June 04, 2010

Sri Aurobindo did not seek this transformation for himself

Spirituality and Business: Exploring Possibilities for a New ... - Page 29 Sharda Shirley Nandram, Margot Esther Borden - 2009 - 263 pages
Table 2.1 Forms of knowledge according to Sri Aurobindo Forms of knowledge Characteristics Indirect and separate We partly identify ... According to Sri Aurobindo, this knowledge is direct but still separate. In this mode of knowing, ...
169 evolution the goal of, according to Sri Aurobindo ... Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion - Page 65 Purushottama Bilimoria, Andrew B. Irvine - 2009 - 350 pages … According to Sri Aurobindo...
According to Sri Aurobindo, the reason our knowledge is limited in this way is because our consciousness is concentrated on the surface – “the depths of self, the secrets of our total nature are shut away from us behind a wall created by our externalizing consciousness. In contrast to this, Indian psychology develops a capacity for entering into these depths, awakening what Sri Aurobindo calls “knowledge by direct contact”. According to Sri Aurobindo, the yogi whose inner eye has opened does not see the stone or tree or person as a separate thing, but as “the entire universe in one of its frontal appearances”. ...
Each nation, according to Sri Aurobindo, has a soul: Each nation is a Shakti or power of the evolving spirit of humanity and lives by the principle which it embodies. India is Bharat Shakti, ...
The Yoga Party: Philosophical Writings - Page 50 Douglas E. Frame - 2009 - 206 pages
Since all things are inspirited in Hinduism or at least according to Sri Aurobindo, it would at least be thought that all things have equal value. It is doubtful that God has any preference and of course in Hinduism God does not. ...
according to the Buddhists, 'surplus power' according to Rabindranath, 'super power' according to Sri Aurobindo and ...
Western political thought in dialogue with Asia Takashi Shōgimen, Cary J. Nederman - 2009 - 330 pages Beyond the threshold: afterlife beliefs and experiences in world ... Christopher M. Moreman - 2008 - 301 pages
Achievements: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases - Page 569 Inc Icon Group International - 2008 - 665 pages
Overmind (Sri Aurobindo). Overmind, according to Sri Aurobindo, is the plane of Gods. ...
Sri: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases - Page 294 Inc Icon Group International - 2008 - 507 pages
Author of "Realization of God according to Sri Aurobindo: a study of a neo-Hindu vision on the divinization of man." Publisher: Claretian Publications (Bangalore). Published in 1979. Neely, Anthony Leron. ... 
The Big Picture – The Evolutionary Process according to Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin Although contemporaries, Sri Aurobindo and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin did not meet, or even seem to have been aware of each other's work. ...
The participatory turn: spirituality, mysticism, religious studies - Page 301 Jorge N. Ferrer, Jorge Noguera Ferrer, Jacob H ... - 2008 - 388 pages
The battle about to be fought, with the bewildered warrior Arjuna on the front line pleading for help from his divine charioteer, is a battle in the human heart, not at all a historical battle. According to Sri Aurobindo, on the other hand, this battle was a historical event ...
Eureka!: Understanding and Using the Power of Your Intuition - Page 169 Anne Salisbury, C. Norman Shealy - 2008 - 196 pages
according to Sri Aurobindo — Satprem, Sri Aurobindo. 21. One thinker... namely Assagioli — Assagioli, The Act of Will. 22. // also flows through intuitive channels... according to Zukav — Zukav, Seat of the Soul, 77-90. ... 
Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought: Toward a Fusion of Horizons - Page 40 Rita DasGupta Sherma, Arvind Sharma - 2008 - 252 pages
according to Sri Aurobindo, is that it “seeks continually to force the sense of the Veda into that narrow mould”, thus obscuring the inner significance implicit in the hymns and rendering it in its minimalist sense (Aurobindo ...
Sri Aurobindo - A Contemporary Reader Sachidananda Mohanty, Aurobindo Ghose - 2008 - 180 pages
The problem arises, according to Sri Aurobindo, because of our limited understanding of the notion of the 'self. What we understand by this term is generally understood as the ego: a limited, flawed and petty being that masquerades as ...
Maya is not illusion but it is a kind of manifestation according to Sri Aurobindo. Brahman is self-sufficient and self-contented. Why does he desire for manifestation? He has no desire to fulfill his own because he is ever satisfied. ...
According to Sri Aurobindo, rose that has got all the attributes of God is heaven and should bloom on this earth, for it is on this very earth that the Life Divine should be enacted. Rose of God is "vision, invocation and action — all ...
According to Sri Aurobindo, the Gods mentioned in the Vedas are not just personification of abstract ideas or psychological and physical functions of nature, but the living realities. The Vedic deities represent not only the forces of ...
International Encyclopaedia of Education - Page 43 P. Chandra - 2008 - 1068 pages
And of all these three, education must take account if it is to be, not a machinemade fabric, but a true building or a living evocation of the powers of the mind and spirit of the human being." Thus according to Sri Aurobindo the aim of education should be to develop the mind and spirit of an individual in view of his nation and the world at large. Neglect of any of the three, i.e., individual, nation and the world is bound to affect adversely ...
Delhi Sssb Assistant Teacher (primary) Prelimnary Exam. - Page 31 Upkar Prakashan - Editorial Board – 2008
According to Sri Aurobindo, the basic elements of personality can be sequentially arranged as under— (A) Physical — Emotional — Intellectual — Spiritual— Super Mental (B ) Physical — Intellectual — Super Mental (C) Physical— ...
The answer, according to Sri Aurobindo, is to see oneself as part of the whole of creation: To see your Self in all creatures and all creatures in your Self - that is the unshakable foundation of all religion love, patriotism, ... 
According to Sri Aurobindo, man is a transitional being. Sri Aurobindo had repeatedly said that man is a mind encased in a living body. He is only in the third stage in the upward movement above matter and life and there are four more ...
Liberal Protestantism and Science - Page 130 Leslie A. Muray - 2007 - 153 pages
Sri Aurobindo, also takes up this theme (in the account of NA Nikam): In relation to ... the self-delight of the eternally self-existing being, the world, according to Sri Aurobindo, is not maya [in the 'pejorative sense of cunning, ...
Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine - Page 310 Lorenzo Magnani, Ping Li - 2007 - 525 pages
According to Sri Aurobindo, man can become a superman, through yoga and other practices. 7.1 Yoga School of Philosophy and Model-Based Reasoning Taking a leaf from the philosophy of science in the West one can evaluate the psychological ...
Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness: Seeing ... Don Salmon, Jan Maslow - 2007 - 407 pages
This is not meant to suggest that the physical consciousness is inherently inert, dull, and so forth. The description here is of its present condition. According to Sri Aurobindo, the physical consciousness has the potential to be ... 
Physical Illness...164 The Psychological Significance of the Number Four ..166 The Kundalini Process according to Sri Aurobindo...171 Chapter NINE ... [The Hidden Forces Of lifeLooking from Within: A Seeker's Guide to Attitudes for Mastery and Inner GrowthPsychic Being (Soul: Its Nature, Mission, Evolution)Powers Within]
He knew according to Sri Aurobindo, the great revolutionary turned philosopher: “The experience of the Mother being the Supreme is the Tantric experience – it is one side of the truth.” Sadhika was busy exploring that side of the truth ...
Crystal Yoga I: The Crystal Mesa - Page 276 Roger Calverley - 2007 - 412 pages
According to Sri Aurobindo and other masters, Truth is multilayered, moving from a multiplicity of forms and energy upward to a unified state of infinite consciousness. The pilgrim soul journeys through this inner terrain in a ...
A flaming warrior from the eternal peaks Empowered to force the door denied and closed Smote from Death's visage its dumb absolute And burst the bounds of consciousness and Time.33 According to Sri Aurobindo, the immediate goal of evolution is the transformation of the human into the supramental being. He did not seek this transformation for himself ...
The psychic center communicates not so much by thought as by an essential feeling, according to Sri Aurobindo. Since the goal of integral psychotherapy is not only the integration and coherence of the outer self but the refinement ...
Lifelong Education - Page 119, V.K. Rao - 2007 - 251 pages
According to sri Aurobindo, sovereign discernment, intuitive perception of truth, plenary inspiration of speech, ... According to Sri Aurobindo, the level of consciousness goes on improving as one goes from mind to super mind. ...
Education in the Emerging India - Page 8 R.P. Pathak - 2007 - 192 pages
According to Sri Aurobindo, a free and natural growth is in the condition of genuine development. PHILOSOPHY INFLUENCES EDUCATION Aims of Education Philosophy has an effective bearing on the aims of education. It determines and resolves ...
According to Sri Aurobindo, the universal subconscient, of evolutionary origin, is only the lower part of the subliminal. ... According to Sri Aurobindo, the higher subliminal functions are a part of the Atman; "it is that which endures ...
According to Sri Aurobindo, a gradual awakening or evolution of consciousness is taking place. Through its principle of exclusive concentration, the One became matter, losing all conscious awareness in the form of inanimate matter. ...
According to Sri Aurobindo, Valmiki, Vyasa and Kalidasa are the Indian equivalents of Homer, Dante and Shakespeare. The story of Rama, the ideal son and Ruler, Sita, the ideal wife, Bharata and Lakshmana, the ideal brothers and Hanuman,...
Veda as word Śaśiprabhā Kumāra, Indian Council of ... - 2007 - 289 pages
"According to Sri Aurobindo the Veda is mystic and symbolic poetry. . . . Coomaraswamy finds the Veda as mystic and symbolic physical tradition." (Chatterji 1937, 1958 rpt: ii). These two schools, the Arya Samaj and of Pondicherry,...
assisting God in discovering itself through each of us—God's countless, inimitable selves.28 Our work, according to Sri Aurobindo, is to bring back from the boundless realms of Light a new way of knowing—an illuminated awareness ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram – 2007
What is needed, according to Sri Aurobindo, is a sense of human brotherhood that "is not a matter either of physical kinship or of vital association or of intellectual agreement."12 Belonging to something deeper in us which may be ...
History of Indian education Ram Nath Sharma - 2007 - 324 pages
Thus, according to Sri Aurobindo, just as each individual has a body, vital and mind, and a soul behind all these similarly in every nation there is a vast territory, emotional life and behind all these a nation soul. ...
The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram – 2007
It can bring about a divine transformation of our imperfect nature.36 According to Sri Aurobindo, a divine life in a material world implies a union of the two ends of existence, viz., the spiritual summit (sat-chit-ananda) and the ...
According to Sri Aurobindo: Poetry, if it deserves the name at all, comes always from some subtle plane through the creative vital and uses the outer mind and other external instruments for transmission only.13 Thus we find three ...
In supramental intuition the identity between the knower and the known is completely realized. The ideal form of knowledge, knowledge by identity, according to Sri Aurobindo, is not achievable in terms of empirically available concepts. ...
Deeksha: The Fire from Heaven - Page 257 Kiara Windrider, Grace Sears - 2006 - 269 pages
Supramental beings — A future race on earth, perhaps some three hundred years hence, in which an expanded soul consciousness will be fully incarnated within bodies of "true matter," according to Sri Aurobindo. Supramental consciousness...
Human values and ethics: achieving holistic excellence - Page 244 Debangshu Chakraborty - 2006 - 504 pages
the problem of ego is of great importance. According to Sri Aurobindo, although the ego is the indispensable starting nucleus in the formation of an individualized being, it has the following inherent drawbacks also ...
According to Sri Aurobindo, the mind has several planes: in ascending order after mind, is the Higher mind, then the Illumined mind, and then Intuition, (also considered as a plane of mind). After this there is Over mind and finally the ...
Human Species and Beyond - Page 59 Rajesh K. Singh - 2006 - 276 pages
Though, it may be added as a note of caution, "even in India the old knowledge of the Upanishads," according to Sri Aurobindo,32 "in which they are distinguished has been lost. ...
The word itihasa, perhaps better fits literary phenomena like the twin Indian epics. According to Sri Aurobindo, 'an itihasa was an ancient historical or legendary tradition turned to creative use as a significant myth or tale expressive of some spiritual or religious meaning, and thus formative of the mind of the ...
Culture, Society and Leadership - Page 85 Chakraborty S K, Debangshu Chakraborty ... - 2006 - 426 pages
According to Sri Aurobindo, Truth and Light are inherent in it. It is this part of the being which consents to and is happy to work as an instrument, as a servant, of the Greater Power which works in the Universe. ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram – 2006
According to Sri Aurobindo, the mind is unable to see the supreme Truth, whom Necessity serves. Necessity or Ignorance is the creative power of the Supreme. The lord of Death echoes a similar perception to Savitri. Mind is the author, ...
Decolonizing international relations - Page 205 Branwen Gruffydd Jones - 2006 - 275 pages
for our common development; it ought never to be made an end in itself."54 Second, that the role of law in modern democracies was an unhelpful one.According to Sri Aurobindo, Law was often in great measure a system of ...
... its essence is its guidance on a spiritual path. Its message is that ultimately we have to transcend material life and follow divine life and realize our spiritual destiny. It is for this reason that according to Sri Aurobindo...
laborious evolutionary ascent of Nature is itself 'the luminous future' towards which, according to Sri Aurobindo, our attention must now be turned. In the Life Divine there is already, in the language and technique of Philosophy, ...
Vedānta and its philosophical development Aryasamayajula Ramamurty - 2006 - 151 pages
Therefore, the knowledge of one does not mean or involve the knowledge of the other. One may know the seed without knowing the tree, and vice versa. According to Sri Aurobindo, being and becoming constitute the reality of the absolute, ...
The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram – 2006
which, according to Sri Aurobindo, consists of four planes of spiritual consciousness — the Higher Mind, the Illumined Mind, the Intuitive Mind and the Overmind — we have to modify Freud's psycho-analysis accordingly ...
According to Sri Aurobindo: "The renaissance in India is as inevitable as the rising of tomorrow's Sun and the renaissance of a great nation of three hundred millions with so peculiar a temperament, such unique traditions and ideas ...
According to Sri Aurobindo, the West has a proclivity to live from below upwards and from out inwards, thereby allowing the innerself being governed by external factors. Vedic India on the contrary believed in living in a higher ...
Philosophy of Education - Page 237 S.S. Chandra & Rajendra Kumar Sharma - 2006 - 256 pages
But with a wise and progressive training girls as well as boys can participate in all kinds of sports, increase their strength and health".71 According to Sri Aurobindoboth men and women are equally capable to evolve toward perfection ...
Journal of religious studies Punjabi University. Dept. of Religious Studies – 2006
... values and practices which allow individuals to function cooperatively for the perpetuation and adaptive co-creation of common goods. Creativity as a means of Realizing Freedom According to Sri Aurobindo, being itself is freedom. ...
Gandhian Theory of Social Reconstruction - Page 31 Parmeshwari Dayal - 2006 - 414 pages
DYNAMICS OF SPIRITUAL ACTION Society based on spirituality basically differs from the materialistic human society. According to Sri Aurobindo, the normal materialistic society evolves in two ways. ...
This higher consciousness, according to Sri Aurobindo, has to come even as a necessity of evolution, through nature's unconscious yoga, but in man the ...According to Sri Aurobindo, the reality of the universe is Sat, Cit and Ananda or...
According to Sri Aurobindo mind is active under a Supermind and its essential nature is progression. In his celebrated commentary of the Kena Upanishad he tells us that the Upanishad "asserts a Mind behind this mind which is its ...
Decolonizing international relations Branwen Gruffydd Jones - 2006 - 275 pages
"Spirituality," according to Sri Aurobindo, "is in its essence an awakening to the inner reality of our being, to a spirit, self, soul which is other than our mind, life and body, an inner aspiration to know, to feel, to be that, ...
According to Sri Aurobindo, essence if consciousness is the power to be aware of itself md its objects. And in its true nature this power must be direct, self-fulfilled and complete. externalizes the inner self (Hammer, 195 8) or inner ...
According to Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda, imbibing a certain value orientation makes life worthwhile. This is not simply a philosophical or far off spiritual idea. Whatever one may be doing or whatever the situation of each ...
The spirit of Indian and western philosophy: science, society, and ... Indian Philosophical Congress, R. Murali - 2006 - 454 pages
Now, the individual is treated only as a member of the community, a unit of the mankind whose existence must be subordinated to the total interest of the society. According to Sri Aurobindo, the conflict between the individual and the ...
Poetry, according to Sri Aurobindo, comes from the "stress of soul vision",2 and is the mantra of the Real. Even a student who lacks the knowledge of the spirit cannot but understand the fact that the poetry of Sri Aurobindo is a ...
This will give a positive direction to your creative urges and it will fill your life with joy and happiness. According to Sri Aurobindo, true education "helps the growing soul to draw out that which is best and make it perfect for a noble use." Live in the Now The future is unknown and unknowable. To live in the future is just as unrealistic ...
Hinduism - Page 84, Karan Singh - 2005 - 112 pages
According to Sri Aurobindo, man is the result of aeons of evolution from unicellular organisms up through mineral, vegetable and animal forms. However, he is by no means the end-product of evolution. Sri Aurobindo postulates a further ...
Philosophy of Education - Page 169 M. L. Dhawan - 2005 - 288 pages
The second principle according to Sri Aurobindo, is that 'the mind has to be consulted in its growth'. He pointed out that the idea of hammering the child into the shape desired by the parents or teacher is a barbarous and ignorant ...
could attain the 'Paramatma bhava' or the Ultimate and experience the same within. Ideally speaking, even though plausible in theory, the concept is not only difficult, but according to Sri Aurobindo, it is hard to achieve as well.  According to him, the man as a whole is barely ...
According to Sri Aurobindo, "You can live with religions whose principle is toleration. But how is it possible to live peacefully with a religion whose principle is...
According to Sri Aurobindo, disease is needlessly prolonged because the mind of the patient supports the disease of his body. He was explicit in saying that medical science has been more a curse to mankind than a blessing. ...
Sanskrit and the evolution of human speech: based on Sri ... Sampadananda Mishra - 2005 - 171 pages
"would in the primitive nature of language, like each man in the primitive constitution of human society, fulfill at once several functions, noun, verb, adjective and adverbs...62 According to Sri Aurobindo as the Aryans could form ...
Such a Divine life, according to Sri Aurobindo, is going to be our ultimate destiny. He says, "this fulness of life must be the goal of development towards which we are tending and which will manifest at an early or later stage of our ... Page 162 The fact is that Matter and Spirit, according to Sri Aurobindo, are like the two aspects of the same thing. If matter is to ascend to the spirit, there must be a corresponding descent of the spirit in matter. ...
The movement of the universe, according to Sri Aurobindo, is not aimless. It is governed and directed with a purpose. Evolution in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy is the central theme without which the other principles of his thinking cannot ... 
According to Sri Aurobindo "Indian architecture, painting, sculpture are not only intimately one in inspiration with the central things in Indian philosophy, religion, Yoga, culture, but a specially intense expression of their ...
Actually what is human, according to Sri Aurobindo, is not the Western conception of religion, but the Indian conception of Dharma. Dharma is defined to be that by which one attains to perfection of sublimity and of supreme Good ...
According to Sri Aurobindo, any culture that gives up "its living separateness and neglects an active self-defence will be swallowed up and the nation which lived by it will lose its soul and perish. ...
Dharma and development: the future of survival Makarand R. Paranjape, Samvad India - 2005 - 329 pages
According to Sri Aurobindo, humanity is indeed moving towards a "unified world-culture," but this cannot be the kind of culture that dominates the world at present; "the purely intellectual or heavily material culture of the kind that ...
Recent philosophies of education in India - Page 241 Sarayu Prasad Chaube - 2005 - 288 pages
Thus according to Sri Aurobindo observance of Brahmacharya will lead one to the highest limit of perfection. Needless to emphasise that we will do well to inculcate this spirit of Brahmacharya in our modern students who very often are ...
According to Sri Aurobindo, the seers of the Vedic hymns were great mystics as well as scientists. Their one pre-occupation was self-knowledge and world knowledge. This helped them discover secrets and power of nature and acquire ...
According to Sri Aurobindo. 'The central idea of Indo-Aryan culture, was that of Dharma, which was something much more than religion or creed. It was a conception of obligations of the discharge of one's duties to oneself and to others....
upon and explained as requiring different approaches separately or simultaneously. "According to Sri Aurobindo the Veda is mystic and symbolic poetry, .... Coomaraswamy finds the Veda as containing an original metaphysical tradition. ...
Journal of religious studies Punjabi University. Dept. of Religious Studies – 2005
According to Sri Aurobindo, The infinite and eternal Self of things is an omnipresent Reality, one existence everywhere; it is a single unifying presence 3* He tells us that the central aim of ...
Indian knowledge systems Kapil Kapoor, Avadhesh K. Singh - 2005 - 710 pages
The symbolic stage, according to Sri Aurobindo, passes into the second, which is the typal and which is predominantly psychological and ethical.23 The earlier spiritual age, too, expressed profound psychological truths but the spiritual...

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