages
29 Aurobindo's teachings are understood by the Court as a "system of beliefs and doctrines" that are meant to produce "spiritual well-being." Though these beliefs also involve "outward expression" in meditation and devotion and though ...
Words and phrases under the Constitution: interpretation Kali Pada Chakravarti - 1986 - 730 pages
Aurobindo's teachings, the Court came to the conclusion that the distinctive feature of Sri Aurobindo's is that it is universal. Any one born in any part of the world, born of parents professing any religion can accept his 'yoga'. ...
The common vision: parenting and educating for wholeness David Marshak - 1997 - 246 pages
You know, children really ask questions, they want to know certain things, and then a teacher can throw light on that, can help him to understand. And then when they are older, they can learn more about Sri Aurobindo's teachings. ...
Aurobindo's teachings created a synthesis that drew on the Hinduism of his native India as well as an intimate understanding of European culture and its "religion" of science, which he had gained from the fourteen years he studied in ...
Sri Aurobindo and the new age: essays in memory of Kishor Gandhi Kishor Gandhi, Sachidananda Mohanty ... - 1997 - 239 pages
This refers to the discovery of what in Sri Aurobindo's teachings is referred to as "the psychic being", our truest and inmost individual self, constantly in touch with the truth and able to guide us most effectively in all our outer ...
Sri Aurobindo's teaching Sri Aurobindo has said, "To fulfil God in life is man's manhood." With the teaching, influence, example and guidance of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, we are trying to evoke and establish the Divine Truth in us, ...
Sri Aurobindo Ashram: its role, responsibility, and future ... Jugal Kishore Mukherjee - 1997 - 91 pages
The danger is from those who profess to accept the Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's teachings, join the organisation, and, then, sabotage and subvert it from within as its accepted members. We have to be vigilant so that, with the arrival ...
Beyond man: life and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Georges van Vrekhem - 1997 - 544 pages
But everybody must know that it is not true, that it is not Sri Aurobindo's teaching, not the truth of his teaching. The truth of Sri Aurobindo is a truth of love and light and mercy. He is good and great and compassionate and Divine. ...
The Ramakrishna-Vivekananda movement impact on Indian society and ... Jayasree Mukherjee - 1997 - 338 pages
Tegart found Aurobindo's teachings 'modelled on the same lines as Swami Vivekananda's, but with a more definite appeal to force or Shakti which, he maintained, was necessary for the regeneration of India.' He copiously quoted from...
The religious experience Ninian Smart - 1996 - 453 pages
There was founded his ashram, or spiritual community, which continues to flourish until this day and which has attracted many European, American, and non-Indian adherents. Aurobindo's teachings are chiefly contained in his major work. ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1996
This elegantly designed volume carries three admirable pictures of the Mother and one of Sri Aurobindo. The writings are bound to be beneficial to students of all ages who are interested in Sri Aurobindo's teachings and philosophy. ...
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Gariepy - 1996 - 483 pages
... calls upon readers to follow Aurobindo's teachings. Gokak, Padma Sri Vinayak Krishna. Sri Aurobindo: Seer and Poet. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications, 1973, 185 p. An examination of the form and substance of Aurobindo's poetry that is ...
Religious humanism Fellowship of Religious Humanists - 1995
The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice by Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Association, 1994, 401 pp., $14.95. Reviewed by David Hutchinson. Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) left behind a body of work many thousands of ...
Human rights and the law: universal and Indian Paras Diwan, Peeyushi Diwan - 1996 - 730 pages
... new religions and the Aurobindo Society represented a religious denomination. The Court (Chinnappa Reddy, J., dissenting), after a detailed examination of ShriAurobindo's teaching, took the view that Auroville is a township and not ...
Militant nationalism in India, 1876-1947 Amitābha Mukhopādhyāa, Institute of ... - 1995 - 598 pages
... with almost a religious zeal, were prepared to accept martyr's death in the interests of the country. Aurobindo's teaching — "Our tyaga must be as complete as the tyaga of the nameless ascetic" — found fruition in the ...
The radicalism handbook: radical activists, groups and movements ..., John Button - 1995 - 460 pages
The ashram's most ambitious project was the establishment of the new city of Auroville to strengthen the educational and community-building aspects ofAurobindo's teaching: by 1970 it had several thousand inhabitants, and despite legal ...
Nayā śikshaka Rajasthan (India). Education Dept, Rajasthan ... - 1994
It is worth going through Aurobindo's philosophical perspective because the ultimate mystical realisations are very similar in both the cases. Aurobindo's teachingsstate: "The one being and consciousness is involved here in matter. ...
The Visva-Bharati journal of philosophy Visva-Bharati. Centre of Advanced Studies in ... - 1993
It may not be out of context to refer to a similar line of thinking as we find in SriAurobindo's teachings. Like Rabindranath, Sri Aurobindo also speaks of revolt of Spirit against Matter which ...
Political ideas of M.S. Golwalkar: Hindutva, nationalism, secularism Ritu Kohli - 1993 - 148 pages
But the Mataji of the Ashram spurned those conditions. The Ashram authorities replied to the Government that it would not be bothered if the Government did not finance; the soul of Aurobindo's teachings ...
India's living languages: the critical issues Sumi Krishna, Media Foundation - 1991 - 274 pages
Integral education, an alternative system of education based on Sri Aurobindo's teachings, has been developed by the Aurobindo Ashrams and practised in several schools, particularly in Orissa. This gives considerably less weightage to ...
The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 266 V. P. Varma - 1990 - 494 pages
The insistence on moral idealism behind political nationalism reveals the depth ofAurobindo's teachings. By his emphasis on the inward sources of national strength he has provided a great gospel for the resurgence of India. ...
Kundalini, evolution, and enlightenment John Warren White - 1990 - 482 pages
In Sri Aurobindo's teaching, both the individual and cosmic lives' evolutionary thrusts tend toward divinity. Ultimately, therefore, the goals of the individual and of the collective life of humanity are not at variance, ...
The meeting of science and spirit: guidelines for a new age John Warren White - 1990 - 288 pages
Central to Sri Aurobindo's teaching is "the descent of the Super- mind." This concept involves a spiritual evolutionary process which began only recently as the culmination of Sri Aurobindo's years of concentrated yogic effort. ...
Apology of action had been developed at a moral and emotional plane rather, than at a rational and theoretical one in Aurobindo's teaching at that time. The philosopher insisted, "We need faith above all things, faith in ourselves, ...
The religious quest: a reader, Whitfield Foy - 1988 - 725 pages
Sri Aurobindo's teaching states that this one being and consciousness is involved here in matter. Evolution is the process by which it liberates itself; consciousness appears in what seems to be inconscient, and once having appeared is ...
Teilhard and Aurobindo: a study in religious complementarity David M. Brookman - 1988 - 145 pages
According to Aurobindo's teaching an integrating transformation is wrought in the person with the attainment of each ascending stage. With the ascent to Overmind a new dimension is introduced : individual ego sense is replaced by a ...
Religion and culture of Manipur Moirangthem Kirti Singh - 1988 - 283 pages
The Meitei people have already worked out their esoteric yoga, tantric system of Kai Sadhana, and meditation before they studied Aurobindo's teaching. The concept of immortality in their estimate means enjoying a full life of ...
The soul of a tree: a woodworker's reflections - Page 64 George Nakashima - 1988 - 224 pages
These could be closed during the rains, which at times would come in horizontally. All of our architectural problems had to be solved within the spirit of Sri Aurobindo's teachings. Golconda was something of a "do-it-yourself" project....
Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the God-man, Daniel E. Bassuk - 1987 - 232 pages
Aurobindo's teachings are chiefly contained in his major works The Life Divine and Essays on the Gita . His works are an attempt to form a synthesis between Hindu and evolutionary concepts. His emphasis upon evolution is an attempt to ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1987
the Mother said she was interested in this celebration only if we could make the centenary an occasion to spread Sri Aurobindo's teachings throughout India. And she added something very significant — she wanted this to be done in the language the people understood. ...
The Advent 1987
All that Vivekananda has said and done has been absorbed and built upon in Sri Aurobindo's teachings. Sri Aurobindo has enlarged. Vivekananda enlarged upon the teachings of Ramakrishna in giving an economic and a social content to the ...
Spiritual communion: based upon the Mother's prayers and meditations Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Mother - 1986 - 455 pages
He is reading to them his translation of Sri Aurobindo's teachings in an informal way but he is wondering whether without a personal advancement, realisation, stabilisation, it is worth founding a Centre or a Society. ...
Versatile genius: commemoration volume on the occasion of the ... T. V. Kapali Sastry - 1986 - 304 pages
His studies and reflections on the Veda, Upanishads and Tantra took the form of articles in journals devoted to the exposition of Sri Aurobindo's teachings. He, however, took up for achievement the principal mission of his life, namely, ...
In studying Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Philosophy, it is of utmost importance to bear in mind the connotations of many of the key-terms that the Master uses in his expositions. If we fail to take into account the precise meanings of ...
by positively throwing light on Sri Aurobindo's teaching and all our ancient spirituality. ...
Study of the psychological foundation of the "free progress ... Chandrakant P. Patel - 1986 - 290 pages
... another conception of the child as a soul with a being, a nature and capacities- of his own who must be helped to find them to find himself, to grow into their maturity, into a 1 Sri Aurobindo, "Sri Aurobindo's teaching and Method ...
Modern Indian interpreters of the Bhagavadgita - Page 73 Robert Neil Minor - 1986 - 273 pages
Aurobindo's teaching that behind everything is the movement of the Divine, even behind apparant setbacks in one's life and in the nation's life, is a call for surrender to the work the Divine is doing. ...
The ethnic origins of nations - Page 260 Anthony D. Smith - 1986 - 312 pages
... infusing distinctive life-styles, customs, language and ancestry myths with the capacity for self-renewal and re-interpretation under changed conditions. 52 OnAurobindo's teaching, cf. Singh (1963); and on the revival of an Aryan ...
Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - 812 pages
In her message of benediction and consecration on 12 February 1956 she said: "Let this place be worthy of its name and manifest the true spirit of Sri Aurobindo's teaching and message to the world." Two months later, on 23 April 1956, ...
The Sunlit Path Mother - 1984 - 194 pages
Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Religion Many people say that the teaching of Sri Aurobindo is a new religion. Would you say that it is a religion? People who say that are fools who don't even know what they are talking about. ...
Mother and I Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1984 - 271 pages
And she said: then there would be a great danger of an attempt being made to pervert Sri Aurobindo's teaching into a religion which would be narrow and cruel. That danger is very much there as the Asura wants to pervert the Truth. ...
Modern Indian thought: (Rammohun Roy to Jayaprakash Narayan) Dev Raj Bali - 1984 - 262 pages
Sri Aurobindo's teachings were directed towards the ideal of divinizing the whole of humanity by transforming mind, life and matter. His theory of evolution, his integral yoga and his conception of human unity and international peace ...
World union World Union (Organization) - 1984
... celebrated Sri Aurobindo Jayanti on the 15th August 1 984 when a few members discussed various aspects of the Movement and explained the necessity of studying Sri Aurobindo's teachings at this most critical time of human history. ...
Speeches of President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed - 1980 - 385 pages
based on "an awakening of ihe inner reality of our being." His ideal was the solidarity of mankind and the attainment of life divine here on this earth. Let us consider the relevance of Aurobindo's teachings to the present situation. The world today is in turmoil. With nations armed to the teeth, there is a fragile peace based on the balance of terror and there is the grim prospect of ...
Aldous Huxley: the search for perennial religion Kishor Gandhi - 1980 - 220 pages
Huxley's practice of meditation reveals the strong influence of Sri Aurobindo's teachings. It seems that from Sri Aurobindo he has learnt that yoga may not be treated only an exercise for the training of mind, with the ultimate ...
Realization of God according to Sri Aurobindo: a study of a ... George Nedumpalakunnel - 1979 - 308 pages
A last point of resemblance between the Christian and Aurobindo's teachingswithin the context of integral Karma- yoga may be found in the divine works of the liberated individual. Having God alone as the standard of judgement, ...
Modern Indian thought Vishwanath S. Naravane - 1979 - 300 pages
It is an apt tribute, because the most enduring impressions which Sri Aurobindo's teachings leave upon us are those of luminosity and optimism. No other thinker of our age has dwelt so confidently upon the future of the human race, ...
Philosophies of education - Page 211 A. S. Seetharamu - 1978 - 173 pages
17 Aurobindo International Centre of Education, at Pondi- cherry, popularly known as Aurobindo Ashram, was the place where during his life-time and then during that of the Mother (a French woman who took fancy for Aurobindo's teachings ...
The Theosophist Theosophical Society (Madras, India) - 1974
Each book of Gems contains some one hundred or so selections from the sacred texts, each page having a line or verse in Sanskrit together with the English translation and a short erudite commentary based on Sri Aurobindo's teachings....

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