Sri Aurobindo holds the view that nothing is truly unconscious

Ontology of consciousness: percipient action Helmut Wautischer - 2008 - 638 pages
Aurobindo holds that the Divine is beyond the personal and impersonal and can appear to us as either. There is a long tradition in Indian civilization that describes the world as a manifestation of male-female dualities like ...

Humanity, truth, and freedom: essays in modern Indian Philosophy - Page 78, Raghunath Ghosh - 2008 - 164 pages
The world process, for Sri Aurobindo, is a developing process and this development is according to an original truth of its being. Sri Aurobindo holds on to the thesis that time is real and eternal and this can be so because time is ...

Indian English Poetry and Fiction: Critical Elucidations - Page 67, Amar Nath Prasad, A.N. Prasad Rajiv K.Malik - 2007 - 269 pages
Sri Aurobindo holds that the ideal of Karma Yoga as advised by the Gita represents the first step in self liberation. We cannot proceed towards liberation unless we surrender not only fruit of action but also its agency. ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo, Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur ... - 2007 - 317 pages
reality from transcendental standpoint. The denial of the reality of the world is the essential prerequisite for Advaitic standpoint. But Sri Aurobindo does not propound Absolutism at the cost of the world. Sri Aurobindo holds that ...

Eastern Lights - Page 264 Mahendrnath Sircar - 2007 - 328 pages
Aurobindo holds that there is only one force in the universe, the divine Sakti. The other forces are the play of the same force in its restricted expression, either inner or outer. The original force in its process of expression takes ...

Environment Evolution & Values - Page 54 D.P. Chattopadhyaya - 2007 - 332 pages
Sri Aurobindo holds that types vary within their respective boundaries; typal variation is not specific evolution, and a satisfactory explanation of specific evolution cannot be framed and offered exclusively in terms of heredity. ...

Letting be: Fred Dallmayr's cosmopolitical vision Stephen Frederick Schneck - 2006 - 382 pages
Traditions grow and change over time, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse, and Aurobindo holds that it is the work of the living to protect what is most valuable in a tradition against those who would weaken the ...

Exercising power: the role of religions in concord and conflict : ... Tore Ahlbäck, Björn Dahla - 2006 - 430 pages
As Bhaktivedanta Swami does in the quotations given at the beginning - and indeed Hinduism always has - Aurobindo holds that different classes of men have different standards of morality: The morality of the Kshatriya justifies violence ...

New Educational Philosophy - Page 211, Bhagirathi Sahu - 2004 - 416 pages
Sri Aurobindo holds that through a proper development and utilisation of the sense organs one can gradually master one's character and in the end achieve its transformation. The education of the vital is intended to channelise and ...

Consciousness, Indian Psychology, and Yoga Kireet Joshi, Matthijs Cornelissen, Project of ... - 2004 - 495 pages
Sri Aurobindo holds that the Divine is beyond the personal and impersonal and can appear to us as either. There is a long tradition in the Indian civilization to describe the world as a manifestation of male-female dualities like ...

Tagores Chitra and Aurobindo's Savitri : A Comparative Study - Page 119 Ketki N. Pandya - 2004 - 176 pages
Unlike the materialists Aurobindo holds that matter itself is the form of Consciousness- Force. Savitri reveals that Absolute, which creates the cosmos out of Its Consciousness- Force is: The Absolute, the Perfect, the Alone Has called ...

Indian approach to women's empowerment, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Madhu Jhunjhunwala - 2004 - 376 pages
Aurobindo holds that the 'new race shall be governed by intuition, that is to say, direct perception of the Divine Law within' (undated: 97). It is indeed likely that the role of intuition and, therefore, of women will become more ...

Feminism, censorship and other essays - Page 31 Kaushal Kishore Sharma - 2003 - 138 pages
as the mouthpiece of the Gods.10 Furthermore, Sri Aurobindo holds that the poet not only receives the raw material of poetry straight from the Everlasting, but also gets a kind of dictates, adesh, from Him to give it a proper poetic ...

Indian writing in English: a critical study - Page 169, Krishna Autar Agrawal - 2003 - 256 pages
a politician, a social reformer, a prose writer, a critic, a story writer, a dramatist and a linguist, Sri Aurobindo holds a unique place among the ...

Theory of avatāra and divinity of Chaitanya - Page 164, Janmajit Roy - 2002 - 302 pages
who is represented in the epic as both the historical character and the Avatara, is essential for seeking the kernel of the thought of the Glta. m Sri Aurobindo holds that the principal and penetrating ideas, which are woven into a ...

Immortal Paradigms: Sri Aurbindo Home-Coming Centenary Volume - Page 198 Charu Sheel Singh - 2002 - 264 pages
Oneness is the Essential Condition of the Absolute Reality Sri Aurobindo holdsthat bliss and oneness are the essential conditions of the absolute Reality. The dynamic power of bliss is love and oneness which support fundamentally all ...

Reflections on Indian English literature - Page 111 Mukesh Ranjan Verma, Krishna Autar Agrawal - 2002 - 228 pages

Aurobindo holds the Indian ideal of poetry as Mantra, and of the poet as the seer and hearer of Truth ...

Neoplatonism and Indian Philosophy - Page 159 Paulos Gregorios, International Society for ... - 2002 - 275 pages
It is from the involutionary viewpoint limited Knowledge and from the evolutionary standpoint developing Knowledge. Sri Aurobindo holds the view that Consciousness involved in Mind is pressing for a more open manifestation of itself....

Philosophical foundations of Hinduism: the Vedas, the Upanishads, ... Dr. R. S. Misra - 2002 - 637 pages
One statement is complementary to the other; there is no mutual cancellation, no incompatibility; it is only the dual statement of a single inescapable fact by human reason in human language.48 Sri Aurobindo holds that negation can also ...

English studies in India: widening horizons, C. D. Narasimhaiah - 2002 - 272 pages
by their poetical inadequacy that great truth of the Gita because, he observes, Pope 'has not seen and cannot make us see'. Pope's images are intellectual, not poetical. Finally, as regards the verse from the Glta, Aurobindo holds ...

Makers of Indian English literature, C. D. Narasimhaiah - 2000 - 292 pages
Most of his own later poetic outbursts constantly breathe of a 'Mantric' ambience. Sri Aurobindo holds the view that the future poetry will more and more approximate to the 'Mantra.' And this applies equally to poetry in English. ...

Religion 21st century - Page 90, Chitkara - 2002 - 219 pages
Like all other Indian metaphysics, it is idealism basically ie it believes that consciousness survives the physical body. However Aurobindo holds that there is super consciousness in continuation of our ordinary consciousness and there ...

The uttermost deep: the challenge of near-death experiences - Page 155 Gracia Fay Ellwood - 2001 - 300 pages
... mind we have a further level of awakening, for mind is capable of reflection, conscious invention, religious and ethical feeling, and thought/1 Aurobindo holdsthat there are two elements in the spiritual side of a human being. ...

Rigvedic legends, Prem Chand Shridhar - 2001 - 390 pages
Sri Aurobindo's philosophical view Sri Aurobindo holds that Soma is the lord of the wine of delight, the wine of immortality and says, "like Agnl he is found in the plants, the growths of earth, and in the waters. ...

The poetry of Sri Aurobindo: a journey from ego to self, Kishor Gandhi - 2001 - 205 pages
Sri Aurobindo holds that mantra flows from the overmind inspiration or from some very high plane of Intuition. The Rishi in the ancient time found such words. They saw or discovered an inner truth and put it into "self-effective ...

Selected essays and talks of Nirodbaran Nirodbaran, Supriyo Bhattacharya - 2001 - 271 pages
First, the Guru had given her much free scope for development even while preparing her just as his own Guru had done in his case. Sri Aurobindo holds that man cannot make spiritual progress without freedom, so he was dead- opposed to ...

Unveiling the light in the Veda, T. V. Kapali Sastry, Rangasami Laksminarayana ... - 2001 - 222 pages
... says: "Scholar and exponent of the esoteric theory of the veda, Sri Aurobindo, holds that there is a secret in the * The entire section 1 above is a paraphrase of the material in pages 68-70 in Indian Philosophy, Vol. ...

Tradition and modernity in religion, Satewan Parsram Kanal - 2000 - 500 pages
Sri Aurobindo holds that life cannot come from what is not life. Consciousness cannot arise from what is not consciousness. So what science holds to be primordial matter-force is in fact Brahman gone unconscious. ...

Creative stillness: Indian perspectives on art & beauty, Vishwanath S. Naravane - 2000 - 239 pages
The difference is that Alexander visualises only an ascent from below, while SriAurobindo holds that this will be supplemented by a descent from above. However,both thinkers point to the emergence of a new quality of existence destined ...

Perspectives of Savitri 2000
Drawn towards depths that hungered for its fall.56 In the last image of this canto Sri Aurobindo holds before us the picture of one who is gripped by death's intangible jaws and is being swallowed into the "huge belly of doom. ...

Advaita Vedānta, R. Balasubramanian, Project of History of ... - 2000 - 696 pages
Evolution, Sri Aurobindo holds,49 is not simply an increasingly complex configuration of matter and motion, presided over by chance. Nor is it the rattling-off of a chain forged innumerable years ago, presided over by an extra-cosmic ...

A dialogue: Hindu-Christian cosmology and religion Kala Acharya, Nicholas Manca, Lalita Namjoshi - 1999 - 341 pages
He would endorse Eckhart's statement that "God is the denial of all denials", SriAurobindo holds that contradictions have no place in "The Logic of the Infinite". Whatever way of reconciliation one adopts, if one accepts that another ...

The dialectics & dynamics of human rights in India: yesterday, ..., V. R. Krishna Iyer - 1999 - 426 pages
Sri Aurobindo holds that the future is still higher status and that Man "is not the last term of the evolution, he is a transitional being. We speak of the evolution of Life in Matter, the evolution of Mind in Matter; but evolution is a ...

Sri Aurobindo--the poet, Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1999 - 436 pages
... other forms than theirs and the form they bear is itself central to the problem of quantity, attempting as it does to bring the Olympian pace of the ancient hexameter into English. Sri Aurobindo holds it essential for the classical ...

Kālidāsa and his age, Govind Chandra Pande - 1999 - 302 pages
as something ultimate, a situation which is amply illustrated by post classical literature and art. Aurobindo holds that ...

A companion to world philosophies - Page 534, Eliot Deutsch, Ronald Bontekoe - 1999 - 587 pages
Aurobindo holds that nature evolves on several levels because Brahman has already involved itself at each level. Evolution, on the other hand, is the inverse of involution; it is the unfolding of consciousness in matter, ...

Jīvanmukti in transformation: embodied liberation in Advaita and ... - Page 150 Andrew O. Fort - 1998 - 251 pages
Since Aurobindo holds that existence, from grossest Matter to highest Spirit, is an integral unity, the deluded individuated self (jiva) is real and can evolve back to its Spirit-ual basis (Supermind). Put another way, for Aurobindo ...

The integral advaitism of Sri Aurobindo - Page 418 Rāmacandra Miśra - 1998 - 437 pages
This objection can also be removed by a clear appreciation of Sri Aurobindo's position. Sri Aurobindo holds the view that it is Spirit which is guiding and directing the course of cosmic evolution in a hidden and veiled ... Page 294 Sri Aurobindo holds the view that avidya is not an essential and integral part of human consciousness. It is merely a passing phase of human life. Unlike Kant, Sri Aurobindo does not hold the view that knowledge is confined to ...

Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers: The political thought of Aurobindo - Page 28, K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - 111 pages
Its object is not personal mukti. . . . but the liberation of the human race".9Aurobindo holds that liberty is in peril because of the absence of the sense of unity between individual and individual, between community and community, ...

Thinkers Of Indian Renaissance - Page 210 S A Abbasi - 1998 - 476 pages
Aurobindo holds that being is "the substratum of becoming and constitutes its essence". For him 'the very conception of movement carries with it the potentiality of repose and betrays itself as an activity of some existence; ...

Selected Works of M.P. Pandit: The world Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1998 - 522 pages
But Sri Aurobindo holds it as a practical possibility to all of us, should we make the effort therefor. The next movement is sakti ...

Hindu nationalism in India, D. D. Pattanaik - 1998 - 780 pages
Aurobindo holds that the spirit of every race and nation is revealed progressively through the particular line of its historic evolution and clothes the spirit of God. Every civilisation is a working out of a Divine Idea, ...

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Gariepy - 1996 - 483 pages
essentially cit has the power to limit itself and become really finite, Aurobindo holds. "This power of self- limitation ... is precisely one of the powers we should expect ... of the Infinite." He supposes that Brahman could have ...

The radiance of being: complexity, chaos, and the evolution of ... Allan Combs – 1995, 1996 - 351 pages
... like Hegel's, and also like that of Sri Aurobindo, holds the ultimate potentials of human consciousness to be enfolded in the origin (the Spirit for Hegel and the Divine for Sri Aurobindo) from the beginning, needing only time and ...

Power unlimited: relation of man with God - Page 160, D. N. Saraf - 1996 - 393 pages
But, as Aurobindo holds, intellectual reason is not man's only means of knowledge. 'There is some greater godhood than the reason, some profounder or larger power of knowledge.' Dr. Sir Muhammed Iqbal (quoted in earlier chapters too),...

Śrī Aurobindo and Vedic interpretations, Kala Acharya, Shubhada A. Joshi, K. J. Somaiya ... - 1996 - 121 pages
who denies existence on empirical level in relation to the Ultimate Reality whereas Sri Aurobindo accepts existence of life on material level as a device to the Life Divine. Sri Aurobindo holds matter as Brahman in concealment. ...

Mysticism and the mystical experience: East and West, Donald H. Bishop - 1995 - 350 pages
28 In common with all mystics, Aurobindo holds that knowledge of Ultimate Reality transcends logic, reason, and empirical sensation. "The object of the mystic," he insists, "is self knowledge and God-knowledge, and that can only be ...

Ever to the new and unknown: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of ..., Sri Aurobindo International Centre of ... - 1993 - 330 pages
Though there is an element of truth in this idea, Sri Aurobindo holds that Karma is not inescapably inexorable. He also says that according to Buddhism the world-process is mechanical because there is no work of reason in it, ...

Philosophy of life and death - Page 68 M.V. Kamath - 1993 - 335 pages
... each in its own place, time and scope, the whole play of the universe. SriAurobindo holds that there is one fundamental necessity of the nature and object of embodied life and that is to seek infinite experience on a finite basis. ...

Hermeneutics: East and West, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University - 1993 - 165 pages
Sri Aurobindo holds that this tradition of having secret meaning and mystic wisdom couched in the hymns ... Hence Sri Aurobindo holds that here "go and asva represent the two companion ideas of Light and Energy, Consciousness and Force, ...

The vision and work of Sri Aurobindo, Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1992 - 238 pages
Sri Aurobindo holds that by such a clean cut nothing is really solved: the problem is shirked and shelved and, though the Nirvana of Buddha and the Absolute Brahman of Shankara are grand experiences that no aspirant to all-round ...

Sri Aurobindo Ghose, Verinder Grover - 1992 - 606 pages
... or on the material factors of ancestry, parentage, physical birth, which in Sri Aurobindo's view are subordinate, and one effective sign perhaps, but not the dominant principle. Sri Aurobindo holds that sahaja karma does not in ...

Perspectives on Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Vedanta tradition Eṃ Śivarāmakrṣṇa, M. Sivaramakrishna, Sumita ... - 1991 - 265 pages
All this, Sri Aurobindo holds, is different from the Supramental. The vital of Sri Ramakrishna either behaved like a child, a madman or a gopika or like something inert. What is ignored is the difficulties of the physical embodiment and ...

The Bhagavadgītā, as a synthesis M. R. Yardi, Bhandarkar Oriental Research ... - 1991 - 376 pages
Sri Aurobindo holds that the Glta is not a book on ethics but spiritual life and does not teach us disinterested action. This is contrary to what the ancient and modern thinkers have told us. According to him all actions should be ...

The philosophies of India: a new approach, Frederick L. Kumar - 1991 - 561 pages
Aurobindo holds that the Rg-Veda itself is a document which has been retained from the early period of human thought when the spiritual and psychological knowledge of the race was concealed in a veil of concrete and material figures and...

Beauty, art, and man: studies in recent Indian theories of art, Pabitrakumar Roy, Indian Institute of Advanced ... - 1990 - 123 pages
Again ethics, which employs reason practically, remains to the end conceptual: 'That is good which by means of reason commends itself by its mere concepts'.19 Only the aesthetic judgement of taste is disinterested. Sri Aurobindo holds ...

The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 369, V. P. Varma - 1990 - 494 pages
Moreover, while some political individualists in the West believe in the nominalistic concept of society and regard the state and law as necessary evils, Aurobindo holds that the society also has a sub-soul. He holds that the community ...

Glory of knowledge: Professor Ram Murti Sharma felicitation volume S. G. Kantawala, Priti Sharma - 1990 - 461 pages
What is said to be contradictory for finite mind is held to be complementary to the Infinite. Sri Aurobindo holds Brahman to be perfect and so the attributes of staticity, dynamism, personality and impersonality, mutability, ...

Hartshorne, process philosophy, and theology - Page 122, Robert Kane, Stephen H. Phillips - 1989 - 198 pages
341 Aurobindo holds that a capacity for such a "non-dual" knowing is an intrinsic characteristic of a "self," whether God or ... 351 Now Aurobindo holds that Brahman is not only necessarily existent (sat) and aware of its self-existence ...

Religion and society Christian Institute for the Study of Religion ... - 1989
Spiritual experience only can reveal integral nature of Absolute Sri Aurobindo holds that the integral nature of the Absolute can only be realised in spiritual experiences, which ultimately come through Divine grace. ...

Bernard Shaw and the concept of superman, Kashi Kumar Karan - 1989 - 176 pages
The transformation rendered possible by the Supermind is not from ignorance to some imperfect light but from truth to greater truth, from consciousness to greater consciousness. Aurobindo holds that the Supermind goes direct to its aim ...

Poetry and philosophy in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, D. S. Mishra - 1989 - 131 pages
... Sri Aurobindo holds that matter itself is the form of Consciousness-Force. The Absolute, Savitri reveals, creates the cosmos out of Its Consciousness-Force: The Absolute, the Perfect, the Alone Has called out of the Silence his mute ...

Jawaharlal Nehru, the man and the writer Ram Kumar Thakur - 1989 - 272 pages
Aurobindo holds to metaphysical heights, but Nehru does never transcend the earth, and he humanizes his intuitive feelings with healthy sensuous touches. Contemplation is mingled with observation, light touches are imparted to serious ...

Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page 32 Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - 336 pages
Sri Aurobindo holds that types vary within their respective boundaries; typal variation is not specific evolution and a satisfactory explanation of specific evolution cannot be framed and offered exclusively in terms of heredity. ...

Integral education: thought and practice, Raghunath Pani - 1987 - 633 pages
26 Therefore, Sri Aurobindo holds the view that evolution is emergent or saltus and states : "But still there is a radical difference between grade and grade, so much so that the passage from one to another seems a new creation, ...

Aurobindo's philosophy of Brahman - Page 110, Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - 200 pages
Aurobindo holds that metaphysical concepts are needed for a complete intellectual understanding of things. His view is that science explains only process and that it does not address the issues of metaphysics. ...

The philosophy of Advaita: a transition from Śaṅkara to Śrī Aurobindo, Priti Sinha - 1986 - 435 pages
Sri Aurobindo holds that man and the world can attain their supreme destiny only through evolution. The goal of man's life, according to him, is not only the liberation of the soul but the attainment of perfection. ...

Karma and rebirth: post classical developments - Page 112, Ronald Wesley Neufeldt - 1986 - 357 pages
A second point: Minor reports that Aurobindo holds that the "true reward" for good actions is not "reward," and presumably the "true reward" for bad actions is not "punishment;" rather, that the true reward is "spiritual growth. ...

Knowledge, value & other essays, Harsiddh Maganlal Joshi - 1986 - 239 pages
on limited and microscopic way, in like manner Sri Aurobindo holds that in every age in past history, symbolic, conventional, vital, ...

Reality, knowledge, and value: essays in honour of Professor A.G. ... Siddheswar Rameshwar Bhatt - 1985 - 258 pages
Sri Aurobindo holds that so far as the comprehension of religious framework is concerned reason is to adopt intuitive procedure. It must be spiritualised instead of being intellectualised. Does it not amount to saying that reason ...

Sri Aurobindo's treatment of Hindu myth, Jan Feys - 1983 - 59 pages
Reality, if it must be more than a mere occurrence, is primarily transtemporal, not bound by either time or space. The story of Brindaban, Aurobindo holds, is not just a 'fanciful invention' but an 'occult truth', ...

The splendour of Sri Aurobindo's muse, Jagdish Saran Agarwal - 1983 - 376 pages
... Sri Aurobindo holds that love is a force, a movement which far from blinding the lover to the universe sets him into motion. ...

Concepts of reason and intuition: with special reference to Sri ..., Ramesh Chandra Sinha - 1981 - 234 pages
Further, Sri Aurobindo holds that integral knowledge gives an all embracing view and comprehensive vision of Reality whereas intuition is not very successful. To Sri Aurobindo, even intuition is not the highest or the supreme source of ...

Towards the life divine: Sri Aurobindo's vision, Louis Thomas O'Neil - 1979 - 103 pages
Aurobindo holds that the Absolute is beyond stability and movement as it is beyond unity and multiplicity. In fact, the absolute takes its place in the one and the stable and whirls around itself infinitely, inconceivable, and securely. ...

The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1992
The gnostic consciousness at once knows its object intimately and exactly by a comprehending and penetrating identification with it. Sri Aurobindo holds that the supramental consciousness gives us an all- embracing view and ...

World union World Union (Organization) - 1994
79 Thus Sri Aurobindo holds that the spiritual religion of humanity is the real religion and mankind will enjoy the fruit of this new religion in future. In fact the spiritual religion of humanity will unite mankind on the basis of soul ...

Annual Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1995
Sri Aurobindo holds a subjective standpoint in matter of aesthetic appreciation. The following lines written by him clearly suggest this : "All is relative here, Art and Beauty also, and our view of things and our appreciation of them ...

Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research Indian Council of Philosophical Research - 1996
Sri Aurobindo holds the view that all ranges of experiences, namely, ...

The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1997

Sri Aurobindo holds a place of distinction among the modern Indo- Anglian playwrights. He wrote five complete blank, verse plays besides his six incomplete plays. His complete plays are Perseus the Deliverer, ...

The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1998
18 Sri Aurobindo holds that in India only Bengal first realised the soul of the nation, because only here the Swadeshi Movement reached its peak consciousness. By elaborating the innermost layer of the theme Sri Aurobindo says: "...the ...

Indian philosophical quarterly Pratap Centre of Philosophy (Amalner, India ... - 2000
But his concept of ideas could mean to represent the external world in similar manner for which the spiritual realm of the African could represent the world the P. Sri Aurobindo holds that - "There are different orders of reality of ...

Journal of the Ganganatha Jha Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha Ganganatha Jha Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha - 2000
6 Though Aurobindo holds that the Absolute is undifferentiated and indeterminable, he deprecates negative approach to describe its nature. He says: "The Absolute is indeterminable in the sense that it cannot be limited by any ...

The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2000
Sri Aurobindo holds that within matter there is the habitation of spirit which grows, moves and ascends towards higher rungs of the ladder. Recent advances in thermodynamics, nuclear physics and quantum analysis reveal ...

Gandhi marg Gandhi Peace Foundation (New Delhi, India) - 2001
Sri Aurobindo holds: "The culture of people may be roughly described as the expression of a consciousness of life which formulates itself in three aspects. There is a side of thought, of ideal, of upward will and the soul's aspiration, ...

Indian philosophical quarterly Pratap Centre of Philosophy (Amalner, India ... - 2001
... Pondicherry, First University Edition, 1955. Note : Here I have made use of the chapters in the 'Life Divine', Vol. I., Ch. VII and XVII. Sri Aurobindo holds that Psychic being is the direct manifestation of ...

Psychological studies University of Mysore. Maharaja's College. Dept ... - 2001
stimulate an individual's consciousness, and thus have a decisive influence on the way events unfold in one's life (see Panda I996). Sri Aurobindo holds the view that nothing is truly unconscious, or totally devoid of consciousness. ...

The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2002
Hence Sri Aurobindo holds that it is unwise for the liberated to give up works to be done for the world. The traditionalist view is that the goal of the individual is to seek personal liberation and personal good. ...

Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 2003
Sri Aurobindo holds that, if one aspired after the Divine, then the Divine himself, too, would take the responsibility of purifying one's heart and bestow on the aspirant all the requisite experiences as one progresses in the path of ...

Psychological studies University of Mysore. Dept. of Psychology - 2003
Sri Aurobindo holds that the evolution cannot end here, because our mental consciousness is obviously not the highest possible form of consciousness, it is not even vaguely like the absolute consciousness that must have been the source...

Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2004
llion is based on Homer's theme in the Iliad. Only approximately four hundred and odd lines of this fragment were revised by Sri Aurobindo. In the words of KD Sethna, "Sri Aurobindo holds it essential for the classical ...

Psychological Studies University of Mysore. Dept. of Psychology - 2005
as he accepts the authority of the Vedas, he has also added something that is of the greatest interest for the future of psychology. Sri Aurobindo holds that spirituality itself is not static but evolving. According to tradition, the ultimate reality has an immutable aspect, the silent Brahman, as well as a mutable, dynamic aspect. Traditional Vedanta tends to stress ...

The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2006
Sri Aurobindo holds that the state develops in course of a gradual progressive evolution of Nature. The ultimate aim of Nature is to secure the unity of entire mankind. However, this cannot be immediately secured. ...

Journal of religious studies Punjabi University. Dept. of Religious Studies - 2006
Aurobindo holds that in order to achieve the freedom of ananda, the delight of existence, it is necessary to be free of obstacles such as fear. Removal of fear is a necessary but not sufficient condition for discovery of the delight of ...

Journal of religious studies Punjabi University. Dept. of Religious Studies - 2006
Aurobindo holds that in order to achieve the freedom of ahanda, the delight of existence, it is necessary to be free of obstacles such as fear. Removal of fear is a necessary but not sufficient condition for discovery of the delight of ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2006
Sri Aurobindo holds that an alliance of spiritual and intellectual forces is needed for a transformation of humanity that could lead to the solution of our agelong and ever more pressing problems. The influence of this vision on human ...